The sun rises as usual.

Narumasa, Toki Yoriyi, and a dozen followers galloped on the road to Tsushima.

They had already escaped dozens of miles at night, presumably Saito Michizo was still preparing to attack the city. The world-famous Mino pit viper would not have imagined that it would be played by itself.

[Note: The 'li' that appears in this book is 500 meters, which is about 4 kilometers per mile in Japan, but for convenience, this article uses days. Asari】

Thinking of this, Cheng Zheng laughed proudly.

But why flee south?

"Owari big fool" Oda Nobunaga didn't hear the news, go to Owari to get hair?

After asking, Narumasa realized that it was his father Toki Yorii who was going to hug Oda Nobuhide's thigh.

Oda Nobuhide, known as the "Tiger of Owari", has deep pockets, controls half of Owari and Tsushima, and is also a good friend of Narumasa's father, Toki Yorii.

The reason why they ran all the way to Tsushima was because they believed that Oda Nobuhide would be able to take them in.

And Oda Nobuhide has a son named Oda Nobunaga, but it was only later that Seimasa found out about it.

According to the original historical trajectory, they were indeed able to reach Tsushima, and then enter Nakono Castle, where they were sheltered by Oda Nobuhide.

However, because of the fluttering edge of Chengzheng's little fluttering moth, it has changed the due historical trajectory, commonly known as "the event trigger conditions cannot be met".

The immediate consequence is ...... The fleeing group is in danger and is not far from death.

What Chengzheng didn't know was that before dawn, someone in Daisan Castle had already quietly run to the Saito army and told Saito Michizo that their father and son had run away.

Saito Michizo is so smart, of course he won't listen to the words of a few traitors, while he remains vigilant, he sends people to Dasang Castle to investigate, and soon finds out that Toki Yoriyi really meowed away!

Saito Michi's three major angers immediately sent his eldest son, Saito Yoshiryu, who had just been in the original costume, to pursue Toki Yoriyi.

Unexpectedly, Toki Laiyi still had this kind of courage and scheming, and he couldn't keep it, Saito Michizo issued a kill order, asking Yoshilong's horseback team to kill Toki Laiyi!

As soon as dawn came, Saito Yoshiryu set out with a cavalry of 100 men, all of whom were warriors in the army, riding good horses from Okulu, skilled in using horse guns, and the elite of the elite, and Saito Michizo had great confidence in them.

As soon as the sun was just after noon, Saito Yoshiryu, who was in the lead, saw the smoke and dust raised by the Toki escape team.

"Toki Laiyi is right in front of you, rush!"

Saito Yoshiryu and his team of 100 elite horses, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, frantically pumped the war horses under their crotches.

Now, they don't need to be sympathetic to horsepower, and if they let Toki Yoriyi escape to Katsuhata Castle, they will enter the territory of the Oda family.

In that case, the operation would be tantamount to a failure.

Toki Laiyi and his party, who were running in front, also quickly sensed the crisis. The sharp-eyed retainers recognized that the leader was Saito Michizo's eldest son, Saito Yoshiryu, and Narumasa endured the pain in his butt and did not speak, but there were 10,000 grass and mud horses whistling past in his heart.

How can it be so fast!

Saito Michisan is hanging?

I didn't have time to think about it so much, and a few slower retainers had already volunteered to stay.

They slammed their horses and jumped off the neighing horses, bowing one last time to the detergent Toki Yoriyi and his son.

"My lord, I wish you good luck and prosperity."

Then, they drove away their mounts, the horses that had always been good companions of the samurai on horseback, drew their swords at their waists, and charged their pursuers to the death.

With a wave of the cavalry spear in Saito Yoshiryu's hand, when he was about to collide with the samurai of the Toki family, the cavalry suddenly separated like flowing water, but the speed did not decrease at all.

After a rumbling thunder, the samurai of the Toki family died tragically on the ground, and their bodies had been trampled into a blur of flesh by the galloping war horse.

The ownerless horse is like a lost shriek, circling around the corpse of its master.

These loyal samurai only slightly reduced the speed of the Saito Army's cavalry.

Toki Yoriyi and Cheng Zheng, who were running at the front, held back tears and were speechless for a long time.

From Daesang Castle to Katsuhata Castle, this short journey of 100 miles has been sprinkled with loyal and fiery blood.

It was the third time that a loyal retainer had voluntarily died after breaking off.

After that, only the father and son Toki Yoriyi and Naruma were still fleeing south.

It was already very close to Katsuhata Castle, but in this short distance of miles, Toki Laiyi and his son no longer had the confidence to reach the end.

It's August, it's a hot summer day, and the trees on the roadside are noisy with cicadas that don't know when they will stop.

Toki Laiyi and Chengzheng, the father and son, didn't feel a trace of heat.

They're cold.

The outline of Katsuhata Castle was already in sight, and the pursuers of Saito Yoshiryu behind him were approaching again.

At this critical juncture, Toki Laiyi's mount finally couldn't afford to travel, and the horse lost its front hooves and fell to the side of the road, overturning Laiyi as well.

Cheng Zheng hurriedly stopped the horse and turned back to help his father.

"It's Katsuhata Castle ahead, father, get up!"

"It's useless, I can't get there anymore."

Toki Laiyi sat slumped on the ground, a wry smile tugging at the corners of his chapped mouth.

Only then did Cheng Zheng realize that his father's war horse had broken a leg, and his father's calf was also bent outward at an incredible angle, and blood kept sticking out from under the loose samurai uniform.

My father's leg was also broken.

Cheng Zheng couldn't help but sink in his heart.

"It's okay, we both ride a horse."

Cheng Zheng is still trying to help Toki Laiyi, but he is only a seven or eight-year-old child's body, how can he move an adult?

"No need, Yozo!"

Toki Laiyi suddenly became majestic, and he was unusual, which surprised Chengzheng a little.

In the moment when Seimasa was stunned, Toki Yoriyi inserted his folding fan into Narumasa's waist, and untied the katana and stuffed it into the hand of his eldest son.

"You must be a man who stands up to the sky!"

Lai Yi gritted his teeth, stood up in pain, held Cheng Zheng's young body directly on the horse's back, pulled out his ribs and stabbed the horse's buttocks.

The horse was in pain and galloping, and Cheng Zheng could only hug the horse's neck tightly to prevent himself from crying.

Standing in the middle of the road, Toki Yoriyi's eyes were still full of love and confidence, and he knew that his son would definitely become a great man and become a great husband who surpassed him.

Toki Laiyi sat on the road again, but he was upright and solemn.

Yoshiryu Saito and his cavalry team stopped their horses and stood a few steps in front of Toki Yoriyi.

"Before seppuku, I still have something to ask Yilong Gongzi."

"It's inconvenient for Yoshilong to dismount, and since Lord Mino-mori asks, I know everything."

Yoshiryu Saito nodded on his horse.

"Although I am immoral and incompetent, I also boast that I am worthy of Saitoden (Michisan), why is it not enough for Saitoden to destroy my Toki clan, and to exterminate my father and son?"

Yoshiryu Saito was silent for a moment.

“…… Because you're not the fool who can only draw eagles. In the face of an army of 5,000 people, dare to go out of the city with a force of 200 people and attack at night, have the courage! After winning the first blow, immediately flee away, and have courage! All of them...... are underestimating you. ”

Hearing Yoshilong's reply, Toki Lai Yi couldn't help laughing.

The decision to attack at night and break through was actually made by his son and Zuo, could it be said that his son killed him?

No! It's just a matter of being mediocre and doing nothing, in troubled times, with such a good son, you have to be proud of it!

"Please Yilong Gongzi to make a mistake for me."

Toki Raiyi opened the placket and stabbed the ribs into the abdomen.

In an instant, Saito Yoshiryu swung his raised katana, and blood gushed out from Toki Yorigi's neck, splashing all over his body.

The sunset is like blood.

After taking in Toki Yoriyi's head and burying his body, Saito Yoshiryu glanced at Katsuhata Castle not far away, and then led a horse riding team north overnight without looking back.

At the same time, Sasa Morimasa and Sasa Masaji, father and son, who were patrolling the castle town of Katsuhata Castle, saw an ownerless horse on the side of the road, and they ran over excitedly, only to find that the horse actually had an owner, but its owner fainted on the ground, and his life and death were uncertain.

The child looked no more than seven or eight years old, with tears on his face, a dirty samurai suit, and a katana and a folding fan.

Could it have something to do with the riding team of Mino just now?

Zuozuo, father and son, had a heartfelt eye and quietly took the horse away.