"Chapter 134: Contemptuous Attitude"
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- Alessandro Barrico (considered the most world-renowned Italian writer after Calvino and Eco)
The secret alliance between Shikita Kantai and Iwashimizu Yoshinoshi, as well as Kunohe Yasumin, actually represented the popular support of the Spo family, and after losing the loyalty of these retainers, Spo Kannao's reign was not long before it ended.
As for why they chose to surrender to the Yanhuang family instead of the more powerful Date family, it was a selfish motive that everyone had, and even if they hated the brutal rule of Spo Quanzhi, it did not mean that they were willing to lose their position of power.
The Date family, which dominates the central region of Higashiyama Road, has more privileged classes than the Yanhuang family while they are more powerful than the Yanhuang family, and the Sibo family, which is only two cities, will not be taken seriously by the Date family at all.
This also means that even if Shikita Kantai and the others are willing to dedicate the Tamizu Temple Castle and the Bian Stone Imperial Palace of the Shibo family to the Date family, the Date family will not give Shikita Kantai and the others any preferential treatment, and it is even very likely that they will only give some false names.
The Date family had done this more than once, and many retainers of small families in the Higashiyama Province, under the weight of the tyrannical rule of their governors, finally couldn't resist launching a mutiny, killing the governors and dedicating their family territories to the powerful Date family.
As a result, most of these people became mid-level samurai of the Date family, and occasionally one or two lucky ones could get the generous gifts of the Date family, but there were also some who were unlucky and were directly executed by the Date family for various reasons.
The Yanhuang family's approach in this regard is much more reassuring, and the southern family is the best proof of this; even the southern family of the former enemy can be reused by the Yanhuang family after surrendering, isn't it more worth looking forward to the defection of others?
Rather than relying on luck to become a middle-level samurai in the Date family, it is better to take refuge in the Yanhuang family and fight for a good future;
Of course, if it weren't for the fact that the Yanhuang family did have quite a good strength, Shikuda Quantai and the others would still not choose to take refuge in the Yanhuang family, and this reason is also very simple: in the chaotic times of war, only the truly strong can get more people's results.
Otherwise, you won't even be able to protect your own followers, so what else can you talk about giving people a future? Based on the Yan Huang family's good strength and attitude of reusing the generals, the scheming Shida Quantai made up his mind to join the Yan Huang family, and only then did he have today's situation.
Soon after agreeing on the surrender plan, Iwashimizu Yoshikyo took the lead in leaving Takasui Temple Castle and hurried back to the Bian Shi Imperial Palace to arrange the dedication of the castle.
Until Iwashimizu Yoshikyo and Kunohe Yasuma all left, Shikita Kantai, who was left alone in the secret room, was not idle, he took out a piece of silk, wrote dense words on it, and then handed it over to his henchmen to go out of the city and give it to the upcoming Hakumine.
At this time, Shitian Quantai did not know that the main army of the Yanhuang family attacking Gaoshui Temple City was led by Bai Feng himself, and his secret letter of great significance was written to the commander of the Yanhuang family's army, which wrote in detail the deployment of the two armies to seize Gaoshui Temple City!
Since Bai Feng and Sanada Masayuki divided their troops in Hachinohe Castle, they each led their troops towards the attack target of their own army, and Sanada Masayuki, who had only 5,000 troops, carried much less grain and grass than the main army, and the speed of the march was naturally much faster.
In just one and a half days, Sanada Masayuki's Sanada Standing Army was only about half a day's journey from Bian Shi's Imperial Palace, while the main army led by Bai Feng was still a day and a half away from Gaoshuiji Castle.
In this way, after Sanada Masayuki 'captured' the Bian Shi Imperial Palace, the main army attacking Takasuisera Castle had not yet arrived at Takasui Temple Castle, and the one-day time difference was very likely for Spo Quanzhi to get the news in advance and even make a decision that would affect the situation.
In order to avoid this situation, Bai Feng had to send a group of Parthian cavalry archers to Sanada Masayuki's army, ordering him to rest in place for a day, and wait until the two armies were in the same pace before launching an attack on the Bian Shi Imperial Palace.
Just as Bai Feng gave Maxi the order, the confidant warrior sent by Shikita Kantai quickly approached the main army of the Yan Huang family, and if he hadn't identified himself in time, the patrolling Parthian archers might have shot him dead on the spot.
Even if he narrowly escaped, the exquisite archery skills of the Parthian archers made the messenger pale with fright, and until he was disarmed and sent to Bai Feng, his pale face still did not recover, and the secret letter was handed to Bai Feng with trembling.
The unbearable performance of this envoy made Bai Feng, who had always had a good impression of the samurai, very disdainful, but his disdain was not for the samurai class, but for the Yu Sipo family, who made him a samurai of the Sibo family?
Later, Bai Feng learned that it was the Parthian archers under his command who shot and killed the other people's horses first, causing the messenger to be crushed to the ground by the horses, and by the time he was dragged out by the fierce Parthian archers, he had been crushed for several minutes.
Don't say that he is just an intermediate warrior, even Bai Feng, whose strength is equivalent to that of a high-level warrior, is pressed to the ground by a war horse for a few minutes and then gets up, I am afraid that his face will not recover for a while;
In this secret letter written by Shikita Kantai himself, there is not only a detailed plan for him to surrender to the Iwashimizu Yoshikyo and Kunohe Yasuma, but also a plan to annihilate the 4,000 soldiers in the hands of Spo Quanzhi in one fell swoop;
The valuable things in the secret letter are also the plans of the Toucheng Deployment and the Inside and the Outside, and the other nonsense Bai Feng didn't even look at it, so he put this secret letter in his Bai Ling Ring; he didn't care about Shikita Quantai's flattery, it was just a traitor.
The unbearable performance of the samurai envoy and the sycophancy of Shikita Kantai made Bai Feng's opinion of the Spo family plummet;
Bai Feng's disgust for traitors is visceral, especially the betrayal of those with vested interests, and betrayals like Bronno's are actually not betrayals, because Bronor is not from the Dart tribe, nor does he belong to vested interests.
And the betrayal of Shikita Kantai and Iwashimizu Yoshikyo is a typical betrayal of vested interests; for this kind of traitor, Bai Feng, who is extremely disgusted with traitors, will not be reused, at most he will hang high, and will not give them the slightest chance to gain real power.
As for Kunohe Yasuma, his betrayal of Bai Feng is understandable; who made Bai Feng a Chinese in his bones, and for a Chinese, what kind of hatred is the most intolerable? That is naturally the hatred of killing his father and taking his wife!