At this time, outside the city of Xicheng. The wealthy clans of Tohoku Minono were gathering with Mamoru Ando's troops and waiting outside the city in the middle of the night, asking for help to go in and put out the fire. But the guards of Xicheng stubbornly let themselves in, which made these wealthy families in Northeast America angry.

However, at this moment, the northwest corner of Inabayama Castle faintly heard the sound of the march of the army and the light of fire. Everyone looked over there in surprise, only to see that the direct troops of the Saito family, which were originally stationed outside the north gate, were now heading towards the west gate!

"There's really something wrong!" The leading few ashigaru heads were taken aback when they saw the scene in front of them. The Northeast American wealthy clan, who were supposed to stay in the northwest corner of the city, actually ran outside the west gate at this moment. And the Ando Army in the Xicheng Barracks actually left the barracks with all the troops, and they didn't know what they were doing outside the West Gate. "They really want to take the city!"

Seeing this scene, the Saito family, who were still a little suspicious, no longer hesitated, and rushed directly to the troops of the Northeast American Nohao clan and Ando Mori. The night march must be carried with torches, otherwise it will be dark and impossible to walk. The Saito family's ashigaru people were already dangerous with torches – they were easy targets for local attacks. But at the moment, the Hao clan coalition army didn't seem to react at all, and the troops directly under the Saito family did not choose to extinguish the torches and go up to the scuffle, but directly greeted them with torches! The wealthy family of Northeast America did not have many people around them, so they hurriedly avoided it. Mamoru Ando was forced to retreat into the camp and urgently let the ashigaru put on the camp. It was simply a night battle, and the reactions on both sides were very slow and chaotic, which did not make the Ando family collapse immediately.

"What are the Saito families doing!" Endo Qingtaka looked at the scene in front of him, and scolded angrily, "We're here to help put out the fire, are these people trying to kill someone!" ”

"How can it be!" The distant mountain scenery is also angry. Although he knew in his heart that the main target of the Saito family's troops might still be Ando Morunori rather than himself, it was really chilling that the main family would do something to his retainers indiscriminately.

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At the same time, the chaos outside the castle was immediately passed on to Saito Ryuko by the samurai who watched from the castle.

"What?" Saito Ryuxing was shocked when he heard the news, "The army outside the northern city has suddenly attacked the wealthy clan in the western city?" Who commanded it? What is it for! Are 2,000 people going crazy with a collective heartbreak? ”

"Back to my lord, not long ago, they all set off from the Beicheng military camp, and now they are already fighting!" The samurai who came to report the news said in a loud voice.

"What the hell is going on! Hurry up and figure it out for me! Saito Ryuxing angrily kicked over the table in front of him and sent the herald out in one go.

A moment later, the information that a samurai from the north gate had taken Saito Ryuxing's seal and an arrow out of the castle was transmitted back to the prison. According to the guards at the North Gate, the warriors returned quickly after leaving the city, and soon the army in the North Gate barracks moved en masse. Saito Ryuko thought about it for a while, and immediately understood what was going on! Shigeharu Takenaka took the arrow and the seal letter that Saito Ryuko gave him in the afternoon to enter and exit the city gate, and went out of the North Castle Gate. Then he used the arrow and the seal letter to mobilize the leaderless army of dragons to go to Xicheng!

"It's really blood mold that has been poured for eight lifetimes!" Ryu Saito was so angry that he scolded. Such a ridiculous order would not be followed immediately by ordinary generals. However, in order to defend the city, he transferred all the senior officers and their cronies to the city to defend, so that the rest outside the city were low-level ashigaru who couldn't make up their minds, and they were given back by Takenaka Shigeji! How could he not have thought of this trick before! He also thought that Shigeharu Takenaka would at most take his order arrow to deceive the gate of Xicheng and let Ando's army in!

Fortunately, his plans were completely ruined. The audience he originally arranged, the wealthy families of Higashimino and North American, did not see the expected scene of the Ando family's violent seizure of the city, but what he saw at this moment was that the people of the Saito family not only refused the Ando family's request to enter to put out the fire, but also sent troops to attack the Hao's troops without saying a word - this must have caused him to lose his heart!

"My lord, what should I do at this moment!" Several attendants were anxious like ants on a hot pot at the moment, and they didn't know how to end the battle, "Do you want to send someone to transfer all the troops back immediately!" ”

"What else is there to tune at this time? How to rectify the troops with a black light? Saito Ryuxing laughed miserably, "Transfer the troops back, and then apologize to Mamoru Ando?" Those angry and angry wealthy families must have to put forward even harsher conditions, and completely empty me! ”

"Okay, you're a Takenaka Shigeji!" Saito Ryuxing snorted coldly and yelled angrily, "Then we will be wrong!" Let Shigeharu Takenaka move stones and smash his feet! ”

"Herald!" Saito Ryuxing's eyes were red, and he said angrily: "Let the Komaki Genta of the West City immediately open the city gate and go out of the city to attack, and the people of the castle tower will also go out of the city to cooperate!" Cooperate with the army in Beicheng, and simply clean up the old guy with Ando Shou! ”

"You guys!" Saito Ryuxing looked around at the surrounding high-ranking generals and their samurai, "Also follow out of the city immediately and attack Ando Mori together!" ”

"The lord! We're all going to attack, are there no people left in Inabayama Castle? Isn't Shigeharu Takenaka still in the castle? A samurai asked, a little uneasy.

"Who else is left? The fight is all over, we will kill Mamoru Ando, and the seventeen people of Shigeji Takenaka can turn the sky upside down! Saito Ryuxing sneered, "I took the Samurai of Banner to guard the prison and watch the rain and autumn." Then the order was issued to block the three gates, and the north gate and the south gate were not allowed to let anyone out of the city, and it was useless to have my arrows! ”

"After cleaning up Ando, we will catch turtles in the urn and kill Shigeji Takenaka!"

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At five o'clock, under the south gate of Inabayama Castle.

"Urgent military intelligence!" Shigeharu Takenaka's attendant once again led a few people, took the arrow and the seal letter and ran to the gate tower of the south gate, and waved to the guards on the city wall: "Open the door!" Open the door! I'm going out to give orders! And Shigeharu Takenaka led the rest of the people, ambushed in the house behind in the dark.

This time, however, the squire who wanted to repeat his old tricks ran into trouble.

The guards on the wall were stunned for a moment, and then twenty men gathered around the edge of the city, and leaned down with torches, illuminating the faces of the attendants.

"Who are you?" One of the doormen asked in a cold voice.

"What am I?" Although the attendant was shocked, he still shouted with an unchanged face: "I am the lord's guard, and now I want to go out of the city to pass on the military information!" Hurry up and open the door, miss the fighter, are you responsible? ”

"The lord has just sent someone to say that the three gates prohibit anyone from leaving the city," the doorman sneered, and as soon as he raised his hand suddenly, more than a dozen companions behind him had already drawn their bows and arrows, aiming at Shigeharu Takenaka's attendants, "Even if you hold the lord's edict and arrow seal, you are not allowed to go out of the city!" If you were the lord's guard, how could you still come out of the city? ”

As soon as the words fell, he waved his hand violently, and immediately arrows rained down. The five attendants standing under the city were caught off guard and were shot to the ground by random arrows.

"Your Excellency!" The other attendants in the house panicked all of a sudden, "What should I do at this moment!" ”

"What else can I do, rob it!" Another attendant shouted dissatisfiedly: "They are only a dozen people, and we also have a dozen people, go up and fight with them!" Grab the gates! ”

"It can't be like that." Shigeharu Takenaka shook his head calmly, "They will notify the main force of the Saito family right away." Although the troops of the castle tower and the West Gate were deceived out of the city, Saito Ryuko's banner team remained in prison. We won't be able to take the city gate for a while, and as soon as Saito Ryuko's banner team arrives, we will be doomed. ”

"My lord, what should I do now?" Hearing Shigeharu Takenaka say this, the confident attendant just now also wilted suddenly.

"Let's go with my sideline," Shigeharu Takenaka stood up indifferently, "There's no other way." ”

However, just as he was about to turn around and leave, a fire suddenly flashed on the wall of the South Gate!

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Moments ago, the south gate of the city.

"The lord is really clever," the head of the guards sighed after killing the attendants who had come to deceive people, "I have long expected that someone will use the arrow to deceive people!" ”

"Take precautions!" The leader of the guards paused, and said aloud: "Don't let an enemy escape from the city!" ”

"Yes!" The guards shouted in unison, and then they all leaned against the battlements on the side of the southern castle wall facing Inabayama Castle, carefully observing every move in the castle.

Suddenly, one of the guards heard a slight noise behind him, and he looked back in surprise. The wilderness outside the city was empty, and it seemed particularly quiet in the cold moonlight.

"Maybe I misheard, right?" The doorman muttered to himself. The fire in the city caused confusion among the inhabitants, and the shouts, firefights, and running were so noisy that the guards could not hear the small sounds.

However, he suddenly felt that something was wrong! The inexplicable feeling pushed him towards the row of battlements facing the outside of the city in the south city, and suddenly found that something seemed to be hanging on the battlements.

On each of the five buttresses on the side of the wall was a circle of ropes, which were thick and tightly tied. The gatekeeper had seen these ropes, and they were ninjas with great climbing skills, using kunai and other sharp objects to climb the city walls, and then put the ropes on the battlements so that their companions could climb up the castle along the ropes.

So to speak...

The doorman suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and in disbelief he poked his head out of the wall and looked out of the wall. He vaguely remembered that there should be a lighting torch hanging from the city wall just below his head, so that he could see what was going on below.

He saw a dozen black shadows, standing far away under the city, and several more black shadows, who had already begun to climb the wall along the rope.

Enemy attack!

Just as he turned his head in panic to report the news, he suddenly noticed that directly below him, there was another dark shadow lying on the wall! The shadow and himself were separated by a torch hanging on the city wall, no more than three feet away! By the light of the torches, he could tell that it was a man dressed as a ninja, holding a kunai in one hand and inserting it into the crack in the wall tiles, leaning on this one to climb the wall, and holding an unattached rope in the other.

He had put on the ropes before—the same thought flashed through the doorman's mind. This ninja was able to climb the walls of Inabayama Castle, and his kung fu was quite good!

"Enemy attack!"

Just as he shouted these two words, the ninja who was crawling on the wall directly below in his field of vision suddenly quickly threw down the rope, picked up a small bottle from his pocket, and poured something into his mouth.

Immediately after, the ninja opened his mouth violently and spewed out a large fireball upwards in the direction of the torch!

The fireball instantly engulfed half of the guard's body, and the terrible screams also tore through the night along with the fireball.