April 25, 1540, morning. The sun is shining.

The warm spring breeze blows through the woods on the wild high mountains, and the leaves gently shake in the breeze, and there is a rustling sound. The ground is full of wildflowers, and bees are diligently flying from one to the other. On both sides of the mountain trail, you can hear the beautiful song of birds everywhere. Everything seemed so rosy.

But Oishinoji, who was standing on the mountain trail at the moment, didn't think so at all. Yes, since stepping on this trail leading to the former Komaki Town, Oishinoji's already stormy mood was immediately added to the lightning and thunder. The trail, which is only two miles away, now seems to have become a flood beast, every ten meters or so, there are several big trees falling in the middle of the road to block the way, bypass the woods next to it, but find that there are full of traps, and if you don't pay attention to the next three bandits, you will be injured and fall to the ground, without exception, you will be pierced by the bamboo sticks in the pit, and in the process of traveling, from the depths of the woods, you will suddenly shoot a sneak attack of arrows, which makes people unguardable. Although he was eager to dismantle the people who came up with these bad ideas, Oishi Noji still had to grit his teeth and endure it with tears for the time being. After being blocked several times, Oishino had to temporarily leave the three bandits who were no longer able to participate in the battle to stay where they were, while the rest continued to advance. Don't let me go into the woods, I'll just cut down the big trees on the road.

Of course, Oishino didn't think about taking the forest along the creek instead. But after comparing with each other, Oishino finally chose to take this path honestly. For what? First of all, there was no obvious path in the forest on the other side of the creek, and there was a bush everywhere, and now this path was able to walk at least three people side by side, and in comparison, this path was much easier to walk, and it was not easy to be attacked; Secondly, so far, there are only traps on the side of the woods along the road, and there are only big trees blocking the way on the path, and there are no traps for the time being, and on the other side of the stream, his son has personally confirmed it last night, which is absolutely frightening.

In this way, he commanded the bandits to cut down or move the big trees blocking the middle of the road along the road. The team marched all the way. If the tree is too big and not easy to step over it, you have to risk entering the woods. Of course, they also learned to be smart, and before entering the woods, they stabbed their spears around the ground and between the trees to make sure there were no traps before moving on.

After two hours, the army finally bypassed all the trees that stood in the way, and now only needed to go around a small inclined bend 20 meters in front of them, and it was only 300 meters away from the town. The price of completing this section of the journey was that 7 bandits were wounded by arrows of varying degrees, either in the back, thigh, or arm. And all the bandits were panting, and the high momentum when they first came down the mountain had long since disappeared completely.

Although he was anxious, Oishinoji also knew that it was very irrational for him to attack Machiko in the current state of these people, especially when the other party was already fully prepared. So he decided to take a break for a while. Just about to give the order to rest on the spot, and at the same time to boost morale, at this time, there were bursts of screams from the other side of the small oblique bend, and after listening carefully, there was a faint shouting in the voice, and if you listen carefully, it seems to be the call of Oishitaro. "You, go over there and take a look", Oishi Noji immediately pointed to a bandit to check. The alleged bandit was ordered to trot away.

After a while, the bandit came back in a panic and shouted, "Oh no, my lord, it's the young master, they are ......"

"Huh? What are they doing? Without waiting for the thief to answer, Oishino II hurriedly ran towards the turning point of the small oblique bend. Seeing this, the bandit who had just sat down in the back couldn't continue to rest, so he had to get up hard and follow Oishi Noji closely. Soon, Oishinoji came to the height of the inflection point. About 300 meters along the trail, you can see an open space. At this moment, two thick wooden pillars are being erected in the open space about 50 meters away from the exit of the trail, and a naked man is being tied to his limbs, his left hand and left leg are tied to the wooden pillar on the left side, and his right hand and right leg are tied to the wooden pillar on the right side. 7 or 8 children were taking turns beating the tied man with bamboo sticks, and the man was screaming at the moment, and his body was already covered with blood. From a distance, the man's condition was simply miserable, but these children were red-eyed, and they didn't seem to intend to let the man go, and some even went out of their way to greet the fatal part. This miserable man is none other than Taro Oishishi. In stark contrast, 6 meters in front of this man, there is a man wearing a shabby kimono, sitting on a tree stump and leisurely drinking boiling water. Seeing the bandits on the slope, he also raised the wooden bowl slightly, as if inviting these bandits to come down and have a drink. …,

"Ahh Taro! Oishino screamed miserably, his eyes were bloodshot, and his brain was full of blood in an instant. Kill", I can't care so much, Oishinoji shouted, raised the blade and rushed down, and the thieves behind were also frightened by the scene in front of him and took a breath of cold air, his whole body shivered, and he sighed in his heart at the same time, "I hate it!" ”。 Seeing the leader leading the charge downward, they also raised their weapons and shouted as they ran, as if to dispel the shadows in their hearts brought about by the tragic scene in front of them.

"Hehe, Sahachiro, our guests seem to be in a hurry! Let's give them some more shows," Masarashi smiled as he looked at the thieves who were getting closer and closer, and then said slowly.

"Yes, Your Highness", Sahachiro, who had been standing behind Masara, bowed, then turned around, walked quickly in front of Oishi Taro, and slowly raised his katana. The snow-white blade glistened in the sunlight, and the thin figure trembled slightly in the sunlight. Yes, Sahachiro was very excited at this moment, he could finally avenge his dead father and brother, since his father and brother were killed by bandits, he was left with his mother and sister to rely on each other, if it weren't for the help of the lord, his family probably wouldn't have survived this winter.

"Huh?! Don't, don't, please don't. Father, save me", Oishi Taro seemed to have a premonition of what the thin boy in front of him, who looked a few years younger than him, was going to do next, and hurriedly begged for mercy.

Feeling that there was no sound for a moment other than Oishi Taro's screams, Masa's conscience sighed silently. In fact, his original plan was to have a few ashigaru do the work. But Sahachiro and Kisaburo took 8 little guys to kneel in front of Masato and asked to take on this task, looking at these little guys who have a blood feud with the bandits, Masaburo agreed for a while. At the same time, I comforted myself that these little ones had begun to serve as pillars at home, and they really needed to be given some opportunities to exercise.

"Ha", Sahachiro shouted, and the katana slashed down like lightning. "Father, brother, this is the first knife, there will be more knives in the future, rest in peace", Sahachiro said silently in his heart. "Knort", the sound of a hard object colliding sounded, followed by a scream of "ah", as if the entire wild mountain could hear this scream. It turned out that the blade was directly slashed on the thigh bone of Oishitaro and stuck directly in the bone. After slashing down, Sahachiro fell to his knees and cried with his head to the sky.

"Huh!? Taro", Oishinoji who was running wildly witnessed this tragedy with his own eyes, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth, "Damn hellish guys, I'll kill you all". "Ah", the bandits behind also let out a roar when they saw this, and they didn't know whether they were scared or angry. Soon, under the wild run, the 300-meter trail was about to be completed, and the 15-person bandit team also opened up into a team about 7 meters long, and the first to run was Oishino II and four bandits.

"Ah, die", seeing that he was about to run out of the trail, Oishi Noji seemed to see that the guy who tortured his son just now had been begging for life under his own torture, and he couldn't die, and his face showed a hideous wild smile. Suddenly, he felt the emptiness under his feet, and a crack opened in the ground, and with a "boom", Oishi Noji and the four thieves behind him instantly fell to the ground, and the thieves who saw this behind hurriedly stopped their steps, but due to inertia, the three thieves who had stopped at the edge of the pit were pushed down the pit by their companions who couldn't stop at the back. "Ahh Yes! Yes! In the pit, he suddenly screamed again and again.

"Kill", at this time, 21 spear ashigaru quickly formed a formation on the opposite side of the pit under the order of Tsuda Hiromune, these ashigaru 7 people were in a row, the first row of ashigaru half squatted down and inserted one end of the spear in his hand into the ground to support; The second row of ashigaru places the spear on the shoulder of the first row of ashigaru, with the head of the spear pointing straight in front of it; The third row of ashigaru spears is angled upwards at a 45-degree angle. …,

At the same time, dozens of long bamboo spears suddenly stretched out from the bushes on both sides of the trail, stabbing the calves of the thieves on the mountain road. The bandits, who had been frightened by the sudden change, didn't even notice the attack under their feet, and in an instant, 7 or 8 people were injured in varying degrees of their feet. What caught them even more off guard was that the two sides kept shooting and cutting branches, although they were all bamboo arrows, but under such a close shot, many people were still injured. said that it was too late, and Masahiro in the distance also quickly pulled out his blade and quickly approached the battlefield in front, and the distance of 40 meters was instantaneous.

"Ahh Suddenly, a long roar came from the pit in front of the Luo family's ashigaru spear array, and a "monster" with blood all over his body and bamboo sticks in his eyes jumped up. "Wow", the ashigaru were obviously taken aback by the image of this "monster". I saw the "monster" shouting wildly while waving the blade forward and slashing indiscriminately. The spear foot light team was in chaos for a while, and kept retreating. Although Tsuda Hiromune shouted loudly, it still did not help.

"Ahh It's Oishi-sama", the bandit who was being attacked on the other side, and his momentum had fallen to the bottom of the valley found out that this "monster" turned out to be the leader-sama, and quickly shouted. For a while, the cheers of the bandits came and went, "My lord, go forward, kill them, kill them", and the momentum of the bandits gradually picked up.

"Get out of the way!" , and then there was an angry roar behind him. Masarashi happened to rush to the scene, and the ashigaru heard the voice of the lord, and hurriedly retreated to both sides. "Hey", Masara shouted loudly as he ran, his speed did not decrease, he rose into the air, "cut down", and the blade in his hand turned into an arc and slashed towards Oishinoji. Although Oishinoji in the roar was blind in both eyes, with his rich battle instincts, he sensed the arrival of danger, and immediately roared, and double-numbered clenched the blade, and used all his strength to meet Masara's sword light.

"Clang", a violent iron collision sound.

"Ah", Oishino Er screamed and flew upside down into the pit again, but the blade in his hand was still firmly grasped and did not fly. "Hmph", Masahiro also snorted, took a few steps back and sat on the ground all of a sudden, his hands dripping with blood.

"Quick, up", Tsuda Hiromune reacted the fastest, immediately shouted, and organized Ashigaru to form a formation again, blocking the exit of the mountain road.

Zhengliang didn't care about the injuries, and after fixing the churning qi and blood in his heart, he immediately stood up and looked into the pit. I saw Oishi Noji lying on his back in the corner of the pit, a bamboo stick interspersed at the throat, and blood was gushing out along the protruding wound. It seems that Oishino is too dead to die anymore. A generation of bandits, Oishinoji, who was about to reach the top of the cottage leader, disappeared in the long history of the Warring States Period, and everything returned to dust, and the earth returned to the earth.

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