Chapter 21 Is the Iron Cannon Really So Powerful?
Speaking of this, seeing that my father and brother seemed not satisfied with the answer, Zong Qing smiled slightly and said, "Of course, this is just a long-term perspective. In the near future, this time I thought that the first time I came to attack Haijin City must be the 450 Liujiao family members in the original city, because when I attacked Guanyin Temple City, I did not let the other party know that it was the work of our family. In this way, Liujiao Yixian would still think that our family was just a small family, but was just a city that was seized in the chaos. There were 450 Liujiao family members who were enough to destroy our family."
Speaking of this, he paused for a moment and gave the other party some time to think, and then continued: "Although our family is still weak, there are more than 80 people in the family, and there are thirty-five ninjas and retainers who are outstanding. It is not difficult to defeat 450 squads."
"What afterwards? The Hexao family will not launch an attack. Have you ever thought about the ninjas of the Hexao family? Sooner or later, will he know about the attack on Guanyin Temple Castle? Have you ever thought about it?" After speaking, Tatsugawa Yoshisect asked. He didn't think that the Hexao family would launch an attack on such an important city in Haijin Castle and it would be left alone.
This failure does not mean that he will give up. Next, the other party will face the other party's repeated attacks. This is exactly what he is worried about. Even if he is subordinate to Asai from now on, what can he do? Even if he surrenders to Asai, the family will be on its outermost periphery and closest to the Hexao family. He doesn't even need Hexao Yoshiki personally lead a large army. He only needs to order the forces of Takashima County to concentrate on attacking the Hexao family to achieve the goal of eliminating the Yukawa family. After all, Takashima County has more than 80,000 stones of land. If these forces unite, it will definitely be able to dispatch about three to five thousand military forces. At that time, the Hexao family will restrain Asai, and these powerful coalition forces will destroy themselves. Even if Asai wants to help, he will be willing but not strong enough.
And the most important point is that although there are indeed a lot of barren land to be developed around Haijin City, these lands are not infinite. According to Yukawa Yoshinosect, even if all of them are developed, there will be at most less than 5,000 stones. How many land can be mobilized for 5,000 stones? 300 or 5000?
Of course Zong Qing thought about this issue. What did he work hard to get thousands of stakes of funds to Guanyin Temple City? Of course, it was to solve this problem. For him, the Hexake family and the Asai family were better, but the retainers or subordinate families were basically the main force of peasants and soldiers. If such a military force was to fight a downwind, it would be natural that there was no big problem if there were more people and bullying fewer people. But once the battle was fought against the wind, especially when the opponent was much stronger than them, it would definitely be defeated at once. In Zong Qing's eyes, this was not a war at all, it was just a fight. Sometimes, the fight was not just a fight. It was not just a fight that would win, but it was mainly about who was ruthless and who had the best weapons. This was the key to the decisive victory.
Thinking of this, Zong Qing said: "The reason why my father and son attacked Guanyin Temple City during the war was to deal with this situation. The children were planning to use most of them to purchase iron cannons. Most of the wealthy families in Takashima County are still using peasant soldiers to fight. Not to mention them, even the warriors in these forces have only heard of iron cannons, but have never used them. Once the family owns hundreds of iron cannons to defend the city, it is probably not necessary to have a few rounds of volleys, and the other party will collapse."
"Iron Cannon? Is it really that powerful?" It is obvious that not only other forces in Takashima County, but even Tamakawa Yoshizo and Tamakawa Somamasa were only known for this weapon, and they had no idea about this weapon at all. So when Zong Qing finished speaking, they couldn't help but lose their minds.
Although Kyoto Village is located in Omi, even the Asai family and the Hexaki family do not value this kind of weapon now, let alone a small family like them.
"Yes, brother, the iron cannon is so powerful. Not only is the range more than twice that of the longbow, but the most important thing is that the samurai or Football Gun cannot block the projectiles fired by the iron cannon. Even the samurai and Football Gun cannot resist. What's more, the peasant soldiers wearing civilian clothes, as long as they get a hundred, even if all the wealthy families in Takashima County unite together, they will not be afraid."
Although they still felt unbelievable after listening to it, they had nothing to say. After all, they had never seen such a weapon. If they had not seen it, they would have no right to speak.
"Okay, my father, brother, do you know what else to ask Yukisamro for answering?" Zong Qing saw that the two of them were already in shock, so he couldn't help but ask.
After thinking for a while, Yoshizo Tamakawa said, "Call the retainers to have a meeting, I have something to announce." After that, he walked out first.
The first evaluation meeting of the Tamakawa family in Haijin Castle was held in the evaluation room. Apart from the Tamakawa Yoshinosect sitting in the main seat, there were only four people present, namely Tamakawa Soqing, Tamakawa Somamasa, Tamakawa Hoshinosect and Tamakawa Yusuke. This configuration is the normal retainer group configuration of the rich clan. It is impossible to be a rich clan, especially the small rich clan, and it is difficult to attract other samurai to be loyal to them, so they are usually a family, and the Tamakawa family is the same.
As for Zong Qing and Zong Zheng, although they each had retainers, they were just subordinates of the Tamakawa family, so they were not qualified to participate in such an assessment.
After everyone sat down, Yukisawa Yoshisect first glanced at the four people present because he knew that this was probably the last look he had when he sat in the position of the home supervisor.
After his eyes stayed on everyone for a while, he said, "Now that our family has reached a critical moment of life and death, the Hexao family army may launch an attack on our family at any time. I know that my ability is limited, so now I will pass on the position of the governor of the family to Yuchuan Zongqing. I hope you can assist me carefully in the future."
Since they did not receive any news in advance, both Tatsugura's pro-sect and Tatsushi Yusuke were extremely surprised that the lord suddenly wanted to give way to Yukisaburo. Because they were also samurai with traditional thoughts, and in recent years, Tatsugura Yoshigura has only cultivated the eldest son and adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards the second son, they had long regarded Tatsugura Somamasa as their legal heir. In their eyes, Tatsugura Soqui was simply a disaster for their own family. Yes, it was a disaster.
Before, he just harmed himself, did not learn martial arts, and was idle all day long, but now he was no longer satisfied with this, but began to harm the Yukawa family. Whether it was to seize Haijin City or attack the Guanyin Temple City, in their opinion, this was to push the Yukawa family to perish step by step.
Now that I suddenly heard that the lord was going to pass the position of family governor to this disaster, how could they accept it?
So as soon as the Yukawa Yoshinori Sect finished speaking, they heard the Yukawa relatives say quickly: "The lord is now in the prime of spring and autumn. He hastily passed the position of Yu Yukisanro as the governor. His subordinates think it is really a bit hasty, so please think twice."
Chapter completed!