A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The jinfu, who had obviously heard some movement, looked at Xiaopingta with incomprehensible expressions, feeling a little weird.

"Those who don't want gold can take four stones and five buckets of brown rice!" Xiao Pingtai saw that the warriors were touched by money, but not much.

"Oo~~!" The warriors came to life completely and began to chirp.

"Sir, if I don't want rice, how much will I give you in exchange for wheat?" A hunchbacked man who looked to be in his fifties or sixties, old and thin, and could even be called a shriveled man, mustered up the courage to raise his head and asked Xiao Pingtai.

"Heiroku, give this ten-shi wheat immediately!" Normally, with this figure and age, Xiao Heita would not look down on him at all, but at this time, anyone who dares to pick up a gun and fight is precious. .

Pingliu looked at Xiao Pingtai in disbelief. Even if he gave this man more than 1,560 kilograms of wheat, he couldn't take it away at all. Besides, there isn’t that much wheat here, so we can’t get it out.

"You can't get it even if you are young. Please ask an adult to issue a ticket." The little old man seemed to be very experienced in fighting for so many years.

Now it was easy to handle. Heiroku was originally the head of the imperial accounting team, Koheita was the appraiser and executive officer, and Kurosawa was the cashier and accounting officer. The three of them signed their signatures on a piece of mulberry paper. Heiroku then filled in the amount of ten stones of fine wheat and handed it over to the man. 【Note 1】

The man accepted it with great gratitude, and a little boy who was more than 1.3 meters tall and looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old squeezed out from the crowd.

With runny noses and tears, he asked the little old man if he had sold himself to Xiao Ping because he was carrying a gun.

The co-author is a father and son. The little old man will only be forty years old next year. It’s just that life is too hard and that’s why he is aging like this. The family has too many people and no land of their own. The old mother and her wife went to the fields to grow food together. After paying the annual tribute and land rent, they still didn't have enough to eat all year round.

Originally, there was an adult son at home, but unfortunately he died in the war, and there was not much money for his pension. Now there are four children in the family, and he has not had a full meal in more than 30 years.

If left to the future, it would be a tragic event that would make those who hear it cry and those who listen to it sad. But now it is normal, the most normal thing.

Xiaopingta waved his hand, and Chensan handed the man three rice balls. It was considered a meal, and his life was sold to Xiaopingtai.

The rest of the team couldn't care less about the deep affection between father and son. They did see the ticket being issued. The farmers in the Warring States Period all had a lot of survival wisdom, after confirming that there was really rice. They all came up one by one, asking for no money but food.

In the end, more than fifty people stayed, and Xiao Pingtai was given a gun by hand. He didn't expect them to be of much use, as long as they could poke out from behind the fence.

Imai Meigoro looked at these hunched-over men, old and young, who were about to fall down when the wind blew. I am very doubtful about their fighting ability and dare not compliment them.

So he secretly suggested that Xiao Pingtai dig another ditch behind the formation to stop them from thinking about running away.

Xiaoping thought it was too deep, and the remaining soldiers who were unwilling to carry guns were all driven to dig ditches.

Fortunately, the warrior who stayed behind to work hard was familiar with the military and could understand everything from golden drums to flags. They are mainly poor, so even though they have participated in the war for many years, they still work as warriors.

As long as they are temporarily organized and formed into a phalanx of spears, it will look like the same thing without fighting. Of course, they are still cunning farmers inside, and their fighting power cannot be expected.

Due to the heavy rain, it was impossible to fight for a while, and the sky was very dark. It was almost noon and there was no movement from Yamamoto Kansuke on the opposite side.

Xiaoping Tai's iron cannon misfired and turned into a fire stick, but heavy rain also blocked the Takeda army's offensive. Yamamoto Kansuke was a bit wise and would not launch a large-scale attack in such weather.

Koheita ordered Hanaoka City Guards to take his men to guard Mount Suzuno on the left wing to prevent infiltration and attacks by small groups of troops, and then arranged for soldiers to start building long sheds behind the fence.

Firstly, it is to give the soldiers a place to hide from the rain, and secondly, it is to block the rain. Maybe the iron cannon can be used.

After arranging these things one by one, Heita Xiao and Meigoro Imai grabbed Heiroku and found a secluded corner.

"Heiroku, you delayed my departure for a whole day, right?"

"Yes, it took some time to collect the baggage, recruit the warriors, pack horses, and vehicles." Ping Liu was actually very efficient in doing things, and there was no delay at all.

"Then let me ask you, how was the military mobilization at home when you left?" Xiao Pingtai asked what he wanted to know the most, and it was also the most urgent thing.

"Master Cainü is checking the army. All the flags and standing troops have been fully assembled and are being armed. However, the rest of the army in the mountain has not yet been assembled when I set out. The envoy Fan has just gone to the countryside to deliver the order to assemble the three armies."

"So, when you left, you didn't mention the military strength in Yuanjiang, and you didn't even mention the military strength in the mountains?"

Koheta couldn't imagine that even though he had agreed to stay on guard for three days, Yamauchi Yoshiharu's military mobilization was not even completed.

Isn't this a scam?

"The people in Yamauchi are panicked, and the slow military buildup is inevitable." Heiroku shook his head and said that Hosokawa Saime and Yamauchi Yoshiharu did their best, and the war machine was indeed spinning all the time, but it was not spinning fast because of the fluctuation of people's hearts.

"Tanzheng, this is going to be difficult." Although Imai Minggoro knew that the situation in the mountain was unstable, he still hoped that reinforcements would come quickly. You know it's unrealistic, but you still do it, it's just human nature.

"It's okay. The soldiers must have thought that the army was behind them. If you and I don't tell them, the morale of the soldiers will be stable for the time being."

Xiao Ping tapped the ground with his bamboo stick in frustration. Originally, the river beach was very humid, but now it has been raining for a long time, and water can almost be squeezed out of this thing.

The three people discussed other complex issues in bits and pieces.

But I heard the soldiers commotion. Through the rain curtain, on the other side of the mountain pass, there were endless flags and horse tags in the dense rain.

Countless flags surround a square white flag that "is as fast as the wind, as slow as the forest, as aggressive as fire, and as motionless as the mountain. I am the only one in the sky and under the sky."

"The Takeda meal has arrived."

[Note 1]: Mulberry paper is definitely no longer used, or it is rarely used. But it was a very widely used paper in ancient times, and it was also one of Japan's top export products.

Generally used on book covers, paper fans and other things. But it also plays a very important role in Japan, that is, as paper for IOUs and account books.

Everyone knows that there have been fires in Edo for many years. Once the merchants at that time were caught in a fire, how would they deal with the heavy and large number of account books and IOUs? They wouldn't run away with it on their backs and just sink into the well. After the fire was extinguished two days later, I came back and fished it out. The account books and IOUs were all intact.