The small pine forest, located at the junction of the Tahara family, the Ogi family, and the Fujiwara family's territory, is named after the dense pine trees that grow here. On the morning of May 11, the ninth year of astronomy, the sun was scorching, and there had been no rain for half a month, and the emerald green pine leaves were covered with a thin layer of dust. A web-knitting spider is hiding under a leaf, quietly waiting for its prey to take the bait.

And hundreds of steps away, more than a dozen ashigaru are hiding under a few pine trees next to the checkpoint to enjoy the shade, although yesterday the lord said that the nearby Haoqiang is mobilizing, ready to send troops to the family, asking everyone to wake up twelve points of spirit, pay close attention to the movement on the other side of the pine forest, but all the ashigaru does not think so, these lords are always calling around, but in addition to the continuous injury and death of relatives at home, they seem to have not received any benefits, and now they almost don't even have to eat. They had already thought that once several families fought, they would find a way to stay at the back of the team and wait for an opportunity to escape.

At this time, a peasant covered in dirt on the path ran towards the checkpoint in a panic.

"Who?" , Ashigaru, who was in charge of the guard, immediately shouted.

"Quick, quick, inform the lord that the nearby Haoqiang has gathered his troops and is heading this way, and there is still half an hour to reach here", the peasant said breathlessly, and at the same time took out a sigil from his bosom, which was obviously the mark of the Tahara family.

"Huh?" , the ashigaru who was under the pine tree was immediately in an uproar. Soon a ashigaru hurried in the direction of the lord's residence, and he ran to report the news.

Half an hour later, Tahara's family's home city, Tashiro Castle.

"My lord, my lord," Tadayoshi Tadahara, who was checking the account books in the council hall, suddenly heard an urgent call from outside the door.

"Come in, when will you panic?" , Tahara Tadayoshi raised his head and said quietly.

Soon, a person in charge of guarding the gate of the lord's mansion ran in, knelt on his knees, and said, "My lord, there is a message from the detective of this family, saying that the nearby Haoqiang has gathered troops and is heading towards the territory of this family, and now I am afraid that they have reached the border of this family." ”

"Is it finally here?" Hearing this, Tahara Tadashi stood up with a "whoosh", "Immediately send an order to gather all the samurai and peasant soldiers of the family, and let those bandits also gather and follow the family to meet the battle." By the way, where did the young master go? Although the opponent's dispatch time was a bit unexpected, Tadahara Tadayoshi didn't seem to be panicked at all.

"My lord, Your Highness seems to have gone hunting in the morning with the little leader of the bandits who he brought into the city yesterday," Ashigaru reported.

"What?" , Tahara Tadayoshi was furious, at this tense time, he even took his allies outside to hunt? What exactly is Daro going to do? Frowning, Tahara Tadayoshi said in the last word, "Forget it, let the young master stick to the city after he returns." Since the Tahara family was established from the rebellion of the retainers, the Tahara family never reused the retainers, which directly led to the lack of sufficient manpower in the Tahara family at important moments.

With Tahara Tadayoshi's order, there was a commotion in the town outside Tashiro Castle. The forces of all the parties hidden around were immediately alerted to this, and some of them even left quietly, and they had to notify their own masters as soon as possible if there was such a big movement.

And the young master of the Tahara family, Tahara Hiroshi, is following Kosuke to a mountain forest in the territory at this moment. In fact, Tahara Hiroyoshi has always been worried about these bandits, so he pulled Kosuke outside the city early this morning, under the pretext of going out hunting together, and then planned to interrogate the little leader of this bandit after arriving in the sparsely populated wilderness, to see what these thieves are hiding in their hearts. …,

Kosuke didn't seem to be aware of Tahara's conspiracy, so he happily agreed to the invitation to hunt, and even took the initiative to lead the way along the way, turning around some mountains and forests. Tahara Hiroyoshi also hopes for this, and seeing that Kosuke is so cooperative, he is happy to let him lead the way.

As they got farther and farther away from Tashiro Castle, the team finally stopped at the foot of a small hill. Kosuke said to Tahara Hiroyoshi behind him, "Your Highness Hiroshi, this is the place where I once found a herd of wild deer, I guess if I go deeper, I will find something." ”

"No, Kosuke-sama, let's stop here today", Tahara Hiroyoshi seemed to be satisfied with his current position, waved his hand and said, "I have a question here for Kosuke-sama to answer." ”

"Please advise Your Highness", Kosuke pretended to search for prey, took a few steps forward, and then turned to Tahara Hiroyoshi.

"Hehehe, you don't have to pretend anymore. Let's talk quickly, what is the conspiracy of Banshi Dalang? Seeing that Kosuke was on guard, Tahara Hiroyoshi immediately looked at the dagger, glanced at a few samurai behind him, and then said with a cruel smile. Several samurai behind Tahara Hiroyoshi immediately walked towards Kosuke.

"Your Highness Guangyi, you... What do you mean? Are you going to break the covenant between the two families? Kosuke was taken aback, and hurriedly took a few steps back, shouting in panic as he retreated.

"Haha, I can't imagine it, even if you get here, you're still hard-mouthed?" , Tahara Hiroshi said with a smile, his eyes staring at Kosuke as if he were looking at a prey at his fingertips, "Don't worry, soon you will tell me all the answers." and arrest him." With a wave of his right hand, Tahara Hiroyoshi ordered several samurai around him to go forward and capture Kosuke.

"Haha, Tahara Hiroshi, you're talking about yourself, right?" , Kosuke, who was constantly retreating, suddenly laughed and said in a loud voice.

"Hmph, leave him alone, catch him quickly", Tahara Hiroyoshi didn't bother to argue with the hateful little thief in front of him, and shouted at a few samurai.

"Your Highness, help!" Seeing several samurai coming towards this side, Kosuke suddenly fell to his knees and shouted into the surrounding woods.

"Hahaha, this cowardly bandit", several samurai who were surrounding Yusuke couldn't help but laugh when they saw the strange behavior of the prey that was about to arrive.

"Whoosh". Suddenly, a long arrow pierced the air and pierced the throat of one of the samurai, and the voice of the smiling samurai came to an abrupt halt.

A sudden scene shocked everyone. Before everyone could come to their senses, several more long arrows were shot from all directions, and the samurai were hit by the arrows to the ground.

The battle was soon over, and being attacked with a bow and arrow from such a close distance in an unguarded situation could only lead to a great defeat. As the last samurai tried to raise his sword to block the bow and arrow, a "rustling" of leaves sounded in the surrounding woods, and hundreds of people suddenly emerged from the woods.

"Huh? You... You... Who are you? Tahara Hiroyoshi, who had the advantage a quarter of an hour ago, suddenly found himself surrounded by hundreds of people, and the samurai who followed him had fallen one after another, even if they did not die immediately, they were screaming again and again, obviously losing their combat effectiveness, and the whole person immediately collapsed to the ground and shouted around. At this moment, Tahara Hiroshi had a feeling of going from heaven to hell in an instant.

Masarashi ignored the guy in front of him who had lost his ability to fight, and after glancing at Onishi Kuniji behind him, he turned to Kosuke, smiled slightly, and then said, "Kosuke, it seems that you have made another contribution."

In fact, Masarashi only came back early in the morning from the place where the hostages of the Kogi family and the Fujiwara family were killed last night, and everyone felt a little tired after running all night, and after learning about the latest situation from the left behind Onishi Kuniji and Tsuda Hiromune, he found a place to take a good rest to recuperate and prepare for what was about to happen today. Unexpectedly, after sleeping for less than half an hour, Onishi Kuniji hurriedly ran to report that he had found a team approaching their hiding place.

Masato immediately led someone to check, but unexpectedly found that the leader was none other than Xingsuke. In the case of not knowing why Kosuke Lu Dao brought people here, Masato had to let everyone hide temporarily.

Soon, Kosuke lured these people to Masarashi's hiding place, and had the scene just now. After overhearing the conversation between the Kosuke people on the side, Masara's eyes lit up, and he immediately gave the order to attack and defeat the gang in one fell swoop.

(PS: In the fourth week of the release of the new book, it has been signed A, and it has been updated with more than 170,000 words, and it will never be updated, at least more than 1.5 million words.) Last week, it was on the Sanjiang potential list, this week's new book recommendation was classified, and next week's history was strongly recommended. No. 1 on the list of new books in the history of newcomers, and seventh on the list of new books for newcomers on the whole site. Everyone, don't be in a hurry to leave after reading, if you don't have a ticket, you can put it on the shelf, and the little brother kneels and begs. Dear friends, my purpose is to write more than 1.5 million even if I hit the street, and I will fight vigorously! Enjoy writing, enjoy loneliness. ）