Chapter Twenty-Six: Sending Troops

Yiyin and Interests were busy around the opening of the warehouse for half the night, squinted for a while in the second half of the night, and began to toss again in the morning.

War is not a brawl between ruffians and hooligans in the streets and alleys, and after thousands of years of development, war has long been organized in a sophisticated way.

If you think that fighting a war is to pull a few people to give a few knives out to cut people, Yiyin doesn't have to bother to ask for benefits to come back, and interests don't dare to be so high-profile.

Only those who have mastered technology can live so high-profile and proudly, because you can't do this, I can.

But she's just a newcomer, it's okay to command a dozen or twenty recruits from the Spo family, and if she really gives her a reserve, she can't do it if she has to kneel and cry and sing the concubine.

The organizational structure of the peasant soldiers is the simplest, and they work as farmers in peacetime. When the farmer was slack, he made some short bamboo guns and sharpened the head of the spear, with a bamboo hat on his head, and a vest worn by a circle of bamboo pieces around his body, so he was a good peasant soldier in charge.

During the war, I was transporting grain and grass in the rear, and when I was unlucky, I encountered the war, and I pulled up to the front line and lined up in a pile shivering, just begging the master of the Ji Samurai not to see me.

The wind followed the roar and cheered twice, and watched the spoils of war, and when the time was not good, a hundred peasant soldiers lost three people and five people collapsed.

The armament at home is mainly prepared for Ashigaru, and the core made of good wood is wrapped with bamboo pieces to make the body of the gun, two and a half meters long, four or five meters long, and the head is a polished wooden gun head, and the tip of the cone is heavy and durable.

In wartime, a gun formation was formed, with heavy guns under the armpits and side by side in a line, and the spears advanced forty-five degrees. When the head of the enemy and my gun touches, knock away the opponent's spear, take the opportunity to stab the opponent's array, and kill people to break the formation.

This kind of combat test of strength and physical fitness also requires discipline in formation, and the combat effectiveness of standing and light feet is not low, and only when there are casualties of 10 to 20 percent will the morale of the army be shaken.

In addition, the ashigaru is equipped with a royal loan, and the name is the main loan to the ashigaru, and the inventory is maintained in a unified manner, and it is taken out and worn during wartime.

Some of the better ones are no worse than the poor Ji warriors, and the worse ones will also give a piece of iron to protect their heads, wrap their wrists with iron, and cover the front with iron pieces on their bodies, and their protective ability is not bad.

Yang Nai is prepared with good products, iron helmets, handguards, half-body iron, and ashigaru is not worthy of full body armor. Twenty sets of tools are worth hundreds of dollars, which is really a bloody investment.

The benefits were dressed in the spo's carcass, while the silver was only draped in the thick white feathers.

The best Nanban carcass Owari is not sold in rural places, it is the technology brought by the Europeans, and it is only available in the western part of the country.

The two men used a long ten-character gun, the shaft was made of high-quality paulownia wood, and the head of the gun was made of a cross-shaped three-headed flat sharp tip made of 100 forged steel.

The knife is a good Seshu goods, with a long fighting knife in melee combat, a short rib difference to break armor, armed to the teeth.

The benefit is also equipped with a good half-bow, which is half the length of the bow, and the powerful range is slightly less, and it is used for immediate archery.

Yang Nai Yukino, who had been busy all night, brought rice balls made overnight with red eyes.

In the winter, they are not afraid of deterioration, and the large rice balls are frozen and hard, and they are all steamed and wrapped in candied plums with fine rice.

When eating, it is inserted in the head of the gun and roasted on the fire, one can be eaten for one meal, and two are eaten before the war.

And he prepared fifteen of them, and wrapped them around his waist and on his back, so that he could carry them. This is all dry food for short-term wars, and it is most convenient to cook without a fire.

These amounts made the two women and five handmaids busy all night, one is the lack of manpower, and the other is inexperienced.

Seeing that Yiyin was not wearing armor, he thought that he was not going to go into battle in person, so he bowed happily, and Yang Nai said.

"Yoshiyin-sama, the rice balls have been distributed, and your and Maeda-sama's portions are hung on horseback."

"Well done, Yono. It's hard work for you and Yukino at home.,Benefit Ji and I will set off immediately.。 ”

Yang Nai bowed deeply to the interests seriously, and Xue Nai behind him also bowed.

"Please, Maeda-sama, please be sure, bring Yoshiyin-sama back."

The interests were confused by their appearance, and they quickly bowed and said.

"Please rest assured, as long as I still have a breath of air, I will never let anything happen to Lord Yiyin!"

Yono nodded and said.

"The horses were ready, the harness was new, the hair was combed and brushed, and the beans were fed.

Since it is a military horse that goes into battle, all the expenses will be paid according to the family's expenses, and I will ask someone to send the credit from the castle town. ”

"Really? I don't have to pay for this? ”

The interest was pleasantly surprised.

"As long as you protect Lord Yoshiin, even if you dismantle my bones to squeeze oil and sell it for money, you won't let Lord Maeda have no food to eat and no horses to ride."

Although Yang Nai is speaking to interests, his eyes are looking at Yiyin.

"Wu Yun Changlong, my lord, Xue Nai and I will go to the village to gather peasant soldiers and then come."

The interests who were in a good mood laughed and greeted Ashigaru who was resting on the spot and was on standby, and Yiyin Chaoyang Nai Xue Nai smiled slightly.

"Let's go!"

In Qingzhou City, the news brought back by the Li family made everyone nervous.

"The spies have confirmed Maeda-sama's intelligence, Kasugai and Shoushan have fallen into the hands of the rebels, and the enemy army is passing through the pass, and the troops will be able to attack Qingzhou as soon as tomorrow morning."

Niwa Nagahide said with a heavy heart. The situation was very bad, because Nobunaga insisted on going his own way, and the city was not well prepared.

The supplies and armaments can only barely be supported, and the full capacity makes the city of Qingzhou a chaos, if the enemy army attacks sharply at this time, the city is afraid that it will not be able to hold it.

"It will take two or two days for the defenders of each city to gather at the earliest, and I am worried that after the rebels attack the city, they will cut off the internal and external contacts, and those small groups of defenders will be broken by each one."

Mori said, glancing at Nobunaga, who was expressionless on the main seat.

"I went to Sasa's house, but the messenger from Sakuma's family hasn't returned yet, so I don't know how they're reacting. But if Kiyosu Castle is besieged, the neutral retainers will be shaken, and the Sasa family and the Sakuma family may not be on our side. ”

Niwa Nagahide sighed, the family's struggle for the throne is to win the support of the retainers, and one will lose the other.

Shibata Katsuie's decisive and swift action brought the pressure back to Nobunaga's side, and the situation seemed to be getting worse.

The ministers all frowned, at this time the army of the territory was too late to gather, if they forcibly converged, the chaos caused would give the rebels an opportunity.

However, if they do not converge, the rebels will have a standing army of the Hayashi family and Nobuyuki-sama, plus the Shibata reserve, and the number of people is estimated to reach more than 1,500.

These were not peasant soldiers, they were all armies composed of Ji samurai and ashigaru, and the quantity and quality were far higher than those of the army in the castle.

What's even more terrifying is that after the siege of the city, even if the city is defended, Nobuyuki's follow-up grain and peasant soldiers will come, and a long siege will make neutral retainers submit to Nobuyuki.

The result was the same as the defeat of the city, and it was just a few more days.

There was only one bad news coming back and forth, and Nobunaga, who was on the throne, suddenly scratched his head and laughed.

"What a right six!"

Shibata Katsuie's name is Gonroku, and Nobunaga has always shouted like this, which is also a reason why Shibata Katsuya is dissatisfied with her, it's too disrespectful.

"I didn't expect the method I thought of to be broken by him all at once, it's really powerful, and it deserves to be the number one fierce general of my Oda family. Mori-sama, Kawajiri-sama, what do you think? ”

The two royal sisters snorted.

"Since you can't play strategy, then don't play it. Fighting, after wasting a long time, I didn't have to rely on the swords and guns in my hands to speak!

In order to feed the army, the man that the old lady wants to go to has no money, and she doesn't dare to eat more than two bites of what she wants to eat, so she forces Migoro to make money every day.

Hengxing, Inuchiyo, I've been busy for a long time, are you talking about it or not? ”

"May I die for the Lord!" Ikeda Hengxing and Maeda Toshiie bowed deeply at the same time and said loudly.

"I'll wait for death to spin my heels!"

Mori Kecheng and Hidetaka Kawajiri also leaned down.

"Yyogoro!"

"The minister is here!"

"How many soldiers and horses have been gathered now?"

"Probably... Seven hundred. ”

Oda Nobunaga licked the corners of his mouth with his tongue and raised his eyes upward, his eyes were less black and more white, and his fierce appearance was revealed.

"Enough, send troops today, and the follow-up people will let them concentrate on the battlefield. Stuck in the Shonachi River, stationed in Inayuhara, and forced Quan Roku to stop repairing. ”