Chapter 49: Shinzaemon's Advice

Seeing Sasaki Nagahide's body tremble suddenly, the muramurai around him immediately realized that this was a good opportunity: take advantage of your illness to kill you! They all swung their knives and slashed. Sasaki Nagahide's eyes widened angrily, but when he inhaled a little more, there was a sharp pain in his chest like tearing, and the flame gun in his hand was the first time that he didn't listen to the call, as if it weighed a thousand pounds. He understood that he had been shot, but the sound of the iron cannon was coming from the side of the Takeda Army...... Tsukahara's warning before leaving came to his mind, but he knew that it was too late.

"I'm not reconciled to !!!" Sasaki Nagahide let out a final roar, and the strong killing intent made those Murakami samurai soldiers move for a while, but then continued to kill.

"Roll !!!!!" A loud shout exploded from Murakami's army like thunder, and Rao is battlefield was chaotic, but Takeda Harunobu in the rear heard it clearly, and his face suddenly changed slightly. When everyone saw the situation there through the dense flags, they couldn't help but gasp: Tsukahara Moryū, who was dressed in plain clothes, picked up the seriously injured Sasaki Nagahide with one hand and carried him to his shoulder, and within a few meters of him, there were headless corpses...... I saw him walking on an empty wasteland, carrying Sasaki Nagahide step by step out of the battlefield, and no one dared to step forward to stop him. Because they know very well that the young swordsman who has the ability to kill so many samurai in an instant, today, there is only one person: the Kanto Demon Dragon!

Suddenly, only to hear a crisp sound, a very ordinary-looking Takeda family iron cannon Ashigaru was secretly aiming at Tsukahara Molong with a musket in his hand, but his head exploded instantly, and this gunshot ignited the battlefield that had just been relieved, and the Takeda Army and the Murakami Army continued to fight together.

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In this battle, although the Murakami army was dragged by Sasaki Nagahide alone, resulting in the inability to reap the full merits, but instead lost a large number of samurai, the Takeda family lost the important minister Oyamada Nobutomo and the famous general Yokota Takamatsu, and removed the auxiliaries, and the loss of Ashigaru in the front-line battle was as high as 2,000 people, which was no less than another Uedawara battle for the Takeda family. Since then, Takeda Harunobu has completely dispelled the idea of a head-on battle with Murakami Yoshikiyo, and instead adopted Yamamoto Kansuke's suggestion, reusing Sanada Yutaka to carry out a strategy against the Northern Shinano wealthy clan, implementing the tactic of cutting down the branches and leaves first, and then cutting off their roots, and launched a new round of offensive against the Northern Shinano.

But this has nothing to do with Tsukahara Molong, Sasaki Nagahide was sniped by an iron cannon and almost failed to be rescued, but fortunately, when his wife and children were invited to tea by the Demon Dragon Society, Nagata Tokumoto exploded his human potential and finally pulled him back from the line of death. As for Takeda Harunobu wanted to keep this peerless general under the pretext that Sasaki Nagahide was recuperating from his injuries in Kai, he was rejected by Sasaki Nagahide himself, and finally Takeda Harunobu even proposed to marry his daughter to him, Sasaki Nagahide still shook his head, saying that he had been away from his master for a long time and wanted to go back to Nara to visit his master.

After all efforts failed, Takeda Harunobu moved the killing plan again, intending to kill Tsukahara Molong and his party when they passed through Suruga, but Imagawa Yoshimoto was naturally not stupid enough to stuff such a hot potato into his bed, and he and Taiyuan Xuezhai arranged the entire welcome ceremony properly.

However, to Tsukahara Molong's surprise, the person in charge of greeting was actually the young master of the Imagawa family: Imagawa Shin! And accompanied by Ohno Shinzaemon and a very elegant, but a little weak samurai, it is Imagawa Yoshimoto's very trusted relatives: Sekiguchi Clanhiro, although military talent is average, but excellent diplomatic skills, responsible for diplomatic affairs to the Hojo family all year round.

Not to mention the excitement of the Imagawa clan to see Tsukahara Molong and the surprise after seeing the luxurious lineup composed of hundreds of little ghosts, Sekiguchi Shihiro received Tsukahara Molong and his party with a very high standard, although he knew that this product was a smiling tiger, but the personality charm between gestures made people unconsciously let down their guard.

After the two sides had a good conversation, Sekiguchi asked Ohno Shinzaemon to send Tsukahara Moryū and others to the post house.

"In the battle of Toishi Castle, the Takeda family can be said to be broken, but the junior brother of Tsukahara-sama is famous all over the world, and with his own strength, he resisted the 2,500 elites of Kitashinano, and this kind of bravery is not as good as the reincarnation of Kiso Yoshinaka." Ohno Shinzaemon said with a smile.

Sure enough, being praised by Ono Shinzaemon, Sasaki Nagahide suddenly became happy, although he was shot coldly by the ninjas of the Takeda family in the end and was almost killed, but this record still made him very satisfied.

"Lord Ohno has also been soaring recently, and he will not have to be taken care of by adults in the future." Tsukahara Moryū also praised.

"Where, what do my false names count compared to adults?" Ohno Shinzaemon waved his hand, but his evaluation of Tsukahara Molong in his heart was even lower: Was he scared by Takeda Harunobu? He would say something like asking someone to take care of him.

"I don't know what Ono-sama is worth now?" Tsukahara Moryū asked tentatively.

"Thanks to the lord's attention, Tian is now in charge of the formation and training of the new army." Ohno Shinzaemon said lightly.

New Army Training? Tsukahara Molong knew that Imagawa Yoshimoto had also made a lot of private money through the water rhyme house, and with the help of the developed commercial trade of the three countries of Tokaido, he formed a pro-guard army, which directly belonged to the Imagawa family. But after thinking about it, I understand why the Imagawa family would allow Ohno Shinzaemon to intervene in this matter. Originally, the training of the new army would be like the Uesugi family's appointment of Nagano Yoshimasa and the Takeda family's appointment of Iitomi Toramasa, appointing the battle-hardened and loyal old ministers in the family to be in charge, but the Imagawa family's retainers were too powerful, so Imagawa Yoshimoto turned to those small wealthy families who were not valued at first, and these small wealthy families had a shallow foundation and weak strength, which was easy to control. Thinking that the fact that he recommended him to the Imagawa clan must have been known by Imagawa Yoshimoto and Taiyuan Yukisai, it was only natural that he would participate. What's more, Ono Shinzaemon has traveled all over the world, and all his talents should not be weak, coupled with his ability to meet the source, it is not surprising that he can be promoted to Ashigaru General so quickly.

"I wonder what Tsukahara-sama's plans are for the future?" Ohno Shinzaemon asked seemingly casually.

Tsukahara Molong's eyes flashed slightly, and he spoke: "Naturally, I went to Nijo Castle to meet His Royal Highness the General, and spread the prestige of my Katori Shinto stream to the Quartet. ”

"Don't Tsukahara-sama think that such a thing is too easy for you?" Ohno Shinzaemon spoke: "I dare to say that this matter, Tsukahara-sama can do this before he is twenty years old. So what's next? ”

"Oh?" Tsukahara Molong sneered in his heart and asked, "I don't know what Ono-sama thinks?" ”

"I can't talk about it, I'm just saying my own opinion." Ohno Shinzaemon shook his head and said, "I can see that you are an ambitious person, otherwise there would be no night battle in Ninja City." But that guy Uesugi Kenmasa is small and can't tolerate people, and Takeda Harunobu is the same, so he doesn't dare to reuse adults. But in the final analysis, it's all a matter of reward, the adults have just arrived, in order to serve the public, there is no daimyo in the world who can give the position of the old city lord of the adult family as soon as he comes, otherwise he will not be able to convince the public, but let the adult start from the grassroots level, obviously humiliating the adult, so this alone, it is difficult for the adult to come out. ”