Hatakeyama Takamasa, who felt that he had been deceived, immediately decided to break with Ashikaga Yoshito completely, and never play with you again, a letter symbolizing the breakoff of friendship was sent from Kawachi Province to the Nijo Imperial Palace in Kyoto, looking at this strange letter, Ashikaga Yoshimasa was surprised.

After reading it carefully twice to make sure that he was not mistaken, he took the handwritten letter of Takamasa Hatakeyama and said with a smile: "Break off friendship? What kind of bastard is this talking about? When did Yu intersect with this Hatakeyama Takamasa? ”

Ashikaga Yoshito felt the need to find out what this guy was thinking, and sent an envoy from the shogunate to inquire about the situation, but as soon as he arrived at Takaya Castle, he was brutally chased back by the samurai of the Hatakeyama family, who claimed that he would never trust His Royal Highness Gongkata.

Such an unreasonable action made the envoy of the shogunate lose face, and also completely aroused the anger of Ashikaga Yoshito, the princess of the royal highness in the Nijo Imperial Palace pointed to the direction of the southern Kawachi country and scolded, roughly meaning: "You toast and don't eat and drink, this shogun now has soldiers and food and does not lack you two goods." ”

When the Hanoi family's funny family governor had an awkward quarrel with the shogunate, Kira Yoshitoki was busy practicing gunnery.

The weather in November was getting colder, and Kira Yoshitoki, who was wearing a thin robe and holding a small plain spear, had already replaced the spear made of pure wood with a small plain gun, because his progress was so fast that Mitsuhide of Yunlin Yuan had to train in advance and take out the small plain gun that should be used for him in a year or even two years.

Changing to a new gun requires familiarity with the temperament of the new gun, and it takes a month or two for ordinary samurai to complete this process, but Kira Yoshitoki only took ten days to get through it, which is also because he is too busy with official duties to soak in the training field all day. Otherwise, the speed will be a few days earlier.

At this time, more than half a year has passed since the arrival of Tsukahara Bu Ling. Kira Yoshishi's size jumped a little taller again. He is eleven years old and has just turned ten years old, and he is almost one meter four, which is enough to satisfy everyone, and some short samurai are just this height.

With the rapid improvement of Kira's marksmanship, the strength has also increased greatly, and Gengoro Watanabe has gradually been unable to resist Kira Yoshitoki's trial, and the two of them will not be able to attack each other with guns for twenty times, and Gengoro Watanabe will inevitably be defeated. The little friends who practiced became more and more unhelpful, and he also set his sights on the island of Zuojin, who was practicing hard with a spear.

After half a year of running-in, the new army training of the Kira family gradually showed strong strength, and the original Ashigaru long-handled team, whether it was using a gun array or a gun, could not withstand the powerful assault of the gun shield team and the axe shield team, after a few months of exploration, Yamamoto Tokiyuki first put forward the idea of equipping two sets of weapons at the same time, that is, each reserve team of Ashigaru in addition to equipping the carcass array with straw shoes to support the flag, each person is equipped with a rattan shield and a one-handed battle axe. A spear.

After experimentation, this combination worked very well, and a half-length spear worked very well. With a rattan shield, it is also enough to support a gun forest, and at the same time, the tactical power of the gun is further exerted, both the assault effect and the counter-assault effect are greatly improved, and the spear can be inserted diagonally into the weapon belt behind the back during close combat, and the one-handed tomahawk assault effect is even more miraculous.

Another kind of test turned out to be the discarded mace, the original mace is shorter than the one-handed battle axe, the armor-piercing ability is excellent and limited to the short handle is not good, but the new mace staff effectively avoids all this, the long one-meter-two mace staff not only has a nail spike hammer head to break the armor, the other side of the sharp cone can also smash through the difficult heavy armor enemy.

The two hundred Mikawa samurai who were recruited a few months ago were also samurai with their own horse armor, and they were also trained in the red cavalry for the first time, and the armor of different colors was repainted red, and a cavalry reserve of 500 people was also quickly integrated and played a good effect in a few months.

Recently, Kira Yoshishi was worried about the problem of iron cannons, and he had two models of iron cannons in his hand, one was 300 Sakai barrels, and the other was the Harquibusel arquebus of origin in Spain, although these two guns were arquebus series, but the Spanish arquebus of origin was still very different from the arquebus of Portuguese origin produced in Sakai Town.

First of all, the Spanish arquebus weighs fourteen pounds, which is enough to make any iron cannon inadequate, in order to facilitate the aiming of the gun, the Spanish arquebus is also specially equipped with a support frame to shoot steadily.

All the Portuguese iron cannons in Japan are very light, the heaviest one is not more than ten catties, and the shorter iron cannon weighs only seven or eight catties, and compared with the Spanish arquebus, the iron cannon has increased the design of the disc cover that turns open and closes, and when the disc cover is closed, it can prevent the ignition powder from scattering and flying into the sparks from causing misfire, and has the insurance function to improve the reliability of the weapon.

The traditional single-blade rotating disc cover of the Spanish arquebus primer is not the best optimization, inherited from the Sakai barrel of the Portuguese iron cannon, which has a frame-type double-leaf rotating disc cover with relatively better airtightness, and also has the advantage of fixing and durable, but the Sakai barrel iron cannon also has the disadvantage of not using the butt that can be shouldered, poor shooting stability, and the arquebus groove on the hammer is not inconvenient to use.

Kira Yoshitoki thought about it and decided to ask a craftsman to optimize it, preferably to combine two arquebuses to produce a new arquebus, and the first thing that came to his mind was the Kuniyubei of Omi Kuniyu Village, who was also a very famous iron cannon craftsman, since the Shimazu family came to Kyoto in the thirteenth year of Astronomy to present Tanejima to the shogunate, the former prince Ashikaga Yoshiharu ordered the Kuniyubei of Omi to be responsible for making iron cannons for the shogunate.

However, the bad luck is that Kunita Village is in Sakata County on the east side of Lake Biwa in Kita Omi, which is a very troublesome thing, Sakata County is the core area of the Asai family, and the Asai family is currently subordinate to the Rokkaku family, so there is no need to worry too much about the iron cannon being seized, but he, the family governor, can't go to the Kunita Village with an advanced iron cannon to seek advice, which is very unsafe and unlike.

Moreover, Hattori Ninja carefully observed that Asai Hisashi was quite hostile to Kira Yoshishi, probably because the two strong Omi suddenly became the top three, which made him naturally a little disgusted, and it may also be because Takashima County, which the Asai family coveted, was occupied.

Kira Yoshitoki could only send someone to invite the country's friendly guards to Sakamoto to meet, this well-known craftsman had no scruples, and when he heard that Kira Yoshitoki was recruiting, he immediately put down what he was doing and rushed over. He met this master craftsman at the Sakamoto Imperial Palace. The two talked for a while, and then there were no words.

The characteristics of craftsmen are not good at going around in circles. Kuniti-youbei is not a person who is good at words, what he is most afraid of is going around in circles, and he will be at a loss if he talks for a long time, and he doesn't want to waste time, so he takes out two iron cannons and hands them to Kuniyubei.

"These are the two iron cannons in the hands of the family, please work hard to see if the two iron cannons can be improved."

The Kuniyubei looked at the two iron cannons carefully, and to be exact, one of them that he had never seen before. He recognized the other kind of Sakai barrel at a glance, as many of the iron cannons had been reworked and repaired due to improper operation or other damage.

Among the main businesses operated by Kuniyu Iron Gun House, iron cannon maintenance is a very important business, and Kuniyu Bei usually comes into contact with Tanegashima tubes, Kishu barrels, and Sakai barrels, and he can even feel the difference between several iron cannons with his eyes closed.

Sakai barrels are characterized by finesse, both materials and labor are the first-class products in Japan, and when it comes to the Seiko casting of mass production iron cannons, not to mention the national friendship and defense are ashamed of themselves, even the Shimazu family's Tanegashima and Kione are not as good as the wealthy merchants of Sakai Town. The production model of the Sakai barrel is almost as good as the other three precision casting special models.

The biggest reason for this is the control of costs, and the wealthy merchants of Sakai Town can build high-end iron cannons at any cost. In order to reap profits as a political resource, the other three are to reduce the quality of the iron cannon for the sake of business, so as to ensure the profit margin.

He really hadn't seen another kind of iron cannon, this was not the usual Nanban iron cannon, but a larger iron cannon, and the national friendly guard asked, "Your Highness Sakamoto!" Where did this cannon come from? ”

"Another country from the Southern Barbarians, it is a new and powerful country, even more powerful than the Southern Barbarian country that introduced the iron cannon, I still have three of this iron cannon in my hand, I wonder if the good soldiers can optimize it?"

"You can try it!" The national friendly guard nodded, and asked again, "Can I take it back?" ”

He thought he would agree to the conclusion, but he shook his head unexpectedly, and Kira Yoshitoki said to Kuniyubei, "I need you to move Kunitome Village to the left." ”

"Moving to a village? Why move the village? "The national friendship guards are a little dizzy, and people with technical backgrounds naturally don't know the Tao inside.

"Because this is the direct territory of His Royal Highness the Shogunate, and Sakata County is the territory of the Asai family who does not obey the orders of His Royal Highness the Prince, the shogunate has long been dissatisfied with the disrespectful behavior of the Asai family, and the family is a member of the shogun's family to guard the shogunate, are you still afraid that the family will bluff you?"

"Can I think about it? The decision to move the village was so sudden that the villain wanted to go back and think about it before giving an answer to His Highness Sakamoto. The national friendly guard said after a moment of silence.

Instead of answering his request, Kira Yoshitoki continued, "My family can set aside a new town for Kuniyu Village in the southwest of Kata-cho, Shiga Prefecture, and all the villagers of Kuniyu Village, young and old, will move over, and the relocation fee will be paid by the family, so you can just move here with your necessities!" ”

He is now lacking an iron cannon expert who does scientific research, and there are only a few experts who are proficient in iron cannon forging in the entire Warring States, if he can't catch the national friendship guard, it will be difficult to encounter such a good opportunity in the future.

Obviously, the Kuniyu Guards were impressed by this tempting condition, but he was still a little hesitant, and Kira Yoshishi added fire: "In addition, the Kuniyou Iron Cannon produced by Kuniyu Village will be sold by my Kira Family's Pipa House in the future, and the pig iron, wood, pure lead, and gunpowder needed to forge the iron cannon can also be purchased from the Pipa House, so you can rest assured, right?" ”

"Biwa House sells on behalf of you? Can you still buy raw materials? That's really ...... That's great! The Kuniyubei, who was not good at words, couldn't help but get excited, and he had also heard of the name of the Biwa House, and it was great to be able to cooperate with the Biwa House.

Of course, he understands the meaning of selling on behalf of Guoyou Village, and there is no need to wait for merchants to place orders for production in the future, as long as Guoyou Village pays a certain amount of iron cannons on time, and Pipa House pays on time, manufacturing and sales are decoupled to reduce their burden, and all kinds of raw materials can be purchased on behalf of them, which is simply good.

The price offered by Kira Yoshitoki was so tempting that he not only arranged a new village, but also found a permanent job for the whole village, and he was not a craftsman who was good at dealing with merchants, and often encountered people of poor character who blackmailed him for the quality of his iron cannons, or forcibly demanded his iron cannon casting methods, and all kinds of problems made him feel very distressed.

Kira Yoshitoki proposed preferential conditions to completely eliminate all these problems, and in the future, there is no need to worry about someone blackmailing and not worrying about the iron cannon not being sold, and there is no need to worry about damaging the reputation after offending the merchants.

The relocation of Kuniyu Village was very fast, and it only took six days for more than 700 villagers to take the Kira family's boat to move the entire village to Katata, and Asai Hisasa, who heard the news, pounced, and when he received the news, Kuniyu Village was already empty, and it was obvious that the Asai family was put together.

The angry Asai Hisamasa ran to the Rokkaku house to sue Kira Yoshishi for his illegal behavior, but his luck was very bad, and at this time Rokkaku Yoshiken didn't care about these nonsense things, Rokkaku Yoshiken's father Rokkaku Dinglai was notified of the second critical illness, and the ghost knew that the old man was still quite a few times, anyway, he and his old brother-in-law Hosokawa Harumoto were tortured to death, and their two eyes were swollen like goldfish.

Asai Hisamasa saw that the Rokkaku family was in a mess and no one paid attention to him, so he could only return to Kotani Castle angrily, he didn't dare to mess with the Kira family, and Kira Yoshishi didn't bird him, except for scolding Kira Yoshishi every day in the castle tower of Kotani Castle, other thoughts were obviously superfluous. (To be continued......)

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