Non-Honmaru Inner Honwan [Comprehensive]

For the swordsmen who went back to the city after a disagreement, Saburo never thought that this was his own reason.

After all, if you just casually said "go back to Gifu in the future", the swords would go back in a hurry, then when discussing how to go back with the vassals in Kyoto, the four swords who were still in the first unit did not know how many times they returned to the city time.

Witnessing the disappearance of the swords suddenly this time, Saburo was only stunned for a moment, and simply put all these behind him, and readily entrusted Yan Rong with the safety of the next itinerary—as long as he recalled what he said, You can know that the point that caused the sword to return to the city this time is not "return to Gifu later", but "your battle is over".As for Yanrong, as the weapon of Musashibo Benkei who had carried out "knife hunting", he originally had a belligerent factor, and he naturally couldn't ask for Saburo's entrustment.

As for the reason for the sudden departure of the companions... As a new sword, Yanrong thinks so.

Seeing the calm look of the God Judge, he must have expected everyone to return to the city! (actually not)

As for why the God-inspector who should be in Honmaru is in the wilderness, why there are so many soldiers around the God-inspector, and why the God-inspector is named Oda Nobunaga... It seems that there is no need to pay too much attention at the moment Anyway, what should be known will be known after returning to the city.

Yan Rong still prefers fighting over any fatal curiosity (broken three views)-of course, if the god judge wants him to do some simple physical work, he is also very good at it.

Because when the sword man came back, Saburo was cooking porridge.Now that there is one more Yanrong, he also took out a new feeding bag, poured out the dry food that was originally used to pad his stomach, and handed it to the man holding the naginata: "There are only pancakes left. I have arrangements They also prepared dry food for Zhuzhuwan, but now they are not here, and there is another you. Hanbei will come later, you can go to him to get a bag."

"Oh, so it turns out that the Hanbei is also a sword Fusangshin on the battlefield?"

"That's not true. But because Hanbei is a cool character, I always feel that I can ask him to help me with this kind of matter that I was ordered not to say—"

Hanbei Takenaka was walking to the tent that had been temporarily set up when he heard the end of Saburo's words.With a keen mind, he immediately noticed the important point of "Xiao Guang ordered not to speak", but he still stopped in front of the tent very politely, and deliberately made a sound to remind the people in the tent of his arrival: "Your Highness."

"Hanbei came very quickly. It's okay to come in directly."

Although he is a time traveler, during the more than ten years of living in the Warring States period, Saburo has unknowingly become accustomed to some hidden requirements of dignity, so he still squats beside the pot without moving, and just calls Hanbei Takenaka to come in.

Takenaka didn't move, and insisted on standing a few steps away from the tent: "No. I saw the shadow of other people inside. Your Highness has been keeping the ninja's affairs a secret, so let me come in, are you sure there is no problem?"

"Huh. Like this." Turning his head to look at Yan Rong who was chewing the pancake, Saburo saw the long shadow cast by the firewood under the pot.

He recalled what Akechi Mitsuhide would remind almost every time he met, "Don't expose Fu Sangshen to others right now", and then waved his hand, and said boldly: "Come in directly! Anyway, Hanbei can't see it. "

... For some reason, when thinking of Mitsuhide Akechi who gave Saburo careful advice from time to time (even before Saburo himself said "I can't tell you what Xiaoguang told me"), Hanbei Takenaka couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic.

He stopped coddling and stepped directly into the shed.

Although the sun was about to set, Sanlang hadn't lit a torch yet, and the only thing available for lighting was the burning firewood under the pot.There was not much porridge left in the pot, and even the ashigaru feeding bag that Saburo took away in the name of preventing hunger was empty, lying flat on the ground.

The governor of the Oda family seemed to have not finished eating, and he was still holding half a bowl of porridge in his hand. He did not put it down when he saw him coming in, carefully blew on the hot porridge, and said to him in a familiar and intimate tone: "You came here So soon, I thought it would be a little later."

Takenaka Hanbei just lowered his head, his expression was indifferent and calm, if he is someone who is not familiar with him, he would probably think he is a cold person.He didn't have a fake hand on the soldier, and put two or three fire bags in front of Saburo, his face showed his unique melancholy temperament under the uncertain light and shade of the fire, he was almost more like a poet than a general's retainer .

"Because His Highness is very concerned, considering that they don't seem to be able to meet people, I will bring these here first. As you mentioned before, about the running out of food for those ninjas, it will be ready when the logistics are unified to make dry food The feeding bag and the water tank will be delivered before tomorrow morning." As if thinking of something interesting, Takenaka laughed, "However, it turns out that His Highness's ninjas are so careless that they don't prepare fire bags."

"It's not a ninja either. Xiaoguang advertised as a spy at the beginning, but he became a ninja for some reason. I always felt that something was wrong, but it didn't cause any trouble."

"Even spies don't forget the fire bag containing the wound medicine during the march." Hanbei Takenaka shook his head amusedly, and his face gradually returned to calm, "Although it is a lie full of loopholes, since His Highness will help them Looking for medicine and preparing food, it must be someone you can trust."

"Probably. But you took the wound medicine, but you can't use it—they have gone back to Gifu first. The dry food is also, only one is enough."

"I thought you had the most confidence in Mr. Wise."

"Xiaoguang is different."

"—About this, I can more or less notice it." He lowered his eyes to hide the unclear emotion in his eyes, Hanbei Takenaka's attitude did not change much, "I can guess a little bit. However, I would like to ask you If you persuade me, Mr. Zhizhi will try his best to walk to the nearest position to you. Even if it is hard, he will feel happy."

"I feel like I'm a willful person." Saburo frowned and complained, "I'm not so worrying."

"...Maybe." Even Takenaka could only remain silent in the face of Saburo's unconsciousness.He changed his position, and his expression changed from relaxed to cautious.

Such a serious attitude made Saburo serious as well, he speeded up and drank up the cold porridge, wiped his mouth with pride, and was ready to listen to what Takenaka Hanbei had to say next.

Sure enough, as soon as he opened his mouth, Takenaka Hanbei was talking about the assassination he suffered today: "Today's attack on His Highness, most people suspect that Liujiao sent an ambush."

"Oh, this Hengxing has said it before."

"Yes. But I personally think that the ambush is divided into two groups." In the dimming firelight without adding firewood, the melancholy vassal said, "The previous wave used iron cannons to ambush you. No matter the accuracy Whether it's concentration, or the means of escape, it's like a real ninja."

"The latter wave of ambushes is led by people holding naginata. It is indeed a ninja-like wonderful skill...but it is too exaggerated. His Highness can accurately tell their origin, it should be because he has dealt with them before."

"Indeed, I was shocked when I was ambushed by the time retrograde army when I was retreating from Kanezaki."

"'Time Retrograde Army'...then let’s call it the Retrograde Army." I always felt that the name of the Time Retrograde Army was too strange, but Hanbei Takenaka did not hold on to this point, and continued, "I am talking to Mr. Hashiba I also witnessed this unit when I became the third army together. At that time, they served as reinforcements for the Asai Army and the Echizen Army, and the estimated number was several thousand. Even if they withdrew later, they still retained most of their strength.”

"Zongsan said! There are a lot of retrograde troops."

"Then, why did the retrograde army with 'a lot of people' and 'extraordinary skills' use only a few dozen people to ambush you?"

When choosing the route, Niwa Changhide chose Chikusa Ridge for Saburo, and it was unanimously approved by the rest of the retainers. The reason is that Chikusa Ridge is steep and the mountain roads are narrow, making it inconvenient to ambush.

But it's just "inconvenient to ambush", not "impossible to ambush".If there are thousands of troops, coupled with the extraordinary force of the retrograde army, not to mention allocating dozens of people to carry out an assassination that may fail, even if it is directly blocking the road and playing a brutal "encounter on a narrow road", weaving Tian Jun will suffer heavy losses, and Oda Nobunaga is more likely to be assassinated.

Dozens of people against an army of more than [-] are nothing but mantises.

But that's exactly what they did.Not only that, but the name of "Ninja" was clearly used, almost blatantly announcing that everyone was an assassin sent by the Liujiao family——

"Therefore, my personal opinion is that they intend to frame your assassination on Rokkaku, or 'any daimyo who raises ninjas. It's not slow, and the tone is calm as if narrating, "And the first batch of iron cannon masters who came to assassinate you alone are still doubtful whether they were sent by Liujiao."

After thinking about it for a while, Saburo was immediately given a headache by the intricate relationship inside.He also poked the firewood to make it brighter, and ordered Hanbei Takenaka simply and neatly: "Just say something I can understand."

"'The mantis catches the cicada, the oriole is behind'." Takenaka summed it up this way, "Liujiao, or someone wants to use the name of Liujiao to assassinate you, so there is an ambush by the iron cannon master. This plan has been known, So take advantage of this to assassinate you, the retrograde army that will appear later."

Such speculation is undoubtedly quite bold, and there is no real evidence-it can almost be regarded as unreasonable suspicion.

However, Takenaka Hanbei was right.

He was naturally very intelligent, and his powers of observation were very keen.Those minutiae things are often connected by him in an extremely fast time, but his memory is outstanding.This kind of ability to see things in detail, not to mention extremely rare, can be regarded as rare.

But it is precisely because of this talent that he can draw conclusions in a very short time, but it is difficult to separate them one by one in detail and explain them to others.And even Takenaka Hanbei himself admitted that his speculation contained bold elements, so he just got rid of Rokkaku who should have been blamed, and then advised Saburo to be cautious.

Another and further guess that he didn't directly say is the one that may affect the internal stability of the Oda family...

People inside the Oda family want to buy|murder.

Even if it is bold, this kind of speculation is too bold. In the absence of real evidence, Hanbei Takenaka had to keep silent.

But he wouldn't know that at a distance of more than ten meters, Hashiba Hideyoshi had wrapped his arms around Hashiba Hideyoshi's neck intimately, revealing the absurd thing that Hashiba Hideyoshi did before in a whisper—

"Brother, the person who assassinated Nobunaga must have something to do with you."

The answer is "yes".