Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 328

天正14年九月14日（1586年10月30日）早晨，宇喜多家上下家臣齐聚在冈山城大广间内，等待秀家开展出阵前的军议。

In the past, the Xiu family had always been a very punctual patriarch, but today the retainers waited until the sun was three poles before seeing the Xiu family's arrival, so they raised their heads in low voices.

In fact, Osafune Sadachi and others, who are the elders of the family, had some thoughts in their hearts. After all, the movement in Honmaru was a bit loud this morning, and it disturbed many people in Ninomaru. Everyone was wondering if Mrs. Naoko was about to give birth. .

It's just that it's extremely dangerous for this woman to give birth, and the Xiu family hasn't shown up for a long time, which makes the ministers of the Yuxi family feel a little scared, and pray for Zhizi and the child who is about to be born.

Everyone waited for a while, and when it was around 9 o'clock, there was finally a sound of footsteps outside the hall.

As always, the servants took the lead, shouting the title of Xiu family, swearing that the master here is coming soon.

It’s just that today is different from the past. Today, the Xiu family is not followed by Shimizu Nobuya, the most trusted attendant of the Xiu family, but a middle-aged woman, who is at the moment of Jian Sex Academy, and in his arms is holding Yu Xijia’s only child. Inheriting the male, the newly born "Chen Chiyo."

The Xiu family walked up the imperial steps, and instead of sitting down directly as they did in previous meetings, they cleared their throats and said to everyone, "Everyone, raise your heads."

After everyone was calm, they soon discovered that there was something abnormal in the hall. It was really unusual for a concubine to appear on such a solemn occasion.

The Xiu family took over Chen Chiyo from Jian Xingyuan, just like the Zhi family hugged him when he was a child, and introduced everyone sitting in the audience, "Everyone, I have good news for you, my Xiu family has a descendant, and the wife Nao She gave birth to a healthy boy for me, the eldest son of my family."

"Oh~" The news of the Xiu family caused the palace to explode, and everyone exclaimed in amazement, and saluted and praised the Xiu family and the child in his arms, "Congratulations to the lord for welcoming the newcomer, and congratulations to the Shaodian for a long and healthy life."

After all, Chen Qiandai's mother was born in a concubine's house, and there was no need for the Xiu family to present their child to everyone with such a big fanfare, but this was the first child of Yuxi's family governor after all, and it was of extraordinary significance.

When the Yuxi family was handed over to the Xiu family, there were only more than 20 shi, and it was the first line of resistance to the Maori family.

However, after 5 years of rectification of the Xiu family, Yuxi's family's knowledge and behavior have increased several times to reach the level of a million stones, and the retainers under his command have a high degree of recognition for him as the family governor.

However, there are still shortcomings within Yuxiduo. This shortcoming will make the retainers absolutely hopeless for Yuxiduo, so they will be loyal and have reservations when they serve.

That is the question of succession.

Just imagine, if there is a conflict between the Yuxi family and other families, and the Yuxi family has only one seedling of the Xiu family, who can guarantee that it will disappear someday?

In this way, even if the advantages of the front line will disappear, without an heir, the Yuxi family will inevitably fall apart, and their group of warriors who follow the Xiu family will inevitably be severely punished by the enemy.

In other words, the Yuki family without an heir is not guaranteed for the retainers, and the birth of Chen Chiyo undoubtedly gave them a guarantee, even if there is an accident in the Xiu family, it can guarantee the existence of the Yuki family as a whole.

Although the example of the three mages has told everyone about the consequences of state-owned young masters, this is what Yuxi's family is worried about after all, and they only need to care about whether their family business can be passed on stably.

Of course, Chen Qiandai is only the eldest son of the concubine after all. Although it has a soothing effect on the Yuxi family, the Xiu family does not intend to introduce him to the world with great fanfare. The purpose of bringing him today is to boost the morale of the family before going out. That's all.

The retainers with a slightly more flexible mind naturally understood the truth, and addressed Chen Qiandai as the Young Palace, while some simple-minded retainers directly used "Young Master" as the address.

Well, the matter is over, the Xiu family asked Chen Qiandai to be taken down by the Jianxingyuan, fearing that he would be allowed to stay any longer.It really made some people think that the Xiu family attached great importance to Chen Chiyo.

After everyone left, the military discussion for the Xiu family's battle officially began.

Xiujia first asked the three elders about the reform of the military system.

Before Hideka left Okayama at the end of last year, he issued an order requiring each family to organize in accordance with the Ukido military system. Each family will organize their own troops into a reserve team with only about 1200 to 1800 people. Edited with the help of Yu Xijia.

As a veteran of the family, Changfu Zhenqin first said to Xiujia, "Samsung Fan has 31 stones of knowledge and practice, and has been reorganized and prepared according to the military service certificate. There are 000 people, divided into two battalions directly under the Central Government and a cavalry and iron army. In the artillery regiment, everyone has armor."

Xiujia nodded, expressing satisfaction with the editing effect of Changchuan Zhenqin.According to the regular requirements of the military service certificate, the standard of 400 people per [-] shi was mobilized, and the territory of Changchuan Zhenqin basically met the requirements of a reserve team.

In fact, Xiujia knew that he took advantage of his status as an old writer to give priority to purchasing equipment and weapons for his reserve team, but even so, for him to have a 200-strong cavalry and iron cannon independent unit, Xiujia was still surprised.

"Do you mean that you have a cavalry iron cannon regiment?" Xiujia asked curiously, "Is the iron cannon used a special iron cannon?"

"Yes, Your Highness, one horse bears two people, one horse-riding samurai holds a short gun to shoot and kill the enemy, and one ashigaru carries two loaded iron cannons, and shoots towards the front line after being knocked down. , kill the enemy by surprise."

"Good! Good! Good!" Hearing his introduction, Xiujia became more interested, and directly gave him three "good" to express his appreciation, and continued to ask, "Whose idea is this, can you let me watch the cavalry iron?" Artillery operations."

Hearing Xiujia's question about the creator of this combat method, Osafune Sadakin proudly replied, "It's the dog's attention, and he will replace me in commanding the reserve team in this battle."

It is not surprising that Chang Chuanzhen needs the ability to sit in charge as an old writer in person, so naturally his eldest son, Gangzhi, has to wait for him to play, and at the same time, his original position in Qinglongbei is naturally temporarily removed.

"Oh? It's Tsunamo's attention?" Xiujia looked left and right to search for the trace of Osafune Tsunao, and said to him after finding him, "After the meeting is over, show me the horse-riding iron artillery team you formed in the south of the city. power."

Although Nasafune Zhenqin is an old writer of the Yuki family, his son Tsunao is only a 2000 shi mid-level warrior, so he can only sit at the end of the hall and quietly obey the orders of the Xiu family.

Hearing Xiu's roll call, Osafune Tsuna stepped out and responded, "Yes, I will prepare later."

It was Ukita Kane who reported after Osafune Sadako.

As the only vassal of the Xiu family, in fact, he had the experience of reorganizing the directly-administered reserve team as early as in Kurashiki, so the Xiu family was not worried about him, and even had some expectations.

Ukita's commentator reported to Xiujia, "I'm really sorry, Your Highness, but the Hoki collar has encountered some problems in the reorganization of the military system, and now only the reorganization of the two standard second-class teams of 1500 Yonago and 1200 Kume has been completed.

Due to funding problems, the remaining three counties of Riye, Khan, and Baqiao merged to form a Class C reserve team with 1 people. "

According to the military system of Yuxiduo, the C-type reserve force refers to the semi-professional reserve force whose number of troops reorganized according to the letter of military service law accounts for more than 1/3 of the reserve force, and the armor rate must not be lower than 50%. For the C-type The reserve team does not require an independent iron artillery team.

Calculated in this way, Ushita Quanjia Boqi has 11 shi, has 4 reserve teams, and a total force of 4500, which is also a standard military service certificate of 400 people per [-] shi.

But this show family knows that this is only the formation of regular troops on their military service certificate. Ukita Kanjia has a 200-man iron cannon ashigaru unit, a 150-man cavalry samurai, and a 200-man gun Loving foot light, a standing battalion with a total of 550 people, the combat effectiveness of this battalion is not inferior to that of the Xiu family, and the combat effectiveness of a single battalion is even stronger.

"I'm sorry, brother, then I'll leave it to you to be the vanguard in this battle, and don't lose the prestige of my family." Xiujia encouraged Ukita's family.

After Ukita’s family was Akashi Jingqin, he reported to Xiujiashang that “the family’s Zhixing 3.5 stones were reorganized into a backup team with 1350 people. In addition, there was an independent cavalry team of 100 people.”

The reason why the Xiu family let the three family elders publicly express the reorganization of their preparations in front of everyone is to set an example and let other families know that this policy of the Yuxi family is implemented from top to bottom, and it is only for strengthening the army. Not for what they think they are fighting for their military power.

Even the retainers who are the elders of the family have accepted the reorganization. Why do you families with 3/5000 stone or even less territory resist change?

According to the three family elders, other retainers also reported the reorganization situation to the Xiu family one by one according to the size of the family's territory.

备中总社藩花房家算上花房正幸的养老料4.4万石，整编为1个标准乙种备队、1个独立铁炮大队100人和1个直辖旗本队300人，独立骑马武士大队100人，总人数为2000人。

The followers of Zongga, head of the Ryo Miyayama clan of the Bizen Kingdom, reorganized the reserve team into a second-class reserve team of 1200 people, an independent iron artillery brigade and a banner corps of 1 people, for a total of 300 people.

In Sanuki, Togawa Tatsuan of the Marugame Domain had 3.7 kokus of knowledge and practice, which were reorganized into a second-class reserve team of 1500 people, an independent iron artillery brigade of 100 people, and a banner samurai team of 150 people.

Sanuki National Zhidu Hanchuan Iemitsu has 3.7 koku, a reorganized and prepared team of 1300 people, with an armor rate of more than 7%, and a Yabusame team of 150 people.

The standard of the second-class reserve team is to be changed according to the new military system, and at the same time, the rate of landing is not less than 7%, the Hanchuan family can barely meet the standard.

In this era, the Yabusame team is extremely difficult to train. Even Hideka only has 500 riders, so the Samukawa family used 150 Yabusames to offset the difference in mobilization.

In addition to the above accidents, other samurai who are still in the present do not meet the criteria for forming an independent reserve team, so they were organized separately and named by county. Reserve team 2 only 3000 people.

In general, the combat readiness effect of the Uki family is obvious, counting Kurashiki Zuobei, Minobei, Shangdoubei, Okubei, Heqibei, Tsugabei, Erjimabei, and Tsuyamabei directly under the Hideka 8 It only directly governs the B-type reserve team and the Kurashiki right reserve and one C-type reserve team.

Apart from the 1.8 people who have already entered the battle, Yu Xiduo can mobilize about 34 people in the new military service form. This is based on the standard of 280 people per 400 shi. It is slightly different from the configuration of the cavalry team.

It is worth noting that among the nearly 3.5 new troops, there are 700 independent horsemen alone, of which 200 are horsemen and iron gunmen, and 150 are in the Yabusame team.

If you count Xiujia's independent cavalry team Banner Group, the strength of Yuxi's independent cavalry team has reached 1200 cavalry!
Although the number of people seems small, it is still difficult to gather more than a thousand cavalry in a small place like Japan. After all, the country is so large that there are not many places suitable for raising horses.

Even the red team that Takeda Shingen is proud of, the number of pure cavalry team is only about 200~300 people, and the rest are ashigaru and walking samurai.

Now, based on the size of a million stones, the Xiu family has gathered 1200 cavalry.Just imagine that in such a small place as Japan, where the battlefield is so wide, when the two sides are fighting together, and suddenly 1200 "tanks" rush towards you neatly, what will your reaction be, and will you still have the will to resist? ?
It’s just that this number is still reported by them. The real strength is uneven. You can tell by listening to their reports. Fortunately, Ukita Kanka and Hanabang are the cavalry warrior team, and Akashi Jing’s personal report is the cavalry team It can be heard that Akashi Jingqin does not have enough confidence in his cavalry team.

In fact, this was the norm at that time. The ability of the samurai masters to ride horses and shoot arrows has long been discontinued. Even the role of many mounted samurai horses is to maneuver quickly. After the battlefield, they dismount and switch to foot combat. It's everyone's baby.

In addition, for example, Togawa Tatsuan, Nagamune Nobuki and others did not report to the independent cavalry team, but took it as a banner team. Did they not have horse-riding warriors?

No, it's because their territory used to be under the direct control of the Xiu family, and all the warriors who could fight on horseback have been drawn by the Xiu family to the bannermen and standing guards, and most of the rest are warriors who can only fight on foot. The remaining knights on horseback can only be mixed with them to form a banner group, which can be used as a lore.

The Xiu family estimates that there should be more than 2000 cavalry soldiers in the family. After removing the cronies and guards of each family, and removing the second generation of retainers who are used to pass orders, there should be about a thousand cavalry warriors in a completely independent formation. Only the cavalry battalion.

Xiujia, who was envious of this group of elites, was even thinking about whether to use a method to separate them from the various command systems.

Of course, they are still the retainers of each family in name, and the Xiu family just organizes them for unified training and unified command during battle.

The Xiu family will let them wear Nanman armor, use bows or iron cannons as long-range weapons to consume the enemy, and finally charge with guns or sabers in groups, just like cuirassiers, making them the sharpest spears around them.

(End of this chapter)