The peninsula at the tip of the archipelago in the East China Sea is called Shikoku.

The smell of the sea breeze blows palms and weeds.

The smell of burnt corpses in the humid air is located in Nagahama Village, southwest of Kuhaku-cho, Shikoku, and on the roads and in the mountains, you can see more than a dozen people in coarse linen clothes throwing their corpses into the thatched village, their faces covered, holding torches, and looking at the burning grass huts.

The soldiers of Kubaku Town had already arrived, bringing orders from the lord of the castle to burn all those who had the plague, whether they were alive or dead.

However, this control was still not effectively solved, and one after another Japanese villages were ravaged by the plague, so that all roads in the second half of Shikoku were blocked.

Across the sea, several villages and towns in the first half of Shikoku were under complete martial law, and the common people and samurai who had to leave their villages wandered around, and various fights and fights for food were frequent.

After the blockade, the government had withdrawn behind the blockade line and continued to command, but it also meant that the first half of the Shikoku area was in great chaos.

In the wilderness, you can see people killing people and taking food from time to time, but what is really frightening is that once there is an epidemic in a certain village, a large number of soldiers rush over and force the people in the village who are not sick, and throw all the corpses and sick into the fire, even at night, you can see the burning village in the dark, mixed with countless cries and disturbing chaos.

A night passed.

Dressed as a samurai, wearing hats, and carrying a wooden box behind their backs, the old men mingled in a group of numb Japanese people with vegetables on their faces, and among the rugged roads in the foothills were sobbing and scolding.

The old man was relatively silent, and occasionally a few male would-be people looked at the wooden box behind him, and he raised his face slightly, and his eyes under his white eyebrows showed a fierce look, so that the other party did not dare to move easily.

Further on, passing through a village, the air was still filled with the smell of charred corpses, the charred houses had long been destroyed in the fire, the collapsed walls, charred, uncharred corpses appeared in front of me in shock, the burned and detached bones, the hollow eyes, and the open mouth looked at the group of people who passed from outside the village.

There are no living people in the whole village, and even if there are, like people from outside, they will be far away from the village and go to the town, castle, etc., so that they may have a chance to live.

Wow –

The sound of footsteps startled the black crow, which flew to the nearby branches, standing on the blackened branches, tearing at a few pieces of cooked meat or staring at the crowd below with red eyes.

Walking through the place called Nagano Town, a town that was once prosperous by plunder, now dead and silent inside and out, a ragged corpse rotting faster in the sun, flies crawling with pus-soaked flesh, and occasionally a staggering, swaying figure approaching, startling a dense black shadow flying in the air.

The plague was spread by the sea breeze so quickly.

When passing by, the old man clutched the black towel on his face, looking at the black flying flies, his ears were buzzing...... sounds.

The old man found that the place was not burned because the soldiers and the people who came here had contracted the plague, and the corpses of maggots crawling on the roads and fields were everywhere, carried by the wind, and the smell of corpses was everywhere.

As a martial arts master, although the old man's body and bones are old, he is supported by pure and majestic internal force, and the epidemic will not infect him, but the smell of corpses that can be smelled everywhere in the air makes people sick.

He knew how these plagues had happened, and since he heard that forty-two ploughing cattle had been sent, he sneaked in at night to peep, and originally planned to slaughter them all and leave them to the widows, but he sneaked into the cowshed where they were held, and found that they were all sick cattle.

I immediately understood what was going on.

It is rare to plunder cattle at sea, but the only possibility is that others did it on purpose, lived to be more than 90 years old, and came to the Japanese country for three years, and traveled a lot of places, and this knowledge is still there.

Leaving the village in ruins, I continued to walk along the foothills with the Japanese people, not slowly, occasionally looking at the scenery beyond the mountains, passing by villages ravaged by the plague, hundreds of people died, including many samurai.

For these people, the old man will never be merciful, he is very aware of the previous Japanese attack on the coastline of Lin County, for this he also went deep into the rest of the Japanese island, slaughtered a group of Japanese soldiers as revenge, and then was chased and killed by the army led by a Japanese general, so that he fled to the side of Shikoku, wanting to take a boat back to the homeland of Wuzhou.

For three years, he felt that his body was getting weaker and weaker day by day, and he may be approaching the limit.

Go back to Wuzhou, look at your hometown again, and then return to your roots.

But now he has encountered such a thing, the port has been completely blocked, and even the widows who run the black boat do not dare to help people smuggle at will at this time, no matter how much money they have.

The morning sun rose to the very top of the clouds, and the sun became dazzling.

After walking a long way, in front of me was Hirono Castle, the largest castle in the former peninsula of Shikoku.

At this time, in addition to the old man's Japanese people, there were also a large number of Japanese people who wanted to escape the spread of the disease gathered in this direction, looking down from the sky, the crowd stretched in all directions, and the crying made the huge migration chaotic and noisy......

It seemed that the sick person was suffering from respiratory failure, and the woman who was sitting on the stone by the side of the road, gasping for breath, with a fever and shivering, was left by her husband and sat on the ground pounding the ground and crying hoarsely.

The child sitting on the side of the road holding the swaddling child looked at the figure of the parents with dull eyes, and in the swaddling clothes in his arms, the little life had no breath, and the face of the dead gray baby was covered with dense blisters......

Soon, a terrifying crowd gathered beneath the rammed earth walls of Hirono.

The old man dressed as a samurai, raised his face slightly, looked over the hat, snorted silently, glanced indifferently at the fallen figure beside him, stepped over the gradually moving body, and went to the city gate.

The crowd was crowded, and the faces looked up at the city wall with panic, fear, and numbness, and the woman holding the child was shouting in the Japanese language to open the city gate, and some people knelt down and cried for mercy from the people in the city.

"Don't panic, we're all waiting outside the city, Doctor Zuojing, Lord Date has already come, and he will quell this disaster!"

Naturally, the soldiers and guards on the city walls did not dare to open the gates and let people in, so there was no need to think about it to know that there must be people infected with the plague in the crowd, and once they entered the castle, this Nagano Castle would soon fall to the plague.

The old man in the crowd didn't care about what the Japanese soldiers said above, but the words 'Lord Dada' made his eyes narrow, and this person was the same Japanese general who led the army to hunt him down before.

Thinking of this, he pulled down his hat, hid his face, and turned to blend in with the crowd.

It was getting dark.

The moon rose on the sea, and on the speckled wilderness, the people gathered together, some sobbing, some feverishly cheering up, and some hungry people in groups, looking at the children in the crowd, and soon there was an argument and confusion, and the woman cried out to get the child back, and was beaten to the ground again.

After a while, a child's "Ah! Soon after, the drooling smell of barbecue wafted out.

The old man looked at this scene indifferently, then got up to leave, and when he walked past a widow holding a barbecue, he patted his head lightly, and then went straight over.

And the Japanese people had meat in their mouths, and their eyes looked at the bonfire in a daze, and a trace of blood oozed from their mouth, nose, ears, and eyes, and then they slammed on the ground, and the roast meat in their hands also rolled to the ground, and was snatched away by their companions.

The old man walked around the city wall for half a circle, his eyes swept the city wall that was low for him, and after a group of Japanese soldiers carrying bamboo guns on it, he stepped on it, flew up and jumped over the wall on the battlement, and plunged into the darkness of the city.

The speed was amazing, Rao was a perceptive soldier, and when he turned around, he only felt that it was a cool breeze blowing, so he didn't care.

The figure that descended into the city, stepped on the light body, silently swept over the roofs of the grass houses, and after falling to the ground, he knocked on a house with lights on.

In a moment, there was the sound of footsteps inside, and a widow opened the door.

The next second.

There was a red mark on his neck, and before his body fell, he was grabbed and dragged in by the old man, and then the door was closed, and there was a widow in the house, who was also killed by the old man.

The two bodies were thrown into the firewood room at the back of the house, and the old man sat down under the oil lamp, took out the interference bun from his sleeve, broke it and ate it in small bites.

He was not a good person, he was brave and ruthless when he was young, and he killed a lot of people, and when he reached middle age, his mood gradually precipitated, and he began to specialize in knife experience, and in his later years, his mood was able to break through, but he also saw through the rivers and lakes, so he chose to retreat to the mountains and forests.

Later, after going out of the mountain, he heard that his family and country were destroyed, so he went to Luyang in the Central Plains with the heart of saving his family and country, thinking that he would assassinate the emperor of Xia with his own strength, but after all, he miscalculated and also saw the tyrant in his mouth, not what people said.

After a period of confusion, he decided to come to the country to have a look after reading the book in his hand that the other party had given him.

That's three years.

Du Yichu ...... You should do the same! ”

He stroked the wooden box, chewed the dry bun in his mouth, and muttered softly.

……

March 28.

Date Masamune enters Nagano Castle.

(End of chapter)