A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

As the summer harvest was coming to an end, a flying cavalry galloped into Fuchu Castle, bringing the news that the people of the Toe country belonging to the Suruga Imagawa clan had begun to gather. The Suruga navy, the Okabe clan, the Mamiya clan and other ships also began to appear on the Ejiri ocean. .

The envoys in Isshiki Palace reported three times a day, and it became clear that the Imagawa clan's invasion was unavoidable. As a result, horses came out from all over the Fuchu Castle, each holding the white flag used by the Naga Ashikaga clan, the leader of the Genji clan, and mobilized along the river, along the streets and along the mountains and forests, one village after another.

Shouting and reporting. Those holding guns, those wearing bows, fathers with their sons, grandfathers with their grandsons, those leading horses, and those carrying baskets, everyone was like a drop of water, rolling forward.

In the paddy fields, along the river beaches and in the mountains and forests, orders for mobilization came one after another. The old man gives his son, the wife gives her husband, and the child gives his father. One, two or three, gathered under a white flag. The water droplets gathered into a trickle, and the trickle slowly flowed towards Shanuchi Fuzhong Castle.

On the second day, there was a commotion outside Fuzhong City. Groups of horse-mounted soldiers held flags and held swords. The strong ones are covered with armor, carrying swords and guns, while the weak ones are hobbling and carrying sundries on their backs. Hosokawa Harugong called out one name after another according to the roster. Each name represented a team of hundreds to more than ten people gathered in the Yamauchi clan's river. The city was crowded with people like a market.

Koheita also took a leave of absence from Hokahata University. As a flag-bearing samurai under Tsunayoshi Zikoji, it was time to fulfill his feudal military obligations.

Under Aki's service, he put on the five-piece black lacquered side-bucket cassock presented by Nagano Yasumasa, and put a note with the name of the Tsuna family in Zikoji in his pocket (to prevent his identity from being confirmed after being sought for death, so as to ensure The dignity of a samurai), raised his uncle Tsunaliang's sun and moonlight horse flag, and waited at the foot of the city for the gathering of more than 300 people from the Lianchuan Sixteenth Party.

As the banner head of the Yamauchi clan, the Ashigaru general, and the head of the sixteen banners of the Lianchuan clan, Uncle Tsunayoshi was very high-spirited and finally managed to stand out in his late forties. Commanding an independent reserve team and enjoying the merits of this reserve team, the whole person is both nervous about the coming war and excited about the merits.

Because it was the first time for Uncle Tsuna to lead a large force of 300 men, he was a little confused even after fighting a bad war for eighteen years. Koheta's ability to read and write came in handy at this time. He first got Aji a simple tamaru and asked him to carry a rattan frame with the paperwork inside. He checked the number of military service with Tsuna, and confirmed that the warriors on horseback and Fortunately, there was no trouble due to the number of ashigaru.

We also extracted food from the warehouses in the city and distributed it to small teams in each village to make fires for cooking. We also arranged the location of camps and toilets and the distribution of firewood. Looking at this familiar scene, Mrs. Xiaoping couldn't help but sigh, after all, she can't run away and fight a bad battle.

However, due to the mobilization of a huge army of more than 9,000 and nearly 10,000 soldiers, the family's pursuit became unsustainable. It was necessary to recruit warriors who could read and write to ensure the various needs of the army.

There is no doubt that this strong man has caught Xiao Pingtai's head. After discussing with Uncle Tsunliang, Uncle Tsunliang asked him to put his family first, but he might not get any credit if he couldn't go to the front line. Xiao Pingtai is doing everything he can, he doesn't want to fight a bad battle. (There is a saying these days, if you talk harshly but don’t talk harshly, you can get a date if you insist on it, and it is possible to live.) As long as there is one life, Xiao Pingtai will have plenty of credit and future based on his ability. If you want low risk, not going to the front line is the best option.

Returning to the practice office again, Hokahata University was running around in a hurry. He had not slept all day and night, and his eyes were red from sleep. The other dozen or so Yuli and Tongxin were also non-stop. There was an endless stream of people running around carrying documents to deliver the news. Hokkaido University continues to sign and monogram the wooden boards and distribute supplies.

Even with this non-stop processing, there is still a backlog of documents from everywhere that require food, arrows, wood, etc. Over there, the horses need twenty dan of fine wheat and soybeans, and here, the flags on their backs are not enough, so they need ten pieces of white cloth.

Kitahata University said hello to Koheita: "Oheita, you came just in time. You also saw it. I can't take my hand away. You go and send people to prepare to transfer rations to Ejiri and the front camp for the army."

It turned out that Xiao Pingtai was asked to organize Xiao Hetuo team to prepare to transfer grain to Ejiri. After receiving the order, Xiao Ping took the documents and intercepted the 700-person Xiaohe Tuo team and about 1,200 people from each team of the army. In this way, more than 4,000 troops from the inner command of the mountain moved southward in a hurry to join the more than 3,000 people from Ejiri.

Borrowing several colleagues, Hobuhata University asked Koheta to delay the departure of the army for one day and then let all the logistics staff rush to load up on rice and salt. Koheta said to him: "Can you give me the full responsibility?" ( As for why the departure can be delayed, as mentioned earlier, due to the limitations of the road scale, the army actually only has half a day to advance. The soldiers in the rear transfer do not have this restriction. They only need to swarm up and they can advance all day long, so the pursuit to join the army)

Kitahata University looked at Heita Xiao quietly for a while, but could not see any change in Heita Xiao's face. So he slowly said: "I have delayed the army's rations. Even if I commit seppuku, I can't make up for my mistake!"

Xiao Pingtai said: "Try your best, if there is anything wrong, it will be on me."

Hokahata University thought for a while and asked Heita what he needed. He immediately spoke loudly and asked to send people to Minamishin Plains and Echigo to buy rice, to Ueno to buy pickled vegetables and beans, and to Hida to buy groceries. bean. Organize all the pack horses, mobilize the strong women who are temporarily idle, and hire them to participate in the transshipment with a reward of six cents a day. At the same time, Ejiri was ordered to raise funds to purchase seafood, mainly konbu seaweed, stop selling salt, and reserve it. Finally, he lent him twenty people (contact information), ten people of the same spirit (literate), and armed water. One hundred and fifty people (equipped with stones and daggers).

Kitahata University agreed one by one, so in front of Kitahata University, all the rice was put back into the warehouse by Koheita, and replaced with coarse barley, wheat, buckwheat and beans, and the salt was also reduced by half. Don't bring any other food.

After a while of fussing, finally in accordance with Xiao Pingtai's request, these warriors untied the rice, wheat and beans that had been bundled and arranged with great difficulty, moved them back to the granary in the city, and replaced them with the coarse grains that Xiao Pingtai requested. All the fine rice was left in the mansion. city.

Working blindly for two times a day made them very tired, and they thought they would be able to set off soon. But I saw that the atmosphere between Kitahata University and Xiaoheita was very subtle.

Hokahata University, who watched this scene from beginning to end, went from disbelief to outrageous anger. He pointed at Heita Xiao: "You think I can't die fast enough at my age!"

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