Chapter 18 The Village of the Hill

After waking everyone up at dawn and extinguishing the fire, he instructed the local peasant soldiers to take axes to cut wood, and then set off to walk towards the carpenters in nearby villages, led by the Haima family. The twenty standing guards were divided into two, one to assist the peasants in carrying the wood, and the other to follow around the burning sky. After all, the villagers of the Warring States are all "like wolves and tigers", otherwise Akechi Mitsuhide would not be so easily killed by the warriors.

The group left the castle and headed south. On the way, they saw many villagers running towards this side, and when the villagers saw the Kaima Yoshiya riding on the horse, they immediately knelt down in front of the Haima Yoshiya's horse and said to the Haima Yoshiya: "Lord Samurai, I am the leader of the Oda family, and the village of Koyamashita has been attacked by a gang of bandits, and I hope that the adults will go and repel the bandits." ”

After hearing this, the Seahorse Yijia immediately said to the burning sky: "My lord, how can I decide. When the villagers saw the seahorse on the horse, they immediately kowtowed to the burning sky and said, "My lord, go and save the small hill village." ”

Burning Sky listened to the words of the villagers, and asked the villagers, "Are you a villager from Xiaoshanxia Village?" The villagers replied: "We are the villagers of Shimu Village next to Xiaoshanxia Village, and we saw a few puffs of black smoke emitting from Xiaoshanxia Village outside the village this morning, which should be caused by the attack of nearby bandits." ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky said to the Haima Yijia: "Yesterday, we didn't go to Xiaoshanxia Village to recruit peasant soldiers, Xiaoshanxia Village should be guarded by young men, how could it be attacked so easily by bandits." ”

After hearing this, the Kaima Yoshiya got off his horse and said to the burning sky: "When you first came, you should know that there is a group of bandits here, composed of the samurai and ashigaru of the Asakura family who were defeated in the battle of Ogawa, about sixty people, entrenched on the hill, before Kinoshita Hideyoshi-sama sent a hundred-man ashigaru team, but did not exterminate it, but repelled it into the deep mountains. ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky immediately said to the Seahorse Yijia: "Yijia, you first return to Hengshan City to inform Kinoshita-sama, and ask Kinoshita-sama to send troops to Xiaoshanshita Village as soon as possible. ”

After hearing this, the Seahorse Yijia saluted the burning sky, turned over and ran towards Hengshan Castle. Burning Sky said to the villagers, "You also go to Yokoyama Castle to inform Kinoshita-sama." With that, he took his eleven men, led by a young villager, and ran towards the village.

On the way, Burning Sky had already seen the billowing smoke of Xiaoshanxia Village, and Burning Sky and the others couldn't help but speed up their pace and run towards Xiaoshanxia Village. When they were about to reach the village of Xiaoshanxia, the young villager who led the way was burned away, and the unarmed man was not only useless to the present situation, but also dragged everyone back.

After burning the empty space to take away the young villagers, he led everyone towards the village at the foot of the hill. As the distance got closer and closer, the cries of the women in the village under the hill gradually reached the ears of Burning Sky and the others. Mingshan, who was closely following behind the Burning Sky, suddenly turned red, but the Burning Sky didn't react much to this, after all, he had seen everything in that world of information explosion.

Burned in the bushes at the entrance of the village, let everyone temporarily ambush here, and handed over their flags to Mingshan, and then turned around and turned into the village. At this time, the village under the hill was already in shambles, and the corpses of young men and middle-aged and elderly men with various blades were lying on the ground. The bodies were either lying on the ground facing the entrance of the village or lying on the ground with their backs to the door. After watching it, I was also shocked by the courage of these men at the last moment.

Later, Burning Sky gradually saw the many village women who were being ravaged by the bandits (to be precise, the fallen warriors or wild warriors) in the village, and listened to the sound of the bandits' free lewdness and the screams of many women, and the naginata in Burning Sky's hand couldn't help but tremble. Burning Sky didn't know if his hand was shaking, or the naginata knife in his hand was shaking, in short, Burning Sky now had a wave of anger in his heart rushing straight to his head.

Just as the Burning Sky was about to rush out to fight those beasts, a strong hand grabbed the Burning Sky. Burning Sky turned his head to look, only to see a handsome young man in a military uniform holding him. The man shook his head at the Incinerated Sky, and then led the Incinerate to a nearby house.

The man said to the burning air in the house: "Shamen, you rush out now, there is only one way to die." After hearing this, Burning Sky asked, "Who are you?" Why is it in this small hill village? ”

As soon as the warrior was about to explain, Burning Sky pulled him out of the house and rushed towards the group of bandits who were indulging. Seeing this, the warrior shouted at the burning sky, "Shamen, are you crazy? After hearing this, Burning Sky shouted loudly to the group of bandits, "You and other bandits dare to do evil in the territory of the Oda family, and Kinoshita-sama has sent me and others to crusade against you and others." ”

Then he slashed a thief who was panting on top of a woman, and before he could call his companion, he was already burned in half and split in half. Seeing this, the woman under the thief pounced and tore at the thief's corpse, like a demon from hell. But the burning sky didn't have time to look, so he continued to kill the bandits.

After burning the sky and slashing four bandits in a row, those indulgent bandits reacted. The thieves wanted to escape, but when they saw that there were only two people in the burning sky, they picked up the wild sword beside them and rushed towards the two of them. Seeing this, the young warrior shook his head, put his hand on the handle of the sword at his waist, and then rushed towards the bandits. After cutting down another bandit, he saw that the warrior was just a match, so he cut down the three bandits in front of him to the ground.

The thieves were already overindulged, and their bodies were temporarily a little weak, and when they saw the two of them so brave, they gradually retreated in their hearts. At this moment, a shout was suddenly heard, and several of the thieves were startled, and their feet slipped and began to run towards the outside of the village. When the other bandits saw their companions slip away, they all scrambled towards the outside of the village. When the warrior saw this, he wanted to chase after the bandits, but he was stopped by the burning sky. The warrior was a little annoyed, and asked at the burning sky, "You Shamen, what's the matter?" ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky said to the warrior: "Our reinforcements have not come, and those should be subordinates below." Only then did the warrior see that there were only a dozen people rushing over, and then he asked at the burning sky, "Are you a warrior in Hengshan City?" After hearing this, he pressed the knife on his waist and said, "Down there is a samurai of the Oda family, and the Ming Shamen of Mt. Hiei is burned in the air." ”

When the warrior heard this, he immediately bowed his head to the burning sky and said, "In Shimofuha Akijiro, I have seen Mt. Hiei. Then Mingshan and Changbei came to the burning sky and said to the burning sky: "My lord, I will wait for the reaction to be one step full, and I hope that the adult will forgive the sin." After hearing this, Burning Sky said, "It's just the right time for you to arrive, if it's a little late, I'm afraid that Mingjiro and I will have a bloody battle." ”