A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

"Zheng Zheng, the terrain is excellent. If there are a few hundred more people, Jia Fei Dashan can defend it for several days even with 20,000 troops."

Imai Meigoro stepped into the water, tested the depth of the river, and confirmed that the flow of water in the Tenryu River was sufficient. The depth in the center of the river is probably not four or five meters deep, so it is impossible to swim unprepared.

"Since Suzuki-dake and Tianryu River are in such a terrain, even if Kai Daisen sends his troops to attack, I will give him a head-on blow here!"

Xiaopingta spoke very loudly, trying his best to be heard clearly by the soldiers nearby, in order to encourage the soldiers not to be timid because of the meager strength of the troops.

The two of them finished talking and inspected the camp. It is better to say it is a camp than a long wall. Nowadays, the weather is humid and the soil is easy to dig, so Xiaopingtai first ordered a long ditch to be dug.

Fortunately, the local people saw that Xiaopingtai was weak but dared to go north to fight the enemy, and they all admired Xiaopingtai's courage. Many ashigaru and jinfu among the refugees joined Koheita's army, adding valuable manpower to Koheita and allowing the soldiers to rest.

These two hundred or so people quickly dug a hundred-meter-long trench from Mount Jingzhi to Tianryu River, and then under the order of Xiao Pingtai, they built the excavated soil into a low wall about half a person high.

The soldiers who had had enough rest went up the mountain to cut down bamboo. The bamboo was sharpened and inserted into a long ditch. The wood was bundled to make a fence, which was erected five meters behind the low wall.

Three gaps were set up in the fence to facilitate the soldiers guarding the low wall to retreat if they could not resist.

Finally, the long ditch was filled with water to form a more favorable defense. It is guaranteed that the Takeda Army will sacrifice a lot of lives for this ditch, and let them weigh the cost of the attack.

The Tianryu River is deep and fast, so there is no risk of a surprise attack, but the mountains through which it passes are high and forested. Koheita was still worried, so he discussed it with Imai Minggoro. A dozen soldiers with nimble legs and feet who were good at climbing were sent up the mountain to prevent possible surprise attacks by the Takeda Army.

It was agreed that if any abnormal movement of the Takeda army was discovered, the whistle would be blown immediately to warn Xiaoheita at the foot of the mountain. Imai Meigoro led his capable men in a surprise attack. In the melee, it was basically impossible to defeat Imai Meigoro, who was wearing the armor of a Nanman, with swords and guns. Anyway, Koheita had never seen many people who could defeat Meigoro in a dismounted combat. people.

Koheita tried his best to attack the invading Takeda army from a distance at the foot of the mountain. Anyway, the battlefield was only this small area. No matter how many Takeda troops there were, they would only invest a thousand people at a time. It was amazing that it ended up being a wheel battle.

After Xiaopingtai made a fortune by reselling miso last year, he stocked up on two hundred iron cannons. In addition to eighty of them for the newly recruited iron cannons, there were also a hundred left as spares. When they all set off, they were carried on pack horses.

In addition to the gunpowder brought by the soldiers, Takato and Iida also replenished some gunpowder. It is completely sufficient to handle a fierce battle without any problem.

After working like this all afternoon and into the middle of the night, Xiao Pingtai's camp was basically completed. This made Xiao Pingtai's confidence in holding on stronger and the soldiers felt more at ease.

"You and others are common people and should not have been involved in the war. Now that you can help me build a camp, I have nothing to thank you. Each of you can take five liters of rice and escape."

Xiao Pingtai looked at the many 200 people below who had volunteered to help his people. War could break out at any time, and he didn't want to leave these people here and lose their lives in vain.

It would be great if they were willing to help him. Xiao Ping didn't want to force them to stay and increase his strength. We are going to give them some rice so that they can escape through the ravine. Five liters of rice weighs more than seven or eight kilograms, which can be eaten by cooking porridge for more than ten days, which is enough for them to escape.

So many people came up to receive the rice with great gratitude and wished Xiaopingtai victory.

But in the end, there were still twenty or thirty people who were unwilling to receive the rice and stayed instead.

"Why don't you leave?" "We are the common people of Suwa. Kai Daisen invaded Suwa, and many of my father, brother, and family members died at his hands. Now we no longer want to escape, but are willing to fight together with Dansho."

Xiaoping was so awe-struck that there were still many good people in the crowd, so he went up to help these people up with great joy.

After asking, I found out that the leader was Hanaoka Ichibei (fictional). No one must know about this person, but when it comes to his father, someone should know about it.

One of the Suwa Westerners, Hanaoka Bongomori (this is true), raised troops twice to resist Takeda Harunobu's invasion. The forces linking Ogasawara Nagatoki and Murakami Yoshikiyo fought repeatedly with very few troops. In the end, he was defeated and died, and his family was destroyed.

"Be careful, it's a spy of the Takeda clan." Imai Minggoro quietly came over and whispered to Xiaoheita.

"Don't trust those you employ, and don't trust those you doubt." Of course Imai Meigoro thought well. In the current war, if someone comes to seek refuge, he cannot be trusted easily.

But Xiaoping is not afraid, because he knows that his family is full of pioneers who resist Takeda Harunobu, and they even risk their lives to fight against Takeda Harunobu. How could such a person be a spy of the Takeda Army? It didn't exist.

Hao Sheng praised Hanaoka City's military guards, but Koheita didn't have any spare balls to equip them. They could only give them a long spear and a formation, and they couldn't operate the iron cannon, so they gave up.

After hastily preparing to finish, Koheita divided the iron cannon Ashigaru into four groups, but not all of them were armed with guns. He asked the earliest group to follow him, who had been firing guns for several years, and the fifty people with the best marksmanship to fire. The remaining one hundred and fifty men were engaged full-time in loading ammunition instead of directly shooting.

This is naturally the best for the eighty people who were recruited last year. After all, they have neither experience nor proficiency. But if you hide behind people and reload, it shouldn't be a big problem, you can trust it.

After uniformly checking the match ropes and gunpowder, all the iron cannons came out of the fence and lurked behind the low wall, ready for battle at any time.

The other ashigaru armed with guns and knives waited sternly behind the fence to cope with the brutal hand-to-hand combat that might come.

Being the end of May during the rainy season, it surprisingly didn’t rain today. The temperature became hotter as the sun rose, but the air was very humid. It didn't take long for the whole person to be dripping with sweat, and the sweat beads were still sticking to the body, making it quite uncomfortable.

Xiaoping took a sip of water too hard and felt a little uncomfortable. Chen San twisted a piece of cloth and came over to wipe Xiaoping Tai's face.

Fortunately, Heita Xiao was not wearing a helmet. He had a ponytail and his hair hanging down behind his back. He took the cloth and wiped it vigorously, and his eyes felt much refreshed.

"咇咇咇～～咇咇咇～～" A string of rapid whistles came from the mountain.

Xiaopingtai covered his eyebrows with his hands and looked into the distance. Several people saw the cavalry galloping towards them. When they saw the obstruction, they turned their horses and left.

The Takeda Army has arrived!