Time passed by minute by minute, but Takenaka Shigeji still did not move, which made Saito Ryuki slightly uneasy. However, he understood that the most important thing at this moment was to calm down, so he remained calmly in the prison. Just when he was a little sleepy because he stayed up late, he suddenly found that there was a faint light of fire in the city.
"What's the situation!" Saito Ryuki suddenly felt sleepy and stood up from his seat. Through the window, he looked at the city area. He saw that in the Inabayama Castle, there were igniting fires around Ninomaru. Soon after, it immediately spread into a large fire, and the smoke was vaguely visible in the moonlight. The spreading fire caused panic among many residents and samurai families in the castle town, and the city became chaotic.
"Has Takenaka Shigeji started to act?" Saito Ryuki looked at the fire in the city with a serious expression, and asked the guards beside him, "Where are those places where the fires are?"
"When I go back to the lord, it seems that they are all Takenaka and Ando's Takenyashiki." The guard replied honestly.
"Ah?" Saito Ryuki was stunned for a moment, and turned his eyes out the window again: "Do you burn your own house?"
"Lord, do you want to send someone to arrest all the firemen?" The guard beside him was eager to try and asked Saito Ryuki.
"Don't act rashly," Saito Ryuki shook his head decisively refused. "In addition to the guards of the three gates, there are less than 100 people in our city, and the troops are not sufficient. You must not pay attention to Takenaka Shigeji's plan to lure the enemy. He must want to attract us to the fire and take the opportunity to ambush or sneak attack key positions."
Meanwhile, the place where the fire lies.
Takenaka Shigeji lit a fire in the four houses of Ninomaru. Two people were responsible for adding firewood to fan the fire to boost the fire. The remaining two people shouted inflammatory shouts such as "firefighting" and "escape" that caused chaos around them. There were sixteen people in the four fire points. Takenaka Shigeji himself stood in the attic of Takenaka Kusayashi, watching the situation in Inabayama Castle.
"Sir!" After a servant finished setting the fire, he immediately rushed back to Yashiki to report the situation: "Everything is done."
"Has the Saito family sent someone?" Takenaka Shigeji asked softly without leaving the window.
"No, sir, the Saito family has not been brought in." The attendant replied in a low voice: "The retreat routes prepared by the brothers before seem to be useless."
Takenaka Shigeji looked solemn and turned his eyes to the prison not far away.
Didn't anyone get induced?
"Let's go, gather all of us," Takenaka Shigeji said coldly. After that, he shook his sleeves and walked downstairs.
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"Does Takenaka Shigeji take further action?" Saito Ryuki asked anxiously, looking at the messenger who had just rushed back from Ximen.
"No, lord!" The messenger reported truthfully, "No enemy troops were found near Ximen."
Just as Saito Ryuki breathed a sigh of relief, another messenger from Ximen and the messenger who had just returned broke into the second floor. Saito Ryuki recognized that this person seemed to be the captain of Komaki Genta's chakra.
"What's going on?" Saito Ryuki suddenly became nervous. Komaki Genta, who was stationed in the West Gate, actually sent all the captains of the Qizhu, and must have encountered an extremely serious situation.
"Report to the hall!" The captain of the flag head said anxiously after saluting: "There is an abnormal movement outside the west gate!"
"Just like Ando!" Saito Ryuki's eyes widened and he immediately became excited, "Are they going to do something? But they want to attack the city gate!"
"No, it's not the main hall," the interrupted captain of the Qimoto shook his head repeatedly. "The Ando family did not prepare siege equipment such as ladders and rushing cars, so it was impossible for them to cross the city gate. The Ando family members just ran to the front of the door and asked to enter the city to help put out the fire."
"What?" Saito Ryuki was shocked and looked at the captain of the qinzhu in disbelief. "You said Ando Mori asked to come in and help put out the fire?"
"Yes, the main hall," the captain of the Qi Ben replied with a smile: "Anto's messenger said that he saw a fire in the city and was delayed. He was worried that the troops in the city could not handle it, so he hoped that we would open the city gate and let them in to help put out the fire."
Saito Ryuki was both angry and funny, and spat disdainfully, "Does he think I am a fool? Will I open the city gate and let him in? Is this Takenaka Shigeji's plan? So mentally retarded?"
"Not only that, His Highness Ando's envoy also brought several Northeast American envoys," Captain Tamamoto continued to report: "When they saw the fire in the city and it was too late to be extinguished, they were also very worried and asked to come in and help put out the fire."
"Those wealthy families knew nothing about our plans. They must have been deceived by Ando Mori and followed them to make a fuss," Saito Ryuki waved his hand disdainfully, "Ignore them!"
"Then lord, does the city need to be dealt with?" A servant asked Saito Ryuki, "If the fire spreads, the people in the city will sooner or later become more chaotic, giving Takenaka a chance to catch fish in troubled waters."
"Don't worry about fishing in troubled waters, and don't think about putting out the fire." Saito Ryuki shook his head firmly, "After all, the seventeen men of Takenaka Shigeji can't do anything. No matter what method and strategy are used, his purpose is to open the Ximen and let his army come in, so that he can have the opportunity to seize Inabayama Castle! We respond to all changes with the unchanging, just leave people to defend the Ximen, the prison and the Tianshou Pavilion. Even if the city is in chaos, as long as we are not in chaos to disperse our troops, the seventeen men of Takenaka Shigeji will have no choice but to do anything to us!"
"Let me see what tricks he has," Saito Ryuki sneered, "It's useless to say a thousand words and ten thousand, so it's useless to use any trick. Sooner or later, you're going to Simon! Just find a way to put Ando Mori in!"
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At this time, at the gate of the north gate of Sannomaramuni in Inabayama Castle.
"Emergency Military Information!" A few samurai holding Saito Ryuki's arrow and a seal quickly ran to the gate of the north gate, shouting that he needed to leave the city. More than a dozen guards at the entrance of the north gate immediately took the torches towards the warriors - they were all wearing plainclothes and were not equipped with armor and weapons.
"What's the matter!" asked the guard cautiously. As one of Saito Ryuki's confidants, he knew that a fierce battle would take place in the city tonight, so he was very careful about every move. These plainclothes warriors did not ride horses. They didn't look like messengers at all. "I need to ask His Highness Saito before I can let you out of the city."
"Sir, please forgive me for not giving me any advice." The plainclothes warrior replied without being humble and arrogant, "Sir, please check the command arrow seal quickly and leave the city! Emergency military information, please do not delay!"
The arrogant attitude of these warriors made the guards a little different, but the suspicion in their hearts was much smaller. Such a powerful way of speaking was likely to be the confidant sent by Saito Ryuki, who was self-reliant and did not take these guards seriously. Several guards hurriedly checked the command arrows and seals of these warriors, and after confirming that they were correct, they let them go out of the city.
Anyway, this is the North Gate, not the West Gate. Outside the North Gate, there are all the directly-in-chief troops of the Saito family, and the West Gate is the best for Ando Shuo. If someone takes an arrow and asks to open the West Gate, the guards will definitely be facing a great enemy, for fear that Ando Shuo will take the opportunity to rob the city gate. Only after asking for instructions from Saito Ryuki, would he dare to open the door. But at the North Gate, the guards don’t need to worry much. Outside the door is their own troops!
Not long after, inside the barracks outside the North Gate.
These Saito family gazemen had already fallen asleep, but soon after, they were woken up by their companions. It turned out that the several gazemen on duty discovered the flames and smoke from Inabayama Castle, and hurriedly woke up their companions in the barracks. They lit the bonfires and torches in the barracks to light them, trying to soothe themselves in the dark.
The inexplicable ambush and orders for withdrawal in the past few days have made these stingers panic, worried about what major events might happen in Inabayama Castle - is the Ando family really going to fight with the Saito family? And this evening, all the senior generals and confidants who could control the scene and make a decision were transferred again, which made these low-level stingers lose their heads and panic, worried that something big would happen tonight. At this moment, after seeing a fire in Inabayama Castle, these stingers were completely in chaos. Something must have happened in Inabayama Castle. Their adults and heads of the family were transferred into the city must be for this! What should they do? What should they do? Should they go to the city to support? Or defend on the spot? Who will command it?
Just when these squads were at a loss, a few plainclothes warriors rushed to the camp. After they showed their orders and seals to the squads, they issued the same orders one by one.
"The Ando family in the west of the city and the small wealthy families in Northeast China have had an unusual movement and try to capture Inabayama Castle! You immediately arrive in the west of the city and suppress the wealthy families gathered outside the west gate!" The samurai who was passing the order shouted loudly.
These low-level slut and sluts were so buzzing when they heard such orders. Although they had a premonition that the Ando family would attack the enemy, they never expected that they had developed to the point of capturing the city.
"Why are you standing there? Go to Xicheng to kill the enemy!" The warrior who was sent to the order scolded loudly when he saw that everyone was not taking action.
"But this adult!" A slight head gritted his teeth and stood up and said, "Our adults are all in the city. Who will command us to reinforce? Do you have to wait until they come out before taking action!"
"Are you a fool?" The warrior cursed bluntly: "There has been a fight in the city, and the Ando family's fine tricks have been infiltrated! Now your lord is fighting hard in the city and can no longer get rid of it! Otherwise, do you think the lord will send me to pass the orders to you!"
"What...what!" Everyone was shocked again, "There has been a fight in the city!"
"Stop talking nonsense, time is tight!" The warrior seemed to no longer want to talk nonsense, and he drew his sword in his hand coldly. "Everyone leads his subordinates to Xicheng to kill the enemy. Whoever dares to disobey the military order will be killed without mercy!"
These qintou and qin have never seen such chaotic scenes. They who have been at the bottom of the army subconsciously obey the orders of the command holders. Although everyone thinks that the current situation is a little strange, no one dares to stand up and resist the orders, so they have to rush to command their subordinates to gather, leave the camp with torches, and go around the west of the city. If this person asks them to immediately enter the city to support or evacuate the city, they are likely to be careful and suspect that it is a trick to lure the tiger out of the mountain. But now it is the Ando family, which has a major suspicion, that this order will definitely not be wrong!
Outside the barracks, the warriors who had sent orders had passed through the city gate again and returned to the city before the guards realized what had happened.
"Sir, what mistakes did you make just now?" The attendant in charge of playing the samurai asked Takenaka Shigeji - the latter had been following the attendant.
Chapter completed!