Chapter 404

Tachihara Nobuhisa

Chapter 404 Tachihara Nobuhisa

I haven't seen him for many years, Master Xuanzhu has changed a lot in front of the Xiu family.

The northern region is bitterly cold, and the living conditions are too difficult. Master Xuanzhu has to work hard for the development of Ezo, and his body is getting more and more haggard.

In the cold winter of the previous year, Master Xuanzhu was crushed inside the house due to the heavy snow on the roof, and his left leg had to be amputated due to frostbite. Now Xuanzhu came to see Xiu's family, just like Haidao later generations, with a wooden prosthesis on his leg.

Seeing him being supported by his adopted Ainu adopted son Tachihara Nobuhisa, he came down to the Hide family. The Hide family saw that it was difficult for him to kneel and sit down, so they asked Anayama Nobutada to bring him a Maza for him to sit in the hall.

Xuanzhu thanked Anayama Nobutada, and then joked like Xiujia, "I haven't seen you for so many years, and I don't know the servants around His Highness. Where is Kenjiro now?"

Hearing Xuanzhu's inquiry, Hideka also warmly introduced to him Nobushige Sanada and Nobutada Anayama who were present, and at the same time told him, "Kenjiro is now working at the Home Elders Association to assist the elders in handling government affairs."

After hearing the introduction of several people from the Xiu family, Xuan Zhu said with emotion, "Okay, after I left His Highness, His Highness had just ruled over 35 koku of the two countries of Bizen and Misaku, and the country was even more shaken." If you want to come out, who would have thought that after 7 years, His Highness has become the number one celebrity in the world."

Regarding Xuanzhu's emotion, Xiujia smiled slightly, and said to him, "In the beginning, you became a monk and changed your name to Xuanzhu for the sake of the teacher's reputation. Now that the limelight has passed and the child has the ability to protect you, master, why not change your name back."

"Changing back to Liyuan's surname?" Xuanzhu opened her mouth in surprise when she heard the Xiu family's request. She hadn't heard anyone call her by this surname for a long time.

Xuanzhu, who lost his wife, tribe and son, thought that he could only be a monk in this life. Or, for this reason, he adopted an Ainu as his adopted son, taught him culture and military strategy, and hoped that he would inherit his own. Mantle.

But this doesn't mean that Xuan Zhu really doesn't care about Li Yuan's surname. Now that the Xiu family gave him this opportunity, he got up very excitedly and wanted to salute to thank the Xiu family, but was stopped by the Xiu family.

"Why do you have to do such a great gift, Shifan? You have devoted all your energy to developing the island for me, making our family prosperous and prosperous. Compared with your efforts, what I can do for you is so insignificant.

This matter is settled here, the teacher will restore the name of "Tachihara Hisakuna", and I will ask you to find a suitable imperial official position, and I will distribute 2 koku of Bizen Kojima to you as a reward for your development of Ezo . "

Hearing that the Hide family offered him a reward of 2 shi, Hisakuna Tachihara said in surprise, "Your Highness, Bizen is directly governed by the Heavenly Territory, and giving me 2 shi is really too much."

Xiujia walked up to him, put one hand on his, and stroked his prosthesis with the other hand, choked up and said, "Compared with Shifan's contribution in Ezo, what is the knowledge and practice of 2 stones?" Woolen cloth?"

He raised his head and looked at Xuan Zhu who had just regained the title of Hisakuna Tachihara and said, "I wanted to bring you directly into the family, but your achievements in Ezo cannot be announced to the public.

Please also be patient for a while, and first take up the position of walking in front of the imperial court together with Yingwa Jiuhu, and advise me. "

After finishing speaking, he asked Liyuan Jiugang again, "I don't know if Teacher Fan has any other requests, so let's say it together at this time."

Seeing that Xiu's family persisted, Li Yuan Jiugang didn't worry about knowing and doing. After all, as a samurai, how could he dislike knowing and doing less?
Afterwards, when he heard that Hideka planned to fulfill his wish, he immediately pulled Tachihara Nobuhisa behind him and said, "Gentabei is an Ainu child I adopted.

Although it is different from His Highness, under my teaching, he is already a qualified Yamato samurai, and he is considered to be the same as His Highness. I ask Your Highness to allow me to make Tachihara Nobuhisa the heir of the family. "

Having said that, Tachihara Hisakuna pulled Tachihara Nobuhisa and bowed down to the Xiu family and asked the Xiu family for a seal.

In Japanese culture, unless someone is particularly feared by the master, one does not need the master's permission to establish who is the heir, but as an heir, one needs to report to the master afterwards.

After all, after being established as the heir, he can be regarded as the young master no matter what he does inside his own family, and he can legally exercise part of the rights of their patriarch outside, so he must file with the master's house.

But the situation of Tachihara Nobuhisa is a bit special now, because he is not Japanese, he is an Ainu, and he is the Northern Yi that Yamato people look down on the most.

The policy that allowed them to become samurai had to be hidden from the family and only implemented locally in Ezo, let alone let an Ainu directly become a small daimyo with 2 shi.

Xiujia sat back in his seat, and this matter was a bit difficult for Xiujia, he touched his face helplessly, looked at Tachihara Nobuhisa who was kneeling in the hall and combed the standard Tsukiyo's hair, and said, "Gentai Is that right, Hei? Lift your head up and answer."

"Hi" Tachihara Nobuhisa heard Hideo's order, he responded with vigor, raised his body vigorously, and looked forward with piercing eyes, but his eyes deliberately avoided the direction of Hideo, only daring to look. The position of Xiang Xiujia's feet.

Xiujia looked at Tachihara Hisakuna's appearance and could only say that he was indeed the Ainu who had the same origin as the Mongols, and was very different from the Yamato people in terms of face and body shape.

Xiujia looked at his face and felt more and more familiar, so he asked, "I think your face is familiar, it seems that I have seen it before, have you been to Okayama before?"

"Hi" heard Hideka's inquiry, and Tachihara Nobuhisa fell to the ground again to salute Hideka and replied, "At the beginning of the tenth year of Tensho (1586), I met His Highness in Okayama."

Hearing this answer, the Xiu family immediately became interested, "Oh, and this thing? How come I don't have any memory at all?"

Kneeling in the hall at this time, the Seto family, who had been in charge of the Ezo duet before, was just answering, "Your Highness has a lot of things to do every day, so it's right not to remember, Mr. Liyuan is the second son of the chief of the Shihu tribe by the Shiko Lake on the west mountain of Xuanzhu City." .

In the tenth year of Tianzheng, I brought the representatives of several tribes who surrendered to our family to Gangshan to meet His Highness. Does Your Highness remember? "

After the Seto family reminded Hideka to recall something, looking at the young man in his 20s in front of him, he said with emotion, "I haven't seen you for 5 years, and I can't recognize you. At that time, you were just a What about young people?"

Tachihara Nobuhisa was a little embarrassed by the Xiu family's words, obviously the patriarch in front of him was 5~6 years younger than himself, and he was just a baby when he first met him, why now he talks to himself with a rather old-fashioned appearance.

Fortunately, the Xiu family didn't make the atmosphere awkward, and took the initiative to continue asking him, "After following the teacher for a few years, what have you learned, let's talk about it."

"Hi" Tachihara Nobuhisa once again saluted the Xiu family and slowly replied, "I have studied with my father for more than 6 years, mainly studying the art of war and government affairs, and now I have achieved a little success."

"Slightly successful? I don't know if it's true." Hearing his answer, Xiujia said with a smile, "Nowadays, it's a little difficult to test the government affairs of the scene. Why don't you test your art of war in the courtyard. Are you Do you know how to use guns, or do you know how to use knives?"

Tachihara Nobuhisa replied, "I am good at using guns."

"Using a gun? Good! This is the way of battle." Hideka turned to Nobushige Sanada behind him and said, "In that case, Genjiro, go and try his level."

Don't think that the samurai in film and television works fight with samurai swords, and think that Japan uses katana as the main weapon of battle.

In the Warring States period, katana swords were mostly used as guards of honor, and guns ranked second in the list of Japanese warriors, second only to the iron cannons introduced by later generations.

It's not bad. Outsiders scornfully called the Japanese Warring States Period a village chief's battle. The Japanese Warring States Period lasted more than a hundred years, and the real killer was the iron cannon introduced in the last 50 years.

Throwing aside the hot weapon of the iron cannon, the number of kills of the gun in the cold weapon far exceeds that of the bow and the samurai sword. It is the real king of close combat weapons on the battlefield.

In history, Nobushige Sanada’s spear skills were learned from Huang Muyi when he was a hostage in Osaka. Many of them were samurai who learned from the Nara Takazoin School. Therefore, Nobushige Sanada of later generations is good at using the ten-word spear (called sickle spear in Japan).

But in this life, Sanada Nobushige did not hold Osaka, but followed Hideya.On the side of Bizen Misaku, the samurai used the most traditional plain guns.

The reason is, of course, that the old birthday star Takeuchi Hisamori of Meizuo is a well-known swordsman in the western country, and the originator of Takeuchi Ryu in Japan, and he uses a plain spear.

Takeuchi Hisamori's swordsmanship and spearmanship are all inspired by himself on the battlefield, and they are the real killing skills!
There are no redundant movements in all the moves, and there are few feints in the moves of the entire genre, and the pursuit of simple and accurate solutions to the enemy.

Hideka studied under Takeuchi-ryu when he was a child, and learned Takeuchi-ryu's art of war with Takeuchi's third son, Takeuchi Hisakatsu (born in 1566, the son of Takeuchi Hisamori when he was 63 years old).

Takeuchi Hisamori is Ukido's imperial art of war teacher, and Takeuchi-ryu is a school that Ukido encourages large-scale preaching and directly teaches the most standard art of war in the army.

It can be said that with Hideka's vigorous promotion of Takeuchi-ryu, most of the samurai in Uki's countries are from Takeuchi-ryu, and the surrounding Shikoku, Maori, Tanba, and Harima are all influenced by Takeuchi-ryu.

With the influence of Takeuchi Ryu expanding hundreds of times than in history, if this parallel universe really exists, there should be no less such a talented sword master in Anrong's Taiko Lizhi biography in the future.

After receiving the Xiu family's order, the two young men immediately saluted the Xiu family and walked out of the palace. 15 meters long wood.

Unlike Nobushige Sanada standing with a gun in Takeuchi Ryu's hand-raised posture, Nobushiro Tachihara held the wooden stick in his hand and manipulated it, as if frowning because of the difficulty.

But seeing Nobushige Sanada who was already standing with a gun on the opposite side, no matter how difficult he was with the gun, he could only bite the bullet and go on stage.

Hideka did not choose Sanada Nobushige to fight against him at random. Sanada Nobushige has not been in Ukido for a long time, it has only been 2 years.

It hasn't been long since he learned the Takeuchi-ryu spear technique, but he is one of those who have improved very fast. He has only learned it for 2 years, and now his spear technique is considered a little bit accomplished.

I just don't know the difference between his little success and the little success that Tachihara Nobuhisa said.

The news that Nobushige Sanada was ordered by Hideka to fight against others spread like wildfire in the imperial hall, and even Nobushi Shimizu, who was helping the secretary of Osafuna Sadain at the Rifan Academy, also ran over to watch the written test of the two.

There were people betting on who would win, but most people in the courtyard were not optimistic about the foreigner in front of them, and most of them bet on Nobushige Sanada's victory.

After all, everyone knows the basics, and they still have some understanding of Sanada Nobushige's strength. Although he is not said to be strong, he is definitely not weak.

The two confronted each other in the courtyard for more than ten seconds, and in the end, Nobuyuki Tachihara couldn't bear the loneliness and launched the offensive first.

Just hearing his roar of "ha", he rushed towards Sanada Nobushige in three steps and two steps, and directly swung the wooden stick to strike at Xingfan, that momentum was like smashing Mount Tai.

"Breakthrough!" Sanada Nobushige calmly responded to Tachihara Nobuhisa's offensive, saw his problem from the exposed chest of the wooden stick he held high, and stabbed forward with the stick as a gun, directly attacking Tachihara Nobuhisa's heart.

Here is the difference between the Takeuchi school and other schools. The Takeuchi school is not limited to traditional spear skills. It is the best move if it can kill the enemy. Therefore, it is different from other schools in that they have thorns in spear skills. tricks.

To talk about why there is no thrusting action in the traditional Japanese art of war, it is necessary to talk about the difference between Japanese guns and traditional mainland guns.

As we all know, the gun is the oldest weapon in the world. The so-called "spear", "槊", "矟" and "gun" are originally one, but they are metal cones of different lengths and shapes, which are installed in different ways. It's just a different representation of the weapon on the stick.

Among them, the spear heads of 槊 and 柟 are the longest, most of which are more than 50cm. The 槊 is used under the horse, and the wooden stick is longer. It is also the shortest, generally 1.5 to 2 meters after the full length; whether the gun is a wooden stick or a gun head, it is the most balanced among the above weapons.

Japan's original guns in the Jomon and Kofun periods were no different from those in mainland China. They were all made of hardwood and bamboo as rods, and the gun heads were combined in a way that the gun head was set on the long rod in the form of a sleeve.

Later, with the improvement of the status of the samurai and the weakening of the role of the party, coupled with the fact that the samurai prefer to ride a horse, the Japanese-made set gun was gradually replaced by the naginata, which is more suitable for chopping.

However, the naginata is not suitable to be installed outside with a sleeve, because the gun in the suit is more suitable for stabbing rather than chopping. After chopping for a long time or striking with two blades many times, the sleeve is easy to loosen, which is fatal on the battlefield. question.

Therefore, from the beginning of the naginata to the Kikuchi gun at the back, Japan has begun to use the long metal rod that flows out from the back of the forged gun head, insert it into the wooden stick, and then fix it with pins and hoops. "Stick".

This method is similar to that of beryllium equipment in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

But the jerk gun is not suitable for stabbing, because it will produce horizontal force when it is pulled out after piercing the enemy's body, which will loosen the gun head over time.

But the spear itself is not the time to chop, this is determined by the law of material force.

Therefore, at this time, Japan's talent tree was once again crooked. They made big and long metal guns, and a weapon called a big pistol appeared.

像后世国宝的蜻蜓切和日本号都是这种枪,大手枪的特点就是枪头特别长,像日本号的金属枪头,光刃长就有2尺6寸1分5厘(79.2厘米),金属茎长为2尺6分5厘(80.3厘米),而包括硬木棍在内的全长达到了10尺6分多(321.5厘米)。

Almost the entire front half is made of metal, which creates a top-heavy imbalance of the big pistol, which requires special training to dance.

And in this case, the slide gun reappeared with Owari in Japan in the early 17th century and after Sekigahara.

It's just that this time, while using the set gun head, in order to facilitate the samurai's thrusting, a sliding sleeve was actually installed on the wooden barrel, and this feature was called a barrel gun, which also formed the thrusting style. The master's Owari piercing spear technique.

(End of this chapter)