Chapter 17: Shimazu Returns
When people walk, especially in the jungle, in order not to disturb other beasts, they must move forward carefully, which is the memory of our ancestors left in our genes. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info plus the road here is not very good, mostly small and light feet, and the sound is not very big.
So the two teenagers are very sure that they are facing people, which Hattori Masanari has inadvertently talked to them about, and the only thing that needs to be confirmed now is what the identity of this person is.
Soon a middle-aged man, who also looked gray-faced, walked out of the woods and appeared in front of them. This man is not very tall, he is also very thin, and he has long thief eyebrows, but he seems to be a very clever person.
The moment he walked out of the forest, he immediately checked the situation left and right, and from the first time he saw the two teenagers, he kept looking at them with his eyes.
Of course, the two teenagers were also looking at him, and Inoue saw a sign of a pill cross on the saber at his waist, which was the family crest of the Shimazu family, and it was obvious that this was the family crest of the Shimazu family.
Inoue did not hesitate, and secretly made a killing gesture to Akashi Quanden, this gesture was very hidden, and only the children who came out of the Kuroda family training class knew the meaning, even the rest of the Kuroda family would not know.
The middle-aged man thinks that these two teenagers should be wandering ronin samurai, and they are still so young, it seems that they just happened to pass by here, and they were worried about someone here just now, and it seems that they are thinking too much.
After making up so much content in his own brain, he was sure that he should be safe, so he shook his head, and he thought that he still had to hurry up and complete the task given to him by the main bus as soon as possible.
The two teenagers saw that he didn't seem to have any malicious intent, so they slowly sat down, but their faces were still full of deep vigilance, and such subconscious movements made him feel that those two teenagers were really just ordinary ronins!
So he smiled at the two teenagers, and slowly walked past them, of course, he himself did not say that he was completely unguarded, he was still observing the movements of the two teenagers, nothing can happen in this era, it is always right to be careful.
However, just as he walked past the two teenagers, Akashi Quanden suddenly attacked and stabbed him in the neck, obviously his idea was to kill him with one move, and he didn't want to give him too many chances.
And this middle-aged man has been observing the two teenagers, and he is indeed a very clever person, and his reaction is also very fast, and he immediately pulled out his katana and tried to fight back.
It's just that his reaction is fast, and the reaction of the two teenagers Inoue and Akashi Quanden is not slow, and Akashi Quanden's katana slashes heavily at the middle-aged man's knife.
This trick was completely unexpected by middle-aged people, because under normal circumstances, when there is no chance, it is absolutely irrational to use such a hard-hitting trick.
As a samurai of the Shimazu family, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, so he knows this deeply, and why would this young man do this? It seems that he still has too little experience, otherwise he would never have made such a move.
Then in the next moment, he finally knew why Akashi Quanden was doing this, because he saw that Inoue's knife had already come to him, and it was precisely because he was just thinking about Akashi Quanden's move, so there was a moment of distraction.
Anyone who has read martial arts novels knows that the confrontation between the two powers, the lightning and flint, everything is likely to end in just an instant, so there is no room for any mistakes, even if it is just a distraction, it is likely to make people lose their lives.
And now this is the situation, if the middle-aged man had dealt with it carefully, as a samurai with passable martial arts, even if he couldn't beat these two teenagers and escaped, he could still dodge the fatal move of Inoue Nofang just now.
But it was because of his distraction that he brewed bitter fruit. Inoue nobo was slashed his neck, where Akashi had just been aiming for his sword.
What does a knife look like when it's slashed on the neck? A stream of blood spurted out, like a fountain, spilling thousands of blood flowers, in the shape of a moon and a half, swaying on the grass. Mixed with the small weeds that grow wildly in early spring, the green and red are very beautiful!
It was just one move, and Akashi Quanden and Inoue Nobo cooperated well to kill this middle-aged samurai of the Shimazu family. After a body search, they unexpectedly obtained a letter from the Shimazu family.
This letter was written by Shimazu Yoshihisa, the head of the Shimazu family, in which he wrote that he himself had known about the Kuroda family's attack on Satsuma Province, and that he was ready to end his campaign in Hyuga Province and immediately prepare to lead an army of 3,000 back to the inner city. I hope that Shimazu Yoshihiro, who is left behind, must resist it, as long as he is given a few days, he will definitely be able to rush back to the rescue, and then the inside and outside will be combined and the Kuroda family army will be defeated in one fell swoop.
"Uemon, what do you say we should do, it seems that the Shimazu family's Hyuga country crusading army has already known the news of the family's attack on the inner city." Akashi said after reading the letter.
"After the siege of the inner city, the blockade of the news has been very good, since the Hyuga country of the Shimazu family has already known the news of the attack of the family, it is likely that it is known through other wealthy clans and people." Inoue no Fang analyzed.
"I guess that's the case, but now that we know that the Shimazu family's army is likely to return immediately, we must tell the news to Inoate-sama and Takenaka-sama. It's just that now we have a task ourselves, what should we do about this? Akashi asked.
Akashi Quanden was actually very conflicted at this time, because their current task was to contact the Ryoshigari family and the Keito family, but now that he knew that the Shimazu family's army was about to return to the army, he really wanted to go back and report to Takenaka Shigeharu, so he didn't know what he should do.
"To be honest, I don't think there's any need to hesitate, let alone go back to deliver the letter, just do our current task." Inoue said with a smile.
"Oh, why is that? This is obviously a very important piece of military information, why do you say that you don't need to send it back? If the military situation is delayed by then, and we happen to know this information, do you know what the consequences will be? Uemon Gate. Akashi said with some puzzlement.