Kotani Castle is 299 meters high, not because its walls are really 299 meters high, but because it is built on a hill that is more than 280 meters high. This hill is very strange, and it is surrounded by cliffs that look like knives on all sides, which makes it look like it is suspended in mid-air from the foot of the mountain.

On the top of this cliff, several stairs around the mountain wall are built by artificial excavation, from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, spiraling upward, there are as many as thousands of steps.

Yi Yun and Chen Yuanyuan held hands and walked up the stone stairs around the mountain......

The stone ladders are not slippery, and there is no moss or anything, in fact, before the army of the Oda family surrounded the mountain, the people of the Asai family had to go up and down these stone ladders every day, either carrying water, or carrying food, or a large number of troops entering and leaving the city.

Yi Yun and Chen Yuanyuan were very careful, and every step was extremely light, for fear that a sound would come out.

"Xianggong, your pace of stealth is getting lighter and lighter, and it seems that you are quite proficient in the assassin profession. Chen Yuanyuan bit his ear and smiled.

"Well, since I was able to work part-time, I've been using this profession almost everywhere, and stealth is really easy to use. Ewan laughed.

"Xianggong, the closer you get to the castle, the lighter your steps, it won't be long before we encounter the enemy ninja. Chen Yuanyuan's voice sank: "Do you remember the last time we reinforced Hangzhou, we had a big battle with the ninja troops? That time, even I was almost stabbed by a fourth-order ninja, you must not take the Fuso ninja lightly." ”

Iyun nodded.

"Let's confirm the difference between the assassins of the Great Moe Kingdom and the ninjas of Fuso again!" Chen Yuanyuan said seriously, "This will be related to the success or failure of our battle. ”

Iyun replied honestly, "I know, you said it once. The stealth technique of Fuso Ninja is called the Fog Concealment Technique, and the person who casts the spell will turn into a cloud of smoke, so ...... Fuso ninjas don't make any sound at all when they are invisible, but if you look carefully, you can see a faint light smoke. But the assassins of our big Meng country are different. We're using stealth, the ability to make ourselves invisible, so we still make sounds when we move around. In short, Fuso ninjas can see, but not hear. The Assassins of the Great Moe Kingdom can hear it, but they can't see it. ”

"Good! You remember correctly. Chen Yuanyuan said seriously: "There is another point, our assassins of the Great Meng Kingdom have stronger physical combat effectiveness, but Fuso ninjas are better at using a variety of ninjutsu. Simply. They are powerful with strange moves, and they are powerful at fighting us head-on. ”

"Got it!"

"Keeping these two points in mind will be useful when we encounter the Iga ninja. ”

"Got it. My lady-sama. ”

The two of them rotated up the stone staircase, but they did not encounter the enemy's sentry post along the way, the reason is very simple, the Oda family's army is at the bottom of the mountain, and the Asai army has shrunk all its combat power into the small valley castle on the top of the mountain in order to better defend, if the soldiers are arranged on the stone ladder halfway up the mountain, in order not to waste their troops a little, they will scatter their troops and fortify everywhere. It's better to keep the castle tight.

Of course, it would be wrong to say that this mountain road is completely undefended, because there are sentinels in the castle who are constantly watching every move on the mountain road, and if there is any suspicious shadow on the mountain road, the sentries will immediately call the police. However, the eyes of the sentinels can only see ordinary people, and they can't see invisible professions.

The two walked all the way to the top of the mountain. Touching the icy city walls, he stopped. Yi Yun estimated that the city wall was about seven or eight meters high, and this was the city wall of Kotani Castle itself, and if you climbed over this wall, you could enter the city. ...,

"Attention...... There is a sentry on the wall in front of the left...... Fifty paces away in front of the right, there is a patrol team......" Chen Yuanyuan reminded in a low voice.

Yi Yun nodded: "In fact, he can feel these sentries as well. ”

"In the shadow of the corner of the city wall in front of you, there is a ninja lurking. It should be a third-order ninja. Chen Yuanyuan pointed to the location of a shadow.

Yi Yun was slightly startled at this time, and quickly turned his head to look, only to see that there was indeed a wisp of smoke floating in the dark corner, but it was hiding in the corner of the wall, and the light of the lantern could not shine, if it hadn't been reminded by Chen Yuanyuan. Yi Yun really couldn't see it.

It's still a cut above the curve...... Yi Yun couldn't help but think sincerely.

At this time, Chen Yuanyuan took out a hook claw dragging a rope from his arms, and wanted to throw it on the city wall, although she was a fifth-order god of death, if she wanted to climb the smooth city wall, it was not so easy, and she had to use certain tools.

Yi Yun couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "This hook is made of iron, right?

"Well, it's very difficult!" Chen Yuanyuan said bluntly: "Even I'm not sure that I can throw my hook into the city without a sound at all and not be heard, so ...... Our Sanjiang Pavilion assassins often act when it rains heavily or when strong winds blow. But this operation is different, if it drags on too late, the three girls will be finished, so I have to force it. ”

"Be careful. Yi Yun couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

Chen Yuanyuan gently pinched the hook and threw it gracefully like a cat's movements, and the hook claw was against the background of the dark night sky, without even a trace of parabola drawn in mid-air, and then slid silently to the top of the city wall and hooked onto the bricks at the head of the wall.

"Well done!" Yi Yun was overjoyed: "It's worthy of being my round girl." ”

The two of them climbed up the wall along the rope one after the other, and because there was an enemy third-order ninja lurking nearby, the two of them didn't dare to make a sound at all, which took a lot of effort, and it was much harder than an ordinary rope climber.

It wasn't until he climbed into the city wall and fell into a dark corridor that Iyun breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, now let's guess where the enemy is holding the prisoners!" Chen Yuanyuan asked Yi Yun, "Xianggong, aren't you a know-it-all for Fusang, where do Fusang people usually keep their captives in the castle?"

This question really tested Yi Yun, if there are prisoners in the castle of the Great Meng Kingdom, they are almost without exception locked up in the dungeon. The people of the Great Meng Kingdom like to do this, digging a cellar under the castle, making it dark and damp, and then hanging the torture instrument or something inside, and then getting the prisoner in, which looks very eerie.

But how did the people of Fuso during the Warring States period hold prisoners? Will there be a dungeon in this castle? Yi Yun was at a loss. He had no choice but to say helplessly to Chen Yuanyuan: "I don't know!"

"There's no way around that, let's take your time. The two of them wandered aimlessly through the dark alleyways of the castle.

The two of them originally thought that they would have to look for a long time, and they might have to search all the rooms to find it, but they didn't expect that after only a few lanes, they found the target they were looking for in a courtyard in the back city.

It was an empty yard, and in the middle of the yard was a flat field, and three wooden cages were placed on the flat ground, and three mentally depressed girls were imprisoned in these three cages. Not far from the cage, there was also a group of Fuso samurai, as well as a few hidden ninjas, who appeared to be in charge of guarding the captives.

Iyun Khan: "It's so simple, just put it in such a conspicuous place?"

It's no wonder that Yi Yun is strange, in fact, during the Fuso Warring States, it was not popular to hold prisoners, and the victorious side would often kill all the samurai of the defeated side, or take them under his command, and it was rare to take people to lock them up. Because the samurai could not stand such a great humiliation, they either surrendered or committed suicide before being locked up. ...,

Therefore, during the Warring States period of Fuso, the daimyo generally did not hold prisoners, so of course there were no dungeons or anything like that. Of course, they will occasionally catch a person and not kill it for a while, for example, Tokugawa Ieyasu caught Ishida Mitsunari, and he didn't kill him for a short time, so where is it kept? In fact, it is very simple, put it in a cage and throw it directly in an open space in the middle of the castle...... It's easy and convenient!

What Iyun is now encountering is the simple and direct method of the Fuso people to hold prisoners.

He and Chen Yuanyuan didn't dare to approach for the time being, and only looked at it from a distance. The closest cage to them is Takigawa Kazuyi, this ninja girl who is in her prime is now lying in the cage, because she is face down, she can't see her face clearly, she can only see the blood on her shoulder is still slowly leaching outward, her clothes are all red, and there is a pool of blood on the ground, look at this, if no one comes to save her, even if the people of the Asai family don't kill her, she will die.

In the cage next to her was Bee Suga Xiaoliu, she was sitting, staring at Takigawa Yiyi's cage, and her mouth seemed to be muttering something, as if it was: "Yiyi-sama, hold on, don't die!"

In the farthest cage, there is a noble and elegant woman, although in the cage, she sits very dignified, embroidered with a pink kimono embroidered with tassels on her body, making her whole person look like a child, in fact, she is the identity of the princess, she is the princess of the Oda family, Oda Ichihime-sama.

Her face looks very similar to Nobunaga, and her eyebrows and eyes seem to be poured out of a mold, but the temperament of the two is completely different. Nobunaga's temperament is bewitching with a touch of ruthlessness, which makes you feel that she is not a gentle woman at first glance, but a ruthless Ji samurai. But Ichihime is different, she is about twenty-five years old this year, slim like jade, soft as water, looking at her appearance, you know that she is not alive as a Ji samurai, but as a traditional Fuso woman.

Yiyun couldn't help but sigh and said, "I still prefer such women!"

When Chen Yuanyuan heard this, he snorted coldly and bit Yi Yun's neck in one bite.

"Oops! you...... How did you learn to be a fox?"

"I've found that using this trick to treat your discipline works well!"