The forest at the foot of the hill burns with a faint fire.

The swaying bonfire popped out a crisp sound of 'crackling', and when the spark rose into the air, there were footsteps coming and going around, two feet away from Xiema sharpening his knife, and he quietly flipped through the book "My Huaxia" in his hand with the figure of the firelight.

There was a soft bang.

The pages of the book flipped between his fingers, and the dim yellow fire shone on the broad face of jujube red, and a pair of lying silkworm eyebrows wrinkled slightly.

"Every time I read this book, I have different opinions, and the words of later generations are also quite thought-provoking."

Someone came over, Guan Yu took his eyes off the page and looked at the figure walking by, with a smile on his face.

"All ready?"

"Second uncle, it's ready."

The wind blew in from outside, the forest was rattling, and the person who came over was Zhang Fei's eldest son Zhang Bao, who died early, he approached the fire and drove away a little cold with his hands towards the bonfire.

This time, he was sent by his father to the second uncle Guan Yu to help, and Zhang Bao was quite nervous about following the cavalry to sneak attack the Japanese army, and he was more sensitive to any wind and grass.

"Your father asked you to come with me, what do you understand?" Guan Yu closed the scroll and got up from the stone.

"Learn how to use soldiers from the second uncle!"

Hearing this, Guan Yu nodded with satisfaction, handed over the scroll in his hand to the guard, patted Zhang Bao on the shoulder in a comfortable mood, staggered with Zhou Cang, and whispered with a smile beside the old brother: "Biyide can speak!" ”

Zhang Bao turned around in a daze, and looked at Zhou Cang with some puzzlement, who smiled so hard that his big yellow teeth were exposed, and he turned around to follow Guan Yu with the Qinglong Yanyue Knife.

When we came to the edge of the forest, the sky was getting greener, and the morning light was shining in the east.

"Let the sons prepare!"

Zhou Cang nodded, slammed the green dragon knife in his hand to the ground, turned around and shouted at the tiger cavalry battalion soldiers in the forest: "Ready!" ”

The soldier packed up his things, put on the big knife, and with Zhou Cang said again: "Get on the horse!" ”

At the same time that Zhang Bao turned over, everyone around him roared, rode on horseback, pressed down with a big knife in his hand, and the laziness just now was swept away, showing a piece of spirit.

Here, Guan Yu took the reins handed by the guards, he stepped on the stirrup and got on the horse's back, half of his green robe was raised, and he reached out to take the green dragon knife.

The wind rushed into the forest, the beard stroked on his chest, Guan Yu slapped his sword and rushed out, and in a moment, the figures of the cavalry rushed out one after another in the forest under the hills.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded in the blue sky, and the sound of dull thunder was heard.

Boom Boom –

The morning light that had just risen was then plunged into a gloomy sky, and while the sea was rippling, the wind on the island was whining, and the black clouds overhead were thundering.

After several days of sunshine, it finally rained heavily today.

"Let's go! Hurry up—"

"It's raining, quick!"

Near the rolling hills, the formation flag of "Yongle Tongbao" stretched through, a team of elite feet stepped on the slope, and several ups and downs rushed down the hillside to the west.

The great man, known as the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven, rode on his war horse, his eyes were blazing, he looked at the torrent running nearby, and what appeared in his mind was the picture of the storm.

“…… With the help of new weapons, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and I ended up making wedding dresses for Tokugawa Ieyasu...... If there is no change in the Honnoji Temple...... That history may have been different. ”

As the army passed through his field of vision, Oda Nobunaga exhaled, and he urged his horse to the high ground of the terrain, and the vision ahead suddenly opened up, and the rolling hills and fields were pushed in front of him.

When he looked up, the sky was slightly gloomy, and the rain fell and hit the bottom of his eyes.

"When you give the order to go out, you can't stop marching troops, but you can slow down your march!" Oda Nobunaga turned his face slightly, and said a word to the three people with the surnames of Mori Lan Maru, Mori Ri Maru, and Mori Fang Maru beside him.

Soon, the messenger of the herald began to run in the rain.

Rushing from outside the Ping'an capital for two days, it was still yesterday afternoon to rest halfway, even though many people were physically exhausted, but there were no complaints, and they were put on a stand by Guan Yu, thinking that the other party was going to attack at night, but the other party took the opportunity to run to the west to support the Xia army over there.

This made Oda Nobunaga lose face, and the strategic miscalculation may put Takeda Shingen in the west into a crisis of being attacked by the enemy.

Therefore, he had to choose this extreme way of marching in order to reach the west as soon as possible, after all, the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom set off one night earlier than them, and time did not allow him to slack off.

At this time, it was raining heavily, which made the march much more difficult.

The generals of the army, such as Shibata Katsuie, Takigawa Kazuyoshi, Niwa Nagahide, and Akechi Mitsuhide, braved the heavy rain and rode horses, and now that it was raining, they still marched as usual, and they came to discuss with Oda Nobunaga about entering the west of Owari and possibly encountering the Xia army.

Oda Nobunaga was guarded by these generals, and there were also small surnames wandering around on horseback nearby.

His eyes were filled with water vapor from the wilderness.

"The road is cut off, the envoys of the Xia people are haunted everywhere, and Takeda Shingen doesn't know what's going on. He is very good at using soldiers, but it's a pity that the natives here, no matter how much they train, are not the original Yamato! ”

"The quality of the soldiers is really poor!" Shibata Katsuie, as Oda Nobunaga's most powerful general, has many concepts that are the same, and it can almost be said that he is the first person under Oda Nobunaga.

He sighed: "Not only the quality of the soldiers, these islands, lack of materials, we are latecomers, compared with the people of China on the other side, we do not have a little advantage, the only thing that can be done is the convenience of the sea, but unfortunately the emperor of Xia has been prepared early, with the vast land, materials, and population, in just three years more than we have." ”

"This is the disadvantage of having few people in the landscapia."

Oda Nobunaga stroked the mane of his warhorse, and the rain fell down the edge of his hat, and his eyes, along with the words, were also resolute and fierce.

"Shibata-kun, we used the population and materials of these islands to make such an achievement in a short period of time, but it took several years for the Emperor of the Xia Kingdom to surpass us, in general, we are stronger than him."

This is another kind of morale-boosting words, Oda Nobunaga, as a generation of heroes, does not understand the current situation.

Unlike Yamato in the past, the daimyo could still support each other, and there were several large islands here, although they were close to each other, but they were always separated by the sea.

Not to mention the fact that the ships come and go, it is also quite time-consuming, and another key factor is that they do not have someone who can be reconciled in the middle, such as the Emperor of the Xia Kingdom.

Even if there is a person like the Emperor Daigomon, it is just a puppet that they pushed out.

Every daimyo who comes here is not very willing to be subservient to others.

In the end, they can only find a pleasing person to form an alliance and distribute them on various islands to resist the invasion of Xia soldiers and horses.

The rain was getting heavier, and the sky seemed to be missing a hole, and the rain continued to pour down.

Oda Nobunaga looked tired, his eyes were bloodshot, he hadn't closed his eyes since Heiankyo set out, and by now, he had actually reached his limit.

Fortunately, there was no news about the Takeda Army in front of him, and no news was the best news, thinking of this, he felt a little more at ease.

After a while, the road became muddy with a pair of feet and horses' hooves.

"The Xia army is also fighting repeatedly, as time goes by, the soldiers are tired, they will feel homesick, and at that time, they will have no heart to fight!"

On horseback, he said in a smiling tone, hiding the exhaustion on his body, and for some reason, he couldn't help but want to look behind him, and at this time, he suddenly laughed.

"Hahaha......"

Seeing Oda Nobunaga's sudden laughter, everyone showed doubts on their faces, and the general named Takigawa Kazuki looked over: "Oda-sama, you...... That's why I laughed all of a sudden. ”

(End of chapter)