Non-Honmaru Inner Honwan [Comprehensive]

Here, after Hashiba Hideyoshi and the others tricked the Echizen Army, they fled as if flying away.The time-traveling army only appeared for a while when they confronted the Asai army, and no matter how they were chased after that, they never appeared again until they joined the Tokugawa family.

On the contrary, Saburo was assassinated by the time retrograde army three times in a short period of one and a half days.

Once, I fled from Jinzaki with ten people in light clothes, but was besieged by a large number of Wakizashi from the time-traveling army—this was stopped by the sword Fusangshen desperately; once, I stayed at a farmhouse on the night of the siege (and called the time-traveling army back to the city) Before, he was stopped and robbed by bandits who didn't know good or bad. The time-traveling army took the opportunity to fish in troubled waters and sent a few enemy threats to carry out a sneak attack. In the end, because the enemy threats could no longer make the retainers fearful, and the people who followed San Lang were all brave and good at fighting. And the solution; one time was to travel to Kuchiki Valley, intending to detour to Kyoto through Kuchiki Valley, but Kuchiki Motozuna, the owner of Kuchiki Valley and an alliance with Asai, refused to let them go, and planned to detain them and write to Asai. Politics -

Then, the enemy sword appeared.Instead, Kuchiki Motozuna regarded the enemy sword as the army guarding Oda Nobunaga, rushed up and fought to solve the enemy sword, and said "although I don't understand the situation, it seems to be none of my business", so the wind is calm Saburo was deeply jealous, and finally, under the persuasion of Matsunaga Hide, who he knew well, he agreed to let Saburo and others pass through Kuchiki Valley.

Among them, the retainers who clearly knew the inside story, but kept silent also played a big role.

The Ten Riders finally arrived in Kyoto on April [-]th—at this moment, only two days had passed since the "Queen of the Jinzaki Palace".

Oda Nobunaga's movements were really too fast.

Neither Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who is in Kyoto, who is full of joy at Saburo's plight, nor Asai Nagamasa, who is still trying to find Nobunaga's existence, can't help but think so.

However, Asai Nagamasa could rely on the power of Omi, gritted his teeth and admitted defeat, and withdrew the Honmaru of the Asai family again. Because of the kindness he had received, Ashikaga Yoshiaki had to choose to agree when Nobunaga asked for an audience.

But what makes Ashikaga Yoshiaki even more disappointed is that despite experiencing a failure, Oda Nobunaga still does not have the look of a defeated general, and even the annoying sloppy and self-confidence between his brows has not worn away a little bit. .

He fake coughed twice, and pretended to be concerned: "I have already learned about the situation of the battle in Asakura, this time it is really too dangerous, and many people must have died."

"Well, there should be some, but the impact is not big, and it can be rebuilt immediately." Saburo said frankly and sincerely, "I just set off to fight Asakura ten days ago, but I came back now, ah, even I am a little embarrassed .”

"It's good to come back, your life is also very precious." Ashikaga Yoshiaki said hypocritically, "Then the next step is to stay in Kyoto to recuperate and recuperate?"

"Oh no, I'll go back to Gifu when Xiaoguang and the others come back." Saburo said, "Ah, by the way, there is one more thing I forgot to tell you."

"what"

"I heard you wrote to a lot of people. Please don't do it again please"

... Ashikaga Yoshiaki felt that his back was completely wet at this moment.He held the fan tightly, holding back his anger, and when Hosokawa Fujitaka saw that the situation was not good, he came to smooth things over and sent Saburo out, then he threw the fan on the ground in a rage, and kicked the case over.

"It's just a defeated general! How dare you, dare to threaten me at this time!"

He subconsciously ignored the pressure brought by Saburo's casual tone when he spoke, and the background he felt when Saburo said "the army will be rebuilt soon", his face was pale and sweat was dripping from his forehead.Because of being too nervous, he couldn't help stuffing his thumb into his mouth, biting his nails bit by bit, until Hosokawa Fujitaka stepped into the room again, he felt relieved and put down his hand.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki's lack of courage made Hosokawa Fujitaka sigh - even if they are brothers, Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Ashikaga Yoshiki are still different.

But as a retainer of the Shogun's family, he still knelt down in front of Ashikaga Yoshiaki with all his heart and said softly, "Even if Nobunaga returns to Kyoto safely, the Oda family will lose the battle between Oda and Asakura."

"You're right!" Ashikaga Yoshiaki nodded quickly, put one hand on his heart, as if to comfort the beating heart inside, and his face gradually became normal, "Fate—destiny is on my side after all! "

"..."

"Oda Nobunaga has always been smooth sailing, and now he has finally failed, and Nobunaga's destiny will come to an end! In the end, destiny still favors me as a general." Ashikaga Yoshiaki said with a smile on his face, "Now even Asai, who is the member of the Oda Alliance, has responded to me, and there will be more and more people under my command in the future—the general's power will always return to my hands!"

——However, do you really have the strength and courage to command those daimyos who gathered to oppose Nobunaga...

Hosokawa Fujitaka almost blurted out the words in his heart.But seeing the general dancing around because of Asai's defection, he finally didn't say such rebellious words, but reminded gently: "When Oda Nobunaga attacked Mino before, he also suffered repeated defeats. But in the end he still occupied Mino. Now that he can make up his mind to return to Kyoto so quickly, no matter what his mentality is, Oda Nobunaga cannot be underestimated."

"That's because Nobunaga didn't get the destiny at that time! God didn't favor him, so he failed, but God favored him, he succeeded. But now, I am the destiny." Ashikaga Yoshiaki said innocently, "Now it is I... Nobunaga, he dares to threaten me at this time! Fujitaka!"

"Um"

"I want to break with the Oda family. Anyway, the Asai family has joined us now, and there will be more people in the future. I don't want to see Oda Nobunaga's face anymore!"

Hosokawa Fujitaka: "..."

No matter how helpless Hosokawa Fujitaka is to the wayward and smart general, Saburo who walked out of the general's mansion knows nothing about the general's thoughts.

Even the "letter" that I said lightly to Ashikaga Yoshiaki before was thrown into the back of my mind because I was preparing for Asakura, and I didn't remember it until I met Ashikaga Yoshiaki. to complain.

However, because of his swift actions and his occasional tough attitude, as well as his political sensitivity that is confusing and equal to nothing, it is not a loss to say that he is a threat-who made Ashikaga Yoshiaki really feel threatened

In this way, several days passed when the storm was about to come, but Saburo himself, who was in the center of the storm, was unconscious. The people who were left as the third army finally rushed to Kyoto.

However, there were only a few thousand soldiers left in the palace army, which was even thinner than the ten cavalry that Sanlang took with him when he fled the battlefield.Among them, Akechi Mitsuhide couldn't tell because he was wearing a visor, Hashiba Hideyoshi, Hashiba Hidecho, and even Takenaka Hanbei, all looked so tired that they would fall asleep at any time.

Seeing Saburo's face, Hashiba Hideyoshi wanted to go over and bite off his neck.But the exhaustion of the march and the reason still on the line still stopped him. In the end, he just turned over quickly and dismounted, just like when he was asking for the army, he put his head on the ground to cover up his distorted expression: "Fortunately, it is not disgraceful! I can get it Your Highness came to welcome me, the villain is very grateful!"

"Yeah, thank you for your hard work, go and rest." Saburo was not surprised by Hashiba Hideyoshi's excited reaction, and quickly went to help him up, commanding the soldiers who came to greet them to pick him up and take a good rest, paying more attention It was Mitsuhide Akechi who said, "Speaking of which, Xiaoguang, I met time travel—"

"This is a big matter, I have something urgent to report!"

"Hey, but Xiaoguang just came back, don't you need to take a rest?"

"No, this matter is more important." In fact, he was already exhausted, but after hearing the first few syllables that Saburo uttered, Akechi Mitsuhide forced himself to cheer up, pretending to be nonchalant, "I request to ask you alone report."

"Okay then, you said so."

What Akechi Mitsuhide wanted to report was about the Time Traveling Army.

Because Saburo has lived in Kyoto for several days, coupled with the high mobility driven by the lord, within a few moments, Akechi Mitsuhide and Saburo are sitting face to face in the Japanese room.In order to avoid being impolite, the former changed his armor and took a hasty bath, but he was steamed by the heat (steam baths were often used in the Warring States Period), and his brain was even more muddled. He had to wash his face with cold water and bumped into him several times on the road. Zhuzi walked up to Saburo soberly.

Akechi Mitsuhide worked so hard, Lian Saburo couldn't help but be a little more serious than before—just a little.

"Mr. Takenaka and I joined the army, but suddenly a large number of time-traveling troops appeared on the battlefield—it was to fight against them that the army suffered heavy losses." Akechi Mitsuhide, who had to make a long story short, uttered a mouthful due to physical exhaustion. Angrily, he said softly, "Because the time-traveling army is related to Fu Sangshen, I am not sure that Fu Sangshen's matter will not affect you, so I interrupted you without authorization, I am very sorry."

"It's okay, I didn't notice this at all." Saburo waved his hand graciously, and passed the threat under his hand, "Here, I'll borrow this from you. Xiaoguang also met the time-traveling army, I didn't expect it .”

"Thank you very much." When it was not time to hold on, Akechi Mitsuhide took the threat, pressed his arms and chest, and felt a lot more relaxed. He continued to ask, "Did you meet Saburo?"

"I met three batches, but everyone is fine. When they first appeared, I was shocked. Fortunately, they are very reliable."

"Does it mean that Fusangshen helped?" No longer able to raise his vigilance, Akechi Mitsuhide could only rub his aching temple, and asked gently, "So, can we call them over now? I want to ask." situation at the moment."

"This...they seem to have returned to Gifu." Saburo stretched out his hand and rubbed the back of his neck in distress, "I said 'go out' before, and then they came to help attack the time-traveling army, and then I said 'return to the city' , and they returned to Gifu——thinking about it, we have to hurry back to Gifu.”

"Yes." Akechi Mitsuhide has gradually become accustomed to Saburo's escapism, and after calmly responding, he forcibly brought back the original topic, "'Leave the battle' and 'return to the city' are both orders... Then, Fu Sangshen still has Tell you about other orders?"

"There seems to be an 'expedition' and 'drill'." Saburo replied, as if thinking of something, he said on a whim, "If I send the first team to the capital, they will come—oh, long time no see , Zong San!"