Human talent is like a spark that can be extinguished or burned. And there is only one way to force it to burn into a raging fire, and that is to work, and then work.

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

"The last will be convicted!" Ando Daiki, who still didn't understand what he was wrong, was not sincere in admitting his guilt.

"You!" Uesugi Jinghu, who was angry and laughing, raised his leg and wanted to kick it again, but at the same time, I don't know why he saw a deep scar that was visible after the armor of his arm was torn, and in an instant, Uesugi Jinghu, who was still full of anger, withdrew his leg.

Every time he saw the scar on Ando's arm, Uesugi Keitora couldn't help but resound the first time he went to battle: it was a warm spring day, and on the slopes of a mountain full of wildflowers, the young Uesugi Keitora was the ashigaru general of the Uesugi army.

Uesugi Keitor, who was on the battlefield for the first time, was already full of expectations for his achievements on the battlefield, and finally got his wish, and he couldn't wait to rush out to win the enemy's main general as soon as he entered the battlefield, win the battle, and become a great hero admired by everyone under his command!

But how could a new recruit imagine the cruelty of the battlefield? Uesugi Jinghu, who was ordered to lead the army to attack the enemy's right flank, plunged into the enemy's encirclement with thousands of foot light under his command; the arrows flying in the sky gave Uesugi Jinghu his first glimpse of what war is.

Caught off guard, Uesugi Jinghu barely escaped from the enemy's encirclement under the desperate protection of his subordinates; just after escaping from the enemy's encirclement, the panicked Uesugi Jinghu had not yet come to his senses, and the enemy's ambush army came out all the way out.

Uesugi Keitor, who had lost more than half of his troops, had not even organized an effective defense, and the remnants of the defeated army under his command had completely collapsed;

Just when Uesugi Keitora was standing on the battlefield, an enemy Ashigaru Shogun who saw him wearing the armor of the Ashigaru Shogun rode his horse to kill him, and seeing that Uesugi Keitora was about to die under the sword of the enemy Ashigaru Shogun, a Uesugi Ashigaru group leader who was fighting the side rushed over and pushed Uesugi Keiga to the ground, and blocked the fatal blow for him with his own arm.

Time has passed, and the Uesugi Jinghu who has just entered the battlefield has grown into the most prestigious family general of the Uesugi family, and the Ando Daiki, who used his flesh and blood to block the fatal knife for Uesugi Jinghu, also became a general in the Uesugi family army under the promotion of Uesugi Jinghu.

"I'll take care of Shimura Mitsuyasu's affairs, you can immediately lead the army back to the barracks for me!" Uesugi Keitora decided to forgive Ando Daiki.

"Hey!" Ando Daiki, who knew that the lord was no longer angry with him, quickly ran away and ran into the distance.

Uesugi Keitora, who was helpless for Ando's recklessness and pleased with his loyalty, arranged for his guards to take 3,000 soldiers throughout the city to search for Shimura Mitsuyasu's traces, and on the other hand, sent his guards to command the defenders of the castle who had removed the city walls to clean up the ruins.

The three-sided encirclement of the Yanhuang army outside the city did not attract the attention of Uesugi Jinghu at all; he was sure that the Yanhuang army would not take the initiative to attack, but he only ordered Ando Daiki to bring the army back to the barracks, and then lead 20,000 soldiers to defend the city wall and observe the movements of the Yanhuang army outside the city.

For those thorns who are unwilling to obey his command, Uesugi Keitora directly asks his personal guards to take them out and behead them for public display, and the rest of the people dare not have two hearts.

After completing the control of the defenders in the city, Uesugi Keitora learned from the mouths of the defenders that it turned out that Shimura Mitsuyasu had taken his wife and children out of the city at midnight last day;

Uesugi Keitor, who had planned to mobilize the resources of Hasedo Castle through Shimura Mitsuyasu, could only control everything in Hasedo Castle by himself, and after announcing the takeover of Hasedo Castle, the resolute Uesugi Keitora directly dropped 10,000 soldiers and stationed in various parts of the city.

Hasedo Castle, with a total population of only about 50,000, was supervised by 10,000 Uesugi soldiers, which meant that Uesugi Keitora could confidently and boldly mobilize all the resources in the castle without worrying about any changes in the castle.

There were about 25,000 officers and soldiers of the Mogami Army under the control of the Uesugi Army, plus more than 3,000 newly incorporated defenders in the castle and 2,000 forcibly recruited young men, and the number of officers and men of the Mogami Army in the hands of Uesugi Keitora reached 30,000, which was already a force to be reckoned with.

The 30,000 Mogami soldiers were divided into three 10,000-strong armies, each mixed with 15,000 Uesugi soldiers, and these three armies of 25,000 soldiers each relied on Uesugi Keigatora to defend Hasedo Castle and wait for an opportunity to break through.

Standing at the head of the city wall on the north side of Hasedo Castle, looking at the Yan and Huang army outside the city, Uesugi Jinghu's heart was full of thoughts, because the Yan and Huang army that pursued him at the beginning had 200,000 troops, and the number of Yan and Huang troops outside the city at this time was only 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers.

Where did the remaining 100,000 soldiers of the Yan and Huang Army go? Did they divide their troops to attack Yuzawa Castle, or did they secretly lay in ambush and wait for their own army to break through? The grain and grass in the city were burned, making Uesugi Keihu's already disadvantageous situation even more precarious.

Last night, the granary of Hasedo Castle caught fire, and Yuzawa Castle in the distance was also on fire, and the Yan and Huang Army completed the siege of Hasedo Castle overnight, so it is absolutely impossible to be a coincidence; Uesugi Jinghu, who was unable to delve into it, could only secretly plan for the worst.

Coupled with the food rescued last night, the surplus food in Uesugi Jinghu's army was only enough to maintain the needs of his 80,000-strong army for half a month, which meant that it would only take half a month at most, and Uesugi Jinghu, who was ready to hold Hasedo Castle and wait for reinforcements, would be cut off from food and grass.

Can the reinforcements of the Mogami family arrive within half a month? Can the army of the Uesugi family force the Yanhuang army to retreat within half a month? Uesugi Jinghu has no confidence in this, or rather, the Yanhuang family's step-by-step setup has made him lose confidence in this battle.

Since he could not rely on external forces to be rescued, he could only find a way to save himself, and waiting for death to give up on himself was not something that Uesugi Jinghu could do; as a very ambitious hero, Uesugi Jinghu would rather die on the way to break through than lead the army to surrender after cutting off food and grass.

Because the officers and men of the two armies were exhausted by the busyness of last night, Uesugi Keitora did not take action on the first day of the siege; after this short day, before the sun rose the next morning, Uesugi Keitora had already issued the military order to take the initiative to attack.

Ando Daiki, who had led his army to breakfast before dawn, personally led 25,000 soldiers under his command to kill the east gate of Hasedo Castle at the order of Uesugi Keitora.

In the face of the initiative of the defenders in the city, Valker, who had prepared a large number of horseback fences yesterday, under the instruction of Anton Jiazhong, let the iron artillery and gunmen under his command use the middle horse rejection fence as a barrier, and the two wings of his own descendants were 10,000 soldiers on either side.