Samurai of the Takeda Family

The 268th chapter Li Xiao encircles the net

The Shigao survey on the east bank of the Shentong River has been completed. The total is 6,730 shi, and it has five villages with a population of 2,200 people.

According to the 60% previously negotiated ratio, Shioya Qiuzhen will receive the four thousand stones of Zhixing.

The remaining two thousand stones will be designated as Li Xiao's direct jurisdiction.

After Yanya Qiuzhen was assigned the Zhixing Land, he immediately began to build the Ape Cang City on the Ape Cang Mountain.

As the lord of the land, he was sent to the general service, and three hundred people participated in the construction of Ape Cang City. All the materials for the fortification were raised by the salt house Qiuzhen of the salt house. It is expected to be completed within ten months and will become a barrier to the east of Li Xiaocheng's city.

Just when Li Xiao began to be ambitious because of the increase in his territory.

An unexpected news disrupted his steps.

At that time, the spring rain never stopped, and several large rivers such as the Echuchu Shogawa River, the Jintong River, the Changwan Tera River, and the Kurobe River were flooding.

Li Xiao's collar is no exception. After being hit by this flood, Li Xiao is already very busy.

Settling in the victims and taking out spare grains to help the victims, this series of actions has made Li Xiao a good reputation among the Vietnamese and Chinese people.

However, Li Xiao also knows that his family is weak. After this relief, it does not include the reconstruction after the flood. It is estimated that it will not be long before Li Xiao's stocked rice warehouse will be able to run rats.

It is not only Li Xiao's side, but the Yuezhong Jinbao family, Shiina family big and small forces, have been affected by this rare flood in ten years, and are currently busy dealing with matters in their confinement.

This incident also put Li Xiao's Vietnam-China expansion plan on hold for the time being.

However, the disaster of the flood was only part of it. On this day, Yokotani Yukoshige himself rushed to control the castle city overnight, and reported to him an extremely shocking incident.

At that time, Li Xiaozheng had been busy for a day and completed the relief work for the local area. When he returned to Chengsheng City, he saw Yokotani Yukoshige looking down and waiting in the castle tower of Chengsheng City.

Li Xiao knew that if it wasn't for an urgent matter, Yokotani was definitely not. When he came to the castle tower so eagerly to meet him directly, it was usually by Yokotani Yuki Qing who relayed the information he had obtained.

Yokotani Xingzhong knelt down in front of Li Xiao and solemnly took out a blood-stained letter, saying: "My lord, this is the information obtained at the price of two subordinates."

As Li Xiao opened the letter, Yokotani Yukoshige described his situation at the time. It turned out that Hida's sister Xiaolu's family was already restless, and her sister's Xiaolu Raizuna began to fan the flames behind his back, quietly inciting the dissatisfaction of Hida's domestic forces against Li Xiao.

And Yokotani Yukoshige's subordinate work lurking in the sister Xiaolu's house happened to learn the news and immediately spied on it.

Seizaku secretly learned about the marriage of the daughter of Lai Tsuna, the sister-in-law, to Jiangma Shizheng, the eldest son of Jiangma Fraser.

After he heard it carefully, he immediately communicated the news through a secret channel, but it was a pity that he was spotted by the vigilant sister Laizuna on the way.

Sousaku was killed shortly after passing the message, and the ninja who was in charge of the message transmission was intercepted by the samurai samurai in the middle of the journey. After being seriously injured, he finally passed the message to Yokotani Yukishige.

However, the ninja still died from his injuries.

It was heard that the Jiangma family and the sister Xiaolu family were able to put aside their decades of hostility and abandon the past hostilities. After the secret marriage, Li Xiao saw from this blood-stained letter a secretly directed against herself, centered on the sister Xiaolu family. The conspiracy is quietly brewing.

"Very well, Sister Xiaolu Laizuna, the man who has dominated Hida in history, really can't wait for him to take it lightly, he secretly wants Jiangma's family to stabb me in the back."

Li Xiao snorted, and said secretly in his heart, and then replied to Yokotani Yuki, "Thank you, this piece of information is very important to me. Please take care of the ninja who sacrificed for my family in this mission. I will not Treat them badly."

Seeing the news, Gu Xingzhong also let go of the heavy responsibilities, and immediately retired.

After Yokotani's departure, Li Xiao immediately summoned Honda Masanobu, and Shima Katsura came to discuss the matter.

At that time, Bendo Masabe, Shima Katsumi was shocked when he heard about Jiang Majiazheng’s secret communication with his sister Xiaolu’s family.

The three of them stood in the middle of the night on the map of Hida and Yuezhong to discuss the matter. After the discussion, they felt increasingly uncomfortable with Li Xiao's current strategic situation.

For Li Xiao, the news of Jiangma's rebellion was even worse than Uesugi Kenshin's attack on the city.

If Jiangma’s family turns against the water, and now Hida’s domestic Takeda and Jiangma alliance are fighting against Sister Koji, the balance of power in the inner island will be broken.

At that time, the three families of Feida, Jiangma, Zixiaolu, and Inner Island will fight against Li Xiao's family.

And the consequences of Jiangma’s reversal are not only that. Li Xiao’s return from Shenoka Castle to Shinano will be cut off, completely cut off from his family’s support, and finally like an island far away from his family, trapped and flying. Between Sa and Yuezhong.

Not only that, if the worst is planned, the two families of Yuezhong Jinbao and Shiina will attack at the same time. Li Xiao will be attacked before and after, and it will be formed by the force of Yuezhong and Hida. Reinforcement, Li Xiao also has no power to stand up.

"We must stabilize the situation in Jiangma's house."

Li Xiao categorically stated that he knew that once Jiang Ma’s family rebelled, his situation in Yuezhong would collapse, and all his painstaking efforts would be wiped out.

Bendo believes: "But the lord, how can we stay stable? We rented the Jiangma family’s Shengang Yinshan for three years. We break. Knowing that we don’t have any, we can exchange the price of Shengang Yinshan to Jiangma Family."

Shima Katsumeng said: "Yes, Shengang Yinshan can never exchange Jiangma's family. At the moment, our Shenokabei, Snakeweibei's 1,000 standing reserves, are all maintained by Shengang Yinshan. If it is Shengang Yinshan, Once returned to Jiangma’s family, the output of the current territory is simply not enough to maintain the two reserve teams."

"Furthermore, if the Jiangma family regains the Shengang Yinshan and mines with our current soot-blowing method, its power will also grow to an unlimited level. We must not allow the Jiangma family to grow like this."

"The current situation is very unfavorable to us, can we ask for help from the master's house?" Dao Shengmeng suggested.

Li Xiao shook his head and said: "For the time being, my family will not draw forces to conquer Hida before the capture of Nishi-Ueno. Even if Nishi-Ueno is defeated, they must face the challenges of the Uesugi family and the Imagawa family at the same time. Just as passive as me."

Li Xiaoxin knew that the Takeda family was about to enter its most difficult stage. The Takeda Imagawa Alliance, after Takeda Yoshinobu's rebellion, the two families only maintained superficial harmony, but in fact they existed in name only.

The north face has to face the strong pressure of the Echigo dragon Uesugi family, and the south face has to deal with the Imagawa family, who may turn his face at any time. The passive situation is actually unprecedented.

Li Xiao nodded and said: "You are right. In this way, the break between us and the Jiangma family is inevitable. In the future, we must face the joint attack of the two major forces of Yuezhong Hida. It will be an encirclement net against me, Li Xiaozhi."

"So from now on, we have to concentrate our full efforts on preparing for this to deal with the most critical thing for me, Li Xiao, at the moment."

Bendo believes in the truth, Shima Katsumo nodded, and now the three great families of Hida are gradually joining forces to counter the situation of Li Xiao, which has gradually formed. This is definitely a big crisis for Li Xiao.

It was the unprecedented test that Li Xiao's forces had encountered. Among the five major forces, none of them was inferior to Li Xiao's present, and the forces of Jinbao and Shiina were even more surpassed.

The only thing Li Xiao currently holds is that they learned the news in advance, so there is still time to prepare.

Bendo believes that: "At the moment, Jiang Ma's family is only trying to maintain the alliance with the other party before the Jiang Ma family is overturned. I hope that there will be enough time to prepare before the formation of the encirclement."

Dao Sheng Meng also said: "But this delaying strategy is not a solution. Sooner or later, there will be a battle between my family and the Jiangma family."

Li Xiao looked at Dao Shengmeng and Bendo believed the two, and said: "No matter what you say, the immediate task is urgent. It seems that we can't disclose this matter. Both of them are my important ministers of Li Xiao. This news must be made by the ministers. It’s confidential in China and must not be leaked out. I don’t want to cause unnecessary panic in the regiment of ministers."

Dao Shengmeng, Bendu Zhengxin agreed to say: "Lord, the minister must keep the secret."

Li Xiao succumbed to Dao Meng, and Honda Zhengxin said: "So next, the two must act in secret, and the family must be fully mobilized, and all forces must be assembled to deal with the crisis."

Knowing that Jiang Ma's family was about to turn back the water, Li Xiao understood that he must start now to make arrangements to cope with the future Hida and Yuezhong attacks on him from north to south.

A few days later, Li Xiao summoned his retainers to announce the new military system.

Li Xiaoxian uses Shengang City and Chengsheng City as Hida, and the two major defensive centers of Vietnam, Central, South and North.

Kamioka is stationed in Kamioka Castle, and is governed by Samurai Shima Katsume, followed by Iron Cannon General Akira Oba, with a total of 500 people, and is temporarily responsible for the defense of Hida.

Secondly, the snake tail was stationed in the castle city, and it was temporarily controlled by the Admiral Koichiro Kinoshita, followed by the mountain tiger, who was still five hundred people, and was temporarily responsible for the defense of the Vietnamese and Chinese sides.

Unlike before, Li Xiao expanded his own banner this time, emulating the pioneers of the Tokugawa family in history and establishing his own banner army.

Li Xiao created his own banner army. Another plan was to see that the invincible Echigo banner army from Uesugi Teruhu was founded in the battle of Zengshan Castle, so he made this decision.

The first hand of the flag was created by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the 9th year of Yongluo. Tokugawa Ieyasu divided Mikawa into the east and the west. Tokugawa Ieyasu was divided into two parts. Ishikawa Iamari was in charge (later replaced by Ishikawa Shumasa).

The first hand of the banner was Tokugawa Ieyasu's direct control of the banner army, under the command of Tokugawa clan generals Tadachi, Hirotaka, Tadao Torii, and later generals such as Yasumasa Kambara, with a strength of 500 to 600. Between rides.

This was the five hundred samurai samurai that Tokugawa Ieyasu was often proud of and mentioned in words.

Naturally, Li Xiao couldn't organize such a huge banner army of five hundred samurai like Tokugawa Ieyasu, the lord of a country.

This time, Li Xiao's banner army is dominated by the mothers of the original Shioka Ichiha. Many of them are composed of young men from 16 to 35 years old from the original Hida, the ruined family home of Yuezhong.

Before Li Xiao's 20,000 Zhixing, Saito, Kawasami, and Renjia were all destroyed by Li Xiao, so their original retainers lost their own Zhixing, either became wild warriors or just stayed at home.

Now Li Xiao has incorporated them into the banner. As the children of the original martial arts, their martial arts are not bad. Now being incorporated into the banner by Li Xiao, this will prevent these unemployed people from rebelling in the future, and at the same time, it is also used to strengthen local surveillance. Way of force.

However, this time the Qiben Army Li Xiao did not follow it. The Tokugawa Family Banner Army was established by samurai standards, so it was so expensive.

He is still imitating the Kamokabei, the snake's tail is prepared, and the formation is in the form of standing. This banner has a strength of 700 people. Li Xiao believes that if the western phalanx is matured, it will not be inferior to the banner army composed of regular warriors, and it will become Li Xiao's greatest combat power.

Li Xiao expects to use this banner army as a mobile force to cope with the future battles in Yuezhong and Hida on the two fronts, one place to defend and one place to attack, strive to form an advantage in the local area, and repel the enemy all the way.

However, Li Xiao was very tight on the military expenses for the formation of this banner army, and Li Xiao had to move around and collect it.

Originally, Shengang Yinshan maintained Shengang, and the two cities and students had a wealth of money. The tax revenue between the city and the trade routes between Shengang and Shengang was the annual tribute of Zhixingdi, and the annual income of the salt house firm. The bonus points can be added together to maintain this banner army.

However, this year Chengshengcheng suffered a disaster, and the annual tribute income is expected to shrink significantly. Now Li Xiao is already tightening his belt.

But even if it is so urgent, in the face of the five major forces of Hida Yuezhong in the future, Li Xiao still must quickly assemble this banner army.

Faced with Li Xiao’s military expansion plan, all the retainers were shocked. They did not know what purpose Li Xiao wanted to build this army. Based on the current situation, Shengang was equipped with snake tails, and the offensive was insufficient. Enough self-protection, even in an emergency, beware of an enemy attack, you can also temporarily recruit some peasants and soldiers to assist in the defense.

As the internal affairs of the Tibetan Chang'an ~www.wuxiamtl.com~, it was even more shocked. Maintaining this army is tantamount to exhausting all of Li Xiao’s financial resources. In the future, Li Xiao’s account will not be topped. The income of a penny increases.

And there is no wealthy funds to deal with sudden emergencies.

Facing the opposition from the retainers who took the Tibetan Chang'an as the leader, Li Xiao, Honda Masanobu, and Shimaki looked at each other.

Li Xiao smiled bitterly. This is also his current helpless move, but he also suffers from not being able to tell them the truth.

But even so, under Li Xiaozhi's insistence, the formation policy of this new banner army was still adopted with an iron fist.

Knowing that the expansion of the army was finalized, Dazang Changan's face was as deep as water. In his eyes, it was obviously unwise for Li Xiao, who had always been cautious, to make such a decision.

As soon as the establishment of the banner army was passed, all the vassals still dispersed from the castle tower, but Koichiro Kinoshita remained.

He actually asked Li Xiao to resign his position as a general of the slick tail. . ..