Chapter 381 40. Occupying a Good Location in Suwa

"Brother, the doctor is so sure. If you go to the battle in person, you will not live long!"

At this moment, only the brothers Yamauchi Yoshiharu and Yamauchi Yoshisada are living in the residence in Fuzhong Castle. The two of them are less cautious when talking, and there is no need to be so reserved.

This is the current situation. If you don't go, you can lie down in Fuzhong Castle in Yamauchi and take good care of yourself. I dare not say that it will take ten or eight years, but it will not be a problem to delay it for two or three years.

After all, the stroke is an acute disease at the moment. If you are not rescued for a few hours, you will die. But now that you have been rescued, although the medical level is not very high and the medical conditions are poor. But I dare not say that it will be very good if you take good care of it. It is not difficult to think about it for a while.

But if you force yourself to go out, it is not only a question of whether your body can bear it, but you may also die on the way. At that time, a commotion in the Imperial family is really inevitable!

"Master accountant, there is an undercurrent in Yamauchi now, and the one in Fukashi Castle has not reacted yet. The Kiso father and son are dealing with me on the surface, and the Hamamatsu people can't even pretend to be perfunctory."

"At this moment, who else but me?" Yamauchi Yoshiharu's face looked cold due to the stroke, and his muscles were somewhat uncontrolled.

"The Miyoshi traitor! The gods and the people hate him!" Yamauchi Master Accountant was extremely angry. If Yamauchi Yoshikatsu hadn't been killed by the Miyoshi Three, where would these things come from, and how could the situation deteriorate to this point.

"Things have come to this point, don't say more."

Yamanouchi Yoshiharu waved his hand, signaling his brother not to say more. Talking too much will only increase sadness and will not help.

Let the dead rest in peace, and the living will have to fight for more living people.

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"Tatsuzo, go and tell Heiroku and Shubaka immediately." After returning home, Koheita prepared in an uncoordinated manner.

Although the two children, Nabenosuke and Kamemaru, knew about the death of Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, the impact of this incident on them was not as exaggerated as the collapse of the sky and the earth.

They were surprised at the death of Ashikaga Yoshiteru. They were angry at the death of Yamauchi Yoshikatsu. Obviously, like most people, they did not have true respect for the general in Kyoto, and more of the generals were dissatisfied with the generals who were killed in the chaotic world.

However, the two children were still a little touched by the sudden death of Yamauchi Yoshikatsu. After all, they were in the Yamauchi family and felt the sudden precarious atmosphere of the Yamauchi family.

When they heard that Kobayata wanted to put on armor, the two of them went into the house very skillfully to move the boxes and cages. They came to Kobayata's room every day and quickly took out Kobayata's Nanbando armor. However, they were not skilled in putting on armor and were a little flustered.

Fortunately, Kobayata was not tall, and it was not a problem for two children over 1.2 meters tall to put armor on an adult of 1.4 meters tall.

At the same time, they also packed up Koyata, taking with them some necessary hemostatics, felt for laying straw, fine cotton cloth for wounds, spare straw sandals and straw mats, etc.

Seven Rules was the busiest. Koyata's horse emblem was too coquettish, and the thousand-color gold bamboo leaves were very eye-catching, but every time he took it out to use it again, he had to tie hundreds of gold leaves on it. Even if they were fast, it would take several people an hour to do it together.

When Heiroku and Sakakibara Nagamasa came over, one helped Koyata temporarily allocate 500 military rations, and the other helped Koyata gather his regular foot soldiers.

Since Koyata's 200 men were all iron cannon foot soldiers, several hatamoto from the hatamoto group were temporarily assigned to Koyata. To supplement Koyata's close combat forces, so that the fire sticks would not be useless at close range.

It's not that the peasant soldiers can't be mobilized, but now it will take at least until tomorrow noon for the personnel to arrive. Since it's to help Iida, the sooner the better.

The standing foot soldiers can gather immediately as long as they blow a whistle. This is also the advantage of professional soldiers, they are all under the city. They can leave at any time without any nonsense.

The soldiers naturally knew about the death of Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu, but the news of Yamanouchi Yoshiharu's stroke was not known to ordinary people except for the samurai of the hereditary generation and very close family members.

Everyone thought that Yamanouchi Yoshiharu was alive and well, so there was no big commotion or change among the standing foot soldiers.

Kobayata did not say anything before the war. They were just soldiers who were fed. They set off in a mess with more than a dozen loads of food and supplies, without any momentum of the army of mourners.

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"Akigoro, how are the foot soldiers?" Kobayata brought all the hatamoto who were familiar with the battle.

"Most of them are a little panicked. His Highness is so anxious that the momentum of the foot soldiers is quite affected." Minggoro shook his head. There were more than 300 people in their group. When they heard that Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu had died, they still made a commotion for a while. After all, the boss who paid the salary died, and the employees must be panicked.

Most of the lower-class soldiers of this era were blind, limited by their poor education and unconsciously influenced by the feudal system since childhood.

When the daimyo's death was over, the Yamanouchi family seemed calm. The samurai in the city served their duty as they should, and the orders of Yamanouchi Yoshiharu were passed on as usual. The soldiers calmed down, anyway, Yamanouchi Yoshiharu was still alive, and they just had to continue to carry guns.

"It's good as long as the morale can be maintained." Xiao Pingtai's own soldiers were all selected from those with families, and there was no bachelor. The idea was that those with stable property would have perseverance, and the morale of the army was guaranteed.

Every family was given a long house and rice, and the whole family, young and old, were in Yamanouchi Fuchū Castle, and they had a reason to work hard for Xiao Pingtai.

As for the subordinates of Kanai Meigoro, there are two who seem to be his cousins ​​or fellow students. In short, Meigoro has not forgotten his buddies from his hometown even after he became rich. He asked Yamauchi to be the head of his foot soldiers. These two people seem to have good skills.

As for the others, they are of average level, not too bad, but not much better. It is absolutely enough to line up three rows of long spears in front of Kobayata's iron cannon foot soldiers.

This trip to Shimosuwa is theoretically still the place where Kobayata's father fought. For the Yamauchi family, it is not a place full of good memories.

But in terms of terrain, it is actually conducive to Kobayata's defense. Lake Suwa is not a dead lake. It originates from the Suwa Mountains, converges into a lake, and then forms a river to flow downstream. Its downstream is actually the Tenryu River.

Due to the large water flow, it is impossible to walk on the water, which actually blocks large-scale military activities.

In the area of ​​Shimosuwa, besides the Suwa Lake Plain occupied by the Takeda family, there are the continuous mountains of Mune-no-dake.

The area between Mune-no-dake and the Tenryu River is the street from Suwa to Ina, which is the Ina Street.

A large group of people can only take this road to enter Ina and even the mountains.

The so-called battleground for military strategists refers to this kind of place.