On May 7th, at the second hour of the lunar month, the Immiya Castle Tensou Pavilion. After the two sides determined to cooperate temporarily, Yu Qiuhei, Sanada Nobuzu and Sanada Masayuki each brought ten people to the Tensou Pavilion to negotiate.

"Is this your appearance?" Masayuki Sanada took the sachet in his hand and handed him to an elderly young man beside him. After looking at it, the latter said, "Sir, that Lord Yuqiu is right. This is Kanto Sagami's sachet."

"Hojo?" Sanada Nobuzuo snorted, "Is your information reliable?"

"It's hard to say whether it's reliable or not. Anyway, I've told you how I got it. I can only guarantee that my description is true." Yu Qiuping promised. "What about you? What do you see?"

"Before we left, the ninjas in Kasugayama Castle came back and said," Sanada Masayuki said in a low voice, "The Xuanyuanli ninjas of the Uesugi family show no signs of being mobilized."

"What do you mean... Didn't this incident be done by the Uesugi family? Is the news reliable?" Yu Qiuping was a little surprised for a moment.

"It's hard to say whether it's reliable or not. I can only guarantee that I will tell you everything I heard." Masayuki Sanada imitated Yu Qiuhei's tone, which made Yu Qiuhei smile.

"What are you going to do today?" Yu Qiuping asked. "Don't worry about food and grass, Lord Imamiya promised us to fund our food and grass for free."

"How to act, it depends on Lord Yuqiu's expression?" Masayuki Sanada sarcastically said, "Our people are all blocked in the camp. How do you think we act?"

"I'll be back later." Yu Qiuping nodded, "I plan to investigate the southern foot of Aiying Mountain. After all, it is the only way for our Imakawa family to lead to Hojo Odawara."

"Then let's go to Aiyingshan, northeast, which is the way our messenger will go to Odawara." Masayuki Sanada looked at his brother.

After finishing the meeting with Masayuki Sanada, Yu Qiuhei found Amamiya Ledain again.

"Sir Imamiya, I want to be frank, I think the defense of Imamiya City needs to be strengthened," said Yu Qiuping.

"Oh? Since I was using two people to block the Yuqiu Hongye words from the Oda family's 6ooo army in Zhili Castle, I'm listening attentively." While Imamiya Leda agreed, he did not forget to praise him.

"I think we should build a level there." Yu Qiuping pointed to the narrowest place on the road up the mountain from the ground. "Although the building of the Miyagi is very dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack. But if the enemy attacks, the castle town may not be able to be protected. If the number of enemies is too large and the siege is surrounded on all sides, our troops may not be enough to defend all the city walls." Yu Qiuping explained, "It is very likely to be broken."

"But if you set up a checkpoint in that narrowest place," Yu Qiuping nodded when he saw Aomiya Leding nodding, and continued, "The road up the mountain will be completely blocked. As long as we keep that checkpoint, we can block all the enemy troops at the foot of the mountain, and Imamiya Castle will not have to be invaded by war. The narrow passage at the checkpoint is not conducive to the enemy's deployment of troops. We only need a few troops to achieve the effect of being a one-man pass and not being able to open tens of thousands of men."

"It makes sense! I haven't thought about this before because Immiya Castle has not encountered much attack. Now I really need to improve it!" Immiya Leding accepted with a smile, "I'll send someone to build it today!"

"By the way, Lord Yuqiu is going to investigate this time, do you need to send some guides to you?"

"Then I'll thank you sir."

During the day, the gates of the palace will not be closed. Yu Qiuping returns to the camp without leaving the house and begins to deploy today's mission.

Naoe Tadaehiro and Ogawa Yutotsu were arranged to take a class to stay in the camp and protect Imamiya Rakage. Amano Katetoki and Omaezaki Nakahide took a class to patrol the mountainside, and helped Imamiya Rakage build the level.

Yu Qiupi took Fukushima Akazen, Katsumasa Yoshika, Charlie's three squads, and four guides sent by Imamiya Leding, to take weapons and go to the southern foot of Aiying Mountain to investigate.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Qiuhei's team first walked back west, passed Yoshida when they came, and then turned east, took a zigzag route, and arrived at Xingguoji Temple. This is also the place where the Hojo family had risen before, and now it is nominally affiliated with the Imakawa family, but in fact, some of the taxes will be transferred to the Hojo family.

However, unlike the empty villages along the way, in the few villages in Xingguo Temple, although only a few people were farming in the fields, no one seemed to have evacuated. By noon, smoke from every household was curling.

"Will no one escape in a village that is closely related to the Hojo family?" Yu Qiuping frowned, "Go in and take a look and ask a few people."

Yu Qiuping walked into the village with people, and everyone was still dressed in a caravan, pushing a small cart covered with tarpaulin. Therefore, the people around him did not seem to be too repulsive, but probably because the world was not peaceful recently, they all hid far away in their houses and closed the door. There were only two or three old men, and they were still walking slowly on the road.

"Uncle!" Yu Qiuping stepped forward and asked, "I am a merchant who traveled. All the villages along the way have escaped and have nowhere to rest. Do you know why?"

"Oh," a grandfather sighed, poked the ground with a crutch, ignored Yu Qiuping and walked away. The other grandfather who followed him said apologetically to Yu Qiuping: "It's not peaceful here recently. I heard that there are bandits who are killing innocent people everywhere. I heard that even the messengers from the main hall of the family have been killed, and the people of various villages have fled. Who dares to live here?"

"Then uncle, why don't your village run away?" Yu Qiuping tentatively said.

"If you don't run, we want to run too!" The old man sighed like the old man before, "The village chief of our village doesn't know anything crazy. He is obviously from the Imakawa family, but he said that after the order of the adult Sagami, the whole village is not allowed to run away. Who has run away..." The old man said while wiping his neck, "The whole family will die if they are caught."

Yu Qiuhei was both confused and excited for a moment. What was confused was that he didn't know why such a strange order was there. What was excited was that the old man mentioned was probably the Hojo family. The village chief was obviously from the Imakawa family, but he obeyed the Hojo family and contacted the previous sachet from Kanto. The truth of the matter had gradually surfaced.

"Can you take me to meet your village chief?" Yu Qiuxie asked, "I just took the caravan from Suruga to Sagami, I want to ask about the situation."

"No problem." The old man enthusiastically led the way, "But then, don't tell our village chief that I brought you here, otherwise I'll cause trouble for me." Yu Qiuping nodded quickly and agreed, calling his subordinates to follow. The residents on both sides probably developed the habit of closing their doors in a terror and panic. When they saw a strange caravan coming, no one on the houses on both sides of Yu Qiuping went out.

"Did the boss come from Suruga?" the old man casually talked, "We have not had a caravan from Suruga for several days. There are rumors in the village that robbers robbed all the merchants."

"Maybe my caravan has a god to protect his body, so I can always worship Buddha devoutly." Yu Qiuping replied casually.

"Hahaha..." the old man laughed, revealing his neat teeth, "The adults were joking."

Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

I am an atheist and do think that gods and Buddhas are ridiculous. However, in this era, Buddhism was spread very widely in Japan. How dare the elderly dare to be so disrespectful to gods and Buddhas?

And his neat teeth - is he really an old man?

Yu Qiuping's heart trembled. Could it be a ninja or assassin dressed as an old man?

He continued to chat and laugh with the old man, but his heart was already filled with storms and cold sweats flowing on his back. He quietly looked at the subordinates behind him with his light, but no one was prepared. He quickly looked at the closed residents on both sides. There was smoke in the chimneys of each household, but he could not hear any conversation.

Could it be that the residents on both sides of this street are all ambushed?

Yu Qiuping was already frightened and didn't know what to do. If he suddenly asked his subordinates to be on guard, would the ambush be moved immediately, but his subordinates were not able to react and would be caught off guard. But if he continued to move forward, he would be trapped in the enemy's trap more and more.

what to do?

With it! Yu Qiuping's inspiration appeared, I could communicate with my subordinates in Mandarin. Even if these Japanese people can understand Mandarin, they are far from my Mandarin.

But when I communicate in this language, did I soon reveal that I was conveying the message?

what to do.

A ridiculous idea suddenly appeared in Yu Qiuping's mind, but at this moment, there was no other way.

"Uncle, this place looks really similar to my hometown in Mingguo." Yu Qiuping looked around and sighed, "I miss homesick."

"Oh?" asked the old man, "Is the boss from Ming?"

"Yes," Yu Qiuping smiled, "I miss you a little homesick. Why don't I sing a song about our hometown dialect to you?"

"Okay! Boss!" "Sing, sing!" The subordinates and guides, who were unknown, started to cheer, and the old man was also smiling from the side.

Yu Qiuping cleared his throat, hummed a tune casually, and sang in pure Mandarin: "My ~ subordinates~, hear me sing like this~ Don't show a surprised expression! There is danger~~~ Well~ Keep going, keep going~~"

After a moment of shock, his subordinates immediately reacted and sang to Yu Qiuping.

"We~there are ambushers in the houses on both sides of the street!" Yu Qiuping continued to hum, "I'm afraid~ in Japanese~ I'll remind you~ they will appear~so I sing Chinese songs~~"

The subordinates behind Yu Qiuping's song were already like a storm, but they could not maintain a smile on their faces and shouted ok with the rhythm. The guides didn't notice it, but they just felt that the lyrics of Yu Qiuping sang were not understood, and the tune was so ugly. I don't know why everyone tried their best to shout ok.

"Next~~ we will rush into the houses on both sides immediately~~ listen to me to count~321~~"

"Three~~~~" Yu Qiu's flattery was sang in a high octave that entered the chorus part.

"Two~~~~" He dragged his tone long, but his hand had quietly pressed on the hilt of the knife. The subordinates behind him also continued to shout out the opportunity and touched the knife and bow under the tarpaulin.

"One!" Yu Qiuping shouted sternly, and pulled his sword and stabbed the old man beside him. The old man was indeed disguised. After he noticed the sound of drawing the sword, his figure suddenly flashed and he had already avoided a few steps away. At this moment, Yu Qiuping's thirty subordinates suddenly burst out and rushed to the house on both sides. Jigang Shengzheng took the lead and kicked open the door of the house. The two enemy troops hiding behind could not hide and were hit to the ground. Before the other person in the house could react, Charlie had already hit his throat with one arrow, and he fell down without saying a word.

On the other hand, Fukushima Ansei and his two subordinates also opened the door and slashed and killed the enemy troops who were caught off guard. The attackers died of life before they could even pull out their swords.

In just a few breaths, Yu Qiuping's subordinates immediately controlled the four nearby houses, and the unknown guides were dragged into the room. Yu Qiuping rolled and crawled into one of them. The old man saw that the plan was exposed and shouted in anger. Dozens of people rushed out of the houses on both sides of the streets immediately rushed out of the houses on both sides and attacked the houses. Yu Qiuping, Charlie, Fukushima Ansei, and Yoshigang Katsumasa each commanded the defense of a small house.

In Yu Qiuping's hut, there were 7 people in Yu Qiuping. Yu Qiuping hurriedly asked them to lift the door panel up and block it on the door, and then dragged the two bodies in the room to the center. Then, the seven people were tidied up by Yu Qiuping and were almost hiding behind the table, inside the cabinet and waiting for various places.

Just after hiding, the door was kicked open again. As soon as three or four people dressed in ninja rushed in, they saw the corpse in the middle of the house, and couldn't help but be stunned. At this time, the two archers hiding at the end suddenly stood up and shot arrows. The ninja could not dodge at all at a distance, and they were shot down immediately. One ninja behind threw two kunai. One archer squatted down and avoided, while the other could not dodge and was stabbed in the shoulder.

In these moments, three ninjas rushed in. Yu Qiuping shouted, and several people around him rushed forward and immediately slashed the ninja who had just thrown out the kunai but had time to adjust his posture. The three people behind him saw that it was not good and fleeed out of the house.

Before Yu Qiuping and others could react, they heard a sharp bamboo whistle outside the house. Immediately afterwards, they saw dozens of ninjas who were attacking Yu Qiuping's subordinates retreating quickly.

Yu Qiuping hadn't yet realized why the other party retreated so quickly, and he was still shouting in the room that the other three troops should not come out in a hurry to avoid being ambushed. Until they waited for about a cup of tea and no one had made a comeback. Instead, the commotion of many residents at the beginning and end of the village started, and everyone carefully touched it out and gathered in the middle of the road.

Yu Qiuping suddenly realized something and almost forgot the purpose of their trip: "An Cheng! Take your people to capture the village chief! Hurry!" Yu Qiuping let out a low roar, Fukushima An Cheng suddenly realized and rushed over immediately. Yu Qiuping slowly dispersed with the remaining people to investigate whether there were any leftover enemies, and sweep the battlefield. In the sudden encounter just now, three people were injured on Yu Qiuping's side, but they killed a total of thirteen attacks. It can be said that it was a successful counter-hand attack.

At this time, the people at both ends of the village surrounded Yu Qiuping's fight scene, pointing in the middle, and talking about something. Yu Qiuping stepped forward to ask if they were forced to leave. The people said they had never heard of it. When they asked about the rumors of bandits killing, they also expressed their disbelief. Didn't the panic spread here?

Not long after, Fukushima Ansei came back empty-handedly and sighed, "The village chief is gone."

"How is that?" Yu Qiuping shook his head, "It's indeed planned."

"But there are signs of fighting at the village chief's house. For some reason, maybe they were caught." Fukushima Ansei frowned and asked in a low voice.

"Hmm?" Yu Qiuping was also stunned for a moment, "Isn't the village chief a group of attackers just now?"

"And I feel it's strange..." Fukushima Ansei hesitated, "The group of people fought and retreated, as if to let us know that someone would attack, and did not want to kill us."

While the two were talking, Ji Gang Shengzheng led the guides over.

"Sir, those guides said that the corpses of these ninjas look very much like those in the Wind Demon Ninja." Jigang Katsumasa pointed to several guides who were still scared by the incident just now, and the latter nodded in a hurry.

"In the Wind Demon Ninja? Wind Demon Kotaro!" Yu Qiuhei's first reaction was the famous ninja in the Warring States Period, "Is the Hojo Ninja?"
Chapter completed!