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"Lord!"

"Lord!!"

"Shut up! Lord, you are a sign of cowardice! ”……

Sharp reproaches rang from all around. If Ieyasu hadn't taken care of the presence of outsiders, maybe someone would have come out and do something to their lord.

Patience or surrender to Hashiba Hideyoshi, I don't know when, it has become a forbidden language of the Yamana family.

However, it is a little incomprehensible, since these angry young people could not accept the surrender to the Oda family, why did they kneel down in front of the Maori family so happily?

Is it because the Mori family is taller than the Oda family? Well, there is this possibility, the descendants of the dignified Kamakura shogunate minister Oehiromoto are better than the Oda family, a wild man who came from nowhere!

Of course, the Yamana retainers certainly wouldn't think so.

We are only asking them to help, not surrendering to them!

Whether others believe it or not, they are self-hypnotizing to believe this self-made reason.

"Okay, be quiet, stop making noise!" Yoshikawa Kinoke, who had been silent and watched coldly, suddenly shouted: "Right now, the enemy is now, but you are arguing here?!" ”

The ministers who were arguing were suddenly silent, and the assessment room became quiet, and even the toughest generals like Nakamura Chunji rarely chose to be silent.

Toyokuni Yamana thought with emotion: Compared to me, you, a member of the Maori family, are more like the lord of this city, and the coming is finally here!

At this moment, he deeply felt loneliness and a burst of unspeakable sadness, and he fell silent.

"As long as you hold this city as you did last time, the enemy will not attack it."

Yoshikawa looked contemptuously at the crowd that had just stirred up and opened fire to its master.

Everyone here is strong, determined, and persistent, but their anger, in the eyes of Yoshikawa Nobuya, is really superficial, not so much because of the anger against the "capitulationism" held by the lord, but rather because of the anger derived from the "superiority of the wealthy".

Yoshikawa Kiya thought so, and suddenly inadvertently met the gaze of Toyokuni Ieyamana, and he was slightly startled.

What appeared in the eyes of Yamana retainers was abrupt and angry, but behind Yamana Ieyasu's casual calmness, there was deep melancholy and sorrow.

Yoshikawa Keijia can't help but feel a little sympathetic to Yamana Toyokuni, and it's quite pitiful to be the lord of this role.

"I'm sorry, but I was stimulated by the enemy, and my impulse affected the morale of my family, so please forgive me!"

On the contrary, it was Toyokuni Yamana who apologized to everyone.

A smile appeared on Toyokuni Yamana's face again, and he cleverly concealed his true emotions as usual. Most of the people present knew that was the case, but there were also those who didn't.

Everyone was opposed to sending Hashiba Hideyoshi to surrender, and they unanimously agreed on the cage castle strategy of the Yoshikawa Nobuyoshi, but the specific countermeasures to be taken need to be further discussed......

As soon as Toyokuni Yamana returned to the bedroom of the main castle tower, he immediately locked himself in the room.

As soon as he sat down, he couldn't help but burst into tears. In the sun's rays, tears dripped into the mezzanine of the tatami mats.

"Harutsugu Nakamura! Morishita Michi! He gritted his teeth and squeezed out the names of these important ministers from between his teeth, "Yoshioka Dingkatsu...... I must repay all the shame you have imposed on me in the past!! ”

He sat quietly in front of the desk, picked up the pen on the inkstone, and the faces of these "criminals" and Yoshikawa Noira appeared in front of him. He bit the tip of the pen, put ink on it, and first wrote "Tottori Castle Military Information" on a blank piece of paper.

"Fengguo, as a descendant of the Yamana clan, you betrayed the information of your ancestral land to outsiders, don't you feel a trace of guilt in your heart?" Toyokuni Yamana asked himself.

However, at this time, his heart was unusually calm. He was to write down the details of the Yamana clan's military situation and have them take it to Hideyoshi Hashiba, who was his enemy, and ask him for forgiveness.

This is obviously a rebellion, a rebellion, and the Inaba samurai, who are bent on defending the city, will think that he, as the lord, has surrendered to outsiders, which is an act of incorruptibility, shame, disloyalty and injustice, even if they spit on him and break him into thousands of pieces, it will be difficult to relieve their hatred.

But Toyokuni Yamana didn't care at all.

You have neglected me in the past, and I will return them one by one in the future!

But can this behavior really be as Yamana Toyokuni wishes?

Tottori Castle is located in the central part of Inaba Province and is not the border of Yamana territory. Even if everything is ready, even if the messenger reaches the border, there will still be sharp-eyed birds of prey watching.

I guess it's today's assessment, so that everyone's favor towards him has greatly decreased, and there are rumors about His Royal Highness Yamana who is going to surrender to the enemy (in fact, it is so true that it is not a rumor), and it began to circulate quietly in the city.

Not only that, but some samurai around Yamana Toyokuni also rumored to each other: "You have to monitor the general!" ”

Even wherever he went, there were people secretly following him.

"Damn, if it goes on like this, don't say it's a message, my life and safety are all in question."

From the second day after returning to the main castle tower, Toyokuni Yamana has been living in seclusion, and in addition to writing about "military information", he is also thinking about how to transmit information. For three days in a row, he locked himself in his room like an otaku, and even the military meeting refused on the grounds that he was not in health.

On this day, his attendant, who was also one of his few cronies, Genkuro Waki, was summoned by him.

Toyokuni Yamana said while drinking, "Genjiuro, the atmosphere in the city is a little wrong." I've heard from people around me that there have been a lot of strange rumors in the city these days. Is there such a thing? ”

"Yes!" The young Namiki Genkuro puffed up his chest and leaned forward, "Everyone is saying that if there is a war, there will be an adulteration with the enemy and the enemy will be brought into Tottori Castle......"

As he spoke, he held his breath and secretly looked at his lord.

Aha?! Has the matter been exposed?

Toyokuni Yamana deliberately asked sternly: "Who are you referring to when you talk about fornicating with the enemy?" ”

Genkuro Namiki hesitated slightly, and said, "It's all said that it's you, an adult!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around.

When Toyokuni Yamana saw him like this, he thought: It seems that a few of them in Nakamura have started to spy on me! ”

In the evening, Toyokuni Yamana sent off Genkuro Namiki as if nothing happened.

For the next two or three days, he continued to look calm and calm, and rode around the city. But wherever he went, it always felt like someone was following him.

Even if it wasn't Nakamura's order, it must have been an important minister who ordered the samurai around him to monitor and incite disgust towards him.

A few days later, he summoned Genkuro Namiki to him again.

"Genjiuro, I need you to do something for me."

"Your Excellency, just give me orders."

"I'm already disappointed in everyone in this city, Hashiba Hideyoshi is far stronger than us, and if you fight hard, you have no chance of winning, so as the lord of the city, I plan to make peace with the enemy, and in a peaceful way, everyone in this city will be saved from destruction, and I need your help in this matter. Be prepared in your heart. ”

"Ah...... Lord, do you really ......" Toyokuni Yamana suddenly said these words, and the loyal Namiki Genkuro didn't react for a while, "Lordship...... You're the head of the family......"

"Hmph, how many people in this city are taking me as their lord!?"

"Since the lord insists on doing this, then I, as a retainer, have nothing to say," Genkuro Namiki said bitterly: "What does the lord need me to do?" ”

"I have a letter here, you go and give it to Hideyoshi Hashiba." Yamana Toyokoku: "You are the official of the city, if you want to go out of the city, it shouldn't be too difficult." ”

"Lord, don't you know?" Namiki Genkuro's eyes were like a sword, glaring at Toyokuni Yamana, and said, "The Yoshikawa family has been put under martial law in the whole city, and no one is allowed to leave this city without his permission, let alone leaving with his family." It is rumored in the city that you have fornicated with Hashiba Hideyoshi, so even I, as a person close to you, have been followed in and out. ”

Damn Yoshikawa Keike!

"What, Genkuro, are you scared?"

Genkuro Namiki asked rhetorically, "Isn't the lord afraid?" If you succeed, if you are arrested in the middle of the way, you will be subjected to unbearable humiliation, and if that letter is examined, I am afraid that you will ...... Therefore, in order for others to understand, letters are absolutely indispensable, and they must be ordered verbally by the Lord. ”

The room grew dark, and the room was filled with an eerie chill. When Toyokuni Yamana heard this, his expression was bitter and silent, and he controlled his excitement. His previous idea was indeed too simplistic, he wanted to tell the enemy the information about the establishment, so he went to Hideyoshi and let him see his sincerity, but this idea has now proved to be not feasible.

"You don't have to worry about this, I've already weighed it, and I've probably found a way to get out of the city safely, just listen to me!"

The next night, when the guards in and around the city went home to change their guards, change their clothes, and were about to sit down comfortably for dinner, the alarm bell in the city suddenly rang. At first, people thought it was a fire, but when they went out to look at it, they didn't see it burning.

"What's the matter?"

"I'll have to go into the city to see it."

"The bell is ringing so quickly, something must have happened!"

The first to arrive was the general Morishita Michiyo, who only saw a few soldiers defending the city in a hurry near the moat, and he didn't figure out the truth of the matter for a long time.

"Hey! You guys, what's going on? Why is the bell striking so quickly? ”

"Just now, the commissioner in the city, Lord Genjiro Namiki, took a few people fully armed and rode out of the city!"

"What, Namiki...... You idiots, why don't you stop him! ”

"They said that they went out of the city to do something for Yoshikawa-sama, and they still have Yoshikawa-sama's painting in their hands?"

"Nonsense!" I don't know when, Yoshikawa Nobuya also got dressed and rushed over, "I don't know this Namiki at all!" It's impossible to get him to do things! Also, what's going on with the drawing?! How did I not know?! ”