After Yu Qiuping and Matsudaira Motoyasu said goodbye, they returned to their inn room. As soon as they opened the door, they saw a sneaky figure hiding behind their bed.
"Brother, what are you doing there!" Yu Qiuping asked angrily and funny, "Are you hiding behind the bed waiting to steal someone?"
Yu Qiuping's voice startled Asahina Taehyung, who quickly turned over and made a silent gesture, then signaled Yu Qiuping to close the door, and then carefully shrank behind the bed board.
"Brother, what are you doing?" Yu Qiuping curiously approached Asahina Taehyung, but the latter's strange sitting posture prevented Yu Qiuping from seeing anything. In desperation, he had to shrink behind the bed board.
Asahina Taehiro was using the candlelight on the table not far away to concentrate on studying a... map? Look at the locations of several cities on the map. There are large circles drawn on them. One of them is marked Okazaki Castle, and there are
Several official roads are marked. On the left side of the map, the general outlines of Ise Bay and Mikawa Bay are also outlined. I guess it is almost the same as the map of Mikawa Owari. Owari is in the west and Mikawa is in the east.
, further east are Yuanjiang and Suruga, which is the road Yuqiuping came from.
"What kind of map is this?" Yu Qiuping wanted to verify his guess.
"This is the Imagawa family's troop deployment plan in southeastern Owari and Mikawa. I stole it from uncle Ujihiro." Asahina Yasuhiro chuckled. Only then did Yu Qiupei notice that in every city and near important villages, there were
Numerous information such as the number of garrison troops, generals, and material equipment were densely written in small regular script. In the side column, detailed records were also recorded of the transportation teams transporting military supplies to Narumi Castle and Dagao Castle from the beginning of the year to the end of this year.
time and route.
"Is there going to be a war?" Yu Qiuping instinctively became alert.
"How is that possible? The Oda family only has 3,000 soldiers in total, and they can't even make up 10,000 people. It's not enough for us." Asahina Taehyung raised his head in disdain, "Didn't you hear that I stole the map?
?"
"Then what are you going to do? Brother, why are you stealing pictures?" Yu Qiuping asked curiously.
"Of course we are going to play," Asahina Taehyung said with a matter-of-fact expression, "Let's go to the front lines of the Imagawa family and the Oda family. It's hard to find the way without a map."
"What! Go to the front line to play! I'll go!" At first, Yu Qiuping saw Asahina Taehyung's calm expression and calm tone, and thought he was hunting around, but who would have thought that he actually said something shocking, "That's too dangerous! Big brother!"
Are you crazy!"
"Shh!" Asahina Taehyung covered Yu Qiuping's mouth and watched him blushing in pain because he couldn't breathe. After a while, he let him go. Yu Qiuping was busy panting and had no time.
called.
"Please keep your voice down. I went out to play quietly behind Uncle Fujita's back. If they know that I want to play secretly, they will have to stop me."
"Is it really okay to leave alone behind the adults' back like this? Will you not be punished?" Yu Qiuping still said uneasily.
"It's okay. I ran away once before and made my brother very angry when I came back. But guess what our governor said," Asahina Taehyung smiled proudly and imitated Imagawa Yoshimoto and said, "Jibe
The adults said that young people should run around and stick to the same rules all day long. Besides, even if you are really punished, I will be the one to carry it. I guarantee that none of you followers will be fine."
"But the front line is really..."
"It's not dangerous at all!" Asahina Taehyung interrupted Yu Qiupei impatiently, "My lord, I had my first battle at Narumi Castle last year, which was also the first time a samurai went into battle. I'll follow me.
My brother attacked the Owari guys from the Oda family, but guess what? They didn't dare to step forward at all, so they huddled in a few camps and didn't dare to step forward. There was no one on the entire border. Besides, there was Imagawa around Narumi Castle.
As for our troops, we will walk along the official road without encountering any problems."
"Then this..."
"Okay, okay, shut up," Asahina Taehyung muttered, "I came to you because I thought you were reliable. I didn't even call the older samurai who were close to Uncle Fujita.
Tomorrow we, a dozen young people, will go play. I will leave a letter to Uncle Fujita, saying that I can go play." Asahina Taehyung patted Yu Qiupei's shoulder, "You, you kid, you don't want to look at it at all.
What does the battlefield look like? This is the dream of countless good men!"
After all, he was still young and energetic, and he couldn't help but want to take a look at the war front. After being repeatedly assured that he would be safe, he agreed to Asahina Yasuhiro, and promised to help him convince Kondo Yasuo to go with him. In this way, the group will be able to
There are 18 of them.
"Listen, we won't have breakfast tomorrow morning. We will use my token to leave the city at 1:00 in the morning, and then go all the way west. Less than 20 miles away is Anxiang City. Don't stop there, and head northwest
After walking 12 miles, we reached Chiri, where there was a small earthen castle in disrepair, where we rested and had lunch." Asahina Taehyung finished talking about his long-planned plan to run away from home.
"Why do we have to run so far? Can't we rest when we get to Anxiang City? After running for 20 miles, they can't catch up."
"Do you think I don't want to? The guard of Anxiang City is my uncle, Mr. Asahina Shinyasu. The garrison troops are also members of the Imagawa family." Asahina Taiheng frowned resentfully, "This uncle is very strict. He was
If he catches him, he will definitely stop him by force."
"Then the guard of Zhili City..." Yu Qiuping hesitated, "Will he also..."
"You don't have to worry about that. There are no high-status garrison commanders in Chili, only a dozen supervisors and more than two hundred slaves. They flatter me just enough, so how can they dare to stop me." Asahina Taehyung said confidently.
"Slaves?" Yu Qiuping asked, "Are there any slaves in Japan?"
"It's those families who committed major crimes, such as treason, fighting for power, liaising with foreign countries, etc. The main family was confiscated and executed, and the side families were also confiscated of their property, turned into slaves, and escorted to the front line to work
Coolies are sent out to die during wars." Asahina Taehyung explained.
"Won't these people defect? How can they be controlled by sending more than a dozen supervisory troops?" Yu Qiuping asked with some surprise.
"Hey, it's not as easy as you think. Only the young and middle-aged people from the confiscated families were sent as slaves. The old, weak, sick and disabled were all used as slaves for the adults in Junfu City. These young and middle-aged people have
All the relatives in Sunfu Castle were taken as hostages and executed at the slightest sign of trouble. Do they dare to make trouble?" Asahina Taehyung snorted disdainfully, "Let's take a rest here."
"This Chitatsu..." Yu Qiuping looked at the map, "It seems to be a strategic location on the border between Owari and Mikawa. It connects Narumi Castle, Takake Castle, Odaka Castle, Anxiang Castle and Kariya Castle. Why are slaves sent to guard it?
ah."
"I don't know about this. It seems that it was arranged by our family governor himself. Besides, these slaves usually fight against bandits and bandits that occur frequently in Mikawa." Asahina Taiheng also shook his head in confusion, "Why do you care so much?
, after we rested for a while, we went to Dagua City to rest in the afternoon. The next day, we went to the front line to have a look..."
Hearing the three words Okehazama, Yu Qiupei trembled all over. This was the place in his previous life where the overlord Imagawa Yoshimoto was killed in a surprise attack by Oda Nobunaga. Asahina Taehyung didn't seem to notice.
Yu Qiupei was abnormal and still said to himself, "It is said that the Oda family also tried to besiege Otaka Castle and Narumi Castle, which is quite exciting. Eh? Hey," Asahina Taehyung poked Yu Qiupei who was deep in thought,
"Why are you in such a daze, kid!"
"Nothing, nothing."
In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, more than a dozen people including Asahina Taehyung and Yu Qiuping gathered quietly at the castle tower. The group walked quickly to the stables by the moonlight, led the horses and walked towards the west city. They arrived.
Under the west city gate, Asahina Taihiro forced out of the city with his warrant. The few Matsudaira soldiers guarding the gate dared to stop the young master of the Asahina family, so they had no choice but to let him go. At the same time, he sent someone to notify Sekiguchi Ujihiro. The Matsudaira family's messenger was originally
They were not allowed to enter the castle tower at night, so the guarding Imagawa samurai struggled with them for a long time before agreeing to let them go. By the time Ujihiro Sekiguchi and Nakaharu Fujita were bothered and figured out what happened, Asahina Yasuhiro and his party had already hurried to An.
It’s Xiangcheng.
Fujita Nakaharu led his men on horseback to pursue him, but he was still a step too late.
In less than four seconds, the group of people who had been working hard from early morning to afternoon finally arrived at Zhili City.
When they arrived at Chiritsu Castle, the group was already hungry. The last meal was eaten last night. They got up in the middle of the night and hurried on the road. They bumped on horseback for more than five hours. The sun was scorching and they couldn't even drink a few sips of water. But Asahina
Taehyung and the others were starving. As soon as they entered the city gate, Asahina Taehyung yelled at the supervisor named Shimada Hideyasu to get him food.
"Asahina-sama is here, how can I not entertain you properly? Please be patient, sir. I happen to have twenty chickens here, so they are all stewed to fill your stomach." Hideyasu Shimada said with a smile on his face.
Yu Qiuping's face made Yu Qiuping uncomfortable. He was also forced to be humble, but Matsudaira Motoyasu's attitude made people admire and feel distressed. However, this supervisor who simply wanted to please his superiors and seek advancement made Yu Qiuping feel uncomfortable.
Disgusted. However, Asahina Taehyung seems to like this.
"Not bad, Shimada Hideyasu, it's an Ashigaru Grand Prize, right? I didn't expect there are chickens to eat here!" Asahina Taehyung laughed. Usually in Sunfu Castle, the etiquette elders strictly abide by the meat ban, only during the New Year.
He was allowed to eat meat other than fish when he was there. Today, he was actually late for chicken in this wilderness. Naturally, he was very satisfied. "I will tell you when I go back that I will give you an official and serve as a general." In Japan.
, the official rank of the samurai family seems to be from ashigaru, to ashigaru head, and then to the ashigaru chief. Generally, becoming an ashigaru chief means you have the status of a samurai and can have a surname, unlike farmers who do not have a surname. In the past,
At the top are the generals, who can have their own retainers and family crests, and then there are generals, city lords, and family elders, rising one level at a time.
"How dare you, how dare you, you are so kind to me," Shimada Xiuyasu immediately smiled from ear to ear, "It is a small person's blessing to have the honor to entertain you, how dare you ask for any reward!"
Yu Qiuping almost blurted out that he would not give the reward. But after thinking about it, he held back. Asahina Taehyung was satisfied and led everyone to sit in the mini castle tower of this small earthen city, crossing his legs and waiting for the chicken to be served.
Come up. Yu Qiuping wanted to relieve himself, so he went out by the back door alone. When he came out from the toilet, he could see from a distance that there seemed to be more than two hundred people gathered in the military camp south of the castle tower. They were probably slaves. One by one
He was a tall young man, but he was dressed in rags and had a sallow complexion and lack of energy. It looked like he had been enslaved for a long time. The more than two hundred people seemed to be talking to a dozen supervisors, but soon they