Chapter 129 17. The Eve of the Battle of Uedahara

Xiao Pingtai is so empty now, so empty! What the hell! It turns out that I am leading the worst chickens! I always thought that the elite Lianchuan people who were often sent to fight the bad battles were actually recognized as the worst chickens by the whole army of Yamauchi!

彳庍口巴!

I will go if I want to, it's not like I haven't been there before. When my team was just starting out, I was alone without a gun. Now I have 500 accomplices, there is no reason not to, and I didn't expect you to go!

"Then who will cover my flank? The number does not need to be too large, but it is better to be more capable." Which team of noobs cooperated with me? If they are worse than me, I will beat them up, give you all my fists, and punch you in the head (Xiao Pingtai was crazy and complained).

"Chief accountant, you go there." Yamauchi Yoshiharu glanced at his brother and thought it was good.

"Sure, no problem at all." Chief accountant Yamauchi agreed very readily.

No, this plot is so confusing. What is the identity of Yamanouchi Shuketou? Yamanouchi Yoshiharu's younger brother, the head of the Gokin-rei clan. Similar to Takeda Nosuke to Takeda Harunobu, Shimazu Yoshihiro to Shimazu Yoshihisa, Oishi Ujiteru to Hojo Ujimasa, Yoshikawa Motoharu to Mori Takamoto. Although there may be a little competition before the accession, but after all, they are born of the same parents, like brothers fighting tigers.

Yamanouchi Shuketou is very close in status, but his military strength is not necessarily the largest (everyone can understand why, after all, no matter how close he is, it is still a strong challenge to the status of the head of the family. Didn't Takeda Nosuke die of insufficient military strength and was finally defeated by a round-robin battle), but the degree of eliteness is often guaranteed.

The Yamanouchi family has been passed down in Minami Shinano for 100 years and five generations (starting from the first generation Yamanouchi Yoshiaki, the fifth generation Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu). Although it is not an old sow giving birth to ten or eight piglets, there are still three or four sons and daughters in each generation of daimyo. Slowly accumulating, slowly expanding, sons gave birth to grandsons, brothers gave birth to children, and the family property was divided. Now there are only 40 to 50 samurai, and these people are basically all uncles and brothers of Yamanouchi Yoshiharu and Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu.

Then the Yamanouchi Shukeito's unit, which only has 200 people, is very exaggerated. His reserve troops are all the relatives, which means that all the men of the Yamanouchi family who have been passed down for five generations are here. There is no conscripted peasant soldier at all, all are samurai and their family servants (a samurai, at least with a small flag bearer, a long-legged foot soldier, and a small groom to serve people). You dare not imagine this elite level. The proportion of samurai is as high as 30%, which is simply the ace of aces.

On the other hand, how many samurai are there in Kobayata's 500-man team? To be honest, there are three samurai in total. Kobayata, Uncle Tsunayoshi (not here yet) and a designated kado bugyo, plus the bugong people (that is, the village chiefs with horses and armor), there are only about 30 people. There is no comparison, the difference is heaven and earth.

The composition of the troops like Xiao Pingtai is pretty good, about one twelfth of them are strong. In those poor families, there may not be even one dedicated person among the twenty soldiers, and the troops are not even enough for grassroots officers. They can't even fight a favorable battle except standing outside the field and shouting 666. Once the team is dispersed, these people dare to run home and disappear in the blink of an eye.

So it is really a luxury to let Yamauchi Shujitou and others cooperate with the performance. It is too easy to perform a fake rout with the combat effectiveness level of Yamauchi Shujitou's troops. Just assign some miscellaneous soldiers and let them resist casually, and then this group of cousins ​​within five generations who get together to drink during the New Year will run to the assembly point in ten minutes and turn around to fight.

Originally, the brothers are very familiar with each other and cooperate first-class, so there is no need to mix them like other teams. And the cultural level is high enough, at least all of them have read books and recognized words, so it is too easy to explain tactics to them. How do you brothers act, how do they act, how to drag the spear backwards, whose flag to throw away, whose horse to leave behind. You can follow the script and tell them clearly, and act out the rout flawlessly.

So a few old shady guys arranged and planned, without affecting the headquarters of the entire Yamauchi army, using less than a thousand troops to set up a trap for Itagaki Nobukata.

According to Kobayata's speculation (in fact, Itagaki Nobukata really took advantage of the early morning to attack), tomorrow morning at dawn, Itagaki Nobukata will launch a surprise attack, catch the Yamauchi army's first-hand troops by surprise, and then the left and right wing armor troops will surround and defeat the Yamauchi army's front troops.

Then Kobayata's arrangements should also be made according to this speculation, except for mobilizing a small group of miscellaneous soldiers to enter the first-hand of Yamauchi Shuketou, so that Yamauchi Shuketou's troops will suffer some casualties. Lianchuanzhong did not make any notice to prepare for a surprise attack tomorrow, just casually throw people once, and the whole team will collapse at the first touch.

After everyone had made up their minds, they went back to the camp to make arrangements. Xiao Pingtai was the main force of the fake defeat. He was full of energy when he was talking about war on paper just now, but when he returned to the camp of Lianchuanzhong, he couldn't help feeling uneasy.

Xiao Pingtai first asked Aji to make a few rice balls and put them in his arms for supper and breakfast. Then he prepared to sleep for a while in his clothes, after all, there might be a dramatic battle tomorrow. But he couldn't fall asleep no matter how he tossed and turned. He didn't know if it was because the thick felt on the ground hurt or because the straw was pricking him. Chen San was lying on a straw stack not far below, turned over, and looked at Xiao Pingtai, "Can't the master sleep too?"

"I'm worried, why don't you sleep?" Xiao Pingtai simply sat up, draped the haori over his shoulders, looked at the flickering oil lamp in the tent, and heard the snoring of the big soldiers in the camp.

"I'm a little scared, hehe." Chen San saw Xiao Pingtai sitting up, and also sat up from the straw stack, pulled off the straw sticking to his body, and then draped the felt on his shoulders. With the weak light, he took a bowl and poured a bowl of warm water for Xiao Pingtai.

Xiao Pingtai took it. He was a little thirsty after not sleeping in the middle of the night. He tasted it first and found that the temperature was just right, so he drank it down. Then he fumbled around, took out two rice balls from his arms, and handed one to Chen San.

"Since you can't sleep, don't sleep. Eat this rice ball first, and then put on my armor." Xiao Pingtai ate the rice ball with a little body temperature.

Chen San took the rice ball. Perhaps he had never had a midnight snack before, so he looked a little happy. He ate the rice ball in small bites, then lit the oil lamp and pushed Aji, who was still confused on the pile, to wake up. Two people held his belly and one held his pocket. Xiao Pingtai stood up and broke free. The two people quickly helped him put on his armor.

Xiao Pingtai put on all the armor meticulously, fed the horses well, told them to follow him closely, and then sat in the tent, ready to run away at any time.

I beg you big brothers to love me again! Five more updates next Tuesday! Five more updates!