A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

According to Sanada Masayuki's suggestion, Koheita and Hosokawa Saime endorsed, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki agreed, Kiyoda began to arrange the formation in the formation.

This team is also the actual general reserve team, the 13th Division of Yamauchi Gotei and Ashikaga Yoshiaki's Gosakika, Goko, Gohamochi, Gomonomochi and other seven thousand people, occupying the highlands of Mount Tenno and Mount Saibe.

The first mover took the Hosokawa Miname Division's 1,000 men as the core, and attached them to Sanada Nobutsuna and Murakami Yoshikuni, with about 6,000 riders. They occupied Yanagida, Takehiro and other villages, went forward to build a defense line, and sent Monomi and Mesuke to conduct reconnaissance. To Lianwu River.

That's right! Seeing this Lian Wuchuan, Xiao Pingtai suddenly realized where this place was!

The left wing, dominated by Chief Planner Yamauchi and Yoshio Yamauchi and his son, occupied the Kiyoda platform. Together with the Uchida clan, the Inazhong, and the Kai clan led by Konishiharazaemon such as Anayama Nobujun, Kawazu Nobumi and others, there are about 8,000 horses.

The right wing is led by Imagawa Yoshichichi, and the main force is the Suruga people, occupying Maruyama. He also commanded uncle Tsunaro's Futamata clan, Matsushita Ao's Matsushita clan, Iwase Motomasa's Matsuyama clan, etc., with about 10,000 horses.

The central initiator and follow-up team is mainly composed of Koheta's Nagai soldiers, and the 4,000 people who came to support the troops from Echigo Uesugi Kenshin and Kaizu Takanashi Masayori serve as the successor to the initiator. Once you break through first, you need to rush forward to expand the results.

Finally, there are the commander-in-chief Isshiki Yoshiyu and others. Hokkaido University is in charge of the military depot in Aobenge, and Isshiki Yoshiyu is accompanying the army to handle the transportation of the army.

On the second day, the armies finally arrived at their preset battlefield positions. The army has its back to the military station, its food and water are safe, and the local area has been suppressed accordingly, so the rear is considered stable.

Hosokawa Maimei's investigation of the coming and going of objects, the detectives from both sides conducted small-scale trials and confrontations on the Yabiki River and Dantoyama lines. There are a lot of Monomichi attached to Okazaki Castle, and Tokugawa Ieyasu is now bold because Oda Nobunaga's pioneer, Shibata Katsuie, has arrived in Okazaki!

According to the marching sequence of armies in this era, generally arriving first basically means that the entire army will reach its destination within half a day. That is to say, after nightfall, the entire Oda army will be able to gather and arrive at Okazaki Castle. However, the total number cannot yet be ascertained.

Still a step too slow! There is no complete breakthrough of the entire army into the Yabiki River plains!

The generals in the mountain are sitting together, how are they acting now? Kiyoi Tahara was only one day's journey from Okazaki Castle, so he broke camp and set off directly to attack Okazaki. It is better to wait here for a while, waiting for the coalition forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu to come to fight.

"Gifu Dansho has a fortified city to rely on, so I'm afraid he won't come to fight with us!" Hosokawa Fujitaka, who had not spoken much, now wanted to express his position and advance and retreat with Yamauchi.

"Okazaki Castle is strong, but it cannot accommodate an army of 50,000 or 60,000 people. Moreover, if our army enters the plains, it will use up all the food outside the city, and the army in the city will not be able to hold on for long." Koheita believed that Oda Nobunaga would definitely do it. Come out to fight.

In addition to the reason that the army needs a huge supply of food and grass, Oda Nobunaga's backyard also has the fire of Nagashima and the three thorns of Miyoshi. Both of these need to be removed quickly so that Oda Nobunaga can feel at ease. .

If he enters Okazaki and focuses on holding on to avoid wild battles with the Yamauchi clan's Koshinobu elite soldiers, he will be strategically passive. The 40,000-strong Yamauchi Army swept in, and the entire Yabiki River Plains would be wiped out by the Yamauchi Army in less than two days.

How long can Okazaki Castle store enough food for tens of thousands of troops?

A month?

Or three months?

Before Xiaopingta set out, he had been prepared to fight for half a year or even longer. The summer grain was collected and not sold, but the autumn grain was stored. The trade ships bought by Hamamatsu had piles of rice in the warehouse. Yamauchi has time to spend with you at the foot of Okazaki Castle, but the first person who can't waste it must be you, Oda Nobunaga!

"In the Yabiki River plains, the autumn grain output is no less than 100,000 koku. With six officials and four citizens, the Tokugawa Mikawa Guard should have at most 60,000 to 70,000 koku in military grain and rice. However, excluding expenses, it would be good to have several thousand koku in the warehouse."

Chief Accountant Yamauchi also agreed with Koheita's opinion that most of the administrative and military operations of ordinary Warring States daimyo were carried out around the rice harvested in autumn.

After the autumn harvest of the common people is over, the rice is handed over to the lord daimyo, and the daimyo will start a final accounting for the year. The samurai Ashigaru favored by his subordinates need to be given salary and support rice, the castle and stockade need to be repaired and replenished, and the swords, guns, iron cannons, gunpowder and armor need to be purchased.

Even the daimyo's own family, his wife and children must eat and clothe themselves. Everyone should prepare their living expenses for the next year in advance. You can't say that you have become a famous person and your wife and children will not have enough food and clothing to eat or keep warm. That's not a joke.

In this way, under normal circumstances, 70 to 80% of the rice must be sold or distributed. The rice left in the hands of the daimyo is the maximum number of times and the duration of the battle that the daimyo can fight in the next year.

In addition to occupying many trade centers in the world like Oda Nobunaga, or large-scale colonial industries like the Yamauchi family, Takeda Shingen relied on the rich gold mountain, the Mori Yuan profited from Iwami Ginzan, and Otomo Sorin gained Benefiting from Nanman trade, there are many.

Without more sources of cash, there is no way to effectively support the war!

War is all about money, not to mention that the Yamauchi family even had short-term, low-interest war loans!

Tokugawa Ieyasu obviously did not have sufficient additional financial income. His income was mainly concentrated on the output of the land, and every penny he spent was eager to break it into two parts.

"Where's uncle Kaina?" Ashikaga Yoshiaki turned his head and looked at Hosokawa Kaina. Everyone wanted to listen to their opinions.

"Whether it's a field battle or a siege, is there anything to be afraid of in my mountain?" Hosokawa Saime bowed her head to Ashikaga Yoshiaki and said this confidently.

Didn't you see the "miserable" situation that Nagashino Castle was in just now? No matter how strong your city is, as long as it can be hit by cannons, it will be nothing!

Oda Nobunaga must also have cannons, but we have more cannons! The worst case scenario is that the limits will be exchanged for one, and the remaining ones will continue to name Okazaki Castle. How many days can Okazaki, a flat castle, resist?

It would be even better if Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu went out to fight in the city! We are the best soldiers in the world, and we are the best in the world. I'm afraid of you? We have never been afraid of anyone in the field!

"Hahahahahaha..." All the generals in the mountain burst out laughing.

yes! What else are we talking about! No matter what Oda Nobunaga's movements are, now we, Yamauchi, are attacking, while Oda Nobunaga is defending, we, Yamauchi, have more initiative!

"Wait for a day, rest the army here, and watch the movements of the Gifu bombs!" Ashikaga Yoshiaki announced immediately.