Xinshun 1730

Chapter 339
Many vassals are divided into superior and corporal, and of course there are rural scholars.The internal hierarchy will inevitably produce many contradictions, and the situation of the Tosa clan may be the most serious among several foreign daimyos.

In fact, Dahei was so victorious that he didn't really believe that Liu Yu was here to seek justice for the old ministers of Changzong's family. This is too nonsense.

Believable or not, and whether Liu Yu will publicize it is not necessarily related.

There are always people who are dissatisfied, and not a minority.

In order to appease this kind of dissatisfaction, the Tosa Domain also introduced the Baizha Xiangshi policy. If you mix from a Xiangshi to a Baizha Xiangshi, that is the highest rank among the Xiangshi. In theory, you have the same treatment as a senior sergeant. Know the vassal regime.

However.If there are too many monks and too little porridge, there will be a few in the end.

A samurai, even the lowest-ranking ashigaru samurai, needed to live in a castle town.However, many of Tosa's rural scholars still live in the countryside and have strong influence at the grassroots level.Because they are the remnants of the "one collar with one foot system" in the old days.

With power and strength, not all of them live in the castle town, and they have always been dissatisfied. The worries of the retainers who stayed behind are not unreasonable.

The most urgent task at the moment is to drive away the Tang people occupying Urado Castle first, but under the external threat, the first thing that comes to mind is to deal with the internal instability.

After the remaining retainers generally agreed, they asked Dahei Jisheng again: "How many people from the Tang Dynasty have come?"

"I don't know. There are more than ten warships tens of feet long, all of Western style. The leader is the earl of the Tang Dynasty, and there is also a warrior who taught riding and shooting falconry in Edo. It seems that the Tang Dynasty has planned for a long time. The Tang people in Pudo City all carry iron cannons, and rarely see spears, knives, swords, and don’t wear armor. There are quite a lot of big guns and bronze cannons. There should be hundreds of them at least.”

Hundreds of people occupied Urado Castle, and the remaining retainers panicked.

After the separation of farmers and soldiers, a samurai is a samurai, even the ashigaru is the lowest-level samurai, and a farmer is a farmer.

A samurai is hereditary even in what he does in the army. It is impossible to fight a war like the Dashun after the military reform, where farmers can be recruited and incorporated into the army within half a year.

The Tosa Domain did not have many soldiers at this time.

In order to compete with Awa Fan for the false name of "the strongest fan in the four countries", the Tosa clan put a lot of effort into satellites when counting Shigao.Awafan said they had 25 stone, and Tosa Fan put a number of 25.

It was rejected afterwards, and it is still 20 shi. How many soldiers can 20 shi send?
The standard of one hundred thousand stone is 2155 soldiers.Theoretically, the Tosa clan can send 4000 troops in total, and these 4000 people are all samurai, and farmers cannot serve as soldiers at all.He is neither qualified nor allowed to hold weapons after the knife hunting order.

If the shogunate wants to go to war, for every 700 shi, the shogunate must provide 350 soldiers, about 170 arquebus guns, 60 cavalry, 150 bows, and [-] spears. Most of these are served in Edo or Osaka.

There is no war yet, but building the city, repairing water conservancy, or working as a fire brigade in Edo Castle, which often catches fire, all require manpower, and 600 people have gone.

Under the samurai system, there is as much as there should be.If there is less, you will be punished, and if you have too much, you will be punished. Countless pairs of eyes are watching, waiting for the feudal lord to make a mistake and be deprived of his territory.

The feudal lord Yamauchi Kashiki is still on his way to the pilgrimage. In theory, he only needs to bring 450 samurai to follow him. However, the Yamauchi family has always had a good face. Back then, Shigao released satellites. This pilgrimage is such a good thing , how can we not bring more people?

In theory, you can only bring 450 each time, but most of the big names who talk about ostentation send a bunch of leaders first, followed by a team of guards, to show their dignity.

This took away nearly a thousand more people.

There are about 300 remaining, of which more than 100 are untrustworthy countrymen, and more than [-] are businessmen who spent money to buy samurai status, or rich households who cultivated land.

Even if no one is left in Kochi City, 2000 people can be gathered, and the number of matchlock guns only accounts for one-fifth of the total proportion of soldiers.

The two Guan ships that were fighting desperately before were destroyed in an instant, which is too terrifying.

The retainers who stayed behind thought for a long time. Although the territory was occupied by outsiders in the absence of the feudal lord, the retainers should take it back, but...

But can two thousand samurai who have hardly fought in battle be able to attack Urado Castle?
The left-behind Yamauchi branch finally asked Dahei about his victories.

"Since you have met Tang Dynasty warriors in Edo, is his martial arts very high?"

"The way of arching is unique, and the means are extremely high. However, since he is a spy, he taught me how to ride and shoot at will. I'm afraid... I'm afraid there must be better martial arts in the Tang army than this person. The count of the Tang people said he would go After crossing Edo, he also said that he reminded the general of the re-minting of coins... He also said that he wrote the "Samota Relief Book". If this is the case, he will come here without fear. .”

Dahei is a smart man who is eager to win. Even though there are basically no Catholics in the Tosa domain, he, who monitors the Chichitan believers, needs to distinguish and learn from Western ships, and he has also heard of the power of some Western guns.

As for the capture of Urado Castle by the [-] soldiers of the Tosa Domain at this time, he believed that it was absolutely impossible.

It is better to gather all the samurai and retreat to Kochi Castle, and by the way, they can monitor those peasants and send people to Edo Castle to report the news.

The soldiers of the other feudal lords could not leave their territory without the order of Edo.Counting on them is definitely not counting on.

However, his idea was rejected by the remaining retainers.

"What if the people of Tang stay in Puhu City and stay? How will the patriarch return? Mencius said: Live what I want, righteous what I want, give up life for righteousness."

"Besides, there are many merchants and villages under the city of Puhu. If I can't wait, what will the people think? Tang people are cunning, and if they make some speeches, they are afraid that the common people will rebel."

"You can order 500 people to stay in Kochi City, and keep an eye on those villagers. We will gather our forces and besiege Urado City first."

Dahei was victorious and deliberately opposed. He thought it might be difficult to fight down, and the siege was meaningless.The Tang people came by boat, so as long as those boats can't be sunk, they can't cut off the supply.The siege is useless, and the attack cannot be defeated...

However, everyone has agreed and nothing can be changed, so the samurai living in the castle town have to be summoned.

Gathered more than 200 cavalry, more than 300 iron gunners, and 150 archers. The rest of them either held spears or knives, and more than 1000 people were assembled in armor. Headed towards Urado Castle.

Just as Liu Yu concluded from surveying the terrain on the mountain, if the people of the Tosa Domain want to attack, there are only two ways to go.

Or, near the coastline, under the threat of the artillery of the warship, form an array and gather to attack the Cape Peninsula from west to east. There is only one way.

Or, with a small boat, under the threat of the [-]-pound guns on the Urado Castle that have already built gun emplacements, attack on the north side of the hill of Urado Castle, and brave the artillery to cross the river and gather the whole team within the range of the guns Launching an offense requires extremely high organizational strength.This direction cannot be the main direction of attack, and may take advantage of the opportunity of the battle ahead to quietly send some people to land from here.

The so-called strategy cannot be used in a specific battlefield environment.

As expected, the Tosa domain's army began to gather west of the headland close to the coast.

"My lord, the fleet raises the flag to ask, do you want to fire?"

Liu Yu looked through the binoculars at the warriors of the Tosa clan who were gathering below, and stared at the horses that looked like mules. He thought that the number of horses he smuggled back then was not many, and he didn't teach them how to raise horses. These mules can fight too?
Besides, have these mules been trained similar to artillery bombardment without chaos?I was afraid that once Chen Qinghai opened fire, these people would disperse before the attack started.

"Return to the flag, tell Qinghai, don't fire the artillery first. Go all out, then decline, and exhaust three times. But I guess they won't be able to survive the third assembly, so they will fire when the first attack fails and the assembly is in progress."

The messenger quickly ran to the commanding heights, raised the flag, and delivered Liu Yu's order.

The howitzer gunners, as always, began to prepare shells with wooden fuzes of different lengths according to the distance and height measured yesterday.

The marines of the two companies deployed in accordance with the posture of the fortress defense, and the rest still lined up, bayoneted and ready to attack.

Liu Yu looked at Hekou again, cursing.

If there is not a headland peninsula protruding from the opposite side, narrowing the three or four miles wide water surface to three or four hundred meters, the warship can enter the inland river, and the retreat is pinched, and no one can escape.It's a pity that an opportunity for annihilation battle was lost, and it was another defeat battle like chasing sheep.

The staff officer saw Liu Yu's dissatisfaction, and suggested: "My lord, why don't you let the sailors go up the river in small boats? Of course they won't be able to form a field battle, but if they are chasing after melee, the sailors are not bad. Originally, the gunners are all If you want to practice dancing, you said that the Western warships are the same as our cruise ships, they are thick planks, and the cannons are difficult to sink, and these sailors have all practiced hand-to-hand combat and melee combat."

"If there is any accident, they can come back by boat. You see, there is a mountain over there, and there is only one road near the river leading to Kochi City behind the mountain, and it is not far away. It is all under the monitoring of the hot air balloon. If there is danger, we will know it very early."

Liu Yu frowned and thought for a while, hesitated a little.These sailors are indeed good players in chaotic warfare. If the Japanese are defeated, they will block the road and attack, which is absolutely suitable.

It's just that these sailors have little discipline, and they are often unable to disembark for several months in the cramped cabin. These days, they don't have any beliefs or psychological counseling. One of them is more or less manic.

I'm afraid that they will kill too hard, and chase them to the other side of the mountain, in case there is an ambush.Or if you get so excited about killing, you can directly change the fighting into robbery, which is not very easy to handle.

He still has a political propaganda battle to fight, and if he wins it, at least he can ask for an extra two or three million taels during the peace talks. How much can the Tosa clan, who robbed the poor and borrowed money, grab it?
Counting the strength of the Tosa clan, according to Shi Gao, Liu Yu estimated that there should be more than 1000 people in Kochi City.If we can annihilate this group of people at the bottom of the mountain and prevent them from fleeing back to Kochi City, it seems that we can try to capture Kochi City, and the shock will be even greater.

After weighing it, he called Shi Shiyong, explained the plan, and said: "Brother Shi, you will lead this group of sailors. Be restrained a little, and don't chase after that mountain. You are a guest in the palace." If you are from Wei, you should be able to hold them down."

(End of this chapter)