When labor is a pleasure, life is beautiful, and when labor is a responsibility, life is slavery.

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

The flowers bloomed in two, one on each branch, and at the same time that Yubu Nobu took advantage of the darkness to launch a large army to surround Yuzawa Castle, the army led by Anton Ietada also arrived near Hasedo Castle, and in the face of the raging fire burning in the castle, Anton Ietada, who knew it well, immediately began his deployment.

Because Anton Ietada had only three armies, the Second Banner Army, the Third Lucy Legion, and the Kudo Standing Army, with a total strength of only more than 70,000 troops, it was difficult for him to besiege the enemy city on all sides like Yubu Weixin.

The Third Lucy Legion, which consisted of seven wings, each of which had 5,000 well-equipped barbarian warriors with high morale, far surpassed the Standing Army of the Nine Households under the command of Kuhe Kangzhen, but the command ability of Jiuhe Kangzhen was stronger than that of Valk, the commander of the Third Lucy Legion.

In order to give full play to the combat power advantage of the barbarian warriors and the ability advantage of Kudo Yasuma, Anton Ietada split the seven wings of the 3rd Lucy Army into three parts; among them, the first, second, and third wings were still under the command of Valk, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth wings were temporarily placed under the command of Kuto Yasuma and handed over to Kudo Yasuma, and finally the remaining seventh wing was left by Anton Ietada.

According to Anton Ietada's arrangement, 15,000 soldiers from Valk's division and nearly 25,000 soldiers from Kunohe Yasuma's division were to be stationed on the east and west sides of Hasedo Castle, while his own army was to be stationed on the north side of Hasedo Castle, leaving no one to guard the south side.

The reason why Anto Ietada adopted the method of encircling Hasedo Castle and launching a large army was because the Uesugi army in the castle was personally commanded by Uesugi Keitora himself, and their army still had a certain amount of food in stock and would not be in a hurry to break through, and on the other hand, because Yuzawa Castle was located a little south of Hasedo Castle, leaving the south alone for the Uesugi army was conducive to the army of Funoshin to rush to participate in the siege.

Before Valk and Kunohe Yasuma left the camp with their troops, Andong Ietada, who had deployed a large army overnight, transferred a group of iron artillery and spearmen from the Second Banner Regiment under his command to them, which was used to strengthen their defensive strength and far exceed their striking strength.

The iron artillery and spearmen of the Second Banner Regiment were typical of the shogunate system, and its smallest unit 'team' was indivisible, and of the total of 50 iron artillery spearmen, Anto Ietada left 20 for himself, and the remaining 30 were divided equally between the other two armies.

Fifteen teams of iron gunners had a total of 1,800 soldiers armed with iron cannons, and although the fire speed and effective range of the iron gunners were not as fast as those of the archers, their lethality and durability were far superior to those of the archers, and they were more effective than the archers if used well.

Anto Ietada gave a detailed admonition to Valk and Kunohe Yasuma about how to use and protect the iron gunners, and as long as the two of them did not neglect to protect the iron gunners, the barbarian warriors under their command would surely be able to return the iron gunners assigned to them unscathed.

They led their troops overnight to Valk and Kunohe Yasuma on the east and west sides of Hasedo Castle, and only after midnight could they set up a new camp for their army;

Uesugi Jinghu, who had been busy mobilizing troops to extinguish fires and rescue grain and grass all night, was not unaware of the movements of the Yanhuang Army outside the city, but he really couldn't spare time to deal with it; unfortunately, even with the full rescue of tens of thousands of troops under his command, the granary was still burned clean.

"My lord. "Daiki Ando, who personally led the army to rescue grain and grass for a night, came to Uesugi Jinghu with a black and gray face.

"How much grain has been salvaged in the granary?" Looking at the devastated ruins of the granary, Uesugi Jinghu's spirit was very sluggish.

"My lord, our army and the Mogami army went out last night to extinguish the fire and save food, but they did not even salvage a tenth of the stored grain in the granary; the price our army paid for this was that 53 officers and men died in the rescue, and no less than 500 were burned and burned by the fire. ”

"What about the Mogami army, and are their casualties heavy?" Uesugi Jinghu, who had long known that he had not grabbed much grain and grass, was not surprised.

"The Mogami Army, which was under the control of our army, suffered about 200 casualties, and the defenders of the Mogami family in Hasedo Castle suffered heavy casualties because they had 2,000 soldiers stationed in the granary, about 300 people were killed, and almost all of the rest were wounded. ”

"Alas......" After a long sigh, Uesugi Keihu barely cheered up and ordered: "Ando-kun, you immediately go to the city lord Shimura Mitsuyasu, and ask him to command the remaining defenders in the city to clean up the ruins and pacify the people, and then you lead our soldiers to withdraw to the barracks." ”

Ando Daiki, who did not receive the order immediately, hesitated for a moment before reporting helplessly under the gaze of Uesugi Jinghu: "My lord, when I was fighting the fire and saving food last night, some conflicts broke out between the soldiers of our army and the defenders of the Mogami family, and Shimura Mitsuyasu disappeared this morning. ”

"Shimura Mitsuyasu is missing?!" Uesugi Jinghu, who was shocked, immediately said angrily: "Such a big thing, you dare to tell me until now!"

Looking at the fierce appearance of his own lord who chooses people to devour, Ando Daiki, who has always been active on the battlefield with a fierce general attitude, was actually frightened and his calves trembled: "Lord...... My lord, I ...... I also ...... half an hour ago I just knew. ”

"Then why don't you tell me immediately?!" Uesugi Jinghu, who couldn't tolerate his subordinates deceiving him, still had a bad anger on his face.

"I thought that Shimura Mitsuyasu was just a small measure, and he hid in the City Lord's Mansion in a negative mood and couldn't come out, but when I sent someone to the City Lord's Mansion in the morning to find him to count the casualties, I learned that he had left the City Lord's Mansion with his wife and children shortly after returning to the City Lord's Mansion last night. ”

Uesugi Keiho, where the key to the problem of the Dao of Consciousness, held back the anger in his belly, and turned to Ando Daiki and asked coldly: "What happened last night, why did Shimura Mitsuya leave on the spot? You tell me honestly!"

"Hey!" Ando Daiki, who was startled by his lord's angry shouting, didn't dare to hide it in the slightest: "Last night, when I was fighting the fire and saving food, the soldiers of our army requisitioned some things from the homes of the people in the city in a hurry, and as a result, Shimura Mitsuyasu brought people to find me. ”

"What did you requisition?" said Ando Daiki's evasion, where could he hide from Uesugi Jinghu's eyes.

"It's just some fire-fighting wooden barrels, basins and other small things......" Facing the increasingly murderous eyes of his lord, Ando Daiki had to confess: "The soldiers of our army have been used to retreating all the way south, and it is inevitable that they will take some gold and silver when they are requisitioned. ”

"What else?" Uesugi Keihu was already angry and didn't want to speak.

"Because of the non-cooperation of the people in the city, the soldiers of our army accidentally killed a few people......"

"Bang!"

After Ando Daiki, who gritted his teeth and confessed, he kicked him out with a kick from the angry Uesugi Jinghu and kicked him out: "You are a thing that is not enough to achieve and more to lose! I allowed the soldiers to plunder wantonly along the way to the south, in order to make trouble for the pursuing Yanhuang army; now that we are stationed in Hasedo Castle, you are still plundering our troops, do you think we died fast enough, right?!"