Chapter 5 inspects the morale of the parade and horses

Before teaching it to Ashigaru and Ding Zhuang, Gao Shisheng asked people to summarize these experiences last night, about 20 points, for their own learning and figuring.

For example, when defending and stabbing with the enemy's guns, you must not be afraid to retreat, and there is no possibility of survival after the entire formation is destroyed and scattered, and you will either be executed by the samurai in the prison formation, or you will be stabbed to death by the enemy taking advantage of the situation.

As the saying goes, 'the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road', they work together to dial the spear of the enemy's formation, bow their head and protect their cheeks and throat with a hat, and when necessary, they also use their cage hands and curls to block the spear's whipping and stabbing.

Another example; When charging, do not stop in the face of the enemy's bows and arrows, iron cannons, the slower the charge, the easier it is to be shot to the ground, only with the fastest speed to rush over, there is a chance to live.

The rate of fire of the arrows was not as fast as expected, and even a samurai with excellent archery skills could not shoot too many arrows in a short period of time in close combat, and the iron cannon was slower to reload than the archers.

The iron artillery of the Warring States period was very backward, not only poor aiming accuracy, short shooting distance, high failure rate, and surprisingly slow shooting speed, but also the smoke produced after shooting affected the shooting, and it was susceptible to environmental influences, such as rain, strong winds, excessive humidity, etc.

The firing process is extremely cumbersome, the first step is to open the bag, take out a certain amount and put it into the barrel, then use an iron brazing to solidify, and then put in the lead bullet; The second step is to rub the flint and light the fire rope; The third step is to aim at the target, pull the trigger, so that the fire rope falls and ignites, and then the second round of firing, and the gunpowder residue in the barrel must be emptied in advance, otherwise it is possible to explode.

The unified command that the iron artillery ashigaru relies on very much, and the queue action of the iron artillery ashigaru is mainly issued by the head of the iron cannon group under the command, and without the command, some soldiers are afraid that it will be difficult to complete the firing process independently. From this point of view, the use of iron cannons during the Warring States period was very immature.

Therefore, when charging, in the face of the enemy's bullets, you must not flinch, you must use the fastest speed to rush forward, as long as you rush down in front of the enemy, forcing the opponent to fight with a white edge, those light soldiers who lack armor and spears are definitely not opponents.

Moreover, after killing the enemy in a white-knuckle battle, remember that you must not stop, rob the enemy's head, and do not allow you to pick up the lost property, if you go to grab these things, not only will the enemy soldiers get a chance to breathe, but may even let the enemy take the opportunity to counterattack, die on the battlefield, and no matter how much property you pick up, it is useless.

Since his departure, Gao Shisheng has first promulgated the standard of rewards and punishments without establishing any military orders.

If it is just wishful thinking to teach Ding Zhuang how to kill the enemy to survive, then the strict reward and punishment is to ensure as much as possible that after the real war, these coerced ashigaru subordinates will not scatter in a hurry and throw themselves on the battlefield to die, after all, there are many people with great strength, there are enough people in front to block the sword, and the generals hiding behind are more likely to survive.

The point of reward and punishment is to 'order the troops, reward and punish the promise.' 'Perel the cowardly with strict military law, become brave, and then lure the brave to death with a reward.'

Courage and cowardice have sex, strength and weakness have land. Wu Yue is strong, Kanto Maoye is strong, Dongyi is timid, Miao is cowardly, Kibi is shallow, Mutsu is strong, Haidai is deceitful, Izumo is martial, Tsukushi is sharp, and Hanoi is brave. Born of terrain, affected by popularity, brave and cowardly.

The land of Haidai, the ancient name of the East Sea Road. Regardless of whether the evaluation of the people in other regions is correct or not, but for the evaluation of Haidai's deceit, Gao Shisheng thinks so.

The long-term trade and cunning of the market can indeed be seen everywhere. Do big things and cherish your life, and forget your life when you see small profits.

While fearing punishment, he was also eager for money and food rewards, otherwise the more than 300 apprentices selected would not be coerced so easily, but at the same time, the 'deceitful' temperament also made Haidai's pawns far less honest and resistant to war than the two soldiers of Yue Mao.

If you want to use military law to forcibly restrain it, this group of cunning people is really difficult, and the law of Junfu is strict, and there are many provisions, including all aspects, and it will only backfire if you really use them all.

These three hundred people were coerced, and they were already deeply resentful, and they had not received military discipline or military orders before, so where was there extra time to tell the right and wrong in detail, and when all the churches did not know how long it would take, they had already delayed the military period.

Therefore, he simply stated three military orders: "Those who do not obey the orders will be beheaded." Those who flee in fear of the enemy in battle, beheaded. Before the battle is over, those who dare to rob the head and property will be beheaded. ”

At the same time, as a reassurance, it was also promised that thirty percent of all things captured after the war would go to the army, two percent to the officials, and the remaining fifty percent to the soldiers and soldiers. "This can be regarded as a clever deception, in fact, Gao Shisheng, a township who has not yet established a military position, is qualified to paint cakes for apprentices.

These three orders were quickly used, and during the two-day march, there were two cases of escape, the first occurred in the daytime, while three people fled in tandem while they were relieved, two of them succeeded, and only one of them sprained his ankle and was caught and beheaded in public.

This time it was not Aoki Daizen, but a special hand was selected, and he cut it four times in a row before cutting off the head of the deserter, but his miserable wail before death did not have much of a deterrent effect, but it was an example of two successful escapes in the daytime, which gave great encouragement to the strong man, and that night there was a team of apprentices who used a bonfire to break the rope that bound them, and fled en masse again.

Because of the dim twilight of the winter night, Gao Shisheng did not send troops to pursue rashly, but only let people shoot with bows and arrows and iron cannons.

A burst of fire accompanied by a roar jumped, and when the smoke cleared, except for two or three people who were unlucky enough to be hit and fell to the ground and groaned, the rest of the people ran desperately according to the instructions they had heard during the day, and in a blink of an eye they all hid in the vast woodland and disappeared. Gao Shisheng vaguely saw the wooden stake raised by the tree, standing among the snow, he sighed helplessly, waved his hand, and several samurai walked over quickly, stabbed all the wounded deserters to death, cut off their heads and hung them on the flagpole.

Before he really went to the battlefield, he had already killed more than 30 people, almost catching up with the tithing order, but he finally curbed the trend of fleeing, or Sakujo City was already in sight, so that the strong men lost the opportunity to escape.

Because of the conscription and dispatch of military service, there were temporary military stations along the way, and county soldiers were dispatched to maintain order, but not to supply supplies to the military service, but to supervise and prevent the emergence of extortion and even arson and plunder.

When he arrived at the county city, Cao Yida Zonggang, a soldier guarding the road, hurriedly came to salute, and was surprised that Gao Shi Shengneng had caught so many strong men in one go, but he saw the flagpole full of human heads, his face was strange, but he didn't say anything, after all, he had already learned his harsh and cruel treatment, and politely led the troops of Pingshan Township to the military camp.

still placed Gao Shisheng's troops in the old military camp when he came back. At that time, the whole camp was full of people, and the people who came and went were all brought by the wealthy families, and in order to compete for the barracks, they fought fiercely, and the scene was chaotic, and people who didn't know thought that there was infighting.

The county soldiers did not step forward to stop this, but stood all over the sentry with spears in their hands, watching coldly, as if they had long been accustomed to it.

As soon as Gao Shisheng thought that he was going to Beixin with such a friendly army to die, his emotions were really indescribable, and he couldn't help but shake his head secretly, praying to the 'Bodhisattva of Shehui' of the Pure Land True Sect for protection, hoping to bless himself and not be dragged down by this group of scattered people and die in the battle of Kawanaka Island in advance.

Just when the master was chanting the Buddha, the ashigaru and Ding Zhuang of Pingshan Township, under the command of the samurai, also joined the ranks of the competition, and relied on the strength of the crowd, and soon occupied a row of houses and drove out the original owners.

At noon, the whole army stayed in the barracks to rest and cook.

Gao Shisheng didn't have time to rest, so he cheekily went to the office to find Matsugami Torturer to come forward, and through a private person to the county Tocao, he spent money to buy his own shortage of materials, and under the reminder of the other party, he spent money to buy a large number of straw shoes in the straw shoes house opened by the tribesmen of the castle town, after all, after entering Shinano, it was difficult to collect materials.

Because of the influx of a large number of ashigaru, I didn't think that even the price of straw sandals that cost more than a few dollars on weekdays has increased several times, and I took advantage of this time to take advantage of this rest time, and I stepped up the painting of the Gao family crest on the old military uniforms, blank flags, hats, and spears, and hurriedly dried them, and then sent them to each team.

Tomorrow, the county guards will inspect it, and they can't still dress up as homeless people, and the new soldiers will have to wear military uniforms. At the same time, he also had to take his samurai to the school field in advance to find a good position to plant the flag of the Pingshan Party, so as not to even find the position of the queue when he got it.

On the second day, the whole army finished changing their clothes and left the camp to begin the review.

The venue for the parade was chosen in front of the high platform in the open space between the many military camps.

Gao Shisheng changed into a military uniform, wearing armor and a sword to stand in front of the banner printed with the 'Genji wheel pattern', the samurai family patterns are mixed, and each family has a little trace of the family from the rich family has as few as seven or eight kinds of family crests, replacement seals, and even one or two kinds.

The main pattern of the Toe Gao clan is the 'flower wheel jade pattern' handed down from the high-ranking clan, the branch Shuryu uses the 'hanging wheel replacement pattern', and the daily use of the utensils is the 'two-tael pattern of the Ashikaga deacon) who served as a deacon in the clan for generations, and the first Shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, the Takashi Clan, and the 'Genji wheel pattern' that represents the meaning of ten thousand victories.

For example, the Lang Party led by Hasegawa Hayato and Nagata Mori served as Gao Shisheng's flag guard, and the flag behind him was all white with no lines, and the meaning of praise and praise in Buddhist language was written in vermilion ink, and the meaning of praise and praise in Buddhism was Nan Wuwei, and the meaning of religious extension was refuge. The Three Treasures Aragami is one of the Buddhist deities unique to Akitsu. Guarding the Three Jewels of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, disgusted with impurity.

The rest of the new pawns are simply on the blank flag, drawing two intersecting circles with black ink, the right to 'send the hanging wheel', hundreds of flags to the wind, plus these apprentices, the front row of the ashigaru are all armored, armed with guns and knives, all lined up, quite neat and orderly, it looks quite majestic.

On the high platform, officials from the county and state of the county, including the county marmoru of Asahina, the prosecutor of the non-prosecutor Yamauchi Shitoyo, the investigator of the investigation and the general judge Harada Rennao, the lord of the castle, Nobuko Hamana, and the criminal record Nobumitsu Matsugami also watched from the county of Asahina.

For a time, the heroes on the high platform gathered. From a distance, under the fluttering banner are all black hats and black hunting 'nobles of the county', the head of the Hinai county guard, one or twenty people kneeling on both sides, in order to cooperate with the review, all wearing knives, hanging around the waist of the ribbon of different colors.

In a trance, Gao Shisheng seemed to be in front of the old paintings, and the national division guard was ordered to inspect the parade of soldiers and horses, and select brave and strong men, but it is a pity that the officials and soldiers were not subordinate to the imperial court, and the grand occasion of offering prisoners can only be recalled in ancient books.

When the people of the city heard the news, they came to see it. The castle and outside the camp were full of people, people, ronin, men and women, and the castle town was empty, and for the people of Enoe Province, the soldiers and horses of the Imagawa family were the officers and soldiers who protected their safety.

On both sides of the platform, the onmyoji of the shrine, who stood in front of the taiko drum with his sleeves in white and made a temporary cameo appearance as the commander of the "Yarakuro Kori", asked the Asahina Gunshou to personally guide the drumming with a mallet and announce the start of the parade.

First of all, the festival band temporarily recruited from the 'Yangya' entered the venue.

Sixteen people in white scarves before and after the colorful clothes of the wrestlers, shoulders and steps, musicians each hold different instruments, or blow or percussion, the pace of the wrestlers and the sound of the music.

There is a fence around the school field, each with a flag, and the band circles the field and returns to the left side of the high platform.

The 1,000 soldiers who participated in the parade wore freshly issued brown armor and stood in a neat queue outside the venue, and after the band stopped on the left side of the stage, they entered according to the order of each song, starting from the first song of Lejin.

In the old system of previous dynasties, the review of the county and state guards was mainly to test the school cavalry and archery, followed by the ranks of the battle array.

The county soldiers of Sakujo have been trained for a long time, following the beat of drums and the sound of conch horns, advancing and retreating in a measured manner, and scattered and gathered under the command of their respective soldiers, driving like human arms. However, the main thing to inspect is not to keep the flag ready, but to send it out just to throw jade bricks and let the people know the gap between their strength and the Imagawa family.

Today's review does not require the people to follow the complex standards of the county soldiers, which can play a role in motivating morale, so the process of each country's hometown song is relatively simple, and the military service is light only by passing through the stage.

Due to the different numbers and troops of each township, the 3,000 military service members and soldiers of Xiyuanjiang were respectively in order according to the size of the troops, and entered in order.

In front of each township song, there are the flowing flags of the people of each country as the traction, and there are county soldiers to guide the forward, and the military service people follow the flags and move forward according to the drum.

Between each country song, in order to prevent collision, it is specially arranged to be far apart.

Along the prescribed route, many country songs one after another from the right side of the field to the stage, to the stage of the soldiers to follow the samurai, turn their heads to the high platform, Gao Shisheng's subordinates followed, one after another with guns and swords, following the words of the county soldiers, shouting "Wan Sheng!" Wansheng! ”

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