Takeda Koji immediately crossed the knife at the head of the village, looked at the faint anger on the faces of those villagers, and snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "What? It seems that you still want to resist? If you want to resist, then you can try, I also want to see your strength." ”

In response to Takeda Koji's unscrupulous ridicule, several old people in the village immediately stood up and severely scolded the young people with fierce faces.

The old man who had been whipped by Koji Takeda before, even more endured the pain on his face, squeezed out a smile and said to Koji Takeda: "Lord Samurai, don't get me wrong, we are good people and will not resist, and the people you are looking for have already left the village. ”

Koji Takeda didn't take the old man's words to heart, and snorted coldly and said, "Whether those people are still in the village or not, my people will figure out, and you don't need to be verbose here." ”

As soon as Koji Takeda's words fell, there was an exclamation not far ahead: "Ah, no, no, no, you are robbers, those are the money we rely on for survival, you, you can't take it." ”

Everyone followed the sound and saw a woman with a disheveled hair, lying on the ground and hugging a samurai's leg, struggling to stop the samurai from snatching the belongings from her house.

"Damn. Seeing this, Takeda Koji scolded angrily, slapped his horse and came to the samurai, raised the horsewhip in his hand and gave the samurai a whip.

Then he scolded, "Bastard, what are you doing? Do you still look like a samurai? It's just a woman, and she actually stumped you?"

The samurai was whipped by Koji Takeda, and he felt a little sad on his face, especially in front of those villagers, which made him feel ashamed, and then the samurai suddenly pulled out the saber at his waist, and a trace of fierceness flashed in his eyes. He looked down at the woman who was still holding her legs.

Seeing the murderous intent in the samurai's eyes, the woman's husband suddenly stood up and hurriedly ran forward to stop the samurai and save his wife.

However, what the man and the rest of the village didn't expect was that the samurai didn't give the man time to run over at all, and directly squatted down and put the blade close to the woman's throat, which seemed to be an easy slash, and the woman's throat was instantly cut by the blade, and blood gushed out.

The woman reached for her throat in horror, trying to cover the blood and wounds. Unfortunately, everything was useless, and in the blink of an eye, the woman collapsed there with a frightened face.

The samurai's sudden attack shocked everyone, and the villagers were stunned one by one, especially when they saw the blood on the ground and the woman's face was full of unwilling horror.

The aura of terror permeated everyone's hearts, suppressing everyone present, and everyone was silent at this moment.

The woman's husband was so anxious that he wanted to go up and fight the samurai.

But he was stopped by the old man of the village. The old man, who had been whipped by Koji Takeda before, stood up again and said, "Honorable samurai, you, don't you have the royal law in your eyes?"

The old man's voice just fell. Koji Takeda turned his horse's head and came to the old man, the katana in his hand was instantly drawn, and he slashed at the old man cleanly, and a bloody line appeared on the old man's forehead. The old man then fell to the ground on his back in horror, and Koji Takeda withdrew his katana back into its scabbard.

Shen Sheng said to the samurai behind him, "Do you see it? Often, failure is due to soft-heartedness. ”

The samurai also put his sword into the sheath, stood up straight with his legs together, held the katana in front of him with both hands, bowed to Takeda Koji, and said, "Yes, my lord, my subordinates must remember it." ”

It was only at this moment that those villagers finally came to their senses and understood that the group of warriors in front of them would not actually take their lives in their eyes, and in the eyes of the other party, the lives of the hundreds of families in the village were not worth mentioning at all, and they killed them like slaughtering cattle and sheep.

Koji Takeda withdrew his katana from its scabbard, stared at the villagers with his head bowed on his horse, and said, "Aren't you angry? Remember who you are, in my eyes, you are just a bunch of filthy reptiles, and I can crush you to death at any time, so you better cooperate obediently." ”

Although many young people were angry, the elders in the village still suppressed the young people, bowed down to Takeda Koji and said, "Samurai, please rest assured, we, we will definitely cooperate with you." ”

Koji Takeda nodded and said, "Very good, since that's the case, then you can tell me, where are those overseas merchants and those ronins hiding?"

Hearing Koji Takeda ask, the elder who stood up said with a bitter face: "Lord Samurai, those people have really left, we didn't lie to you, the day before you arrived, those people left the village overnight, we, we don't know where they went?"

"Oh, left overnight?" Takeda Koji's face suddenly became gloomy when he heard this, staring at the elder who stood up, with an undisguised trace of murderous intent on his body.

Soon, the elder's words were confirmed, and the samurai who had been sent into the village to search for people returned, and although they had recovered some possessions, they had found no trace of the ronin or the caravan.

This result made Takeda Koji feel annoyed, and roared angrily: "Damn, damn, it's all a bunch of waste, and they actually rushed over so quickly, but it turned out to be a step too late, what should we do now?

At this moment, those warriors who were originally showing off their might in front of the villagers, one by one, were like frosted eggplants, standing there with their heads shrugged and did not dare to speak.

Seeing the appearance of the samurai under his command, Takeda Koji was even more annoyed, raised his hand and snorted coldly, "You guys think about it for me, how am I going to solve this matter?"

Feeling the anger on Takeda Koji's body, the samurai suddenly thought about it, and at this moment, the domestic servant suddenly approached the horse and said to Takeda Koji: "Eldest prince, have you ever thought about why those overseas merchants and ronins would leave the village so coincidentally?"

Hearing this, Koji Takeda looked at the servant and asked suspiciously, "What do you mean?"

The servant sneered and glanced at the villagers, and then said unabashedly: "Son, think about it, if we have rested outside the village for the night, if the traces are discovered, how can those overseas merchants and ronins wait for us to arrive? ”

Speaking of this, the servant pretended to analyze again: "And that forest is near the village after all, if you know the most about that forest, I'm afraid it's these villagers, right?"

Takeda Koji came back to his senses at this time, turned his head and glanced at the group of villagers indifferently, his face gradually became hideous, and said, "Very good, it seems that you are indeed colluding with those overseas merchants and ronin. ”

The villagers didn't expect that the other party would classify the entire village as colluding with others in just a few words, and the elder quickly stood up and explained: "No, no, it's not like that, Lord Samurai, we didn't collude with those people, they just stayed in our village." ”

The servant immediately seized the loophole in the words of the village elders and said with a sneer: "You also said that there was no collusion with those people? If there was no collusion, why did they let them stay overnight, and why didn't they inform us in the first place?"

As he spoke, the servant pointed to Takeda Koji and said, "Do you know who this is? This is the eldest son of the lord, and you, as the lord's people, didn't tell us the information at the first time? In the eyes of you people, there is no Takeda family?"

In fact, the villagers had already guessed the identity of this group of samurai before, thinking that the other party might be a samurai sent by the daimyo who was in charge of this land, but no one thought that there was actually the eldest son of the daimyo among them.

The elders of the village quickly came to their senses, hurriedly stepped forward to salute Takeda Koji, and continued to explain: "The eldest prince, we really didn't mean to hide anything, and we also planned to send someone to report the news, but you also know that it will take time for us to rush to the lord, and the group of ronin samurai was there at that time, and we didn't dare to offend the other party." ”

The servant shouted: "Qubble, you are clearly quibbling, trying to confuse the eldest prince? Do you think that the eldest prince is just a baby general who has never commanded the army?"

Originally, Koji Takeda was a little skeptical of the villagers' explanation, and the words of the domestic servant obviously added fuel to the fire, which immediately ignited the anger in Koji Takeda's heart.

He didn't give the villagers a chance to explain at all, so he snorted angrily and said, "Okay, very good, you are under our protection, and you actually do this kind of thing, everyone listens, now take out all the old people, children and women in the village, and then hang them all for me, I want to see if they say anything." ”

At the command of Koji Takeda, the samurai under his command did not hesitate to move, and instantly rushed towards the crowd of villagers, accompanied by bursts of screams, and the scene fell into chaos in an instant.

The young men in the village finally couldn't hold back the anger in their hearts, and all of them rose up to resist those samurai, in their opinion, Takeda Koji's group was clearly a group of robbers, not only robbed them of their belongings, but now they actually bent down on them.

This was simply unbearable for the men, and even some of the elders in the village stopped stopping the young people at this moment, because they all knew that if they didn't fight, I was afraid that the end would be even more tragic.

Taking advantage of the commotion in the village, Shirou quietly left the crowd and entered the village without anyone noticing, quickly running to his own cellar.

Shirou knew very well in his heart that those samurai were all eyeing each other, and those uncles and uncles in the village could not be the opponents of those samurai at all, and now the only one who could save the entire village was Lucius who was hiding in his cellar, otherwise their village might be completely destroyed by those samurai. (To be continued......)