"Chapter Ninety-Four: Spreading Rumors"
With the passage of time, many of the past have faded. But in the long river of history, there is a star that will always shine, and that is family affection. Time can make people lose everything, but family affection cannot be parted. Even if one day, their loved ones are gone, but their love will always remain in the deepest part of their children's souls.
- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)
"General Anton, General Kunohe, General Valk, you and the others will take General Anton as the main general, and each lead the headquarters to Hasedo Castle!"
"Hey!"
"General Sanada, General Assam, General Nobuyo, General Nobuyuki, the four of you will each lead your headquarters and go with me to Yuzawa Castle to enjoy a good show!"
"Hey!"
As soon as Bu Weixin's order was given, the generals of the various armies immediately returned to their respective armies, and three hours later, the swaying army of the Yanhuang family to the south was divided into two distinct armies, all the way to Yuzawa Castle and the other to Hasedo Castle.
It took one day for the army led by Uesugi Keitora and Ando Daiki to withdraw to Hasedo Castle, and it took one and a half days for the army led by Yuya Miyazaki to withdraw to Yuzawa Castle; it took two days for Anto Ietada's army to go to Hasedo Castle, and it took three days for Yuzawa Castle to be rushed to Yuzawa Castle by Bu Weixin.
According to Bai Feng's initial deployment, Hattori Hanzo's Yanhuang ninja army, who was responsible for carrying out the task of burning grain at Yuzawa Castle and Hasedo Castle, later Bai Feng was worried that the strength of the Yanhuang ninja army was not enough, so he secretly sent more people to the Yanhuang spy army, and did not inform Hattori Hanzo.
This also directly led to the fact that there were two hidden forces of the Yanhuang family that were not subordinate to each other at the same time in Yuzawa Castle and Hasedo Castle, and these two forces themselves did not know each other's existence.
They are also the intelligence forces of the Yanhuang family, and while maintaining their own secrecy, the Yanhuang Ninja Army and the Yanhuang Spy Army also have a certain understanding of each other's existence, but without Bai Feng's permission, these two intelligence forces with similar natures are absolutely not allowed to contact each other privately.
Therefore, in many cases, even if the people of the Yanhuang Ninja Army noticed the existence of the Yanhuang Spy Army, they would pretend to be deaf and dumb appropriately; although the origin of the members of the Yanhuang Spy Army determined that they were more trusted by Bai Feng, they would not be less taboo than the Yanhuang Ninja Army in this regard.
The special nature determines their special status, and the special status will inevitably bring a lot of helplessness, and the most intuitive manifestation of this is that after Yubu Weixin issued the order to spread rumors in Yuzawa Castle, the Yanhuang Ninja Army and the Yanhuang Spy Army ninjas in Yuzawa Castle were ordered almost at the same time, and they also took action almost at the same time.
Before Miyazaki Yuya's army arrived at Yuzawa Castle, the fifteen Yanhuang ninjas and thirteen Yanhuang ninjas in the city were ready to spread rumors, but in fact, the versions of the rumors prepared by the Yanhuang Ninja and the Yanhuang Spy were not identical.
The Yanhuang spy army, which was a little rigid in carrying out the mission, also meticulously copied the content of the order in the version of the rumor, while the Yanhuang ninja army, which had a fairly high degree of flexibility, combined with the actual situation in Yuzawa Castle, and carried out an appropriate 'transformation' of the rumor content.
"Ozawa-kun, have you heard?" A distant cousin who came to Yuzawa Castle to seek refuge with Ozawa some time ago suddenly came to Ozawa's house, found Ozawa who was doing things, and said to him mysteriously: "Our Yuzawa Castle is about to welcome a large number of garrisons from the Uesugi family!"
"Cousin, how did the Uesugi family's army come to our Yuzawa Castle?
Aooka, who had a faint head in his head, forcibly resisted the urge to beat his cousin at the thought of the task he had received a few hours ago. Aooka patiently explained to Ozawa: "Ozawa-kun, do you remember Suzuki-kun who came to Yuzawa Castle with me, he is now on an errand at the Castle Lord's Mansion, and this is the reliable news he heard from the Castle Lord's Mansion!"
"Oh. After nodding, Ozawa said casually: "Even if this thing is true, what does it have to do with me?"
"My stupid cousin, why don't you realize the seriousness of the problem!" Aooka said with hatred of iron not being made of steel, "It is said that those Uesugi clan armies were defeated all the way, and besides, they sacked all the towns they passed through along the way!"
"Ransacked all the towns they passed?!" Ozawa, who instantly became nervous, said with a serious face: "What about our army of the Mogami family?
After all, Ozawa is a common man who lives in the city, and compared to those mountain village men who don't know anything, he still understands some things; Aooka, who has been prepared for a long time, naturally leads to the following words: "How can there be no protection? It is because our family's army has protected our family's people, and now they have been controlled by the Uesugi family's army, and even their family members have been captured by the Uesugi army." ”
"This ...... This...... How is this good?" Aoka's successive messages made Ozawa finally panic.
Facing Ozawa's helplessness, Aooka asked him with a solemn face, "Ozawa-kun, do you believe me?"
"Cousin, you are my cousin, how could I not believe you?"
"Ozawa-kun, if you believe me, you will quickly hide all the grain and valuable gold and silver in the cellar, and then let my brother and sister-in-law and my nephews and nieces leave Yuzawa Castle and go to the house of relatives in the countryside outside the city for a while. ”
"This ......" Ozawa, who was a little hesitant, asked in an uncertain tone: "Cousin, didn't you just say that the Uesugi family's army was defeated all the way back? Is there a chasing army behind them? Will the pursuing army burn and loot the villages and towns outside the city?"
Unexpectedly, Ozawa still had such a sense in a hurry, and the surprised Qinggang straightened his mind and persuaded him: "You can rest assured about this, it is the army of the Yanhuang family that pursues the Uesugi army; ”
"In this case, then I'll go to my wife and let her take my children out of the city to hide!" Ozawa, who was flustered, didn't think deeply about why his cousin knew so much about what happened just outside the city, after all, he was just an ordinary person.
After looking at Ozawa in the distance, Aoka, who had successfully spread the first rumor, began to stagger towards another street, where there was also a 'cousin' who he had just recognized, and he had to inform his 'cousin' to hide the food and arrange for his family to go out of the city.
Because of the rigidity of the Yanhuang spy army, only the ninjas of the Yanhuang ninja army really took action that day; fifteen ninjas were busy for a whole day, but only more than 100 families were notified, but after a night of fermentation, the scope of this rumor was extraordinary!