Whose personality mask's power comes from the heroic spirit?

"When I arrived, I saw you guys were losing the battle... Could it be that after leaving Lord Raikou, you don't even know how to attack a city?"

Inside the tent, Ning Ning challenged Jiang Wei in a sarcastic tone.

The generals from Shu Han wanted to fight back but didn't dare to.

After all, the current commander-in-chief of the punitive army was standing right in front of him, and what Ning Ning said was indeed in line with the current battle situation.

Therefore, the Shu Han generals only dared to show expressions of humiliation but did not dare to say a single word.

The main general of the siege, Jiang Wei, even put on an attitude of apologizing after seeing Taiyi.

"Who is the general defending Jianye City?" Taiyi glared at Ningning who was stirring up trouble. After she stuck out her tongue, pretended to be well-behaved and obedient, and took the initiative to stand beside Taiyi, he sat on the stool behind the desk and looked at Jiang Wei and asked.

"He is the general of the Tokugawa family, Honda Tadakatsu." Jiang Wei lowered his head and replied.

"Honda Tadakatsu... no wonder." Taiyi had already heard about Tokugawa Ieyasu's performance when Chengdu was destroyed by the demon snake, so he understood Jiang Wei's restrained attitude.

But understanding is understanding, and he still has to take the blame for delaying the recovery of Jiangdong.

But how to punish him was the responsibility of Guan Yu and others, and he, as the commander-in-chief, had no intention of intervening.

"Ms. Hongye, can you please accompany me to force my way into Jianye City?" Taiyi looked at Hongye standing on the other side with the female kunoichi and Sanada Yukimura and asked, "Those controlled by the puppet technique will absolutely obey the orders given by the controller."

"Since Honda Tadakatsu has been appointed as the general defending the city, you only need to use your spell to wake him up, and then you can make him give the order to the soldiers defending the city to lay down their weapons and open the city gates, instantly destroying Jianye City's defense."

"Of course." Hongye nodded and answered excitedly.

"Wait! Lord Raikou! Are it just you and Miss Hongye?" Ningning looked at Taiyi in panic and asked.

"Of course." Taiyi glanced at her and nodded and replied, "Why, do you want to follow too?"

"Of course you have to take me with you!" Ning Ning answered affirmatively, "I took you to Guzhi City, but I only led you the way. I didn't do anything else. I feel useless. If I don't follow your steps this time, then wouldn't my trip be in vain?"

Now that Ayane, the follower, is not here, Ningning naturally wants to take the opportunity to make her presence felt in front of Taiyi.

Otherwise, when the world is settled in the future, she will really be dispensable.

After seeing that scene in Koshi Castle, Ningning had absolute confidence in Taiyi's ability to bring peace to the world.

Moreover, judging from Taiyi's performance along the way, after defeating the demon army and the demon snake, if the man in front of him has the ambition to fight for hegemony over the world, his speed may be even faster than recovering Jiangdong.

"Lord Raikou! If you don't mind, could you let me go with you?" Sanada Yukimura asked excitedly.

"Lord Yukimura?" The kunoichi's face and tone changed in fear after hearing that.

"Forget it for now. If you come, the female ninja who wants to protect you must follow you. By then, there will be too many people breaking into the city, and I may not be able to take care of them." Taichi curled his lips and rejected Sanada Yukimura's request without hesitation.

Just kidding, he had been fighting with seven demon snakes for so long that he was injured and had consumed a lot of physical strength. Fortunately, he didn't use his treasure, otherwise he might have to postpone the siege.

He doesn't have enough physical strength now to protect too many people in the puppet army.

Hongye and Ningning are enough to keep him busy.

Yukimura Sanada's face was full of reluctance, but the female ninja next to him was relieved when she heard Taiyi say that, and gave Taiyi a grateful look.

"I am incompetent... I am really... I am very sorry." Jiang Wei's head drooped lower and lower.

"Jiang Wei, you also have a mission." Taiyi cast his gaze towards Jiang Wei, "You must lead the army to line up outside Jianye City and beat the drums to attract the attention of the soldiers guarding the city."

"I'm not in the mood to break into a city and then look for Honda Tadakatsu among the enemy troops."

"But, your mission is only to attract the enemy's attention, not to launch an attack."

Jiang Wei looked up upon hearing this, and looked at Taiyi with a somewhat stiff expression, but finally replied with a "yes".

"Ningning, when we break into the city, you must stay by my side, shoot down the arrows shot by the enemy archers that I have missed, and protect Hongye." Taiyi turned his head and looked at Ningning and reminded her.

"Don't worry, Lord Raikou. Even if you use my body as a shield, I won't let any arrow hit Miss Hongye!" Ningning patted her chest and promised Taiyi.

"You don't have to go that far. I'm not a show-off." Hongye couldn't help but remind him.

"But, Lord Lai Guang, how are we going to break into the city?" Ning Ning asked, "You have the ability to jump onto the city wall in one leap, but I can't..."

"I can't do it either! The city wall is too high!" Hongye, who was caught by Ningning's gaze, waved his hands and replied.

"You can't possibly carry both of us up there at once, right?" Ningning asked with a blink.

"I will build a staircase." Taiyi replied, "Don't ask too many questions. You will understand when you see it."

"Now, Jiang Wei, give the order to the soldiers to prepare." Taiyi looked at Jiang Wei and ordered.

"Yes!" Jiang Wei took the order and walked out with other generals.

"Lord Raikou, what should I do then?" Sanada Yukimura asked, pointing at himself.

"Follow them." Taiyi pointed outside the tent and reminded, "Go with Jiang Wei and the others to challenge them."

"Yes!" Yukimura Sanada seemed to have unloaded a burden after hearing this. After answering, he turned around and ran out of the tent.

The female kunoichi clasped her hands together, expressed some gratitude to Taichi, and then chased after him.

She really didn't trust this young man.

When Taiyi, Ningning and Hongye were the only three people left in the tent, Taiyi waved his hand before Ningning could ask any more questions... a sapling broke through the soil and quickly extended to the table. Then the ivy climbed up the trunk and grew onto the table.

"That's it, do you understand?" Taiyi looked at Ningning and Hongye and asked.

Hongye nodded in understanding, but Ningning looked at the sapling and ivy with her mouth wide open.

Looking at the vibrant saplings and creepers, she seemed to see the day when this wilderness world would turn into forests, grasslands, farmlands and flower beds covering the earth.

Coming from a poor family, she naturally knew what this represented.

Therefore, when she looked at Taiyi again, her eyes were full of heat.

"I understand."

Ningning's tone sounded a little strange when she said this, but considering that she always acted on her impulse in the past, Taiyi didn't care much.

Chapter 63 Honda Tadakatsu: Otherwise, don’t wake up the puppet soldiers except my daughter.

"Boom-boom-boom!" The dull sound of war drums resounded throughout the outer city of Jianye City.

On the city wall, Honda Tadakatsu, with his daughter Inahime, led sixty archers and hundreds of spearmen standing on the city wall, ready for battle.

Jiang Wei stopped his troops about 600 meters away and asked the soldiers behind him to stand up and shout.

The sound of war drums and shouts were enough to attract the attention of the troops guarding the city walls.

Because all of them were puppets, they were deprived of their ability to judge and think for themselves. Even though Jiang Wei's troops were within a meter of them, the garrison troops were still staring straight at the garrison with their bows fully drawn.

On the other side, after confirming the location of Honda Tadakatsu, Taiyi, Ningning and Hongye chose a remote place that was far away from the army formation, more hidden, and not easily discovered by the garrison on the high city wall, and quickly ran towards the city wall.

When they arrived at the base of the city wall, Taiyi calculated the angle, and then let a tree thick enough for two people to walk side by side grow rapidly along the surface of the city wall at an acute angle of thirty-five degrees to the ground.

The three of them rushed upwards quickly with their upper bodies bent forward.

About two meters away from the highest edge of the city wall, the growth rate of the treetop slowed down, and it suddenly exploded when Taiyi and the other two were about to show their heads.

Taiyi and the other two took advantage of the situation and leaped upwards.

Taichi immediately drew his sword and swept away the spearmen around Honda Tadakatsu. Then he used Doujikiri Yasutsuga to suppress Honda Tadakatsu's Tombokiri when he was about to counterattack, leaving him with no free hands to deal with the subsequent changes.

Ningning threw shurikens at the archers' formation, disrupting their formation and preventing them from changing the trajectory of their arrows in the first place.

Hongye formed seals with both hands and cast a spell of purifying puppets at Honda Tadakatsu.

"Come closer to me!" Taiyi shouted to Ningning, then stomped his foot on the ground. Fine bamboos formed a hemispherical shape, densely covering Taiyi and his two companions, as well as Honda Tadakatsu who was suppressed by Taiyi.

The light was completely blocked by the dense bamboo forest. The only source of light in the hemisphere was Momiji's spell and Honda Tadakatsu who was restricted and purified by the spell.

Taichi only felt that Honda Tadakatsu's resistance had suddenly weakened.

Outside the hemispherical bamboo forest, there came the sound of spears and swords chopping bamboo.

However, because Taiyi's bamboo forest ball's physical barrier was too dense, the soldiers outside who were cutting bamboo couldn't even find a gap and could only chop it hard.

The arrow was directly bounced away.

"It's so dark... Does this mean that the bamboo wall made by Lord Lai Guang is too tight and not even light can get through?" Ningning sighed and reached out to feel behind her.

"Apart from the sound, there was no vibration at all... Lord Lai Guang, how many layers of bamboo walls did you lay outside?" Ningning asked in amazement.

"Not much, only seven. After all, the space left after the soldiers were swept away was not big." Taiyi replied, "However, even if the people outside hacked for half an hour, they might not be able to reach the sixth floor."

"What if they set it on fire?" Ningning proposed a new idea.

"...Don't be such a pessimist." Taichi said with a curled mouth, "After all, Honda Tadakatsu is in here too, how dare they set it on fire... That shouldn't happen, right?"

Although the puppet soldiers obeyed the orders of the city defending general Honda Tadakatsu, no one could guarantee that without receiving orders, those people outside who were controlled by the puppet technique and had no judgment would really pour oil and set fire after finding that hacking and chopping were ineffective.

However, even if the opponent really plays such a big game, Taiyi can just change his mask and directly activate Jeanne d'Arc's Noble Phantasm to block all the damage.

"Hongye, in your opinion, how long will it take for Honda Tadakatsu to regain complete consciousness?" Taiyi asked.

"...Honda Tadakatsu has a strong will, and he is also trying hard to resist the control of the puppetry, so my spell is progressing quite smoothly. It will take about fifteen to twenty minutes to break the control of the puppetry on him." Hongye replied, "Of course, if we use more force, we can get it done within ten minutes, but it is easy to leave sequelae... Not limited to causing Honda Tadakatsu's mental damage, or causing Alzheimer's disease to come decades earlier."

"Well, it's better to take your time and do a good job. Let's take fifteen to twenty minutes." Taiyi replied with a curled mouth.

Again, Honda Tadakatsu is as important to Tokugawa Ieyasu as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are to Liu Bei.

More than half of Tokugawa Ieyasu's sense of security was given to him by Honda Tadakatsu.

Time passed minute by minute.

The fourth layer of the bamboo wall had been chopped down by the soldiers outside.

And inside the bamboo wall, Honda Tadakatsu finally broke free from the chaos.

"...You can stop now..." A slightly angry voice sounded in front of Taiyi, "I'm awake now."

Honda Tadakatsu's Tonkiri began to retreat under Taichi's force.

This is to demonstrate that one's consciousness has returned to clarity.

Taiyi did not dare to be careless.

"Mr. Honda, please order all the soldiers outside to stop all actions at hand."

"Yes." Honda Tadakatsu responded, then took a deep breath, "I give this order in the name of Honda Heihachiro Tadakatsu! Everyone, stop all activities except breathing!"

Almost the next second after Honda Tadakatsu gave the order, all the noise outside disappeared.

Taiyi silently changed the mask, then waved his hand, causing the bamboo wall to decay and fall apart layer by layer.

When the last layer of bamboo wall was broken into pieces and fell onto the bricks of the city wall, everything outside came into the eyes of the four people.

Most of the people surrounding the original bamboo wall were preparing to continue chopping.

Even his eyelids were trembling.

Well, even the action of blinking is forced to stop.

"Everyone, lay down your weapons! Surrender!" Honda Tadakatsu continued to shout loudly.

This time, without the bamboo wall to block the sound, Honda Tadakatsu's voice could be heard farther.

Even Inahime was unable to escape this mandatory order, and she obediently put the naginata and bow and arrow in her hands on the ground.

"People under the city wall! Open the gate of Jianye City!" Honda Tadakatsu possessed his body and shouted orders to the soldiers stationed in the city.

Before long, the city of Jianye was completed, with no defenses left and even its gates wide open.

"Oh my god, these puppet soldiers are really useful." Honda Tadakatsu clapped his hands in delight and praised, "They obey orders even better than when they are awake."

"Hey, um...little girl, could you please help my daughter wake up?" Honda Tadakatsu turned his head and asked Hongye who was wiping the sweat from her forehead.

"Of course you can, but can you contain the danger first?" Hongye nodded and replied.

Chapter 64: Girls' Meeting (I)

"Thank you very much to the expeditionary army for your help despite past grudges."

In the main hall of Jianye Castle, Honda Tadakatsu and Inahime were sitting down in front of Taichi Do who was sitting in the main seat.

While expressing gratitude, he also apologized.

Thank the other party for not killing you, thank the other party for saving your consciousness.

"You're thanking the wrong person." Taiyi reminded him, and pointed to Hongye's position with his hand, "It was Hongye who rescued the two of you from being manipulated."

"Yes, Red Leaf Priestess, thank you very much!"