On June 25, a group of people left Owari and entered Mino territory. However, Maeda Toshiie did not leave as agreed, but planned to escort Yu Qiupei and his group until they returned.
"If you've been away like this for so long, who will take care of Mrs. Song? You'd better go back." Yu Qiuping advised.
"I have entrusted several friends in the shrine to help take care of it. Osomatsu also has a maid, no problem." Maeda Toshiie waved his hand, "My Osomatsu is sensible! She said that she has received so many favors from others.
, you can’t just walk away, insist on letting me follow you. And I, Inuchiyo, am not a person who is not loyal enough! You think so, boy!”
"That's it, welcome then, big brother!" Yu Qiuping smiled and gave him a high-five.
"Master Maeda," Sena Ujitoshi said, "Although we are enemies of each other, there is no need to hold grudges here. When we are not on the battlefield, we are friends."
"Sena-sama, that's interesting!" Maeda Toshiie burst out laughing, "Then I won't be polite!"
Sena Ujitoshi took the caravan to Inoguchi Town, which is under the castle of Inabayama Castle, the Saito family's hometown, and prepared to collect some intelligence.
"The Saito family won't be making any big moves recently." After watching for a while, Sanada Masayuki said to Yu Qiupei with certainty.
"Oh? Why?" Yu Qiuping asked in confusion, "Did you get any information?"
"There is information all over here, why don't you take a closer look, sir?" Sanada Masayuki said with a smile. The caravan was currently on the second floor of a restaurant in the castle town, watching the pedestrians coming and going in the castle town.
"The autumn harvest is coming soon. If the Saito family wants to take action, they have to speed up their reserves." Sanada Masayuki said confidently, "Mino suffered a famine last year and the harvest was not good. Now because the autumn harvest is approaching, last year's grain and grass have been exhausted.
The consumption area is almost gone. If you want to send troops, in order to raise military rations, you must purchase food from the private sector or various wealthy families." Masayuki Sanada analyzed, "But the food prices of the few small vendors selling food just now have remained at normal levels.
No fluctuations.”
"That's it..." Yu Qiuping suddenly realized and shook his head, "I can't see anything hahaha..."
Sure enough, after a while, Sena Toshiya came back with a few people. He told everyone that based on his conversations with several samurai, the Saito family would indeed not take any action in the near future, just as Sanada Masayuki expected.
Since the Saito family did not show strong hostility towards the Oda family, and Toshi Sena did not stay long, the group left Inoguchi Town and headed west. On the morning of June 27, they arrived at Akasaka in Ikeda County. Akasaka is not a particularly prosperous place.
, but a small and remote place. Further to the west, there is Sekigahara, which will become famous in the future, and the territory of Kitaomi's Asai family. The group found an inn to stay. Yu Qiupei, Amano Keitoku and Maeda Toshiie
, Honda Nanosuke and Sanada Masayuki were wandering around the castle town of Akasaka Castle, planning to find a place to have lunch.
"Let me tell you, this kind of small shop usually has the most flavor!" Maeda Toshiie led everyone to a small restaurant at the edge of the castle town. "The big restaurants in the center of the castle town are not that good."
"He should have brought his personal guards with him," Yu Qiuping muttered. "Wasn't he from Meinong before? You can let him go home and take a look."
"If Naoe-sama comes, there will be no one to capture the boss in the territory." Sanada Masayuki said with a smile, "Although we have known each other for a short time, in my opinion, Naoe-sama is the one who can best understand your thoughts and intentions."
"Haha, I have a special affinity with Chibei." Yu Qiuping said with a smile, "He seems to have been imitating the way I handle affairs."
While everyone was chatting and laughing, the owner of the store had personally brought up a plate of fried dishes. The store is not big, there are only 4 people in total, and it seems to be run by a family. The chef is the hostess, the owner and their
A son and a daughter were working as waiters. The boss and his sons and daughters were very welcoming, and there were many customers in the shop, so the business was pretty good. The table sitting on Yu Qiuping's left hand side was...
Um...a very handsome young man, accompanied by several followers. The other thing that caught Yu Qiuping's attention was another table of samurai in the corner. Maeda Toshiie said that the accent seemed to be from Omi. Four strong men
He was listening respectfully to a boy who was only a little older than Sanada Masayuki, talking loudly about the righteousness of the samurai.
Suddenly, the girl who was waiting outside the store screamed, and then there was a commotion outside the door. Yu Qiuping frowned and looked back, and saw a dozen strong men dressed as bandits walking away menacingly.
Coming in, one of the leaders had a big beard all over his face. It seems that this kind of dress has become the standard for bandits? He was holding the girl who was crying and struggling, and was frivolously frivolous with her.
Yu Qiuping thought that the shop owner and the girl's brother would be furious, but when they saw these bandits, the two of them just knelt down in a hurry. The proprietress who hurriedly came from the kitchen saw her daughter being held in the arms of the bandits.
, did not dare to resist, but just took out the tea from the kitchen.
"Xiaoba, uncle, I finally came here once, do you want to be filial and filial?" The man with a bandit beard looked at the kneeling shop owner, but his hand pinched the girl's buttocks hard.
asked with a wicked smile.
"Sir Tokuyama's presence here really makes our store shine." The store owner trembled and said honestly, "It's just this month's share... I've already given it to you!"
"Yes, I have given it!" The bandit leader, who was called Mr. Tokuyama, snorted, "But I don't think it is enough! What's the matter, give it or not!"
Yu Qiuping finally understood. This Tokuyama bandit seemed to be the boss of the underworld here in Akasaka. He was running rampant in the castle town and collecting protection fees. Yu Qiuping felt a deep disgust for this kind of people who were just like the common people.
He also pressed it on the handle of the knife. Honda Nanosuke and Maeda Toshiie beside them were also very angry, while Amano Keitoku and Sanada Masayuki looked at the performance of their companions with some fun.
"Of course you must be respectful to your lord!" The boss nodded and stood up in a hurry, took out the money from the counter that he had worked hard to earn for an unknown amount of time, and handed it to the Tokuyama Bandit.
"That's pretty much it." Bandit Tokuyama chuckled, "This daughter of yours is becoming more and more beautiful, how about it? I'll give you some face, take her back as a concubine!" He said as he said,
While rubbing his unshaven face towards the girl's face, the girl had tears streaming down her face in fear, but she didn't dare to say a word. The dozen or so followers behind the bandit also shouted with lewd smiles.
"How dare you, my little girl, to climb up to the adults!" The boss and his family were immediately frightened so much that their faces turned pale and they kowtowed on the ground as if they were pounding garlic. "Don't you dare!"
"As long as I say yes!" the bandit leader roared, as if he felt tired from standing and wanted to find a place to sit down. The table next to him happened to be that of the handsome young man. Yu Qiuping had been paying attention just now.
The bandit leader didn't pay attention to the young man. The young man's face was also full of disgust, and he had been holding the teacup in his hand tightly since just now.
"Come on, pretty boy, make room for me!" The Tokuyama bandit tapped the young man's desk with his scabbard, and prepared to move his butt towards the young man's seat.
However, to his surprise, the young man completely ignored his presence, silently raised the teacup, took a few sips of tea, and then talked about other things with a few companions as if nothing had happened.
"Damn it!" The Tokuyama bandit felt so humiliated that he was completely ignored. He swept the boy's tea cup away and hit the ground, breaking into several pieces. The boy still ignored his existence and couldn't even look at it.
He glanced at it.
"You are mute!" A follower behind the bandit cursed in order to save the boss, "Can't even say a word!"
"Let that girl go." As if to slap the follower in the face, the young man suddenly spoke and uttered a few words lightly. The disgust between his eyebrows seemed to have reached the limit.
"It needs repairs, right? You know who I am, sir! Tokuyama Umehide! The uncle from Akasaka!" Tokuyama Umehide grabbed the boy's collar and picked him up. Some of the thin and frail boys were almost beaten by the latter.
Lifting it up, several attendants around him stood up angrily, but were forced by several followers of the bandit.
When the store owner and his family saw the conflict in the store, they hid behind the counter in horror.
"Let the girl go." The young man was lifted up in the air. He seemed not to care about the dilemma he encountered at all, but repeated again, his words still so calm and calm.
"Master, you are here in Akasaka, you can do whatever you want! I think you are tired of living!" Umehide Tokuyama snorted coldly, and just as he was about to hit the young man, the Omi people at the other table, led by the young man,
He immediately pushed the table in front of him, stood up, each with a knife in his hand, and looked at the bandits with eager eyes. The bandit followers behind him also drew their swords and looked at these people fiercely.
"Is there any way to do something like this in broad daylight?" The leading boy was wearing a blue and white samurai uniform, and the samurai sword in his hand looked high-quality, and he must have a lot of background.
"Omi accent?" Umehide Tokuyama turned around and asked, "What are you doing in Mino to meddle in other people's business?"
"I am Asai Kenmasa, the young master of the Asai family!" Asai Kenmasa, the future Asai Nagamasa shouted sternly: "Don't let that girl go yet!" Yu Qiuping's eyes suddenly burned up, and he looked at her intently.
The future celebrity of the Warring States Period married a man from Oda City, the most beautiful woman in the Warring States Period! (Although Yu Qiupei felt that the most beautiful woman in the Warring States Period must be Imagawa Kaede) He was shaking slightly with excitement. Maeda Toshiie glanced at Yu Qiupei and felt that the other party seemed
There is a disease that causes convulsions after seeing a special person.
"Oh? The young master of the Asai family? So what, wasn't the Asai family just defeated by the Rokkaku family?" The bandit was not frightened, and sneered: "The young master of the Asai family is in our beauty."
Why are you so arrogant? Your uncle, I am the nephew of Tokuyama Norihide Yamazaki! I say the same thing here in Akasaka, don’t meddle in other people’s business! Go back to Omi and lick the Rokkaku family’s shoes!”
Kenmasa Asai's eyes turned red. He hated to hear anyone mention his family's history of humiliation. The few attendants around him also looked unkind, and they were about to fight.
A clever bandit next to Tokuyama Umehide understood that the guards of the young masters of the Asai family must be higher than the bandits, and they would definitely suffer a loss in a fight. So he pulled out his knife and held it to the girl's penis.
On the neck, he cursed: "None of you dare to move! This girl will die immediately!" Asai Kenmasa and others were stunned for a moment, and for a moment they were afraid to move.
"Look clearly, it's fourteen against nine now, don't you be afraid!" Umehide Tokuyama didn't notice the good intentions of his subordinates, and deliberately twisted his body to move the girl away from the knife edge. He held the girl with one hand,
He grabbed the boy's collar with one hand, faced Kenmasa Asai and cursed: "You deserve a beating, boy!"
Suddenly, he felt pain under his ribs, and was pushed violently. Then the girl in his arms was pulled away, and the hand holding the boy's collar loosened. He turned around in a hurry, only to
Seeing the five people snatching the girl back and protecting her behind them, they all drew knives in their hands. The leader, a heroic young man, smoothed his bangs on his forehead and said with a smile: "Now it's 14 versus 14!"
Yu Qiuping looked at the group of bandits in front of him and suddenly felt a deep sadness. On his side were the future unparalleled Honda Tadakatsu, Omi's Eagle Asai Nagamasa, Gun's right and left Maeda Toshiie, and Osaka Sanada.
Changxing, the bandit on the opposite side doesn't even have a name in history, but he actually wants to fight against me? This is probably the worst bandit in history.