On the evening of January 30, 1543.

The hustle and bustle of the day finally hid as dusk fell, and the hustle and bustle gradually dissipated. At this time, the meeting hall of Puchi City was brightly lit, and all the retainers of the Puchi family gathered together.

"Lord, the Shengjin Pavilion sent a letter for help again today, hoping that the family will send reinforcements to the Shengjin Pavilion as soon as possible." The important minister of the Kamachi family, Megumi Harano, said respectfully.

"Lord, we should immediately send troops to support the Shengjin Pavilion, otherwise once the Shengjin Pavilion is lost, Puchi City will be directly under the opponent's troops, do we want to abandon our ancestral business and retreat to the main city Liuchuan City?" After hearing this, the retainers below immediately started to drink without waiting for Puchi Jiansheng to speak.

Looking at these passionate retainers, Puchi Jiansheng couldn't help frowning. I couldn't help but feel a wave of anger in my heart. Then he quickly sighed. This is the effect of the temporary succession of the family governor.

Since Kamachi Kanmori's father died on the battlefield last year, he hastily inherited the position of family governor, and originally planned to slowly establish his prestige in the family before taming these retainers, but he did not expect to encounter such a thing at this time.

Just as Pu Chi Jiansheng frowned, he saw a young man of about thirteen or fourteen years old who was sitting at the end of the retainers. So he immediately asked:

"Commander Maru, how did I complete the task I gave you today?"

The retainers didn't expect that the head of the family would have the heart to ask about other things at this time, so they immediately looked in the direction that the head of the family was concerned about. When everyone saw this young man, they all thought thoughtfully.

Under the gaze of everyone, the bald boy respectfully performed a retainer salute. Then he said respectfully, "Your Excellency." Do as you command. His Majesty has already taken people to the front to investigate. I just came back, and I'm about to report to my lords. ”

"Oh? Tell me, what's going on? Kamachi Kansheng immediately asked.

"My lord, the other party has stationed a large army in Changyan City, and his subordinates have been observing outside the city for an afternoon, and found that many soldiers have entered and exited the city. And ......"

"And what?" Kamachi Kanmori continued to ask.

"Moreover, the villages near Changyan Castle have been burned down, and your subordinates saw that a large number of people were being driven by the other party in the direction of Kaizu Castle on the Chikugo River." The boy said quite calmly.

"Lord, what are you waiting for? Do you want to watch our people being captured by the other side? "Many of the retainers' own territory is just a village, and now hearing that the intruders have even robbed the villagers really makes them nervous.

"Everyone, be quiet, judging from the information mentioned by the chief mage maru, the other party is prepared this time, and if we act rashly, we are likely to encounter the other party's conspiracy. Don't forget, the other side is known for its cunning. Yuan Ye Huiguo spoke at this time to stop the commotion of everyone.

"Stand down, I'll give the order as soon as possible. Huiguo stays. Although I don't know why Lu Dao, an important minister in his father's era, helped him, Puchi Jiansheng still took the opportunity to let the retainers retreat.

After the retainers retreated one after another. Puchi Jiansheng looked at Yuan Ye Huiguo, who was sitting below, and said, "Huiguo, you have been following my father for more than thirty years. ”

"Yes. Lord. Harano Huiguo didn't expect that the first words that this young family head would say would be like this. In fact, he suddenly came out to help Puchi Jiansheng because he could see from the family's master's arrangement today that the family's master did not trust him.

Yes, Kamachi Jiansheng would rather choose an outsider who had not been in his house for a short time to carry out such an important task, rather than tell them about these retainers in the house, obviously not believing them. Yuan Ye Huiguo saw the instability of the family from this, as an old minister who served the Puchi family loyally, this was absolutely not allowed to happen, so he took the initiative to help the head of the family to block the retainers below.

As for Ka Chi Jiansheng, it is a different idea. This time the arrangement was indeed secretly arranged by him, and he knew that no matter which retainer he sent to investigate, the most important thing to return would definitely be the intelligence that asked him to send troops. So in desperation, he had to choose the boy who fled home.

Of course, in the current situation, as the head of the family, it is necessary to unite the strength of the family as soon as possible, so tonight he decided to first send goodwill to the old minister of the family, Yuan Ye Huiguo.

"Huiguo, I intend to recruit Huijun as a close crowd, what do you think?"

Yuan Ye Huiguo was obviously stunned after hearing this, and then immediately happily thanked Kamachi Jiansheng. Megumi Harano is his son, and now his son has finally become the close proximity of the head of the family, and this is officially on the road to becoming an important minister of the Kamachi family, so it is impossible for Megumi Harano to be unhappy.

So, in this atmosphere, the two exchanged mutual opinions amicably about the situation at home.

Just when the two lords of the Puchi family were discussing secretly at home, the young man who was in the hall and reported the information to everyone without humility or arrogance came to the gate of Puchi City, and then rode on a small pony, beat the horse and ran towards the river outside the city at sunset.

This little pony was given to him by the head of the Puchi family himself.

The pony came to the river with a cheerful step, and then the boy on the horse jumped off the horse very skillfully and jumped directly onto a rock by the river.

Looking at the Chikugo River flowing at his feet, the boy suddenly shouted a few times, and then looked fixedly at the other side of the river.

"The opposite direction should be where my hometown is, right? Now the enemy has also been driven out of the fat front, but it's a pity that he didn't kill the enemy with his own hands! The boy muttered to himself.

"Hmph, Long Mage Pill? It's ridiculous, almost everyone knows that I have already held a coming-of-age ceremony in advance and named it Ryuzoji Takanobu, but why do everyone continue to call me by my milk name? Do you not recognize my abilities? Do you still see me as a child? Hum! From this day forward, I only believe in myself, and I will rely on myself to reclaim my ancestral territory. ”

The one who shouted by the river was the full moon workshop that escaped from Hizen. Originally, not long ago, he was still living carefree in the temple under the name of "Full Moon Fang". As a result, he was disturbed by several samurai covered in blood on a dark night.

These samurai claimed to be samurai of the Ryuzoji family. After being besieged at home. After receiving the order of the head of the family, he fought a bloody way and finally came to the front of the full moon fang.

So, that night, the full moon workshop followed a few samurai to Chikugo's Kamaike house. And a few days later, he got the news that his entire family had been wiped out by the Shao Er family. With the support of several family samurai, the Tsugetsu Fang held a coming-of-age ceremony in advance, inherited the governor of the Ryuzoji family, and then changed its name to Ryuzoji Yinshin. Later, in order to express the determination to rejuvenate the Ryuji temple. He also changed his name to Ryuzoji Takanobu.

"Your Excellency! Your Excellency! Just when Ryuzoji Takanobu was indignant, the call of a kinship warrior sounded behind him.

"What?" Ryuzoji Takanobu jumped back to shore, and then hurried to meet the samurai who were hurrying in. Normally, only when there is an emergency, these family samurai will appear in front of Takanobu.

"The head of the family, the enemy of the family......"

"What? What did you say? Before the samurai could finish speaking, Takanobu became excited when he heard the word enemy.

"Ahem...... Your Excellency, please stop your anger! Seeing that the head of the family was so excited, the samurai immediately comforted.

Long Xin took a few sharp breaths before he said in a low voice, "You go on." ”

"My lord, the young man has fled to Chikugo. Now he is in the fortress of the head of the house...... The head of the house? In the samurai's stunned expression, Takanobu jumped directly on the pony and galloped towards Puchi Castle.

And at this moment in Puchi City. Shao Erdong, who is obese but still a little embarrassed all over his body, is eating and drinking without a form. And Puchi Jiansheng persuaded the wine on the side. While urging wine, he looked out of the corner of his eye through the gap in the wooden door to look at the courtyard outside. I saw that several retainers had come one after another in the courtyard outside.

"If that's the case, let you listen to it too, so that you can die." Pu Chi Jiansheng said in his heart. He also knew that the news that Shao Erdongshang had fled to his home was kept secret, so he simply asked people to notify all the retainers to be present and listen to Shao Erdongshang's description with their own ears. In this way, whether it is for him or his retainers, he will also have a clear understanding of the current situation in Hizen and Chikugo.

Yes, since the duel between the Otomo family coalition and the Ouchi family coalition army in Hizen more than ten days ago, Kamachi Kanmori has been paying attention to the situation on the battlefield.

Just 12 days ago, after receiving the news that Zhiludao's own camp was in a good situation, he suddenly received the news of the defeated army of his own family who had retreated from the battlefield, saying that Haijin City had been attacked by a sneak attack.

Kamachi Kanmori, who was still unconvinced, finally confirmed the loss of Kaizu Castle on the second day, and the main camp of the Otomo family coalition behind Kaijin Castle was also breached. Immediately afterwards, in the evening of the same day, he received an urgent report from his own family that Changyan City had been lost. The split family was also forced to retreat to the castle under the mountain, and even sent a distress messenger to the Zong family.

In an instant, the two hubs connecting the southeast and northwest sides of Chikugo, Haijin Castle and Changyan Castle, were lost. This made Kamaike Kanmori lose the information that the Otomo family coalition forces that still occupied the northwest of Chikugo suddenly lost the information. Not only that, but none of the detectives he sent to Hizen and Chikugo in the northwest direction did not return.

Since then, Puchi Jiansheng has completely lost all news from the outside world. For this reason, he had to send messengers along Higo Province in the rear of Chikugo and then detour into the Bunzen Province of Otomo's house to listen for information. It's just that this time it will be more than a month at the earliest.

But at this time, the Luo family, which occupied Haijin City and Changyan City with lightning speed, sent troops again, and the soldiers actually pointed directly at the Shengjin Pavilion, a border city of the Puchi family. So, there was a scene of a retainer invitation battle this afternoon.

However, without getting enough information, Puchi Jiansheng was indeed unwilling to take risks casually. Especially when Zhilu said that his opponent was the "Eagle of Fat Front", he didn't dare to act rashly. Others may not know how powerful this person is, but he has been paying attention to this person. Kamachi Kansheng has an instinctive sense of crisis.

Just when Puchi Jiansheng was anxious because of the border incident, Shao Erdongshang, who had fled from Hizen, finally appeared. He's such a rescuer. (To be continued......)