The shouts of killing from across the Kiso River told Narumasa that Michizo Saito was probably not far from death.

Even from this side of the Kiso River, you can see from afar the reserves of Takegi Michichen, Nagai Michikatsu, and Komaki Genta, and these three reserves rely on the superiority of their forces to encircle the Michizo arranged on Tsuruyama from three sides.

Like the huge jaws of a python, they clung to the remnants of Daosan's army.

Looking from Tomita, there is a thin figure standing on the mountainside of Crane Mountain, I wonder if that person is Michizo?

At this time, Oda Nobunaga finally issued a military order:

"All the army, return to Cheongju!"

At this time, Oda Nobunaga had already stepped back on his horse, slowly drove out of Tomita Sho surrounded by the mother's clothes, and walked back to the streets of Cheongshu.

Sasa was stunned.

That's the end of it?

Why? Why didn't Nobunaga go to the rescue of Michizo?

Why did you wait here for 5 days for no reason and then go straight back to Cheongju?

Sasa Narumasa didn't understand Nobunaga's purpose, but what he understood was his own heart.

…… Obviously he was already so close to that guy, and he was not willing to miss this opportunity.

He wants revenge!

Cheng Zheng turned his horse's head abruptly and kicked his horse and galloped towards the Kiso River ferry.

"Hey! Yaga and Zuo, you are a god! ”

Keiji saw that Chengzheng was abnormal, and he was worried, so he also left the team and chased after him.

Nobunaga, who was surrounded by samurai on horseback, reined in his horse and looked back suspiciously.

He didn't understand why Sasa Narumasa had such a strong hatred for Saito Michizo.

Does the Sasa family of Hira Castle have a grudge against Michizo Saito?

He remembered no, but Cheng Zheng's behavior...... It's hard to explain.

Forget it, go back and wait for him to explain.

Oda Nobunaga shook his head and began to move forward again, although Saito Michizo was dead...... But the people who threatened his rule over Owari weren't dead yet.

Who's next?

Is it Oda Nobuyuki, or is it Oda Nobuyiyo?

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With a "poof", the spear plunged into the chest of a samurai.

"You have to remember, I'm Michizo Saito!"

Dozo pulled the spear out of the hapless samurai's body and pulled away a stray arrow before he could hold the spear to the ground and gasp for breath.

The battle had been going on for more than an hour, and his soldiers had suffered heavy losses, and they had already reached the point where he needed to fight in person.

Although the three stunned youths of Zhuwei Daochen, Nagai Michikatsu, and Komaki Genta did not have as many troops as the three formations that attacked the city yesterday, they were stunned to throw off the three of Mino and eight streets.

The soft ones are afraid of the hard, the hard ones are afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal ones are afraid of the stunned.

Maybe it was because they were stunned enough that Yilong sent the three of them over.

Dao San laughed at himself.

After a slight loss of concentration, another samurai attacked in front of Michizo.

"Down there's a bamboo waist dust! Please, the three major people seppuku! ”

This man with a helmet and armor is the bamboo waist Daochen, and he took a few guards to break through the wooden fence in front of the Daosan military camp at this moment, and killed in front of Saito Michizo.

For samurai, dying on the battlefield is of course the glory of a lifetime, but this is not the most face-saving way to die, there is a more decent way.

-- That's seppuku.

Although Takewaist Michichen is a close confidant of Yoshiryu, he also served Saito Michizo, and he took into account the righteousness of the former monarch and minister, so he urged Michizo like this.

But Dao San just laughed a few times, and then shook his spear:

"I'll fight to the death, come on!"

"So, offended!"

The bamboo waist Daochen nodded slightly at Daosan, waved his hand back, signaling the guards to guard both sides, and he himself slowly pulled out his katana and moved towards Daosan step by step.

Knowing that he couldn't outmaneuver his opponent physically at all, Dao San fought and retreated, carefully maintaining the distance advantage.

Unconsciously, the two have fought back and forth more than a dozen times, and they have not yet decided the winner, but Dao is three years old and weak, coupled with the previous two hours of fighting, he has lost some strength.

On the other hand, the bamboo waist Daochen is still energetic, his posture of holding the knife has not changed, and the strength when swinging the knife has not decreased.

The two of them slowly moved around in a circle, and the bamboo waist Daochen was suddenly tripped by one arm.

That arm was, of course, a dead man's arm, and Dosan found this opportunity and stabbed it with all his might.

Who knew that this flaw in the bamboo waist Daochen was deliberately sold to him, Daochen flashed sideways, grabbed Daosan's spear with lightning speed and stealing the bell, and then slashed down with a fierce swing.

The spear broke off in response, and in Daosan's hand, there was only a one-meter-long stick left.

Dosan staggered backwards, also tripped over one arm.

He didn't pretend this time, but was really tripped by the dead, and Dao San involuntarily bent his knees, and then fell backwards.

The bamboo waist Daochen swung his knife again, and Dao San had to raise a short stick with both hands to resist in front of him.

-- Is the time of my death coming?

Dao San thought so.

Boom!

A body of explosive thunder sounded behind Dao San, and Dao San's ears were buzzing, and with a light hand, the short stick was also broken.

Strangely enough, the stick was not cut off, but broken!

The bamboo waist Daochen fell backwards at this moment, and his empty eyes stared blankly at the sky.

There was a blood hole below his Adam's apple, in the middle of his collarbone, and the flesh around the blood hole was charred.

Bamboo waist Daochen is dead.

An iron cannon projectile pierced Daosan's short stick, and then killed the bamboo waist Daochen.

Ten paces away, Cheng Zheng put the iron cannon back into the saddle pocket, pulled out the sword, and rode his horse over.

"Toshimasa Saito, follow me!"

Seeing that it was Sasa Chengzheng, Dao San's heart felt a little bit of a sense of the rest of his life, but more of it was puzzled.

Oda Nobunaga didn't come, so why did Sasa Narumasa come?

What's more, isn't Sazo Chengzheng the kid who has an inexplicable hatred for himself? Why did he save himself?

The most puzzling thing for Dao San is what Cheng Zheng called him.

- Saito Toshimasa, the name he used before he usurped Mino.

How would Sasa Narumasa know?

Narumasa rushed to the front, and he quickly became a target for the enemy on a tall horse in the midst of the chaos, so Saito Michizo behind him was safe.

finally killed to the edge of the battlefield, but saw Komaki Genta and Nagai Michikatsu chasing after him with more than a dozen ashigaru!

I love mowing the lawn!

Cheng Zheng took a sip, holding the knife in both hands and preparing to fight, but when he got closer to them, he realized that Komaki Genta and Nagai Michikatsu were not chasing, but escaping!

Behind them, Keiji Maeda rode a red horse and chased after him with a red-painted vermilion spear.

Cheng Zheng immediately realized that this was the moment to beat the water dogs, turned the horse's head and rushed forward, otherwise it would be a little troublesome for them to react after a while.

He and Keiji went one after the other, and made Komaki Genta, Nagai Michikatsu and others into sandwiches.

Kill, kill, Cheng Zheng slashed and slashed with his sword, and finally killed the four ashigaru, Keiji had already poked the rest of his entourage to the ground, and also cut off the head of Komaki Genta, and put the red gun on Nagai Michikatsu's neck.

"Wait!"

Not far away, Michizo opened his mouth to stop Keiji,

"Dao Sheng is my nephew, please spare him."

Keiji's hand holding the gun remained motionless and looked at Naruma, who nodded at Michizo and slammed the handle of the knife on the back of Nagai Michikatsu's head with his backhand, and the guy fell down in front of his eyes.

Then Chengzheng turned around and showed a smile at Daosan:

"So, it's time to get down to business."

Although his smile was very warm, there was no smile in his eyes at all, and what Dao San saw was just cold.

Bone-chilling.

"First, Nobunaga has already returned to Cheongshu, and the son-in-law you value is no more than Er'er."

"Oh? Ahahaha......"

Dao San actually looked up to the sky and laughed.

Cheng Zheng frowned, thinking that this laughter was really an assassin, so he stepped forward and gave Dao San a kick, kicking him down on the wet grass.

"Oh...... I already knew, but Nobunaga is the person I value because I won't come to do futile efforts! ”

Dao San smiled, and stood up with difficulty with his arms supporting the soil,

"You don't even understand this, and you still want to be on par with Nobunaga, really...... Silly! Person! Say! Dream! ”

Sasa Chengzheng was furious, and suddenly drew his knife, and the blade was attached to Daosan's neck, and Daosan immediately stopped his movements and became cautious.

"Sure enough, even the world-famous pit viper Dao San will still be afraid of death!"

Chengzheng became happy.

"Does relying on force give you a sense of accomplishment? It's so ignorant. ”

Dao San snorted coldly.

"Second, I'm here to remind you of one thing, an old thing."

Daosan's eyebrows twitched slightly.

"Eleven years ago, you rebelled, besieged Daesang Castle, and destroyed your master's family, the Toki clan. But I ...... I don't resent you for it. ”

This sentence is not long, but Cheng Zheng said it extremely difficult.

Because every time he thinks of the old things, it is a nightmare, and in order not to forget the past, Cheng Zheng forces himself to relive the nightmare of the year over and over again.

Eleven years ago, I said goodbye to my father outside Katsuhata Castle, and it seemed like it had to be repeated every day and every night.

This made Cheng Zheng hate and hate him crazy!

"I hate you because you killed my father!"

For the first time, there was panic in Daosan's eyes:

"You...... Are you the Yozo back then? ”

If Cheng Zheng could calm down and observe Dao San carefully, he might be able to detect a trace of guilt in his frightened eyes.

But Chengzheng won't, and he doesn't have that kind of patience.

"For the past eleven years, I have thought about killing you every night before I go to bed, and every time I see Gui Die, I think about why it was her father who forced my father to die...... I'm miserable! ”

Cheng Zheng's arm trembled, and the sharp blade cut a line of blood on Daosan's dry neck.

Dao San's eyes finally showed pity.

"You think you'll be freed by killing me? Do you think that if you kill me, you will be able to return to the butterfly? ”

"Ulu Sai Ulu Sai Ulu Sai!"

"With Saemon, although you are already the best among people, you are still far from Nobunaga...... You, forever ...... Can't replace him! ”

"Yaga, ahhhhhh

Sasa Naimasa lost his mind and slashed down with a powerful swing of his knife, Michizo's round head rolled under his feet, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised seemed to be still mocking the living in this world.

"Let's go! Back to Cheongju! ”