"Half-guard, half-guard! Are you there! ”

Shigeharu Takenaka was planning a route to Kyoto with a group of staff officers in the makeshift camp when he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves and the shouts of Yu Qiuping.

Hearing Yu Qiuping's panicked voice, Shigeharu Takenaka straightened up all of a sudden, strode towards the tent door, and almost collided with Yu Qiuping who broke in.

"Your Highness, why are you in such a hurry?" Shigeharu Takenaka saw that Yu Qiuping was sweating profusely and asked in a low voice anxiously.

"Ashikaga Yoshiei was poisoned, what do you think?" Yu Qiuping was a little incoherent in a panic, and said a word without a beginning or an end.

"What do you mean?" Shigeharu Takenaka didn't keep up with Yu Qiuping's logic for a moment, and asked again with a frown.

"It's that pseudo-general Ashikaga Yoshiei! We got information earlier that he was sick and dead! Yu Qiuping kept gesturing with his hands as he spoke, "But just now!" We found the body of Ashikaga Yoshiei, he was poisoned, someone poisoned him! ”

And Aooka also said that that kind of poison is very rare, and there is no cure for it, and it is only available in powerful ninjas! Nine times out of ten, it is the poison of the three good families themselves! ”

Shigeharu Takenaka had fully understood what Yu Qiuping wanted to express at this moment, and he didn't ask more, but sat down slowly, supporting his head with his hands, and fell into deep thought.

After a while, a sharp flash suddenly flashed in his eyes, and he stood up suddenly, staring into Yu Qiuping's eyes and said in a deep voice: "Otowayama! Miyoshi is going to fight back! ”

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At the same time, the main force of the coalition forces in Kyoto, on the northern route, did not perceive any danger at all, but immersed themselves in a sea of celebration. Just now, Miyoshi Yoshiken was powerless to resist and evacuated from the Kyoto Imperial Palace in disarray, and the Miyoshi family troops under his command had lost more than 30% and were unable to fight again. The Imperial Palace was captured by the coalition forces, and Kyoto was also occupied by the coalition forces! Everyone felt that the war was over and that the situation in the south had nothing to do with the overall situation. The samurai of the Asai and Oda clans celebrated each other, boasting to each other about their exploits in the earth-shattering battle of Joraku.

The ashigaru people were also deeply affected, cheering in the streets of Kyoto to celebrate the end of the war. Many of them are poor people who have never left their hometowns in their lives, and this time they were able to hit the bustling city of Kyoto, which is estimated to be a lifelong conversation! And since most of the people of Kyoto had already evacuated in advance to escape the war, the few people left behind also fled in the great battle just now, and a large number of ownerless houses and wealth were waiting to be plundered by the coalition forces. The allied ashigaru launched a huge scale of indiscriminate hunting in the rich Kyoto, looting and looting all valuable goods - this is the purpose of ordinary ashigaru warfare!

Although Baibai Anxin is already a samurai, his income is also tight all year round, so he naturally can't let go of the opportunity to make a fortune. He snatched several gold, silver, treasures, and jade items left over from the pawnshop, and filled his pockets and sleeves to the brim. Suddenly, he noticed that a valuable oil lamp pendant appeared to be hanging from the roof of a pawnshop. Excited, he stuffed the things he had snatched into the arms of his subordinates, and he was afraid to go along the beams of the house. However, just as he tried to untie the rope that tied the oil lamp pendant to the ceiling, he suddenly smelled a smell of sulfur. He flipped around a few times and found a large amount of sulfur stuffed into the straw covering the ceiling.

The nimble Baibai Anxin realized that something was wrong, and immediately ordered a dozen or so subordinates around him who could still be contacted to quickly climb up to the nearby building to find out. These ashigaru were originally in good hands, but they were a little reluctant to receive such an order, but they still reluctantly climbed up, only to find that ten of the dozen houses had sulfur on the roofs or beams.

Baibai Anxin, who learned of this, was already as pale as dirt, and he didn't have time to check the other houses, but hurried towards the Kyoto Imperial Palace where His Highnesses were located. However, the streets of Kyoto are full of allied troops looting and looting, and the establishment has completely disappeared, even blocking the roads. It took a long time for Baibai Anxin to finally find Isono and report his discovery.

At first, Isono thought he was making a fuss and didn't want to spoil the interest of Oda Nobunaga and Asai Nagamasa at this big moment. However, when Hyakubai Anshin knelt on the ground and swore a poisonous oath on Isono's thigh, Isono finally realized the seriousness of the problem and prepared to report to Asai Nagamasa and Oda Nobunaga.

"My lord, and His Highness Oda." Isono walked quickly to Asai Nagamasa and Oda Nobunaga, who were standing in the garden of the Kyoto Imperial Palace with dozens of samurai to celebrate, and whispered, "Under the subordinates, sulfur was found on the roofs of more than a dozen houses. ”

"What did you find?" Due to the noise of excitement everywhere, Oda Nobunaga did not hear Isono Tamasa clearly, and asked again in a loud voice. Before Isono could speak, Oda Nobunaga's pupils contracted suddenly, and he suddenly froze in place.

The tongue of fire that suddenly rose in the northwest of Kyoto gave an answer in place of Isono Yuanchang.

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At this time, Miyoshi Yoshiken was standing on a pavilion in the northwest of Kyoto with his hands behind his back, looking at the fire he had just lit, and under the howling of the northwest wind, it was burning towards the huge Kyoto.

"Alarmed the emperor, and burned down Kyoto and the Imperial Palace." Miyoshi Changyi, who was standing behind Miyoshi Yoshixian, whispered a little uneasily: "Shixiu, if you do such a thing, you will go to hell." ”

"I'm already ready to come to my senses." Sanhao Yixian only smiled slightly when he heard this, raised his head proudly, and looked at the tongue of fire that rushed to the sky, "Three good and four brothers, three do big things, and one does dirty things." Whoever does the dirty, go to hell and pave the way for his brothers. ”

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"Queue up! Don't mess around! Evacuate! ”

In the midst of the chaos and screams and shouts, a samurai was standing on a second-floor building, shouting at the dazed Ashigaru in the street.

With him as the center of the circle, zooming in on the whole of Kyoto, it is estimated that there are hundreds of samurai who shout at him to try to put order in order, but to little avail.

From the moment a tongue of fire rose more than a foot high in the northwest of Kyoto, the troops of the coalition forces in Kyoto were already in chaos. Carried by the northwest wind, the fire spread rapidly, burning towards the place where the coalition forces were stationed.

"What about His Highness Takigawa? Where is His Highness Takigawa? At this moment, Hidemasa Tsuda is shuttling through the chaotic streets of Kyoto with a dozen brothers around him who can only gather together. Having lost their formation and command, the ashigaru scurried like headless flies, fleeing to safety to the south and east. The streets of Kyoto are filled with fugitive ashigaru, and the loot they have just snatched is thrown indiscriminately. Every now and then, someone falls, and immediately dozens of feet step over it, and they can't even cry out for help.

"Have you seen His Highness Takigawa?" Hidemasa Tsuda rushed to the place where they went to rob the former Takigawa Kazuyi with his people, only to find that no one was found there. He then led his men to the south, and every time he met a high-ranking samurai of the Oda family, he stopped him and asked for news of Takigawa Kazuyoshi, but he never found anything. Before he could react, a group of people suddenly fled from the other side of the intersection and dispersed his people. Hidemasa Tsuda was just about to go and meet the people who had been scattered, but more and more people poured out, and he was pushed by the crowd and stumbled towards the south, and when he finally found an open space to stop, he found that there were only three people left with him.

"Are you from the Takigawa family?" At this moment, a shout suddenly remembered. Hidemasa Tsuda jerked his head and saw that it was Oda Nobunaga's mother-robed crowd who was roaring at him amid a cacophony of shouts, hoping it would hear clearly.

"Exactly! Precisely! Hidemasa Tsuda also opened his throat and yelled back, making sure that the mother-clothed people could hear it.

"His Highness Takikawa went to the east, I saw his banner just now!" The maiden man pointed in the direction of the east and shouted, "Have you seen the lord? ”

"Thank you! But I didn't see Oda Hall! Hidemasa Tsuda said gratefully.

"To die!" The mother seemed to mumble a few words, turned around and left, but Hidemasa Tsuda couldn't hear his complaint clearly. It seemed that he was scattered in the crowd at once, and by the time he came back to his senses, Oda Nobunaga could no longer be found.

Due to indiscriminate arrests and looting, the ashigaru families were all mixed together. When the fire suddenly ignited, any attempts by the heads of the house to gather their troops were in vain, and they had to withdraw from the city surrounded by guards.

"Son of a bitch! These three good righteous sages actually burned Kyoto! "Oda Nobunaga rode out of the street with a disgraced face, his mouth full of curses against Miyoshi Yoshiken." The Miyoshi family has already lost, and the Miyoshi Changqing has withdrawn, is it any use for you to burn Kyoto? With great difficulty, he managed to squeeze out of Kyoto, ran to the south of Kyoto, and began to try to gather his troops. But before he could gather enough 1,000 soldiers, Sakuma Nobumori of the southern temple group suddenly sent someone to ask for help:

"Ten rivers and one cun led 3,000 soldiers from the south to fight!"

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At the same time, Yuakihei was galloping on the mountain road of Mt. Otowaba, and he had already ordered Tsunebanbei to advance towards Mt. Otowa immediately, while he himself took the lead with his guards to the top of Mt. Otowa in an attempt to get a lookout of the situation.

However, the moment he reached the top of the mountain, he realized that something was going to be bad.

A raging fire had already raged in Kyoto, and even if he couldn't see it clearly from a distance, Yu Qiuping knew that something was wrong with the main force of the coalition forces there.

Nearly 10,000 soldiers of the three good families are rolling out of the East Temple on the west bank of the Kamogawa River, ten miles away from the west side of the Otowa Mountain. Some of them were heading north towards Kyoto, and the main force was crossing the Kamogawa River and heading straight for Mt. Otowa in the middle of the road—and they would soon encounter the Mino trio who were following in the footsteps of Oda Nobunaga in the middle.

"Got it down!" Shigeharu Takenaka, who was following Yu Qiuping, suddenly realized, turned over and dismounted, snatched the map from the hand of the attendant, and spread it on the dirt, gesturing with his hand and whispering in a quick whisper.