Samurai of the Takeda Family

After Li Xiao made up his mind about attacking Vietzhong City, he immediately ordered Yokotani Yukiki to contact his brother Yokotani Yukishige. Li Xiao wanted to ask him how the ninjas were responsible for collecting information on Yuezhong recently.

This group of two hundred ninjas, but Li Xiao let the sisters Xiaohata run the Mingguo ramen restaurant with a high salary.

Naturally, Li Xiao expected them to make some achievements.

Upon receiving an urgent call from Li Xiao, Yokotani Yukishige non-stop, and came to Shengang City after the evening.

Yokotani Yukiju was still dressed as a vain monk, and he looked like a man in the dust, apparently coming from a long distance.

Li Xiao first asked Yokotani Yukizhong how he had planned for the assassination of the elite ninja team.

Fortunately, Yokotani replied: "Because of the strict requirements of the lord, there are not many people who meet the requirements. In the six months since the establishment, only twelve ninjas have met the requirements. They are already in training and can perform assassination missions at any time."

Li Xiao was slightly dissatisfied when he heard it, but then under Yokotani's explanation, he understood the reason.

It turned out that the opponent was also based on the principle of Ning Que not abuse. Since Li Xiao has high expectations for this assassination ninja team, the selection of personnel is not easy.

In Li Xiao's view, Yokotani Yukoshige obviously selected and trained this assassination ninja team as a special force for later generations.

Moreover, Yokotani Yukoshige also formulated a rule to eliminate the weakest person every two months. Of course, in return for their strict training, this ninja assassination team is also doing things with a high salary.

After listening to Yokotani's detailed description, Li Xiao was still satisfied with his work this time.

Then he asked Yokotani Yukushige about the situation of Shirojo Castle and Saito's family.

Yokotani Yukizhong had just rushed back from Chengshengcheng this time, and he had collected the first-hand information about Chengshengcheng and reported them to Li Xiao.

Chengsheng City, also known as Shewei City, covers the entire hilly and mountainous body with about 460 north-south areas and 90 east-west areas. It was considered a large-scale mountain city at that time.

The city lies on the east side of the Jintong River, and the south side is the location of its big hand gate. All on the south side is the most defensive area in the city. The fortifications on the city include earthen bridge, Maruma out, double tiger mouth, and manual cutting. Do the cliff.

Apparently it was carefully shot by the city defender.

Based on these points in the intelligence, Li Xiao learned that this city-born city was to be attacked by force, relying on Li Xiao's two hundred standings and the newly recruited three hundred people, it would not be enough.

Li Xiao was right.

In fact, before the city was surrounded by an army led by the head of the Jinbao family, the head of the Jinbao family, and was attacked for more than a year, it has not yet fallen.

Later, Jinbao Nagisa and Saito Niche, the Patriarch of the Saito family, reconciled under the agency of the Noto Hatayama family on the condition that the Jinbao Nagano married their daughter to Saito Niki.

As a result, the Jinbo family and Saito family formed an alliance, and their relationship quickly heated up.

In addition to the strong castle, the Saito family itself is not weak. The Saito family’s own stone has 15,000 stones, and with the convenience of the castle city as an important trading base of Hida Etchu, one year’s business Income is also high.

There is a permanent station of about 100 people in the city. If it is mobilized and conscripted, a peasant and soldier of about 500 can also be assembled for battle.

As far as the strength of both parties is concerned, the Saito family is only above the current strength of Li Xiao, not below.

Of course, if Li Xiao relies on the continued development of Shinoka Silver Mountain next year, then his strength will surpass the Saito family, but for Li Xiao, if he waits for the Saito family's strategy next year, it will undoubtedly be a missed opportunity.

In addition to his own power, Saito Ka has two powerful alliances. The wife of Saito’s Patriarch Saito Riki, Etchu guardian Daijinbao’s daughter, his son Saito Noriri married his sister Koji Yoshira. Daughter.

Sister Xiaolu’s family hasn’t talked about it yet. This year, it will definitely not pose a threat to Li Xiao. If Sister Xiaolu relies on his father and son’s ambitions in the future, it would be a strong enemy of Li Xiao.

But the Jinbao family is different.

Among the four counties of Viet-Chong, Wubu County (Central Viet Nam) and Sheshui County (northwest of Viet-Central) are the sphere of influence of the Jinbo family. The central and eastern part) was occupied by the Shiina family, who also guarded the generations in Etchu, whose head Shiina Kangyin was also the Shiina county governor.

However, after three years in Yonglu, the power of Echigo has entered Xinchuan County.

Tonami County (southwest of Central Etchi) is now the sphere of influence of the Yixiangzong.

The above is only an approximate range, in fact, the various counties are intertwined.

As one of the three guardian generations of Viet and Central in the past, the current situation of the Jinbao family should be described by the four words of rebirth after a catastrophe.

In the 17th year of Yongzheng, that is, in 1520, the head of the Jinbao family, Jinbao Keizong, was defeated by Nagao Weijing (father of Uesugi Kenshin), and the Jinbao clan fell away.

Later, his son, Jinbao, restored the Jinbao family, defeated Xiangzong, one of the invaders, and restored the old leader of the family, Sheshui County.

After completing the great cause of ZTE, the head of the gods was energetic and started a united battle between Vietnam and China, and defended the offensive of Daishina's family power against another Yuezhong.

At that time, Shiina couldn't stand the offensive of the chief priest, so he asked Uesugi Kenshin for help, which became Uesugi Kenshin's pretext for intervening in Yuezhong.

In the third year of Yonglu, one year before the fourth Sichuan-Nakajima battle, Kenshin Uesugi followed his grandfather and father's original route of sending troops to Yuezhong for the first time.

With the help of Uesugi Kenshin, the Shiina family defeated the army of the chief post of Jinbao, and after several fierce battles, Uesugi Kenshin captured Toyama Castle, the main castle of Jinbao family twice.

The head of the gods had no alternative but to pass through Noto Hatayama Yoshizuna's intermediary to surrender to Uesugi Kenshin.

Because of Shiina Yasuyin's introduction of other countries' forces to intervene in Vietnam, the chief priest and Shiina Yasuyin forged an indispensable enmity.

After Uesugi Kenshin was subjugated to the post of chief priest, Uesugi Kenshin took it lightly, allowing him to retain the two counties of the wife county and the Sheshui county.

Therefore, as an ally of the Saito family of Chengshengcheng, the power of the Jinbao family is definitely not something that Li Xiao can shake now. If Li Xiao attacks Chengshengcheng, the reaction and attitude of the Jinbao family must be considered.

Li Xiao had to consider that if he captured Chengshengcheng and attracted the conquest army from the Jinbao family, he must deal with it in this way.

After listening to Yokotani's report, Li Xiao made some arrangements for Yuezhong Intelligence, and asked him to retreat and continue to be responsible for the surveillance of Chengshengcheng.

From the next day on, Li Xiao will pay close attention to his standing training, and immediately form a new army to enhance his strength.

At the moment, his three hundred standings were already successful in training, and Li Xiao immediately handed them over to Dao Shengmeng, so that he and the original two hundred standings, reorganized the city's five hundred troops.

Li Xiao's top priority is to quickly train this standing arm into an elite army for combat.

On the basis of Xiaoban Xiaoxian's original iron artillery team, Li Xiaoxian expanded and organized his own iron artillery team.

Li Xiao spent a lot of money to buy iron cannons from Omi merchants, and formed an eighty-man iron cannon team for himself.

The cost of buying iron guns almost spent all of Li Xiao’s savings, and also advanced all the income of Jingang Yinshan this year, which is equivalent to borrowing a debt from Yanya Qiuzhen, but Li Xiao is convinced that the money is spent. Good value for money.

In previous battles, Li Xiao had seen the role of the iron cannon, a hot weapon, in the era of cold weapons.

In addition to the extremely high lethality of the iron cannon, its roaring sound will also shock, and many inferiors who are not aware of the iron cannon are very light.

In addition to the use of iron cannons, Li Xiao also decided to refer to the Spanish phalanx, which has become the mainstream tactics in Europe in this era, and the Morris phalanx, which will be in the hands of the northern lion Gustav II in the future. .

Li Xiao decided to adopt the method of mixing the iron artillery team and the foot light team to train his standing equipment into a regular tactical formation.

The Spanish infantry phalanx inherited from the Macedonian phalanx and the Roman legion phalanx, with companies, columns, and infantry regiments as the military organization.

Companies generally consist of between two hundred and fifty to three hundred people, while the columns consist of four to five companies, and the infantry regiment consists of three columns.

With its military organization and execution of combat missions, it is similar to a modern regiment and battalion-level unit.

In the Spanish infantry phalanx, a column is generally used as the smallest combat unit. A column generally has two different companies, namely the Spearman Company and the Musketeer Company. Sometimes Ranwen.com also mixes halberds, swords and shields. Bing company.

For a period in the sixteenth century, the Spanish phalanx ruled the wars in Europe.

The tactical formation Li Xiao will use will also be lined up, mainly following the method of Staf II.

Gustav II was known by Li Xiao when he read a biography of twenty military strategists in the world by Ranwenshu.com when he was in elementary school, and he was very impressed.

In history, Gustaf II was the King of Sweden. In the later evaluation, he was both an outstanding general and an outstanding military reformer.

The era when he shines is the Thirty Years War that he participated in as a side of the Protestant camp.

However, Gustaf’s tactics were not his own creation. The man he followed suit was the Dutch star Prince Mossley.

Morrismin’s battle formation, known as the "Morris Cross", is also based on the phalanx of the Roman Legion and later the Spanish phalanx.

After Li Xiao came up with this idea, UU read www.uukanshu.com the next day to find Katsutake Shima, Xiaoken Oba, Koichiro Kinoshita and other family generals to discuss.

Li Xiao's ideas are simply unheard of for the Japanese of this era. Even a well-informed person like Katsutake Shima has never heard of any tactical formation.

Dao Shengmeng took the lead in asking Li Xiao's question: "My lord, your subordinates have never heard of what you think. Generally speaking, the tactics of the big names of various countries when preparing for a battle are all in a joint battle. The iron cannon team and the bow-foot light team shoot first, and then the gun-foot light team presses on the offensive. What is the advantage of the so-called tactical formation of the lord?"

Li Xiao explained to Shima Katsumeng: "The past tactics used bow-foot light tactics, not the light-footed tactics of iron guns. Iron guns are different from bows and arrows. They have a longer range and slower shooting than bows and arrows. , The lethality is stronger than the bow and arrow, so the use of the new tactics is completely a new tactic with iron cannons and light guns."

The new tactics of the Artillery Corps?

As soon as Li Xiao said this, all the retainers immediately expressed their astonishment. . ..

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