Kodera Vocational High School began to prepare for another matter, and Hattori Hocho and Fujibayashi Hoho sent almost all of their concentric people out, leaving only some of the necessary forces to protect the safety of the dignitaries. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 After info, the newly recruited 500 standing ashigaru in Murozu Castle, under the hands of Imate Yushi, began a month of devil training, from standing in a military posture to running with a weight of 10 kilometers, if you want to become a soldier of the Kuroda family with high welfare, you must train with all your life, to become a soldier who can go to the battlefield. Of course, it is good for people to eat when they are tired, and the Kuroda family is full of late dinner, and the physical fitness of these recruits has improved significantly in the arduous training.

Moreover, the Kuroda family began to recruit a large number of displaced people from all around them, and there were special people to preach the tax policy of the Kuroda family's five public and five people, to tell the new homeless people that each family could get a piece of land to cultivate, and the Kuroda family had an advanced method of three times a year, even if it was summer, they could also get food to fill the family's stomach during the autumn harvest. In this way, in just one month, many displaced people came from Settsu Province, Bizen Province, Izumi Province, and even Yamashiro Province, and the number exceeded 20,000.

Fortunately, the Kuroda family had a large amount of food as support, so the food of 20,000 people could still be guaranteed, and after these displaced people acquired the land, they began to work hard, and almost all the abandoned land in the former Iho and Ako counties was used.

After that, the bamboo armor and weapons promised to the shogun by the Kuroda family were transported to Kyoto by a merchant with branches in Kuroda Castle and Sakai Town, and the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru was very happy to see the Kuroda family keep his promise, and asked the merchant to bring himself to the Kuroda family, and he would continue to fulfill his promise in the future. Xiaosi is not afraid, anyway, this sword hero general will not have a few years to live.

As for Mibu Kyojiro and Mibu Kyoshiro, after being introduced to Kuroda Vocational Taka, Kuroda Vocational Takashi attached great importance to it, and even Imate Tomoshi personally came to learn from Kyojiro once, Kyojiro won after a hundred moves, Kuroda Vocational Takashi immediately appointed Kyojiro as a guide to military service at home, and trained recruits with Imate Tomoshi, Kyoshiro was originally temporarily left in Kuroda Castle as a flag book, and finally was directly taken to Gosho Castle by Koji Vocational High School and became a sword teacher in the training class.

In the third year of Eiroku, in August 1560, a month before the autumn harvest, the Kuroda family gathered 1,200 men at Murozu Castle, including 200 people from Murozu Castle, 100 crossbow ashigaru, 200 Ashigaru from the Kuroda family, 200 agricultural soldiers, and 500 newly trained ashigaru.

The reason why the crossbow ashigaru only brought a hundred people was because of the battle of Murozu Castle, and the crossbow arrows were consumed too much, and most of them could not be recycled, so in the end, the number of participants could only be reduced to save the use of crossbow arrows. Now that the Kuroda family has basically accepted the crossbow, although samurai like Imate Yuji still don't use it themselves, at least the original prejudice against the crossbow is gone.

Now the biggest problem is that there is no way to increase the number of crossbow arrows for the time being, but the crossbow arrows are constantly being consumed, and now even Li Sanbao is constantly urging Kuroda to come up with a way to solve the problem of crossbow feathers as soon as possible, otherwise there will really be no atomic bomb and no nuclear fuel.

In fact, the Kuroda family has not been unable to find a way in the past few years, especially the Koji Vocational High School has almost scratched off its own hair, and has come up with a solution, such as raising wild pheasants in captivity, such as encouraging hunters to exchange birds for money, buying from people in other countries, and buying through many wealthy merchants in the collar, to put it bluntly, it is to buy bird feathers at a high price, but it has not formed a scale. The production of crossbow arrows can't catch up with consumption at all, and the Kuroda family is really in a rather embarrassing situation for crossbow arrows at present.

Before the departure of the army, the Tongxin people and the defenders of various places in the Kuroda domain conducted a large-scale investigation of the people in the territory, because of the continuous absorption of displaced people, the population of the territory increased, and a lot of detailed works of surrounding forces were really captured, including the Urakami family, the Kamitsuki family, the Bessho family, the Uno family, and even the Tajima Kuniya famous family and the Tanba country Hatano family and the Akai family, which can be regarded as a relatively comprehensive display of the surrounding forces. In other words, the rapid development of the Kuroda family has attracted the attention of the surrounding forces, and even fear, I don't know if this is good or bad for the Kuroda family.

The army marched all the way to the west, and along the way, the local wealthy people of the Urakami family, such as Naba, Zuofang, Nitta, Otsu, and other families, who originally belonged to the Urakami family in Harima Province, saw the neat and slaughtering army of the Kuroda family, and immediately surrendered Kaiseong, and also sent troops to fight with the Kuroda family.

Just as the Kuroda family's army was marching to Nishiakaho, an ashigaru suddenly came to report: "Lord, a craftsman is blocking the middle of the road and asking to see the lord." ”

"Craftsman?" Kuroda said suspiciously.

"My lord, it's better to summon him first, and then see what he wants to do." Kotera Vocational High School said.

"Well, summons."

Soon after, a young man of about thirty years old was brought over, this person was not very old on his face, but he looked full of vicissitudes on his face, and he didn't seem to be very energetic, but after seeing Kuroda Zhitaka and Kotera Vocational High School, his face suddenly had a look.

He immediately knelt on the ground and said, "In the Lower Dansheng Rock Jingzang, he was originally the son-in-law of the Dansheng family of Heqi County, but now he is just a swordsmith. ”

"Then what are you doing here, standing in front of the army?" Kuroda looked at this ordinary swordsmith and said lightly.

"Tell my lord, in fact, the Dansheng family is just a small wealthy family of dozens of stones, when he was nine years old, his family was destroyed by the Urakami family, and only the next person escaped because he was playing outside. I witnessed everything outside the Xia, and I will never forget that scene, and I have always wanted to take revenge on the Urakami family, and the reason why I have been committed to smelting all these years is to exercise my strength, and I am waiting for an opportunity, and I am here for this opportunity today. ”

"Opportunity?"

"Yes, the opportunity, is the opportunity to defeat the Urakami family, I have been waiting for this opportunity in the next few years, but seeing that the Urakami family is getting stronger and stronger, I am almost a little desperate in the bottom, but the Kuroda family let me see the hope of defeating the Urakami family, although I am just a swordsmith in the next, but I will also have some first-class knife skills in the next, and I will fight hard, and I can kill five or six people who are idle."

"But that's why you want to join the family, but what reason does the family have to accept you?" Kuroda asked.

"In the past ten years, I have traveled every inch of Bizen Province, and I have a full map of Bizen Province below, so I don't know if it can be used as a resource for promotion in the next country." Dansheng Rock Jingzang looked up

"What?" Everyone in the Kuroda family was taken aback, and they all looked at Dansheng Rock Seizo with hot eyes, the Kuroda family will develop sooner or later to the periphery, with the whole map of Bizen country, it will save a lot of effort if you attack Bizen in the future, and all the Kuroda family samurai here know this truth.

"You said you have a map of the country?" Kuroda asked.

"Yes, as long as the Kuroda family is willing to attack Bizen Province and accept it, they are willing to give Bizen all their hands to it." Dansheng Yan Jingzang said respectfully.