Chapter 33 36. Planning for a Change of Fortune as the Main Driving Force

Seeing Kitahata University acting like he had mistakenly trusted his beloved, Koheita smiled and said to him: "I am responsible for everything, and I will not let you commit seppuku."

Hokahata University is just like that, just be happy and die. "I have nothing to do with you young people." After saying that, he angrily left with his subordinates without even looking back.

As for why Hokahata University is angry, it’s because rice had a special meaning in Japan’s Warring States Period. In addition to paying annual tribute and collecting land rent, rice must be needed (this is the case in most cases). Rice is a kind of food that is better than gold in a certain sense. The general equivalent of silver.

In other words, how much rice can be used to measure a human life and a head. The soldiers hang their heads on their belts and work hard in exchange for eating your rice.

Therefore, generally speaking, at the beginning of a war, soldiers must be provided with rice as a reward for the people who go into battle. If they cannot eat rice, their motivation to work hard will be greatly reduced. Although it will not cause a mutiny, they will definitely have to bear the consequences if they lose. pot. It is indeed too much to work hard without giving you a good meal, but this is the Warring States Period, and it will be good if I, Xiao Ping, can ensure that you have enough to eat every day.

So the next day, Xiao Pingtai led a mighty and chaotic crowd of more than 2,000 people and headed south, leaving only 200 people and dozens of pack horses and a few guards led by one Tongxin, who agreed to take him with him the next day. A certain amount of salt and wheat went south.

Based on last year's memory, Xiao Pingtai only walked 30 miles before stopping at the first village on the roadside. She borrowed the courtyard of a local farmer's house in the village, built a fence outside, arranged a bonfire, and set up a relatively quiet village. The important salt was piled in the warehouse of the Tuotou family, and other grains were placed on the ground with wooden boards, covered with raincloths, and the first military station was set up.

That's right, the yard and warehouse of the Tuitou family were requisitioned for free. You have dedicated your people to the Lord to fight the war, so occupying your land is not a big deal, right?

If you still dare to have an opinion? It's wartime, you know? Wartime! It's time for war! Everything must be subject to war, and those who disobey will be humanely destroyed. It makes sense now. We are teachers of benevolence and righteousness, and we will not do anything unbenevolent and righteous, hehehehe.

In this way, existing buildings and warehouses are used as much as possible along the way. Normal villages are originally distributed along rivers or roads, and the local families along the lines can make use of them. If they really didn't have any, they would use bamboo poles and straw mats to build long sheds. Then they set up fences and set up campfires, set up guard soldiers, and arranged the transfer team. Ensure the continuity of military depots.

Then the distance between the military stations was shortened along the way, and the manpower and management were kept at each station, allowing everyone to work in teams of twenty or thirty people, moving from one station to the next. The originally loose team transport mode was changed to a team rotation transfer mode. The further depots are equipped with more manpower to increase the frequency of transfers.

After five days of driving, they arrived at Tenryu River in Toyoda County, Enshu. Isshiki Palace and more than 3,000 of Ejiri's predecessors had arrived in advance, and the two main armies of the Yamauchi Army had joined together. (I’m not telling you that. It took more than five days and six days to walk for more than 100 kilometers, and a total of 4,000 people were gathered. It was not much better than a turtle speed. It was based on the marching speed of the Changjing Rangers in Shanxian County. Of course, Changjing in Shanxian County There are only 5,000 people. How can we march more than 100 kilometers in a day and night? We are really the most powerful army in the world.)

The Imagawa side mobilized 16,000 troops to confront the Yamauchi side's 8,000 troops (if we include the Jinfu and Hetuo who were transported along the way, the Yamauchi side also had 10,000 people. Proportionately speaking, we know that the other side What kind of stuff is Imagawa?) Xiaoping glanced at the Imagawa Army on the other side from afar, and thought to himself, you have brought six or seven thousand warriors with you. These people are not good at fighting, and you are not afraid of defeating yourself. The actual combat strength is eight thousand. That’s pretty good. (Of course, the actual number of troops participating in the battle in the mountain is only 5,000 and zero. We, the big ones, don’t laugh at the second.)

Xiao Pingtai looked at the soldiers who were eating wheat and bean rice that was not only coarse but also very bland. They were cursing each other. Fortunately, Xiao Pingtai did not skimp on the quantity. Everyone was full and full, but nothing happened.

Uncle Tsunaliang asked him why there was no rice shipped to the house. Could it be that last year's rice had been exhausted? Xiao Pingtai said he would arrive soon.

I met with Yoshiharu Yamauchi in the shogunate, and he also asked why rice and other food were not brought. Although the soldiers were full, they were unhappy without rice. Koheita then said he would arrive soon, guaranteed the supply, and spent money to buy it elsewhere, which satisfied Yamauchi Yoshiharu.

Xiao Pingtai thought to himself, if the war is about to start, do you still care about whether my rice arrives? Now that there is no war, you still have leisure time and time to think about whether the rice is coming or not. Wait until the fight starts, ha! Life is the first priority, and eating is the second priority. Who cares about what you eat?

Koheita left Aji in the care of Tsunaliang for the time being, and told him to squat in the corner or stay behind the line when he had nothing to do. When holding a horse sign, you get mixed up behind other people holding a horse sign. If you can, be cowardly. Also, the food is owned by the public, so you don’t have to save it for him, so you can eat it as much as you want.

Then Xiao Pingtai rode a horse along the street, patrolling the entire transportation line back and forth. He saw that the co-workers were very serious about transshipping according to his arrangements, and the load-carrying teams along the way were transshipping without any gaps. Shuigu people also patrol the roads from time to time. The entire transportation line is running very well.

After returning to Fuchu Castle, Kobayata allowed a little more rice and salt, and started making fried rice. It was agreed that the warehouse in Fuchu Castle would start shipping miso after three days, pickled vegetables after three days, a small amount of wine after three days, and then dried fruits, sugar, etc. After the fifteenth day, when the purchased rice began to arrive slowly, all the grains would be replaced with rice for shipment.

After giving the order, Kobayata rode back to Ejiri and began to mobilize hundreds of porters and tacticians in Ejiri to ship salt and dried seafood to the front line in batches. Don't think about abalone and scallops, the main thing is seaweed and kelp, and dried shrimps, all of which have a natural salty taste. Adding them to the miso soup is also a snack for the soldiers. No other daimyo can get such good treatment.

At the same time, the fishermen in the Hamana area were organized to catch fish near the coast. The good thing about Japan is that there are many fish along the coast. Although this is not the Hokkaido fishing ground, which is ranked among the world-class fishing grounds, it is still possible to catch a lot of fish and shrimp to supply the army. Anyway, soldiers have always been big-bellied men since ancient times, and these fish, shrimp and crabs are not enough to fill their stomachs.

At the same time, Yamanouchi Yoshiharu, who had withstood the attack of the Imagawa clan, started his dinner with a headache.

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