Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 124 Come, fight a medieval war!

Yuanye has always had a high degree of hatred towards Lin Xiuzhen. After all, he had been hiding in Takeuchi Village, in the direct territory of the "Sixth Heaven Demon King" Oda Nobunaga, hoping to survive until the mountain fog rose again so that he could return to the modern era. As a result, Lin Xiuzhen taught him a lesson, telling him that it was useless to survive by relying on historical knowledge and hiding in a place he thought was safe. If he really wanted to survive, he still had to rely on hard power.

He never forgot this "favor". Even though A-man had survived a near-death experience and came back alive, his hostility towards Lin Xiuzhen had not diminished much. At most, he no longer had to consider A-man's "last words" and did not have to find and kill all the chickens in the Lin family, which could save some time.

It's the same old saying. If Lin Xiuzhen doesn't want him to live, then Lin Xiuzhen can forget about living. Even if it's just to set a good example so that other powerful families can learn from it and stop messing with him, he must settle this old account and make the Lin family get the yolks out of their mouths.

Of course, it is not possible now. He is not strong enough to start settling old accounts. He needs to wait for a while, and the timing is not right. Oda Nobunaga will never allow him to attack Lin Hidetsune at this moment.

Similarly, Lin Xiuzhen couldn't do anything to him for the time being.

Hayashi Hidemasa had just failed in his rebellion. Even though Owari's external situation was terrible, Oda Nobunaga did not want a group of Owari nobles headed by him to turn to the Imagawa and Matsudaira families, so he did not "execute the entire family" and still let him serve as the family elder of Tanjotada's family. However, that was a compromise made under external pressure, and he still disliked him in his heart.

Therefore, as long as Hayashi Hidetsu was not crazy, it was absolutely impossible for him to pass through sensitive areas such as Furuno Castle or Atsuta Port and go to Wanjin to attack Oda Nobunaga's "saltpeter factory", especially the "saltpeter factory" protected by Oda Nobunaga's powerful warriors and elite Lang gang. That would be tantamount to a second treason and spitting in Oda Nobunaga's face. Even if Oda Nobunaga took the overall situation into consideration and many powerful families pleaded for him, Oda Nobunaga would have to kill him.

As for Lin Xiuzhen, she was so angry about her nephew's death that she didn't care about the future of her family. She was so crazy that she had to run to Wanjin to kill him...

There’s nothing to be afraid of!
The new "East Factory Master" Aman trained people, and now they are mainly targeting two families, one is Oda Danzhengtada's family, and the other is the Lin family. If Lin Xiuzhen really goes crazy and wants to kill him, he can just take the core personnel and run away. Even if Wanjin is destroyed, it doesn't matter. At most, it will delay him for a few months, and he can start over again.

Anyway, as long as he has advanced technology, he can do it again and again, and build the territory at will, it doesn't matter at all. But as long as Lin Xiuzhen dares to do so, there will never be a chance for her to come a second time, and he won't even have to fight to the death to get rid of this scourge of Lin Xiuzhen.

Yuanye didn't care about Lin Xiuzhen's hatred at all. It was not the first time for him. Ordinary things could not scare him. After saying goodbye to Maeda Toshiie, he went to attend the executor's meeting as usual and listened to Niwa Nagahide and other senior executors talking about trivial matters.

Most of these trivial matters had nothing to do with him, and he had nothing to do, so he sat there thinking about military affairs.

Lin Xiuzhen couldn't do anything to him now. Even if she sent someone to assassinate him, it would be impossible. At least she would never dare to kill him under the nose of Oda Nobunaga. That would be gambling with the lives of all the people in the Lin family. But he had an idea. When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous of each other. When he met Lin Xiuzhen, he wanted to implement his revenge plan more quickly. It would take at least one or two months to finish this battle. It was estimated that the workers in the workshop had worked for half a year. It was already possible to see whether they had good discipline and whether they were suitable for military service. It was almost time to proceed to the next step.

It would have been okay if he had just brewed some soy sauce and synthesized some dyes, after all, it was his major, and he was very comfortable with it and full of confidence. However, he knew nothing about military affairs. After so many years of studying, the school never taught him how to fight a war. At most, he had read some battle examples online, so he had a little military experience - if those people didn't write nonsense, then he could be considered to have some military experience. But even with this little military experience, it's just a stretch to say that he was only good at talking about military affairs on paper, and he was probably not as good as Zhao Kuo.

Well, actually, Zhao Kuo was quite powerful, but he was just too unlucky and became a laughing stock for all ages, which is somewhat unfair.

If he really had the level of Zhao Kuo, he wouldn't have to worry so much.

As for the battle he had fought in Takeuchi Village, it was a street brawl involving one or two hundred people. He relied entirely on his height, long arms and a full set of steel armor to get through it. He had not accumulated any experience as a general at all. The battle was fought like a gang of young and gangsters fighting for territory. He hacked his way from one end of the street to the other, which was completely different from building an army from scratch.

He really has no confidence in this regard, but fortunately he is now in an ancient feudal army, he can learn, and his learning ability has always been good!

After he finished the executive meeting, he didn't pay much attention to the transportation capacity assigned to him. He threw all these chores to the two powerful warriors to deal with. He took advantage of his identity to move around, observing and learning the details that he had not paid attention to when he participated in the war before.

For example, how should we train the commanding spearmen? Why do the Kokatsu Bugyo carry two other spear tips in addition to the normal long spear? When should we switch to the Sasho spear tip, and when should we use the Ginkgo leaf spear tip? Yes, we also need to consider street fighting and siege warfare...

For example, how to train the commanders to shoot lightly, how to distribute the three commonly used arrows, how to make the soldiers carry spare arrows to avoid losing them, which of the tools for carrying arrows, such as the arrow box, the arrow box, is the most suitable? For example, how to organize marches, how to organize camps, how to prepare bamboo walls, how to organize sieges, what are the things to pay attention to...

Anyway, organizing a group of people and allowing them to fight a war smoothly and win is definitely not as easy as most people imagine. It is an extremely complicated task. Even in ancient times, it was an extremely complicated task with so many tricks involved.

Yuanye began to look for acquaintances in Guye City to ask for advice. After the troops were sent out, he ran around whenever he had the chance, observing and learning various things. After all, if he really wanted to have an army that completely belonged to him and was completely to his liking, he could not rely entirely on others for training. He had to at least be clear about all the details involved so that he would not be easily fooled and made a fool of himself in the future.

Even he would have to go to the battlefield in the future. As the head of the Nohara family, he could not just lie back and scare the enemies around him into surrendering. He had to make a name for himself through battles one after another. People like Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Taizu of Ming had to personally go to the battlefield and lead their troops to attack when necessary. Not to mention him, he would definitely not be immune to this.

He was mentally prepared for these things and was willing to take the risk. At least in the early stages of a war, he would definitely go to the front line and would not sit back and entrust all his assets to others.

As for why they didn't use dimensionality reduction strikes, they just used flintlock rifles, grenades, cannons and other things to push forward...

Forget about these. In this era of poor living conditions, even if he tried his best to improve and eat as healthily as possible, he couldn't tell how long he could live. He couldn't rule out the possibility of dying of food poisoning tomorrow, or contracting a terminal illness due to excessive heavy metals next year. If these things were to be discovered, the Japanese invasion of Korea could not be avoided, and the monkey would have pushed all the way through Shanhaiguan...

He could not bear this responsibility and did not want to become an epic sinner who would even have his ancestors rise up from their coffins to beat him, so he could only make limited improvements when forming the army. Overall, he still had to fight with the weapons available in this era.

This is a matter of principle and there is nothing that can be done about it. I can only blame myself for being unlucky and ending up in this damn place.

But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if they use medieval weapons. It doesn't mean that they are necessarily a medieval army just because they have medieval weapons. There are still many ways to make changes, and they still have a great advantage.

He regarded this expedition as an opportunity for further study, and did not stay at the rear to do his job. Instead, he kept moving forward, not missing any opportunity to learn and ask questions. He was also lucky, as Oda Nobunaga's battle was not going well at all and it took a long time, which gave him ample time to study.

Oda Nobunaga's battle was indeed not going well. He first used the threat of "righteousness" to coerce the powerful families of the four counties under Owari to send troops, and then he easily captured several key rock forts leading to Kiyosu Castle. He quickly approached the castle, and then things started to go wrong.

The Kiyosu army also knew that Oda Nobunaga was not easy to mess with, and after killing Sasaki Yoshitsugu, they had indeed fallen behind in terms of "righteousness". Few dared to openly support them, and their strength was even weaker than before. They decided to besiege the city early on, and it was not just a simple defense. They also arranged a part of their people in Anshiki Shinganji Temple. Relying on the strong "city defense" of Anshiki Shinganji Temple and the superior geographical conditions of being surrounded by water on both sides, while echoing Kiyosu Castle from a distance, they kept sending small troops by boat to cut off Oda Nobunaga's food supply, specifically targeting the old, weak, and miscellaneous foot soldiers like Ohedo.

This move seemed to be a little beyond Oda Nobunaga's expectations, and he couldn't concentrate on attacking the city. However, he did not hesitate. He left a small number of men to guard Kiyosu Castle, turned around to surround Anshoku Shinganji Temple, and directly launched a two-pronged attack.

The samurai in the Kiyosu army also knew that it was time to fight to the death. If Oda Nobunaga really captured Kiyosu Castle, they would be in trouble. Even if they were spared, they would become wandering samurai. Their resistance was quite tenacious, and in this era, if the defender was tenacious, the battle would quickly become dragged out.

The war was not going well, and Oda Nobunaga was very angry. Every day, several people were scolded, and even Yuanye was not spared. Because the gunpowder consumption was too high and it was almost used up, Oda Nobunaga despised him for taking several months to produce a few hundred kilograms of saltpeter, which was not as much as what he bought slowly, so he called him over and scolded him. It was probably because he saw that he was about to become a local powerful family in Owari and could no longer run away, so he didn't need to be as polite to him as before.

Yuanye didn't care and endured the anger for the time being. He took advantage of his good relationship with Maeda Toshiie, who now worked in the "Gendarmerie" and could move around easily. From time to time, he would bring gifts and use Maeda Toshiie as an introducer to visit experienced samurai such as the Spear Ashigaru General and the Bow Ashigaru General, and ask them for advice on all kinds of problems. Then he would go back and think about compiling his "Military Training Manual".

By the time Oda Nobunaga finally captured Anjoku Shinganji Temple and slaughtered all the more than 30 warriors of the Kiyosu army who dared to resist, Yuanye had gained a lot. The "Military Training Manual" had been almost completed and he just had to go back and practice it to see the effect.

(End of this chapter)