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Chapter 344 Sumata

On May 12th, at 6:00, the territory of Sumata, Mino.

As the commander of the first team to enter Sumata, Yu Qiuhei was standing on the shore at this moment, watching the fire dragon composed of countless torches on the Kiso River slowly float down the river on a raft.

"Your Highness! Your Highness!" Longzi, who was following Yu Qiuping, tiptoed and stared at the spectacular fire dragon in a daze: "This fire dragon is so spectacular!"

Although Tadao Honda was standing aside, he looked at Kisogawa with fire.

"It's very spectacular," Yu Qiuping laughed, "but while you think it's spectacular, all the left-behind members of Simeono's wealthy families also saw it."

"Really!" Long Zi turned his head in surprise and looked at Yu Qiuping: "What should I do! Your Highness! Aren't we very dangerous!"

"Silly girl, no," Yu Qiuping smiled and helped Long Zili's head that had been blown by the wind before, but did not notice that the latter blushed quietly. "We are nearly 40 miles away from the main battlefield. After they heard the news this morning, it will be basically dark if they come over and will only start an attack tomorrow. It is time to go."

Yu Qiuhei's plan is completely different from Kinoshita Hideyoshi in his previous life. Kinoshita Hideyoshi's plan is more similar to a raid on the city building. They drifted down Kisogawa in darkness, and if one accidentally knocked down the reef or the shore, it would be a death. Because he was weak and was no match for Mino's army at all, he had to take advantage of the middle of the night to complete the city building before the enemy arrived.

But Yu Qiuhei didn't need to worry so much. In this life, Oda Nobunaga carried out a massive feint attack for his plan to build a city. The Oda family army restrained Simino's main force in the Kakono Island area of ​​Kawashima. Yu Qiuhei now holds Takabata's 65o combat soldiers in his hand and is fully capable of destroying Simino's remaining field forces. They have the best of their own, but they are unable to attack Yu Qiuhei.

Therefore, the Sumata Castle he wanted to build would be much larger than the simple camp built by Kinoshita Hideyoshi in the legend of his previous life. He was planning to directly build a general outline, and the subsequent expansion of Sumata Castle would be completed on this basis.

"Can such a large project be really completed in one day?" A guard beside Yu Qiuping still whispered with some concern.

"Don't worry, I'm very professional when it comes to linear planning." Yu Qiuping smiled confidently, "Besides, we have hired a professional contractor to direct the entire operation this time."

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Douwan was a farmer from Yeli County. In order to perform labor service, he followed the Yuqiu family's auxiliary soldiers to go out to the expedition. At this moment, the sky was gradually getting brighter. The auxiliary soldiers and a large number of unarmored warriors were busy transporting the weapons and tools used to build the city from the raft to the designated construction site, and dismantle the raft into logs and transport them together.

He had also served in corvee service in the past and built some rock forts or city defenses for several previous lords. However, the plan for the city building operation this time was very novel. They were not assembled by the lords, rushed to the city building site as usual, and then helped with the work in a mess. Some people could even sneak in.

On the contrary, hundreds of their auxiliary soldiers were grouped a few days ago, and like Chang Panbei's soldiers, they were divided into different squads and platoons. Each squad and platoon appointed temporary squad leader and platoon leader - that is, squad and squad generals. Each squad had hit the head before the task began, and each squad would be given a city-building layout diagram and task instructions to complete different things in different time periods - they didn't know that this was the optimal combination calculated by Yu Qiuping after linear planning.

At this moment, Duomaru, who was the temporary squad leader, was leading his subordinates to stand beside a pile of materials that were their turn to carry, looking at each other. Although the author of the picture, Lan Xianghuajiu, who made the picture, was the contractor in Yu Qiuping's mouth, considering that most of the auxiliary soldiers were illiterate and used pictures to replace task instructions, Duomaru, who had always been foolish, still couldn't understand what they should do now.

Lan Xianghuajiu, who was riding a horse, immediately noticed them who were stunned. He had just learned how to ride a horse for a while, but now he was still tilted when riding on the horse, and barely leaned towards them.

"You guys, what are you doing when you are stunned?" Lan Xianghuajiu asked loudly.

"It's Lord Lan Xiang! Hello Lord!" Several auxiliary soldiers came over and stood at the samurai and immediately saluted. They saw that Chang Panbei's foot light salutes their superiors, instead of kneeling down and kowtowing, so they followed suit.

"Hello." Lan Xianghuajiu also gave them a gift as usual, then bent down and asked in a low voice: "Don't you have a task? Why are you still stunned here?"

"This... sir." Dorumaru blushed and said embarrassedly: "The villain can't understand this plan."

"Didn't you tell me once before? Alas!" Lan Xianghua complained dissatisfied, "If I asked me to explain it one by one, how can I keep up with the progress?"

"Forget it, I'll tell you something!" Lan Xianghua sighed, turned over and dismounted, took the map in Daomaru's hand, and explained one by one: "You are the 15th Group. The task here is: first transport the complete and weapons you carry to the center of the construction site of the Sumama City, and then take the wood transported by the Sixth Group to transport them to the northwest corner of Sumama City, and then go to this location - to build a sentry tower. Complete the construction before noon, rush back to the northeast corner of Sumama City for further processing. After all, go to the center of Sumama City for lunch and then stand by. Do you understand?"

"Yes! Sir!" Dokoram and his friends responded together. Lan Xianghuajiu let out a sigh of relief, turned over the horse, searched along the river bank to see if there were any auxiliary soldiers who were not wrong. The local performance of the soldiers was much better than the auxiliary soldiers, because many of them had taken Yu Qiuping's Chinese Pinyin class, so they could understand simple words and make the delivery of commands simpler.

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After receiving the order, Daomaru and the others immediately carried several bags of building materials and dismantled wood and rushed to the destination quickly. The cavalry team that arrived early was standing guard at various intersections, guiding the way for the auxiliary soldiers who were moving back and forth. By the time Daomaru and the others arrived, the outline of the entire Sumamama Castle had been roughly drawn. They found the center of the city without much effort and put down what they carried. The sixth team did not let them wait for a long time and arrived at the center with a large amount of wood.

"Are you the 15th Group?" asked the squad leader of the 6th Group.

"That's right, are you brothers in the sixth group?" Dorimaru quickly answered.

"That's right, then you will leave this wood to you. We have the task of moving wood to the southeast!" The squad leader immediately directed his subordinates to hand the wood to Dooman. Dooman and the others did not dare to rest and ran to the northwest corner again.

Along the way, there were always good and busy auxiliary soldiers, and everyone had his job. The entire construction site was like a busy big beehive, neatly and orderly, completing one task after another step by step. Dorimaru felt the huge contrast between Yuqiu's family and other small families back then, and suddenly had the vague concept of "collectiveness" for the first time. For the first time, he was no longer confused because of his weak ability, but was extremely confident because of so many brothers' side by side.

The huge project of building the city of Sumata was initially completed in just half a day with the organization of Yuqiu's family and the efforts of nearly a thousand people. In the afternoon, the five sentry towers outside Sumata City were also built, and Yuqiuping even had the spare effort to further strengthen the civil and architectural walls of Sumata City.

At the same time, he also put the cavalry team in his hands and sent around to look around to prevent the enemy from approaching. However, both Masayuki Sanada and the horse exploration department reported that there was no large army coming, and the Simino family showed no sign of returning to aid. The left-behind troops of the major Simino family sent a few reconnaissance cavalry to see the situation in Sumata Castle, and then they determined that they were helpless with the troops, so they had to retreat in shame.

In the afternoon, it started raining heavily in Mino in May, which caused quite a lot of trouble to the project, but it also objectively hindered the support of the Saito family and made Yu Qiuping's situation safer.

On the evening of May 12, the construction project of Sumata City was completely completed. The city walls of Sumata City were composed of civil structures, with a large number of logs standing around for a week, forming a city wall about two meters thick and four meters high. Between the wood and on the outside, a large amount of soil was filled with reinforcement. The city wall was built with stone as raw material, and several feet of foundation were dug underground. Outside Sumata City, several trenches were built and rows of wooden fences were set up. On the high ground outside Sumata City, Yu Qiuping had set up watchtowers and arrow towers as fortifications. The perfect Sumata City city defense system was also completed.

Yu Qiuhei then ordered the army to join the city of Sumata, setting up camp, allowing the army who had been tired for a whole day to rest and avoid the heavier rain. Until now, the Saito family still did not take any countermeasures, probably because they had given up their hope of regaining Sumata. Yu Qiuhei, who had accomplished his mission, sent an envoy to Oda Nobunaga in the rain to report the victory to Oda Nobunaga, informing him that the plan to build a city in the summer was completed.

However, the messenger did not come back at noon the next day. The heavy rain also became increasingly severe.

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"It's strange, why haven't you come back yet?" Yu Qiuhei, who was hiding in the tent sheltered from the rain, was surprised in secret. "It may have been too late last night. Oda Nobunaga had already gone to bed and only met this morning. But it's noon, so it's time to come back. Could it be that he was ambushed by Saito Ninja because of the heavy rain on the road?"
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