As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the compartment where the weapons were kept in Imagawa Kaede's inner room was suddenly opened. Nobuyuki Anayama appeared in a flash and slashed fiercely, knocking down the unresponsive leading samurai to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, a dozen sword-wielding ashigaru filed out and tightly protected Imagawa Kaede's inner room.
After the Okabe family samurai outside the house noticed something was wrong inside the house, they were about to step forward to confront them. However, to the east of the residence - in the direction of the market, a group of Ashigaru suddenly drove up. They held long spears and hurried towards this place.
There are estimated to be sixty or seventy people on the side! The second young master has been controlled by the enemy, and the most senior general has just been killed. These dozen warriors are now in a dilemma. If they go forward, they can't defeat dozens of enemies.
.Retreat, but they cannot leave Okabe Masatsuna alone. They originally planned to surround Imagawa Kaede, forcing him to confront him and then let him go. However, at this moment, Imagawa Kaede was already protected behind him by the ashigaru, and Okabe Masatsuna was safe.
Instead, he became a hostage.
"Where are these...people from?" Okabe Masatsuna stared at the dozens of ashigaru who suddenly appeared. According to the information he had received before, the Yuqiu family had never recruited local citizens to serve!
This caused them to become careless and were killed by a wave of counterattacks.
"The troops of the Imamiya family." Imamiya Leqing, the leader of the team, whispered coldly.
"Imamiya family! How could..." Okabe Masatsuna said to himself in disbelief.
"Because my husband is a kind and good man." Imakawa Kaede's face suddenly softened a little, "No matter where he is, he will try his best to treat everyone kindly." At this point, her tone suddenly increased: "With you
no the same!"
"Your Highness Hongye helped me avenge my father's murder, and also sent food to relieve the Imamiya family's urgent needs," Imamiya Leqing said in a deep voice with a still immature voice, "Your Highness Hongye has the intention to rebuild the Imamiya family.
Well, for the sake of the Yuqiu family, the Gong family will not hesitate to die!"
"Privately mobilizing troops from a wealthy family that is not within your territory is tantamount to conspiracy!" Okabe Masatsuna suddenly shouted in a panic, and the blade on his neck made another bloody cut, "Sure enough! Yu Qiupei, this thief..."
"Stop spitting, you bitch!" Nobuyuki Ayama raised his hand and slapped Okabe Masatsuna. The latter was stunned for a moment and glared at Nobuyuki Ayama.
"Grandma gave an order to summon all Suruga's troops to gather towards Junfu. The Imamiya family's troops also came immediately after receiving the news." Imagawa Kaede smiled slightly and said calmly: "The journey is difficult and long, and there was heavy rain on the way, which delayed it a bit.
Time. When we arrived at the Yuqiu family’s territory, it was getting late, and we were physically tired, so we took a few days’ rest.”
"Unexpectedly, I happened to see the samurai of the Okabe family killing Mrs. Yuqiu's maid with the intention of taking Mrs. Yuqiu hostage, so I came to help," Imagawa Kaede raised his eyebrows and looked at the surprised Okabe family members.
"What's the problem?"
"This..." Although Okabe Masatsuna didn't quite understand it yet, one day there was no doubt that they had fallen into the trap. Imagawa Kaede had long expected that they would send people to arrest him, and with the help of Shouguini's
A temporary summons was issued and an ambush was laid in advance.
"You didn't even tell your maid!" A samurai from the Okabe family suddenly shouted to Imagawa Kaede. If the maids hadn't been so panicked when they were caught, they wouldn't have been so careless and underestimated the enemy, "That gang
You ladies will never know you have an ambush until your death!"
At this moment, Ah Ling, who had been so frightened that she could not speak, suddenly said as if she was awakened: "Princess...Princess." She seemed to understand something, her eyes were filled with tears, and she whispered:
"Then...Azhu and the others..."
"They are all in trouble." Imagawa Kaede's voice trembled slightly, but immediately returned to calmness.
"Princess... you clearly know... that bad guys are coming! Why do you still..." A Ling burst out crying, "Let A Zhu and the others wait there for the news and die!"
"Because I need time." Imagawa Kaede whispered apologetically, "There can be at most a dozen people hiding in the inner room. For more people, they have to hide in other places. They cannot stay near the residence all the time. They will be easily discovered.
.”
"It will take a certain amount of time to transfer them from the market. If the Okabe family comes straight away, it will be too late..." Imagawa Kaede said softly, "That's why Atake and the others need to die to delay the Okabe family.
I stayed alone for a while, which made the Okabe family members paralyzed and gave me the opportunity to kidnap and surround Okabe Masatsuna. There was already a sentry at the entrance of the village, so there was no need for them to wait for news."
"You bitch, you are so scheming!" Another samurai from the Okabe family was so angry that he did not even care about his honorific title. "You don't know that those girls were tortured to death by us and then killed because of you!
Damn it! We wasted a long time!"
"Princess!" A Ling wailed as if she had an emotional breakdown: "A Zhu and the others have been following you for several years...how...how..." She burst into tears and knelt down on the ground. The feet of the Imamiya family around her
The samurai of the Okabe family and Nobuyuki Anayama were also stunned for a moment.
"Why are you so cruel..." Nobuyuki Anayama gave a wry smile and helped her fill in the second half of the sentence.
Imagawa Kaede sighed, a few tears welling up in her eyes. She raised her head slightly to prevent the tears from leaving.
"Jiayan always taught me before he was alive," Imagawa Kaede whispered, "to make choices without regrets."
"He said that those who can't give up anything can save nothing. In the end, they want to keep everything, but they are in vain." Imagawa Kaede recalled the voice and smile of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and how many of his dead maids were there.
Tears still flowed down my cheeks after spending time together day and night.
"If I am kidnapped..." Imagawa Kaede said with some fear, "My husband... he will definitely fall into a great passive position, and even the whole army will be in danger."
"In the face of the lives of my best maids and the safety of my husband's entire army," Imagawa Kaede raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes and said firmly: "I have made a choice."
A choice without regrets.
Daddy, I did it.
Ping, as long as I am for you, I can do anything.
June 7, Yinma City.
In the past few days, the situation facing the Okabe family has worsened day by day. After learning that the Takeda family's invasion did not exist, Okabe Gennobu immediately reduced his troops and wanted to transfer the troops of various wealthy families back to Sunfu.
However, he, who had been leading Asahina Taito by the nose, was also tricked by Asahina Taito once. As suspected soldiers, Sena Ujitoshi and Sekiguchi Ujihiro chased the Okabe family reinforcements who abandoned the city along the south bank of Lake Hamaki.
Come, take all the energy of Okabe Gennobu to the south. Asahina Taitomo leads the main force, suddenly attacks along the north shore of Lake Hamaki, and goes straight to the Ii Valley Castle of the Ii family. After the Ii family learned the news, they hurried from
Nagashino Castle came back for reinforcements, but came a step late. Ii Valley Castle had already fallen. The Ii family members who abandoned the city and fled were also captured by Asahina Yasuhiro's cavalry. As a last resort, the Ii family had to offer hostages to the Asahina family.
surrendered. However, Iio Renryu, who was cut off from contact and trapped in Nagashino Castle, lost his position and lost contact with Hima Castle. This caused the Okabe family to lose the support of two powerful wealthy families at once, which can be said to be cut off.
An arm of the Okabe family.
Okabe Gennobu, who sensed that he had been tricked, immediately led his troops to attack from the west gate, intending to defeat Sena Ujitoshi's special forces in one fell swoop to restore the situation. However, Sena Ujitoshi retreated to Jimei south of Lake Hamaki, using the tidal flats and
They defended tenaciously in the narrow terrain, and Okabe Gennobu continued to attack for a long time but failed to make any progress. In order to assist Sena Ujitoshi, Asahina Yasutomo directly took the Ii family southward and stationed at Mikatahara in the north of Hikima Castle, threatening Hikima Castle. In desperation,
At this time, Okabe Motonobu had no choice but to retreat.
What made the Okabe family even worse was the field battle that broke out on June 6, which was yesterday. After learning that Yinma Castle was under siege, the wealthy Okabe family who were heading towards Futama Castle-Inui Castle also hurriedly arrived.
Reply. However, the Nakane family, which had originally sided with the Okabe family after learning that the Takeda family would not send troops, suddenly changed their stance.
Originally, the Katsurayama family had successfully entered Futama Castle to assist in the defense, and the Nakane family was also very cooperative with the actions of the Okabe family. However, when the Okabe family wanted to return support as a whole, Nakane felt that things were not simple——
Sure enough, after investigation, he discovered that the Okabe family had concealed the news from him that the Ii family had defected, and wanted to coax him into returning aid. Even if the Nakane family refused to return aid, they might have to face the attack of the Asahina family alone in the future.
Nakane Masaru, who did not want to make a wedding dress for the Okabe family, contacted Ua Qiupei privately and expressed his willingness to cooperate with the Asahina family. Due to time constraints, Ua Qiupei immediately approved the request and personally led Tokiwa Bei from Kakegawa.
Go north of the city to support.
At noon on June 6, Miura Yoshi rushed from Inui Castle to the east wall of Futama Castle. The Katsurayama clan's Yuansho tribe had just left Futama Castle and was preparing to march westward. However, the Nakane family, who had originally promised to send troops together, suddenly locked up the four gates and forced Katsurayama to
The Miura family and the Miura family were isolated on both sides of the city. Before the confused Katsurayama clan and Miura Yoshi could react, the red leaf soldiers came up from the south along the Tenryu River and the troops from Futama Castle also attacked in a coordinated manner. The Katsurayama family was the first to attack.
The whole army collapsed, and Katsurayama Clan himself abandoned the army and fled. When he found out that something was going wrong, Miura Yoshihiro wanted to come to support, but was defeated by Yu Qiupei. Miura Yoshie himself took the horsemen and fled to Ina.
The mountains are missing.
In just a few days, the foreign wealthy families who supported the Okabe family were defeated and isolated. The Okabe family suddenly fell into a lonely situation, with only more than a thousand soldiers left, trapped in Yinma City. To the west is
The Sena family and the Sekiguchi family, the Asahina family, the Ii family, the Okuhira family to the north, the Uaki family and the Nakane family to the east, Okabe Motobubu has been surrounded by people in Hikima Castle.
And just when Okabe Motonobu was eagerly waiting for Okabe Masatsuna to come back with Imagawa Kaede hostage to reverse the situation, he got the news that Okabe Masatsuna was ambushed by Imagawa Kaede, and the dozen samurai coefficients he brought with him were ambushed.
, Imagawa Kaede handed over Okabe Masatsuna to Sunfu Castle. When the Imagawa clan really heard that Okabe Masatsuna had secretly attacked his sister, he became furious and put Okabe Masatsuna in prison and sent someone to question Okabe.
Chapter completed!