Inside Tanihara Castle...
At this moment, blood had dyed the mountain castle red, and corpses lay everywhere within it.
During the Warring States period of Eastern Island, there were three types of castles: mountain castles like fortresses, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even with more than ten times the manpower, taking a mountain castle with favorable terrain was not guaranteed.
Then there were hirayama castles and flatland castles. Unlike mountain castles built halfway up a mountain, these cities were built on level ground and housed commoners. They were no different from ordinary cities.
Tanihara Castle was a mountain castle. There were hardly any commoners within it, only soldiers, samurai, and the like. It was a military stronghold.
Taking such a mountain castle was difficult, but that referred to attacking from the outside. From within, even the strongest castle could easily collapse.
Inside the Tenshukaku of Tanihara Castle, dozens of samurai drenched in blood stood atop a floor littered with corpses, their katana in hand.
They looked fearfully at the man dressed as a general standing on the raised platform.
"Reporting to Lord Takekawa... No! Reporting to the daimyo, everyone in Tanihara Castle who dared resist has been executed on the spot." One of Takekawa Yukuma's trusted retainers stepped forward two paces, knelt on one knee, and reported with a solemn expression.
"Good! Drag this old bastard's corpse out and hang it outside the castle!" Takekawa Yukuma, dressed as a general, turned around, grabbed the corpse of a balding middle-aged man in luxurious clothing by his feet, and threw it before the samurai.
Takekawa Yukuma was now completely different from before. First of all... two red horns, symbols of Eastern Island's yokai, had grown from his head.
Takekawa Yukuma had completely become a yokai!
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