A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Xiao Pingtai shouted so loudly that everyone heard him, so there was no need to listen.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and the others stopped their horses and saw the embarrassed Hosokawa Saime and Xiao Heita who ran over and called "Sister-in-law! Step-in-law!" affectionately. Everyone looks like I understand. Men, there is not much entertainment news in this era. It is rare to hear gossip and bring something to it. Everyone laughed out loud, especially those who already had wives.

Hosokawa Zaimei danced her riding whip and pointed in this direction: "Don't laugh, don't laugh, don't laugh. Why are you laughing?" Anyway, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and him were just friends with each other, and everyone else's status was lower than him. , he has nothing to worry about.

"So I'm saying that I'm also the younger sister who is interested in picking up girls?" Ogasawara Nagamasa was in his twenties, and his family had already engaged him to be engaged. They got married after he returned from Kyoto to practice martial arts. Of course, he is not an ignorant chick. In addition, Xiaopingtai once served as his boss, so it was a rare opportunity to make fun of his boss.

Xiao Ping is not usually a serious and dull person, so everyone is not afraid of Xiao Ping being too angry. I blurted out the question, and it seemed that I was already married, which meant that I was a senior.

"A Ling is a good girl," Xiao Pingtai did not dare to say the next sentence. After all, "I watched her grow up" was too inconsistent. Xiaopingtai is twenty-five, A Ling is thirteen, what beasts! What a beast!

"Of course my Aya is a good girl, why did my father fall in love with you!" Hosokawa Saime said angrily, whipped her riding crop, and ran back to the military camp.

"Ohira-tae, it turns out that you have been staring at Hosokawa-sama's daughter for a long time. You really didn't notice." Yamauchi Yoshikatsu came over and patted Kohira-ta's shoulder. He blinked at Kohira-tae, feeling very full of an unknown feeling. mean.

A bunch of big men are completely out of shape! Kodaira didn't dare to mention this matter anymore and hurriedly followed Yamauchi Yoshikatsu. Everyone has finished observing the terrain and can return to camp.

Soon the sky turned dark. It was autumn after all, the days were getting shorter and the sun was setting earlier. It was already time to cook rice with laughter and joy in the camp, and the soldiers gathered around the cast iron pots.

This time there were more than 6,000 people gathered, and Xiao Pingtai was personally responsible for the logistics. There must be no mistakes at all. Many of the Xiao He Tuo Zhongxin who accompanied the army were brought up by Xiao Pingtai in the past few years, and they are very skilled. Nowadays, transporting some rice, flour and beans is a simple matter, and it is easy to do.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, like his father, followed suit and even took a bowl to eat with the soldiers. Anyway, the Yamauchi father and son were very skilled at doing this kind of thing. It can't be called acting. After all, if you do this kind of thing too much and for a long time, it won't be called acting. You really get used to it.

The other samurai generals did not need to do this. They all returned to the shogunate, and naturally there were attendants bringing soup and rice to enjoy. The samurai must have much more food than the soldiers. The small fish caught freshly from the Kiso River, grilled with salt, have a burnt aroma. It makes people twitch with their fingers, but the important thing is to keep enough. There are more than a dozen charcoal sticks stuck on the charcoal basin, so you can eat them as you like.

In addition, there are also fresh Tsukudani wild vegetables and radishes, which are all seasonal vegetables. It is impossible to supply the entire army, but it is more than enough to supply the warriors. Finally, there are chestnut flour steamed buns. Chestnuts are in good season now, so grinding them into flour and making steamed buns is perfect.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu has also finished getting close to the soldiers, so he just needs to stop. He didn't feel comfortable eating there. After all, soldiers generally had a sense of awe. Moreover, the soldiers' food was very salty and actually did not fully comply with normal eating habits.

After everyone finished eating, they couldn’t just sleep. Continue to sit around and assign tomorrow's attack tasks. Fukushima Castle will ignore him for the time being, and mainly remove Tamataki Castle and Kaminoden Castle on the left and right sides. I have just seen both cities. The walled city is very small, with at most 200 guards. There are no stone walls or limestone walls, just ordinary wooden fences and a log gate to form a city wall.

The defense level is very poor, but the terrain is good. Both branch cities are on a slope dozens of meters above the ground, and cross-borders have been dug along wooden fences, although they are both empty-border types without water. But the bamboos at the bottom of the hill are all sharpened, so if you fall in, you'll be dead.

It is certain that the city will be attacked with human flesh, and it is also certain that it will be attacked by three thousand people from the Inazhong and Suwa tribe. The focus of the discussion now is who will lead the troops to attack. Soldiers without samurai organization and dispatch cannot be called an army.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu was still hesitating, but Kanai Meigoro stepped forward directly. He directly stated that he would play first and there would be no need to consider other candidates. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu thought about it for a while, looked at Hosokawa Saime, and then agreed.

However, Ogasawara Nagamasa and Murakami Yoshimitsu, whom Koheita originally thought would be eager to make contributions, remained silent. Looking at the looks of several other samurai who were born in the mountains, Koheita immediately reacted. Kanai Hideharu was a native of Ueno, not from Yamauchi. Even if he didn't ask for it, a foreign samurai like him would be the first to strike first.

Even though Kanai Meigoro is listed among the Hatamoto clan, there are still two hundred samurai in the Hatamoto clan, and their status levels are still very different. Ever since he was recommended to the Yamauchi family by Harugong Hosokawa, he has never made any achievements in killing enemy generals or conquering cities on the battlefield. Some people will definitely question him.

But he was recommended by the family elder, Hosokawa, and he looked at the Buddha without looking at the monk. Even if Yamauchi Yoshikatsu wanted to use him, he superficially sought Hosokawa's opinion.

Rather than saying that he is proving himself, it is better to say that both Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and Hosokawa Saime are also testing him. Don't think that just because you can carry a sword and fight, you'll be fine as a samurai. You don't understand human nature, and you will definitely fill in the trenches.

Turning around to the next day, it was still dark, but everyone was already busy with their work. Those who cook cook, those who chop bamboo chop bamboo, and those who carry straw ropes carry straw ropes. The worst thing was the three hundred Suwa people who were singled out to be killed first. The first wave of human flesh attacked the city, and the losses would definitely not be small. I don’t know how many of them will come back, and I don’t know if they will be complete once they come back.

Kanai Meigoro was quite a bachelor. He left his family rooted in Kuragano and practiced martial arts for many years. Finally, he came to the mountains alone with the intention of making great achievements. We are not afraid that the battle will be difficult to fight, but we are afraid that there will be no battle to fight. The reputation of warriors comes from the battlefield and cannot be faked.

Soon, more than 20 bamboo ladders were built in the camp, and many wooden rafters and bamboo bundles were equipped. Koheita also lent him more than 50 iron cannon ashigaru for his use. After Kanai Meigoro thanked Koheita, he began to carefully wipe his two swords, long and short, so that he would no longer be disturbed by the noisy military camp.

When the preparations were completed, bursts of whistling sounds were heard, and the first battle of the cruel Kiso-Fukushima battle was about to begin.