Chapter Eighty-Four: The Shadow Warrior

Taking advantage of the Tokugawa samurai's familiarity with the terrain, Burning Sky successfully outflanked the front of Takeda's army. While lying in ambush in the woods, Kanku thought about escaping after saving Tokugawa Ieyasu. The whole person is a mess in his head, and he doesn't know if he will die here. Even the poem that was killed after the failure to rescue Tokugawa Ieyasu was thought of was called: "The world is Zen, and the Buddha is Zen. "Although it is not domineering, it gives people a sense of mystery, and it can be regarded as an understatement in the history of Japan's Warring States period.

Just as the sky was burning, the vanguard of the Takeda army, which was escorting Tokugawa Ieyasu, had already passed in front of the sky. Burning Sky came back to his senses and looked towards the back of the group, seeing Ashigaru who was carrying Tokugawa Ieyasu's Kara crown scarf getting closer and closer to him. When Tokugawa Ieyasu's horse passed in front of the burning sky, the burning sky shouted: "Attack! ”

The people hiding in the woods heard the order to burn the sky and followed the burning sky through the left flank of Takeda's team. Burning Sky first picked a Takeda samurai on horseback off his horse, and then swung his naginata to kill several Takeda Ashigaru who were caught off guard, and broke into the Takeda army first. Ichisuke on the right and Akijiro Fushiwa also rushed into the Takeda team after Burning Sky and rushed straight towards Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was tied to his horse.

The Takeda general, who was walking at the head of the team, quickly noticed the abnormality, and immediately commanded the army behind him to press, trying to trap the Oda and Tokugawa coalition forces that broke into his ranks. Burning Sky didn't know the plans of the Takeda generals, and now Burning Sky only had the idea of running away quickly after saving Tokugawa Ieyasu. Because of the huge fame in front of his eyes, the coalition samurai, who had been on the run for a long time, burst out of energy again, rushed into the Takeda team like a sword, and cut off the Takeda army, which was like a long red snake.

As soon as the Burning Sky reached the vicinity of Tokugawa Ieyasu, several more Takeda Ashigaru formed a formation and used three guns to beat the Burning Sky from top to bottom. Burning Sky was stunned for a moment, and as soon as he reined in the war horse, he was smashed on the shoulder by three spears and fell off his horse. The war horse that burned into the air was directly smashed or stabbed by several subsequent three guns, and lost the ability to continue moving. Seeing this, Fushiwa Akijiro and Right Ichisuke immediately rushed over and rescued the fallen Burning Sky. Seeing that Ichisuke on the right rescued the burning sky, Fushiwa Akijiro and several volunteer samurai broke through Takeda Ashigaru's gun array and killed all of them.

The rescued Burning Sky endured the sharp pain in his left shoulder and got up again, and ran in the direction of Tokugawa Ieyasu with the volunteer samurai around him. At this time, Fushiwa Akijiro had already led several volunteer samurai to kill the Takeda samurai standing beside Tokugawa Ieyasu, and cut off the rope that bound Tokugawa Ieyasu. As soon as Burning Sky ran in front of Tokugawa Ieyasu, before His Highness Mikawa could shout, he found that the person in front of him who ripped off the rope on his body turned out to be Yasumasa Kamihara.

After being stunned in place for a few breaths, he was pulled onto the war horse by the right one, and Kamihara Yasumasa also said to the burning sky: "Mingshamen, let's go quickly!" With that, he leaned over and grabbed a Takeda samurai's sword, and rushed towards the right flank of Takeda's team.

After the Takeda Army found out that "Tokugawa Ieyasu" had been rescued, they immediately surrounded the front and rear, wanting to strangle the Burning Sky and others in the process of breaking through. After capturing a war horse, Ichisuke on the right also gave up his mount to Burning Sky. Just as Burnora and the others were about to break out of Takeda's encirclement, a samurai on horseback with a Takeda Ryoshi on his back blocked the way of Kanhara Yasumasa, who fought several times with Nasamurai but failed to kill him, while Fushiwa Akijiro and Right Ichisuke were also entangled by nearby Takeda Samurai and Ashigaru.

Seeing that the encirclement of the Takeda army was about to be completed, after burning the air and letting out a loud roar, he clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and rushed towards the samurai who was entangled with Kanhara Yasumasa with his right hand. When the warrior heard a loud shout, he subconsciously glanced at the source of the sound, only to find that a monk warrior with a weak left hand was rushing straight towards him. Burning Sky was still five steps away from the samurai, and released the naginata in his hand. The naginata, which was more than two meters long, flew out of the burning hand in an instant, and pierced into the samurai who was entangled with Kanhara Yasumasa under the effect of inertia.

In this way, Burning Sky opened the gap with the naginata that had accompanied him for more than a year, and when Fushiwa Akijiro and others saw this, they immediately broke free from the entanglement of the Takeda Army, and followed Burning Sky and Kamihara Yasumasa to highlight the encirclement of the Takeda family. However, most of the people were still trapped by the Takeda army, and Burning Sky glanced at the only seven volunteer warriors and two Tokugawa samurai left behind him, his eyes turned red, and then followed Kamihara Yasumasa, who was familiar with the road, into the path.

After discovering that someone had broken through, the Takeda Army sent nearly 100 men to pursue the breakout. The rest of the people were slaughtered by the encircled Oda and Tokugawa coalition forces. When Admiral Takeda examined the corpse, he only found Tokugawa Ieyasu's Tang head, but did not send "Tokugawa Ieyasu" himself. Later, he found a large naginata knife inserted in his close servant, which could have an inscription on the Shizhou Village.

Seeing this, the general Takeda took out the sword on his waist and cut off the shaft of the managi knife, and said, "Takeda Shiro will take the life of the rescuer!" Subsequently, limited to Takeda Shingen's sudden order to "return to the army as soon as possible regardless of whether Tokugawa Ieyasu is caught or not", he gathered his men who had been ordered to pursue and hurriedly retreated north to return to his main camp.

After walking the path and shaking off the Takeda army, Burning Sky walked directly towards Hamamatsu Castle. But I didn't know that the current Hamamatsu Castle had become a mess, and because of the arrival of Sakai Tadaji, everyone in the city thought that Tokugawa Ieyasu had been captured or killed. As a son-in-law, Tokugawa Nobuyasu was naturally regarded by everyone as the next governor of the Tokugawa family.

Tokugawa Nobuyasu also gathered his retainers who remained in Hamamatsu Castle and held an evaluation in the castle hall. In the evaluation, Tokugawa Nobuyasu advocated that the daughter plus the three counties of Toe Shuchi, Hayahara, and Sano be exchanged for the captured Tokugawa Ieyasu and the retainers of the Tokugawa family, even if the body was taken. Tokugawa Nobuyasu's idea was immediately opposed by the weak-breathed Sakai Tadaji.

Although Tokugawa Nobuyasu was not annoyed by Sakai's opposition, to the surprise of the Tokugawa retainers, Tokugawa Ieyasu's main chamber Tsukiyamaden directly rebuked Sakai Tadaji when Tokugawa Ieyasu's life and death were unknown, and said that Sakai Tadaji had bad intentions. Sakai Tadaji, who was already mentally devastated by the Tokugawa Ieyasu incident (currently thought that Tokugawa Ieyasu was captured or captured), fainted directly in the assessment room under the reprimand of Tsukiyamaden.

Since most of the Mikawa factions in Hamamatsu Castle went out with Tokugawa Ieyasu, most of the Hamamatsu Castle were the Sunfu and Toe factions that were annexed from Imagawa. The Imagawa lineage of Tsukuyamaden was supported by these people at this moment, and these Toe and Sunfu samurai, who had been ridiculed and disdained by the Mikawa faction in the past, were now echoing the princess of the former master family and reprimanding Sakai Tadaji, the representative of the Mikawa faction, in the assessment room that had passed out on the ground.

At this moment, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was wearing a cloak under Hamamatsu Castle, was entering Hamamatsu Castle under the escort of Ishikawa Shumasa and Okubo Tadashi.