The rising sun rises in the east, and smoke curls from the kitchen. The sunshine drives away the darkness, and the quiet Sanada camp gradually becomes noisy again.
A gray-haired warrior Ji stretched his body, stuck his rice ball on a branch, and carefully roasted it by the campfire.
In the distance, a group of Ji warriors were holding containers, waiting for the flavored soup in the large iron pot to heat up. From time to time, someone would be mean and stick their fingers into the soup to test the temperature, and they would be pulled aside and beaten severely.
The old Samurai Hime took the baked rice balls off the branches. The already stiff rice balls were even more gnashing after being heated over the fire.
She was not afraid of burning it, so she picked off the browned hard rice piece by piece and threw it into her bowl.
At this time, a childish little girl came over with a big bowl, and the soup in the bowl was still smoking.
"Old dog, the soup is here!"
Warrior Lao Ji slapped her on the head and cursed.
"Everything, big or small, is it you who barks at the old dog?"
The girl wasn't angry either. She smiled and poured some soup into Lao Ji's bowl, submerging the rice balls that Lao Ji had just broken off.
The old warrior Ji also laughed, revealing two rows of jagged rotten teeth. After the rice was soaked, she took a slow sip, chewed it carefully, and moaned with pleasure.
"I don't know how many more days I can live in these magical days. I'm done for the rest of my life. I'm used to eating white rice soaked in soup. How can I survive when I go back?"
The little girl skillfully stuck her rice balls on the branches and roasted them carefully, saying while roasting.
"How else can I live? If I'm not dead, I have to find a way to live, even by chewing tree bark."
The old warrior Ji shook his head and said.
"You know nothing. If you don't have teeth, you can only swallow it. Even good brown rice can be stirred up and make your stomach hurt. Besides, we don't have to eat it.
You said that you are so young and your hair has not even grown yet, but you insist on having a falling out with your father, why do you come here to join in the fun?"
The little girl drooled when she looked at the roasted rice balls. Before it was even hot, she couldn't help but take a bite of the outside to satisfy her cravings, and then said.
"What if you don't come?
My mother is dead and my younger brothers and sisters are still young. If I hadn’t had this opportunity to serve as a soldier and eat food, my father would have gone to the family home in the mountains to buy grass from that old woman in exchange for food rations for the family.”
The old warrior Ji was cursing while drinking rice soup.
"Rations are nothing. I don't know about that bastard at the foot of the mountain? Her family's food stock is not enough for herself, how can she give your family so many mouths to share the food?
She lied to your father, and it’s just a waste of time.”
The little girl nodded while nibbling on the rice balls.
"So I have to come. Let's all swear to the mountain together. If I come out to fight, the bastard at the bottom of the mountain will not dare to bully my father, my brothers and my sisters.
The food that His Majesty Sanada gave me for settling in, she had to send someone to deliver it to my doorstep. Even if I died outside, I would still have pension food. If I save some food, it would be enough for my father, younger brothers and sisters to eat for two years.
What’s more, the mountain god is still reliable.”
The old warrior Ji licked his rice bowl clean before saying.
"The mountain god is nothing. If there is no food from His Highness Sanada, who would be willing to swear an oath on the mountain? Can the mountain god transform food?
Your little girl hasn't grown yet, she has thin arms and legs, and the knife is taller than you. On the battlefield, a little kid like you will die quickly, and you will die sooner or later anyway.
When your pension is finished, your father will still have to go to Shanxia's home to make mugwort. No, Shanxia probably doesn't like your father at that time, Lao Zhuhuang. It's time for your brother to go to mugwort."
The little girl didn't care about the old warrior Ji's mouthfuls, she just shrugged and said.
"It's okay. My sister has grown up by then, and that's something she has to consider. I'll die, just do my shit."
Warrior Lao Ji laughed loudly, opened her mouth wide, and her rotten teeth looked even more disgusting. She patted the little girl on the shoulder and said.
"You must follow me closely on the battlefield, do you hear me?"
The little girl nodded silently.
In the distance, a group of warrior warriors walked out from behind the curtain of Sanada Nobushige's main formation. They didn't know what they said on the high platform, and the whole camp began to commotion.
Warrior Lao Ji stretched his neck to look, and the little girl came over and asked.
"Is that Sanada-sama? What is she talking about?"
Warrior Lao Ji cursed.
"Bullshit, can I hear it from so far away?"
While the first one and the second one were talking, an envoy passed by them and shouted.
“Get in line!”
Warrior Lao Ji picked up the little girl and left. She looked at the formation flags one after another, looking for her own reserve team. When she saw the team in front, her eyes lit up, and she leaned forward and nodded.
"Lord Mochizuki! Sir!"
Samurai Hime, whom the old Samurai Hime calls Lord Mochizuki, was talking to a few people around him when he heard a shout and turned around.
"Old dog, it's you old thing, hurry up and get back to the team, we are about to set off."
The old dog crouched, rubbed his hands, and asked.
"Sir, where are we going?"
Wangyue glanced at her and said coldly.
"Your blessing has come. His Highness Sanada has spoken and sent troops to conquer the mountain. After defeating it, the reward for the living will be doubled and the compensation for the dead will be tripled.
In addition, as long as we break through the base mountain and capture Oiwa Mountain, His Majesty Sanada will go to Tsudo-den in person to ask for credit for us, and he will get at least a hundred Shiba wen back from us."
Warrior Ji was so excited that her body was shaking, and she asked.
"Spo's establishment? Is it the six-stone-a-year food stamp that can be passed on to your daughter when you die?"
Lord Mochizuki snorted coldly.
"Nonsense, of course it is that, so I say you are blessed.
As long as you can make great achievements this time, you can go to the Si Bo family and become a master, and your children and grandchildren will no longer have to suffer poverty in the mountains.
But I have to remind you, old dog, there are only 100 places for the entire camp of 10,000 people. If you want Spo to organize it, you have to know how to fight later. Don't embarrass my reserve team.
Now, get back in line!"
The old dog bowed deeply, took the little girl's wrist and left. The little girl was still confused and her hands hurt from being strangled by her.
"Old dog, why are you so excited? Let go, it hurts!"
The old dog turned around and grabbed the little girl's collar, stared into her eyes, and said slowly.
"I promised your father that I would definitely let you go back alive.
Let's earn a Spo's salary. If I don't die, I will marry your father and make you my daughter, so that your younger brothers and sisters can have food to eat.
If I die, take the fabric back with you and tell your father that he will be mine from now on. He will have food to eat every day and is not allowed to go out to do wormwood anymore!"
The little girl looked at the excited old dog and asked.
"Does His Majesty Sanada mean what he says?"
The old dog glared at her and cursed.
"We swore an oath to the mountain alliance together! Your Majesty Sanada is also a mountain person, so she must abide by the rules! The mountain god is watching us!"
The little girl murmured.
"Didn't you just say that the Mountain God is a piece of shit?"
The old dog said fiercely.
"I don't care! If His Majesty Sanada doesn't keep his words, we'll go find Tsutado-don to argue!
Tsudoden is Bishamonten, and he is also a god. If we work for him, he must take care of us!"
As Sanada Nobushige's words spread, the atmosphere in the entire camp became more and more intense, and countless old dogs walked onto the battlefield with red eyes.
A mountain man as humble as a dog is willing to risk his life for a one percent chance.
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Xingshi Mountain, Sibo Yiyin main formation.
Sitting on the horse in the formation, Yiyin looked forward through the curtain, and seemed to be able to see countless people dividing their troops and setting off.
There were over a thousand people, like mountains and seas. There were tens of thousands of people, boundless. Yiyin took a deep breath, as if he could smell the smell of blood in the air.
Kamouso quickly walked into the formation, bowed to Yoshiyin and said.
"Your Majesty, everyone has gathered together."
Yiyin nodded and asked.
"Everyone has set off? Is it going well?"
Gongjin Road, Pu Shengshi Township.
"After breakfast at dawn, Sanada's army made a detour first, and then the nearby coalition forces set off.
Everything is in order, but..."
Yiyin glanced at her.
"But what?"
Pu Shengshixiang frowned.
"Sanada Nobushige privately announced to Sanada's army in the morning that after breaking through the mountain, the reward for the survivors will be doubled, and the compensation for the dead will be tripled."
Yiyin smiled.
"She's also very generous, and she seems to have made a lot of money on dried matsutake mushrooms and kapok cloth.
There must be a brave woman under a heavy reward. Although Sanada Nobunshige did things that were unreasonable, it was not wrong, so just let her go as she did.
Anyway, it’s not you who has to pay for the money and food. I’ll replenish some of Naojiangjin’s merchant ship positions for her later, and I’ll just make sure that she makes a profit but doesn’t lose any money."
Pu Shengshixiang shook his head and said.
"Your Majesty, you have misunderstood. If Sanada Nobunaga was just raising his own money and providing gifts to his followers, I would naturally not talk too much.
But she also made another promise later, saying that if she could break through the Big Rock Mountain, she would ask the emperor for a hundred Sibo troops on behalf of her tribe.
The Shiba system is not her private weapon of Sanada Nobunaga, how can we allow her to be so arrogant and rude!"
Yiyin was stunned for a moment and sighed.
"Then what can you do?
Sanada Nobushige has already said it, so does it count if I send someone to Sanada's army to call her nonsense and fart?
The morale and morale of the troops that had been aroused just now were immediately exhausted. How can we still fight this battle?"
Pusheng clan gritted his teeth and said.
"Sanada Nobushige was sure that your Majesty would not argue with her at this point in time and would not deny the matter, so he dared to be so unscrupulous.
His heart can be killed!
The Shiba family has its own rules, and Shiba's selection process is serious, but it's really disgusting that she made it so messy as if it were a joke!"
Yiyin sighed and said.
"Send someone to Sanada's army and tell Sanada Nobushige that if there are ten thousand people going out to fight, how can one hundred be enough for the army? I will give her two hundred."
Pusheng's village was shocked.
"Your Majesty?"
Yiyin snorted.
"Oda Nobunaga is personally in charge of Mount Oiwa, and the elites such as the red and black mother-clothed soldiers, the small family members, and the flag-based soldiers are all there.
If the Sanada army can tear through the defense line of Shiyue, capture Oiwa Mountain, and defeat Oda Nobunaga until he flees in embarrassment.
Not only will I give Sanada Nobunaga two hundred shiba, but I will also publicly praise her as the best soldier in the world and make Sanada famous all over the world."
In Yoshigan's view, capturing Oiwa Mountain and obtaining Shiba's organization for the Sanada people was a small means used by Sanada Nobunaga to boost morale.
In yesterday's secret conversation, Yoshigan had made it clear to Sanada Nobunaga that Oda Nobunaga was at Oiwa Mountain and asked her to be careful.
What others don't know, but Sanada Nobushige himself should know very well that it would be an impossible task to advance with an unexpected force and attack the Oiwa Mountain Oda main formation.
Sanada Nobushige probably just wanted to boost the morale of the army, so Yoshihiro cooperated with her and made a blank check of 200 Siwa.
The Hamo clan also learned about this just now. After thinking about it, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"So that's it. Then I'll immediately send people to chase the Sanada army and repeat the blessings of your Majesty's two hundred Shiba establishment. Haha, it's a pity that they can see it but can't get it."
Yiyin pointed at Pu Sheng's hometown and said with a smile.
"You, you, are acting like a complete businessman now, stingy."
Pu Shengshi Township complained.
"Your Majesty, the number of Spo's staff before was just over a thousand, but in less than three years it has grown to nearly two thousand.
Especially during the Miyoshi War, Lord Maeda Yoshida reported his merits and took away 200 establishments, as well as 100 establishments from the student soldiers who died in the battle. These were all unplanned over-staffings.
If the Spartan establishment is not restrained and grows at a rate of doubling in two to three years, even if the Sperazhong Fund can make money, there will always be a day when the annuity payments cannot be sustained.
I have been favored by your Majesty and am fortunate enough to be in charge of the Tongxin Secretariat, so I must manage this family well for you and not allow the Sibo Organization to expand indiscriminately in my hands!"
Seeing the earnest look on the housekeeper's face, Yiyin stood up and kissed her pouting mouth, which shocked her immediately.
"Your Majesty!"
Yiyin touched her pretty face and smiled.
"I know you are working hard, and you are my lover. Only if you look after the Tongxin Secretariat for me can I rest assured.
I understand very well what you are thinking. Be patient, and you will eventually get what you want, and I will not let you down with your deep love."
Kamouso's heart was beating rapidly at this moment, with a look of disbelief on his face.
Your Majesty kissed yourself. Is your Majesty making a promise to yourself?
The face of Kamao Clan turned red, and the heroic Ji Samurai suddenly became coquettish, which made Yoshigan look amused.
I think back then, Maeda was an innocent girl just a few days ago, but now, she has become a newly-married woman who refuses to let go of the land of reincarnation and insists on asking Yiyin to help her get through.
Yoshigan's smile is a little weird, and he doesn't know what Kamou clan village will be like in the future, which really makes people look forward to it.
he said with a smile.
"Okay, let's not talk about anything unrelated to the war. It's time for us to set off.
Order the third prince of Momochi to disperse all the ninjas, so that the ninjas of the Oda family cannot discover our movements.
We all went around from the back of the mountain to the Fox Tomb, and sent people to Tangmu Mountain to ask Christina whether the condition of the artillery team was normal."
Pu Sheng clan bowed solemnly.
"Hi!"
At this time, Yiyin and Kamao clan did not know what a strong chemical effect the promise of two hundred Sibo would bring.
Sanada Nobushige, who was stimulated by Umino Riichi, was really going for Oda Nobunaga, and was not trying to deceive the morale of the army as Yoshigan thought.
In Yoshigan's view, for this western expedition, the Sanada army expanded excessively, rapidly growing from less than a thousand to ten thousand men.
These ten thousand people were brought from the mountains to work as temporary workers. They seemed to be a large number of people, but their fighting power made people feel uneasy.
Yiyin underestimated the hardship of the mountain people and underestimated the attraction of the Spo system to these people.
It was this seemingly joke promise of two hundred Shiba troops that brought the Shiba army back from the cliff of defeat, and made Sanada famous as the best soldier in the world.