"You're probably learning from the captain, right? I advise you to forget it. It's not similar at all. It doesn't even look like him at all." Asahina Taihei glared at Morichaka and complained angrily.
"Who do you think is the third disciple? Huh?" Mori asked unforgivingly.
"Me, who else?" Asahina Taihei said in a loud voice without giving an inch.
"Who knocked the knife away with just one blow from me last time?" Morinagako laughed twice and looked with satisfaction at Asahina Taihei being extremely angry because he made a fool of himself in front of his fanboy Ukita Hachiro, "How about it?
If you don’t accept it, can you challenge me again?”
"Who is afraid of you?" Asahina Taihei shouted with a red face. There was nothing he could do to lose face at this time, "Come on!"
"No playing around in the queue." Tadakatsu Honda scolded them in a low voice. Morinagako and Taihei Asahina, who were still at war with each other, immediately calmed down and sat down obediently on their horses.
"Hey, that one from Ukita's family." Morinaga seemed determined to make a joke on Asahina Yahei, so he turned to Ukita Hachiro and said, "The elder brother you recognize was defeated by my men. Under my hands, in one round,
You can’t even leave, how can you still be the third disciple?”
"You!" Asahina Taihei was about to retort loudly, but he immediately thought of Honda Tadakatsu's scolding just now, so he had no choice but to keep silent, his face turned as red as a monkey's butt.
"Sir, who among you and my eldest brother was the first to join Lord Honda?" However, at this moment, Ukita Hachiro suddenly spoke to Morinaga without any timidity.
"Huh?" Apparently he didn't expect Ukita Hachiro to respond to him. Morinaga was really stunned for a moment, "It must be him. I just came here not long ago."
"Isn't it supposed that my eldest brother is the third disciple?" Ukita Hachiro showed a particularly pure smile on his face, "Isn't the apprenticeship calculated in chronological order?"
"This..." Mori Nagake was speechless for a moment, hesitating and not knowing how to answer.
"Hahahahaha...it's okay, kid!" Asahina Taihei laughed with satisfaction when he saw Mori Nagako was embarrassed, and patted Ukita Hachiro on the shoulder several times, "You're going to earn face for your big brother?"
"Brother, when did you join Lord Honda?" Ukita Hachiro blinked at Asahina Taihei, and then asked.
"Ah, this...if it counts as a homage, I met Mr. Honda twelve years ago and started practicing martial arts with him. But if I really joined him, it was only a few years ago." Asahina Taihei touched his hand.
Chin thought about the past timeline.
"Twelve years ago? When my eldest brother was so young..." Ukita Hachiro asked in confusion.
"Oh, you're talking about this. My father and His Highness Momiji are sworn brothers. After the Imagawa family was destroyed, I was sent to the Uqiu family, but I was still young at the time and I don't remember many things." Asahina Taihei mentioned that he was a child.
He left his father when he was young. He was not too sad, but rather free and easy, "I actually never understood it. In my impression, my father was just a stupid warrior who didn't understand anything. He was far behind His Highness."
Now. He can actually become His Highness’ adopted brother? I really can’t believe it.”
Hearing this, Yu Qiuping suddenly turned his head and wanted to speak. But halfway through, he turned his head back awkwardly, turned his back to Asahina Taihei and whispered softly - the voice was so soft that he was not sure whether Asahina Taihei could do it.
listen clearly.
"Hey, Matsuchiyo."
Yu Qiuping's nose became more and more sore.
"You have to know that your father is the most amazing warrior and the most amazing big brother in the world. He is much better than your big brother."
"Your Highness, are you crying?" Asahina Taihei's ears were unusually sensitive, but he still spoke regardless of the occasion and asked loudly in front of a group of guards, "Why do you keep crying these days?
are you sick?"
"You're not sick, you kid, take good care of your hostage." Yu Qiuping said with a wry smile.
·
On August 17, the eighth year of Tensho (1580), the Red Leaves Army arrived at Okayama Castle. At this time, due to the existence of the Awaji Navy and the Mishima Navy, Kobayakawa Takakage did not dare to assemble Sanyodo troops on a large scale to support the front line.
Therefore, the number of Maori troops in Bichu Takamatsu Castle never exceeded 10,000. Yu Qiupei left the Rakihara Bei and Xinghuo Bei to guard Bizen in Okayama Castle, while he led the Fushu Bei, Jincao Bei, Tianhe Bei, and Tongqiang Bei.
Jingzhe Bei and the special forces team continue to go north.
On August 18, the eighth year of Tensho (1580), the Momiji Army arrived at Tenjin Mountain Castle. At this time, the military information from the front line was also sent. Ame Qiupei was reading the information, but Asahina Taihei suddenly asked for a report outside the camp.
"What's wrong?" Yu Qiupei greeted Asahina Taihei who walked in the door.
"Your Highness, Hachiro is a little bored having been under house arrest for so many days. Can I take him to wander around the castle town of Tenjinyama Castle?" Asahina Taihei rubbed his hands in embarrassment and asked tentatively.
"Oh? Do you still have the slightest understanding of your mission? Are you sorry?" Yu Qiupei glanced at Asahina Taihei, and instantly remembered the man who understood the mission as hunting, traveling around, and traveling around.
Asahina Taehyung stirred up trouble and crossed the line in front of the enemy. In this regard, the father and son are really similar.
"The mission is to supervise the young master of the Uki family! To prevent accidents!" Asahina Taihei made a military salute to Yuqiu and repeated his mission loudly.
"Then you still dare to take him for a walk? You were allowed to walk in the barracks to relieve his boredom before, and that's not enough?" Yu Qiuping sighed helplessly, looked at Asahina Taihei's expectant expression, and then waved.
He waved his hand for him to go out quickly, and at the same time shouted to Mori Ranmaru who was on duty at the door, "Go, go." Ranmaru, followed them with 20 people, and reported to Lord Sanada at the same time, asking him to send ninjas to secretly protect and investigate, and stop suspicious
People approach the young master of the Yuxi family within 200 meters.”
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Asahina Taihei was "driven out" happily after hearing this, and then ran away without looking back. Yu Qiuping looked at his back with a dumbfounded look, and found that his thoughts were very confused and he could not continue to concentrate.
The information in front of me is up.
The latest intelligence sent back by the Military Intelligence Department shows that there are about 25,000 Maori troops gathered in Boqi, and this number is likely to rise further. The leader is Yoshikawa Motoharu, while Yoshikawa Hiroe, Yoshikawa Motonaga, Yoshikawa Suike,
Kumagai Nobunao and other Yoshikawa Ichimen, as well as Sugihara Morishige, Anado Takaie, Nanjo Gensugu and other Sanin ()do warriors also came out in full force, which can be said to be the strongest lineup of the Mori family's Sanin ()do front army.
Although even if the Maori family's San'in ()do front army sends out the strongest lineup, it is still no match for the Oda family's overwhelming 45,000-strong army. However, the total strength of the Maori army and the 13,000 people stationed in Tottori Castle will exceed 40,000.
, this force may be able to create miracles if it has the support of a strong city and cooperates inside and outside. Thinking of this, Yu Qiuping took a deep breath and decided to be cautious.
·
At this time, in the castle town of Tenjinyama Castle, Ukita Hachiro was eating a few skewers of meatballs that Asahina Taihei had bought from someone unknown. Tenjinyama Castle had just been plundered by war twice, and the castle town was already dilapidated.
Asahina Taihei himself did not expect to find a snack bar.
"Hey, kid, don't you usually eat these?" Asahina Taihei looked at Ukita Hachiro devouring his food and couldn't help but ask.
"My father said these things are not good, so he didn't buy them for me to eat. He only let me eat the food cooked at home." Ukita Hachiro replied casually while chewing.
"Hey, your father is really strict in controlling me." Asahina Taihei sighed with admiration, with an imperceptible sadness hidden in his tone, "My father didn't care much about me when I was a child and allowed me to play wildly. It was my mother who controlled me.
.After my mother died of illness, no one cared about me anymore. After that, my father was gone too."
"If they were still here, they would be proud to see how promising their eldest brother is." Ukita Hachiro wiped his mouth and glanced at Asahina Taihei.
"Hey, who knows." Asahina Taihei sighed and stretched out pretending not to care.
"You will see them in the next life!" Ukita Hachiro came closer to Asahina Taihei and comforted him, "Father always said that you can reunite with the dead after death! Then my eldest brother can accompany him every day.
Come with mom and dad!"
"Who cares about this kind of love between children?" Asahina Taihei raised his voice, concealing the feelings that he rarely revealed, "What a man needs is to make contributions! What I want to do is to open up territory for His Highness Momiji!"
"I think Momiji-sama is also very kind to my eldest brother. He takes care of him as if he were his son." Ukita Hachiro noticed Asahina Taihei's loneliness, put down the meatballs in his hand, and added another sentence.
"Hongye-sama is very kind to me. I used to call him uncle when I was a child. When my father was still alive, he often mentioned his younger brother Hongye-sama to me. He would tell me that Hongye-sama is the most powerful samurai in the entire Imagawa family.
He is also the best person he has ever seen in the world." Asahina Taihei casually found a ruined building and sat down, leaning his hands behind his back, looking at the sky, and murmured, "I have always been curious about what Momiji-sama is.
What kind of person is this? How powerful is he? Does he have three heads and six arms?"
"As a result, after I met him, I found that he was just an ordinary person. He cried when I saw him for the first time. I was thinking, what the hell is this? How can any warrior cry casually?"
Asahina Taihei laughed as he spoke. After laughing, he said to Ukita Hachiro very solemnly, "But, the more I get to know him, I realize that my father's praise for Momiji-sama back then was definitely not an exaggeration."
"His Majesty Hongye is so powerful, of course I won't exaggerate! I have long heard my father say when chatting with other uncles that when mentioning the Hongye Army, everyone's expressions change greatly, and when mentioning His Majesty Hongye's martial prowess, it is even more frightening!" Ukita Hachiro also said
He shouted excitedly, not realizing at all that as the young master of his family, he shouldn't praise his opponent like this.
"No, that's not the most important thing." Asahina Taihei shook his head, and the smile on his face became rare and gentle.
Chapter completed!