Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 133 There are three enemies now!

"Bastard!" Takeda Heiemon slammed his fist on the table. He felt dizzy again and his throat felt sweet. He couldn't even say the second half of the sentence, "Damn Nohara family."

Originally, he thought that the matter was over after the enemy abducted an entire village, so he only sent people to strengthen the defense at the enemy's landing point. Unexpectedly, it was of no use. In less than a month, the enemy came again and landed at a faraway place. They marched quickly and suddenly surrounded his village. They began to move the population openly and did not even bother to block the gate of Takeda Castle.

What's even more terrible is that even if the other party did not block the door, he did not dare to go out of the city to fight the other party in the field, nor did he dare to rescue the common people who were abducted by the other party.

He felt aggrieved for a while, but there was nothing he could say since he was not as strong as the other party. He could only take out some property and sent an envoy, begging the other party to show mercy. But the envoy came back soon after without taking any property from the other party. He only politely said, "If you want to negotiate, please go and talk to His Highness Kamisuke (Oda Nobunaga)."

When Takeda Heiemon heard this, he was helpless and could only watch as the enemy emptied out a larger village and took the boat back with nearly 500 people.

Takeda Heiemon was so angry that he vomited blood again. He felt that the enemy was coming by boat, not afraid of the difficult navigable mudflats, and was elusive. He could not defend against them. After all, he could not lock up all the subjects in the city, and the fields still had to be planted. So he quickly contacted his in-laws, explained the situation, and asked them for support. In that era, in-laws were more or less reliable and would usually help each other. Seeing that the Takeda family was beaten by outsiders, they all sent troops to support them. Soon, a group of Lang Gang with more than 500 people gathered in Takeda Castle, waiting for Yuanye to come and rob again.

At the same time, Takeda Heiemon also wrote a letter to his most important relative-in-law, Hayashi Hidetsugu, hoping that he would also think of a way to curb the unscrupulous Nohara family.

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Yuanye had no plans to relocate immigrants again in the short term. This time he took over a large village, and these 500 people would be enough for him to digest for a while, and it would take longer than last time. After all, the labor teams and workshops were all full of newcomers, and they could no longer be transferred to the barracks. There were not enough jobs, and money and food were even more tight. He had to find a way to expand the workshop, increase production, and build infrastructure.

He estimated that it would take at least two or three months for him to move to the next village of Takeda's family and kidnap the next batch of immigrants. By then, the size of his territory should have expanded significantly before the next shortage of manpower would occur.

He sat on the deck, enjoying the sea breeze and the sunset over the sea, thinking about how much the fighting power of Wanjin would be improved after digesting these people, whether it would be enough to occupy the territory of Chita Peninsula, and whether it would be enough to confront the Imagawa family head-on. After thinking for a while, he remembered something and turned to Aman and asked, "By the way, why hasn't your grandfather come yet?"

A-man has openly declared that she wants to "rebel" and take the position of leader of the survival group. Logically, A-man's grandfather should have rushed over from Meinong like lightning and kicked A-man, the granddaughter who dared to rebel, to heaven. However, it has been almost four months, and she should have crawled all the way here, so why is she still nowhere to be seen?
What a waste of his expectations!
Aman was eating roasted shipworms, a delicacy unique to the era of wooden ships. Legend has it that eating it can increase one's luck and prevent one from drowning if one falls into the sea. It was a high-end tribute sent to Yuanye by the "temporary naval commander" Yu Da, but Yuanye didn't like seafood, so it went into Aman's mouth.

She was enjoying her meal when she heard Yuan Ye's question. She didn't care at all and said casually, "Maybe he encountered something in Meinong, or he took on a difficult task and couldn't get away for the time being. I heard that Meinong is not very peaceful. Anyway, just wait, he will come to me sooner or later. I am his legitimate heir, and he will definitely rely on me for his old age."

"Okay!" Yuanye had no idea. He just felt a little regretful that he couldn't get Grandpa Aman's help in training the new army. After all, Aman said that her grandfather was still very strong. Even though he was old and his physical strength was not so good, he could still fight against Xin Jiumaru. It was hard to say who would kill whom. They were most likely swordsmen. He was very curious and wanted Grandpa Aman to help train the new army in gun and sword skills.

Even if he is unwilling to help train the new army, it would be quite nice to have such a person at home to protect the family. It is such a pity that he has not come yet.

…………The loss of a "senior technical and tactical instructor" did not affect the overall situation. Although Yuanye felt regretful, he still continued to push forward his plan and worked hard to improve his own strength. After returning, he shifted his focus to domestic affairs and expanded the dyeing workshop on a large scale, expanding production while building, so as to obtain more disposable money and food. The cloth he dyed with modern technology sold very well. Not to mention fashionable places like Sakaimachi and Kyoto, it was said that it had even been sold in remote mountainous areas of Hokuriku. Because the cloth was bright in color and did not fade after a long time of washing, it was widely welcomed locally. Even if he increased production on a large scale again, he would still not worry about no one taking over.

At the same time, he continued to develop upstream industries. Because there were suddenly many more women in Wanjin, he simply organized a small textile workshop, set standards, and cooperated with each other so that they could weave and dye by themselves, which would save some cloth purchase costs and make a little more money.

Of course, the main thing is to provide jobs so that these women can support themselves and make his life easier.

The new army was also continuously recruiting new soldiers. His initial goal was to increase the number of front-line combat troops to 500 people. In this way, in the defensive battle, as long as the Imagawa family did not deploy more than 2,000 elite Langdang and a large number of miscellaneous soldiers and foot soldiers on the Chita Peninsula, he would be sure to hold a small piece of territory until the other side could no longer afford the consumption and was forced to recognize his rule.

Then after a month or so, autumn began to arrive, and he received news that the troops that had come to support Takeda Castle had dispersed again. All the Langgang soldiers needed to go back to harvest the autumn harvest, and they couldn't stay even if they wanted to. So he took the opportunity to send troops again, but this time he didn't kidnap many people. He just randomly cut the grain of Takeda's family, set it on fire, and came back, to prevent Takeda's family from having too much grain and inviting a group of people to his house for dinner, which would affect his next kidnapping.

At the same time, Aman's long-term efforts paid off. A spy from the "Wanjin East Factory" finally infiltrated the Lin family. Although he was just an ordinary Lang gang of a lower-level samurai family and could not get involved in major events, he was able to find out the inside information of the Lin family in a roundabout way. It was said that Lin Xiuzhen hated them even more, but now he was out of power and had no say in Oda Danmasatada's family. Even though his in-laws were being beaten up, he could only endure it. He did not take any action for the time being, and had no intention of humiliating himself by talking to his enemies.

Yuanye didn't care about him and went at his own pace. He organized a full-time logistics unit and continued to expand the number of naval ships to ensure his delivery capabilities on the west side of the Chita Peninsula. At the same time, he also began to equip the naval forces with cannons to prevent future attacks from the enemy navy.

He also imitated the weapons of that era at the same time. He began to trial-produce a larger-caliber iron cannon "Kokubeng Type 1" to replace artillery and enhance long-range strike capabilities and attack capabilities against cities.

After he finished all these, the typhoon season was over, and he sent troops to attack the Takeda clan again. However, he did not expect that this time the Takeda clan had invested a huge amount of money. Somehow they persuaded their neighbors the Ebina clan and the Miya clan to gather nearly three hundred samurai and five or six hundred miscellaneous soldiers. After discovering that he was coming to rob again, they quickly gathered together and chased him all the way to the beach, where a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

This was the first serious field battle after the establishment of the new army. Three hundred new soldiers, plus more than ten gendarmes and more than forty armed sailors, faced the enemy's "Langdang + Foot Soldiers" of more than 800 people head-on. In the end, at the cost of nine deaths and more than forty injuries, the field side defeated the enemy's Langdang brigade in one fell swoop, killing nearly two hundred of the enemy on the spot. Afterwards, the enemy collapsed as a whole, and the miscellaneous soldiers and foot soldiers fled home frantically.

Yuanye decided to go all out and simply chased after the Goya clan, raided their village, and together with the miscellaneous soldiers and foot soldiers captured along the way, he gathered a total of more than 800 people and retreated to the seaside to set up camp, and slowly transported people back to Wanjin in batches.

From then on, the number of his robbery targets increased from one to three, and as the number of people in his territory increased, his digestion ability also became stronger and stronger. He began to visit these three families when he had nothing to do, randomly landing and kidnapping a group of people - he would only take a whole family together, and let go of those who were caught separately, so that he could catch them again next time when they gathered the whole family together.

By the end of the lunar new year, the small stretch of coastline of the three families in Ise Bay had been almost paved by him. He went in and out as if he were going back to his own home. The three family heads took turns vomiting blood. The number of people in each family decreased by an average of 50%, and the population of Wanjin officially exceeded . The messy army under Yuanye finally reached more than people, and the quota of field soldiers was reached.

Yuanye finally understood why the warriors loved to fight when they had nothing to do. Robbery was indeed more efficient than farming, but he was temporarily satisfied. The main reason was that the remaining population of the three families were concentrated in the city, and it was difficult for him to take them down for the time being. So he temporarily calmed down and began to wait quietly for the opportunity to obtain his real territory.

(End of this chapter)