Honjo Nomonaga recruited Yutai people for the Kanto Palace and had gathered a large number of Ji warriors among the Yangbei people, including figures from various young sects who were friends with her.
She sent a list of one hundred and fifty Otai people to the imperial palace. Shiba Yiyin took it very seriously and wanted to go back to Tobi Castle to meet these Ji warriors in person.
Nowadays, the most important thing for Uesugi Teruhu and Yoshihiro Shiba is to complete the integration of Echigo.
It is necessary to twist the Echigo samurai family into a rope and smoothly put the Echigo army into the Kanto strategy.
Uesugi Teruhu used domestic affairs to provide benefits, including reducing taxes to four public and six citizens, expanding the scope of green hemp cultivation, and rationing sea salt domestically at low prices.
Shiba Yiyin spent money on the Echigo samurai family through commercial value-added, profit sharing and commercial tax, providing low-priced goods, and raising the purchase price.
The focus of the two men's bribery was Yang Beizhong.
The Yangbei Zhong accounted for 40% of the Echigo army, and they were a brave and capable samurai group. They must be truly willing to contribute to the Kanto strategy.
Teruhora Uesugi's Joetsu is wealthy and has strong mobilization power, but no matter how strong he is, there is a limit.
Because of the traditional martial mobilization method, land and population are more important than money. This is even more true in the economic environment of Kanto, where the traditional manor system is self-sufficient.
The Kansai samurai family can also use money to hire evil party wild samurai to strengthen their army and use them as cannon fodder.
Once the relatively poor Kanto samurai family loses their land, unlike Kansai, which has rich trade routes to support a large number of evil party wild samurai, it will be difficult for the landless samurai to survive.
Therefore, mobilization in Guandong requires the cooperation of local martial arts families in order to gather enough troops.
Therefore, the Kanto strategy of the Uesugi Shiba family must not lack the Yanghoku territory, which accounts for 40% of the population of Echigo.
Two generations of Uesugi Teruhu and her mother suppressed the Yangbeizhong. The elders were tired of the confrontation, and the older generation headed by Nakajo Fujisaki gradually surrendered to Uesugi Teruhu.
The young faction headed by Honjo Shigenaga was saved by Shiba Yoshigan after the failure of the rebellion. They were also willing to use the Kanto Palace to bow their heads and stop causing trouble.
No matter what problems may arise in the replacement of old and new Yang Beizhong in the future.
At least for now, Uesugi Teruhora is happy to see Shiba Yoshigan subduing the young Yangbei faction and letting them support the Kanto strategy.
This united the entire Yangbei samurai group into Echigo integration.
After receiving the news from Honzhuang Fanchang, Yiyin immediately set off for China and Vietnam.
It was just after the summer harvest, and it was the turn of summer and autumn. Midsummer was not over yet, and it was very hot during the day. Although it is the slack season for farming, it is not the time for the Wu family's traditional mobilization.
Shiba Yiyin's time is very tight. He must quickly master the arms of the Yutai people to cooperate with the people of the same heart and establish his own Jishi warrior group.
The Shiba family only had Tobi Castle in Echigo, and the Yangbei clan's military strength was also in the hands of the older generation. The Young Zhuang clan joined the Kanto Palace in their own name.
This led to the embarrassing situation that Shiba Yiyin only had Ji Samurai as his military strength, but no reserve troops.
The military system during the Kamakura shogunate period was still very crude. Generally, an imperial family member would lead eight or nine members of his party to participate in the war.
But hundreds of years have passed, and the war style of the samurai family has become more and more mature. The old tactics of the samurai family cannot defeat the reserve team composed of the ashigaru warriors.
In this case, Yiyin simply established a military force composed entirely of the Hime Warriors for two reasons.
First, with the cooperation of the Echigo army, the Shiba family only needs to have the elite Hime Warriors to participate in the battle, and there will be no shortage of cannon fodder on the battlefield.
Both of them, behind every warrior Ji, is an intricate group of warriors.
As the traditional guardian daimyo, Yoshigan maintains the Hime Warriors and rewards these subordinates in order to win over the hearts of the samurai group.
He does not need to have superior military strength to protect the system. What he has to do is to have many friends and few enemies.
Killing does not necessarily require blood. The human heart is the most powerful knife. Strong force does not mean everything.
Yoshigan Shiba asked himself that he could not be as rebellious as Oda Nobunaga and become a reforming and pioneering Warring States daimyo.
He will only follow the wisdom of his predecessors, follow the rules and do the business of winning people's hearts, and use the consensus of traditional martial arts to protect himself and help him defeat the enemy.
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A few days later, Yiyin entered Torowei City with the troops of Yukimori in the mountains.
At this time, Torowei Castle was the headquarters of the Kanto Palace.
The camp outside the city has been built. In the north of the city is the Yutai people group of the village, and in the south of the city is the Tongxinzhong group of Dao Shengmeng.
The number of people on both sides is 150 each, and together they are 300 young warriors. With this elite presence, the Shiba family finally had the confidence to speak out after Echichi.
Shiba Yiyin lectured the two Ji Samurai groups outside the city, and then launched a military review to appease the middle and high-level leaders of both groups.
The morale of the concubines is very high, and they are sincerely convinced and respectful to their master.
After all, you can eat white rice and dried radish every day, and from time to time you can also eat dried fish as a side dish. Where can you find such a good master?
Regardless of the Tongxin people or the Yutai people, as long as they are in Changwei City and their esophagus is full, the big bear Chaoxiu will cut the flesh with tears in his eyes and not dare to lack their rations.
After inspecting the Hime Warriors, Shiba Yoshigan entered the castle tower and convened his high-ranking samurai family in the meeting hall to discuss matters.
Those sitting here include Xingsheng in the Bitou Mountain of Tongxinzhong, Dao Shengmeng, the leader of Peking University and Tongxinzhong, Honzhuang Fanchang, the leader of the Yutai people, and Daxiong Chaoxiu in the Kanto military station.
Behind the four people, the Pu Sheng clan, as the liaison officer between the two places, accompanied them at the table.
Yiyin thanked Zhuji for supporting the Shiba family, and then everyone expressed their loyalty and exchanged polite greetings.
After finishing his polite words, Yoshihiro took out two stacks of paper and handed them to Honzo Nogecho and Shima Katsuo.
"This is the foot drill command I wrote. You should take some time every day to train the formation of the Ji warriors."
What is a drill command?
The two of them were a little confused. They were both Ji warriors who had studied military strategy since childhood, but they had never heard of this. When they took it and took a look, they were even more confused.
Stand at attention, take a breath, and walk together. Look to the right and look forward. Turn right, turn left, turn back. Behind these passwords, there are precautions and decomposition actions.
But the question is, what is the use of training this?
The military system in the feudal era was not the military system that followed the establishment of a regular army in modern times.
The Wu family's military lacked the concept of discipline. They obeyed orders, were not afraid of death, and dared to fight and charge were elites.
Most of the people formed a spear formation on the battlefield and listened to the command of the warrior Ji who led the team to poke the heads of their spears. As soon as the team dispersed, they ran away for their lives. It was impossible to expect them to have any sense of discipline.
The cavalry charge is not the wall charge of later modern cavalry, it is arranged in an orderly manner.
Instead, the gap is so big that three or four people are far away, and he can wield his weapon to let the horses behind him surpass him. If they are too close, they will be injured by their own weapons and their horses will be overturned.
This is the real feudal army. Bandits are as good as a comb and soldiers are as good as a grate. I am talking about these unorganized and undisciplined bastards.
Yiyin racked his brains and recalled the marching orders of the military training in his previous life. It was simply impossible to ask them to use this.
