Of course, all of this has nothing to do with the Muromachi shogunate huddled in Kyoto City. Ashikaga Yoshitō was both happy and troubled by the deadly fight between the two families, and casually pulling out an army of three to forty thousand soldiers was no joke. If the shogunate had not had the support of Yoshitoki Kira, he might have ended up like his father, who fled to the summer resort with his retainers in despair to continue their vacation.
The armed forces directly under the shogunate have always been weak. Except for the more than 100 die-hard members of the public, the dependent mountain city people are somewhat insecure.
The only thing that is better now than before is that the Hosokawa family will listen to the shogunate's call to some extent. For example, the current lord of Shoryuji Castle, Hosukawa Harukune of the Oshu family, represents the Hosokawa family's military power. The deputy general of the Hosokawa army is Shinzuki. The lord of Funaokayama Castle, Hosokawa Motonsune of the Izumi family, and Hosokawa Fujiken, the head of the Hosokawa Nomu family, returned to his Settsu Nakajima Castle in an attempt to regain influence over the Settsu family.
After Hosokawa Harumoto experienced the defeat last year, he hid in the Toji Temple to recuperate for a while before coming back again. The shogunate couldn't do anything to him anyway. He didn't think losing to the Miyoshi family was a shame. It was convenient anyway. It also revealed that the Mihaoshi family has a deep foundation, and it would be considered a merit if they didn't fall into the trap in the end.
However, due to losing face twice in a row, he had to hide in the Toji Temple to recuperate. His original intention was to wait for Ashikaga Yoshitō to invite him out again, but as a result, no messenger from the shogunate came to invite him. He had no choice but to be shameless. He ran out and took the initiative to come back, but he didn't realize that his role as a leader was getting worse and worse.
Only when war is around you can you realize the preciousness of peace. Kiragi especially enjoyed this precious time of peace. Some of the quick-witted wives in the Sanhe community of the An family listened to the news and raised their babies with peace of mind. This is enviable. I don’t know how many people’s eyes, such as the Ma Huizhong who had been guarding Kira Yoshitoki, wanted to stretch their heads long. When they saw the girl washing clothes by the river, they poked their heads towards him. This made Yamaoka Yoshitomo feel very uncomfortable. face.
In order to improve morale and prevent them from becoming too comfortable and forgetting their duties, Kira Yoshitoshi summoned Mikawa Bei in late March, and Omi Bei resumed training. The training method he proposed was still based on dividing sides and confrontation, and Chia Bei could finally compete with Saijo Bei in training. Belonging to one camp, and Omi Bei being in another camp will naturally have to face the powerful Mikawa Bei.
Mikawa Bei has become accustomed to this kind of ordinary training, but Omi Bei is not used to it. Kiragi explains it to others, and everyone puts on the Tōmaru formations neatly, and then both sides hold the three guns with the gun heads removed, and the front ends are covered with linen. Wrap them up and coat them with lime powder, and then divide them into two teams to engage in an encounter. Each side will hit the torso, and the number of white spots on important parts of the body will be used to calculate their victory or defeat. Once someone is hit by a huge torso multiple times in a row, they will be considered dead. If you are stabbed suddenly, you will be pronounced dead.
Originally, half of the senior samurai who were trained in this way did not go into battle. Even if they participated in the battle, they mainly gave orders to maintain the formation. However, for some unknown reason, Watanabe Takatsuna suddenly wanted to go out to test the battle in person. When he was wearing a large armor and holding a bladeless sword, The big gun shot down dozens of people like a tiger descending from the mountain.
His behavior immediately aroused the anger of Omi on the opposite side. Originally Omi was suppressed and beaten by Mikawa, but you, a spear general, did not follow the rules and went into battle to deal with us personally. And the most unforgivable thing is that he actually took action. Dozens of people were all knocked down as soon as they met, and he alone cut a hole in Omi's formation.
So Omi's Yamazaki Ieyoshi shouted, and dozens of people simultaneously turned their guns to the Mikawa warriors who were deep behind enemy lines. Watanabe Takatsuna was completely surrounded after several consecutive assaults. In the end, he was outnumbered and was hit by dozens of guns.
The first judgment was death. This result immediately attracted the great attention of the Mikawa samurai. Watanabe Takatsuna was one of the best warriors among the Mikawa warriors. Even he was knocked down accidentally, which aroused the interest of these samurai.
The generals in Omi were also aroused to their courage and put on their armors and came out of the battle one after another. Then the samurai from both sides came out one after another, holding Sanken spears without spearheads or wooden clubs similar to big body spears, and some even held
With the wooden knife stained with lime powder, he started fighting with his family's martial arts.
Yamamoto Tokiyuki came over quietly. He saw the Mikawa warriors jumping for joy after a victory and said with emotion: "Master, did you hear that? Some people are saying that you are the reincarnation of gods and Buddhas, but they just inadvertently enlightened you.
Just let the Mikawa samurai change, and even I, Kansuke, can't help but wonder how many clever tricks the master of the hall has not come up with."
"Well, it's just some small tricks. It's not as magical as the masters said. They're overthinking it." Kira Yoshishi waved his hand to show that he didn't care.
Confrontation drills have long been popular in Mikawa Binai, but Omi Binai has not been exposed to this high-end, foreign-style and high-end training method, and he does not understand the importance of this kind of training. If we say that before the Fukakusa battle, these Omi Binai
The people of the country are in a state of conflict. Now they are more convinced of the prestige and ability of his family leader, but this is not enough. He wants Omi to know why Mikawa is so powerful. It is not about high-standard treatment and appeasing people, but
A warrior who knows how to work together.
And Mikawa Bei also has his own intentions. This group of Mikawa warriors are all people who have been in battle and killed the enemy and have been tempered by blood and fire. They are gradually transforming into a qualified warrior. In order to appease Mikawa Bei Kiroyoshi, he asked Mikawa Bei to
They got a wife, children and a good family. Not only did they settle down in character, but they were also grateful to Kira Yoshitoki. Compared with the passionate and impetuous Mikawa Bi more than a year ago, they have gradually transformed into Kira Yoshitoki's ideal Mikawa Bi.
In order to further enhance their combat level, Kira Yoshi came up with this long-standing idea. It was no longer the previous general joint training model, but fifty versus fifty, one hundred versus one hundred, five hundred versus five hundred, one versus five hundred.
Various combinations of thousands versus one thousand combat, Tachi Samurai assault, Ashigaru rifle cover advance and other tactics also have the basis for implementation.
In the next few days, Kira Yoshitoki continued to experiment with new training methods. Small-scale battles highlighted personal combat effectiveness and martial prowess and were loved by samurai. Medium-scale gun quilt advancement was loved by experienced Mikawa Bei. Large-scale gun formations were
Omi's first choice, what they have been practicing for more than a year is the spear formation. The spear formation has only been used since last year after the Fukakusa battle, and it is far from being proficient and experienced. This experiment has achieved miraculous results, not only the Ashigaru
The response was very good, even the warriors were very happy.
They know Kira Yoshitoki's good intentions, because there are no what-ifs on the battlefield, and life and death are often decided in an instant, so how to make yourself live longer and kill your enemies is the question of every ashigaru and even samurai.
Compulsory courses are also different from honing personal skills. Team training and cluster cooperation are the theme on the battlefield. How to cooperate with your comrades to kill the enemy is another problem that makes all Warring States people scratch their heads.
The importance of ordinary and monotonous array training and discipline no longer needs to be emphasized repeatedly. They are all elite warriors who have gone through array battles. They faced the world-famous Shikoku legions, and Shihe Yicun accepted the most ferocious Shikoku samurai.
Being able to fight to the end was a major baptism. From then on, they no longer feared any enemy.
They are not afraid of large-scale legion battles, but they are extremely lacking in how to deal with various complex situations that prevent large-scale legion battles. This new training method can provide them with many solutions, and even some
The samurai suggested that the cavalry team go down to join the battle and test the ashigaru's resistance to the cavalry team, etc.
People are social animals, and they also imitate each other. Once a group effect is formed, they will have a superimposed influence on each other, such as this kind of training. So the wealthy Kira Yoshiki issued a reward, with a team of fifty people as the basic unit, and then set up
There is a small competition every month. The top three will receive monetary rewards, the top ten will receive extra meals, and the bottom ten will have to keep up their efforts.
Then there will be a grand competition every six months, and the seats will be arranged in ascending and descending order of the 20th place, and the teams will be named by Yoshitoki Kira. A year-end competition will be held at the end of each year, and only the top eight in the overall ranking of that year will have the opportunity to participate in the year-end competition.
In the competition, the top three will receive a hefty reward, and the one with the best performance can be promoted to a samurai, and the samurai with the best performance will have his salary increased.