A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Sakakihara Nagamasa and Honda Masashige held the books and followed Koheta to select Ashigaru with great difficulty.

I really don’t blame them, the two big bosses are really just literate. There are 3,000 commonly used Chinese characters, more than half of which I still don’t recognize. Pingliu became the governor of Fuzhi County, Chensan became the deputy of Changyi City, and it was difficult to find a swordsman and pen official around Xiaopingtai.

Aji is literate, having learned it from Xiaopingtai for more than ten years. But he was also organizing manpower at the flag base and temporarily took time off. Don't mention the Qigui. I only became a flag bearer with Xiao Pingtai when I was sixteen. Being able to read documents is already very good, but I can't count on it.

I wanted to borrow someone's hand somewhere, but after thinking about it I had to trouble Kurosawa Yoshiki. Anyway, we are using experienced personnel at the designated enforcement office, so we can trust them.

Xiao Pingtai's 500-guan salary, according to the nobles' obligation to expand the army, needs to be used to support the army. This number is not too much, about sixty cavalry are enough. Half of these sixty cavalry can be made up of special arms such as Xiaohaji, Taikochi, and Holuochi. The remaining thirty generally require long-range arms. In the past, it was usually all bows, but with the development of the times, it is now required to be half bow and half iron cannon, or two-thirds bow and one third iron cannon.

As for the one thousand military service that should be paid by Zhixing, half of them are handymen. I won't mention it. There are people who are willing to do it without spending money to eat every day. Anyway, we generally don’t recruit during the busy farming period, so there are plenty of manpower.

The remaining five hundred samurai, public servants (on foot/cavalry), and military service ashigaru will generally have requirements. I give this land to you, and you are obliged to recruit soldiers on this land to support me.

Kodaira took a rough look at the military service certificates he had compiled. He needed forty horsemen, of which fifteen were to be sent to Yamauchi Taro to serve as messengers and reconnaissance officers during the war. The second is the armored public servants who hold swords and spears and serve as the backbone of a team. This requires eighty cavalry. Finally, there are the Ashigaru mixed soldiers, with fifty iron cannons, one hundred and fifty bows, and two hundred soldiers.

There are a total of 520 cavalry, plus the salary to support the standing ashigaru 60. If Koheita wants to complete his military service, he will need 580 retired soldiers.

From this point of view, the average salary of a person with six skills is very uneven. Xiaoping thought too much and wanted to pay wages by grade and degree of risk. Those who beat drums and blow conchs in the rear will be given four guan for a year, while those who draw bows and release arrows, fill fire and fire guns in the battle line will be given five guan.

The ashigaru who holds long and short spears, maintains the front line, or fights in the wild will be given six kan. Finally, the brave and courageous warriors who hold long and short swords, raise a single shield, and climb the city with ants attached to them, are given an annual salary of ten guans and four people to support them.

But we can no longer eat from the big pot!

Infantry is easy to deal with, but riding a horse with forty riders is more difficult. But now it is considered a scratch, making do with simple things. All the retainers under Koheita's command are wearing armor and mounting horses. In addition, some of the ashigaru who were recruited by Koheita from Northern Shinano in the past, and who have survived the rest of the war, can make up about three thousand dollars with a salary of 30 kan. Ten riders.

When the recruiting flag is put up, there will naturally be men who want to eat.

"It is best to apply for ashigaru from Uchida and Ina counties, as well as those from Higashi Mikawa and Nishienji. Those who speak Kanto accent, Kai accent, and Hokushin accent are not allowed. We would rather not have enough people than make up for it. ”

"Tan Zheng, I am from Junzhou. This accent is really not familiar to me." Kurosawa scratched his forehead.

"Then you go find those Ashigaru who are from Nanshin and Ene! I'll lend them to you for a few days!"

Accent and dialect are really a double-edged sword. It is difficult for people from outside the state to become spies because the accent is different. But as the country you rule becomes larger, there will be inherent barriers between retainers who are not from the same country.

For example, Nobunaga's (future Hideyoshi's) retainer Nobi and Omi's retainer seemed to be in the same place, but their accents were completely different. From this point alone, it is possible to make both groups unhappy.

"One more thing, the annual salary difference, etc., and the armor and weapons?"

"Soldiers who are not fighting are given only bamboo hats, those who hold bows and iron cannons are given ashigaru tamaru, and those who fight with their bodies are given cage handlers and others. In addition, an extra hundred collars are prepared to prevent replacements and emergencies in battle. "

"What about weapons like tachi and spear?"

"The more the merrier, there is no need to buy any masterpieces, just use it. Let Sukezaemon from Naiya do his best to raise it so that we don't miss this little money."

"Where's the Ashigaru longhouse?"

"Longhouses are also being prepared. Following the previous precedent, one longhouse is divided into six households."

"OK!"

Walking from the city to the playground, I saw Chief Accountant Yamauchi and Yoshiho Yamauchi also presiding over the collection of Ashigaru on the playground. Although they won the last battle at Toishi Castle, Ashigaru also suffered hundreds of losses. In addition, now that the territory has expanded and the income has increased, it is completely possible to raise some more standing ashigaru.

The two people saw Xiao Ping coming over and nodded and said hello. It's not a big problem for them to recruit Ashgaru. The Yamauchi family has a strong reputation and doesn't need anyone.

And one thing is that they are much better than Koheita personally. The Yamauchi family has a relatively sufficient reserve of officers. They continue to promote the former members of the Yamauchi Township to samurai, and place military service members into the standing ashigaru as ashigaru heads.

Otherwise, you won't be able to expand your army even if you want to. Without the warrior Feng Gongren's army, it won't even be able to move a step.

Although she couldn't envy her family's connections accumulated over six generations, Xiao Pingtai still wanted to bring all her fellow villagers from Hebian Village into the city to become ashigaru. But Uncle Tsunaliang's hands and feet were faster than Xiaoping's, and there were more than twenty men in the village, all of whom were raided by him.

I don’t know how to leave two for Xiao Pingtai!

By the end of March, everything was done and the Yamauchi family's war machine started to turn.

Higashi Mikawa Uden Chosho sent out 2,000 men to follow Matsudaira Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga to attack Minami Ise and Kitahata Gujie. The remaining people from Toe, as well as the troops from Suruga Shita County, totaled about 10,000 horses and left Imagawa. Yiqin was the chief general, and Tsuna Liang's uncle was the deputy general, and headed straight for Suruga.

This road is mainly to contain the Suruga people, and it is best to hold back all the Hojo reinforcements in order to achieve the goal of isolating Kai. If Hojo doesn't save Suruga, it would be better to support Shouguini and sweep all of them away.

The main force of the Yamauchi clan in Shinano, combined with the Takanashi clan's eight thousand troops, was claimed to be fifty thousand, but in fact it was thirty-three thousand. The Yamauchi Army took the Suwa Highway and approached the main county of Suwa. The Takanashi Army took the Sakuguchi side road and attacked steadily with 8,000 troops. They did not seek to invade Kai, but they hoped to delay the reinforcements from Kai entering Suwa.

Only the Yamauchi army captured Uehara Castle and took control of Suwa Taisha Shrine. If a new Suwa Taisha Daishu is established at will, then the initial strategic goal of this battle will be achieved.

The next step is to see the specific movements of the Kai Takeda clan. If the Takeda clan gives up its peripheral positions and the main building, Tsuzakikan. If we go back to the key mountain city and defend the cage city, the mountain army will definitely sweep away the money and food of Jiabi and completely destroy Jiabi's production.

If Takeda Yoshinobu joins forces with Hojo's reinforcements to send out troops for a decisive battle, then the world will be in the hands of swords and guns!