Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1577 Taking Chestnuts from the Fire ([-])
Ninja Castle is also known as the Floating City, and now this nickname has become more worthy of the name because of Ishida Mitsunari's previous water attack.With the collapse of "Ishida Dike", the vicinity of Ninja Castle became a swamp country. Although Toyotomi's army led by Ishida Mitsunari had to retreat for a certain distance due to the flood of the Arakawa River, the surrounding area of ​​Ninja Castle was even more unbearable. General swamp.

At this moment, only those who are very familiar with Ninja Castle can rely on the memory of the river near Ninja Castle in their minds to row out and enter Ninja Castle. Toyotomi's army has basically stopped attacking in order not to fall into the muddy swamp.They were going to wait for a few sunny days to pass, and the summer sun would evaporate the moisture in the swamp before resuming their attack.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, General Shinobi was able to lead his cronies, Ma Huizhong, to temporarily transfer to medical care, treating and nursing injured samurai, peasants and soldiers.

Ma Huizhong can be used as a medical staff?This seems a bit strange, because at this time in Japan, Ma Hui was the security force of the main army of the first army, responsible for the security of the command organization of the main army, similar to the guards directly under the authority of later generations.

According to the "Zhen Li Shu" compiled by the Warring States Daimyo Legion, the Mahui people are mainly composed of the direct ministers of the general general, and they are the most loyal troops.

The most famous ones among the Mahui congregation are Akahoro (Red Mother Clothes) and Black Horo (Black Mother Clothes) of Oda Nobunaga. Maeda Toshiie, who later became "Kaga Million Stones", was originally named Akahoro All started, and the famous generals Narumasa Sasao and Hidetaka Kawakuro were born in the black front.

Later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi also set up his own guard force, the Huangbaoren, following the example of Nobunaga's Akahoro and Black Horo.In the Tokugawa Ieyasu Army, Ma Hui is called Banner, and Ieyasu's personal guard "Qimoto Xianshou" led by a large number of famous generals such as Kanbara Yasuo, Honda Tadakatsu, and Torii Mototada is the strongest in the Tokugawa army. An elite unit that has repeatedly acted as a commando in battle.

Such a force, which should be regarded as the most elite and core force in Ninja City, will be used by General Ninja City as a medical staff?
Yes, that's true, because the horses in Ninja City are all women.

There are not many of them, only about twenty, but they are indeed the troops directly under the general. The reason is that the general of Ninja City is a woman.

Her name is Narita Kai, and she is the eldest daughter of the city lord Narita, and she is usually called Kai Ji.Ji, in Japan at this time, mainly means princess, and going back further, it is more "Chinese culture", referring to "female minister", that is, female official-yes, it is the original meaning after directly splitting the word Ji from left to right.

Of course, there is a difference between Japanese princesses and traditional Chinese princesses. If we want to put it simply, the daughter of a certain daimyo will be called a princess, that is, a certain concubine.As for the real emperor's daughter, she was renamed "Prince Uchi" in the Azuchi Momoyama era.

Why can a daimyo's daughter become a "princess", "female minister", and "female official"?Because until now (at the end of the Warring States period), the status of Japanese women is actually relatively high, and the root of this height is slightly different from that of the Dian and Guangxi chieftains in the Ming Dynasty. It actually has a great relationship with Japan's religious and cultural traditions.

Many people in later generations may not be aware that before the Kamakura period in Japan, the right to inherit family property generally belonged to women.Even in the era of the samurai family, where force is the most important thing, women's right to inherit family property has not been deprived, and the family property acquired by the mother's family is not under the jurisdiction of the husband after marriage, and its ownership and control are still in the hands of the woman herself. The right to inherit a certain share of the husband's estate.The family supervisor system of some samurai families also stipulates that the first child, regardless of gender, will become the family supervisor.

Even though the Chinese idea of ​​"Three Obediences and Four Virtues" was introduced to Japan in the Heian period, the effect is that it goes in the left ear and comes out the right ear. Women are still respected by society.Even in the Edo period, when the Confucian ethics of male superiority and female inferiority were most input, the status of women was still not plummeted, and the status of women was still low to the dust, and even set off a wave of baby daddies for two whole centuries.

In addition, female martial arts was not taboo in Japan during the Sengoku period.Most of the female warriors in Japan are the wives and daughters of the samurai family. They have received strict education and military training from the samurai family's loyal masters since childhood, and they can fight with their father and brother on the battlefield.During the eight or nine hundred years from the end of the Heian period to the Edo period, there were indeed many well-known female warriors.

During the Warring States Period, the only famous female samurai was Chiyo Tachibana. In the end, the son-in-law got married], Honda Komatsu, Tsuruhime and so on.Today, the chief general of Ninja Castle, Kai Ji, is also one of the best. In the original history, he was not only honored as "the number one war flower in the east country (war flower is war flower)", but also known as "the number one war flower in the east country" for her beauty. one".

For some daimyos, the guards are all female, called "Warrior Ji".At the end of the Tokugawa period, Yamamoto Yae, the daughter of the Aizu artillery family, was influenced by her father and brother, and determined to learn the art of guns. When she became an adult, she led the artillery of Aizu to defend her home and country. She was a famous female warrior at that time.In the Edo period, even Naginata was a compulsory martial art for samurai women for self-defense.

Of course, female warriors are still a minority in terms of overall proportion, and not all women who practice martial arts will go to the battlefield.In addition, unlike Hua Mulan, and even the leading female chieftain among the chieftains of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese female warriors do not dress up as men, nor do they wear men's armor. They have individually designed armor, and they wear whatever they want .

Even in the 21st century, female samurai are still a unique landscape in Japanese ritual activities.

Frankly speaking, in terms of the whole world, the degree of oppression and enslavement of women in different times, different societies, and different countries due to the influence of various factors such as economy, politics, culture, and customs, etc. And ways vary.But the status of Japanese women can be said to be uniquely high in world history.

How did this happen?There is a famous saying in Japan that praises women: "In primitive society, women are the sun." So much so that the core god in Japanese myths and legends, Amaterasu, is a woman.Amaterasu is regarded as the ancestor of the Japanese royal family and the main god of Shintoism. He is also the deification of the sun. He is admired by all people and has an extremely high status.

There have been ten generations of empresses in Japan successively.Not only did the first female emperor ascend the throne earlier than China's "Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty" Wu Zetian and Queen Seondeok of Silla, but the number of female emperors is probably unique in world history.

The time when these female emperors came to power was around the time of the Taika reform. During their reign, they made great achievements in internal affairs, diplomacy and culture, and made outstanding achievements in the establishment of a centralized feudal state. The "Century of the Empress" was the era in which Japanese women performed most prominently in politics.

Compared with the controversial Wu Zetian, the Japanese empress is still very well received by Japanese history books as a whole.They are different from Cixi, who listens to politics behind the curtain, and are officially enthroned emperors.You know, among the Japanese empresses, there are those who are more ruthless than Wu Zetian, and there are also those who are more lustful than Wu Zetian.However, Japanese history books have affirmed the reign of successive empresses.

During the Heian period, noble women made outstanding contributions to the development of Japanese culture.The tradition of receiving cultural education from an early age has produced many talented women who almost swept the literary fields of the time.Almost all of them are written by female writers, from Dragon Ridge Diary, Izumi Shikibe Diary, Murasaki Shikibe Diary, and Genji Diary, to the masterpieces of Japanese classical literature, The Tale of Genji and Pillow Soko.

Kana (when Chinese who have never learned Japanese read Japanese, except for the Chinese characters they can understand, the part of Japanese characters that cannot be understood is kana), a unique Japanese character that was also created and developed by women.This is equivalent to saying that, assuming that foreign Chinese characters are excluded, the founders of Japanese native characters are also women!
The social status of any person or any group should not be expected to be gifted out of thin air, let alone gifted.The same is true for the status of Japanese women, which is supported by both the tradition left over from the matriarchal society and the achievements of Japanese women.

In China and most regions and countries in the world, as the agricultural feudal society replaced the primitive society of "picking wild fruits", the status of men has been greatly improved as the society needs labor force and the country needs combat power, and finally quickly surpasses women. This is the social development. The inevitable result at a certain stage.

However, this "necessity" has become a bit magical in Japan. Since the "Godhead" of the Emperor's family comes from female gods, the status of women has been guaranteed for a long time, which has given birth to the current situation of Ji Samurai.

This point is obvious when compared with China: Nuwa, the "man-creating god" in China, is also a woman, but there is no royal family in China that will last forever, and no royal family claims to be the "natural" descendant of Nuwa.Therefore, after the males took control of the social dominance and stabilized, there appeared a god with greater merit than Nuwa——Pangu, the great god in "Pangu Kaitian", established the "legal system" of male dominance.

Therefore, China says that men are yang and women are yin; men are heaven and women are earth; [Note: Of course, there is something more powerful in Chinese mythology, that is, people-oriented thought appeared very early, that is, if the gods abused the people, the Chinese ancestors would dare to rebel against the gods, such as Houyi shooting the sun, etc. This kind of people-oriented thought embodiment.This is unique in the world. ]
Japan's unique traditions have created Hime Samurai and created the "Miracle of Ninja Castle" at this moment.

Narita Jiafei took the warriors Ji and Ma Hui under his command to take care of the wounded, which not only accelerated the recovery of the wounded, but also greatly boosted morale. Many farmers and soldiers clapped their chests and shouted: "Although Guan Bai's warriors are powerful, they can't wait until they can bear it." The city can only stare outside the city!"

Every time Narita Kai heard similar words, he always smiled and answered tirelessly: "Yes, yes, the survival of Ninja Castle depends on the bravery of the lords."

But having said that, when she discussed the enemy's situation with the head of the Narita family, Masaki Tanba, the brave general Shibazaki Izumi, and Shumaki Ren, she did not have such a relaxed and comfortable look on her face. Instead, she frowned deeply, clear Concern was evident in his eyes.

The worry came from a new message sent by Monojian Banto: Kanbai Toyotomi Hideyoshi learned that Ishida Mitsunari was frustrated in Ninja Castle, and ordered a hundred large cylinders to be sent from the Chinese army.

Some proper nouns in Japanese are very vivid. For example, "monojian" means observation and reconnaissance.And Wujian Fantou is the head of the reconnaissance unit, responsible for reconnaissance of the enemy's movement, terrain, battle situation, etc., and providing useful information to the staff group of the formation in a timely manner.

As the party with obviously weaker forces, Shinobi City used its investigative power to the extreme, and even the Toyotomi Army was placed in the headquarters of Odawara Castle.As for Datong, as explained before, it is the Japanese name for artillery.

According to the report of Monomi Banto, the large cylinders sent by Sekibai Toyotomi Hideyoshi have already set off. There are two types of large and small cylinders, 82 large ones and 82 small ones.In fact, this means that Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent eighteen Jinghua No. [-] guns to Ishida Mitsunari, and a total of [-] No. [-] and No. [-] guns.

Because of the topography of Ninja Castle, those No. [-] and No. [-] guns may be difficult to use in breaking down the city gates and walls, but the eighteen No. [-] guns, which are completely cheating in the eyes of the Japanese, are different.

In fact, Narita Kai has never seen this kind of giant cannon with her own eyes, but she has heard of it.

A few years ago, when the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance opened a sea route to Ou (Northeast Japan), an artillery battle broke out with the Anton Navy.During the battle, a No. [-] artillery shell from the Maritime Trade Alliance hit an Anzhai boat of the Anton Navy, and that single shell pierced the poor Anzhai boat obliquely.The shells entered near the waterline on the port side and exited through the body from below the waterline on the starboard side.Because the hole was too large, the Ataka boat was quickly abandoned due to a large amount of water.

With this cannon, the naval forces in the Kanto and Northeast who had never participated in the trade with the Ming Dynasty were devastated. It is unexpected that there is such a huge cannon in the world.So far, the fleet of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance has been rampant in Eastern Japan, and no one dares to stop it.

The reason why Jihiro Oyazaki, "Ezo Pursuit" honestly followed Jinghua's request to find Hokkaido's cold-resistant rice seeds, was because the strongest force in that sea area was the Ando Navy, and the Anton Navy was in the Maritime Trade Alliance. He was vulnerable to a single blow, how could he dare to resist?
Now, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent twelve such giant cannons to Ishida Mitsunari, how could Narita Kai not be worried?
In the castle tower of Ninja Castle, the tall and puffy Narita Changqin knelt on the main seat, and the left and right rows below it were the servants who knelt down according to the family members, family elders, middle elders and other important officials.

Although Narita Kai is a princess, she kneels and sits at the head of the sect as warrior Ji and the chief general. At this moment, she is leaning down, and her crisp voice is full of heroism: "Master Uncle, once you close Bai's big tube Arriving, as long as there are three days of sunshine, the gates and walls of Ninja City may be broken.

In view of this, I have decided to take the initiative to launch a sneak attack before the Datong reserve team arrives at the outskirts of Ninja City, in order to destroy Datong and protect Ninja City from threats. Uncle, please allow me! "

Narita's chubby face still had a simple and honest smile, looked at Narita Kai, and said: "I heard that Guanbai sent more than 3000 people to transport the [-] Tang Dynasty cylinders. We only have [-] troops in Ninja City. There are only a few hundred samurai, so how many people do you need to sneak attack on the big tube reserve?"

Narita Kai said: "Just two hundred warriors."

"But we don't have two hundred war horses anymore," Narita said.

"The outside of Ninja City is full of mud, and even the inside of the city is flooded, so we couldn't ride horses, we could only walk."

"Walking...then how do we avoid the enemy troops outside the city?" Narita Nagaki hesitated.

Narita Kai seemed to have a plan in mind, and replied: "I will take my Ji warriors and drive the boat straight to Arakawa. Since there are men and women in the team, they can go out pretending to be refugees. There will be no doubt."

Odawara Castle is in the southwest of Ninja Castle, and Arakawa is in the east of Ninja Castle. Narita Changki thought about it and said, "Let's go to Arakawa first and then return... Well, I agree. You can choose who you want to bring. .”

"Yes, Uncle."
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