The next day, Uchiha's Fourth Brigade gathered at the training grounds. Uchiha Ming adjusted the defense zones of each squad. The companies led by Uchiha Yo, Uchiha En, and Uchiha Retsu were connected into one continuous area, with a commercial street running through the middle.
After making the arrangements, the squads assembled around their company commanders. The three of them issued an operation to their respective squads, called the Cleanup Mission.
The Cleanup Mission meant using an iron fist against spies, suspicious individuals, and those who liked stirring up trouble within their defense zones.
They would restore peace and order to the areas under their jurisdiction, killing, imprisoning, or throwing out every rat and cockroach.
The operation began immediately. Three emergency response squads were also formed, led respectively by Uchiha Yo, Uchiha Retsu, and Uchiha En.
Uchiha Yo generally remained in the center to coordinate. Uchiha Hualuo carried out sweeps in Uchiha Yo's jurisdiction, while Uchiha Cha led the remaining men on their usual patrols.
For a time, the three men's jurisdictions were filled with tension. Some local thugs saw that things were going badly and fled to neighboring districts, while several who failed to grasp the situation were directly arrested and locked up.
Listening to reports from his brothers, Uchiha Yo thought, I've already startled the snake. Don't let my efforts go to waste. He had people spread word that they were searching for someone—a spy hiding within these three jurisdictions who possessed important intelligence.
That person was none other than Uchiha Xingye, who was skilled in disguise and genjutsu. At that moment, he was disguised as an ordinary civilian and dealing with questioning from an Uchiha patrol.
Uchiha Yo felt that the reactions from all sides over the past few days had been more or less enough. It