May 10, the 9th year of Astronomy, early in the morning.

Yukisuke and Tadajiro led fifty people from the entrance and exit of the territory northeast of Notaka Town, under the banner of bandits, and entered the Tahara family's territory in a high-profile manner. Along the way, the team walked slowly. The farmers in the fields thought that the bandits were coming to harass them again, and they hid home one after another. After three hours of marching, they finally met the Tahara family samurai who had hurriedly brought peasant soldiers to intercept. Yukisuke arrogantly told the samurai who came to the interview for the alliance request of "Banshi Daro" to add 200 stones of grains, and then stationed on the spot, waiting for the Tahara family's reply.

In Taday Castle, Hiroyoshi Tahara, who received the newly added alliance request from the bandits, was furious and shouted, "What? Haven't these bandits who go to hell gained enough benefits from their families? Danishi Daro hasn't come in person yet? Are you despising your family?"

Tadaoyi, the head of the family, smiled slightly and continued to ask the warrior who came to report the message, "How many of those bandits are there?" To be honest, he didn't care about the conditions for this increase. Anyway, through those copper mines, the Tadao family had exchanged enough grain, just brown rice, and now there are at least 3,000 stones in the granary. As long as you attack Xiaomu and Fujiwara families, all these can be made up.

"Sir, there are 52 people in total. The team is led by a small leader who just exchanged supplies with us," said the warrior bowing.

"Well, very good. Tell them, I agree to this condition. The food will be ready soon. After receiving the food, let them station at the territory checkpoint bordering the Xiaomu family." Tadaoyi ordered.

"Yes, sir" the warrior took the order and left.

"Sir, why did you agree to their unreasonable requests? These bandits will definitely get more and more aggressive and keep threatening us." Hiroyoshi Tahara, who was furious on the side, was shocked and asked quickly.

"Hahaha, Dalang, this time, Banshi Dalang sent more than 50 bandits, which should be most of the bandits' combat power. As long as we keep these bandits in prison, we don't need to worry too much about Banshi Dalang's secretly attacking our rear, so that we can concentrate on dealing with the coalition forces of the two families." Tadaoyi of Tadao laughed and said.

"But Danishi Daro did not come this time. Is he worried that there was a conspiracy?" Hiroyoshi Tahara said worriedly.

"Hmph, according to the situation of Danishi Dalang more than a month ago, he only had more than 60 subordinates. Now most of them have come. What else can the remaining bandits do to make conspiracies? I'm afraid that Danishi Dalang is holding that handwriting of Yoshioka, making a dream of dreaming, Tadaoyuki Tadayuki said sarcastically. Keep making your dream, Danishi Dalang, you don't have much time left.

"Taro, you can arrange the food matter. After you hand it over to them, immediately urge them to go to the place where they are stationed and tell them that they need to cooperate with their own actions. In addition, take the little leader by your side before sending troops and monitor them so that they will not have any bad things," Tadaoyuki Tadao continued.

"Yes, Dad," Hiroyoshi Tahara bowed to accept the order. Although he was still worried, he could not find enough reason to believe his father, so he had to bow his head and take the order and leave.

At this moment, in a forest several miles away from Tadae Castle, Masara was leading 20 cloaks to ambush in the bushes on both sides of the woods. After settling down the territory's affairs, last night, Masarara led 40 cloaks and more than 50 cloaks secretly scattered from the path leading to the Tahara family from Notaka Mountain to the Tahara family. This time Masara was also taking a desperate bet. Once the Donoya in the southwest knew the emptiness of the territory, it would be difficult to defend the dozens of cloaks left alone. But once the plan was successful, the territory would gain great benefits.

After joining a valley at the foot of the Nodo Takayama, Masara unexpectedly received information from the Ikor who had returned to the Oki family. According to the alliance, in order to reassure each other, the Oki family and the Fujihei family will send a hostage to each other. Because they are worried that they will be discovered by the Tahara family's reconnaissance, there are only a few samurai responsible for protecting the hostages. According to the journey, they should meet at the border between the two territories. After both sides confirm the hostages, they will escort the other party's hostages back to the original territory. Masarara made a quick decision, leaving Okiri Kyuji and Tsuda Hirozo to lead some cloaks and continue to wait for Yukisuke. Masara led 20 cloaks, taking advantage of Yukisuke's slow and vigorous marching to attract everyone's attention, and passed through the Tahara family's territory and arrived at the currently ambushed forest.

After looking at the watch, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. According to Yi Nuo's estimate, the hostages of the two families should be coming soon, signaling the surrounding cloaks to concentrate. Zhengliang looked at the path outside the woods in a quiet manner, and at the same time, he was praying silently in his heart, hoping that Yi Nuo's intelligence would not make any mistakes. Now for Zhengliang, time is the most precious. Only when the three families suddenly accelerated the conflict, Zhengliang could take advantage of the troubled waters before the other "yellow birds" reacted. Attacking the hostages of the two families and plagiarizing the Tian Yuan family would inevitably anger the other two, thereby causing early conflicts among the three families.

"Puff" the forest in the distance suddenly startled several birds, and Zhengliang's eyes lit up, staring at the path outside the woods. Soon, two teams with five people each appeared at both ends of the path, which was exactly what Yinuo mentioned as the hostage escort team. The two teams met quickly, and it seemed that they had agreed that two young men who looked only in their 20s walked out of the two teams. The two saluted each other and then walked directly to the other's original team. It seemed that the hostage exchange had been completed.

"Kill" Seeing that the time was almost the same, Masara shouted, pulled out Yoshioka's words, and rushed out first. The 20 cloaks pulled out their knives and surrounded the two teams from all directions. "Cut down", just a few meters, and arrived in a flash. Seeing a samurai in front of him who was about to draw his sword to fight, Masarara used his highest sword skill. "Swish", the dark black sword shadow flashed across the samurai's waist, and the samurai was instantly cut into two pieces. "Kill!" The cloaks behind him saw the lord's mightyness, and immediately raised their morale and shouted to kill the opponent. The two teams were suddenly attacked and caught off guard. Several people were killed in a hurry.

Soon, the battle came to an end. Looking at the ten corpses lying on the ground, Masayoro immediately ordered everyone to start collecting property and weapons. No matter how small the mosquitoes are, they will be meat.

After everything was finished, Masarara came to the two corpses, kicked one of them, and then said arrogantly, "Hehe, do you think Lord Tarahara doesn't know that you secretly formed an alliance to send troops to their own family? Lord Tarahara has started to mobilize the peasant soldiers in the territory, and will be ready to be completed tomorrow at the latest. Now you are just the first battle before Lord Tarahara sends troops. Come, cut off the heads of the two hostages, and we will take them to Lord Tarahara to receive the merits."

"Sir, should you deal with the remaining bodies?" asked one of the cloakers.

"No, there is no time. We have to rush back to the camp to meet with Lord Tahara. It seems that there is a bigger move on the side of the adult. Cut off the head and leave immediately," said Masayoro.

"Yes, sir." The cloaks took the order and left.

After cutting off the two heads, Masara led the intact people away in a hurry. After Masara left for a while, the body that had been kicked by Masara suddenly got up, covered the bleeding wound with both hands, and staggered towards the direction of Chemu Castle of the Xiaomu family. This was a samurai who Masara did not kill. The words just now were also said by Masara, in order to let the Xiaomu family and the Fujiwara family know that the attack was done by the Tahara family, and the Tahara family had begun to mobilize the territory and prepare to take the initiative to send troops to them first.

In the evening, in Chemu City, Oki Dazo was discussing with his retainers about sending troops to the Tahara family the day after tomorrow. Suddenly, he rolled in and crawled in and shouted, "No, sir."

Xiaomu Dazou was furious and shouted, "Why are you panic?"

"Master... Master, the young master was killed by the thieves from the Tahara family, and the young master of the Fujiwara family were also killed." Zunqing said with his knees on his knees and trembling.

"Ah?" Everyone in the meeting hall was shocked, and Oki Dazou was also shocked by the sudden bad news.

"Let me tell me, what's going on? How could the young master be killed?" a retainer shouted immediately.

"Sir, a samurai who was responsible for escorting the young master escaped. The samurai said that he was attacked by Yushi of the Tahara family. The young master and others were killed in battle. In addition, the young master of the Fujiwara family was also killed in battle. The young master's body is being transported back, but..." Zuo Qing silenced to report in a low voice.

"But what?" At this time, Oki Dazang had already woken up, and asked withstood in his heart.

"However, the young master's head was taken away by the thief from the Tahara family." Zu Qing said cautiously, for fear that Xiaomu Dazang would take his anger on him in anger.

"Ah? The old thief of Tadao bullies me too much." Xiaomu Dazang pulled out the sword and shouted, "Come here, gather the troops and notify the Fujiwara family. We will send troops to the Tadao family tomorrow and tear the old thief of Tadao to pieces."

"Yes, sir." Seeing that the head of the family was furious, everyone was tactful and did not advise.

Looking at the people who were gradually moving away, Xiaomu Dazang felt like a knife. Although a legitimate son died and several sons were still his own sons. What's more, the Tayuan family had already noticed the actions of the family, and Xiaomu Dazang was even more surprised.

In the second half of the night, Fujiwara Hei Nobuki, who was anxious about the team that went to escort the hostages, had not returned for a long time, also received bad news from the Xiaomu family overnight. Fujiwara Hei Nobuki immediately summoned his retainers to discuss the matter of sending troops to avenge tomorrow.

For a moment, the shadow of war enveloped the sky above the three territories.
Chapter completed!