Downhill, on the road from the Ono family to the Tsugawa family, a team of about 20 men with hurried expressions is hurrying towards the territory of the Tsugawa family. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Under the leadership of Yoshino Kotaro, Akechi Mitsuhisa and others successfully passed through the Kishou-kaku and Kamuroyama areas. After a short period of repairs in Ono's Akinomiya Castle and finding a healer to treat Kumagomaru, Akechi Mitsuhisa and the others did not dare to stay too long, so they went to Tsugawa's house again.

"Kotaro, how long is it left?" In the team, Takashi Toyama, who was at the forefront, said impatiently to Kotaro Yoshino beside him.

Yoshino Kotaro hurriedly replied, "Lord Toyama, this is Mt. Shimono, and if you cross this ridge, you will reach the territory of the Tsugawa family." ”

"Mt. Shimono is a crater with only a relatively low place to the east, and the southern part of Mt. Shimonono separates the Tsugawa family from the Onodera family. We only need to climb over this ridge to get to Takahashi Castle of the Tsugawa family. Kotaro Yoshino said slowly.

"Whew!" Takashi Toyama exhaled, nodded and said, "Then hurry up a little faster, and you can rest when you get to Takahashi Castle early." ”

"Hah!"

Akechi Mitsuhisa and his party had not rested for nearly a day, and when they saw that they were about to arrive at the territory of the Tsugawa family, everyone's emotions were mobilized for a while.

"It's finally here!" Akechi Mitsuhisa also said with relief, "Everyone work hard, when you arrive at Takahashi Castle, I invite you to eat good rice!" ”

"Wow!"

A good meal of rice made everyone drool a little, and these days, the rations of Akechi Mitsuhisa and others are simply rice balls made of rice, and they are a little rancid..... Now when they think of that taste, Akechi Mitsuhisa and the others can't help but shudder! After all, they are all a group of pampered samurai masters, how could they have suffered such a crime before?

At this moment, several arrows suddenly flew from both sides of the road in front of them, and they happened to be inserted less than 5 meters in front of Akechi Mitsuhisa and the others.

"Be careful! Alert! Wise Guangjiu's eyes froze, and he immediately shouted loudly. For a time, Kotaro Yoshino's subordinates, under the leadership of Kinoshita Heijiro and others, took up arms and began to be on guard.

At this time, more than a dozen people dressed in ashigaru clothes came out one after another from both sides of the road, and the first samurai dressed in full clothes walked to the front and said loudly, "Who are you!" ”

Only then did Akechi Mitsuhisa realize that the person who came seemed to be a light and not a thief, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and then replied loudly, "Don't get me wrong! We are past traveling merchants who are going to do business in Xianbei County. ”

"Doing business?" The samurai at the head of the group immediately said angrily: "When I am the star power guard, are you so fooled? Merchant? What about your cargo? ”

"I think you're a spy of the Onodera family!"

Hearing this, Yoshino Kotaro in the team was the first to react, and hurriedly walked to Akechi Mitsuhisa's side, looked at the stars and said, "This samurai-sama, dare to ask you, are you from the Tsugawa family?" ”

"What's the matter?" The Star Guards said vigilantly.

Yoshino Kotaro hurriedly smiled and said, "Haha, it turns out that it's really from the Tsugawa family." To tell you the truth, we are indeed not businessmen, but we are here to join the Jinchuan Hall in Xianbei County, and I hope that the adults can make it convenient and let us go! ”

Seeing that the other party might be from the Tsugawa family, Akechi Guangjiu and the others slowly breathed a sigh of relief, everyone's nerves have been tense for the past few days, and they were suddenly overwhelmed by the stars and guards.

"So, you're ronin, huh?" Zhuxing Quan Bingwei looked at the wise Guangjiu at the front with a smile on his face and said.

"Hah!" Wise Mitsuhisa hurriedly replied. Before the identity of the other party was clearly confirmed, Akechi Guangjiu did not dare to tell the true identity of himself and the others to the Star Quan Guard.

"Since you said you are ronin, I don't know where you came from?" The Star Guards then asked.

Akechi Guang thought for a long time and said, "We came from Mino, and on the way we heard about the brave name of the Tsugawa Soji Palace, so we specially came to Senhoku County to prepare to seek the Tsugawa family!" Please also be able to put the inferior people in the past, thank you very much! ”

"There are so many of you, and you are all carrying weapons, I don't dare to let you go easily." Zhuxing Quan Bingwei shook his head and said, "The lord of this family has an order, and all the roads leading to the home of the Ono family are not allowed to enter and exit. ”

"Besides, you're just talking about it, and I don't dare to let you go." The Star Guards were stunned for a moment, and then said affirmatively.

Zhuxing Quan Bingwei is under the command of Yoshijing in the small village of Dongxiang City, just an ordinary ashigaru head, with 10 ashigaru and several peasant soldiers under his command. In the Shimonoyama area, since the outbreak of war between the Onodera family and the Tsugawa family, the Tsugawa family began martial law.

For 12 hours a day, they are divided into 4 groups to take turns to guard. The passers-by were strictly checked, and generally speaking, if they were just ordinary farmers or traveling merchants, the Star Guards would not embarrass them.

But Akechi Guangjiu and the others are not good at it at first glance, they all carry weapons, not to mention, and there is a murderous aura on their bodies! This makes the Star Guards a little uncertain.

The Tsukawa family leader also knew about the large-scale selection of standing ashigaru and the hiring of talents, so it was reasonable for Akechi Mitsuhisa and others to say that they were here to join the Tsugawa family, but for the sake of safety, Zhuxing Quanbei still decided not to let Akechi Mitsuhisa and others go first.

Hearing the words of the Star Guard, Akechi Mitsuhisa hurriedly said eagerly, "This adult, we are really not from the Ono family. ”

"yes, yes!" Yoshino Kotaro on the side also hurriedly echoed.

Zhuxing Quan Bingwei was also in trouble for a while, scratched his head, and only after a long time did he raise his head and look at the wise Guangjiu and the others standing in front of him, and turned around.

"Koshiro, you immediately go to Takahashi Castle, inform Takahashi-sama of the matter here, and ask Takahashi-sama's opinion!" At this time, the star power guard whispered to a foot beside him.

"Yes!" After Ashigaru finished speaking, he turned around and ran quickly in the direction of Takahashi Castle.

There were four teams guarding the outpost, two from Takahashi Castle and two teams from Togo Castle. However, since Togo Castle is far away from here, it is actually Takahashi Xingguo who is in charge of this place on a daily basis.

"I've already sent someone to Takahashi City to report the news, if you're not in a hurry, just wait here for a while." The Star Guards spoke.

Wise Guangjiu could only nod helplessly and said, "That's fine, then we'll wait here!" ”

"But can you please ask this adult to give us some water? We ran out of water on the road. Akechi Mitsuhisa continued.

"It's easy to do!" As he spoke, the Star Guards untied a water bladder from his waist and threw it at the other party where Akechi Mitsuhisa was.

Akechi Mitsuhisa immediately took the water bladder, and after saying thank you, he came to the side of the wise Shibei in the rear and said, "Shibei, let's feed some water to Tsumiki-sama and Kumaomaru first!" ”

"Yes!" After Akechi Mitsuhisa took the water bladder, he came to Tsumiki Hirohiro's side and said, "Has Mizumi-sama ever been better?" , Kumaomaru. ”

"It's much better." Tsumiki Hirohiro nodded, and then said softly, "The young master seems to have fallen asleep, don't disturb the young master for the time being." ”

"Hmm." As he spoke, the wise Shibei handed the water bladder in his hand to Tsumiki Hirohiro.

Due to the fact that Tsumiki Hirohiro had been injured in the leg in the previous battle, Tsumiki Hirohiro was not able to walk alone for the time being, so he could only let two of Yoshino's subordinates walk with support, or take turns carrying them.

After taking turns drinking water, Akechi Mitsuhisa and the others sat on the ground and began to rest, but in Takahashi Castle, not far away, Takahashi Xingguo fell into deep thought after listening to the words of the report Ashigaru.