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- Primo Levi (Auschwitz survivor)

The combat effectiveness of the defenders of the wild frontier dungeon exceeded the expectations of Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobutishi, and the failure of the first tentative attack was a natural thing, but the long-range archers of the Yanhuang family gave Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobukii a headache.

Super archers with a range of up to four hundred and fifty meters, this is already a class of troops that destroys the balance of war in the Yamato Empire, and in the Yamato Empire, where the armor rate is generally not high, archers are already extremely lethal troops, not to mention super archers like the Yanhuang family.

Confident that after the failure of his tentative assault, the confident Yasujo consulted carefully with Ogasawara Nobukiru that night, only to find that their army would have to pay a heavy price if they wanted to touch the walls of the Nobian dungeon.

According to their most optimistic estimates, if the 19,000 Tsugaru family soldiers wanted to attack the walls of the wild border dungeon, they would have to pay at least 3,000 casualties under the blows of the Yanhuang family's super archers, and this level of loss was simply unacceptable to the two of them.

It was not that they felt sorry for their men, but that their army could not withstand this level of damage, and that they paid about 15 percent of the casualties before they could touch the enemy's walls, and such casualties would have caused their army to collapse outright.

If that really happened, the defenders of the Yanhuang family in the city would definitely take the opportunity to go out of the city to pursue, and then it would be a one-sided slaughter, and in order to avoid such a situation, Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobutumi had to give up their plans to attack head-on.

It is not feasible to storm head-on, and it is not advisable to besiege the wild border dungeon, because the purpose of the Tsugaru family's attack on the Yanhuang family is to relieve the pressure on the Spo family;

The two commanders of the Tsugaru family's army, who really couldn't think of any good way, had to gather all the generals in their own army at the level of senior generals and let them think of a way together, but the method that these generals came up with was really not feasible.

What nonsense suggestions such as leaving half of the army to surround the wild border dungeon and the other half of the army to attack the hinterland of the Yanhuang family, Hattori Yasushi heard that he wanted to curse, these suggestions are not a good way to implement at all, but the fastest way to send them to death!

Why did Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobuyoshi send peasant soldiers to tentatively attack the wild border dungeon?

If there are only 2,000 super archers like 2,000 in the 10,000 defenders in the wild border city, and the other 8,000 soldiers are elite standing troops, then the division of the Tsugaru family's army is simply self-defeating, and there is no room for return.

Even if Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobukishi didn't believe that all the defenders in the Wild Frontier Castle were standing troops, they still didn't dare to take risks easily, after all, they were here to save the Spo family to attack the Yanhuang family, not to come to the Yanhuang family to consume their strength.

Otherwise, what is the point of saving the Spo family? At the cost of sacrificing 20,000 soldiers of the Tsugaru family, to save the Spo family, which is not close to the Tsugaru family, this kind of loss-making trade Hattori Yasuki and Ogasawara Nobuyoshi will not do.

In fact, Tsugaru will not allow Hattori Yasushi and Ogasawara Nobuyo to joke with the Tsugaru family's 20,000 army, you know, with the current strength of the Tsugaru family, these 20,000 troops are already half of the army that the Tsugaru family can gather!

Although the Tsugaru family has only 20,000 regular standing troops, everyone will habitually add the number of peasant soldiers that their family can mobilize when calculating the number of their own troops, which is the biggest difference between the Yamato Imperial family and the Yanhuang family.

If the Yanhuang family sent 20,000 troops to attack other families, then the 20,000 troops would be a real field standing army, while if the other Yamato imperial families sent troops of the same size, the number of peasant soldiers would account for at least half of the total number of the army.

Such a difference made the Tsugaru family greatly underestimate the military strength of the Yanhuang family when calculating the strength of the Yanhuang family, and the actual combat effectiveness of the 10,000 army of the Yanhuang family was much stronger than the 20,000 army of the Tsugaru family.

With the combat power of the 10,000 soldiers under the command of Izumiyama Koyasu, he could completely defeat the 20,000 troops of Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobukiri head-on in a field battle, but he did not take the initiative to attack, because Bai Feng had already arranged everything in the assessment room of Minohe Castle.

The true value of the garrison of the wild border dungeon is not to hold the wild border dungeon, but to hold back the attacking army of the Tsugaru family, and when the main army of the Yanhuang family turns around and reinforces it, the fate of the Tsugaru family is almost impossible to change.

Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobuyoshi, who are in a dilemma, can only be helpless in their military tents, and their enemy, Izumiyama Koyasu, has a good hand that is impossible to lose from the beginning, and this is where the real gap between the two lies.

The Tsugaru family's army continued to attack the Nobe dungeon for another three days, during which time Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobukiro would send 2,000 peasant soldiers to attack the Nobedune dungeon once a day, and then let the peasants rout and end the day's fighting.

The peasants did not want to carry out such an obvious death-defying mission, but they did not dare to disobey the orders of Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobutishi, and after hundreds of peasants who tried to escape were executed in front of the battle, the others had to accept their cannon fodder fate with a dead face.

After three days of failed attack, Izumiyama Koyasu killed and wounded more than 3,000 soldiers of the Tsugaru family without a single soldier; although the number of dead soldiers of the Tsugaru family was less than 1,000, only 16,000 soldiers remained in combat effectiveness.

Such a loss was not an unacceptable result for Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobuyumi, but for the ordinary soldiers of the Tsugaru family, it was a cruel reality that could not be looked at directly, so that they were so depressed that they had no morale at all.

Whether it was the ordinary soldiers of the Tsugaru family whose morale had plummeted, or the soldiers of the garrison of the wild border dungeon castle with high morale, and even the commander of the Yanhuang family's army, Izumiyama Koyasu, everyone did not know that Hattori Yasujo secretly carried out a series of actions.

Three days earlier, Hattori had decided to use the power of the ninja to launch a special attack on the wild frontier dungeon, so he secretly sent a cavalry team of more than a dozen people back to Ishikawa Castle of the Tsugaru clan.

Hattori Hanzo, Hattori Hanzo, the eldest son of Hattori Yasushi in Ishikawa Castle, had been pinned on by Hattori Yasushi for several years, sending his eldest son, who loved ninjutsu, to Iga to learn ninjutsu until his son returned to the Hattori family two months earlier.

Over the course of several years, Hattori Yasuko's eldest son grew into one of Iga's most potential shinobi, so he returned to the Hattori family from Iga this time, bringing back not only a strong ninjutsu, but also more than a hundred Iga ninjas!