Chapter 458
Chapter 458
Chapter 458 Ueno Surprise Attack ([-]) Inside Minowa Castle
Narita's head waited until the afternoon at Minwa Castle, when his retainers came to report, "Daisuke Daizo has brought Houjie and Kohata's house."
Immediately, he went down to the city to meet the two of them in person, and personally told his cousin and eldest relative the heavy news that Toyotomi Hideo's family had entered Ueno.
Due to the exhaustion of climbing mountains and ridges, the elder relative suggested that the soldiers rest in Minawa Castle tonight, while the samurai gathered in the evaluation room of Minawa Castle to discuss the next response.
Everyone sat in the assessment room, exchanging information with each other. Naomo Naito finally learned from Narita's family that Inomata Kuniken was leading the main force to go south along the Joetsu Line, and the journey was expected to be a day and a half late for them.
In other words, Inomata Bangken may not be able to return to Stable Bridge City until the day after tomorrow.
Narita's eldest relative also asked a little strangely: "Did Naito-sama have not received the order to go up to the guard before, and lead the troops to gather at the Stable Bridge?"
"Hehe." Naoko Naoto smiled awkwardly, "The Stable Bridge City was besieged last night, and I went to the Stable Bridge with my body size, and it's not even enough to fill people's stomachs."
"Hua~" Hearing the news of the siege of Stable Bridge Castle, there was no uproar in the evaluation room for an instant, especially for Musashi Party like Mr. cut off.
"Everyone, be safe and don't be impatient." Naoko Naoto suppressed the noise in the hall slightly, and said to them, "Now the Stable Bridge Castle has been surrounded by no less than 5000 people from Toyotomi's family, and the troops of the Stable Bridge Castle will hold on until they can climb back. Shouldn't be a problem.
But since Stable Bridge City is besieged, No Deng Shou will inevitably choose Minowa Castle as an alternative assembly point. We only need to wait here for a while, and maybe we can wait for No Deng Shou's reinforcements. "
His words did have some effect and were generally approved by the hall.
But for a samurai family like Xiaoban Xinding, whose family's home city is not far from Dubingdong, they just follow the trend and express their approval.
After all, a daimyo like him can only get more than ten thousand stones, and he is a small force in Ueno country.
If he was in Guofeng City at this moment, he might directly surrender to the Toyotomi Clan without hesitation.
But he is now in Minowa Castle, the core of the current Hojo family ruling Ueno, and what he is doing here is a diehard Hojo clan, so he naturally dare not say that he wants to return to the territory first.
But he still didn't give up and took the initiative to ask Naoko Naito, "Master Dansho, is the Toyotomi family blocking Usui to the front line of the Stable Bridge now?"
Hearing Kobata Nobudaka's initiative to ask about this matter, Naomo Naito took a deep breath and scratched Tsukiyoto Mizuki, who scratched his forehead, and said distressedly, "To be honest, I have been fighting for so long, and I am really confused about this battle.
In the past two days, I sent several groups of spies to investigate the situation in Nishi Ueno, and found that the Toyotomi army divided and surrounded several cities in Nishi Ueno, and Anzhong Castle in Ubing County is still in the hands of the family.
It's just that there are more than 3000 people surrounded there, and my spies can't get close to the city. I really don't know the specific situation there.
However, some people came back and said that there was no trace of Toyotomi's army in Takasaki Castle on the other side of Guanyin Mountain. Perhaps Toyotomi's family was attacking the Anzhong and Stable Bridge lines. "
Hearing that Anzhong City was besieged, Xiaofan Xinding became emotional instantly, because Anzhong City was on the way he had to go back to Guofeng City, and it was surrounded by 3000 people there, and he had less than 1000 people, how could he return What about Guofeng City?
After thinking about it, Xiao Banxin must have sighed and thought, "Forget it, just wait in Minowa like this, maybe the Hojo family can still win this time?"
After hearing the information from Naoto Naito, Narita took the initiative to go to his lord Narita's side and whispered, "What Masa-sama means is that the main force of the Toyotomi family is now besieging Stable Bridge Castle and Anzhong Castle.
Perhaps because of the lack of troops, there seems to be a fault in the middle. Should we take advantage of this gap to pass through it? "
Hearing Narita's suggestion, Mrs. Narita took the initiative to ask him, "What do you think the chances of winning are?"
Narita Changki pondered for a moment and replied "5%"
Upon hearing Narita's reply, Mrs. Narita was a little disappointed and said, "Is it only 5%?"
The one who reacted differently from them was Yura Sadashige of Jugan Ikjo, because his home city is in Ueno in the east, and he can go back across the stable bridge from North Ueno.
To say that there is hatred, when his father Yoshikuni Shigeru was in charge, he jumped back and forth between the Takeda family, the Oda family, and the Hojo family.
Later, in September of the 11th year of Tensho (1583), the Hojo Clan captured the Stable Bridge Castle where the rebellious Hojo Takahiro lived.
At that time, Shizhao proposed to borrow Jinshan Castle and Tatebayashi Castle in order to attack the Satake clan. The brothers agreed to this.
Later, Shigeru Yuliang reported the matter to Hojo Ujinao, but Hojo Ujisho directly defined Hojo Ujisho's ownership of Jinshan Castle and Tatebayashi Castle.
Although it is said that the knowledge and practice of the two brothers has been confirmed to be preserved, Kunisuke moved his base to Karabiyama Castle (Kiryu Castle), and Kencho moved his base to Ashikaga Castle. Yuliang’s territory was actually reduced and divided.
In the first month of the 14th year of Tensho (1586), Nagao Kencho (Yurashi himself was born in a branch of the Nagao clan) attacked Sano Muzuna and asked the Hojo clan to bestow the Sano collar, but the Hojo clan asked Hojo clan as an adopted son. Entered Sano collar.
The two favoritism of the Hojo clan finally aroused the anger of the Yura clan. In the 15th year of Tensho (1587), the Kunime brothers finally raised the banner of rebellion against the Hojo clan through Satake Yoshishige.
In the 16th year of Tensho (1588), the two brothers surrendered, Ashikaga Castle was taken back, and Yura Sadashige's son, Yura Sadashige, inherited the territory of Shugan Ikujo. The brothers were forced to live in seclusion and moved to Odawara.
In other words, Yuliang's family didn't have the slightest gratitude to the Hojo clan, and even this dispatch of troops was just coerced.
Even Inomata Kuniken knew that the Yura family was not trustworthy, and the Sanada family did not bring it with them this time, but was asked to guard Minowa Castle.
The conversation of the Narita family was heard by Yura Sadashige, who took the initiative to reach out and said, "Do you two adults want to leave the city?"
Realizing that someone overheard the conversation on their side, Narita's head and Narita's head straightened their sitting postures, and resolutely denied it, "There is absolutely no such thing, and we are willing to wait in Minawa for the return of Neng Shishou."
Yura Sadashige was born in the 2nd year of Tensho (1574), one year younger than the Hide family. In addition, when he was young, his father and uncle were taken to the Hojo family, and he had no standard samurai education at all.
Therefore, after hearing the denials from the two, not only did they not express their understanding, but instead asked, "But I just heard that you guys said that you want to break out of the weak and low-end of Toyotomi's family."
Yu Liangzhen's low EQ speech immediately attracted the attention of the people around him. Xiao Banxin seemed to have found a life-saving straw. He looked at Mr. Narita and asked, "Do you want to break out of the siege?"
Mr. Narita was stunned by the question. The key point was that Yura Sadashige was still his nephew, so he really didn't know how to veto him.
The first wife of Mr. Narita was the daughter of Shigeru Yura, who was brother and sister with Shigeru Yura.
In essence, the Yuliang family, like the Narita family, are untrusted outsiders. After the Yuliang family was imprisoned twice by the Hojo clan, the cavalry has sympathy among many wealthy Kanto clans, including within the Hojo clan.
After Shigeru Yura and Kencho Nagao were captured and taken to Odawara, relatives like Mr. Narita helped Mr. Yura a lot, but this time he was sold directly by his cousin and nephew, which made Mr. Narita very embarrassed. .
Naoko Naito, who was Minowa Castle's representative, heard Yura Sadashige's words, and asked Narita's head, "Does Shimoshou want to let Minowa Castle go?"
Because of the betrayal of his nephew, Mr. Narita seemed to be roasted on the fire. At this moment, he neither admitted nor denied it.
He could only answer ambiguously, "I'm just discussing the possibility of fighting with Dazang, and I don't have the idea of abandoning the city. In the end, it is up to Noto Mori to decide how to fight."
In fact, most of the samurai in Minowa Castle are local daimyos from Ueno, and they don’t have a very strong sense of resistance to Toyotomi’s invasion of Ueno. As long as Toyotomi is willing to give a way to survive and ensure the safety of their skills, they will switch to Toyotomi in an instant Shi.
So when Yura Sadashige said that Chief Narita wanted to leave Minowa Castle first, he sincerely hoped that Chief Narita would admit it.
As long as Narita takes the lead, many samurai in the city will hurry up every minute, and those who can't escape will find a way to switch to Toyotomi.
It's just that there are so many samurai at this meeting, who can guarantee what the people on the other side are thinking?Will there be an existence loyal to the Hojo clan?
Therefore, although the samurai sitting in the evaluation room had their own plans, none of them dared to make the decision to violate the constitution of Inomata.
Now finally, the possibility of Mr. Narita taking the lead has ignited the fire of hope in everyone's hearts, but it was extinguished by the person concerned, which really disappointed everyone.
Following Narita's denial, another round of silence fell in the assessment room of Minowa Castle, and the assessment room was surprisingly quiet.
Just at this time, there was a sound of "rumbling~" in the distance, and there was a burst of noise outside the assessment room.
At first, the samurai in the evaluation room thought that the weather had changed, and thunderstorms were about to appear. Marching in such weather was very dangerous, so even Chief Narita temporarily stopped thinking about raiding.
But at this moment, there was a burst of scattered footsteps outside the assessment room, and a samurai ran over, scrambling and crawling, and said nervously to the lord Naito Naomi inside, "My lord, the Stable Bridge Stable Bridge City is shattered!"
"Nani!" Hearing this news, all the warriors in the evaluation room stood up in surprise, and asked the warrior in disbelief, "How did you lose Stable Bridge City?"
They can't help but understand that Stable Bridge Castle is the same famous castle as Ueno Kingdom and Minowa Castle. Because it is a flat castle, it is very majestic, and it is also used as a defense with a very complicated water hole.
In their view, Stable Bridge City, let alone 5000 people, even 1 people would not be able to take it down without a ten-day and a half-month offensive. How could it be taken down on the third day of the siege?
Unless there is an inner city in the city, but this is impossible, because after Inomata Kunkeng went north, the Hojo clan government sent multi-eyed Motochu to guard the stable bridge to control this most important city connecting Ueno and Musashi.
The Tame family has been a co-worker of the Hojo clan since the Hojo Soun period when the first generation of the Hojo clan was the leader. It is one of the most important retainers of the early retainer group of the Hojo clan.
Tamu Motochu Hojo Clan Oyuzu, Hojo Ujiyasu's military adviser, Ujiyasu's personal guards, and the "Black Bei" general of "Hojo Five Colors", is the Hojo Clan's diehard loyalist, even if there is Xiaoxiao in the stable bridge with him There is nothing to hide.
"My lords, go out and have a look. There was an explosion over Stable Bridge City, and it's a sea of flames right now!"
After hearing the samurai's report, the samurai in the hall walked out of the evaluation room one after another, walked to Honmaru and looked towards the southeast line of defense.
At this moment, the sky was getting dark, and torches had already been lit inside and outside the city. Due to the high altitude of Minlun City, the defense line of Stable Bridge City could be seen from a distance.
However, because the two places are 10 kilometers apart, it is usually not very clear, but now it is night, and the torches on the defense line of Stable Bridge City are as bright as day.
Narita took hold of an ashigaru on the side and asked, "Quickly tell me, what happened in Stable Bridge City?"
The ashigaru was taken aback, and replied awkwardly, "I don't know, I only heard a loud noise from this side, and the flames were spread, and a raging fire was ignited over there. I don't know what happened there." what."
Hearing the answer from the ashigaru, Narita asked the samurai who had just come to report in confusion, "The situation over there is unknown, it's just that there was an explosion. Why do you say that Stable Bridge City has fallen?"
The samurai pointed to the defense line of Stable Bridge City and said, "Can you still see the three-story tower of Stable Bridge City at this moment?"
Wada Shinye said, "Maybe the night is too dark to see the castle?"
The samurai shook his head and denied, "No, the castle has been integrated with the entire Stable Bridge City."
Xiao Ban asked doubtfully: "What do you mean?"
A samurai beside him replied, "The fire has spread to the castle tower, and the entire Stable Bridge City has been turned into a sea of flames!"
"Nani?" Naoki Naito expressed surprise at the burning of the Stable Bridge Castle, and immediately called his retainer Okamoto Nobu and said, "Hyogo, take someone to the Stable Bridge Castle yourself, and report the situation over there truthfully. .”
Nobuyuu Okamoto, who received the order for "Hai", ordered 3 warriors immediately, rode out of the city on horses and headed towards Stable Bridge City.
After Nobuki Okamoto left, the Ueno nobles returned to the evaluation room and anxiously waited for the news brought back by Naoto Naomi's retainers.
Especially Narita's chief and Narita's relatives, they knew very well that if Stable Bridge City really fell, then they would really fall in Ueno.
It was already late, and the warriors in the city were ready to go to rest, but the news that Stable Bridge City might fall made them unable to sleep anymore.
(End of this chapter)
Narita's head waited until the afternoon at Minwa Castle, when his retainers came to report, "Daisuke Daizo has brought Houjie and Kohata's house."
Immediately, he went down to the city to meet the two of them in person, and personally told his cousin and eldest relative the heavy news that Toyotomi Hideo's family had entered Ueno.
Due to the exhaustion of climbing mountains and ridges, the elder relative suggested that the soldiers rest in Minawa Castle tonight, while the samurai gathered in the evaluation room of Minawa Castle to discuss the next response.
Everyone sat in the assessment room, exchanging information with each other. Naomo Naito finally learned from Narita's family that Inomata Kuniken was leading the main force to go south along the Joetsu Line, and the journey was expected to be a day and a half late for them.
In other words, Inomata Bangken may not be able to return to Stable Bridge City until the day after tomorrow.
Narita's eldest relative also asked a little strangely: "Did Naito-sama have not received the order to go up to the guard before, and lead the troops to gather at the Stable Bridge?"
"Hehe." Naoko Naoto smiled awkwardly, "The Stable Bridge City was besieged last night, and I went to the Stable Bridge with my body size, and it's not even enough to fill people's stomachs."
"Hua~" Hearing the news of the siege of Stable Bridge Castle, there was no uproar in the evaluation room for an instant, especially for Musashi Party like Mr. cut off.
"Everyone, be safe and don't be impatient." Naoko Naoto suppressed the noise in the hall slightly, and said to them, "Now the Stable Bridge Castle has been surrounded by no less than 5000 people from Toyotomi's family, and the troops of the Stable Bridge Castle will hold on until they can climb back. Shouldn't be a problem.
But since Stable Bridge City is besieged, No Deng Shou will inevitably choose Minowa Castle as an alternative assembly point. We only need to wait here for a while, and maybe we can wait for No Deng Shou's reinforcements. "
His words did have some effect and were generally approved by the hall.
But for a samurai family like Xiaoban Xinding, whose family's home city is not far from Dubingdong, they just follow the trend and express their approval.
After all, a daimyo like him can only get more than ten thousand stones, and he is a small force in Ueno country.
If he was in Guofeng City at this moment, he might directly surrender to the Toyotomi Clan without hesitation.
But he is now in Minowa Castle, the core of the current Hojo family ruling Ueno, and what he is doing here is a diehard Hojo clan, so he naturally dare not say that he wants to return to the territory first.
But he still didn't give up and took the initiative to ask Naoko Naito, "Master Dansho, is the Toyotomi family blocking Usui to the front line of the Stable Bridge now?"
Hearing Kobata Nobudaka's initiative to ask about this matter, Naomo Naito took a deep breath and scratched Tsukiyoto Mizuki, who scratched his forehead, and said distressedly, "To be honest, I have been fighting for so long, and I am really confused about this battle.
In the past two days, I sent several groups of spies to investigate the situation in Nishi Ueno, and found that the Toyotomi army divided and surrounded several cities in Nishi Ueno, and Anzhong Castle in Ubing County is still in the hands of the family.
It's just that there are more than 3000 people surrounded there, and my spies can't get close to the city. I really don't know the specific situation there.
However, some people came back and said that there was no trace of Toyotomi's army in Takasaki Castle on the other side of Guanyin Mountain. Perhaps Toyotomi's family was attacking the Anzhong and Stable Bridge lines. "
Hearing that Anzhong City was besieged, Xiaofan Xinding became emotional instantly, because Anzhong City was on the way he had to go back to Guofeng City, and it was surrounded by 3000 people there, and he had less than 1000 people, how could he return What about Guofeng City?
After thinking about it, Xiao Banxin must have sighed and thought, "Forget it, just wait in Minowa like this, maybe the Hojo family can still win this time?"
After hearing the information from Naoto Naito, Narita took the initiative to go to his lord Narita's side and whispered, "What Masa-sama means is that the main force of the Toyotomi family is now besieging Stable Bridge Castle and Anzhong Castle.
Perhaps because of the lack of troops, there seems to be a fault in the middle. Should we take advantage of this gap to pass through it? "
Hearing Narita's suggestion, Mrs. Narita took the initiative to ask him, "What do you think the chances of winning are?"
Narita Changki pondered for a moment and replied "5%"
Upon hearing Narita's reply, Mrs. Narita was a little disappointed and said, "Is it only 5%?"
The one who reacted differently from them was Yura Sadashige of Jugan Ikjo, because his home city is in Ueno in the east, and he can go back across the stable bridge from North Ueno.
To say that there is hatred, when his father Yoshikuni Shigeru was in charge, he jumped back and forth between the Takeda family, the Oda family, and the Hojo family.
Later, in September of the 11th year of Tensho (1583), the Hojo Clan captured the Stable Bridge Castle where the rebellious Hojo Takahiro lived.
At that time, Shizhao proposed to borrow Jinshan Castle and Tatebayashi Castle in order to attack the Satake clan. The brothers agreed to this.
Later, Shigeru Yuliang reported the matter to Hojo Ujinao, but Hojo Ujisho directly defined Hojo Ujisho's ownership of Jinshan Castle and Tatebayashi Castle.
Although it is said that the knowledge and practice of the two brothers has been confirmed to be preserved, Kunisuke moved his base to Karabiyama Castle (Kiryu Castle), and Kencho moved his base to Ashikaga Castle. Yuliang’s territory was actually reduced and divided.
In the first month of the 14th year of Tensho (1586), Nagao Kencho (Yurashi himself was born in a branch of the Nagao clan) attacked Sano Muzuna and asked the Hojo clan to bestow the Sano collar, but the Hojo clan asked Hojo clan as an adopted son. Entered Sano collar.
The two favoritism of the Hojo clan finally aroused the anger of the Yura clan. In the 15th year of Tensho (1587), the Kunime brothers finally raised the banner of rebellion against the Hojo clan through Satake Yoshishige.
In the 16th year of Tensho (1588), the two brothers surrendered, Ashikaga Castle was taken back, and Yura Sadashige's son, Yura Sadashige, inherited the territory of Shugan Ikujo. The brothers were forced to live in seclusion and moved to Odawara.
In other words, Yuliang's family didn't have the slightest gratitude to the Hojo clan, and even this dispatch of troops was just coerced.
Even Inomata Kuniken knew that the Yura family was not trustworthy, and the Sanada family did not bring it with them this time, but was asked to guard Minowa Castle.
The conversation of the Narita family was heard by Yura Sadashige, who took the initiative to reach out and said, "Do you two adults want to leave the city?"
Realizing that someone overheard the conversation on their side, Narita's head and Narita's head straightened their sitting postures, and resolutely denied it, "There is absolutely no such thing, and we are willing to wait in Minawa for the return of Neng Shishou."
Yura Sadashige was born in the 2nd year of Tensho (1574), one year younger than the Hide family. In addition, when he was young, his father and uncle were taken to the Hojo family, and he had no standard samurai education at all.
Therefore, after hearing the denials from the two, not only did they not express their understanding, but instead asked, "But I just heard that you guys said that you want to break out of the weak and low-end of Toyotomi's family."
Yu Liangzhen's low EQ speech immediately attracted the attention of the people around him. Xiao Banxin seemed to have found a life-saving straw. He looked at Mr. Narita and asked, "Do you want to break out of the siege?"
Mr. Narita was stunned by the question. The key point was that Yura Sadashige was still his nephew, so he really didn't know how to veto him.
The first wife of Mr. Narita was the daughter of Shigeru Yura, who was brother and sister with Shigeru Yura.
In essence, the Yuliang family, like the Narita family, are untrusted outsiders. After the Yuliang family was imprisoned twice by the Hojo clan, the cavalry has sympathy among many wealthy Kanto clans, including within the Hojo clan.
After Shigeru Yura and Kencho Nagao were captured and taken to Odawara, relatives like Mr. Narita helped Mr. Yura a lot, but this time he was sold directly by his cousin and nephew, which made Mr. Narita very embarrassed. .
Naoko Naito, who was Minowa Castle's representative, heard Yura Sadashige's words, and asked Narita's head, "Does Shimoshou want to let Minowa Castle go?"
Because of the betrayal of his nephew, Mr. Narita seemed to be roasted on the fire. At this moment, he neither admitted nor denied it.
He could only answer ambiguously, "I'm just discussing the possibility of fighting with Dazang, and I don't have the idea of abandoning the city. In the end, it is up to Noto Mori to decide how to fight."
In fact, most of the samurai in Minowa Castle are local daimyos from Ueno, and they don’t have a very strong sense of resistance to Toyotomi’s invasion of Ueno. As long as Toyotomi is willing to give a way to survive and ensure the safety of their skills, they will switch to Toyotomi in an instant Shi.
So when Yura Sadashige said that Chief Narita wanted to leave Minowa Castle first, he sincerely hoped that Chief Narita would admit it.
As long as Narita takes the lead, many samurai in the city will hurry up every minute, and those who can't escape will find a way to switch to Toyotomi.
It's just that there are so many samurai at this meeting, who can guarantee what the people on the other side are thinking?Will there be an existence loyal to the Hojo clan?
Therefore, although the samurai sitting in the evaluation room had their own plans, none of them dared to make the decision to violate the constitution of Inomata.
Now finally, the possibility of Mr. Narita taking the lead has ignited the fire of hope in everyone's hearts, but it was extinguished by the person concerned, which really disappointed everyone.
Following Narita's denial, another round of silence fell in the assessment room of Minowa Castle, and the assessment room was surprisingly quiet.
Just at this time, there was a sound of "rumbling~" in the distance, and there was a burst of noise outside the assessment room.
At first, the samurai in the evaluation room thought that the weather had changed, and thunderstorms were about to appear. Marching in such weather was very dangerous, so even Chief Narita temporarily stopped thinking about raiding.
But at this moment, there was a burst of scattered footsteps outside the assessment room, and a samurai ran over, scrambling and crawling, and said nervously to the lord Naito Naomi inside, "My lord, the Stable Bridge Stable Bridge City is shattered!"
"Nani!" Hearing this news, all the warriors in the evaluation room stood up in surprise, and asked the warrior in disbelief, "How did you lose Stable Bridge City?"
They can't help but understand that Stable Bridge Castle is the same famous castle as Ueno Kingdom and Minowa Castle. Because it is a flat castle, it is very majestic, and it is also used as a defense with a very complicated water hole.
In their view, Stable Bridge City, let alone 5000 people, even 1 people would not be able to take it down without a ten-day and a half-month offensive. How could it be taken down on the third day of the siege?
Unless there is an inner city in the city, but this is impossible, because after Inomata Kunkeng went north, the Hojo clan government sent multi-eyed Motochu to guard the stable bridge to control this most important city connecting Ueno and Musashi.
The Tame family has been a co-worker of the Hojo clan since the Hojo Soun period when the first generation of the Hojo clan was the leader. It is one of the most important retainers of the early retainer group of the Hojo clan.
Tamu Motochu Hojo Clan Oyuzu, Hojo Ujiyasu's military adviser, Ujiyasu's personal guards, and the "Black Bei" general of "Hojo Five Colors", is the Hojo Clan's diehard loyalist, even if there is Xiaoxiao in the stable bridge with him There is nothing to hide.
"My lords, go out and have a look. There was an explosion over Stable Bridge City, and it's a sea of flames right now!"
After hearing the samurai's report, the samurai in the hall walked out of the evaluation room one after another, walked to Honmaru and looked towards the southeast line of defense.
At this moment, the sky was getting dark, and torches had already been lit inside and outside the city. Due to the high altitude of Minlun City, the defense line of Stable Bridge City could be seen from a distance.
However, because the two places are 10 kilometers apart, it is usually not very clear, but now it is night, and the torches on the defense line of Stable Bridge City are as bright as day.
Narita took hold of an ashigaru on the side and asked, "Quickly tell me, what happened in Stable Bridge City?"
The ashigaru was taken aback, and replied awkwardly, "I don't know, I only heard a loud noise from this side, and the flames were spread, and a raging fire was ignited over there. I don't know what happened there." what."
Hearing the answer from the ashigaru, Narita asked the samurai who had just come to report in confusion, "The situation over there is unknown, it's just that there was an explosion. Why do you say that Stable Bridge City has fallen?"
The samurai pointed to the defense line of Stable Bridge City and said, "Can you still see the three-story tower of Stable Bridge City at this moment?"
Wada Shinye said, "Maybe the night is too dark to see the castle?"
The samurai shook his head and denied, "No, the castle has been integrated with the entire Stable Bridge City."
Xiao Ban asked doubtfully: "What do you mean?"
A samurai beside him replied, "The fire has spread to the castle tower, and the entire Stable Bridge City has been turned into a sea of flames!"
"Nani?" Naoki Naito expressed surprise at the burning of the Stable Bridge Castle, and immediately called his retainer Okamoto Nobu and said, "Hyogo, take someone to the Stable Bridge Castle yourself, and report the situation over there truthfully. .”
Nobuyuu Okamoto, who received the order for "Hai", ordered 3 warriors immediately, rode out of the city on horses and headed towards Stable Bridge City.
After Nobuki Okamoto left, the Ueno nobles returned to the evaluation room and anxiously waited for the news brought back by Naoto Naomi's retainers.
Especially Narita's chief and Narita's relatives, they knew very well that if Stable Bridge City really fell, then they would really fall in Ueno.
It was already late, and the warriors in the city were ready to go to rest, but the news that Stable Bridge City might fall made them unable to sleep anymore.
(End of this chapter)