Civilization Guardian Front

"The situation outside is more serious than expected, and the morale of the army is seriously shaken..." Kneeling down on one knee in front of Nobukatsu with his colleagues, Tomino Sakyoshin said the bad atmosphere he observed:

"If someone incites it, the Ashgaru may turn into a mob at any time and attack the palace!"

"It seems that this place is not suitable to stay for a long time, Mr. Nobukatsu..." Matajiro Yamaguchi advised Xinkatsu in a deep voice:

"We must leave End Forest City as soon as possible."

"Hmm..." Lin Xiuzhen also nodded in agreement.

"For the current plan, we should flee to Dongfang Tagu City at night and seek asylum from the Jinchuan clan."

"..."

Although he has made the decision to escape, Oda Kanjuro Nobukatsu still hopes that he can stay in Suomori City for as long as possible.

Anyway, this is also the most important relic left to him by his father Oda Nobuhide. When his father passed away, he also took his last breath in this Mori city.

Growing up since childhood, too many memories were created in Mosen City...

However, the situation no longer allowed him to recall the past.

"I understand..." Xinsheng lowered his head, covered his cowardly expression with his bangs, and forcibly showed a trace of calmness.

"After a quarter of an hour, we will leave through the secret passage."

As soon as these words came out, all the retainers saluted and walked out of the evaluation room one after another to pack up the things they needed to carry while fleeing.

After all the retainers left...

"I probably won't have a chance in the future, so I'll come back here again..."

Oda Nobukatsu looked around at the familiar decorations around him, couldn't help but feel sad, and shed tears.

"I'm sorry, Father, Mother...and..."

……

Three quarters later.

On the outside of the north wall of Suesori Castle Sannomaru, on the outside of the city wall at the base of the city wall, a stone was slowly pushed down.

Googling...

The stone rolled down the slope of the stone wall and finally settled on the weedy ground.

Googooooooooooooooooooo...

More stones are pushed out and tumble down.

In the end, a secret passage with the height of a person appeared in the city wall made of stones.

The secret passage is supported by dense wooden columns and beams to avoid collapse.

Five retainers including Oda Nobukatsu and Lin Xiuzhen walked out of the secret passage, and what they saw was the entire dark forest.

Without disturbing the generals of the Mori army, Xinsheng and others entered the secret passage through the secret door in the palace, and walked quietly for two quarters of an hour before reaching the outside of the city.

"The secret path left by my father can only take us here..." Xinsheng said to his retainers, looking at the dark woodland in front of him, he felt a palpitation inexplicably.

"The next road will depend on you."

Mosen City is built on the side of a mountain, and the north side is full of undeveloped mountains and forests, with few people.

It is also because of this that Oda Nobuhide set the exit of the secret road here. When building the city, he also chose to build the Honmaru in a relatively northerly position to facilitate tunnel digging.

Except for the city wall behind them, all they could see when they looked around were the silhouettes of trees and the shadows brought by the thin moonlight.

The rest is dark...

"Please rest assured..." Tomino Sakyoshin tapped his breastplate to make himself appear more reliable.

"I will risk my life to escort Mr. Shinkatsu to Kaku City."

"Yeah, I don't pay attention to a few bandits." Kamada Sukecheng also responded by stroking the handle of the knife on his waist.

"The army led by Niwa Chohide is currently concentrated in Suomori Castle, and a few are active in the castle town..."

At this time, Lin Xiuzhen finally spoke, in order to protect his own safety, he also put on the body pill, but still wore the usual black official hat on his head.

"Although the forest is dark, it is invincible. In order to avoid being discovered by the patrolling people on the city wall, we have to go a little deeper into the forest."

"Let Master Lin Xiuzhen and the others arrange it..." Forced to flee from his own city, Xin Sheng felt complicated and simply let his retainers lead the way.

Perhaps it was because they had finally escaped from the threat of the Oda Army soldiers, the few retainers who had been frowning at first looked a lot better after they left the secret path.

The figures of the six chief ministers quickly stepped into the woods of the back mountain.

Behind them, on the northern city wall of Sannomaru, the Jinhaori and Jinri wheel tendons had faded away, and only the young man in black Weidoumaru stood still like a sculpture, as if blending into the dark night.

"The hunt has begun..."

Chapter 71? Hunting

In order to avoid raising fire and attracting the attention of the Oda Army in Sumori City, Xinsheng and others walked into the deep forest behind the mountain in the dark.

In the undeveloped night forest, the branches and leaves of the trees are intricate, the weeds are overgrown, and the faint silver light of the crescent moon above is completely consumed by the shadows in the forest.

The naked eye can see no more than three steps away, and it is common for people to accidentally bump into branches or trip over tree roots when walking.

Hashimoto Juzo and Yamaguchi Matajiro, who were walking in front of the team, waved their swords from time to time to make sure that there were no obstacles under their feet.

Nobukatsu, wearing a rattan light girdle, is protected by retainers in the middle.The luxurious clothes he usually wears will only get in the way when he escapes, so they are all discarded in the imperial palace.

Even though he was wearing armor, the boy still didn't have much sense of security.

The surroundings were almost completely enveloped in darkness, except for the noise of the few of them walking, only the uninterrupted sound of insects and the occasional cry of night owls remained in their ears.

rustling...

The eyes can't see the surroundings clearly, but the hearing is much sharper.

Pushing aside the trees casually, the sound of the branches and leaves swaying in the night wind blowing, might not be able to attract my attention during the day, but now it is as clear as beating a taiko drum, vibrating directly into my heart.

There seems to be something lurking nearby, ready to pounce at any time...

"Why don't you light a torch?" Xinsheng turned his head and asked Lin Xiuzhen behind him with an uneasy expression.

"The firelight is too conspicuous. I'm so close to Mosen City. A torch is enough to expose my whereabouts..." Lin Xiuzhen also lowered her voice, but he was much calmer than Xinsheng, both explaining and comforting:

"Wait for me to move forward another two hundred steps. At such a distance, I can raise a fire without being noticed. Please wait a moment, Mr. Xinsheng."

Lin Xiuzhen's words made Xin Sheng feel more at ease, at least he didn't stay up all night.

(That would be too scary...)

After walking forward silently for a while, the feeling of being watched by others not only did not subside, but even became stronger and stronger.

Xinsheng could imagine that behind him, there was a pair of cold eyes fixed on the back of his neck.

Like a mouse being stared at by a poisonous snake, his hairs stood on end, and the intensified heartbeat felt like his eardrums were about to burst, and no amount of air could calm him down.

"Ha...ha..."

The lord's strange behavior caught the attention of the retainers, and the group slowed down and looked at Xinsheng.

"Lord Xinsheng, what's the matter with you?" Lin Xiuzhen hurriedly approached to care.

"Is it going too fast for you to get used to it?"

"No...not..." The boy put his hands on his knees and panted lightly.

"I don't know if it's an illusion, I always feel that someone is watching us in the dark..."

"..." Several retainers looked at Xinsheng's immature face similar to that of a woman at the same time, and looked at each other helplessly.

After all, he is a spoiled child, so it is normal to be afraid of the dark and ghosts...

"Lord Xinsheng, we are coming out of the secret passage built by Master Xinxiu. Who can know where the secret passage is and monitor us?"

"Yes, if the enemy army knows where the secret passage is, we will face three guns when we exit the secret passage."

"Exactly, why pretend to be a ghost, wouldn't it be faster to directly lead the crowd to intercept us?"

The retainers denied Xinsheng's conjecture with every word.

What they said was indeed reasonable, and Xinsheng couldn't find any refutation, so he could only reply weakly:

"but..."

"Master Nobukatsu!" Feeling impatient, Tomino Sakyoshin aggravated his tone and interrupted Nobukatsu's words.

"The most important thing for me right now is to escort Lord Xinsheng away from Mosen City. Suspicion is nothing more than slowing down."

"Um..."

Seeing that none of the retainers felt uneasy or abnormal, Xinsheng also wondered if he was too sensitive and scared himself...

"Then let's go faster."

......

The reactions of the six chief ministers of Xinsheng all fell into the eyes of the young man who was twenty steps behind and next to a tree.

"Important people in the mission world, will the sense of crisis increase when their lives should die..." With his hand on the tree trunk, Chios lowered his body and hid under the shelter of the shadow.

"It's just a test to see if we can kill you with the help of external force."

After speaking, he took off a moderately sized leaf and brought it to his mouth.

ee~ woo~

The sharp sound of the grass flute resounded in the deep forest behind the mountain.

……

ee~ woo~

"what sound? "

Matajiro Yamaguchi turned around with a sword in his hand and looked behind him, but apart from his own group, he saw only darkness.

"This is... the sound of the Sasa flute!" Lin Xiuzhen, who has more experience in life, not only recognized the grass flute, but also the shape of the grass leaves.

Immediately, his expression changed, he grabbed Xinsheng's arm, and started running eastward.

"Grass flutes are often used by Rannami (ninjas) to deliver messages, we may be discovered by someone!"

"What?" The rest of the retainers couldn't hide their shock when they heard the words.

They all acted so carefully, and escaped from everyone in the pill, without lighting a torch, and walked through the forest in the dark...

It turned out to be discovered, what are you kidding?

"It's over, it's over..." Xinsheng who was dragged by his retainers, his pupils shrank like pinholes, and his face lost any color.

"Someone is spying on us...I just knew..."

A group of people ran a few steps, and the drastic change suddenly occurred.

As if being called by the sound of a flute, countless flames suddenly appeared in the dark forest!

One by one torches are lit, like will-o'-the-wisps floating in the darkness.

The five retainers looked around, except that there were not many torches in the direction of Mosen City, there were hundreds of torches in the east, west, north, and north directions.

Thousands of enemy troops, all over the mountains and plains, rushed towards the direction where the sound of the grass flute appeared.

"This is impossible! "

"Where does Oda Kami Sosuke have such a huge army?"

Even the well-informed Lin Xiuzhen was shocked by the sight in front of her.

"Can't stop, run!"

However, it is easier said than done to run in the intertwined forest of trees?

From time to time, I kicked thick tree roots under my feet, stepped on moss-covered stones, and crashed into the spider webs woven between the branches...

However, after speeding up and running for dozens of steps, Xin Sheng and the other six ran staggeringly.

At this time, ten men in coarse clothes ran towards them barefoot, holding torches.

Seeing someone passing by, Lin Xiuzhen immediately signaled the others to squat down.

Everyone complied, but they were out of luck...