There are three reasons why Yiyin has the confidence to take 300 people to kill 12,000 people.
First, never think about the ruling group of an island country in terms of the Chinese rule.
In the Celestial Empire, the imperial power is supreme, the entire world belongs to the emperor, and the military is firmly controlled by the central government.
As long as the imperial court's dominance is still there, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army will be basically guaranteed. It will not happen that the entire army will be defeated after a commander-in-chief is hacked to death, and all armies will rush to return to their hometowns.
It is possible to defeat, but it is often defeated but not defeated, retreating to the city, waiting for the court's strategic changes and a new commander-in-chief.
Because the central court was still there, there was a supervisory army, unified logistics, and elites transferred from various places. The whole army running away after killing one boss could only happen at the end of the dynasty.
But the island country is different. Starting from the Kamakura shogunate, the samurai family's ruling structure was to assign output to each household, and the middle and lower classes divided the fields and each took care of their own affairs.
The majesty of the shogunate lies in the distribution of power, the military family serves the public, and the general rewards.
The shogunate obtained the guardianship rights of all the countries in the world from the imperial court, and then granted them to local powerful warriors in the form of public rewards, gradually forming a hierarchical feudal rule of local famous families, county commanders, and land.
In this system of enfeoffment at the entrance of the village, there are many layers of relationships between the upper and lower levels. The local servant at the head of the village may only recognize the leader of his own small warlord, but may not recognize the big warlord above the small warlords.
If a big warlord is defeated in a beheading operation, the mentality of most small warlords must be to wait and see, with priority on preserving their own strength.
Regardless of whether Shiba, Hojo, or Satomi continues to be the boss, there will be no major changes at the grassroots level. At most, some land will be confiscated. This is the characteristic of hierarchical feudalism.
The retainer's retainer is not my retainer. The boss's boss is dead and it's my fault.
There is a new boss, and if you want to collect taxes and labor, you have to rely on the small warlords at the grassroots level. They don't need to work too hard.
Secondly, the predicament of Yoshiyao in the Boso peninsula is actually somewhat similar to that of Uesugi Kenshin. What's even more interesting is that both of them claim to be the deputy commander of Kanto.
It's just that Uesugi Kenshin's Kanto leadership was recognized by the Kanto samurai family through the inheritance ceremony of Kamakura Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine.
And what about Yi Yao? She just yelled at the two countries while she was nesting in her apartment, but no one took her shouting seriously.
The Satomi family is a famous family in Anfang country, but also has constant civil strife. Satomi Yoshihiro's situation back then was no better than when Uesugi Kenshin first inherited the family business.
She successfully stabilized the Satomi family's fortune by borrowing troops from the Hojo Nidaime to quell the rebellion.
But soon, Satomi Yoshihiro, who had hardened his wings, turned against the Hojo family and became an independent force on the Bosou Peninsula that gave the Hojo family a headache.
The Satomi family was not strong, and the Anfang Kingdom was not strong enough to support Satomi Yoshiyao's ambitions. In the strategy of invading the two countries, she was completely unable to control the local samurai families.
Every time the Hojo family fought with the Satomi family, they could find internal support in the Boso Peninsula, and they cooperated with the outside to launch a rebellion.
Satomi Yoshihiro's unlucky appearance of putting out fires everywhere was exactly the same as Takeda Shingen's instigation of rebellion behind Uesugi Kenshin's back, leaving Uesugi Kenshin exhausted and helpless.
The weakness of the Satomi family caused the samurai of the Boso Peninsula to follow Satomi Yoshihiro in sending troops, and they could only fight with the wind and not against the wind, because the Satomi family did not have the prestige to convince the public at all.
Third, soldiers are more valuable than their elites.
Although there are only three hundred people on the Yoshiun side, they are all brave warriors selected by Hojo Yasunari and Hojo Yasuzhong.
The young men of Hojo had lost all their chips, and now they were so anxious that they pawned their pants on the table. These less than three hundred people must be Huang Bei Chi Bei's elite dead soldiers.
Kanto is closed off, and most places still use traditional mobilization methods, mostly peasants and soldiers.
Unlike the Kinki side, which had been cornered by Oda Nobunaga, each family had more or less embarked on a new military system in which farmers and soldiers were separated.
The Hojo family's Goshikibei are standing armies, and their combat effectiveness is very strong. The Ji warriors recruited by Huang Bei and Chi Bei are even more outstanding among them.
According to the traditional mobilization method of the Wu family, 10,000 stones of land can mobilize 250 people into a reserve team. Ji warriors usually have forty or fifty people, which is almost one-fifth of the number of people in the reserve team.
The Boso coalition forces that besieged Taicheng, the national capital, numbered approximately 12,000 people, among which the Hime warriors would not exceed 3,000. The rest of the Ashigaru peasants and soldiers would most likely be in chaos when they encountered a surprise attack at dawn.
Yiyin gathered three hundred Ji warriors to attack the enemy's main formation. His strength was not small, and he might even have a local advantage.
To sum up, Satomi Yiyao, the boss of the house boss, is a strong man but a weak man, and Satomi Yoshihiro does not have enough prestige to let the house boss Wu family fight for her.
Yoshigan is confident that as long as he concentrates all his efforts to defeat Satomi Yoshihiro's main formation, it is likely to shake the morale of the entire Boso coalition and force other samurai families to retreat and wait and see.
A sneak attack across the river is indeed risky, but it is a sure-fire risk-taking, not a risk of death.
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Just when Yiyin was about to leave, Daidoji Shengchang came to see him off, secretly handed a letter to Yiyin and whispered in a low voice.
"On the battlefield, swords and guns have no eyes. The saint came here to fight fiercely to recover the defeat of the Hojo family. The Hojo family was so grateful that they did not dare to hide their secrets.
I heard that Shiba's secret team is the elite of Iga, capable of investigation and infiltration, and is omnipotent.
If the saint can send a secret team to explore the location of Toki Nori's main formation and hand this letter to her, it will be miraculous. "
Yiyin narrowed his eyes.
"Toki Nori? Is the Hojo family connected with this person? Can this letter help her on the battlefield anyway?"
Daodaoji Shengchang said frankly.
"The Toqi family is a famous house owner. In order to win over Toqi, Satoshi Yiyao married her son as his stepmother.
This time Bosou's coalition forces sent troops, Toki Yuri was also one of the main forces. "
Yoshigami took a breath. He knew that the Hojo family had penetrated deeply into the Boso peninsula, but he didn't expect that even Satomi Yoshiyao's mother-in-law would be dragged over.
No wonder the Hojo Young Faction sent troops without permission, and Daidaiji Morimasa was so angry that he asked them to commit seppuku immediately because they were so unjustly defeated in this battle.
The Hojo family has long been involved in the Bosou coalition and is one of the main forces. If both sides follow the plan and line up on the battlefield, Satomi Yoshihiro will definitely lose ugly.
How could Yoshihiro Satomi have thought that his stepfather's mother belonged to the other party, and when one of the main players, Toki Mairai, would defect before the battle, there would be trouble if the Satomi family did not lose.
This incident also shows that Satomi Yoshiyao is acting among the powerful outsiders in the Boso Peninsula. She cannot even control her own in-laws, let alone other powerful military families in the Boso Peninsula.
The Boso peninsula is home to powerful samurai families and has a close relationship with the central samurai family.
The Boso Toki family is the branch of the Mino guardian Toki family, and Toki Yuyori is the family governor of this generation.
Saito Michizan usurped the Toki family's Mino country property, and the Toki family's heirs took refuge in the Kanto Hitachi Kingdom. After that, the lintel of the clan clan of the Toqi family was adopted to the Toqi family, a branch of Fangzong.
In other words, the Toki family who secretly took refuge in the Hojo family was actually the chief leader of the famous Toki family in Mino.
She is the orthodox descendant of Minamoto Yorimitsu, a famous Minamoto family member, and continues the 500-year-old Toki family's family business.
In addition, the Boso Takeda family is a branch of the Kai Takeda family, a side branch of a famous family that was enfeoffed and moved there as a reward from the public.
There are also powerful local warriors such as Masaki, Masatoya, Sakai, etc., who all have some connections with the governors of various places. How big a face does Satomi Yiyao have, can he suppress the descendants of these famous families?
The Hojo family infiltrated the Boso peninsula and even fought with the Satomi family over the inheritance of the Maritani family. Both sides spared no effort in vying for the support of local prominent families.
But no matter how awesome the Hojo family and the Satomi family are, can they have as much dignity as Yoshigami?
Yoshigina is the elder of the Minamoto family, the holder of the Imperial White Flag of Hachiman Tainiang, the descendant of Bishamonten, and the patron saint of the samurai family with noble blood.
The Satomi family and the Hojo family, an outsider who pretended to be Hojo Miao, could still argue with each other, but when they saw Yoshihiro, the top boss of an authentic and famous family, they could only tremble.
If the Bosou coalition has one Toki who is rebellious, can't there be a second or third one?
The way to use military force is to attack the heart first, and to attack the city next.
Daidaiji Shengmao took the initiative to sell Toki Nori, a traitor in the Bosou coalition, to Yi Bank, which made Yi Bank very satisfied.
Finally, I didn't sleep in the Hojo clan in vain. The Hojo family has changed now. They already put their own safety first. It's good. This is the attitude of really wanting to follow the Shiba family.
(End of chapter)
