The Ten Banners of Nizi refer to the ten branches of the Maori family built on various important roads near Toshita Tsukiyama Castle when the Nizi family ruled the Izumo Kingdom. It is also called the defense network of Toshita Tsukiyama Castle.

However, this line of defense ultimately failed to resist the offensive of the Maori family, and collapsed with the demise of the Nizi family.

Now, this defense network has become the biggest obstacle for Nikoto Katsuki to regain Tomota Tsukiyama Castle.

On the same day when the Ming army was trapped in Bailu City, the Ming army's artillery bombarded the city gates and also broke up the defenders who surrounded the roadblocks. In the past, Masao Matsuda, the lord of the Nizi family, led the lord into the city and regained the city. He recruited local lords on the spot. Many people who took refuge were pulled back into the army.

Immediately afterwards, he recaptured Kamishi Castle, Kumano Castle, Maki Castle, and Mizawa Castle in just three days, and executed the rebel general Mizawa Waiki, who helped the Maori family attack Tomota Tsukiyama Castle. For a moment, most of Izumo's land returned to the control of the Niko family.

When Niko Katsuhira and Yamaakashi Kasuke sent troops to siege Tomota Tsukiyama Castle, Chen Bazhi and Li Rubai advanced together on land and water, claiming to be reinforcements from the Niko family, and marched from Shenxi Castle to the Yamaki Castle of Ishimi Kingdom.

The crocodile on the roadside was pitifully small, and even the city was not considered a city wall. At best, it was just a barracks and the defenders were only two or three hundred. Li Rubai was in front of the land with a cannon team, and after the collapse of the wood fence, he drove the Japanese pirates to clash and enter. When they passed through this city, they even had traces of their existence.

Take away whatever can be taken away, and demolish all what can be demolished. The Liaodong Iron Cavalry did not want to go to Shanchucheng to do lumberjacks. They would rather direct the Japanese pirates to carry the wood and move slowly.

From Shenxi City to Shanchui City, in just forty miles, when Chen Bazhi met Li Rubai again from the coast, more than a thousand Japanese pirates under his command who followed Li Rubai could no longer form combat power.

Li Rubai curled his lips and said, "These Japanese people are too useless."

Chen Bazhi looked at the Japanese pirates who could not even whip with a horse whip. He also looked puzzled and waved his hand to ask the flag officials from Liaodong to stop urging them to get up, saying, "What did you let them do?"

"I brought some wood and walked forty miles for three days. I drove in the morning and took a break for three miles. Is there a war?" Li Rubai curled his lips and was dissatisfied, "Everyone is like monkeys, not as good as the baggage soldiers in Liaodong!"

Chen Bazhi waved his hand and said that the enemy was not concerned about these things. He ordered the Japanese pirates to rest on the spot. Two scouts led their troops to explore Shanchucheng not far away. The two thousand-department soldiers and the Liaodong Banner Army took turns to guard and prepare to attack the city.

Chen Bazhi knew what the problem was.

The military and food of the flag army were purchased and transported to Tianjin Wei by the merchants, transported the five islands by sea, and then loaded the grain ships on the five islands and replenished them at any time. The Japanese pirates were all prepared by themselves. Matsuura Takashinobu praised Haikou for not requiring the Ming army to prepare military food, as long as they were given some rice and grain after the war. Chen Bazhi also praised Takashinobu.

Besides, that was not considered his own soldier. Chen Bazhi didn't care so much. After a look, he realized what the so-called military food was - rice balls made with his hands, one meal, two for a day.

These people did not have any food. Li Rubai, who captured the crocodile and walked into the city, divided the "huge amount" of rice and grain to be rewarded for them as a profit, but they did not eat too much or make too much. They would rather carry a cloth to wrap seven or eight kilograms of rice with them than cook a rice ball, and eat one at a time.

Even if it is more particular, it is nothing more than pinching a small piece of salted radish into the rice ball, which is the military food.

"They just eat this. They have to carry seven or eight kilograms of rice on their bodies, and they have to carry dozens of kilograms of wood. In the past, they marching within ten miles. Now, if they marching like this, they have no dead, and they have a good physical condition."

Chen Bazhi took a rice ball and broke it for Li Rubai to see. This young man from Liaodong who had no worries about food and clothing was already full. He was wiping his mouth to feed the horse. Oats and black beans mixed into the hay. He also opened the wine bag and poured half a tael of soju to his mount.

Looking at the rice balls in Chen Bazhi's hand, and then looking at the huge horse rice bucket, he said: "The military food of the Japanese people must be changed."

The contempt on Li Rubai's face was clearly visible, and no one felt more deeply than President Qi who followed Chen Bazhi. He was instinctively afraid of Li Rubai and stubbornly muttered to Chen Bazhi, both unwilling and envious, saying: "General, rice balls are the best military food. They carry rice and they are already full of 70% full."

Chen Bazhi's surprise made President Qi even more anxious. He incoherently defended and puzzled: "Isn't this the case in Ming Dynasty? Farmers cannot eat rice when they grow rice, and they will die if they eat it. Six people and four people are already good at governing the country. The remaining rice is sold for food. They will never be able to eat rice without fighting. Only in war can they eat rice balls."

"Six people, four people, I remember it."

Chen Bazhi nodded seriously, patted President Qi, and took his personal entourage to leave the Liaodong Banner Army's position. He did not have the feeling of contempt or superiority as Li Rubai.

In his eyes, whether in the Ming Dynasty or Japan, people were hungry and cold, and they were man-made disasters. He had not forgotten the days when he was struggling between killing dogs and holding dogs to keep warm. However, the Japanese were few and small, and the land was easy to manage and wars broke out. Those county officials could directly set the taxes as three taxes and one or even three taxes and two.

The Ming Dynasty was not much better. Although the Ming Dynasty had thirty taxes, and even if all the taxes were paid simply by taxes, the people sold grain when the government collected taxes, which would make the grain price the lowest. Selling two stones of rice could only get one stone of tax silver. In addition, the tenant and landlords had 55 cents, the rice and grain that the farmers finally fell into was actually no difference from three taxes and one.

The excessive taxes caused by the Ming Dynasty was not a political problem, but an economic problem.

"If I capture land in Japan and collect 30 taxes and one tax, and you think the people..." Chen Bazhi shook his head halfway through his words. He told a child what he did. Seeing that his subordinates had eaten salted fish, cured meat and rice, he ordered: "Two thousand households, march towards the mountain and blow the city, let Li Qianhu's cavalry run around, and the people outside the city were almost running. If the city lord doesn't surrender, he will flatten it!"

The two Qianhu Banners did not clean up the camp. Under the order of Qianhu, they formed a formation and marched towards Shanchucheng with a walk. Li Rubai received the order to call the cavalry to board the horse and followed the flanks under the cover of the North Korean and Jurchen infantry.

Their war horses have rested enough. The cavalry has always been led by heavy war horses in the marching process, in order to preserve the strength of the war horses, which is of great use in the war. At this time, the cavalry are whistling in a row and scattering their teams in the fields.

Even the Japanese pirates who were resting were following with the little sword. They knew very well that if they captured this fort, they would get more rice.

The troops were extremely relaxed in their mentality. The war in sweeping the northern part of Jiuzhou had already confirmed that the Ming army was the city lord Daming here often did not dare to go out of the city to fight when they besieged the city, and would only hide in the forts and wait for artillery to break through the city.

Obviously, this time there will be no exception... The advancing flag army formation was facing the galloping scouts. The scouts reported to Chen Bazhi: "There are enemy ambushes on the other side of the mountain, and reinforcements in the north of the city, with thousands of people!"
Chapter completed!