Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 77 No sword or armor, the enemy made us

Let's say that during the Battle of Yamazaki, Hideo was supposed to be the Ukita Army who was on the sidelines, but in the end it became the final force.

With the addition of the Ukita Army, the Akechi Army was completely defeated. Among them, the 4000 left-wing troops contributed their strength from attacking the Akechi Army's central army to besieging the right-wing assault on Tianwang Mountain.

After the battle was over, Xiujia asked the troops on the right wing who had hardly participated in any battles to cooperate with the Yuchai Army to clean up the battlefield and capture prisoners. After an afternoon of statistics, the results of the battle have come out.

So Hideo returned to the camp of the Ukita Army after finishing the assessment at Hideyoshi, and rewarded the brave Ukita Army soldiers in this battle.

Since the Ukita Tadaka family has already become a monk, although due to the urgent situation, it is necessary to come out here to serve as the formation representative, but the Tadaka himself no longer interferes with Ukita's affairs, so this evaluation is presided over by Akashi Jingqin, who is currently the oldest in the army.

As in the past, the first thing to do was to present the captives. During this battle, the famous military generals captured by Ukita, such as the Hehe Yi family, had already been dedicated to Hideyoshi in Katsuryuji Castle. He was pardoned, accepted Akechi Mitsuhide and some retainers to supplement his own strength.

As for the less famous, small and medium-sized warriors, most of them are disposed of by the powerful families who captured them.Xiujia looked at the roster presented by Akashi Jing's son, Akashi Quandeng, and tried hard to find the name in memory.

In the end, I only saw Yasuda Kunitsu and Ke Er, who were captured by Masatoshi Suga, with familiar names.

The Xiu family circled the names of the two men, handed them to Suga Masari, and said, "Go and lead these two men to the attendant team. The rest of the samurai, who are willing to return to the family, will be included in the banner team and distributed on the spot. Let the travel expenses be dismissed."

You must know that Hideka's identity at this time is the daimyo of 40 koku in the Western Kingdom, and Yasuda Kunitsugu and Keer Saizo are not conspicuous even in Akechi's army. Even Yasuda Kunisui is only a middle-level warrior with 500 koku. It's hard to say whether Ke'er Caizang has a territory.

It is really impossible for the Xiu family to meet these two people in person, and to perform all kinds of vulgar plots in which the protagonist is surprised by their abilities and try their best to attract them.

At this time, it is the troubled times of the Warring States Period, and the destiny of the warriors is to fight for the master. For these middle and lower-level warriors whose masters have been eliminated, the reason for survival is to change their families in time.

In addition, the treatment of the Xiu family's entourage has always been good. There are quite a few warriors who have stepped out of the entourage.

As far as the Xiu family is concerned, at this moment, he is not as eager as he was when he wanted to recruit capable ministers in the field.

After all, the Hide family really does not lack these hundred-man enemies, what is lacking are talents like Takenaka Hanbei who can manage the Hide family's internal affairs and make suggestions.

Therefore, the Xiu family might as well hand over these middle and low-level warriors to the senior warriors under them, and let them recruit themselves to serve the Xiu family as their servants.

The Xiu family escaped 4 small gold sentences worth 25 guan, and continued to say to Suga Masari: "You will also be the master of Wanshi in the future, and it is time to form your own retainer group. Why don't you take advantage of this opportunity to be subordinated to the wise army?" Among the captured warriors, choose the one you like to help you."

For this kind of multi-united national war, many captured warriors are the spoils of the victors. Like the Western knight system, if you can afford the ransom, you can leave naturally, but this kind of ransom is very important to the bottom of the Warring States period. It is still an astronomical sum for junior warriors.

Therefore, the most common method is to directly surrender to the victor's side and change to another boss to continue working.But if some big names don't have so many vacancies for the time being, they will be put together and sold to other high-ranking warriors who are willing to redeem him.

The Xiu family's awarding of Suga Masari's gold sentence means that the Xiu family paid the redemption funds and let Suga Masari go to the "talent market" to select his own retainers.

"In the case of the 4 gold awards, you keep them as your bounty in advance, and you will dispose of your fief after all the dust settles."

Suga Masatoshi accepted the golden sentence from the Xiu family, and thanked him with gratitude, "My family is just a small wealthy family that has harvested thousands of stones. After the family fortune fell, I just wanted to restore the family name. I didn't dare to dream that one day Being able to become the famous master of ten thousand stones is all a reward from His Highness."

"Today, I, Masatoshi Sugainabai, solemnly promise here that I will be loyal to His Highness and His heirs, and will never betray you in this life. But I am afraid that I will not be able to continue to serve the Lord any longer." After finishing speaking, he solemnly knelt down and asked Xiujia salutes.

Xiujia hurriedly helped up his elder brother, who was nearly 10 years older than himself, and said, "I have always seen your loyalty and bravery. I have always felt sorry for not sending you down to the army below to practice, so that you could not obtain military exploits. Now you rely on your meritorious deeds. Accepted, this is what you deserve."

Most of the Xiu family's attendants are filled by the second sons of the family with outstanding abilities, and there are few samurai who know what they do. Suga Masatoshi is outstanding in ability and has 400 stone knowledge, so he was appointed as the head of the attendant by the Xiu family.

It's just that after this battle, Masatoshi Suga is already the master of Wanshi Ming, and the entire Uki family is also a high-ranking samurai. With his own retainers in his hands, it is not appropriate to continue to be the head of the attendant.

Even if it is Bananamoto, such an identity is a bit too much to stay. Masatoshi Suga, who knows 1 stones, will not become a member of the people of the country, and at most stay in the high-ranking positions of the battalion general or captain of the equipment under the direct control of the Xiu family.

After all, even for his own military service certificate, he needs to organize an army of 320 people to join the battle, a proper 3 brigades.

Suga Masari and Hideka were a little bit reluctant, after all they had been fighting together for a year, Hideka had already liked this prudent older brother.It's just that a system is a system, even if the Xiu family is reluctant to give up, they still have to consider the usual promotion path in the military.

So after some mutual comfort, Masatoshi Suga received the reward from the Hide family and left. Zheng Heng was also promoted to serve as the captain of the 10-person team.

The Battle of Yamazaki is over, but the final spoils meeting has not yet been held, and Hashiba Hideyoshi has not yet determined his reward, let alone Hideka.The Hide family now has a total of 17 shi in the heavenly territory, and if it is further divided, the core territory of Bizen will really be lost.

Not to mention that the Xiu family has consciously moved the noble family to the periphery of Meizuo and Beizhong, so it is naturally impossible to hollow out Bizen's heavenly collar, so the rewards for meritorious officers and soldiers can only be temporarily delayed, but in order to boost morale, the Xiu family still A corresponding reward was given to everyone.

Fortunately, the Xiu family gained a lot in this battle, especially when Tianwang Mountain surrounded part of the main force of Zhizhi's army. It is light and samurai's loan is sufficient to use.

As mentioned earlier, after the Xiu family reformed the military system, the financial burden on the peasants and soldiers at the bottom was eased, and they were no longer required to bring their own weapons to participate in the war. Instead, the Xiu family provided sufficient weapons and lent them for use. Reward and hand over part of the money.

Don't think that farmers and soldiers won't get loans. As long as the quality you provide is good enough, the Japanese who cherish life will definitely spend this part of the money in order to save their lives.

The full defense that the Xiu family agreed to configure must be more defensive than the pills and armor that have been used for hundreds of years in the hands of the peasants and soldiers, but in the face of such a large equipment gap, the Xiu family's full loan plan has not been fully implemented. .

Previously, the reserve teams directly under the Xiu family had improved their discipline through training, but as a poor country known in the Warring States Period, most of Yukiya's ashigaru armors were prepared by the leaders themselves. Domaru and bamboo armor handed down from the Heian period.

Faced with these armors that were obviously out of date, Xiujia wanted to change them but suffered from lack of money.So much so that when Sanuki fought with a full team of Nagamune's department, he was timid and timid, and his position was constantly compressed by the Tosa soldiers.

And since this year's war, Xiujia has finally acquired enough new equipment by relying on the autumn wind from the two rich men, Maori and Mingzhijun, to join Xiujia's loan supply plan after renovation.

Hideka believes that until Hideyoshi’s world is at peace, his Ukita’s various reserve teams will surely become 100% elite existences with armor, and with fully protected ashigaru and samurai, they can also be more calm and courageous in hand-to-hand combat.

As long as a certain amount of combat experience and training is added, Hideka's Minobei, Shangdaobei and other backup teams will definitely become a different kind of government soldiers, and become elites completely born out of Japanese farmers and soldiers!

(End of this chapter)