Volume 7 Jiangnan Green Looking Maple Red Chapter 928 Revisiting
After Amakiyu rushed out at the lead, several other companions also chased after him. Among Oda Nobunaga's Hatamoto samurai, there were many children sent by retainers as hostages. This was basically the case for Amakiyu's group.
Naturally, no one would want to be at a disadvantage if they encounter a great opportunity to perform meritorious deeds. The fleeing knight in front of them is very likely to be related to the major case that just happened. If such a person can be caught, it is not impossible to be directly promoted to the banner general.
ah!
After the unidentified knight saw a group of people chasing him, he immediately accelerated his horse speed without looking back. This move made the pursuing Oda family members even more suspicious, and they shouted for support from nearby friendly forces.
It just so happened that there was a five-man team patrolling not far to the southwest of them. After hearing the call, they immediately turned their horses and surrounded them. They blocked the knight in a lane with Yu Qiuyou's team.
On the alley.
"Who is it?" Yu Qiuyou reined in his horse and stopped a few meters behind the knight. At the same time, he shouted loudly and asked, "Didn't you hear our instructions? No one is allowed to move."
The knight was stunned for a moment, and he did not answer in the dark night.
"Who are you?" Yu Qiuyou asked loudly again.
"Let me take a look." The knight said something incoherently that no one could understand. Then he reached into his arms and groped for a while, took out a waist card, and threw it to Yu Qiuyou. He was holding a torch in his left hand.
Yu Qiuyou grabbed the token with his right hand, put it in front of the torch and looked at it, and then said "Hey" in great surprise. He turned around on his horse and handed the token to several companions behind him, and everyone compared it.
After a while, he finally nodded.
"Who are they?" The Oda family Hatamoto, who was outflanked by the team in front of the knights, was in a fog at the moment, and shouted anxiously to Yu Qiuyu's team behind them.
"It's the badge of His Majesty's Imperial Guard!" Yu Qiuyou replied loudly.
"In that case, can you let me pass?" The knight pointed to the road to the south, "I still have urgent matters to take care of."
"His Majesty the Emperor has just been assassinated, and the imperial guards suddenly ran away. Do you think we will let you go?" Yu Qiuyou flatly refused without hesitation.
"Can you afford to delay the royal family's affairs?" Although the knight said threatening words, his tone was not harsh at all. Instead, he had the tone of a gentle elder.
"Even if you are guilty, I can't let you go today. The master has issued a death order. No one can leave the capital without permission." Yu Qiuyou shook his head and threw his belt back to the knight, "More
What’s more, it’s still unclear whether this belt is yours. Come back with us honestly, and tell our lord yourself if you have any questions, we can’t be the master.”
However, the knight did not reach out to catch the waist badge, but let the thrown waist badge fall to the ground with a "snap". This crisp collision sound was so harsh in the silent night.
"So you can't let me go?" the knight confirmed in a low voice with some regret.
Although the knight's tone was still so calm, Yu Qiuyou had already heard the meaning of Tu Qiong Dagger's meeting. He took a breath of cold air and was about to shout "take it", but suddenly froze there.
His mind was spinning quickly and he had already realized something - if the imperial guard in front of him was really related to the emperor's assassination, he might be related to the previous Ise Shrine case, the Izumo Akun case, and the Honganji Mianru case.
It's also related - then he must be a skilled swordsman. Can they really defeat him with just these 10 flags?
But before Yu Qiuyou could come up with a countermeasure, Hatamoto, who was from a small Ise wealthy family behind him, couldn't bear the opportunity to make a great contribution. He threw away the torch, drew the knife in his hand and rushed forward first, calling out to Yu Qiuyou.
What was not shouted just now:
"Take it!"
Someone took the lead, and the other nine bannermen, except Yu Qiuyou, all rode towards the knight who was stuck in the middle. The nine torches were thrown to the ground, and the alley that was bright just now fell into darkness again, with only Yu remaining.
The torch in Qiu You's hand illuminated a small area around him.
The noise faded as fast as the light disappeared. Before Yu Qiuyou could recover, the alley that was noisy just now fell into silence again. Yu Qiuyou was unable to regain his thinking and reason due to the huge shock.
He just lowered his head in a daze and looked at the street illuminated by the torch in his hand. The blood slowly spread over and soaked the horse's hooves in it.
Yu Qiuyou raised his head again in disbelief, and the hand holding the torch began to tremble violently. Under the flickering firelight, he couldn't see the man's face clearly in the darkness. He could only hear him wiping the blood on the knife with his clothes.
Then he gently urged his horse to sit down and walk towards him.
Yu Qiuyou swallowed, and his Adam's apple squirmed violently. He knew that at this moment he should either turn around and run away, or he should draw a knife to resist, but his body was as if it was filled with lead and could not move.
The man was closer, and the distance was even closer. Yu Qiuyou could hear that the rhythm of his breathing was not disordered in the slightest. Looking at himself, he couldn't even take a breath. The knight raised his hand, and the sword surface reflected the
The light of the fire made Yu Qiuyou realize that the knife was hanging in front of him. He felt like he was falling into the abyss and fell into endless fear, but he couldn't say a word.
The nine companions just now...in a blink of an eye...
Now I'm going to die too...
This person is the murderer...
He also did it to Ise Jingu...
Who is he...
All kinds of thoughts came to him, and the thoughts in Yu Qiuyou's mind were so chaotic that he couldn't even hear what the knight in front of him said. When he realized that the knight was communicating with him, he finally
When he came back to his senses, he once again heard a word that had no beginning and no end——
"Yuqiu's second son?"
Yu Qiuyou's pupils suddenly shrank, and his body trembled even more violently. He felt two eyes falling on his face, and then looked at him with the light of the torch in his hand.
Can't be beaten, can't run away...
He also recognized my identity...
I can't be captured alive by him, otherwise I will definitely be used to blackmail my father...
Try your best to fight him, or commit suicide if that doesn't work!
Thinking of this, Yu Qiuyou felt that all the strength in his body had returned to his body. He threw the torch hard towards the knight, who turned sideways to avoid the torch. Yu Qiuyou took this opportunity to draw the knife in his hand and clamped it into the horse's belly.
Lean forward and lunge——
Stab empty.
The next second, Yu Qiuyou only heard the horse howl as he sat down, and then his body fell down together with the horse, and his right foot was pressed by the horse's belly, unable to move. Yu Qiuyou knew that he had reached the last moment.
Without hesitation, he was about to wipe his neck with the sword, but the knight knocked the sword away with the scabbard.
"He's very strong."
The knight muttered to himself. In the darkness, Zhongyu Qiuyou didn't know what he was doing. But he only knew that there was only the last chance left for him. He hurriedly reached out to touch the ribs in his arms.
, trying to take the opportunity to stab himself to death in the darkness, but the knight in front of him suddenly laughed.
"Young man, don't waste your energy." He said to Yu Qiuyou with a smile, and then there was the sound of the samurai sword being put back into its scabbard. He didn't say anything more, just clamped the horse's belly and left gracefully in the moonlight.
Only the trembling Yu Qiuyou was left sitting there.
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In Kyoto at night, another pair of knights were also on their way in a hurry. The first one was Yu Qiu Shang, followed by a small group of guards such as Morita Yasho. They held torches to light up the way, even with the orders of the Yu Qiu family.
Kaname was still questioned by many Oda family patrols along the way, which showed that Kyoto was heavily guarded. And on their way out of Kyoto, they could also see a steady stream of troops coming from the direction of Minami Omi and Yamato.
"It's all Hatamoto from Oda Main Hall who is patrolling." Morita Yasho glanced at Kyoto, which had been left behind. Compared with the brightly lit scene, the official road leading to Hanoi Kingdom in front of him was dark and a bit eerie, "Okay.
It’s such a big battle, the murderers probably won’t be able to escape.”
There were also a few guards who responded casually, but Yu Qiu Shang did not reply. He was thinking about another thing:
Will Ayou be in there too?
Haven't seen him for a long time...
He pursed his lips, then sighed slightly, and turned to look at Kyoto behind him. However, just as he turned back, he suddenly heard the sound of rapid horse hooves on the fork on the right. A knight
With a horse speed faster than theirs, they galloped towards the west along the road starting from Kyoto.
"A messenger sent to Settsu? Why don't you light a torch? What if you fall over without looking at the road? He is the only messenger. If something goes wrong, won't the information be delayed? The Oda family's military intelligence is very unprofessional.
"Morita Yoshio complained casually when he saw this, but these words made Yu Qiu Shang suddenly alert. He followed the firelight and moonlight of his guard and reluctantly looked at the knight. Although he could not see clearly, it seemed that he was not there.
As if placing a flag.
"People over there, stop!" Yu Qiu Shang shouted in a deep voice, immediately making all his guards alert.
However, the knight on the fork in the road didn't even pay attention to Yu Qiu Shang, and continued to move forward on his own.
"We are the patrol team of Yu Qiu's family, please declare your identity! Otherwise we will attack you!" Morita Yaoxiang understood what Yu Qiu Shang meant, and pretended to be a patrol team and shouted to the knight, but the knight still
Ignore it.
"Do it, catch him." Yu Qiu Shang saw this and no longer hesitated. He lowered his voice and ordered the twenty or so guards behind him. The guards immediately divided into several teams knowingly, heading towards the alley, back road, etc.
The knights outflanked them. The knight's equestrian skills were quite good, but he seemed quite tired when sitting down, and his speed could not keep away from Yu Qiu Shang and the others. Under constant pursuit and compression, the knight was finally forced in the direction of a rapid river.
, and on the other side of the only bridge on the river, a group of guards sent by Yu Qiu Shang were already outflanking him.