Youth is limited, wisdom is infinite, take advantage of the short youth, to learn infinite wisdom.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

After two successive attacks were frustrated, the strength in the hands of Uesugi Jinghu has been sharply reduced from the 80,000 army two days ago to more than 50,000, but compared with the more than 15,000 soldiers who died in battle and the more than 3,000 soldiers who fled, what really bothers people is the nearly 10,000 wounded soldiers.

Both the more than 4,000 wounded soldiers of the Mogami army and the more than 5,000 casualties of the Uesugi army needed to be treated in a timely manner, but the problem facing Uesugi Keitora was that it was impossible for Hasedo Castle to treat so many wounded at the same time.

This meant that Uesugi Keitora had to choose between the wounded soldiers of the Mogami army and the wounded soldiers of the Uesugi army, otherwise, the decision to save both armies would result in a large number of wounded deaths in both armies, which would be the most fatal blow to Uesugi Keitor's prestige.

If such a thing had happened before today, Uesugi Keitor, whose army under his command was enough to firmly control the Mogami Army, would have directly issued an order to treat the wounded soldiers of the Uesugi Army and abandon the wounded soldiers of the Mogami Army without even thinking about it, because the soldiers of the Uesugi Army were his foundation.

With the outbreak of today's defeated battle, the 50,000 Uesugi troops under the command of Uesugi Keitora lost 20,000 in the first battle, and the 4,000 or 5,000 Uesugi soldiers who fled back to Hasedo Castle from the south gate with Ando Daiki were all wounded soldiers who had lost their strength in battle, and had little value to speak of.

At this time, the coalition army in the castle was composed of 30,000 Uesugi soldiers and 20,000 Mogami soldiers, and in addition to the 50,000 soldiers who did not attack, the remaining nearly 10,000 soldiers were the lightly and seriously wounded soldiers who each accounted for half of the Uesugi army and the Mogami army.

The Uesugi army has always maintained an absolute superiority over the Mogami army from 100,000 to 50,000 at the time of the division to 50,000 against 30,000 when entering the city.

The only thing that made Uesugi Keiga feel at ease was that the castle lord, Shimura Mitsuyasu, had left Hasedo Castle the night before, and without Shimura Mitsuyasu, a man of great prestige and status, the leaderless Mogami army would not be able to pose an effective threat to the Uesugi army in a short period of time.

From morning to night, the day was not a long time, and the screams and wails of tens of thousands of wounded soldiers turned Hasedo Castle into a real city of pain, and Uesugi Keitor, who had always been decisive in killing, hesitated for a whole day about the treatment of wounded soldiers, but still could not make a decision.

By nightfall, more than 1,000 of the nearly 1,000 wounded soldiers of the two armies had died because they had not received timely medical treatment.

That night, Daiki Ando brought the only eight remaining generals of the Uesugi army and thirty-six Ashigaru generals to the castle lord's mansion, which originally belonged to Shimura Mitsuyasu, but is now the temporary headquarters of Uesugi Keitor, and the hundreds of Uesugi Keitor's guards are in charge of guarding the castle lord's mansion.

"My lord, please save the soldiers who are loyal to you!" the generals, who had already consulted before coming, knelt down and pleaded as soon as they entered.

"You ......" The distraught Uesugi Jinghu originally planned to call in the generals who wanted to see him in and reprimand them, and then let them go back to appease the army, but he didn't expect that as soon as they walked in, they would give themselves such a show, and Uesugi Jinghu was a little stunned.

"My lord, it's not that we don't understand your suffering, it's that we really can't bear to watch those soldiers who are loyal to you die in pain!" A sad-voiced general Ashigaru moved forward a little in a kneeling position, kneeling at the feet of Uesugi Jinghu with tears streaming down his face.

"Alas......" Uesugi Jinghu, who was cruel and ruthless to outsiders, faced with these generals in the army who were loyal to him, could not refuse their requests ruthlessly after all; but the consequences of giving up the wounded soldiers of the Mogami Army really made Uesugi Jinghu a little worried.

Seeing that his lord's demeanor had loosened, Ando Daiki hit the railroad while it was hot: "My lord, even if you order to treat the wounded soldiers of the Mogami Army with all your might, with what our army has done in the territory of the Mogami family, do you think the soldiers of the Mogami Army will really be grateful to you?"

"You mean they want to betray me?" Uesugi Keitora said in a cold tone as he stared at Daiki Ando.

"My lord, at the moment, the strength of our Uesugi army is stronger than their most advanced army, and they will not dare to betray you easily. Daiki Ando turned his head and explained, "But what if our strength is weakened?

If Mogami really has a chance to break away from the Uesugi army, then Mogami will definitely break away from the Uesugi army without hesitation, and it is even possible to fight back and turn around to deal with the Uesugi army, which Uesugi Jinghu knows better than anyone else.

"My lord, if you give up the treatment of the Mogami army, more wounded soldiers of our Uesugi army will be treated, so that our strength will slowly recover, and the strength of the Mogami army will be slowly reduced, which is beneficial to us. A general advised.

Seeing that Uesugi Jinghu still hadn't made up his mind, Ando Daiki's eyes gestured, and an ashigaru general persuaded him: "My lord, as long as we control the families of the most senior soldiers in our hands, they won't dare to betray, so why bother to make senseless overtures to them?"

From kneeling down to persuading repeatedly, the generals who took turns in battle spared no effort to persuade Uesugi Jinghu, and finally, Uesugi Jinghu gave an expression of the order: "General Ando, you give the order and let the doctors do their best to treat our soldiers." ”

"The lord is wise!" Listening to the flattery of the generals, only he knew what Uesugi Jinghu was feeling in his heart.

With the military order of Uesugi Jinghu, all the doctors in the wounded barracks of the Mogami Army soon went to the wounded barracks of the Uesugi Army; in this regard, the officers and men of the Mogami Army who dared not speak out could only complain to the generals at all levels of their own army, but the generals who had lost their military power were equally powerless to solve the matter.

That night, the 5,000 soldiers of the Uesugi Army and the 10,000 soldiers of the Mogami Army were divided into three waves, and they were responsible for defending the city wall in turn; the other officers and men of the Uesugi Army who remained in the camp were seizing the time to rest, while the Mogami soldiers who were not willing to wait for their own robes to die engaged in secret operations.

The so-called secret operation of the Mogami soldiers was a self-rescue operation led by several Ashigaru group leaders, that is, five Ashigaru group leaders with 50 ashigaru groups quietly infiltrated the city in five teams, secretly looking for doctors and medicines that could treat their wounded soldiers.

The Uesugi soldiers, exhausted by the heavy losses, inevitably slackened a little when patrolling the castle at night, and of the five squads that managed to infiltrate various parts of the castle, four returned to the barracks before dawn, while the other team made a remarkable gain.