Chapter 890 [Chapter 4] 307
Chapter 890 [Chapter 4] 307
All right.The plan of detouring back to Nijo Castle with the female relatives who are obviously more likely to listen to her rhetoric and sophistry, hoping to avoid the eyes and ears of the general and his entourage, obviously no longer works.
In this case, she could only grit her teeth and surround Mrs. Xinzi with the other maids, and rushed out following the few guards with their heads sullen.
Perhaps it was because Ashikaga Yoshiki had already attracted most of the thieves who were ambushing outside Kiyomizu Temple, and now they rushed out, there were not many enemies in front of them.However, Yutaisuo traveled today by "driving cage"—that is, a vehicle similar to a sedan chair, so it is really inconvenient to escape quickly now.
The general is riding in an ox cart today, but the speed of the ox cart is probably not much different from that of driving a cage.Liu Quan and other maids were walking—she herself could travel a long distance in one breath, but Mrs. Xinzi, a delicate and frail lady, was already out of breath just walking in Qingshui Temple.Now being surrounded by maids and guards and running all the way, he was out of breath and his face was pale, as if he was about to collapse in the next moment.
Moreover, after catching up with the general and his party, things got even worse.
Liu Quan didn't know who Matsunaga Hide was, and he didn't know the appearance of the Miyoshi Sanyo, but those who besieged Ashikaga Yoshiki turned out to be quite violent-this was the same as the situation recorded in history "because soldiers surrounded by horses, guards Strict, no less than Luozhong, failed to succeed" is not similar at all.
...Could it be that the time retrograde army finally played its damn role at this time? !
Liu Quan's heart tightened.
Now it is impossible to take into account the instructions conveyed by Honosuke before the battle-"There is no need to directly intervene in the behavior of the time-traveling army, only a detailed investigation".If she doesn't take some action immediately, it's still uncertain whether she can get out of this place unscathed. What's the point of continuing to investigate the Yonglu Incident? !
"Hurry up and snatch the horse, let Lord Gongfang and Lord Yutai take it, so that we can return to Erjo City as soon as possible!" She shouted loudly.
Anyway, even if she doesn't yell out, the other party will see through her motives when she goes to snatch the horse later. Why don't you yell loudly and ask your own guards to help.
Sure enough, her shout inspired her own thinking.Immediately, two or three guards rushed to both sides of the road separately.
But the number of the enemy was much larger than expected, and the side that was protecting the general and the Imperial Palace fell into a bitter fight and fought very hard.
And after all, there are a large number of people guarding the general - because most of the enemy's manpower is also besieging there - Liu Quan wants to pretend to be a weak, pitiful young maid who has never seen the world, and resists showing his flaws to those people. It is too difficult for an enemy who is still fighting vigorously.
Sometimes even the knife was almost cut on the top of her head, and she had to tighten the "small sleeves" on top of her head-that is, the whole small-sleeved single gown that samurai girls in this era wear on top of their heads-to hide and hide, screaming. screaming, and must not forget to support Mrs. Nobuko Odaisho, who was almost paralyzed from fright behind her...
Liu Quan felt an unprecedented difficulty in life.
They were gradually forced to the side of the road by the attacking thieves. Not only did they fail to escape smoothly, but they were getting farther and farther away from the heavily guarded general.
Although the driving cage used by Mrs. Xinzi is parked here, but now the driving cage is overturned on the ground, and two of the strong servants who carried the driving cage also fell on the road, and a large pool of blood flowed out from under their bodies. .The others were nowhere to be found; even the general's ox cart, let alone the horses, was a long way from them.
Suddenly, Liu Quan heard a scream from the maid Fujimi - accompanied by a muffled bang, she obviously had no way to retreat and hit the wall of the house beside the road.
Before Liu Quan turned back to look at the situation, he heard Mrs. Xinzi let out a low cry behind her.
"We have no way out!" This was the voice of the maid Jiusong.
Immediately afterwards, the maid Inaba exclaimed.
"what!!"
Liu Quan suddenly turned his head, just in time to see the scene where Inaba, who was moving fairly nimbly, leaned to the side and dangerously dodged the scene of the blade that was slashing at her.
With a click, Liu Quan felt that his nerves, which had been tense to the extreme, were broken.
Although Inaba narrowly escaped the knife, she couldn't stand still and fell to the ground; and when she fell, a gap was immediately opened in the circle that originally surrounded Mrs. Nobuko.
Liu Quan suddenly thought of the precious kindness Mrs. Xinzi had shown her the night before.When she knew that both herself and her husband were in danger, she felt sorry for Liu Quan, the new maid, and she didn't want the maid "Axue" and her lover to die in vain, so she wanted to let "Axue" and her lover go. Her lover also promised to use his noble status to support Axue in entering into a marriage contract with his lover——
Is it worth the risk for someone who can release such a precious kindness?
Liu Quan made up his mind.
Fortunately, the popular women's clothing in this era is no longer complicated twelve singles, but small sleeves!Otherwise, it would be too troublesome to take it off!This time, she didn't bring Sanri Yuezong out into the battle again. If she yelled out the request "Give me a knife in the back" at others, she would probably be stabbed to the core immediately instead of just cutting twelve orders with the blade. !
She pulled off the small sleeves from the top of her head, quickly rolled them into a roll in her hands, and then moved forward without retreating, and pointed the roll of clothes towards the person who was about to chop off at her, which obviously belonged to the Miyoshi family. The man threw his head and face fiercely!
The man was caught off guard—or, in other words, he didn't expect that someone in this group of unarmed and weak women would attack violently—the moment he was taken aback, the roll of clothes hit him right in the face!
Liu Quan didn't give him a chance to react, the moment the clothes hit his face, she took a step forward, turned sideways, let his right hand holding the knife pass, then turned her palm into a knife, and slammed into his wrist Smash it down!
Her strength value, which has been strengthened to full value many times, is of course not comparable to that of ordinary young girls.The man's wrist was numb and he was hit, his fingers loosened, and the knife fell from his hand.But before the knife fell to the ground, Liu Quan grabbed it in his hand, turned his wrist, and swung the knife upwards, slashing the man's arm with a swipe, causing blood to flow profusely!
The man let out a shrill scream, and subconsciously hugged his injured right arm with his good left hand.But Liu Quan didn't give him time to focus on who the opponent in front of him was. With a flip of his wrist, the upward facing blade turned to face his waist and abdomen, holding the knife in both hands, and slashed across it viciously.
The man fell to the ground without saying a word, and didn't get up again.
Liu Quan shook the snatched sword in his hand, and turned to Mrs. Nobuko and the maids behind him——
But they found that they stopped crying, put down their hands holding their heads, and slowly straightened up, staring at her with surprise on their faces.
Inaba, who fell down to avoid the blade, also slowly got up from the ground, with an unbelievable and dreamlike expression on his face, staring at Liu Quan's right hand holding the blade, and murmured: " ...Axue?! It was you... who defeated that villain...?!"
Liu Quan: "..."
She didn't know what to say for a while.
As a result, the maid Fujimi helped her out.
"Could it be... Could it be the swordsmanship taught to you by Master Songping!" She asked excitedly.
Liu Quan: "Well...this-is... right?"
She answered with a guilty conscience, but the others suddenly showed an expression of excitement and disbelief, with a sense of gratitude for having survived a desperate situation.
Hisamatsu: "Sir Matsudaira will teach you swordsmanship! He must love you so much that he will let go of this samurai pride!"
Liu Quan: "...???"
Although it is not the first time she has pretended to be an ancient woman, she still does not know much about these ancient traditions.Of course, now is not the time to study, so she could only force a smirk and said, "Now is not the time to talk about this... Let's find a horse quickly, and we have to bring Master Yutai back to the Imperial Palace as soon as possible... ..."
The reasoning is correct, and these women who are about to be terrified obviously can only listen to her-however, where are they going to snatch the horses?
The guards who protected them from rushing out of Qingshui Temple just now had two of them cut down in the scuffle, and another one ran to look for the horse and has not returned. Otherwise, the man holding the knife just now would not have been allowed to rush. Coming in front of them made it impossible for them to avoid them, so Liu Quan had no choice but to show his skills; if she also went away to look for horses now, how would the safety of Mrs. Xinzi and these women be guaranteed?
Liu Quan was in a dilemma for a while.
But worse things are yet to come.
When she paused for a moment because of thinking, there were already several men who were obviously thieves holding up knives on the opposite side, shouting in disorder, "Since we can't attack this side for a long time, I will catch his wife and force him to submit! ", has changed the direction of attack and rushed towards them!
Liu Quan:! ! !
It is agreed that men will fight without hurting their female relatives? !Is that demeanor fed to the dog? !
But think about it, the other party is the famous "Number One Villain in the Warring States Period" Song Yongxiu. Even the former master Miyoshi Changqing would die of anger when he said he was angry, and he would kill the young master when he said it, and in the legend he even occupied The wife and concubine of the new widow of the lord; so now, what can he not do to the general Ashikaga Yoshiki who he has already made up his mind to kill?
However, Mrs. Xinzi can only rely on her force value now.I don't know if the time-traveling army has done something to ambush Ashikaga Yoshiki outside Kiyomizu Temple. There are so many people that people think that the general will not be able to survive tomorrow's Yonglu change and will receive a box lunch.Now it is tantamount to fantasy to ask the bodyguards on the side of the general to protect Mrs. Xinzi's side with some more people.
Liu Quan gritted his teeth, clenched the sword in his hand, and lowered his eyebrows.
She has done a lot of things with one enemy and many in the past, but now that the situation is urgent, she doesn't care about pretending to be weak and pitiful.
She lowered her voice and shouted: "Master Yutai, stand back! Hisamatsu, you guys surround the Yudai! Leave the rest to me—"
Before he finished speaking, a man running in the front had already raised the cold knife in his hand, and swung it down towards Liu Quan who was standing in the front!
Liu Quan dodged the knife shortly, and walked around behind the man - she didn't have the kind of deputy commander who repeatedly said, "Killing must be done in a dignified manner, which is the way of a samurai, and sneak attack from behind is just the way of a villain! Shido!" If you don’t realize it, go cut seppuku” and cut a long gash in the side of the man’s waist with one slash.
When her strength value was cultivated to MAX, it immediately showed benefits. When the knife was cut, the man fell to the ground with a scream.Although he didn't die immediately, he couldn't stand up and continue fighting in a short time.
Liu Quan didn't have time to check how much blood was left in the opponent's blood gauge - after she went around to the side of the man and cut a knife, she had already dodged behind the man, just in time to face the two men who were running behind him .
Before she went out today, she had put a little effort into her attire—although she was wearing small sleeves, the hem was deliberately not cinched tightly, and her movements were not restricted much at the moment; Wearing a drawstring, it was covered by the hem of the small sleeves before, and it was not obvious. Now when you want to cut someone, it is much more convenient than the kind of shoes that can only be pulled forward by small steps.
And with a one-on-two, she didn't waste a minute, and immediately flew up—the loess beside the road was lifted high.
"Blowing up the soil and blinding the eyes!" she shouted, with a somewhat smug expression in her tone.
Of course, the opponent couldn't have imagined this kind of slanted sword move, and he was hit almost immediately, and dust got into his eyes.
Almost at the same time, those two people subconsciously made a sudden stop and stretched out their left hands to rub their eyes.
Of course Liu Quan wouldn't let go of such a great opportunity, and in the next second, he stepped forward, the blade was wrapped in the wind, and he swung one left and one right in front of each other!
Then, besides the muffled sound of a human body falling to the ground, there was also her slightly smug clear voice:
"How about this!"
Shouting so triumphantly when confronting the enemy is more or less meant to scare the enemy; he ran a little slower, so he watched the first three big men fall on the young girl in an instant. The fourth man who was under the knife immediately stopped in fright, turned around and shouted from a distance: "F-come a few more people to help! This woman is very troublesome!"
Before he finished speaking, the "very tricky" woman stepped forward quickly, without giving him any time to react, and immediately rushed to attack with three swords "shua, shua, shua, shua, shua, shua, shua". The man forced him back a lot in an instant.
The man was caught off guard, although he thought his skills were much better than the three felled guys in front, but the timing, angle and tactic of the young girl's surprise attack were just right; But she couldn't dodge in time, the clothes on her chest were cut by her blade, and a long gap was opened.
He immediately took a few steps back, looking at the young girl in front of him with lowered brows and eyes, cold eyes, and a completely extroverted aura, he suddenly felt a chill from his bones.
The reason for that chill is very simple - because subconsciously, I have already judged that this girl is a difficult opponent.
He managed to stabilize his mind, and shouted with a trembling voice: "You, who are you! Then... what is that trick!!"
The young girl sneered.The previous low-browed and pleasing aura on her body has completely disappeared, and now she looks like a sharp famous knife that has been unsheathed.
"That," she still had the leisure to answer his question.
"That's—'Ping Qingyan'."
novelraw