When Morita Yoshio and others hurried over, Yu Qiu Shang had already bandaged his shoulder.
"Mr. Tian Chen?" Morita Yaxiang was also startled when he saw Tian Chen Kentaro, and quickly saluted, "Why are you here?"
"I came to practice in the mountains a few days ago. I happened to go out for a walk tonight, and I happened to meet him after I noticed a shout of killing over there." Kentaro Tian Shen responded while stroking the handle of the round knife that had just been held by the mysterious man.
"Young Master, are you okay?" Morita Exiang noticed the injury on Yu Qiu Shang's shoulder again, and several guards immediately surrounded him worriedly.
"It's okay, a little flesh injury doesn't matter." Yu Qiu Shang shook his head and said.
"Where is that person?" Morita Yoshio asked anxiously.
"Already gone." Yu Qiu Shang didn't answer, so Tian Chen Kentaro explained for him.
"What a coincidence, isn't it? So you beat that man away?" Morita Yaxiang looked around, and sure enough he didn't find the figure of the knight just now, and then looked at Yu Qiu Shang's embarrassed look, "If not You, young master, are in danger! You are truly a blessing to the Yuqiu family!"
"Then we are going to chase him? He probably doesn't have any horses anymore, so he can't walk fast!" Morita Yasho wrung out his shirt and eagerly patted the horses led by several other guards.
"Don't chase him." Kentaro Tian Shen immediately raised his hand to stop him. "With your level, you are no match for him. If you chase him, you will just die. Without iron cannons and bows and arrows, ordinary people cannot defeat him. Wait. Reinforcements were called, but he was already gone."
"Then we have to chase him! Let's go back and report the news right now, and let the people from the Crow and the Military Intelligence Department come out to catch him. We will search all over the mountains and fields. If you don't believe it, we can't find him." Morita Yaxiang continued to suggest, but Tian Shen Kentaro shook his head again. He shook his head.
"When I arrived just now, it was already too late. If that person wanted to kill the eldest son, he could have done it long ago, but he was not hostile to the eldest son." Kentaro Tian Shen walked slowly and explained in a low voice. , "This person is likely to be related to the Yuqiu family. If he is really arrested, wouldn't it be troublesome to involve the Yuqiu family in such a case? How will the eldest son explain to General Oda why this is the case? What if the murderer doesn’t attack him?”
Kentaro Tianchen's words caused everyone to fall into silence for a moment.
After a long time, Morita Yaxiang tentatively said: "Then, shouldn't we arrest him?"
"Everyone can't wait to see what happened today." Kentaro Tian Shen said.
Everyone turned their attention to Yu Qiu Shang, waiting for his final decision. Yu Qiu Shang hesitated for a long time and nodded helplessly.
In Kyoto, more than ten miles away, Yu Qiuyou also had the same worries as them. After escaping from death, Yu Qiuyou realized that he was in a very embarrassing situation - his companions in both teams were dead, but only He was unscathed. How should he explain to Oda Nobunaga that the murderer only let him go?
After struggling for a long time, Yu Qiuyou came up with a solution based on his experience working in Crow. He picked up the badge thrown by the previous knight, and then immediately rode towards Nijo Castle. He entered Nijo Castle quickly. , asked the guard to report that there was an urgent military situation. After a while, he was called into the castle tower. Oda Nobunaga, Akechi Mitsuhide, Hashiba Hideyoshi, Sawaki Yoshiyuki and others were waiting in the castle tower.
"Lord!" Yu Qiuyou said as he knelt down and saluted, and at the same time took out the knight's badge from his arms, "My team and Lord Torisaka's team are in the southwest of Mibuji Temple.
I blocked a knight who was leaving the capital quickly without obeying the orders. The man claimed to be a bodyguard of His Majesty the Emperor. He was ordered to leave the capital for urgent matters. This was his badge."
"What?" Oda Nobunaga frowned instantly when he heard this. He took a few steps forward and grabbed the waist badge. He glanced at it a few times and then passed it to Akechi Mitsuhide. "You were in charge of guarding Kyoto before. Hurry up.
Look, is it this?"
Akechi Mitsuhide carefully confirmed it under the light for a while, then nodded solemnly and said, "Go back to my lord, it is the badge of His Majesty's bodyguard. This person's name is Oe Shohei."
"It's really interesting. The emperor has just been assassinated, and before the scene was completely sealed, some people rushed to escape." Oda Nobunaga sneered twice, and said to Yuqiu Yu who was still kneeling on the ground, "Where are the others? Bring him up.
See you!"
"Return to my lord!" Yu Qiuyou immediately showed a look of sincerity and fear, and said, "That man has always insisted that he has an urgent order from the emperor, and refuses to go back to Nijo Castle with us. We are not sure whether the belt is true or false.
We didn’t dare to use force, so we surrounded him there and asked him to come back first and ask for his life.”
"Bah! You useless things!" Oda Nobunaga kicked Amakiyu in annoyance, knocking him to the ground. The frightened Sawaki Yoshiyuki on the side almost rushed forward and pulled him away. Oda simply said
Nobunaga seemed to understand Yu Qiuyou's explanation and did not continue to embarrass him. Instead, he cursed and said: "Didn't I tell you that anyone who disobeys will be captured on the spot? How can you be frightened by an emperor's guard? Can you be a little bit more?
How heroic was your father back then? He dared to disobey the general and his own lord face to face!"
After saying that, Oda Nobunaga grabbed his cloak and put it on, strode out the door, and at the same time shouted: "Call the guards left by Yu, and I will go get him personally to see if he can show off.
"
After Oda Nobunaga rushed out with the crowd, Mitsuhide Akechi and Yoshiyuki Sawaki did not forget to come up and comfort Yu Qiuyu. Yu Qiuyu said words of thanks, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart - like this
With a performance, the suspicion of being left alone by that person could be eliminated. After Oda Nobunaga hurried over, all he could see were corpses on the ground.
Early the next morning, the entire Kyoto was under martial law. Tens of thousands of troops and ninjas surrounded Kyoto, but the murderer was not caught. On the evening of July 23, the ninth year of Tianzheng (1581), Yu Qiuping, who was in charge of guarding the southern suburbs, was
When he was wondering why there was still no good news, Yu Qiu Shang's guard captain Morita Yoshio came to see him and told him what happened to Yu Qiu Shang last night.
"What?" After Yu Qiuping asked clearly about the cause and effect of the matter, he was stunned and speechless, "That person ran away yesterday?"
"Yes, he rushed out from the southwest of Kyoto and happened to meet us." Morita Yaxiang was a little nervous after seeing Yu Qiuping's reaction, "Your Highness, what are you going to do? Do you want to report this news truthfully?"
"Of course we can't report it. If we report it now, Shang'er will not be able to get rid of the crime of neglecting the military plane." Yu Qiuping shook his head without hesitation, "Let's send people to investigate in secret ourselves. Don't tell anyone about this matter.
Master’s house.”
"Your Highness, Young Master, he..."
"You don't have to explain it to him. His judgment at the time was correct. This matter really shouldn't be reported truthfully, otherwise it won't be clear." Yu Qiuping waved his hand to signal Morita Yaxiang not to worry, "I don't mean to blame him.
Just do what he wants and tell him so when you go back."
After sending Morita Aixiang away, Yu Qiuping's expression became more solemn. After thinking for a moment, he seemed to vaguely touch on some truth.
Yu Qiu Shang did indeed do the right thing, and maybe it was a mistake that benefited Yu Qiuping. Before, Yu Qiuping suspected that the person who carried out the series of assassinations was related to divine power and Yu Qiuping's identity as a time traveler, and this fugitive
Letting Yu Qiu Shang go has further confirmed this point - he may not have any intention of becoming an enemy of Yu Qiu's family and Yu Qiuping.
if it is like this…
Yu Qiuping suddenly had an idea in his mind.
Could it be that the mastermind of this series of plans was "that highness" behind Ye Gusuizi? Because he had always been on Yu Qiuping's side, the assassins he sent did not take action against Yu Qiu Shang. And he carried out
The series of assassinations was intended to silence all those who knew Yu Qiuping's secrets, so that Yu Qiuping's identity as a time traveler would never be revealed.
What kind of person...is willing to do this for Yu Qiuping?
And why did he go to kill the emperor? Does the emperor also know Yu Qiuping's secret? How is it possible? The emperor must not be a time traveler, right? That highness must have so many supernatural powers that he can sneak into Kyoto and the imperial palace.
?
Some things seem destined to remain unclear, but there are some things that Yu Qiuping already understands in his heart - the mastermind of this series of cases should not be the enemy of the Yuqiu family. If the investigation continues, the Yuqiu family will be implicated.
The Qiu family is suspected of colluding. In this case, the investigation can only end here.
Just as Yu Qiupei was pondering these thoughts, Oda Nobunaga's envoy came again, summoning all the officials responsible for the blockade around Kyoto to enter the capital.
When Yu Qiupei arrived at the Nijo Castle Castle Tower, the moonlight was already deep. This time in Kyoto, the assassination that occurred under the nose of Oda Nobunaga obviously made him, who always went his own way, more vigilant. In the past, he had been holding meetings at Honnoji Temple.
This time he stayed in Nijo Castle's castle tower honestly. However, this did not mean that his temper had changed in any way. As soon as he entered the castle tower, Yuqiu Ping and others were greeted with a barrage of curses.
"I knew none of you guys were useful! You're a bunch of trash!" Oda Nobunaga scolded Amehira, Niwa Nagahide, Ikeda Tsuneki, Hori Hidemasa, Kawajiri Hidetaka and others mercilessly.
One person kicked the upper leg and said, "There are tens of thousands of people, but even a single assassin can't be caught! They even let people go out of the city last night, kill the remaining nine banners, and run away!"
It was only when Yu Qiuping arrived at Nijo Castle that he was told about the murder of Hatamoto last night by Hori Hidemasa, who was also waiting outside the castle tower and was about to go in to be scolded. After learning that Yu Qiuyou had escaped death, Yu Qiuping was so scared that his legs were shaking.
Soft - if the person who was sent to return Oda Nobunaga's life was not Yu Qiuyou but someone else, his son would have been hacked to death on the spot by the assassin who later encountered Yu Qiu Shang.
But when he thought of this, another thought suddenly popped into Yu Qiuping's mind: Is it really such a coincidence? If the assassin didn't kill Yu Qiu Shang, would he also kill Yu Qiuyou? Is Yu Qiuyou just lucky?
Was he finally sent back to recover his life, or was he spared his life by the assassin who recognized his identity like Yu Qiu Shang? Was Yu Qiu You also like Yu Qiu Shang, he was afraid of being suspected, so he made up a lie?
To prevaricate?
However, Yu Qiuping naturally would not question or expose his son. Instead, like several other retainers, he continued to listen patiently to Oda Nobunaga's scolding.
"I have sent ninjas to track him. That person should have run away from the southwest of Kyoto last night. I still don't believe that I can't catch him!" Oda Nobunaga punched hard and cursed through gritted teeth, "Really
It’s so embarrassing!”
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Chapter completed!