12-49 The Alliance Under the Castle

Liu Ziguang said to the guards: "You take the wind, Ben Shuai go and ask for directions." After saying that, he walked straight to the palace, and the female official in the palace had obviously seen these strange guests, and let out a soft exclamation, and closed the sliding door.

The guards naturally knew what the commander was going to do, and they laughed lewdly one by one, holding their weapons and spreading out in a fan shape, protecting the palace, and the warriors who followed looked at the twelve iron towers, but they didn't dare to step forward.

Don't look at Liu Ziguang has always regarded himself as a rough person, he still knows the rules very well when necessary, he took off his boots first, and then walked up to the palace, saying that it was a palace, in fact, a Japanese-style house made of wood, the outside of the door is a corridor paved with wood, and the corridor is a pillar. He pushed the door open and went in.

A strange fragrance came from the pavement, the palace was paved with tatami mats, and the screen made of black wood and silk was painted with elegant landscape paintings, although the whole house was low, but it looked extraordinarily warm, especially the tatami mats and small futons on the ground, which made Liu Ziguang think of some vulgar things for students like Liu Ziguang, who were extremely unhealthy. ”

Two small heads were exposed behind the screen, and seeing that Liu Ziguang was dressed brightly and did not look like a bad person, he climbed out and saluted him, and then Yili said a lot, and then Liu Ziguang was dumbfounded, and simply said directly in Chinese: "What about the little sister just now?" ”

The two female officials glanced at each other, confirmed that Liu Ziguang had gone to the wrong door, and then one went over to open the sliding door, and the other stretched out his hand to make a gesture to send off the guest, and asked Liu Ziguang to leave with a compatible face, where was Liu Ziguang willing to follow, stood up and scurried around the palace, the two female officials were in a hurry, followed him while kowtowing and saying kind words, turned a screen, he suddenly felt a cool breeze behind his head, hurriedly lowered his head to dodge, rolled on the spot, and inserted three gear-shaped black darts in the original position, A skinny ninja dressed in black slashed at Liu Ziguang with a straight-bladed katana.

Liu Ziguang's eyes were fast, he pressed the tense spring, the long sword was in his hand, and he stabbed straight at the name, the room was narrow, the long sword could not be used, plus the ninja's ninjutsu, a sword stabbed past and disappeared, Liu Ziguang turned left and right in the palace with a sword, and suddenly saw a woman in a kimono sitting in the room, vaguely like the girl she saw just now, and walked over, the woman was looking down on the low table to write something, heard someone come in and looked up, couldn't help but hide her mouth and exclaimed.

Liu Ziguang was greatly disappointed, although the back was very graceful, but on the front, it seemed that she was just an ordinary girl, not very old, with a round baby face, faint freckles, and a little bit of the girl next door. Liu Ziguang followed her gaze, and it turned out that people were staring at their swords, so he quickly put the sword away, and bowed his head to learn the style of a samurai: "Smith Masan." ”

The girl ate and laughed, showing two small tiger teeth with one mouth, which looked very cute, Liu Ziguang just wanted to talk, but suddenly her face changed, and she screamed: "Ah, stupid!" ”

Liu Ziguang is very familiar with this sentence, and his heart is as fast as lightning at the moment, he draws his sword and makes a move, a Su Qin back sword, just holding the long knife attacking from behind, and turning his hand to see that it is the ninja just now, I don't know when he appeared behind Liu Ziguang quietly, if it wasn't for the girl who shouted, I am afraid that Liu Ziguang would have been hit at this time.

The girl said a few words in the Japanese language, the ninja fell down and kowtowed and disappeared again, at this time Liu Ziguang had already decided in his heart that the identity of this girl was not simple, even if it was not the current empress, at least it was a prince or something, people did not break it, he did not say it, and said politely: "My lost work, come in and ask for a bowl of water to drink." ”

The girl smiled sweetly and asked, "Are you a Ming man?" The accent has an obvious Jianghuai official flavor.

Liu Ziguang said: "You can speak Chinese." ”

The girl said: "Not only can I speak, but people can also write poems." As he spoke, he picked up the paper on the low table and showed it to Liu Ziguang, only to see that it was full of earthworm-like characters, both Chinese characters and kana, Liu Ziguang couldn't understand it, so he had to say perfunctorily: "Not bad." ”

The girl smiled at the little tiger teeth and said, "I heard that Liu Ziguang, the general of the Ming Dynasty, came to Heianjing, do you know him?" ”

Liu Ziguang said: "It's okay, I can speak." ”

"Then who is more powerful than Liu Ziguang and the generals of our Wa Kingdom?"

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Liu Ziguang was chatting with the little girl inside, there was a commotion outside, there were more and more samurai, looking at a large area of half-dwarfs with an average height of less than one meter and a half around them, the guards seemed to be in Lilliputian, although the enemy was outnumbered, they were not worried at all, they pulled out the thunderbolt from their backs, and aimed at the samurai indifferently.

Of course, they have nothing to fear, because the army has occupied the commanding heights of Kyoto and lifted the cannons, I don't know how many clairvoyant mirrors are looking at this side, only one wind blows, the Imperial Palace and even the whole of Kyoto will be destroyed in flames, and the people will not dare to act rashly.

Looking at the thunderbolts in the hands of the guards, their lips were dry, and they didn't dare to move when they put their hands on the long handle of the sword, because they knew that it was an invisible "iron cannon" that would kill people, and the retainers on the shogunate side had a small amount of equipment, even the strongest samurai could not withstand such a sharp weapon, and now there were twelve shots at once, who dared to step forward and die.

The house of the Japanese country is not soundproof, and when the sound of "linen belt" came from the palace, even the samurai who were afraid of death could not remain indifferent, they all drew their swords, dragged the long knife behind them, and ran wildly with small steps, and their cold faces were full of determination.

Liu Ziguang's guards also heard the scream, expecting that the marshal was doing his good thing inside, and they should naturally cover the marshal to finish the matter, and the twelve thunderbolts fired together, and put down the twelve samurai who rushed in front on the spot, but the samurai were unmoved, and continued to rush, and there were people behind who were holding extremely long bows to shoot arrows to this side, and the guards were looking for cover, and fired back with thunderbolts, and for a while, the sawdust in the palace flew wildly, and there was a shout.

The samurai wondered why these people's iron cannons had so much ammunition as if they couldn't finish in half a year, and the defense line composed of twelve people was more efficient than the shogun's 300-man iron artillery team, and this battle could not be fought.

Seeing the battle in the palace, the artillery on the commanding heights also began to shoot, and one after another cannonballs flew into the palace with a whistling whistle, blowing up the palace made of wooden planks and paper shells flying all over the sky, at this time Liu Ziguang ran out of the palace, followed by a young girl, he shouted while wearing boots: "Stop!" It's okay to fight! The girl also shouted a few words in a commanding manner, and the warriors threw down their swords and kowtowed to the ground with a very respectful attitude.

At this time, the official in charge of the reception ran over, apologized and apologized to Liu Ziguang with a sad face, saying that the emperor was ready to meet the lord of the kingdom in the main hall.

Liu Ziguang said: "Since there is an emperor in your country, why should you contact the emperor?" The commander only talks to the emperor, and the others are not allowed to talk. As he spoke, he bowed down to the girl beside him and said, "What does Your Majesty think?" ”

The alliance under the city was signed quickly, because the imperial family had almost no choice, on the one hand, because the entire Heianjing was already under the cannon of the Red Shirt Army, and secondly, the conditions offered by Liu Ziguang were quite generous.

Liu Ziguang, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, was willing to fully support the emperor to return to power and overthrow the shogunate that had lasted for hundreds of years.

You must know that today's emperor is just a puppet, in the hands of the shogun, he is like a doll, and he allocates hundreds of thousands of stone rice every year to ensure that you don't starve to death, otherwise the emperor will not be young and strong and give the throne to his ignorant daughter, because this throne is simply a chicken rib, and it can't be true.

The current empress Xingzi is the daughter of the sister of Emperor Gomizuo and the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, it can be said that the standard father does not love, and the uncle does not hurt, and the father gave up to her just to chill his uncle Tokugawa Iemitsu, although he gave way, but in the palace this acre and three points of land, it is still Hou Mizuo who has the final say, and Xingzi just hangs the name of the emperor, and is not even as good as a puppet.

Liu Ziguang's arrival changed all this, he thought that Hou Mizuo was too young to control, Xingzi, a little girl, was innocent and had the identity of the emperor, and it was very suitable as his spokesperson, and the powerful foreign aid only recognized Xingziwei's regime, and Hou Shuiwei had to endure it for the revival of the imperial family.

With the appeal of the emperor, the action of the curtain fell twice the result with half the effort, collecting grain and grass, and recruiting samurai ashigaru The task of recruiting samurai was all handed over to the Japanese to handle by themselves, and the Red Shirts only had to provide fire support when necessary, Liu Ziguang received a telegram saying that his wife and child had arrived in Nagasaki, so he did not want to stay in Kyoto any longer, and delegated the command to his subordinates, and took a team of men and horses back to Kyushu by boat.

Before leaving, Empress Xingzi pulled Liu Ziguang's sleeve and said pitifully: "Uncle, when will I see you again?" ”