Omi Province, Hikone Castle, Castle Tower.

It is a traditional Fenglinzhou feudal castle building, which is both a mansion and a castle.

The so-called castle tower has a high cloister on the roof of the castle tower with a mountain style, and the outer and inner steps are inconsistent. The castle tower is a two-storey tower with a three-story observation deck on top of it, with a total of five floors. The watchtower is partly large, and the mountain-style cornice board is interlaced with the eaves above, so that there are six floors inside. The edge of the top floor of the castle tower is received into the outer wall, which is painted with white stucco, the gable wall is also rich in variety, and the windows are sliding doors, which is luxurious and magnificent.

Based on the concept of the Imperial Palace Garden of Emperor Xuanzong of the Great Qi Dynasty, the Iyi clan built the Gengu Garden in Hikone Castle. The Hoshodai in the park has a view of Hikone Castle from the bottom up, and it was a place where the feudal lord entertained dignitaries.

Strictly speaking, Toyotomi Hideshige is not the master of Hikone Castle, and the Ii clan is the master of this castle, but after the situation deteriorated, Toyotomi Hideshige came to live in Hikone Castle, and the Ii clan is a vassal of the Toyotomi clan, plus the lord of the Hikone Domain became the elder and was not in Hikone Castle, so Toyotomi Hideshige was in charge of the city's affairs instead.

At this time, Toyotomi Hideshige sat opposite people and drank tea on the Fengxiang platform in the Xuangong Garden, and Toyotomi Hideshige, who was already thirty-two years old, was affected by the customs of the Central Plains, and did not shave the moon on behalf of the head, but combed his hair in a bun like the Central Plains. He has a delicate appearance, wears a wind-folded black hat, tied with a suspension, hangs down with a long straight top, wears a long hakama, ties the waist of the hakama, and has chest buttons, small dew, sleeve dew, big drapery and other decorations, wears the "difference in the palace", holds the middle qi, and the standard daimyo dress.

The person opposite Toyotomi Hideshige, wearing a boat-shaped black hat and a plain jacket, is completely dressed as a samurai.

The samurai pinched the teacup with two fingers, rotated it slightly, but did not drink the tea, his eyes casually looked at the surrounding scenery, and then turned to Toyotomi Hideshige's body: "It is a great thing that the Qingwei Zhenren of the Celestial Empire has appointed His Highness as the regent Guan Bai, but His Highness is not happy?"

Toyotomi Hidemao smiled bitterly: "His Royal Highness Xiuji, His Royal Highness Xiuxiang, and Masahiro Gong died unexplained, and the head of the Duke is in a different place, and it is really auspicious and unpredictable."

Samurai said, "Wealth is always sought in danger."

Toyotomi Hideshige picked up the teacup and did not speak.

It is extremely risky to go to Xiujing, but if he can survive, he will become the new regent Guan Bai, even if he gives up Guan Bai's position in the future, he will also be His Royal Highness Taige.

That's why he didn't refuse.

The samurai was about to speak, when he suddenly stood up with a sneer on his face, "Another rat has slipped in."

Toyotomi Hideshige is no longer surprised: "There is Lao Shizhouzhai."

Shi Zhouzhai is the name of the ancestor of the Yanagi family, he once learned swordsmanship from the sword master in this name, obtained the true inheritance of the new Yin Stream, and on this basis, created the new Yin Stream of Yanagi. Since then, successive generations of Yagyu family heads have taken Shishuzhai as their name. This is also common in Fenglinzhou, such as the Hattori family, which has been loyal to the Toyotomi Prime Minister for generations, and the same name is used by successive heads of the family.

The Yanagi family has always served as the swordsmanship teacher of the Xiangfu, and the current generation of Shizhouzhai Yanagi Zong is one of the eight swordsmen of Fenglinzhou, and is on the same level as Gui Shanxing, who assassinated Qingwei Zhenren.

The most famous of the new Yin Stream is the "no knife take", that is, to restrain the opponent with his bare hands, so Yagyu Somasa did not draw the sword, but slashed with his bare hands, and on the first line, there were visible distortion marks, which was somewhat similar to the vacuum of Takefu's smashing line.

At the same time, a figure was also forced out by this hand knife, as if it appeared out of thin air, less than twenty zhang away from Fengxiangtai, the whole person seemed to see flowers in the fog, appearance, clothing, and body shape were not clear, and only a vague figure could be seen. Being able to sneak up to a swordsman's body twenty feet around him before being discovered, it can be seen that this person's stealth skills have reached the point of being superb. In other words, if it weren't for Yagyu Somasa himself, Toyotomi Hideshige would have been assassinated.

In the face of this knife, this person did not dare to take it hard, but exploded into more shadows and fled in all directions.

"A ninja of Koga-ryu?" Yanagi Zongzheng is changing his trick into five fingers and one grasp.

In an instant, countless swords were born from all directions, intertwined into a killing net, whether it was in the sky and on the ground, or east, west, north and south, leaving no gap, enveloping all these doppelganger shadows. thereinto

Then I saw Yagyu Zongzheng clenching his fists with five fingers.

The killing net began to shrink inward rapidly, as if closing the net, and all the clones that touched the net immediately disappeared, seeing that the number of doppelgangers was getting fewer and fewer, and finally only one deity remained, but it exploded with a bang and turned into a straw man, and then it was cut into countless pieces by the sword qi net.

Yanagi Zongzheng was not panicked, waved his left hand lightly, and silently, a yin wind was born, fluttering.

This is the new Yin Flow Secret Sword "Feng Lan", which condenses a trace of sword qi like a thin line with a stream of Yin and Cold True Qi, which has the effect of self-traceability.

Previously, the Koga ninja escaped the killing net of Yagyu Somasa with a stand-in straw man, which is also an extremely famous ninja tool, but if you want to refine a ninja that can deceive the sword hero, you must mix your own essence and blood into it, so that you can perfectly imitate your own gas.

Because of this, Yagyu Zongzheng still captured a little essence blood, and then used this essence blood as a guide to drive the sword qi to find the trace of the ninja, if this person retreated, it would be fine, if he didn't leave, he would naturally have to face this line of sword qi.

This knife qi is unstoppable, killing people in the invisible and silent, and extremely sharp, the body of the middle person is immediately cut off, and the wound is as smooth as a mirror, leaving no traces. Even if you wear armor and other things, you can pass through the armor and only hurt the body, not the armor in the slightest.

The sword qi wandered into the air on its own, which was where the Koga ninja was hiding, and the ninja was also taken aback, his body retreated sharply, and at the same time, his hands were sealed, summoning a large flame storm like a fiery cloud, reflecting the entire sky red, and splashing towards the castle tower, not to hurt the enemy, but to draw the attention of Somasa.

Yanagi Zongzheng stirred his hand, and a large "fire cloud" immediately moved, turning into a vertical flame tornado, and then Yanagi Zongzheng waved his hand again, and the flame tornado rose into the air, straight into the sky, and finally dissipated into nothingness.

At this moment, the ninja had already escaped into the void and disappeared completely.

This time he no longer tried to get close to Toyotomi Hideshige, but chose to leave Hikone Castle. The way of the assassin has always been a sneak attack, and if you miss a blow, you will have to flee thousands of miles. He'd already tried it twice, and if he dwelt on and on, it was easy to put himself in danger.

Yagyu didn't chase him, and from the beginning to the end, he just stood up, his feet didn't even move a bit, and after the ninja retreated, he sat down again and continued to drink tea.

Toyotomi Hideshige was calm and didn't panic much, but just asked, "Is Koga-ryu's Shangnin?"

Yagyu nodded his head.

Shangnin is a title comparable to Jianhao, but Shangnin is congenitally insufficient, similar to Sanren, while Jianhao is similar to a Qi Refiner, under the same realm, it is a head-to-head fight, and it must be that Jianhao has an absolute advantage.

As for why only Shangnin carried out the assassination alone, instead of gathering a large number of assassins to assassinate together like Katsura Yoshiyuki, one is that the importance of Toyotomi Hideshige cannot be compared with that of Qingwei Zhenren, and the other is that Hikone Castle is not Hidekyo, and other monks, priests, witches and the like want to come in, so they can only attack head-on, Yanone Castle is not the only one in Yagyu Somasa, there are also a large number of guards, such as the iron artillery equipped with the Daomen "Shooting Sun Long Gun", the Onmyoji from the Onmyoliao, and the flag-book samurai at all levels, the new Yinryu swordsman, the Iga ninja, etc., On the contrary, Kaga Kaminin is good at concealment and stealth methods, which can bypass heavy guards and infiltrate the core position.

Toyotomi Hideshige sighed, "This is still in Hikone Castle, and if you leave Hikone Castle, I really don't know how dangerous it will be."

"In my opinion, after you arrive in Xiujing, the people of the Celestial Empire will not let you live directly in the castle tower, but will leave you in their camp, and they will not let you return to Xiujing until they have completely cleared Xiujing. As for the camp of the people of the Celestial Empire, it must be safer than Hikone Castle. Since those assassins can't kill you in Hikone City, then they must not be able to assassinate you in the Celestial Empire camp. In other words, the Assassins' last chance before you reach the camp, and the real danger is the journey from Hikone Castle to the camp."

Toyotomi Hideshige doesn't understand this truth, this road is not long, but it is likely to be a desperate road.

It is impossible for Yagyu Somasa to accompany him over, because if Somasa moves, then several major forces will see that there is no hope of assassination, and they are likely to take advantage of the situation to turn around and directly attack the leaderless Yangen Castle. In today's situation

In other words, Hikone Castle cannot afford to be lost.

The Ninshoji Temple, the Asahi Jingu Shrine, and the Koga-ryu ninja joined forces to attack a castle that lacked a Somasa to sit in, and one day was enough.

After all, a big battle of this level in the Five Elements Mountain is a minority, and in ordinary times, a pseudo-immortal is enough to sit on one side.

Yagyu asked, "Have you made contact with the camp?"

"News has come from the camp that a 'Ying Dragon' is already on its way and will soon arrive at Hikone Castle." Toyotomi Hideshige replied, "And the manpower sent is very interesting, Shi Zhouzhai should have heard of the saying of the Daomen Sanxiu, referring to the three young people who are most likely to compete for the eighth generation of the Great Palm Sect, and this time two were sent, namely the little prince of Zhengyi and Taipingdao, and the other is not far from the Quanzhen Dao Toshihiko. I have to suspect that Qingwei Zhenren is not the prince of Taiping Dao, but the prince of Quanzhen Dao, and he wants to take the opportunity to get rid of the heirs of Taiping Dao and Zhengyi. If there is any accident with these little princes, it is difficult to guarantee that Taiping Dao and Zhengyi will not be angry with me."

Yanagi Zongzheng smiled and said, "How many Guan Bai before you didn't have such an honor. You must know that even in the Central Plains, only a first-class naïve Taoist priest is qualified to travel on the "Ying Dragon".

Toyotomi Hideshige smiled bitterly again: "I'd rather not have such an honor, just take a sedan chair with manpower, and then go to Beijing safely."

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