Chapter 427 The Emergence of the Three Coalition Forces

Although the Amago family chose to join the Moroboshi family and promised to give up their status as daimyo, if you say that they did it willingly, you are absolutely lying. After all, it is human nature to prefer to be the head of a chicken rather than the tail of a phoenix.

Not many people would be willing to go from being a local tyrant to a family that needs to please others, but most people choose to accept their fate.

Most of these people belonged to the lower class of the Amago clan and could not enjoy many benefits and favors from the clan, so they were more looking forward to the Moroboshi clan, which was said to have generous treatment.

But some people are unwilling to do so. They have higher privileges and the opportunity to hold power in the future, so they are naturally unwilling to lose these. So even though they know the pressure faced by the Niwa family and know that this is the best choice, they are unwilling to accept their fate.

In addition to these people, among the retainers and samurai of the Amago family who are about to enjoy the high treatment of the Moroboshi family, there will inevitably be a few fools who fail to see the situation clearly and try to restore order and create glory again.

In this situation, the enchanting Fuji and the ruthless Thousand Sons Corps were like an extremely sharp demon sword inserted into the Niwa family. Anything that did not meet their wishes would be ruthlessly cut off, so for a long time, the bloody smell of the Niwa family had never dissipated.

Just like Yan Xu's evaluation of Fu Ji, she is smart and decisive. Not only does she dare to kill people, she also knows how to kill people, especially the latter which is the most rare.

Killing is easy, a flash of the knife and the head falls to the ground, clean and neat.

But who should be killed, who can be killed, and who will be most effective in killing is a science.

Obviously, Fu Ji was well versed in this knowledge. Therefore, although she was ruthless and killed countless people, she not only gradually controlled the power of the Niwa family, but also steadily gained the other party's respect. This is not something that ordinary people can do.

After conquering the Amago family, the several small daimyo next to them certainly could not cause any trouble. The people who had secretly contacted them before from the Amago family were also completely betrayed, which was considered a token of their allegiance.

In fact, the smaller the force, the less resistance they will have when being incorporated into the Moroboshi family, because their lives are really hard. Not only do they have to survive in the cracks, but they also have to tighten their belts and diet from time to time. When the years are bad, the whole family, young and old, has to go out to pick wild vegetables.

Don't laugh. No matter it's just a show or they are really that poor, it is true that life is hard.

If this is the case for the daimyo, the life of the samurai is even more miserable.

Many daimyo wished that their samurai didn't need to eat and could be full by just drinking wind, so all kinds of random things became food substitutes, and a lot of things that would kill people if caught in the modern world were added to them, so that a bunch of samurai masters who were full of food could fight tirelessly, but once the enthusiasm wore off or the time was too long, they would be useless if not dead.

Therefore, the lower the level, the harder life is, and the less resistance they have to the high treatment of the Moroboshi family.

Moreover, they have been invited by Fu Ji to watch beheadings many times during this period. Now, let alone seeing Fu Ji, they shiver when they see cherry blossoms, and touch their necks habitually when they see oil-paper umbrellas.

Under Fukihime's sword, the coalition forces nominally led by the Amago family completed their integration at an astonishing speed. They had a smooth journey without any obstacles, and became a model of unity from top to bottom.

With high efficiency, the coalition forces quickly eliminated the old and weak, retained the strong and strong, strengthened training, updated equipment, and rapidly improved the coalition forces' combat effectiveness.

All of this would not be possible without the help of the Thousand Sons Corps, because the Thousand Sons are either from a family or the descendants of samurai, have received more education, are not only literate in reading and arithmetic, but are also proficient in military law and tactics, and know how to manage and do things. Any one of them can command hundreds of people, and the outstanding ones can stand on their own.

It can be said that any order from Fu Ji can be executed efficiently, which is completely inseparable from the assistance of the Thousand Sons Corps.

After the reorganization, the next step was training and changing of equipment. Because the coalition forces of the Amago clan and the Moroboshi clan still needed to be separated on the surface, the coalition forces were equipped with foreign trade firearms, namely flintlock rifles and cannonballs.

It's not that other forces haven't thought about imitating firearms, but in the end they all came to nothing because the most difficult parts of firearms are the barrel and the spring.

The gun barrel made by rolling up iron sheets and hammering them repeatedly with an iron rod has low strength and is easy to wear. It may explode if you are not careful.

Although the gun barrel made by drilling holes in an iron rod with tools is strong, it is slow to manufacture, has a high defective rate, and the gun barrel cannot be too long.

As for the spring, it was simply because the refined metal did not meet the standards and did not have enough elasticity, so it could not be made into a flintlock at all. The only way to fire the gun was to use a metal component to clamp the fuse.

Regardless of the method used, the price and cost of imitation firearms remain high, and the quality and output cannot be compared with the production method of the Moroboshi family using a large number of steam machinery. Therefore, in the firearms market, Moroboshi brand firearms are simply the only one that dominates the market.

However, although firearms have many advantages, they also have many disadvantages. Even the Moroboshi family did not dare to completely adopt firearms. Therefore, the firearm equipment rate of the Amago family coalition forces was less than one-third, mainly replacing shooters who were difficult to train on a large scale, and the large gun troops responsible for attacking strongholds.

Such a large move by the coalition forces of the Amago clan could naturally not be concealed from everyone, and the impact it caused quickly spread outward, especially to the Mori clan, which was closest. They immediately pretended to be threatened, contacted the second island in a formal manner, and also announced to the outside world that they had formed a coalition to deal with the threat of the coalition forces of the Amago clan.

The scene written and performed by Yan Xu did not completely offset the impact of the emergence of the two coalition forces on the outside world, because the size of the two coalition forces had seriously exceeded the standard. The group of small daimyo who blocked the Moroboshi family from going to the hinterland of the main island were stressed, and they strengthened their contacts and tried to form a coalition to deal with the imminent crisis.

The impact of the coalition was so great that even the Takeda family and the Uesugi family, who were in a love-hate relationship with each other, temporarily gave up their fight and kept paying attention to the two major coalitions headed by the Mori family and the Amago family. At the same time, they were also somewhat hesitant about the upcoming third coalition.

It’s not that coalition forces haven’t appeared before, but internal conflicts and huge consumption have made them always short-lived.

However, it is undeniable that the coalition forces posed a huge threat, so even powerful families like the Takeda and Uesugi had to treat it with caution.

For a time, ninja spies were everywhere, and everyone was trying to find out the reasons and purposes behind the appearance of the two coalition forces.

Although Yan Xu made some arrangements, the truth was not covered up for long, and all clues pointed to the Zhuxing family.

But the behavior of the Moroboshi family was too strange, and it was completely incompatible with the entire island country. In addition, both the Mori family and the Amago family now retained the status of daimyo, and the internal affairs were also in their own hands. Only in the army was there the shadow of the Moroboshi family.

But this level of control is too low. No one would believe that the Moroboshi family secretly controlled the Mori family, the Amago family, and the first and second Soejima, because all these forces were integrated together, and the Takeda family and the Uesugi family had to call him the big brother, and they would be the second or third brother or something like that.

The problem is that the Moroboshi family exerts influence on the two coalition forces more through business and support, which is far from being control. At least based on the inertia of thinking of other forces, they do not think of this as control.

In the eyes of those people, as long as I hold the knife, the money and food given by others are my duty, and there is no such thing as paying back the money.

Therefore, the outside world believes that the Mori family and the Amago family should have reached some kind of cooperation with the Moroboshi family in exchange for the support of the Moroboshi family. As for controlling the two major coalition forces, it is pure nonsense.

However, out of caution, the Takeda family and the Uesugi family supported the Tianshan family and the Rokkaku family respectively to form the third coalition, forming a loose barrier.

It doesn't matter how strong they are. Even if they are too strong, Takeda and Uesugi will not feel at ease. As long as they can stop the joint forces of the Mori and Amago clans, it will be enough.

(End of this chapter)