After Yu Qiuping commanded his subordinates to take away all the clothes and various ninja equipment from the attacker's corpse, he quickly evacuated the village. As for what the people in the village would do with the corpses and houses, Yu Qiuping didn't care. If the enemy is really the famous Wind Demon Ninja of the Warring States, it will be extremely dangerous to stay outside for a moment longer. Who knows if those dozens will make a comeback with more companions?

By the time Yu Qiuping returned to Imagiya Castle, it was already evening, and he could see from a distance that the checkpoint on the mountain road was almost completed. To his surprise, the Takeda family seemed to be talking to another caravan outside the castle town. Imamiya Leding took a lot of people and was on guard on the mountain road.

Yu Qiuping then led his subordinates straight to the scene of the conversation, and the brothers Sanada Nobutsuna and Sanada Masayuki seemed to be talking to a young man. When Yu Qiuping arrived, he happened to hear Sanada Masayuki ask.

"I don't know how old this boss is this year?"

"20 years this year." The new boss replied cheerfully, "Took over my father's caravan in Sagami." ”

"That's right." Sanada Masayuki raised his eyebrows, smiled and stretched out his hand: "Lord Yuhe, please advise." ”

Yu Qiuping saw the pupils that contracted violently in an instant, and laughed, "Lord Yuhe, I was also taken out of my identity like this yesterday. This sentence seems to be helping Mi and Shi Xu to speak, but in fact, he is on the side of Sanada Masayuki, implying that Yu and Shi Xu are not pretending, we all know it.

The corners of his mouth twitched twice, and he shook his head helplessly.

"Seeing the two adults react like this, it must be the adults of the Takeda family and the Imagawa family, and it is estimated that it is the same task as Zaixia." The family did not hide it, "In the Shimo-Hojo family, the family and the family came to investigate the disappearance. He held Sanada Masayuki's outstretched hand with his left hand, and stretched out his right hand towards Yu Qiuping, "I don't know the names of the two?" ”

"My lord," Yu Qiuping took his hand and smiled, "I guessed each other with that adult, you want to know our identities, and you need to get some information in exchange." Having said that, he was vigilant in his heart, and there were not many people brought by the Hojo family, only about fifty. The number of people outside with the Sanada family is estimated to be more than seventy, and it is no problem to suppress him. It's just that I'm afraid that the ninja in the Wind Demon Ninja will suddenly appear.

"Well," said the clan, "Our ninja investigated the intelligence of Suruga Sunto and Fuji and found that no strong local forces were involved in the ambush of the courier. "Yu Qiuping silently digested this information, and now that the Uesugi family and the powerful local forces have been ruled out... Speaking of which, why do these two have ninja intelligence support, but I don't have anything?

"So, you two, tell me your names, right?" The Kazuwa clan continued to look at Akihei and Masayuki Sanada, who had faintly replaced his brother as the head of the Takeda family.

"It's raining in the autumn flat." Yu Qiuping said in a low voice, anyway, he couldn't hide it for long, so it was better to tell him.

"In Shimosanada Nobutsuna." "In Shimosanada Masayuki."

"Lord Yuqiu, Lord Sanada. I don't know if the two of you have collected any information, but I am very willing to cooperate with the two. He continued sincerely.

Yu Qiuhei and Sanada Masayuki glanced at each other.

"The most useful piece of information we've gathered so far is—" Sanada said in a long tone.

"There is a good chance that the Hojo family was the mastermind of this attack." Yu Qiuping said with a smile.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and the ashigaru of the three families held their weapons one after another, as if they would be tense in the next moment.

"What do you mean?" The Yu He clan continued to ask in a deep voice unhappily, "Hugh wants to slander people's innocence. ”

"There is no evidence for empty words, but there is evidence below." After Yu Qiuping asked his subordinates to bring the seized sachets and the wind demon-style ninja equipment and clothes, he carefully paid attention to the expressions of the Yan and Shi Xu. The latter was stunned for a moment, and handed these things back to Yu Qiuping. "Does that mean it's the Hojo family? It is very likely that someone else is disguised. He shook his head, "It's not a secret, I was attacked by a samurai on horseback wearing Imagawa furniture and carrying the flag of the Imagawa family on the road." The Yu and clan clapped their hands, and a few ashigaru behind him brought a blood-stained Imagawa family's Guzu.

Yu Qiuping suddenly became angry, "I think this is obviously your herald who attacked us!" He angrily drew his sword from its sheath, "Are you still reasonable?" ”

With Yu Qiuping's movements, the subordinates behind him also drew their knives out of their sheaths. Charlie and the archers also drew their bows and arrows, looking at the Hojo family vigilantly. Seeing this, the people of the Hojo family and the Takeda family also drew their swords and guarded one after another.

"What's wrong?" The Kazuwa clan didn't draw his sword, and looked coldly at the katana shining in Yuqiuhei's hand, "Are the Imagawa family and the Takeda family going to attack their allies?" ”

"Didn't the Hojo Hall explain it to you?" Yu Qiuping smiled, "This trip, we are just businessmen, I am the boss of Saburo, he is the boss of Taro," he pointed to Sanada Nobutsuna beside him, and then looked at the Kagawa clan, "You are just a comigami boss." ”

"Killing you is just a private fight between caravans, and it has nothing to do with the three alliances." Sanada Masayuki asked, "How is it, would you like to explain?" ”

"Those things are all Sagami's," Kawha slowly drew his knife in his hand, "but the Hojo family didn't order the attack on the messenger. If you are bound to wronged the Hojo family, you can only accompany you to the end. ”

"Neither the Uesugi family nor the local forces are plotters." Sanada Masayuki looked at the two, "In other words, the mastermind behind the scenes is between the three of us." ”

"One of the three must be lying." Sanada Masayuki snorted coldly, "So..."

Suddenly, a huge commotion broke out on the side of the town on the west side of the field, and many residents shouted in horror, interrupting the confrontation between Yuqiu and the others. Imamiya Leding hurriedly rushed over with people, Yu Qiuping, Sanada Masayuki, and Ji and Shixu also rushed over with a few attendants.

I saw that the entrance of the village was densely packed around several circles, and everyone stood on tiptoe to look inside, and the sound of discussion and exclamation made the scene noisy. When Yu Qiuping tried to squeeze into the circle, he suddenly found that Imamiya Leding, who had arrived one step earlier, was standing in place, stunned, and didn't say a word.

"Lord Imamiya, what's wrong..."After Yu Qiuping took two steps forward, he was also frightened by the scene in front of him, and his voice stopped abruptly.

I saw that in the center of the circle, there was a big pit, and there was a lot of excavated soil around it, and the soil was still dark and had not lost its moisture, and it looked like it had just been dug out.

And in the pit, there were three corpses, and the corpse of a black crow - it was none other than the one of Amano Keito. The crow's chest was still oozing blood. The corpses of those three people, one of them, was the younger brother sent by Imamiya Leding to report the news. The three bodies were still dripping with blood, and it seemed that they had just died.

"Another one died?" Amano Keitoku didn't know when he arrived here, and after he whispered a word, he bent down and picked up the dead crow.

However, Yu Qiuping was not as calm as Amano Keide, but fell into deep fear. So much so that when Imamiya Ratei, who was beside him, cried bitterly and took away his brother's body, he didn't notice it.

The messengers I sent were intercepted, and so were the ravens I sent.

The courier's interception can also be explained by the fact that someone is ambushing there, so why was the crow intercepted? Am my every move being completely monitored?

A moment later, at the request of Imamiya Leding, the crowd gradually dispersed. After arranging his brother's funeral, Imamiya also rushed over. Surrounding the pit, only the investigation troops of the three families and the people of Imamiya Leding remained.

"Who are these two people?" Yu Qiuping pointed to the other two corpses.

"The one on the left is Shisuke, the one I sent back to the herald of the Kusakikan." Sanada Nobutsuna said with a heavy face.

"There is also the person who sent back Odawara to send the herald before I arrived at Imanomiya." He continued to whisper.

"Why are these bodies here?" Imamiya Leding endured great grief and asked a villager in a deep voice.

"Grass people, grass people," said the resident, who was obviously frightened enough, trembling, "the grass people wanted to burn the moldy grain, so they dug a hole here at the edge of the field. The grass people went back to the warehouse to get the grain for a while, and when they came back, there were more corpses here. The grass people screamed in fright, and everyone gathered around. ”

Everyone fell silent for a moment. It must have been the mastermind behind the attack on the three heralds and the heralds crow everywhere, and then unknowingly put them in this pit to demonstrate to the investigators.

"Take a look at the road I'm going to walk on my brother! Let the younger brother die clearly! Imamiya Leding suddenly said in a loud voice, "A few people are willing to go with you!" ”

"I'm going to find out too!" Sanada Nobutsuna scolded, "Who the hell dares to intercept my messenger!" Then go to the path that the Imanomiya-sama herald took first! ”

In order to prevent accidents, the group pulled out all the troops, and a group of several hundred people went to the vicinity of Takigawa in the direction of Suruga. But when they arrived at Takigawa, Yu Qiuhei and Imamiya Leding were taken aback.

The bridge that originally crossed the Takigawa River has been demolished, and there is no longer a boat to be found on the Takigawa. They searched along the riverbank, and several other bridges were demolished. When they reached a hill, they found that the bridge over the tributary to the west of the Takigawa River had also disappeared. Someone must have destroyed all the traffic, and the death of Imamiya Leding's younger brother is estimated to have been done by these people.

The group went northeast again to find out the communication lines of the Takeda family. When they reached the middle of the narrow path, they were surprised to find that the path, which had been unobstructed, had been blocked by the wood and rolling stones that had been brought in at an unknown time.

"I guess it's the same on our side." He continued to say with a gloomy face, "There are also several bridges on the way we came, and it is estimated that we will not be spared. ”

"All signal corps was intercepted, and all bridges and roads to the outside world were blocked." Yuqiu's plane was pale, "We have completely lost contact with the outside world, are we going to be trapped here?" ”

"Imamiya-sama, how much grain do you have there?" Yu Qiuping suddenly asked anxiously.

"This Yuqiu-sama can rest assured." Imanomiya Leding, who had just suffered the loss of his brother, and who had always been kind and smiling, was gloomy at the moment, "In the castle tower, there are enough emergency rations for hundreds of people for two or three days. In the villages below the mountain, there are several granaries that store the grain from last autumn's harvest, enough for us to eat for several months. ”

"That's good." Yu Qiuping breathed a long sigh of relief, it would be miserable if he was trapped and died here.

Before he finished speaking, suddenly, several puffs of smoke lit up in the southwest sky.

"Over there—it's in the direction of the village!" Imamiya Leding was shocked, "Quick! Let's go back! ”

However, before everyone could rush back, several heralds of the Imamiya family came running on horseback with sad faces, and when they were far away, they were panting and shouting, "My lord! Oh no! Oh no! ”

"Our grain and grass stored in the town! It's all burned! ”