"Chapter 113: The Operation Begins"
There is a fool and a liar in every human being: a fool is human emotion, and a liar is human wisdom. Emotions are stupid because they are straightforward, truthful, and unpretentious, but how can they live without pretending?
- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)
As the minutes passed, Tachitora Muto and the others in the secret room of the Rokuta family had to wait until there was still an hour before midnight before they could act, so even if waiting was a painful ordeal. Muto Lihu and the others could only wait quietly.
Uesugi Jinghu, who always felt that he was a little restless tonight, specially took his personal guards to inspect Hasedo Castle in order to make sure that from the four walls of the city wall to the Uesugi military camp, from the Mogami military camp to the camp where the families of the Mogami soldiers were held, Uesugi Jinghu inspected almost everywhere.
As a result, Uesugi Keitora just felt uneasy before the inspection, and after really inspecting all parts of Hasedo Castle, Uesugi Keitor's heart was up and down, and for some reason, Uesugi Keitora always felt that he had missed something.
What is missing? Uesugi Keitora, who had been meditating hard but could not find it, was walking aimlessly around the city while thinking about the question in his mind, and suddenly, he saw a samurai traveling with two small surnames in front of him, and he thought of it with a flash of inspiration in his mind!
"Go and bring that samurai to me. Uesugi Jinghu, who was excited, ordered the captain of the guard beside him.
"Hey!" the captain of the guard who led the order waved his hand, and eight guards with long knives unsheathed greeted him.
In front of the eight katanas, this low-level samurai with two small surnames around him did not make a useless resistance, but let the guards bring him to Uesugi Jinghu, looking at the person in front of him, the low-level samurai greeted him very rationally.
"Since you know my identity, then I don't need to talk nonsense, tell me, how many samurai exist in the city?"
"Uesugi-sama, our Hasedo Castle is just a small castle, and the original nearly 100 samurai have already joined the Mogami army, and I'm afraid there are not even ten samurai left in the castle. This low-level samurai didn't dare to hide the slightest question from Uesugi Jinghu.
"Less than ten samurai?" Knowing that the other party would not dare to lie and fool himself, Uesugi Keitora felt that he might be a little too nervous.
"The fighting in the city has been critical lately, so don't run around the city if you have nothing to do, especially at night. Uesugi Keiho, who was uneasy again, did not embarrass this low-level samurai with a decrepit face, and left with the guard gate on his own.
"Hu ......" looked at Uesugi Jinghu and his party in the distance, and the low-level samurai who had been scared enough just now finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"My lord, why didn't you tell them just now that there is a mysterious samurai family next door to our house?"
"Bang!" the low-level samurai slapped his backhand, and then he scolded the little surname who was covering his head: "Do you know what the dignity of a samurai is? You must remember that I am a samurai from Hasedo Castle, not a samurai from the Uesugi family!"
"Got it. It was the surname of the distant relative of the samurai, and he agreed with a bitter face.
A trivial incident happened in Hasedo Castle, and in an instant, it disappeared into invisibility, and in the end, Uesugi Keitora, who had not thought of anything, returned to the castle lord's mansion with his own uneasiness and doubts, and began to prepare for his planned breakthrough battle.
Because of the burning of grain and grass, it is impossible for Uesugi Jinghu to defend Hasedo Castle all the time, and finding a way to break through is what he will do; no matter how strong the Yanhuang Army outside the city is, Uesugi Jinghu, who is unwilling to be captured, will fight until the last moment!
When there were still three hours before midnight, Uesugi Keitor, who felt that his eyelids were a little heavy, fell asleep with his own doubts, and when there were still two hours before midnight, the three armies under the command of Andong Ietashi moved at the same time.
When there was still an hour before midnight, Shimura Mitsuyasu, Rokuta Yunari, and Muto Tachitora walked out of the secret room, and the five hundred samurai of the Rokuta family, led by the Yanhuang ninja ninjas, quietly infiltrated the camp where the Uesugi army held the families of the Mogami soldiers.
Of the 2,000 Uesugi soldiers stationed in charge of the camp, less than 200 were divided into ten patrols, and within a few minutes, all 184 Uesugi soldiers from these ten patrols were killed by the sneak attack of 40 ninjas.
In order to maximize the success rate of tonight's city-breaking operation, the nearby Yanhuang ninja ninjas came to the city one after another to join the operation, and after clearing the patrol in the camp, the samurai of the Rokuta clan rushed to the tent of the Uesugi army soldiers in a group of ten.
Most of the nearly 1,800 Uesugi soldiers in the more than 100 military tents died in their deep sleep, and only a few dozen of them woke up with a terrible scream, and they were shot with darts by the quick-eyed ninjas.
After successfully clearing out all the Uesugi soldiers in the camp, Muto Tachitora hurriedly returned to the Mogami army camp with the leaders of the Ashigaru group around him, and after telling the news to Tendo Trust and the others, they immediately began to act.
The Uesugi generals who had been sent by Uesugi Keitora to control the army in the Mogami army had not yet woken up from their slumber when they were stabbed and dismembered by the soldiers of the Mogami army who had stormed their tents.
The reason why Tiantong Trust and the others chose the South Gate as the place for the Yan Huang Army to enter the city was not because the Uesugi Army had the weakest defense on the southern city wall, but because the camp where their family was located was near the South Gate; under the nose of the Uesugi Army, it was not easy to take tens of thousands of civilians out of the city, even if they had made as many preparations as possible, no one dared to guarantee that it would be smooth.
As it turned out, the good fortune of the Mogami army had ceased to exist from the moment they left the barracks, and the patrol officers of the Uesugi army on the southern wall spotted the streets densely packed with Mogami troops when they were still more than 100 meters away from the south gate.
"Knock knock...... Knock knock knock ......"
When the drums resounded in the sky, the originally silent Hasedo Castle soon burst into flames, and the Yanhuang ninja who remained in the city was trying to find a way to buy time for the Mogami army, and the Mogami army, who had exposed their whereabouts, could only use violence to solve the problem.
10,000 of the 20,000 soldiers of the Mogami Army turned around directly and escorted the families behind them back to the camp, while the remaining 10,000 soldiers rushed to the southern city wall under the leadership of Tiantong Trust and others, where there were 4,000 patrol soldiers of the Uesugi Army.
The Yan and Huang Army, which had assembled outside the south gate half an hour ago, had tens of thousands of elite soldiers who were ready, but they could not cross the closed south gate and enter the city;