"This flute sound..." Yu Qiuping was leaning on the wall and observing the Takeda Army's camp, but he was suddenly attracted by the sound of the flute.
"What's wrong, Your Highness?" Sanada Masayuki noticed Yu Qiuping's abnormality, "Has Your Highness ever heard of this song?"
"No...but this melody..." Yu Qiuping frowned, and suddenly felt an inexplicable pain in his head. He turned around, leaned his back against the battlement, slowly slid down, and covered his hands as if he was at a loss.
He nodded and murmured to himself: "It sounds so familiar..."
He seemed to have thought of something, but also seemed to have thought of nothing. The memory in his mind seemed to have touched something, but that thing flashed past like a nimble little rabbit, making it difficult for people to catch it, and it really made people even more worried.
Uncomfortable.
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Outside the city, Takeda Shingen's reaction was much stronger than that of Yu Qiupei. He was originally sitting on the marching horse and thinking about tomorrow's battle situation. He was stunned when he heard the sound of the flute. After he listened for a few breaths,
He immediately stood up in great horror and stared blankly in the direction where the flute sound came from.
"Lord, what's wrong? What's so weird about this flute sound?" Masanobu Kosaka, who was accompanying Takeda Shingen, also squinted his eyes and listened for a while, "The melody was peaceful, as if an elder was narrating something.
It's a beautiful story, but it has a bold and uninhibited spirit, probably Xianyun Yehe. Although this song is really good, why does the master..."
"Stop talking." Before Kosaka Masanobu finished speaking, Takeda Shingen suddenly interrupted his subordinate very rudely, made a silence gesture, and continued to listen to the flute with all his concentration. Kosaka Masanobu rarely saw Takeda Shingen.
Such a loss of composure - the last time was when I was on Kawanaka Island and heard the news of Takeda Nobushige's death.
"This..." Kosaka Masanobu couldn't help but be stunned, not understanding what was so special about the sound of the flute. But the flute player who dared to play the flute on the mountain next to the army must be either a madman or a knight.
"How is it possible..." After Takeda Shingen listened for another time, the melody of the flute returned to the original tune.
"Lord, what's going on?" This time, Kosaka Masanobu was afraid of disturbing Takeda Shingen's listening to the flute, so he lowered his voice and whispered in Takeda Shingen's ear, "My lord, you have heard this piece before? What's the matter?
story?"
"Yes, I have heard it. And this piece of music..." Takeda Shingen still stared blankly at the direction where the flute sound came from, his voice became a little erratic, and he replied softly like a dream, "Even among the creators in the world, there are
Only three people have heard of it.”
"Oh? Is he an old friend?" Kosaka Masanobu was slightly excited when he heard this, "In the wilderness, it is quite elegant to meet an old friend. Do you need to send someone to invite that old friend down?"
Takeda Shingen did not answer, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely strange and ferocious. Even his legs began to tremble, and the collection in his hand fell weakly to the ground. Kosaka Masanobu had never seen such panic on Takeda Shingen.
But - even in the battle of Kawanakajima, when Takeda Shingen's main formation was about to be broken through by Uesugi Kenshin, Takeda Shingen remained calm and composed.
What happened?
After a long while, Takeda Shingen finally woke up from his trance. He pinched his face with his hands, as if to confirm whether it was an hallucination, but finally shook his head feebly. The previous scenes that made him suspicious kept coming.
The ground swayed before our eyes, suddenly connected into pieces.
He spoke slowly, not knowing whether he was answering Kosaka Masanobu's question or was talking about
Talking to oneself.
"But the other two should be no longer alive."
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A moment later, on the path up the mountain, Takeda Shingen was leading Kosaka Masanobu, several guards and a dozen ninjas, holding torches and driving towards the mountain quickly. Takeda Shingen's sick body could not support such an action, and he had to rely on two guards
He carried him forward. Kosaka Masanobu had already arranged for more ninjas to cover Takeda Shingen's side from a distance, searching the mountains and forests.
"Lord, why are you doing this? Your body can't be tortured like this anymore, and it's too dangerous!" Kosaka Masanobu ordered the guards to surround Takeda Shingen to prevent someone from ambush and kill Takeda Shingen on the mountain, while letting the ninjas
Spread out a wide reconnaissance area and be alert to whether there is an ambush. "If you want to see that person, just send someone to bring him down. There is no need for you to go up the mountain in person!"
"No, given his character, since he dares to play the flute here, he will naturally have a way to escape, and you can't catch him." Takeda Shingen shook his head and said in an unusually determined voice, "Since he is here to play the flute,
Song, he must want to see me. If I don't come, he will leave immediately when he sees that I haven't moved and that only ninjas are coming. Only if I come, he can wait on the mountain." Takeda Shingen judged while
He listened carefully to the uninterrupted sound of the flute and searched for its source.
"But if he really wants to lure the lord up the mountain, he probably has bad intentions. What if he wants to assassinate the lord?" Kosaka Masanobu was sweating profusely at this moment, trying to persuade Takeda Shingen to try to kill him.
He was advised to go down the mountain, but Takeda Shingen just kept shaking his head and urging the guard who was supporting him to walk faster.
"I know he just wants to kill me, and I also know why he wants to kill me now, so it won't be so easy for him to succeed." Takeda Shingen smiled, "There are so many guards and ninjas around me, and further away
There are many ninjas searching the mountain, how can he easily succeed? There are many people in the world who want to kill me. If I had died so easily, I would have been assassinated long ago."
"But I don't understand why my lord has to personally take risks. Is it so important to see that old friend?" Kosaka Masanobu still refused to give up and followed Takeda Shingen and asked.
"Yes." Takeda Shingen replied in a deep voice without hesitation, "Anyway, I only have three months left to live. If I can't see the flute player with my own eyes, I will die of regret. Because it means too much."
Too much. If I die, there will be no mourning for three years. The position of family governor will be inherited by Nobukatsu, and Shiro will temporarily take over the position of family governor."
"Who is the flute? Why has my lord refused to tell you?" Kosaka Masanobu was even more surprised when he heard that Takeda Shingen actually thought that meeting that person was more important than his life, and even made arrangements for his funeral.
"I'm not sure, but I guess it's that man. I went up the mountain just to make sure it was him." Takeda Shingen anxiously urged the guard beside him again, as if he was worried that the sound of the flute would disappear in the next second.
"Who is it? Lord? Who do you think it is? Why don't you say it?" Kosaka Masanobu was driven crazy by Takeda Shingen's betrayal, and his tone became urgent and reproachful.
"Afraid of shaking the morale of the army." Takeda Shingen seemed to have no intention of talking to Kosaka Masanobu and just replied lightly.
"Only the next person knows. How can it shake the morale of the army? I promise to keep it secret!" Kosaka Masanobu asked again.
"This is not a matter of whether you keep it secret or not.
." Takeda Shingen still shook his head decisively, and suddenly his eyes lit up. At the end of the mountain road, you can see a somewhat dilapidated cabin - the sound of the flute came from that direction. And in Takeda Shingen and the others, they saw
After arriving at this cabin, the sound of the flute suddenly stopped, as if to suggest that Takeda Shingen was the sound coming from here.
"Lord, wait! Be careful of enemy attacks!" When he saw Takeda Shingen striding forward, Kosaka Masanobu stepped forward to block Takeda Shingen's side. At the same time, he signaled the surrounding guards to use their bodies to protect Takeda Shingen behind his back. Then he hit him a few times.
With a gesture, the surrounding ninjas immediately extinguished their torches and quickly rushed towards the wooden house.
However, the enemy attack that Kosaka Masanobu was worried about did not appear. Soon after, several ninjas who went to investigate the cabin quickly came out of the cabin and returned to Kosaka Masanobu and Takeda Shingen. They lowered their voices and reported, "Report to the lord, confirmation in the cabin
Safe and deserted.”
"Let's go." Takeda Shingen ordered in a deep voice and walked forward without any explanation. The guards around him quickly followed up and protected Takeda Shingen tightly. In order to avoid being attacked by someone in the woods, Kosaka Masanobu ordered everyone to light torches.
Extinguish it to prevent the fire from illuminating Takeda Shingen's position and giving the attacker an opportunity to take advantage of it.
After entering the wooden house, Kosaka Masanobu, the guards, and the ninjas instantly breathed a sigh of relief. This airtight indoor was much safer than the forest outside, because people outside the house could not see the position of the people inside, and they could not attack Takeda.
Shingen. And Takeda Shingen immediately looked around. Because the night was dark and windy, and the moonlight was not very bright, it was not clear what the wooden house looked like. However, based on the general layout of the wooden house and the faint smell of incense inside,
It was certain that elegant people lived there, and it was not abandoned. However, Takeda Shingen was even more surprised by the layout in front of him. He tried hard to smell the incense, but felt a buzz in his brain.
shock.
Takeda Shingen walked forward without looking back, opened a door, and walked into a room that looked like a study. Several ninjas immediately stood on guard at the four corners of the room to prevent anyone from attacking.
There is a desk next to the window in the study. The window is covered with paper. Through the blurred moonlight through the window paper, you can vaguely see a piece of paper with writing spread out on the desk. Takeda Shingen stood in front of the desk.
He put his hands on the table and leaned down to squint a few times, but the light was too dark and he couldn't see clearly. Seeing this, a guard next to him took out a flint and lit the torch in his hand to illuminate Takeda Shingen.
.
I saw eight big characters written on the rice paper in bold and uninhibited yet flexible handwriting.
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Doom has been decided
Life should not be cut off
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The moment Takeda Shingen saw this handwriting, his pupils shrank suddenly, and his whole body trembled spasmodically. He woke up in an instant, whispered "Quickly extinguish the torch" and almost wanted to put it out with his hands.
The torch in the guard's hand.
However, it was still a step too late.
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"boom".
I heard the sound of iron cannon firing outside the window, and the projectiles broke through the window paper and shot straight into the chest of Takeda Shingen who was standing in front of the table covered with rice paper - his position was facing the window.
The light of fire in the room actually signified that someone wanted to read the writing on the table. And the person standing in the best observation position was naturally Takeda Shingen.