The shinobi muttered unwillingly: "How did you come to this Central Plains, we ninjas still have to look at the faces of these ronin warriors." ”

Koga Hanbei said coldly: "What do you know, the main force of today's siege is our Koga ninja army, and those rough ronins are not real samurai, most of them are just ashigaru (Japanese peasants, who were conscripted into the army during the war, are not professional soldiers, and their weapons are mostly bamboo spears and the like), are they worthy of fighting with us?" ”

A hint of joy flashed in Shangnin's eyes, and his voice trembled with excitement: "Really, Chief? Is it really our ninja army as the main force to attack the city today? ”

Koga Hanbei smiled "hehe": "Will this be fake?" Shangquan Xinzhiken spent a lot of money to invite us here, but it is not for us to see the popular ones, you look at the city wall of Xinhe City, but it is more than a zhang high, our lower ninja can rely on the claw hook to climb up the city wall, and the upper ninja can jump directly into the city wall. ”

Shangnin laughed: "Leader, then what are we waiting for, attack now." ”

Jiahe Banbei waved his hand: "What's the hurry, I don't know the reality in the city now, this Xinhe City is where Qi Jiguang's family and food and ordnance are located, and now there is no movement at the head of the city, and the four gates are closed, so Qi Jiguang heard that he is a famous general who knows the art of war, and he may have already laid an ambush." ”

Shangnin let out an "oh" and shook his head again: "But looking at this city is so simple, there are not even Ninomaru and Sannomaru, and in our Oriental Ocean it is the scale of a bar, and it is not even a Honmaru, even if there are ambushes in it, how many can there be?" ”

Koga Hanbei waved his hand: "Anyway, let those ronins attack first." Probe the truth in the city, and you will know if you start fighting, if there is an iron gunner inside. Then our losses will be great, and even if we defeat them, we will not be able to make up for the losses during the siege. ”

Shang Ren nodded hurriedly: "The leader is right. ”

Koga Hanbei's eyes looked at the head of the north castle of Shinkawa Castle and smiled slightly: "Nobuo Kamiizumi should also start acting." ”

At this moment, in the light of a fire in the north of the city, a man in his forties, of medium stature. Wearing a bamboo armor, he looks seven points similar to Nobuyuki Umizumi, and has a bearded face. Just as he was walking around like ants in a hot pot, two attendants behind him, neatly draped and with two small flags on their backs, were half-crouching on the ground, waiting for the order of Nobuo Kamiizumi.

Finally. One of the squires couldn't help it. He said, "Lord, aren't we going to attack yet?" The brothers had been shouting for two hours, and many of them were hoarse. ”

Nobuo Kamiizumi stopped and said angrily, "Stupid, don't you see the weirdness in this city? ”

The squire stood up, looked at the city again suspiciously, and shook his head: "Lord, there is no one in the city." Could it be that the defenders had fled overnight? ”

Nobuo Kamiizumi was so angry that he picked up a command match in his hand (a command thing used by the Japanese in war, similar to a folding fan in our country. It's just wooden), he knocked the head of this attendant, widened his eyes and scolded: "You pig's head, we are a surprise attack, and the people in the city closed the city gate in a hurry, how can they have time to break through and escape?" ”

The attendant took a beating, scratching his head, and muttered: "The Han people are not beaten, this place is full of old and weak soldiers, since they are vulnerable, why don't the lord take advantage of their unstable foothold and attack quickly?" ”

Nobuo Shangquan gritted his teeth: "Qi Jiguang is cunning after all, maybe he set up an ambush here, we didn't suffer his losses before, and his wife heard that it was very fierce, even Qi Jiguang was afraid, I don't believe that Qi Jiguang's wife really only brought a few hundred people to guard this city, although this city is small, but it is not a problem to ambush two or three thousand elite soldiers, if we rashly attack and encounter the main force of the Qi family's army, it will be a big loss." ”

The other attendant was older, and when he heard this, he hurriedly said, "Lord, aren't there still ninjas, why don't you let them attack first, as long as they attack, won't they try out?" ”

Nobuo Kamiizumi looked at the West Gate who was silent, and snorted coldly: "Koga Hanbei is not stupid, he also has to watch us move first before he is willing to do it." ”

The first attendant's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Lord, then we can't use these ninjas as spears, they don't move, we don't move." ”

Nobuo Kamiizumi slammed the head of this attendant again, and this guy was about to cry aggrievedly, rubbing a bag knocked out of his forehead, while shouting: "Lord, am I wrong again?" ”

Nobuo Kamiizumi scolded: "If we grind back and forth like this, we will only lose the fighter, and the Qi family's army is only a day and a night away from here, do you want to fight with Qi Jiguang's troops?" ”

The second attendant smiled: "Lord, then you say we should do miscellaneous things?" ”

Nobuo Kamiizumi looked up at the moon that had begun to sink in the west, and frowned: "Is it the fourth watch now?" ”

A watchman behind him glanced at the hourglass placed on the side, and hurriedly said, "Lord, I'll be there soon." ”

Nobuo Kamiizumi gritted his teeth, pulled out the sword on his waist at once, and roared: "Order the whole army, all siege the city, all twenty iron cannons are concentrated at the north gate, and shoot at the head of the city, but you are not allowed to really climb the city, you can only make a show twenty steps away from the city!" ”

The two attendants suddenly showed a look of sudden realization, saluted Nobuo Kamiizumi, turned and stepped on the two thin horses, and galloped away.

The light of the torch shone on Nobuo Kamiizumi's cold face, and he sneered: "Koga Hanbei, don't you want money and women, see if you have the ability to take it." ”

Wang Lianying lay down behind the battlements, and three hundred female soldiers followed her quietly, and behind them, more than six hundred old and weak women, all wearing leather armor that had just been taken out of the arsenal, holding gongs in their hands, and a few torches soaked in tung oil were placed beside each of them, and as soon as the enemy attacked the city, they would stand up and make a loud noise.

In the north of the city, the sound of iron cannon fire was like bursting beans, one after another, and even the sound of guns and bullets hitting the battlements of the bricks was clearly visible, and the howling of the robbers under the city did not stop for a moment, but it was always limited to twenty paces away from the city wall. And never go any further.

Wang Lianying's personal maidservant, who was also her deputy Chunlan at this time, looked like a twenty-eight or nineteen-year-old woman. She also wears a red scarf and wears a drape, she has been the maid of the Wang family since she was a child, married into the Qi family with Wang Lianying, and has also experienced a lot of battles with Wang Lianying, frowned tightly, and said, "Miss." It seems that there is a lot of movement on the north side, do you think we should go over and help? ”

Wang Lianying shook her head: "No, there are very few widows in the east and south of the city. They didn't come up at all, and the pirates in the north of the city were just bluffing, and we had just come from there, if they really wanted to attack the city. The ladder had already been erected after being suppressed with an iron cannon. But now their shouts of killing are only twenty paces away, which means that those Japanese robbers are just feints, and the real killing will be here. By the way, Chunlan, it's on the battlefield now, don't call me Miss, call me General. ”

Chunlan nodded: "It's just a general." There's no movement here, the ninjas you mentioned. Could it be that there is no intention of attacking the city, but just waiting for us to run into the woods after opening the city before besieging and destroying it? ”

Wang Lianying smiled slightly: "If we don't go out of the city, those ninjas will definitely attack in the end, at least those Japanese robbers in the north have made this move, which is to urge them to attack." ”

Chunlan let out a sigh: "I see, but general, we only have so many people here, can we withstand it?" ”

A look of determination flashed in Wang Lianying's eyes: "With me, there will be nothing wrong at night." ”

Chunlan then asked, "What about the daytime?" The reality of our city will be clearly seen by the Wakos. What to do then? ”

Wang Lianying said confidently: "Don't worry, my husband must have arranged it a long time ago, the men of the Heavenly Wolf who passed by here a few days ago are all brave men, I think they should have solved the widows in Haiyan during the day, and they are rushing here at this time, as long as they survive this night, they will be fine." ”

A few applause suddenly came from below the city tower: "General Wang is really a heroine among women, and he is very brave, and the wolf admires him so much." ”

Wang Lianying's brows stretched suddenly, and she turned her head to look at the city, five black figures were coming out of the soil at the bottom of the city, and the person at the head was dressed in a yellow suit, and his whole head was covered in a yellow cloth cover, his eyes were like torches, could it be Li Cangxing?

Wang Lianying had a relationship with Li Cangxing when Li Cangxing led his troops through this Xinhe City a few days ago, and after seeing Li Cangxing, the heart she had been hanging on finally let go, and said with a smile: "General Sky Wolf, how did you enter the city?" ”

Li Cangxing laughed, jumped directly from the bottom of the city, Qian Guanglai behind him, not worried about the monk, Tie Zhentian and Ouyang Ke also followed suit, and jumped up, so that these Xinhe people, who rarely see the masters of the rivers and lakes, were all dumbfounded, and a few people unconsciously shouted hello, as soon as the words came out, they immediately realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly covered their mouths with their hands and lowered their heads.

Wang Lianying smiled slightly, and said to Li Cangxing, who squatted beside her, "Did you take that secret path to enter the city?" ”

Li Cangxing nodded: "Yes, last time, thanks to General Wang, we told us about this secret passage into the city, and now our troops have eliminated the Japanese in Haiyan, and after a day of travel, they have arrived, and they are hiding near the mountain temple five miles to the north, that is, there, we entered the city from the secret passage." ”

Wang Lianying said with a smile: "I can't imagine that this passage that my grandson secretly dug in case of emergencies has played a role today, General Heavenly Wolf, did you lose a lot in the first battle in the north?" After such a fierce battle, and the army arrived in a hurry, do you want to rest first and then fight? ”

Li Cangxing waved his hand: "General Wang, we fought very smoothly in the north, and we only lost more than 20 people, and we eliminated 2,000 Japanese invaders, everyone is also highly motivated, and their fighting spirit is soaring, and they don't care about rest after seeing the Japanese invaders, if I don't say that I want to go to the city to see the situation, they will attack the Japanese invaders now." After all, they are all men in the rivers and lakes, they can do light work, and their bodies are much stronger than ordinary soldiers. ”

Wang Lianying nodded: "General Heavenly Wolf, you sneaked into the city, who will command the army outside now?" ”

Li Cangxing laughed: "Don't worry, with my deputy General Pei in command, it will be fine, I have already seen that the enemy's ambush in the forest is their main force, I expect you to be here too, sure enough." ”

Wang Lianying smiled and said, "General Heavenly Wolf, have you ever seen the enemy army in the forest?" ”

Li Cangxing shook his head: "No." I came directly to the secret passage on the mountain temple five miles away, but there were three ninjas who were unleashed by the enemy army, and they all killed me. Since there are ninjas in this place, it will definitely be hidden, this wall is so low that you can jump over it with a jump, and the enemy army will not spend that effort digging tunnels to attack the city, so I took a few brothers into the city first, in order to make sure that this west gate is safe. ”

Wang Lianying smiled slightly. Just as she was about to speak, she heard a sudden sound of light footsteps outside the city wall, and her and Li Cangxing's faces both changed. Looking outside from the battlement, I saw that in the dense forest three miles away, the black and suppressed figures kept popping out, all running at full speed. And two or three hundred rushed the fastest. At this moment, they had already run for about half a mile, and unlike their companions who were making great noises at the other city gates, their movements were very light and fast, but from the eyes of those hungry wolves, there was a kind of killing intent and desire.

Wang Lianying smiled: "It's finally here." She quickly said to Chunlan beside her: "Chunlan, order, only three hundred female soldiers are left at the head of the city, and all the other old and weak are withdrawn from the city." ”

Chunlan's eyes widened in surprise: "General." The enemy army is attacking the city in a big way, why do you want people to leave? ”

Li Cangxing laughed: "There are fewer people, and the place is empty." It's even easier to kill. ”

Outside the west gate, Koga Hanbei stood outside the forest, walking towards the city wall step by step, a pair of cold eyes flashing coldly, and the upper ninja behind him followed him and said, "Chief, why did you let the lower ninjas attack first?" They also need rope hooks to climb the wall, and we can jump up at once with the upper and middle ninjas. ”

Jiahe Hanbei shook his head: "I don't know the reality in the city, it's not easy to cultivate the upper ninja, it will take more than ten or twenty years to practice the current ability, I can't let you take risks, let the lower ninjas test the attack first." ”

Before the words fell, I saw that two or three hundred ninjas had rushed to the bottom of the city wall, throwing rope hooks in unison, and suddenly, hundreds of hooks were set on the battlements, and the first batch of more than fifty ninjas pulled the ropes with both hands, kicked and kicked on the city wall one by one, but their bodies quickly rushed towards the city.

A smile appeared in the corner of Koga Hanbei's eyes, and the expected situation of crossbow arrows flying under the wood and stones at the head of the castle did not appear, and he muttered secretly in his heart: "Could it be that the people in the city have abandoned the city and fled?" Although there was a feint attack on the north, there was no movement at the head of the city. ”

Just thinking about it, more than a dozen ninjas have climbed up to the top of the city, and are about to jump up, but they only see a red knife flash, like a meteor across the entire night sky, these dozen people didn't even snort, as if they had given a fixed body method, and stayed in place, and then the upper half of the body began to slowly slide from the waist, and fell into free fall to the city, and then the lower half also fell down the city, and the blood and internal organs drenched the people below all over their heads.

This change was too sudden, so scared that more than 20 shinobi who were climbing the wall fell from the city wall at once and fell to the ground, and there were more than a dozen people who didn't have time to see this scene, and then climbed to the top of the city, at this time I saw the sword light and sword shadow at the head of the city flashed, and these dozen shinobi didn't have time to pull out the sword on their backs, they all screamed and fell to the city, some of them had different heads, some people had a few more blood holes in their chests, and two people had two spears directly pierced in their chests, and they fell one after another.

Koga Hanbei stomped his foot fiercely and shouted: "Sure enough, there was an ambush, and twenty iron gunners stepped forward to suppress it, and the people under the city walls stepped back slightly and attacked the city head with ninja darts and shurikens. ”

The upper ninja hurriedly conveyed the order of the Koga Hanbei loudly, and the lower ninjas under the city did not care about collecting the corpses of their companions, and retreated one after another, and twenty ninjas armed with iron cannons ghostly rushed out from the back row, picked up the iron cannon and bombarded the city, and the smoke of gunpowder suddenly filled the air, and the lower ninjas who withdrew rained the ninja darts and throwing knives in their hands like raindrops to the city, for a while, the roar of the iron cannon and the sound of the hidden weapon were endless.

After twenty shots, the gunners began to lower their heads and hurriedly reload their ammunition, but suddenly heard several sounds in the air breaking the air, accompanied by the sound of bowstrings, and the heads of the three gunners were suddenly pierced by three long-roded wolf's tooth arrows, and they fell down with a scream.

Koga Hanbei's eyebrows began to shake constantly, and through the thick smoke, he saw a heroic female general standing at the head of the city, with a green scarf wrapped in her head, draped all over her body, and holding a two-stone strong bow in her hand.

Koga Hanbei roared: "Eight Grid Tooth Road! He began to accelerate with all his strength, running towards the city, and the middle ninjas and upper ninjas behind him followed up one after another, his light skills were excellent, and he flew out more than ten zhang after a few ups and downs, but at this point of distance, two iron gunners fell in response, and the rest of the people didn't care about loading gunpowder anymore, and fled backwards with guns.

Koga half-soldier let out a long roar, the figure of the storm, at this time he was only seven or eight feet away from the city wall, in the air with both hands waved, seven ninja darts like a meteor catching the moon, straight to the god arrow female general, but just close to her less than a foot away, only to see the first red light flash again, behind the battlements suddenly burst out of a tall and burly figure, only to hear a burst of "jingling" sound endlessly, Koga half-soldier guards that seven silent, but shot out of the ninja darts were all smashed, Seven strange green green smoke rose from the air. (To be continued......)