Matsudaira Motoyasu and his party finally entered the territory of Mikawa. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Ah, teacher, we're home." Although Matsudaira Motoyasu didn't stay here for a long time, he still had a lot of feelings for Mikawa and Okazaki Castle.

"yes, we just came here a while ago, but it feels like a long time ago. Hey, it's better to be home! "Tadaji Sakai naturally has a lot of affection for this place.

Sakai Tadaji felt that he had returned to his own turf, so he was a little careless. He and Matsudaira Motoyasu did not follow the large army anymore, but were escorted by Honda Tadakatsu, with a few more escorts, and took the lead on horseback, heading towards Okazaki Castle.

Several people traveled along the way, marching on the land of their hometown, triggering more memories and reveries.

However, soon a wave of bandits who did not know whether they were alive or dead interrupted his longing for his hometown.

"I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to live from now on, leave to buy road wealth!" The robber said strange cuts in his mouth, so much so that at first, Matsudaira Motoyasu and Sakai Tadaji didn't understand what the other was going to do.

And the other party was masked, wearing a blue-gray cloth coat, and carrying simple farm tools in his hand, so he really couldn't tell what they were doing.

Matsudaira Motoyasu was in a very good mood at this time, and said to Sakai Tadaji, "They may be homeless farmers who have become beggars, so give them some money to buy porridge!" ”

However, following Matsudaira Motoyasu's orders, the samurai who came to offer alms were kicked to the ground by the bandits who blocked the way.

"I'll tell you to hand over everything of value, bastard!" The bandit at the head shouted.

Matsudaira Motoyasu then understood what was going on.

"A bunch of guys dressed in such rags dare to rob us? You're crazy, aren't you? Matsudaira Motoyasu said it was incomprehensible.

Seeing that Matsudaira Motoyasu did not react, the bandit led by him even took out a pair of tattered bows and arrows, bent his bow and shot Matsudaira Motoyasu with an arrow.

Of course, the texture of his bow and arrow is not very good, and he uses ordinary bamboo arrows, so Matsudaira Motoyasu thought that the other party would not be able to shoot him at all.

Who knows, the bamboo arrow swayed, and it actually came straight to him, and finally really shot his horse.

The arrow wasn't powerful enough to kill Matsudaira Motoyasu's mount, but it was enough to suddenly startle the horse and jump up and down and knock Matsudaira Motoyasu down.

At this moment, Matsudaira Motoyasu's face could still hold face.

"Give it to me, kill them!" Matsudaira Motoyasu immediately ordered. So his guards, led by Honda Tadakatsu, rushed over together.

Sure enough, these bandits with broken equipment were no match for Matsudaira Motoyasu's samurai at all, and they symbolically resisted and began to retreat.

If it were someone else, you might think about what these bandits are here for. It should have been understood a long time ago that the difference in strength between the two sides was just to shoot Matsudaira Motoyasu?

And Matsudaira Motoyasu did not notice at all that even if these bandits were very poorly equipped and not very capable of fighting. But when they faced the formally trained samurai under Matsudaira Motoyasu, they didn't even lose the slightest number of troops, they just fought and fled, and not even a single one was injured.

But Matsudaira Motoyasu was originally here to suppress the bandits, and he fell off his horse again and lost face, so he couldn't care so much about it, and ordered his samurai to chase after him desperately.

So these bandits fled all the way, and Matsudaira Motoyasu led everyone to chase all the way behind, and it seemed that they had chased them to Okazaki Castle. The bandits fled here, and then they scattered and fled in all directions.

Matsudaira Motoyasu was very angry, and he had to catch these bandits to vent his anger.

Sakai Tadaji had already sensed that the momentum was wrong at this time, so he persuaded Matsudaira Motoyasu not to rush in, or to advance the city, and then think about it in the long run.

Matsudaira Motoyasu felt that what Sakai Tadaji said was also reasonable, so he led everyone into the city.

Who knew that not long after entering the city, the bandit leader came out of the corner again and shot at Matsudaira Motoyasu.

This time, he didn't shoot Matsudaira Motoyasu's mount, because the unlucky horse had already been executed because he had thrown Matsudaira Motoyasu off. Matsudaira Motoyasu is now sharing a horse with Tadaji Sakai.

But the arrow hit Matsudaira Motoyasu's headband, breaking his braids. Matsudaira Motoyasu's hair fell out all at once, making him embarrassed.

"Bastard, kill him!" Matsudaira Motoyasu yelled. His samurai could only carry it out.

The samurai followed the bandit leader's footsteps and searched the city, finally coming to a mansion and losing clues.

"He must have entered this house!" Matsudaira Motoyasu said, "How can ordinary bandits have the ability to enter the city, they must be instructed by the owner of this house!" ”

Sakai Tadaji said, "My lord, I'm afraid it's not likely. I know the owner of this house, who is an old minister of the Matsudaira family, Ishikawa Shumasa. With his loyalty to the Matsudaira family, even if he harbored some bandits, it would never be possible to instruct the bandits to attack the lord. "So, do you admit that he harbored the bandits?" Matsudaira Motoyasu airway. He didn't know about it.

Sakai Tadaji didn't speak, and it seemed that he didn't deny it.

"I don't care if he is an old minister of several dynasties, if he dares to shield the bandits to attack me, he will die!" Matsudaira Motoyasu said angrily.

Sakai Tadaji could only sigh and knock on the door of this house.

It didn't take long for a small surname to come over and open the door, and seeing that it was Sakai Tadaji, he hurriedly let them in.

Matsudaira Motoyasu still had anger in his stomach, but there was no way to prove that it was Ishikawa Shumasa who harbored the bandits, so he could only hold it first.

I heard that it was Young Master Okazaki and Lord Tadaji Sakai who came, and Ishikawa Shumasa hurriedly greeted him.

"Long time no see!" Ishikawa was enthusiastic about them, invited them in, and instructed his subordinates to bring them some refreshments.

Ishikawa Shumasa is not familiar with Matsudaira Motoyasu, so as a veteran of Mikawa, it is inevitable that he chats with Matsudaira Motoyasu about some military and political matters in addition to greetings.

Those questions were nothing to Matsudaira Motoyasu. But Matsudaira Motoyasu held his stomach now and didn't bother to answer him. It's just that there is no match to say.

Therefore, Ishikawa Shumasa inevitably expressed great regret for Matsudaira Motoyasu's level and knowledge. He squinted at Sakai Tadaji and said secretly: "You guy didn't work hard and trained the lord into a fool. ”

However, in Matsudaira Motoyasu's view, Ishikawa Shumasa is asking long and short questions, and he is clearly playing his own words. And since he dares to set himself, then it shows that he is weak-hearted. So he must be harboring bandits!