In Goryeo in the second lunar month, the night wind is still like a knife. But under the blessing of internal force, I didn't feel embarrassed, got off the boat and landed ashore, took dozens of war horses from the receiving troops left by Li Rusong, wrapped the horses' hooves in thick cotton cloth, and put chews on the horses' mouths, and I took the miniature team all the way to the north and went straight to Wangjing.

This road is really not peaceful, since the last war, Shibata Katsuya has greatly strengthened the vigilance in the surrounding area, and there is an endless stream of horse teams to reconnoiter back and forth, as well as various bright posts and secret posts, it is indeed not easy to sneak in.

Forty miles south of the city, we dismounted en masse, leaving five men to guard the horses, while the others quietly sneaked with me to Wangjing on foot.

In the darkness of the night, I ran at a constant speed, thirty miles, fifteen kilometers, and it took at least an hour and a half to reach it in its entirety. This also takes into account the time to bypass the sentry post, and the calculation should be said to be relatively generous.

In order to ensure smooth breathing, I have been using a breathing rate of three steps and one exhale, three steps and one inhalation, so that my heart rate is highly consistent with my breathing and cadence stride. At this speed, I can run a few dozen kilometers.

Under the guidance of the ink in front, our hiking journey was smooth, until we approached the five miles of Wangjing City, and suddenly encountered some small situations!

I was running, and suddenly I saw Mo in front of me make a stop gesture, and I quickly got down on one knee without hesitation, hiding my body behind a nearby tree.

What's wrong? I gestured and asked Ink.

Mo quickly replied to me with a gesture: there is a continuous dark whistle ahead, there is no gap, and it is impossible to sneak in!

Oh! Shibata Katsuya is so cautious? It's not like his style. But since it had already appeared, it had to be faced, I adjusted my breath, crawled down gently, crawled forward like a four-legged snake against the ground, and in a few moments I reached Mo's side.

"Look, sir, there, there, there, there are three sentry posts at close range. This way of setting up a card is called a mandarin duck buckle, which is a series of dark whistles, and the next one will definitely be found. "The sound of ink is like a yin wind, faintly reaching my ears.

I patrolled left and right, and sure enough, as Mo said, this dark whistle was very exquisitely set up. Like stitches sewing clothes, they are nested together in pairs, forming a dense web of dark whistles.

I looked at the figures moving in those checkpoints, and asked Mo in a low voice, "Is there a way to break it?" ”

Mo thought for a moment before replying, "This kind of sentry setting is the specialty of the Mist Shadow Clan, and it seems that there are other ninja teams in the city as well. After thinking for a while, he continued: "There is no way, but the failure rate is very high, and I am afraid it will not work." ”

The failure rate is high, so forget it, our actions cannot afford to fail, and that's the only reason I'm here in person.

So, I let everyone lurk, and the people in black clothes hide in the dark shadows in the dark, which can be regarded as absolutely safe, and I also believe in the strength of these special combat personnel, so I can look for countermeasures with peace of mind without worrying about a fire in the backyard behind me.

This is two hours, and according to modern time, it is already about one o'clock in the morning. And I basically grasped the law of changing the guard of these mandarin duck buckles and secret whistles, so I gently patted Mo's back, and he immediately understood and approached me.

"These guys change their guards every half hour, and the team that takes over them all descends from the south gate, passes the wooden bridge over the creek, and scatters to change the guards." As I spoke, I pointed to a small bridge 100 meters ahead, where the enemy had parted ways to change the guard after leaving the city.

Mo nodded, still a little confused about what I was trying to do.

I smiled lightly in the dark night, pointed to the small bridge to the position in front of me, and gently gestured: "We are the farthest from the small bridge, and the people who come here to change the guard are the farthest from the south gate, and they are also the last few people to pass." So, the only way we can crack this sentry is to swim underwater under the bridge, and when the last few people pass, we will take it down and replace their people to change the guard here! ”

Mo's eyes lit up, staring at the position of the small bridge and thinking about my thoughts. Indeed, in the case of mandarin duck buckles, it is impossible to attack, and the only flaw may be in the gap of a few tens of meters in the changing of the guard!

"Sir, I think it's feasible, the only problem is that tonight's password is not yet known." Mo's face is full of mixed feelings and sorrows, and there is hope, but he has encountered the biggest obstacle that no one will be happy to face.

"I'll leave this to me! Mr. I turned around, it was the nine ghosts Zhengxiao who was speaking: "I have been observing for a long time, there is a ridge over there that just goes straight to the other party's close range of mandarin duck buckles, I will go over and listen, and the next change of guard can realize your idea!" ”

My heart was suddenly overjoyed, and I looked at the fingers of the Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao, and sure enough, there was a long ridge lying between the enemy and me, and the ridge was more than thirty centimeters high, and it was completely feasible to hide it from being discovered if it was creeping in a low posture!

"Be careful!" I said to the Nine Ghost Politics: "In case it is exposed, don't run back without any scruples, I will let the hot people cover you!" ”

The Nine Ghosts Masataka showed a touched look, and I continued: "It doesn't matter if the mission fails, the success or failure gains or losses, the most important thing is that people are okay." ”

The Nine Ghosts didn't say much, nodded heavily, and jumped up like a spirit monkey, took a few steps forward, and hid behind the big tree to look up to the sky to observe.

I knew that he was waiting for an opportunity, after all, there was still a distance of about three meters from the woods where we were hiding to the ridges, and this short three meters could be the key to victory!

There were many floating clouds in the sky, but they were relatively sparse, and it took about ten minutes for a southerly wind to slowly blow a cloud towards the moon.

I held my breath and stared at the movements of the Nine Ghosts Masataka, only to see him catapult out like a flying squirrel flat against the ground, and the moment when the clouds overhead covered the moonlight, silently but also extremely quickly bounced into the expected shadow of the field!

With a long breath and a slow adjustment of breathing, I saw that the Nine Ghosts Masataka was like a winding water snake, walking on the ground covered with dry straw, and in a moment I arrived at the side of the nearest mandarin duck buckle, and the distance between the two sides was only five meters, which was definitely a distance that could be heard by breath.

The next thing is to wait. About half an hour later, several teams of men and horses came down the rope outside the south gate, and sneaked towards several sentry posts one after another, presumably the sentries who came to change the guard.

My heart couldn't help but lift up - the position of the Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao lying on his stomach was only on the ridges on both sides, and if those sentinels who took over the guard passed by, they might find flaws, which was a link we had neglected before!

By the light of the moon, I saw that the Nine Ghosts Masataka retreated half a meter again, hiding himself deeper into the dark shadow of the ridge. Presumably, he also noticed something wrong and made adjustments in time.

When the group of people passed by the side of the Nine Ghosts and came to the corresponding sentry post to start changing the guard, my heart was completely relaxed.

Oh yes, this is a game! A wave has not settled, and another wave has risen. This spy war is really not something that people do, it's too brain-intensive!

After the change of guard was completed, the laid-off sentries returned the same way, and after about ten minutes, the nine ghosts and Zhengxiao quietly retreated, and climbed for another ten minutes at a distance of just a few tens of meters, and waited for five minutes for the clouds, and when they came back, it was nearly half an hour later.

"Sir, the password is Izumo - Akoku." The voice of the Nine Ghosts was full of joy.

Izumo Akuni? This name is thunderous, she is the first female Kabuki of the Warring States period of Toei, and she is also a shrine maiden of Izumo Taisha.

I didn't expect Shibata Katsuie's subordinates to think of such a password, if I hadn't heard it with my own ears, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to crack this password even if I wanted to break my head.

Now that the password is in hand, we need to act quickly. It dawns early in Goryeo, even in winter and spring, and it will be bright at six o'clock at the latest, so we have to finish everything by five o'clock, which means that we only have about three hours left to solve the problem.

It has been observed that the number of people who came here to change the guard is six, and they are all dressed in black and covering their faces, which we are completely in line with. Pick out the best five ninjas, led by Ink, and our assault team will soon be on standby.

The current temperature is around minus 10 degrees, and the water is only getting colder. As you can imagine, although the running water does not freeze, the piercing bones in it must be unbearable.

However, the existence of ninjas is to endure the pain and pain that ordinary people cannot endure, which is the origin of the ninja's real name.

Mo gave the order after I gave the order, and the five ninjas changed into water with him, and entered the water from the stream that meandered through the woods, all the way upstream, and when they showed up again, they were already in the shadows under the small bridge.

This night, my careful liver is like fifteen buckets of water, seven up and eight down, and this blood pressure must be up and down. If I want to say that I have to thank my buddy, I have also practiced, otherwise it would be a bad night and not have problems such as high blood pressure and cerebral infarction.

The six of them took off the water in the dark, folded it into squares and put it on the water, and the water that was not very dense floated on the surface of the water and went downstream, and our own personnel went to the stream to take it back without mentioning it.

In the darkness, I watched from afar, like a cheetah before a hunt, hiding deep in the shadows on the south side of the bridge, which was the only way for the enemy to change the guard, because of the mixed trees, and it was also the best place to ambush.

Time is a thing, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Just like now, before the enemy changing of the guard came, I was anxious why they hadn't come yet! But if they really came, I hoped that they would walk slower, so that they would have more time to prepare!

However, the world is material and does not depend on human will. When the short road was finally finished, the six people who had seen the changing of the guard had already arrived in front of the ink group, and my heart couldn't help but raise my throat again, and my eyes were open to the maximum, looking in the direction of ink without blinking.

In the darkness, I saw a few black shadows rising and falling, and in less than twenty seconds, the grove was calm again. And during this period, everything that happened was like a pantomime, and unless someone stared at it, it would never be clear that six lives were quietly dying there.

A minute later, the six figures trotted out of the grove, just as they had just entered. Quickly approaching the nearest sentry and handing over the order softly, the laid-off sentries immediately got up and ran back the way they came.

It worked! I was so happy that we had at least an hour to act!

I mean, we have an hour of absolutely safe time before the next group of changing of the guard arrives. Wait until the next group comes to change the guard, if we haven't completed the plan, Mo can only eliminate the group of sentries who took over, but what will happen to the long-laid sentry who do not return to the barracks is really unpredictable, so from this point on it can only be counted as a doubtful relatively dangerous time.

After two hours, it becomes undoubtedly garbage time, and if it is not completed by then, I am afraid that this task will not have to be completed.

Thinking of this, I waved my hand lightly, leaving the others to cover the vigilance, and the rest of the people followed me all the way, sneaking into the inner circle from the mandarin duck buckle that Mo and the others had replaced, and running quickly towards the towering city wall!