Civilization Guardian Front

"You are... the bodyguard of Tongtu!" After recognizing this person at a glance, Lin Xiuzhen was extremely shocked, and an ominous premonition welled up in her heart.

"Yes, yes... Master Lin Misaku... Huh... Misaku-sama..."

The samurai of the personal guard was panting violently, unable to speak completely, and his body was overwhelmed and knelt on the ground.

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Holding the ground with both hands, the blood oozing from the gaps in the armor stained the tatami under him red.

"What's wrong with Lin Mei Zuo Shou?" Thinking of the food problem mentioned just now, Xin Sheng felt very anxious, walked several steps in front of the guard warrior, grabbed the opponent's shoulder and screamed:

"Say it quickly!"

The samurai guard finally breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly replied:

"Master Hayashi Misaku was assassinated by Yusuke Ishibashi, the head of the Ashgaru group, when he was commanding the soldiers to carry rice, grain and weapons..."

"Misaku Mori-sama died on the spot, and at the same time, more than a dozen Ashgaru betrayed and attacked our personal guards!" Speaking of this, the samurai suddenly became emotional, with tears streaming down his face.

"It happened so suddenly that we couldn't react in time. Except for the one who fled back desperately, all the other companions..."

"What happened to the food that was being transported? How is our army doing?" Lin Xiuzhen asked with a livid face, having no time to mourn her brother's death.

"After Misaku-sama's death, many ashigaru surrendered to the enemy..."

Before the warrior finished speaking, Lin Xiuzhen understood the meaning.

(All food, fodder and weapons have fallen into the hands of the enemy, what a terrible situation...)

Before the two of them could recover from the bad news, the sounds of the army fighting had quickly approached Honmaru.

Xin Sheng went to the terrace, looked down...

The entire Ninomaru Castle was almost covered with black armor and yellow flags. More than [-] Oda troops surrounded Honmaru, but did not continue to attack.

The Suemori army immediately retreated into Honmaru, only a few hundred people, and their fighting spirit was depressed. They stood desperately on the wall of the Honmaru screen and looked at the Oda army.

"The traitor Oda Kanjuro Nobukatsu..."

In the Oda Army, a female general on horseback, holding a naginata upside down in one hand, came down to the gate of Honmaru Castle with the support of Ashigaru holding a wooden shield.She raised her face and looked straight at Oda Nobukatsu on the terrace of the castle tower with rare sharp eyes.

"Together with the vassals, apologize to Her Majesty the Princess by harakiri. If this is the case, I, Niwa Chohide, will spare the lives of innocent soldiers!"

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Don't panic, today's goal is two more

Chapter 69?

Shenshi, Mosen City, the back mountain in the north...

Hundreds of ragged men wandered in the deep forest behind the mountain in groups.

They are fallen warrior hunters, usually composed of farmers and ronin, a team that specializes in hunting and killing single warriors near the battlefield...

"Lord Mogi, are we really going to kill Lord Nobukatsu and his retainers?" The dark man holding a hoe in both hands asked the leader hesitantly.

"Anyway, Lord Xinsheng has never treated us badly..."

"Heizo..." The man called Mogi-sama shook his head helplessly, and replied:

"It's not that Mr. Shinkatsu has treated us badly. It's because the Qingzhou Oda Army is too strong. Mr. Shinkatsu is trapped in the city and unable to help us."

"I don't believe that what, Chios, dared to kill us because we refused..." Heizang puffed up his chest, and replied forcefully:

"He's not Oda Kami Sosuke himself, how could he decide our life and death with one word!"

"You say that, it just proves that you didn't see the situation clearly..." Motegi sighed heavily.

Heizang has been with him for quite a long time. His strengths are that he is brave, honest and loyal, but his weakness is that he is a bit stupid. If you don’t explain it to him, you have to ask him to the end...

Motegi recalled what the samurai wearing the black-style majestic pill and the 36 golden-ri wheel tendons had said to him after he led more than a hundred people to his village yesterday.

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"Forming Fallen Warriors at the back of Sumori Castle?" Yoshikatsu Mogi looked at the tall young man in disbelief, and couldn't help but ask:

"Lord Chios, I don't understand, why did you do this?"

In fact, the moment he heard the other party's request, Yoshikatsu Mogi understood what the samurai in front of him wanted them to do...

Present the heads of Mr. Nobukatsu or his retainers to prove his loyalty to Owari Daimyo...

"Because you paid confessions to the traitor Oda Nobukatsu in the past, you are no different from accomplices, aren't you?" The handsome young samurai looked at Yoshikatsu Mogi with a smile, but the words he said made people feel chills all over;

"Now, Suesori Castle Sannomaru is in our hands, and Suesori Castle will fall within three days...Whether you want to be loyal to the future Lord Nobuna, or die with the old Lord Oda Nobukatsu, I really don't care..."

His fingers tapped on the handle of the sword at his waist. Chios was obviously smiling, but looked at the village leader in front of him with cold eyes.

"If tomorrow afternoon, one of the soldiers I stay in the village sees an adult, Motegi Township will become history completely, understand?"

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Looking back now, Yoshikatsu Motegi is still impressed by that samurai's disregard for other people's lives.

It's as if they don't treat them as real living people...

"Master Nobukatsu is no match for Mr. Chief Executive, we can only survive by hunting down Mr. Nobukatsu and his retainers according to Mr. Chios' request.

"but..."

"No but! Lord Xinsheng can't even defend his own city, how can he protect us?"

Ryokatsu Motegi interrupted the opponent with a loud voice, pointing at Sumori Castle Road:

"The people of the country are destined to live by their daimyo, and Chios, a southern barbarian warrior, is the confidant of Sosuke Oda, and his words are the will of His Highness Oda Nobuna!"

He understood that in the forest on the back mountain of Mosen, there were more teams that had been threatened by Chios and formed a team of fallen warriors.If he didn't come to hunt Oda Nobukatsu and his retainers as Chios said, someone else would definitely do it for him.

Not long ago, they met a team of fallen warriors from a nearby village, although they just met each other and went their own way.However, Yoshikatsu Motegi immediately understood that the other party was also forced to come by Mr. Chios.

Although I don't understand why Lord Chios is so sure that Lord Xinsheng and others will flee to the back mountain.But all of this is unimportant, he only needs to understand that the price of obedience and disobedience is to massacre the village and clan.

There are thousands of people who have the same idea as him in the forest behind Mosen City.

These people held bamboo poles, hoes, sickles, kitchen knives... and other instruments, and looked towards the direction of Mosen City from time to time, waiting for the lord of Mosen City who had been loyal to them in the past.

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Suesori Castle Honmaru, Honmaru Palace Evaluation Room...

Oda Kanjuro Nobukatsu and all his retainers gathered here.

"Thanks to Tomino-sama for gathering his troops and retreating immediately, Honmaru was not captured by the enemy in one fell swoop..." Lin Xiuzhen first complimented a retainer.

"Where, Sado Mamoru-sama is over-reputed..." Tomino Sakyo Shinji nodded slightly after being praised, and there was no trace of joy on his face.

"The army of the big fool Owari has broken through Sannomaru and Ninomaru, and General Niwa Chohide even asked me to wait for seppuku. Does Sado Mamoru have any countermeasures?"

"Nagahide Niwa's words really put us in a very disadvantageous position..." Lin Xiuzhen sat in front of Shinkatsu with a serious expression on her face.

"If we don't cut seppuku within a day, the soldiers may rebel and take our heads and beg Niwa Nagahide for his life."

"..." Xinsheng's retainers were unanimously silent. They would not deny what Lin Xiuzhen said.

After Niwa Nagahide's speech, he felt that the soldiers who had a chance to survive were not under the command of the samurai at all, and instead looked at Yudian with strange eyes.

A battle like this is certainly not reconciled, but there is no way.If you use alcohol to numb yourself at this time, those Ashgaru who want to live will cut off your head in your sleep and go to the Oda Army to surrender.

"Master Xinsheng..." Lin Xiuzhen turned around to face Xinsheng, and bent down to the ground.

"For the present plan, the only option is to break out of the encirclement and escape from the city."

"Breakthrough?" Xinsheng, who was sitting at the top, finally had a slight fluctuation in his almost dead eyes.

"Yes, Mr. Xinsheng, it is precisely to break through."

"The army in the city is gone, what's the use of escaping?" Xinsheng asked with dry lips.

"Even if there is no soldier, the identity of Mr. Shinkatsu is still worth a thousand gold to Imakawa Yoshimoto." Lin Xiuzhen and several retainers looked at each other, and then comforted Shinkatsu.

After supporting Nobukatsu and failing in his rebellion, the Imagawa Clan, who has always wanted to occupy Owari, is now the most ideal object of refuge...

Oda Nobukatsu, who has the right to inherit the Owari Kingdom, is definitely a great gift for Imagawa Yoshimoto.

No matter what, we must stabilize him, and then escape from the city of Morsen alive...

"Yes, Lord Xinsheng, don't give up hope easily!"

"You are the true heir of Lord Nobu-soo, how can you be discouraged?"

A group of retainers including Tomino Sakyojin and Kamada Sukichi, who understood the truth of the truth, persuaded them at the same time.

"...You are right, I must live..." Hearing the consoling words of his retainers, Xinsheng's eyes reappeared with the light of survival, and he stood up.

"When my lord father built Mosen City, he left a secret path leading to the back mountain, and we can escape from there."

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Two more

Chapter 70? The Hunt Begins

At night, Momori City...

The Oda army captured the Ninomaru in an all-round way. General Niwa Chohide came forward and asked Oda Nobukatsu and his retainers to apologize for their sins, and then suspended the attack on the Honomaru.

The offensive had indeed stopped, but the [-] or so Mori troops remaining in the main pill were panicked and undercurrents were surging.

Standing on the Honmaru city wall, as far as the eye can see, there are a large number of Oda troops. Even though they are behind the city wall, listening to the voices and footsteps from the other side of the screen wall, they can understand the current situation of the Suemori army.

In the past, he was barely able to fight, but after a series of setbacks at Nazukazhai, Sannomaru, and Ninomaru, the soldiers of Suemori's confidence in Oda Nobukatsu and in themselves were completely shattered.

The military commander most admired by the people of Momori City, Shibata Katsuie, known as "Oni Shibata", resolutely parted ways with Mr. Nobukatsu in front of everyone.

In the battle after noon, the two generals were beheaded by the golden-eyed demons in the Oda army in an instant.

General Lin Tonggu, who was second in prestige to Katsuya Shibata, was attacked and killed by his subordinates. His head was cut off as a feat, and his body was trampled into a pulp during the chaos.

Every incident is a heavy blow to the soldiers of the Mori Army.

At this moment, the Mosen army, who should be nervous about the enemy's movements, lazily rested against the city wall and gave up their vigilance.

"Don't be lazy, stand up for me!" The group leader samurai shouted loudly, but with little effect.

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"It's so noisy, I can't win anyway!"

"It's all come to this point, what else is there to struggle with?"

There are silent ones, impatient ones, hecklers, but no one follows orders...

The Suemori samurai whose authority has been destroyed again and again by the Oda Army can no longer command these low-level soldiers.

In the past they obeyed because of Oda Nobukatsu's prestige as a lord, the violence of the army, and the possible punishment for disobedience.

But now, Lord Xinsheng is about to die, who will work hard for him...

No one wants to die, and neither do the ashigaru.

However, it is unrealistic to escape quietly. The only way to survive is to surrender to the Oda Army...

"The reason Niwa Chohide-sama said that was because he didn't want to kill us, right?"

"Indeed, our lives have no imperative value..."

"The enemy generals want the lives of Nobukatsu-sama, Sakyojin-sama, Zucheng-sama... and others."

In Honmaru, the Sumori soldiers whispered in a low voice.

All kinds of thoughts are brewing under the night.

Honmaru Palace, in the evaluation room...

Tomino Sakyoshin and Yamaguchi Matajiro, the two retainers, walked back with serious expressions after making a tour outside the Honmaru Palace.