Chapter 38: Three Rivers Bong Public
Affected by the news of Kira Manmatsumaru's announcement of Shangluo, many people in Mikawa Country have different attitudes to deal with it, such as the Nakajo family sent the heir of the family governor to follow Shangluo, so that Miyake, Suzuki and other former officials also decided to send a family member of the family to Shangluo, and for a while the news of the Kira family's Shangluo became a hot topic, but the strange thing is that Imagawa of Okazaki Castle and Oda of Anxiang Castle were very silent and seemed to be unmoved by the news.
The small assessment meeting once every ten years was reopened, and the effect of the support of the Shimojira family soon became apparent, and most of the Feng people in Dongsanhe sent a group to follow Shangluo, and a small number of samurai families also sent relatives and genealogy to accompany them because of the issue of heirs, and in just a few days, there were more than 30 people in Mikawa who expressed their Shangluo in the army.
Subsequently, Kira Manmatsumu officially announced that Okochi Nobutada was the representative of Saijo Castle, and the family was jointly agreed by Isshiki Yaonao, Yamaoka Yaoyuan, Jukai Yaozuna, Takahashi Masanobu, Ogasawara Yasumoto, Ogasawara Hiroshige, Ehara Masahide and others, and the end date of the collegial agreement was the day of Kira Manmatsumaru's return, which was strongly requested by Okochi Nobusada to add, and it was not very meaningful to him.
The retainers of the Kira family have expressed their support, and the entourage in the family was quickly determined, and a team of more than 300 people quietly gathered, which was composed of people from the Hao clan all over the Nishimikawa, and about half of the samurai had their own horses in this team, each of them had a set of armor, and the weapons were mainly Tai swords, spears, and Maruki bows, although they were slightly messy, but their combat power was quite good, either a family or a genealogy family, as well as their own cronies, in the Kamakura period, this was called the Lang Party.
The momentum of Higashi-Mikawa was a little thinner, and a total of more than 200 people came, both in terms of the number of self-prepared horses and the sophistication of weapons and equipment, which were a small fraction inferior to the samurai of Higashi-Mikawa, and the comparison between the two compartments made the samurai of Higashi-Mikawa feel very ashamed, and their momentum became much weaker.
Kira Manmatsumu selected a number of loyal and capable samurai to be promoted, among them Isshiki Goro Saemon Naodaka was appointed as a member of the Kira Isshiki clan, and Okochi Kunitsuna, the nephew of Okochi Nobutada, who was also appointed as the Ashigaru general, divided the Nishi-Mikawa samurai into six teams, each with a capacity of 50 people, and two people were in charge of the three bans and 150 people.
The samurai of Higashimikawa also set up two ashigaru generals, namely Shiraku Koshiro Sadatsu and Suganuma Yazoemon Sedano, these two people served as the team in charge of two times and 100 people, Shiraku Sadatsumi was a member of the Tominaga Shiraku clan, if there was no Kira Manmatsumu to insert a lever, he should become an important minister of the Tokugawa family in the future, because he was estranged from the relationship with the clan Tominaga Kiyohiro, and was pushed into the camp of the Kira family by Tominaga Kiyohiro.
Suganuma is a member of the family of Tian Feng Suganuma Soga, the three men of the lord of Otani Castle, Suganuma Ozena Ryo Dinghiro, and the Noda Suganuma clan of Suganuma Dingying's line is its branch, these two families represent the people of the two factions of Higashimikawa and Imagawa, and it can also be reflected when the two choose their respective forces, such as Toda Katsunori of the Tahara Toda clan who almost wiped out the clan, and served as the head of the Ashigaru clan, and he belonged to the camp of Shiraku Sadatsu.
In contrast, Nishi-Mikawa is much better, except for the Matsudaira family, who still have no reaction, the main forces of Nishi-Mikawa, the Kamikira family and the Nakajo family, the three brothers of the Miyake clan, Miyake Shigean, and Yamada Kanesada, as well as the Suzuki Shigeji of the Terabe Suzuki clan, the Suzuki Shigeai of the Ohara Suzuki clan, and the Suzuki Shigetoki of the Suzuki clan.
Except for the Miyake clan because of Matsudaira Kiyoyasu's continuous blows, only the three brothers were left in the withered family, but the relatively strong Suzuki clan did not exclude their own descendants, whether it was the Suzuki clan who swallowed the wine, or the Suzuki clan who was enough to help the Suzuki clan did not send anyone to participate directly, but let the less important division of the temple department, Ohara Shigeai and dozens of retainers of the Suzuki family followed Shangluo, so the two families were also divided into two heads.
Kira Manmatsumaru ordered the Ashigaru generals Isshiki Naotaka, Okochi Kunitsuna, Shiraku Sadatsu, and Suganuma to lead each head to do basic queue training, and the reference training method was the same as that of the eight hundred ashigaru directly under the Kira family, and the standing ashigaru was officially named Saijo Bei, and Watanabe Takatsuna, Naito Massunari, Ina Tadaka, and Kato Kyoaki respectively served as Ashigaru generals, each commanding 200 people.
Yamamoto Kansuke has been very busy recently, and he has no time to train this new army, so Kira Manmatsumaru had to ask Saijo Bei to temporarily transfer him to train with the five hundred and three rivers of the people, his original intention was to let the two sides promote each other to form a good fermentation, so that these five hundred people gradually integrated into the system of the Kira family, but the result was not as good as expected, and even greatly exceeded his expectations.
As soon as the two sides came into contact, several skirmishes broke out, fortunately because of the management in time to extinguish the sprouts, but the confrontation between the two sides was very strong, the people of Nishimikawa were relatively better, because Nakajo Hidetaka and Miyake, Suzuki took the initiative to get closer, basically there was no problem, the people of Higashi-Mikawa were very troublesome, and the people of Hachi, Hohan, Shiraku, and Atsumi were not subordinate to each other, and there were many people from Higashi-Mikawa who were very dissatisfied with the appointment of the two Ashigaru generals, and they were all from Shiraku County for a long time, how can this be done.
In order to calm the internal turmoil and resentment, Kira Manmatsumaru asked Saijo to engage in a friendly group duel with the Bong public, using the long handle of the gun as a weapon, and wrapping a small cloth bag stuffed with quicklime at the front end, showing their martial prowess in a way that imitated a battle. Wansheng! ”
There are also some people who have ulterior motives and shout, "Let Kira Yagata-sama see the power of our Mikawa samurai!" This kind of laughable slogan, their performance quickly angered the samurai of Saijo Bei, Watanabe Takatsuna roared out and declared that he would ride first, and Okuhira Sadayuki, the master of the Okuhei family in Shiraku, jumped out to fight, and as a result, he was knocked to the ground in a flash, Watanabe Takatsuna's martial arts were completely unexpectedly powerful, and suddenly woke up the Mikawa Bong public who was still daydreaming, and they began to weigh the percentage of victory when they were originally full of confidence.
"The essence of the Ichijo is to undermine morale, and the 'dross' that was gradually abandoned in the Kamakura period does not seem to be completely useless." Kira Manmaru sat on the top floor of the Honmaru's Nimaru Kotenshu and looked at the battle below, today he was in a very good mood, wearing a silk straight hanging that please breathe, holding a cup of turquoise tea and tasting tea lightly, kneeling beside him sat Ah Ju from time to time to add water to the teacup, he drank not traditional matcha, but the popular sencha of the Ming Dynasty, matcha is too bitter and the tea ceremony rules are too many, not suitable for tasting in a relaxed atmosphere.
As for Yamaoka Zenjiro's stupidity, naturally he couldn't stay here to be an eyesore, and he was sent down early to work as a part-time referee, and he knew what the situation was when he was excited with a drumstick below.
As expected, compared with the elite soldiers who have been trained for five years by Saijo Bei, the weakness of the uneven heart of the army under the orders of the public is exposed, and in the face of Saijo Bei's gun forest, it directly evolved into a swarm of swarms.