When the news of the preparation for the war reached the ears of Nizi Shengjiu in the Bozhou Mansion, the generals of the family were not happy with anyone at this time, and even the preparation for the war made them puzzled from beginning to end.

"The letter did not say why to prepare for war, but the general asked our state to prepare 20 horse troops, 80 heavy infantry troops, 800 light infantry troops, and ......."

Yamanaka Kasuke was halfway through his words, looked at the letter and paused, and a group of samurai kneeling in the room looked forward to it, and Niko Katsuhisa, who was sitting on the top, couldn't hold it back and asked, "What else?" ”

Lusuke looked at the lord and said, "There are also 6,000 miscellaneous soldiers, for 7,000 people with grain and grass for three months." ”

"What are the general's horse army, heavy infantry army, light infantry army and miscellaneous soldiers?" Niko Katsuhisa was a little confused about this kind of foreigner saying in Japanese, no, it should be a coined word, "Six thousand nine hundred troops, it is impossible to summon them this season!" ”

The retainers looked at each other, and the war from the Seto Inland Sea to Osaka Bay had just ended, and the restless Ming State General was preparing to start another war, especially during the busy agricultural season, which was not good news for them.

Yamanaka Shikasuke frowned and shook the letter open, found the paragraph annotation after the text, and read it in a difficult tone: "The so-called horse army, horses, pockets, large armor, and small equipment are complete, and iron cannons or large bows, and spears, and heavy infantry troops have both pockets, large armor, and small feet, and iron cannons or large bows, spears, and short knives; light infantry army, pockets, carcass, knives, spears, bows; Miscellaneous soldiers, bows, guns. ”

"That is to say, there are 20 generals, 80 ashigaru leaders, 800 ashigaru, and 6,000 peasant soldiers, and they will prepare grain and grass for March." Yamanaka Kasuke presented the letter, gritted his teeth and said, "An expedition." ”

Nizi Katsujiu raised his palm and stroked his face, and asked his retainers, "Can this family prepare such an army?" ”

A group of retainers frowned, and the elder of the family, Tachihara Hisatsuna, said: "It is not difficult for the samurai to be with the ashigaru, just pacified the territory, and in two months all the fields will be harvested, it is difficult to gather six thousand peasant soldiers." The lord should reply to General Chen, the peasants are about to harvest the fields, and the peasants can only mobilize 3,000, but the family can dispatch 1,600 ashiki. ”

The Nizi family revived the continuous war, and when they defeated the Maori clan, they received a lot of baggage on the battlefield, enough to recruit and arm more footlights, but it was really difficult for the peasants to meet Chen Bazhi's requirements.

"Iwamifu knows the strength of his family very well, and after mobilizing 1,500 ashigaru, leaving the territory too far will cause the people of the country to rebel, and I hope that the general can understand the difficulties of the lord."

Yamanaka Kasuke's expression was much more cautious than that of Tachihara Hisazuna, and he shook his head and said, "General Chen will not mobilize only his own family, but this kind of force will not be against the remnants of the Urakami remnants of Bizen, nor will it be the wavering Ukita, I am afraid that he is going to attack Nobunaga." ”

"Prepare only three months of grain and grass, and fight openly with Nobunaga, we will starve to death, right?"

Niko Katsuhisa did not mean to ridicule Yamanaka Kasuke, and he also agreed with Kasuke's statement in his heart, but this was too unrealistic, not to mention how far Chen Bachi's three prefectures were from Kyoto Omi, even if it was a relatively close Nizi Bozhou, it would take the whole month to prepare ordnance and gather troops, and it would take the whole month to prepare ordnance and gather troops, and along the way to pass through the territories of the two daimyo of Tajima and Tango, in order to border the Oda clan.

"Yamana did not obey Oda, but he also did not want to obey the Ming Kingdom; Although the Ichishiki clan of Tango had a bad relationship with Nobunaga because of his protection of the general, and did not obey General Chen, it is true that the Ming army had a terrifying record of expelling the Mori clan, but on the way to our march, the Oda clan was able to take precautions, and ......"

Once Oda Nobunaga was prepared, the raid would become a tug-of-war, and eventually he would take advantage of the slightest advantage and withdraw his troops, and the time of the war would never be enough to eat in three months.

Niko Katsuhisa analyzed a lot of rationally, and finally shook his head and said, "I don't want to be an enemy of Nobunaga. ”

But on the contrary, no one dared to disobey the Ming army, and no one dared to do so.

Although Chen Bazhi did not personally lead his troops and horses to fight a few times, he left a deep letter to the princes of the Western Kingdom, which was not the majesty of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry nor the rotation of the bird guncorps, and there was only one thing that really made people dare not be the enemy - the artillery of the Ming army.

Prior to this, the cage city had always been an excellent means of defensive warfare, but since these Ming generals crossed the sea everything has changed, and the Ming army will lay heavy artillery in siege battles, often setting the city in the middle of the sun, and even later in the expulsion of Maori, the defenders of the city will flee.

Artillery robbed the defenders of their last hope.

"Do you have a way to avoid war?"

The road to the revival of the Niko family was full of ups and downs, and in addition to the Mori clan, many nearby daimyo were involved in their revival, among which the most gracious was Oda Nobunaga, who had sent 3,000 troops to help Kasuke, and at that time Niko Katsuhisa was still eating grilled fish on Oki Island.

It was Nobunaga's reinforcements that put an end to what Katsuhisa called 'I wonder if Kasuke will come back alive from the robbery today'.

Now that the daimyo of the Western Kingdom submitted to the general of the Ming Kingdom, he held high the command of King Qin to form three bureaus, and if it weren't for the revival of the Nizi family thanks to Chen Bazhi, they would actually prefer to be attached to Nobunaga.

Now that Katsuhisa is already very guilty about Nobunaga in his heart, let him lead his troops to a decisive battle with Nobunaga?

How to avoid fighting, the retainers of the Nizi family are thinking about this matter, but there is no answer.

The first to accept the fate arrangement was Yamanaka Shikasuke, who was long in war, and proposed: "At least it is much easier to go into battle with the coalition forces than to fight against Oda or the Ming army alone, Iwamifu's orders cannot be disobeyed, let's prepare armaments first, the lord writes a statement and sends it to Shishu, and we also have to prepare troops." ”

"There is no goal, the march is not blocked, the farthest east can be as far as Kyoto, to the south Harima, Awaji may be the enemy, the best case target is Ikuno Ginzan, the worst result is the bus battle with Nobunaga, the family today is not easy to come by, you must not lose your life due to carelessness."

"Now according to the dispatch of 6,000 troops, it is divided into 20 teams, and the generals of each team lead four ashigaru leaders and forty full light, and go to various places to mobilize peasant soldiers. Ma Hui Zhong, Ren Ji Gong Jun Mu Fu, and summoned the medicine man, the flag cha, the taiko drum, the conch shell, and the prayer monk. ”

"In addition, if the general does not accept the case, in order to solve the shortage of recruited troops, the family needs to be prepared to pay to hire ronins, bandits, and bandits to form a ranger team."

Speaking of this, Yamanaka Shikasuke sighed, when he was saving money for the revival of the main family, he had been a bandit and was also in the company of pirates, and he knew the market, which was a big expense, and the pirates on Hidden Ambiguity Island were all members of the Ming army now, and they must have been dispatched by Chen Bazhi a long time ago, and they couldn't recruit if they wanted to.

When he looked at the lord, Nizi Shengjiu slowly bowed his head, his eyes glanced at the retainers, and said: "War is inevitable, no matter who the enemy is, you must win, then you will have more fiefdoms, and the Nizi family can also reverse the current predicament, as for the matter after the war, leave it to the generals of the Ming Kingdom to bother, and the princes will prepare, and the military council of the Ming Dynasty will decide on the generals of the teams." ”

"It's going to war!" /14_14088/