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Kikutei Qingji didn't know why his father said such things to him today, thinking of Date Masahiro's food today, because he should be here, he hurriedly responded: "The child will definitely go to Bishu more often to maintain the relationship with the Date family." ”

Juting Gongyan looked at the Juting Qingji, nodded slightly, shook his head and said: "Father's meaning is not just that, I heard that Bizheng Shaobi lost his wife at a young age and is looking for a woman as his steproom, Jiazi is already fourteen years old, it is time to find a good son-in-law for her." ”

Hearing his father's faint words, Juting Qingji's heart was like turning over the river and the sea, frowned, and replied: "Father, this, Bi Zheng Shaobi was born in a low position, and he is a stepfamily, if I let Jiazi marry in the past, I am afraid that someone will laugh at my family." ”

Kikutei Gonghiko raised his head and glanced at Juting Qingji calmly, and said: "Laugh, hehe, ridicule can dress and eat, now how many ministers are thinking about marrying the daughter-in-law of the family to him, when the Sanjo Gonglai promised his daughter to Takeda Harunobu, Kyoto Zhongju laughed at him, he hadn't enjoyed twenty years, if he hadn't died and ran to the Ouchi family and encountered turmoil, he was also affected, and he didn't leave any heirs, and the huge family furniture was divided up." ”

Kikutei Haruji was speechless, although the final end of the Sanjo Gonglai was not good, and the second daughter Xu was married to Takeda Harunobu was also ridiculed, although the financial situation is still unsatisfactory, but it is much better than the others.

Seeing that his son was convinced, Kikutei Kimihiko pondered for a moment before saying, "Wait a while, you go and talk to Yoshiko about this, and then I will talk to Tsuda Muneta of the Heavenly Throne Temple." Convey this meaning to Bi Zheng Shaobi through him. Let's test it first. ”

Many ministers who went down to the palace that day, but they didn't know how many people were thinking about looking for a school-age girl from home. Selling his daughter to Date Masahiro was so good that he was a strong reinforcement, and countless news came to the ears of Kikutei Gonghiko, which made him even more nervous.

Three days later, on the 15th day of March in the first year of Hongji, a crowd of people dressed in official clothes gathered from all over the place, including hundreds of monks and soldiers, apparently borrowed from a nearby temple to maintain order. The gongs and drums shouted loudly, "The court is gracious, and the porridge is released for disaster relief." It attracted the attention of countless poor people.

At first, there were not many people who gathered around, but they were able to maintain it, but after a few days, they gathered more and more, which made the court feel pressure. The ministers of the imperial court were quite unfamiliar with the matter of putting porridge, but fortunately, experienced monks came forward.

No one was making a fuss, the victims were just queuing up to receive porridge.

During this period, Prince Fang Ren frequently visited several places where porridge was served in a sedan chair. Put some prayer bags made by female relatives to the victims of the disaster to be close to the people. This Prince Fanghito was the later Emperor of Shokincho, so it can be seen that the current emperor is also sparing no effort.

The imperial court put porridge in Kyoto for disaster relief, and the Tennoji House transported rice, flour and charcoal to Beijing with great fanfare in the name of the Date family, which suddenly stirred up the whole world.

Everyone in the world praises Date for his loyalty, but Miyoshi Chokei of Akutagawa Mountain Castle feels helpless.

Southeast of Tamba Province's Ice Gun, on the banks of the Kakogawa River. The riverside was overgrown with trees, and although it was a warm and cold spring, and the trees had just budded, it was more than enough for such a large forest to hide forty or fifty people.

Yoshida Masanari and Fumigo Ishimatsu and their entourage crossed the mountains and mountains, and finally came to Tamba Province on March 7 in hiding, which is not far from Harima Province and can be reached directly along the Kakogawa River.

But what they didn't expect was that the group who had just entered the Ice County of Tamba Country encountered a thing that they couldn't avoid, a civil strife was breaking out in the Ice County, and Ogino Akikiyo, who originally ruled the Ice County, and the Akai family of the same clan were fighting to the death for the right to rule.

Yoshida Masanari and Ishimatsu Fumigo were unwilling to give up the iron cannon and the blade, and they all carried them with them, so they were both presented, and they all thought that this was a mercenary hired by the other party from elsewhere, and the mercenaries composed of ronin and evil ninjas in the troubled times of the Warring States were full of all kinds of battlefields.

Yoshida Masanari and Ishimatsu Fumigo and others are mostly unruly, and the first to appear to them was Akai Shiqing's people who immediately asked them to put down their blades, and the conflict broke out without saying a word, Akai Shiqing's retainers obviously did not ask for any benefits, and they were killed three people and injured more than ten people, including Akai Shiqing's eldest son, Akai Ieqing, who was broken an arm. This was repaid, and Akai Shiqing immediately sent his second son, Akai Naomasa, with more than a hundred people to chase and kill.

Akai Naomasa is known as the evil right emon, and later left the nickname Tanba Red Oni, a famous samurai in Tamba, who was earlier passed to the lord of Kuroi Castle of the same clan, and his maternal uncle Ogino Akikiyo was the adopted son of the party, and was renamed Ogino Naomasa. Last year, in November of the 23rd year of Astronomy, he was ordered by his father to murder Ogino Akikiyo.

Who would have thought that Ogino Akikiyo was only slightly injured, but was chased and killed, he was a master of art and bold, jumped off Kuroi Castle, escaped a catastrophe, returned home, and changed back to his original name Akai Naomasa. This is the chaotic situation in Ice County today.

In history, Akai Naoshi killed Ogino Akikiyo, and also plotted to seize Kuroi Castle, and then after his eldest brother died in the war, he was able to effectively control the Akai family and became a hero, and finally died under the Akechi Mitsuhide crusade army sent by Oda Nobunaga. Of course, under the pen of Ryotaro Sima, Naomasa Akai has a more colorful way to die.

The two teams fought a battle in the mountains, Yoshida Masanari, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, was beaten in the head, Akai Naomasa deserved to be the evil right emon, and he dared to rush straight up at a young age, if he didn't hide quickly, he was afraid that he would be left on the spot with a life, and finally he fought and retreated to escape the catastrophe.

Fumigo Ishimatsu had already hidden in the depths of the woods with the others, came to Yoshida Masanari's side, and bandaged Yoshida Masanari's wounds, which were cut by Akai Naomasa during the day, and if he hadn't hid quickly, he would have to be reimbursed for an arm.

Yoshida asked, "Fumigo, how's the situation?" What about the casualties? ”

Fumigo Ishimatsu's face was very ugly. This road back to Harima Province was originally explored by him. I didn't expect such a thing to happen before I came. also caused casualties, and said with a calm face: "The brothers have suffered a big loss this time, although they have not been caught up by these bastards, but there are still more than a dozen brothers who have hung up the lottery, and two brothers are seriously injured, I am afraid that they will not survive tonight." ”

Yoshida Masanari's face suddenly sank, he held his stomach full of anger, and said, "This time we are really home." Just wanted to get away and fire back with the iron cannon, but they scattered so that we couldn't wield the advantage of the iron cannon, and when have we ever suffered such a loss since we broke through. ”

Shi Song Fumigo also felt this way, if they were allowed to swing the power of the iron cannon, the other party would not have slashed and injured so many of them so easily, making them pay such a heavy price, which was really difficult for him to accept. Suddenly, he said, "My lord, do you want to find a place to teach them a good lesson?" ”

Yoshida Masanari took a deep breath of cold air. looked at the sky, nodded heavily, and said: "These bunch of rabbit cubs, looking at this sky, will definitely touch it at night and give us a hard blow, since this is the case, let the brothers let them take a good look, and the people of our Date family are not jealous." ”

Shi Song Fumigo was stunned, and said in a cruel voice: "Yes, after tonight, we will be able to reach Harima Country along the Kakogawa early tomorrow morning, and then someone will appear, hmph, that is to say, after tonight, they will not have a chance to pester us again." ”

Yoshida Masanari tugged on the bandage, picked up his weapon and stood up, looked out of the woods, his face was hideous, and said, "Do you dare to come?" ”

Two hours after nightfall, two teams appeared on the periphery of the woods, one was more than 100 people from Akai Naomasa, who had suffered a great loss to Yoshida Masanari and others, and the other group was his eldest brother, Akai Iekiyo, who was wearing bandages and insisting on coming to take revenge.

Under the swaying of the torches, Akai Jiaqing shouted with a pale face: "Uemon, did that group of bastards catch up?" "Akai Naomasa plotted to kill his adoptive father, Ogino Akikiyo, and only then did he get a common name for the evil Uemon.,The original common name was Uemon.。

Akai Naomasa stepped forward and replied, "Brother, by the time we chased here, they had already entered this forest, and the art of war was said to be inaccessible, so we were waiting for dawn on the periphery before launching a surprise attack." ”

"Yaga!" When the Akai family heard this, they were immediately furious, and slapped it on Akai Naomasa's face, his hideous face was full of anger, and he roared angrily: "Don't think that you can order me to act if you are favored by your father, if you didn't complete the task, our Akai family would not be so passive now." ”

After all, Ogino Akikiyo is the clan of the Akai family, and after Akai Naomasa entered the Ogino family, he actually wanted to murder his adoptive father Ogino Akikiyo, and this matter can't be said anywhere, and most of the families of the same clan are on the side of Ogino Akikiyo, which makes the Akai family feel pressure.

In addition, the Akai family is the eldest son, but it is not as good as the second son Akai Naomasa who is favored by his old father, how does this not make him angry, once Akai Naomasa is bigger, there will be a good life for him in the future, this is the reason why he wants to slap everyone in front of everyone recently, so that everyone can see clearly who is the future head of the Akai family.

"Hello!" Akai Naomasa bowed his head suddenly, although he was extremely angry in his heart, he did not show a trace of dissatisfaction, and said: "Although we have not been able to catch up with the enemy, we are all hiding in the woods in front of us, and I ask the eldest brother to show us." ”

Akai Jiaqing suppressed his anger and said in a deep voice: "Immediately enter the woods to pursue, you, lead the headquarters to search slowly from the front, and I lead the rear to surround from both sides, do you understand?" ”

Akai Naomasa hesitated for a moment, but still reminded: "Elder brother, as far as I can judge, this guy is not an ordinary mercenary, they have elite blades and iron cannons, and they are good at ambushes, if we go into the woods to search, I am afraid that we will be ambushed by the other party." ”

Hearing this, Akai Jiaqing immediately became furious, and shouted: "Yaga, this group of mercenaries has lost their morale, completely lost their will to fight, and is exhausted, how can they fight back against us, don't use such words to hide their incompetence." This is also understandable, he is eager to annihilate this group of mercenaries, in order to avenge his injuries, to maintain his authority in the Akai family, so that people can not criticize his mistakes, more importantly, time waits for no one, the force of more than three hundred people is an important force for the Akai family, once it is involved in this matter too much, I am afraid that Ogino Akikiyo will seize the opportunity to attack Asahi Castle.

Akai Naomasa left the main formation, looked at Akai Jiaqing's back, spit a mouthful, and said hatefully: "Today's hatred, one day I will take revenge, wait, go." As he spoke, he led hundreds of people from his headquarters towards the woods, but his steps seemed a little heavy.

Entering the woods, Akai Naomasa intuitively sensed that there was a vicious beast waiting for his arrival in front of him, and hurriedly stopped everyone's advance, and said to his cronies: "Take our people to the woods on the left and hide, I don't want to die in vain." ”

These people who follow Akai Naomasa are all local young people, who have always begged for food by Akai Naomasa's side, and have always been accurate in judging Akai Naomasa, but now that the sky is dark and the moon is sinking, the matter of searching the woods is really a bad thing, and you can hide if you can.

What Akai Naomasa obviously didn't expect was that on the left side where he went to hide, there was actually a team in ambush, Yoshida Masanari squinted at a group of dark shadows in front of him, and said, "That group of bastards is here, everyone prepare." An invisible aura of slaughter suddenly spread.

Akai Naomasa, who was walking in the forefront, suddenly felt a sense of murder, and hurriedly stopped, and then before he could react, more than a dozen violent roars had already sounded from the shadows in front of him, then the firelight, and then there was no more.

Akai Naomai let out a "uh", looking at the blood flowers blooming in his chest, he knew that he had been hit, and his body fell backwards, and his two men immediately supported him and shouted: "Retreat, retreat, hurry, hurry." In fact, before he could shout, he had already begun to retreat.

After the second iron cannon shot, it had already shot into the air, and no one was injured, and Yoshida Masanari didn't bother to check how many people were killed and wounded, and shouted loudly: "Retreat, go to the next stronghold, I want to see if they still have the courage to come in." ”

On the periphery of the woods, Akai Jiaqing looked at Akai Naomasa, who had escaped in a hurry, and saw Akai Naomasa being carried out unconscious, the corners of his mouth turned slightly, but he also knew that now was not the time to be happy, so he immediately stepped forward to visit, only to see Akai Naomasa shot in the chest, and hurriedly said: "Well, Akai Naomasa left a surveillance, and the rest of the people returned to Asatsuki City with me to take Uemon back to Asatsuki City for treatment." (To be continued......)