I walked out of the hall and walked towards the main gate, not very fast. I didn't hear the sound of the siege, so I didn't have to hurry, and it had the effect of calming people's minds. I don't have any thoughts in my head, and I can say that I am crowded with a series of complicated thoughts, how did Kenshin Uesugi get here? Is this his workhorse?

The troops had just eaten and had not rested, but the news of the approach of the enemy had not spread, and along the way we saw only the necessary sentry posts and patrols, but once the order was given, we could quickly enter a state of imminent battle.

A lot of people had already gathered at the head of the main gate, and all the patrols on this side of the city gathered here, talking and pointing in the direction of the outside of the city, as if something strange had happened there.

"The lord is here!" Yimu Banqi took two steps forward and shouted loudly.

"Lord!" The group of people retreated to both sides to make way of an "alley" and bowed down one after another.

"It's just some guys from the later generations, what's there to look at!" I pretended to be light-hearted, hoping to take some of the pressure off you. "It's the same with a nose and two eyes, and you can't ......see it here," I had come to the battlement of the wall, and the sight before me made me stop.

By this time, the drizzle had stopped, and the smell of dampness still lingered in the air, but that was enough, and it no longer affected Uesugi Kenshin's strategic intentions. About a mile below the city, there were large bonfires burning densely, and they extended outward for more than two miles, and there were no less than a thousand piles in front of the front of the city, and the sticky sticks spread on both sides until they circled the sides of the wall. If you only count 10 people around a fire, then that's ...... It's scary enough anyway!

"Have you surrounded the whole castle?" I asked Kanosuke Yamanaka, who was in charge of the city's duties tonight.

"Yes!" He nodded and replied, "It's full of front, back, left and right, but it's not so dense in other directions." Just now I noticed that there seemed to be activity in the city, and I was about to send someone to check it, but I didn't want to burn these bonfires one after another. I didn't dare to move lightly when I felt that the situation was wrong, and quickly sent someone to report to the lord! ”

"In such a hurry! How long did it take? "I got the report and it came out, how did it burn like this all of a sudden.

"From the first fire to the beginning, it has not been a cup of tea until now!" Yamanaka Kanosuke is a very careful person, but he is not used to using clocks.

"Duanzang! Did the nearby scouting ninjas pay off? "I beckoned behind me to rely on the power of ninjas in this unfamiliar place. To be honest, seeing this posture, my heart is even more unstable, could it be that Uesugi Kenshin really used the main force to deal with me first?

"Back to my lord, no one has come back yet!" Hearing my call, Kanzo Kato stepped out of the shadows behind the crowd, still wearing only the cloth clothes of a wild samurai, according to the old custom, he had just come from the Tetori River. "According to the experience of his subordinates, the enemy's actions must be very strange, and the ninjas may not have figured out the real situation for a while!"

"Oh?" I was stunned when I heard this, what other conditions do I need to find out?

"Returning to my lord......" Seeing my question, he took a few steps forward, and the flickering light of the torch reflected on his face looked a little strange. Take a closer look, there are people around those fires, but they are not a large army! ”

"Ahh I jerked my head around and lay down on a battlement, the wet bricks staining my armor, but I couldn't care about it for now. Indeed, as he said, there were groups of people moving between the campfires, but they were only patrols, not large armies, not only did no one rest around the campfires, not even tents and vehicles. What kind of trick is this played by Kenshin Uesugi, things are getting weirder and weirder!

Now there is no other way but to wait for the ninja outside the city to bring back the news, but fortunately it didn't make me wait long. Because the situation outside the city was unknown, he didn't dare to open the city gate, and put down a rope and pulled two people up.

"What the hell is going on outside the city?" I didn't wait for them to open their mouths and asked first, a situation I had never encountered in my more than ten years of military career.

"Back to the lord, there is no main force of the Uesugi army in the city!" A short ninja dressed in a rain-stained dark blue nightwalk returned. "Before the two pillars of incense, several Echigo troops suddenly approached the castle from all sides. Carrying a large amount of firewood and grass on their horses or on their backs, they set up and lit thousands of bonfires around the castle, and then the brigade withdrew, leaving hundreds of horses to walk through the campfires! ”

"Do you know where the main forces are withdrawing?" The Gamo clan next to me added.

"It's still scattered on all sides, but it's not far-reaching!" The ninja made a rude gesture, then stood up and walked to the edge of the wall. "The small hills to the south, the groves across the river to the east, and the ravines next to the official road to the northeast, these are the main gathering places!"

"There is also an ambush on the side of the official road?" My heart grew heavier. Could it be that Uesugi Kenshin wants to surround me on all sides and trap me here, looking at this frame is very similar, but I still have the certainty of holding on to help in the short term, and he is not afraid of being surrounded from the side by the two armies of Shibata and Yushiba? "Have you figured out the strength and disposition of the enemy?" I looked in the direction he pointed, and the darkness behind the flames grew so thick that I couldn't see anything.

"The lord forgives his sins, and his subordinates are incompetent!" The ninja pleaded on the ground, "The enemy army is located in a difficult terrain but surrounded by open space, which is really difficult for us to approach. In addition, there are a large number of Xuan Ape ninjas around, and ordinary ninjutsu can't pass through their defense lines! ”

"How many of them are there?" Gamo asked nervously.

"Not under our numbers!"

"Isn't that ......?" I was speechless for a moment.

I brought 200 professional ninjas with me this time, because for the consideration of Uesugi Kenshin's consistent tactics, I only brought 300 ninjas to spare, and now that there are so many Uesugi ninjas, it can almost be determined that this is the main force of Echigo. In the vast darkness of the night, I attacked Kenshin Uesugi from an open area, unless I was crazy! It's just that I've only heard that Uesugi Kenshin is good at cavalry field combat and surprise attacks, so why is he so expert in ninja field warfare? Now don't say that the attack is uncertain, just by leaving the city under the light of so many bonfires, everything was clearly informed to the other side in advance.

"Why don't you let the ninja army harass you?" As soon as the idea came to me, I immediately rejected it again. The other party's guards are tight and the surrounding area is empty, and I will be reimbursed for all 300 or so people in the cavalry charge! Unable to act in complete concealment, the ninja army is a bunch of waste.

"Duan Zang, you go in person!" I gritted my back molars so hard that I couldn't be blindfolded and led away. "Go and see the actual situation in those places, and be sure to find out the enemy's deployment!"

"Yes!" Kato Duanzo turned to leave, and I watched him climb down the wall, and his figure disappeared in the blink of an eye as he burrowed into the campfire.

"Your Highness!" The Gamo clan came to my side and whispered, "I'm afraid that I won't be able to do anything tonight, so please go and rest first." With me staring here, please rest assured, I will report to you as soon as there is any news! ”

"Forget it, I can't sleep when I go back!" I continued to stare at the place where I couldn't see anything, and I felt the same oppression in my heart as I did against Takeda Shingen. "Except for everyone on duty to go down and rest, it's not interesting to stay here!" I waved my hand back.

"I'll accompany the lord!" Although there were many people who answered, their voices were very unanimous.

"Oh!" I turned around and saw a series of determined countenances. "I'll just rest here tonight, you don't have to spend all the time here. Maybe there will be a fierce battle tomorrow, so it's better to take care of your spirits more! As soon as I said this, I walked into the gatehouse, where there were too many people at the moment, not only was it useless, but I was a little upset.

The gatehouse wasn't a good place to sleep, there was no futon and it was ventilated on all sides, but I didn't plan to sleep either. Only Ah Xue entered the house with me, but after a while, the Gamo clan also came.

"Is it all arranged?" I didn't mean to coax him away.

"Everyone has gone back to rest, and there is no problem with the garrison!" He sat down in front of me, and all he could light for us was a flickering candle.

"How about we send some people out to put out those bonfires?" I asked him out of the blue. Actually, I know that this idea is very stupid, but I don't know what to say at this moment.

"Your Highness, this doesn't seem appropriate!" Sure enough, he objected, albeit in a very tactful tone. "As soon as our troops get close to the bonfire when they leave the city, they will immediately be clearly seen by the other side, and no matter how many people go out, there are risks, and it seems that our side has more to gain than to lose. And after so many bonfires tossed and turned, the sky is almost bright, and it doesn't seem like it's necessary! ”

"What kind of person is Uesugi Kenshin, it seems that many people know something about him, but he is an extremely mysterious existence to everyone!" I no longer mentioned that stupid idea, but just lamented the opponent in front of me.

"People who can be called 'military gods' naturally have their own extraordinary features...... "Gamo clan also sighed, until Kato Duanzo returned near dawn.

"My lord! The general situation in the neighborhood was already clear...... "Knowing my urgent mood at the moment, I took the initiative to report it without waiting to ask." "The Echigo army is divided into eight hiding places, with a total number of more than 7,000 people, and the largest strongholds are the three places that have just been reported. The enemy's precautions are indeed very strict, and his subordinates sneaked into two of them by luck and found that the opponent's troops were fully equipped and deployed in an orderly manner, but they failed to find out who the main general was! ”

"More than seven thousand, that's more than half of the number of my troops!" I pondered in my mind, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong. This is just an ambush and a coax, and I don't know how many people are waiting on the road tomorrow. "Duan Zang, you will take a team of people out tomorrow and re-verify the position of the main force of the Echigo Army!" I stood up and prepared to go back to rest. "Send another letter to His Highness Shibata, and we'll ...... tomorrow I can't go to meet him today as planned! ”