Su Po and Hou Ding received the military order, and immediately set off north with more than 300 horse infantry troops to delay the Fujiwara army, and walked to the border of Xicheng County in the evening of the same day. Camped on the spot for a night's rest, and the next morning entered the island of Shimo-gun.

The eastern country is mountainous and hilly, and between the valleys and valleys, the avenues and paths connect the mountains and valleys. The Eastern Wa Kingdom was sparsely populated, and the Zhao soldiers of the two columns marched in the mountain road, and they did not see a few figures for a whole morning. Occasionally, I bumped into one or two woodcutters who were dirty and dirty, and when I found Zhao Bing from a distance, I panicked and fled as if I had seen a ghost in the daytime. Even so, Su Po and they did not dare to slack off, the team walked very slowly, there were Tanma scattered out for three or four miles in front, and the mountains and dense forests on both sides also sent elite soldiers to swim back and forth, the slightest abnormal movement, a whistle, the team immediately stopped advancing, and put on a field battle formation. Just walked and stopped, and by noon they hadn't walked out of twenty miles, but everyone was so tired that people turned over on their backs.

Compared with the soldiers, Su Po, who walked in the middle of the team, was even more tired. This is a young man in his early thirties, with two slender eyebrows on his white face, but the tips of his eyebrows are slightly raised, revealing a sassy and heroic. Just based on this appearance, I don't know how many people who met him for the first time mistakenly thought that he was a scholar who had traveled in the background. In fact, he really read a lot of books, but he didn't go to school, and before the age of twelve, he was sent by his son to the old county king of Qinghe as a guard, and later served in the Imperial Forest Army and the Imperial City Court. According to his family background and background, and with such rich military qualifications, it is easy to become a brigade commander at the age of 30, and according to the practice of preferential rank in the Beijing garrison, it is not difficult to enter the rank of general of the fifth grade. But just when he had been a Ye Tingwei for three years and was about to be promoted from the eighth rank to the seventh rank, the people in his father's army were picked out by Xiao Jian and Yang Du, and soon lost his real position, and he was also affected. He was supposed to be transferred from the court to the left hussar, but instead he went to the right hussar; The difference between heaven and earth is the difference between heaven and earth. The Right Hussar Army is Xiao Jian's starting team, what else can he expect from a child of the Su family? He remained in the right hussar army for ten years, and the tribulations of this period are needless to mention. Ten years ago, when he left Yetingwei, he was the Huaihua captain of Zhengbapin, and ten years later, he was still a Huaihua captain, and this alone knows what kind of life he lived in the right hussar army. In the nineteenth year of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty, Mogan was defeated, and the poor performance of the right hussars who could not attack and retreat was blamed by more than one person, and if he hadn't had the solid merits of the seven heads, he would have almost been swept away. In the end, although he was not stripped of his military status, but in the next two years, he did not add a war horse to his cavalry camp to supplement a new recruit, if he hadn't gritted his teeth and endured the careful not to give people the opportunity to pick the wrong fingers, otherwise, it is estimated that he would have been kicked out of the Liyuan camp long ago......

Just when he was silent in the aisle, a soldier rushed from the front with a knife covering his waist in his hand, and stood still:

"At the camp school, turning the mountain pass and going downhill is a flat land between the mountains; There is a large manor house two miles away from the mountain pass. ”

In an instant, Su Po left some chaotic thoughts behind him. He nodded slightly, stood on his feet, and looked up at the low hills on either side of the mountain road. It's not surprising to have estates; From yesterday to now, they have met the same manor three or four times. He heard Takeuchi Zhongmaro and Tachibana Shizu say that the sixty-six countries of the Eastern Wa Kingdom are full of this kind of manor, and in addition to paying taxes to the government every year, the rest of the big and small things in the manor cannot be interfered with by the government at all. These manors and forts are generally built by local wealthy families, that is, the so-called "separate families" of the Japanese people; Behind the "separation", there are larger wealthy "leaders" to support them; Behind the "collar", there is also the "main family...... For example, in the island under his feet, there is a leader surnamed Ono, and the manor of the Ono family is also built on this dirt road leading to Heian Castle. These manors were built with a dock fort, and the dock fort had wells, granaries, bows, arrows and spears, and once the enemy attacked, the Japanese fled into the dock fort and picked up swords and guns to become a guard. Although in Su Po's eyes, these shabby dock forts built by the Japanese were meaningless, as long as he was willing, he could kill them with the time to drink saliva, but these Japanese people didn't provoke him first, and secondly, the military orders he accepted didn't say that he needed to set foot on these manors, so he didn't pay attention to it, but just asked the soldiers to be careful when he walked through the manor, so as not to be caught off guard. Fortunately, these local wealthy families also woke up and did not make any provocative moves, and the two were safe. I guess the people in this manor I met right now won't act rashly, right?

With basic judgment, he first ordered the team to stop, seize the time to eat, drink and rest, and walked quickly to the front of the team.

Hou Ding had already reached the mountain pass, and was standing on a small mound on the side of the road looking at the manor, when he heard his footsteps, he turned around and said, "This time it is a little troublesome. ”

"How?" Su Po was talking in his mouth, and he also walked to the mound, and at a glance, he knew what the trouble Hou Ding was talking about. The soldier who reported the news just now said that this is a big manor, it is really big enough, I am afraid that there can be thirty acres in a radius, the key is that the location of this manor is too good, the dock fort is on the east side of the road, the village is on the west side of the road, and there is a river that passes through the village just under the courtyard wall of the dock fort, like a moat to form a barrier, one by one to pass from here, you must take the risk of two wings attacking. He estimated the width of the river according to the distance, at least twenty paces, and it was a little difficult to wade across the river, so he had to take the wooden bridge, but in this way, if someone blocked the other end of the bridge, he would have to fill it with human lives...... He patrolled back and forth comparing the height of the courtyard wall in the east and the thatched roof in the west, and couldn't help but scold: "Seeing his mother's ghost, this courtyard wall is afraid of one foot and five feet!" ”

"At least one foot five! If you want to go up, you have to take a ladder. Hou Ding said, "When this dog thing was first started in this Zhuangzi, they must have thought about it!" If you look at the two arrow towers on the north and south of the wall, it is estimated that they can shoot to the bridgehead on the opposite bank. The guy who repaired this Zhuangzi has some skills. He shifted his steps and gave way to where he was standing. Do you see the suspension bridge at the main gate of Zhuangzi Zhuangzi? A ditch was dug at the back of the manor to lead the river around. It's a moat! ”

Su Po hadn't noticed the suspension bridge just now, and when he heard Hou Dingyi say, he stood over again and saw that the river had indeed diverged under the Zhangwu high wall in the east, which was exactly what a moat looked like......

He looked at the manor surrounded by bare fields at the bottom of the hillside, and was speechless for a long time. It is certainly not advisable to storm it; In the face of such a well-defended place, it is not an attack but a death; Not to mention outwitting. The only way is to find a way to communicate and see if you can teach the other party to make a way. If you really can't do it, you will spend money to buy a road. Anyway, there are tens of millions of dollars in money brought by the fleet, who is not buying it? It's just that although he has the heart to spend money, he doesn't know if the other party is willing to believe his sincerity.

Thinking about it, Takeuchi Nakamaro and Tachibana Ishizu have already arrived. Yesterday, the two of them only got the order issued by the Great Zhao Ministry from the hands of the first three people, and now they have changed, and they have become the court councillors of the seven-rank scattered rank, and they are very high-spirited. It's a pity that the bronze seal and official uniform of the court council brought from Mingzhou don't know which ship to install on, so the identity is there, but there is no matching clothing for it. But there is a way for two people. Anyway, they were the first to greet the first three kings, and they didn't know how much they had been rewarded by the new king for a few days, and the money was so much that they couldn't do it, so they temporarily bought two sets of the smallest Zhao Jun standard armor from the sailor, iron helmet leather armor and cowhide boots, and even the cowhide belt embedded with silver nails was not pulled down, and the whole body was cleaned up neatly, and then stood next to Su Pohou Ding, except for the difference in size, the other places were almost the same. The two of them didn't even carry a sword, but hung Zhao Jun's waist knife around their waists. It's just that the two of them are too short, and the standard waist knife is too long, and the scabbard has been dragged to the ground, so they can only press the handle with their hands at any time. It was very inconvenient to walk like this, but the two of them felt very imposing, and they didn't see the guards outside General Duan's tent, all of them standing solemnly with the hilt of their swords?

Su Po and the other two people ran over with their ill-fitting leather boots, and when they had done a military salute with their hairy hands, he asked them, "Who is the master of this manor?" ”

"Camp School, this is the Manor of the Ono Family." The two people, Takeuchi Zhongmaro and Orange Stone, are generally dominated by the "current Takeuchi Suyou" Takeuchi Zhongmaro, who is both civil and military, so Su Po's questions are also answered by him. "The Ono family is the leader of Shimashita County, and the elder of the clan, Ono Yoshimasa, has a reputation for knowing soldiers and being good at war, and he is a famous soldier in the five countries of Kinai."

Another art of war? The corners of Su Po's eyes twitched. He had only set foot on the land of Dongwei for ten days, and he had seen and heard more of the art of war than he had ever known in his life. The owner of the Zhuangzi in front of him is a well-known art of war in Gyeonggi, and the person who was ordered by the Fujiwara clan is the first art of war in the Eastern War, that is, Takeuchi Nakamaro, who stands in front of him, is also respected by Tachichishi as an unborn art of war...... In the Eastern Wa Kingdom, which is a little bigger than a sesame seed, there are more than a dozen military artists who are active in the areas around Kyoto's Heian, and there are so many troops and so many generals in Da Zhao, but only Zhang Shao can be called half of the art of war in the past hundred years, and he is simply speechless in the face of such a "cruel fact". He took a deep breath, and finally restrained his tongue from rolling a scolding sentence, and asked, "This Xiaoye or something, better than that Wen, Wen...... How is it better than that Masatoshi Muro? ”

"To each his own."

Su Poleng looked at Takeuchi Zhongmaru with a smile, and it took him a long time to react to what he meant by "everyone has to be good at it".

"The camp has probably never heard of the 'Conquest War' that happened sixteen years ago, right? This is also a good story of the soldiers. "Sixteen years ago, Yoshimasa Ono went on a study tour to Kyoto, and when discussing the art of war, he and Masahiro Bunmuro had an argument about the difference between 'conscription' and 'war'. Neither of them could convince the other, and in the end they agreed to lead their own samurai and win or lose in Akinohara. On the day of the battle, the scene was very grand, in addition to the three thousand samurai Ashigaru brought by the two adults, the number of people watching the battle was also nearly 1,000, and there were even big soldiers and monks who were looking at the mountain to make their judgment. The two sides first fought a melee, but the result was that they couldn't tell the winner from the loser, so Ono-sama rode out of the battle alone, brandishing a large lance and inviting the scholar to do a 'one-ride fight'. The scholar gladly responded to the battle, and the two of them exchanged spears and guns, and the fierce battle did not determine the winner for seventeen rounds. As he spoke, he sighed softly in the direction of Ono Manor, his face full of leisurely yearning.

Where are Su Po and Hou Ding in the mood to listen to some bullshit anecdotes of the Dongwei people. Looking at the large amount of gold and silver sprinkled by the first three mouths of the king of Wa, they forced themselves to hold back the ignorant fire that was scurrying in their hearts. As a result, when I heard such a result, I couldn't help but look at each other. In order to fight for the meaning of the two words, a weapon fight broke out with thousands of participants, which is too incredible, right? Is this a romance or a real thing?

Hou Dingzi was more anxious and asked, "What is the result?" What happened in the end? Who chopped whom over? ”

Takeuchi Nakamaro, who had been interrupted from his meditation, looked at him with an inexplicable expression. Didn't he say it as a result? "Two people fought each other with guns and guns, and there was no winner in seventeen rounds of fierce fighting", isn't this the result?

Hou Ding opened his mouth and said for a long time: "Thousands of people are fighting, there is always a dead and wounded, right?" Whoever dies more will not be able to distinguish the winner from the loser? ”

“…… Well, there was a person on both sides who didn't die, so it was a tie. Takeuchi Zhongma Lu smiled, and also felt that this result was a bit indescribable. However, he immediately explained that this was the embodiment of the two adults' love for their subordinates, and the so-called "bamboo bud and wood to defend morality" was to say that they could not bear to add iron and wood under mutual admiration.

Su Po grabbed the handle of the knife and squeezed his fist with one hand, and it took a lot of effort to endure and endure it, so that he didn't kick Wu Nei Zhongmaro out of eight zhang away, and he didn't dare to look at Takeuchi Zhongmaro's expression with a cold face, for fear that seeing that face would waste his own efforts, and he was even more afraid that he would accidentally cut off a housekeeper dog that the first three mouthfuls had brought home with great difficulty. He asked in a tone without the slightest emotion: "Then what is this Ono or something, shouldn't he be a member of the Fujiwara clan?" ”

"Absolutely not." Takeuchi Nakamaro didn't know at all that he had just turned around in front of the Onimon Gate, and said, "Ono-sama's grandfather, Ono Dog-sama, was once framed by Fujiwara Iezen for eating minced meat, and was reprimanded by the Emperor one by one, and it was the Wa King who was reprimanded in public by the Wa King. Lord Ono Dog suffered such humiliation, and soon after returning home, he died of depression, so the Ono family and the Fujiwara family formed a grudge...... "Actually, he told Su Po about these things when he camped last night. But at that time, he was introducing the big and small heroes in various places on the way from Namba to Heian Castle, the ancestors, fortunes, upstarts, and journeys of dozens of Dongwa landlords, as well as each other's grievances and interests, mixed together in a mess, even if Su Po was capable, it was impossible to engrave everything into his heart in one night. In fact, what Su Po can remember is the sentence that Takeuchi Nakamaro and Tachibana Shizu have repeatedly emphasized, the Fujiwara clan does not have a good thing, and not killing it is not enough to be angry among the people! "Yoshimasa Ono's biological mother is the daughter of the Tajima Daizo, but the elder of the previous generation of the Tajima Daizo family was deceived by Fujiwara Michicho, who was Ren Shaoyan's Yanyan at the time, to Heiankyo and died, so the Tajima Daizo and the Fujiwara clan are feuding. With these two grievances, there is absolutely no possibility of reconciliation between the Onokie family and the Fujiwara clan. Therefore, it is impossible for Yoshimasa Ono to get together with the Fujiwara clan. And ......"

Su Po waved his hand to stop this guy from pulling at length, and asked bluntly: "That is to say, Ono Yoshimasa is likely to defect to us, at least he will not embarrass us." Is that so? ”

“…… Be. ”

Su Po nodded, gritted his teeth and chuckled, stared at Takeuchi Zhongmaro and said, "That's good." Lord Takeuchi, you go and deliver a message to Ono Yoshimasa, saying that we want to borrow a way from his village today, and if he can agree, I will thank him again. Go and come back quickly, I am waiting for your good news. After speaking, he didn't wait for Takeuchi Nakamaro to reply, turned around and walked down the mound.

Hou Ding left the stunned Wu Nei Zhongmaru and Orange Stone Foot, followed down the mound, walked a few steps, estimated that it was impossible for others to hear him, and then quietly asked Su Po: "Do you want Xiao Ye to borrow the road or something, or do you not want him to give way to the road?" ”

Su Po grinned and said, "Of course it's good to be able to borrow the Tao, but it doesn't matter if you can't borrow it." It's a pity, Ono Yoshimasa actually didn't deal with the Fujiwara clan, if he wore a pair of pants with the Fujiwara clan, how good would it be......" said with a stunned sigh.

"Yes," Hou Ding also sighed, "I also saw that fly was not pleasing to the eye, and I hated to slash him." ”

The two looked at each other, both shaking their heads and smiling bitterly......