Joy and sorrow are always intertwined, and they are inseparably intertwined.

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

The battle between the Uesugi army and the defenders of Yuzawa Castle was actually known to Yuya Miyazaki and Mitsushige Nakuoka before the granary could catch fire, but neither of them rushed to the granary, but allowed the soldiers of the two armies to fight there.

Yu Miyazaki was also the true commander of the Uesugi family's army, and he knew that the 2,000 soldiers he sent out were far superior to the more than 1,000 defenders of Yuzawa Castle, so he hoped to weaken the prestige of the lord of Mitsushige Nashika once again by fighting and fighting, so as to pave the way for him to take over the entire Yuzawa Castle in the future.

The purpose of Mitsushige Nakuoka was to arouse the anger of the Mogami family soldiers and the people in the castle through this incident, and then use this as a threat to force Miyazaki Yuya to recognize his status, respect the independent sovereignty of the Mogami family, and maintain their status as guest soldiers.

Whether it was Yuya Miyazaki and Mitsushige Kazuoka, who were calculating with each other, or the soldiers of the two armies who were fighting outside the granary, no one thought that the grain and grass in the granary would suddenly catch fire, and the flames and smoke that rose into the sky made everyone in the city panic.

During this sleepless night, the firelight in Hasedo Castle and the fire in Yuzawa Castle shone like two bright lights in the darkness, and the Yanhuang spy army, who was meticulous in their mission, burned the grain and grass in the two cities before the Yanhuang ninja army.

Leaving aside the situation in Hasedo Castle for the time being, based on the actual situation in Yuzawa Castle, the Yanhuang Ninja Army's plan to slow down the burning of grain was undoubtedly much more clever than the immediate burning of grain by the Yanhuang Spy Army, and it also had a stronger discordant effect on the Uesugi Army and the Mogami Army.

It's a pity that the Yanhuang Spy Army's early attack made all the layout of the Yanhuang Ninja Army become a flower in the mirror, and the Yanhuang Ninja Army ninjas, who were unwilling to end the mission, continued to lurk in Yuzawa Castle and Hasedo Castle by taking advantage of the opportunity of their identities not being exposed.

However, the Yanhuang spy ninjas who completed the mission as planned, took advantage of the chaos when the soldiers in the city were fighting the fire, and evacuated Yuzawa Castle and Hasedo Castle one after another under the cover of night.

Yubu Yushinobu, who had led his army to the vicinity of Yuzawa Castle in the evening, looked at Yuzawa Castle illuminated by the firelight in front of him, and joked to the generals around him in a relaxed tone: "The grain and grass stored in Yuzawa Castle have been burned, and it seems that we have to prepare grain and grass for the prisoners again." ”

The generals of the Yanhuang family, who laughed loudly at this, were full of confidence in the victory of the next battle, just like Yubu Yushin, because they believed that after losing the grain and grass stored in Yuzawa Castle, Miyazaki Yuya, who had no army in his hands, had already lost the war.

After looking at the fire burning in Yuzawa Castle in the distance for a while, Yubu Weixin rode back to the camp with the generals and issued a military order to them: "General Nobuyuki and General Nobuyo, you two will each lead your headquarters and regiments to the east and west gates of Yuzawa Castle tonight and station; in the next five days, the Uesugi army and the Mogami army in the city will definitely wait for an opportunity to break through the siege, you must hold your position well, and you must not let go of a single enemy soldier!"

"Hey!" Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyhiro led in unison.

"General Sanada, the Sanada Standing Army under your command is insufficient, and I will assign you the third division of the Yanhuang Standing Army, and your task is to lead these two armies to the south gate of Yuzawa Castle to station, and I won't say much about the rest. ”

"Please rest assured, Yufu-sama, as long as I still have a soldier in the Sanada Standing Army, I will never let go of the enemy army!"

Nodding and not speaking, Yubu Weixin pondered for a moment and then said in a condensed voice: "Generals, Yuya Miyazaki of the Uesugi Army is not a light opponent, he will definitely try his best to break through, so it is not easy to win this battle, everyone must prepare early." ”

"The trapped beast is still fighting, but it is not without the possibility of losing both. Sanada Masayuki said in the same solemn tone: "If our army wants to exchange the minimum casualties for the maximum results, all armies will build a horse rejection fence overnight tonight, and we must not give the enemy any opportunity to take advantage of." ”

"What Shogun Sanada said is very true. Yubu Weixin, who was like a stream, thought for a while and added: "Our army's logistics department also has a batch of various bows and arrows that were used earlier, and each of your three armies will receive 2,000 to strengthen the defense." ”

"Thank you, Yubu-sama!" said Sanada Masayuki and his son from the bottom of their hearts. The value of two thousand long and short bows of all kinds in defense was self-evident, and there was no reason why they should not be grateful to Yubu Weixin for his practice of distributing the bows and arrows of his army equally among the armies.

Because of the division of troops, there were almost no troops in Yubu Weixin's army that were far beyond the troops, and the only commendable 6,000 iron artillery and spearmen in the southward army that far exceeded the troops, were the soldiers of the Second Banner Army, and they had now rushed to Hasedo Castle with Andong Ietashi to participate in the battle.

The lack of a strong far superior army is not only the shortcomings of the Yanhuang family, but also the shortcomings of the vast majority of families in the entire Yamato Empire; except for the Oda family of Oda Nobunaga and the Tokugawa family of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the other families have no superior troops.

With the production and reserves of Lenghuai longbows in Roman City, it would not be difficult for Bai Feng to have the intention of forming a large-scale longbowman army in the army of the Yanhuang family, but I don't know why Bai Feng has never planned to form an elite far superior force in the army of the Yanhuang family, which directly led to a general like Bu Weixin who could only rely on various bows and arrows captured to temporarily use when he needed to use long-range troops.

After the group hurried back to the camp of the army, the three generals Sanada Masayuki, Sanada Nobuyuki, and Sanada Nobuyoshi each sent hundreds of soldiers to the barracks of the First Banner Regiment to receive bows and arrows; in order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of these three armies, Bu Weixin specially ordered that the best-preserved bows and arrows among the bows and arrows should be given priority to them.

After the three divisions of the Yanhuang Standing Army and the Sanada Standing Army were divided, the 30,000 elite soldiers of the 1st Banner Army and the 25,000 soldiers of the 2nd Essini Army under the command of Funobu could be used to besiege the north gate of Yuzawa Castle, and its overall strength was stronger than that of the other three armies combined.

The reason why Yubu Weixin deployed 20,000 troops on the east and west sides of Yuzawa Castle and 30,000 troops on the south side was because he expected that Miyazaki Yu would not dare to use all his strength to break through in one direction with nearly 80,000 soldiers;

As long as their own army blocked the Uesugi and Mogami armies in the castle for five days, after five days, the Uesugi and Mogami armies, which were cut off from food and grass, had no choice but to wait for death and surrender, and at that time, Yufu Noshinobu could easily capture Yuzawa Castle and force the defenders in the castle to surrender.

First take Yuzawa Castle and cut off the arms of Uesugi Keito, and then the two armies jointly besiege Hasedo Castle, completely annihilate the Uesugi army under Uesugi Keihu, and implement his established battle plan step by step, Yubu Weixin has firmly controlled the initiative of the war in his own hands.