Chapter 576 38. Three-Pronged Advance Into Kai Province
Sakakibara Nagamasa and Honda Masashige held the book and followed Koyata to select foot soldiers with great difficulty.
It was really not their fault. The two rough guys were just ordinary literate. They didn't know most of the 3,000 commonly used Chinese characters. Heiroku became the governor of Fukuchi, and Tatsuzo became the governor of Nagawa Castle. Koyata couldn't even find a clerk around him.
Aki could read, and he learned it with Koyata for more than ten years. But he was also organizing people in the hatamoto and temporarily pulled out. Don't mention Nanaki. He was only 16 years old when he followed Koyata to become a hatamoto. It was already very good that he could understand documents. He couldn't be counted on.
I wanted to borrow someone from somewhere, but after thinking about it, I had to trouble Kurosawa Yoshiki. Anyway, he was a familiar person under the Kanjo Bugyosho and could be trusted.
According to the nobles' obligation to expand the army, half of Koyata's salary of 500 kan needed to be used to support the army. This number is not too much, about 60 cavalry is enough, and these 60 cavalry can be made up of special arms such as small flag holders, drum holders, and conch holders. The remaining 30 are generally required to be long-range arms. In the past, they were all bows, but with the development of the times, now half of them are bows and half of them are iron cannons, or two-thirds of them are bows and one-third of them are iron cannons.
As for the 1,000 military services that should be provided in terms of knowledge and practice, half of them are miscellaneous soldiers, and there are many people willing to do it without spending money and having a full meal every day. Anyway, they are generally not recruited during the busy farming season, and there are plenty of people.
The remaining 500 samurai, public servants (infantry/cavalry), and military service foot soldiers will generally have some requirements. I give this land to you, and you have the obligation to recruit soldiers on this land to support me.
Xiao Ping Tai took a rough look at the military service list compiled by his side. Forty cavalry are required on horseback, of which fifteen cavalry will be sent to Yamauchi Taro as messengers and scouts during wartime. The second is the armored public servants who hold long swords and spears as the backbone of a team, and this requires 80 cavalry. Finally, there are the foot soldiers, 50 iron cannons, 150 bows, and 200 hand-held soldiers.
A total of 520 riders, plus 60 regular foot soldiers supported by official salaries, if Kobayakata wants to fulfill military service, he needs 580 soldiers without work.
From this point of view, the average salary of 6 kan per person feels very uneven, and Kobayakata wants to divide the salary by level and degree of danger. Those who beat drums and blow conchs in the rear are given 4 kan a year, and those who draw bows and shoot arrows, fill fire and shoot guns in the front line are only given 5 kan.
Foot soldiers who hold long and short spears, maintain the front line, or fight in the wild are given 6 kan. Finally, the brave and courageous warriors who hold long and short swords, hold single shields, climb the city walls like ants, and rush to climb first are given an annual salary of 10 kan, and four people support rice.
We can't eat from the same pot anymore!
Infantry is easy to deal with, but 40 riders on horseback are more difficult. However, it is still a start-up, so we have to make do with what we have. All the retainers under Koyata are wearing armor and riding horses. In addition, some of the best foot soldiers who have survived hundreds of battles and were recruited by Koyata from Northern Shinano can be given a salary of 30 kan, so they can gather about 30 horses.
With the recruitment flag raised, there will naturally be men who eat food.
"It is best to select all foot soldiers from Uchida County and Ina County, and those from East Mikawa and West Totomi are also acceptable. Those who speak Kanto accent, Kai accent, and Northern Shinano accent are not accepted. It is better to have insufficient numbers than to fill them in."
"This, Tanzheng, I am from Suruga Prefecture. This accent is really not familiar to me." Kurosawa scratched his forehead.
"Then you can find those foot soldiers from Minamishin and Totomi! I will lend them to you for a few days!"
Accents and dialects are really a double-edged sword. It is difficult for people from other prefectures to be spies because their accents are different. But the country he ruled was so large that it was natural for retainers who were not from the same country to have a gap.
For example, Nobunaga's (future Hideyoshi's) retainers from Nobi and Omi seemed to be in the same group, but their accents were different. Just from this point alone, it was possible that the two groups would be unhappy.
"There is one more thing. The annual salary of the military commander is different. What about armor and weapons?"
"Soldiers who are not fighting will only be given bamboo hats. Those who hold bows and cannons will be given foot soldiers' domaru. Those who fight with their bodies will be given gauntlets and other items. In addition, prepare 100 more to prevent combat replacement and emergency."
"What about weapons such as swords and spears?"
"The more the better. There is no need to buy any famous ones. Just use them. Let the assistant Zuoemon of the house do his best to raise them. This little money is not a big deal."
"What about the long house for the foot soldiers?"
"Prepare the long house too. Follow the previous precedent and divide one long house into six households."
"Okay!"
Walking from the castle to the playground, I saw Yamauchi Shukei and Yamauchi Yoshiyasu also recruiting foot soldiers on the playground. Although they won the last battle of Toishi Castle, more than a hundred foot soldiers died. In addition, now that the territory has expanded and the income has increased, it is entirely possible to recruit some more regular foot soldiers.
The two men nodded and greeted Xiao Pingtai when they saw him coming. It was not a big problem for them to recruit foot soldiers. The Yamanouchi family had a big name and was not short of people.
And there was one thing that they were much stronger than Xiao Pingtai personally. The Yamanouchi family had a sufficient reserve of officers. They constantly promoted the former servants of Yamanouchi Township to samurai and placed the military service people in the standing foot soldiers as foot soldiers.
Otherwise, you couldn't expand the army even if you wanted to. Without samurai servants, the army couldn't even move a step.
I couldn't envy the connections accumulated by six generations of others. Xiao Pingtai was still thinking about bringing his fellow villagers from Hebian Village into the city to be foot soldiers. But Uncle Tsunayoshi was faster than Xiao Pingtai. He took away all the more than 20 men in the village.
He didn't even know to leave two for Xiao Pingtai!
After a busy period until the end of March, everything was done and the war machine of the Yamanouchi family started to turn.
Higashimikawa Udono-cho Terujiro followed Matsudaira Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga to attack Kitabatake Muneori in southern Ise. The remaining Totomi people and the troops of Suruga Shita County, about 10,000 cavalry, were led by Imagawa Yoshichika as the main general and uncle Tsunayoshi as the deputy general, and went straight to Suruga.
This route is mainly to contain the Suruga people, and it is best to delay all the Hojo reinforcements to achieve the goal of isolating Kai. If Hojo does not save Suruga, it will be even better, and support Shoukenni to sweep all of Suruga.
The main force of the Yamanouchi clan in Shinano, in conjunction with the 8,000 strong soldiers of the Takanari clan, is said to be 50,000, but in fact it is 33,000. The Yamanouchi army took the Suwa Avenue and approached Suwa County directly, while the Takanari army took the Sakuguchi side road, and marched steadily with 8,000 troops, not seeking to attack Kai, but to delay the time for Kai reinforcements to enter Suwa.
As long as the main force of the Yamauchi army captures Uehara Castle and controls Suwa Taisha Shrine, and a new Suwa Taisha Shrine priest is randomly appointed, the initial strategic goal of this battle will be achieved.
The next step is to see the specific movements of the Kai Takeda clan. If the Takeda clan abandons the outer positions and the main building, Tsutsujizaki-kan, and returns to the key Yamashiro Castle to defend the siege, then the Yamauchi army will inevitably sweep up Kai's money and food and completely destroy Kai's production.
If Takeda Yoshinobu joins the Hojo reinforcements to fight a decisive battle, then the world will be in the hands of swords and guns!