The group immediately turned north. At this time, the huge movement in the castle tower also alerted the guards of the Imagawa family and the Takeda family who had spent the night in the Honmaru Yashiki. They went out to check the situation, and happened to meet the escaping Imagawa Yoshimoto, Takeda Harunobu and ginkgo.
"Your Highness, what is this?" Kira Uishari, Tian Shen Kentaro and Tsuchizune were all dumbfounded.
"The Okuhira family has rebelled and is attacking us. Get out quickly." Imagawa Yoshimoto put his swords back into their scabbards and said with a wry smile, "By the way, can you give us two pairs of shoes? My wife and I will return them Running barefoot like this will make your feet dirty beyond recognition."
"Yes, little one!" Kinoshita Tokichiro heard this and immediately jumped three feet high. He took out two pairs of straw sandals from his arms like a magic trick and handed them to Imagawa Yoshimoto and Ginkgo.
"Thank you Kinoshita." Imagawa Yoshimoto nodded in disbelief, and then he couldn't help complaining: "Why do you carry your shoes in your arms!"
"This way His Highness can put on something warm and cover it with you!" Kinoshita Tokichiro offered his attentiveness in a somewhat disgusting manner.
"Then why two pairs?" Imagawa Yoshimoto muttered in a low voice while continuing to lead the team to retreat.
"This will allow Your Highness to wear another pair after wearing cold clothes!" Kinoshita Tokichiro flattered him seriously.
In the darkness, although there was already a commotion in the castle tower, other garrison troops in the city seemed a bit disorganized and did not launch an investigation. In the dark alley, although Imagawa Yoshimoto, Takeda Harunobu and others were not familiar with the terrain, they moved towards the north gate bit by bit. However, the night also provided them with cover - so that the Oppei family could not track them immediately.
However, when they finally got around to the north gate, they found that the city gate was already brightly lit - dozens of soldiers from the Oudaira family were guarding the door as if they were faced with a formidable enemy, and there were archers standing at the top of the city on both sides. ——It is impossible to break in.
"Damn it? When?" Takeda Harunobu cursed in a low voice in anger, and then he leaned forward and fell down.
Imagawa Yoshimoto was startled and hurriedly supported Takeda Harunobu, but he suddenly felt the touch of warm liquid on his palm. Imagawa Yoshimoto shuddered all over, and quickly helped Takeda Harunobu sit up, looking at his body through the firelight on the top of the city - only to find that a long and deep gash had been cut on his back, and bright red blood was trickling down. Flow outward.
"When?" Imagawa Yoshimoto suddenly panicked and quickly took off his sleeves to help Takeda Harunobu bandage his wounds. Blood flowed all over Imagawa Yoshimoto's hands and body.
"Otherwise, do you think who blocked the knife for you when you came out of the castle tower just now?" Takeda Harunobu took a deep breath. Even though he was so seriously injured, he didn't say a word. Instead, he ran all the way to hold on. Stay, "If the sword of the Okuhira samurai at the door doesn't protect you, your head will be gone."
"This is not like Torachiyo's style." Imagawa Yoshimoto pressed hard on Takeda Harunobu's wound to stop the bleeding, and scolded in a low voice: "Aren't you the most mercenary? Taking your life to block the knife for me will be harmful to the Takeda family. What's the benefit? If I die, won't you just embezzle the Imagawa family? Why do you want to save me?"
"Damn, who knew, my body started to move on its own... I didn't have time to think clearly. If I were given more time to think about it, I would never save you..." Takeda Harunobu grinned at Imagawa Yoshi Yuan laughed and cursed in a low voice, and then he had no strength to speak anymore and fainted from excessive blood loss. Yamamoto Kansuke on the side saw his lord dying, and his face turned pale with anxiety.
"Go south, rush out from the south gate?" Imagawa Yoshimoto carried Takeda Harunobu on his back, with a rare murderous look in his eyes, and said resolutely to the guards of the Imagawa family and the Takeda family beside him. , "No matter what, we must lead His Highness Takeda out!"
"yes!"
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By the time Takeda Harunobu woke up in a daze, it was already dark.
On May 5, the twelfth year of Tianwen (1543), Yin, in the mountainous area south of Changxiao City.
"Finally woke up." Imagawa Yoshimoto breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Takeda Harunobu finally open his eyes. On the side, Yamamoto Kansuke was holding a kettle and carefully feeding Takeda Harunobu water.
"Where is this?" Takeda Harunobu spoke with some difficulty. As soon as he spoke, the wound on his back began to hurt again.
"In the mountainous area south of Changxiao City, we started from the south of Changxiao City not long ago.
He escaped through the door and protruded outside the city, now running to the south of Fengchuan. "Imagawa Yoshimoto stood up and looked at the looming Nagashino Castle to the north, "I wonder if there are any pursuers coming to arrest us. "
"Aren't you going to wipe it, sir? It's a rare thing that you don't have mysophobia." After running all the way, Ginkgo, who was panting, took out a towel from his arms, dipped it in the water in the stream, wrung it out and handed it to Imagawa Yoshimoto . Imagawa Yoshimoto took the towel, looked at the blood stains of Takeda Harunobu splattered on his hands, sighed and began to wipe them.
"I have already reacted, so I shouldn't have blocked the knife for you." Takeda Harunobu grinned and endured the severe pain and cursed: "You are the governor of the family, and you don't even know about the rebellion of the retainers? If it weren't for me, you would He's already dead. Isn't it a shame to fall into the hands of a small Oudaira family?"
"These things are usually the responsibility of the teacher. If the teacher is not here, I don't know who to ask..." Imagawa Yoshimoto sighed with a wry smile, and then held his forehead vigorously, "As of now, there is nothing we can do. . In Nishizaki Castle, there is our Imagawa family’s garrison in Yuanjiang. Tuhara, please quickly take people to inform Asai of Nishizaki Castle and ask him to lead his army north to rescue us."
"Yes." Tu Atomjing accepted the order and left quietly with the ninjas.
"What about us, where are we going? If we hide in this ravine, we will be found by the Okudaira family sooner or later." Takeda Harunobu asked.
"Go south, to Yuanjiang." Imagawa Yoshimoto chose the opposite direction to Nagashino Castle, "The key now is that we can't contact our Imagawa family, just wait until we can contact them, and stay out of the wind for the next few days. head."
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At the same time, on May 5, the twelfth year of Astronomy (1543), at the eighth quarter of Yinshi, Mikawa Yoshida Castle.
"What? The Okudaira family has rebelled?" After receiving the report from the insider, Ohara Zhenmi was surprised and jumped into the crime.
"Yes!" The insider who hurried back from Kannuma's Noda Castle reported: "Last night a fight broke out in the Okuhira family's castle tower, and then the city gate was blocked, and then troops were sent south. The Okuhira family also sent an envoy to Kannuma At home, I persuaded the Guanmao family to join them in the uprising, saying that they wanted to attack His Highness the Family Governor!"
"Your Highness, the Governor?" Ohara Jinmi took a breath of air after hearing this, and turned to look at the map, "His Royal Highness, the Governor, left Yoshida Castle two days ago and returned to Toe along the southern coastal road. He should have reached Kakegawa Castle by now. Are they nearby? It's a hundred and eighty thousand miles away from Nagashino Castle. How can they attack? Forget it, it's better to be on the safe side. Send an order quickly and ask Mr. Asai of Nishizaki Castle to immediately go eastward toward Kakegawa Castle to protect His Highness the Governor! Give the order again The Ii family, the Udono family, the Osawa family, the Iio family and the Horikoshi family of Saituanji immediately raised their troops and went north to attack the Okuhira family's rebellion!"
That's right, Ohara Jinmi didn't know that Imagawa Yoshimoto had temporarily changed his itinerary (going northeast to Nagashino Castle of the Okuhira family), so he knew nothing about Imagawa Yoshimoto's current location - he didn't know that Imagawa Yoshimoto had already Although he was in danger, he thought that the family governor had arrived at Zhongyuanjiang safely.
"Yes!" The messengers in the castle tower immediately took the order and left.
"It's strange, how could this happen? In the past few months, there was no change at all in the Oppei family. Master Yuzhai's insider buried in the Oppei family reported that the head of the Oppei family, the elders and the members of the family were all acting normally. , how could it suddenly turn against you?" Ohara Zhenmi turned around and began to think again, but he was puzzled, so he asked the spy who returned from Guannuma's house: "Did you see the spy who was ambushing Oppei's house? ?What is the specific situation of the Okudaira family?"
"The Okuhira family's Nagashino Castle is under martial law. Maybe the news can't spread." Taiyuan Xue Zhai's insider at Guan Ma's house was also confused. "Master Xue Zhai had only one-line contact with us before, and we were not allowed to communicate with each other." The internal staff of the family are in contact with each other and are afraid of being exposed, so I don’t know what’s going on with my colleagues.”
"The Okuhira family...these people from Higashi Mikawa are really unreliable. They are all ambitious." Ohara Zhenmi snorted coldly, then stood up, waved his hands fiercely and said: "Come here, send the Okuhira family to Yoshida We killed the hostage of the castle, Sadatomo Okudaira, and cut off his head and hung it on the gate of Yoshida Castle!"
"Please think twice, Hizen Mamoru!" Yamada Keitaka was startled by Ohara Jinzhi's decisive order, "The matter has not been fully clarified yet, wouldn't it be straightforward to execute the hostages..."
"It's just to deter these young people. Who dares to resist again? Aren't the hostages collected just for execution?" Ohara
Zhenshi gritted his teeth and said matter-of-factly, "Don't set a precedent and let those rebels think that even if they rebel, the hostages still have a chance to survive. Otherwise, what's the use of taking hostages in the future?"
Afterwards, Ohara Zhenmi looked at Yamada Keitaka and said: "Yamada-sama, please immediately lead Jin Xibei to Nagashino Castle to quell the rebellion! You will be responsible for coordinating the Xiyuan Jiang people who have been ordered to come!"
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On May 6, the twelfth year of Tianwen (1543), at seven o'clock in Shenshi, it was ten miles northwest of Iya City in Yuanjiang State.
In order to avoid the possible pursuit of the Okuhira family, the group of people walked frantically on the trails in the mountainous area at the junction of Mikawa and Toga. It took them nearly two days to get out of the mountainous area and arrived at Ii Valley. This was also thanks to Ginkgo, an expert on mountain roads. Otherwise, they would not be afraid. I was about to get lost a long time ago.
"It's finally safe." Imagawa Yoshimoto wiped his sweat with a towel, straightened up and sighed: "The reinforcements from Nishizaki Castle should be arriving soon. Just make peace with them."
That's right, Imagawa Yoshimoto had no idea that the garrison of Nishizaki Castle had been sent to Kakegawa Castle by Ohara Masumi.
"If the pursuers don't follow up, is it okay to go directly to Iigaya Castle?" Kentaro Targami came back from the perimeter and suggested to Imagawa Yoshimoto: "As long as you enter the city, you will be safe. It is dangerous in the wild. If you are caught, What will happen if the Oppei family catches up later?"
"It makes sense." Imagawa Yoshimoto nodded slightly, and then planned to lead everyone to Ii Valley Castle, but suddenly he found a horse riding towards him quickly.
