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None of Iga-ryu's 117 ninjas survived the shadow killer's sneak attack, and the only one who survived was Hattori Hanzo, which was the result of Ivan's deliberate attempt to spare his life.

Ivan is the leader of the Shadow Killer, not only is his strength far superior to that of ordinary Shadow Killers, but even his resourcefulness is a cut above that of ordinary Shadow Killers;

Although this ninja force had been wiped out by Ivan himself, the purpose of their rush to the battlefield Ivan did not know it, so he left the leader of this ninja force unkilled, and prepared to personally bring the other party back to the Langoka Imperial Palace for interrogation.

In less than half an hour, the ninja troops who had high hopes for Hattori Yasuki completely disappeared from this world, and his eldest son, Hattori Hanzo, who was most important, also became a prisoner of the Yanhuang family.

After returning to the Nangaoka Imperial Palace, Ivan's interrogation of Hattori Hanzo did not go well, and Hattori Hanzo, who had been trained in various ninja skills, did not reveal any valuable information at all, and he did not even tell Ivan his name.

Ivan didn't care about Hattori Hanzo's tight-lipped words, he only ordered Hattori Hanzo to be imprisoned in a cell at the Nangangoka Imperial Palace, and forbade Hattori Hanzo to be given food and water, in addition to being guarded by several shadow killers.

If Hattori Hanzo was willing to confess, then Ivan would give him a chance to live, otherwise, starving to death of an inconsequential ninja would not be a big deal in Ivan's eyes, and he would soon leave Hattori Hanzo behind in his cell.

The series of events that took place in the Nangang Imperial Palace were soon known to Hattori Yasujo, who was sitting in Ishikawa Castle and led an army to besiege Nobe Castle, and the active situation in which the Tsugaru family was located instantly became extremely passive.

In Ishikawa Castle, where Tsugaru was based, there were only 4,000 regular standing troops of the Tsugaru family, and Fukushima Castle, where Kanehira Tsunari, one of the three elders of Oura, was the lord, had only 2,000 Tsugaru families.

Without counting the armies of Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobuyoshi, the number of troops that Tsugaru could use for Nobu was only 6,000, and even with the addition of temporarily mobilizable peasant soldiers, the Tsugaru family could mobilize no more than 15,000 troops.

By this time, the army under the command of Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobukiri had lost a staggering 6,000 troops after six or seven days of fighting, and even if most of the actual casualties were those peasants who served as cannon fodder, it would be enough to break the morale of their army.

Of the 4,000 standing troops and 6,000 peasant soldiers under Hattori Yasaki, only 3,000 standing troops and 3,000 peasant soldiers remained, including more than 1,000 light and seriously wounded, and the condition of the army under Ogasawara Nobuki's command was similar to that of Hattori Yasushi, and both of them attacked similarly.

Originally, they pinned their hopes of victory on the ninja that Hattori Hanzo was about to bring, but they unexpectedly received the news of the rebellion of the Nangang Imperial Palace, and this incredible turn of events made Hattori Yasushi and Ogasawara Nobukishi also realize the seriousness of the problem.

These important ministers of the Tsugaru family naturally knew the situation of Nangang Xianfan in Ishikawa Castle, which also means that Nanzuoka Xianfan was able to escape from Ishikawa Castle because of the intervention of external forces, and the rebellion of the Nanoka Imperial Palace could not have been completed by Nanoka Xianfan independently.

If Nanoka Xianfu really had the ability to escape from Ishikawa Castle and return to the Nangaoka Imperial Palace to launch a rebellion to seize the city, then he would not have been forced to surrender to the Tsugaru clan in the first place, so there must be the support of other forces behind Nanoka Xianfu!

At this time, there were forces in the territory of Mutsu that had the strength to support Nanoka Xianfan, and in fact, it was the Yanhuang family, and Hattori Yasujo, who was sitting in the main city of the Tsugaru family, and led the army to fight on the front line, knew that it must be the Yanhuang family who was behind the scenes.

However, what can they do if they know that the Yanhuang family is playing tricks behind their backs? The Tsugaru family and the Yanhuang family are now in a state of war to the death, and it is also the Tsugaru family who has taken the initiative to attack, and this is a war in which there is no right or wrong, only victory and defeat.

Compared with his son, who had not yet arrived at the front line, Hattori Yasujo was more concerned about the rebellion of the Langoka Imperial Palace, because the geographical location of the Nangaoka Imperial Palace was too important, and the loss of the Nangaoka Imperial Palace meant that Hattori Yasushi and Ogasawara Nobukino had no way out.

If the Tsugaru family could not send troops to assess the rebellion of the Nangaoka Imperial Palace as soon as possible, the armies of Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobukishi would be in a dilemma.

Izumiyama Gukang in the wild border city did not know that the Tsugaru family's Langgang Imperial Palace had been controlled by the Yanhuang family, otherwise he would definitely immediately lead his army out of the city and take the initiative to attack the Tsugaru family's besieging army, and at that time, the Tsugaru family's army would be finished.

In order to preserve their strength, Hattori Yasushi and Ogasawara Nobukishi had to abandon their daily routine attacks and instead gather their armies at the west gate of the wild edge dungeon to deal with any possible surprises.

While Hattori Yasujo and Ogasawara Nobukio were worried, Tsugaru, who was far away in Ishikawa Castle, was also a headache, and as the head of the Tsugaru family, how could he, not understand the series of serious problems caused by the rebellion of the Nangang Imperial Palace.

In order to quell the rebellion of the Nangang Imperial Palace as soon as possible, he had to transfer Kanehei Tsunori, who was guarding Fukushima Castle, and his 2,000 standing troops from Fukushima Castle to Ishikawa Castle, and not only that, but he also mobilized 10,000 new peasant soldiers to strengthen the Tsugaru family's army.

After several days of intense arrangement, the gray-haired Tsugaru reorganized an army of 5,000 standing troops and 10,000 peasant soldiers, and then Tsugaru was handed over to Kanehei Tsusunori to lead his army to the Langoka Imperial Palace to quell the rebellion.

With the dispatch of Kenpei Tsunori and the newly formed army, the Tsugaru family's Fukushima Castle was an empty city, and the Ishikawa Castle garrison was only a measly 1,000 men, and the Tsugaru family's strength had been reduced to an all-time low.

Tsugaru, who thought he still had a glimmer of hope, didn't know that the main army of the Yanhuang family led by Bai Feng was only half a day's journey away from the wild border dungeon at this time, and the counterinsurgency army of the Tsugaru family had just set off from Ishikawa Castle.

In this race against time, the Yanhuang family won cleanly, and Tsugaru, who thought he was in control of the situation, thought that everything was a coincidence, but he didn't know that too many coincidences were no longer coincidences, and they were all deliberately arranged by the Yanhuang family.

It's a pity that by the time Tsugaru reacted, everything had already become a foregone conclusion; the Yanhuang family had firmly controlled the initiative, and the Tsugaru family, which was at an absolute disadvantage, had little ability left to fight back.