All great things are simple, and they are so captivating because of their own intellectual simplicity.

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

Uesugi Jinghu, who had only been preparing for a night, could not have tossed too many winning weapons no matter how natural a genius was, sixteen improvised trebuchets, hundreds of sealed clay pots, eight thousand rockets, and twelve thousand armor-piercing arrows were already shocking.

The defense line of the horse-rejecting fence that had been painstakingly built was burned down by raging fire, and the 1,800 iron artillery and spearmen with strong long-range lethality retreated without firing a single shot, and before the two armies could fight, hundreds of barbarian soldiers had been killed and more than 1,000 barbarian soldiers were wounded, and the losses of the Yan and Huang armies were not insignificant.

But in the face of the absolute strength of the Yan and Huang Army, what could Uesugi Jinghu's deployment be? In less than 20 minutes of fighting and clashing between the two armies, the number of dead soldiers in Valker's division was just over 1,000, the 8,000 ashigaru in Ando's division was less than half, and the number of ashigaru killed in battle exceeded 4,000!

The Uesugi army, which had seized various opportunities, actually fought a casualty ratio of four to one with the Yan and Huang army, which was in chaos, and was also defeated by the onslaught of the Yan and Huang army.

If it was said that the army besieging the east side of Hasedo Castle was the elite of the Yan and Huang Army, Uesugi Keihu himself did not believe it, because the choice of the east as the breakthrough point was purely an immediate result, and it was impossible for the Yan and Huang troops to concentrate their elite in the east in advance.

Judging from Uesugi Jinghu's inspection of the four city walls yesterday, he judged that the northern army with the largest number of troops should be the main force of the Yan and Huang Army, and that the western army, which was close in strength, was stronger; as for the south, which was empty of a single soldier, the cautious Uesugi Jinghu always felt that the seemingly calm south was the real place where the murderous and hidden forces were lurking, and this was the most unlikely direction for him to choose to break through at present.

But all wise people are generally suspicious people, otherwise, why did Zhuge Liang successfully deceive Sima Yi with a seemingly simple but complicated empty city plan? You must know that even in such an era of heroes, Sima Yi's name is resounding all over the world!

Uesugi Jinghu is not Sima Yi, and Anton Jiazhong is not Zhuge Liang; the former feels that the unsurrounded south is full of murderous opportunities because he is suspicious by nature, and the latter dares to surround the south without a large army, because he has insufficient troops and has the help of Yubu Weixin's army.

The dilemma now in front of Uesugi Keitora is that he chose the enemy army that he judged to be the weakest as the breakthrough point, but his own army was twice hit in front of this enemy army, and the frustration in Uesugi Keitora can be imagined in the face of such a fiasco.

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the 3rd Lucy Legion, who had caught up with the Uesugi army, easily slashed the Uesugi army's bows and arrows to the ground, and as the massacre began, the bows and arrows on the city walls gradually stopped shooting for fear of accidental injury.

"Why did you stop shooting?" said a furious Uesugi Keitora as he grabbed the collar of the general beside him.

"Lord...... Lord, this ...... There's our own people down there......"

"Smack!" Before the stammering general could finish speaking, Uesugi Jinghu slapped him in the face: "I don't care who is down there, all I see is the enemy, shoot me immediately! No one is allowed to stop without my order!!"

"Hey!" Facing the tyrannical eyes of Uesugi Jinghu who wanted to choose someone to devour, the general was so frightened that he didn't even dare to let out a fart.

The bows and arrows on the castle walls began to shoot again, but the arrows they could shoot were no longer powerful, and a bow and arrow not far from Uesugi Keitora was reluctant to shoot arrows at his robes or disobey military orders, so he could only shoot the arrows in his hands in a perfunctory manner.

The barbarian warrior who was shot by the arrows of the bow fell to the ground after the arrows pierced his leather armor, and the barbarian warriors, who were not injured, never realized that they had been shot by the arrows, and that the sword he had received had killed both of them.

The arrows fired with all his strength could not effectively kill the barbarian warriors, let alone weak and weak arrows, and looking at the arrows shot by the bow and arrow under his command, it was simply tickling the enemy, and the angry Uesugi Keitora directly pulled out the katana on his waist.

"Why don't you shoot arrows with force?" Uesugi Keitora asked, holding his katana around the bow's neck and angrily.

"Big ...... Big...... My lord. The frightened bow and arrow were light, trembling and said: "Below, it's our ......"

"Whew!" a bloody skull rolled down the wall.

"Those who do not obey military orders will be killed! Those who stop shooting will be killed! Those who are perfunctory will be killed!"

With the fate of this bow and arrow ashigaru as a lesson, as soon as the order of three kills was issued, the archers and arrows on the city wall could only continue to shoot arrows with the mentality of a dead friend and a poor man, and in an instant, the rain of sharp arrows poured down, causing the unsuspecting Uesugi army to suffer heavy casualties.

There was the Yanhuang army in front of the frenzied killing, the closed city gate in the back, and the continuous rain of arrows pouring overhead, and the number of casualties of the Uesugi army, which did not even have a self-defense weapon, skyrocketed, and even the general who commanded them was not spared.

The general of the Uesugi army, who was fighting a squadron leader of the second wing, was not as strong as the barbarian warriors, but he was more experienced and able to control the rhythm of the battle with ease, and the captain of the Lucy squadron, who had brute force, had many more wounds on his body than his opponent.

Before the battle between the two men was over, a rain of arrows from the city wall covered them, and the captain of Lucy's squadron, who was already seriously wounded, was killed on the spot with more than 10 arrows in the chest, and General Uesugi Squire, who had more than 20 arrows in the back, was seriously wounded and near death.

Seeing the death of the squadron leader who had been taking care of him, one of the squadron soldiers rushed over with a roar of rage, slashed off the head of the seriously wounded general with a sword, and then he lowered the round shield in his left hand, picked up the squadron leader's sword and continued on his way!

The brave and fearless Lucy warriors used their own death to eliminate the 4,000 Uesugi army bows and arrows that were too late to complete the original deployment, and the other 8,000 Uesugi troops who could not withdraw from the city were also defeated by the Lucy warriors led by Valk when they were forced to rush to the aid of the bows.

After completely annihilating the enemy's archers, and defeating the other two enemy infantry units, Valk left the city wall with his own men, who also suffered heavy casualties.

Of the 15,000 soldiers of the three wings under Valk's command, there are now only more than 12,300 soldiers left, of whom nearly 3,000 soldiers have been wounded to varying degrees; Uesugi Keitor, who carefully planned this battle, paid the price of 4,000 archers and 7,000 spears and ashigaru killed, and more than 3,000 spears and ashigaru fled in a rout, and less than 5,000 of the 20,000 soldiers who took the initiative to attack fled back to the city through the south gate.