The tall Zhengyang Fort stands on Zhengyang Mountain, and it looks eerie against the winter sun.

The shooting holes on the circular fort are like the eyes of a wild wolf flickering in the dark night; The wooden gate, like the mouth of a giant beast covered with fangs, seems to open its mouth at any moment to swallow the prey in front of it.

Li Rusong led the team to the front of Zhengyang Mountain and signaled the team to stop at the foot of Zhengyang Mountain.

There was silence on the hillside.

Everyone looked up at Zhengyang Fort. I saw a flock of frightened birds and finches flying up from the corner tower in the southwest direction of Zhengyang Fort, and then quickly flew towards the mountains and forests to the south.

"General Li, the last time I visited Zhengyang Fort at night, I found that a large number of Japanese soldiers and weapons and equipment were hoarded in it, and this should be an important stronghold of the Japanese army in the city. The fort is in an excellent location, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Shi Lang said to Li Rusong.

"It seems that Governor Konishi doesn't believe that we will let him out of the city at all, and it is very likely that he is hiding here, hoping to make a final resistance with the help of Zhengyang Fort." Li Rusong analyzed.

"It seems that this man is suspicious and fickle, and a cunning man." Luo Shiyin said.

"It doesn't matter who he is, anyway, now that he is a turtle in an urn, I don't believe that he can fly with wings. Above! Li Rusong looked at Zhengyang Fort and waved his hand to send a team of infantry.

The soldiers received the order and marched towards Zhengyang Fort.

The soldiers held long knives and rattan signs, and they carefully touched the stone steps in front of Zhengyang Fort along the artificially hewn stone steps.

While the people at the scene watched with bated breath, the soldiers in the front row successfully arrived in front of the gate of Zhengyang Fort.

The two soldiers couldn't help but say something, and kicked their feet towards the wooden door. The wooden door was not locked, but only 'listened to the clang', and the two wooden doors were kicked open.

The soldiers subconsciously raised the rattan cards in their hands in front of them.

Sure enough, with the opening of the wooden door, only the sound of "whooshing" sounded, and dozens of Japanese arrows were shot from the wall facing the fort. Two Ming soldiers who were caught off guard were shot.

The soldiers bent down and hid behind the rattan plaques to prevent the enemy's second round of fire.

After waiting for a while, no arrows were fired.

The soldiers stood up and hugged each other into the door.

At this moment, a strange sound came from the basement of Zhengyang Fort, and the Ming soldiers at the scene obviously felt an unpleasant smell of burning, coming from the space below.

The soldiers who entered the fort did not dare to be careless, and each found a hiding place and hid his body.

Just when everyone was confused, a terrifying image appeared, only to see a herd of bulls with sharp knives tied to their horns, swarming up the steps from the basement to the first floor, and then rushing at the crowd in a rage.

I remember that when Shi Lang visited Zhengyang Fort at night, he once smelled an unpleasant smell in Zhengyang Fort. In fact, the stench was caused by the dung of the bulls in front of me who were kept in the basement. And this herd of bulls was raised by the Japanese people in the earthen fort to guard the earthen fort.

At that time, it was common for animals to be used in warfare. It seems that this herd of bulls was kept in the fort by the Wa people in case of emergency.

Before retreating, Konishi Yukinaga designed two traps in the earthen fort in order to maximize the damage to the enemy. The gate of the earthen fort acts as a switch for these mechanisms. As soon as the gate was opened, the mechanism inside the fort was immediately opened.

One mechanism is the arrows that have just been fired, and the other is these bulls that are rushing out. There is a connection between the gate and the basement, and once the door is opened, the mechanism on the other side of the line will be opened, and the entire basement will be lit with flames, and the bulls will flee in fright.

For these bulls that escaped, the Japanese people had stabs tied to their horns beforehand.

Dozens of bulls with sharp knives on their heads desperately rushed towards the gate. At this time, a large number of Ming soldiers were rushing towards the door.

In the face of the bulls that came out of the frenzy, the soldiers could not dodge and suffered heavy casualties.

The herd of cattle that rushed out of the gate of Zhengyang Fort went down the stone steps in front of the gate and rushed towards the large army of the Ming army stopped at the bottom of the mountain.

"Fuck! Where are the hellish mad cows! There was a commotion in the Ming army. Seeing a group of bulls with sharp knives attacking this side like a raging wind, a few timid Ming soldiers began to retreat.

Blood was dripping from the sharp knives on the bulls' horns, and a pair of blood-red bull's eyes stared at the group of Ming soldiers holding blades at the bottom of the mountain and blocking their escape path. In the minds of the bulls, they must make their way through the crowd in front of them in order to escape the flames burning behind them.

"Don't be afraid! Muskets are waiting! Li Rusong, who was watching the battle at the foot of the mountain, saw this situation and issued an order.

With Li Rusong's order, several rows of musketeers immediately lined up to raise their guns and shot dozens of bulls that rushed towards the large army from the stone steps one by one. Flying

"Damn, I didn't expect the Japanese children to come to such a hand!" Looking at the huge bull corpses lying on the stone steps in front of him, a Ming army general couldn't help but curse angrily.

"Simply skin and debone these bulls, and let the cooks stew in several large pots. We'll be able to have a good meal! Another general joked.

"This thief's captive thing, I'm afraid its meat won't taste good!" The general who had just scolded angrily replied.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense. It seems that there are no enemies in this Zhengyang Fort, go up and have a look. Li Rusong observed the movement above for a while, and saw that there was no sound of fighting coming from the castle, so he ordered.

Inside the basement of Zhengyang Fort. The flames had long since been extinguished, and the smoke had gradually cleared.

Li Rusong ordered his subordinates to carefully search every corner of Zhengyang Fort. As a result, except for some Japanese weapons and equipment, not a single soldier of the Japanese army was found in the entire earthen fort.

"My lord, I found a secret passage in the basement." Just when Li Rusong was a little disappointed that he had not been able to find the enemy, a soldier who participated in the search ran forward to report.

"Let's go, let's see." Li Rusong waved his hand and led the crowd to the basement. Luo Shiyin, Shi Lang and other team members, as well as Abbot Xiuneng, followed closely and went down to the basement one after another.

The basement is dimly lit, and the smell of cow dung and smoke is hard to breathe.

On the stone wall to the south of the basement, a wooden door that had been burned out of shape had been forcibly removed by the soldiers. A secret passage more than one person high appeared in front of everyone vaguely.

Judging from the remaining patterns on the surface of the wooden door, this wooden door was carefully camouflaged. The surface of the wooden door is painted in the same color as the surrounding stone walls. It seems that if it weren't for the fire ignited by the mechanism, which scorched and deformed the wooden door, this secret passage would have been difficult to detect in the dim light.

This is known as a hundred secrets.

Li Rusong did not dare to slack off, and sent a team of soldiers into the secret passage to search.

After a long time, some of the soldiers who entered the search returned to the fort one after another.

"Report to the general, this is a secret passage leading directly to Mt. Ishida outside the city, and I have ordered some of my men to be on guard at the exit of the passage. Also, this was found on a mountain rock at the exit. After returning to the fort, the leader of the group of soldiers who had been ordered to search the cave reported to Li Rusong and handed over a musical instrument in his hand to Li Rusong.

Li Rusong took the instrument and found that it was a pipa, "What kind of broken thing is this?" He raised his hand disdainfully to throw away the instrument in his hand.

"General, slow!" Seeing this, Xie Yuan, who was standing aside, asked Li Rusong for a request.

Although the light was dim, Xie Yuan still recognized at a glance that the instrument in front of him was commonly used by Liu Yingying, the pipa made of fragrant mahogany.

Xie Yuan almost snatched the pipa from Li Rusong's hand. The moment he embraced the pipa, Xie Yuan seemed to have returned to the wonderful moment with Liu Yingyingqing and me in the past, and he could clearly smell the body fragrance of Liu Yingying on the pipa.

"It looks like there's a word on it." Ye Ruliu, who was standing beside Xie Yuan, pointed to the pipa in Xie Yuan's hand and said.

Li Rusong ordered one of his subordinates to fetch a fire candle. In the faint candlelight, on the pear-shaped planes on both sides of the pipa strings, a few lines of crimson script were clearly written: "I was forced to retreat with my father to Wangjing. Love you forever! Yingying. ”

Two lines of hot tears flowed from Xie Yuan's eyes. He recognized Liu Yingying's font, and he knew that it was his beloved Yingying biting her finger and using her blood to give him a message!

"...... this pipa and you?" Seeing Xie Yuan holding the pipa in his arms, Li Rusong asked with some puzzlement.

Xie Yuan tried his best to calm down his emotions and explained to Li Rusong the relationship between Liu Yingying, the owner of this instrument, and Konishi Yuki.

"It seems that Governor Konishi escaped from the secret passage and retreated to Wangjing." After listening to Xie Yuan's explanation, Luo Shiyin analyzed.

Just half an hour ago, Liu Yingying was carried into the secret passage by two Japanese ninjas in a daze. Walking in the secret passage, slowly, her mind gradually cleared up. She wanted to break free, but the two Japanese ninjas held her to the death, making it difficult for her to get out.

At the exit of the secret passage, she lied that she had to relieve herself so that she could get out of the way behind a rock. She wanted to take this opportunity to escape, but Izumo Kumi stood not far from her, staring at where she was, and she couldn't escape at all.

In a hurry, Liu Yingying bit her finger and wrote a message to Xie Yuan on the beloved pipa she was carrying, and then put the pipa on the rock.

Although Liu Yingying was not sure whether this pipa could be seen by her beloved, in the current situation, she could only do this.

"It seems that Governor Konishi had expected that we would set up an ambush outside the castle to ambush them. So I kept a hand. I have long heard that the Japanese people are good at using earthen forts and secret passages to fight in Pyongyang, and this is indeed the case. After listening to Luo Shiyin's analysis, Li Rusong said to himself.

"Are we going to send troops after Yukicho Konishi?" Luo Shiyin asked tentatively.

"They shouldn't have gone far. Can't let him go easily! Don't hesitate, you can't let Yukicho Konishi escape! Li Rusong immediately decided to send troops to pursue.

After a brief discussion, Li Rusong and Luo Shiyin decided to form a joint force composed of 2,000 elite soldiers led by Luo Shiyin, Shi Lang and other small detachments and staff general Luo Shangzhi.