Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 155 Shogunate, Ninja, Miko
East Wa country, Nai Jing.

This place is the capital of the Eastern Wa Kingdom, where the Daming Palace is located.

Outside the Daimyo Palace, the narrow streets are full of short, barefoot men and women.They are not tall, and most of them walk with their bodies bent, making them look even weaker.

Occasionally, some warriors with shaved Tsukiyo heads and long knives at their waists passed by.Compared with ordinary Eastern Japanese people, they are stronger and more arrogant.

At this time, a group of warriors was walking neatly. Passers-by saw the red bird patterns on the feathers they were wearing, and they all showed horror and retreated.

Even the other warriors stepped aside quickly after seeing these people, for fear of blocking their way.

When the samurai in red bird's feathers left, two ronin with swords chatted aside.

"The samurai of the Shanggong Shogunate... are really scary."

"Yeah, they are not easy to mess with. If you offend them, they will draw their knives and chop people in the street!"

"Tch... The Shanggong family is so lawless, and the daimyo has no intention of taking care of it."

"Hmph, daimyo, daimyo speaks in Dongwa, how can he compare with the Shanggong shogunate? I heard that the Shanggong shogunate is mainly responsible for dealing with that person named Su Yuan this time."

"I've also heard that Su Yuan killed my Eastern Japanese envoy, it's really abominable!"

The two chatted for a while and left. The team of red bird warriors who passed by before had also arrived at a mansion at the end of the street.

The mansion is a large courtyard, similar to some courtyards in the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It is the contemporary patriarch of the Shanggong family, and the shogun personally asked the craftsmen to imitate it.

Ever since he had been to the capital of Dazhou once, he hated everything about Dongwo after he came back, including food, clothing, housing and transportation.Especially for living, seeing that the small officials in Dazhou can live in such a spacious and magnificent house, and he, a shogun, only lives in such a small wooden building... How can he accept it.

In the compound, nearly a hundred warriors had already gathered, and everyone was facing a door in the south with a half-kneeling posture.

The new team of warriors was no exception, they knelt down and waited silently.

Not long after, the door opened, and a man about 50 years old wearing a helmet walked out of the room.

The warriors kneeling in the courtyard said in unison: "I have seen General Shanggong!"

Shanggong Xinxuan looked around the crowd, with a look of satisfaction on his face: "Masters, get up!"

"Yes!" Everyone stood up in unison.

They are all close friends of Shanggong Shingen, and they are the first to follow Shanggong Shingen.

You must know that in the past, Shanggong Shingen was just an inconspicuous bastard in the Shanggong family, a humble son born to the same geisha as the head of the Shanggong family.

But he was not bound by his identity, nor was he knocked down by others' ridicule and beating.Instead, relying on his own strength, belief, and persistence, he has gradually grown from a pawn to today's shogun.

These 30 to [-] years of struggle have shaped him and allowed him to have a group of cronies who are absolutely trustworthy.

Relying on these cronies, he has continuously expanded his power over the past few years, cracked down on dissidents, and successfully became the largest shogun.There are thousands of samurai under him, and tens of thousands of ashigaru.

With such military strength, he has already said one thing in Naijing, and the so-called daimyo is just a pawn manipulated by him.Moreover, after he gained the support of the ninja family, his power became even greater, and those who dared to disobey him would die in unknown assassinations at night.

At this moment, he summoned the elite warriors under his command, and what he told them was about the Bei'an Army.

Shanggong Xinxuan said: "Everyone, you all know! Shimono Ichiro is my adopted son. I value him very much, and I sent him as an envoy to negotiate with the prince of the Bei'an Army, but he was killed unexpectedly! This is very important to us. , is a huge humiliation!"

"Yes!" The warriors said in unison.

"We are bound to make the Bei'an Army pay the price, and the new emperor of Dazhou has also sent envoys to cooperate with us to eliminate the Bei'an Army. In return, they will hand over Ozu Island, which is a big deal for us." We are very important. With Ozu Island, we can wait for the opportunity to land from Haizhou and seize the land of Dazhou!"

Faced with his confidants, Shanggong Shingen revealed his plan, and he wanted to let the new emperor Zhou Cheng of the Great Zhou Dynasty see his "sincerity".And this sincerity is to send a team of warriors to carry out a surprise attack on the ferry in the capital occupied by the Bei'an Army.

Only with the blood of the enemy can he wash away the shame of having his adopted son killed!

"Masters, who is willing to go to this battle?"

"I wait for everything!"

None of the warriors hesitated and said together.

Shingen Uemiya showed satisfaction, and pointed out a few people: "Ono, Hayakawa, Naze, you guys prepare. I will give you fifty fast boats and 400 people in ashiki. You are bound to let the Bei'an army feel to pain!"

The three warriors whose names were called immediately stepped out, knelt down and saluted, "Yes, General!"

After all the samurai left, Shingen Uemiya showed a solemn look on his face.

He said: "I'm afraid it's wrong to just let them go! The envoy sent by the new emperor told me that there are martial arts masters in the Bei'an army."

There was no one in front of him when he spoke, and he seemed to be talking to himself.But as soon as the words fell, a voice came from above his head.

"Hehe, are you a master of martial arts? How does it compare with me, Koga Ninja?"

The speaker was dressed in black, masked, with his hands folded on his chest, hanging upside down under the eaves, like a humanoid bat, very terrifying.

Shanggong Xinxuan said: "You have to send some men to go with my samurai to avoid accidents!"

"No problem. But what we Koga-nin first-class need, General, please don't forget."

"Hmph." Shanggong Xinxuan snorted coldly, "Shenqianle clan, I will find a way to get rid of you. But it's useless to worry about it. That clan has a great witch sitting in the town and is deeply loved by the people. There must be a valid reason."

"That's what you have to worry about, General, and it has nothing to do with us. If the General can accomplish this, then we, Koga Shinobi, will be the General's forever friends..."

After the man in black finished speaking, a cloud of black mist spread from around his body, and when the black mist dissipated, he disappeared.

Shanggong Shingen didn't say a word, but cursed in his heart.

"Damn Koga ninjas, sooner or later I will get rid of you!"

Jingle Bell……

The wind chime rang softly.

On the outskirts of Nai Jing, in a shrine, a girl in red is holding her face in both hands, sitting under the eaves and looking at the sky.

She was fascinated by it, her glazed eyes were full of brilliance.She likes the changing shape of the clouds in the sky, accompanied by the sound of wind chimes, such a leisurely afternoon is very rare for her.

"Reimu."

A voice came from Dashe behind, the girl came back to her senses, answered, got up and entered the room.

The great witch of the Shenqianle clan is sitting cross-legged in the center of the room, holding a long stick in her left hand and a disc in her right hand.

"Grandma, what's wrong?" the girl asked softly.

"A catastrophe, a catastrophe is coming." The big witch showed the long wooden stick in her hand to the girl.

The girl's pupils shrank for a while... On the wooden stick, the blood-red word "disaster" was particularly dazzling.

(End of this chapter)