Chapter 104: Interception or Killing
"It's so comforting, it's been an easy and happy life for as long as I can remember." Tsukahara Molong moved his shoulder, although the wound was still a little itchy, but it was already healed, looking at the long-tailed Jinghu who was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks on the side, Tsukahara Molong said affectionately: "Thank you, Jinghu." ”
Long-tailed Jinghu's body trembled when he heard this, but then continued to pack up as if nothing had happened, "Are you going to go back?" Bing Xue was smart, and when she heard Tsukahara Molong say this, she instantly understood what the other party meant.
"Well, I already have to go back." Tsukahara Moryū smiled bitterly, "If I could, I'd rather rely on you all the time, and only when I'm with you can I feel like I'm still a living person." ”
After Nagao Jinghu put away the dishes and chopsticks, he didn't leave immediately, and got up and looked directly into Tsukahara Molong's eyes, "What?" Haven't you had a better time before you met me? If you hadn't come to Echigo this time, you wouldn't have almost died. ”
Tsukahara Moryū turned around silently, looking at the spring in the courtyard, and the days when he practiced drawing a knife and cutting off the water seemed to be in front of him again, "Once, I lived for my dreams, until I met you, and I found that in addition to dreams, there are other beautiful things that are worth pursuing with my life." A person who has no dreams is pitiful, but a person who is enslaved by dreams is pathetic, after all, I am a living person. ”
Hearing this, the long-tailed Jinghu was silent, and only after a long time did he ask: "Your dream is the Heavenly Dao in front of the Zhaoxian Pavilion?" ”
"The unity of heaven and man, the avenue is infinite, there is the ambition to swallow the sun and the moon, and the heart of the eight wildernesses, which is mysterious, but in fact, it is only so real. The way of heaven is humanity, such as today's chaos, the decline of the shogunate, the decline of imperial power, and the misery of the people, the pursuit of heaven is the pursuit of peace in the world, and everyone can live and work in peace and contentment. Tsukahara muttered to himself.
"The world is peaceful......" Changwei Jinghu chewed these words carefully, but finally smiled bitterly: "The Heavenly Dao you pursue is too perfect, and you will be hurt by this world after all." ”
"Then change the world before it hurts me!" Tsukahara Moryū smiled indifferently, put on his coat, and walked out of the room. Looking at the back of Tsukahara Molong in the distance, his parting oath seemed to be echoing in his ears, and the long-tailed Jinghu's eyes moved slightly, and he lost his mind again. Suddenly, Nagao Keihu got up and ran out of the room, shouting to Tsukahara Molong at the end of the corridor, "Molong! ”
Tsukahara Molong was stunned, "In the future, you can call me Tiger Chiyo!" Be sure to come back alive! Tsukahara Molong couldn't help but turn around and smile after hearing Nagawei Jinghu's words, looking at Longtail Jinghu with slightly red eyes, "I'm going to marry you, how can I die?" Tiger Chiyo! ”
Originally, Tsukahara Molong didn't plan to return in such a hurry, after all, he and Longtail Jinghu really haven't happened yet, and the most critical place of the love strategy hasn't been carried out yet, so it's really not Tsukahara Molong's style to run back, and the disobedient fleas of the Tsukahara family haven't completely jumped out, and going back too early is not conducive to cleaning up. However, it's not just Tsukahara Moryū who is laying out, all ambitious people are laying out. After the spring ploughing, Uesugi Kenmasa gathered a large army and instigated the Oda family and other families to provoke the Tsukahara family to test whether Tsukahara Moryū was prepared before leaving. However, the Oda family's several careful attempts have achieved great success, and the elite standing army formed by Tsukahara Moryū does not fight with the Oda army at all, and is always at the touch of a button, and even many of the reserve generals have begun to contact the Oda family, which makes the Oda family suddenly burst into courage, and they actually swallowed the territory of 70,000 stone in the total country. At this moment, the Utsunomiya family, the Satake family, the Yuki family and other families couldn't sit still, and what was even more jaw-dropping was that they who were originally hostile to each other actually chose to join forces on the issue of sending troops to the Tsukahara family. Under pressure, Sasaki Nagahide and Zhou Dashuai and others led the army to fight against the coalition army respectively, although they all repelled the enemy, but the results were average, and there was no sign of pursuit at all, and after the coalition army personally experienced it, he felt that although the standing equipment under the command of Tsukahara Molong looked scary, but in fact, the combat power was average. These circumstances made the coalition army overjoyed, if Zhou Dashuai and Sasaki Nagahide still did not act against the coalition army, then they would have to worry about whether this was Tsukahara Molong's strategy, but since they were in a hurry and were unwilling to pursue, it showed that there was already a very big problem within the Tsukahara family. This situation made Uesugi Kenmasa very excited, but considering that the crusade against the Tsukahara family was unknown, and it was easy for the possible differences within the Tsukahara family to be temporarily eliminated due to the huge pressure exerted by himself, and more importantly, Ueno Province was adjacent to Echigo, and he put the big hat of assassinating Tsukahara Molong on the head of the Hojo family. Therefore, Uesugi Kenmasa still aimed at the Hojo family, but Uesugi Kenmasa and the Hojo family have competed for most of his life, and he knows the horror of the Hojo family, so he used all his strength to prepare for this battle, and the army mobilized within the territory alone reached as many as 36,000, through the hatred transfer law, Uesugi Kenmasa also used the name of the Hojo family, the murderer of Tsukahara Moryū, to Echigo issued a request to support the North Shinano garrison, so that Kita Shinano's Murakami Yoshikiyo agreed to send 9,000 troops to participate in the war, and after the two armies joined forces, It will reach 45,000 men, which is even better than the strength of the coalition forces before the night battle of Hagoe. At such a juncture, Uesugi Kenmasa does not want Tsukahara Molong to return to Kanto alive no matter what, and he will definitely attack Tsukahara Molong along the way, even if there are 2,000 standing guards!
In order to ensure the safe return of Tsukahara Moryu, Nagao Keihu specially ordered Nagao Masaki to lead the Sakamoto people to escort, if Uesugi Kenmasa really dares to fight with Tsukahara Moryu, then she will do her best to fight Echigo's army and join forces with the Hojo family and the Tsukahara family to besiege the Uesugi family. Imagawa Yoshimoto and Takeda Harunobu are also extremely conflicted in their hearts, on the one hand, they don't want to see the Hojo family destroyed by the Uesugi family, in that case, with the Uesugi family rising strongly, the two families have no way to continue the established strategy, and once they give up halfway, it is likely to lead to the loss of their previous achievements. However, the two of them are no less afraid of Tsukahara Molong than a super force of 1.4 million stones, as long as Tsukahara Molong is alive for a day, Kanto may be unified by him! The Imagawa family and the Takeda family also quarreled over whether to intercept and kill Tsukahara Molong halfway.