A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Anzhai Dongkang is dead after all, and the so-called "Anzhai navy battle papers" that Xiaoping Tai has been thinking about are not available after all. In this era, Japan's top naval general Fuyasu Anzai actually passed away at the age of thirty-seven without even leaving any experience in naval warfare.

Xiaopingta didn't bother to care about what would happen to the Miyoshi family in the future. Anyway, Xiaopingta didn't need to send troops to Luo. Yamauchi Yoshiharu must have known this news. He has his own Kyoto intelligence network, but he is not as sure as Xiaoheita. Who would have known that Miyoshi Nagakei would die in pain and melancholy after killing Anzhai Fuyayasu, less than two years older than Yamauchi Yoshiharu.

It's a pity for Xiaoping that the bad battle on the water will be fought in the future? Land warfare is much simpler. There are so many elites in the Yamauchi family who have fought bad wars for decades. I have never eaten pork and I have seen pigs running away. Even if Xiaopingta doesn't know anything about it, he can still understand it in the past few years. What's more, Xiao Pingtai has also read "Jixiao New Book" which costs one yuan a copy on Taobao, and has theoretical knowledge.

But what to do about water battles? Although water battles in this era still involve many hand-to-hand combat situations, the need to equip cannons, strengthen the hull, and improve maneuverability and seaworthiness has been put on the table.

European sailing ships sailed to India, Siam, Malacca, and Macau for a year and a half, carrying countless oriental goods for the return trip, seeking countless huge wealth. This is an era that belongs to explorers and navigators. The development of a country that cannot build ships or sail will surely fall behind the world.

Koheta has no intention of changing Japan's maritime status. He only cares about how to fight Suruga in the future. How will the two thousand Suruga navy fight? In the future, how will we fight against the countless sailors from Royse, Shima, Kumano, Kii, Awa, and Awaji? It's definitely not possible to rely on words. Even if you want to force others to surrender, you must have a naval force that is accustomed to fighting.

The matter of boats is easy to solve. There is also a Karuno Shrine [Note 1] on the Izu Peninsula, next to the Orino River. Small boats that can travel quickly in offshore and inland rivers have been manufactured hundreds of years ago. "Hitachi Fudoki" even records that from the eighth to the ninth century AD, Hitachi Kingdom was able to build fifteen-meter-long clippers. According to the unearthed obsidian, it is inferred that this kind of ship can go to offshore islands dozens of kilometers away from the mainland to collect precious obsidian, and it has barely possessed the ability to sail long distances in the near sea.

Therefore, in the Eastern Kingdom, small morning boats, Guan boats, and even large Tang-style boats of more than 1,500 stone can be built without any problem. Even the Okamoto generals under Boso Satomi occasionally engaged in ship brokerage business. After all, Sakai's return ship returned to Suruga Bay, and Kanto's ship was needed to relay cargo to Edo Bay.

The Yamauchi family's idea of ​​recruiting a navy army came up five or six years ago, but in this world it is easy to find samurai who can draw swords and kill people, but it is difficult to find samurai who can command water battles and train sailors.

Historically, the navy talents of the Imagawa clan and the Takeda clan mainly went to Ise and Shima areas to recruit unsuccessful or ambitious ship captains. They served as the backbone of the navy, and supplemented some of the fishermen and boatmen from their own countries. In this way, the Suruga Navy, which was famous in the Eastern Kingdom, was formed, but it finally died because there was no one to supplement it.

This is a helpless point of the Shunen Three Kingdoms of Kaido. The naval talents are completely incomparable with those of the outer islands of Kyushu and the Seto Inland Sea. Even the naval forces in Ise Bay and the U.S. Customs area are incomparable, and are almost blank.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu has been riding for five years. First of all, he has been fighting for many years. His horse cannot unsaddle and cannot take care of it. First, it costs a lot of money, and talents are rare and nowhere to be found. As a result, Ejiri's naval force only has two or three kittens now. After cultivating them for several years, they are just a dozen kittens just showing off in Ejiri Port to fill the stage.

No one can even operate a decent Guan ship, let alone coordinate the size and formation of troops. Businessmen from Sakai Town often laugh at the sailors from the Eastern Kingdom who are really noobs. They can only bump into each other after rowing so early in the morning, and their driving skills are not as good as those of sailors who are returning to the ship.

Originally, Xiaoping Tai planned to hook up with Anzhai Dongkang, and then asked him to write a book or two on navy tactics while he was grounded at home. For Anzhai Dongkang, who has such a high level of education, this is definitely not a big deal, and Xiaopingtai relies on his little incense. It doesn't matter whether you are shameless or stalking, you can get a roll like this.

After understanding all the theoretical knowledge and gathering the wisdom of the cobblers, at least there should be no big problem in dealing with this medieval water fight. Xiao Pingtai even knows a little bit about setting up sheds (not watertight compartments). If you strengthen the hull, build two big boats, and add a collision angle, maybe you can sail across the water in the future.

It's a pity that Anzhai Dongkang is stubborn and feels that although his eldest brother is cruel to his enemies, he is no different from his father to his younger brother. As a result, his beloved elder brother, who should be killed anyway, blinded Anzhai Awaji Navy's various tactics, and now they are all lost.

When Xiaoping was too upset, Aji ran in, out of breath, holding on to the door frame.

"Attention, there are three customs ships and dozens of boats coming from outside the harbor. Ejiri's sailors are simply unable to resist them."

"What? Where's the navy? What's the banner?" Xiaoheita's two years in Ejiri have been peaceful, and the pirates who are close to him all set up cards along the way to collect protection fees, and they don't do anything to rob homes. To say that he is a pirate is better to say that he is a kind of common people, very formal.

"It's just that there is no flag or number, so it's impossible to tell."

Koheita's first reaction was that the Takeda clan was a thieves, and he won over the Suruga Navy. On the surface, the two families did not fight, but in fact, they were deceitful and allowed the navy to attack the town of the Yamauchi family without raising a banner.

"Aji, I'll fight with Shichiki and summon all the ashigaru in the city to form a formation."

"Tatsuzo, blow the conch and let the family and servants of the samurai Ashigaru in the city mobilize to defend the city."

Xiao Pingtai did not wear any armor, took a spear, and rushed down to the city. At this moment, the sound of conchs was heard in the city, and two large ships were seen outside the harbor. They probably guessed that there might be pirates coming ashore to cause trouble. Women and children all ran into the city, while the townspeople gathered together under the unified organization of the town and prepared to defend their hometown.

Xiao Pingtai's horse mark soon galloped out of the city. The soldiers and civilians above and below the city felt relieved when they saw Xiao Pingtai riding a hundred steps towards the port.

The ashigaru and town people along the way also slowly gathered behind Koheita, and most of the iron cannon people also appeared carrying wooden poles on their backs.

A reluctant defensive posture was quickly set up at the port. The hundreds of iron artillery ashigaru on the front line lit their match ropes one after another, ready to give any outsiders a head-on blow when they attacked the port.

[Note 1]: Karuno refers to a small boat or canoe in ancient Japanese.