A few days later, a very legendary day in the history of the Yamata Kingdom arrived.
On this day, Kikukawa Yukinari, the most famous shogun in the history of the Yaqi Kingdom, collaborated with his right-hand assistant, the mysterious visitor from Roland Continent, "Blood Fox" Nidis, "Sinful Star" Sith, and "Lone Wolf" "Rody began his adventure in Kyoto together.
According to the research of many scholars in later generations, the origins of these three mysterious visitors have always been controversial. Because it was later revealed by General Kikukawa Yukinari that these three strong men came from the famous "Dark Mercenary" organization in the Roland Continent, and the beautiful "Blood Fox" Nidis once said personally that the "Dark Mercenary" used There are countless masters, and their influence spreads across the two continents of Roland and Guangming. It can be regarded as a huge force in the underground world.
However, countless scholars of later generations have studied almost to the point of losing their hair, and they have not been able to find out what this "dark mercenary" is...
At this moment, Nidis was sitting in the carriage, dozing off. She consciously leaned on the soft velvet backrest, but her head was already tilted on Roddy's shoulder. The expression on her face was like a lazy kitten. Like a child - "Blood Fox" Nidis at this moment never thought that her nonsense words would leave such a difficult problem for the scholars of later generations...
Rody had already lifted the curtains hanging on the car window. Looking from a distance, after several days of traveling, Kyoto of the Yamata Kingdom was already in front of him.
The architectural style of this city is obviously similar to Kawato City, except that the city walls are taller. The buildings on the roadside are basically still low-rise buildings. It's just that there seem to be more troops coming and going, and groups of fully armed troops are walking south.
The road leading to Kyoto is actually very wide. The road is not covered with the most famous ironwood in the island country, but with a lot of effort to plant a group of willow trees that look very sentimental.
At this moment, under the breeze, the willow trees and the soldiers' armor and horses complement each other. It does show a bit of iron-blooded tenderness.
"It seems that the war in the south is quite tense." Siss sat opposite Rody and looked out the window, unable to help but whisper.
Rody smiled slightly and nodded. It seems that the king's army in the south must have put a lot of pressure on the dwarves.
All the way into Kyoto City, Roddy discovered that Kyoto actually has two walls, the inner city and the outer city! After entering the outer city wall, most of the people living here are civilian merchants. The street looked a little messy and chaotic.
The inner city wall is a bit taller than the outer city wall. There are a group of fully armored warriors standing on it. These warriors wear a very strange double-horned helmet and have a long and narrow samurai sword hanging on their waist. Seems quite martial.
Kikukawa Yukinari was now a little more awake. Although he was a little tired from the journey, now that he had returned to Kyoto, he immediately cheered up and introduced Roddy and others.
Most of the residents in the inner city are wealthy and well-established people. The streets are also much wider than those in the outer city. People coming and going on the street are often invisible to the hustle and bustle. People walked with their heads bowed and their expressions serious. And there were even more cars and horses passing by.
"The name of the road we are walking on now is called 'Sakura Road'. On the left side of the road are the territories of the officers, generals and retainers of my father's shogunate, while on the right side are the areas of influence belonging to the royal family and nobles." Kikukawa Yukinari smiled and said: "And if you continue on this road, you can see the big mountain in the distance..." Kikukawa Yukinari's tone gradually became serious: "That is the highest mountain of our Yamata Kingdom, the Holy Mountain!" Folks also call it the Mountain of Prosperity. This is the racial symbol of our Baqi people. You can see the snow-capped peaks from a distance, but this is a sacred mountain. Every few decades, it will appear from the mountain pass! Breath out fire!"
Roddy's heart moved... Hmm. A mountain spewing fire? Wouldn't it be like the "volcano" described in the "Sunflower Book" left by Master Dandong
Nidis sighed. She seemed to have known this for a long time. There was actually a look of fascination on her face. She suddenly smiled and said: "This mountain seems to be a forbidden area for the royal family. Outsiders cannot enter. I really want to go in and take a look." See what such a magical place looks like."
Sisi also showed some fascination, but sighed: "Can it breathe fire? So Kyoto is so close to it, and how did it come here after so many years?"
"Well, in fact, this mountain has been enclosed as the land of the royal family. And the palace where our royal family lives is at the foot of the mountain! Although this mountain will erupt with flames every hundred years, there is still a more than ten miles radius at the foot of the mountain. Big lake! In history, every time the sacred mountain erupted in flames, a large sea of fire would flow down from the mountain pass, but when it reached the lake at the foot of the mountain, it would be blocked, so it would not endanger Kyoto in the distance. The castle and the palace at the foot of the mountain." Kikukawa Yukinari said with a smile: "The last eruption of the sacred mountain was fifty years ago, so there is no need to worry about it for the time being... Well, if the three of you are interested there, we might as well go see it together some other time. Look, although the sacred mountain is the territory of the royal family and you can't enter it, you can still get close to the lake at the foot of the mountain. "
Rody lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly said: "You said this mountain can spit out fire, so you must think that every time it spits out fire, the earth must tremble?"
Kikukawa Yukinari let out a "yi" and said in surprise: "How did Mr. Roddy know that? When this sacred mountain spits out fire, the earth will indeed tremble. That must be the reason for the anger of the gods, but we are the only ones who do this. Only the dwarves know, where did you learn about it?”
Rody shook his head and did not answer. He just stared at the tall mountain peaks in the distance, seemingly in a trance.
Suddenly, he heard the buzzing bells coming from outside. Kikukawa Yukinari raised his eyebrows and said loudly: "This is my father giving orders to the ministers to discuss matters. We just happened to go to the shogunate first. I will go to Sichuan this time." Please report the matter to your father.”
After speaking, he looked at the three people with questioning eyes.
Nidis smiled slightly and said: "Master Kikukawa, don't worry, we will go with you. As long as you pretend that nothing happened, follow what we discussed on the way, and we will naturally help you secretly. "
Kikukawa Yukinari showed a bit of joy on his face and nodded vigorously.
The shogunate is on the left side of the "Sakura Road" road, which is a bit different from what Rody imagined.
It turned out that in his imagination, the core location of the highest power of the Yaqi Kingdom should be a huge, splendid and heavily guarded building. But when I really got here, I found that it was just a large area of low-rise houses.
The outer perimeter of the wall was surrounded by rows of lush trees. Except for a few warrior guards at the door, there were no soldiers patrolling back and forth.
Seeing that the gate's architectural shape is extremely simple and elegant, it doesn't look like a general's residence at all, but more like a scholar's library.
The few warriors who had just collected Fengcheng Hideyoshi outside had already stopped the carriage and stood on both sides. Fengcheng Hideyoshi was also a little nervous. He opened the door and helped the people in the car to get out one by one. When the samurai at the door saw it was Kikukawa Yukinari's carriage, someone immediately ran in to report it, and other people also came out to greet him and stood on both sides.
Kikukawa Yukinari returned to his territory, with a somewhat arrogant expression on his face. Just as he was about to say something loudly, he heard bursts of rapid horse hooves coming from the road behind him. Seven or eight war horses came from the street like a whirlwind. The horse swept forward, and galloped not far from Kikukawa Yukinari, and suddenly stopped. The knight's equestrian skills were extremely skillful. Although the horse stopped under the rapid galloping, the horse still stood up and neighed, but the knight on the horse But his posture was calm, and his face was calm and sturdy.
Kikukawa Yukinari, who was not far away, saw the galloping horse approaching him, with a look of fear on his face.
The knight on the horse showed a disdainful smile, turned over and jumped off the horse. Standing in front of Kikukawa Yukinari, he said calmly: "Yukinari, are you back?"
Roddy then took a closer look at the guy in front of him.
This man is taller than the average dwarves, and his figure is quite stout. He wears a warrior uniform made of coarse cloth. The coarse cloth not only does not reveal the slightest bit of vulgarity on his body, but instead makes him more powerful. Come with a fierce look! He looked like he was in his thirties, with long hair tied high in a high braid like a dwarf warrior's hairstyle. His face had sharp edges, especially his eyes that showed a bit of brilliance.
Could this be the other son of the old General Kikukawa, Koichi Kikukawa
Roddy and others did not know Kikukawa Koichi and were hesitating whether to go up and give a pretentious salute. The young warrior had already glanced at Rody and the other three. When he saw Nidis, his eyes showed a bit of aggression. He looked at Nidis up and down unscrupulously, and even He couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick his lips. When he saw Roddy, a gleam flashed in his eyes. He looked back at Kikukawa Yukinari and said with a deep smile: "It seems that Yukinari has recruited some experts when he comes back this time!"
There was suppressed anger in Kikukawa Yukinari's eyes, but he still replied calmly: "Nobunaga is joking, these are my new generals."
Then he glanced at Roddy and the others, and Kikukawa Yukinari said solemnly: "This is the number one general under my father in the shogunate, Lord Oda Nobunaga, the 'Thousand Rider General'!"