After coming out of the bamboo forest, there is a relatively flat valley in front of you.

Mieko Kato did not dare to slack off, and as the team marched, she repeatedly reminded her subordinates to be vigilant.

More than two dozen Japanese ninjas and the six samurai who were personally guarding the two Korean princes cautiously passed through the not too long valley and came to the Luxi River on the north side of the valley.

The Luxi River in summer is a busy scene. The wide river is full of fishing boats casting nets, and with merchant ships passing from north to south, the whole river is a busy scene.

In order to safely deliver the two Korean princes to the hands of the North Korean responders on the north bank of the Luxi River, the Japanese specially transferred a small warship with 20 naval soldiers to wait on the south bank of the Luxi River.

Seeing that Mieko Kato led his men to the shore, the soldiers on the warship hurriedly lowered the wooden ladder and let the two Korean princes and their accompanying escorts board the warship.

"Escort the two princes down to the cabin." After boarding the ship, Mieko Kato commanded his men.

Six samurai immediately descended into the cabin with the two princes in their arms.

Mieko Kato had allowed the two princes into the cabin because she had observed that there were too many fishing boats and merchant ships on the Luxi River, and that if the Assassins were to get involved, the people on the ship would be extremely vulnerable.

As soon as the warship of the Japanese people left the riverbank, Shi Lang and Ye Ruliu rushed to the shore, and the two of them mixed in the crowd, boarded a merchant ship that was about to sail to the north bank, and followed the warship of the Japanese at a certain distance, paying close attention to everything on the warship.

At this time, it was almost noon, and the surface of the Luxi River was sparkling. On the wide water, in addition to a few merchant ships busily shuttling back and forth, there are dozens of fishing boats of all sizes fishing and casting nets.

The warship of the Japanese Kingdom that Mieko Kato was riding belonged to the smallest of the Japanese naval army. Of the twenty sailors on board, ten were responsible for rowing, and the other ten stood on the deck of the boat, armed with spears, and were responsible for guarding.

Seeing that it was the warships of the Japanese people passing through, the fishing boats and merchant ships on the river avoided one after another.

Ten sailors rowed together, and the warship headed at full speed towards the north bank of the Luxi River.

Mieko Kato stood on the bow of the boat, closely observing the movement on the river. Takebayashi was in distress, and Mieko Kato vaguely felt that there seemed to be an inexplicable threat waiting for her team on this calm river.

If there were still Assassins, whose plan to assassinate the prince in the bamboo grove had not succeeded, and since they had taken no action in the valley, the assassination of the wide river would have been the last chance for the Assassins to do so.

In fact, after the bamboo forest was hit hard, Mieko Kato could have sent someone back to the city to ask for reinforcements, but after a short ideological struggle, she decided to lead her remaining subordinates to complete this escort mission.

At this time, in addition to the twenty sailor soldiers, there were more than 20 ninjas and six samurai, including Mieko Kato.

When the boat reached the center of the river, Mieko Kato had already seen from a distance the team on the north bank of the Luxi River that was waiting for the two princes, and the team sent by the North Korean side to greet them. Looking at this North Korean greeting team of several hundred people, Mieko Kato seemed to see that the moment of completing the task was in front of her.

"As long as the two princes are handed over to the Koreans, their task will be completed. The two princes were safe. There are various indications that the purpose of the assassination was to sabotage the peace and negotiations between the Ming and the Japanese.

Once the two princes were handed over to the Koreans, the Wa side was tantamount to fulfilling the agreed obligations of the peace agreement. At this point, there was no point in the Assassins assassinating the two princes again. Mieko Kato watched the river closely as she analyzed the situation in front of her.

"Knock, knock, knock......"

Just as Mieko Kato was standing on the surface of the boat observing and thinking, she suddenly felt a strange sound coming from the bottom of the hull. Immediately afterward, the two samurai who were in charge of guarding the prince climbed up from the bed compartment in a panic and reported to Mieko Kato: "There are people scuttling the boat underwater!" ”

"Go down and have a look!" Mieko Kato ordered the ten sailors on the ship.

When the 20 sailors on board were sent from Busan Po to the Luxi River to escort the Korean princes, their superiors ordered them to obey the command of the two princes in all actions after arriving at the Luxi River. When they heard Mieko Kato's order, they immediately threw away the spears in their hands, each holding a short dagger in their hands, and jumped into the water one after another, diving to the bottom.

The sound of the shipwreck remains.

Mieko Kato bowed over and looked at the river, while anxiously urging the rowing soldiers to speed up rowing.

After about five minutes, a stream of blood suddenly surged on the surface of the water under the boat, and then corpses emerged from the bottom of the water.

Mieko Kato leaned over to look at the corpses of the ten sailor soldiers who had just gone underwater.

"You, you, you, go down and see!" Mieko Kato pointed to the ten ninjas beside her and ordered.

Ten ninjas jumped into the river with sharp blades in their mouths.

As the ten ninjas dived into the water one after another, streams of crimson blood continued to emerge from the surface of the river. In the red-stained water, corpses kept coming to the surface. Some of these bodies were the bodies of ninjas who had just been sent underwater by Mieko Kato, and some were the bodies of unknown people wearing ninja wetsuits.

Seeing everything on the water, Mieko Kato, who was standing on the boat, clearly felt: At this time, under the water under the hull, a brutal hand-to-hand combat was going on.

After a while, the sound of the shipwreck finally stopped.

Mieko Kato thought that her subordinates had ruled out the danger underwater, so she breathed a sigh of relief. But the next scene shocked Mieko Kato's eyes widened suddenly. I saw the two princes hiding in the cabin crawling out of the cabin in a panic with the help of several samurai. Their clothes were all wet.

"The cabin is flooded!" A samurai reported in a loud voice to Mieko Kato.

"Hurry up and find a way to block it!" Mieko Kato shouted anxiously.

"No, I can't. The chisel is too big to be plugged at all. ”

"A bunch of rubbish!" Mieko Kato was so angry that she didn't know what to do for a while.

"Help. We don't know how to water! Standing on the surface of the ship, Lin Haijun looked at the water and pleaded with the Japanese people on the boat.

There was a gurgling sound from the cabin, and the hull of the ship was gradually sinking. The people on board were all panicked.

Just when the people on the warship were panicking, five fishing boats quickly sailed on the river around the warship, and they quickly approached the warship from different directions.

"Hold the two princes in the middle. Get ready for battle! Mieko Kato felt an inexplicable murderous aura in the eyes of the five people on the fishing boats who were approaching quickly.

I saw two people rowing together on each fishing boat. Five fishing boats in an instant

Came to the water about ten meters away from the warship.

Almost at the same time, the men of the five fishing boats stopped rowing, quickly took out the iron cannons (single-shot bird guns) prepared in advance from the boats, and raised their guns to shoot at the men on the boat.

With ten gunshots, seven or eight ninjas on board were shot and killed, and their bodies fell into the water.

After firing the projectile, the ten men on the fishing boat immediately threw away the iron cannon and rowed the fishing boat towards the warship again.

At the moment when the fishing boat was about to crash into the warship, the people on the five fishing boats cast five huge nets and densely covered the people on the warboat.

Some of the ninjas and sailors were covered in fishing nets, and it was difficult to get out for a while.

Taking advantage of the chaos on the ship, the ten assassins on the fishing boat leapt from their respective boats, each wielding a glittering ninja knife in their hands.

"Destroy them!" Mieko Kato let out a shout and slashed at an assassin.

The ninjas, samurai, and sailors on the ship, who were responsible for guarding the prince, quickly recovered from the chaos of the previous moment, and each brandished their weapons to fight the ten assassins who rushed to the warship.

For a while, on the battleship that was about to sink into the water, the sword flashed and the sound of killing was bursting. With screams, people kept falling into the water.

At this time, Shi Lang and Ye Ruliu were on a merchant ship not far from the warship. The captain of the merchant ship was frightened by the battle on the warships of the Japanese kingdom, and hurriedly rowed his ship to the water away from the warship.

The ten Assassins besieging the ship did not seem to be an idle man, and although they were not superior in numbers, they were not at all inferior in the confrontation with the men who guarded the prince on the ship, and even had a slight advantage.

After some fighting, only four samurai and Mieko Kato, who was wounded by a sword, were left to protect the prince on the warship. On the side of the Assassins, there were six more. By this time, the warship was already heavily tilted and was about to sink into the water.

Mieko Kato led four samurai to slowly retreat to the bow of the ship, protecting the two princes tightly behind them.

Six Assassins armed with sharp blades pressed in on each step.

Seeing that the two princes were in danger, Shi Lang immediately ordered the captain of the merchant ship where he was located: "Pull over the ship!" ”

"That's dangerous! No, no! The captain of the ship resolutely refused.

Shi Lang winked at Ye Ruliu. Ye Ruliu comprehended, rushed to the boat boss's side, grabbed the boat boss's throat with one hand, and said, "Hurry up and lean over, otherwise, I will throw you into the river." ”

"This, this, this ......" The ship's boss was hesitant and difficult to decide.

"The past was too dangerous. Are you not asking for hardship? ”

"That's right, isn't it looking for death when this time passes?"

“……”

The other passengers on the ship were gossiping to persuade Shi Lang and Ye Ruliu.

"Did you see that? The two young men dressed in white on that ship are your two princes. They are in danger of being assassinated by the Japanese people. Do you watch your prince being slain by the Japanese people? Shi Lang angrily scolded the people on the boat.

"Really?" The boat boss was a little unconvinced.

"Do you think I'm telling a lie? Stop talking nonsense and get the boat over or I'll kill you! Shi Lang was a little impatient.

The captain of the ship was forced to row the boat towards the warship.