The time is early January of the fifth year of Yonglu, which is the New Year.￠￡

In the Shizuoyama Castle, the country of Yamayo Road facing the land of Yamayo, the Aobashi, who had just attended a New Year's banquet, and was a little drunk, the governor of the Aobashi family, Menda Dango Summashiro, was preparing to sleep in the middle of the city.

Jiwei Mountain City is a city built from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain. Therefore, once the city is closed, foreign enemies cannot easily break through. Because of this, a considerable distance is left between the middle and deep cranks. The drunken Mentian Danhou Guard took a lot of time to return to the Tianshou Pavilion to rest.

Just as the gate Tian Danhoushou had just rested, someone suddenly knocked on the door loudly at the bottom of the mountain and shouted to the awakened gatekeeper:

"Please open the door and let me go! Here are the people sent by the city lord Kotaro of Matsuo Castle, who specially sent medicine to his younger brother Kotaro Young Master Kojiro! This is a life-related matter. Please open the door and let me go go now!"

The city lord of Matsuo Castle, Koyotaro, was the 23-year-old young man, and the brother of Koyojiro who was imprisoned in Washioyama Castle. The reason why Menda Tangoshima imprisoned Koyojiro was entirely to control this city lord of Matsuo Castle.

As for the reason why he wanted to control the city lord Kobayashi, the city of Matsuo Castle, it was mainly because he had been constantly inspiring many other retainers in his family to persuade Menda Dango to surrender to the Luo family.

Speaking of the Luo family, it can be said that the overlord's power is at its peak at this time. In addition to completely unifying the Kyushu, the Kyushu overlord also annexed many territories of the former Western overlord, Zhou Fang, An Yi and other countries, and defeated the Maori family, the Son family of the Shirahara family. He came to the Beihou country area. Now, at the coastal border of Beihou country, the Sanhara City, which originally belonged to the Maori family, and Yicheng Mountain City have been occupied by the Luo family.

It is reported that in recent times, the Luo family has been going to Sanyuan City, and the Yicheng Mountain City has increased a lot of troops. Even the Kyushu eagle seems to have appeared in Sanyuan City. Of course, the statement given by the Luo family pointed out that the Maori family of the Son family of the Shirahara family had previously tried to assassinate the Kyushu eagle Masayoro, but it ended in failure. The reason why the Luo family has such a strange movement is that they are completely preparing to retaliate against the Maori family.

However, as the saying goes, when big people fight, small people suffer, not to mention that the Hohara family is still a wealthy family who surrenders to the Maori family. In this case, they will inevitably worry about being angry by the Luo family. Moreover, as the Luo family's infiltration into various parts of the Beihou Kingdom became more and more serious, many of the retainers in the family naturally became a little shaken. It was in this case that the city lord of Matsuo Castle, Otaro, actually emerged and took the lead in persuading him to abandon the Maori family and switch to the Luo family.

However, people like Kotaro knew that the Maori family was insidious and supervised Mori Mori. Menda Dangomoto was really worried. After he switched to the Luo family, he would be killed by Mori Mori's conspiracy one day. He had personally participated in the conspiracy organized by Mori Mori's country against some wealthy families loyal to the Oui family or the Antoniko family in Beihou.

What's more, although the Luo family was at its peak at this time, it had just entered the Beihou Kingdom. The Maori family directly annexed the power of the Beihou Kingdom after the decline of the Daou Family. So in comparison, the Maori family was more powerful in the Beihou Kingdom than the Luo family. It was precisely for this reason that in order to ensure the stability of the family, the Menda Dangoshima ordered Kobayaro to hand over the hostages to ensure that he would not act randomly below.

The reason why Menda Dangomo was so worried about Kotoshiro was the root cause of the Battle of Itsujima several years ago. At the call of the Sono Family Mori family, Menda Dangomomo led many retainers, including Kotoshiro, to support the decisive battle between the Mori family and the Ouchi family Taolongfang on Itsujima. However, the Luo family suddenly intervened in this battle at the last moment. When the ship was limited, Menda Dangomomo had to abandon Kotoshiro and others in Itsujima, and then escaped with Maori Moto.

After returning home in a hurry, since Kobataro and others did not follow him, as time delayed, some other retainers in the family naturally had the idea of ​​the territory of Kobataro and others. This was a normal thing after all. Even Menda Dangomo himself had the idea of ​​directly annexing Kobataro and others' families.

So, before Menda Danou Housuo made up his mind, and other retainers in the family did not explicitly stop Menda Danou Housuo, many of the retainers of the Shirahara family began to gradually divide up the territory of Kowo Taro's family. At this time, Kowo Taro and others returned safely. Later, after inquiring, Menda Danou Housuo found out that Kowo Taro and others were directly released by the Luo family.

Although I don’t know what purpose the Luo family did, since Xiao Wu Taro and others returned, their relationship with Menda Danouhou has become very ordinary, and they have even suddenly become stronger over the past few years. Even though Menda Danouhou deliberately blocked or even warned, Kou Taro still annexed several wealthy families who surrendered to the Shirahara family (these wealthy families had the idea of ​​fighting the territory of the Kou Taro family). Now that the strength of the Kou Taro family is strong, even Menda Danouhou, who is the main family, is a little afraid.

So, when the Luo family suddenly had a lot of changes and Kotaro was moving outside, Menda Dangomoto decisively asked Kotaro to send his wife and son to Wawaoyama Castle as hostage. Originally, Menda Dangomotomoto hoped that Kotaro would come to Wawaoyama Castle as hostage, but considering that this might make Kotaro break up with him, so it was all that was possible. Menda Dangomoto was even a little doubtful about whether Kotaro would obey his orders and hand over his wife and children.

But surprisingly, Xiao Wu Taro quickly agreed to the request of Menda Danougu: "I have no objection to the request of Menda Danougugu!"

While saying this, Kobataro not only sent his wife and children as hostages, but also sent his younger brother Kobataro as hostages. By the way, Kobataro has always suffered from diarrhea, which everyone in the Kobata family knows.

So, when Kobataro's people came to the gate of Shizuoyama Castle tonight and said to the gatekeeper:

"Mr. Wu Jiro of my family is now in the city, but he has diarrhea. Other medicines cannot be cured of this disease. Only with the medicine specially made by our Matsuo Castle can we be effective. Because we sometimes worry about diarrhea, it just happened that Lord Kogotaro, who is my brother, has reserved this medicine, so please be fine and let me wait!"

After the gatekeeper looked at the people outside the city gate and understood who the people said that Xiao Wujiro was, he said:

"Go down and inform me! Please wait a moment!"

Not long after, the gatekeeper came back and said, "Come in."

"Thank you! Thank you for your hard work!" So, three people came in from outside the city gate immediately.

"It's really strange!" Looking at the three people who gradually moved away after entering the city, the gatekeeper always felt a little strange, but he had already let these three people pass, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

And when he was relieved, he suddenly heard:

"Where is the door open!"

Suddenly, another second voice came from outside the city gate.

The gatekeeper, who was about to fall asleep again, hurriedly opened the window and leaned over and asked, "Who is it?"

"We are the subordinates of Matsuo City Lord Kotaro, who specially sent medicine to his younger brother Kotaro Young Master Kojiro. This is a major event that concerns a person's life and death. Please open the door immediately and let me wait."

The gatekeeper couldn't help but open his eyes and look at these people. What was going on? Didn't three people just pass by? Now these people are almost exactly the same as what the three people said just now, and it seems that the same three figures are standing in front of you...

"This, what are you kidding? If you are the subordinates of Lord Kogotaro who came here to get the medicine, then who are you just passing by?"

"I haven't heard of this before, but please stop joking. This is a big event about his brother's life! So please stop joking and let me pass it immediately!"

"What? Are you kidding?"

"It's precisely! Because Lord Kotaro specially ordered us to get medicine from Matsuo Castle, there was no one except me! This is not a time to joke!"

"That's how things are getting weirder. Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Maybe you are fake! Come on! Let's check it down!"

For the gatekeeper, this is really a strange thing, but it is also a very interesting question. Since things are very urgent, two groups of people who are also taking the medicine and who say almost the same thing appear one after another in the middle of the night. This is...

Anyway, there were only three people on the other side, so the gatekeeper opened the city gate.

"Okay! Then can you show me the evidence that it is a subordinate of Lord Kogotaro?"

However, at this time, the man who was leading the other party suddenly turned his head to the side with great excitement and said, "Thank you for your hard work!"

At this moment, another person had already grabbed the doorkeeper's collar, and the others entered the door.

"Don't make a sound!" the man who grabbed the doorkeeper's collar said to the doorkeeper.

"Little Wu Taro is here to take Washioyama Castle. As long as you make a sound, you will die immediately!"

"Huh? You are Lord Kogotaro... Then, the three who just entered..."
Chapter completed!