Yu Qiuping commanded his men to take away all the clothes and various ninja tools from the attacker's corpse, and quickly evacuated the village. As for what the people in the village would do with the corpses and houses, Yu Qiuping couldn't care less. If
If the enemy is really the famous Fuuma ninjas from the Warring States Period, it would be extremely dangerous to stay outside for a moment longer. Who knows if those dozens of people will come back with more companions?
By the time Yu Qiupei returned to Imamiya Castle, it was already evening. He could see from a distance that the checkpoint on the mountain road was almost completed. What surprised him was that the Takeda family seemed to be fighting outside the castle town.
Another group of caravans were talking about something. Imamiya Leding led many people to be on guard on the mountain road.
Yu Qiuping then led his men straight to the scene of the conversation. Brothers Sanada Nobutsuna and Sanada Masayuki seemed to be talking to a young man. When Yu Qiuping arrived, he happened to hear Sanada Masayuki ask.
"I wonder how old this boss is this year?"
"This year is 20." The new boss replied cheerfully, "I took over my father's caravan in Sagami."
"That's it." Sanada Masayuki raised his eyebrows, smiled and stretched out his hand: "Sir Tsugumi Towa, please give me some advice."
Yu Qiuping saw the pupils of Gohe Shixu shrinking violently in an instant, and laughed, "Sir, Mr. Gohe, my identity was tricked out like this yesterday." This sentence seemed to be speaking for Gohe Shixu, but in fact, he was standing in front of Sanada.
Changxing, on the other hand, hinted to Heshi to stop pretending, and we all knew it.
The corner of his mouth twitched twice and he shook his head helplessly.
"Looking at the reaction of the two adults, they must be the adults of the Takeda family and the Imagawa family. I guess they are on the same mission as me." Gowa Ujitsubu did not hide it, "Gowa Ujitsubu from the Shimohojo family came to investigate this time.
Lost Contact Incident." He held the hand extended by Sanada Masayuki with his left hand, and extended his right hand to Yu Qiuping, "Don't you know your names?"
"Sir," Yu Qiuping held his hand and laughed, "that master and I guessed each other. If you want to know our identities, you have to give us some information in exchange." Although he said this, he still felt something in his heart.
He was extremely vigilant, and the people brought by the Hojo family were not many, only about fifty. I and the Sanada family estimated that there were more than seventy people outside, so it would be no problem to suppress him.
I'm just afraid that the ninja from Fuma Ninja will suddenly appear.
"Is that so?" Towa Shitsuki said without hesitation, "Our ninjas have investigated the intelligence of Suruga Jundong County and Fuji County before and found that there were no strong local forces involved in the ambush of the messenger." Yu Qiuping said silently.
After digesting this information, if the Uesugi family and the powerful local forces are now eliminated... Speaking of which, why do these two families have intelligence support from ninjas, but I don't have any?
"So, you two, tell me your names?" Towaji continued to look at Ame Qiupei and Sanada Masayuki - the latter had vaguely replaced his brother as the head of the Takeda family.
"It's raining Qiuping." Yu Qiuping said in a low voice. He couldn't hide it for long anyway, so he might as well tell him.
"My name is Sanada Nobutsuna." "My name is Sanada Masayuki."
"Master Yuqiu, Master Sanada. I don't know if you two have collected any information, but I am very willing to cooperate with you." Towa Shitsuzu continued sincerely.
Yu Qiuping and Sanada Masayuki looked at each other.
"The most useful information we have collected so far is-" Sanada Masayuki said in a long tone.
"The Hojo family is most likely the mastermind of this attack." Yu Qiuping said with a smile.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense. The ashigaru of the three families grasped their weapons one after another, as if they would be at war with each other in the next moment.
"What do you two mean by this?" Tonghe Shixu asked in a deep voice unhappily, "Don't use empty words to denigrate someone's innocence."
"It's empty talk, but I have evidence." After Yu Qiuping asked his subordinates to bring the seized sachets, Fuma-style ninja tools and clothes, he carefully paid attention to the expressions of Tohe Shixu. The latter was stunned for a moment.
He handed these things back to Yu Qiuping. "Does that mean it's the Hojo family? It's probably someone else pretending." Heshi continued to shake his head, "To be honest, I also encountered encounters on the road.
We were attacked by horseback samurai wearing Imagawa ashigaru and carrying the Imagawa family flag." The Toga clan clapped their hands again, and several ashigaru behind them brought up a blood-stained Imagawa ashigaru.
Yu Qiuping suddenly became angry, "I think this is obviously your messenger who attacked us!" He unsheathed his sword angrily, "Are you still reasonable?"
Following Yu Qiuping's movements, the subordinates behind him also drew their swords out of their sheaths. Charlie and the archers also unfurled their bows and nocked arrows, looking at the Hojo family with vigilance. Seeing this, the Hojo family and the Takeda family also
They all drew their knives on guard.
"What's wrong?" Tohe Shitsug didn't draw his sword, but stared coldly at Yu Qiupei's samurai sword with a cold light in his hand, "Are the Imagawa family and the Takeda family going to take action against their allies?"
"Didn't Hojo Grand Hall explain it clearly to you?" Yu Qiuping smiled, "We are just businessmen on this trip. I am boss Saburo, and he is boss Taro." He pointed to Sanada Nobutsuna beside him, and then looked at
Towaji continued, "You are just a Sagami boss."
"Killing you is just a private fight among the caravans and has nothing to do with the three alliances." Sanada Masayuki asked forcefully, "How about it, would you like to explain it to me?"
"It's true that those things are Sagami's," Towa Ujitsubu also slowly drew the knife in his hand, "but the Hojo family did not give the order to attack the messenger. If you are determined to wrongly accuse the Hojo family, I can only stay with you until the end."
"Neither the Uesugi family nor the local forces are the masterminds." Sanada Masayuki looked at the two of them, "In other words, the mastermind behind the scenes is between the three of us."
"One of the three people must be lying." Sanada Masayuki snorted coldly, "Then..."
Suddenly, a huge commotion broke out from the townspeople on the west side of the field, and many residents shouted in terror, interrupting the confrontation between Yu Qiuping and others. Imamiya Rakuding hurried over with his people.
, Yu Qiupei, Sanada Masayuki, Gowa Shisugu each rushed over with a few attendants.
I saw several dense circles of people gathered at the entrance of the village. Everyone stood on tiptoe and looked inside. Their comments and exclamations made the place noisy. When Yu Qiuping tried his best to squeeze into the circle, he suddenly found Imamiya Leding who had arrived earlier.
He stood there, stunned, without saying a word.
"Sir Imamiya, what's wrong..." After Yu Qiuping took two steps forward, he was also frightened by the sight in front of him, and his voice stopped abruptly.
I saw a big pit in the center of the circle, and there was a lot of excavated soil around it. The soil was still dark and had not lost any moisture. It looked like it had just been dug out.
And in the pit, there were three corpses lying, and the corpse of a black crow - it was the one of Amano Keitoku. There was still blood oozing from the crow's chest. One of the corpses of those three people was Imamiya Raku.
The younger brother who was sent to report the news. The three corpses were still bleeding slightly. It seemed that they had just died.
"Did another one die?" Amano Keidei arrived here at some unknown time. After whispering, he bent down and picked up the dead crow.
However, Yu Qiuping was not as calm as Amano Keitoku. Instead, he fell into deep fear. Even when Imamiya Rakuding beside him cried bitterly and took away his brother's body, he did not notice it.
The messenger I sent was intercepted and killed, and the crow I sent was also intercepted and killed.
The interception of the messenger can also be explained as someone ambushing there. Why was the crow intercepted? Are my every move completely monitored?
After a while, at the request of Imamiya Leding, the crowd gradually dispersed. After Imamiya Leding arranged his brother's funeral, he also rushed over. Surrounding the pit, only the investigation teams of the three families and Imamiya Leding were left.
Determined person.
"Who are these two people?" Yu Qiuping pointed to the other two corpses.
"The one on the left is Shisuke, the person I sent back to Uzakikan to deliver the order." Sanada Nobutsuna said with a heavy expression.
"The other person is the person I sent back to Odawara to deliver the order before I arrived at Imamiya." Gowa Shitsuzu said in a low voice.
"Why do these corpses appear here?" Imamong Leding asked a villager in a deep voice, enduring great grief.
"Grass people, grass people..." The resident was obviously frightened and said tremblingly, "The grass people originally wanted to burn the moldy millet, so they dug a hole here at the edge of the field. The grass people then went back to the warehouse to get the millet.
After a short while, when I came back, there were more corpses here. The villagers screamed in fright, and everyone gathered around."
Everyone fell into silence for a while. The mastermind must have attacked the three messengers and the messenger crows everywhere, and then put them into the pit without anyone noticing, demonstrating to the investigators.
"I'm going to take a look at the road my younger brother walked on! I want to make my younger brother's death clear!" Imamong Leting suddenly said loudly, "How many of you are willing to go with us!"
"I'm going to find out too!" Sanada Nobutsuna scolded, "Who dares to intercept my messenger! Then go to the road where Imamiya-sama sent the troops to take first!"
In order to prevent unexpected events, the group pulled out all the troops. A group of several hundred people headed in the direction of Suruga, first going to the vicinity of Takigawa. But when they arrived at Takigawa, Yu Qiupei and Imamiya Rakusei
But he was shocked.
The bridge that originally crossed the Long River had been demolished, and no boat could be found on the Long River. They searched along the river bank again, and several other bridges had also been demolished. Everyone waited until they reached a hill and found the west side of the Long River.
The bridge on the tributary of the river has also disappeared. Someone must have destroyed all traffic. The death of Imamiya Leding's brother is probably also caused by this group of people.
Everyone walked to the northeast again to explore the Takeda family's communication line. When they reached the middle of the narrow path, everyone was surprised to find that the originally smooth path had been blocked by mulberry wood and rolling stones that had been transported at an unknown time.
"I guess the situation is the same over there." Tuhe Shixu said with a gloomy face, "There are several bridges on the way we came here, so we probably won't be spared."
"All communications troops have been intercepted and all bridges and roads leading to the outside world have been blocked." Yu Qiu's face turned pale. "We have completely lost contact with the outside world. Are we going to be trapped and die here?"
"My lord, how much food do you have in store?" Yu Qiuping suddenly asked anxiously.
"Don't worry about this, Mr. Yuqiu." Imamiya Leding, who had just suffered the loss of his brother, and who had always been kind and smiling, now looked gloomy, "In the castle tower, there are enough emergency rations for hundreds of people for two or three days.
In the villages at the foot of the mountain, there are several granaries that store the grain from last year’s autumn harvest, which is enough for us to eat for several months.”
"That's good." Yu Qiuping breathed a long sigh of relief. It would be too tragic if he was trapped and died here.
Before he finished speaking, suddenly, several plumes of thick smoke ignited in the southwest sky.
"That side - is the direction of the village!" Imamiya Leding was shocked, "Quick! Let's go back quickly!"
However, before everyone could rush back, several messengers from the Imamiya family came running over on horseback with mournful faces. They were far away and they shouted out of breath: "Sir! It's not good! It's not good!"
"Our grain and grass stored in the town were all burned!"