Located in the middle of Dewa Province and the border of Mutsu Province, the Kishokatsu is the junction of the three forces of the Okoku Hosokawa family, the Onodera family, and the Osaki family. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Heijiro, I should have listened to you from Echigo to the waterway, and now in this barren mountains and mountains, the young master of Kuma Wangmaru is sick again, how is this good!" The leader of the samurai looked at another capable samurai behind him and said.

The samurai called Heijiro said, "Alas, we only know that the person we are looking for is Dewa, but Dewa is so big, where can we find it?" Fortunately, Lord Akechi, you took us to Aizu first, otherwise we still wouldn't know where they were. ”

"That's why we went to Aizu first, and the lord told me that the Tsugawa Township area of Aizu has the blood of the Toki family, and now it's finally confirmed. The Tsugawa family of Dewa! Senbuk-gun! That's where we're looking for! "Wise Guangjiu, born in a wise family of the wealthy family of Minong, is the younger brother of the current lord Wise Guang'an.

The wise family is the concubine of the Toki family, and the wise light as the third man came out of the Toki family for a long time, but the allegiance is not Toki Yoiyi, but the half-brother of Toki Yorii, the head of the Toki family.

After the death of the head of the original Toki family, the Toki family was succeeded by the eldest son Masanori Dozaki and the second son Yorii Toki, who were succeeded by the eldest son of Toki Yoribo and the second son Yorii Toki.

And Toki Yoriku was imprisoned in Toki Yoriyi's residence city of Dasan Castle, and later died of depression, and Kuma Wangmaru was the only son of Toki Yoricun.

Akechi Mitsuhisa is a retainer of Toki Yoricun, although he was born in a wise family, but Akechi Mitsuhisa is a concubine, and he is not very popular, far inferior to Akechi Koyasu and others, so he can only be loyal to Toki Yoricun, the lord of Kozato Castle, who is also a concubine.

On the same day, after Daisan Castle was captured by Saito Toshimasa, Toki Yorigi disappeared, and in a panic, Akechi Mitsuhisa took advantage of the chaos to rescue Toki Yoriku's son Kuma Wangmaru, and fled with several close retainers of Toki Yoriku, preparing to defect to Tsugawa Soji of Dewa.

These samurai are Kinoshita Heijiro Hidemitsu, Tsuneki Sasuke Hirohiro, Toyama Hyogo Takakei, and Akechi Mitsuhisa's nephew, Akechi Shibei, who is 15 years old this year.

Akechi Shibei is the son of Akechi Mitsuhisa and Akechi Mitsuyasu's eldest brother, Akechi Mitsuna, who died early and entrusted the care of two brothers, Akechi Mitsuhisa and Akechi Mitsuyasu. However, compared to Wise Guang'an, Wise Ten Guards are relatively close to Wise Guangjiu.

At that time, the wise ten guards happened to go to Daisan Castle to visit Akechi Mitsuhisa, and then followed Akechi Mitsuhisa all the way to distant Dewa. And the other wife Mu Hirohiro and Toyama Takashi were born in the wealthy family of Mino and the Toyama family respectively, but the situation is the same as that of Akechi Guangjiu, as a concubine, the status is not very high.

Now that the Toki family has been seized by Saito Toshimasa, the wise Mitsuhisa who is already a "masterless person", with the glory and faith of a samurai, has already pledged allegiance to Toki Yoriku, and resolutely decided to protect Kumaguru to come to the Tsugawa family.

Here I have to talk about the origin of the Tsugawa family.

The Tsugawa family is a branch of the Toki family. As early as 200 years ago, in 1338, the Toki family was still the guardian of the three kingdoms of Mino, Ise, and Owari at that time, but with the unification of the Northern and Southern Dynasties by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the Toki clan, which was originally a big help to the shogunate (the Toki family had helped the Ashikaga family fight abroad), became an obstacle, so the shogunate decided to take action against the Toki family.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu first took advantage of the contradictions within the Toki clan to provoke Toki Yasuyuki, the head of the Toki family at the time. Toki Yasuyuki really hit the plan. In 1338, a civil war between the Toki clan broke out in Owari Kuroda. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu took the opportunity to send a crusading army, and Toki Yasuyuki had to fight the shogunate army and was saddled with the name of rebellion.

Probably ten months after the Battle of Kuroda, Kojima Castle, the last stronghold of the Toki clan, was captured, and Toki Yasuyuki surrendered, greatly reducing the strength of the Toki clan. Also the targets of this policy of weakening and protecting the daimyo are the Ouchi clan, which is centered on the defense chief, and the Yamana clan, who is known as the guardian of the eleven countries.

Yasuyuki Toki, who fought against the shogunate, was deprived of the position of guardian of the three kingdoms of Mino, Owari, and Ise. As a result, the Toki clan was on the verge of extinction. It is said that it was the monk Yunxi Zhishan who rescued the Toki clan. He was born in the Toki clan, and he was the uncle of Toki Yasuyuki, and he worked as a mage at the Sokokuji Temple, which was under the patronage of the shogunate. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was supposed to exterminate the Toki clan, but under his persuasion, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu agreed not to exterminate the Toki clan and allowed him to propose a successor to the Toki clan. In this way, the Toki clan lost the strength of the former guardian of the Three Kingdoms, and barely kept the family name.

At this time, Toki Muneyasu (the younger brother of Toki Yasuyuki), who was born in the Toki family, left Mino the base camp of the Toki family and went to the Aizu area, where he took root in Tsugawa Township.

More than 100 years later, about 1417 A.D., the Toki family had begun to decline, and when the lord Toki Sonari left Tsugawa Township again, went to the Dewa country, and was renamed Tsugawa Sonari from the Rokugo family, which was the first governor of the Tsugawa family.

Later, the third governor of the family, Tsugawa Masamune, married the princess of the Rokugo family, and the Rokugo family left the Rokugo area for the southeastern part of Senhoku-gun, while the Tsugawa family stayed in the Rokugo area.

Later, due to various relationships, the relationship between the Tsugawa family and the Rokugo family deteriorated, and the Tsugawa family broke away from the Rokugo family and became an independent force, and the Tsugawa family has continued to the present day as the leader.

Therefore, the Tsugawa family is actually a trickle of the Toki family, although it is old, but it is an indisputable fact.

And although Akechi Mitsuhisa and the others knew that the person they were looking for was Dewa, they didn't know the specific location and who it was. So I went to Tsugawa Township first, and learned that the Tsugawa family had moved to Dewa, so I began to move towards Senhoku County again, and on the way Kuma Wangmaru accidentally had a cold wind, and the state was not very good.

However, this place is barren and wild, and Wise Guangjiu and the others can only look forward to rushing to Xianbei County as soon as possible.

"Uncle, how long will it take to get to Xianbei County?" The youngest wise Shibei looked immature, looked at his uncle, whom he had always loved, and said.

Akechi Mitsuhisa replied with a smile, "It's going to be soon, it's a few days to walk over this mountain." ”

"But we're running out of food." Wise Shibei said uneasily.

Wise Guangjiu sighed and said helplessly, "How many more?" ”

"It's only enough for the five of us to have 2 days' rations, and we have to count the young master of Xiongwang Pill, plus the young master is infected with the wind cold, if you don't seek medical attention as soon as possible, I'm afraid it will ........" Wise Shibei said hesitantly.

"This .........." Just when Wise Light hesitated for a long time, more than a dozen people dressed as bandits suddenly burst out from the mountains and forests on both sides of the ghost's head, and the atmosphere seemed a little tense for a while.

Wise Guangjiu looked at the group of people who suddenly appeared with a solemn expression, silently pulled out the sword on his waist, and said to Wise Shibei and the others, "Trouble is coming!" Let's move closer, and hopefully we can survive this hurdle. (To be continued.) )