If you follow the path of honesty and honesty, you will definitely have a clear conscience.

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

"Captain, Yu Miyazaki of the Uesugi family has already snatched the granary from Mitsushige Aoka, shall we do it tonight?"

"Ozawa-kun, don't worry, wait a little longer. The captain of the detachment, who was drinking tea with Ozawa in a teahouse, said in a relaxed tone: "Kuraki-kun, who infiltrated the castle lord's mansion, is also in the granary today, and if nothing else, the Uesugi army will start carrying the grain and grass in the granary from tomorrow." ”

"Captain, since the Uesugi Army will start to remove the grain and grass from the granary tomorrow, shouldn't we start early?" ”

"The amount of grain and grass in this batch is enough for the needs of the 100,000 army for half a year, how can it all be moved away in a day or two?" The detachment leader, who had a smile on the corner of his mouth, instructed Ozawa: "You stay here and observe, and when the soldiers of the Uesugi Army move away one-tenth of the grain and grass, we will start preparing to burn the grain and grass in this granary." ”

"Hey!" Ozawa, who still didn't know why, didn't dare to question the order given by the team leader.

In the Yanhuang Ninja Army, which attaches great importance to personal strength, ninjas like Ozawa who really perform tasks are generally lower ninjas, and the squad leader who serves as the leader of the task team is the middle ninja, and the higher-level chief captain who commands several mission detachments is at least the upper ninja.

In order to ensure that the grain burning operation in Yuzawa Castle was foolproof, the detachment leader personally selected by Hattori Hanzo to lead the team was a ninja of the upper ninja level, and the three upper ninjas and twelve lower ninja together formed three task teams, and the unified command was a special ninja.

If it weren't for Hattori Hanzo himself having more important things to do, with the attention of the family governor to this operation, it might not be impossible for Hattori Hanzo to personally lead the ninjas to carry out the mission, and even if Hattori Hanzo himself did not come, the ninja force he sent was strong enough.

One special ninja, three upper ninjas, and twelve lower ninjas, such a powerful ninja power is used to burn the grain and grass of Yuzawa Castle, and the success rate is unusually high; because the particularity of ninjas determines that the number of ninjas in an operation is not easy to be too many, and too many are easy to expose.

It is impossible for anything to develop according to the will of a single person, and Mitsushige Kazuoka's desire to keep the granary has not been realized, and it is difficult for Miyazaki Yuya to try to control the granary and defend Yuzawa Castle.

That night, Miyazaki Yuya sent 2,000 soldiers of the Uesugi army to garrison the granary, and drove all the people near the granary to a distance of 500 meters, and even the defenders of Yuzawa Castle that Nakioka Mitsushige had arranged were driven out of the granary by the high-spirited Uesugi soldiers.

In the process of driving out the people, the soldiers of the Uesugi Army, who were accustomed to being rampant and domineering in the territory of the Mogami family, inevitably did not spare the women in the people's families, and even the teenage girls did not let go.

As a native of Yuzawa Castle, this general not only has the samurai spirit of the Mogami family, but also has a strong sense of fellow villagers with the people of the castle.

But how could the soldiers of the Uesugi family ever take the samurai of the Mogami family in their eyes? In the face of the reproach of the general of the Mogami family, the officers and men of the Uesugi army, who disdained it, did not even have the intention of stopping to explain, and continued to go their own way without any scruples.

Seeing his fellow villagers and elders suffering such humiliation, this tolerable general directly ordered more than 1,000 soldiers under his command to surround the officers and men of the Uesugi Army who were acting recklessly; the only 200 officers and men of the Uesugi Army had to stop in disgrace under the encirclement of more than 1,000 top soldiers.

After the Mogami Army, which he had always looked down on, or the most vulnerable castle defender in the Mogami Army, the enraged Uesugi Army General did not send anyone to ask Miyazaki Yuya, so he led 2,000 Uesugi Army soldiers to attack the defenders.

The battle between more than 1,000 soldiers of the defenders of Yuzawa Castle, who were poorly armed and equipped, and the elite of the 2,000 well-armed Uesugi Army, was a one-sided massacre from the beginning; but even if they faced the butcher's knife of the Sugi Army, none of the defenders who were full of thoughts of protecting their homes and the people fled, and they were protecting their villagers and homes with their own blood and lives!

When the blood of the fallen soldiers flooded their vision, when the wails of the wounded soldiers rang out in their ears, when they looked at the soldiers of the defenders who were still fighting the enemy one after another, and listened to their tragic slogans, the people who had their blood in their hearts took up their 'weapons' and rushed forward.

Although ordinary people are not swords, guns, swords and halberds that kill people and behead people, they are also kitchen knives and axes that can cause considerable damage to the soldiers of the Uesugi army, and from the confrontation between the two armies to the participation of hundreds of people, the situation in front of the granary finally got out of control.

Ozawa, who was secretly observing not far from the granary, watched the cannibalism of the Uesugi army and the Mogami army with relish, but the people who joined the battle after him inevitably made Ozawa, who was also from an ordinary family, feel a little embarrassed.

The battle between the Uesugi army and the Mogami army, the spontaneous participation of the people of Yuzawa Castle, and the onlookers of the Yanhuang ninja army made the situation near the granary extremely strange, but all this did not affect the determination of the ninjas of the Yanhuang spy army to carry out the task of burning grain.

The defenders of Yuzawa Castle, who were originally stationed in the granary, and the Uesugi army, who were now stationed in the granary, were in battle, and the defensive strength in the granary was naturally empty.

The dried grain and grass only needed a little spark to ignite a raging fire, but the Yanhuang spy ninja who came to the granary quietly left the granary before the fire spread after setting fire in thirty-nine places.

The fire in the granary and the smell of smoke emitted by the burning of grain and grass were soon discovered by the two armies fighting outside the granary, and the general of the Uesugi army, who had also been killed, turned to look at the granary with thick smoke billowing behind him, and his heart felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar in an instant.

It was not only the soldiers of the Uesugi army who had no intention of fighting again, but also the generals of the defending army, who knew the importance of the granary in detail, also hurriedly called on the soldiers under their command and the people who stood on the spot to immediately participate in the firefighting, but how could the granary, which had become a sea of fire, be so easy to save?

The helpless officers and men of the Uesugi Army, after the defending generals and the nearby people fetched water to put out the fire, also threw away their weapons and equipment and began to look for buckets to get water to put out the fire.