After Yu Qiuping and Matsudaira Motoyasu said goodbye, they returned to their post room. As soon as I opened the door, I saw a sneaky figure hiding behind his bed.

"Big brother, what are you doing there!" Yu Qiuping asked angrily and funny, "Are you hiding behind the bed and waiting to steal someone?" ”

Asabi Taehyung's voice startled Asahina, who quickly rolled over and made a silent gesture, then motioned for Woo to close the door and carefully shrank behind the bed.

"Big brother, what are you doing here?" Yu Qiuping curiously approached Asahina Taehyung, but the latter's strange sitting posture made Yu Qiuping unable to see anything, and in desperation, he had to shrink behind the bed board as well.

Asahina Taehyung was engrossed in studying a ...... by the candlelight on the table not far away Map? Looking at the location of several cities on the map, large circles are drawn, one of which is marked with Okazaki Castle, and several official roads are marked. On the left side of the map, the general outlines of Ise Bay and Mikawa Bay are also outlined. It is estimated that eight or nine is not far from ten, and it is the map of Mikawa Owari here. Owari is in the west, Mikawa is in the east, and further east are Enoe and Suruga, which are the roads from Amaakihei.

"What kind of map is this?" Yu Qiuping wanted to test his guess.

"This is the map of the Imagawa family's troop deployment in the southeast of Owari and Mikawa, which I stole from Uncle Shihiro." Asahina Taehyung smiled. Only then did Yu Qiuping notice that in every city and on the edge of an important village, a lot of information such as the number of garrison troops, generals, and material allocation was densely written down in small letters. In the column on the side, there is also a detailed record of the time and route of the convoy transporting military rations to Narumi Castle and Dataka Castle from the beginning of the year to the end of this year.

"Is there going to be a war?" Yu Qiuping instinctively became alert.

"How is it possible, the Oda family has a total of 3,000 soldiers, and they can't even get together 10,000 people, how can we stuff our teeth." Askina Taehyung raised his head in disdain, "Didn't you hear that I stole the map?" ”

"So what are you going to do? Big brother, what are you doing stealing pictures? Yu Qiuping asked curiously.

"Of course we're going to play," Asahina Taehyung said with a reasonable expression, "Let's go to the front line of the Imagawa family and the Oda family, and we won't be able to find the way without a map." ”

"What! Go to the front line to play! I'll go! At first, Yu Qiuping looked at Asahina Taehyung with a calm expression, and his tone was calm, thinking that he was hunting everywhere, but who would have thought that he would say amazingly, "That's too dangerous!" Eldest brother! Are you crazy! ”

"Shh Asahina Taehyung covered Yu Qiuping's mouth, watching him blush in pain because he couldn't breathe, and only let go of him after a while, and Yu Qiuping, who was busy panting, didn't have time to scream.

"Be quiet, I'll go out quietly with Uncle Fujita behind their backs, if they know I'm going to play secretly, they have to stop me."

"Is it really good to leave alone with the adults on your back? Won't I be penalized? Yu Qiuping still said uneasily.

"It's okay, I ran away once before, and when I came back, I made my brother angry, but guess what our family governor said," Asahina Taihyung smiled smugly, imitating Imagawa Yoshimoto's appearance and said, "Jibe-sama said that young people should run around, and it's boring to stick to rules all day." Besides, even if I am really punished, I will carry it, and you entourage will ensure that none of them will be fine."

"But the front line is really..."

"It's not dangerous at all!" Asahina Taihyung interrupted Yu Qiuping impatiently, "My son, I ushered in my first battle at Narumi Castle last year, that is, the first time a samurai went into battle. I followed my brother to attack the Oda family's Owari guys, but guess what? They didn't dare to come forward at all, so they shrank in a few camps and didn't dare to come forward, and there was no one on the entire border. Besides, there are troops from the Imagawa family around Narumi Castle, so we can't have any problems walking along the official road. ”

"And this..."

"Okay, okay, shut up," Muttered Asahina Taehyung, "I came to you because you were reliable, and I didn't call the older samurai who had a good relationship with Uncle Fujita, and tomorrow a dozen of us young people will go to play." I left a letter for Uncle Fujita and said that I would just go and play. Asahina Taehyung patted Yu Qiuhei on the shoulder, "You, you kid, don't you want to see what the battlefield is like?" This is the dream of countless good boys! ”

After all, he was still young and vigorous, and Yu Qiuping, who couldn't help but want to take a look at the front line of the war, agreed to Asahina Taehyung when he was repeatedly assured that he was safe and worry-free, and promised to help him persuade Kondo Yasuso to go with him. So there would be 18 people in a row.

"Listen, we won't have breakfast tomorrow morning, use my token to go out of the city in the early morning, and then go all the way to the west, less than 20 miles away is Anxiang City, don't stay there, walk 12 miles northwest to Zhili, there is a small earthen city in disrepair, we will rest there for lunch." Asahina Taehyung finished his long-planned plan to run away from home in one breath.

"Why did you run so far? Won't we be able to rest when we get to Anxiang City? Running 20 miles, they said they couldn't catch up. ”

"Do you think this son doesn't want to? The guardian of Anxiang Castle is my uncle, Lord Shinan Asahina. The garrison was also from the Imagawa family. Asahina Taehyung frowned bitterly, "This uncle is too harsh. If he catches him, he will definitely stop him forcibly. ”

"Then the guard of Zhili City..."Yu Qiuping hesitated a little, "Will it also take the adult..."

"You don't have to worry about this, there are no high-status guards in Zhili, only a dozen overseers and more than two hundred slaves. They flattered me almost the same, how dare they stop me. Asahina Taehyung said confidently.

"Slaves?" Yu Qiuping asked, "Are there still slaves in Japan?" ”

"It's those who have committed major crimes in their families, such as rebellion, power struggle, and foreign countries. The master's house was raided and beheaded, and these side branches were also confiscated and turned into slaves, escorted to the front to work as coolies, and sent out to die during the war. Asahina Taehyung explained.

"Won't these people defect? How can I send a dozen prison guards to manage it? Yu Qiuping asked in some surprise.

"Eh, it's not as easy as you kid thinks. Only the young and middle-aged people in the confiscated families were sent as slaves, and the old, weak, sick and disabled were all sent to the adults in Junfu City as slaves. If there is something going on with these young adults, all those relatives in Junfu City will be executed as hostages. Do they dare to make trouble? Asahina Taehyung snorted disdainfully, "Let's take a break here." ”

"This Zhili..."Yu Qiuping looked at the map, "It seems to be a strategic point on the border between Owari and Mikawa, and it communicates Narumi Castle, Yukake Castle, Dataka Castle, Ansho Castle and Kariya Castle, why do you send slaves to guard it?" ”

"I don't know about this, it seems that our family governor personally arranged it, and besides, these slaves usually fight the bandits and robbers who are frequent in the territory of Mikawa," Asahina Taehyung also shook his head suspiciously, "What do you do with so much, let's rest for a while, and then go to the city to rest in the afternoon." The next day, I went to the front line to have a look..."

Hearing these three words, Yu Qiuping shook his head violently. This is the place in the history of his previous life, where the overlord Imagawa Yoshimoto was killed by a surprise attack by Oda Nobunaga. Asahina Taihyung didn't seem to notice Yu Qiuping's abnormality, and still said to himself, "It is said that the Oda family is still trying to besiege Odaka Castle and Narumi Castle, which is quite exciting. Huh? Hey," Asahina Taehyung stabbed Yu Qiuping, who was deep in thought, "What are you kid in a daze!" ”

"Nothing, nothing."

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, more than a dozen people from Asahina Taehyung and Yucho Ping quietly gathered at His Excellency the Castle Tower. By the moonlight, the group walked quickly to the stable, led the horse and walked to the west city. When he arrived at the gate of Xicheng, Asahina Taiheng forced himself out of the city with a token, and several soldiers of the Matsudaira family who were guarding the gate dared to stop the son of the Asahina family, so they had to obediently let him go, and at the same time sent someone to inform Sekiguchi Shihiro. Originally, the heralds of the Matsudaira family were not allowed to enter the castle tower at night, but the samurai of the Imagawa family who guarded them struggled with them for a long time before agreeing to let them go. By the time Sekiguchi Hiroshi and Fujita Nakaharu were tossed and figured out what was going on, Asahina Taehyung and his party were already running to Anxiang City.

Fujita Nakaharu led people to chase after him on horseback, but he was still a step too late.

In less than four minutes, a group of people who had been tossing from early morning to afternoon finally arrived at Zhili City.

When they arrived at Zhili City, the group was already hungry. The last meal was eaten last night, and this day I got up in the middle of the night and hurried, and tossed on horseback for more than five hours, and I couldn't drink a few sips of water in the scorching sun, but I starved them to death. As soon as he entered the city gate, Asahina Taehyung yelled for the overseer named Shimada Hideyasu to get him food.

"Lord Asahina is here, how dare you not entertain you. I beg your adults to be calm, I happen to have twenty chickens here, and they are all stewed to fill my stomach. Shimada Xiuan said with a smiling face, and a flattering villain's face made Yu Qiuping look very uncomfortable. is also forced to be lowered, Matsudaira Motoyasu's attitude is admirable and distressing, and this prison soldier who simply pleases his boss and seeks to advance to the rank makes Yu Qiuping feel disgusted. However, Asahina Taehyung seems to be eating this set.

"That's right, Hideyasu Shimada, it's an ashigaru jackpot, isn't it? I didn't expect there to be chicken to eat here! Asahina Taehyung smiled. Usually in Junfu City, those elders who pay attention to etiquette strictly abide by the ban on meat, only let him eat other meat except fish during the New Year, and today he is late to chicken in this wilderness, naturally very satisfied, "After I go back, I will tell you about it, and give you an official to be a general." "In Japan, the rank of the samurai seems to be from ashigaru, to ashigaru head, to ashigaru jackpot. Generally, even if you have the status of a samurai, you can have a surname, unlike a farmer who does not have a surname. At the top, there are generals, who can have their own retainers and family crests, and then there are generals, city lords, family elders, and they rise one level at a time.

"How dare you, your lordship is so loving," Shimada Hidean immediately smiled and closed his mouth, "It's a blessing for a villain to have the honor to entertain adults, how dare you ask for any reward!" ”

Yu Qiuping almost didn't blurt out a sentence, then he wouldn't give a reward. But I couldn't help thinking about it. Satisfied, Asahina Taehyung led the group to sit down in the miniature castle tower in this small dirt castle, and waited for the chicken to be served with Jiro's legs crossed. Yu Qiuping wanted to relieve himself a little, so he went out through the back door alone. When I came out of the toilet, I could see from a distance that there seemed to be more than 200 people gathered in the military camp south of the castle tower, and it was estimated that they were the slaves. One by one, he can be regarded as a tall and big guy, but he is in rags, with yellow muscles and no spirit on all faces, and he looks like he has been enslaved for a long time. The two hundred or so men seemed to be talking to a dozen of the prison guards, but they quickly dispersed.