Cheng Zheng and Gui Die didn't start meeting guests until three days later, this kind of absurd thing, only Cheng Zheng, a strange person, can do it, although Gui Die is one year older than Cheng Zheng, but because of this, let her spoil her little husband very much, no matter what, follow him......

What else can a receptionist do?

It's nothing more than eating, drinking tea, and receiving gifts.

After sending off the guests, Cheng Zheng began to think about specific plans in Mino.

The general direction has been determined, he will not stay in Mino for too long, and in the next few years, the fiefdom of 40,000 stones in Tuqi County and this Jade Butterfly City will all be left to Guidie to take care of.

Merely...... If Narumasa didn't do something, Saito Yoshiryu probably wouldn't have allowed him to leave Mino, in that case...... It is necessary to recruit peasant soldiers to make a comparison.

After making up his mind, Cheng Zheng set out to arrange for Oku Village Changfu and Naomasa to recruit peasant soldiers, and he stayed in Jade Butterfly City to continue to linger with Guidie.

…… I almost forgot that five days after Naruma married Guidie, he officially accepted Murai Sadakatsu and Murai Nagayori's sister Ah Chun as a side room, and gave Ah Chun the status of a samurai, which was also the first Ji samurai by Narumasa's side.

When the head of the village of Oku, Fuku, and Naomasa were busy recruiting peasant soldiers, Sazo Chengzheng sat in Jade Butterfly City and received another wave of gifts, but the concubine was not as grand as marrying a wife, and there were many fewer people who came to congratulate than last time.

Okumura chief Fukuhe Naomasa was also very powerful, and it took less than three days to recruit a total of 1,200 peasant soldiers.

This was recruited according to the standards of the Warring States Period, that is, the ratio of 300-500 peasant soldiers for 10,000 koku, and Narimasa's Toki County had 40,000 koku, and it was able to mobilize more than 2,000 people under the limit situation, but Narumasa was afraid that too much mobilization would touch Saito Yoshiryu's sensitive nerves, so he only asked Okumura Nagafuku to mobilize more than 1,000 people.

Twelve hundred ashigaru, dressed in tattered clothes of all kinds, with all kinds of tattered weapons in their hands...... Farm tools or bamboo guns, Cheng Zheng patrolled the team on the banks of the Toki River outside the city, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

I heard that Sasa Narumasa is a young hero and the brother-in-law of Lord Saito Yoshiryu, the lord of Mino Country, so many young people are enthusiastic to join the army, and they are some admirers of Seimasa.

And their eyes reminded Cheng Zheng of the peasant soldiers of Biliang City.

They are the peasant soldiers of the Sasa family.

"The Owari Sasa family no longer exists......" Cheng Zheng silently recited in his heart, took a deep breath, and began his routine general lecture.

"All of you! If you want to eat well, obediently obey orders! Anyone who violates the military order will be whipped forty times! Don't eat for a day! Anyone who escapes from the battle will be beheaded on the spot! Hear no! ”

"Hah...... He. ”

"Hai...... Ha ......"

The ashigaru responded one after another, which made Chengzheng's expression even colder.

"I can't hear you!"

"Hay!"

"Okumura Changfu! Naomasa 塙! ”

"The subordinates are here!"

"Today's training station military posture, with a hundred-person phalanx as a unit, each phalanx has at least two instructors!"

"Hay!"

Cheng Zheng assigned the task, and he cruied around the outside of the camp, as for standing in the military posture or something, he had already told the village chief of Ao in advance to bless them, as a lord with a fief of 40,000 stones, Cheng Zheng could not do everything.

He didn't want to be the prime minister of Brother Pig, so he exhausted himself to death in the end.

The first day of training can be summed up in three simple words: "standing in a military posture".

The training on the second day can be summed up in three simple words: "standing in a military posture."

The training on the third day can be summed up in three simple words: "standing in a military posture."

After standing in a military posture for three days, Cheng Zhengcai ordered to start training and turning...... What makes him complain is that many ashigaru seem to be indistinguishable!

I enjoyed mowing the grass, turning left, right, and backward for three whole days!

After that, there is the step and formation, the step, whether it is standing still or marching, must be neat and imposing.

In this era, peasants and soldiers, a group of people with a low degree of organization, low combat effectiveness, and low will to fight, relied on momentum to fight wars.

If the momentum is gone, even 20,000 people will be killed by 2,000 people...... For example, the battle of the barrel Sasama not long ago is a typical chestnut.

Cheng Zheng didn't have the heart to train the peasant uncles and peasant brothers to walk this kind of high-difficulty coefficient. Standing still and walking are enough. Coupled with the three alignments of the left, the right, and the center, it took another three whole days!

In the blink of an eye, nine days have passed, and this team of 1,200 people has finally been able to achieve the basic uprightness, resting, turning to the left, standing still, looking to the right and stepping away.

Just when Cheng Zheng was thinking about how to equip the peasants and soldiers with weapons, he received very bad news.

"His Royal Highness Yoshiryu secretly gathered people and horses in Inabayama Castle, and he already surrounded Wise Castle yesterday!"

On the morning of the tenth day, before Cheng Zheng got up from Gui Die's arms, he heard such a headache incident.

- Saito Yoshiryu will inevitably deal with the wise family, this is also what Sasa Narumasa expected, but what Naruma didn't expect was that Saito Yoshiryu would be so powerful and fast!

After asking for details, Naruma couldn't help but give Saito Yoshiryu a thumbs up.

In fact, when Saito Yoshiryu set out from Inabayama Castle, he had only 2,000 troops on his hands.

The two thousand men marched in a day to Huina County, and then besieged the city of Wise before dark. At this time, the Wise Army did not even have time to recruit peasant soldiers to defend the city.

Akechi Mitsuhide hurriedly gathered the soldiers living in the castle town and the standing guards in the castle, and the total number was about 300 people, including 200 standing soldiers and 100 peasant soldiers.

Saito Yoshiryu's 2,000 men would definitely not be able to capture Akechi Castle, but it would be more than enough to surround it, and with such a huge gap in strength, Saito Yoshimyu would definitely send a large number of patrols to keep vigil...... In other words, the method of night raid will not work.

Will Akechi Mitsuhide just sit back and wait?

That's right, Akechi Mitsuhide can only sit back and wait.

Because, at noon on this day, Zuo Zuo Chengzheng commanded 1,200 peasant soldiers under his command and arrived at the battlefield.

The strength of the Yilong side has increased sharply to more than 3,000 people, and it is still increasing.

In the evening of the same day, the forces of Saito Yoshiryu's relatives, the Nagai clan, arrived on the battlefield, and the strength of Yoshiryu's army increased to 5,000 men.

The next day, the three Mino people who had heard the news also arrived, and in order to avoid suspicion, they brought only three peasant soldiers with a total of 1,500 people.

The giant python Saito Yoshiryu, after strangling his father Saito Michizo, launched an attack on the biggest hidden danger in the territory of Mino.

- Wise home, in danger.