Samurai of the Takeda Family

Chapter 164 Expansion of the Standing Army

Li Xiao turned to look at the person who spoke directly to himself. He was only in his twenties, the youngest person among the people, and he could see that his figure was very strong and his body was very strong. The strength of the force is not what Li Xiaoping saw. In this era, most Japanese people are very thin due to malnutrition and famine.

This may be because the other party's daily nutrition is better.

Li Xiao speculated that the people who owned farmland at home and hired others to cultivate their own land belonged to the category of the landlord class. In the village, you can discuss and decide on major issues in the village with the famous master and the group leader called by the respected elders.

Li Xiao asked the other person, "Your name is Huding, right? Why do you say that?"

The young man named Huding, ignoring the sidelines and winking desperately, Huo Ran stood up and said loudly, "My lord, I don't know, I also participated in the battle between the adults and the masters on the river. Although the adults won in the end. Yes. But my Hida spear thrower has caused a lot of casualties to the adults, so the adults are here to retaliate. Am I right?"

"Spear thrower? Did you participate in that battle?" Li Xiao smiled slightly and asked, "So these spear throwers are from the village where you have a mountain?"

Youpalang's face changed dramatically and said loudly: "In reply to the adults, the young people in the village are ignorant and offend the adults. This is really their fault. Please forgive me. The villain is willing to...yes, it means to dang the family. , I will also give this year’s tax to the adults, but please spare their lives. I ask the adults to have mercy."

"My lord, please have mercy."

Suddenly, there were a few other people kneeling down in the audience, but Huding still stood proudly and shouted: "What the celebrity asks him to do, the big deal is death, my lord, you said yes, those throwing spears Most of the hands are from our mountain village."

Li Xiao laughed, suddenly sinking his face and shouting: "Huding, are you really afraid of death? Are you afraid if you are punished?"

The so-called torture means that the male xìng is tied to the キ character frame, and the female xìng is tied to the cross for stabbing. This is a very harsh criminal law.

After the Battle of Nagashino, the Oda family besieged Iwamura Castle for five months, and the Takeda family commander Akiyama Shintomo ran out of ammunition and surrendered. Oda Nobunaga renounced his promise of immortality and executed him by punishment.

When Li Xiao said that he would be punished by punishment, everyone's expressions changed. The old Yupalang burst into tears and said bitterly, "My lord, please be kind and have mercy on the people of my mountain village, Huding. His parents died very early, so there is no discipline, so please let him go."

Huding laughed loudly and said: "Famous master, if you don't ask him, I will die if I die. What are you afraid of."

Li Xiao nodded secretly, such a person is not afraid of life and death, and upright, can become his own warrior.

Li Xiao stood up and said, "Huding, besides you, how many people are there in this village who participated in the army on the river and fought with me."

Huding suddenly changed his face and said: "Don't you even let them go? I will take care of this matter myself, and don't hurt others."

Li Xiao nodded and said: "Well said, it is one person who does the work and the other person. The river Fuxin who tried to put me to death has been killed by me, so my grievances with him have ended. I will not be angry about this. Any one of you in the mountain village."

Hearing what Li Xiao said, Huding opened his mouth wide in surprise, and asked, "My lord, is what you said is true?"

However, in his old age, for fear that Li Xiao would regret it again, he hurriedly said: "Thank you for your pity, the people in our mountain village are grateful for this, and are willing to serve the adults."

Li Xiao laughed and said, "Huding, of course what I said is true. Not only that, but I admire your outspoken courage, so I want you to be my samurai. I wonder if you want it?"

"warrior?"

Huding was instantly blinded. He knew how big the gap between the samurai and the people was and how uncrossable he was.

Kinoshita Tokichiro worked under Oda Nobunaga for seven years, accompany him with smiles, served with all his heart, and made many contributions. Only then was Oda Nobunaga officially promoted to the head of the Zubei group and became a samurai.

Yamamoto Kansuke traveled all over the world because of his disability, seeking official positions, and only became a samurai when he was almost in his forties.

However, Li Xiao promised in one breath that he would let him meet for the first time and be born as ordinary people, and he would be his own warrior without any success, which undoubtedly broke the rules of the time. However, Li Xiao is a Ming countryman, so he doesn't care about so many rules in Japan.

Huding bowed down at once, and said with trepidation: "My lord, Huding had nothing to do, so he was promoted to a samurai. I am not very frightened. I ask the lord to withdraw his order. Huding is willing to be with the lord as a servant. It's okay."

Well, Li Xiao nodded appreciatively for Huding's respect.

And Shigang Yiyu also said on the sidelines: "Sir, it's really not easy to promote. This will make the rank of the family wrong."

"Okay," Li Xiao took the katana from Shioka Kazuha, and said, "When you do a great job for me in the future, it won't be too late to be promoted to a samurai. Follow me now."

"Oh!"

Huding agreed with excitement. Not only did he not die this time, but he became a servant of the lord. Although he is not a samurai now, the lord promised him that he would be promoted to a samurai as long as he was given credit.

All this made Huding feel like a dream, as if he was living in unreality.

Li Xiao declined yet Hachiro's request to stay as a hospitality, and walked out of his big house.

A large number of people gathered outside the village, obviously they were all waiting for news in the house.

Li Xiao stood on the steps, scanned the crowd condescendingly, and then said loudly: "People, I am Li Xiao, the new land leader here. I came from Mingguo. I have understood everyone’s difficulties, so this year’s taxation has been delayed. After the autumn harvest, it will be paid again, and it will be halved."

As soon as Li Xiao's voice fell, hundreds of surnames became excited and bowed down to thank Li Xiao for his kindness.

Li Xiao continued: "However, the lord of the family ordered me to build a city here. Everyone must be used to build the city. Therefore, everyone must participate, and I will not treat you badly. Two servings of support rice a day."

When Li Xiao's voice fell in this way, the excitement of the people present was better than just before.

In the past, when serving the general service, where did the lord give support to the rice, every time he went to eat and drink, he still brought his own dry food.

Li Xiao's relative kindness immediately won the support of the leaders, and Huding felt even more that he did not follow the wrong person.

But for Li Xiao, the construction of Shengang City is the first priority. It is July, and Shengang City must be built before the heavy snowfall in October, otherwise the weather will be bad and there will be no way to build it. It can only be postponed until the next year.

When the net is opened next year, the snow melts and the mountain roads are passable, the Takeda family will hoard the army rations stored in Azuzu County from the mountain roads to Kamioka Castle.

Because of the heavy snow, the time for Hida country to use troops was only half a year. This delay was undoubtedly the more important thing to postpone, the time for the Takeda army to attack Hida country.

Once the fortification year was postponed to next year, it would violate the deadline given by Takeda Shingen.

So for Li Xiao, in any case, it is necessary to build Shengang City before October this year.

However, compared with the weather and manpower considerations, Li Xiao is more worried about the interference from the sister Xiaolu family.

From the consideration of the sister Xiaolu’s family, they would never allow the Takeda family to build such an attacking frontier city at their doorstep. The Jiangma family’s attitude is very clear. It’s better if you don’t give Li Xiaotian, let alone come. Help Li Xiao.

Therefore, Li Xiao must first lay a solid foundation in the local area, and recruit a team here to strengthen his standing army.

Otherwise, with only a hundred people now, it is simply not enough to resist the harassment of the sister Xiaolu family.

Therefore, this Huding is a step that Li Xiao considers to win over the local forces. Only if the local forces are overwhelmed can he take root in the local area. Otherwise, Li Xiao is an outsider, and the attack on the sister Xiaolu’s house is not very good. Way.

After receiving the support of the people in the village of Ariyama, Li Xiao directly asked Yuhachiro and Huding to recruit a 100-scale stand in his own territory.

If it's like the previous battle with the river family, there are as many elite spear throwers as you want.

As a standing army, Li Xiao still offered a seven-year salary, plus two allowances. This salary is simply a high salary for the always poor Hida people.

Li Xiao originally thought that Youbalang and Huding would be very happy about it, but who knows Youbalang, Huding's faces showed embarrassment.

Li Xiao asked with surprise and understood the reason.

It turned out that it was not that they let the loggers in the village serve as Li Xiao's stand-by, but the identity of those spear throwers, untouchables.

In the 4th to 7th centuries AD, Hida was still a remote and barren land for the Yamato court at the time, so it became a place of exile for demoted officials and prisoners.

Many of them were demoted as low-ranking citizens. They were also the lowest-class people in society at that time, and their status was lower than that of ordinary people.

Untouchables also serve as untouchables. Japan has always been a Buddhist country, so ordinary people, even ordinary people, do not engage in slaughter and leather making. Only untouchables can work in this industry.

For the samurai at that time, although they usually did not eat u, leather could be used as a saddle to make armor, so this was also the demand of the untouchables.

The loggers of Hida country ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ were banished and exiled by the court.

As low-level citizens, they don't take care of it on weekdays, but they can go hunting in the mountains and think that eating is the best thing. In particular, Hida is also rich in wild bears, and bear paws are more nutritious.

It is because they are not lacking in food and cutting wood every day, so they are extraordinarily healthy.

But despite this, because their status is so low on weekdays that they are not as good as ordinary people, the daimyo will not recruit them as essential.

This time, the Kawasami family was determined to rebel, so they pieced together military forces everywhere, so they made an exception to recruit loggers from Yushan Village as spear-throwers.

And this amazing soldier was in the standing front of the Takeda army with Li Xiao, using the method of throwing, killing and throwing spears, and established great achievements.

In Yuhachiro and Huding's thinking, Li Xiao felt that Li Xiao would despise their status as untouchables, so they would not be recruited as a stand-by.

But in the thinking of modern people like Li Xiao, there is precisely no such consideration.