If that were truly the case, how could Emperor Yamato have been suppressed for so many years?

He wants to subdue them!

If you want Yamato to truly and willingly become a vassal state of Chu, how can you expect it to be subdued without being beaten into submission?

However, a full-scale war would take too long and could easily harm innocent civilians, wasting resources and manpower, and is not the best approach.

This time, however, Deyi Kangren gave him the best opportunity.

Deyi Kangren transferred the daimyo to Chigen, saving Xiao Yanchu a lot of trouble.

There's a saying in the ancient Chu state: "Kill the chicken to scare the monkey."

Uesugi Katsukage and Takeda Shigenobu are the two fattest chickens that Xiao Yanchu wants to kill!

Once we capture these two most powerful daimyo in Yamato, the rest will be easy.

At this moment, Uesugi Katsukage only wanted to kill Xiao Yanchu, but he dared not move.

First, he wasn't confident he could kill Xiao Yanchu with a single move.

Secondly, he wasn't stupid; he knew that Xiao Yanchu dared to do this only because he had the Emperor's permission, otherwise how could these people of Great Chu stay peacefully in the Changyu Palace?

The emperor could not allow him to kill these people of Chu.

Boom~~~

Explosions rang out one after another, and Uesugi Katsukage didn't have time to think too much before rushing out.

Shigenobu Takeda followed closely behind.

Upon arriving at the Imperial Palace, Uesugi Katsukage and Takeda Shigenobu were completely dumbfounded by the scene before them.

They witnessed firsthand the scene Okajiro had described earlier: a black ball landing and exploding into a group of people.

The people of Great Chu don't need to get close; they can just throw this thing from a distance.

With a single throw, a large number of their soldiers were blown away. Some who managed to charge forward without being hit were also directly killed by the Chu people.

Under the sunlight, the weapons used by the Great Chu people gleamed with a cold light. Uesugi Katsukage and Takeda Shigenobu, both samurai, knew from the gleam of these weapons that the Great Chu people's weapons were of far superior quality to those of the Yamato.

With inferior weaponry and lacking that black ball, Uesugi Katsukage finally understood what Miyamoto Yoshiaki meant by the instantaneous destruction of two hundred Yamato warships.

Previously, he had suspected that because Tokugi Yasuhito had died, the emperor wanted to take the opportunity to join forces with the Great Chu people to regain control of Yamato, and that this was why he deliberately had Miyamoto Yoshitaka exaggerate the situation, and he did not completely believe it.

He no longer has any doubts.

"Lord Uesugi, Lord Takeda, shall we continue the fight?"

Xiao Yanchu, who came out behind them, asked.

“Your Highness, we have no enmity with you, why are you so ruthless?” Uesugi Katsukage said angrily.

"No grudges or hatred?" Xiao Yanchu smiled, but his smile carried a chill.

“Uesugi Katsukage, Takeda Shigenobu, you brought seven thousand soldiers into Akagawa Castle, and here…” Xiao Yanchu glanced at the Yamato soldiers in front of him, “at most two thousand. Where are the others?”

Uesugi Katsukage was taken aback; Xiao Yanchu actually knew how many soldiers they had brought to Chigen.

“Your Highness, I will take care of my own people; you don’t need to worry about it.”

"I won't worry about your soldiers, but Uesugi Katsukage, do you think these men you brought out will make it back alive?"

"What do you mean by that?" Uesugi Katsukage looked at Xiao Yanchu, whose eyes were icy cold, and a bad feeling welled up in his heart.

Just then, a carrier pigeon flew onto Hu Qing's shoulder.

Hu Qing took the note off the carrier pigeon's leg and handed it to Xiao Yanchu.

After glancing at it, Xiao Yanchu smiled and said, "Uesugi Katsukage, you've lost."

Do you know where you went wrong? You lost because you were too ambitious, and also because you came too fast!

Before Uesugi Katsukage could figure out what Xiao Yanchu meant, their men came up to them and handed them a note.

The two opened the note and their faces instantly turned ashen.

how so! !