Chapter 11 Chapter Ten Morning Glow

The news that Oda Nobunaga committed suicide at Honnoji Temple and the world changed hands to Mitsuhide soon reached the ears of Todo Heita in Mount Kai. "General Mitsuhide Akechi did a great job!" Heita said slowly, looking around at Kajuji and Zaemon.Today is the anniversary of Mi Mi's father's death, and a banquet has been held in the village since noon. Yaya's father failed in the attack while Oda Nobunaga was on his way to Kai, and was seriously injured. Although he fled back to the mountains, he finally failed to survive.It was not until ten days after the rest of the partners returned to the cottage that his body was found on the edge of a cliff one mile east of the cottage.

"Since Nobunaga is dead and our target has disappeared, we should break up one after another," Jiashi said. "You want to break up?" Bing Tai gave him a wary look.Jiashi hurriedly defended: "I'm not talking about myself, don't get me wrong. In my conscience, I would rather stay here forever, right, old man, do you think I have that kind of evil-minded person?" After finishing speaking for the first time, he let out a cowardly laugh and stepped back. After Mimi's father died, Bingtai had the highest power here, and he was originally called Bingtai, but I don't know when he was called the old man.

"So, who do you say wants to break up?" Heita looked at Zaemon, and Zaemon laughed first. "Nonsense! Is it me?" "No one said it was you." "Then why are you staring at me and making me feel scared." Zaemon also took a few steps back. Zaemon and Kajuji were completely overwhelmed by Bingta, regardless of wrist strength or martial arts, they couldn't compete with Bingta at all. "Wisdom won the world, and those warriors who helped Nobunaga in the past don't know what to do." Yami took over and said at this time. "Although we can't tell what they will do, I'm afraid they will all be arrested and killed." A man said.

"What nonsense are you talking about? If you want to kill him, it's okay?" Mi Mi looked at the man in fear. "Probably beheaded." Bing Tai said sullenly. "Hmph." Mimi turned her face away unhappily.As a result, Bing Tai suddenly shouted: "Mi Mi!" He asked again, "Are you still fucking thinking about that little boy?" Heita stared at Yaya who couldn't be manipulated as she wished since Aranosuke appeared with fiery and jealous eyes. Whenever there was tension between Yaya and Hyouta, one of the samurai under his command would slip away, and then another, and in the end only Kajuji and Zaemon remained, which was already a habit.

Ya Mi wanted to go to the back room, so she walked out of the main room with a serious face on purpose.When Yaya was gone, Bingtai was as usual, downcast.An embarrassing sadness came over him. "I said, old man, since Nobunaga is dead, I don't think it makes sense for us to go on like this. Although we don't understand the world's affairs here, we heard that there is chaos in Beijing. It is said that the wise army is going to fight to the death with the evil army. Now, we can't stand by and watch." Saimon said. "You can brag. What are you going to do if you don't stand by?"

"No matter which side he is on, let's go and win. Right, plus ten times!" Although Jia Shici was asked by him, it was very difficult to answer, because Bingta was upset because of the matter of Yami recently, and he loved to provoke troubles, and there was nothing others could do about it. However, Bingta unexpectedly asked in a calm tone: "Which side do you think will win?" "I didn't see it with my own eyes, of course I can't be sure; but I heard that Mitsuhide is already in a bad situation. The generals from Oda's side don't want to join Mitsuhide's side." Saemon said.

"Is that true, is it true? If it is true, then we must rescue Guangxiu." Bingta said. "To help the defeated party?" "Whether he wins or loses, I will support Kwang Soo." Bingtae thought that if Guangxiu was really in trouble, he would join Guangxiu's camp and support him. Nobunaga was Takeda's enemy, and it was Mitsuhide who eliminated Nobunaga. Since Mitsuhide was going to fight the generals under Oda's command, of course he had to join Mitsuhide's camp. "Okay, then tidy up this small cottage and go to Beijing." Bingtai said.

Kajuji and Zaemon originally wanted to join the victorious group, so they had to try it later.The most important thing is to get out of here before Bingta changes his mind about ending this cottage. "That's good. Do you want to clean it up tomorrow?" Jiashi asked. "Since you have decided to go, let's go tonight." Bingtai said.After he finished speaking, he felt very irritable again. Bingtai invited Yami and talked to her about his thoughts. "I do not want to!" Mimi objected at first, but changed her mind after a while.Even if you stay here, you won't be able to meet Ote Aranosuke. If you go to a place close to Kyoto, you may still be able to meet Aranosuke.Yami wholeheartedly wanted to meet Aranosuke, so she also agreed to close the cottage.

At dawn the next day, Bingta, Yaya, Zaemon, Kashiji, and a dozen or so wild warriors left their small mountain tribe.Originally Bingta ordered to set off in the middle of the night, but because they went their own way, by the time everyone gathered in front of Bingta's room, the east had already turned pale. Except Bingtai, the men all carried rice bags or boxes, and a group of them walked up the mountain ridge, and then walked west. It's quite a summer morning. "There are so many people walking together, is there no danger?" Mi Mi said. "When we enter the village, we will be divided into several groups," Bingtai said.

On this day, from morning to night, these wild samurai walked along the mountain, and on the right side they could see the Kamana River meandering through the plain at the foot of the mountain. "I can't walk fast at all on this mountain road. It's better to go down the mountain and go straight to Shinano from the main road." At noon, Jia said this ten times, but Bingtai ignored him. After another moment, Zaemon repeated the same words again.He is much more stubborn than adding ten times. "The whole world is turned upside down. I think we will go down the mountain and enter the village, and no one will care about making a fuss."

"Stop talking nonsense." Bingta glared at Zaemon. "If you want to go down the mountain here, don't you all want to run away? Stop talking nonsense and let's go!" Since then, they have been on the mountain road until the evening.Before night fell, they came to a gentle hillside, where they lit a fire to cook and prepare for camping. "I'm going into the village tomorrow," said a wild samurai. "As long as there is rice to eat, you are not allowed to enter the village." Bing Tai said with a straight face. Everyone took turns to watch the fire, and except for the fire watcher, everyone slept around the fire.After a while, he started snoring loudly. Bing Tai slept soundly due to the fatigue during the day, when he woke up, he was shocked, except for Mi Mi, all the people who slept here last night had disappeared without a trace. Bingtai propped up half of his body and said to himself, "What's going on here?" Mimi was probably afraid of the cold, so she curled up like a shrimp and snored softly.Bing Tai looked down at her sleeping state for a while, and after a while, Mi Mi also opened her eyes. "Where are those people?" she asked. "It's gone." "They're all running away, and I'm going to run away tomorrow too." Mimi said casually, tapping her yawning mouth with her fist. "Where do you want to escape?" Bing Tai stared at Ya Mi and asked. "Where I go, you don't care about it." Mimi said coldly. Bingta re-examined the face of Yami who once seemed to be in love with him and let him embrace him as much as he wanted. How could she have such an attitude?This made Bingtai really unbelievable. She said that she only loves the most capable man, where did this sentence go! It's because of that guy! Bingta suddenly remembered the man whom he had met in a hurry - Ote Aranosuke. "Do you think you can still meet that little boy?" "I'm going to find him." "what?" "I am a woman who can achieve anything I want. I can do it when I think about it. This time, it's the same. I want to find him, and I will find him. Coincidentally, I may be with him who came from there tomorrow. It happened." "What did you say?" Bing Tai trembled all over. "Can I allow you to do such a thing? However, it doesn't matter if that guy comes, I'll cut him down and decapitate him!" Yami had never seen Bingta's face so severe.If he went to find Aranosuke, Heta might really go and kill Aranosuke, and let Aranosuke's head go away as he said just now. At this time, Bingtai stretched out his hand, gently embraced her, and immediately hugged her tightly with both arms. She didn't want to resist, and she didn't have the strength to resist. Mi Mi's hands and feet were kissed like raindrops by him, and he let her go again suddenly. Bingtai said as if discouraged: "Do you hate me that much?" He added, "You hate me the most in this world?" Seeing Bingta's appearance, Yami suddenly felt pity, and Bingta seemed to be about to cry. "Who hates you? I like you, but it's the second one, because there is another favorite, so no!" This is Mi Mi's sincere words, Bingtai sighed deeply after hearing this, and said: "If you don't get rid of that fellow from this world, there is nothing you can do!" On this day, Bingta and Yaya also walked on the mountain road all day long just like yesterday.At night, they slept on the hillside again. In the middle of the night, Bingtai was awakened by a small voice, and he had become nervous.Yami had already got up, and seemed to be about to get up and run away. "Miya!" Bingtai roared.But Mi Mi said, "What are you doing? Why did the man open his eyes as soon as he fell asleep?" As she spoke, she went to Bingtai and sat down beside Bingtai.He sighed twice, sat quietly for a while, and lay down on the grass again. "Cold?" "It's so cold I can't sleep." Yami said in a pretentious manner.In fact, she was not too cold to sleep, but was planning to abscond.Bingtai ignored her and just said: "I'll light the fire for you, go to sleep." He gathered the remaining sticks and lit the fire. After a while, Mimi started snoring. Bingta looked at her sleeping state, and in order to keep her warm, he would rather not sleep to watch the fire, which was a pleasant thing for Bingtai. The next day, for the first time since they left the cottage, they walked close to the side of the mountain.It was almost noon, but the soldiers were too cautious not to enter the village or take the road. They were still overlooking the plain stretching to the north, but the jade belt-like cauldron of flowing water had lost its shadow at some point. "Does this still belong to Kai?" "Probably entered the territory of Shinano." Bingtai replied. At this time, Yami said again: "Look, there is a large group of warriors walking over there?" Bingtai saw that hundreds of soldiers were marching northwest on the road.There were cavalrymen among the troops on foot, and they raised smoke and dust on the road. Looking from here, they were just a little embellishment in the clear scenery. "I don't know whose army it is?" "After Takeda's demise, I heard that Suwa County in Kai and Shinano was managed by Kawajiri Hidetaka, so it must be Kawajiri's troops." "Where are they going?" "Once Nobunaga dies, Kawajiri will probably be desperate. However, Kawajiri is Nobunaga's favorite, maybe he will go to Azuchi to fight against the wise army." "Go to Antu?" "I think he has only one way." "Are they going to Antu? ​​If you follow their troops, you will be able to reach Antu?" Mi Mi started running before he could finish speaking. "Hey, where are you going?" Bingtai called.It took a long time for Bingtai to wake up, and Yami was throwing herself off and running away. "Oh——hey!" Bing Tai called out loudly, and chased after Mi Mi. Bingtai is most afraid of running away, but he is running now.If Yami managed to escape from his side, then he would not be able to survive in the future. After a while, Yami got off the main road and ran along the ridge of the terraced fields.Although she ran staggeringly and worryingly; but it was also really pitiful. "Mimi!" Bingtai called while chasing, but Mimi just ignored him. "Miya!" After Bingtai yelled a few times, he became more and more disappointed.It seems that there is no possibility of catching up, he is getting further and further away by Mimi. "Come back!" Bingtai stopped and called. "Whatever request... I will... listen to you..." He tried to break a sentence into three parts and shouted. "Come back, come back!" Finally, Bingtai howled for a while, and sat down on the ridge.Mi Mi followed the terraced fields, jumping down step by step, as agile as a rabbit.Mi Mi fled far away, her figure was already very small, and only then did she stop. Seeing Yami standing down, Bingta stood up instead; Mimi saw Bingta standing up, she ran away again. Bingtai stood upright, looking desperately at the dancing figure of Mimi; Mimi jumped off the last terraced field, onto the main road, and headed east along the way.She ran for a while, stopped for a while, headed east, and then east again, and finally disappeared in the shade of a village with about twenty families. When Bingtai could no longer find Mimi in his sight, he muttered: "It's impossible not to catch up with her!" After all, he couldn't bear the desolation of being left alone. Bingtai clumsily followed the terraced fields that Mimi walked through just now, going down step by step, onto the main road, and into the village.Then he walked out of the village again, across the plain, in the direction in which the samurai of Kawajiri's troops were advancing. He hadn't been halfway there when he saw Kawajiri's troops standing far ahead. There were ten or twenty warriors, sitting in groups by the roadside and resting under the shade of willows. They may be eating.Bingta suddenly felt hungry, since he cooked with Yami in the morning, he hadn't touched the rice water so far, and he didn't know what to fill his stomach with in the future.All the food was taken away by Zaemon and Kaju, and there was only a little rice left, which he and Yami ate up. At this time, Bingta's eyes suddenly stopped on a target - he found a group of samurai surrounding a woman, and that woman was Yaya. Bingta stared at the woman who caught his eyes for a long time. When he was sure that it was Yaya, he had no choice but to follow the army.What made him hesitate, however, was the movement of this army; if it had been that of Hidetaka Kawajiri, who had ruled over Kai and Suwa in Shinano after Takeda's fall, they would have been eager to join the anti-intellectual camp in chaotic Kyoto.Other than that, no other intentions can be guessed. Bingta himself intends to defect to the wise camp. He hates Oda, because Oda is the enemy who destroyed Takeda. The group of warriors facing each other set off, and Bingta also set off keeping a certain distance from them. The whole day was spent on the rolling plains.On the way, Bingta found out from a farmer in a small village that the road he was taking now was south of Lake Suwa, and he was heading southwest.Probably the troops deliberately avoided the main road and planned to go straight to Ina Valley. No matter where they go, Bing Tai thought to himself: As long as it is in the same direction as I am going, let's act together with this unit for now. Dusk came.After a while, night fell. After a full rest at noon, this army, which had been marching without stopping, stopped in front of the monastery at the foot of the mountain.Several bonfires were then lit inside the temple and along the foot of the mountain. Bingtai walked into a farmer's household and begged for a meal.People in the village couldn't figure out whose army it was and where it was heading. Later at night, when the bonfire gradually thinned out, Bingta walked towards the troops, because he was obsessed with Yaya's whereabouts. He approached one bonfire, and then another.Surrounding each bonfire were a dozen warriors, their faces flushed by the firelight, and they were all talking about something.In the dark near the bonfire, there were more than a dozen warriors lying in disorder, as if they had died in battle. Where is Mimi? Seeing the samurai's mischief and arrogance, Bingta was even more worried about Yaya.After walking around several bonfires, he approached a bonfire in the monastery. "Who?" someone asked in the dark. "It's me." Bingtai agreed, and no one asked any more. Bingta stood under the shadow of the tree, looking towards the bonfire, and Yami was there, mixed among several samurai, warming the fire with her hands outstretched. Bingtai stared at Yami, and suddenly saw the samurai beside her, who seemed familiar.Bingtai looked at it for a while, but couldn't recall it.I have indeed seen it somewhere, this old warrior who is nearly sixty years old. At this time, Bingtai realized that the group of warriors surrounded by the bonfire in front of him was more neatly dressed than the warriors he had seen before, and their personalities seemed to be noble. Could it be that these were the generals in the army? He was thinking, when suddenly Mimi, who was flushed red by the firelight, threw herself back and forth and laughed loudly. Is it Bingta's psychological effect?Her voice sounded so strange. Damn, I'm still so happy to leave!Jealousy makes Bingta's heart ache. At this moment, Yami stood up abruptly, and she and the three warriors walked to the right.Bingtai was about to walk out of the shadow of the tree, but suddenly: "Who's there!" A cry shook the air in the dark night. It was the person who was sitting next to Yami just now who shouted.Just as Bingtai lifted his foot, he stopped on the spot again. He was afraid of being discovered, so he was in a dilemma. "Who?" the man asked again.Bingtai remained motionless. At this time, the other party's eyes turned elsewhere, and he didn't seem to find anything.Bingta suddenly remembered: "Ah, it's him!" That was Kobe Iori, it must be Kobe Iori.In the past, when he rushed to Xinfu, which was about to fall, he went to Ruoshenzi Village and borrowed a horse from this old man. Bingtai remembered that the borrowed horse had not yet been returned, because Sakabe Hayato asked him for help, so he gave the horse to his woman to ride away. On the night of the fall of Xinfu City, the scene of the raging fire on the city tower surfaced in Bingtai's mind as if it had been many years ago. When he borrowed the horse, he felt that the old man was extraordinary, so he was also a warrior!However, at that time, he said that he had received the favor of the master of the court, and now he is serving as the subordinate of the new lord Kawajiri, which is indeed too ruthless. Bingta stopped trying to force Kayami, and just stood here watching Iori.After a while, Iori slowly stood up from the fire, said a few words to the samurai around him, and disappeared into the darkness on the right where Mimi had just walked. Bingtai stood there, thinking in his heart, he and Iori had finally met once, talking to him, maybe they could help him find Mimi back. He walked out of the shadow of the tree, and walked on the paved road in the darkness, as if the road led from the abbot's house to the main hall, and Bing Tai strode forward.There was someone walking about a foot in front of him, and it was naturally Iori. "Who?" The person in front questioned. "It's me!" Bingtai replied. "Who is 'I'?" He questioned him again. "Are you Kobe Iori?" Heta said, staring at the dark front. "Exactly." The answering voice was calm. "But, who are you?" Bingta sensed that the opponent had already held the handle of the knife, and according to the answer here, he was ready to draw the knife to fight. "I'm Todo Heita." "Who?" "I once borrowed a horse from Ruo Shenzi Village." "Well." "I lent the horse to me. I'm really sorry that I couldn't return it." "Well, it's that samurai." After a short pause, he said again: "Are you still alive? What a coward! I heard you said that you wanted to live and die with the Takeda family, so I lent you the horse. I thought you You have already died on the battlefield, who would have thought that you would come here for a spin." "There's a reason for this." "What reason?" Bing is too difficult to answer.The reason he said was just that he was a moment late and failed to catch up with the death.Any excuses are just excuses for him. The old man seemed to have guessed his mind, and said, "What a fool! What are you doing here?" "I want you to give me something back." "what?" "Miya." "Mimi? What is Mimi?" "The woman at the campfire just now." Iori was silent for a while, and said firmly: "It can't be done. I don't care what you have, but there is something for her to do here. I can't return it for the time being." "You said you can't return Mimi to me? She is my woman!" Bingta couldn't hold back his anger. "Are you refusing to live and die with Xinfucheng because you are fooling around with women?" Kobe Iori's words were full of anger and contempt. "What, what?" Bing too strong to restrain himself, did not burst out, if he hadn't felt guilty in his heart, he would have rushed forward to fight. "You only talk about other people. Didn't you also serve as Kawajiri's subordinate? Did you forget that you said you received the grace of the master of Hosukin?" Said Bingta. "Idiot!" Iori cursed shortly, and he continued: "I will not be as shameless as you to be Kawajiri's subordinate! It's the age of Mr. Lai. I can't bear it anymore, so I have to go into battle shirtless." "You mean..." "You still don't understand? Are you able to endure Kawajiri and others ravaging Kai without shame?" "So……" "Of course, life has long been neglected. If you are dying like me, death is not a pity." "Where do you want to go and what are your plans?" "Nobunaga is dead, the only thing people in Kai can count on, besides who else?" "It makes sense." The aftermath of Nobunaga's death at Honno-ji Temple has reached here.When Nobunaga was alive, the people of Kai obeyed Kawajiri Hidetaka, but when Nobunaga died, the people immediately became angry. "Are you planning to go from Ina to Yuanjiang?" Bingtai asked. "What are you doing here?" "I originally planned to join the Wise Army." Yizhi was silent again: "Then there is no need to take that woman with me." He said again: "I live in the main hall here, I have something to tell you, come on." Iori turned and left after speaking, the footsteps gradually faded away in the darkness. Bingta also followed Iori, walked in from the host's room, creaked the floor in the corridor, and came to the main hall. There were many people lying in the spacious main hall, and it was impossible to count them all at once. Walking to the corner of the main hall, Yizhi lit the candles on the candlestick, sat down first, and said, "Sit down." "You said you were going to seek refuge with Zhizhi, didn't you?" Iori lowered his voice and asked cautiously. "It's really good." Bingtai replied. "Why Choose Wisely?" "I hate Oda, Oda is our enemy. Isn't it natural to dedicate your life to the wise who betrayed Oda?" "However, being wise is bound to fail. He came from an unknown teacher, and he is also a mob." "Whether he wins or loses, I can't tell; but I join the wise side." "It's really unreasonable people. However, there are many unreasonable people in the world today." Iori said viciously. "It's not the same when you resist Kawajiri Hidetaka." "No, it's different. Now is the moment when the life and death of the people of Kai is at stake. Even if they are also taking advantage of the chaos in the world, they can't benefit themselves at the expense of others." "I didn't join the wise camp for self-interest. As for victory or defeat, that's up to you." "I didn't call you here to talk about this. To be honest, I have something to worry about. If you want to go from here to Ina to Yuanjiang, you must pass through the territory of Tokugawa. No matter which city lord it is, please bring me a letter to he." "What are you going to do?" "One mile away from here, there is Gaoyuan City. We are guarding there. I heard that there have been rebels in Gaoyuan City. It is too late to contact the Tokugawa side." Iori went on to say: "You can go with that woman, and I asked her the same thing. If you can do it for me, at least you can be safe when passing through Tokugawa's territory." "Okay, I'll do it." Bing Tai said.In the whole country of Kai, where he gave birth to himself, the people are at a critical juncture, and he cannot be indifferent. "Where is she?" "Don't worry, I've arranged for her to stay at the farm's outpost. You can ask her to go on the road together tomorrow morning." Bingta and Iori talked for a while, and they lay down on the spot.Due to the exhaustion of the day, Bing Tai fell asleep very quickly. When he woke up, it was still not bright outside the window.Bingta looked at the sleeping Iori, and walked out from the main hall. He immediately found the post at the farmhouse.Five or six warriors were lighting a fire in the main room, and when they asked about Mimi, one of them replied, "She left last night!"

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