Cold words suddenly sounded behind Yu Qiuping, and what came next was the sound of swords clashing. Yu Qiuping hurriedly backed away and turned around in horror, only to see Honda Nanosuke holding the horizontal sword in his hand, blocking the Towa clan.
A fatal stab in the back of his heart.
"Lord Gowa! This is what you are doing!" Before Yu Qiupei could react, the Hojo army outside the castle tower shouted and rushed in. The two ashigaru of the Imagawa family who were caught off guard next to the door were immediately chopped down to the ground.
"Go to hell." Heshixu sneered, "I think you are the murderer behind the scenes!"
Although Yu Qiuping didn't understand the joints involved, he still made a decision quickly. The ashigaru who were still on the first floor immediately evacuated towards the second floor. However, although Yu Qiuping's ashigaru retreated quickly up the stairs,
The ashigaru of the Imamiya family who followed were in a mess and were chopped down to the ground one by one by the Hojo family.
Yu Qiuping was heartbroken, but there was nothing he could do. He quickly divided his panicked subordinates on the second floor into two groups. Fukushima Yasunari and Gomaezaki Nakahide blocked the west stairs, and Ogawa Yutong and Yoshioka Katsumasa blocked the east stairs. Bring your own
Following the retreat, several former members of the Imamiya family led by Imamiya Rakuan served as a reserve team in the center, guarding the prisoners of the Takeda family. Charlie's archery team was divided into two sides to support the defense at the two stairwells.
After a while, everyone involved in the battle gradually calmed down. Since the stairs were not spacious, the Hojo family's attack was somewhat hindered, and they finally stabilized their position. However, from time to time, the Imagawa family's ashigaru would still be cut down, and the rain
Qiupei felt his heart bleed. These ashigaru were all elite soldiers he selected from his 200 old subordinates!
However, at this moment, Yu Qiuping's heart was like ten thousand grass and mud horses running past, and he had no idea what was going on. It was clear that the Takeda family as the murderers had been defeated, but the Hojo family suddenly attacked themselves. It was like the card game "Three Kingdoms"
》, I chose the lord. At the end of the game, there were only three people left: the lord, the loyal minister, and the rebel. However, the two on the opposite side felt the same way as they were slashing at me.
"Lord Hehe! What's going on!" Yu Qiuping shouted towards the stairs, but received no response. At this time, Sanada Nobutsuna on the side kept struggling, trying to spit out the rag in his mouth.
Seeing that he wanted to talk, Yu Qiuping stepped forward and pulled out the rag.
Sanada Nobutsuna coughed violently a few times, and then shouted: "I haven't seen it yet! You idiot! The Hojo family is the mastermind behind this! Otherwise, why would they attack you now!"
Yu Qiuping was suddenly startled, and his mind started to work quickly. What the Hojo family saw was the conflagration between the Takeda family and the Imagawa family. If the Hojo family were not the murderers, then he could not tell whether he should help the Imagawa family or the Takeda family. But he
But he decisively chose to help the Imagawa family defeat Takeda, and then backhandedly attacked Imagawa.
Indeed, only the Hojo family would take such action if they were the murderers. Because both Imagawa and Takeda are his enemies, and it doesn't matter who they help.
"I'll go! You are the murderers!" Yu Qiuping suddenly realized and cursed downstairs. After a moment, the Hojo Ashigaru people below burst into laughter.
"When I kill you too, your family governor will realize the seriousness of the problem between the alliances! Let's see if he still dares to invade Owari! Why not come back honestly!" Towaji continued with a smile, "You two families
The rush battle really helped me a lot! Originally, I asked for the help of the main force in Feng Mo today and wanted to kill you by force, but now I don’t have to wait for them to arrive!"
"Where do you get your confidence from?" Yu Qiuping scolded back, "You only have so many people, and you can't even attack them!"
At this moment, only a sharp whistle was heard in the east. Yu Qiuping looked eastward along the window in surprise. He saw seventy or eighty people suddenly walking out of the residential refuge area halfway up the mountain, carrying several aircraft.
The siege ladders came down towards Imamiya Castle. The residents behind them screamed in confusion and made way for these people.
"I'll go!" Yu Qiuping was shocked, "Are they ambushing the Hojo family? How could they come out from there?"
After seeing the ambush appear, the Hojo army below who had been attacking continuously just now cheered and retreated. Apparently they wanted to wait for the ladder to arrive and attack together. And Tohe Shitsubu also shouted an order from below: "Stay.
Forty people blocked the castle tower, and the others hurriedly went to collect weapons! None of the Fuma brothers came with long weapons, they only brought daggers!"
Dagger... It was probably this group of people who killed Imamiya Leting just now!
"It's terrible!" Yu Qiuping secretly complained. If all those people arrived, the number of people in the Hojo family would be almost three times that of the Imagawa family. Attacking from the stairs and multiple ladders, there would not be enough troops to defend.
Moreover, Tohe Shixu also inadvertently revealed before that the main force of Fuma Ninja would have arrived here today. By then, it would really be a dead end. If you stay here, you will just sit and wait for death.
"Get ready to break out!" Yu Qiuping ordered sternly, and at the same time asked someone to loosen the bonds of the Takeda family, "I couldn't help it before, now follow us and retreat."
"That's not necessary." A delicate and gratified smile suddenly appeared on the face of Sanada Nobutsuna, a strong man.
"Oh?" Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, "What do you mean by this?"
"I'm not going to lie to you," Sanada Nobutsuna stood up, moved around a bit, and patted the dust on his clothes. "Everything in front of me is part of my third brother's plan."
Before he finished speaking, more than twenty Takeda family samurai suddenly rushed out from the woods on both sides of the road down the mountain, commanded by Masayuki Sanada who had just escaped. The Hojo family ninja who was carrying a ladder and did not have a weapon in his hand.
Caught off guard, he was chopped down to the ground by the Ashigaru members of the Takeda family like they were chopping melons and vegetables. Blood splattered everywhere.
The Hojo Army, whose morale suffered a devastating blow, hurriedly threw down the ladders after reacting and fled. As a result, the few unlucky ones who were the slowest to throw were immediately pressed to the ground by the ladders, and a dozen others who tried to resist were pulled out.
The daggers fought with the Takeda family in hand-to-hand combat, but because they were outnumbered, they all quickly fell. Seven or eight ladders were thrown to the ground, and the Hojo family ninjas fled toward the mountains on both sides or downhill roads. Takeda
Ie Ashigaru did not hesitate to fight and rushed directly downhill into Imamiya Castle.
"Reinforcements have arrived! Counterattack!" This was the second time Yu Qiuping shouted this order today. He himself felt a little embarrassed. He hoped this would be the last time.
"Damn it! Why hasn't the leader of the wind demon arrived yet?" The helpless Towa Shisugu had no choice but to lead his men to fight and retreat. Under the attack of the Imagawa Army and the Takeda Army, they withdrew from Imamiya Castle and retreated towards the checkpoint. "It's already the time, isn't it?
Didn’t you say it’s not here yet?”
At this time, on the way from Xingguo Temple to Imamiya, two groups of people were chasing and fighting on the path in the mountains and forests, throwing kunai and darts at each other, and from time to time, several people would engage in close combat. One of the groups was manipulating
A large number of horses crashed into another group of people from time to time.
"Leader Kotaro!" A ninja leader reported to a tall man, "The ninjas of the Imagawa family are chasing us, but they don't attack. They seem to be deliberately slowing us down!"
"It's almost too late!" Fuma Kotaro glanced at the sky, "I'm afraid it will delay things. Yasuke, go light the smoke and tell Mr. Gohe that I can't make it."
The Hojo Army, which originally occupied the checkpoint and refused to retreat, completely lost the motivation to hold on after seeing the smoke slowly rising in the southeast, and evacuated toward the southeast together. The Imagawa Army and the Takeda Army did not pursue them, leaving behind
After the servants passed the checkpoint, the rest of the people returned to Imamiya Castle for lunch - they had been hungry for a long time. Yu Qiuping organized the manpower to bury Imamiya Leding, and at the same time summoned the surviving elders of the Imamiya family.
, held a succession ceremony for Imamiya Leqing, and comforted Mrs. Imamiya and the others for a long time.
After a while, the ninjas of the Imakawa family, led by a jounin named Abe Gensa, rushed to Imamiya Castle to see Yu Qiupei. They waited for Yu Qiupei for a long time last night, and this morning they headed in the direction of Imamiya.
On the road, he accidentally bumped into the Fumage ninja who came for reinforcements, and a battle broke out immediately.
"Did you write the note last night?" After listening to the other party's account, Yu Qiuping apologized awkwardly in the eyes of the surrounding subordinates who couldn't laugh or cry. "I was afraid it was a trap, so I didn't dare to go."
After these days of fighting, Yu Qiuping's troops had a total of 4 killed and 12 injured. Two of them were seriously injured and had to be carried on stretchers, but fortunately there were no injuries that would lead to lifelong disabilities. The Imagawa family
The ninjas sent also suffered several casualties during the containment and fighting. The Takeda family also suffered nearly twenty casualties - mostly the troops who were left behind.
"Please Sanada-sama, please clear up my doubts!" After lunch, Yu Qiupei asked Sanada Masayuki sincerely. This time the Hojo family's conspiracy failed, all thanks to Sanada Masayuki's ingenious plan, "I don't know how, sir,
Recognize that the Hojo family is the one behind the scenes."
"Insufficient information, in fact, I didn't recognize it at all." Sanada Masayuki raised his eyebrows and laughed.
"Hey!" Yu Qiuping was surprised, "Then how did you lay an ambush on the mountain road?"
"If you set up an ambush, it doesn't have to be the Hojo family, it could also be your Imagawa family!" Sanada Masayuki said with a smile, "Listen to me slowly."
"The situation is indeed complicated and confusing. I had always thought that the Hojo family might be the murderer behind the scenes, but after Imamiya-sama was killed, I felt that the Imagawa family was also very suspicious." Sanada Masayuki said, "My lord also knows that among the three families, I
The food supply is the minimum, I can’t drag you down with me, I must find out the matter as soon as possible.”
"Since when three people exist at the same time, the situation is complicated and confusing. I don't know who is lying." Sanada Masayuki raised his eyebrows, "Then if there is one less person, wouldn't it be enough to have a confrontation between two people?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone took a deep breath.
"If there are two people left, the real culprit behind the scenes will definitely take action against the other party, and we can see clearly who is the culprit." Sanada Masayuki looked at the surprised expressions of everyone and said with a smile, "When Imamiya-sama was killed
, I was thinking about where exactly a large number of enemy troops suddenly came out and were able to completely wipe out the more than thirty soldiers that Imamiya-sama left in the castle tower."
"After thinking about it, I discovered a place that we have been neglecting for the past few days." Sanada Masayuki pointed to the temporary residence of the residents on the mountain, "Imamiya-sama said that those people came here as refugees.
, so he did not want to disturb him too much, and naturally did not investigate the identity. The murderer must have sneaked in early in the morning. Then he secretly built a ladder in the forest on the mountain. And suddenly went down the mountain this morning, taking advantage of the city gate to open, and assassinated him.
Mr. Imamiya."
"And the reason why they knew our movements so well before is that there must have been people who went up the mountain together and sneaked into the castle town. They usually take advantage of transporting food to the mountain to pass on information."
"After figuring out all this, I started my plan." Sanada Masayuki is a twelve-year-old child after all. He couldn't help but beam when he talked about his proud moment, "Since no one passed the level, those ambushers must have returned to the mountain!
I will send people to ambush in the woods on both sides of the mountain road, waiting for the opportunity to ambush! At the same time, we will control the situation in the city and prevent others from knowing our plan."
"Then, my eldest brother and I decided to personally attack the family that entered the castle tower first, and then pretended to flee under the attack of the other two families and were captured, making the other two families think that the Takeda family had no fighting power. But at this time, it was not the Black Hand.
One party must think that the matter is over and relax his vigilance, and the real mastermind will want to sneak attack on him. After that, it depends on the remaining two families, who strikes first, who is the mastermind who wants to kill everyone, and then we will help!
First ambush the opponent's ambush, and then attack into the city together!"
After hearing Masayuki Sanada's plan, everyone was filled with admiration. Every aspect of the matter was perfectly captured by Masayuki Sanada.
"It's just that you're not worried that your eldest brother will be hacked to death if he falls into the hands of a gangster?" Yu Qiuping asked curiously.
Sanada Masayuki smiled slightly and turned his attention to Sanada Nobutsuna. Sanada Nobutsuna raised his hand, fumbled for a while, and took out a small knife from the Jinhaori on his wrist. Behind him, there were more than a dozen captured Takedas.
Ashigaru also took out knives from their wrist sleeves.
"When the last resort comes, everyone will try to separate the ropes and fight. As long as one person among a dozen people succeeds, he will have the opportunity to help others loosen their ropes." Sanada Masayuki said with a smile, "Nothing goes wrong."
"It's amazing!" Yu Qiuping was really convinced this time. "It seems sincere and reliable, but he used a strategy to deceive all the enemies at the same time. It's really amazing."
"I would like to give you a comment for Sanada-sama!" Yu Qiuping said with a smile.
"Sir Yuqiu, please speak." Sanada Masayuki asked.
Yu Qiuping looked around at the crowd, stood up, looked at Masayuki Sanada, and said excitedly: "Better on the outside than on the outside!"
"This is obviously a curse!" Sanada Nobutsuna was the first to be unhappy and stood up to stand up for his younger brother.
"I think it's the best compliment." Sanada Masayuki smiled and gave Yu Qiupei a knowing high-five.
"Those who play with intelligence must learn to deceive others!"