Li Xiao, who was dressed as an ordinary businessman, was wearing coarse linen clothes, but if he looked closely, he could see the momentum of his superior

has been a feudal lord for a long time, and has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, which makes Li Xiao feel angry and arrogant, and he wants to come seriously

And this time, he dressed up as an ordinary businessman, and secretly walked the path with Usami Minami, Shioka Kazuha, the second son Li Yong, and Sanada Yukimura, and let the shadow warrior hold his own banner and go away with great fanfare, just because he was worried that there would be hostile forces and plotted against him

In the end, his shoulder was attacked by ninjas on the road, which caused his shadow warrior to be stabbed and seriously injured, and the samurai who guarded him suffered many casualties, and even half of his shoulder husband died

Li Xiao's face was solemn, and he immediately asked, "Did your brother find out what force of ninjas attacked me?" Is it the Oyamada family, or the Uesugi family? Or is it the Tokugawa family? ”

Yokotani Yukiyoshi buried his head at the moment and said: "Back to the lord, my brother discovered the whereabouts of the first ninja of the Tokugawa family, Hattori Hanzo, it should be the Tokugawa family."

"It's Tokugawa Ieyasu, this bastard, who dares to assassinate the lord"

Before Li Xiao could speak, Shigang Yiyu said hatefully on the side

Li Xiao stretched out his hand and said: "Tokugawa Ieyasu, since he is already an enemy, he must use all means, if he kills the opponent in another position, I will also make the same decision as him, don't think about it, Yiyu"

Then Li Xiao asked: "So after the shoulder was smashed, how did Baoke Zhengguang deal with it?" ”

Yokotani Yukiyoshi said: "Back to the lord, Hoshina Masamitsu asked a doctor for treatment on the spot, and then sent someone to continue to escort him to Kiso's house for treatment, because Hoshina Masamitsu didn't know that it was the lord shadow warrior in the shoulder, so nothing was exposed."

Hearing this, Li Xiao nodded slightly, and said, "Well done"

You must know that although Hattori Hanzo was not the strongest ninja in the Warring States period, he was definitely the most famous ninja

His most famous deeds are escorting Tokugawa Ieyasu back to Mikawa after the Honnoji Incident in history

His ninja crowd, guarding along the way, was known at the time as Iga Crossing

Now under the assassination under the personal control of him, Li Xiao does not know how sure he can escape, but since this person's trace has appeared, he must not let the other party leave Shinano alive and return to the Tokugawa family

Li Xiao's eyes narrowed, and he said: "If this person is allowed to return to the Tokugawa family, I will also lose face and pass on the order, so that Yokotani Yukishige can mobilize all his strength and go all out to besiege and kill this group of Mikawa ninjas, leaving no one behind."

Yokotani Yukiyoshi sighed and said, "My brother has personally commanded the ninjas of my family to hunt down and kill Hattori Hanzo."

Li Xiaoshen said: "Let your brother, inform the Togakushi people to go out of Pu Shengqing, and the family Botou people to join forces with the top shinobi Takasaka Shinnai, and the three major ninjas will go out together to besiege and kill Hattori Hanzo."

How do you know that Yokotani Yukiyoshi said: "Please rest assured, my brother claimed that it was enough to kill Hattori Hanzo with his own strength, otherwise he would cut his stomach to thank the lord."

Li Xiao smiled slightly when he heard Yokotani Xingqing's words, and said, "Your brother is really so sure? ”

"Oh," Yokotani said exclaimed

Li Xiao listened to Yokotani Yukiyo's answer and nodded, it was indeed easy for Hattori Hanzo to escape Yokotani Yukiyo's ambush

In the past two years, although Li Xiao has been living in seclusion, he has put all his energy into the construction of the ninja army

Li Xiao's Li Family Ninja Army was established in the same way as the KGB and the CIA, as an important intelligence organization for him to monitor his own family, hostile forces, and assassinate the internal security department

Li Xiao divided the ninja army into three parts

The first is the intelligence department, and the largest part, called the sound department, which specializes in spying

The sound part is divided into three parts

The first is to specialize in intelligence collection for major forces such as Uesugi, Oda, and Hojo

They walked between countries as cultivators, mountain monks, nihilistic monks, and merchants, specializing in intelligence transmission, intelligence collection, lurking within the enemy army, dividing and buying hostile retainers...,

The second is the monitoring of the internal channels of the Takeda family and Li Xiao's retainers

For example, the last time Xueshan Xinjun gathered the samurai to kill Li Xiao, but the intelligence department spied out in advance, but instead gave Li Xiao a backhand and killed the Xueshan family

As for Li Xiao's retainers, such as Shima Katsutake, Kinoshita Hidenaga, Fujido Takatora, Baba Masabo, Takenaka Shigeharu and others, they also sent people to secretly monitor and check whether they colluded with other forces or had corruption

The third is to collect intelligence on neutral forces

Such as the Ming Kingdom maritime merchants, Franco, and the Maori family, the Nagamune family, the Kyushu Otomo, Shimazu and other forces

For this part, Li Xiaozi will not invest too much, and the importance of the first two is not the same, but the necessary military trends, as well as the appointment of retainers, and the preferences of the lord are all included in the scope of intelligence collection

The sound part is specialized in espionage, and the remaining two, the dark part is good, I shamelessly borrowed it, specializing in assassination; The shadow department specializes in internal security

When the dark department first appeared, it was when Li Xiaochu was born in Pingcheng, and he carried out the assassination of the official of Honganji Temple, and he did not show any traces, and the greatest merit was that during the battle of Nagashino, he successfully assassinated the head of the four heavenly kings of the Tokugawa family, Sakai Tadaji

As a result, the Tokugawa family's surprise attack on Mt. Kite-Chao failed

The ninjas of the shadows are carefully selected, and they are all proficient in blow arrows, hooks, shurikens, kunai, shurikens, ninja hammers, iron cannons and other weapons

Although the ability to go into battle is insufficient, in terms of assassination techniques, the abilities of these ninjas can be described as extremely terrifying

And this time the dark department was ordered, under the leadership of Yokotani Yukishige, to carry out the arduous task of chasing and killing Hattori Hanzo and his Mikawa Shinobi, and the sound department was responsible for spying on the news and reporting all the clues of Mikawa Shinobi to Yokoya Yukishige, so that Hattori Hanzo had nothing to hide

And the final shadow department, and the role of the shadow department, like its name, exists around the other party, but it is not noticed by others

The mission of the Shadow Department is to secretly be responsible for the protection of important targets

For example, the daimyo Li Xiao himself, even though there is Shigang Kazuha and the guards who are close to him, there are still shadows guarding in the dark, and the ninjas of the shadow department cover and secretly monitor in various identities to see if others have bad intentions

In addition to Li Xiao, there are also his family members Yumi Kohata, sisters Yuzhen Kohata, as well as Li Zheng, Li Yong, Mingchuan Li Xiao's children, and there are also people from the shadow department around him, guarding in secret

And this time, Li Xiao crossed Mino and returned to Hida, and it was the Shadow Department who was responsible for his safety along the way

Don't look at the fact that there are only Shigang Kazuha Usami and others around Li Xiao now, but in fact, near this logging house, there are more than 20 shadow ninjas, disguised as passers-by farmers, merchants, monks, lumberjacks and other identities scattered around, secretly scouting and guarding them

And on the scheduled route, there are other shadow ninjas along the way, paving the way for them to reconnoitre

Under Yokotani Yushige, this sound department is dark, and the three major parts of the shadow department are all responsible for the special upper ninja

The identities of the three shinobi are kept secret from the outside world, and even the ninjas inside do not know their true identities

Among them, the appointment of Shangnin must be through Li Xiao himself

Under the upper forbearance, it is the middle forbearance of the specific person in charge of the task, and finally the lower forbearance of the implementer of each detail

In this way, it will be passed down from one level to the next, ensuring its strict level and the confidentiality of information

And Li Xiao, a huge ninja army scattered in all directions, has a total of more than 2,000 people, which is ten times larger than when Li Xiao ordered Yokoya to be Yushige and first established the ninja organization

And more than 2,000 people, not including the ninja organization's other recruits, ears and eyes

This ninja army is simply the size of a flag reserve, and the investment capital is no less than that of the flag reserve

After completing this move, Li Xiao proved one thing, that is, despite the rich and rival gold mountain of Sado...,

No matter how big the mountain is, if you work hard to spend money, you can still use it cleanly as if you were dumping it in the sea

After the establishment of the ninja legion, in the end, Li Xiao was still not at ease, so he set up the position of Dafumu, recruited personnel by himself, and formed his own system

Its function is to be responsible for the supervision of the monitoring system, specifically for the supervision of the three major ninja departments, to see if there is any behavior of guarding self-theft and deceiving the master

And this candidate for the position of Daimu Fu, just like Tokugawa Ieyasu chose Yagyu Zongyan, Li Xiao also chose a swordsman who is more famous than Yanagi Zongju in history to take the role

This person is a young swordsman whom Kamiizumi Nobutsuna traveled the world and met when he arrived in the country of Fengzen

After the two sparred, Nobutsuna Kamiizumi praised his swordsmanship, and it just so happened that this young swordsman also had the ambition to get ahead

So Shangquan Xingang immediately pushed the boat down the river to do a personal favor, and recommended this person to Li Xiao

After Kamiizumi Nobutsuna recommended this person, he returned to Yamato Yanagi Valley shortly after, and died of illness in front of his disciple Yanagi Sogon

This generation of sword saints at the age of seventy returned to Huangquan, Li Xiaowen heard about this, remembering the two battles with Shangquan Xingang, and couldn't help sighing

They can be regarded as friends who don't know each other, and they have a little sympathy for each other

Li Xiao ordered someone to send 1,000 guan of money to Yanagi Zongyan, and hoped that he could come to Fushan Castle in Yuezhong to open a kendo hall to pass on and carry forward the swordsmanship of Shangquan Xingang Yinliu

Yanagi Zongyan sighed at Li Xiao's respect for Shangquan Xinzuna, and promised to go to Yuezhong after settling his family

After that, Yanagi Zongyan was really true and promised to come to Toyama Castle to pass on the way of the sword, and created the Yanagi Yin Stream, becoming the descendant of the Yin Stream

Yagyu Sogen and his son Yanagi Sogen inherited the kendo-way of Kamiizumi Nobutsuna in Hokuriku and carried it forward

And Yanagi Zongyan, Yanagi Zongju, and the three ancestors and grandsons of Yanagi Shibingwei are known as Yanagi Three Days Dog

Among them, Yanagi Zongju later became Li Zheng's guide to the art of war, and Yanagi was extremely glorious, but all this is a later story

And now in the mountains of the Kiso Valley, Li Xiao is preparing to set off again, and his Ren Damu Fu also led the people of the Mufu group to prepare to meet Li Xiao at the junction of Shinano and Hida

Wakasa country, Tase mountain castle

After three days and two nights of intense negotiations, the Mori family's diplomatic monk Ankokuji Huiqiong had returned to Izumo Province to return to Izumo Province and Mori Terumoto and Yoshikawa Motoharu on the Mori family's ship

At the docks, Honda Masanobu watched the boat of Ankokuji Huiqiong disappear into the sky, and a smile appeared on his face

In fact, the negotiations with the Mori family presided over by Honda Masanobu have progressed very well

In ancient times, when there was no telephone exchange, many situations could only be arbitrarily decided by the diplomats themselves, and if they wanted to ask the sovereign for advice and instructions on everything, then they would come and go back and forth, and the military plane would be delayed, so there would be no negotiations

And Honda Masanobu, who served as the head of the Lee family's diplomacy, of course, did an excellent job of completing the mission of negotiating with the Maori family

Initially reached an agreement between the two families to join forces to attack the country of Tango, and discussed the specific boundaries of the partition, of course, as a diplomatic monk of the Maori family, Ankokuji Huiqiong also won enough benefits for the Maori family, overall, Honda, Ankokuji two in this round of the battle is a win

Honda Masanobu then returned to the castle tower, and the Naito family's envoy arrived

This time, the envoy of the Naito family came to offer the Naito family hostages to the Li family

Among the hostages were Naito Sadanari, the younger brother of the family governor Naito Ruan, and his sister-in-law Naito Xiufu, who completed the dedication of these two hostages, which meant that the Naito family was officially subordinate to the Li family

Honda Masanobu was very satisfied, and immediately praised the envoy of the Naito family, asking him to go back and convey his respect for Naito Ruan

After completing this matter, the envoy of the Naito family naturally asked Honda Masanobu to ask the Takeda family to immediately send it to strengthen Wakasa's forces so that they could support the Naito family at any time, after all, now the Hatano family is in danger under the offensive of Akechi Mitsuhide...,

After hearing this, Honda Masanobu's face was solemn, and he immediately asked Muto Tomoji to discuss

What Muto Tomoyoshi has been doing in the past few days is to desperately fight against the people of Nishiwakasa under the double call of Takeda Motoaki and the Li family, and has achieved very good results

In addition to subduing several countrymen, he also sent troops to pacify a recalcitrant wealthy family, and now half of Wakasa has fallen into the hands of the Li family

Hearing the Naito family's request for help, Muto Tomoyoshi reluctantly said that if he did not return from the front line in the Shibata Army and did not weaken the defense of Tase Mountain Castle, he could draw 2,000 troops from the subordinate wealthy clan to support the Naito family

Hearing this, Honda Masatin couldn't help but look a little ugly

Although the stone height of Wakasa Province is only 85,000 koku, it has a large income and a rich fishery, so the people are rich

Therefore, Muto Tomoyi, the mobilization power of half of Wakasa Country that he said is definitely more than that

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Wakasa Takeda to rely on this national strength to become the main general of Hosokawa Katsumoto, and he was known as the deputy general of the Eastern Army in the Onin Rebellion

Therefore, Muto Tomoji either gives himself a sloppy eye, or he does not have enough control over the countrymen

But at present, the reason for this is obviously the former, although Honda Masanobu was furious, he did not attack easily, and instead relieved Muto Tomoyi with kind words

Claiming to send troops to the Naito family in Tanba, it was only to assist in its defense, not to fight, and then Muto Tomoyoshi agreed to send 3,000 troops to see if he could support the Naito family

When Honda Masanobu heard this, he nodded slowly

And at this moment, an envoy came in and reported in the ear of Honda Masanobu about Li Xiao's assassination in Shinano

This news was like a bolt from the blue sky to Honda Masanobu, but looking at Muto Yuyi in front of him, Honda Masanobu still pressed the situation and didn't let him see his mood swings

And in the bottom of my heart, Honda Righteous Faith is seven up and eight down (to be continued)