Pillars of the Wu family

Yoshizaki Gobo is the first site established by Honganji Renju in the third year of civilization (1471), when he was designated as a Buddhist site by Hiei Mountain Enryaku Temple and fled all the way to Hokuriku for refuge, and then relied on Yoshizaki Gobo to preach and absorb Believers, because they were located on the border of Echizen Kingdom, they were guarded by Echizen at that time. Asakura Toshikage, the first governor of the Asakura Clan, acquiesced, and then Honganji Renjo focused the spread of believers on Kaga Kingdom, and quickly acquired Kaga Kingdom Complete control, thus establishing the famous Kaga Ichikui.

As the Asakura family strengthened step by step and gradually stabilized the status of the lord, after successfully completing the exile of the lord Shiba Yoshitoshi, and then turned back to deal with Echizen Ichikui, they found that this formerly inconspicuous sect power had been exposed. Become a blood-eating monster, because of the special sect attributes of this Ichikui, they can easily ignore all the court laws and martial arts laws in the world, which is to expand and develop believers outrageously and unreasonably. Several generations of family governors have been troubled by it.

It can be said that this Echizen has always been the same, that is, the existence of the Asakura family is a historical legacy of nearly a hundred years ago. In the Kuzuryugawa Battle that broke out in Sakai County, Echizen more than 50 years ago, Asakura Sodi succeeded in defeating him with his powerful attack. Echizen Ichikui's main force was defeated and the Yoshizaki Gobo was completely destroyed, which was once a major blow to the Ichikui sect.

But 30 years later, the Yoshizaki Gobo in the big and small ones once again became the base of the small one. With Chaoshoji 実顕 in Hokuriku, it once again controlled this former Hokuriku Buddhist holy land. After two generations of reconstruction, this Yoshizaki Although Yufang can no longer be compared with the powerful fortress of the past, it is still no problem as a stronghold of Chaosheng Temple Jiaofang.

From the side, it shows that the Asakura family has never been able to fully control the Echizen country.Even though they repeatedly crossed Ono County and attacked Kaga Country in the following decades.It is still impossible to cover up the problem of weak control.This time, the Asakura family seems determined to attack Echizen Ichikui, targeting Yoshizaki Gobo as the primary target.

It can be said that the march of the army went smoothly, crossing Kuzuryu River without encountering any obstacles, until the 300 troops crossed the circle of influence of Horiekan, the front line of Echizen Kingdom, and it was not long before they encountered the first force of resistance. A Yixiangyikui army consisting of about [-] people appeared in front of them. They hurriedly picked up their weapons and rushed towards the Asakura family's army. end.He hurriedly turned around and fled desperately to his farm.

It seems that they don't seem to be fighting a natural reaction after hearing that there is an invading army, and judging from their performance, it seems that these all-timers don't seem to be prepared at all. With no doubts, Asakura Jingdong asked suspiciously: "What kind of trick is this Xiang Yikui trying to show off? Is it a trick to lure the enemy in?"

"It doesn't look like it! You still have to be careful and don't fall into Musakamune's tricks!" Keilong Asakura was also very puzzled about what Kaga Isaikui was trying to trick, and carefully ordered: "Orders are not allowed to respond to the battle without authorization, let alone leave their posts without authorization. All warriors must not slack off their spirits."

In an inconspicuous village near Yoshizaki Gobo in Sakai County, Echizen Country, dozens of farmers with ragged clothes and dirty faces gathered together and talked in a low voice. It seemed that the atmosphere of the conversation was very relaxed, talking and laughing during the period It's not like a farmer in the countryside who is about to face the invasion of war. [

From the outside, they are ordinary farmers with no characteristics.They belonged to small characters who would be forgotten in a short while in the village, insisting that they have any similarities.That is, they have ordinary looks and thin bodies, but their eyes are not as dim as ordinary farmers, but exude a shrewd look that cannot be concealed.

No one would have thought that they were the prestigious Kira ninjas, and no one would have imagined that this group of Kira ninjas had been lurking in this small mountain village for nearly a year. , the villagers in the village, whether male, female, old or young, are all replaced by Kira ninjas according to their similar ages. This small mountain village with only a few dozen households has inadvertently become a ninja village in Sakai County, Echizen Kingdom.

As early as the beginning of the year, Yoshitoki Kira ordered to deal with the Three Kingdoms Alliance in Kinai. The tone he set was to contain the Miyoshi family with diplomatic mediation, suppress the Asai family with the threat of military war, and disrupt the chaos with the assassination of Kira ninjas. 』Special tactics such as concealment were used to deal with the Asakura family. This set of strategies was divided into different steps and carried out by different warriors. There was no special order between them and they maintained their respective systems that were not related to each other.

The Kira ninjas didn't care about the implementation of the other two steps, but they knew very well that their mission was progressing very smoothly. It was easy to instigate a few dead men who had been trained for many years to mix into the national team controlled by the Kira ninjas. The implementation of a perfect assassination plan.

For Kira Ninja, the loss is nothing more than writing about the young samurai who joined the Kira family because of family hatred. They left offspring under the arrangement of Kira Ninja before performing their missions, and received a high pension to ensure their own The child can grow up to be a warrior in peace, and then calmly make a promise to voluntarily give up his life to carry out a fatal assassination.

The samurai of the Asakura family guessed very close to the truth. The Kira family was indeed involved in this operation. The only inaccurate point is that there was no figure of Kaga Izumomune in it. From the beginning to the end, it was an assassination operation planned and executed by Kira Ninja. It was just to use the name of Kaga Izumomune for the purpose of misleading the judgment of the Asakura family.

Kaga Ichikozong kept in the dark from the beginning to the end. In order to ensure that Yoshizaki Gobo, which is across the river from Sakai County, and the officials of the square in Sakai County, the people who are close to the Ichikozong knew the relevant information, Kira The ninja crowd instigated no less than [-] elite ninjas, more low-level ninjas and countless peripheral members to conceal the truth of the Sanlihama "riot" and "riot" incident.

This astonishing news was artfully edited by Kira Ninja several times, and then spread to the ears of Choshoji Koyoshi and Shimoma Laizhao, who sits in Ono County, and it became another matter. Sanlihama "Sao" The "real" situation of the "chaotic" incident.He became the concubine of the Asakura family and the prime minister was proud of his favor.Offended Akuhime in words several times.This made the wife of the Asai family hold a grudge, so she thought of poisoning and killing this "fox spirit" little prime minister, so that she could only favor Asakura Yoshikage and not share it with others.

And the little prime minister just happened to have this intention, because the people in Echizen Kingdom didn't know that she was looking forward to becoming the wife of the wife, but they didn't want to see Akuhime still pregnant, which made her feel so stressed that she had to think of killing Akuhime, let herself be promoted to the wife of the wife smoothly, and as the wife of a man's harem, she doesn't have a few reliable means of harming others.The most reliable and easiest to implement is the poisonous killing.

Japanese samurai have always had a tradition of killing with poison. Ushiki Imagawa and his younger brother Hikogoro Imagawa died in Odawara Castle on the same day. It was rumored that they were poisoned to death. The most commonly used venom was the puffer fish. Poison is a method that was widely used in the Heian period, so the two women with ulterior motives prepared poison "drugs" and mixed them in their daily meals for each other to eat.

In order to prevent unnecessary trouble caused by poisoning and death on the spot, the amount of poison they prepared was relatively small so that they would not die on the spot, so the two died of poisoning at different times the next day, causing riots In order to cover up this huge scandal, the Asakura family said that the poisoning incident was assassinated by unknown warriors.

Although it sounds like there are many flaws.But the summary of monks and disciples of the Wu family is very clear. A warrior family like the Asakura family can do all kinds of wonderful things.It is not once or twice that father and son become enemies and brothers fight against the wall. It may not be credible for two women to murder each other at the same time, and it may be more likely that there are some unpredictable palace plots hidden, but what does this have to do with the Echizen Ichimune?Whatever they do.

Therefore, under the control of this conspiracy, it was so easy to deceive the monks and officials of the Echizen Ichiko sect, making them mistakenly think that the Asakura family was looking for a fig leaf to cover up all this, but they did not Knowing that the true and false information concealed a shocking conspiracy, Echizen Isamune still had no idea that his fate had been quietly decided by the Kira family.

The group of Kira ninjas talked and laughed in low voices, occasionally looking out of the courtyard, and after a while, a Yamabushi monk wearing a Lin Li and a conch hanging on his chest walked in from the courtyard. He seemed to be begging for a water bowl. When I entered the yard, I was a little surprised to see so many people, so I quickly put my hands together and bowed to express my apology. Disappointed, the ninjas who pretended to be people-promoting people brought tea for the monk Yamabuku, who quickly saluted and thanked him.

When most of the pot of tea was drunk, the monk Yamabuku suddenly took off his hat to reveal a young face and a head of long hair that should not exist on a monk's head. Kira ninja was surprised for a moment and then Hastily bowed and said: "I will pay my respects to Hattori Hall!" [

Hattori Masashige is the executive officer of this operation, shouldering many powers such as formulating, adjusting, monitoring and punishing, and has a great deterrent effect on these Kira ninjas. He just shook his head casually and said: "You are still too careless, thinking that I am just a Monk Yamabushi relaxed his vigilance, how could he know that I was not a ninja sent by another samurai?

For example, the Xuanyuan ninja in the same system is very good at dressing up as a Yamabushi monk, and Kai’s Topo is very good at dressing up as a ronin samurai. Perhaps the old people, children, wandering girls, etc. you have encountered may be enemy ninjas. , If you don't raise your vigilance, you will expose your own behavior, which will bring great harm to us ninjas. "

The Kira ninjas who were trained by him dare not intervene to defend themselves. As the samurai of the famous Kira family, they naturally have to abide by a series of rules, even the ninjas hidden in invisible places. This is different from the ninjas of Koga Iga. More rely on the prestige and ability of the ninja patriarch to support the development of the village. That form is more similar to the old elder system of the village group. The ninja of the Kira family is a systematic samurai system that gets rid of that personal prestige to support small groups. system.

Hattori Masamari walked slowly into the ninja group, carefully scanned the faces of each ninja as if to remember their similar looks, and then said slowly: "I know you are very hard and tired. It’s been nearly a year without a store, and any warrior would feel lost and painful, but you have to remember your identity. As a special warrior who can gain merit without going to the battlefield to kill enemies, what do you expect? Is it not that the descendants have a position not inferior to those who are laden with glory?

His Royal Highness Gongfang can satisfy all your needs, whether it is the supply of status, money and food, or a platform to display your talents. The price of everything is that you need to dedicate your freedom and even your life. There is no free lunch in the world, you must understand! "

"Ha! I understand!" The ninjas bowed and replied: "We have already made the consciousness of self-sacrifice, please show Your Highness Hattori!"

Masashiro Hattori laughed dumbly and said: "You misunderstood! His Royal Highness didn't mean to sacrifice you, and I came here this time to wish you a smooth operation in advance. His Royal Highness praised you for doing a very good job, but don't be complacent It is still necessary to be cautious and complete the remaining misleading actions satisfactorily. The other is to suspend the execution of the plan to instigate the Asakura family. The line close to Fukuoka Yoshiki must be hidden as soon as possible. You can retreat urgently, and you must not make your own claims and get involved in deeper "turmoil" to expose Xingzang."

Many Kira ninjas bowed and promised. As the No.1 new generation of Kira ninjas in the Kira family, Hattori Masanari is very satisfied with the well-trained Kira ninjas. He is very clear about the position of himself and the ninjas. Kira's dog minions do some inconvenient and shameful things for Kira Yoshi.

He always firmly believes that everything in the world alternates back and forth like night and day. The shogunate needs a teacher of benevolence and righteousness who will fight against the enemy in an open and honest manner. It also needs a ninja "Ranbo" who hides in the corner to spy on information and kill people. Regardless of their names No matter how it changes, there are always some people who will still do these dirty jobs.

Hattori Masashige will soon take over the position of Iga ninja leader from his uncle Hattori Masaaki, and he will become the second generation Hattori Hanzo to command hundreds of elite ninjas to show their might on the invisible battlefield. Before that, what he needs to face is the level in front of him, which is equivalent to a personal assessment for him.

From an angle that Kira Ninja couldn't see, Hattori Masanari secretly let out a sigh of relief: "His Royal Highness is only responsible for giving me a few key points of information, and a first draft of Mogami Jingzhaoden's plan, and I will leave the rest to you." Let go and execute according to your own ideas. This is trust and even more pressure! Fortunately, I survived in the end! The next step is unilateral induction, and triggering an internal "riot" "turmoil" to cooperate with Kansuke The military action of the Temple." (To be continued...)

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