Chapter 1273: The Unjust War, the Root of Bewitching
Liu Shiba had a ferocious look on his face and gritted his teeth while explaining with a sinister smile. These threatening words made the Ashigaru people gathered under the stage both happy and frightened!
Behind Liu Shiba, a person asked:
"My lord? Isn't it safer for soldiers to carry three-day rations with them?"
Liu Shiba turned his head and saw that the person speaking was Takeda Katsuyori. He was indeed not stupid. He knew the military basis of moving troops and horses before food and grass were used!
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Under the high platform, the soldiers who had been standing dizzy for a long time suddenly heard Liu Shiba's words, and they all trembled...
The soldiers raised their heads and stared at their lord to see if he was talking nonsense?
Whose family doesn’t have young, old, women and children?
Let me ask, who is willing to fight?
There is nothing we can do. The farmers in the fields are not harvesting, and after paying the taxes on the territory, there is really not much left. For ordinary people with a large population, they are afraid that half of the population will starve to death in a year!
However, if you go out with the lord to earn money, you can at least mix a mouthful of dough and eat it, so you won't starve to death.
And this was the realistic background for most people to become Ashigaru and participate in the war during the Warring States Period.
Therefore, these weak-legged people who have never been trained can only fight with the wind, commonly known as picking up leaks!
Good guy! When fighting in real battles, the Ashigaru stabbed with spears and slashed with tachi. It looked very lively, but in fact, they were completely perfunctory with the lords and generals.
The two ashigaru daimyo who are fighting each other but belong to two families may still know each other; they are still brothers; or even in-laws, it's a little embarrassing!
Why do you want to chop someone? No matter who kills whom, the whole family will be hungry. In this case, it is not as good as you and me, and everyone is better...
The large number of people fighting against each other highlights the momentum of a large-scale battle!
It seems that the scene is more lively, as if going to the market to celebrate the New Year, everyone is smiling and cheerful, hitting each other with bamboo guns, saying hello and chatting about homely things!
"Dojiro! Have you finished planting your rice seedlings? Your lord, how much dough will you make today?"
"Hey! There are only two, and they are half full! It's so boring..."
"Nani? Two are not enough? I go out and run around and get two doughs a day for half a month. To eat one, I have to save another...
My parents are too hungry to go out, so I have to ask a samurai-sama I know well to bring back the fifteen pieces of dough I saved..."
In a joint battle, sometimes the two lords are not necessarily at odds with each other, because the governors all have their own means to call for reinforcements!
Because the heads of the family governors had planned it many years in advance and used their respective daughters, wives, sisters, and even mothers to send them out for marriage, this is how the reinforcements came!
During a joint battle, it was normal for the armies of four or five territories to fight in melee, so the two Ashigaru teams chatted and chatted, and occasionally they could meet each other and make acquaintances from other territories!
It's normal to see ashigaru from other territories interjecting——
"Hey! You guys are unlucky this year. There is no harvest in the fields. My lord seems to be popular and has collected a lot of taxes.
We make three doughs a day in Ashigaru, and we can also drink a bowl of miso soup together, it’s so delicious..."
"Nani? You've already eaten three pieces of dough, what's the point of fighting? In-laws, we're tired of fighting, let's find a place to rest..."
So, Liang Zuqing, who felt that he was not well treated, knocked me and I knocked you. After his face was covered with blood, we met on a good place shaded by a big tree, and we fought for a few times...
Then, the two of them screamed miserably, then closed their eyes and died in battle at the same time.
These ashigaru lay down, but covered their faces with bamboo hats. Through the gaps in the bamboo hats, they peered at the real generals as if they were watching a drama, and the samurai masters hacked at each other desperately...
These ashigaru asked themselves if they were just cannon fodder, where could they be the rivals of the samurai who had been practicing chopping firewood since childhood?
Therefore, the only opponent for the samurai is the samurai!
This is a serious scene, you and I will fight to the death...
Thus, a strange scene from the Warring States Period appeared!
The retainers, military generals, personal guards, mother-in-laws and other elite family members who are loyal to their respective lords fight to the death with swords, it is extremely lively!
When more people on either side ran away, the defeat was already certain. The ashigaru who had finally breathed their last out of the tree regained their breath and began to beat up the drowned dogs!
It would be a joke to ask these soldiers to chase down the defeated troops, because they have already started to clear the battlefield!
Some took out wallets, some cut off heads, and some used swords to skin dead generals.
These knives were worth a lot of money at the time! One knife could be exchanged for at least seven croquettes!
So! Liu Shiba depicts waves of longing, saying that farming is not as good as robbing. The ashigaru under the high platform has fire and admiration in his eyes!
The new lord of the Takeda family is really different from other lords. Although he is a bit ugly, he speaks honestly and he never talks nonsense!
Liu Shiba, not to mention talking in his sleep about saving the people and being in fire and water!
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The common people love to hear this, and it is straightforward: Planting fields and waiting for the harvest, waiting for the hair to turn gray, and only having a full meal every five or six months, but how easy is it to rob?
In particular, how fast can you capture a heavily defended city?
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The Noda Battle that took place three months ago is still vivid in the minds of the soldiers and is passed down by word of mouth!
In Noda Castle, among the tens of thousands of soldiers gathered in the square to listen to the lecture, about half of them are the remnants of the Tokugawa family after that battle!
These guys belonging to the Tokugawa Army were sleeping soundly, and Liu Shiba sent people to pull them out one by one from under the shade of the trees, and used iron cannons to torment March...
In the battle of Noda Castle, the Takeda family had less than 2,000 men and horses, but they faced nearly 15,000 Tokugawa and Oda coalition forces, but they were almost wiped out...
What is this? This is the impressive record of the Eighteen Takeda clan governors. Who dares to disapprove?
At this moment, all the daimyo surrounding Kai who had been so stupid suddenly fell silent...
The surrounding people are watching eagerly, and the famous Warring States Daimyos have all decided that when the Takeda family joins forces to attack the city next time, at the most difficult moment, they will send troops to seize the Takeda family's retreat and encircle and destroy it...
So it’s good to read more! As the saying goes, only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle——
The Essence of Sun Tzu's Art of War has indeed taught and evolved some of the intelligence of the primitive Tu people!
Otherwise, where did the Takeda family's Fenglinhuoshan military flag come from?
Liu Shiba was about to announce the final selection of generals, but he didn't expect to be interrupted by someone!
The ninja leader Munegan Yagyu emerged from the shadows and respectfully handed over a two-inch note!
Liu Shiba, after just one glance, turned around, faced tens of thousands of soldiers, and roared with a ferocious smile:
"Today! After you set out on a rapid march, you will immediately launch an siege. You don't need to carry armor or shields!
Every soldier should bring enough protective daggers and iron cannon ammunition belts, and make them waterproof...
By the way, whatever steamed buns, scallion pancakes, and dough you stuffed under your clothes, please leave them to me in the city.
We are going out to rob gold, understand? There are so many useless things, how will you move the gold after the city is destroyed?
To defame me, if anyone loses his own iron cannon, the Takeda family will definitely behead you!"
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