A true and sensible friendship is the most beautiful priceless treasure in life.

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

More than 8,000 spears and 3,000 bows and arrows on the northern wall of Yuzawa Castle were facing against nearly 2,000 monks and soldiers whose strength was equal to that of a high-ranking samurai.

Perhaps it was a predestined coincidence, the northern battlefield commanded by Bu Weixin was also the main battlefield commanded by Yuya Miyazaki himself, and because Yuya Miyazaki was personally in charge, the defenders on the northern wall were almost all elite troops of the Uesugi army.

Although there is a certain percentage of peasant soldiers among them, their overall combat effectiveness is not much inferior to that of ordinary families' standing armies, and as the elite trained by the military god Uesugi Kenshin, they have always been victors.

Whether it is the desperate situation of being surrounded on all sides, or the tragic situation of running out of ammunition and food, or the body that has not eaten for several days, everything has been left behind by them, and the elite of the Uesugi army at this moment only have the determination and courage to fight to the death!

Mental strength is one of the essential factors for a strong army, but it is not the only one, and the elite Uesugi army, which has put life and death on the line, can barely hold off the mad attack of the monks, while their own casualties are rising dramatically.

The damage to the five siege towers was extremely limited by the rockets, and the leather covering the surface of the siege towers blocked the burning of the rockets for the wooden siege towers, and the young sword warriors who pushed the siege towers successfully pushed the siege towers to the foot of the city walls.

After pushing the siege tower to the foot of the siege tower, the young sword warriors who followed the siege tower followed the orderly procession, walked to the bottom of the siege tower and began to climb up the ladder inside the siege tower.

The monks who slaughtered like crazy, armed with long-handled swords, would take at least one or two of their enemies in each swing of the sword, and compared to the spears that resisted desperately, the Uesugi army's bows and arrows that did not even have protective weapons were the prey in the eyes of the monks.

Yes, the Uesugi army, who had no other skills than bows and arrows, were not even enemies in the eyes of the monks, they were just a herd of lambs to the slaughter, weak prey, and the monks who rushed in front of them to slaughter them all.

The battle on the northern wall became unassuming with the ascent of the samurai to the wall, and the strong intervention of 2,400 samurai not only relieved the pressure of the monks and soldiers, but also made the situation of the Uesugi army on the wall more and more difficult.

Even Yuya Miyazaki, who had been sent out to fight with more than 100 guards around him, sent himself into battle, and the reason why he did not personally go into battle was not because he did not have the courage to fight the enemy to the end, but because he had to stay here and command the various armies to fight.

Although the battle on the northern wall had turned into a massacre, the Uesugi soldiers on the northern wall were not the worst of the four city wall defenders, and the battle on the other three walls was also a one-sided massacre, and the performance of the Mogami soldiers was not as commendable as that of the Uesugi army, and most of the Ashigaru of the Mogami army collapsed shortly after the engagement.

Yuzawa Castle, which has four walls at the same time, has almost no possibility of holding on, and Miyazaki Yuya is even thinking about whether he will live and die with Yuzawa Castle, or find a chance to escape, or surrender to the Yanhuang army that is about to attack the city?

"Bang!" "Bang!!" "Bang!!"

The loud sound of the siege cone hitting the city gate suppressed the roars of the soldiers of the two armies fighting on the city wall, and the loud sound caused by the impact shook Miyazaki's head, and he even felt that the enemy's siege cone was not hitting the city gate but himself!

"Bang!"

With another loud bang, the north gate of Yuzawa Castle was smashed open by a siege cone, and the Uesugi army ashigaru who was blocking behind the gate was slashed to the ground by monks and samurai with swords wielding their swords before they could rush up to build a defensive line.

Seeing that the gates of Yuzawa Castle had been breached, Yufu Weixin gave the order to attack on all fronts of the 24,000 spear warriors behind him.

"Surrender. Yuya Miyazaki, who knew that the general situation was gone, ordered several generals in front of him in a gloomy tone.

"General, we still have tens of thousands of soldiers, Yuzawa Castle is still in our hands, we can't just lay down our weapons!" A bloodied general said with an excited expression: "General, let me lead the army to charge again, I will definitely be able to drive the enemy off the city wall!"

"Even if you can drive the enemies off the city walls, what can you do?" It wasn't easy for Yuya Miyazaki to make this difficult decision, so he asked unceremoniously, "Can you stop these enemy troops coming into the city?"

"I ......" Looking at the soldiers of the Yanhuang Army who were crowded towards the city gate outside the city, this general who was unwilling to be defeated was speechless.

Yuya Miyazaki's order to surrender was an order that could save the lives of the Uesugi soldiers who were still fighting to the death, but it was an afterthought for the Mogami army, which had already laid down its arms and surrendered.

The allied forces in the castle that finally laid down their arms numbered more than 26,000 Mogami soldiers and 35,000 Uesugi soldiers, which means that the Mogami army, including the defenders of Yuzawa Castle, lost less than 3,000 soldiers in tonight's battle alone.

The Uesugi army lost 15,000 soldiers, and the Yanhuang Standing Army of Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyoshi also lost nearly 5,000 soldiers.

Combined with the casualties of Sanada Masayuki's men, the Yan and Huang troops paid the price of nearly 7,000 soldiers killed and more than 4,000 soldiers wounded in the capture of Yuzawa Castle, and their harvest was a total of more than 60,000 prisoners of war and one Yuzawa Castle.

Yuzawa Castle's lord, Mitsushige Nagioka, and Yuya Miyazaki, the de facto commander of the Uesugi army, were imprisoned in separate dungeons in the castle, while prisoners of war from the Mogami and Uesugi armies were placed in two barracks outside the castle and guarded by the Yanhuang Standing Army.

Like Anton Ietada, Yubu did not think about how he needed to deal with the prisoners of war, and after sending the relevant war reports to the governor as soon as possible, he put his mind on restoring order in the city, which was a more important matter than dealing with prisoners of war.