Tokaido, Ene Province, outside Utsuyama Castle, in a sake brewery on the shore of Lake Hamana.

Since it is close to the pier where the passenger ship picks up guests, and it is close to noon, the brewery is already very lively at this time.

The large lobby of the tavern was now packed, with ronins chatting about the rumors they had seen, some of whom boasted of their past prowess in order to make others look up to them. Some people also talk about emotion, thinking of the defeated lord in the past, the lord who committed suicide, and his own arduous wandering career, and suddenly can't help but leave a few tears of the so-called samurai's heroes.

More ronin, on the other hand, sat silently at the wine table, holding the flask and drinking sake in small sips with a plate of dried radish.

At this moment, the curtain at the door of the takaya was suddenly opened, and a ragged ronin limped in with a sword. Upon entering the tavern, he removed the visor of one of his eyes with his right hand, and then scanned the inside of the tavern, and finally landed on the only empty wooden table in the tavern.

"Oo......oo The guys at the liquor house seem to have been familiar with this man for a long time. As soon as the man sat down, the man smiled and put a bowl of sake and a small bowl of dried radish in front of him, and then quietly walked away.

The one-eyed man placed the sword in his lap, then gently picked up the bowl of sake and took a sip.

"Hot and sour!" It was the only taste he felt from the sake. Like everything he has experienced since he was born, it has been sour and spicy.

The one-eyed man was born in Yamamoto Village, Mt. Fuji County, Mikawa, and was formerly known as Yamamoto Gensuke. His father is Sadayuki Yamamoto. He is the elder of the Makino clan, the lord of Mikawa Ushikubo Castle. Because he is the second son of the Yamamoto family. In addition, he lost sight in his left eye when he was young. His right leg is disabled, and his father is ready to make him a monk. Finally, at the age of fifteen, he was adopted as an adopted son by Obayashi Kanzaemon, who was also the elder of the Makino clan, and changed his name to Obayashi Kansuke Sasayuki, but unfortunately Sadaji's son-in-law Obayashi Sadano was soon born, so he was deposed again. After that, he wandered around to learn swordsmanship and military science, and changed his name again to Kansuke Yamamoto. As a ronin, he has traveled all over the world and is well versed in the situation of each country. He is good at astronomy, the art of war, gunmanship, city building, espionage and other work.

A few days ago, he asked the 11th Imagawa Governor Mei Yue Seifang (also known as Imagawa Yoshimoto) to come out, but was rejected by the Imagawa family because of his appearance.

Lost, sour...... All sorts of emotions are pouring in. At this time, Kansuke Yamamoto felt that the future was extremely bleak. He slowly drank the wine, ate the dried turnips, and bowed his head in contemplation.

"Whoa!"

At this moment, the curtain of the sake house was pulled back again. Two more ronins walked in. I saw that after the first ronin entered the sake house, he also scanned the situation inside the sake house, and finally fixed his eyes on Yamamoto Kansuke's table.

He smiled and nodded to his companion, who seemed to be an entourage. The latter understood, and immediately turned around and walked out of the brewhouse. The rest of the ronin went straight to Kansuke Yamamoto and sat down on the other side of the table.

"Three bowls of sake, please."

The ronin said to the owner of the tavern. It sounded like his voice was a little hoarse. During this period of time, the ronin is running around, sometimes he doesn't even have time to take a sip of water, and today is a rare opportunity to take a break, and the ronin naturally wants to enjoy it.

"Hey, did you hear that? Mikawa's guardian gave birth to a son-in-law, who was named Takechiyo. A ronin next to him said. If Masayo is here, he will know that the child known as Takechiyo is the future Tokugawa Ieyasu.

"You've got the news too late, right? The son-in-law of the Matsudaira family was born at the end of last year. ”

"Speaking of which, the Oda family, the Imagawa family, and the Matsudaira family fought fiercely in Kodozaka last year."

Last year, Oda and Imagawa were evenly matched in the Battle of Shodozaka. Daifu Yoshimoto, who had traveled thousands of miles from Sunfu, fled into Okazaki Castle in great embarrassment. On the surface, it seemed that the Oda army was victorious, but the Oda army was unable to take Okazaki Castle in one fell swoop, and was instead attacked by Matsudaira Hirotada, and retreated to Ansho Castle in a panic. At Okazaki Castle, Imagawa Yoshimoto saw that the Oda army had withdrawn, so he packed up the remnants and returned to Sunfu. Oda Nobuhide, the tiger of Owari, also left Sun Saburo Nobumitsu in Yasushi, and withdrew to Koto in Owari early. Imagawa Yoshimoto's expedition ended in failure, but Oda Nobuhide also lost his troops and did not gain anything. If there is anything left of this war, it can only be to sow deeper hatred between the two armies.

Regarding the discussion of the ronins about the battle of Shodozaka last year, both Kansuke Yamamoto and the ronin sitting opposite Kansuke Yamamoto listened attentively.

The reason why Kansuke Yamamoto listened carefully was because he happened to be out of Mikawa last year and knew very little about the situation of that battle, so he took this opportunity to learn more about it. The ronin, on the other hand, is there to gather intelligence.

"Hey, last year's battle between the Takeda family and the 'Shinano Four Generals' was also very fierce?" Seeing that many local ronins from Mikawa and Enoe were boasting about the martial prowess of the local samurai in the Battle of Kodozaka, some ronins from Shinano and Kai immediately quit.

It turned out that in June of the tenth year of the Astronomical Decade (1541), after Takeda Harunobu exiled his father Shintora, the news immediately reached Shinano. Shinano's Suwa Yorishige and Ogasawara immediately smelled the opportunity, and decided to take advantage of Takeda's troubled autumn to take advantage of the fire to rob, so the two families gathered 10,000 troops that month, and marched into Kai's country, Takeda Harunobu calmly deployed, and the Takeda army of 6,000 people was methodically set up in Shiogawa River, and the coalition army with the Suwa Department as the vanguard launched the Battle of Nirazaki, Takeda was united, and after a fierce battle, the Takeda army won more than 2,000 heads, and the combined army retreated to Shinano in a hurry.

However, in the spring of the 11th year of Astronomical (1542), Murakami Yoshikiyo of Kitashinano also began to move, and Suwa Yorishige and Ogasawara Naga, who were defeated in Nirazaki, were quite unwilling to suffer the defeat due to Harunobu's strange schemes. Takeda Harunobu put up a defensive frame to build a fort with grain to confuse the enemy. But on March 8. He led the Takeda Army on a rapid march of 8,000 men and arrived at Omomohara in Sawa on the morning of the 9th. The Shinano coalition immediately made hastily preparations to facilitate the Takeda army's war, and after a tragic tug-of-war, the Shinano coalition was finally defeated and retreated, and the Takeda army captured more than 1,000 enemy heads, including the well-known enemy generals Dangno Hara Kuranosuke and Tsuyama Shomono. Sezawa's raid battle, although it went through a lot of danger, ended in the victory of Takeda Harunobu.

The reputation of Kai Tiger Takeda Harunobu was gradually known by the surrounding heroes.

Able to capture thousands of Heads in a single battle. It was indeed a great victory. Several ronin, who were the narrators of the Kai Tiger's achievements, also became more and more excited, and even talked about the heroic deeds of the Kai Tiger when he was seventeen or eight years old and participated in the battle and cut down several heads.

As soon as these words came out, this time it was the turn of the ronin from Echigo to quit.

"Echigo's long-tailed Kyotora. Have you heard his name? ”

"Hehe, he is only fourteen years old this year, but he has become the lord of a city, and he has even repelled many times the enemies of his attack, and even ambushed a large number of wealthy clans."

The ronins are talking about Kenshin Uesugi. Because Nagao Harukei, who inherited the position of Nagao family governor and Echigo guardian generation, was weak in physique and did not have the talent to lead as a military general, he was despised by other powerful forces in the country. In order to alleviate his predicament, just this year. Harukei tried to enlist the help of Nagao Keitoro (i.e. Uesugi Kenshin), who had just been fourteen years old in Motofu, to strengthen his ruling power and settle in Tochio Castle in central Echigo. While securing the Nagao family's territory in central Echigo, he contained hostile forces such as Honjo House Chief, Katsunaga Shibabe, and Nakajo Fujishi. At first, the nearby wealthy families didn't take this little hairy child in their eyes at all. However, after Kenshin arrived in the castle, he received the assistance of his mother's Koshi Nagao clan and Tokuo Castle Daimoto Nagao Kuyoba Sho Minori and others, and this year he repeatedly repelled the incoming enemies of the enemy's forces, and soon ambushed Yasuda Nagahide, Hojo Takahiro, Kogawa Nagashi and other wealthy clans. The dragon of Echigo, Uesugi Kenshin, also embarked on the road of his "god of war".

"Haluha, none of the people you just talked about are as good as the one I'm about to mention." Just as Mikawa, Shinano, and Echigo's ronins were each boasting about the celebrities of their birthplaces, a burly ronin suddenly stood up and shouted.

This person was the other ronin who had just followed the ronin sitting across from Kansuke Yamamoto into the sake house. Shortly after entering the brewhouse, he went out. But at some point, he returned to the wine house and sat down at another table and began to drink.

The many ronins in the tavern were immediately attracted by the burly ronin's sudden move.

"Huh!" Seeing that it had finally attracted the attention of everyone in the brewhouse, the burly ronin smiled proudly and said, "Kyushu." Have you heard of it? ”

After everyone heard this, some of the ronins nodded to indicate that they knew the way, and the other part of the people were a little dazed at first, and then quickly reacted, and hurriedly asked the people around them to know the road and Kyushu.

"I've just come back from there, and there's been a pretty good guy there." The burly man picked up a bowl of sake and took a sip before continuing, "You've heard of the Western Kingdom, right? ”

Among the ronins who originally said that they knew the way of Kyushu, some of them immediately nodded again. However, at this time, the number of ronins who expressed the title of Zhilu Dao was less than one-third of the total number of ronins in the takuya.

This is a helpless thing, there is a lack of convenient transportation in this era, and the average ronin only knows some information near his location, and as for the information of the farther places, he really doesn't know anything.

Of course, Kansuke Yamamoto, who visited Kyushu a few years ago, is absolutely familiar with it. It's just that this title of "Western Double British" is the first time he has heard of it. Could it be that there have been many heroes in Kyushu in the last two or three years? So, the news about Kyushu from the burly ronin in the middle of the brewhouse immediately aroused his interest.

(Thanks to the book friend "Baobao1125" for the gift of Haoyue mooncakes and today's two tips; Thanks to the book friend "Green Miya" for the reward; Thanks to the book friends "boring, ING~" and "13817224513" for the monthly passes; Thanks to the book friend "Little Wild Tiger" for the evaluation vote. Congratulations to the book friend "Baobao1125" for becoming the deacon of this book. (To be continued......)