On a dark and windy night, in a hidden hut in Maple Leaf Mountain City.
"Come on, come on." A child at the door greeted in a low voice.
"Is there anyone following you?" An older boy sitting in the room asked in a low voice with some vigilance.
"No, it's just the two of them." The child on guard at the door looked around a few more times and whispered in a very determined voice.
"Okay." The older boy smiled and nodded, "As long as no one follows."
"If you are caught doing these things, you will be scolded." A young man on the side, although not very old, but already showing some heroic spirit, whispered, and at the same time glanced at the food in his bowl uneasily.
"Don't worry, I'm here, everything will be fine!" Another young man dressed casually sat at the table, tapping the cauldron casually with his chopsticks, "I'm so lucky, I've never been caught doing bad things!"
"Come on, come on!" At this time, the child at the door shouted excitedly again. He opened the door with a "swish", startling the two little girls outside who were about to knock on the door. They took a closer look.
, it is Yu Qiucen and Chacha.
"Matsuchiyo, why are you here?" Yu Qiucen saw Asahina Matsuchiyo sneaking out, "Aren't you supposed to be on duty at my dad's place?"
"I asked Ranmaru to make it worth it for me! Hehe!" Asahina Matsuchiyo rubbed her hands excitedly, "Brother Yuu said there is hot pot to eat, how could you not come here! I have never eaten it! I heard you say it before
It’s delicious!”
"Second brother, what did you do, take away other people's children?" Yu Qiucen sniffed his nose and smelled the fragrance in the room, and immediately judged what was cooking in the pot, and glared at Yu with some dissatisfaction.
Qiu You glanced at it and said, "It's both beef and pork. If you violate the meat ban like this, my mother will definitely scold you if she finds out!"
"Father said it, what mother said is fallacy."
"Mom said, what dad said is fallacy! These are all unclean things!"
"Father said that eating beef and pork can strengthen your body!"
"Oops! It doesn't make sense! You are all like this!" Yu Qiucen snorted and ignored Yu Qiuyou. Instead, he went directly to Naoe Nobuei who was sitting at the table and glanced at his bowl - a few
Large pieces of beef, mutton, and pork meatballs.
"Ping-kun! Why are you eating these again! Ah, I've told you this several times!"
"What are you doing, Yu Cen, you've already eaten it several times! You still have the nerve to blame us!" Naoe Nobuei laughed evilly, put another piece of mutton into his mouth, and made a very enjoyable gesture towards Yu Qiucen
Chewy, "How delicious!"
"I only eat a little bit every time..." Yu Qiucen was about to explain, but Naoe Touhei suddenly stood up, picked up a small piece of beef with chopsticks, and brought it to Yu Qiucen's mouth. At the same time, he whispered softly:
"ah--"
Naoe Nobuhei's move made Yu Qiucen's words stop abruptly, and two blushes appeared on her pretty face. After she hesitated for a moment with her lips pouted, she quickly took the beef off her chopsticks.
"Bad guy." Yu Qiucen said sweetly in her heart, but Naoe Touhei seemed to read her heart from her eyes, and said with a smile, "You call me a bad guy, don't you?"
"No." Yu Qiucen turned away like a baby, pretended to be angry and walked to the door, patted Chacha on the shoulder and said, "Chacha is a good boy! You are only allowed to eat fish, shrimp and vegetables, no.
You can eat those dirty things!”
"Yeah." Chacha nodded repeatedly when she heard the words, but her eyes moved among the crowd - as if she was looking for someone. After a while, she regretfully discovered that Yu Qiu Shang was not in the room.
There, he nodded his head and lowered his head unhappily.
"Come in, come in, eat quickly, we'll cook it later." Yu Qiuyou keenly noticed Chacha's expression and greeted him a little sourly. Several juniors sat around the steaming cauldron,
Watching with excitement the food in the pot rise and fall as the bottom of the pot boils.
"Husong, are you going to go on an expedition again recently?" Yu Qiucen was eating, and suddenly thought of Yu Qiuping, who had been busy these past few days, and asked with some confusion.
"Yes." After Ii Naomasa hesitated for a while, he still felt that there was no need to hide this information - the whole army knew it, so there was nothing wrong with telling everyone. "When the autumn harvest is halfway through, we will go out to attack Ji."
I’m here.”
"Ki? Are you going to mess with the Hezhong and Nelaizhong who support the Honganji family?" Yuqiuyou immediately took over the conversation and asked in very professional terms. He seemed to want to express himself in front of Chacha and turned his head.
Glancing at Chacha.
"Your Highness didn't say, but I think so." Naomasa Ii frowned again, and then gave an ambiguous answer.
"Those Chinese people are very bad, even Ji Yi, they insisted on going to Shishan City to become our enemy." Yu Qiuyou put down his chopsticks and began to explain his views on the overall situation to everyone, "Before, they relied on Shishan City.
It caused us a lot of trouble. This time we arrived in Kii, they didn’t have that good luck.”
"Kii also has many fortified cities built on the mountains, and their iron cannons will still cause us a lot of trouble." Naomasa Ii shook his head - Takenaka Shigeharu has been organizing military exercises recently, and the content of the exercises is what
Attack a mountain city with a large number of iron cannons.
"So I say, we should have gone south directly at that time! While Zahezhong, Genlaizhong and the others were still in Shishan City, they had not returned to Shishan City, so they just took the blame for Jiyi! Let them become baseless people and they will not be able to stir up any trouble.
"When Yu Qiuyou said this, he shook his head very depressedly, "I have told my father many times, but he just doesn't listen to me! I also conducted a chess game with him on this issue and tried many times.
I win, but my father just won’t listen!”
"We didn't know much about Kii before. We didn't survey the local terrain, and the staff department didn't designate a plan to march into Kii on a large scale." Naomasa Ii shook his head again and objected, "If you act blindly, you may encounter unexpected risks.
.”
"You have all been taught by your father that you don't know how to fight." Yu Qiuyou was retorted twice by Naomasa Ii. He was a little embarrassed and couldn't help but raise his voice, "Father has always only been defensive. What kind of attack, surprise attack, etc.
They all know nothing about it. Even though war and chess deductions are possible, my father is still hesitant."
"Brother Yuji, fighting is different from playing chess. When it comes to chess, I think even Takeda Shingen can't beat me, but this is war..." Naoe Nobuei smiled and made several gestures in the air with his chopsticks.
, "If you give me 10,000 courages, I wouldn't dare to fight against Takeda Shingen."
"Actually, I think His Highness did not send troops to Kii immediately because he had other considerations." Naoe Dengping paused and then said again, "Our artillery team has been on standby at Kishiwada Port in the past few days, until many new coasts
After the cannon was built and sent to the fort, he transferred us back. His Highness must be worried that the Miyoshi family and the Mori family's naval forces would attack Kishiwada Port and destroy our shipyard, so he did not dare to act rashly."
"Yes." Naomasa Ii nodded with approval, "So His Highness delayed the attack until the autumn harvest and both the Awaji Navy and the Maori Navy had to retreat, and then went south to attack Kii."
"Okay, okay, I understand."
Yu Qiuyu saw that both Naoe Nobuhei and Ii Naomasa seemed to be opposed to his views, and he couldn't help but interrupt the topic with some embarrassment, "I hope you will contradict my elder brother like this when you talk to him."
"I wanted to contradict Brother Shang'er, but Brother Shang'er didn't give me a chance." Naoe Nobuhe laughed loudly, and his waist was pinched hard by Yu Qiucen beside him, which hurt a lot. "
It’s just that every time Brother Shang’er and I discuss these overall situations, he’s not interested at all and spends all day practicing swordsmanship and martial arts.”
"Oh, brother, it's true, I've told you so many times that I won't listen." Yu Qiuyou shook his head when he heard this, with an expression as if he hated iron and steel, "He will not be a pawn charging into battle in the future, he will inherit his father's position.
, commanding thousands of troops. How can you only practice swordsmanship? You must learn the art of war and play war chess."
"Young Master is studying the art of war, but he just doesn't like playing chess." Hearing that Yu Qiuyou seemed to be a little dissatisfied with Yu Qiu Shang, Ii Naomasa immediately retorted, seeming to respect Yu Qiu Shang, "Young Master will do it every day
Spend a long time studying military books."
"Brother, I have already memorized those military books he read. What's the use of just reading those books?" Yu Qiuyou said about his proud memory, and couldn't help but beam with excitement, "I have memorized them all in my mind a long time ago!"
"Yes, yes, brother Youji is awesome." Naoe Nobuei added a meatball to Yu Qiuyou's bowl with a smile. But Yu Qiucen, who knew him well, could tell that Naoe Nobuei clearly didn't mean what he said. She knew,
Naoe Touhei has always admired Yu Qiu Shang the most.
"No, I don't think so." However, Ii Naomasa did not have the easy-going temperament of Naoe Nohei. Instead, he objected in a neither humble nor arrogant manner, "Second Young Master, and Seigenmaru, I think what the young master did is rain."
What the heir of the Qiu family should do. My mother and the late Lord Anesama have always told me that famous generals have emerged from a pool of blood after going through battles. It is impossible to rely solely on military books and war chess.
He became a famous general without ever being on the battlefield. The young master knows that his experience and experience are not enough to command the troops, so practicing martial arts diligently is actually fulfilling his duty as a soldier."
"Not to mention anything else, the prestige and popularity of the young master among Tokiwabi are probably second only to Lord Fukushima." Naomasa Ii paused and praised sincerely, "Since I joined the army, every time I hear
The seniors who came to Tokiwabei were full of praise when they mentioned the young master's performance in Mikaka Town. They all said that the young master took the lead, was not afraid of life and death, and was able to stand up and boost morale in critical moments. This was something that only His Highness could do back then.
Something…”
"Hey, we're eating, what are you talking about?" Before Ii Naomasa could finish speaking, Naoe Touhei suddenly interrupted. While quietly glancing at Yu Qiuyou's expression, he also gave Ii Naomasa a meatball.
"Tell me quickly what you did in that exercise a few days ago! I'm at Kishiwada Port and I don't know anything."
"Just teach us some skills." Although Ii Naomasa was interrupted, he was not too angry. "If you are suddenly attacked by iron cannons when attacking a mountain city, how should you find a bunker or lie down on the spot."
"Speaking of which, where did those Zagazhong, Genlaizhong, and Honganji Temple get so many iron cannons?" After hearing what Ii Naomasa said, Naoe Nobuhira asked casually, "They can't make a few of them themselves.
Yes, I must have bought it."
"Humph." Yu Qiuyou was happy when he heard this. He suddenly put down his bowls and chopsticks, smiled mysteriously at everyone, and said in a low voice, "Want to know the answer?"
After attracting the attention of everyone present, especially Chacha, Yu Qiuyou was satisfied and stopped pretending to be mysterious, and said softly: "It was sold in Sakai Town."