Chapter 1006: The Conquest of Boyang Town (1)
When Zhang Zhongjun stopped, he was shocked to find that he had actually appeared outside the castle town, instead of the end barracks where the pass order was used before. However, when I saw a person dressed as a mage standing not far away, I naturally understood why he stopped in this place.
The other newcomers were looking around, while the old men shouted and led the crowd to the side, where there were already several scribes and dozens of miscellaneous servants. Looking at the paper on the paper, and the flags that the handymen organized, I think it should be to register names and distribute flags.
One by one, the samurai went to the pen to register their names, and even among those who did not have a samurai to lead the team, one person was sent to report the name of the master's family, and the miscellaneous servants counted the number of people and handed out the flags that were already planted with the flag of the Shikawa family.
Zhang Zhongjun lined up, looked around, and saw that there were a large number of samurai on his side, several times more soldiers, and then saw that there was a camp on the other side of the road, but there were a small number of samurai and a large number of soldiers, and more importantly, they actually relied on the flag that was actually the family crest of the Zichuan family on the top, and another family crest below.
Obviously, this is a private soldier belonging to the kind of retainer of the Zichuan family who has his own family coat of arms above the rank of general. And the other kind of pattern that is directly the pattern of other family crests is the soldiers of the affiliated samurai family of the Zichuan family.
It stands to reason that the soldiers of this kind of affiliated samurai will not act together with the soldiers of the Zichuan family, because the samurai may be able to see the family crest of the affiliated samurai family and know that this is their own person, but the ashigaru people do not have such eyesight, and when they fight, they become fanatical, and when they see the flag that is not their own family, they will definitely subconsciously attack directly.
Therefore, the soldiers of the subordinate samurai generally do not mix with the main family, they are either responsible for the battle in the corners or in charge of the battle of a front, so that the main family's troops stay in the rear and wait for support and clean up the battlefield, and under normal circumstances, they will never be mixed into battle.
But it's also possible to think about it, because this battle with Boyang Town is a just battle for the Zichuan family to fight against the traitors, and everything has to be fought in a grand manner, so when the time comes, everyone can just put up a position and start fighting in person, and in this case, you don't need to care about being injured by mistake or anything, because the enemy is coming!
Knowing this, Zhang Zhongjun didn't bother so much, it was his turn to report his name, and then he was told that he would be assigned to the family overseer army, and then led the four bean soldiers with the Zichuan family's flag behind them to the assembly place.
When he came to the gathering place of the so-called warriors directly under the Zichuan family, Zhang Zhongjun realized that warriors like himself were assigned to a family elder.
It's a very strange rule, the samurai of the general's family can form their own troops to fight, and they only need to follow orders, that is, they let you defend or attack that way, and just follow the orders.
That is, the right and left hands of the family governor, either to prepare logistics in the rear, or to lead the Zichuan family's direct ashigaru to fight in the front, or to make suggestions with the family governor.
And what about the samurai below the rank of general? This is a bit sad, especially for the existence of the two levels of the general and the ashigaru general, if there are peasant soldiers in battle, they will lead some peasant soldiers to fight in front. On the contrary, the lowest-level samurai is the captain of the ashigaru, but all of them are assigned to the Shigaru family as the captain of the ten-man team and face the war.
Speaking of which, if you fight in ordinary times, the general and the ashigaru general are the ones with the most achievements, because the peasant soldiers are consumables, and the samurai of these two levels who lead the peasant soldiers are naturally at the forefront of the charge. On the contrary, those lowest-level ashigaru captains, if they were not lucky enough to lead the peasants to fight with them, they could only obediently stay in the direct ashigaru team, silently watching others kill the enemy and win meritorious deeds.
For this, Zhang Zhongjun thinks it is normal, one is that the captain of the ashigaru is a samurai newcomer, and he must exercise before he can enter the battlefield, otherwise he will directly consume these newcomers, and it will be easy for the samurai class to break his roots. The second is that the samurai's direct ashigaru or these samurai newcomers will make the samurai feel stable, because the samurai at the level of the captain of the ashigaru team have nothing, and it is the time to rely on loyalty in exchange for favor, and the newcomers are not so involved in the relationship with the family. Therefore, they brought their direct ashigaru, and the governor was relieved.
Therefore, since they are newcomers and bring the direct subordinate of the family governor, of course, they will not let them go to the battlefield so easily. Therefore, peacetime battles are all about consuming peasants and soldiers, and it is also a time for the general to establish meritorious service between the general and the general to be great.
But it's a pity that the battlefield that was supposed to be the easiest to get credit for, in a certain period, was a sad moment for the Ashigaru generals and the generals to be treated.
This particular period refers to the busy farming period, this period, whether busy with farming or harvesting, is the busiest time for farmers, even the busiest samurai, and most of the attention is on the time of farming or harvesting.
At this time, there are almost no samurai who will summon peasants and soldiers to fight, not because they can't be summoned, but because there are fewer people to farm or harvest, which will affect the harvest of the samurai, and the entire samurai family will be in turmoil because of this.
So at this time, when encountering a war that must be launched, the samurai family can naturally only dispatch the direct ashigaru and the affiliated samurai. But once this happens, the generals and generals who usually earn credit by leading the peasants and soldiers to the death will be miserable.
Because they had no peasant soldiers to consume, they only brought their own very expensive private soldiers, but these private soldiers were generally scarce in number, and there was almost no meritorious service in the battlefield.
On the contrary, at this time, it was an opportunity for those captains with direct ashigaru and generals with family crests and banners to make contributions.
Therefore, Zhang Zhongjun and his generals, the generals and generals, although they gathered under the banner of an old family to fight together, those old people knew that when the time came, the old man who led the team would definitely give a sentence to defend the camp, forget it, and then the very large battalion would collapse, otherwise even if the enemy army rushed to the camp, they would not have much possibility of fighting.
Why is there no possibility of fighting when they rush to the big camp? Come on, those flag books that are kept as reserve samurai, but he has been waiting for an unknown amount of time, once an enemy rushes to the big camp, those flag books who have long been crazy don't immediately saliva flow out and their eyes are shining, where is the turn to get these unlucky generals and generals to be urged?
After understanding the conspiracy, Zhang Zhongjun was directly a little confused, he meowed, what kind of rules is this, there is a disconnect between senior samurai, intermediate samurai and junior samurai?
I still think that my superiors can order my subordinates, and the first level obeys the orders of the first level, and then fight like a complete army. Dare to love these family ranks are just status levels, and they have nothing to do with military ranks!