Yarokuro Kawagami saw that the dozen or so men shook their bodies, and suddenly raised their heads to look at him, and the next moment these people shrank back to their original expressionlessness, Yarokuro Kawagami coughed and said, "Eat first, let's talk after dinner." ”

The fresh experience of three meals a day brings more than just one more meal to the people of Vietnam, but also brings from Echigo white flowers, white noodles, golden potatoes and corn, fragrant white rice, delicious soup cakes, various kinds of noodles, as well as stewed potatoes, corn soup and other dishes.

Not to mention that the peasants have never seen these things, even the Vietnamese Chinese, who are accustomed to eating pickled radishes and drinking miso soup, are also attracted and unable to extricate themselves, according to rumors, the Kira family has invested blood in the support of Vietnam, asking for money and food, in addition to not giving soldiers can give everything they can to satisfy, the only requirement is that the Vietnamese Chinese must resolutely hold Xinchuan County, and cannot let Yuezhong always get close to Echigo half a step.

Yarokuro Kawagami didn't know if it was true or not, and he didn't have the heart to think about it, so he finished the noodles in the big bowl in a few bites, and then refilled the bowl with fragrant noodles in the empty bowl, splashed with red chili oil, accompanied by garlic balsamic vinegar and sprinkled with some green vegetables, which was simply a delicacy in the world.

Picking up the bowl and snoring and eating up the noodles in the bowl, the middle-aged woman with a bamboo basket came over to take away the dishes and chopsticks, attracting a few old bachelors to tease, the woman was very spicy and scolded them for "lazy ramming", and those men didn't mind, giggling and taking advantage of their mouths.

"A bunch of unsightly farmers!" Yarokuro Kawagami cursed secretly, stood up and walked back to the construction site to rest.

More than two months ago, he was a powerful countryman in the county, and he owned hundreds of towns and towns. There were about 500 soldiers under his command. In Vietnam, the size is also the number one person. Unexpectedly, the sudden appearance of Yuezhong had always been a slap to disrupt his peaceful life, the peasants had been throwing, Ashigaru had been throwing, and finally even his retainers had been thrown.

Jucheng was broken by the rebellious retainers, and Yarokuro Kawakami's father died at the gate of the city in order to cover his withdrawal, and he could only take more than 50 people from his cronies and family to escape from the county, and this escape escaped from the county of women, and the Yuezhong has always been an army of 780,000 people overwhelmingly pouring over, not giving the Hao family a way to live. If you don't surrender, there is only a dead end, whether you surrender or not, land, food, and women will still be robbed, and the spies who have always been in the middle of the country have long figured out the details of the wealthy families in Vietnam, and they have not given them the slightest chance to choose.

Yarokuro Kawagami didn't want to fight against the same thing, but the revenge of killing his father and destroying his family could not be avenged, and he was burdened with a deep hatred of blood, he wore shabby clothes and painted his face with mud, and took the few dozen remaining people to mix in the fleeing peasant team, and slowly came to Xinchuan County, only to find that most of the people in Xinchuan County had run to the territory of the Shiina family. followed the large group to Shiina.

The Shiina family simply abandoned all the territories in the south of the Earlier Moon River, and all the armed forces moved to the north of the Earlier Moon River to garrison. The local peasants also rushed here when they heard the wind, and the refugee army where Yarokuro Kawagami was located was more than 60,000 people, and it was obvious that the ability of the Shiina family could not withstand such a refugee, and when it was about to turn into a disaster, the Kira Navy came to support with a large number of supplies to save the defeat.

When he returned to the earthen horri, he heard the sound of gentle footsteps after squinting for a while, Yarokuro Kawagami immediately opened his eyes, and saw a middle-aged man jumping down the slope, walking over in three or two steps and whispering: "Lord, I have already contacted those two families, it is said that there are seven or eight wealthy families in Yuezhong hidden among the refugees, and there are acquaintances in our county and Sheshui County, everyone is waiting for this opportunity!" ”

"Sun Saburo, tell me that we have waited so long, can we really see Yamamoto Satomori?" Yarokuro Kawagami hesitated and said: "The family really regrets it a little, if I show my identity early, I won't let everyone suffer with me, for the sake of the same qi and branches, the Shiina family will not embarrass us." ”

Sun Saburo on the river said anxiously: "No, lord!" Didn't we endure humiliation and flee all night to restore our family business and take revenge? We have no soldiers, no food, and drag our families with us, if we really vote for Shiina Kang Yinbao, they may be broken up as their retainers, lord, look at who else is going to join the Shiina family except for the countrymen of Xinchuan County! ”

"Uncle is right!" Yarokuro Kawagami was entangled: "But we can't see Yamamoto Satomori, how can we cast for the town palace?" You can't just stay here and be a man! ”

"Let the ministers go down! Your Majesty must find a way to meet Yamamoto Sadoden! Sun Saburo got up and jumped up, and the breakthrough was gone.

Yamamoto Tokiyuki just returned to the city from the construction site of the ascension mountain castle, and the lord of the city, Kohata Kusuke, set up a wine banquet to entertain him, this person is the old man of the Shiina family, and the voice of the Shiina family is not low, and several contacts in the past two months also know Yamamoto Tokiyuki's ability and influence, and under his music, a wine banquet ended in the joy of the guests and hosts.

Yamamoto Tokiyuki inspected the Ascension Mountain Castle for three days, mainly to check the completed defense facilities, supervise the speed of construction, in order to create a strong fortress group, the two months of hard work day and night made Yamamoto Tokiyuki's mental state not very good, just came to the exquisite kiya prepared for him by Kohata's house, Yamamoto Tokiyuki felt a sudden discomfort in his chest, holding his heart and panting on the tatami mat.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Numata Yumitsu hurriedly rummaged through his bags, took out the secret pill prepared for him by Nagata Tokumoto, helped him up and hurriedly took it with warm water, and after a while, Yamamoto Shixing relieved his breath and said with a wry smile: "Eh! As I get older, my heart is flustered and shortness of breath is getting more and more useless! Fortunately, the Sixteen Wenqian Palace prepared pills for the old man, otherwise it would ......"

The little surname came over with a wooden basin filled with hot water, unbuttoned his shirt and wiped his body for Yamamoto Tokiyuki, and Numata Yumitsu persuaded: "Master, you can rest first!" Sixteen Wenqian Hall said that your illness needs to be cultivated, and you must not overwork, these skills of building a city can be saved by the apprentices, so you let the apprentices come to experience it! ”

“…… That's good! The eagle that has always been hiding under its wings will never be able to fight in the sky, and you are twenty-one years old this year, and it is time for you to let you go to the beating experience. Yamamoto nodded with satisfaction.

If he, a young apprentice, is not as smart as Kira Yoshi, he is not as good as Honda when he is strategic, and he is not as good as when he goes into battle. But there's one thing about him that's very good. He is humble and cautious, knows that he can correct his mistakes, and is very good at learning from the experience of others. In the past few years, he has followed him from the most basic copywriting records, and gradually participated in all aspects of the administration, military affairs, and government affairs after five or six years of hard work.

In the next few days, Numata Yumitsu was busy going up and down, sometimes going to the front-line construction site, sometimes breaking into the castle tower to discuss problems with the castle lord, and not caring about how ugly the faces of Kohata Kusuke's relatives were, as an authentic "consequentialist". Accustomed to using strong means to make themselves appear more active, what the Chinese people think is a secondary issue.

"It is an indisputable fact that the Kira Navy dominates the second half of Hokuriku, every day there is a steady stream of food passing through Toyama Bay, through the seaside Uozu Castle and the Morning Moon River to Matsukura Castle, our battle is to repel the first army, at least we must hold the first line of the Morning Moon River not to be breached, otherwise everything we do is in vain, it is better to retreat to Echigo, with the relatives do not know the son does not know the danger of blocking the Echichu has always been a one, I mean Kohata Hall can understand?"

"Yes, yes! You must be able to understand! The meaning of the following is very good. We must defend the Sagetsu River and Matsukura Castle! However, if Yuezhong has always been in the same direction, if he chooses to attack Uozu Castle. What should we do if we abandon Matsukura Castle, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack? Kohata Kusuke's harmless appearance of humans and animals suddenly made an unexpected cross-examination.

After a few years of seeing and hearing and rich experience, Numata Yumitsu's temperament has become stronger and sharper, and he was not stunned when he heard this question, so he asked rhetorically: "This is impossible to succeed, Uozu Castle is backed by the sea, and the other side is the Hayase River, which represents the problem!" I'm willing to bet that Echichu would never do this, and if he did, he would face the mighty navy of my Kira family, does Kohata know what I mean? Kira Water Army! ”

"I see...... So, we just need to hold Matsukura Castle, it is impossible for the army to be stupid enough to give up the two cities and take Echigo directly, as long as the Morning Moon River is still in the hands of the Kira Water Army, any attempt to cross this river will have to pay a price, I understand it below! Please rest assured that Sado Hall and Numata Hall will never have a problem with Ascension Mountain Castle! ”

Leaving the castle tower of the Ascension Mountain Castle, Numata Yumitsu turned around the house non-stop, and just halfway through the road, he saw a middle-aged man dressed as a servant looking into the house, Numata Yumitsu was furious when he saw this, choked and pulled out his sword, and shouted: "Who dares to trespass on the Ascension Mountain Castle, someone will take down the thief for me!" ”

This shout immediately attracted seven or eight samurai, one after another bright swords surrounded the middle-aged man, who also raised his hands to show that there was no weapon on his body, and then shouted: "Wait! I have something to say! I'm a samurai in the county of Echichu women, and I've come to see Sado Hall for something important! ”

Where would Numata Yumitsu believe his words, seeing several guard samurai looking at him, he immediately scolded: "What Chinese will sneakily sneak into the city, Sado Hall is what you want to see!" Capture me left and right! ”

"I'm really a warrior in the county, if you don't believe it, ask the wealthy clan in the city, you must know my Sun Saburo on the river! My family's master, Yarokuro Kagami, is hiding in a refugee camp with his relatives, and there are more than a dozen people from other countries who are in a similar situation to us, and they are all going to the town palace! Let go of me, let go of my ......"

Seeing that Sun Saburo on the river was inserted, as soon as he turned around, he saw Yamamoto Tokiyuki standing in the small courtyard and looking over, Numata Yumitsu stepped forward in three steps and two steps to support the old man, and said worriedly: "Why did the master come out!" Aren't you just resting? Did you drink the medicine at noon? I asked the little surname to make a pot of chicken soup to replenish your body at night. ”

"You don't need to help, the old man is not so weak, and it will be much better to take a few doses of medicine for that little problem." Yamamoto Shiyuki stared at him with clear eyes: "Let me ask you, who was the person who was caught just now?" Why was he arrested? ”

"It turns out that Master was woken up by him! No, I must have woken up Master with a loud shout! Numata Yumitsu patted his head in annoyance, told what had just happened, and did not forget to mock at the end: "If it is the wealthy clan of Yuezhong, why hide their heads and show their tails, wouldn't it be easy to go directly to Matsukura Castle, and want to use this method to deceive me, am I really a fool?" ”

Yamamoto Tokiyuki muttered: "I see, in this case...... What he says is not necessarily a lie. ”

"What? He's not telling a lie? How could it not be! It is absolutely impossible for any Chinese to hide in the refugees for months! ”

Seeing that Numata Yumitsu still didn't understand, Yamamoto Tokiyuki asked with a smile: "The old man clearly heard that man just now talking about defecting to the town palace. Do you know the difference between going to my Kira family and going to the Shiina family? ”

"The difference? One family is the guardian generation of Vietnam. The other is the Shogunate Imperial Family. It's hard to count the big differences...... Could it be that Master means that they are not willing to take root in Yasuyin Shiina and hide among the refugees just to serve us? Numata Yumitsu was a little confused, and said with a puzzled face: "This is not quite right! Then they can also join Matsukura Castle first, and then switch to my Kira family! ”

"Do you think that after becoming a retainer of Shiina Yasuyin, you will switch to my Kira family, do you think that the owner of the pavilion will accept them as retainers?" Yamamoto Shixing couldn't help but mention his apprentices, every era has its own rules, and you must not mess with the rules and cause trouble.

Shiina was the leader of the pro-Echigo people and had an extraordinary influence in Echichu, especially in Shincheon County. Don't look at his happy mouth now, once Echigo makes an action that damages his interests, he will be a fair and honest general tomorrow, as far as his size and influence, the monk who has always been stupid does not dare to move, in the end, this famous family is waiting for the price to sell, whoever gives the high price will be mixed with whom, now he is optimistic about Echigo does not mean that he will always be tied to the chariot of Echigo.

If he touches the cake on Shiina's plate before this victory is decided, the devil knows how dissatisfied he will be, even if it doesn't turn into a situation of rebellion. Just dragging their feet behind and making a little action or something will make them unbearable, and the anger in their hearts is a small delay, and the right thing is big. Tokiyuki Yamamoto could not allow this to happen.

The Shiina family is not a wealthy family that eats dry rice, and the nominal master is still busy fighting in Hatakeyama Yoshitsuna, who can fight the civil war, and takes refuge in Echigo because Echigo is stronger and more profitable, not because of some "loyalty" way, and the countrymen who have not served the Shiina family have arrived, and the countrymen who have served the Shiina family cannot accept it casually, at least not until there is a reasonable reason.

This is the established strategy of the Kira family, and to stabilize the western front and try to solve the strong enemy on the southern front, it is necessary not only to implement the strategy of keeping the enemy out of the country, but also to keep the stalls in Shinkawa County from being destroyed, and to lay a good foundation for the future of the Etsuchu region.

"It turned out to be like this...... "Numata Yumitsu took a deep breath, and then realized that he was still too young to see the reason, shook his head and said: "It seems that there is still a lot of things I have to learn, so I will release him." ”

Two days later, Yarokuro Kawagami took his family into the Ascension Mountain Castle, and the news that the Kawagami family saw Yamamoto Satomori went away, and within two days more than 20 people poured out of the refugee camp, so many people dragged their families with a thousand people, as the saying goes, pulled up the radish and brought it out of the earth, so many people from the country with their relatives and their hometowns, and their relatives brought a lot of people, and the number of people rushed to more than 3,000 people, so that the Ascension Mountain City could not arrange them.

Hearing that a group of Vietnamese Chinese voted for the Kira family, Shiina Yasuyin's smiling face immediately turned cloudy, in his opinion, this Yuezhong is the Jinbo clan of Toba County, and the Shiina clan of Shinkawa County The two power battle for hegemony, can not be able to take care of their own stalls, where will interfere in the affairs of Etsuchu.

This time, the chief of the god protection did not follow the rules to pull the cards to bring in Echichu and Kaga, who had always invaded and plundered the wealthy clans and villagers, which made Shiina Yasuyin both worried and happy, he could be sure that the intestines of the god protection chief must be repentant at this time, and Echichu has always understood that he was playing the god protection family.

Didn't the chief of the god want to take advantage of the east wind that has always been in the middle of the east to take advantage of the three counties of Yuezhong? The monks who have always been a slap think about it carefully, anyway, this has always been a bad army, as long as the army moves, sooner or later it will offend the local lords, since this is the case, it is better to offend a ruthless one.

simply plundered the people of Vietnam, and the real profits were more real than real money and silver, and everyone was happy to get the benefits of the land, and in the future, I would talk about what the emperor and general were thinking and doing, why did so many officials follow them to make a joint war, not because they got the money and grain and the benefits of fishing.

It doesn't matter if there are any problems in the future, no matter how many problems there are, it is not their fault that they have always been pinched, and the big deal is that when the time comes, they will put the responsibility on the chief of the gods, just say that he led Yiyi Yiyi into Vietnam, can he still say that he has always been hundreds of thousands of mouths with one mouth? Does the chief of the gods dare to offend Kaga? Do those Vietnamese Chinese really dare to run over to find the trouble that has always been in trouble?

Obviously, they don't dare and can't do this, this Hokuriku only has always been looking for trouble with others, where is the time when others are looking for themselves.

This god's protector thinks he is extremely clever. As a result, the agency exhausted itself and got into it. How many people in the three counties of women's negative, sheshui, and Xinchuan have been indiscriminately plundered by the army. And the troublesome wives are separated and their families are ruined, the first thing they have to hate and brutal is always a beating, and the second is the turn of the god to protect the chief.

In the past two months, he has always dared to offend a large number of Chinese people and villagers, and then the tide of fleeing has spread to most of Yuezhong, and finally the Kira family spared no effort to support, and it is no wonder that he can't close his mouth when he catches up alone.

The situation is different now. It was not a good sign that the Vietnamese Chinese would gather to serve the Kira family, and soon he found that the people under his service began to stir, such as the fact that the people of the country who had soldiers and food in the hands of the people of Tohi Misaku were not simply dependent, and the Shiina family was unable to restrain them, and within two days Tuhi Masashi became a guest of Yamamoto Shikiya, which gave great stimulation to many countrymen and opened a very bad example.

Soon, the people in Shinkawa County who originally took refuge in the country have switched to the Kira family, and powerful people such as Yokota and Yokoyama ran over without even saying hello, and the slightly inferior wealthy landlords would also come to say hello with a fake appearance, and then swaggered away, as for the small wealthy clans, the landlords and the like left a letter thanking the Shiina family for their funding. After returning to the land many times to set the reward, Xie Yunyun almost fainted from Shiina Kangyin.

But the name Kangyin has a bitterness and can't say. He can't run to Yamamoto Tokiyuki and scold him for not preaching morality, the countrymen ran over by themselves, not the Kira family snatched it from him, and he can't scold the Kira family for being too strong and hooking the hearts of the countrymen, right? Mu Chengzhou said that everything was in vain, and he had to make people laugh in vain, so he simply ate a dumb loss and pretended not to know how to pull it down.

A few days later, Yamamoto Tokiyuki returned to Matsukura Castle, where the residence of the Shiina clan as the Shinkawa County Commander was expanding almost every generation, and the scale was far less spacious than Kasuga Yama Castle, but it was still possible to cram three or five thousand people, and as soon as he returned to the city, Yamamoto Tokiyuki rushed to the castle tower non-stop, and took the initiative to find Shiina Yasuin to discuss the expansion plan.

"Does Yamamoto Sado Hall mean to gather 3,000 people below, and then gather 3,000 people from the country together with the 5,000 elites of the Kira army? It's a good plan, but my family really can't take out so many soldiers! Sado Hall also knows that recently, many Chinese people have joined the Kira family, and my Shiina family's life is not easy! ”

Shiina Yasuin kept pouring bitter water, how difficult is it for this guardian generation to be a retainer below who is disobedient and the countrymen ignore him, as if he, the guardian generation of Yuezhong, is about to become a light pole commander, and the words are that even if he has no soldiers, he will not take it out, you Yamamoto Kansuke will not help me!

"I see...... I didn't expect that there would be so many difficulties in Shiina Hall, so it was a little reckless below. Yamamoto Tokiyuki's eyes flashed, and he immediately laughed and said, "Since Shiina Hall is in difficulty, then we can't force it!" For example, how about lowering the standard? It should be no problem for Shiina Hall to bear 2,000 military service! ”

"This is really ......" Shiina Yasuyin just wanted to refuse, but suddenly saw Yamamoto Shiyuki's meaningful expression, and suddenly changed his tone when the words in his heart came to his mouth: "I have to discuss with my retainers and give you an answer, after all, this is not a trivial matter!" ”

Yamamoto nodded thoughtfully: "That's right!" Then I'll wait for good news. ”

"Oops! Why did I say this...... "Yasuin Shiina regrets it!" I can't wait to slap myself: "Looking at his expression, is there a deception in it?" I've heard that the Kira family is used to trickery, so it looks like I have to be careful! ”

Yamamoto is not in a hurry, Yuezhong has always been a general, there is no general constraint and mutual coordination is inconsistent, there is a clear distinction between Kaga and Echichu, and the chief of the jinpo and the head of the army are also at odds with each other, saying that they can't get support, this huge and chaotic army is greedily plundering the resources of the prefectures, and it will not be able to catch up with Matsukura Castle for a while.

Shiina Yasuyin was busy discussing countermeasures and did not affect Yamamoto Tokiyuki's plan and deployment, and soon he recruited 3,000 soldiers in the name of assisting in the defense of the city, and people from the three counties of Vietnam and Central China enthusiastically signed up to participate, and the people working in the refugee camp also heard the news, and this time tens of thousands of people unexpectedly came to sign up.

Numata Yumitsu is in charge of the selection work, his approach is very clever and strict to select 3,000 soldiers who are strong and have some combat experience, these few alone will blow away half of the refugees who are in the fun, those who are less than 14 years old and over forty years old, those who are thin and disabled, and those who are not surprised by the battle, and finally there are more than 4,000 people, of which eighty percent are from the local national system, and the remaining two percent are also experienced ashigaru people.

Yamamoto Shixing handed over these 4,000 people to Numata Yumitsu for training, since Sakamoto accepted the apprenticeship to now he has followed Chenguang, who has been learning for five or six years, has long been familiar with this training technique, how to deal with the difficult soldiers, how to deal with the difficult soldiers, and the unconvinced Chinese people have a set of corresponding treatment methods, and they can easily pick out dozens of mistakes after seven or eight days of training with the new army, from running laps in the teaching field, queue training, emergency assembly to armed marching, and rapid formation, and torture these 4,000 people to death.

In less than half a month's effort, the 4,000 people were packed up and obeyed, and then they were taken to practice frequently with the 5,000 new army, and the noisy shouts and killings on the teaching ground were shouted from dawn to the evening, and sometimes after dinner, the third watch in the middle of the night had to send out the army to do special training, and every time they made Matsukura Castle jump, but the samurai of the Shiina family seemed to turn a blind eye, but often patronized their training, and the praise revealed a strong sense of envy.

When the news reached the ears of the Shiina family, it was another taste, and Shiina Yasuin angrily dropped a few vases, and complained loudly: "The Echigo samurai is simply too deceitful, and he ran to my house to recruit soldiers, what did I do when I was a Shiina family!" I'm the guardian of the dignified Echichu family, not a genealogical retainer of your Kira family! ”

"There is also military training, all kinds of messy tricks are used to practice every day, this is a naked show of force, and I want to compare my Shibi master! His heart is sinister and ruthless! "The old and young banners of the family of the spectrum are fanning the flames with compassion.

"In my opinion, this Kira family is not good, and eighty percent of them want to stay in Yuezhong and not leave! Our Matsukura Castle is about to become the castle of the Kira family, and if it goes on like this, the influence of my Shiina family in Yuezhong has been robbed by him! Sojuro Hosokawa shook his huge head and shouted indignantly.

This person's name is very bluffing, named one of the "five major generals of Vietnam, China", is a group of Vietnamese Chinese idle and bored to mix ten miles and eight towns look very good, martial arts are more powerful people together, fight a few small battles and feel that they are bullish, and then self-appointed a general, and then there is one of the five major generals of Vietnam.

Hosokawa Sojuro's origin is unknown, in Echichu has always boasted of superior martial arts and can rival the three armies, two months ago when the Kira army first came to Matsukura Castle, this person ran to the Kira army to show off his skills, mocking them as a group of hairy soft eggs, claiming that it is no problem to pick you ten or eight with a big gun, but the big words were slapped in the face, and he was beaten by three Kira Ashigaru using a combined attack technique that even his mother didn't know, and he has been remembering this hatred ever since. (To be continued......)