It's been a long time since I've been on a mission alone! Today, when this feeling comes back to my body, I can't tell whether I am excited or emotional.

Since I met Mr. in Jinzhou, I have experienced too many ups and downs, and I have experienced thrills that I have never experienced before in a few years, and sometimes I really feel that I have no regrets in this life!

I'm from Iga, and I'm supposed to fight to the death on the battlefield between the daimyos—a hidden battlefield, of course. And my ending should be that I was captured and righteous after a certain mistake! That's also the end of the dignity and glory I've been looking forward to as the Nine Ghost Clan!

Of course, if it weren't for Mr.'s righteous assistance to the leader of the three princes of the hundred lands, if I hadn't followed Mr. to the Ming Dynasty in the first place, I'm afraid that a few years ago I would have followed the Iga people, Jade Crushed and Oda Nobunaga's iron hooves!

Forget it, this is not the time to think bittersweetly! The sixty people in front of us are the protagonists of this operation - they will witness what kind of combat effectiveness we have cultivated according to Mr.'s "special combat lesson plan"!

There is no need for more mobilization, and the content of our training program is also the content of our training program in peacetime, and the preparations for this battle are very thorough, so the mental state of the combatants is in an excellent state.

In the middle of the night, our warships began to move south, and at the request of my husband, I was in charge of the operation, and Adikon was in charge of answering me at sea. We had been at sea for most of the day, and at nightfall on the second day of our voyage, the fleet had reached what Mr. called the "South Carolina" offshore, and was only seven or eight miles away from its destination!

The boat slowly stopped, I waved my hand, and the sixty people behind me immediately and quickly removed the cover of the lifeboat, and quietly lowered it, three lifeboats, sixty of us still have some room for the battle, which is also to prepare for the battle later.

The warriors took out their oars, calibrated their direction, and began to paddle towards the shore. All of them were dressed in black night suits, carrying black backpacks, black masks and hoods, and the boat was moving quickly towards the shore with the regular movement of the oars!

In order to ensure that we would not be detected by the opposing sentry, our fleet departed from a position three nautical miles away from the opponent's stronghold, and docked about a nautical mile from their stronghold!

Docked! The three small boats were like three ghosts floating on the sea, silently and motionlessly to the shore!

The sand on the beach gently rubbed against the bottom of the boat, making a soft rustling sound. The speed of the ship's hull dropped sharply and it ran aground! I beckoned, and the warriors jumped off the sides of the boat, and with the sound of a slight stroke, ten on each side lifted the boat, turned its bow back into the sea, and put on shelter.

I stood on the shore, about twenty paces away, watching them move, and it was nice! The action was quiet and clean, and the three boats now looked like three reefs!

At this point, my right hand was quickly clenched into a fist and raised high above my head, and my index finger was raised vertically upwards in a slow circular motion. It was a gesture of gathering, so that after leaving one person to guard each boat, the other fifty-seven people quickly approached me!

It only took about five breaths before everyone was standing in front of me. I was so pleased with the speed that I pointed to the first team, bent my elbows, pointed my forearms to the ground, closed my fingers, and swung three times in a row from behind me to the front!

This was a signal for them to move forward, and Hank, the commander of the first team, immediately made a clear gesture, put the fingers of his right hand together, and swung forward three times in a quick way. Twenty men followed him, sneaking towards the shadowy lights in the distance!

In the same way, I ordered the second team to move forward in a roundabout way, which was also well executed. The night wind is cold, but my heart is on fire! Sir's training methods are effective, at least far more effective than the command methods that the Iga people have inherited for centuries!

The last twenty people are my team of ninjas, all of whom have been trained in the Iga tradition, and they are different from the fighters who have been trained in a new way, and they are also a group that I am more familiar with, which makes me feel more at peace and quiet.

We walked silently through the forest, it was the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, the climate here seemed to be hotter than Dongying, and the trees were much denser than those of Daming. But it was really desolate, and except for the little light that could be seen from the enemy's stronghold, it was pitch black as far as the eye could see.

Sure enough, it's the new big * land that people say! How many years will it take to develop this place into a place like the Ming Dynasty? Probably a few generations, I remember my husband saying, what a grand plan!

Suddenly, the first team in front seemed to notice the situation, and they stopped on the spot! According to visual observation, they were about 150 steps away from the opponent's stronghold, and this area had been cut down by the opponent and all the trees had been turned into an open field.

The other party's defense cannot be regarded as lax, at least around the circular stronghold, they are burning torches everywhere, especially in this open area, most of which is very brightly illuminated, if anyone passes, they will definitely be discovered by the enemy on the wall!

I turned my head again, and the second team was making a detour to the north side of the eastern wall of the stronghold, where the situation was similar to that of this side, with the same enemy sentries and lighting.

These situations have been expected for a long time, and we have also done special response training, and now we need to reconfirm the changing of the guard time of the enemy sentry!

Again, we can't do it rashly, otherwise we will be discovered immediately, and the dark war will turn into a strong attack, and our operation should actually be considered a failure!

After leading the third team onwards, and after reaching the position between the first and second teams, I signaled everyone to take cover. I lay on the edge of a bush, took out a monocular from my backpack behind me, and looked at the enemy watchtower.

On the fence facing us, a few dozen meters away, there are three watchtowers, each with two sentries in their hands, each with muskets in their hands, patrolling back and forth in the dark.

Since it was the first half of the night, they were still in good spirits, and there was no napping for the time being. But we weren't in a hurry – my team and I had already slept all day before we came, and it was time to be refreshed and we could afford it!

Time passed minute by minute, and it was late at night. We also reconfirmed the local changing of the guard cycle - every half hour, well, that is, every hour! I pulled out my pocket watch and confirmed the time in the faint fluorescence of the scale—two o'clock in the morning!

The opportunity should be coming soon! The training doctrine says that every night from 3 to 5 o'clock is the sleepiest time for all those who stay up late! This 24-hour timekeeping method really seems to work better than 12 hours!

Sure enough, another hour passed, and when the sentry took over at three o'clock in the morning, these sleepy-eyed sentries swayed and climbed up the watchtower, and reluctantly watched the laid-off accomplices go away, and the pain in their hearts can be imagined!

On the top of the watchtower nearest to me, two sentries turned back and forth impatiently, one of the stronger sentries must have drunk some wine last night, and they swayed a few steps, this will definitely be a breakthrough!

Perhaps unable to hold on, the sentry said something to another sentinel, who looked much younger and thinner, and, seeing that the other man nodded, he walked to the edge of the hollowed-out watchtower, and sat down against the pillar and with his musket in his hand.

He moved his body from side to side a few times, as if he had chosen a more comfortable position, and began to rest. After a while, his head drooped to the side, and it seemed that he was asleep!

The other sentry was also conscientiously patrolling back and forth a few times at first, but when he saw the veteran around him sleeping so soundly, he was naturally very angry! And after losing supervision, he himself slowly let down his vigilance, and sleepy insects also began to flood!

The young sentry shook his head vigorously, as if he was fighting against his will and sleepiness! But as I expected, his will soon failed, and he lost to weariness!

I saw him let out a long breath, slowly took a few steps back, leaned his back against the pillar where the veteran was sitting, and slowly leaned the back of his head up, as if closing his eyes.

In his heart, he probably wanted to be confused for a while and recover his spirits! However, indulgence is equal to giving up, fluke is equal to no, his fake sleep soon turned into real sleep, his head drooped down, not to mention, and his whole body slowly slid on the floor of the watchtower with the loss of consciousness!

Here's your chance! I turned my head to look at the group, and sure enough, their commander, Hank, was also looking at me. I gave him a thumbs up, and he immediately stretched out his right hand, rounded his index finger and thumb, and raised the other three fingers up—Mr. said this is called OK, which means clearly.

The first group is on the move! The two sharpshooters began to come out, they looked left and right for a long time, and saw that the sentries on both sides were indeed difficult to see here, so they lowered their bodies and touched the watchtower like leopards!

The others were not idle, including the first group and the second group, and eight people in each group raised their crossbows* arrows in their hands, and in groups of two, they aimed at every enemy sentry on the surrounding enemy towers! This is a precautionary measure, and if any of the unlucky ones spot the figure of the sentinel, then soon, the scythe of the require will immediately swing towards his head!

In my field of vision, the two spearheads tried to hide their figures by using the shadows between the illuminated areas as much as possible! They first leaped in a high posture, and when they reached about 30 meters away from the watchtower, they switched to a low leap - quieter and more hidden!

Looks like it's working well! Because the two enemy sentries in the binoculars are still immersed in dreams!

It's ten meters from the watchtower! This is already a bright area for torches! The figures of the two have been fully revealed! My heart has also been completely lifted - looking left and right, the shooters aiming at the watchtowers on both sides are already in a state of firing at any time, and it seems that success or failure is really here!

In the distance, I could feel the heartbeats of both of them accelerating. It should be a gritted tooth, and the two rushed through the "death zone" several meters wide at the fastest speed, and finally arrived at the shadow zone under the wall and the torch could not shine!

I seem to hear a slight exhalation around me, these guys should be just like me, and at this point they are a little relieved!

I smiled and continued to watch the movement ahead. Two spearheads worked together, one bending his leg into a lunge, the other stepping on his horizontal thigh with his left foot, and stepping on his shoulder with his right foot as if he were going up the stairs!

The man below slowly stood up, and the man above was already reaching the edge of the wall! I saw him reach up with both arms, grabbed the edge of the wall, seemed to pull down hard, felt very strong, just used his arms to pull his body up with a pull-up posture, and stepped up with his right foot, hooked the edge and then retracted it hard, and the whole body had climbed up the wall!

He reached down with his hand, and the man below immediately reached out and shook it! Under the concerted efforts of the two, the spearhead below continued to rise, taking advantage of the momentum to flick his left leg and hook his left foot on the edge of the wall! Using both hands and feet, the two of them soon completely climbed the wall more than a foot high!

I saw the two of them look inside for a while, gesturing to our side, signaling safety, and then turning over and entering the courtyard, and we couldn't see them for the time being. But soon, the low and suppressed figures of the two appeared on the stairs of the watchtower, and slowly touched upward!

The moment of truth has arrived! The two walked on the zigzag staircase, and at this time they were only a little more than a meter away from the watchtower, hoping that there would be no accidents!

However, it is often the case that you are afraid of something! Just as the two of them were about to arrive at the watchtower and launch a surprise attack, the young sentry suddenly woke up!