Shiratoriyama Castle is a small city, not to mention comparing it with Sunfu, it is one size smaller than the three bridges and Kabara in front. This is not surprising, the earliest cities were built by lords from all over the world, and the size of the city naturally reflects the strength of that lord, and the strength of the lord is naturally closely related to the fertility of the territory.

The lord who founded Shiratoriyama Castle is no longer known, but according to legend, he was a small tycoon with six villages, that is, he had just reached the strength to build a stone city. Since the destruction of that family, Shiratoriyama Castle has never been used as a residence city, but has existed as a sentry post and tax card for a long time.

No one can say what the providence will be, but today a large cloud finally covered the head of Shiratoriyama Castle, and it rained heavily. His Royal Highness the Great Stars Yan Qing Clan, the leader of the martial arts clan in the whole world, came to Shiratoriyama Castle and stayed there for more than a month, which was enough to write a big book on the local chronicles.

On the 12th day of the seventh month of the 10th year of Tensho (1582), I sat in a room in the castle tower of Shiratoriyama Castle, which was a little cramped, but I had to use it as a temporary bedroom and office. This is also a helpless thing, who is called Shiratoriyama Castle is the most suitable war command point! However, I stayed here for more than a month, but there was nothing to do, and the previous battle was stalemate, and neither side made any progress, and the general affairs of the Gamo clan were dealt with on the spot.

It was a lazy summer afternoon, I had just woken up after a nap, and in the morning I went to the river to fish for an hour, and when I came back, I still didn't have a very good appetite for lunch. It's time to take a nap now, but it's time to finish it before dinner.

"Alas......" I closed the last fold in front of me, and today I was even useless for an hour. I picked up a fluffy cream cake from the plate next to the table, but I put it down again without putting it in my mouth, and I was still not hungry after eating only half a bowl of rice at noon, because there had been so little activity lately, and there was nothing to arouse interest.

The Fujikawa front did not fight any serious battles for more than a month, and the geographically advantageous Eastern Coalition seemed to think that this was better. Ninjas, Ranbo, or other messy names that have always been used as auxiliary forces, in short, they have become the protagonists of a large-scale "joint battle" for the first time.

Since that wonderful night, the morale of the army that would have been hit has been unprecedentedly high, and His Royal Highness Zhuxing Da Nayan, as the general of the whole army, sat in front of the camp and shouted loudly, and no one in the eastern army dared to respond and retreat immediately, what a majesty! What are those little miscellaneous things in the eastern kingdom, just waiting for the first rank!

Without any delay, with the arrival of dawn and the retreat of the Wind Demon Horse Team, my side was also launched, and the main force was the Ninja Army Zhuxing Special Reserve that I had just allocated to the Gamo Clan Township and the Koga Ninja Army on the periphery. Although the night has passed, the fog of dawn has become an effective cover for such an attack.

In the fog, iron cannons and shouts came and went, and it seemed that the other side was not well prepared, and the battalion posts were attacked and suffered considerable losses. It wasn't until the forces of the Iga ninja under Tokugawa who were the main body came forward to face the battle that the situation was somewhat stabilized.

"Why hasn't the fog cleared yet?" Since the two castles were so close to each other, I didn't leave until noon, so I looked at the Fujigawa valley behind me, which was still covered in thick fog, and asked suspiciously.

"This is Koga's gang performing the 'Dragon Smoke Technique'!" It just so happened that Misty Butterfly poked her head in from the outside and answered my question.

Just as the horse team of the Wind Demon is a trump card, Koga's "Dragon Smoke Technique" is also famous as a means of large-scale harassment that will be difficult for enemies to resist. But at the same time, the strength of the other party should not be underestimated, Iga and Wind Demon are both great experts, and the toxins in the smoke have no effect. However, the 60,000 troops of both sides gathered on the Fuji River never saw the sun, either in the dark of night or in a dense fog of nature and manpower.

Although the ninja army and the Koga ninja brought this time were not all, they also added up to more than 1,000 people, and this number was not comparable to the crippled Iga under the Wind Demon and Tokugawa. Therefore, from the third day, the eastern side gave up the active attack at night. But I didn't want to just leave it at that, and continued to add some "strength" to Gamo Township.

Since Maeda Keiji moved to Kyushu, Kii has been temporarily included in my direct territory, and with the relocation, merger, and meritorious expansion, about half of the original clans here remain, and the Saga people who have just moved back have reached a slightly stronger level. Nowadays, those people are not as strongly religious as they used to be, and the harsh reality is the best teacher, and they are educated by facts. By the way, although I have adopted a policy of promoting experiments and limiting the scope of churches in various places, the Sengokubori Monastery Religious School, which was originally designed, has been built, and a number of localized "god sticks" are being cultivated.

These are all digressions, so I won't say much, in short, this time Ji Yizhong was incorporated into my direct army to fight, and I didn't let them contribute too many people, and the total number of people was about 1,800. Although these people are not all iron cannon masters like Suzuki and Tsuda, they always have their own abilities, and I also allocated them to the Gamo clan in front of me.

Although Wind Demon and Iga are also the elite of the ninjas, they are helpless in the face of the same elite as their own, and they also have a terrifying number of support personnel. The Eastern Army has now abandoned its policy of harassment day and night, and is huddled in the dark camp with all its might, and they may have regretted mentioning this to me.

This should be a war for me, but I don't know why I always lack a sense of involvement, and somehow find a sense of watching the excitement. Now it's like watching two people fight on the street, one party has already gotten into the corner of the wall and pouted his ass just waiting for the opponent to beat, so what's the point of this fight?

In this way, my interest became less and less, and I almost stopped reading the regular newspapers. It's just an occasional let Lei Fox go to the front to take a look, and maybe he can dig up a few fascinating passages, which won't appear in the newspaper.

"Lord, I'm back!" I was looking out the window at the lush mountains and forests when Thunderfox opened the door and flashed in.

"This time I went for three days at once, but did you have anything new?" Seeing her "sunny" look, my spirits were also lifted, and I smiled and stretched out my hand to her.

"What else can there be new, it's not that those guys in the eastern country are anxious and at a loss!" She didn't squirm, and sat down in my arms at once. "The soldiers of the Eastern Kingdom were now terrified to death, especially near the edge of the camp, and their tents were not allowed to live, and they made wooden huts with a lot of thick planks. The soldiers who came out at night to stand guard were frightened, and for fear of being attacked, they used two thick planks to block the front and back and then tied them with ropes, like a flock of large turtles. It's so much fun......" she said as she gestured and giggled.

Whether it's simple-hearted, or heartless, Lei Hu can always infect my emotions with his enthusiasm. Like her character, her carcass was always full of energy, and with a charming smell of a slight sweat, I gradually got a little lost.

"Hey, did you hear what I said?" Thunderfox grabbed my hand, which had reached into the hem of her robe, and said coquettishly.

"Didn't I listen! You continue to say your ......" Although her wrist was grabbed but did not affect the movement of her palm, I continued to sniff at her neck with my eyes closed.

"The Eastern Coalition is retreating, you ...... Did You Know? Feeling the assault on her chest getting worse and worse, she said with a peachy pant on her face.

"The Eastern Coalition withdrew...... Retreat? How would you know! My hand was still, and I looked up in surprise. There is no such content in the newspapers from the township, how did you find out? Did you go deep into the shogunate of Hojo and Tokugawa? ”

"How is that possible, don't underestimate those people in the eastern kingdom!" She glanced at me again, pursed her lips and said, "His Royal Highness Gamo has a lot of capable people, and he has worked hard these days. I was so alone and had no contact with anyone, I didn't contain or answer, I went in recklessly, you think I'm stupid! ”

"So you're not stupid!" I laughed.

Although Lei Hu is a bit arrogant, but what is the point, it can be seen from the dramatic plot of the first meeting that she is indeed coarse and detailed in this regard. I naturally know this about her, so I dare to let her out.

"Kidding people again!" She nudged my chest in anger and disgust, but my hand didn't leave its place. "I guessed it when I saw the frequent exchanges between the Oying and Katsuyama Castle messengers on the mountain on the banks of the Fuji River!"

"You intercepted their messengers?" My expression became serious, this kind of thing that could interfere with the normal progress of the battle is absolutely not allowed.

"Hmm!" She shook her head with a sly smile.

"Did you see the former army of the Eastern Kingdom packing up their things? …… Did you see that Katsuyama Castle sent troops to respond? …… The former army of the Eastern Kingdom has shifted its baggage? …… ......I asked, she shook her head, and finally said with a little cry and laughter, "Then how did you know that they were going to withdraw their troops?" ”

"Intuition is intuition!" Thunderfox brought a pink face close to me, raised his right hand and tapped his nose twice with his index finger. "It's this nose that I know just by smelling it in the air, it smells weird. It's not right to look at the messengers, I'm sure there's something wrong with them. Maybe tomorrow, maybe next month, in short, they are ready to retreat. Why, you don't believe what I'm saying? She asked, widening her eyes.

"Believe, how can you not believe it!" I said the letter in my mouth, but I added the word "weird" in my heart. No wonder the Gamo clan never sent someone to report, it turned out that it wasn't even a shadow catch!

"Smack, smack!" There was a slight knock on the door twice, and Gobenmaru whispered outside, "My lord, there is an urgent report from Kyoto!" ”

"Come in!" I let Thunderfox get up from my arms before letting Gobenmaru in. This report was sent by the Hanbei, and it was only a few words on it. "Uesugi will move in mid-July." "In mid-July, isn't that already in action?" I thought about the need to speed up the intelligence channel further, and at the same time understood what the "taste" of Lei Hu was.

"What are you doing?" Seeing that I picked up the brush and didn't write it for a long time, Lei Hu asked strangely.

"It's nothing, I'm thinking about how to reward you!" I quickly put down my pen and wrote a few words, and then asked Gobenmaru to take it out. "How's it going tonight?" I excitedly hugged Thunderfox in my arms again.