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Mikawa Butterfly Chapter 356 Takeda moves first

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    Kira Yoshi listened to their argument with an expressionless face, thinking to himself: "To practice endurance and Qi-nurturing skills, a king must be unpredictable. He must not express his attitude at will. Ask more questions and answer less, listen more and speak less  This monarch is really in trouble! "The reason Kira's army didn't move was because he didn't find a better time to move. It's useless to cross the river on a large scale to attack Ohori Hall. The 13,000-strong army couldn't complete the crossing in an hour.  , at this time, the beacon tower on Ohoridate Castle has been burning for a long time.  The Takeda family's reinforcements would arrive earlier than the Kira army, and the siege troops were waiting for work with their backs against the river. Half of the siege battle was lost before it was even fought, so every siege ended in failure.  He has made this attempt many times, but changing the landing location again and again still has no better effect.  Don¡¯t blame the retainers for meaningless quarrels. Retainers can only understand their thoughts if they give feedback. There are too few other voices in the Kira retainers. Most of the samurai are taciturn or don¡¯t like to interrupt. They do whatever the general says.  This has both advantages and disadvantages. He prefers to hear a special voice, even if he says it wrong.  "In the final analysis, the pressure on the attacking side with inferior troops is too great. What's even more deceiving is that the superior troops on the opposite side are waiting for work. Moreover, the defender is still Takeda Harunobu, who is famous for his good defense. He only wants to win by five points in the war. He shouts that he is  A city is a stronghold and a wall. Humanity is a friend and hatred is an enemy. What he lacks most is patience and perseverance. In terms of ruthlessness and forbearance, he is the first-class in the Warring States Period. He is proficient in military strategy and planning. It is really difficult.  !¡± You can¡¯t blame the retainers for their incompetence, nor can you blame Kira Yoshi for his inaction.  There has never been anyone in the world today who can completely suppress Takeda Harunobu.  Murakami Yoshikiyo defeated the Takeda Army twice in the Uedahara Battle and Toishibengri.  He gave Takeda Harunobu, who was still immature at the time, two head-on blows. Since then, Takeda Harunobu has matured rapidly and become more and more difficult to deal with. He is even more difficult to deal with than those old foxes.  However, he has a group of arrogant and powerful generals who will obey Takeda Harunobu if no one is convinced. Takeda Nobushige is the top lieutenant, Sanada Yukitaka is the sharpest knife, and many wolf-like and tiger-like warriors form the indestructible foundation of the Takeda family, even if history  Even Uesugi Kenshin in his heyday had nothing to do with him.  In the past, he didn't think the Takeda family governor was so difficult to deal with, but he had the impression of the second battle of Kawanakajima.  The Kai no Tiger's senses are just average. He has a reputation for being very resourceful, thoughtful and ruthless, but when faced with the invincible Kira Legion, he is like a paper tiger that breaks through with just one poke.  But he never expected that this person not only had the above advantages, but also had another unknown advantage, that is, he was good at summarizing and learning lessons. He would change his strategic thinking every time he fought a draw, and he would change his mind every time he suffered a defeat.  It becomes more difficult to deal with. The most important thing is that he is unpredictable. You can never guess what tricks he will use to trick you. You must always be careful and watch out for his little moves.  This is very uncomfortable.  This time Takeda Harunobu learned his lesson and laid out a large formation in Hachimanhara waiting for Kira Yoshi to fall into the trap.  It doesn't matter if the Kira Army doesn't fall into the trap. It's to my benefit if we all hold off. As long as one of the other three groups wins, it will immediately cause a chain reaction. For example, if a crisis occurs in Echigo, the Kira Army sitting in the front will be shaken. If there is trouble in the rear, he, the general, will definitely  If he can't sit still and leads his troops to come back for reinforcements, he will achieve his goal.  As long as Kira Yoshitoki leaves, he will definitely take his direct reserve troops with him. By then, the Japanese army left behind in Shinano will be no match for Takeda Harunobu. With 28,000 troops dispatched together, it will take less than a few months to conquer the Kawanakajima area.  Swallow them all, and then fall into a vicious cycle like dominoes one after another. Shinano, Ueno, and Echichu were lost one after another, and their own backyard fell into the chaos of Mutsu Deha's invading army. It would not take two years.  It was completely over. If Echigo hadn't just relied on his ability to seize the territory, would he still be afraid of the Ichikui mob from Echichu and the trash from Dewa Mutsu with his resourcefulness?  As long as you use a little strategy to contact Hojo and share Echigo, you can easily kick the other two out.  The deeper the intentions of Takeda Harunobu, the less Kira Yoshitoki dares to act randomly. At this juncture, it is meaningless to allocate three to five thousand people to support Ueno, Echichu or guard Echigo. The reinforcements cannot make a quantitative difference.  The role of the enemy can't solve any problems. Nagao Kagetora and Yamamoto Tokiyuki are the kind of people who are not sure of joining the battle without fighting. If they think they can withstand it, they won't ask for reinforcements. If they can't withstand it, they will probably give that little reinforcement.  Enough.  If this was the case, if Kira Yoshitoki really planned to attack the city regardless of casualties, let alone the three castles on the Yawatahara, it wouldn't be a problem to fight all the way to the gate of the Takeda Army camp on Chausu Mountain, but he really didn't want to do that.  , specifically asked the Kira Legion to use all their strength, just to wait and see any new changes in the battle situation in other directions.  Based on his judgment, there is probably no problem with the joint war between Ueno Country.?, although the danger to Echigo is great, it is not without a chance to withstand it. The only worry is whether new problems will arise within Echigo, and whether the invading troops of Dewa and Mutsu will forcibly seize it before winter.  If they decide to attack the next castle with ruthlessness but no consequences, it is not impossible. Once the city is broken, the impact will be different.  It is very likely that the two invading armies will choose to stick to it and rely on the support of the walled city to plunder grain and grass to survive the severe winter. The two invading armies that do not need to farm in the next spring will harass the spring sowing, which will cause great harm to Echigo's agriculture.  , and at the same time, the damage to Echigo's public support and popularity was huge.  While anxiously waiting, Shinano entered the most important autumn harvest period of the year. The Shinano people in Asahiyama City gritted their teeth and watched as the Takeda Army swaggered and appointed samurai to supervise the autumn harvest work in Northern Shinano. That was their land, but now it was  The Takeda family occupied the country in a majestic manner, urging annual tribute and taxes such as dongbei money, and recruiting indigenous farmers from Northern Shinano to serve as civilian husbands for the Takeda army. They wanted to peel off their skin, pull their tendons, eat their flesh, and drink their blood.  A group of Shinano people went to Kiragi and requested that the Kira Navy take the opportunity to dispatch and burn the grain and grass drying in the occupied area. It would be better to take the opportunity to burn the nearby castle to teach them a profound lesson.  Kira Yoshi did not agree to their request, but bluntly said that doing so would make innocent farmers anxious.  Forty percent of the grain dried is their annual ration.  You are so happy and comfortable when you are on fire.  How could those farmers survive this year without food rations? They were so anxious that their whole family defected to the Takeda Army. This meant that just to make these people happy, the entire Kira family had to bear the blame for all these losses.  However, he didn't do nothing. When all the annual tribute collected at the end of the autumn harvest in late September was put into warehouses for storage, Kira's navy took advantage of the dim light in the evening and took boats upriver, attacking the earthen warehouses along the way to plunder grain and grass. Kira's navy  The task of the navy is to steal all the food and grass that can be grabbed.  Burning what cannot be taken away is not burning the people's food anyway. The farmers are optimistic about the success of the actions of the Kira navy.  For several days in a row, they attacked in the evening and returned during the day, plundering and burning all the village chiefs along the Chikuma River. On the first night, under the guidance of the leading party, the Kira Marines came back as assassins, and sneaked into the nearby walled city to kill them.  Many castle lords appointed by the Takeda family were killed. Later, the castles near the Chikuma River were strengthened to prevent assassinations and came to a standstill.  The Kira navy also distributed many leaflets, which roughly meant calling on the wealthy land servants and peasants in the rear in the name of Shinano's guardians to unite against the Takeda family's barbaric aggression, and promised not to hold them accountable for their temporary surrender.  All residents in enemy-occupied areas will be exempted from annual tribute and taxes for the current year, as long as all farmers participating in the boycott refuse the Takeda family's increased corvee burden.  After the war, the peasants of this household were exempted from all corv¨¦es for three years.  The exemption from the current year's tribute in the enemy-occupied areas is a free favor. Anyway, this year's tribute has been collected by the Takeda family. It would be better to waste this favor by selling it to the farmers for nothing. It will not cost a penny anyway, and encourage the farmers to resist the Takeda family's increase in payment.  The exchange of military service, voluntary service, and other corv¨¦es for the next three years seemed attractive.  We must know that no matter in ancient Japan or ancient China, every household had to perform corvee service every year unless there were special circumstances. This large-scale corv¨¦e service began when Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall and continued until the new era came more than two thousand years later.  Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes may not necessarily drive people to death, but it is hard to say that they died during corvee service. During the corvee period, they could starve to death, freeze to death, die from overwork, be killed by samurai, be killed by enemy troops in war, and other strange deaths.  Law.  During the Warring States Period in Japan, farmers were like super-tolerant plants or a little strongman who couldn't be killed. They were not afraid of the six-year tribute. They had to pay an additional fee for farming, a per-house fee for housing, and a per-capita fee.  , living in the castle town requires a room fee, raising cattle requires a cow fee, wearing clothes requires a sail fee, and going out requires a customs fee. There are also various taxes such as Yamanote, Kawamate, Uraku, Tsusho, Seisho, etc.  Fu, these farmers like Xiaoqiang can survive and endure the blows of natural disasters. They are indeed like Xiaoqiang.  Japan's long and narrow land has never had a large population. During the Onin Rebellion, the population was only six to seven million. Even if there were more wars and natural disasters, they could not set off a large-scale peasant uprising.  The government decree exempted debts and taxes for the current year, and further demanded that in exchange for the power of guardianship, it would give itself greater autonomy.  Therefore, they can survive such heavy taxes and corvees because their pursuits are very low. In this difficult era, having enough to eat is perfect, living past thirty is a great goal, and marrying a wife to carry on the family line is arduous.  The mission of being exempted from the three-year corvee in this environment is still very attractive.  There are always people who will take the risk and take a risk, and when talking about Kiragi, he also said that he will definitely fight back, no matter what?It is quite bluffing to say that the garrison general appointed by the imperial court and the Shinano guardian appointed by the shogunate are quite bluffing. No matter how they look at it, the farmers think that the Kira family is more powerful. Besides, the Kira family has been very good to them in recent years.  There is not much tax collection, and the tax will be exempted in the year of disaster. The farmers' life has been getting better and better in recent years, which is all due to his policies to appease the people.  This move soon brought trouble to the Takeda army. The recruitment of people and soldiers was not going smoothly. More and more peasants were fighting against the Takeda family, but these city lords did not dare to act rashly. Several attacks by the Kira navy brought Hokushin  The guards in the Nong area cast a shadow, and everyone acted cautiously and did not dare to deal with these local servants. In the end, even the peasants who had been conscripted fled back to their hometowns overnight to take refuge, and the conscription of labor servants was also disrupted.  .  Takeda Nobushige's progress is going very smoothly. Since the Kira Legion did not come to attack and harass, he was simply allowed to change from a fake siege bait to a real siege force. With Sanada Yukitaka as the vanguard, he led an army of 6,000 to easily surround Kaijin.  The city was attacked fiercely. This time he was very well prepared and sent in the gold diggers who had been trained by the Takeda family for a long time.  This elite force was originally the mountain people of the Takeda family who were responsible for digging gold mines. Takeda Haru used the tax exemption as a bait to recruit Kai mountain people to mine and refine gold for the Takeda family. They did not have to pay taxes or bear the burden of digging rivers and building embankments.  If you ask for labor, you can also develop nearby farmland to cultivate your own land to support yourself, so it is a very popular business.  Because of the nature of the work they are engaged in, they are specially organized into a separate "public". They only need to go out with the Takeda Army during wars. They are usually responsible for setting up camps or digging and building some engineering tasks. When used in sieges, they become a  A very powerful engineering force.  The addition of the Gold Diggers made the situation of defending the city very critical. The Gold Diggers selected a position in a corner not far outside the city, and then immediately took action to prepare to use non-stop digging day and night to dig a road leading to Haijin City.  tunnel, which put great pressure on the soldiers in the city. At the same time, the Takeda Army used a unique trick. Two hundred iron cannons suddenly appeared from under the city, causing great damage to the unsuspecting defenders on the city.  The mounds of earth excavated outside the city were used by the Takeda Army and piled under the city. It seemed that they were planning to build a slope of soil that was large enough to cross the city wall. During the day, the Takeda Army was heavily besieging the city, and at night, the gold diggers were shoveling away the soil.  With the sound of digging, the morale of the soldiers was inevitably shaken. The people of Shinano were worried that a big hole would suddenly appear in the ground at some point, and then the Takeda family's samurai would pour out in a steady stream.  The lord of the city, Murakami Yoshikiyo, did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly sent a letter to Asahiyama Castle with a flying pigeon to ask for help. On the other hand, he urgently mobilized the defenders in the city to do their best to boost morale. Looking at the siege of Takeda Nobushige's thousands of troops, he lamented: "Miss me, Mr. Shinano."  The general is a fierce general. Who would have thought that he would now be the general defending the city? What a twist of fate! I, Yiqing, only have so many abilities to defend the city. I really don¡¯t know if I can hold on until the reinforcements arrive, no matter what the thieves are.  We can only grit our teeth and stick to it, and then do our best to obey fate!" (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature for better and faster novels!
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