On April 10, Yu Qiuhei left Kuroda Castle with 400 soldiers and 20 cavalry of Tokiwabei and began to head south to Mikawa, accompanied by Honda Tadakatsu and Ryuko as escorts. Although the latter is a little girl who has just turned 13 years old, she doesn't know why she is particularly interested in military affairs, and she must serve as Yu Qiuping's bodyguard. Yu Qiuping couldn't resist her, so he promised her to be Honda Tadakatsu's deputy.

This time, Yuqiu's usual astonishing marching speed shocked the entire Owari again. Yu Qiuping did not ask the auxiliary soldiers prepared by Oda Nobunaga to wait for him in Kiyoshu Castle, but asked the auxiliary soldiers to go directly to Nakono Castle to wait for him, and said that he would arrive today! This request caused an uproar in the military camp under Komaki Mountain at that time. Shibata Katsuya and others were indignant at Yu Qiuping's arrogance, and Oda Nobunaga also sent his auxiliaries directly from Kiyoshu Castle to Nakono Castle with the mentality of having fun.

However, to everyone's surprise, on April 10, Yuakihei led Tokiwabei on a one-day march of 80 miles to Nakono Castle half an hour before sunset, even before the auxiliary troops who had set out from Cheongju Castle. The next day, the name of Kamixing Tsuneban immediately resounded throughout Owari.

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In the early morning of April 11, Yu Qiuping woke up from his sleep. Tokiwa was temporarily stationed in the barracks outside Nakono Castle at this moment. Yu Qiuping felt a little thirsty, and although it was not yet time to get up, he struggled to get up from the comfortable bed and went to find some water to drink.

As soon as he walked out of his bedroom, he saw two small figures practicing sword skills in the open space in the center of the barracks. Yuqiu took a closer look and found that it was Honda Tadakatsu and Ryuko. Every time Honda Tadashi made a move, Ryuko immediately imitated it carefully. Although the strength and speed are still far less than Honda Tadatsu, it is also somewhat interesting.

"Get up and practice so early," Yu Qiuping beckoned to them and walked over, "Don't you want to rest for a while?" ”

"I have to travel all day today," Honda Tadashi replied to Yu Qiuping, but he didn't dare to slack off in the movements of his hands, "If you don't practice in the morning, you won't have time." ”

"It doesn't matter if you don't practice for a day, you'll be very tired today," Yu Qiuping said with a smile.

"You can't do it if you don't practice for a day." Honda Tadakatsu shook his head firmly and said, "These starting styles, if you don't practice for a day, you will be born. ”

Yu Qiuping looked at Honda Tadakatsu's hard-working appearance and smiled helplessly. Yes, he's always worked so hard, that's why he's so strong. He turned his gaze to Longzi, the girl with a ponytail, "Longzi, why are you working so hard!" Didn't you sleep with your wife before? ”

Imagawa Kaede really loves to sleep very lazy, and he doesn't wake up every time he sleeps until three poles in the morning, so that Yu Qiuping has to be light when he gets up, so as not to wake her up. When Yu Qiuping was away on the expedition, Ryuko quickly contracted this vice, and often slept with Imagawa Kaede for breakfast.

"Brother Nabenosuke is going back to Mikawa in a few days!" Long Zi whispered a little reluctantly, "I want to learn some more skills, and it will be Long Zi who will protect His Highness in the future." ”

As soon as Long Zi spoke, Yu Qiuping also reacted. Honda Tadakatsu had said before that he would return to the Matsudaira family in the year after tomorrow, that is, in the sixth year of Eiroku. This trip to Yuqiuping happened to come to Mikawa, and it is estimated that Honda Tadashi will also say goodbye.

"When the time comes, I'll hold a banquet for you, and it just so happens that the brothers are here," Yuqiuping squeezed out a smile towards Honda Tadakatsu, "Thank you for your contributions to Yuqiu's family in the past few years." If you want, I can also give you a piece of paper red leaf as a souvenir. ”

When Chang Pan was preparing to expand his recruitment, Yu Qiuping still retained the previous tradition, and personally folded 200 paper red leaves and sent them to his new subordinates. And among the old subordinates, there are a lot of paper red leaves that have been damaged, and they have all exchanged for new ones in Yuqiuping.

"No need, Your Highness," Honda Tadakatsu shook his head, "I'm a retainer of the Matsudaira family, and I don't wear the Momiji of Tokiwabi." ”

"That's a pity," Yu Qiuping said softly with some embarrassment.

"Moreover, I don't think I will go back this time." Tadakatsu Honda replied as he meticulously practiced his starting hand.

"Huh?" Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, and a hint of joy flashed in his heart, "Why don't you leave?" ”

"Many of the people in the lower clan have participated in the rebellion that has always been one," Honda Tadakatsu said in a low voice with a calm face, "The clansmen of the family wrote to say that His Royal Highness Matsudaira is very suspicious of the Honda family now, and it is not the right time to go back now. ”

Yu Qiuping suddenly realized! Later in history, Tokugawa Ieyasu's famous military advisor Honda Masanobu, because he was a devout believer in the Ichijo sect, seems to have joined the side of Honganji Temple in this Ichijo and opposed the Matsudaira family. Many clansmen of the Hondai family also responded and defected from the Matsudaira family. This made the position of the Honga family very embarrassing, and was suspected by the master's family,

"Then let's wait until this limelight has passed," Yu Qiuping said with relief, "When His Royal Highness Matsudaira forgives those rebellious clansmen, it will be better for Nabenosuke to go back." ”

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On 11 April, the army continued its journey. However, with the help of auxiliaries carrying grain, grass and armor, the speed of the team inevitably slowed down. Riding on the white horse lute, presented by Asai Nagamasa, Yu Qiuhei rhythmically tapped the sheath of the katana Chidori with the knuckles of his index finger, and listened to the pleasant voice, but his thoughts drifted far away.

Although Chang Panbei has the name of Shenxing, when he really comes to the battlefield, it is impossible to leave the auxiliary soldiers and act alone. You don't have to let the soldiers cook and chop wood, set up camp, transport baggage, or so on, and let the soldiers come by themselves, right? If you don't wait for others to fight, you'll be exhausted.

However, if the auxiliaries were brought with him, Chang Panbei's marching speed would be slowed down. A rapid march at the strategic level cannot be achieved only by being able to perform high-speed tactical maneuvers on the battlefield.

Unless I even have an auxiliary soldier to train and take a break from production? Train them together to build discipline that will allow them to keep up with the speed of their soldiers?

But it's obviously a lot of money! Will you agree that I will support the auxiliaries?

Yu Qiuping thought about it, and before he knew it, the army had already driven to the edge of the Fengzu River. The sun was in the west, and the auxiliaries were complaining. Yu Qiuping looked at the sky and decided to camp on the spot.

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Yu Qiuping had planned to have a good night's rest tonight and enter the territory of Mikawa tomorrow. But he never thought that there would be uninvited guests in the camp that night.

"Your Highness, there are fine works!" After being informed, Anayama Shinshi strode into Yuqiuping's tent.

"Finesse? So fast? Yu Qiuping frowned, "Isn't this still in Owari!" Is the meticulous work of the Sect so arrogant? ”

"That's right, we've been surrounded outside the camp, do you want Your Highness to take a look." Anayama Nobuyori said with a wicked smile and asked. Although Yu Qiuping noticed that Akayama's smile seemed a little weird, he still followed him to the outside of the tent.

I saw more than a dozen members of the horseback team, under the leadership of Kohata Jiesheng, dismounted and formed a circle, which seemed to surround several people. After seeing Yu Qiuping coming, everyone consciously let go of a crack, so that Yu Qiuping could see the situation in the circle.

I saw a woman in her twenties, holding a spear in one hand and a swaddling baby in the other, and the baby in the swaddling clothes was crying loudly. And beside him, there was a man kneeling with more than a dozen feather arrows stuck in his body, and there were also several deep wounds on his body that were trickling blood, and he couldn't survive.

"Isn't this a family of three!" Yu Qiuping suddenly burst into a rage, "What are you doing!" Why do you want to start with a family of three! ”

"Your Highness is angry!" Xiao Hajie hurriedly explained: "Your Highness! We didn't hurt that man, he was already scarred when he rushed to the edge of our camp! When we saw that they were unknown, we surrounded them. ”

"And that woman, she is so good at giving birth!" Xue Shan Xinshi exclaimed, "Just now we saw them rushing towards our camp with guns and horses, and we shot the horses of the three of them to death with arrows!" As a result, the woman actually jumped down in a somersault and not only hugged the baby, but also caught her husband! ”

However, before the words of the Cave Mountain were finished, the woman with the gun interrupted in a deep voice: "He is not my husband!" ”

"And who is he?" Keiji Maeda asked, "Who are you?" ”

"What does this have to do with you!" The woman carried the gun and leaned slightly sideways to protect the swaddling clothes behind her.

"Now that this is close to the war zone, we need to be wary of any strangers," Yu Qiuping explained as gently as possible, "What's more, you rushed to our camp with a gun and horses, threatening the safety of our army, so we must know your identity clearly." ”

"What if I don't say it?" The woman's sword frowned and set her eyes on Yu Qiuping.

"If I don't say anything, I'll have to take you down." Yu Qiuping whispered dissatisfiedly, "I don't have time to play with you in this kind of drama." The safety of the whole army comes first! ”

"Take it! Interrogate well! As soon as Yu Qiuping beckoned, Xueshan Xinshi rushed up with a few people. Yu Qiuping thought that he would soon see the woman being captured alive on the ground, but he didn't want this woman to be so powerful. Protecting the baby with one hand, and dancing the spear with the other hand, Akayama Nominee and others couldn't get close for half a day.

"Keiji, can you take him down?" Yu Qiuping also felt a little amused by the scene in front of him, Cave Mountain was faithful and a few of their big men couldn't catch a woman.

"Yes," Keiji Maeda snorted coldly nonchalantly, "I just don't know, does His Highness want to die or live?" ”

"Nature is going to live, take a good interrogation." Yu Qiuping glared at Keiji Maeda with disgust, "If you want to die, I'll call Charlie directly, where are there so many things?" ”

"Ah~~" After hearing this, Maeda Keiji first looked at the woman, and then looked at Yu Qiuping with a knowing look, "Your Highness can't help but want to live, and also want a weak woman, and then interrogate it alone at night?" ”

As soon as Keiji Maeda's words fell, the riders of the surrounding cavalry team couldn't help laughing. Cave Mountain Nominee shouted even more anxiously: "Keiji! What do you mean! This woman is the first thing I saw! ”

"Shut up!" Yu Qiuping scolded angrily and funny: "How can I be that kind of lustful person? Even if it is, my wife is a hundred times better looking than her. ”

Seeing that several men around her actually made fun of their chastity, the woman blushed with anger and stared at Yu Qiuping viciously.