Chapter 21: The Bandits Are Coming
"Then", with the sound of "Cheng", Zhengliang pulled out the blade and thrust forward.
"Huh? Don't", Kosuke thought that Masarashi was going to cut off his head, and hurriedly shouted with his throat open. The shrill sound echoed everywhere in the nodakayama in the afternoon.
"Cheng", the blade was pumped on the ground a few inches away from Kosuke, and the blade was still trembling slightly.
"Tell me, what is your relationship with the original owner of this knife?" , Masarashi asked.
Seeing that the knife didn't hit his neck, Kosuke suddenly had a feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe, and exhaled loudly, although it was a midsummer afternoon, cold sweat continued to seep out of his body. He fixed his eyes and looked forward, and the whole person suddenly began to tremble again. Isn't this the chief's saber? Could it be that what those guys who went back that night said was true, that the leader was really seriously injured by a swordsman? Thinking about the scene when the two of them with weapons were knocked down by the person in front of them with a broken branch in a few clicks, Kosuke was even more convinced.
"Huh?", Masahiro saw that the guy in front of him could only keep shaking, but he couldn't say a word, and he was immediately dissatisfied.
"Huh!? My lord, that's the saber of our cottage leader, Banshi Dalang. Banshi Dalang is still unconscious", seeing that Masahiro was dissatisfied, Xingsuke was in a cold sweat, and hurriedly said.
"Oh? Tell me more about your situation", Masara's eyes lit up and he quickly asked.
"Yes, my lord", Kosuke quickly began to honestly and elaborate on the situation of the cottage.
Half an hour later, Masato probably learned the latest situation of the bandits. Komaki was the largest town in the vicinity, often refusing to pay tribute to the bandits, and gradually liaising with other towns to fight the bandits. The bandits who discovered Komaki's intentions adopted harassment tactics and continued to attack the town, and after several attacks, the townspeople suffered heavy losses, and some of the filthy people saw that the townspeople were gradually weakening and had to move out one after another, and the town's defense was further weakened. On that night more than half a month ago, the leader of the bandits thought that the town had reached the weakest moment, so he brought the cottage elite raid town that night, intending to get rid of this obstructive nail once and for all. That night, Machiko was caught off guard by a sudden attack and suffered heavy damage in an instant. Just as the bandits were about to wash the town in blood, Masarashi arrived just in time to save the town and seriously injured the bandit leader.
That night, although the bandit leader was rescued, he remained unconscious. After more than half a month, seeing that the leader had not woken up, some people had different intentions and planned to replace the leader's position. After a conflict, the bandits were finally divided into three factions, the largest faction was a guy named Oishino Er, who had been suppressed by Banshi Daro before, and finally had a chance to come out, so Oishi Noji immediately encouraged everyone to re-establish a new leader, and finally a total of 23 people threw themselves under his power; The second largest number of people is the son of Banshi Dalang, Banshi Zuo Saburo, a total of 15 people; The rest are neutrals, with 9 people. In addition to these bandits, there are hundreds of bandits' families and captive people in the cottage.
In order to establish his own prestige and further suppress the prestige of Sasaburo Itaishi, Oishinoji is actively preparing for the attack on Machiko. Since Kosuke turned out to be the dog-headed military advisor of Dairo Ishi, he has always been on the wrong path with Oishi Noji. This time, in order to take revenge on Kosuke, but also to combat the power of Sazaburo Banishi, Oishinoji secretly controlled Kosuke's family and forced Kosuke to go to the town to find out information, to put it bluntly, let him be cannon fodder. And Banshi Saburo gave up Xingsuke in order to preserve his strength.
Kosuke had to come to the foot of the mountain in anger, and of course he didn't feel how difficult this task was until the moment he met Masaara. In fact, none of the rest of the bandits believed the description of the bandits who carried the leader back that night, and the leader was seriously injured by a man from Komachi, who was usually manipulated by them at will? Who will deceive? It must have been the leader who was caught in a trap and was seriously injured when he attacked a local tyrant's territory, anyway, the leader often takes his elite to rob alone, and this time will definitely be no exception. For a while, among the bandits, some were worried (I don't know when the leader of the mountain road would wake up), and some gloated (finally had a chance to raise their eyebrows), but none of them believed that there was a murderous demon in Yamashita Town, and Kosuke was the one who supported this view the most, he knew too well that the leader of the bandits was greedy, ruthless, cruel, and brave, although many times he was careless, but it was difficult to seriously injure him without a large number of sieges. So he didn't pay attention to the town at all, and when he reached the edge of the town, he swaggered in and looked around. When he finds himself surrounded by a patrol team and has nowhere to run, Kosuke pulls out his katana and prepares to fight his way out, anyway, they are all little kids, and he can scare them out with two swings of his own knife. But soon he found out that he was wrong, after more than half a month of training, the patrol team has initially gained momentum, under the command of Masahiro's two small surnames, Sahachiro and Kisaburo, 20 people formed a gun array to surround the Kosuke group. Kosuke, who was already imposing, was an opponent, and after cutting off several bamboo spears, the katana was knocked away, and the man was captured. Fortunately, he is also very single, and he is not afraid of running out of firewood to stay in Aoyama, so he didn't resist too much and let these children be tied up. Of course, Xingsuke still thinks that he will not be in any danger at this time, as long as he reports his identity as a bandit, the parents of these little children will be worried about being retaliated against by the bandits, and then obediently send themselves away, this situation has seen a lot of people before, so although he was captured, he still yelled arrogantly, for fear that others would not know that he was a bandit. …,
After listening to Kosuke's narration, Masarashi wondered if Kosuke's head was caught in the door panel. What is the difference between swaggering into the town and looking around like this, and writing "I am a spy" on your forehead? Even if you don't believe that Machiko is capable of attacking the bandit leader, you won't think of this place as your backyard. Of course, this is also the bad luck of Kosuke, or the luck of the town. Kosuke was unlucky, because when he entered the town, the ashigaru of the school field facing Notakayama on the side of the town happened to be transferred to carry wild boars, otherwise once he saw the scene of Ashigaru training, Kosuke would never have the idea of entering the town again; And the town is lucky, because in the case of the lack of force in the town, the bandits only came to one person instead of a team, otherwise relying only on the old and young in the town and the patrol team is basically stuffing the bandits' teeth. Hey, there is still a shortage of people, Zhengliang couldn't help frowning secretly.
"Kosuke, are you sure you've already told everything you know? I remember very well the last time we met, you said that you were just an ordinary peasant", and Masara decided to knock the guy in front of him again, so as not to get the wrong information. So he approached Kosuke and smiled and looked into Kosuke's eyes.
"Ahh , Kosuke felt that smile was simply a devil's smile, and immediately screamed and shouted, "My lord, I've said everything, I've said everything I know, woo woo woo ......", crying and shouting while leaning back desperately, and at the same time a stream of liquid with a smell of noise flowed out along his thighs.
"Damn", Zhengliang quickly pinched his nose and walked away, this guy is really too cowardly, no wonder even his own surname thinks he is not a thief.
"Leave six men to watch him in turn, and starve him for two days, lest he have too much energy to cause trouble for us," Masashi commanded.
"Yes, Your Highness," the two little surnames behind him replied with a military salute.
"Sahachiro, you did a good job this time, this katana will be rewarded to you", Masarashi was satisfied with the performance of Sahachiro, who discovered the spy and wittily organized a patrol team to round up the spies, so he rewarded him with the captured katana.
"Your Highness," Sahachiro knelt on his knees and respectfully saluted while respectfully taking the katana. The little guys around looked at the katana with envious eyes. Zhengliang smiled secretly, what he wanted was such a result, rewards and punishments, forming healthy competition, and at the same time, he was grateful to his lord.
In the end, Masara asked people to inform Togo Heiji, Onishi Kuniji, and Tsuda Hiromune to quickly go to their residences for assessment, and then went to their huts.
As he walked, Masarashi looked up into the depths of the woods of Notakayama. Is it finally coming? Bandits.