Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 527
From God's point of view, the Tamura riots started at will, but were even more random when they were put down.

However, Hideka, who was a witness, had lingering fears about the whole riot, and nothing that made Hideka feel powerless was the attitudes of Toji Honda and Mashizu Satake.

Satake Yoshisu aside, at least he made an effort to attract Tamura Muneken's attention in front, and helped Hideka calmly attack from behind.

However, from the point of view of Xiujia, knowing the big plan of Xiujia's surprise attack and the premise of the retreat of the Tamura family, it should be easy to infer the conclusion that Xiujia has succeeded.

Then, as the commander-in-chief of the first army, Satake Yoshisuke should chase after the Tamura family. At that time, he can cooperate with the Hide family's double Kikuhime's force of 4000 to annihilate the Tamura family under the city of Miharu.

However, Honda's and Satake Yoshisu's attitude towards Hideka made Hideka feel powerless for the first time in commanding the army to fight.

If it weren't for the quick assessment of the Tamura riots, there was no need for Xiujia to risk his life
The Xiu family who came back from Sanchun City directly cast their anger on Ben Duo multiple times. In the name of forming the Yuao Rangers, he directly asked Ben Duo multiple times to temporarily transfer Takakura Castle, and at the same time asked him to check out 800 soldiers from the collar. Leave it to yourself.

Regarding the formation of the Rangers, Hideyoshi and Hideya did not give a time limit before, but only asked each family to hand over people as soon as possible.

But this time, Hideka was angered by Honda's attitude towards Hideo many times, and Hideka directly intervened in the establishment of the military service certificate of Iwashiro Ogasawara.

Honda had no reason to refuse Hideyoshi's request, because it was Hideyoshi's permission, and Hideyoshi Ogasawara agreed to it before.

It was said at the beginning that the Xiu family would personally intervene in the inspection of soldiers in each collar.

Xiujia directly spread out his own bannermen to the entire Iwashiro country, and asked to select a few strong men from each village to be incorporated into the ranger.

At the same time, Hideka detained some of the ashigaru and samurai captured from the Tamura family before, and organized them into the Rangers. After 6 to 7 days, Hideka gathered 1100 soldiers in Takakura Castle.

For the samurai at all levels, Hideka basically selected people from his own reserve team. After the ashigaru from the original reserve team came to the West Country, Hideka gave them all the status of samurai and asked them to serve as the accountants of the new military service. The squad leader and corps leader.

With the successful establishment of the Ogasawara Special Forces, Hideo directly selected more than 100 people from among them to Takakura Castle, preparing to train them according to the usual training methods.

In order for the Hide family to lead the reserve team more effectively, the Hide family selected Yasuda Sakubei from his retainers and transferred him to serve as the captain of the reserve team. The banner is divided into 2 infantry battalions and a cavalry brigade.

At the same time that Ogasawara's reserve team was formed, Hideka sent people to Aizu and Kamao Goan, and sent Ke Er Saizang to Aizu to inspect the young men to form the Gamo reserve team. serve.

The standard number of people in the Gamo reserve team is 820. Hideka intends to mix it with the 100 people of the Soma family into two battalions, while the Nakagawa army has 2 people. Counting the 650 people of the Iwaki family, it can also be organized into two battalions. .

Hideka already has a clear position for these 6500 people. Combined with the location of the turmoil in history, they stationed 1000 troops in Hota Castle in Ugoyamamoto County (Housenbei County) and Sanuma Castle in Luqian Dengmi County, and the remaining 4500 troops. All the people gathered in Iwashiro Takakura Castle, waiting for possible enemy situation.

For the commander-in-chief of the ranger, Hideka has already selected a candidate, and it is the captain Takayama Shizong who left Suzaku Bei.

In the many battles in the Western Kingdom, the Gao Shan Clan used one battle after another to declare his ability to the world. The Xiu family felt more at ease with him as the captain.

In fact, the various places in Yuao are relatively obedient to Hideyoshi's appointment and location arrangements on the surface. By the beginning of July, Gamo and Ogasawara had basically completed the appointment of Yuao.

After the situation in the north of Iwaki, Soma and other families stabilized, they sent people to Iwashiro according to the previous requirements, and handed them over to the Hide family for reorganization.

By mid-July, with the evaluation of the Yuao area, even the forces of Date, Mogami, Oura and others had gathered in Takakura Castle.

Hideka dispatched Ogasawara, prepared before, to Mutsu Sanuma Castle, and sent Gamo, Kaner Saizo, to Hotta Castle, where they would complete the next training work.

What's a little difficult is that neither Gamo nor Ogasawara provided them with sufficient equipment and weapons, or the Hide family moved some of them from the arsenals of the Hojo family's previous cities to equip them.

By July 7, Xiujia organized the remaining reserve teams in Takakura Castle.

In fact, when these daimyos sent people over, they were afraid that this group of people would escape from their control, so they sent retainers to supervise them.

For example, the Date family sent the important minister of the Date family, Date Shi, to lead the team, and the Mogami family was led by the Uji family Mitsushi.

But this ranger team was organized by the Xiu family, because you couldn't help anyone, so the Xiu family directly dispersed them all, and organized them in units of battalions according to the Xiu family's standing.

After the compilation was completed, Date and Hikaru were assigned to serve as the commanders of a battalion respectively. Date resisted at first, but Mianto Hideka's strength endured the next sentence and he would respond to Date Masamune and went back first. The reserve team can only be temporarily led by Harada Sotoki.

In addition to these two people, the Nanfang family sent Izuyama Masayoshi, who is the brother-in-law of Nannan Nobunao, and Anton Miki sent Jiacheng Jijun to bring people here, all of them are generals in the family.

As for Xianghuzawa, Onodera, Liuxiang, Hondo and other families, they had little favors, so they asked a few samurai to bring a dozen farmers and soldiers to make up for it.

Hideka didn’t actually have many plans for this situation. After all, except for the fact that the Aizu-Iwashiro three families were checked by Hideka himself, it was hard to avoid the existence of this situation.

After all, an army also needs auxiliary personnel. The Xiu family directly appointed the Gaoshan Clan to assign soldiers with a more specific organization, dispersed all these soldiers and warriors, and trained them in Gaocang City on the spot.

In the Northeast Army, apart from Date and the Mogami, the proportion of warriors in the other armies is not high. In their view, this army was originally given to the Xiu family's abandoned sons, so they are naturally unwilling to pay for the small number of people in the family. Many samurai.

Therefore, the ratio of samurai that Hideka always had was not met at all during the establishment, and Hideka had to summon some ashigaru and low-level samurai from Kanto to fill the command system.

For these 3500 people, Xiujia trained 7 battalions. Counting the previous 6 battalions, the Feather Olympic Rangers have a total of 11 battalions.

It can be seen from the fact that the battalion is the highest establishment in its establishment, and the city preparation team is only temporarily formed when it is touched. It can be seen that the largest military organization unit of this ranger is the battalion.

Among them, Hidetada Ogasawara and Kiyohide Nakagawa sent people to study and take charge of five battalions with the army. Among them, Hideyoshi Ogasawara controlled three battalions, one was prepared by Ogasawara under the command of Sakubei Yasuda, and two were newly organized. Battalion, Nakagawa Qingxiu mastered 5 Zhongchuan battalion and a new battalion.

In addition to the remaining 4 new battalions, they are led by Mitsuji of the Mogami family, Harada Munetoki of the Date family, Masayoshi Izumiyama of the Nanbu family, and Jisun Kasari of the Andong family.

By July 7, the task of distributing and organizing soldiers was basically completed. Except for Yasuda Sakubei and Shinkawa Toshibei leading the two prepared teams to Sanuma Castle and Hota Castle respectively, the other reserve teams were all in Takakura Castle Start training.

With the Yuao area basically pacified (at least on the surface), it was previously agreed that Date and other daimyos must go to Luo to meet the emperor in person, and accept the formal canonization from Hideyoshi and the emperor.

Taking advantage of the fact that all the big names in Yu'ao area are in Koriyama, Xiujia simply asked him to let them come up with a name for this standing army. After all, it's not a thing to call Yu'ao Rangers all the time.

After a final round of discussion, it was finally decided to call it Yu'ao Guarding Army.

In Koriyama Castle, Hideka took the initiative to extend invitations to these daimyos, inviting them to go to Iwafu Castle to participate in their wedding with Ashikaga Jihime before July 7.

Most of the daimyos will go south with Hideka, but Kiyohide Nakagawa and Gamo Ujigo have to go back to Aizu and Nobuo first, they said they will arrive as scheduled.

After all, this is Ogasawara Xiuzhen's territory. After helping Xiuzhen entertain these big names, Xiujia took Xiuzhen and the two to drink in a small room alone, and talked with him about what happened in Iwashiro during this time exchanged.

When hearing Honda's repeated resistance to Tamura Muneken's rebellion, Ogasawara Hidetada frowned unobtrusively.

After hearing that the Xiu family raided Sanchun City and resolved the Tamura family's rebellion within 3 days, Ogasawara Xiuzhen took a deep breath and expressed her gratitude to the Xiu family.

And said to Xiu's family, "Brother, don't risk your life in the future. If you have nothing else to do, how can I explain to A Xing, Komatsumaru and Xingmatsumaru?"

I have to say that Xiuzhen and Xingji are really prolific. In just 3 years, they have already had twins and they are both boys, while Xiujia and Juji have just had their first child.

As the eldest sons of the Ogasawara family, Komatsumaru and Yukimatsumaru undoubtedly drew in the relationship with the Xiu family infinitely. After all, their mother came from the Uki family and was the sister of the Xiu family.

Long before Xiuzhen went north, Xiujia had exchanged opinions with Zhongchuan Qingxiu and Ogasawara Xiuzhen.Xiuzhen entrusted Xiu's family to manage the territory before their country, and Nakagawa Kiyohide also asked Xiu's family to help her son Nakagawa Hidemasa stabilize the territory.

And this is also the legal basis for Xiujia to bring people north to quell the riots after receiving multiple reports from Honda.

Hideka couldn't believe that Hideyoshi Ogasawara hadn't talked about this with Honda many times before. Logically speaking, Hideka should cooperate with Hideka to complete the settlement of Tamura's payment, but the fact is quite the opposite.

And this is also the reason why Xiujia is angry with Honda many times.

Xiujia really wanted to ask Xiuzhen the reason, including the question that had been buried in her mind before: Why did you take the initiative to transfer Iwashiro in the end? Did you want to stay away from the influence of Tokugawa Ieyasu as Xiujia guessed? force.

But this actually involves Xiuzhen's face. If the Xiu family directly asks Xiuzhen this question, it means that Xiuzhen is not capable of handling the various forces within the family.

After careful consideration, the Xiu family still decided to say to Xiuzhen, "Although I don't quite understand the reason why Lord Honda did this, but he did leave a relatively stable county leader for you. There is no doubt about his ability, just look at you How did you use him?"

Xiujia's meaning is more euphemistic, but I believe Xiuzhen can understand Xiujia's meaning.

In fact, after hearing Xiujia's evaluation of Ben's many times, Xiuzhen raised her head and glanced at Xiujia, and quickly avoided Xiujia's gaze and looked into the distance.

To the Hide family's question, he replied helplessly, "Honta Zuzaemon has devoted himself to everything in this family all these years. Without him, I'm afraid it would be difficult for me to manage this huge territory well.

Maybe it's my attitude that makes him cherish his family even more and treat his family as his own territory.If I offended my brother because of this, please forgive me. "

Listening to Ogasawara Hideyoshi's words, Xiujia opened his mouth in surprise, the meaning in those words was almost like saying "I'm about to be ostracized by Ben Duo many times"!

Xiujia glanced left and right, and said to the real job of the horse farm, "Jijie, dismiss the people around."

The people around Xiuzhen mentioned by the Xiu family naturally included Ogasawara Xiuzhen's attendants.With the firm attitude of the real-time leader in the racecourse and the tacit feedback from Ogasawara Hideyoshi, the surrounding Ogasawara retainers were quickly emptied.

The Xiu family couldn't hold back any longer, and asked Xiuzhen nervously, "Yu Yisong, tell me honestly, how tense is the situation?"

"Hey~" Xiuzhen sighed and said, "At least they still respect me on the surface, but I found out that many of my decrees, they will send someone to ask the opinion of the Tokugawa Palace before going to the facts. If Tokugawa If the palace thinks it is not possible, they will delay the implementation for various reasons.”

"When did it start? Didn't Kazutoyo Yamauchi speak for you?"

"Brother, do you still remember that you were in charge of Meinong's disaster relief and asked me to help with the renovation of the Zhongshan Road. After the order was issued, I went to inspect it. I didn't expect that more than half a year later, there was still no sign of starting work.

Bendo said repeatedly that it is because paving the way requires demonstration and cannot be implemented hastily.But even before I entered the battle this time, it had been 4 years, and the demonstration had not yet been completed. "

"In addition to this, there is also the renovation of the mountain roads with Katsuo and other castles. I hope to connect my east and west territories with this, but those people delay it with various reasons.

You should know that the Ogasawara Territory I was in before was the territory of the Tokugawa family, and since I transferred it here, I have not even implemented this inspection.

Every time I want to claim land, they will always report the data I need quickly.And I can't question the validity of the data."

"As for the Yamauchi Tsushima guard you mentioned."

Speaking of Kazutoyo Yamauchi, Hideyoshi Ogasawara sighed again and said, "He is the elder appointed by His Highness Kanbai, but he rarely expresses opinions on internal affairs.

They seem to have reached an agreement that Yamauchi will be in charge of armaments and Honda will be in charge of internal affairs again."

Hideie was not surprised to hear that Kazutoyo Yamauchi did not perform as well as he did against Honda many times in Ogasawara's territory.

How can the protagonist of "Crossroads of Fame" be made with him as the protagonist, how could it be the kind of "stab head" who sticks to the bottom line?

Perhaps as Hidetada Ogasawara said, after Kazutoyo Yamauchi was transferred, he quickly reached an agreement with Honda, who has a Tokugawa background, not to interfere with the various performances of the Tokugawa family.

This is an act of self-preservation. As a samurai, there is nothing wrong with it, but you were the elder of Xiuzhen's family assigned by Hideyoshi at that time, so doing so made people angry.

With a sound of "touch", Hideka hammered his fist on the floor, his chest was heaving with anger, but he hated Kazutoyo Yamauchi to the core.

This is also the case in history. After he was transferred to Yuanjiang, he accepted Tokugawa Ieyasu's hint very "smartly". Nails turned a blind eye.

Later, he directly joined the forces of the Tokugawa family, in exchange for Tosa's 20 koku promotion.

"You haven't talked to your father about this, have you?"

"How could it be possible to talk about this matter with His Highness Guan Bai? If I say it, it means that I am an incompetent daimyo. Then it is unknown whether I can still hold Matsuzaka's territory in my hands!~"

Xiuzhen's answer proved that the Xiu family had thought before, and he said to Xiuzhen, "No wonder you found your father afterward, and told him that you want to transfer the title of Iwayo, presumably it was also to reduce the influence of His Highness Tokugawa. Bar?"

It is very embarrassing for a daimyo to speak out about being ostracized, but Hideyoshi Ogasawara could only sigh helplessly, "Hey~ the few bannermen given by His Highness Guanbai helped me master Matsuzaka Goben Fanzhong.

But even so, I still need to rely on the strength of Honda to complete the assembly in the territory when I go to Kanto this time."

And Xiujia then asked him another question: "No wonder you asked me about the transfer of seal that day, do you want to use the transfer of seal to alleviate this situation?
But I still don't understand one question. Now that you have discovered this problem, why did you stay in charge of internal affairs many times when you came to Iwashiro-Koriyama? "

However, the answer given by Hideyoshi Ogasawara was so powerless, "But besides Mr. Honda, who under my command can shoulder the internal affairs of such a huge territory?"

(End of this chapter)