As the sky darkened, waves of long-lived roars suddenly erupted on the streets of Hakodate, "Onboard... Onboard... Onboard..." Countless samurai knelt outside the castle tower to salute Ryuye and offer their Loyal, many wild warriors even sang and danced excitedly.
"Count the number of people, set up ten registration offices on the street of Hakodate, and count the number of wild samurai immediately!" Inoyama Chou also had more daimyo family samurai, and began to restore order in the crowd. How many wild samurai are there in Hakodate now? No one knew the number but everyone knew it was well over a thousand.
Maeda Yujiro and two samurai from the Date family sat behind two tables. The samurai in front of them were crowded and chaotic. Date Baixie and Date Kitano used their sword scabbards to slash at the samurai in front of them.
"Order, maintain order, come one by one, line up immediately!"
"Damn it, you fat man from the Four Kingdoms, get to the back of the queue. Who asked you to jump in line..."
"I really don't understand why the General took in these wild warriors. Is it just because they fled thousands of miles away? If I had known that this was the case, I would have asked my brothers to follow..."
Maeda Yujiro held the brush and registered his name on the roster. He said without raising his head, "Needless to say, General Xiang is executing the orders of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is as wise as the sea and we cannot understand... In addition, these warriors can It’s really courageous to follow him all the way from southern Japan!”
The Date family was also a great name during the Warring States Period. The one-eyed dragon Masamune was also a momentary hero praised by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. The Date family's pride was no less than that of the Maeda family.
This kind of warriors naturally look down on the lowly wild warriors. Looking at the tattered straw sandals and patched clothes on the feet of those warriors, they said with disdain, "They don't even have a suit of armor, and their swords are almost rusty. That's it." When a person goes to the battlefield, he just wants to die..."
The wild warriors queuing up to register all glared angrily, but when they saw the shiny armor that represented their status, they did not dare to refute due to the sense of oppression brought about by hundreds of years of hierarchical society.
At this time, Zhu Shanchou led a group of warriors and ran to the registration office with piles of thick clothes in their hands. "Who has finished registering? The registered warriors follow me to carry new military uniforms! The Prime Minister will give them to you." The new military uniforms are here..."
The crowd suddenly became restless. What did the military uniforms represent? The military uniforms represented that the prime minister had officially accepted them. The wild warrior who had already registered and received the number plate rushed over like crazy, grabbed a green military uniform and shook it, everyone in the audience was stunned.
This is a long green cotton coat, stuffed with thick cotton. The inside and outside of the clothes are sewn with various pockets. It can be worn to cover the body below the knees.
What is the most effective weapon in the battle against white mountains and black waters? It's not an advanced foreign gun or cannon, but it's about keeping warm. The famous green military coat of later generations is simply a representative of practicality. It is the king of cost-effectiveness in cold zone warfare. Xiao Letian would be really blind if he didn't imitate this thing.
However, the aesthetics of military coats are seriously deviated from this era. All warriors feel that their aesthetics have been completely shattered. Not one word "ugly" can describe their mood, but at least three words "ugly" must be used.
"Why are you wearing this? How can you fight in it? Is the Prime Minister kidding us?" The crowd was questioning.
Inoyama Achie was the first to set an example. He put on his military coat and a furry dog-skin hat and stood in the crowd and shouted, "The place where we are fighting is colder than the coldest Ezo." Three times. If you want to live, wear a military coat. If you don’t want to wear it, just get out and go home..."
"All samurai who own armors, please immediately take off your armors and hand them over to the defenders of Hakodate for safekeeping. Please write your names!"
At this time, the two warriors of the Date family suddenly became furious: "How can this be done? The armor is my ancestral possession. How can we fight on the battlefield without it? This is a mess..."
At this time, Maeda Yujiro stood up and began to remove his armor. "Don't say more. Didn't the general say it? It's just for safekeeping, not confiscation. What are you afraid of? Noheita and Hyoutarou abandoned their armor long ago. What happened in the end?" ? We have made great achievements and even won consecutive victories in Europe. Are we not as good as them..."
"Remove your armor! If you don't want to be frozen to death by your armor in the cold winter, take off your armor now..." Yujiro Maeda yelled, making Date Shiroxie and Date Kitano's heads tremble. They didn't dare to say any nonsense and hurry up. He took off his armor and put on his extremely ugly military coat.
Human beings still have to rely on external objects to highlight their identity. When these famous warriors wore the same clothes as the wild samurai, the class resistance that had always existed was actually weakened a lot. Those famous warriors no longer He was no longer interested in making jokes about these wild warriors, and the atmosphere actually became more harmonious.
The sky was gradually getting dark, and all the registrars began to speed up. In the light of the torch, Yujiro Maeda wrote the name of the samurai in front of him on the roster, and at the same time wrote it on a piece of bamboo. After the recording was completed, Date Shiroye He would split the bamboo pieces with a knife, keep half of the bamboo and give the other half to the soldiers.
"Keep it, put it on with a rope and wear it around your neck from now on. Many of you can't write. You will need to use it when you need to pick up things or verify your identity in the future. Remember, if it is damaged or lost, you must ask the officer for a new one in time." Okay... Next one!"
Darkness has enveloped the earth at this moment, and Hakodate has become a city of torches under the starry sky. Except for the Kansai ships that will be used to transport soldiers later, all the remaining pier slots on the pier have been crowded by fishermen near Ezo. full.
The problem of feeding thousands of people must be solved. Long Ye brought a large amount of military expenditure, which was put to use at this moment. The quartermasters shuttled back and forth between the dock and the campsite, and the whole ship of sea urchins, shrimps , crabs, kelp, sea fish... all of them were bought without any negotiation at all. This kind of generosity will still be fresh in the memory of the fishermen in Ezo ten years later.
Not only that, Master Long also provided them with a lot of sake. Soon the samurai who were eating seafood and drinking wine began to dance excitedly around the bonfire. Some drunkards even played sumo wrestling. The samurai wearing green military coats followed Two bears are the same.
Lord Long looked at the excited warriors and sighed in a low voice, "Enjoy your last meal in your home country. You will not be able to return to your hometown within ten years. Of course, there will be many people who will never be able to return home. Enjoy it!”
At this moment, someone suddenly shouted from the beach, "Look, there is a ship coming in the sea? The lights are bright! What kind of ship is that..."
Sure enough, a seki ship sailed from the south in Hakodate Bay. Not only were the lights brightly lit, but there was also the faint sound of taiko drums, which seemed to be the drums of a shrine.
