Chapter 232 Preparation before the war
Chapter 232 Preparation before the war
In the next ten days or so, Niwa directly set up his base camp on an outlying island and personally supervised the formation of various noble armies.
He personally assigned tasks to the ministers who were assigned to the administrative and social administrative departments, formed a smooth logistics system and civil affairs system, mobilized all refugees, and increased the speed of war preparations dozens of times.
With Takahashi Quan's example in front of them, the Inazuma nobles did not dare to go out of their way, and one after another took out their hoarded food supplies to supply the military. Although most of the grain was old and quite rotten, Niwa still praised them and promised to compensate them with new grain after the war.
As a result, more nobles were encouraged and began to offer more materials and food, especially the Kamisato and Kujo families.
Daofeng Shenli donated all the family wealth, so that the family only had thin porridge and guava every day. After Niwa learned about it, he encouraged him and moved all his family members to live in the castle tower and provide support according to the standards of the shogunate.
Kujo Yuji organized all the male members of the family and strong servants except his eldest son and second son into the army, forming a clan army of up to 3,000 people. After Niwa learned about it, he also raised his two sons in the castle tower and personally guided the training of Kujo clan soldiers to show his importance.
Under his encouragement, the entire Inazuma war machine was operating at high speed, and the resources scattered in the hands of the major nobles were quickly concentrated in the hands of the shogunate.
Of course, there are also some nobles who have nothing to lose. Niwa made a list of them. The particularly bad ones were directly detained, severely punished, and their families were confiscated.
This thunderous method silenced the nobles of Daozhi.
Raiden's rule has always been very gentle. In the past thousands of years, Inazuma has basically never had a noble's house ransacked. Even Kamisato Michifu urged Niwa not to be so cruel to the nobles, but Niwa didn't listen at all.
"In emergencies, extraordinary measures should be taken. Nowadays, the people of the country are on the verge of danger. These nobles have been favored by the country and supported by the people for generations, but they are still living without a cent. They also openly resist the shogunate's collection of food and salary for the soldiers. If they are not severely punished, let those who broke their families to save the country What do the people think? There is no need to persuade the Qing family in Shenli, just calm down and care for the people!"
Shenli Daofeng was rendered speechless and could only retreat.
After Kamisato Daofeng retreated, Nasita Meow poked her head out from Niwa's arms and took the initiative to send a conscious connection, "Niwa, shouldn't gods love people? Why do you treat your own people so cruelly?"
Niyu gently picked her up, stared at her pupils with the faint four-leaf seal, and said: "Nasita, let me ask you, do more people die from drowning or fire in this world?"
Nacida replied without hesitation: "Of course many people die from drowning!"
Niwa smiled and said: "That's right. Water looks weak and harmless, so humans like to play with it, and they are often swallowed up; fire looks violent and terrifying, so humans tend to fear it, but far fewer people are burned to death and choked to death. .So think about it, if you want to prevent your people from dying, should you be water or fire?"
Nacida fell into deep thought for a moment.
Niyu continued: "Fighting against the monsters of the abyss is a matter of life and death for everyone. At this time, we must use fire-like laws to make everyone obey the orders and prohibitions, so as to ensure the survival of most people. As a ruler, you cannot blindly My mercy!"
Nasita nodded in understanding.
What happened next was exactly as Niwa expected. When the behavior of these nobles was made public, everyone in Inazuma despised them, and other noble families also wrote letters to draw a clear line between them.
As a result, Inazuma's cohesion has been greatly enhanced.
Compared with raising supplies, what troubled Niyu more was the combat effectiveness of the army.
Compared to Rai's movie, which relies mainly on personal force to lead troops, Niwa believes more in the role of organization in the military's combat effectiveness.
Unfortunately, reality made him shake his head.
Hundreds of years have passed since Inazuma's war with Orobas during this period. Under the long-term peace, even the elite warriors lacked the experience of large army operations, let alone those who were used to patrol the territory and exterminate. A private soldier of a bandit noble?
Niwa discovered that among the assembled noble private soldiers, thousands of the most elite professional warriors were indeed highly skilled in martial arts, but most of them were used to fighting alone and were not suitable for fighting in formations, not to mention other soldiers with worse qualities. said.
Although the final strength of the Inazuma assembled by these nobles was as high as 40,000, Niyu felt that if he brought out 5,000 of the Liyue Foreign Legion that he personally trained, they could defeat this army in one morning!
Although the soldiers are drawing their crotches, the war has reached the point where it is about to break out.
After all, there is no clay Bodhisattva with a bow.
So Niwa could only bite the bullet and pull out 3,000 of the most elite professional samurai, reorganize the Okuki group, and personally conduct assault training. At least they learned how to cooperate in small-scale operations and how not to block the charging line of their comrades. , how to cooperate with the arrow rain support of the battle formation, and how to cover each other's attack and retreat.
As for how well he can perform on the battlefield, only God knows.
This reminded Niyu of a hell joke from his previous life.
It is said that when Rabbit trained Uncle Tanhei to do step-tank coordination, he only taught them three things from beginning to end.
How not to be run over by your own tank.
How not to be killed by machine guns and artillery fire from your own tanks.
How not to be killed by the reactive armor of your own tank.
Then Uncle Tanhay sang "How lonely it is to be invincible" under the excellent matching mechanism of the African region...
Niwa only hopes that he can have such good luck.
As for the remaining 30,000 people, Niyu really has no energy to take care of them. He didn't have high expectations for these line-filling infantry, as long as they could rely on the defense line to withstand the monster's charge...
After the army was assembled, Niyu immediately began to mobilize. The main task was to change defenses.
Under his personal command, the follow-up reinforcements gradually exchanged defenses with the exhausted soldiers on the Kujo Jinya defense line. At the same time, various noble generals also began to transform the defense line under his arrangement, and gradually gave up the peripheral defense line and contracted towards the core position.
For a full month, the defense line of the Nine Formations became smaller and smaller, the outer strongholds were lost one by one, and the troops retreated one by one until only the last core position remained.
Seeing that the resistance of Inazuma's army was getting weaker and weaker, the monsters besieging the Kujo Formation House gradually became bolder and began to launch large-scale attacks from time to time.
Faced with these group assaults, Inazuma's army seemed to have no good solution. A stronghold or position was often broken in one assault.
In this tug of war, time came to June.
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