On June 25, the group left Owari and entered the Mino territory. However, Maeda Toshiya did not leave as agreed, but planned to escort Yu Qiuping and his party until they returned.

"You've been away like this for so long, who will take care of Mrs. Song? Let's go back. Yu Qiuping persuaded.

"I've entrusted a few friends in the shrine to help take care of it, and Ah Song also has a maid, no problem," Maeda Toshiya waved his hand, "My Ah Song is sensible!" She said, "I've received so many favors from others, I can't just leave and insist on letting me come with me." And I, Chiyo, am not a person who is not righteous enough! You say no, boy! ”

"That's it, then welcome, big brother!" Yu Qiuping smiled and high-fived him.

"This Maeda-sama," Sena said, "although we are hostile to each other, we don't have to worry about it here. When we're not on the battlefield, we're friends. ”

"Sena-sama is interesting!" Maeda Toshiya laughed, "Then I'm welcome!" ”

Sena Toshi led the caravan to the town of Iinoguchi under Inabayama Castle, the main castle of the Saito family, to gather some information.

"The Saito family won't be making big moves anytime soon." After looking at it for a while, Sanada Masayuki said to Yu Qiuping with certainty.

"Oh? Why? Yu Qiuping asked puzzled, "Did you get any information?" ”

"There's a lot of information here, why don't you take a closer look." Sanada Masayuki said with a smile. The caravan was on the second floor of a restaurant in the castle town at the moment, watching the pedestrians coming and going in the castle town.

"The autumn harvest is coming soon, and if the Saito family wants to make a move, they will have to speed up their reserves." Sanada Masayuki said confidently, "Mino suffered a famine last year, and the harvest was not good. Now, because the autumn harvest is imminent, last year's grain and grass have almost been consumed. If you want to send troops, in order to raise military rations. It is necessary to purchase grain from the people or various wealthy families. Sanada Masayuki analyzed, "However, the grain prices of the few small vendors selling grain just now have remained at a normal level without fluctuation. ”

"That's it..."Yu Qiuping suddenly realized and shook his head, "I can't see anything hahaha..."

Sure enough, after a while, Sena Shijun also returned with a few people. He told everyone that based on his conversations with several samurai, the Saito family would indeed not make any moves in the near future, as Sanada Masayuki expected.

Since the Saito family did not show strong hostility towards the Oda family, Sena Shitoshi did not stay long, and the group left Inoguchi Town and set off to the west. On the morning of June 27, we arrived at Akasaka in Ikeda-gun. Akasaka is not a particularly bustling place, but a small place in the middle of nowhere. Further west, there is Sekigahara, which would become famous, and the domain of the Kita-Omi Asai family. The group found an inn to live in. Yuakihei and Amano Keitoku, Maeda Toshiie, Honda Nabenosuke and Sanada Masayuki hang out in the castle town of Akasaka Castle, intending to find a place to eat lunch.

"Let me tell you, this kind of small shop is usually the most flavorful!" Maeda Toshiya led everyone to a small restaurant at the very edge of the castle town, "Those big restaurants in the center of the castle town are not very good. ”

"He should have brought the guards with him," Yu Qiuping muttered, "wasn't he a Mino before?" You can let him go home and have a look. ”

"If Lord Naoe comes, there will be no one in the territory to catch the general." Sanada Masayuki smiled, "Although we haven't known each other for a long time, in my opinion, Naoe-sama is the one who can best understand the thoughts and intentions of adults. ”

"Haha, the pro-soldier guard and I are very close to each other." Yu Qiuping smiled, "He seems to have been imitating the way I handle affairs. ”

While everyone was talking and laughing, the shopkeeper had already personally brought a plate of fried dishes. The store is not large, there are only 4 people in total, and it seems to be owned by a family. The chef is the hostess, and the owner and one of their sons and daughters do the work of the second child. The owner and his children are very welcoming, and there are many customers in the small shop, and the business is not bad. Sitting at the table on Yu Qiuping's left hand side is a... Forehead... A very beautiful young man, followed by a few retinues. And what caught Yu Qiuping's attention was another table of samurai in the corner. Maeda Toshiie said that listening to the accent seems to be Omi. The four strong men were respectfully listening to a young man who was a little older than Sanada Masayuki talking about the righteousness of the samurai.

Suddenly, the girl who was greeting customers outside the store suddenly screamed, and then there was a commotion outside the door. Yu Qiuping frowned and looked back, and saw more than a dozen strong men dressed as bandits walking in menacingly, one of them was the leader, with a beard all over his face, it seemed that this kind of dress had become the standard for bandits? He was hugging the girl with a crying face and struggling, wantonly slighting her.

Yu Qiuping thought that the shopkeeper and the girl's brother would be furious, but they didn't expect the two of them to kneel down in a hurry when they saw these thieves. When the proprietress who looked hurriedly from the back kitchen saw her daughter being held in her arms by the bandits, she did not dare to resist, but reluctantly took out tea from the kitchen.

"Little Eight, Uncle I finally came once, do you plan to be filial piety?" The thief's bearded eyes looked at the shopkeeper who was kneeling down, but his hand pinched the girl's buttocks fiercely, and asked with a wicked smile.

"The arrival of Lord Deshan is really dazzling." The shopkeeper shivered and said honestly, "It's just this month's money... The villain has already given it! ”

"Yes, it's been given!" The bandit leader who was called Lord Tokuyama snorted, "But the uncle is not enough!" What's the matter, to give or not to give! ”

Yu Qiuping understands that this Tokuyama bandit seems to be the boss of the underworld here in Akasaka, who is rampant and domineering in the castle town and collects protection money. Yu Qiuping felt a deep disgust for this kind of fish and flesh people, and his hand was pressed on the hilt of the knife. Honda Nabenosuke and Maeda Toshiie, who were beside him, were also very angry, while Amano Keitoku and Sanada Masayuki looked at the performance of their companions with some amusement.

"Of course, you have to honor your lordship!" The boss nodded and hurriedly got up, took out the usual money from the counter that he didn't know how long he had worked hard to earn, and handed it to the Deshan bandits.

"That's pretty much it." The Deshan thief smiled, "Your daughter, is getting more and more smart, how is it?" Uncle, I'll sell you face and marry her back as a concubine! As he spoke, he rubbed his unshaven face against the girl, who was already crying with fear, but did not dare to squeak. The dozen or so followers behind the bandit also smiled lewdly and shouted good.

"Where does the little girl dare to climb high as an adult!" The boss's family was immediately frightened and turned pale, kowtowing on the ground like pounding garlic, "Don't dare, don't dare!" ”

"I just say yes!" The bandit leader roared, as if he felt tired of standing and wanted to find a place to sit. Beside him happened to be the table of the beautiful young man. Yu Qiuping had been paying attention to the bandit leader just now, and he didn't pay attention to this young man. The boy's face was also full of disgust, and he had been squeezing the teacup in his hand tightly since just now.

"Come, little white face, make room for me uncle!" The Tokuyama thief struck the young man with his scabbard on the table, and his ass was about to move towards the young man's seat.

However, to his surprise, the boy completely ignored his presence, silently raised his teacup and took a few sips of tea. Then he casually talked to a few of his companions about other things.

"Damn!" The Tokuyama bandit, who was completely ignored, felt embarrassed and embarrassed, and swept the boy's teacup out, hit the ground, and shattered into several pieces. The boy still ignored his presence, and couldn't look at him.

"Dumb!" In order to relieve the boss, one of the followers behind the bandit scolded, "I can't even say a word!" ”

"Let the girl go." As if to slap the attendant in the face, the boy suddenly spoke, and spat out a few words faintly, and the disgust between his eyebrows seemed to have reached its limit.

"It's not repaired, isn't it? You know who I am, uncle! Tokuyama Umexiu! Uncle Akasaka! Tokuyama Meixiu grabbed the young man's collar and picked the young man up. Some of the emaciated and weak teenagers were almost lifted up by the latter. Several attendants around him stood up angrily, but were forced to stop by several of the bandits' followers.

When the shopkeeper and his family saw the conflict in the store, they hid behind the counter in horror.

"Let the girl go." The boy was lifted up in the air, as if he didn't care at all about the predicament he encountered, but repeated again, still so calm and calm in his words.

"Uncle is here in Akasaka, you can do whatever you want! I think you're tired of it! Tokuyama Meixiu snorted coldly, and was about to start hitting the young man, but the Omi people at the other table, under the leadership of the young man, immediately pushed away the table in front of him, stood up, each drew a knife in his hand, and looked at the bandit with fierce eyes. Several of the bandits in the back also drew their knives one after another, looking at these people viciously.

"Doing this kind of thing in broad daylight, there is no royal law!" The young man in the lead was wearing a blue and white samurai uniform, and the katana in his hand was also a fine product at first glance, and it was estimated that it was not small.

"Omi accent?" Tokuyama Meixiu turned around and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"I'm Kenmasa Asai, the young master of the Asai family!" Kenmasa Asai, who will be Nagamasa Asai in the future, said sharply: "Don't let go of that girl yet!" Yu Qiuping's eyes burned all of a sudden, and he couldn't take his eyes off the future Warring States celebrities, marrying a man from Oda City, the first beauty of the Warring States period! (Although Yu Qiuping felt that the first beauty of the Warring States period must be Imagawa Kaede) He trembled slightly with excitement. Maeda Toshiya glanced at Yu Qiuping and felt that the other party seemed to have a disease that would convulsions when he saw a special person.

"Oh yo? The young master of the Asai family? So what, didn't the Asai family just be subdued by the Rokkaku family? The bandit was not frightened, and sneered: "What is the young master of the Asai family in our Mino spirit? Your uncle, I am the nephew of Deshan Zhongdeshan Zexiu! Say nothing in Akasaka, don't meddle in your business! Go back to Omi and lick the shoes of the Rokkaku! ”

Kenmasa Asai's eyes were red, and he couldn't hear anyone mention his family's humiliating history. Several of the attendants around him were also unkind, and they saw that the two sides were about to fight.

A clever bandit beside Tokuyama Meixiu understood that the level of the young master guards of the Asai family was definitely higher than that of these bandits, and they would definitely suffer a loss in the fight. So, he drew his knife, put it on the girl's neck, and scolded, "Which of you dares to move! This girl died instantly! Kenmasa Asai and the others were stunned for a moment, and they didn't dare to act rashly for a while.

"Look clearly, it's fourteen to nine, I'm afraid!" Tokuyama Meixiu didn't notice the good intentions of his subordinates, and deliberately twisted his body to remove the girl from the knife. Holding the girl with one hand and the collar of the boy with the other, he scolded Kenmasa Asai and said, "What do you owe to beat!" ”

Suddenly, he only felt a pain in his ribs, and was pushed violently, and then the girl in his arms was pulled away, and the hand holding the boy's collar was loosened. He hurriedly turned around, only to see the five people snatching back the girl, and after protecting the girl behind him, they all drew knives in their hands. A heroic young man led by him stroked his bangs in front of his forehead and said with a smile: "It's 14 against 14 now!" ”

Yu Qiuping looked at the bandits in front of him, and suddenly felt a deep sadness. On his side, there will be no equaled Honda Tadatsu in the world in the future, Omi Eagle Asai Nagamasa, the right and left Maeda Toshiya of the gun, and the outside and the inside are better than Xing Sanada Masayuki, and the bandit on the other side doesn't even have a name in history, so he actually wants to do it with his side? This is probably the worst bandit in history.