"Brother, at this time, the Xiaoji family is on the cusp, you must not make a mistake, and you can't mistakenly trust anyone, please think twice!"

"What to do? What to do? Tell the two of them to turn around first! How many of us do we have now? ”

"Brother, excluding these two families, there are 1,200 people, but Himeji Castle Koji Koji Takahisa-sama has 500 people! It's not easy to do! Noriharu Kodera made a worried expression. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"So what do you say you should do?"

"Shigetaka Kuroda is in Kuriyama Village, Kita Himeji Castle, we might as well ......"

"This, this is not good! Lord Shigetaka Kuroda has long been in seclusion, how can he ......"

"Brother, now it's the Kuroda family who is rebelling! Why are you still scrupling so much? ”

"In that case, let it be so! Catch Kuroda Shigetaka first, and then go to Himeji Castle. ”

Kushihashi Iding and Kogawa Yoshiri are both in the Kushiki family's house, both of them are the second generation of officials, they are of the same age, and they also became the small surnames of the Koji family together, so like Kushihashi Iding and Kogawa Yoshinao, the relationship between the two of them is also very good. Kushihashi sat on the edge of the corridor against a pillar, while Yoshitoshi Kogawa lay directly next to him, with a stick of grass in his mouth.

"Zuo Jing is near, this time the lord has sent troops to attack the Kuroda family!"

"Hmm" Kushihashi sat there listlessly, playing with the handle of his katana.

"I'm worried about my sister."

"Yes...... Yes! No, how can there be? ”

"Yes, you just said it."

"But with just 1,500 of us, we can't win against the Kuroda family at all." Kushihashi Yi grabbed his hair and said very depressedly.

"But there are only 500 people in Himeji Castle! Can't we win either? When Kogawa Yoshiri heard Kushibashi Ishinori's words, he immediately sat up and asked in surprise.

"You haven't been to the Kuroda family, the Kuroda family's flag book and standing are very powerful, and several fierce generals of the Kuroda family, Imate Tomoji, Otani Moriji, Tsuchihi Yahachi, and that mother Takatomo is also, there is basically no opponent on our side. In addition, the number of samurai and standing ashigaru of the Kuroda family is very large, and the number of agricultural soldiers is basically the same, and the combat effectiveness of the Kuroda family is very strong. ”

"So powerful? Isn't Muri Takayu the one who followed Wanji back then? ”

"You remember him! Now it's the head of the Ashigaru group of the Kuroda family, and the last time I went to the Kuroda family, I wasn't his opponent at all. There is also the Kuroda family's crossbow foot light reserve, although the number is small, but the combat effectiveness is amazing. ”

"Crossbow? Samurai still use crossbows? This is not in the tradition of the samurai! Kogawa asked in surprise

"Yes, the Kuroda family's crossbows are all made up of peasants and ninjas, and they don't care about any samurai traditions. And the Kuroda family's crossbow is very powerful, I tried it, although I won't use this thing, but I have to admit that the crossbow is really a good weapon. Several castles have been repaired by the new method of fortification, and they are not comparable to ordinary castles, not to mention that Himeji Castle only has 500 people, if they have more than 50 crossbowmen and sufficient ammunition, as long as they defend properly, let alone 1,500 of us, even if they go to 5,000 people, they will have to eat a mouthful of ashes and come back. ”

"Really? It seems that what my father said is not wrong, before I came, my father told me not to rush to the front as much as possible, otherwise I might encounter accidents, and told me to restrain my troops and never have any conflicts with the Kuroda family. ”

"That's what the old man of our family said."

At this time, a foot ran in, "Two adults, the lord sent someone to pass the word. ”

"Oh! Call him in. After instructing Ashigaru to go down, the two of them were already in armor, so the two of them immediately came to the reception room together and waited for the messenger.

"Both adults are here! Then I won't have to make two trips. The person who came to deliver the message was none other than Fujioka Kuro, and when he saw the two young men, he smiled very brightly.

"If the lord has any commands, tell me quickly! We're going to look at the strategy this time! "Because Kushihashi Idai told him about the convening of the conference room before, Kushihashi Ichi knew that this person and Kuroda Itaka, Kushihashi Iding, and Kogawa Yoshinao now have contradictions, and they are not polite at all when they speak.

"Oh, you two are so elegant! The two surrogate fathers went on the expedition, I wonder how the two fathers are sick? I can't come in person, I'm obviously seriously ill! Hahaha"

"You ......" Kushihashi almost pulled out his katana, but fortunately Kogawa grabbed him.

"My father's illness is not a matter of concern to Lord Fujioka, so what does the lord command?" Although Kogawa Yoshiri was also very angry, he still restrained himself, after all, the other party was speaking on behalf of the lord, if anything happened, even the father who was the elder of the family couldn't afford it, after all, it was a special time.

"The lord has ordered to go out, you two can take people home to rest, and remember to remind your father to take more medicine, don't die too early." After saying that, Fujioka Kuro left with a smile, looking very proud.

"Bastard" Kushihashi Yi stood up and gritted his teeth angrily, and Kogawa Ryoyo tried his best to hold him from behind, lest he do something stupid.

"Zuo Jingjin, calm down, he is deliberately angry with us."

"Damn, damn, hum!" Kushihashi sat down heavily, and slammed his fist on the floor, leaving a shallow mark on the floor, and the back of his hand was red. "What do we do now?"

"Since the lord asked us to go back, it may be that Noriharu Kotera and Fujioka Kuro are slandering again, maybe our two families are also suspected, and I don't have a good way, let's go back first!"

"Two bastards, isn't it enough to hurt the Kuroda family? Why do you want to harm us? ”

"Okay, Zuo Jing is near, let's stop in moderation! We must not let them grasp anything, or they will really not be able to say anything. ”

"You're right, I'll go back to Zhifang City first and discuss it with the old man first. Your home is in Imperial Castle, so be careful! I'm afraid those two bastards have other schemes. ”

"It's really distressing! I'll warn the old man of our family to pay attention. ”

The castle was not far from Himeji Castle, and the Kodera family left the castle of Himeji Castle and handed it over to Kuroda Shigetaka as the management of the castle, and built another castle, basically to defend the Kuroda family against the attack of Takino Akamatsu. It didn't take long for the Kodera family's army to drive outside Himeji Castle.

Because the ninja had already been informed, the people of the castle town and some small merchants had already brought valuable things and hid in the city. The remaining merchant houses of the big merchants, the political position of the small temple is really not moved, if it is wrong and offends the royal merchant of the big name, the small temple family will not be able to bear the anger.

Kodera Takahisa, as the general of the castle, saw the enemy's situation for the first time through the small turret on the castle wall of Ninomaru, and behind him there was Inoue Nomasa and several samurai recruited by himself.

"There are more than a thousand enemies!" A samurai said. "But it's strange why they didn't attack?" "It's really weird," several samurai said, saying how they felt.

"Inoue-sama, what do you think?" Kodera Takahisa asks Inoue about the right way.

"The political officials of the small temple will not attack for the time being, let's recuperate first!" Inoue knew that he might be attacked by the Kodera family.

"Hmm!" Kodera Takahisa nodded uniformly: "Okay, let's rest in Ninomaru first, if there is a real battle, we will find a way to deal with it." I hope there won't be any surprises this time! Why did the Imperial Palace bring a large army here? Is it really like what Kankanwei said...... The Great Hall! Basilica. Ay! ”

To the north of Himeji Castle, in Kuriyama Village at the foot of Tsurumai Mountain, dozens of soldiers from small temples broke into it and went straight to the courtyard of Kuroda Shigetaka, a mountain on the north side of the village.

"Let me go in and search carefully" Fujioka Kuro, who led the team, commanded the soldiers with high spirits, and brought people to arrest the founder and first generation of the Himeji Kuroda family, and he felt that he had finally turned over and became the master. Let your Kuroda family oppose me and take in Goto Kikuni, let you Kuroda Zhitaka humiliate me in person, I will let your Kuroda family die without a place to be buried.

After a few minutes, the soldiers took out almost everything they could take from the yard and house, frozen persimmons, grain, unharvested turnips, cabbage.

"Bastard, what are you all doing? Let you find someone, didn't you come out to grab something, did someone find it? Fujioka Kuro was very angry when he saw his subordinates, as if they had never seen anything and raised anything, and they didn't seriously look for anyone at all.

"My lord, the whole courtyard has been searched, and there is no one." A ashigaru came back in return.

"It's already gone, damn it."