Chapter 175: Three years of use

Suwa Castle, Takara.

The city is now in chaos, Jiang Ma Huisheng's subordinates also have the samurai family of his father-in-law, and Li Xiao's ninja are burning and killing everywhere in the city and destroying it.

And in the Honmaru Tianshou Pavilion.

The Xuanyuan Ninja led by Kato Duanzo, the samurai who was loyal to Ema Shimoto and Li Xiao, Shiokao Kazuki, Shikazuki, Yokotani Yukichi, and Ema Waizumi and his dozens of his subordinates fought each other for their lives.

This is not only a power struggle within the Jiangma family, but also means that the Uesugi and Takeda families have control over the Jiangma family and the entire Kekuhida force.

This fierce battle in the Tianshou Pavilion in the city has come to an end.

Except for the one-on-one match between Kato and Yukishige Yokotani, who have not yet decided the outcome.

Nearly half of Jiangma Huisheng's subordinates fell, and Jiangma Shisheng's subordinates and the twelve Xuanyuan Ninjas were all killed by Li Xiao and the others.

Jiang Ma Shisheng's eyes showed despair and he hugged aside. All his loyal subordinates had been killed.

At this moment, he hugged his knees with his hands, his robe was covered with blood, and his whole body was trembling.

No one paid attention to the Jiangma Shisheng, who had lost his power. The current situation was already decided for Li Xiao's side.

Kato Duanzo dodged several ninja darts by Yokotani Yukihiro. He turned around and jumped upwards, gently swung his right hand and climbed up the beam on the top of the Tianshou Pavilion.

This action is very agile and deserves to be Kato Duanzo, who is known as "Flying Kato".

Kato Duanzo stood on the cross beam, looked at Li Xiao and the others from a high place, and said, "I didn't expect that Your Highness Huihu still underestimated you. It seems that our Xuanyuan people failed in this mission."

Li Xiao stared at Kato Duan Zangyan and said, "Kato, you have nowhere to escape. Now you have left your weapons and surrendered to us. This can spare your life."

Kato Duanzang's eyes showed a hesitation and said, "Okay, Lord Li Xiao, it's not impossible to subdue your Takeda family, but I have a condition."

“What conditions?”

Li Xiao asked out loud.

Kato Duanzang showed a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and suddenly shouted loudly: "My condition is that you will die together."

After saying that, Kato Duanzang Sa shot all the ninja darts, and Saling shot all the way down. Suddenly, Li Xiao and his team's heads were like stars falling in the sky, and countless hidden weapons shot in.

Yokotani Yukihiro, Shikamao Mai, and Shikao Kazuki were all shocked. They put themselves on their bodies to protect Li Xiao, and each used their weapons to unlock these hidden weapons.

On the contrary, three subordinates of Huisheng, who were attacked by Kato Duanzang in this round of hidden weapons, were shot on the spot and attacked on the spot.

Everyone was angry and angry at Kato Duanzang's actions. However, when they looked at each other again, they saw that Kato Duanzang had already opened the skylight on the top of Tianshou Pavilion and jumped out of the house.

Yokotani Yuki was immediately angry when he saw Li Xiaobuzhou protecting him.

When he was about to pursue Kato Duanzang, he was stopped by Li Xiao.

Li Xiao said calmly: "I can't catch up, but Kato Duanzang is just a dog that is stray. The most important thing now is to stabilize the current situation of the Jiangma family."

After saying that, Li Xiao looked at Jiang Ma Shisheng huddled aside.

When Jiang Ma Shisheng saw Li Xiao looking at him, his body shrank and screamed loudly: "Don't kill me, don't kill me."

Li Xiao shook his head and said nothing. Humiliating such an enemy was meaningless to him.

Li Xiao turned to Jiangma Huisheng and said, "Your Highness Jiangma, as for how to deal with the former Jiangma family's supervisor, it is an internal matter for your Jiangma family. My Takeda family has no right to intervene, so it is up to you to decide."

Jiang Ma Huisheng showed a look of gratitude on his face and said, "Thank you, Lord Li Xiao."

Then Jiang Ma Huisheng glanced at Jiang Ma Shisheng, sighed, and temporarily let his subordinates take care of the other party.

On this New Year's Day, the civil strife in which the Jiangma family seized the position of governor had been calmed down one day. Jiangma Huisheng replaced his father Jiangma Shisheng and seized the position of governor of Jiangma family.

This civil strife also injured the Jiang Ma family's vitality. Although the new governor Jiang Ma Huisheng prevented the turmoil from continuing, hundreds of Jiang Ma family warriors had already died in this turmoil.

This is not a good thing for the new governor of Jiang Ma Huisheng. The Jiang Ma family was greatly damaged, and there were still some retainers loyal to their fathers. The warriors needed to clean up. All of this made it very difficult for him to firmly sit in the position of this governor of the family next.

Today, for Huisheng, taking over such a mess under his command has diluted a lot of joy in his ascension to the position of governor of the family, but what worries him even more is that on the afternoon of that day, Li Xiao, the Takeda family, entered Suwa Castle, Kakahara, and now controls the entire city.

In name, this hundred regulars were to help Jiang Ma Huisheng quell the rebellion at home, but in fact, who knew what evil intentions Li Xiao had in it?

At this moment, Jiang Ma Huisheng felt a little scared. Today, he had ignited a fire and set fire to Tianshou Pavilion. Li Xiao had not yet expressed his opinion on this, which means that he had not yet pursued it.

But the more Li Xiao did this, the more he was afraid. He didn't know what the other party planned. Now the whole city was controlled by him. Could it be that the other party started another riot in Suwa Castle, Kakagawa, and then lied that he had died in the civil strife of the Jiangma family.

In this way, Li Xiao can take over the Jiangma family in one fell swoop, gain the power here, and replace the Jiangma family in one fell swoop into the ruling force of Bei Hida.

Jiang Ma Huisheng is hesitating in his room and can't make up his mind. He must know Li Xiao's purpose and plan as soon as possible and get the support of the Takeda family. Otherwise, he would not be able to sit steadily as the governor of Jiang Ma family.

Now, many people within the Jiangma family's retainers' group were very angry at his collusion with the Takeda family and were very dissatisfied with him. If the sister Xiaolu family came to attack at this time, then the Takeda family would not have to take action, and the Jiangma family would only have a way to perish.

The key to the question now is whether Li Xiao will completely grasp the Jiangma family and include the Jiangma family within his sphere of influence? Or will he not?

Jiang Ma Huisheng thought for a long time, and finally made up his mind, summoned his confidant subordinates and made the following instructions.

That night, Jiang Ma Huisheng went to Li Xiao’s place overnight to find Li Xiao.

Along the way, they saw the fully armed Takeda family, holding a long spear, wearing a thick hat and a straw raincoat, patrolling nearby.

Jiang Ma Huisheng looked at the regular staff of Li Xiao, and he had no complaints about such cold and harsh weather. He was still loyal to his duties, which was obviously well-trained.

Jiang Ma Huisheng couldn't help but sigh that over the past year, Li Xiao has really trained an elite soldier in the country of Hida.

With such a powerful force, coupled with the huge Takeda family forces behind Li Xiao, these have increased the bargaining chips that Jiang Ma Huisheng had planned before.

Firewood was lit in the fire pit in the house where Li Xiao lived, and it was burning.

Jiang Ma Huisheng looked at Li Xiao, who was stretching out his hands to roast the fire by the fire pit, and then said to Li Xiaoyan in a respectful tone as his subordinates as he was to his superiors: "The former governor of the Jiang Ma family has committed suicide by cesarean section."

Jiang Ma Huisheng's tone was very calm, as if the person who died was a person who had no connection with him.

Li Xiao said oh, obviously not interested in this. The death of Ema Shisheng is destined. Neither Takeda's family nor Ema Fixing could allow a living Ema Shisheng to threaten them again.

Jiang Ma Huisheng looked at Li Xiao's face carefully and said, "Former family governor, he overestimated his ability and betrayed the alliance between the family and the Takeda family. This is undoubtedly a despicable behavior, so he has today's result, and he found it himself, so he can't blame others."

Li Xiao put his hand on the roasting fire back on his knees, then looked at Jiangma Huisheng and said, "The death of Jiangma Shisheng and his series of treacherous behaviors are all the past, so there is no need to mention it. Now I am more concerned about the future between the Takeda family and the Jiangma family, and how to think of the relationship between the two families. What does Lord Jiangma think about this?"

When Jiang Ma Huisheng heard Li Xiao say this, he seemed to be not pursuing the meaning of the past. A hint of joy flashed across his face, and then he took out a document and handed it to Li Xiao.

Jiangma Huisheng said, "Mr. Li Xiao, this document is the affidavit of my Jiangma family to surrender to the Takeda family. From now on, I Jiangma Huisheng will be a retainer under Lord Shin-hyun."

Li Xiao glanced at the affidavit and said unfairly: "Mr. Jiangma is intent. I will submit this affidavit to the lord. As for whether he agrees, I dare not make a judgment."

Hearing Li Xiao's tone, Jiang Ma Huisheng was shocked and asked, "Does Lord Li Xiao doubt my sincerity? Is he still loyal to the Takeda family?"

"You are talking to me about sincerity and loyalty?" Li Xiao asked back with a sarcastic smile.

Jiang Ma Huisheng lowered his head and said, "Mr. Li Xiao, I know that today is a moment of confusion, but I have a position to do this. Didn't you say that you will not pursue the past, so do you have to look at it in the future? Jiang Ma Huisheng will swear to repay the letter to Lord Xuan in the future, and I will definitely obey Lord Li Xiao. Besides, I have value to Lord. I am not?"

"Oh? How do you say it? Where is your value?"

Jiang Ma Huisheng smiled confidently. He had already thought it clearly before coming.

He looked at Li Xiaoyan and said, "Because Lord Li Xiao said that your goal is to be in Yuezhong, not Hida."

Li Xiao laughed and said that Jiang Ma Huisheng was indeed amazing. He immediately grasped his greatest use for Li Xiao.

Seeing Li Xiao smile, Jiangma Huisheng said confidently: "Mr. Li Xiao, please rest assured. I am not interested in the dispute over the throne within the Takeda family. In the future, I, Jiangma Huisheng, can only be a foreign city lord of the Takeda family, just like Master Sanada and Lord Koba. And my existence can even stop him from sending someone to infiltrate the country of Hida. For Lord. Li Xiao, isn't I the best ally?"

Li Xiao looked at Jiangma Huisheng and said, "Mr. Jiangma, allies need trust. Your previous actions have betrayed my trust. What do I use to trust you now? Mr. Jiangma, to be honest, I would not have the flying skills like Kato Duanzang. If my subordinates were not monitoring you today, I, Li Xiao, would have been buried in the Tianshou Pavilion."

"Mr. Jiang Ma, for such a treacherous act, why do you ask me Li Xiao to trust you?"

Li Xiao stood up, his eyes wide open, and questioned Jiang Ma Huisheng.

Jiang Ma Huisheng was asked by Li Xiao, and his body trembled. He knew that this was his biggest difficulty at the moment.

Jiang Ma Huisheng thought about it over and over again, and finally made up his mind and said, "Mr. Li Xiao, I know that you will not believe in all the guarantees I have said now, but in order to gain Master Li Xiao's trust, I decided to hand over the hostages to you. This should be OK."

"hostage?"

"That's right, it's my two sons. I can hand them over to Lord Li Xiao." Jiang Ma Huisheng immediately took the decision, and he felt that this should be enough.

"No, I can't trust you just because of this." Li Xiao said decisively.

"Why? Isn't this enough?" Jiang Ma Huisheng was a little anxious.

Li Xiao snorted and said, "In order to seize the position of governor of Jiangma's family, you can even force your relatives to be killed. How much do you care about your two sons? You must know that there is only one father, but the son can be reborn. With this, I am not enough to trust you, Lord Jiangma."

Jiang Ma Huisheng's mouth suddenly moved when Li Xiao said this, as if he was about to get angry.

But he was finally a cunning person, and looked at Li Xiaoyan again and said, "What are your conditions? How can you make your trust in me?"

"I want Kanoka Ginshan."

Li Xiao finally gave his greatest purpose.

"This won't work." Jiang Ma Huisheng didn't hesitate for a moment and flatly refused. Of course he knew the importance of this Shengang Yinshan to the Jiang Ma family.

Li Xiao smiled indifferently and said, "Since you refuse, then I have nothing to talk to you, please."

Of course, Jiang Ma Huisheng was unwilling to retreat like this, and his life was now in Li Xiao's hand.

Jiang Ma Huisheng thought for a long time before saying, "Mr. Li Xiao, can you change it to other conditions besides Shengang Yinshan? For example, I can give you another 3,000 stone of territory as a reward for helping me seize the position of governor of Jiang Ma family this time."

Li Xiao shook his head and said, "You are wrong, Lord Jiangma, I said that I have no interest in the territory of Hida Kingdom. And Kamioka Ginyama is just a collateral you have placed here as your honor to show your trust in each other. Three years later, if you do not do anything to betray the Takeda family, I can return this Kamioka Ginyama to the Jiangma family."

Jiang Ma Huisheng asked in surprise: "Have you just borrowed it for three years?"

"Yes, in these three years, the Jiangma family has mined at Shengang Mine in one year, and I still give you half of it. But Shengang Mine must be under the control of me, Li Xiao. Can you accept this condition?"
To be continued...