After eating two roasted rice balls, he took the bamboo tube in Fushiwa Meijiro's hand and drank a few big sips. Then he walked up to Sakuma Nobumori's side and said, "Sakuma-sama, there's something unclear below, I wonder if you can make it clear?" Sakuma Nobumori listened to the words of the burning sky and said to the burning air: "What questions do you have about the Ming Shamen? ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky walked to Sakuma Nobumori's side and whispered, "How is the strength of Gifu Castle?" We are now less than 2,000 troops, or they have been drawn from all over the territory of the family, Gifu Castle has not sent a single army, and there are tens of thousands of troops around Gifu, Owari and Nishiminon, I think the Takeda family will not dare to attack Gifu Castle easily, and now that the lord wants me to wait for the return army to Gifu, I'm afraid it's not just the situation in Higashimino that is tense, right? ”

After listening to the words of the burning sky, Sakuma Nobumori's face changed and said to the burning sky: "As a samurai, we only need to listen to the words of the lord, Mingshamen, you don't have to speculate on the lord's thoughts, if there is nothing else, you can go back first, and the army will set off for Gifu later!" ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky bowed his head and remained silent, bowing to Sakuma Shin and retreating. As he watched the forces gradually gathering on both sides of the road, he always felt that Oda Nobunaga's purpose was more than what appeared on the surface. Then Sakuma Nobumori began to give the order to assemble, and Kanku led the ashigaru team to follow Sakuma Nobumori on the road to Gifu again.

On the way, many Mikawa ronins waited on both sides of the road for Oda's military forces to pass by. When Sakuma Nobumori saw the ronin on the side of the road, he didn't take a second look, but walked directly by horseback. Burning Sky carried Tokugawa Ieyasu's bounty at the rear of the ranks, while the ronin followed Oda after Sakuma Nobumori left. Seeing this, Burning Sky was shocked, put aside his previous speculation about Oda Nobunaga's purpose, called Fushiwa Akijiro to his side and asked, "Akijiro, are those ronins in the back going to do something?" You don't have any other plans, do you? ”

After hearing this, Fushiwa Akijiro said to the burning sky: "My lord, these ronins are going to follow the army to Gifu, and if there is a war in Gifu, they will join the joint battle to obtain the enemy's head in order to get out of the main family, if there is no war, follow us to avoid the attack of the nearby bandits, and seek errands near Gifu Castle Town." After hearing this, he glanced at his box containing copper coins with confidence, and said to Fushiwa Mingjiro: "Meijiro has indeed traveled to the Gyeonggi region for a long time. ”

Just as the Burning Sky Horse followed Sakuma Nobumori as he rode away, the forces near Gifu had already been rapidly mobilized. When the Burning Sky and the others arrived in the territory of Owari, another horse rode back to block the way of Sakuma Nobumori's army. Seeing this, Burning Sky ordered Fushiwa Akijiro a few words, and immediately stepped forward to Sakuma Nobumori's side. But Burning Sky only saw the two flags flying in the wind when Ma Hui left, and Sakuma Nobumori on the side was standing in place, looking at the letter in his hand.

Then Sakuma Nobumori handed the letter to Lin Xiuzhen, looked up and said, "The lord ordered me to wait until the day after tomorrow to reach Qifu, otherwise it will be dealt with according to the laws of my family." When the samurai gathered around Sakuma Nobumori heard this, their faces changed, thinking that Higashimino's Takeda Army had launched an attack on Gifu. So after saluting and retiring, each horse returned to the team and told his men of Oda Nobunaga's orders.

Burning Sky looked at the excited ronin at the back of the team, and felt more and more that Oda Nobunaga's behavior was indescribably strange. As the old Chinese saying goes, "Far water can't quench the thirst of the near", how can the Oda army, which is already less than 2,000 in the Enoe area, help the heavily guarded Gifu Castle, and the predecessor of Gifu Castle, Inabayama Castle, is known as the "No. 1 Fortified Castle in Mino", and Oda Nobunaga's rebuilding and additional defensive measures made Takeda's Higashiyama Provincial Army suffer greatly with the fortified castle and a large number of iron cannons and arrows even if it was besieged.

Sakuma Nobumori did not stop at all after receiving Oda Nobunaga's order, and led the Oda army towards Gifu Castle. The army passed through Owari in one day and entered the Mino Territory when it was dark. When he was about to rest at night, Burning Sky took Fushiwa Akijiro to the ronin at the back of the team and asked them, "I am the commissioner of the Oda family's Anyoji Temple and Azuchi-cho, and I lost some samurai in the battle with the Takeda family before, which of you would like to be a member of me?" ”

After hearing Burning Sky's words, the surrounding ronins swarmed in, and when Burning Sky saw this, he directly said, "Please maintain the proper etiquette of a samurai!" After hearing this, the ronins did not huddle together, but tried their best to restrain themselves and line them up one by one. At this time, Fushiwa Akijiro saw that a ronin on the side was not very interested in the words of the burning sky, but after feeling Fushiba Mingjiro's eyes, he immediately came to line up around the burning sky.

Seeing this, Fushiwa Mingjiro didn't have time to report to the burning sky, so he ran directly to the ronin. When the ronin saw the situation, he got up and was about to flee, but the burning sky saw Fushiwa Akijiro suddenly activate, and in order to avoid causing chaos, he gave Fushiba Akijiro's pursuers a chance to escape. Burning Sky said to the ronin in front of him: "Listen carefully, my samurai is a warrior..."

Fushiwa Akijiro also captured the ronin who planned to escape while the ronins were pondering, and Burning Sky looked at Fushiwa Akijiro who had been captured, and made a look at Fushiwa Akijiro, signaling to take the person away first. Then one of the ronins stood up and asked the Burning Sky, "But my lord, your land has been distributed to the original Righteous Warriors, and what will happen to their widows and orphans after they die in battle?" ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky said with a smile: "The land will naturally be inherited by their sons, and their widows and orphans, I will also give them a pension and take care of them." After listening to the words of the burning sky, the ronin asked again: "But now that the Lord has no extra land, even if I am a master, I don't know how to do it!" After hearing this, Burning Sky said with a smile: "There is no land of knowledge and action, I can first distribute it to you until there are more land of knowledge and action, and then distribute it to you, and then you can choose for yourself, but these things will be talked about when the time comes, how do you feel?" ”

After listening to the words of the burning sky, the ronin who asked two questions about the burning sky bowed his head and said, "Under the door of the Lord who is willing to go out!" After hearing this, he said with a smile: "Everyone, I can't just go out of the house if I burn the sky, I have one more condition!" After listening to the words of the Burning Sky, the ronin's face gradually became serious, and then someone suddenly exclaimed: "My lord, are you the fifty people who broke the Takeda Army's thousand-strong army and rescued His Highness Tokugawa's Hiei Mountain from it?" ”

Burning the air hurts in the back of my head, what? Fifty people break a thousand? Lao Tzu almost died there, and he was still broken? Are you sober up? After hearing this, the ronins suddenly realized, bowed their heads to the burning sky and said, "Please tell me the conditions!" No matter what the conditions, I would like to go under the disciple of the master. ”

Seeing the fanatical look on the faces of the ronins, Burning Sky took the opportunity to say: "I can first hire you with three times a month plus a support rice salary, and officially join my disciple after you have made a name for yourself, how about it?" ”