Chapter 49 Preparing for War
As soon as Sen Yu returned to Sen Village, he called a meeting of core members with a serious face.

"The master asked us to find a suitable ninja organization, either to hire or recruit them."

As soon as these words came out, the faces of several core members suddenly changed. They thought that Mori Shinobu was abandoned, and their mood immediately became very bad.

After calming down, from the leader's expression and attitude, he knew that the situation was not that bad, but it was not much better either, because this would cause them to lose their only child.

Right now they are the only ninja organization under their master. They are highly valued and enjoy generous treatment. But once other ninja organizations join, they will lose this advantage and will also face fierce competition. The key is that they do not have the confidence to compete with others.

But they had no way to object. First of all, it was the master's decision. Secondly, they knew their own business. The Forest Ninjas were born with deficiencies and were indeed incapable of taking on certain responsibilities. For example, the only capable fighter was Fujishige, which was completely unbelievable in other ninja organizations.

Just by looking at the faces of several people, Sen Yu knew what they were thinking, so he continued speaking.

"This is the master's trust in us. We must find a suitable ninja as soon as possible to be responsible for the assassination and some guarding tasks of the territory."

Everyone present was a smart person. They understood immediately that their master had divided the ninja's tasks. The forest ninjas were mainly responsible for gathering intelligence, and also had some guarding tasks. To put it bluntly, while their original duties remained unchanged, they were also asked to contain and monitor the new ninjas.

This is enough to prove that, at least in the short term, the status of the Forest Ninja in the master's heart will not decrease too much, but it is hard to say about the future, so the Forest Ninja must demonstrate its irreplaceable value as soon as possible, otherwise it is likely to be eliminated.

At this moment, when it is inevitable that colleagues will join in, taking the initiative is undoubtedly the best option, so no one objects anymore, and there is no point in objecting, so they began to actively provide ninjas to choose from.

There are seven most famous ninja organizations in Japan, namely Musashi, Kai, Echigo, Shinano, Iga, Koga and Kii. In addition, there are some not-so-famous or unknown ones. Each of them has its own unique features. Even the forest ninjas have two unique skills, otherwise they would not be able to survive.

However, large-scale ninja organizations are not small organizations like the Forest Ninja. As ninjas, they are targeting daimyo with a salary of 100,000 stones or more. If they go to invite them rashly, the success rate will not be very high, and the Forest Ninja cannot suppress the other party.

If it cannot be suppressed, it means the danger is out of control, so the Forest Ninjas do not plan to contact these powerful ninja organizations, but to look for those powerful ninjas who are not very famous but have unique skills, and then pair them with some wandering ninjas with good skills.

"A combination of one strong and many weak ones can be easily tamed. Why don't we find a few more powerful ninjas and form a special operations team. We can afford it with the funds allocated by the master." Fujika suddenly said, and the others were stunned at first, and then nodded in unison. They had overlooked this point.

Ninjas are simple. They will obey whoever is stronger, so a powerful ninja can easily subdue ordinary ninjas.

In this way, a small group of ninjas will be formed in a very short time, which will affect the existence of the Forest Ninjas.

But it’s a different story no matter how strong you are. The stronger you are, the harder it is to admit defeat, which actually gives the Forest Ninja room to maneuver.

After making a plan, the Forest Ninja not only sent people to gather information about the Fukushima family, but also to look for those powerful ninjas.

Yan Xu was not idle either, racking his brains to think if he had missed anything.

Other things can be remedied, but the war probably won't give him that chance. All Yan Xu can do is try his best to avoid making mistakes.

Among many things, there is no way to deal with ninja matters, he can only leave it to professionals, and for other aspects he can only rely on himself. This shows how lacking in talent Yan Xu is.

There was no way. He had only been here for a short time and was not familiar with Japan. Of the so-called famous ministers and generals, he only knew Miyamoto Musashi, who was familiar with Baki. He had seen the others but had forgotten them. Who would remember them? This caused him to be completely in the dark now, and he regretted not collecting relevant information when he traveled back last time.

In fact, it would be useless even if he collected them. Yan Xu did not realize that the Japan where he was was a fictional history. God knows how many changes there have been.

Without help, Yan Xu can only rely on himself.

In fact, the simplest way is to unite the Shimazu family and the Sagara family, and send troops first to catch the Fukushima family off guard.

But this is not realistic. First of all, Yan Xu does not trust the Shimazu family and the Sagara family. Secondly, he is not familiar with the Fukushima family. Even if he wants to lead troops to launch a surprise attack, he has to find out clearly first. He can't rely on those two families for everything.

Due to various reasons, all Yan Xu can do is to strengthen his own strength first, in simple terms, to cheat.

The territory's standing military force consisted of 100 foot soldiers, 30 hatamoto, and 20 elite ronin, with only one samurai, Karakumaru.

These troops are definitely more than enough for the current Moroboshi family, but they are far from enough to fight against the Fukushima family.

So Yan Xu recruited 50 foot soldiers at once, of whom remained unchanged, were equipped with the light crossbows he brought, and then the main force, the hatamoto, made up the total of .

The total force should be about 350 people. He can't command more than that. In fact, it's difficult now.

More than 300 people went to that station, it was a huge crowd, and Yan Xu had no experience in how to give orders.

In fact, most people have never had the experience of commanding ten people in their lifetime, let alone hundreds.

So Yan Xu came up with a stupid idea. He divided the 300 people into three teams, and wrote one, two, and three on their chests and backs with different colored paints. Those who couldn't read could distinguish by color, and the color blind could see the symbols.

Then each battalion was divided into two squadrons and ten squads, so that he could command his soldiers by one, two, or three.

As for the hatamoto, they are his personal guards, so naturally they will go wherever he goes, without any need for command.

In addition, as the only capable person under his command, Hui Ruomaru was responsible for leading the elite ronin soldiers to charge into battle. As long as she was fine, he didn't care how many elite ronin soldiers died, so he specially gave her the armor that he had prepared in advance.

Hui Ruomaru is proficient in swordsmanship and is not suitable for heavy armor, so the armor given to her is a close-fitting fish scale armor with a soft cowhide lining, and then the pieces of fish scale armor are fixed on it with rivets by a machine.

This armor has good defense against arrows and sharp blades, but not so good against heavy attacks. It is quite suitable for a swordsman like Hui Ruomaru.

As for weapons, in addition to a snowflake, she was also rewarded with a newly made snow blade.

Xuefeng is a katana, made with the sandwich steel method. It is sharp and tough, not easy to break, and suitable for cutting hard objects. It can be used as the main weapon on the battlefield. In this case, it is enough to bring a Xuehua sword.

(End of this chapter)