In the Eight-Tail Wasteland, the new wind is biting, flags and streamers are swaying, and soldiers and armor are like clouds.
The horse-printed flags of various Kanto vassals clustered together, pointing to the sky like spiritual flags during rituals.
The flags of the Kanto vassals became more and more exaggerated, especially those of the Homutsu daimyo Tsugaru family.
The family pattern of "卍" hangs on a golden Zen staff as thick as the mouth of a bowl, which looks particularly ostentatious.
The Zen staff is carried by a strong samurai. Due to the strong wind today, the samurai needs two iron cannon ashigaru to help maintain stability.
Matsudaira Tadaki sneered: "A bunch of bumpkins."
Above his head, a large flag of the Osaka Acting Official Seal engraved with the family crest of Sanye Aoi must not be placed in the sky, lest the world would not know about it.
The grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the nephew of the shogun, the acting official of Osaka, was looking eastward in high spirits at this time.
In the open space five miles away to the east, about three thousand Ming barbarians and Korean soldiers were calmly arrayed there.
The clumsy square formation, messy firearms, and tattered armor that appeared in Songping's eyes really shocked this famous general who had experienced the Warring States Period.
"What! After waiting for a long time, we are waiting for such an opponent, who is not even as good as Ishigao's bottom-ranked foreign daimyo like Deyu and Omi!"
The mocking sounds of Nagai Naomasa, the lord of Toriyama Domain, could be heard all around.
Masanao Tsuchiya, an old member of the Tsuchiura clan, stroked his hands and said with a smile:
"The iron artillery team has no pikemen for cover, the barrels are so short, and the artillery and infantry are mixed together. This is not an army, it must be pirates of the Shimadzu family! I really don't know how those bastards in Kyushu fight!"
Some other feudal lords began to complain:
"Such an opponent still needs the shogunate to mobilize his troops? The samurai under Lord Matsumoto can easily win."
During the Osaka Christian Rebellion, the shogunate mobilized a huge military force of 120,000 from the Kanto, Shikoku, and Tokai vassals.
According to the news from some of the feudal lords who stayed in Edo, the daimyo who participated in fighting the rebellion will not receive any rewards. Instead, each soldier will only be given a daily salary of five yen (a Japanese unit of measurement) in accordance with the military service regulations of the shogunate. .
Considering that this war is not a war between lords, but a war between lords and the dominated believers (peasants), it is the responsibility that the daimyo should naturally bear.
Moreover, the main energy of the shogunate will be used to deal with the increasingly rampant Ming barbarians and to prepare for the upcoming decisive battle of Sekigahara.
As the nominal leader of the daimyo participating in the war, Matsudaira couldn't help but become furious when he heard these weird arguments.
"Don't talk nonsense! There will be rewards. The barbarians of the Ming Dynasty robbed a lot of property in Kyushu. I heard that the gold and silver collected by the Shimadzu pirates were dedicated to them. Kill them all. The shogunate promised you to divide the gold and silver. "
The Catholic rebellion in Yawei City is so weak that it is nothing to worry about. As long as the supporting army in front of them is eliminated, those desperate believers will definitely leave the city and surrender immediately.
Songping said angrily: "The rebels in Yawei City are expecting the Lord to bring them a miracle every day. Today, we, the Eastern Army, will destroy this miracle in front of the rebels. All the great names of the Eastern Army, how dare you Don’t you dare kill gods with me!”
"Lord Matsudaira is right. Shimazu, Nabeshima, and the Kyushu daimyo are all traitors! No one in the Western Army can be trusted. We still have to rely on the Kanto daimyo to fight the war!"
"indeed!"
After listening to the speeches of the elders next to Matsudaira, the Kanto daimyo howled like wild beasts.
Acting Officer Osaka nodded with satisfaction, pointed at the Ming army formation that had been formed in front of him, and said with disdain:
"Who wants to be the first attacker?!"
As soon as Matsudaira Tadaki finished his words, he heard a loud shout, and a veteran among the great names rushed out on horseback.
But when I saw that this man was thin in stature and had a stern look in his eyes, he looked like he had fought for the rest of his life from the Warring States Period.
I saw that this general was five feet tall (about 1.4 meters), wearing golden plum sandalwood board and dovetail plate armor all over his body, a dog-head sunbag on his head, and riding a short, fat and famous Oyu horse on his crotch.
How to describe such a portrait of a famous Warring States general?
It would be more objective and fair to use the original words of an Italian missionary at the end of the Tokugawa period:
"(Japanese cavalry) they were like monkeys on the back of dogs."
This was a military commander in the Warring States Period, a great name with a salary of fifteen thousand koku, the first lord of the Ushikyu Domain in Hitachi Province, and Yamaguchi Shigemasa with great military exploits.
Matsudaira looked at the veteran, who was over fifty years old, and nodded to Yamaguchi, who still had a sword.
Yamaguchi Shigemasa waved his fan, slapped the horse's belly hard, and issued an attack order to the 500 Ushijiu cavalry behind him.
The short Japanese horse with a straight neck stepped on the thin snow and slowly accelerated towards the enemy formation five miles away.
Unlike other horse breeds, Japanese horses hold their heads and necks high, but their handsome posture makes it easier for the rider to swing weapons from the front and injure the horse.
The Japanese horse will relatively not affect the rider's movements on the horse.
Because both the rider and the horse are really too short.
