Chapter six hundred and eighty fifth rescue mother
Yu Qiuping hurriedly handed over the affairs to Fukuzawa Yunan, and he led a group of guards and chased him out of the east gate of the camp - because he had a vague premonition - that this matter was related to Akechi Mitsuhide's mother. Akechi Mitsuhide
She was in such a hurry to leave, and she, who was always decent, didn't even say hello to Yu Qiuping. She must have gone crazy. And Akechi Mitsuhide was definitely going to Kyoto when he went east.
Yu Qiupei and his party hurriedly and slowly caught up with Mitsuhide Akechi's bodyguard near Inai Castle. Yu Qiupei asked Asahina Taihei to shout "Wait a minute", and the roar echoed in the mountains, and finally reached Akechi Mitsuhide.
ear. She reined in the horse and slowly slowed down on the hill in the distance - she still didn't stop, she just slowed down so that Yu Qiuping could catch up. Yu Qiuping rushed up quickly and finally got there.
Akechi Mitsuhide stood beside her and hurriedly took hold of her horse's reins with one hand, asking her, "Mitsuhide? What's going on? But something happened to your father-in-law?"
"My retainer in Kyoto has just sent back the news that the lord will execute the Hatano brothers the day after tomorrow. The execution place has been prepared and has been announced to the whole Kyoto." Mitsuhide Akechi gasped and whispered, "The Hatano family
People will probably know about it soon...what should I do...what is the master doing?"
"What?" Yu Qiuping was so shocked that he almost fell off his horse, "Why should the Hatano brothers be executed?"
"It seems that they leaked the news of Yoshikawa Motoharu's reinforcements to Yamana Yutaka and Isshiki Yoshimichi, destroying the agreement that the Lord had reached. After they were discovered, they tried to hide it and even tried to escape." Mitsuhide Akechi gritted his teeth and said
He pinched the horse's belly and quickly increased its speed, "My lord is angry...I'm going to kill them."
"Are you crazy... Isn't your grandma still in Bashang City? My lord wants to kill them, why are you so anxious to kill them now? Put them back, get your grandma back, and then we can capture Bashang City and kill them as we please..." Yu Qiuping was already shocked.
He stuttered a bit when he spoke.
"It's too late...it's almost too late!" Mitsuhide Akechi was so anxious that his eyes were filled with tears as he stood on the horse. The whip kept whipping the horse's buttocks, and there were already dozens of clear blood marks on the white horse's buttocks.
"Hurry!" Yu Qiuping saw this and knew that he couldn't waste a moment. He followed Akechi Mitsuhide and kept urging him to sit down, "Let's go to Kyoto to find him!"
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When Ue Akihei and Akechi Mitsuhide hurried to Kyoto on the night of April 3, and went to Honnoji Temple where Oda Nobunaga was staying to ask for an audience, they were told that Oda Nobunaga had fallen asleep and refused to see anyone. How could Akechi Mitsuhide accept this?
He made a fuss at the door and insisted on going in to see Oda Nobunaga, but was blocked by guards with an unusually tough attitude.
"No way...how could this happen?" Akechi Mitsuhide shook his head in disbelief, "Can't you inform us? It's okay to say it's an emergency military situation!"
"My lord has said that no one is allowed to disturb you after you go to bed tonight." The guard bowed apologetically, "Please don't make it difficult for me. My lord has been in a bad temper these past few days. If something goes wrong with the door I'm guarding,
, the whole family will suffer next time.”
"How could this happen..." Mitsuhide Akechi was so anxious that tears were streaming down his face. He stood blankly at the door of Honnoji Temple and asked loudly, almost losing his temper: "When will my lord wake up?"
"This is hard to explain." The guard also understood Akechi Mitsuhide's situation, but he could only shake his head helplessly.
Akechi Mitsuhide and Yu Qiupei had no choice but to wait at the gate of Honnoji Temple all night. From midnight until early morning, they waited until the fish belly white appeared in the east. Akechi Mitsuhide's tears did not stop, two tear stains were clearly visible, and there were faint traces in his eyes.
Blood was oozing out. Who would have thought that the next morning, the guard changing at the door said that Oda Nobunaga was not awake yet and still refused to see the two of them. At this time, Fukuzawa Yunan also sent an envoy to report to Yu Qiuping.
Urgent: The Hatano family was furious after learning that Oda Nobunaga was going to execute Hatano Hideharu and Hatano Hideno, and demanded that Akechi Mitsuhide and Akihei Ame give an explanation immediately and save the Hatano brothers, otherwise they would kill Akechi Mitsuhide's mother and give it to Hatano the day after tomorrow.
Brothers were buried.
"Open the door quickly! Please! I'm begging you!" Akechi Mitsuhide was so anxious that even her voice changed the tone. She suddenly knelt down in front of the guards at the entrance of Honnoji Temple and gave them a heavy knock.
He nodded and said, "Please let me see my lord! Jiaci is still in Bashang City! If this continues, Jiaci will die!"
"Your Highness..." When the guards saw Akechi Mitsuhide, he knelt down directly. He could not help him or not. After hesitating for a long time, a bold guard finally lowered his voice and said: "Your Highness, I will tell you directly.
Right. My lord gave special instructions last night. If you and your highness Hongye come to see you, you will not see them. There is nothing we can do..."
"Why? Why?" Akechi Mitsuhide suddenly raised her head, and the blood on her forehead dripped down the bridge of her small nose, "My lord clearly knows that my mother is a hostage in Yakami Castle! How could you do such a thing?
?”
"I can't tell you this..." The guard looked embarrassed and shook his head repeatedly.
"Let me in." Akechi Mitsuhide suddenly stood up again and was about to rush into the temple. Several guards hurriedly held Akechi Mitsuhide up with spears and samurai swords, stopping her from rushing in.
"Let me in!" Mitsuhide Akechi yelled at the guards, his eyes red with anxiety.
"Your Highness, please calm down... I am not deliberately trying to embarrass Your Highness... My lord has given me the order to die." The guards were so anxious that they were almost sweating, but they still refused to give in.
"Did my lord express any opinion on this? When he ordered the execution of the Hatano brothers, none of our retainers in Kyoto told him that this would harm His Highness Akechi's mother? Didn't anyone dissuade him?"
He stepped forward to break up the fight, and while pulling Mitsuhide Akechi back, he asked the guard, "Someone must have tried to persuade him, right? What did my lord say at the time? Can you tell us?"
"This..." Hatamoto, the leader, hesitated and said with some difficulty, "There were many people who tried to dissuade the lord...but the lord was so angry at the time that he scolded everyone. Later later, Master Sawaki said again
Went there once. From what my lord said, it seemed that killing the Hatano brothers was to scare the monkeys. If the Hatano family dared to touch a hair on His Highness Akechi’s mother, their entire family would be killed. My lord was afraid that the two highnesses would come back to cause trouble. After all, my lord
When he was angry, he already announced that the Hatano brothers would be executed in Kyoto. Wouldn't it be shameful if he regretted it later... He said that the Hatano family would not dare to touch His Highness Akechi's mother anyway... so he refused to see you..." Hatamoto explained incoherently, but
Yu Qiuping already roughly understood.
"Nonsense..." Yu Qiuping couldn't help but cursed in a low voice, "Before, we were going to attack Bashang City, and the Lord said that we are negotiating now. The Oda family cannot engage in war without permission, so as not to chill the hearts of the small wealthy family. It's better now, he himself
You actually want to kill the daimyo who came to negotiate? Wouldn’t that cause an uproar in the world? My lord lets his own temper run wild in everything he does, he is really a big fool Owari!”
In normal times, anyone who dared to say these words in front of the Oda family's Hatamoto guards would definitely be killed on the spot - even if you are an old official of the family, you would not dare to criticize the lord. However, at this moment, the guards all looked at each other, and everyone was stunned.
Knowing that what Yu Qiuping said was reasonable, no one tried to dissuade him.
"But the Hatano family has already said...if the Hatano brothers are executed, they will kill Iaji..."
Akechi Mitsuhide's voice suddenly softened again, and he spoke in an almost pleading tone.
"My lord may have made such a decision because he didn't understand the situation before... Now the Hatano family's ultimatum has been issued... Can you let me see my lord! The Hatano brothers cannot be killed..." Mitsuhide Akechi knelt down again, and even his arm was covered by the samurai
The knife opened a gash, and blood trickled out.
Several guards could not resist Mitsuhide Akechi's pleading. After looking at each other for a few times, the guard captain said "Sorry" and walked in quickly.
However, not long after, he came back in despair. The expectations in Akechi Mitsuhide's eyes were shattered.
"My lord is missing..." The guard didn't even know how to speak to Akechi Mitsuhide, and finally decided to directly repeat Oda Nobunaga's words, "My lord said... If His Highness's mother is really killed, it can be regarded as doing it for the prestige of the Oda family.
If you contribute, Your Highness will be granted a kingdom as compensation, and the entire Hatano family will be massacred to avenge you. But...anyway, the Hatano brothers will be killed anyway."
However, before the guard could finish his words, Akechi Mitsuhide's vision went dark and he fell down and fell unconscious.
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When Mitsuhide Akechi woke up in a trance again, she found that she was in a bumpy carriage. She subconsciously reached out to find it, and suddenly took Yu Qiuping's hand.
Yu Qiuping was about to comfort Akechi Mitsuhide, but Akechi Mitsuhide's emotions suddenly collapsed. She suddenly threw herself into Yu Qiuping's arms and burst into tears. Yu Qiuping pushed and neither patted nor patted her, so she could only cower in a daze.
She walked into the corner of the carriage. Fortunately, her cry was so loud that it was impossible to distinguish between the man and the woman.
"Are you going back to Yakami Castle?" Akechi Mitsuhide cried for a long time and finally managed to squeeze out a sentence through sobs.
"Yes." Yu Qiuping looked at the woman who was close at hand and her makeup was covered with tears. Her eyes were very red and swollen. Yu Qiuping had bandaged the wounds on her forehead and arms, but blood was oozing out at this moment.
"I'm going to replace my mother." Mitsuhide Akechi wiped his tears gently with a handkerchief, and said with a sob in a low voice, "One life for another, I'm going to replace my mother... Anyway, the Hatano family wants to kill people to vent their anger, so they still kill me.
Killing my mother is the same thing."
"Are you crazy? You are an important minister of the Oda family. You are like this..." Yu Qiuping was about to dissuade him, but Akechi Mitsuhide interrupted loudly: "Yes, I am an important minister of the Oda family! If I go to the city
As a hostage, the lord will not dare to kill the Hatano brothers! Right Momiji?" The more Akechi Mitsuhide talked about it, the more he realized that this method was feasible. He cried and said, "Please tell Momiji that I am coming to the city to replace my mother.
Lord! Force him to let the Hatano brothers live! My mother will be fine, and neither will I!"
"No, you can't! You are not allowed to go!" Yu Qiuping suddenly loudly refused. Akechi Mitsuhide was startled by Yu Qiuping's appearance, and for a moment he froze in place like a frightened little rabbit.
"Why?" she asked murmuring.
"You are a woman, how can you be a hostage?" Yu Qiupei lowered his voice and whispered into Akechi Mitsuhide's ear, "The defenders of the Hatano family will probably go crazy when they hear that the master is going to be killed. You go in
, what if they torture you and find out that you are actually a woman? What if they behave like beasts again? As long as your identity as a woman is announced, the Mingzhi family will be in doom! It may even be
Change it! Won’t all the hard work you and I have put in over the years have been wasted?”
"Then what should I do?" Akechi Mitsuhide suddenly lost his mind and looked at Yu Qiuping blankly, "What should I do? How should I save my mother?"
"There is a way." Yu Qiuping was inspired by what Akechi Mitsuhide said just now, and suddenly smiled mysteriously.
"Isn't there another important minister of the Oda family here?"