In the blink of an eye, at the turn of spring and summer, the Kira family's 2,000 new army and 300 horses were officially incorporated into the main army after training, counting the Shinano reserve and the Vietsu reserve, the main army of the Kira family was 10,000 and 500 people, and in these two thousand new army, 500 people were taken away by Takigawa Mashige to train the iron cannon Ashigaru, and the remaining 1,005 were all incorporated into the gun shield team, Watanabe Takatsuna served as the reserve general, and Naito Masari's Shigeto Bow team training requirements were too high and could only be temporarily aggrieved.

The new guns are characterized by a faster rate of fire and easier operation, and the initial velocity and power of the projectile of the iron cannon have been greatly increased, pushing the optimal killing distance from 50 meters to 70 meters, and omitting the instability caused by the ignition of the fire rope.

The skillfully controlled Iron Cannon Ashigaru can complete a round of fire in ten seconds, and this reload speed is enough to support the effect of three rounds in a short period of time as long as the rhythm is controlled, but the barrel is cooled by high temperatures and the gun dirt is not cleaned thoroughly will be a big problem, and a few rounds of high-intensity fire must allow a certain amount of time to slow down the rhythm.

The so-called round of shooting is that the first row of charges, shoots and retreats to the rear row for standby, leaving a gap of ten seconds for the next row to be replenished, that is, it takes 30 seconds to complete a round of three-stage shots, and each row of iron cannons has more than 20 seconds of sufficient time to clean the chamber and reload ammunition, and the more time there is, the higher the accuracy of aiming.

After more than two years of professional training, in addition to the basic training of guns and shields, iron cannons and bows and arrows have also received corresponding basic training, which is the basic requirement of the Kira family for full-time production, and mastering several weapons is conducive to improving the overall combat effectiveness.

Late May. In the teaching field at the foot of Kasuga Mountain. Kira Yoshitomi inspected the formation and training of the new army. The 7,000 New Army from Echigo and the 5,000 Standing Army from Omi will receive specialized training from Tokiyuki Yamamoto here, and the Echigo New Army will require a year and a half of intensive basic training according to the requirements of their respective military forces.

This one-and-a-half-year training method matured day by day, greatly improving the physical strength and flexibility of the ashigaru, and on the other hand, cultivating basic tactical literacy, including the use of standard Swiss gun formations and various formations, improved gun assault tactics, and cavalry anti-assault tactics and other professional training. In order to achieve the professional standard of standing ashigaru.

From the point of view of professional quality, this 7,000 new army already has the excellent quality of being a standing army, and what it lacks is nothing more than combat experience or long-term vocational training; normal training requires three years of standing preparation to be condensed into one and a half years, and the effect will certainly be discounted; by the beginning of June, the training period of this new army will expire and will soon be handed over to the Nagao family to be included in military service.

The standing requirements for Omi's needs are even higher, and the 5,000 standing army will have to train for two years of high-intensity and in-depth training, and now the training period has just completed one year, and the overall level is not much different from that of the 7,000 long-tail new army that is about to enter service. They all have one thing in common, they are both very young children.

The average age of the 7,000 Echigo New Army was sixteen. The average age of the 5,000 Omi standing guards was slightly younger, and their role was to gradually replace the original military service system of the Nagao family, to change the traditional military service conscription system to a standing conscription system, and then gradually transition to the process of abandoning conscription for military service.

The equipment they were equipped with came from the ordnance and armor captured by the Kira family during the many years of war, and 7,000 sets of well-maintained and well-maintained equipment were caught in Kinai, and they only needed to be repainted according to the requirements to be used by the Nagao family's 7,000 new troops, and out of the 5,000 people in the Omi reserve, the Kira family provided 2,000 complete reserves captured in recent years, and Biwa made 3,000 new equipment.

The 5,000 military service that Nagao Keitora was in charge of became the first lord of Echigo was a certainty, and the population under the direct command of the Nagao family exceeded 150,000, and the land exceeded 15,000 towns, including the population of Naoetsu and Kasugayama Castle Town, plus the direct leader of the Kira family, which was not counted, and the two families directly controlled nearly half of the population and land of Echigo.

In the face of the absolute disparity in political, economic, military, and agricultural strength, the people of Echigo did not dare to give birth to two hearts, and this advantage gradually improved with the successive victories in the North Shinano and Ueno regions, and after the impact of last year's assassination, the Iga people, Kaga people, and Xuan Saruzhong reshuffled the internal intelligence layout of Echigo, and the internal military and political domination was terrifying.

The church field behind the Kasuga Imperial Palace, which originally belonged to a field in the back mountain, was included in the reconstruction of Kasugayama Castle a few years ago, and now the entire Kasuga Mountain is surrounded by a high wall from the bottom of the mountain, and the nearest is the copper house and iron cannon house in the northwest, and the Naoetsu town and castle town in the east and southeast are the nearest ones.

Houshan was assigned to the Kasuga Imperial Palace by Nagao Keitora, and in addition to serving as the garden of the Kira family, there is also a Himeyashiki group, in which there are 150 Hime samurai, who are expanded on the basis of the original Nagao family Hime samurai, since the accident four years ago, Kira Yoshitoki ordered the Echigo wealthy families to incorporate the school-age daughters of the family into the Hime samurai group.

In the teaching field of the back mountain, one hundred and fifty women and heroes are dressed in men's hunting clothes, their long hair is tied up high by the bowl, and they are running back and forth with bows and bows.

"Ahem! That's pretty good! Kira Yoshishi scratched his forehead and pointed out matter-of-factly: "Looking at the set of actions of drawing a bow and shooting arrows, it is like flowing water, and at first glance, he is an expert, and he is ...... Huh! What about people? ”

Looking around, he found that the tiger queen and the straight tiger who should be standing next to him were gone, and the little maids standing on the side covered their mouths and chuckled, and after a while, they saw the tiger queen and the straight tiger wearing a black hat pocket, holding an unbladed plain gun in their right hand, and a fan-shaped shield on their left hand to drive the mount to slowly appear.

Two girls holding a plain gun galloping table tennis battle to do a ball, take a closer look at their level is really not bad, by no means the imaginary pose to make a show, the two girls sometimes pass by with a blow, sometimes entangled in the offensive and defensive exchange fight.

"Tiger Ji a little to the left! Yes, yes, didn't you just get away with it! Don't get entangled with her. Beware of danger! That's a really good response! "Kira Yoshitoki hugged his arms and watched with relish. It's still fun to watch two soft girls fight. I spent the whole morning watching the girls practice, and I didn't stop until the bell struck eleven.

"I'm so tired!" Two warriors with their armor off their armor came over and took cold towels to wipe off their sweat, and the high-intensity training made the girls sweat, in this medieval era of lack of entertainment, the nobles either worked hard to become a generation of heroes, or greedy for enjoyment and became incompetent.

The samurai had few choices, and the saying that incompetence is replaced has always been deeply engraved in the souls of the samurai descendants. In this patriarchal society, the women of the Sengoku samurai family were destined to follow the universal values of the samurai, either to become men's arms and assistants like Ni Godai, Ba Gozen, Itabae Gozen, and Shou Guini, or to be a traditional woman in the Yamato Nadeshiko style, such as Kira Yoshitoki's mother Ai Gozen, his uncle Yoshizen, Ashikaga Yoshiki's mother Keisuin, and so on.

"Your Highness! Have you seen my practice with Sister Naotoka? Comment on it! Tiger Ji grabbed Zhihu's arm and smiled and walked as close as a team of sisters, Zhihu's cheeks were red and fluttering like a big red apple, I don't know if the weather was too hot or shy.

Kira Yoshishi hurriedly praised: "You look like a pair of sisters from a distance, and you look like a pair of sisters up close, and you can imagine your appearance up close, the bridge of Tiger Ji's nose is high and beautiful." The eyebrows of the straight tiger are like those of the distant mountains, and the eyes of the tiger queen are brighter. The eyes of the straight tiger are clearer, you don't even have much difference in martial arts, and your name also has a tiger character, it's really fateful! ”

Kira Yoshitoki praised the two girls' little faces red, and when he saw the Ji warriors looking at the three of them curiously, he stomped his feet with shame and anger and urged: "Why are you still standing, aren't you shouting that you are hungry!" Hurry up and eat! ”

"Yes, Your Highness Princess!" The warriors stuck out their tongues and suddenly scattered.

Stayed in the palace at noon and had lunch with a few concubines, Tiger Ji's cuisine is still unsatisfactory, but this spirit of hard study is still commendable, every three days Ah Ju will come over to teach them cooking skills, as a born in a family of ministers, Ah Ju has tasted all kinds of food in the world since he was a child, and some foreign treasures are also involved, she has summed up her own cooking skills in many years of practice, and it is no problem to be a teacher of a few little girls who are not women.

As early as the beginning of the year, Saito Asanobu hoped to invite the best midwife to deliver the baby for Aju, Saito Asanobu was the only seedling of the Saito family, and Aju's identity was extremely noble, not only the daughter of the public family but also the righteous sister of Kira Yoshishi, and it was not too much to make this request.

Zhong Kui's worries he can also understand, in ancient times giving birth to a child was a very dangerous thing, the fetus was born with the foot out of the first is easy to dystocia, the need for the most intelligent physician and midwife, in Echigo there is the most intelligent doctor, Nagata Tokumoto is a very kind and serious doctor, from his nickname Mr. Sixteen Wen can understand, this doctor's professionalism and professional ethics are absolutely no problem.

As for the midwife, there are some well-known midwives in Echigo, but this kind of delivery is the experience of the midwives passed down by word of mouth, and it is difficult to distinguish between the exquisite skills and the sparse level, and can only be judged from the reputation of many years.

Although Mr. 16 was not a master in the world of midwifery, he had no problem teaching these midwives the basics of medical knowledge, his rich experience in dealing with various emergencies, and his many years of experience as a doctor.

The next step is to sort out and summarize the experience accumulated by experienced midwifery, and then make various versions of the preview version of the midwifery manual for comments, and then add, delete and modify through feedback, and finally form the first set of management laws on training midwifery medical care in early June.

Maternity women over the age of 55 will select the best of them to come to Kasuga Yamajo for casual consultation, and their other job is to regularly train young women in midwifery, and the next step is to open a medical school in Kasugayama Castle, with the ultimate goal of establishing a higher education institution similar to Ashikaga School.

Tokumoto Nagata served as the first lord of the Tsunaka, and Morima Watarase served as a lecturer. At the same time, basic medical education is offered to townspeople who have a certain cultural foundation. At present, a five-year education system has been established. Long-term vocational education is destined to be unacceptable to adult townspeople, and they can only reluctantly give up opportunities to their own minor children.

Nowadays, the number of illiterate people in Kasugayama Castle and Naoetsu is decreasing, and underage children receive one to two years of cultural education, including simple kanji kana writing, exposition and answers to laws and regulations, and basic education in the samurai social system.

There were several earthquakes in the early days of June, and it was rumored that there would be a major earthquake, and many ministers packed their bags and went down to distant countries, but unfortunately Echigo also became one of the places of choice for some ministers to go down.

The Catholic Church of Tokudaiji Temple sat in the reception room with a sad face. Now he is twenty years old, and he has three non-senators, as the youngest son left behind by the former governor of the Tokudaiji family, Tokudaiji Mitsuri, in Hokuriku, because of the sudden death of his father, he failed to return to Kyoto in time and unfortunately lost his inheritance, and all he can rely on is that pitiful name.

The reason why he chose to go down to Echigo is almost the same as his dead father, and maybe even more miserable, if it weren't for the nominal righteous brother Tokudaiji Gongwei who remembered that he was the child left by his adoptive father, it is still a question whether Tokudaiji Gongjiao would be able to live and grow into adulthood.

Hearing the sound of footsteps in the cloister outside the door, the Catholic Church of Dedaiji Temple hurriedly sat up and looked up. The strong sunlight outside the door dispelled the darkness inside the room, and his eyes were suddenly illuminated by the light, and the man's face could not be seen clearly. But his calm and natural chic bearing still made his eyes shine.

"The Church of Deda Temple, I have seen the town government!" A slight nod of the head of the Church of the Takdaiji Temple counts as a salute, and as a high-ranking minister, he has the right to have this standard of etiquette.

"When Kira Yoshi, I saw the Zhonglang General's Palace."

The two of them had no nutrition for a long time, and then they talked about some recent news in Kyoto, nothing more than which master and what new masterpieces were released, a certain minister did a certain song at a certain year and month to attract the praise of the audience, and there were miscellaneous things such as boating on Lake Biwa during the Moonsee Festival, tasting Omi food, and so on.

The paper door was pushed open a gap, Kawada Iwazurumu reminded the time softly, Kira Yoshitoki smiled and closed the folding fan and said: "Zhonglang will be tired of the palace, and it is inconvenient to bother for too long, so he is leaving!" ”

"Stay!" The Gongjiao of Dedaiji Temple suddenly stood up and blocked his way: "Please wait a while!" I have something to say. ”

"Oh! Speak, listen. Faced with the powerless minister blocking the way, Kira Yoshitoki's choice was to wave his hand to rebuke Kawada Iwazurumaru, who was about to break in, and take two steps back to sit down again.

The Catholic Church of Tokudaiji smiled bitterly; "It's still a very embarrassing thing to say, but when it comes to the safety of the town government and the entire Echigo, please give me a little time to talk about it, speaking of which, it has something to do with the death of my father, in addition to the two ancestors and the untimely death of my father, I have served as ministers from generation to generation, and my father's death was killed by the chief of the castle lord of Masuyama in Yuechu!"

One of the Seven Qinghuas, the Tokudaiji family, came from the Fujiwara Kita family and the Saionji family, and the Saionji family, which belonged to the same family, and the Saionji family, which belonged to the same family, and the Imadegawa family, which was a branch of the Saionji Temple, were both Tsinghua families, and in addition to the two generations of family governors who died early, the lowest achievement was also the position of the Minister of the Interior.

His father, Tokudaiji Mitsuri, was born in the tenth year of Eisho (1513), in his early years, because of frequent wars, he lost most of the old manor territory, and he was poor and destitute, and at that time there was a lot of trouble in the Kinai and Hokke, so he decided to go down to Hokuriku, and the place he chose was similar to the idea of Ashikaga Yoshinori, and ran to the Chinese cat in Vietnam, relying on his mother's identity as the daughter of Hatakeyama Shoshun, so that he could mix food and clothing without worrying.

In the fifth year of astronomy, the Astronomical Hokke Rebellion was basically over, and Yamashina Honganji Temple was also burned down, and Tokudaiji Mitsumi felt that he could return to Beijing safely, so he left the warm embrace of Echichu and returned to his big home in Kyoto, but the good days did not last long, and soon Kyoto ushered in a new war, and Tokudaiji Mitsu fled to Echichu for refuge.

Unfortunately, this new Kazudai Nayan, the right guard general, relying on the identity of the son-in-law of Hatakeyama Yoshisu, did not take the local tyrant from the Jimbo chief in his eyes, and repeatedly offended the narrow-minded Echichu guardian in his words, and in September of the 14th year of astronomy (1545), Hatakeyama Yoshiki died of illness less than a month ago, and was assassinated by the Jimbo chief.

"It's really a sad story...... "Kira Yoshitoki expressed his grief for his passing, "but does it have anything to do with my Kira family?" It doesn't seem to have anything to do with Echigo, right? ”

"It matters, it has a lot to do with it!" The Church of Deda Temple waved his arms excitedly: "The chief of the gods is a narrow-minded villain who will be revenged, because his father verbally offended him, he was ruthlessly assassinated, and the town government offended this villain more ruthlessly than his father, so of course his revenge is stronger!" ”

"Because the family killed the invading army of the Jimbo family, and there are a number of samurai of the Jimbo family, so they want to take revenge on the family and threaten my Kira family and Echigo, right? I will seriously consider it in the future, please rest the hall of the middle court! Kira Yoshishi covered the scorn that flashed at the corner of his mouth with a bat fan, and he didn't bother to talk to this mentally unhealthy frustrated minister, so he got up and walked out the door.

"Wait, listen to me!" The Catholic Church of Dedaiji Temple suddenly became anxious, ran forward in three steps and two steps and grabbed his sleeve, and when he pulled hard and couldn't pull the strength of the bull like a bull, he gritted his teeth and used all his strength to pull it violently, "squeak", and the sleeve of Kira Yoshishi was torn in two.

The Catholic Church of Dedaiji Temple stumbled a few steps and almost fell on his back, and finally stabilized his footing, and then looked at Ji Liangyi's face turned cloudy and then cloudy to rainstormy: "Why do you want to hinder the departure of my family, what does Zhonglang General Hall mean?" ”

"Because the army of Vietnam and China is quietly assembling!" The Catholic Church of Tokudaiji Temple said eagerly: "Their goal is to attack Echigo!" (To be continued......)

PS: Some book friends question the speed of 10 seconds, I will make a supplement here, the so-called 10 seconds is not the speed of reloading and shooting, this is a three-stage hit, after hitting a row, withdraw to the back to reload, how can it be possible to stand still? The Swedish musket array of Gustav II's time was because the arquebus was too slow, and the so-called three-stage formation was far-fetched, and the real users were the Swedes, which maximized the speed and accuracy of fire, and was much more effective than the stupid method of standing in a row and firing at each other.