In the early morning of December 21, 1581, I woke up very early, and the sun was still struggling in the white mist, and the heavy hoarfrost on the earth echoed to form a white expanse.

In the first few years when I first became a samurai, I did have a habit of waking up early, and although this was completely inconsistent with my personality, there was no way to be driven by Oda Nobunaga to do this and that all day long. However, it was the hard work of those years that laid a solid foundation for my later foundation, and it rose to an impressive position almost at a rate of one year a year. I haven't studied carefully whether the early birds really have worms, but my hard work has not been in vain!

Later, I became a general of the Daimyo Army, and I had quite a lot of assistants in my daily work, so I resumed the habit of sleeping lazily in the morning. As for when I was out of the army, because I always had Ah Xue and Mirage Qianye sisters by my side, I often kept a leisurely stay in the name of "steady". Unless it's something big to think about, I'm usually used to sleeping when my mind is most awake.

I do have some issues to consider today, but they are not very important, and the reason why I got up so early was completely on a whim, and I wanted to see the last days of the "monkey", who was supposed to be the victor, as a daimyo.

Standing tall among the mountains, the castle is a bit majestic and mysterious in the mist, and perhaps ordinary people will inevitably have admiration when they see such a scene, and they will never think that it will not be able to protect its master at all. I suddenly remembered that Beschoji was attacked and killed by Hashiba Hideyoshi here, and now the reincarnation of the world cannot but be said to be a kind of fate!

"My lord, His Royal Highness Wasuka has come down!" I was holding my back in a daze, and Mibenmaru whispered behind me.

"Oh...... His Highness Wasuka! "As soon as I turned around, I saw Masakatsu Wasuka bowing to me with his waist bent." Your Highness doesn't have to be polite, let's sit down and talk! I stepped forward and took his hand and walked over to a mat, which was well prepared because it was like an outing.

"Don't dare, don't dare......" Wasuka Masakatsu nodded his head to show his humility, and the curvature of his waist and back looked quite funny, like a prawn backwards in the water, in fact, he still walked forward.

"We've known each other for almost twenty years!" I looked at his bald head and old spirit, and I couldn't help but sigh.

"It's been eighteen years!" He whispered with his head down, as if avoiding my gaze.

Wasuka Masakatsu is really old, so old that he is as timid as a mouse and has no courage. The still water ghost fox has been in contact with him for a long time in private, but he has always looked forward and dare not make a final decision. At the last moment, the cusp of the storm could no longer allow him to hesitate, but he still put forward a condition that seemed almost unthinkable to me: there must be someone in the Shikoku landing force who could clearly express my attitude, otherwise he could only give way and not directly participate in the attack on Yuchai!

I couldn't laugh or cry when I first heard this, and I was even a little angry, but after some thought, I finally understood his concerns. He was afraid that I would immediately turn around and get rid of a group of opportunists after this incident! As he gets older, he can't trust anyone, and it's no longer the dark lord who maneuvered between Saito and Oda back then.

I understand him, so I have the identity of Yiqing, a lieutenant general. At the same time, I pity him, you look at the desperate courage of the four Shimazu brothers!

"Last night, the Yuchai Army wanted to break through, did His Highness Bee Suka know?" Somehow, I didn't know what to say for a while, so I casually said something a little abrupt.

"Last night, the guns in the west of the city were quite intense, and I heard it in the camp!" He nodded in understanding.

"His Royal Highness Yuchai originally wanted to fight his way out, but he didn't want to break a lot of hands instead!" I turned again to the head of Miki Castle, which was high above, and now that the fog had cleared, I could faintly see some flags. "According to the results of the battle just reported: more than 800 people were annihilated and about 1,700 were captured, and it has been confirmed that Kato Yoshiaki, Yasuharu Kyosaka, Hirano Nagayasu and others were killed!"

"Actually, why bother! Where is his way of life in the world......" He sighed subconsciously, but immediately realized the ambiguity that these words might cause, and quickly looked up at me and lowered his head. "It's really old in the next place...... Please forgive your Highnesses! ”

"It's completely unnecessary, and His Highness Wasuka doesn't have to worry about it!" I couldn't bear to see him like this, so I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Since the first time we met in that cabin in the middle of the Mino Mountains, you have never done anything sorry for me, but you have always given me great support. Compared to some others...... Alas~! Thinking of Mamoru Ando, I let out a long sigh.

Actually, when I first contacted Mino, my first choice was Mori Ando, not the somewhat rigid Inaba Kachitetsu, but he turned his face and reported my tentative contact to Oda Nobutada. Fortunately, I was cautious at the time, and I just wanted to leave a way back if Oda Nobunaga dealt with me, otherwise it would have caused irreparable consequences. After Oda Nobunaga's death, Mamoru Ando not only fell headlong into the arms of the "monkey", but also offered to use his relationship with Hanbei Takenaka to deceive my trust, and then suddenly attack me in Kyoto at the right time!

After seeing the information from the secret stake planted next to the "monkey", I was really speechless for a long time, he may be thinking of using this trick to soar! Faced with this situation, I had no choice but to lead him into the trap one last step at a time.

"I, Suga Masakatsu, am just a villager from a humble background, and it is already an honor to be able to do a little service for His Highness the Stars!" Masakatsu Wasuka lowered his head again.

"I'm here today to have a heartfelt word with His Royal Highness Wasuka, and don't mention any merits and demerits. But now that I've won and he's lost, it's as simple as that! "The sun should have risen to a certain height by this time, but it still hasn't broken through the entanglement of the clouds. I raised my head, and the wind that blew on my face was a little damp and cold. "I'm not afraid to tell you, since about ten years ago, His Royal Highness and I have been separated, but at that time, in order to fight against the too powerful Shibata Katsuie, I barely sat on a mat. When it comes to our position, competition is inevitable, but if it weren't for the sudden death of the first lord Nobunaga, he might have stumbled down like this! ”

"I know that His Highness is a nostalgic person, and he must still be thinking about the things of the past from time to time!" He nodded and said something ambiguous.

"It's snowing...... I looked up to the sky, and there were small snowflakes falling here. Is His Royal Highness Wasuka also a nostalgic person? Do you want to go back to Mino? I asked again.

Wasuka Masakatsu looked up again quickly, and saw that the emotions in my eyes were so complicated that I didn't understand them. "I'm old, I can't do anything, so what does it matter where I go!" He sighed as he spoke, gasping for breath.

I was silent for a long time before I figured out that it was not that he didn't miss his hometown, but that I thought I was testing his attitude towards the Oda family!

After all, I've been a retainer of the Oda family for 20 years, and although I have now received the certificate of regaining my freedom, there is still a problem with people's habits. In addition, a large number of the daimyo clans that are now attached to me have been attached to the Oda banner for a long time, even if they were not official Oda retainers before. In this case, it is perfectly normal for me to doubt their attitude, and for them to think that I will doubt their conjecture. From here, I also deduce that he is not alone in holding this attitude.

"His Royal Highness the Third Mage has already sent someone to deliver a letter a few days ago, saying that it is difficult to take on the responsibility of guarding the entire Mino!" I didn't explain anything, as if I was simply telling him something like this. "Considering the age of His Royal Highness the Third Master, I think this request also has some truth, so I would like to ask His Highness Wasuka to return there and receive 150,000 stone of land from Ogaki Castle. Minono's guardianship is divided between the three mages, His Highness Inaba, and the three of you, but before His Royal Highness the three mages come of age, you two will have to take care of them a little more! ”

"Thank you for your generosity, you will do your best!" He showed enough gratitude, but not very excited.

"In that case, then please!" I nodded, but thought about it and asked. "Doesn't His Highness Wasuka have anything else to say to me?"

"This ......" This time Wasuka Masakatsu pondered for a long time, and then said: "Your Highness mentioned the events of the year just now, if you are not mistaken, Your Highness seems to be under the command of Nobunaga as soon as he comes out, right?" ”

"Not bad!" I nodded again.

"Compared to the experience in the lower world, it is much richer than His Royal Highness!" For the first time, a smile appeared on his face. "Ever since he was a teenager, he was a man of the evil party who was not willing to be lonely, and he worked for many daimyo in order to become a real samurai. The Toki family, the Nagai family, the Saito family, and even the Takeda family, which invaded Mino for a while, until the Oda family, I can't remember much more than I can now. But it wasn't until he was 48 years old that he was introduced to the Oda family by His Royal Highness and became an official retainer. Your Highness, your destiny is smooth sailing, and you may not understand my thoughts, unless you have also experienced those things that have happened to me! With that, he bowed deeply to me, and then walked slowly towards the camp with his body on his back.

Looking at this back, I suddenly understood a lot, when I first came to this world, I was not a person here at all, so I was able to do so many things that now seem almost "genius". If I had been now, I would have been afraid that it would have been impossible for me to do something like that again, and even if I thought about it, I wouldn't have the courage to do that kind of thing. Now I have too many worries in my heart, and they belong to the concerns of people of this era.

I got up from the mat, and my legs were a little stiff after a while. "Let's go back too!" I'm feeling a little hungry.