Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 132 It is easy to learn bad things, but it is difficult to learn good things!
Hara made his first attempt to attack the Chita Peninsula and successfully kidnapped an entire village. He then returned to the landing point without caring what the Takeda family might think, and squeezed into a boat back to Wanjin.

Overall, the operation was quite successful. The early strategic concept was completely fine and could be moved forward. His future territory would be on the Chita Peninsula.

The new army's discipline in actual combat was better than he expected. From beginning to end, no one attempted to rape or plunder, challenging the majesty of military discipline, which was beyond his expectation. He originally planned to kill a few more chickens to show the monkeys, using their bloody heads to let them know that Wanjin would never give in to military discipline, and anyone who did not abide by military discipline would be killed. In the end, after the whole operation, he did not find a single chicken, and all of them were obedient.

Perhaps the Japanese are naturally very obedient and they quickly succumb to power and violence. As long as they are given a lot of rules and beaten for a period of time, so that they feel the pain and know that these are things that must be followed, they actually develop a strange sense of collective identity, and regard these rules as natural and self-righteous. They spontaneously begin to lead the latecomers and force the latecomers to act honestly according to the rules recognized by everyone. They instinctively begin to reject "aliens".

This really surprised Yuanye. He had never expected that he would achieve his goal in just over three months. He thought it would take at least half a year or a year...

He didn't understand this wonderful psychological phenomenon for a while, and suspected that it was related to the group mentality caused by the frequent natural disasters in Japan. However, this was also a good thing. It was like building a small "melting furnace". In the future, he only needed to keep adding the right amount of "raw materials" into it, and naturally qualified soldiers would be produced, which would save him a lot of worries.

The discipline met the requirements and the combat losses were also excellent. There were 0 deaths and 0 disabilities in the entire operation. Only a dozen people were hit by arrows and had some minor flesh wounds, which were completely insignificant. We can barely say that there were 0 casualties.

The main reason was that the Chita Peninsula was relatively closed, and the fighting strength of the powerful families there was relatively weak. They were all a bunch of country bumpkins who had never even seen a cannon. More than a hundred people rushed up in a disorderly manner, but were defeated by two rounds of volleys from heavy cannons. There was no hand-to-hand combat and they fled all over the mountains and plains. The Takeda Castle was directly besieged and had no intention of coming out to fight again. The victory was easy.

In short, this operation was very good in all aspects and could be called a complete success. It was one of the rare complete victories in Yuanye Luonan's history, and he was very satisfied.

After he returned to Wanjin, he was not in a hurry to organize a second "kidnapping" operation. After all, the population of Wanjin was only 600. Suddenly 350 or 60 people were kidnapped back, all of them ignorant commoners with debuffs such as "fearful" and "distracted". There would definitely be chaos for a while, and he had to digest the situation before he dared to cause trouble for the Takeda family again.

Yes, he does not plan to change his target next time. He will continue to rob the Takeda family. The Takeda family still has three villages. He plans to empty the Takeda family first. After all, as long as he insists that the Takeda family attacked his cargo ship first, the Takeda family will not be able to explain it. Then this is a personal grudge between him and the Takeda family. It will not quickly arouse the vigilance of the powerful families on the Chita Peninsula, gather together to start beating him, or cause the Imagawa family to intervene too early and affect his collection of manpower.

Anyway, he was paying attention to the reaction of the outside world while quickly digesting the fruits of victory.

He still had no plan to let the entire village go farming. The soil in Wanjin was too poor, and it was within the attack range of Oda Nobunaga, so it was very likely to be abandoned in the future. There was no need to expend great efforts to improve the soil and water. He simply moved these people directly to Wanjin, and forcibly transformed them from agricultural population to industrial and commercial population. The men were first organized into coolie teams to continue building houses, and the original coolie teams were filled into workshops. Then a group of people were selected from the workshops to fill the military camp, completing another step-by-step conscription.

Women and the elderly cannot sit idle either. There is a lot of light physical labor in the workshop, and they all have to go to work. He also counted the number of women who have reached marriageable age to prepare for organizing group blind dates in the future.

After all, because of the battle of Takeuchi-sho, he still owed a lot to one of his men's wives, and he had to start making up for it, or at least show that he would fulfill his promise. Moreover, all the new soldiers were bought by him, and now he is using military discipline to force them to fight. If they keep winning battles, it would be fine, but if they suffer a crushing defeat, they will most likely suffer a backlash.

Therefore, relying solely on military discipline to enforce pressure is not a long-term solution. It is better to let them bring their families with them. With wives and children, they will be more obedient and will be forced to fight to the death even to protect their families when necessary.

Besides, if you don't have a wife or children, you have nothing to hold against him. People without ties are more terrifying. This has been proven repeatedly in history. He must make plans early. He didn't have the conditions before, but when he has them in the future, his soldiers will still be selected from "good families". The more family members the better, and it would be best if everyone has four generations living together. Only with such soldiers can he feel at ease, and he won't have to worry about being fired when they are 35 years old.

He, the "first generation head of the Nohara family", has worked so hard but still has no wife. Everyday he has to endure the weird sympathetic gaze of Aman, the wild boy, who glances at his lower body from time to time. As a result, he has to worry about the marriage of his subordinates and find wives for them first. It's a bit boring, but there's nothing he can do. The first generation is like this. He has to consider everything carefully and worry about everything. He even has to do the work of a matchmaker. It's really helpless.

He had his own plan. He finally managed to capture the labor force, and he started to act like a tiger. Of course, the villagers who were kidnapped from Takeda's house were not happy. Their ancestors had been farming for generations, and they only knew how to farm. Now they were forcibly kidnapped to Wanjin by Yuanye. When they saw that the soil was rotten, they were disappointed. As a result, they were not even allowed to open up the wasteland. They were very worried. Even though Yuanye fulfilled his promise and distributed food rations, they were still not at ease. Some of them even tried to escape back to their original village, not caring whether they could swim all the way back.

Seeing their miserable state, Yuan Ye changed the pay period temporarily, from once a month to once every five days, and let them choose any food or copper coins they wanted. The new immigrants were slightly more stable, and they chose food and hid it at home. They gradually began to think that farming and working as coolies also earned food, which seemed to be almost the same. They even didn't have to pay the annual tribute for the food they earned from working, which seemed to be more cost-effective. Anyway, the road was so long and it was not easy to go back, so they might as well do it this way for now. It wouldn't be too late to run away if they couldn't get food one day. People in this era were very easy-going. As long as they could survive, it didn't matter where they were. So soon these new immigrants began to accept the arrangement of fate, went to work honestly, and began to receive food every five days, accepting the first step of transformation. The only trivial problems left were that they were not used to urban life, had no sense of time and hygiene, and were too casual when doing their work.

All in all, digesting the fruits of victory was relatively smooth.

Yuanye, along with "officials" from the Internal Affairs Department such as Endo Chiyo and Maejima Juichiro, worked for more than ten days, dealing with a lot of troublesome matters, big and small, even taking care of accommodation, meals, drinking water, defecation and urination. Finally, he allowed the new immigrants to temporarily integrate into the Wanjin system and allowed Wanjin to resume normal operation. Then he had time to refocus his energies on the military aspect and began to summon junior officers and non-commissioned officers to check the homework assigned to them before - how to capture Takeda Castle with the least casualties.

Of course, even though he was fighting, he had no intention of occupying Takeda Castle or settling down there.

His future territory needs to have many rivers to facilitate his collection of iron sand; the soil must also be good to facilitate his production of food, or at least be self-sufficient in raw materials such as beans; it must also have abundant forest resources to facilitate his charcoal burning, steelmaking, and ironmaking, as well as the construction of shipyards in the future; and it must be close to the sea so that he can use the shipping capacity of ships to dump goods.

The most important thing is that when he went to the Chita Peninsula to occupy a piece of land, the local powerful families, the Matsudaira family and the Imagawa family would definitely team up to beat him up. He also needed that place to be easy to defend and difficult to attack. At least it should not be like Takeda Castle, where he would be attacked from three sides in a real battle and he might not be able to defend it. He knew himself well and knew that he was by no means a military genius. He could not even think about fighting a war in a fanciful and unpredictable way. He did not have that ability. Therefore, it was better for him to build a strong camp, fight a stupid battle, and honestly find a place with a strategic location to settle down.

Even though he asked for so many things, the place was hard to find. Aman was repeatedly sending "trainee ninjas" all the way to the southernmost corner of the Chita Peninsula. She felt that it was surrounded by the sea on three sides and faced the enemy on one side. It was a good place to fight a protracted war. However, there were many checkpoints on the road, making it inconvenient to travel. She also had limited staff, so she couldn't figure out the detailed situation there for a while, so she could only leave it for later.

Therefore, he did not intend to occupy Takeda Castle, but just wanted to break the city door to see if there were any good things inside.

Now the shortage of manpower in Wanjin has been slightly alleviated, but there are suddenly more people eating, and his money and food are a bit short of it. He wants to go a step further and not just kidnap people...

All I can say is that it is easy to learn bad things, but it is difficult to learn good things!

After all, there were 350 or 60 people. If he had to save them all by himself, it would take him at least half a year considering the increasingly difficult situation of purchasing population. But he only spent one day going out and consumed some gunpowder to bring them all back. It saved money, effort and time, and it was such a great profit that he couldn't stop.

Now that he was short of food and funds, he couldn't help but want to see how much wealth the Takeda family had accumulated after being local tyrants on the Chita Peninsula for hundreds of years. He wanted to spend some of the Takeda family's wealth - perhaps the Takeda family should be renamed the Takebao family. He always felt that swallowing it would be a great tonic, and there was no need to be too concerned about moral factors. It was the Warring States Period, and he had his own territory. If he didn't replenish himself well, it would be easy for others to take over his wealth, and the tragedy of Takeuchi-sho would continue to happen.

Of course, even this is a bit embarrassing. After all, farming is the kingly way, and robbery is not a decent thing. But anyway, we have to kidnap the people of the Takeda family again, and we have to go several times, so it is convenient to see if we can knock down the city. Anyway, it is definitely a good idea to study it early.

It's just that the defenders in this era have too much advantage. He and a group of people have been thinking about it for several days. He feels that if he doesn't come up with some black technology, at least thirty to fifty lives will be lost if he attacks the city by force. He can't afford it now. If he uses clever strategies to capture the city, no one can think of any good ideas for a while. After all, they are all a group of recruits who are still illiterate, and the officer corps is not so easy to train.

He did not lose heart and was always very patient. He continued to ask everyone to think hard and try to come up with a siege plan that would not result in so many casualties. Whoever came up with it first would be promoted to be a staff officer. Then he carefully observed the external situation and found that everything was peaceful outside. Oda Nobunaga did not have any abnormal reaction, probably thinking that his kidnapping was revenge. The small conflicts between the powerful families below were not worth his concern at all - the Takeda family had surrendered to the Imagawa family, and he might even cheer if the Takeda family died.

Yuanye was relieved. The only thing he was afraid of was that Oda Nobunaga would come to raid his house right now. He didn't care about anything else. He immediately gathered his men and horses, boarded a boat and headed for the Takeda family again.

Just like last time, this time he would be satisfied as long as he could bring back a full boat of people. His requirements were not high.

(End of this chapter)