"Chapter Ninety-Six: Reversal"
The law is a habit! People live together and discuss it, and it is best to look like this, and this is the habit, so it is made into a law! This is like a child playing a game, first of all, you have to say how to play the game, set a rule. This rule is the law.
- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)
In front of the outsider Mitsushige Kazuoka, Yuya Miyazaki is naturally respectful to the fake Uesugi Jinghu, and the samurai disguised as Uesugi Jinghu is a personal guard who has been following Uesugi Jinghu all year round, and his imitation of Uesugi Jinghu's words and deeds is indeed decent.
After entering the main hall of the castle lord's mansion, the 'Uesugi Jinghu', who was wearing a covered ox horn helmet, sat directly on the main seat in the main hall with a golden sword, clearly not taking the city lord Mishige of Aooka in his eyes;
"Lord of Aooka City, I heard that you have secretly betrayed the Mogami family and joined the Yanhuang family, and are ready to cooperate with the Yanhuang family army that is about to catch up, and annihilate the alliance of our Uesugi family and the Mogami family in one fell swoop, I don't know if this matter is true or false?"
"Uesugi-sama, it's true that you are an important minister of the Uesugi family, but the people of my Mogami family are not frightened!" Thinking that this was Uesugi Jinghu deliberately making things difficult for him, Mitsugeru Kamioka changed his complexion and said: "If you want to take away Yuzawa Castle of my Mogami family, why do you have to make up this trumped-up charge for me? Just take my life! My Nagaoka family has been loyal to the Mogami family for hundreds of years, how can such loyalty be understandable!"
"Lord of Aooka Castle, the reason why we only came to your Castle Lord's Mansion with personal guards is that we believe that you have not betrayed the Mogami family. Yuya Miyazaki, who knew that 'Uesugi Keiho' couldn't cope with this kind of scene, rescued the scene in time and said: "Otherwise, it's not just these people who are coming." ”
"Hmph!" Seeing that Yuu Miyazaki also came forward to explain, it was not easy for Mitsushige to continue to have seizures, he just snorted coldly and said: "Don't say that I didn't take refuge in the Yanhuang family, even if I really took refuge in the Yanhuang family, the only one who can be qualified to dispose of me is Lord Yoshimitsu Uenosuke!"
The arrogant attitude of Mitsuge Aoka made the 'Uesugi Jinghu' on the main seat snort lightly, and the equally dissatisfied Miyazaki Yu also went straight to the point and said: "Since Your Excellency's loyalty is beyond doubt, can you take us to the granary in the city to have a look?"
"The granary in the city?" Mitsushige, who didn't know anything about the new version of the rumors in the city, said with an unhappy face: "This lord, this Yuzawa Castle is the city of my top family, and the grain in the granary is also the food of my top family, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for your army to ask for a look, right?"
"Lord of Kazuoka Castle, the 50,000 troops of my Uesugi family and the 25,000 soldiers of your Mogami family have now been mixed into one army, don't you even have this trust in my Uesugi army?"
"Uesugi-sama, I think you know better than I do about the alliance between your army and our army. After retorting neither softly nor hard, Mitsugeru Aoka did not give an inch: "I can supply your army with the grain in this city on time, but it is absolutely impossible for your army to take over the granary; no matter how inferior our Mogami family is to the Uesugi family, we can't do without the sovereignty of our own family!"
Take a look at the grain in the granary, it has a dime to do with the sovereignty of your Mogami family! Yuya Miyazaki, who scolded in his heart, forcibly held back the anger rising in his chest and explained: "Lord of the castle, my lord has no intention of sending someone to take over the granary of your city, we just want to confirm whether the grain and grass in the granary are sufficient, so that we can formulate a more reasonable defense plan. ”
"This Lord ......"
"My name is Yuya Miyazaki, and I am the lieutenant of the lord. ”
"Yes, Miyazaki-sama. Mitsushige said confidently: "I am the lord of Yuzawa Castle, and I know better than anyone how much grain is in the granary in the city. ”
"Lord Aoka, we are going to see for ourselves in the granary, this is not a request!" Under the expression of Miyazaki Yuya's eyes, 'Uesugi Jinghu' Huo Ran stood up and said in a cold tone: "I'll give you half an hour to think about it, if you don't agree, we'll go by ourselves!"
"You ......" For the first time, he really saw the domineering Mitsushige of 'Uesugi Keiho', and he wanted to brush his sleeves away on the spot, but he was not an emotional person after all, and only after reason had overcome impulse, he hated and said, "Then you have to follow!"
It's not that there are no guards in the castle lord's mansion, but compared to the hundreds of fully armed guards brought by the 'Uesugi Jinghu' who exude a fierce atmosphere, the guards in the castle lord's mansion are really no different from ordinary people, and they can't even stop the momentum of the other party.
Mitsushige Kazuoka, who didn't want his prestige to be swept away in the city, had no choice but to go against his own principles and take the 'Uesugi Keiho' and Yuya Miyazaki, who he thought had bad intentions, and a large number of elites of the Uesugi army, to the granary.
At this time, the Yanhuang Ninja Army ninja and the Yanhuang Spy Army ninja lurking in Yuzawa Castle had not yet attacked the granary, so after the group came to the granary with great fanfare, they naturally saw mountains of grain and grass.
"How?" said Mitsushige Aooka to vent his emotions in a mocking way, "You have all seen the food here." ”
"What if you see it, what if you don't see it?" Anyway, he had already had a gap with the other party, and Miyazaki Yu didn't mind doing things more excessively: "I don't think it's safe enough to put these grains and grass here, so let's move them to our army's barracks to store them." ”
"You dare!" I didn't expect the other party to be so shameless, and he said in a daze: "This is the granary of my most senior family!"
"Haha, what about the granary of your top family?" 'Uesugi Jinghu' said in a timely manner: "I have killed a lot of people along the way, and I have robbed a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, but they are all from your top family, what can you do with me?"
The arrogant attitude of 'Uesugi Jinghu' made Kazuoka tremble with anger, but he was speechless; yes, the other party is now clearly backsliding, and he does not have enough strength to keep the granary, so what is the use of taking advantage of his tongue?
For the first time, Mitsushige Kazuoka felt unspeakable sorrow for the Mogami family, who had been loyal to his family for hundreds of years, and was it possible for a Mogami family that could not even maintain the sovereignty of his own family and allowed the people of the Uesugi family to act recklessly in his own family's territory.
Mitsushige Nagioka, who staggered out of the granary like a walking corpse, didn't know that in Yamagata Castle, a hundred miles away, Mogami Yoshimitsu, the head of the Mogami family, was actually ready to break with the Uesugi family, because he would swear to defend his family's sovereignty!