It was noon when Nasuziki arrived in Tianan, and the warriors in the city were busy. According to Changzheng's instructions, the army must be rectified before the evening. Once dinner was used, they would burn Tianan and the army retreated to Qingzhou in the dark.

Ziji's arrival obviously caused Changzheng's plan to abort. Especially when he saw Xiubao's personal letter, Changzheng understood that it might be difficult for his 3,000-man army to return to Qingzhou.

"The current situation has been written in detail in the letter. I hope that Jia Fei guard will lead his troops to go north with his foreign ministers and work with my lord to rescue His Highness Xiuyuan." Due to the day and night, Ziji was also very tired and was sweating profusely waiting for Changzheng's response.

"Please go back and tell His Highness the Secretariat to reassure him that I, Changzheng, will rectify my troops and set out to Chenghuan tonight. If nothing unexpected happens, I will be able to meet with him tomorrow evening." Changzheng replied with a swearing voice.

After receiving this answer, Ziji nodded with satisfaction and said gratefully: "Jia Fei Shouzhen is the mainstay. With you taking action, we will definitely defeat the Ming army and rescue His Highness Xiuyuan." After that, Ziji bowed to Changzhengxing for a bow, and then got up and left the hall, and returned to Chenghuanli with a quick horse.

Looking at the back of Shikiki's departure, Goto Kiji, who was beside Changzheng, bowed and said, "Since the military situation is urgent, I will continue to give the soldiers a meal earlier and can set off in the afternoon. If it goes well, I will arrive in Chenghuanli early tomorrow morning."

"Don't hurry, wait a little longer." Changzheng changed his serious expression, closed his eyes slightly, and said softly: "Give the orders and let the soldiers continue to clean up, without having to rush, as slow as possible, as it can be. Even if you set off tomorrow morning, it will be fine."

"Lord!" Goto Kiji understood what Nagamasa meant, but he didn't want to believe it, but instead advised in surprise: "If you set out early tomorrow morning, won't you be able to arrive in Chenghuanli the next day? When the Supreme Master blames you, I'm afraid..."

"Master Houtou's talent, you won't understand what your lord mean, right?" Before Yuiwei finished speaking, Suga Masato, who was standing beside him, interrupted him. If in the past, Masato Yuiwei, who had the title of "Kuroda Double Wall" and "Kuroda Eight Tiger", Masato Yuiwei could not speak at all, but now it's different. Relying on Nagamasa's favor, this general who had just celebrated his 30th birthday was ready to take this opportunity to challenge Yuiwei's status.

Zhengli took the letter from Changzheng and read aloud in front of Kichi. When he read "Twenty thousand Ming troops conquered Yuanzhou, Tichuan, Zhongzhou, and surrounded Xiuyuan in Fengyang", he looked at Kichi and pretended to be respectful and asked: "The Ming troops were 20,000, and Zhongnayan was only 3,000. The Ming troops were as strong as rainbows, and Zhongnayan was surrounded by enemies. Faced with this situation, even if the lord led three thousand troops to support, what impact would it have on the battle situation?"

"As a samurai, loyalty is the first priority. How can you think that you are greedy for life and fear death and abandon the sanctification that has been sticking to this day?" Kiji argued with reason and tried to impress Nagamasa with the spirit of Bushido: "Didn't the Mabashi Minomo who knew it was impossible to do it and gave up his life for loyalty and righteousness? Such a hero would always live in the hearts of thousands of samurai even if he died."

"On the contrary," Kiji glared at Masatori and said angrily: "If you are greedy for life and fear of death, and abandon your loyalty and righteousness, even if you enjoy all your wealth and glory, you will be despised after death and will never be able to turn over."

"Gotou Kichi!" Masatori was about to curse, but was stopped by Changzheng. He stood up and stared at Kichi coldly. After a long time, he suddenly raised his hand and slapped Kichi in the face, blushing and scolded: "Bastard, Bingwei, are you cursing me? What a courage, what do you think you are? If I hadn't exiled you for my father's sake, how could you let you be here? I'm not Nobuharu of the Machang, so I wouldn't trade my life for any righteousness. If I can't stand it, please take your people to Fengyang to block the second master's eyes and achieve your righteousness!"

"Lord!" Kiji suddenly knelt down on the ground, looked up at Changzheng with red eyes, and said with his lips squirming: "This is all for the reputation of our family, you must not be deceived by villains!"

"Get out!" Changzheng kicked Kiji over with one kick, and roared with his teeth and claws: "I have had enough of you. I always say that I think about my family. If I die in a foreign country, can you monopolize the power? Get out, take your people away. From now on, you Goto Youwei will no longer be a retainer of my Kuroda family, and I Changzheng will no longer be your lord. We will be so kind and righteous!"

"Lord!" Kiji got up, kowtowed and begged: "Kiji is not a pity to die, but if the villain is not eliminated for a day, the Kuroda family will not be at peace for a day!"

"I think you are a villain!" Changzheng turned his back and shouted at the warrior outside the door: "Come on, drag this person out for me. From now on, he will no longer be a retainer of his family. If anyone dares to object, expel them together!"

The two samurai looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't dare to come forward and put Kichi out of the main hall. After all, they were old ministers of our family. How could they drive them away? Besides, this might be the anger of Nagamasa. After a few days, they would take Kichi back. At that time, wouldn't they be the blame? Thinking of this, the two samurai bowed their heads and said nothing, but Suga Masatori was still chattering and insulting Kichi without hesitation, and praised Changmasa's "wise decision".

"Enough," Kiji suddenly roared, then stood up, walked slowly to Zhengli, and said coldly: "A gentleman is open and honest, the villain is always close. I Kiji is devoted to my husband and have a clear conscience. You are so aggressive and have a full face of villain. With someone like you to assist your lord, the Kuroda family will have many disasters. Don't worry, I will not be able to stay in this family for a long time. If the old lord hadn't tried to keep it, I wouldn't have stayed until today. The lord insists on believing in the villain, then there will be no value here. Since that's the case, Kiji will leave now, and I hope the lord and the old lord will take care of it."

After saying that, Kichi walked out of the hall without looking back, leading the 300 warriors who were willing to follow him to leave Tianan and gallop towards Cheng Huan.

"Lord, please send someone to capture Youjian. If you let him go to Chenghuan, it may be unfavorable to my family." Although Zhengli wanted to squeeze Kiji out of the group of retainers, he was also afraid that he would inform Hideopo about Changzheng's plan. Once Hideopo learned the truth, the Kuroda family would not be far from Gaiyi.
Chapter completed!