Toyonaka

It is a small mountainous area between Osaka Castle and Tajima.

Originally, this small mountainous area has been deserted, and although there is a mountain path in the dense bamboo forest, there are basically no pedestrians every day.

But today is different, and there is a long queue on the originally desolate and uninhabited bamboo forest path.

These people were none other than Danma and Shan Bo who had been mobilized and merged together to prepare to attack Zhao Hongyu and their crusading army.

The first to appear is a group of ashigaru men wearing black pointed hats with a small white curtain behind them, and they move very fast, almost always trotting.

Some of the generals in the queue also scolded loudly from time to time, and everyone had a more solemn expression on their faces.

Under the loud reprimand of those generals, these ashigaru people ran with a snort, and they were so tired that they couldn't do it anymore.

You must know that after they joined forces on the Danma side yesterday, they immediately sent out their troops without any delay.

It can be said that they have not rested since yesterday during the day.

Otherwise, how could they have crossed Toyonaka so quickly and directly entered the Osaka area.

In the bamboo forest, the mountain wind blows, and the bamboo body shakes to produce a 'rustling' sound, and the wind blows on the body, which makes people very cool.

But the foreheads of these ashigaru people marching on the path of Zhunlin were covered with sweat one by one, and they didn't even have time to raise their hands to wipe them.

At the back of the ashigaru queue were the elite Hachimoto samurai.

These elite flag-book samurai are all wearing black Japanese armor and helmets.

You don't need to look at anything else, just by looking at their armor and equipment, you can see that they are much better than those ashigaru.

After all, on the side of the Wa Kingdom, the elite of the Hachimoto samurai existed as the lord's defensive forest. Basically no different from the Praetorian Guard.

Therefore, every daimyo will try their best to make their flag warriors elite and very well-built.

And these people's fortunes are also the most generous.

After all, when they encounter danger in the war, they will absolutely fight to the death.

And these elite flag warriors, one by one, are also very brave.

Basically, they are all samurai selected from those kendo halls in each lord's territory.

So. Each of them has a few unique skills.

The samurai class refers to the samurai of the flagmoto.

Of course, there are also the generals who lead the ashigaru and other arms, who are also considered members of the samurai class.

But their status is a lot higher than that of the flag warriors.

After all, these people have mixed up with this status, and they want to be equivalent to the 'civil servants' in this era.

The weapons used by the Hajimoto samurai were finely forged katanas. This katana is a bit longer than a regular katana.

Because it will make it easier for them to fight on the battlefield.

Behind these flag-bearers were a small flag.

On the flags, the family coats of arms of the daimyos to which they belonged were printed.

When it comes to family crests, I have to mention some funny things about the Japanese people, because in the Warring States period. There are even daimyo who use copper coins as family crests.

I don't know if that guy is a businessman, otherwise how could he use copper coins as a family crest.

There were two groups of samurai, one wearing black armor and carrying a small black flag.

The flag is imprinted with the mark of three stones. This is the family crest of the Tajima Shogun, a local daimyo of the Takahashi family.

Behind the black samurai were a group of samurai in tricolor armor, also carrying a small red flag behind them.

This little red flag is on the flag. What is printed is not the chrysanthemums, stones and even copper coins commonly used in the Japanese country, but the family crest of a centipede.

Needless to say, this must be the family crest of the local daimyo general who guarded the local area.

To say that the ancestors of this wind squire general and prison family, the rise and the Warring States are also very legendary.

The ancestor of his family was originally a local wandering Langzhong in Shanbo, and he was a barefoot doctor in the Ming Dynasty of China.

And the ancestor of his family used to heal people by feeding centipedes.

According to the ancestor of the Wind Servant family, eating centipedes can cure diseases.

It's just that it's impossible to verify whether this thing is true or not, but it is an indisputable fact that after a series of adventures, his ancestor rose to become a small wealthy family in the Warring States Period.

Especially during the Sekigahara War, his family's ancestors succeeded in political speculation, which made their family officially become a member of the daimyo.

It is commonly known as 'Dengxian Book'.

That is to say, the so-called detachment from the ordinary people of Peng, and even the status is higher than that of the wealthy family.

That's not what's the matter, at that time, it was a 'god'.

Whatever you want to eat, women can sleep casually, and they don't have to farm.

This is not what a 'fairy' is.

Look, the dream of the dicks of this era is so simple.

In fact, they know that even the life of the daimyo is not much better than theirs.

That is, you don't have to work, it's true that you have more wives.

If you want to talk about eating and drinking, the daimyo is nothing more than eating a full stomach.

If you have to say that the dishes are excellent or something, then it is complete.

At this time, the Wa Kingdom basically ate pickled salted fish from top to bottom, and white radish soup was mixed with a bowl of rice.

Even the emperor is no exception.

Without him, there were very few meat products in the Wa Kingdom at this time, and raising pigs would be even more nonsense.

Having fish to eat is already very nice for them.

But in any case, on the side of the Ishida shogunate, as long as you see someone who uses a centipede as a family emblem appear, it goes without saying that someone from the wind service family is here.

After the two flag-book samurai, there were teams of cavalry.

The war horses under the crotches of these cavalrymen are really not good.

It is not as robust as depicted in later Japanese movies, and it is only a little bigger than the Mongolian horses.

At best, riding on a mule.

The reason why the Japanese people performed so well in later movies was just to whitewash their ancestors, which were all fake.

Movies come from life, higher than life.

In fact, anyone who has a brain knows that it is false. I don't want to think about how the geography of Japan and the environment of their country in this era could have cultivated such a high-headed Malaysia.

Although it was true that the Wa Kingdom did breed good breed horses in later generations, it was because the merchants of the Wa Kingdom spent a lot of money to buy stallions from Europe and the United States.

As a stallion, whether male or female, there is nothing to do with the local horses of the Japanese country.

So, don't look at the shameless bragging about how they are, in fact, the blood of European and American horse breeds flowing in the bodies of those horses has nothing to do with them.

Of course, the Japanese have always been shameless. They always want to boast about the greatness of the Yamato nation.

This is understandable.

After all, if you want to brag or something, the Japanese are much worse than the sticks.

At least, there are still many advantages that can be taken advantage of, and this must be admitted.

If you don't admit it, you can't do it, because those are objective facts, and it's not that you selectively don't see them, and those advantages don't exist.

Fortunately, Zhao Hongyu didn't see these cavalry on war horses. Otherwise, he would have laughed and his stomach hurt.

The Japanese of this era did not have the generation that made them stronger after World War II when they drank milk.

Therefore, at this time in the early seventeenth century, the height of the Japanese people really did not dare to compliment.

Basically. As soon as Zhao Hongyu stood in front of them, he was a 'giant'.

And Zhao Hongyu has changed his age because of the relationship between time and space, and now he looks like he is fifteen or sixteen years old. The body began to develop at this time, too.

At the same time, because he is still too young, he has not opened his height at all, and his height is about 1.78 meters.

At that time in later generations, such a height would be average.

It is also very common in the Wa Kingdom.

After all. After drinking milk, the height of the people has indeed increased a lot.

But in this era, Zhao Hongyu's height is definitely 'huge'.

Coupled with his well-nourished, he looks red.

It's not like a Japanese person, who is malnourished at a glance, and he is thin and thin.

But in any case, these Japanese people who have some status or serve as soldiers, their faces are much stronger than those ordinary peasants.

You must know that the peasants of the Japanese Kingdom in this era cultivated their own land at the tax rate of 'eight public and two private'.

Under such a tax rate, if the peasants of the Japanese country eat all the oil, it will be a ghost.

In the middle of the queue of elite samurai of the two colors of armor, there were two guys on war horses who stood out.

Both men were dressed in black and tricolor armor, but their helmets were inlaid with large markings, and it was not necessary to look at the identity of someone who would have put a mark on the helmet.

Thinking about it this way, these two people must be the daimyo of Shan Bo and Tajima.

The guy in black armor had a golden word 'fierce' inlaid on his helmet, as if to prove how powerful and brave he was.

It stands to reason that the guy with such a 'fierce' word helmet must be a man with a big waist and a round tiger's back.

It's a pity that this daimyo from the Takahashi family in the Tajima area is a dry and thin guy.

Although this guy is sitting on a war horse, you can also tell that his height is definitely not one and a half meters...... What, you say he's a little kid?

Have you ever seen a child grow a beard?

And whose children have a middle-aged face in addition to a long beard.

The black armor was worn on Takahashi's body, and it was not coordinated at all.

With the foreground of the war horse under his crotch, the black armor worn on his body was always dangling.

It took a long time because his armor was too big.

Next to Takahashi was a young man wearing tricolor armor who looked relatively normal.

But if you see the positive side of this young man, you don't think so.

It turned out that this young man was a 'pair of eyes', which is commonly known as 'cross-eyed'.

The young man's helmet was inlaid with a golden martial art, making him look as if he was wearing a lightning rod.

It can be seen that the descendants of this Fengshou family have never forgotten their origins.

"Takahashi-kun, how long do we have to get to our destination?"

As he was marching, the cross-eyed Wind Squire asked.

When Takahashi heard this, he raised his right hand and waved the 'banana fan' unique to the Japanese kingdom and replied, "In half a day, we will be able to reach the camp of those foreigners." When the time comes, we will be able to defeat those foreigners with just one attack, and this crusade will be completely effortless for the two of us. ”

Takahashi looked confident and didn't care.

"Takahashi-kun, should we be careful?" The Wind Squire had a different opinion, and he showed a thoughtful look. "I heard that the general of Osaka Castle, Ishida Koumichi, once led 5,000 troops of Osaka to attack, but they were all defeated by those foreigners, and even when he fled back to Osaka Castle, there were only more than 400 Qimoto guards left around him, so it can be seen that these foreigners do not seem to be very easy to deal with."

Takahashi, who is thin and small, but has a lot of ambition, showed a disdainful expression when he heard this.

"Ishida Aido, that's just a piece of waste. It was not surprising that he was defeated by those foreigners. For Ishida Aido, it seems that Takahashi looks down on him very much.

The Wind Squire didn't want to dwell too much on this issue, he just wanted to remind Takahashi to be careful of those foreigners.

After all, with the example of such a defeat in Ishida, he didn't want the two of them to repeat the same mistakes.

However, it is clear that Takahashi does not care about this issue at all.

But think about it.

The two of them joined forces, and the strength reached almost 10,000 people.

And these soldiers are the most elite in their territory.

It's not comparable to the soldiers under the waste command of Ishida Aido.

Therefore, Takahashi is full of confidence in this crusade.

He didn't think he was going to fail, like Ishida Aido.

In Takahashi's view, the waste-like Ishida Aido, his failure is actually not surprising at all. Ishida Aido is a big waste, and he has succeeded in doing something.

If Ishida Aido is not the son of the shogun and the younger brother of the current shogun, then he will definitely not be able to live.

It was not for nothing that Takahashi looked down on Ishida Aido, who had lived in Edo when he was a child, so he knew Ishida Aido.

Children, there will be more or less a little conflict when they meet together, and the Liangzi and hatred of Takahashi and Ishida are formed at that time.

And Takahashi has always been cautious, and he still remembers what happened when he was a child.

So, of course, when he mentions Ishida Aido, of course he won't have anything good to say.

Cross-eyed glanced at Takahashi, feeling a little uneasy and panicked.

Because after continuous marches, the physical strength of the soldiers has been greatly consumed.

If, according to Takahashi, they would attack as soon as they arrived at the foreigners' camp.

Can the soldiers stand it?

Anyway, the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced, for sure.

It was with this in mind that the cross-eyed wind attendant couldn't help but feel apprehensive in his heart. (To be continued......)