In my opinion, meditation is a dynamic relationship between you and the whole being around you, and if you can love any environment, then you are meditating.

- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)

In the Kirkwall camp in the southwest of Lu, the house that once belonged to the leader of the Kirkwall settlement has now become the temporary headquarters of Yoki Yamashita and Natsukawa Heiko, along with Naoki Yoshikawa and Jun Nishimura.

Yoshikawa Naoki, who has been hiding in the dark to control the rebels, only Yamashita Yoki, Nishimura Jun, Natsukawa Heiko, and the spy ninjas know the true identity, and the other rebel soldiers regard Yoshikawa Naoki, who is wearing a gray robe, as Yamashita Yoki's staff.

In the temporary headquarters, Naoki Yoshikawa, who was holding Hakumine's order in his hand, asked Yamashita Yoki and the other three: "Gregory's counterinsurgency army will be in the camp in one day, and the lord has asked us to stay in the camp for a month, do you think we can do it?"

In fact, Bai Feng's order to Yoshikawa Naoki was to hold the camp for half a month, not a month as Yoshikawa Naoki said, and the reason why Yoshikawa Naoki said this was to prepare Yamashita Yoki and others under his command to fight to the last soldier.

Sure enough, as soon as Yoshikawa Naoki's words fell, the faces of Yamashita Yoshiki and the other three changed, especially Yamashita Yoki, who was the commander of the rebel army, he even said without hesitation: "Commander, it is impossible for us to do it if we hold the camp for a month?"

"Is it impossible to do it at all?, or have you forgotten your identity?" Yoshikawa Naoki swept his eyes coldly and said, "Is it your identity as the commander of the rebels, or is it your identity to be a spy of the shogunate under the lord's command, have you figured it out yourself?"

"Commander, that's not what I meant!" Yamashita Yoki, who knew that he had said the wrong thing, quickly explained: "I mean, how can the 45,000 rabble under our command resist the attack of the 100,000 troops in the west of Luxi?"

"As a member of the shogunate's spy army under the lord's command, I, Yamashita Yoki, have sworn allegiance to the lord, and even if I die here, it is impossible to shake my loyalty to the lord, but what I am worried about is that if we find it difficult to complete the task, will it affect the lord's layout. ”

Yamashita Yoshiki corrected his mistake when he knew it, and Naoki Yoshikawa said in a soothing tone: "Since you know that if we can't complete the task, it will adversely affect the layout of the lord, then you should go all out to complete this task, instead of giving up on yourself before you do it." ”

"Hi!" Yoki Yamashita, who had a teachable expression, looked very respectful.

Naoki Yoshikawa, who nodded and didn't say anything more, looked at Natsukawa and Nishimura with inquiring eyes, hoping that they could give some constructive advice, but it turned out that Natsukawa and Nishimura, who were full of bitterness, each lowered their heads.

Yoshikawa Naoki, who didn't have much hope, had to speak up on his own after the last glimmer of hope was dashed: "The dissension plan that the lord asked me to prepare last time has reached the time when it can be implemented;

"The Commander, who is in charge of investigating the spies of Gregory's army, just returned this morning. Yamashita Yoki took out a piece of information with the thickness of a paper from the space ring, and directly reported the summarized data to Naoki Yoshikawa:

"Gregory's 100,000 counterinsurgency army consisted of 10,000 Lucy cavalry and 40,000 Lucy soldiers, as well as 50,000 Lucy's second-line soldiers, of whom about one-third of the enemy's total number were from the south, including 2,000 cavalry, 10,000 soldiers, and 20,000 second-line soldiers. ”

"Of the thirty-two thousand soldiers from the south, the number of warriors whose families are in the other nine settlements is less than 10,000, and the remaining 25,000 warriors, their families and friends, can be found among the 650,000 people behind us. ”

"Twenty-five thousand soldiers?" Naoki Yoshikawa, who couldn't see the joy and sorrow, after a little muttering, instructed Yamashita Yoshiki: "You immediately send someone to find the families of these soldiers, and be sure to find out the families of at least five thousand enemy soldiers before nightfall!"

"Hey!" Yoki Yamashita, who received the order, did not hesitate or delay at all, and turned straight away from the temporary headquarters to give orders to his cronies to find someone.

After three minutes passed, Yamashita Yoki, who returned to the temporary headquarters, replied: "Commander, I have arranged for 5,000 female soldiers to cooperate with 100 spies to find someone, and before dinner today, we can find out the families of at least 7,000 enemy soldiers!"

"Yamashita-kun's ability, I'm still relieved. After glancing at Yoki Yamashita with great appreciation, Naoki Yoshikawa brought the topic back to the topic: "After all, the use of the families of enemy soldiers can only play a supporting role, and the real defense must be on our own." ”

Speaking of this, Naoki Yoshikawa got up and walked to the map in the temporary headquarters, pointed to the Kirkwall camp on the map, and said: "The camp we defended is still not strong enough after being reinforced, and as long as the enemy attacks fiercely, our outer wooden wall may not last for five days." ”

"This means that even if we have a wooden wall to rely on for the first five days, we can inflict great casualties on the attacking enemy forces with very few casualties, and after five days, the outer wooden wall is no longer functional, what can we use to resist the onslaught of the enemy's superior forces?"

"Commander, since one layer of the outer wooden wall can only last for five days, why don't we build a few more layers of defensive wooden wall?" Xia Chuan Pinggong suggested: "In the first five days when we stubbornly defend the outer wooden wall, we can continue to build the wooden wall with 650,000 barbarian people. ”

Xia Chuan Pinggong, who also stood up, walked to another map next to Naoki Yoshikawa, pointed to this Kirkwall camp layout map, and said: "The 650,000 barbarian people who are all mobilized can build a fairly solid wooden wall defense line in one day at most. ”

"In this way, we can build five more wooden wall defenses in the camp for the first five days of holding the first wooden wall, and as long as our troops are not exhausted, the continuous construction of wooden wall defense lines will allow us to successfully hold the camp for a month!"

Looking at Xia Chuan Pinggong, who was full of excitement in his words, Yamashita Yangxi, who had just returned to the temporary headquarters, ruthlessly poured a basin of cold water on him and said, "Xia Chuanjun, our existing wooden wall defense line has exhausted all the wood and iron tools in the camp. ”

The wooden-walled defense line on the periphery of the Kirkwall camp is said to be a wooden wall, but in fact it is the product of stout timber as the main body, supplemented by iron sheets on the surface, so that every time such a timber-walled defence is built, the consumption of stout timber and iron tools is very large.

Xia Chuan's idea of building more wooden walls is indeed a good way to strengthen the rebels' defensive capabilities, but the crux of the matter is, what can the rebels continue to build wooden walls when they have run out of wood and iron?

It is no exaggeration to say that a wooden wall made of dwarf wood is a real wooden wall, but unfortunately, such a wooden wall cannot stop the attack of enemy soldiers at all, and has little defensive value.

Even so, Naoki Yoshikawa still ordered the dead horse as a live horse doctor: "Natsukawa-kun, you are in charge of continuing to build the wooden wall defense line, please be sure to send as many people as possible to cut down trees outside the camp before nightfall, there will be no time tomorrow morning." ”

"Hey!" Xia Chuan Pinggong, who was disappointed in his heart, was better at all.