Chapter 52: Looking for Shigetaka Kuroda
Judging from the current situation, no one has been found, so there are only two possibilities, the first is that he has already left here and hid in Kuroda; The second is that they were still there, and after someone reported it, they left before they came. www.biquge.info Judging from the fact that there was still so much food in the house, Fujioka Kuro felt that it must be the second case, and he immediately had an idea in his heart.
"Go and gather all the villagers, I have something to ask them."
These dozens of ashigaru heard that they were going to gather the people in the village, they all cheered and ran out, they instantly turned into robbers and bandits, and they didn't feel comfortable with the new identity at all, and drove everyone out of the house, this time they didn't take the food that took the weight, they all looted the money and things in the house, and then put it in their pockets, everyone was smiling, the people of Lishan Village had not seen this kind of scene for more than ten years, and they could only consider themselves unlucky.
Of course, these soldiers will definitely take advantage of the process of pushing, even if the ten-year-old girl has been groped, the women dare not speak, who told others to have knives in their hands? If it weren't for the tight schedule, these people wouldn't be able to do what they loved.
Lishan Village is not large, dozens of households, and more than 200 people were soon gathered in the open space in the center of the village.
"Hello everyone!" Fujioka said with a smile, but no one below responded to him. "The Kuroda family is hateful, and you untouchables in the Kuroda family are also so annoying!"
"You wicked are abominable!" A child said loudly in a crisp child's voice.
"Ansuke, don't speak." The child's father immediately took him in his arms and did not let him speak.
Fujioka Kuro originally wanted to kill this child, he now hates everything in the Kuroda family, if he doesn't want to use these people, the slaughter of the village is done, anyway, it is Kuroda's lords.
"I won't meet you pariahs, I have no ill will towards you, who of you knows where Shigetaka-sama Kuroda has gone?" Fujioka asked patiently, but no one spoke.
"Do you all want to die?" Fujioka Kuro grinded his teeth and spat out a few words.
"You're not good people anyway." The child named Ansuke before broke free from his father and said again.
"You untouchable child, you are not small, do you really think I dare not kill you?" When Fujioka Kuro saw that it was the child again, he immediately pulled out his knife and walked over to the child.
The child's parents probably felt that the child could not be saved at this time, although they wanted to save their child, but they were afraid that they would be implicated and killed, so they all stood in place and did not dare to move, the child's father closed his eyes, and the mother began to wipe her tears.
Fujioka Kuro walked very slowly, but just a few steps away, he quickly walked in front of the child, but this Ansuke was not afraid at all, just looked at Fujioka Jiulang, and there was no look of horror in his eyes. Fujioka Kuro is very angry, the people of the Kuroda family are really infuriating! He raised his sword, ready to slash Ansuke in front of him.
"I know where the old lord is." Seeing that the katana was about to fall on Ansuke's head, a voice suddenly remembered in the crowd. A young man stepped out of the crowd, looking ordinary, with some dust and dirt on his face, shivering from the cold in a sackcloth with patches and holes.
"Oh! Very good, very good! There are lovely people among the people of Kuroda! Do you know where Shigetaka Kuroda goes? Fujioka Kuro became excited, if he really caught Kuroda Shigetaka, he could really own 100,000 stone of land.
"I know, sir, I see them running." The man said with certainty.
"Say it quickly, say it quickly, no, you come with us, you show us the way, and when the time comes, I will reward you with the status of a samurai."
"Really? As long as I take you to the old lord, you will give me the identity of a samurai? ”
"I won't lie to you, come with us!" Fujioka Kuro ordered someone to pull him away, and dozens of ashigaru followed.
It wasn't until Fujioka Kuro's people had left that a male villager asked, "Who was that man just now?" Is it from our village? Why have you never seen it? ”
"Yes! I really haven't seen it, and it shouldn't be from the village. ”
"Then why did he mix in with us, and said that he knew the whereabouts of the old master?"
"He's a ninja of the Kuroda family! He should have lied to them, so as to protect the safety of the old lord. At this time, Xiao Ansuke said to everyone.
"Ansuke is so smart, it's really possible!"
No one noticed that just when Fujioka Kuro entered the village, four ninjas took Kuroda Shigetaka and his two maids, who were actually concubines, left from the back of the courtyard, went up Tsurumai Mountain, and pulled up a large camouflage cloth on the mountain, and then one ninja protected Kuroda Shigetaka and the three of them hid behind the cloth, and the other three ninjas lurked in the nearby tree. There are a total of five ninjas left in the Kuroda family.,One middle ninja.,Four lower ninja.,Four lower ninja are all here.,The one who led Fujioka Kuro away before was the middle ninja who lurked in the village after makeup.。
"Kuroda-sama will be fine, right?" One of the maids was so frightened that her body trembled.
"It's okay, Yuan." Kuroda Shigetaka is very calm, after all, he is an old man who has experienced wind and rain!
"Please, the old lord and the two of them, it's better not to speak." The shinobi said, the most fearful thing to lurk is to make a sound, otherwise it is likely to be discovered. After saying that, although the two women were still very scared, in order to survive, they could only tremble by themselves and shut their mouths casually.
Later, after sending out a shinobi and making sure that the middle shinobi had left the village with Fujioka Kuro, the four shinobi moved north with Kuroda Shigetaka and two maids, and after passing the Ichikawa, they would turn back southwest to Kuroda Castle.
The shinobi disguised himself as a villager and walked to the southwest of the village with Fujioka Kuro and dozens of ashigaru, and the southwest of the village was indeed fleeing in the direction of Himeji Castle, so Fujioka Kuro did not doubt him, and led people to hurry quickly, and when they arrived at a low-lying area in the forest, Fujioka Kuro asked everyone to stop.
"Hey, are you sure you're going this way? Why did you go so far and not even see the shadow of this old thing? You're not going to fool us, are you? Fujioka asked Nakashinobi
"How so, sir? Did you say that you would go back to Himeji Castle from another way, and that there was another way to Himeji Castle, even though it was going in the same direction. ”
Although Fujioka Kuro was skeptical, there was no other way at the moment, but to follow Nakashinobi's words and go another way.
But after walking for almost half an hour, Fujioka Kuro realized that something was wrong, because by this time they had already walked to the periphery of Himeji Castle, and they could already see the outline of Himeji Castle. When he was about to question the shinobi, he saw the shinobi holding something and throwing it on the ground, and a puff of smoke rose from the ground, and Fujioka Kuro and Ashigaru both closed their eyes and waved their hands around them. By the time the smoke cleared, the shinobi didn't know where to go.
Fujioka Kuro finally took someone back to Koji to resume his life, he already knew that this person was a ninja of the Kuroda family, and after such a long delay, even if he returned to Kuriyama Village immediately, he would definitely not be able to find Kuroda Shigetaka, and he must have been escorted away.
Kodera Masashi knows that Shigetaka Kuroda has already run away, can he only attack the city?
"Brother, why don't you go into the city and go to Takahisa-sama Koji to persuade me to surrender?" Noriharu Kodera said.
"But in this situation, will it be dangerous for you to go to Himeji Castle?"
"Brother, we are the people of the Koji family, I don't know what about the others, but I will definitely give everything for the Koji family, brother, please rest assured."
"Zezhi, it's still your own people who can be relied on!" Koji Zhengzhi grabbed Noriji Kodera's hand and said. What Kotera Noriharu thought in his heart was that as long as the Kotera family didn't attack Himeji Castle, he would not be in danger.