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Chapter 448: The Moroboshi Family Treats This as Their Own Home
They ate well, dressed well, and used good things. The red bean soup was still emitting warmth in their stomachs, making their blood warm up. The Koga ninjas felt that they would not deserve this treatment if they did not kill a few more Iga ninjas today, so they worked very hard and even planned to go deep into the enemy camp to give the other side a severe blow, but they were stopped by the Moroboshi ninjas.

"There's no need to advance rashly. Our mission is to form a cordon around the camp and the construction site to prevent the enemy from sneaking in and causing sabotage. If we encounter a strong enemy that we can't defeat, we can use fireworks to warn them and nearby soldiers will come to support us." The Itachi brothers pointed to the fireworks given to them, then pointed to the soldiers patrolling nearby and said.

"Ask for help? Support?" A Koga ninja couldn't help but mutter while holding the fireworks in his hand.

Ninjas are living sirens. Even if they have props like fireworks, they are only used to warn their own side that there is an ambush. As for support, it depends on whether they are of such value, such as carrying important intelligence.

In fact, most ninjas do not have this value, and the cost-effectiveness is too low.

Asking for help means facing a very dangerous situation. Going too little is useless, going too much is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and there is a possibility of falling into a trap. The person being supported is a ninja, and no samurai is willing to take these risks. Therefore, over time, even the ninjas think that support is unnecessary.

But for the Moroboshi family, ninjas are a rare type of technical troops and should not be lost easily.

The reason is very simple. The fighting style of the Moroboshi family is more inclined towards firearms, and even close combat has firearms support. The iron cannon foot soldiers who are the main force of the war are very simple to train. They can go to the battlefield as long as they follow the formation and discipline. Because what they need to do is also very simple, load, shoot, load, shoot, and repeat. They rarely even have the opportunity to use bayonets, so they are easy to obtain in large quantities and easier to replenish.

Ninjas are different. Every ninja needs to train from a young age, endure pain that ordinary people cannot endure, master various infiltration and assassination techniques, know how to survive in the wild, set traps and disguise, and the more elite ninjas also have to master disguise, appearance, and speech skills, etc., and use various means to gather intelligence or complete assassinations, which is by no means comparable to ordinary ashigaru.

Therefore, the Moroboshi family positioned the ninja as eyes, roaming around the periphery and using their expertise to look for invaders. If they can fight, they can; if they cannot, they will raise the alarm and ask for help.

In any case, with the addition of the Koga ninja who were familiar with the Iga ninja, the Moroboshi family's defense circle became more and more solid, and even most of the spies from the Takeda family who came to gather intelligence never returned.

To achieve this, it is not enough to rely on ninjas alone. The main reason is that the Moroboshi family issued good citizen certificates to the recruited farmers. As long as the suspicious people they reported were confirmed to be spies, they could get 50 to 100 kilograms of food, and even get a surprise prize of one year's tax exemption.

That’s right, now the Moroboshi family has regarded this place as their own territory and has begun planning to collect taxes.

As more and more farmers were hired by the Moroboshi family, the terrifying supply of materials made the samurai and landlords who were originally loyal to the Takeda family tremble with fear and their hearts were shaken.

These people are not farmers. They are better informed and have better brains. Therefore, although they knew that the Takeda family retreated to the mountain city at the beginning, they did not think that the Takeda family would be defeated. After all, the difference in the military strength of the two sides was nearly times, and they had the defensive advantage. They only needed to hold on for a few months and the Moroboshi family would retreat. It might not even take a few months, as long as the first snow fell, and the Moroboshi family would have to leave. By then, this would be the world of the Takeda family again.

This is why it is so easy for the Takeda family to spread rumors and collect intelligence.

However, relying on the continuous logistical supplies, the Moroboshi family recruited a large number of laborers and built a large and well-developed camp. The camp was like a town and was obviously prepared for a protracted war. How could those people not be nervous?

No one would have believed it in the past, because even a hegemon like the Takeda family could not sustain the consumption of food and supplies. However, the endless supply from the Moroboshi family made everyone panic.

If the Moroboshi family stayed here until the autumn harvest and then collected grain locally, the Takeda family might really be wiped out. If these people could think of it, Takeda Shingen could naturally think of it too, so he became anxious.

But no matter what tactics Takeda Shingen used, the Moroboshi family remained unmoved. They just followed the routine of drawing circles, occupying land, building houses and carrying out reforms, which made him furious.

There was no way out. The Zhuxing family was too shameless. They copied the method that Yan Xu used on Fu Island. Not only did they issue good citizen certificates, they also set up an iron wall blockade.

Now the Moroboshi family would first draw a square on the map, then send troops to capture it, then bury the people, fill the pits, and then build roads and trenches on this basis.

Each road was built flat and wide to allow soldiers and supplies to pass quickly. Trenches were dug on the outside of each road and artillery towers were built on the inside. There were thorns in the ditches, mines on the ground, and cannons in the towers. Once they were discovered, there was no way to invade unless the artillery towers were taken down.

Moreover, it would be useless even if they broke through the blockade of the artillery tower. The reinforcements attracted by the sound of gunfire would make any invader deeply feel what it means to be hit head-on, because the Moroboshi family even transported the Pig-Tu tanks.

Now the Moroboshi family has not yet come up with some big killer weapon, such as killing the samurai and landlords who are loyal to the Takeda family, distributing the land to the farmers, and reducing taxes at the same time. If these farmers dare to take dung forks and spontaneously help the Moroboshi family attack the city, Takeda Shingen will have to die.

After the rumors failed and the sneak attacks were thwarted, the morale of the Takeda family dropped visibly and all kinds of rumors spread wildly.

Because many foot soldiers' homes are here, where can they stay?

Takeda Shingen also tried to launch a large-scale attack, but the Moroboshi family, who had a defensive advantage, opened his eyes. The accurate rifles, the strafing machine guns, the flattening tanks, and the large guns with large capacity and full coverage covered him in all directions. He had no temper at all, because he really had no other choice.

In desperation, Takeda Shingen could only choose to shrink his forces and try to slow down the advance of the Moroboshi family. At the same time, he sent out a letter of alliance for the second time, trying to form an alliance with the Uesugi family to join forces against the Moroboshi family.

However, the Uesugi family, whose coastline was almost riddled with holes in the wall by the Mori family, had no spare energy to support the Takeda family. Even though the current head of the Uesugi family was Uesugi Kenshin, who was known as the "God of War" and the "Dragon of Echigo", he had no way to deal with it, because the other side only touched the point and just rubbed against the edge, not going any deeper, and it was a long way to go before they could accuse the other side of using force.

Once the Uesugi family sent out troops, they would not only have to fight on land, but also have to guard against naval guns and the enemy's landing and attack from both sides.

As for dispatching the navy, the Uesugi family's navy was no match for the combined fleet of the Mori family and the second Fukushima, which was equipped with new firearms. In the first naval battle, one third of its fleet was sunk and one third was captured. In order to preserve the last bit of naval power, the rest had to hide.

It can be said that the long coastline made the Uesugi family extremely anxious. They didn’t even know where to ask for help, so who would care about the Takeda family?

(End of this chapter)