"Boss, if you attack at this time, the village must not be defended, right?"

"Haha! Not only is the village unfortified, but even if the lords of Himeji Castle know about the situation here, by the time they come, there will only be corpses left in the field. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info brothers, remember, we only need food, don't live, as for women, we must also kill, as for the killing, you are free to do anything, but it's better to hurry up for me, remember it! ”

"Hey!"

When these bandits were excited and fantasizing, they would never have imagined that not far away, the samurai of the Kuroda family were waiting for them.

It was late at night, and the bandits felt that it was not easy to reveal their whereabouts, but in the bad light, they could not see the situation nearby, and only when they were about to reach the small river outside the village did there be a little light.

"Kill" "Kill" "Kill"

Just a dozen steps away from the bandits, the shouting and killing were loud, and the Kuroda family created thirty samurai and twenty peasant soldiers who were ambushed here rushed up, and the Kuroda family rushed to the front of the Itetomo clan and the mother of the small soldiers, and Kuroda and other soldiers also rushed up, recuperating and recuperating, the pace was fast and vigorous.

On the other hand, the bandits' side was stunned by the shouting and killing sound that appeared at this moment, except that the leader reacted quickly and blocked the powerful knife of the Iteyu clan, and the bandits' side was cut down by more than ten people as soon as they made contact. Even if the bandit leader is now being targeted by the Itetomo clan, the Itetomo clan is known for its might, and the leader is not happy at all.

After a while, the bandits lost a few more people, and the leader saw that he couldn't do anything, and if he continued to fight, he would get in, slash at the Ide Yushi, jump out of the battle circle, and shout, "Withdraw, withdraw." After saying that, he ran away first, desperately.

Just when the leader thought that the Kuroda family would not catch up, a group of troops with the banner of the Kuroda family appeared from the northeast and blocked the way of the bandits.

"Retreat to the west." The leader shouted, and all the bandits ran northwest with their lives.

As a result, the leader had just finished shouting, and before he had run a few steps, another group of troops with the banner of the Kuroda family appeared from the northwest, led by Matsui Shigetaka, and the bandits stopped.

Just when the bandits hesitated, Kuroda Zhitaka and Iate Tomoji also brought people to come from behind and surrounded the bandits, Kuroda's family had about 150 people, and only 20 bandits remained. Facing the Kuroda army that surrounded them, the bandits were very nervous, and in general, in this case, there was only one way to die, so the bandits held their weapons tightly and waited to die.

At this time, the Kuroda army branched out, and Kuroda walked out, "I am Kuroda Zhitaka, the governor of the Kuroda family, I don't care why you attack my territory today, but in this troubled era of the Warring States, everyone has their own meaning in life, so I decided that as long as you lay down your arms and surrender, I will spare your lives." If you want to resist to the end, I have nothing to say. ”

After saying that, Kuroda walked into the formation and waited for the decision of the bandits.

"Don't listen to him, the Kuroda family won't let us go." The leader still wanted to resist, and he tried to convince his subordinates to storm the encirclement of the Kuroda family, and it was best to escape by himself, as for the lives of his subordinates, it was not something he had to think about. But he didn't expect that he didn't care about other people's lives, and these bandits would also think about their own lives, so Kuroda said that he would spare their lives, and the bandits immediately had the desire to survive.

A bandit threw away the sword in his hand, which already had multiple gaps, and knelt in front of the Kuroda army, and was immediately protected by the Kuroda army. One by one, there are two, one by one the bandits threw away their weapons and chose the hope of life, and in the end, only the bandit leader and five henchmen were left without surrendering.

"Do you want to think again? If you die, you'll have nothing! Kuroda said.

"Thank you, Kuroda-sama, no, we already have the consciousness to die, so why don't we die here today. Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for us to be allegiance. After saying that, the leader rushed to Kuroda with five people angrily. Dozens of spears were stabbed out together, and six warriors were killed on the spot.

Wanyoshi traveled to almost every corner of Kuroda with Kuroda Shigetaka, and he was even more interested in a border village like Shimokawa Village, so when he knew that the bandits would attack, he could already roughly guess the route of the bandits, so as to determine the woods as an ambush site, so it can be said that Kuroda Shigetaka's quality education played its due role.

Let's talk about the Kuroda family's Koji Takahisa and Matsui Shigetaka, in general, in the Warring States war, the samurai of each region first brought the peasants to the designated assembly city, and then went to the battlefield, which actually invisibly increased the time for war preparation. Wanji's method was very simple, directly let the two uncles go to the nearby village to gather the peasants, and directly to the designated ambush site outside Xiahe Village to assemble, omitting the process of entering the city to assemble, which greatly saved the time for war preparation.

"Hey, hey! Hey, hey! "Forty of the enemy were killed, and only three of our own were wounded, which was definitely a great victory, and the soldiers were glad to have participated in the battle.

"Okay, Youshi, you take someone to escort the prisoners first, the other villages will disband first, and the remaining Qiben warriors and I will go to Xiahe Village to rest first, and return to the city early tomorrow morning."

Three days after the bandit incident, Himeji Castle held another evaluation meeting. This is also the identity of Wanji as a small surname.,The first time I officially saw the evaluation meeting.,To put it bluntly, it's as a mascot.,Sitting diagonally behind Kuroda Zhitaka.。。

"Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of convening this assessment meeting today is to tell you a piece of news. The bandit attack the day before yesterday has now been figured out, and they are no ordinary bandits at all. ”

"Sure enough, as the young master said, the young master is really worthy of the name of Qilin'er!" "Yes!"

"These so-called bandits are from the Ishikawa family." Kuroda continued.

"The Ishikawa family" "How could it be" "This is impossible! "That's right! We're all under the command of the Koji family! "Why are you attacking us?"

"Okay guys, I've already said that they themselves have already explained that they were sent by the Ishikawa family, and the leader has been determined to be the Ishikawa family's Ashigaru general Saemon, so there shouldn't be any problems. As for why they attacked us, they only said that they had seen people from Takino Castle appear at Ishikawa's house before, and later Ishikawa Zhiqing issued an order to ask these people to pretend to be bandits and come to their house to steal food and kill people. ”

"Could it be that Ishikawa has ......?"

"That's right, I'm afraid Ishikawa Zhiqing has taken refuge in Takino Palace, he is now a retainer of my small temple on the surface, but in fact he is the internal response of the Takino Akamatsu family. After all, Takino Hall is more enterprising! In the future, the Koji family is in danger. ”

"My lord, how should we deal with it?" The retainers below were privately talking and making a mess.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the main family and the Ishikawa family have had a conflict because of the water source, if it weren't for the intervention of the Koji family at that time, and the restraint of the old lord, the two families would have fought a long time ago. This time, since I know that they have betrayed the main family, my Kuroda family might as well take this opportunity to attack the Ishikawa family and annex the Ishikawa family's territory, and don't do anything......" The Imate Tomoshi was the first to sit still.

"You, you've said it."

"But my lord, this is a godsend! His Ishikawa family has today's behavior, except for the provocation of the Takino Palace, it is not that he Ishikawa has no intention of annexing the territory of my Kuroda family. Since he made the first move, why don't we take advantage of the situation and annex his Ishikawa family. The Ishikawa family has about 3,000 koku in height, and our Kuroda family has 8,000 koku in actual stone height, lord. Imate Tomoji said again, and spoke loudly, hoping to get the support of the other retainers.

"Yes! Your Highness, let's go to the Ishikawa family! If they are not prepared, it should be easy to fall into the city. ”

"But the Tomo family, once we attack the Ishikawa family, if we can't take Ishikawa Castle in the short term, the Ishikawa family will inevitably complain to the Imperial Palace, and when the time comes, I will bite back and bite my Kuroda family has a heart of disobedience, what should we do? Having said that, just based on the few bandits we caught, he said that his Ishikawa family rebelled, and the Imperial Palace would not believe it. Kodera Takahisa said worriedly.

"We really don't have strong evidence." Kuroda said.

"This ...... At this time, Imate Yuji had nothing to say, he lowered his head and thought for a while, scratched his head with his hand, and looked up to see Wanyoshi sitting behind Kuroda in the corner of the assessment room.

"Wanji, why don't you tell me what you think." Ite said to Manyoshi.

Wanji sat in the corner, thinking about how to deal with this matter, how to get the most out of the Kuroda family, and he actually had a case in his heart, and he was stunned for a moment when he suddenly heard someone call his name, but he didn't speak immediately, after all, his identity is just a small surname now.

"Wanji, tell me what you think." Kuroda turned back to Manyoshi and said. The reason why Zhilong asked Wan Ji to attend the evaluation meeting was that in addition to the big victory in his strategy last time, there was indeed no one in his family who could give a better opinion. As a father, he knew that although Mangi was a child, he had very high potential. The most important point is that Wanyoshi himself is the heir of the Kuroda family, and he will not come up with ideas that are unfavorable to the Kuroda family.

"My lord, I do have immature opinions below, and I will tell you here for my lord and all my lords." Wan Ji said respectfully.

"You kid really has a ghost idea, you just have to say it, hehe!" Imate said with a laugh.

"My lord, in terms of the family's response, I agree with Inoite-sama's statement that we will immediately send troops to attack the Ishikawa family, and we must fall into the castle before the news is obtained from the Imperial Palace."

"Why did our family's Qilin'er come up with such a reckless idea?" Kodera Takahisa had an incredible expression on his face.