Volume 7 Jiangnan Green Looking Maple Red Chapter 1029 Companion
"Yasuke, you have to be careful about your actions. Even if this person is beaten to death, there is no way to interrogate him." Oda Nobunaga looked at the lifeless Kentaro Tian Shen and glanced at Yasuke with a complaining look. But Yasuke obviously also listened. He didn't understand Japanese, so he just looked at Oda Nobunaga in confusion, wondering why he didn't get a good look from Oda Nobunaga even though he was successful in rescuing the driver. Oda Nobunaga naturally knew that Yasuke couldn't understand Japanese, so he took the photo with a smile. He patted Yasuke on the shoulder and praised him in the simple language taught by the Europa businessman.
Then, he turned around, and the smile on his face disappeared instantly, replaced by a cold face.
"Go and check, which family has envoys coming in and out of Kyoto today, and which family is likely to bring people in." Oda Nobunaga sneered, then waved his hand and strode outside the temple, "I haven't. If I remember correctly, both the Tokugawa family and the Akechi family sent people here. They are both people who have a good relationship with Yuqiu Hongye... I feel that this kind of behavior is probably what Yuna Mikawa's younger brother did. .”
At this moment, there was a sound of horse hooves at the door. Oda Nobutada and a group of guards hurriedly entered the temple. They were shocked by the corpses on the ground. They were relieved after seeing that Oda Nobunaga himself was safe and sound.
"Father!" Oda Nobutada took three steps at a time and knelt down in front of Oda Nobunaga to salute. "My son, I rushed over immediately after hearing the movement at Honnoji Temple. The rescue was late! Please atone for your sins, Father!" "
"I don't blame you, I blame these cowards." Oda Nobunaga once again glanced at his nickname and guards viciously, then patted Oda Nobutada on the shoulder and said, "Clean up this messy Honnoji Temple. , I want to go to Toji Temple and ask the Tokugawa family’s envoys face to face to see what they want to do.”
"Yes! Father!" After receiving the order, Oda Nobutada immediately arranged for the guards and subordinates he brought to collect the corpses and clean the blood stains. Oda Nobunaga took Yasuke and other entourage and rode straight to Toji Temple. He called out to Okubo Tadatsusa and others who had already gone to bed. Okubo Tadatsusa saw Oda Nobunaga coming to him like a whirlwind, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and his face became grim.
"What's wrong? You're making a face? Are you disappointed to see that I'm still alive?" Oda Nobunaga shook the riding crop in his hand with a smile, and then hit Okubo Tadashi's face hard. The previous whip was whipped away one by one, "Tell me honestly, was it Tokugawa Ieyasu's order?"
"I don't know what the main hall is talking about!" Okubo Tadasa gritted his teeth and knelt down. He was determined not to let go even if he was beaten to death. "I don't know why the main hall is so angry! If the Tokugawa family did something If there is anything that displeases the main hall, I am willing to commit seppuku to atone for the Tokugawa family’s sins!”
"Oh?" Oda Nobunaga grinned playfully when he heard this, then squatted down, grabbed Okubo Tadashi's head by the bun on his head, and threatened him, "You are so stubborn here. What's the use? That old man has done it all."
Okubo Tadashi was horrified, but he still tried his best to keep his facial expression unchanged and looked like he was at a loss, "The great atonement! I really don't understand what the great hall is talking about!"
"It doesn't matter if someone has a tough mouth, there will always be someone who has a loose mouth." Oda Nobunaga stood up as if nothing had happened, not even looking at the dozen or so shocking blood marks on Okubo Tadashi's face, "Someone, bring the Tokugawa family's Bring all the envoys here to see if they can recruit anyone."
At this moment, a guard from Kyoto suddenly came on horseback and broke into Toji Temple without hesitation, shouting that he wanted to see Oda Nobunaga.
"What's going on today? Can't you give Yu a break?" Oda Nobunaga was trembling with anger at the guard's unreasonable behavior. He swung his whip in the air and said, "Let Yu get out of here. If you can't tell me,
If it's important, I'll cut out his tongue."
Pushengshixiang took the order and immediately led the guard in. The guard didn't say much when he saw this, he knelt down and said directly without even saying hello: "My lord! Something bad is going to happen! I know it."
Thousands of rebellious troops entered Kyoto and set fire to it. Honnoji Temple has been surrounded, and the young master was unable to escape and was surrounded in the temple!"
"What?" Oda Nobunaga was really shocked this time. The idea of cutting off the guard's tongue disappeared instantly, "Who is the rebel?"
"The Platycodon flag is the troops of Akechi Hinata!"
"Mitsuhide..." Oda Nobunaga was startled again. He glanced at Okubo Tadasa who was still kneeling on the ground and didn't move, and then realized his good luck in surviving the catastrophe, "Could it be that the assassin is also from the Mitsuhide sect? Then
He really shot the stone in the foot. He thought he had double insurance, but he didn't know that if it hadn't been for the assassination, Yu would still be safely staying in Honnoji Temple, and he would probably not be able to survive at this moment. His assassination drove Yu to Toji Temple.
come."
"Lord, please immediately let me lead the troops to rescue the young master!" The village of Kamao clan heard that Oda Nobutada was blocked in the temple, and was already breaking out in a cold sweat. "The young master has hundreds of people around him, so he can't stop him.
living!"
"It's useless, don't waste time." Oda Nobunaga's coldness and determination exceeded the imagination of everyone present. "Since it was Mitsuhide who rebelled, he must have been fully prepared. It was too late for Honnoji to realize the reason for his escape. In the Akechi Army
Before surrounding Toji Temple, immediately cover my retreat."
"But the young master is still there!" Kamao clan pointed to the direction of the fire that was gradually burning in the north. "The master was assassinated just now, but the young master came with more than a dozen people regardless of the danger! This act of loyalty and filial piety
Heart, can my lord have the heart to abandon it directly? The young master is the heir of the Oda family and has been recognized by important ministers from all sides. How can he..."
"For him to come to rescue Yu shows that he is not mature enough! If we really encounter this kind of rebellion, we must not
Put the two governors in one basket, run away when they need to, sell when they need to sell! If our father and son are dead, the Oda family will be finished! You can’t even think clearly about this, and you dare to come with more than a dozen people.
The person I am rescuing here is so soft-hearted and ignorant that he is not worthy of being a household governor! He must have the mentality that he wishes Yu would die early so that he could be in charge, so that Yu can safely hand over the Oda family to him! It’s a pity that he doesn’t!”
Oda Nobunaga sternly shouted a long paragraph, using his voice to conceal his emotional fluctuations and reddish eyes, and then said categorically: "Evacuate south immediately! All the flags and garrison troops remaining in Kyoto will protect Yu Xiangnan! At the same time, send envoys
Go to Maple Leaf Mountain City and ask Quan Liu to bring the cavalry back immediately to put down the rebellion!"
Having said that, Oda Nobunaga just glanced at the direction of Honnoji Temple for the last time, walked out of the temple to the south without looking back, and retreated southward with the army without any explanation. After the Akechi Army reacted and began to pursue, the Oda Army
They had already withdrawn a long distance and retreated towards Makishima Castle.
When the Akechi family's army attacked again, it was already the morning of June 17, the tenth year of Tensho (1582). Before the Akechi army could launch an attack on Makishima Castle, smoke and dust were seen in the distance on the official road to the southwest——
Shibata Katsuie led all the banner horseback warriors of the Oda family to rush back all the way. There were thousands of them, even more than the total number of Akechi family soldiers. The outcome of the battle became no longer in suspense.
Under the two-sided attack of Tian Nobunaga and Shibata Katsuie, the Akechi army melted as quickly as the first snow under the sun. The Akechi family's banner team and family elders took the cavalry to cover Akechi Mitsuhide and fled north.
Failed, completely failed, Akechi Mitsuhide knew very well that her revenge plan and everything in the Akechi family had been lost by her. However, she unexpectedly found that she was not as depressed as she had expected. She thought carefully.
After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly realized that it doesn’t matter whether I win or lose.
Even if she kills Oda Nobunaga, what will happen? Yu Qiuping still can't come back, and she will never see his gentle smile again.
Whether it is so-called revenge or memorialization and commemoration of the deceased, to put it bluntly, it is just a way for the living to comfort their hearts, and it is meaningless to the deceased.
But after he left, her heart was empty. What was the use of these worldly comforts?
Yes, it's all the same. The only difference is that she will die earlier, but that doesn't matter. A world without Yu Qiuping is meaningless to her, and there is nothing to miss. I don't know where to start from.
From that time on, the status of the Akechi family that she had always wanted to revive - on the scale in her heart - had been easily lifted up by that man. Until the heavy Yu Qiuping was removed from one side of the scale, Akechi light
The scholar discovered that Mingzhijia, who fell heavily from the other side of the scale, was as light as a feather compared to Yu Qiuping.
If her mother knew that she was so contemptuous of the Akechi family she cared about all her life, she would definitely be very disappointed. But her mother also passed away last year, and no one would see this scene, so it would be the same.
This world has no meaning anymore.
Akechi Mitsuhide let out a long sigh and looked towards Kyoto in the north. She was thinking about her own way of death, but suddenly she was stunned - she only saw countless ordinary people in Kyoto fleeing south, dragging their families with them.
The fire that ignited behind them was the fire they set. When the common people saw the soldiers of the Mingzhi Army running towards them, their faces turned pale with fear. They threw all the belongings they had saved from the fire all over the floor and ran in all directions.
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I just burned the savings of countless families for more than ten years... I may even have destroyed the hard-won happiness of countless families...
Akechi Mitsuhide suddenly felt extremely remorseful and guilty - she herself was surprised by this sudden emotion - didn't she not care about the world anymore? She didn't even care about the Akechi family, so why would she care about other people's qualities?
What about the happiness of the people in Kyoto who don’t know each other?
The moment she found the reason, tears suddenly welled up in her eyes and drifted away on the bumpy horseback.
Because the happiness of these ordinary people is what Yu Qiuping has been pursuing and protecting all his life - that man has long been deeply imprinted in Akechi Mitsuhide's heart, his voice and smile, every bit of him, his quirks,
His interests and of course his dreams...
I burned Kyoto to him...but Hongye, will he want this Kyoto? Does he want this empty body of Kyoto?
The tide of memories came again, and Akechi Mitsuhide seemed to have returned to the night before five years ago when he and Yu Qiuping were compatible. It seemed that he could see Yu Qiuping sitting in front of him, looking at Kyoto at the foot of the mountain in ecstasy——
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"Sorry, I'm rude." Akechi Mitsuhide lowered his head, gently wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, and then fell into silence. Yu Qiuping was a little embarrassed for a moment. He didn't know what to do, so he had to look away from Akechi.
Instead of looking at the scenery outside the window - it was already getting late, and the streets and alleys of Kyoto at the foot of the mountain in the distance were brightly lit in the night.
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Akechi Mitsuhide stared into Yu Qiupei's eyes in his fantasy. The dark eyes reflected the lights of Kyoto, making his features even more moving.
Yes, what he really loves is not Kyoto at all, but the thousands of lights in Kyoto. Because he knows that under each of these lights, there is a happy family of people, and these thousands of lights are what he strives for all his life.
the full meaning of.
So what am I doing now? Ruining the meaning of his lifelong pursuit for a moment of impulse and anger?
"Your Highness, there is a signal from the north!" Saito Risanyan rode his horse to guard Mitsuhide Akechi.
Jiandi discovered the smoke igniting in the northwest of Kyoto, "Our rear team has arrived, let them cover our retreat quickly!"
"No need, let them put out the fire immediately and protect the people, and then they can escape or surrender to the Oda family."
Akechi Mitsuhide issued an order that shocked his subordinates.
"Then..." At the critical moment, Saito Rizo did not bother to ask why Mitsuhide Akechi gave such incredible instructions - after all, there have been enough such instructions in the past few days, and he only cares about Mitsuhide Akechi's safety now.
"Then what do you do?"
"Send me to Lake Biwa. I will commit suicide on an island in the lake." Akechi Mitsuhide calmly and softly ordered, "Thank you for your hard work. Please buy me some time to leave calmly."
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Not long after, on a small boat in Lake Biwa, Akechi Mitsuhide was using her unskilled paddle. In the reeds on the shore far behind her, the sound of her subordinates fighting to the death could be vaguely heard. Thanks to the early morning light,
The thick fog allowed them to persist longer and allowed Mitsuhide Akechi's traces to be discovered later.
Fate finally favored this woman with a tragic life for the last time, allowing her to find the island she was looking for without much effort, the unknown island where Yu Qiuping and "she" first met. Set foot on the island
, walked all the way to the place where she and Yu Qiuping floated ashore, and the traces left by Yu Qiuping's fire were still vaguely visible.
She will never forget that day when she and Yu Qiuping fell into Lake Biwa while fighting the Asai family and drifted to this island. It was here that she lay on a man's shoulder and cried bitterly for the first time.
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Twelve years ago, on April 5, the first year of Gengui (1570), on the small island of Lake Biwa.
"Well..." Yu Qiuping scratched his head in embarrassment, not knowing what to say, so he said something for no reason: "Wouldn't it be hard for you to be like this for so many years?"
However, his casual inquiry made Akechi Mitsuhide silent for a moment. She lowered her head without saying a word, and the dancing firelight allowed Yu Qiuping to see the tears suddenly welling up in the corners of Akechi Mitsuhide's eyes.
Yu Qiuping sighed. His unconscious words may have touched her pain.
Before Yu Qiuping could react, the woman beside him suddenly lay on his shoulder and sobbed softly. The crying became more and more urgent, and gradually turned into sobs, and the tears couldn't stop flowing down.
A young girl, for the sake of the survival of her family, had to give up her beautiful skirt, put on heavy clothes, and tightly wrapped her flower-like figure with a stiff bra. She could no longer have the liveliness of a girl in her speech, behavior, and dealings with others. Instead, she had to give up her beautiful skirt.
It is the seriousness of men.
Over the years, she has endured countless hardships and grievances. She has carefully concealed her feminine nature behind the mask of an elegant warrior. She only dares to put on women's clothes in the dead of night and look at the bronze mirror with helpless eyes.
In his own world-famous appearance.
She didn't dare to tell her sister-in-law and mother, for fear of adding another burden to their grief; she didn't dare to tell her maids and guards, for fear that they would leak the news; she didn't dare to tell her friends, because they were destined to be unable to
Understanding would also arouse criticism. Depression and loneliness were about to destroy this woman, but she had to resist them all by herself. In front of others, she was still the gentle and wise Mitsuhide.
Today was the first time that she cried bitterly in front of others, crying out all the pain and suffering of more than ten years. In front of a person who accidentally revealed her identity, in front of a person who he regarded as a close friend, in front of a person who refused to live or die.
She gave up her companions and almost risked her life to save her.
In front of a man whom she had once been a little nervous about.
Showing her fragile emotions as a woman.
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Akechi Mitsuhide tightened his clothes and walked slowly towards the lake, muttering to himself.
"If you hadn't saved me that day, if I had just drowned in the lake that day, wouldn't I be as miserable as I am today?"
The further she walked, the deeper the lake became, gradually reaching her knees.
"This relationship was destined to be fruitless from the day it began. It was just the unrequited love of an infatuated woman."
The lake water was up to her waist, stirring her waist-length black hair.
"The story that starts here ends here."
The current pushed Mitsuhide Akechi a little unsteadily, but she still kept walking forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, feeling the cold temperature spread down her fair and slender neck.
"How wonderful would it be if I didn't fall in love with you?"
The water covered her lips, and she was speechless.
What a sad life. As a woman, she carried the burden of a man for the sake of her family and struggled through life. But at the end of her life, she turned back into an infatuated woman who gave up her previous life for another man.
Everything has been thrown away. Is this the fault of the troubled times or the woman's fault?
But how sad would this life be if I didn't fall in love with you? I shudder even just thinking about the days without you. How can I survive in such a world?
With his whole body immersed in the water, Akechi Mitsuhide drowned without any resistance. At the last moment when he lost consciousness, a somewhat naughty and extravagant desire surged in his heart.
At least in the underworld, I can come to you earlier than your Princess Imagawa.
If I had come earlier from the beginning, would all the stories be different?