When Sasa Narimasa came to the castle of Kasugayama Castle, he did not see the rotten corpses and rats running around.

All he saw was ashes.

The ashes of the castle town in Kasugayama Castle burned to the ground.

The ashes of the corpses burned out...... and white bones.

Of course, the corpse will not spontaneously combust, let alone this cold and damp weather.

Who piled up the bodies and burned them?

Cheng Zheng looked at the towering Kasuga Mountain Castle not far away, gently kicked the belly of the moon hair, and trotted over to the location of the city gate.

"The samurai below, report your name!"

The defender of the castle shouted weakly, his eyes sunken and his complexion blue.

"I'm Sasasa...... I want to meet Usami-sama! ”

Cheng Zheng ripped off the face towel and raised his head.

"Wait, Lady Sasa!"

Ashigaru did not open the city gate, which was of course a sign of caution, but although Narumasa thought that the corpses under the castle were burned by the hands of the old man Usami Dingman, he still underestimated the consciousness of the defenders.

It didn't take long for the gates to slowly open, and Usami came out on an old horse.

Sasa Narumasa also tied a face towel...... He was about to enter the city, but Usami said:

"Adults don't need to be in danger, let's talk in another place."

Usami Dingman didn't even get close to Sasa Narumasa, so he directly turned the horse's head and walked towards the south of the city.

Naruma was a little surprised by Usami Seimitsu's caution, and in his opinion, people in this era seemed to have no sense of isolation.

This plague, to put it bluntly, is the plague - man-made plague, also known as the Black Death, which is easily contagious and has a high mortality rate.

Infection can occur through four routes: bites, skin wound contact, gastrointestinal ingestion, and respiratory droplets. Skin wound contact and digestive ingestion are easy to avoid, but rats, flea bites, and respiratory droplets are not.

Cheng Zheng wears a face towel, which can largely avoid the possibility of respiratory infection, and he wraps his whole body tightly and wears gloves to prevent being bitten.

Usami Dingman looks so weak, is he already sick, or is about to get sick?

This problem, Naruma didn't know, he only knew that in addition to the weakness of Usami Dingmi, the biggest loss was the malaise of his mental state.

This old man was no longer the cunning fox he had seen before.

It's just an old man in his last years.

"It's an honor for Lady Sazo to come...... In this way, is it that His Highness has pacified North Vietnam? ”

"Not only after North Vietnam, but the lord also defeated the Ashina Mori clan to the point of almost annihilation, and the lord's shadow warrior went south to Shinano, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil in the hinterland of the Takeda family...... It can be said that in this showdown, both sides suffered heavy losses. ”

Sasa Chengzheng sighed, but Usami Dingman seemed to be interested, and asked Chengzheng to recount everything in detail after finding Sister Jinghu.

According to his words, Narumasa recounted the process of their battle in the hinterland of Shinano in detail, however, since he did not go to Kita-Shinano in person, he only knew that Sister Jinghu had made a forced landing on Honjo Shiranaga and defeated the Ashina Mori clan. As for the details of Sister Jinghu's K.O K.O Honjo in a few rounds, and the PK version of the Ashina Army's starting car, he didn't know.

"It's a pity!"

Usami let out a long sigh.

"It's a pity that this three-way strategy goes hand in hand. If Takeda Harunobu hadn't been so vicious and hadn't created a plague, Kasuga Mountain Castle would have been able to hold out until His Royal Highness Jinghu and the Lord returned. Among the three route armies, one after North Vietnam is positive, one in Shinano is strange, and there is only one road in Fudong Mountain, which only gets its name...... But even if it is only the name of His Royal Highness Jinghu, it will make the Takeda clan jealous, and it will greatly increase the morale of the defenders of Kasuga Mountain Castle. ”

Commenting on this, Usami Dingman turned his head and looked at Sasa Chengzheng.

"Zosa-sama's military strategy is truly breathtaking!"

Listening to the old man boasting about himself, Cheng Zheng could only smile bitterly.

"I counted so much, but I didn't count that Takeda Harunobu would create a plague...... If he had known this, even if he had fought for his life, he would have asked the lord to come to Kasuga Mountain Castle to join the two adults and defeat the Takeda clan together. ”

"Ahem...... Ahem......"

Usami lowered his head and covered his mouth, and he coughed repeatedly, as if he was going to crush his heart and lungs in his chest.

After a while, Usami Dingman raised his head again, looking at Chengzheng's gaze, still not hiding his appreciation.

"Don't say it's Lord Sasa, even if I've always been ruthless, I didn't expect Takeda Harunobu to be so vicious...... We can't blame it, but if we do, we can only blame it on bad luck. ”

Cheng Zheng's heart was also mixed, looking at the mountains and flowing clouds in the distance, his eyes were erratic.

"Lady Sasa, since you dare to come to Kasugayama, do you have a way to deal with the plague?"

“…… There is a way, but most of the people in the city cannot save their lives. ”

After a long time, Sazuo Chengzheng had a difficult way.

He didn't know if Michizo and Mitsuhide would be able to cure the Black Death, and if he prepared for the worst - everyone in the quarantine area, including himself, would die.

"I have already sent someone to Kyoto to ask for Qu Naase Michizo, but Kyoto is hundreds of miles away from here, and once the plague breaks out, its nature is very violent, I am afraid that it will be difficult for us people to make it to Qu Naase Michizo."

Facing Usami Dingman, Naruma told the truth, he had nothing to hide from the other party.

"This ending, the old man has long expected it."

Usami Dingman laughed instead.

Because of this, the old man organized people to burn all the corpses outside the city...... Otherwise, it won't be a city that will die, but the whole of Echigo. ”

"My lord has done the lord a great favor, and he has also saved the entire Echigo, Chengzheng is here, and the acting lord has thanked him!"

Sasa Narumasa jumped off his horse and bowed deeply to Usami Dingmi.

"So...... The old man went back to the city first. ”

Usami Dingman pulled the reins, drove the old horse from the side of Chengzheng about a foot away, and embarked on the road back, but he just took two steps, but stopped again.

"By the way, the old man has a daughter, whose name is Nami, I have already asked her to go to Fudo Mountain in advance, if the adults meet, please take care of one or two."

After entrusting her daughter's affairs, Usami Dingman whipped the old horse and went to Kasuga Mountain Castle without looking back.

Others are old and sophisticated, so they won't believe that Sasa Chengzheng has any way to stop the plague.

It's not that he hasn't seen the plague, he Usami Dingman knows that the plague can't be stopped, even if Sasa Masato is kind, most of them will only send their lives here, he simply doesn't let Sasa Masato enter the city, how good is this?

Sasa Seimasa clenched his fists behind him.

Then he also stepped on the war horse, released the moon hair, opened his hooves and ran a few steps, and then walked side by side with Usami Dingman.

"I'm also going into town...... I didn't know how to treat the sick, but I knew how to stop the plague from spreading, so that there were so many people in the city that they wouldn't all get the disease...... I'm going to go too. ”

Seimasa gradually loosened the reins of the moon hair, and the horse let go of his steps and trotted up, quickly leaving Usami's old figure far away.

What he didn't see was that Usami had tears on his face full of barriers......