On May 19, 1560, the third year of Eiroku, Owari Province, Barrel Sasama.

"Your Excellency!" A herald hurried to a young man with a cloak full of red leaves on his shoulders. "The Oda Army is starting to leave Nakajima."

The young man raised his head and looked at the clouds gathering in the sky and the sky that was getting darker.

"I can't be mistaken, May 19, I can't be wrong." The young man muttered.

"Smack." A dark yellow patch of soil on the ground in front of his feet suddenly had a black dot.

Immediately afterward, there were more and more black spots around them, and a light rain soaked the armor of the ashigaru, and it became heavier and heavier, gradually turning into a downpour. The young man looked at the sky, letting the rain fall on his face, and could not hide the arc of excitement at the corner of his mouth.

"It's raining, no problem, send heralds to Asahina, Uden, Sena, and Katsuyama-sama, saying that everything is going to be as planned!" The cloaked youth whispered.

"Your Excellency is like a god," the other black-armored warrior beside him whispered. Another young man next to him picked up a poncho and gently draped it over the young man in the red leaf cloak.

The young man in the cloak looked back proudly, and behind him, six hundred soldiers were neatly lined up. Everyone has a red leaf stuck in their helmet. He held high the flag that had been planted on the ground and waved it excitedly.

"On the afternoon of the 19th, it rained heavily!" The young man shouted, "Oda surprise attack!" ”

"Absolute defense! Ascend to the high ground, facing northwest! Array! ”

"Hey! Hey! Oh! After uttering three neat shouts, the six hundred feet immediately became silent, braved the heavy rain, and quickly marched to all the dangerous points on the high ground. The cloaked youth will stick the flag on the ground and confidently look to the southwest, where heaven and earth meet.

In the slopes of the barrel narrows, there was a seemingly defenseless army. The flag of the Imagawa family's governor, the Akatori Banner, was erected listlessly in the rain. The surrounding soldiers were in groups and twos, hiding under trees or tents sheltered from the rain, and there were not even basic sentry posts.

At the foot of the hill on the eastern side of this hillside, too, a tent was erected. Another Red Bird military flag fluttering high in the wind is erected here. The two thousand soldiers looked solemn, lined up neatly, and were ready to go. In the back, tens of thousands of heavy soldiers went back and forth to repair the fortifications of the camp tents.

To the southwest of the hillside is the unit where the youth belongs. They have also completed the formation quickly.

And in the heavy rain, 2,000 troops with red papaya flags were rapidly advancing towards the trap that was still waiting for them to the east. Under the general's flag in the formation, I saw a person in black clothes and black armor, with two sharp and unusual mustaches on the corners of his mouth. Under the strong sword eyebrows, the eagle-like eyes flashed with an indescribable excitement. He ignored the Imagawa family's two military flags found on both sides of the road next to him, and just rushed straight towards the barrel Sasa, the life and death field that was about to decide the fate of the world.

The meeting of fate is about to unfold, and the wheel of history is slowly rolling forward.

The time goes back to the first year of Yonglu (1558) two years ago.

Yu Qiuping has a secret, a secret about his own background. He didn't know where to start this secret, and no one told him. This is the inevitable sadness and loneliness of a traveler.

The coordinates where he was located were in the spring of the first year of Eiroku (1558), at Sunpu Castle in Suruga, Tokaido, Japan. In other words, it was the most magnificent Warring States period in Japan. Sunpu Castle, the main castle of the Imagawa family, is also a strategic point in the Tokaido. As a well-developed commercial city, it is also home to a large number of farmers and craftsmen, with a population of up to 25,000.

Yu Qiuping couldn't lift his spirits about this.

He is from the 21st century, and before the time travel was a Chinese high school freshman. He still hasn't figured out why he sleeps in the wilderness after a good night's sleep, more than 400 years ago. The wilderness of Japan – that was more than a month ago.

He spent his first two days in a state of panic and crankiness, and also ate up the beef jerky he was carrying. He began to realize that the question of how to avoid starvation was more realistic than the anxiety of worrying that his parents would not find him.

Yu Qiuping thought that with his rich historical knowledge in the Internet information age, reading and literacy and numeracy skills, he could easily get a job in ancient times when the literacy rate was less than 5%. No matter how hard you can, you can rely on your strong body close to 1.8 meters to support yourself.

But he was forced to live on the streets and become a beggar.

The reason is simple, he doesn't know Japanese.

A strange man in strange clothes, tall and tall, and speaking a language that no one else understands, naturally he will not be able to find a job. In fact, Chinese was still a very important language in Japan at that time, especially among the upper echelons such as the samurai palace. However, the problem was that Japanese Chinese was still a southern Chinese accent at that time, and it seemed impossible to communicate with Yu Qiuping's Mandarin.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a source of income, you don't have anything to eat, and you're dying.

However, Yu Qiuping, who grew up in a family that attaches great importance to legal education, has never been able to make up his mind to make a living by illegal theft. His only possession was a maple leaf pendant made of ruby around his neck, a token of his father's promise to his mother, which was also passed on to Yu Qiuping and given to their future daughter-in-law in the near future. Yu Qiuping is not without the idea of pawning, but when he thinks of the special meaning of this pendant that has accompanied him for more than ten years - this is the only connection between himself and his parents who have been separated forever. When he was born, his mother wore a pendant around his neck, and since he was a child, he has been particularly interested in autumn leaves. When he was old enough to remember, he would go to Beijing Xiangshan once a year to see the autumn leaves. All kinds of books at home,The decoration is also patterned with red leaves.。 He was reluctant to accept this pendant, but he still chose to live on the street and become a beggar.

Fortunately, his first begging customer knew Chinese characters.

That noble son called Asahina Taehyung is really a warm-hearted and good person. After learning that Yu Qiuping was a homeless man from the Ming Kingdom through Chinese character communication, he offered to accept him as a servant to ensure that he was well fed and drunk. And his reasoning is. "I've never recruited a Ming servant, I think you're very interesting."

Although he did not know much about the history of Japan's Warring States, he vaguely remembered that the Imagawa family, the ruler of the Suruga region, seemed to have two pillars, the Okabe family and the Asahina family. The son of Asahina in front of him is estimated to be a member of the big family. As it turned out later, he guessed correctly, and Asahina Taiheng was the son of the former head of the Asahina family, Asahina Taino, and the younger brother of the current head of the family, Asahina Taichao. In the increasingly corrupt Suruga, the son of the powerful and wealthy Asahina family is naturally qualified to recruit a large number of servants to accompany him in his pleasures.

However, Yu Qiuping, who was born in an equal and free society, has a sense of disgust for the life under the fence and the snort of others, and does not want to become a slave of others and lose the freedom of life.

"Thank you for the kindness of this son," Yu Qiuping bowed, regretfully but refused without hesitation, and wrote on the paper: "But I have no intention of selling myself, I can only live up to the kindness of the child." ”

Yu Qiuping still clearly remembers that when he refused to go to Hinay Taehyung, the entourage around him was stunned at first, and then glared at him angrily, and even pressed a few handles on the hilt of the knife. That posture really frightened Yu Qiuping. When he first came to Japan, he didn't know that his manners, manners, and words were a great disrespect to Asahina Taehyung. And during the samurai period, when the concept of humiliation and death was prevalent, the samurai of the main family had every reason to kill a civilian on the spot.

Thankfully, Taehyung Asahina is also a weirdo. It can be seen from his reaction to Yu Qiuping's disrespectful performance.

"Hehe," he smiled self-deprecatingly as he turned back to the attendants on the left and right, "I am willing to be a beggar but I am not willing to be a servant, is this son so miserable!" ”

He turned his head to stare at Yu Qiuping, "And that attitude that is neither humble nor arrogant, I don't know and think that I met the young master of our Imagawa family," as he spoke, he almost casually pulled the nearly 160-pound Yu Qiuping by the collar with one hand, and easily put the frightened Yu Qiuping back on the ground. "I admit you little brother!" He patted his chest arrogantly, and slapped Yu Qiuping's chest hard, "Who dares to bully you in this Junfu City in the future, just call my brother to clean him up!" "Quick, call brother!"

"Young man, don't be afraid, our son-in-law is so rude in accepting his younger brother." Another attendant next to him added with concern.

So, Yu Qiuping inexplicably recognized a big brother, and his eldest brother helped him open a shop on the South Street of Junfu City, specializing in settling accounts for various shops. Not only that, but the spendthrift Asahina Taehyung also placed a set of furniture in the back of the store, which can be regarded as giving Yu Qiuping a place to settle down in Japan. In order to allow Yu Qiuping to adapt to the Japanese language as soon as possible, and also to be able to communicate with the businessmen who came to settle accounts, he also arranged for a little attendant named Kondo Yasuso who knew Chinese to act as a translator for him.

After learning Japanese in general, Yu Qiuping also came up with an explanation for his origins. He was the son of an overseas Chinese businessman, and when he went to sea, he was shipwrecked and drifted to Japan. As for his fancy dress and lack of hair, Asahina Taehyung didn't ask much, and he didn't say much.

Everything seemed to settle down, and life was calm again. Although he still dreams of the past world in the dead of night, the helplessness and sadness when he wakes up still make him gradually calm and accept the reality he has crossed, and he is no longer troubled by the endless thoughts of his parents and friends.

It's a whole new life.