At 06:00 on May 12, in the territory of Momama in Mino Province.
As the commander of the first group to enter Sumamata, Yu Qiupei was standing on the shore at the moment, watching the fire dragon composed of countless torches on the Kiso River, slowly floating down the river on a raft.
"Your Highness! Your Highness!" Long Zi, who was following Yu Qiuping, stood on tiptoe and looked at the spectacular fire dragon infatuatedly: "This fire dragon is so spectacular!"
Although Honda Tadakatsu on the side did not say anything, he stared blankly at the flaming Kiso River.
"It's very spectacular," Yu Qiuping laughed, "but while you think it's spectacular, all the left-behind personnel from the wealthy families in West Meinong have also seen it."
"Really!" Long Zi turned his head in surprise and looked at Yu Qiuping: "What should we do? Your Highness! Aren't we in danger?"
"Silly girl, you can't." Yu Qiuping smiled and helped Long Zi straighten his hair that had been messed up by the wind, not noticing that the latter blushed quietly, "We are nearly 40 miles away from the main battlefield.
After they got the news early this morning, it would be almost dark if they had to rush over, and they would not be able to launch the attack until tomorrow, so there was plenty of time."
Amakihei's plan is completely different from that of Kinoshita Hideyoshi in his previous life. Kinoshita Hideyoshi's plan is more similar to a raid to build a city. They drift down the Kiso River in the dark, and if they accidentally knock over the rocks or the shore, someone will die.
.Because he was weak and was no match for Meinong's army, he had to work all night long in the middle of the night, and finally completed the construction of the city before the enemy arrived.
But Ume Akihei didn't need to worry so much. In this life, Oda Nobunaga carried out a massive feint attack for his city building plan. The Oda family's army contained the main force of Nishi Mino in the Central Mino Konoshima area. Ume
Qiupei now holds 650 Tokiban troops, and is fully capable of destroying Simino's remaining field forces. They can protect themselves, but they are completely unable to attack Yuqiupei.
Therefore, the Sumamata Castle he wants to build will be much larger than the simple camp built by Kinoshita Hideyoshi in the previous life. He plans to directly build a rough outline, and the subsequent expansion of Sumamata Castle will be completed on this basis.
"Can such a large amount of work really be completed in one day?" A guard next to Yu Qiuping whispered in a worried voice.
"Don't worry, I'm very professional when it comes to linear programming." Yu Qiuping smiled confidently, "Besides, we hired a professional contractor to direct the entire operation this time."
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Douwan is a farmer from Yeli County. In order to perform corvee duty, he went out with the Yuqiu family as an auxiliary soldier. At this moment, the sky was gradually getting brighter, and the auxiliary soldiers and a large number of unarmored soldiers were busy
Equipped with weapons and tools for fortification, the rafts were carried to the designated fortification site, and the rafts were disassembled into logs and transported there together.
He had also served in corvee before and built some rock forts or city defenses for previous lords. However, the plan for the city building operation this time was very novel. They were not gathered by the lord as usual and rushed to the city building site in a chaotic manner.
Then they help with the work in various ways, and some people can sneak in and slip through.
On the contrary, hundreds of their auxiliary soldiers had been grouped a few days ago, and were divided into different squads and platoons like Tokiwa Bei's soldiers. Each squad and platoon appointed temporary squad leaders and platoon leaders - also
It's the Ashigaru Head and the Ashigaru General. Each of their squads met before the mission started. Each squad was also given a fortification layout map and mission instructions, and they had to complete different things in different time periods.
——They don’t know that this is the optimal combination calculated by Yu Qiuping after linear programming.
At this moment, Kabutowan, who is the temporary squad leader, is leading his subordinates to stand next to a pile of materials that are their turn to carry and look at each other. Although the author of the drawing, Lan Xianghuaju, who is also the contractor mentioned by Yu Qiuping, considered
Most of the auxiliary soldiers were illiterate and used pictures instead of task instructions, but Kabutowan, who was always stupid, still couldn't understand what they should do now.
Lan Xiang Huaju, who was patrolling on horseback, immediately noticed them who were in a daze. He had only learned to ride a horse not long ago, but he was still crooked on the horse and reluctantly leaned towards them.
"What are you doing standing there?" Lan Xiang Huaju asked loudly.
"It's Lan Xiang-sama! Hello, sir!" When several auxiliary soldiers discovered that the person coming over was a samurai, they immediately stood at attention and saluted - they saw that Tokiwa Bei's ashigaru saluted their superiors in this way instead of kneeling down and kowtow, so they also
Follow the same example.
"Hello." Lan Xiang Huaju also gave them a return gift as usual, then bent down and asked in a low voice: "Don't you have a mission? Why are you standing here so still?"
"Excuse me, my lord." Kabutomaru blushed and said embarrassedly, "I don't understand this plan."
"Didn't I explain it once before? Alas!" Lan Xiang Huaju complained dissatisfiedly, "If you ask me to explain it again one by one, how can I keep up with the progress?"
"Forget it, let me tell you about it!" Lan Xianghuaju sighed, got off his horse, took the map in Kabutomaru's hand, and explained item by item: "You are the fifteenth group, and the tasks here are written
The answer is: first transport the equipment and weapons you carry to the center of the Sumama City construction site, and then pick up the wood delivered by the sixth group from there and transport them to the northwest corner of Sumama City, and then go to this location to build a sentry tower. At noon
Complete the construction in advance and rush back to the northeast corner of Sumama Castle for further processing. After everything is completed, go to the center of Sumama Castle for lunch and then stand by, do you understand?"
"Yes! Sir!" Kabutomaru and his companions responded in unison. Lanxiang Huagui breathed a sigh of relief, got on his horse, and searched along the river bank to see if there were any auxiliary soldiers who didn't know what he was doing.
The performance of soldiers is much better than that of auxiliary soldiers, because many of them have taken Yu Qiuping's Chinese Pinyin class, so they can read simple words, making the delivery of orders easier.
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After Kabutomaru and the others received the order, they immediately carried several bags of building materials and dismantled wood and hurried towards their destination. The cavalry team that arrived earlier was standing guard at various intersections to guide the auxiliary troops moving back and forth. While Kabuto waited until
When Maru and the others arrived, the entire outline of Sumamata Castle had been roughly drawn. It didn't take much effort for them to find the center of the city and put down the equipment they carried. The sixth team did not keep them waiting long and transported a large amount of wood.
Arrived at the center.
"Are you the fifteenth group?" the monitor of the sixth group asked.
"That's right, are you brothers from the sixth team?" Kabutomaru answered quickly.
"That's right, then I'll leave the wood to you. We still have the task of moving the wood to the southeast!" The squad leader immediately directed his men to hand the wood to Kabutomaru. Kabutomaru and the others did not dare to rest and ran towards the northwest corner again.
go.
Along the way, there were well-trained and busy auxiliary soldiers coming and going. Everyone had his or her job. The entire construction site was like a busy hive, neat and orderly, completing tasks one after another step by step. Kabutamaru's experience
Seeing the huge contrast between the Yuqiu family and other small wealthy families back then, he suddenly had the vague concept of "collective" for the first time. For the first time, he no longer felt confused because of his own weak ability, but because of the strength of so many brothers.
Working together and being extremely confident.
Under the organization of the Yuqiu family and the efforts of nearly a thousand people, the huge project of building the Sumama City was initially completed in just half a day. At four o'clock in the afternoon, all five sentry towers outside the Sumama City were erected.
After that, Yu Qiuping even had the remaining energy to further strengthen the civil and engineering walls of Sumama City.
At the same time, he also gathered the cavalry in his hands and sent out scout horses to prevent enemies from approaching. However, Sanada Masayuki's military intelligence chief, Hosaku and Tanma, both reported that no large army was coming, and the wealthy Simeon family did not even come back for reinforcements.
There were signs. The remaining troops of the major wealthy families in Simeron sent a small number of reconnaissance cavalry to take a look at the situation in Sumama City. After judging that they were powerless with this troops, they had to withdraw in despair.
In the afternoon, it rained heavily as usual in Mino in May, which brought a lot of trouble to the project. However, it also objectively hindered the support of the Saito family and made Yu Qiupei's situation safer.
On the evening of May 12, the construction project of Sumama Castle was completely completed. The walls of Sumama Castle were made of civil structures. A large number of logs were erected around them, forming a wall about two meters thick and four meters high. Between the logs
and the exterior, a large amount of soil was applied and filled as reinforcement. Stones were used as raw materials to build a parapet at the top of the city, and several feet of soil were dug into the ground for a foundation. Outside Sumamata Castle, several trenches were built and multiple rows were set up.
Wooden fence. On the high ground outside Sumama Castle, watchtowers and arrow towers were set up as defense fortifications in Yuqiuping. A complete defense system of Sumama Castle was completed.
Yu Qiuping then ordered the army to enter Sumama City and set up camp, so that the army, which had worked hard for a whole day, could have a good rest and avoid the heavier rain. Until now, the Saito family has still not taken any countermeasures, and they have probably given up.
In order to regain the hope of recapturing Sumamata, Ame Qiupei, who was successful, sent an envoy to report the victory to Oda Nobunaga in the rain at nightfall, informing him that the Sumamata city building plan had been completed.
However, the messenger did not come back at noon the next day. The heavy rain also became more and more intense.
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"It's strange, why haven't you come back to report back?" Yu Qiuping, who was hiding in a tent to take shelter from the rain, was secretly surprised. "It may have been too late last night. Oda Nobunaga had already gone to bed, and we only received him this morning. But this is all
It’s noon, and it’s time to come back anyway. Could it be that the vision was blurred due to the heavy rain on the road, and we were ambushed by the Saito family ninjas?”
So, he sent Kobata Kesheng with a cavalry squad and once again set foot on the road to report to Oda Nobunaga. With such a powerful force, there were almost no Saito ninjas who could infiltrate into Owari territory.
Any chance.
Chapter completed!