Soon, with the ninja army leading the way, the Hosokawa army came to an open field.

"Lord, there are three forks here, and someone has been sent to explore the road first, please rest here for a while." Tuozhi Qingguang came to greet him.

"Okay, everyone take a break. Whew~~ This mountain climbing is really tiring, it seems that it is still wandering at the root of the mountain, it is really a dead horse running on the mountain. Hosokawa Nobumoto sat on a rock.

"My lord! Find a wooden house here! "After a while, a ninja ran through the fork in the road to the west.

"Oh? But the guards? "Hosokawa Nobumoto came to the spirit as soon as he heard it, and if there were guards, it meant that the road was right.

"It doesn't seem to be, but looking at the surrounding environment, it should be a farmer in the mountains."

"Huh? It doesn't matter, as long as you are a local, you may be able to find a hidden path. Let's go, go and see. With that, Hosokawa Nobumoto walked over with his guard, and the astute Kinoshita Toyoshiro followed behind.

When I got closer to the cabin, I found that it was simply too simple, with windy wooden walls, crooked hoes, and weeds scattered all over the ground.

Hosokawa Nobumoto bowed his head and swished, several ninja guards quickly surrounded the cabin, and the leader Ishikawa Goemon stepped forward.

Knock knock!

"Who!" The creaking, dilapidated wooden door was pushed open from the inside, and a man peeked out.

Immediately afterwards, Ishikawa Goemon grabbed him by the collar, pulled him out of the door and pressed him to the ground, and the ninja guard next to him quickly burst in, and a woman's scream came from inside the room.

Soon, a middle-aged woman was escorted out of the house, and seeing that the situation was under control, Hosokawa Nobumoto stepped forward and asked, "Who are you?" Why is it here? ”

"Here are the hunters, our family moved here nine years ago, fishing and hunting for a living, the year before last my father died, only Xia and my mother are left to rely on each other." The man said tremblingly, the group of people in front of him looked fierce.

"Down? Are you a samurai? Kinoshita Toyoshiro walked out of the crowd, squatted on the ground, and looked at the man pressed on the ground.

"Huh? Be! Below is Horio Kotaro Yoshiharu...... "Horio Yoshiharu knew that he had exposed his samurai identity in a hurry just now, so he had to report his name.

"Will there be samurai in the mountains? Lord, this person is really suspicious, it's better to..."Hattori Hanzo on the side opened his mouth to ask for instructions, the job of the ninja guard is to eliminate all suspicious people.

"Don't! Please, don't! The middle-aged woman was already paralyzed in fright, and when she heard that her son was going to be killed, she immediately begged for mercy and wanted to get close to Hosokawa Nobumoto, but was also pushed to the ground by the ninja guards on the side.

"Huh? Horio? Does Mino have this samurai seedling? But we Owari seems to have a little impression. Kinoshita Toyoshiro put his hands on his cheeks, and he didn't think of anything when he wanted to break his head.

"It's Horio Castle! The Horio family of the Iwakura Oda family. When the middle-aged woman heard that this guy who looked like a monkey was actually from Owari, she quickly said, the so-called fellow saw the fellow with tears in her eyes.

"Oh, is that the old Iwakura family, Yasuharu Horio?" Hosokawa Nobumoto asked, he had participated in the Battle of Ukino back then.

"That's right, it's my father!" Horio Yoshiharu nodded in resignation, now that the Iwakura Oda family has been destroyed, the Owari townspeople in front of him can only be from the Kiyosu Oda family.

"Since it's an enemy, what about the lord?" Hattori Hanzo naturally knew that there had been hostility at that time, and asked his lord in a low voice.

"Huh?" When the middle-aged woman heard the word enemy, she was immediately stupid and sat down on the ground in resignation.

"Oh, that's all a lifetime, even Yamauchi Kazutoyo, the son of Lord Yamauchi Moritoyo, who was as famous as Lord Horio Yasuharu back then, is now serving under the lord's account. Why don't you do that, Horio Yoshiharu, are you willing to be a retainer under you? I'm Kinoshita Toyoshiro, who is about to step into the ranks of important ministers, and I have joined me, and we are a family. Kinoshita Tojiro blinked his eyes, trying to look amiable.

But no matter what he does, he gives people a feeling of splashing monkeys, but in the eyes of this Horio Yoshiharu, he is an angel-like existence, who doesn't want to live.

"I am willing to serve Lord Kinoshita as the Lord, and my subordinates will see the Lord." Horio Yoshiharu simply recognized Kinoshita Toyoshiro as the master, and jumped up and down the monkey for fun, which was his first retainer recruited in the real sense.

"Okay, it's all a family, come on, let me introduce you, this is the famous "Dongguo Unequaled General", the first wise general of the Oda family, Lord Hosokawa. Kinoshita Toyoshiro praised Hosokawa Nobumoto again, the standard smiling Buddha.

"Huh? It turned out to be Hosokawa-sama! I hope you will forgive me for the rudeness. After saying that, Horio Yoshiharu immediately fell to the ground and bowed, causing Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro to mumble on the side, feeling that he hadn't made such a big salute to him just now.

"Okay, get up, since you have lived here for a long time, you must be very familiar with the situation in this mountain." Hosokawa Nobumoto now has countless subordinates, and he doesn't look down on him very much, although this Horio Yoshiharu is a powerful daimyo of one of the three elders of Toyotomi in the future.

"That's, that's it, hurry up and talk about how you can go up to Inabayama Castle." Kinoshita Toyoshiro hurriedly asked, so that Horio Yoshiharu's answer was equivalent to reporting to him, and his careful thinking naturally did not escape Hosokawa Nobumoto's eyes, but it didn't matter.

"Yes, my lord. I guess I saw a few paths in the direction I came from just now, right? Those are not actually roads leading to the mountains, but only woodcutters and fishing grounds where the subordinates live here. Horio Yoshiharu told the truth, which immediately disappointed Hosokawa Nobumoto and the others.

However, his subordinates did know about a hidden mountain road, which was said to have been secretly built by the third prince of Dao before he became a monk. The road is extremely steep, with a total length of about 1,000 meters, leading to the Hyakkukugukou of Inabayama Castle, and my father once walked with his subordinates when he was alive. "Peak loop, this Horio Yoshiharu really knows this secret passage.

"Haha! Good! Lead the way before nodding your head. Kinoshita Tojiro licked the greedy saliva from the corner of his mouth.

Looking at Kinoshita Toyoshiro's back, Hosokawa Nobumoto knew that this person would eventually be an obstacle to his future avenue and the great enemy of the Hosokawa family in the future.

Soon, the group came to the fork in the mountain road that Horio Yoshiharu said, which is close to the cliff, and since no one has maintained or walked it for more than ten years, the road is even more rugged, and the slightest mistake will fall into the valley.

"No wonder I haven't been able to find it, it's extremely hidden, and even if you find it, you'll only think it's a cliff." Hosokawa Nobumoto looked at the bottom of the abyss, and his heart began to retreat, he had a fear of heights.