Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Defeated Soldiers

A dozen warriors lined up and walked on the ridge.They kept a distance of about three feet, all without saying a word, and sprinted along the sidewalk they were going to. The spring day is short, the shadows of the sun are slanting to the west, and the shadows of ten children are dragging slenderly on the eastern hillside. The leader stopped and sat on the side of the road, and the dozen or so people who followed also sat down on the spot with a clatter. One can tell at a glance that they are defeated soldiers, with disheveled hair, helmets and armor. Three of them held guns, but they all lost the tip of their guns by coincidence.

"When I looked at the clouds at the beginning of the new year, I guessed that this year would be a bad year. Why would the clouds look like black fish scales just after dawn?" Said a middle-aged samurai.I don't know if those people heard it, but no one glanced at him. "In my opinion, even more unlucky things will happen. If you are unlucky, you may even lose your life." As the samurai spoke, he seemed to have discovered something ridiculous, put his hands on his back, leaned back and laughed loudly. "why are you laughing?" Beside him, a long-faced warrior in his thirties lay lazily on the ground, raised his face and said to the bearded warrior.

"What are you laughing at? Don't you think it's ridiculous? When the master was alive, Kai and Shinano, of course, even Mikawa in the north and south were his territories. However, after only ten years, step by step The land has shrunk, and at last there is only a lonely city. Isn't that ridiculous enough?" While talking, the bearded warrior became excited, stood up abruptly, and shouted at everyone: "Do you know where you are going and what you are going to do?" No one answered. "A bunch of idiots! Lost the castle, defeated the army, and have no fucking energy. Listen, we are going to die for the Takeda family. We can't make it before the last city is lost." No! Alright, let's go!" said the bearded warrior.

"It doesn't have to be death." Someone said in the distance. "Don't f*cking fantasies! Anyone who wants to think like this, get out of here as soon as possible. If you follow me, you will die. Do you hear me? You will die." The bearded warrior yelled. This group of defeated soldiers lined up again and walked along the watershed between Kai and Shinano. Night has come. The bearded samurai did not know when or why, he had become the commander of this team of samurai.He said "rest" and they sat down staggeringly, and he said "go" and they all started walking.

There is no moon in the sky.However, the unique twilight of a spring night enveloped the surroundings. When they found the lights of farmhouses in the valley or on the hillside, the bearded warriors assigned three warriors in turn: "Go and fill your stomach. When you come back, bring a rice ball." Some people also wanted to go with those three people, and the bearded warrior shouted: "Go again next time. I will ask you to go when you find the lights of ordinary people's houses next time. Just bear with me." It can be considered that the arrangement of the bearded warriors is quite appropriate. No matter how many people are crowded into a farm, there may not be enough food to fill so many empty stomachs.

Until the three came back, the other partners sat down on the floor.When the three returned, they were on their way again.The bearded samurai walked ahead silently, munching alone on the rice balls they had brought back. This situation was repeated several times, and it was already midnight when this group of people was sleeping exhaustedly in the grove of white bamboos. The twilight that shrouded the surroundings just now had disappeared, and it was already pitch black at some point.The snores of a dozen people rose and fell one after another in the pitch-black mountain white bamboo bushes.

When I got up early, there were only half of the people left. "Guys who have eaten, all fucking run away" The bearded warrior said bitterly.Indeed, those who remained were all those who hadn't beaten their teeth in the past day. Although they were a group of defeated soldiers, they did not come from the same city. They escaped from the fortifications of the Takeda family that the army broke through, and gradually gathered together.They didn't have a destination to go to, and they didn't know what would happen after they arrived in Kai. They were just a group of people heading towards Kai blindly.

However, Takeda's destruction is already obvious.Marching to Kai, I am afraid that, as the bearded samurai expected, he will undoubtedly die. On the third morning, the bearded warrior opened his sleepy eyes on the river beach upstream.As soon as he opened his eyes, he jumped up. There were seven warriors lying here last night, and now they are all gone. Oh, it's all gone! The bearded warrior stared wide-eyed, and muttered in a low voice: "You rat!" However, he suddenly listened attentively, and there seemed to be the sound of snoring among the sound of running water coming from the river beach.

The bearded warrior stood up, looked around, and found five or six boulders on the shore, and a young warrior was lying among them, falling into a drowsy sleep. Damn, this is the only one left! The bearded warrior stood on a high place, staring at the sleeping man, and approached.He shouted, "Hey, get up!" The young warrior turned to look at him and said, "Let me sleep a little longer." "Stop talking nonsense, I must rush to Xinfu City today, it's time to hit the road."As he said this, the young warrior yawned twice, got up from the river beach, and went to the river to wash his face.

He was about twenty-seven or eight years old, with an enviable handsome figure and a beard. He walked with the young warrior for three days, but never talked to him. The river washed away the warrior's dirt, revealing his handsome face.It seemed that he had experienced many battles, his forehead and cheeks were covered with knife marks, and the back of his right hand was also cut. Although the knife marks on his forehead were old, the knife marks on his cheeks were new wounds. "You're the only one left. If you want to slip away, you have to do it as soon as possible." The bearded samurai stared into the young samurai's eyes, but the young samurai ignored him.He asked, "Is there anything to eat?"

"How could there be? If we go a little further, there may be a village." "Okay, there is no good plan, let's go forward." They set off along the rugged river beach. "It's a pity to let you go to die, you are still young!" said the bearded warrior.The young warrior turned his head and replied, "I don't want to die. I don't want to die." "You don't want to die?" The bearded warrior stopped and stared at the young warrior's face. "Although you say you don't want to die, you will have to die as soon as you arrive in Xinfu. In front of the army, you can't stand it for even three days." "I know all this," said the young warrior. "So, you don't intend to go to Xinfu, you think of Kai and run away? It turns out that your hometown is in Kai!" "My hometown is Ina. I came out after the fall of Iida Castle. If I wanted to escape, I would have gone to Ina. Why escape here!" "Well, that is to say, you are definitely going to Xinfu." "certainly". "You have to die as soon as you enter the new mansion. If you still have a little luck, it's a big mistake." "Then you are sent to die." "certainly." "You travel day and night just to die?" "The day the Takeda family perishes, my life will end with them. This is the so-called way of the samurai." "The way of the warrior?" The young samurai seemed to think about it seriously, and he said: "I've thought that way too...but please forgive me!" "Then why are you going to Xinfu?" "I can't tell you, I have something to hide." The arrogant tone of the young samurai angered the bearded samurai. "Can't you tell me? I don't want to go to Xinfu with people of unknown origin." "You don't need to be so serious, you won't live for more than three days when you arrive in Xinfu!" The two walked in silence for a while.They walked from the river beach to the edge of the cliff and followed the road in the middle of the hill. On the hillside beside the road is a dense fir forest.When he came here, the bearded warrior stopped suddenly: "I'll ask you again, you really don't want to die for the Takeda family?" "I do not want to." "If you sneak away like those guys, I don't blame it, but if you make such a public noise, I can't save you. Please be my Todou Heita's ghost!" He took two steps back, holding the handle of the knife, and stared at the young warrior. "It's a pity that you are still a daredevil at such an age! It is because of you that the Takeda family has fallen into this state!" The young man stared at the bearded warrior and took two or three steps back. The sunshine in the spring morning fell from the trees, and the shadows of the trees were reflected on the road between them. The bearded samurai, who called himself Fujido Bingta, leaned against a small cedar tree, drew his sword, and shouted: "Come!" Then, he stared at the young warrior and shouted: "Before killing you, let you tell me your name. Tell me your name!" "Forget it. I don't want to kill a man who's going to die in three or four days," said the young warrior. "Don't try to escape, report your name!" "I don't have a name to report to a first-class person like you!" "Humph!" At this time, Bingta, who didn't look agile, shook his body slightly, and the knife swept over like lightning. The young warrior leaped more than three feet away, and also drew his sword. "This makes me want to kill. Well, look at the knife!" The young samurai said, putting himself in a stance, staring straight at Bingta with burning eyes. "Don't use this trick, boy!" Bingta retreated while talking, but the young samurai still glared at Bingta. "This is a guy who doesn't fear and doesn't know how to retreat!" Bingtai was thinking, this set of tricks was only practiced in a life-and-death battle. Once the knife is drawn, it puts life and death completely at risk Law. Kill, kill, kill, the eyes of the young warrior and the blade of the knife are full of murderous intent to cut down the opponent. At this moment, Bing regretted that he should not have drawn Meng Lang's sword.Although the outcome was uncertain, he felt that no matter whether he won or lost, he couldn't knock down the opponent without being traumatized. However, Bingtai's thoughts immediately flew to the sky.A life-and-death duel unfolded on a small road that was close to the cliff on one side and the fir forest on the other. Bingtai kept chasing the young samurai for a knife, but after a while, he was chased back and forth on the hillside by the young samurai. "Yeah!" "With a knife!" At this time, Bingtai turned and turned to the upper side of the hillside, and the young warrior was on the lower side, and the two faced each other.Apart from the occasional killing sounds of the two of them, there was only the sound of running water in Kamana River, and the surrounding area was completely silent. While confronting each other, Bingtai was startled suddenly, because the sound of a conch horn came from nowhere.The young warrior was also shocked. While maintaining a parrying posture, he slid back more than three feet from the unstable hillside.Seizing the gap, Bingta glanced down the mountain road through the fir trees. He saw a long procession of dozens or even hundreds of samurai advancing downstream along the Kamagawa river bank.Moreover, there were dozens of warriors separated from that team, all running towards here along the hillside with their waists bent. "Not good!" Bing Tai thought to himself. He saw that the coming team was neatly equipped, with muskets on their shoulders, and he felt more and more unlike Takeda's team. "Hey, the Oda Army is here, run!" Bingta couldn't help but yelled at the opponent who was fighting. The young samurai didn't respond right away, he hesitated for a while, and said dubiously: "Oda Army? Seriously?" Suddenly there was a gunshot, and Bing Tai hurriedly lay down on the ground, listening to the gunshot whistling in his ears.The smell of gunpowder smoke wafted faintly, and the bullets seemed to come from not far away. Bingta looked up and saw that the young samurai was climbing desperately towards the bushes on the hillside.At the same time, more than a dozen warriors chasing him were also climbing towards the same hillside. Bingta also desperately climbed up the mountain. When Bingtai climbed the mountain ridge, the second shot was fired. Bingtai climbed up the mountain ridge, at a loss, not knowing where he was going, panicked and ran to the right in a hurry. However, just after he ran five or six feet away, he stopped again, because the young warrior who was fighting with him just now was fighting with more than a dozen warriors. The young samurai had already cut down one of his opponents in the midst of the blow, and beside the felled samurai, there were two wounded samurai rolling on the ground; left hand. "Good knife skills!" Just as Bing Tai thought of this, he suddenly found that one of the young warrior's feet was not flexible. "Could it be that he was injured?" Bingtai originally wanted to run towards the opposite side, but changed his mind, and in order to rescue the opponent just now, he entered the siege again.He ran over and immediately fought several enemies back to back with the young warrior. "You are hurt?" "I just fell off a cliff and hurt my foot." The young samurai spoke from behind. "Oda is your common enemy, I have to help you, run away!" Heta also shouted to the young samurai from behind.He added: "These people are not easy to deal with." "Where do you want me to flee?" asked the young warrior. "Run to the high place along the mountain ridge, that is the direction to Xinfu." "Ah." The young warrior didn't express his gratitude, but said with deep emotion: "Since the Oda army has arrived here, it seems that Takato Castle has also fallen. Everything is over. My name is Sakeburen, and I will thank you when we meet later. I am leaving." Before the words fell, he had already run away.Although his right foot dragged a bit, he ran very fast.He swung his knife to open the way, turned around and chopped down another one suddenly, and then ran along the mountain ridge with great strides.The three Oda samurai followed and chased after them. After a while, the figures of the young samurai and the pursuer disappeared in the miscellaneous forest on the mountain ridge. Surrounded by a dozen enemies, Bingtai retreated to the other side of the hillside.For he was on guard against muskets. A brave guy rushed forward recklessly, Bingtai slashed down from his shoulder diagonally.At the same time, Bingta lost his footing, fell to the hillside, and rolled down.He stretched out his hand, held the knife, and rolled down the hillside with a rumble.Then two shots were heard. Bingtai got into the small pine forest, so he stood up calmly and ran along the hillside. After a while, he heard the voices of warriors above his head. He bent down and listened quietly, and then got into the bushes on the hillside. I don't know how long it took, but when he came to the rocky cliff with the gurgling stream, the pursuer was silent. Bingta rested for a while, and he remembered the name that the young samurai reported himself just now—Sakabe Hayato. "I seem to have heard this name somewhere..." Bing Tai was thinking in his heart.Indeed, I've heard of it somewhere, but I can't remember how. Sakebe Hayato, Sakebe Hayato! Bing is too on the road, he must rush to the city before the enemy besieges Xinfu. Heita Fujido walked down the mountains between Kai and Shinano, and came to a gently rolling hilly area—there was a corner of the Great Plain—it was already evening that day. From here, you can see the platform where the last stronghold of the Takeda Army, Shinfu Castle, and several other platforms are floating on the plain ocean like islands.The dusk of spring is quietly descending on this plain and the terraces here and there. Bingta stood there dumbfounded, looking at the plain in the twilight for a while.It was unusually silent, but in this silence, no signs of misfortune had yet been found. Bingta greedily looks at Kai, the hometown where he was born, grew up, and fought. The news that Kiso Yoshishang betrayed Takeda and had an affair with Oda, and became the guide of Oda's Koshu Expeditionary Army came at the beginning of the first lunar month, and it has been less than three months.During this period, the Takeda Army organized battles in various places, intending to block the Oda Army's invasion from the Inaguchi, but it was completely ineffective. Is this so when a country is about to fall?The army was defeated like a mountain, the samurai had no fighting spirit, a city was lost in the morning, and a town was lost in the evening, and the fortresses on the front line of the Takeda army fell one by one. Heita Fujido was ordered to go with hundreds of samurai to rescue Nobushi Shimojo who was defending the Inaguchi, a key pass in Shinshu.Because there were spies from within, the enemy was introduced into the city, and it was captured immediately.From then until today, Bingta retreated steadily, although he also went to several towns, but in front of Oda's army, he couldn't resist at all. All the warriors he sent to Inakou with him fled here and there.Bingtai also narrowly escaped death several times, and he wanted to escape back to the new mansion and die in front of the lord. Bingtai walked into a village, found a household, and walked in swaggeringly. He wanted to borrow a horse. "I have something to ask you." Bingta stood in the spacious main room and said. "Which one?" What came out was an old man who was nearly sixty years old. He was as majestic and dignified as this solemn house surrounded by tall earthen walls. "Any business?" The old man stood there and looked at Bingta, his expression obviously didn't look good. "I have to go to Xinfu City tonight, can you lend me a horse? Please see that the whole country of Kai is in danger, please agree to me no matter what." Bing Tai said. It is impossible for such a grand family not to have one or two horses in order to cope with the current situation. "I'm so sorry, I can't lend it to you." The master flatly refused.His impatient tone stung Bingta. "You mean there are no horses?" Bingtai couldn't help but look hateful. "There are horses. However, there are no horses that can be lent to you." The old man said slowly. "What?" Bingtai changed color. "Have you forgotten the feelings of the master of the legal court? Isn't it on the verge of national peril now?" "We Li people have indeed received the favor of the master of the legal court, but since the master of the legal court passed away, we have suffered a lot of pain and torture until today. We were confiscated by them when we farmed and harvested rice; the child was just strong. If you are strong, you will be arrested as a strong man. Please go wherever you want and visit the farmers, I am afraid there is no one who does not look forward to the demise of the Takeda family." Bingtai stared at the old man and stood upright. Just as the old man said, years of continuous wars have caused the people of Kai to suffer a lot.Although Bingta understands this, the situation is urgent. "Are you really not willing?" "Where are you going to ride?" "I plan to arrive before Xinfu City falls." "What are you doing in town?" "To be martyred together with the lord." The old man looked at Bingta's face approvingly, "Sure enough... I can't help it, so I'll lend it to you." The old man's demeanor remained unchanged, but his tone softened. "Most of us Limin resent the Wutian family now, but since you want to die for Wutian, let your wish be fulfilled and let you die." The old man clapped his hands and called out his servants: a horse was pulled out from behind, it was a fine horse. "What a horse!" "I'm really reluctant, but I'll lend it to you. However, don't kill it, and return it to me after riding it. I have ridden it to Xinfu several times, as long as I let it go, I can come back by myself. Please don't forget to put it on Put it back." "Then, I will borrow it. May I ask your name?" "I'm in Kobe Iori," said the old man. "Understood. Then, I will borrow it." Bingtai leads the horse out of the house. Over the direction of Xinfu, there was a red sunset glow, just like a fire rising into the sky. Fujido Bingta galloped his horse. The road twists and turns to the east through small villages on the great plain. Bingtai did not find any trace of the Takeda army in any village, nor did he encounter interrogation.This made the soldiers on the horse too anxious and dimmed. It was already midnight when Bingta arrived at the point where the hill where Xinfu Castle was located was within walking distance. Takeda Katsuyori and his family moved from the old mansion to the new mansion on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month last year, and it has been less than three months. When I moved here, I hadn't thought of the bad luck I would have today. I had fantasized about taking the new mansion as my base, and even if it was urgent to restore the decline of the Takeda family in the past two or three years, it would be able to recover slowly.There is such a hope in everyone's heart. Among the luxurious ranks at that time, Bingta participated. Bingta rode his horse across the shallows of the Kamanagawa River, skirted the foot of the mountain, and came to the castle street of Xinfu.It is called Chengxia Street in name, but it is actually far smaller than the scale of a town. It is just that dozens of samurai houses have just been built in the fields. Bing too quickly crossed the avenue of Chengxia Street and began to walk towards the hills of Xinfu City.On the mountain pass of the hills, for the first time, I encountered an investigation by the warriors of the outpost. "who are you?" "Hyota Fujido." "Okay, let's go." However, Bingtai immediately reined in his horse and asked: "Where are the troops?" "Stay on the mountain." "It is self-evident to stay on the mountain." "how many people?" "I'm not sure; there are about a thousand people now, and there were about two thousand in the morning." "Why did two thousand people become one thousand?" "Fleeing." "escape?" "People are dying." "Are you going to escape too?" "We won't run away. If we want to run away, we would have left." As he said, they were all strong-willed, and they didn't even have the slightest sign of shrinking.However, their tone is not like that of a boss. "If you encounter anyone who is fleeing, you will be executed immediately!" Said Bingtai. "But, it's not one or two." Said the samurai at the outpost. After Bingtai passed the checkpoint, he rode his horse and galloped on the winding hillside road. Along the way, the branches of the roadside brushed his face from time to time. There seemed to be bonfires burning everywhere on the mountain. As the road approached the top of the mountain, we saw faint lights shooting out of the dense forest and heard people neighing everywhere. When Bingtai urged his horse to come to the mountain, he couldn't believe his eyes.At first he took the fire on the top of the mountain as a bonfire, but it was not. In front of you, isn't the raging flame on the city tower flying in the night sky? The square on the hill was crowded with warriors, but they just ran around watching the fire engulf the city. Bingtai got off his horse and asked a warrior next to him: "What's the matter?" "It's nothing. Don't you understand it when you look at it? The city is burning." A samurai in his fifties said.Despair made the samurai's face so ugly. "What's the matter, my lord?" "Before I heard about it, I had already escaped." "Escape?" "That's right. These warriors in front of me came from all directions to die in battle. Are you the same?" "yes." "However, although we intend to fight to the death on the battlefield, all the masters up to Shiro Katsurai have run away, and the rest are all." "Where's Master Xinfeng from the stables?" "I heard that I'm retreating to Xiaozhu." "Where is Master Nobushige Koyamada?" "The legend left here yesterday." "Who set the fire?" "It is said that Master Sheng Lai ordered him when he was about to flee, and set fire to him a moment after he escaped." "So, what are you going to do in the future?" Bing Tai asked him. "I want to see with my own eyes the burning of the last pillar on the city, and then go away," said the warrior. "But..." he was about to go on, when the warrior cried: "Oh, look, what's that?" Bingtai looked in the direction he was pointing, and there was chaos in a corner of the square in the city. A samurai was staring at several opponents and fighting. "Cannibalism? This is what happens when the country dies!" Bingtai didn't want to watch the fight, so he immediately turned his head to look at the tower.The fire on the tower was more intense than before, and the fire snakes were scurrying in the air. At this time, the chaotic warriors suddenly dodged to the sides, and along the gap, a warrior with a sword in hand stepped back. "Ah!" Bing Tai secretly called out. The samurai's posture with a sword and the posture of dragging a handy leg are very familiar to the soldier - that is the samurai who calls himself Sakabe Hayato. To Bingta's surprise was the samurai clinging to his right, shielding a young woman.The woman followed Hayato closely, and stepped back step by step. "Who lend me a horse? The horse..." Hayato fought against several enemies with a sharp blade, and shouted desperately to the surroundings. Why the fight, no one knows. "Kill, kill this fight!" Hayato's opponents screamed at each other in unison. They surrounded Hayato and shouted to kill, but no one would attack, probably they knew how powerful Hayato was. What is the truth of the matter?Why did such a reckless move happen even after the city was completely burned?Bingtai was thinking. "Oh yeah!" Bingtai leaned hard on the Hayato who was retreating with his back on his back, and called out to him, the voice was frighteningly loud. The young samurai turned around and cast a glance at Bingta, "Yeah!" With a flash of fire across his face, he said, "Please, get a horse." "I have suffered a lot for you, and I don't care about your business any more!" Bing Tai said.Really, he didn't have the heart to help him anymore. "Please, as long as you can save me from this critical step, I will definitely work for you." Bingta didn't want to ask the young samurai to do anything for him. "Do you know where Master Katsurai is staying?" "I know." "Okay. I'll lend you a horse." Said Bingtai. "Thank you very much. Let this maid ride." Hayato only said this, and suddenly launched an offensive towards the opponent.At this time, a corner of the tower collapsed and sparks flew everywhere. The woman left Hayato's side and ran towards Bingtai, who handed her the reins that he had been holding in his hand. "thank you." The woman bowed her head.She is a girl in her twenties with temporary white skin and autumn eyes.In a hurry, Bingtai couldn't tell whether she belonged to the samurai family or a woman from the city. "Can you ride a horse?" Bingtai asked, and the woman replied: "Yes." She looked like a well-worn horse. "Get on your horse quickly." "Ha Yi." The soldiers pushed and pushed, and the woman was already on the horseback. The woman said on horseback: "I'm sorry." Immediately turned the horse's head and plunged obliquely from the square where the warriors were densely packed. Mrs. Bing saw that she seemed to be proficient in riding skills, but she still sweated for her.In the firelight, the horse and the woman could be seen at first, but they disappeared after a while. When the woman disappeared, Bing Tai regretted that he should not lend her the horse, because he remembered the promise he had made with the horse owner to return the horse.However, it was too late to regret. At this time, there was a shout from afar, which seemed to be a signal, and the warriors gathered in the square ran to the north hillside together. "What's the matter?" Bingta grabbed the collar of a running samurai and asked. "Probably the enemy is coming, enemy!" the samurai shouted desperately, broke away from Bingta's hand, and ran away. So soon? Bingtai stood there in a daze for a moment, and when he heard the distant shout again, he ran along with the fleeing warriors. Since the shouts came from the south, all the warriors ran north at the same time. A group of warriors without a commander is not an army at all, but a rabble of remnants. There was only one narrow path on the northern slope of the hill, and groups of samurai were running along this path, and Bingta joined the stream of defeated soldiers and ran with them. In the flames of the burning city, warriors running ahead could be seen from time to time. "Oh!" Bingta shouted towards the front while running, because Hayato was also running not far in front of him, and Bingta saw him. Sakebe Hayato looked back and saw Bingta, and shouted: "Follow me!" and ran away again. After running down the hill for about two miles, Hayato left the group of samurai running behind him and hid aside. Bingta also followed Hayato, leaving the torrent of samurai. After continuing to run half a mile, Hayato stopped and said: "It's better now that we're here." "Where is the city still burning?" Bing Tai sighed. The whole city became a sea of ​​flames, roasting the night sky red. "Where is the enemy?" Bing Tai asked. "I don't know. I saw that everyone was running, so I followed. However, I can hear the shouts, so I'm afraid they have already entered the city street." Hayato said, remembering the incident just now: "The woman just now, did you help her escape?" "Let her go. With your favor, I'll hitch the horse too." "I'm so sorry, I accept your kindness. I hope she can escape..." "The woman can ride a horse?" "Yeah, I'm afraid not necessarily. However, I can make do with it." At this time, Bing Tai remembered that he had not asked for the compensation he deserved for a horse. "Where did Master Katsurai end up?" "I don't know." Hayato replied. "have no idea?" Bingtai couldn't help talking anxiously.I don't know, but it makes no sense.Because Hayato said he knew the whereabouts of the master Katsuyori, he lent him the precious horse. "I don't know? I don't know but I can't finish the calculation." "No, I really don't know." "Didn't you say you knew?" "Did I say that? Maybe I did, because in that emergency..., well, please forgive me." Bingta was too anxious to speak for Hayato's unreasonableness, but he didn't want to have an attack because he was too tired. The two of them waded through the knee-deep water of the Kamana River, and when they got to the other bank, they walked along the foot of the mountain for another two minutes or so, and got into a hut, which was full of straw. "This place is fine, I just want to sleep here." Hayato immediately lay down on the straw bales, and Bingta lay down next to him on his back. The fatigue of the past few days hit Bingta, and he didn't bother to say anything. "Did Kamagawa pass by just now?" He only asked this question. "Yes. So, as long as you hide here, you don't have to worry about it. There are mountains behind you, King of Medicine, Guanyin, Jizo, you can go into any mountain, and you don't have to be afraid of them chasing you." Hayato said. As he said, not only the King of Medicine, Avalokitesvara, and Ksitigarbha stand here, the so-called Kamamoto River flows at the foot of the mountain.Digging into these mountains, even a million troops can hardly find them.Especially for those Oda troops who are not familiar with high mountains, these mountains are by no means conquerable by them. "Sleep comfortably until tomorrow morning, and we will talk about everything tomorrow." Hayato said. Heita didn't imagine that he would be saved, so he just listened casually to Hayato's words. His mission was to find out the whereabouts of Katsuyori, but no matter how anxious he was now, it was useless.Let's talk about everything tomorrow. "I'm going to sleep." Hayato just finished speaking, and soon snored loudly. Bingta seemed to be infected by his snoring and closed his eyes.He slowly became hazy, and fell asleep after a while. I don't know how long it took. The neighing of the war horse awakened Bingta.Almost at the same time, Hayato also opened his eyes. There was a lot of noise outside, and it didn't sound like one or two people. "What?" Hayato said, getting up. "I don't know. Could it be a soldier of the Oda family?" Bingtai said. "Could it really come?" Hayato said while peeking out from the joints of the wooden boards of the shack, turned his face and said to Bingta again: "Sure enough, it's the Oda army. There are a lot of people, so let's rest on the road down here." Then, he paused, and said: "What a moonlit night!" At this time, Bingta also noticed that the moon had risen at some time, and the outside of the house was brightly illuminated by the moon.The moonlight came in through the cracks in the boards, and we could vaguely distinguish each other's faces in the shack. "No way. Be quiet, maybe they won't come here." Just as Hayato was about to open his mouth, there were many footsteps outside the door. "It seems to be a straw house, pull out the straw!" Someone shouted. "It's good to have straw, it's too cold," said another. The door creaked. Hayato looked back at Bingta and said: "Rush out!" It means that going on like this is not okay, let's rush out from here.Bingta also felt the urgency, and said: "Yes, get out!" At this time, the door has been opened from the outside. Moonlight streamed into the cabin.Bingta watched Hayato rush out into the moonlight with his waist down. Bingtai didn't rush out immediately, he temporarily hid behind the door, motionless. "Come!" "Look at the knife!" "Hey!" Among the noise of many people, only Hayato's shouts of killing can be heard clearly as if they were extracted. However, in an instant, the sound of Hayato shouting to kill disappeared. When the voices of several warriors came from the door of the shack for the second time, Bingtai felt that it would be dangerous to hide here again, so he rushed out. Outside the house, just as Hayato said just now, the moon is as bright as the day. Bing Tai ran desperately along the foot of the mountain, and the footsteps of many people followed closely behind him. The soldier stopped too fiercely, turned over and cut down one.Then keep running. However, he had just run for half a hour, and he secretly cried: Oops!About twenty figures appeared in front of them. On the right is a steep hillside, which is not easy to climb, and on the left is a cliff. After Bing Tai made a judgment, he stopped, thinking: Come on, kill, kill, kill, kill it, kill it until you die! After he made up his mind like this, it seemed that someone had poured cold water on him, but he suddenly became sober in his heart. In the distance, Kamaragawa made a big bend around the wide river beach.On the river beach, there were more than twenty tiny figures running downstream along the river beach.In front of the group of people not far away, there was another small figure galloping.Bingtai saw that it looked like Hayato! He runs so fast!Might be able to escape. Although Bingta thought so, he went up to an enemy who was running towards him. Bingtai first ran to the right, then turned back and ran to the left. On the left and right sides of the road, there were gunpoints coming through. It would be nice if the place was more spacious! Bingta was frustrated by this. "Come on!" Bingtai shouted. "Catch alive!" someone shouted.At the same time, sticks and stones flew together.When Bingtai was slashing wildly with his knife, he felt the weight of many people on his body. He was pinned to the ground.

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