Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 190 Rediscussing the Strong Military Strategy in Okayama City

This pill designed by Xiujia is not the famous Sanada pill in history, it is just a wildebeest pill.In fact, Xiujia only thinks that the Japanese design concept of Demaru is the bastion of the most popular weapon defense artillery.

Demaru is like the single protruding triangular fortress of the bastion. Its biggest role is to attract firepower for the main city wall and at the same time eliminate the enemies in the blind area of ​​the main city wall.

Demaru is independent from the city wall, and there is a moat between the main city walls. There are no earth barriers and wooden walls on the side near the Nishimaru city wall, just to prevent it from being captured by the enemy and being used as a fulcrum for further siege by the enemy.

Demaru is connected to the main city wall by a suspension bridge. Once Demaru is captured, the suspension bridge will rise to organize the enemy's main city wall to attack. Of course, the city gate connected to Demaru is not the main city gate. Small enough to accommodate only 2 people through.

Hideka’s Demaru design is located in front of the flat plain on the north side of Nishi Maru. There are two on the left and right respectively. It borrows from the characteristics of the triangular bastion of later generations without shooting blind spots, and directly skips the round Maruma De and the square Horde Ma De. Those who redefine the triangle are called wildebeests.

The real main gate of Ximaru is between the two exit pills—the Hukou Gate. The design of Xiujia is equivalent to artificially designing a concave-shaped terrain advantage.

Different from the ordinary Idamaru design, Hideka did not completely isolate Idamaru's deep-dug soilbori, but left a passage on the east side of the two Idamaru to facilitate Hideka's small-scale troops to go out of the city to flank the enemy. .

Don't think that these two passages are convenient for the enemy to attack. The West Demaru passage will face the main city wall and Higashi Demaru's west side firepower directly, while Nishi Demaru will face Ninomaru, Honmaru, and Higashimaru's west side of the city wall. Hideo wished that the enemy would come up and send them off one by one like the Maeda and Ii family in the Osaka Winter Battle.

And the Chuwan designed by Xiujia, after adding these two roads and bridges, which are attack paths for him and dead end for the enemy, has evolved into a wildebeest out, which has become a sharp weapon for both attacking and withdrawing troops.

As for the unearthed wall of the wildebeest, it is completely designed with the Sanada Maru three-stage base. The first two sections are all inserted with wooden fences. The top of the earthen wall is built with a triple screen of wood and soil, which can effectively prevent the enemy's iron cannon projectiles from shooting. Of course For the cannon, there is nothing to help.

When Xiujia explained his design and ideas, Todo Takatora and everyone who was working on it were amazed, thinking that this would be an epoch-making design.

Now Japan's castle is changing from a mountain castle to a flat castle. Demaru has just been designed as the most important defensive force supplement for Hiragi, and its main concept is still a small curved wheel placed at the front of the tiger's mouth.

In addition to increasing the difficulty of the enemy's invasion of the tiger's mouth, it also becomes a shooting position that is conducive to defending the tiger's mouth.

And Xiujia's design directly made Demaru jump out of the ancillary facilities of the Hukou Gate, and directly became an important part of the castle's defense force.

After an hour of drawing and explaining, the design of Fengshan Castle was finally finalized. Hideka originally wanted to name it Takamatsu Castle according to the original idea, but Hanabou Masako requested to change the name in the name of Takamatsu Castle.

In fact, the place names in Japan really repeat a lot. For example, there are Bizen, Owari, Mikawa, and Shimono in Tenjin Mountain Castle, and the places called Takamatsu are not only Bichu and Sanuki.

In the past, everyone belonged to different families, and each family closed the door and called it whatever they liked, but now it is Beizhong.Sanuki is also accompanied by Uki's family. In order to make it easier to issue government orders, one of the two must be renamed.

Hideka originally wanted to change the name of Bichu Takamatsu Castle to Shimizu Castle to commemorate the flooding of Takamatsu in 1582, but the idea was quickly dismissed by Hideka.

Now Hashiba Hideyoshi is in power, and Muneji Shimizu is against the party!What is your intention to name a main city with his Miao characters?
In the end, Bichu Takamatsu Castle was renamed Hesong Castle, taking the first character of Ming Heyang County, the county where it is located, combined with the original city name, and Fengshan Castle, which has just started construction, is officially named Takamatsu Castle.

"Everyone, you have worked hard in the Battle of Mikawa. The Oda family's reward has been issued, and 8 shi was given to Owari Chita County. These are all thanks to you."

"It's just that the war can't stop. The Changzong of the Four Kingdoms and our rebellious party are still taking advantage of our main force to go to the East. They caused wars in the Four Kingdoms. We can't do it without crusade."

"It is an honor for me and you to lead the 5 soldiers of the Four Kingdoms in the name of Zhong Nayan to defeat the dissidents. Therefore, I decided to hold down the rewards for the Battle of Sanhe for the time being, and wait until the Four Kingdoms are leveled. Keep up the good work and make new achievements.”

After dealing with this episode, the military discussion finally started to get down to business. The Xiu family officially issued an order to attack the four countries in front of the captains. Although they had heard about it before, but this time they heard the confirmed news from the Xiu family. It still makes everyone rejoice.

"Ha Yi~Ha Yi (it's haha ​​if you say it quickly when you put it together, it means that you would like to obey the edict)" All the retainers expressed their loyalty to the Xiu family.

For these senior generals, Owari was originally an enclave, and they couldn't finish dealing with the new territory for a while, and would miss the opportunity to make contributions to the four countries.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Oda family (Hashiba family) at this time has already had the momentum to swallow mountains and rivers, and the chances of fighting in the future will only become less and less. Now that they have such a big battle to win the Shikoku, how can they miss the opportunity to make meritorious deeds? .

After all, Yuxi's family has a great career, and it is impossible not to deny the merits that have been established. Compared with the new collar, it is not as attractive as going to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

Xiujia saw that everyone had enough courage, so he said to them, "Our Yuxi family will mobilize more than 2 people in this battle. It is a well-deserved national war. You should do your best to win glory for our family."

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, the ministers will surely kill the enemy bravely to repay the king's kindness."

"In this case, everyone should start to assemble the troops of each reserve team today, and the assembly will be completed before the end of August, and they will be transferred to Sanuki for repairs one after another. The vanguard will not be held by my family. I have already promised Asano Nagamasaden to be in charge. , our family should recharge our energy and prepare for the face-to-face with Chang Zong and our family."

Hearing that the vanguard position will not be held by my family, everyone here is a little bit lacking in interest, but the Xiu family quickly gave them a boost.

"I have purchased more than 1600 iron cannons from Zhongnayan and Sakaimachi merchants, and I will hand them over to each reserve team one after another, so that each reserve team can form a [-]-person iron cannon brigade."

就如前文所说，秀家此前向秀吉采购了800挺国友铳；在堺町又向今井宗久和津田宗及采购了大友铳10挺、国友铳400挺、根来铳50挺，骑马铳25挺；包下了弗朗切斯科船长400挺类似种子岛铳的欧式火绳枪和100挺燧发枪。

Xiujia plans to leave 20 Guoyou guns, 20 European flintlock guns and 10 Dayu guns for craftsmen to learn to imitate. To the squires, began to experiment with the possibility of riding iron cannons.

As for the remaining 1180 Guoyou blunderbusses and 410 Pan-European matchlock guns, they will be distributed to each reserve team together with the iron guns replaced by the Iron Cannon Battalion after the old iron cannons of the Iron Cannon Battalion have been updated.

In addition to the firearms equipment, the Hideo directly under the current reserve team includes: Qinglong Bei, Suzaku Bei, Baihu Bei, Akasaka Bei, Heqi Bei, (Sanuki) Takamatsu Bei, He Song (formerly Bei Takamatsu) Bei, Shangdao Zuobei, Shangdao Youbei, Yijiubei, Yuyebei, Jinshanbei.

The above 11 Class A or Class B reserve teams directly under the Xiujia can gather 4500 full-time professional soldiers and 12000 well-trained half-time soldiers for the Xiujia in a short period of time. ,

Previously, the Xiujia team’s backup team’s plan was that those who are strong and strong draw bows, and those who are short stature shoot iron cannons. However, due to the lack of one iron cannon, the firepower of each backup team has not been replenished. It all depends on the samurai.

This time Xiujia decided to equip them all with a 100-man iron cannon brigade, and the three directly-administered reserve teams of Qinglong, Suzaku, and White Tiger will have 200 brigades of 2 people, so the iron cannons are almost finished.

It’s just that Tsuyama Beiduo is usually used for defense purposes, and this time it is not included in the formation of the Four Kingdoms Army, so the iron cannons will not be issued for the time being. Hideka sold the remaining 90 iron cannons to Ukita Kanjia at a subsidized price of 20 yuan per stick. In order to enhance the strength of its subordinate Kurashiki right reserve team.

In any case, Kurashiki Ubei, a subordinate of Ukita’s family, is not the backup team directly under Hideka, and its legal commander is Ukita’s family. If Hideka opens the head of the free iron cannon today, other daimyos can also have it in the future. They asked Xiu's family to help give accessories as a gift, and Yuxi's family could afford such expenses.

Now that the Xiu family chooses to sell the iron cannon to the Quan family, it is because he is a pro-fan.

By the time the iron cannons of each backup team were distributed, the firepower level of each backup team of the Xiu family was close to the wise family's requirement of 30 guns per ten thousand stones.

You have to know how many times it is based on the wise family with extremely high iron cannons in the Oda family. A 1500-member reserve team has only 135 on the military service certificate, and it is often not full due to economic problems, but the Xiu family is not. The real deal 200/100 is ready.

"These iron cannons will arrive in Okayama one after another in these two days. Each reserve team will lead the reserve team to select candidates for the iron cannon brigade as soon as possible, and then receive the iron cannons directly in Okayama Town."

"As for the iron cannon instructors, I will draw 150 people from the standing iron cannon battalion and distribute them to each reserve team. One person will lead 1 people to conduct teaching and training."

"From now on, these instructors will become the team leaders (5-member leader) and the right squad leader of each reserve team. As for the small team leader (10-member leader) and squadron leader (30-member leader), I will delegate them from the attendant team and the banner team. Part of the martial arts elite.

Of course, this number will not be too many, and it will be mainly up to each of your reserve teams to select those who can be promoted to serve as officers in the Iron Cannon Brigade. "

"Selection of officers?" Suzaku's reserve captain Gao Shan Shizong asked with some doubts, "Your Highness means that this brigade will form an independent army outside the battalions and serve as a supplement to the reserve team? Each reserve team will also expand to 1600 and 1700?"

Xiujia shook his head and replied, "I don't mean that, it's just that iron cannons need extremely high battlefield discipline, and they need to face the enemy's iron cannonballs and still have the courage to shoot at each other. This is why the position of an officer is very important. Selection cannot be appointed."

"As for the officers who have been dismissed, they can be included in the banner team for further study, and they will still have the opportunity to lead troops after they are qualified."

Just kidding, if you are assigned 100 iron guns today, you will expand your army, and tomorrow you will be assigned a cavalry team, will you become an army of 2000 people?
Is it true that the Warring States army can expand its army by giving weapons without money?You must know that under the Yuxiduo military system, the military equipment and weapons are all provided by Yuxiduo. The daily maintenance of these equipments is an expense. Provided by Yuxi Family, these are not money!
Fortunately, the reserve team directly under the central government does not require wages, otherwise the Xiu family would really go bankrupt.

Do you still want to expand the army?Alright, you Takayama Clan pays for it yourself.

"Each reserve team needs to make staffing adjustments as soon as possible. The time is very tight. This 100-member iron cannon brigade will be organized as the reserve captain and directly under the leadership of the reserve captain. Therefore, there will inevitably be a battalion short of 100 people. Similarly, the standing reserve will be 2. A battalion is missing."

"The lack of combat power of a brigade will inevitably affect the combat power of the battalion. Therefore, the captains of each reserve are required to do a good job of coordination, distinguish between the main battalion and the reserve battalion, and focus on assigning tasks."

Xiujia was still afraid that they would not understand, so he emphasized again, "I mean the battalion of 400 people is the main battalion, because although the Iron Cannon Brigade is a brigade that is directly under the captain of the battalion in name, it usually fights. It will be directly assigned to the battalion as a supplement to combat power."

"If there is an accident with the battalion general, the captain of the Iron Cannon Brigade will take over the command first, and then the captain of the first company will take over the command after the accident, and return to the Ukita military law."

When Xiujia said this, he felt that the military rank system is imperative, otherwise why would you, a captain of the Iron Cannon, surpass the company captain and take over the battalion command right?

It's just that the time is too urgent now, and the reform of the military system is a matter that affects the whole body, so it can only be postponed for the time being.

After Hideya finished talking about his thoughts, he saw Masaoyuki Takashima, Hisaya Akigami, Ryosuke Takahashi and others all showed expressions of enlightenment.

Sure enough, if Xiujia didn't give further explanations, they might think that the team with 407 people is the reserve camp, while the team with 522 people is the main camp.

Here I want to explain again that a team of Xiujia consists of 2 groups of 10 people, the team leader is also the leader of the first team, and 3 teams form a squadron, plus the squadron leader and 2 flag bearers, a total of 33 people.

In Yuxiduo's various backup teams, everyone will have a flag with the character pattern representing Yuxiduo on their back.

大队则由3个33人中队和1个5人独立小组组成，再加上正副大队长一共106人，2个营加上1个独立小队组成连队设立正副连队长共224人。

2 companies plus 1 independent squadron form a battalion. Counting the battalion generals, a battalion has a total of 483 people. For the convenience of reading, 500 people are called a battalion.

As for the reserve captain, he has 3 battalions plus 2 independent squadrons, including the main and deputy reserve captains, a total of 1517 people, and they are customarily called Qianwubaijiang.

So far, only Xiujia, Hidecho, and Hideyoshi know the real combat deployment, and Xiujia does not intend to announce his combat deployment at this time. The information above the war is the most important, and Xiujia will keep it secret until the last moment. The branch frightened the reserve teams.

"Finally, it's about the logistics. I'm going to trouble you here." Xiujia turned to Hanfang Zhengxing and said, after all, he has been in charge of this matter before, so he is quite handy. "Please also transfer the supplies to Sanuki as soon as possible."

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, this matter is on my shoulders." Hanafang Masako agreed, "I have already transferred part of the military rations to Sanuki, and I will speed up the transfer in the future."

Hanfang Zhengxing is to Zhijia and Xiujia what Xiao He is to Liu Bang, he is the big housekeeper in charge of logistics. Hanfang Zhengxing does not need to worry about Xiujia at all. We will plan ahead and release the reserved space for Xiujia in advance.

So when the meeting was basically over, Xiujia asked everyone to disperse after a few words, and Que called Hanabang Masayuki alone, and asked him to go to the side hall with himself to have a talk, and at the same time, Akashi Jing kissed Oka Toshikatsu with his eyes accompany.

The next step is to have an in-depth meeting with Hanabou Masayuki. This closed-door meeting is extremely heavy for the Uki family, but it is a decision that has to be made under the pressure of Hashiba Hideyoshi.

Yu Xijia will lose his arm!
(End of this chapter)