"Wait, you people from Kouga, come back to Iga with us first!"
An unknown voice came out in the chaos.
Immediately, a voice said indignantly:
"Why should we listen to you? Can't we go back to our respective villages?"
The voice that first proposed to unite came out again:
"Your Kouga village is built in a deep valley, easy to defend but hard to attack, and the journey is long."
"The Daimyo's army will probably take another half an hour to reach your village, but our Iga is very close. I'm afraid they have already arrived at our village."
"Moreover, we killed each other so hard before, and there are not many people left now."
"If we disperse back to our respective villages to defend, we will only be defeated by the Daimyo's army. It's better to unite!"
After Rasa, playing Saemon, killed the imperial ninja in front of him, he also said:
"The person from Iga is right. Uniting is the only best way out now!"
As soon as Rasa said this, the hesitant Kouga ninjas around immediately nodded as if they had found a backbone:
"Since Lord Saemon said so, we will obey!"
Soon, after the Kouga and Iga clans repelled the imperial ninjas in front of them, they walked toward Iga one after another.
Ten minutes later.
Iga Village had turned into a sea of fire at this time.
Hotarubi used spirit butterflies to control the twenty-odd samurai in front of her, making them kill their companions behind them.
Ake emitted a thick blood mist covering more than ten square meters around her.
Samurai swept into the blood mist had their throats cut by Ake's sharp weapon in an environment where they couldn't see their fingers.
Ake was like a nimble butterfly, silently harvesting the lives of enemies in the blood mist.
The leading samurai looked at the army blocked by three women, dozens of ninjas, and hundreds of young and strong men.
He said anxiously:
"What's going on?"
"Obviously, before setting off, it was said that all their Ten were sent out to fight, and only ordinary ninjas remained in the village. Why are there still Ten here?"
The samurai next to him said:
"My Lord, our team has a full six hundred samurai. We can exhaust them to death."
"Why don't we send a few more teams to enter from other directions of the village and slaughter their civilians who have no combat power?"
The leading samurai was silent for a while, and finally nodded.
"Before setting off, the Daimyo explicitly said not to leave even chickens and dogs alive. Fine, go."
Soon, hundreds of samurai split into several teams and climbed over the walls from other directions to enter.
Before long, screams came from deep in the village.
Hearing the screams from the rear of the village, Ake felt anxious.
Before Ake could make the next move, she felt the number of samurai in front decrease rapidly!
It turned out that two groups of ninjas united together and killed toward the rear of the samurai!
The originally safe rear was attacked, and the samurai were immediately thrown into confusion.
After the originally neat formation was messed up, the ninjas easily cut a bloody path!
The dozens of ninjas and hundreds of young and strong men left behind in Iga Village saw that among the group of ninjas...
Besides their own clansmen, there were also people from Kouga.
The excitement on their faces was immediately covered by deep complex feelings of shame.
They never expected...
People from Kouga were willing to come back with their clansmen to save them.
Obviously, the blood feud between the two clans had lasted for hundreds of years.
But they were willing to abandon this hatred and help with all their might?
Thinking of this, all the men present felt an inexplicable emotion surging in their hearts.
The army was soon killed and fled in collapse.
When the women and children hiding in the tunnels...
Saw that the people coming to save them were not only their clansmen but also people from Kouga...
Their expressions were also extremely complex, and some fragile ones even cried on the spot.
They never dreamed that people from Kouga would come to help them.
The Kouga ninjas who came in to save people also looked at the crying women and children with complex expressions.
It turned out that Iga people also cried and were like normal people.
This was different from what the elders taught since childhood.
Elders had taught about various blood feuds since childhood, saying Iga people were born cold-blooded and ruthless.
They looked at each other, all seeing the complexity in each other's eyes.
The hatred spreading for hundreds of years between the two clans had been resolved by more than half.
At least after today's catastrophe, they could sit down and have a good talk.
A few minutes later.
When the rushing imperial ninjas arrived at Iga Village...
They found that facing them was actually the united two clans waiting in full battle array, united as one!
The imperial ninjas were soon beaten back.
In this process, they found that they couldn't see the figure of the strongest ninja, Kasuga!
The dozens of fleeing imperial ninjas complained and even resented Kasuga while fleeing.
If the strongest ninja Kasuga were there, they would definitely not end up like this!
Soon, these dozens of imperial ninjas saw Kasuga in a forest.
Before they could be happy, they found that the beautiful blonde woman had raised her long sword with both hands, her beautiful face full of indifference.
"Sorry, for Master's plan to proceed smoothly, you must die here. Don't worry, your pension will definitely be paid three times."
A few minutes later, looking at the corpses of dozens of imperial ninjas lying on the ground.
Kasuga just glanced a few times and stopped paying attention.
She took out a kunai beside her and stabbed it forcefully into her left shoulder!
Then Kasuga quickly bandaged her shoulder and smeared a lot of dust on her body.
Looking like she was fleeing in embarrassment from being chased.
After doing all this, Kasuga walked toward Kouga.
After some time.
Looking at the Kouga village in front of him that couldn't be conquered for a long time.
The Third Hattori Hanzo, wearing armor and looking more like a samurai than a ninja, shook his head gently.
"Why bother? The longer the resistance, the deeper the resentment in the hearts of my soldiers."
"After breaking the village, what awaits you will be more painful torture."
Hattori Hanzo lay boringly on the chair brought specially.
He picked up the exquisite porcelain cup with his left hand and drank tea elegantly, while silently watching the constant fighting scene in front of him.
"Suppressing the opponent with military force, breaking the village is only a matter of time. It's really not challenging."
After saying this like a lonely master seeking defeat...
Hattori Hanzo suddenly saw a familiar woman jumping over constantly in the distance.
"My Lord, Iga and Kouga have united. They set an ambush, and the imperial ninjas were wiped out!"
Crack!
Hearing this, the expensive porcelain cup held in Hattori Hanzo's hand was immediately crushed by him.
"A bunch of idiots!"
"Falling into an ambush even with this, and being wiped out?"
"Why are they all dead, but you could escape?!"
Kasuga ran quickly to Hattori Hanzo, clutching her shoulder, panting, avoiding the question:
"My Lord, they are coming soon. Please make a decision quickly!"
Hattori Hanzo closed his eyes. When he opened them again, his eyes were full of determination.
"All reserve teams, get up there! Attack from all around. I want to see how many ninjas they have to hold on!"
With this order...
The reserve teams that were ready at any time all surged up crazily.
The crazy offensive became more fierce, like adding fuel to the fire.
Even though Kouga had more than a hundred ninjas and thousands of young and strong men staying in the village...
They couldn't withstand the trained attacks of these more than a thousand samurai!
The battle line soon began to collapse.
A few minutes later.
At the rear of the Kouga valley, dozens of samurai had broken through the defense line, rushed in, and burned and killed everywhere.
With the chaos in the rear, the young and strong men at the front began to be unable to bear the psychological pressure.
Young and strong men were constantly cut down by samurai.
Kouga's frontal defense line also began to collapse gradually.
Looking at the gradually collapsing battle line ahead, Hattori Hanzo stroked his long beard proudly.
Suddenly, shouts of killing came from behind.
Hattori Hanzo looked up, only to find a group of travel-worn ninjas killing their way over.
Seeing this, Hattori Hanzo just wanted to open his mouth to order all the samurai in front to return to defense, but his whole body stiffened.
He looked in horror as his mouth said words that were not what he wanted to say at all.
"Ignore the ninjas behind; you just attack into the Kouga village!"
After saying this strange sentence, Hattori Hanzo's body immediately regained freedom.
He looked at his body in horror, touching everywhere. After finding nothing abnormal, he began to look around vigilantly.
When seeing that group of ninjas had killed their way to two hundred meters behind him...
Hattori Hanzo just wanted to correct his previous slip of the tongue, but felt a chill on his neck, followed by severe pain.
Flying in mid-air, Hattori Hanzo blinked.
Looking at his lower body that fell to the ground with a bang and was bleeding constantly, his final gaze was full of doubt.
After beheading Hattori Hanzo, Kasuga looked at the dozen samurai around who hadn't reacted yet.
She shook her head slightly, her figure moving again, beginning to harvest the lives of the surrounding samurai.
The samurai who were struggling to rush into the Kouga village ahead suddenly found that their rear base camp had collapsed completely.
Especially as the head of their commander, Hattori Hanzo, was held high...
The samurai's morale collapsed completely!
Half an hour later.
When the ninjas of Kouga and Iga counted the casualties...
They were surprised to find that all the male members of the Ten of both clans had died in battle.
Lord Saemon, who first agreed to the union of the two clans...
Was found dead under the siege of five samurai, with five samurai swords stuck in his body.
Lord Yashamaru's body was found in a dense forest.
Around him lay the bodies of dozens of imperial ninjas. Obviously, he died together with dozens of imperial ninjas with his own strength.
The so-called bodies of Saemon and Yashamaru...
Were naturally made by Rasa using special methods on the bodies of samurai with similar builds he found randomly.
Now the only ones who could speak for the two clans were the female members of the Ten.
As for civilian casualties, there were even more.
More than six hundred Iga civilians died on the spot, and there were only forty-odd ninjas surviving.
Kouga was even worse.
Because of its relatively strong strength, Hattori Hanzo personally led the most military forces to besiege it.
Therefore, the death toll of civilians reached a thousand.
Although more than sixty ninjas survived because of the large base number, they were all injured.
Now the average strength of the two clans was extremely close.
An hour later, in an intact house in the Kouga valley.
A dozen people gathered together to talk.
However, strangely, those who could sit at the table and talk were all women.
The remaining few male ninjas stood silently behind them.
As the nominal leader of Iga, Oboro spoke first:
"Although our two clans have been killing each other for a hundred years without stopping, this catastrophe has let us see the truth in adversity."
Kouga's acting leader Kagerou and Hu Yi sitting next to her looked at each other, and both nodded.
Kagerou said softly:
"Yes, many prejudices in the past made us kill each other endlessly."
"Now it's time to stop this vendetta."
...
An hour later.
After a long conversation, the two clans decided that all previous hatreds were voided.
And just in case, Iga decided to move the whole clan to the valley a few miles away from the Kouga village.
In this way, once an accident happened, they could quickly take care of each other.
Perhaps many people in the two clans still hid hatred and prejudice in their hearts now.
But as the communication between the two clans became closer day by day, they would also hide the hatred in their hearts.
When the new generation born in this environment grew up, even if the older generation brought up old scores, they would only laugh it off.
As for the Daimyo's behavior...
Kagerou and Oboro Iga both promised their respective clansmen that they would go to the Daimyo Mansion to seek justice.
Soon, the two set off.
But half an hour after departure, a handsome young man appeared beside them.
Three hours later.
Tokugawa Ieyasu issued a notice throughout the country, regretting his behavior, and decided to honor the two clans as imperial ninja clans from now on.
The ninjas of the two clans who died in battle because of his confused decision would be issued pensions according to 10 times the standard of imperial ninjas.
The area of a hundred miles where the two clans were located was designated as the private territory of the two clans, plus a pile of various compensations.
And decided to abdicate tomorrow, letting his eldest grandson Takechiyo take the position of Daimyo immediately.
At this time, in a deep mountain in Kouga.
Rasa looked at the fist-sized silver-white ore in his hand with glowing eyes.
Ake stood by and said uncertainly:
"Rasa, is this the Chakra Conductive Metal ore?"
Rasa nodded, excitement on his steady face.
"That's right. And if the inside of this mountain is all Chakra Conductive Metal... there are at least hundreds of thousands of tons!"
A charming female voice came from the side.
"That's great, Lord Rasa."
Hearing this charming female voice, Ake frowned at Kagerou standing next to her.
Looking at this great beauty who was not inferior to herself in figure, appearance, or temperament...
Ake became vigilant but said nothing, just smiling kindly.
Seeing this, Kagerou also narrowed her eyes, a charming and brilliant smile on her face.
"Kagerou, Ake, you each arrange hardworking and reliable clansmen to come here to mine. The treatment must be the best. Anyway, we have the compensation and supplies given by the Daimyo."
The two women naturally nodded in agreement.
Kagerou gently touched her lips with her slender jade finger, murmuring:
"Speaking of which, is genjutsu such a powerful thing? Actually making the Daimyo who rules the whole country like a puppet on strings, agreeing to whatever is said."
In response, Rasa just felt the growing uneasiness in his heart and smiled gently.
Early the next morning, Tokugawa Ieyasu officially abdicated.
On the morning of the third day after Tokugawa Ieyasu's abdication, he was found dead of old age in bed.
On the third day after Tokugawa Ieyasu's death, the eighth day after the end of the war...
Iga had moved all clansmen to the valley next to Kouga.
The communication between the two clans, closed for decades, began to become frequent.
Rasa had also shrunk into a secret room two days ago and began to manufacture his puppet aircraft.