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Celebrating 16 Years (1611) December 12 Kumamoto City -
Ten thousand troops in Western Kyushu, with Changzheng Kuroda as general generals, were going south on the streets passing near the castle.
If you pass next to Kumamoto Castle, you will enter Toyoko Street and change course east.
But waiting in front of the castle were 10,000 troops led by Kiyoshi Kato.
"Let me through here, Tiger Nosuke. I'm not going to fight the Lord."
It was the Admiral, Nagataka Kuroda, who said that and advanced the horse.
Kiyoshi Kato is a friend of Sachichichichi since he was Hideyoshi Tai's first name.
Purity in his calling has also advanced the horse.
"Yoshiba! So who does your Lord say you will fight!?
Chang Zheng skewed his face to the inquiry of purity.
And on his behalf, which means words, Purity went on aloud.
"The Lord will forget His Royal Highness Tai's great grace and will attack Lord Hideyoshi for some things!
"No! I don't remember forgetting His Highness's grace!
"Then I wonder why you point your spear at Lord Hideyoshi! Answer me, Yoshibuki!!
The roar of purity blows the cold skies of Kumamoto.
The chancellor, who heard it, looked back, silently followed the scene.
Qing Zheng stared at the appearance.
Later, when he was completely invisible, he disappeared into the back of his own formation.
The chancellor, who returned to the main army, instructed the generals who had gathered there.
"Until Purity passes the way, I will observe it statically. Return to your ranks and stand by."
"But isn't that against the will of His Highness?
Mao Tsuna Hot Island (Naotsu Naotsu Naotsu), who participates as Naotsu's nominee for the Hot Island family owner, asks Chang Zheng.
Chang Zheng slowly shook his head to the side and replied with a regrettable face.
"I have not been ordered to attack purity"
"Should we be so afraid of Lord Kato?
"Unfortunately, for the same ten thousand, this one's bad. I know that Toyotomi and Kato are strong."
"Such a weak..."
"I'm not weak. In the unlikely event of a victory, it is obvious that the damage will be greater."
"But if you don't try to fight, you don't know!
Chang Zheng put his hand on the shoulder of the heated Mao Tsuan, he said in a low voice.
"Winning or losing a battle is not something to be settled just by fighting. Being stopped here by Kato's army would mean the same thing if you returned the back, nailing Kato's army to Kumamoto."
Mao Tsuba's eyes opened wide in the words.
And Chang Zheng closed a little further away from him.
"Besides, if our army gets hit hard here, Those who hold back behind Kumamoto will not shut up..."
"Behind Kumamoto..."
I guess Mao Tsuna also figured out the meaning of the word.
He swallowed Gokuri and spit, crushing the continuation of the Chang Dynasty's words.
"Satsuma..."
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On the same day, after noon, the shrine of Asu...
I, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, have come to a meeting with Yoshio Otomo.
Then from the beginning he has offered a single letter.
That was the 'Toyotomi Crusade Decree' from Tokugawa Jiayang.
"I would like you to return the" Letter of Surrender to Lord Tokugawa "I sent you earlier, please"
He gently bowed his head to me.
It's his only wish in the room, and it's just me and you.
"I don't know what they're going to do!" I vehemently disagreed, "but I forcefully responded to his request.
Because I've noticed him since I first saw him.
He's lost his' choice, 'he said.
And if we don't make his wish, his' choice 'will be determined by itself.
This place is a battle for me too.
Only one error leads to 'death' as it is.
I was prepared to make his wish and survive this difficulty on my own.
"This or... Apparently the Lord has mistaken the person to give it to"
I smiled at my mouth as I offered him the 'surrender letter' he sent me.
"Yeah, apparently so"
He grinned again, too, and when he received the 'surrender', he put it in front of his knees.
Now my bills are gone as soon as possible.
I didn't really think about how to use the 'surrender letter', so it's the same that I didn't have a hand note or anything from the start...
Instead of him is placed an unusually long knife.
The distance between the two of us now, we're completely in between that knife.
If you make a mistake in just one step, it's the bottom of Naruto...
Fear refused to move my mouth.
Cold silence dominates the room for a while.
Despite the midwinter, a glimmer of sweat conveyed his cheeks.
When the sweat cools, the body temperature is taken away.
I shuddered unexpectedly.
But he didn't miss the moment.
- Gatta! Shh!
I guess I worked out the action of pulling a knife out of the sitting state and putting a blade on the other person's neck over and over again.
I couldn't react at all to a flowing act and a flashing sword.
But...
The murder blade stopped perfectly at the neck.
I feel no wonder and no fear.
Because his eyes...
It's filled with crystal clear tears.
"Why not. Why not?
"Because the sword was inevitably fast, even if you wanted to avoid it"
"Are you going to answer honestly?
Instead of answering my brother-in-law's question, I asked the other way around.
"What are you getting lost in?
"Lost? Me?"
"If there is no stray, the cutting-edge will never tremble with the skill of a sword as good as your Lord"
I saw the tip of the knife.
That's definitely trembling in small pieces.
He went on to loosen his mouth.
"Let's hear one thing. You're the one who sent Hatsutaro, aren't you?
"... because what?
"Is it also your Lord who made Hatsutaro include words?
I stared at him with a smile on my face, unanswered.
Then he raised his blues on his forehead and shouted.
"Answer!!
The system of putting a perfect blade on my neck muscle.
I was staring at him without being slight.
The 'choice' here should be 'silence' is the right answer......
Believe me, I tie my mouth.
If Gear of History can't get through this, but if you want to kill me, just kill me.
But I believe it.
History is what people make. It's never been driven by a defined destiny.
The 'choice' taken by the Orthodox to prove it was a word, not a sword.
"The last word Tae-jung left me was, 'Be respectful to Tokugawa Jiayang. That's the only way to fulfill your wishes' or something!!
I opened my mouth quietly against the righteousness of spitting at me with a bright red face.
"I know Hatsutaro well. We saved his life ourselves. But I don't even know what he told your Lord."
That was true.
Because I left all the best steps to Yoshioka Apricot.
In the Toyotomi family, she knows the Otomo brother-in-law more than anyone else and resents him more than anyone else.
So I believe she can do much more effective things than I can do poorly.
And if I let her fail, it means I was packing any path I chose.
I believed it.
My instincts and about her.
I stare at him without breaking my strong attitude.
He, on the other hand, remains murderous all over his body.
But I could see that the cutting-edge tremor gradually grew larger.
He's fighting now.
With the presence of the Demon King nestled in his heart...
And he should be aware of it at last.
This is not a measure of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
He said it was a measure of the kun toss of Yoshioka Apricot, which is situated within the Toyotomi army...
How long has it been?
If you notice, the floor of the room was black and wet with sweat dripping from the entire body of the orthodox.
And he slowly shook his sword.
"This is my answer..."
- Bum!!
The dry sound of cutting air rings over my head.
I followed the sword line with my eyes open.
And...
- Zang!!
And that dull sound stuck.
I was staring at his' choice 'more than I was about myself.
And I jumped into that eye...
There was a sight of a knife piercing the "surrender."
"... don't get me wrong. I just don't obey anyone..."
And when he told him to throw up, he gave instructions out loud to the lowest name waiting outside the room.
"More than this, our army returns to the provincial castle!! Finally intercept the troops coming from Toyoko Street!!
He quickly took a knife and walked up to the front of him with a large crotch, opening up the momentum.
- Span!!
The dry noise reveals those who waited outside sitting side by side.
When he stopped in front of one of them, he asked looking down at the person.
"Are you satisfied with this?
That was Yoshioka Apricot.
She raised her head, which she was lowering, and told him with no expression when she looked up at him.
"You wouldn't even be satisfied or anything like that. Considering what you've done to the people of Yoshioka..."
The orthodox raised the corner of his mouth with a nigga.
"Right. If only."
And he left the scene.
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Celebrating 16 Years (1611) Early December 13th -
- Waaaaaa!!
A loud cry echoed over the land of Assou.
The Hoshikawa army has marched through Toyoko Street all night.
The reason they were unable to do so was the impatience that 'as it is, military merit will be exposed to all of Otomo's righteousness'.
And we arrived in Asu. No, it was the assault of the Great Friends who waited for them.
"Hey! I had a plan!
At the exit of the narrow street, the Great Friend Army surrounding the exit thoroughly slapped against the Hosokawa Army, which had to take a longitudinal formation.
"Anyway, get through the tiger mouth! All armies, push!
- Whoa!
With a slight temper, the Hoshikawa Army attempted a one-point breakthrough, but it was not easy to get through the Great Friend Army, which created a thick siege net.
On the other hand, Yoshio Otomo had a close view of the war situation in a slightly taller place called Rice Takayama.
On top of the number of soldiers, the Hoshikawa Army is 20,000, while the Great Friends Army is 30,000.
It should be advantageous because there are roughly 10,000 differences.
But he was already ready for 'death'.
Because I know myself well.
He has now lost Tae-jung, arguably the Great Black Pillar of the Otomo family.
And attacked the armies of Edo Shogun, who rule under the heavens.
If you want to add, Yoshio Otomo is a man who can't do anything without someone manipulating him.
How many odd people would stay with him like that and let's have the future together etc......
I hear the screams of the generals of the Hoshikawa army.
"If you choose to follow the dark lord who can't even see the times, or follow General Edo's house with us, now is the only time!!
I don't need to think about it.
Because the choices they're given are really easy.
As one Otomo's flag disappeared from the battlefield after another, the Kogawa army, which remained on Toyoko Street, continued into the foothills of Azu.
We do not know the exact number, but less than three thousand of the soldiers who were there would remain under their righteousness.
They must also be those who decided to be prepared to share their destiny with the 'Otomo family' rather than the 'Otomo lineage'.
- This is good. Many will not die in this...
And the moment the Hoshikawa army left Toyoko Street completely, the orthodox moved.
"Stiffen the streets!! Whoa!
And, when a powerful decree was issued, he rushed down the mountain at once to the entrance of Toyoko Street.
Those who followed their backs earlier are turning their spears on themselves in unison.
Betrayal, escape, ridicule......
Acts that I have repeated many times before.
The ugly parts of humans that emerge from those acts are reflected in the person in front of them, not in themselves.
In a situation where there was no longer but despair, he was the first to know 'man'.
For the first time, I knew the dignity and cruelty of deciding my future with my 'choice'.
That's why he was immersed in joy.
It's like being raw in this world and having a baby with a raised voice.
Three thousand Otomo soldiers blocked the eastern mouth of Toyoko Street so that the Hosokawa army could close the gap that was forming.
It was right after that.
Toyotomi troops appeared in unison as they lurked their breath beside Toyoko Street.
They rushed eastward through the streets at first sight.
"Don't let them get away with it!! Go after him! Go after him!!
An order flew like the thunderbolt of Tadahiro Hoshikawa.
At that moment, the army, which swelled up to roughly 40,000, was attacked by an army of great friends blocking the streets, as it was bounced.
- Dgowong!!
The clash of armor and armor echoes.
The number of soldiers guarding the system disappeared one after the other so that the sand spilled out of his hands, and he finally had to fight with the spear in his hand too.
He was remembering his past self while he was sticking his spear out diligently.
I was so obsessed with 'raw'.
I was so obsessed with the 'castle'.
I was so obsessed with "Daimyo".
And the self that was kept alive by 'someone'.
He still has something he's been piling up.
That was the struggling soldier in front of me and the territory of Toyoko country.
But what has piled up all over the mud of vanity and humiliation, in just one 'choice', is about to crush in an instant.
Life is funny.
He has no regrets or anything.
For the first time in his life he gained 'freedom' because he 'chose' to destroy everything with his own hands.
"What do you say!! Yes, no, no, no!! I want to!! This is my life. Ah!
Shout out loud to heaven.
But his words were just vain and sucked into the blue sky.
Finally no one around him......
And he 'chose'.
"Death."
But...
There was someone who wouldn't allow it.
"All right, hey!! Don't think it's so easy to die!!
A tall voice shook his heart violently.
It was Yoshioka Apricot.
"The center of gravity of this battle, Yoshioka Apricot, did capture it"