Chapter 17: A Sudden Departure
After learning that the dragon girl ran away from home, Chaoding began a series of remedial measures.
First, he handed over the military forces under his command to Shimasa Ota and Hayato Namba (Kenji Nambata) to help Ayahime occupy Kasugayama Castle.
Although Ayahime summoned a group of important ministers to Kasuga Mountain Castle to participate in the evaluation meeting as a dragon girl, it is inevitable that some people will have questions, such as the Great Bear Ashide.
He received an invitation from Takeda Harunobu long before Hidetada was defeated to tempt him with 5,000 stone Chiyuki (Kita-Shinano).
"It looks like the lords of the country have run away, it's time to raise troops again!" As a retainer of the Echigo Uesugi family, he joined the Nagao family relatively late, and he was not recognized by other Nagao retainers. Even the dragon girl's master, Minoru Honjo, and others wanted to squeeze him out of Echigo. This time he found his chance.
The big bear Asahi didn't even go to the Kasuga Mountain Castle, and returned halfway to the middle of the road. As soon as he returned to his home city, Keiguan City, he decisively raised the banner of my Takeda family's four scales.
At the same time, the Ohiro room in Kasuga Mountain Castle.
"Greetings to my lords! The big bear is preparing for the rebellion of Lord Asahei! A Ji warrior hurriedly ran into the assessment room.
"Damn! Really picky timing! Honjo could only smile at this, it seems that he had not done it thoroughly enough.
"Not long after the family released the law of the long-tail family martial arts, this guy openly challenged the authority of the family!" Nagao Masaki said that he was going to fight in the nest again, and he was happy again.
"Your Excellency is an important minister of the Nagao family, and now is the most critical moment for the Nagao family, and I hope that your lordships can expel the traitors and stabilize Echigo." Ayahime can't say anything more, that's all she can do as a shadow warrior, and it will take a while to completely order.
"Then kill him!" Kakizaki Keike punched the floor, causing the consent of many retainers of the Nagao family.
"In that case, the sooner the better." As a military advisor, Usami Dingman felt that the Takeda family was not able to intervene in Echigo's territory now, and at most it was just to win over some retainers with low loyalty.
"Mamoru Shimonono (Saito Asanobu) and Mamoru Izumi (Kakizaki Keijia) are the two adults to quell the rebellion, and the rest of you please be on standby at any time, and Lord Usami Jomitsu, please send 1,000 troops to Katsuyama Castle (a mountain castle near Zenko-ji Temple) in Okushinano to meet Keihu at any time." Ayahime's command ability is not low, and she understands that she can't use all the military forces to fight the big bear Chaoxiu.
However, Daxiong Chaoxiu began to be sad, and he obviously learned that his former lord Nagao Jinghu had run away, but he was surrounded by the 4,000 troops of the Nagao family. Originally, I wanted to defend the city, but the water source was cut off!
"No! Let's go to Takeda's Okushinano! In a short period of time, Daxiong Chaoxiu made a decision to abandon his ancestral territory, and escaped in the night with his henchmen samurai, retainers and 50 small surnames.
And Chaoding left Echigo alone with a saber boy Che Angang.
The dragon girl is extremely bold! Still lingering in Shinano's small prefectures. Dressed as an ascetic, but with a handful of small beans, he can't even ask for food.
If you want to find someone in the big Shinano country, you need some skills, and Asadaki will soon arrive at the small prefecture according to the route that the dragon girl said.
The castle of the Takeda family, which Asadaki passed along the way, was not intercepted by anyone. Because he was wearing court clothes, he looked like a minister from Kyoto, and then no one dared to take the initiative to stop him.
"Miss, please go back with us." Just as Chaoding rode his horse into a mountain forest, he saw five or six samurai surrounding a little girl who was probably only a teenager. And the little girl was dressed in very gorgeous clothes, some like she was going to get married.
"I don't want to go back anymore! My father always treated me like a prop! If you use it, I'll throw me into other wealthy clans or people as a hostage, and if you don't need me, you will raise me as a daughter in Inabayama Castle! Now it's good! It's completely useless and throws it to the big fool of the Oda family! The little girl was not afraid of the several samurai who surrounded her, as if they knew each other, and argued with them.
"I said, please give way, I have something urgent, don't get in the way?" Chao Ding is not a young girl, he is not interested in Lori.
"That lord in court clothes, dare to ask who you are? This is a matter for our Saito family, and it's up to you to get out of the way. One of the leading samurai said angrily, and drew his saber and pointed at Chaoding.
"Do you know this letter?" Asadaki took out his official appointment from his bosom and threw it to the nearest samurai.
"Ogiya Uesugi family?!" The leading samurai saw that the painting on the scarf and the material of the scarf were only found in the Imperial Palace in Kyoto! Other daimyo are unaffordable!
"What?! You're Uesugi Repair Doctor Asadaden?! Another samurai who knew kanji leaned over and saw that it was Asada's name, and he couldn't help but say it in surprise.
"Why did the governor of the Ogiya Uesugi family come to this Shinano's Takeda family domain?!" Some of these samurai didn't understand.
"Find someone, if you see it, please tell me. Did you see a man dressed as an ascetic with a sword? Asadin thought that maybe these people had seen it, and it seemed that they were the retainers of the Saito family in Mino, but the little girl didn't know.
"Yes, I did. In the dilapidated temple not far away, she still recited the Bishamen Sutra from time to time. A samurai hurriedly told him what he wanted. The young man in front of him may not even be able to provoke his lord Saito Michizo. The family character alone is more noble than the three Dao who sells oil, I don't know how much. Even the family of the Oda family, who went to the amino, was not necessarily higher than the boy in front of him.
"Thank you very much, since you are samurai, why do you embarrass a little girl? Could it be that all the retainers of the Saito family have this tradition? Asada's words caused the Saito retainers to take their sabers back.
"Please repair the doctor Mingjian, she is the princess of the family, and the lord originally wanted to marry her to Oda Nobunaga, the young lord of the Oda family, but she ran into Shinano Province on the way, causing the ministers and others to chase here." One of the samurai shrugged his shoulders, utterly helpless.
"Please repair the doctor's hall and tell me if the ministers should take the princess back?" The leader looked at the other party and saw that the other party was a repair doctor appointed by the imperial court, and his own lord was a self-proclaimed Mino Mamoru, so he knew by comparison.
"That's it, the Nagao family and the Ogiya Uesugi family are at odds with the Takeda family, and this place is very close to the territory of the Nagao family, so I'll be the master, let's go to Echigo and rest first." Chaoding didn't bother them too much.
"Can you go to Echigo with just this Lun will?" The leading samurai was clearly not convinced.
"If I say that Echigo's guardian Nagao Shota is the sister of Lord Bi Jinghu, Nagao Ayahime, is my main room, do you think you can enter?" Chaoding didn't say much, Takeda Harunobu is notoriously lustful, and I believe they have heard of it.
If you don't want to be taken away by the Takeda family here, you can only go to Echigo now.
"It's better for me to be respectful." The leading samurai are not easy to refuse, they are some low-level samurai, and they are not the indigenous samurai of Mino, so it is not impossible for them to change their lordship now.
"Well, see you in Echigo." Asada hurried to the dilapidated temple nearby according to what the samurai said, but fortunately the dragon girl did not run far.