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Chapter 584 Scheduling
When the news of the preparations for the war reached the ears of Nizi Shengjiu in the capital of Bozhou, none of the generals in the family was happy about it, and even the preparations for the battle made them puzzled from the beginning to the end.

"The letter didn't say why we were preparing for war, but the general asked our state to prepare [-] horse troops, [-] heavy infantry troops, [-] light infantry troops, and..."

Yamanaka Kasuke half-spoken, and paused while reading the letter. Kneeling warriors sat in the room looking up, Nizi Shengjiu, who sat upright, couldn't hold back, and asked, "What else?"

Lu Jie looked at the lord and said, "There are six thousand miscellaneous soldiers to provide food and grass for 7000 people for three months."

"What are the general's cavalry, heavy infantry, light infantry, and miscellaneous soldiers?" Nizi Shengjiu was a little confused. This foreigner said in Japanese, no, it should be a created vocabulary, "Six thousand Nine hundred troops, it is impossible to gather them this season!"

All the retainers looked at each other in blank dismay. The battle from the Seto Inland Sea to Osaka Bay had just ended, and the restless Ming general was about to launch another war, especially during the busy farming season. This was definitely not good news for them.

Yamanaka Shikasuke frowned and shook the letter away vigorously, found the subsection mark after the main text, and read in a difficult tone: "The so-called horse army has a complete set of horses, pockets, large armor, and small equipment, as well as iron cannons or big bows. Long spears, heavy infantry have pockets, large armor, small feet, and iron cannons or bows, long spears, and short knives; light infantry, pockets, trunks, knives, spears, and bows; miscellaneous soldiers, bows, spears.

"That is to say, twenty generals, eighty ashigaru leaders, eight hundred ashigaru, and six thousand farmers and soldiers are required to prepare food and grass for March." Lusuke Yamanaka presented the letter, gritted his teeth and said: "an expedition .”

Nizi Shengjiu raised his palm and stroked his face, and asked his retainers, "Can this family prepare such an army?"

All the retainers were frowning, and the elder Li Yuan Jiugang said: "Samurai and ashigaru are not difficult. I have just pacified Yikui in the collar. In two months, all the fields will be harvested. It is difficult to gather [-] farmers and soldiers. The lord should write to Chen General, the peasants are about to harvest the fields, the peasants and soldiers can only mobilize three thousand, but the family can mobilize as little as sixteen hundred."

The Nizi family revived successive years of wars, and when they defeated the Maoris, they got a lot of supplies on the battlefield, enough to recruit and arm more ashigaru, but it was really difficult for the peasants and soldiers to meet Chen Bazhi's requirements.

"The Iwami Mansion is very familiar with the military situation of the family. After mobilizing [-] foot light, if you leave the territory too far, the people of the country will rebel. I hope the general can consider the difficulty of the lord."

Shikasuke Yamanaka's expression was much more serious than that of Tachihara Hisakuna, he shook his head and said: "General Chen will not only mobilize his family, this kind of troops will not be against the remnants of Bizen's remaining Urakami party, nor will they be vacillating Ukita, I'm afraid he is going to attack Lord Nobunaga."

"Only prepare food and grass for March, open war with Nobunaga, we will starve to death, right?"

Nizi Shengjiu didn't mean to ridicule Lu Jie in the mountains, he also agreed with Lu Jie's statement in his heart, but it was too unrealistic, not to mention how far Chen Bazhi's three houses are from Jinjiang, the capital, even if it is relatively close to Ni Zibo In the prefecture, it will take the whole July to prepare ordnance and assemble troops. Along the way, you have to pass through the territories of the two daimyos of Tajima and Tango before they can border on the Oda clan.

"The famous Yamashita disobeyed Oda, but they were also unwilling to obey Ming; Tango's Isshiki family did evil against Nobunaga because of protecting the general, but he did not obey General Chen. It is true that the Ming army had Xu Da's frightening record in expelling the Mori family. , but during our march, the Oda clan will be able to take precautions, and..."

Once Oda Nobunaga took precautions, the raid would become a tug-of-war, and eventually he would retreat after taking less than a little advantage. The time of the war is by no means enough to eat food and grass in March.

Nizi Katsuhisa analyzed a lot rationally, and finally shook his head and said: "I don't want to be an enemy of Mr. Nobunaga."

However, no one dared to disobey the Ming army, no one dared.

Even though Chen Bazhi had not personally led troops to fight several times, he left a deep impression on the princes of the Western Kingdom. It was not the majesty of the Liaodong iron cavalry, nor was it the shooting of the blunderbuss team. —The artillery of the Ming army.

Before this, the cage city has always been an excellent means of defensive war, but since these Ming generals crossed the sea, everything is different. In every siege battle, the Ming army must deploy heavy artillery, often halfway into the city, and even later expel the Maori. During the battle, the defenders of Zhucheng fled after hearing the news.

The artillery took away the last hope of the defenders.

"Do you have the means to avoid war?"

The road to revival of the Nizi family was full of ups and downs. Except for the Mori family, many nearby daimyos supported them in the process of their revival. Among them, Oda Nobunaga was the one who gave the most kindness, and he once mobilized three thousand troops to help the deer. Narrator, at that time Niko Katsuhisa was still eating grilled fish on Oki Island.

It was Nobunaga's reinforcements that ended the period that Katsuhisa called "I don't know if Lu Jie will come back alive after going out to rob today".

Now the daimyo of the Western Kingdom obeyed the general of the Ming Dynasty and raised the order of King Qin to form three divisions. If it weren't for the rejuvenation of the Nizi family thanks to Chen Bazhi, they would actually be more willing to attach themselves to Nobunaga's command.

Now that Katsujiu felt very guilty towards Nobunaga in his heart, let him lead his troops to a decisive battle with Nobunaga?
How to avoid fighting, this is what all the retainers in Nizi's house are thinking about, but there is no answer.

The first to accept the fate arrangement was Kasuke Yamanaka, who was good at war, and suggested: "At least going out with the coalition forces is much easier than fighting against Oda or the Ming army alone. The orders of the Iwami House cannot be disobeyed. Prepare the army first, my lord." Write a petition and send it to Shizhou, we have to prepare our troops."

"Without a target, the march will not be blocked. The farthest to the east is Kyoto, and Harima and Awaji to the south may be enemies. In the best case, the target is Ikuno Ginzan. In the worst case, the result is a battle with Nobunaga bus. The family is here today. It’s not easy, gentlemen, don’t lose your life because of carelessness.”

"Now according to the dispatch of [-] troops, we will divide them into [-] teams. The generals of each team will lead four footlights to form a leader, and four full light to go to various places to mobilize farmers and soldiers. The pack team will be assigned by the general; Ma Huizhong will serve as the head of the military recorder, and call the pharmacist, the flag messenger, the drum, the conch shell, and the prayer monk."

"In addition, if the general does not accept the petition, in order to solve the shortage of recruits, the family needs to make preparations to hire ronin, robbers, and bandits to form a squad."

Speaking of this, Shikasuke Yamanaka sighed. When saving money for the revival of the main family, he had been a bandit and worked with pirates. He knew the market. Now they are all members of the Ming army, so they must have been dispatched by Chen Bazhi long ago, and they couldn't be recruited even if they wanted to.

When he looked at the lord, Nizi Shengjiu slowly nodded, glanced at the group of retainers, and said: "War is inevitable, no matter who the enemy is, you must win. At that time, you will have more fiefdoms, and Nizi's family will also be able to fight." Reversing the current predicament, as for the affairs after the war, leave it to the generals of the Ming Dynasty to worry about, and you gentlemen, go prepare, and the military council will decide on the generals of the teams tomorrow."

"Going to war!"

　Good morning!

　　Please take half a day off, Chapter 2 will be sent in the afternoon.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)