When they marched to the forest road near Yatsushiro Castle, a spy from Du Fei in Yatsushiro Town hurried over: "Master of the country! Ryuzoji Kaisuke has led the army to leave the city and march towards Renjie Castle!"
Du Fei was a little excited after hearing this: "Hey, he happened to be out of the city. He ordered our chamber of commerce along the way to provide free food and water to the Longzao Temple Army." At this point, he suddenly stopped and whispered something to the spy quietly.
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Ryuzoji Kaisuke proudly led his army of more than 10,000 people and slowly marched into Yashiro Town. What surprised him was that the local businessmen were extremely enthusiastic towards him and provided him and the army with free meals, wine and meat.
"It seems that my wisdom is known all over the world!" Ryuzoji Kaisuke shamelessly said to his subordinates.
However, his subordinates, Narumatsu Nobukatsu and others, did not agree with this. His retainers, Kinoshita Masanao and Hyakutake Kenkane, even secretly covered their mouths and smiled.
However, Narumatsu Nobukatsu was puzzled by this. He was deeply touched by the power and stinginess of the merchants. He found it a bit incredible to be so close to the Ryuzoji military set who was only here to plunder.
The nominal commander of this army is Ryuzoji Kaisuke, but in reality the military affairs are controlled by the Four Heavenly Kings of Ryuzoji. Although several people are very dissatisfied with Ryuzoji Kaisuke's actions, but out of respect for the master's family
Loyal, they still tried their best to help Haisuke, an Adou who couldn't help him.
The Four Heavenly Kings of Ryuzoji Temple were originally composed of Enseiji Nobunori, Narimatsu Nobukatsu, Hyakutake Kenkane, and Erikochi Nobunaga. However, Erikochi Nobunaga was killed by Du Fei in the battle of Hyuga Kingdom, so the newly emerging young general Masaru Kinoshita
He directly became one of the Four Heavenly Kings.
Among these four people, only Narumatsu Nobukatsu has the ability to command a large army. Therefore, Narumatsu Nobukatsu naturally became the leader of the Four Heavenly Kings of Ryuzoji Temple. All major military affairs are usually decided by him.
At this time, Nobukatsu Narumatsu was undecided.
Although he has the right to command the army, he has no right to change Haisuke's orders. According to him, this expedition is a joke.
Because they didn't understand why they came at all. The family governor Kaisuke said that he wanted to conquer the rich areas through war to solve the family's business difficulties, but everyone knew that such plunder could only be dealt with temporarily.
To get rid of the financial difficulties, we can only start by limiting the huge expenditure of the family governor Haijie on his own extravagance.
Furthermore, even after a hard fight, the Shimazu family, which is currently weak, can gain some advantage. When the Shimazu family regains their strength in the future, they will still take back what they lost. But by then, they will have to
It is possible that what was robbed was not just some money.
In the afternoon, the anxious Nobukatsu Narumatsu wanted to summon several other people to discuss the next military action, but no one could be found.
It turned out that the rest of the Four Heavenly Kings had all drunkenly gone to the tea house to have fun after being entertained with delicious food and drinks by merchants in Yashiro Town.
Yatsushiro Town suddenly became eerily quiet in the afternoon
Nobukatsu Narumatsu, who had a long military career, was sensitively aware of a strong murderous aura. He opened his eyes and saw several people who looked like townspeople holding daggers, standing beside his bed!
It was too late, but it was so fast! I saw one of them holding a gleaming dagger and stabbing him in the chest! Fortunately, Narumatsu Nobukatsu had been practicing martial arts since he was a child and was agile, and he avoided this fatal knife with his body.
But then another person stabbed his shoulder with a knife, and blood spurted out on several people's faces!
The injured Nobukatsu Narumatsu knocked down the assassinating townspeople with several punches. Several town guards armed with fire weapons rushed into the room. After seeing him, they unceremoniously aimed their black guns at him.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly and jumped at the same time as the guard fired! He jumped directly from the door on the second floor to his horse outside. He suddenly clamped the horse's belly with his legs and slapped her on the back with one hand.
Damn! I saw that the sleepy horse was suddenly so poisoned, and its mane suddenly stood up! It spread its four hooves and ran away in the blink of an eye.
The townspeople and guards were shooting blindly from behind. Seeing Nobukatsu Narumatsu running away, the leader said: "What happened! You can't do this well! The council is angry!"
"Don't delay any longer! Let's go capture the other Ryuzoji generals! It is said that as long as you capture an enemy general, you will get a thousand kan! Let's act quickly! Otherwise, we won't be able to capture it if it's too late!" Another town citizen shouted loudly.
Then he led everyone and rushed towards the houses of other generals!
It is said that Narumatsu Nobukatsu escaped almost naked and barefooted. He yelled and screamed all the way, but no soldier came to help him.
When they arrived at the town gate, they saw a large number of soldiers from the clan collapsed in front of the door, and a few of them had been tied up by the townspeople! Those armed townspeople and guards screamed when they saw Narumatsu Nobukatsu, and suddenly Narumatsu Nobukatsu saw
Countless townspeople rushed out of houses holding wooden sticks, knives and homemade spears!
The guards holding fire weapons in front of the town gate also rushed over. Nobukatsu Narumatsu suddenly seemed to be caught in a dragnet, with no way to escape! He turned his horse around with all his strength and ran back!
He saw the streets full of fainted soldiers. One soldier staggered towards him and said vaguely: "The food was drugged!" Before he could run a few steps, he was held down by a large group of townspeople behind him.
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Several townspeople looked up and spotted the panicked Nobukatsu Narumatsu, and immediately pointed with their hands: "This seems to be a military commander! He's worth a thousand guan! Catch him!"
Nobukatsu Narumatsu had no choice but to continue running forward, looking for an exit. When he ran to the door of the tea house, he happened to bump into a large group of people swarming out of the house.
I saw that all of these people had proud faces, holding sticks and dachi swords. The famous Four Heavenly Kings of Ryuzoji Temple, Enseiji Nobuzo, Kinoshita Masanao and Hyakutake Kenkan were all tied up like rice dumplings, with their eyes open in embarrassment.
The fluffy drunken eyes looked at Narimatsu Nobukatsu in confusion.