The Ten Banners of the Niko are the ten branch castles built by the Niko family in various major roads around Tomita Tsukiyama Castle during the reign of the Izumo Kingdom, and are also known as the defense nets of Tomita Tsukiyama Castle.

However, this line of defense was unable to withstand the Maori family's onslaught, and it collapsed with the demise of the Niko family.

Today, this defense net has become the biggest obstacle for Niko Katsuhisa to recapture Tomita Tsukiyama Castle.

On the day of the cage White Deer Castle, the Ming artillery bombarded the city gate, and also dispersed the defenders who surrounded the barricades, and in the past, Matsuda Seiho, the lord of the White Deer Castle of the Nizi family, led the ashigaru into the city, recaptured the city, and recruited the local ashigaru on the spot, and many people who had taken refuge were pulled back into the army.

Immediately after, almost in the same way, in just three days, he recaptured the castles of Kansai Castle, Kumano Castle, Mamu Castle, and Misawa Castle, and executed the rebel general Misawa Seiki who had defected in the past and helped the Mori clan capture Tomita Tsukiyama Castle, and for a time most of Izumo returned to the control of the Niko family.

When Niko Katsuhisa and Yamanaka Kasuke sent troops to besiege Tomita Tsukiyama Castle, Chen Bachi and Li Rubai marched together by land and water, claiming to be reinforcements from the Niko family, and marched from Kamisai Castle to Yamabuki Castle in Iwami Province.

The crocodile city blocked by the roadside is pitifully small, not even a city, at best it is just a barracks, and the defenders are only two or three hundred feet light, and Li Rubai on land is in front of the artillery team, and after collapsing the wooden fence, he drives the Japanese to clash and kill, and when they pass through this city, even the traces of their existence have been wiped out.

Whatever can be taken away is taken away, and everything that can be demolished is demolished, and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry does not want to go to Shanbuki City to work as lumberjacks, they would rather command the Japanese to carry the wood and march slowly.

From Shenxi City to Shanbuki City, just forty miles away, when Chen Bazhi saw Li Rubai again from the coastal shore, the more than 1,000 Japanese robbers under his command who followed Li Rubai could no longer form a combat force.

Li Rubai pursed his lips and said, "These widows are too forbidden. ”

Chen Bazhi looked at the lying down officers who couldn't whip them with a horsewhip, his face was also full of puzzlement, and he waved his hand to ask the flag officer from Liaodong not to urge them to get up anymore, and said, "What did you let them do?" ”

"So I took some wood, walked forty miles for three days, pulled out in the morning, walked three miles and rested for a while, and there was still a war?" Li Rubai pouted and the boss was dissatisfied, "Everyone is like a monkey, and they are not as good as the baggage soldiers in Liaodong!" ”

Chen Bazhi waved his hand, the enemy didn't care about these at the moment, and ordered the Japanese to rest on the spot, and the two scouts of the hundred households led the troops to the nearby mountain blowing city, and the two thousand households sergeants who came down from the fleet and the Liaodong Banner Army took turns to guard and eat and prepare to attack the city.

This side is a gang to make rice, and the Japanese are also making rice over there, and Chen Bazhi knows what the problem is.

The soldiers and rations of the banner army were purchased and transported to Tianjin Wei by Shuntian merchants, transported to the five islands by sea, and then loaded onto grain ships by the five islands, which were replenished with the army at any time; The military rations of the Japanese are all self-prepared, and Matsuura Longxin boasted that Haikou did not need the Ming army to prepare military rations, as long as they were given some rice grain after the battle, Chen Bazhi also praised Longxin.

What's more, it's not his own soldiers, Chen Bazhi didn't care so much, and only after a look would he know what the so-called soldier rations were - rice balls made by hand, one at a time, and two for a day.

These people are not without food, and Li Rubai divided the 'huge' amount of rice grain in the eyes of the Japanese as a reward for them, but they don't eat much and don't do much, they would rather carry a cloth wrapped in seven or eight catties of rice than cook a rice ball, and eat one at a meal.

Even if it is exquisite, it is nothing more than pinching a small piece of salted radish into the rice ball, which is the soldier's ration.

"They just eat this, in addition to the weapons on their backs of seven or eight catties of rice, they have to carry dozens of catties of wood, usually the war and march are within ten miles, now let them march like this, no dead people are already very good physique."

Chen Bazhi took a rice ball and broke it open for Li Rubai to let him see, this young man from Liaodong who had no worries about food and clothing had already eaten enough, and was wiping his mouth to feed the horses, mixing oats and black beans into the hay, and uncovering the wine bag and pouring half a tael of soju for the mount.

Looking at the little rice ball in Chen Bazhi's hand, and then at the huge rice bucket, he said, "The soldiers' rations have to be changed." ”

The disdain on Li Rubai's face was clear at a glance, and no one felt it more deeply than Qi Xingchang, who was beside Chen Bazhi, he instinctively was a little afraid of Li Rubai, and stubbornly muttered to Chen Bazhi, both unwilling and envious, and said: "General, rice balls are the best food for soldiers, and they are already full of rice on their backs." ”

Chen Bazhi's surprise made President Qi even more anxious, he defended incoherently and wondered: "Isn't this the case in the Ming Kingdom, farmers can't eat rice when they grow it, and they will die if they eat it, the six princes and the four people are already good governance, and the remaining rice is sold for food, and you can't eat rice for a lifetime without fighting, and you can only eat rice balls if you fight." ”

"Six Princes and Four People, I remember."

Chen Bazhi nodded very seriously, patted Governor Qi, and left the position of the Liaodong Banner Army with his relatives, he did not have the contempt or superiority of Li Rubai.

In his eyes, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or Japan, people starving and freezing are man-made disasters, and he has not forgotten the days when he was struggling between killing dogs and holding dogs for warmth.

Daming is not much better, although the Ming Dynasty is thirty taxes one, even if the apportionment is added to the simple tax is not more than ten taxes one, but when the government collects taxes, the people sell grain to make the grain price the lowest, sell two stones of rice in exchange for one stone of tax silver, plus tenants and landlords fifty-five points, and finally the rice grain that the farmer falls into his hands is actually no different from the three taxes and one.

The excessively high taxes caused by the Ming Dynasty are not a political problem, but an economic problem.

"If I lay down land in Japan, and collect thirty taxes on grain in the future, and heavy business taxes, do you think the people ......" Chen Bazhi shook his head halfway through speaking, he said to a child what to do with this, seeing that his subordinates had eaten salted fish and pickled meat and rice, he ordered: "Two thousand households, march to Shanbuki City, let Li Qianhu's cavalry slip on horses, and the people outside the city will run almost away, and the city lord will flatten it if he does not surrender!" ”

The two Qianhu banner armies did not pack up the camp, and marched in the direction of Shanbuki Castle in a marching manner under the order of Qianhu, and Li Rubai received an order to call the cavalry to mount their horses and march on the flanks under the cover of the accompanying Korean and Jurchen infantry.

Their horses have rested enough, and the cavalry has always been led lightly by the cavalry heavy horses, in order to preserve the horse's physical strength in the war, and the cavalry marched in the fields in scattered formations with each whistle.

Even the resting pirates followed closely with small swords, knowing very well that if they captured this city, they would get more rice.

The mentality of the various departments was extremely relaxed, and the war that swept through the northern part of Kyushu had already made this Ming army sure that the lord of the city here often did not dare to go out of the city to meet the battle when they besieged the city, and would only hide in the city and wait for the artillery to break the city.

Obviously, this time will not be an exception...... The advancing banner army phalanx was meeting the scouts who were galloping, and the scouts reported to Chen Bazhi: "There are enemy ambushes on the other side of the mountain, and there are reinforcements in the north of the city, there are thousands of people!" ”