"Master, ahead is Kawahara Palace!" The leading samurai bowed his head to Princess Saitama.
If only it were daytime!
Princess Saitama shook her head in annoyance. She was very familiar with this palace. She had gone there often when she was a child. She was very familiar with every building and wall in the palace. If With the sun, she could clearly see the flags fluttering in the wind and the number of guards, but in the dark night, everything was gray and black. The rain had stopped long ago, leaving only a thin mist. She raised her head and stared at Kawahara Palace. Oil lamps were burning in the palace windows, and the soft light flickered. Through the hazy night rain, the whole building looked weird and mysterious, like a place where ghosts and gods live in fairy tales, and definitely not human. But she could still hear the drums and music of the ritual dances, and it was clear that the people in the palace had not expected a night attack on this holy day.
"Give me the bow!" Princess Saitama stretched out her right hand to the leading warrior. The warrior's eyes widened in surprise: "Master, today is a sacred festival, you should not be contaminated!"
"Give me the bow!" Princess Saitama's attitude was very resolute. The leading warrior had no choice but to hand over his bow. Princess Saitama took out a long arrow from the quiver, lit it with a torch, and then filled the long bow. Aiming at the Kawahara Palace not far away, he loosened the bowstring, and saw a sliver of fire leaving the string, cutting through the night sky, drawing an arc, and finally falling at the Kawahara Palace.
"If anyone asks you in the future!" Princess Saitama returned the bow to the samurai: "Just tell him that you shot the first arrow tonight. Do you understand?"
The attackers dug a trench in the ground, poured in fish oil, and stuck torches into the trench. The flames jumped up immediately. The warriors inserted the prepared arrows into the ignited fish oil, then stringed their bows and shot them out. Raindrops of fire arrows pierced the night sky, and then fell like a meteor shower. There was an exclamation from the palace not far away, and was soon interrupted by the sound of drums. Princess Saitama heard someone shouting loudly, and someone running with a torch on the outer wall. The flames were flying in the wind, and metal flashes appeared from time to time. Reflective. At this time, the second burst of fire arrows fell, and Princess Saitama heard someone scream, and the fire rose on the roof. Seeing this scene, she couldn't help but bite her lips and showed a bloodthirsty smile.
"It's so beautiful, so beautiful! Brother, have you seen it? Have you seen this? But this is not enough, there are more, please keep watching!"
After a few minutes, the fish oil dried up and the bow bag was empty. The warriors armed with steel knives, iron axes, spears and armor rushed towards the palace not far away.
Princess Saitama stood on a high place, overlooking the battlefield. I saw that one of the two gates on the palace wall of Kawahara Palace had been captured. Then she saw flames coming out of the palace roof, the walls began to overturn, and the heavy roof fell on the heads of the crowd. The screams were so horrifying that she could even hear the words clearly through the music, the black shadows moved towards the flames, and the steel flashed orange. Light.
Fighting, fighting going on!
She only felt that her blood was boiling, why am I a woman? Why am I a woman who serves the gods? For a moment, Princess Saitama almost began to hate her profession. Everyone says that serving the gods is the most noble, but in order to keep the mind and body clean, those who serve the gods cannot take revenge with their own bows and swords. You can only kneel in front of the altar and pray to the gods. Compared to a warrior holding a bow and wielding a sword, this is too boring.
The palace turned into a battlefield, no, it should be said to be a slaughterhouse. The flames rising from the roof of the hall reached into the air. Some nearby houses were also burning, and there were swords and swords everywhere. Princess Saitama saw someone climbing over the wall and jumped out, but was soon shot through by an arrow flying from the wall. Suddenly, a flame shot up into the sky, and the flames in the main hall doubled in height - there was oil, she realized, it was the oil that had been ignited.
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"Dear sister, do you think this is the prince of the eldest brother?"
The seaman prince frowned and looked at the burned corpse on the ground.
"This is the ring I found on his hand!" Princess Saitama clapped her hands. There was a turquoise ring with obvious burn marks on the tray that the maid took out. Hairen picked up the ring and looked at it carefully. : "It does look a lot like the ring he usually wears, but the problem is that anyone can wear this ring!"
"I've already said it!" Princess Saitama frowned with some boredom: "That night was the Grand Festival, and my attack caught Katsuragi off guard. During the siege, he hid in the main hall and held on, but there were people in the main hall. There was a lot of fish oil, and the rocket hit the main hall. It is also possible that he saw that there was no way to escape and did not want to fall into the hands of the enemy, so he set fire to himself. Is there anything wrong?"
"I didn't say there was anything wrong!" The seaman laughed: "But don't you think this is all too smooth? And we only have a burnt and stinky carcass on hand, so it's a bit convincing. Weak!"
Princess Saitama looked at Prince Kairen fiercely, and Kairen looked at him with a smile. After a while, she turned her head and said, "It's all your fault. If you took off Nakatomi Kamazu's head, you would be less convincing. That's enough!" It turns out that according to the agreement between the two of them, Princess Saitama led an army to attack Kawahara Palace at night and took off the head of Nakatomi's brother, Prince Nakatomi; while Kaito sent troops to attack Nakatomi's residence and took off Nakatomi Kamazu's head. level, but they didn't expect that although Princess Saitama succeeded in the attack, she only found a charred corpse, Prince Kairen even missed it, and Nakatomi Kamazu was not in the mansion that night at all.
"Yes, this is indeed my fault!" Dahairen said with a smile: "But there is another possibility: this was a trap from the beginning!"
"trap?"
"Yes!" Dahairen said with a smile: "Katsuro expected that you would recruit me to attack him, so he asked me to tell you that in order to avoid conflicts, there should be no more than 300 people in each family. This way you will feel that you have a chance. Take advantage, then he and Nakatomi Kamazu will hide, let the two of us take action first and expose our flaws!"
"How, how is this possible?" Princess Qiyu felt a chill all over her body: "Hasn't he already married his daughter to you, why would he--"
"It's not like Katsuragi only has one daughter!" Hai Ren laughed: "As you said, he has a son. If we can use this opportunity to kill you and me together, then there will be nothing to worry about!"
"This bastard!" Princess Saitama stamped her feet angrily: "That must be the case. Now, both of us have violated the rules. He can mobilize the armies of various countries to conquer us! We are definitely not as good as him in this regard. !”
"Don't worry, maybe things are not so bad after all!" Hairen patted Princess Saitama's right hand: "Maybe we still have a chance!"
"What chance? The state affairs have been in his hands for the past twenty years. He is very familiar with the ministers of various countries. In just one or two months, tens of thousands of people can be gathered to attack us!"
"Yes, but that will take a month or two!" Dahairen laughed: "What if we ascend the throne as king now, and then immediately issue an edict to all countries, declaring Katsuragi as an enemy and conquering it? Don't forget, no matter what, They say that the court and the country are now in our hands!"
"Yes!" Princess Saitama's eyes lit up: "No matter how fast Katsuragi is, it will take him a month or two to issue documents and recruit troops. But after we ascend the throne, we can issue orders immediately. As long as we are faster than him, we will be able to issue orders. enough!"
"Well! The first priority right now is to control Nambazu and the land passage to Yoshino Country!"
"That's right, I immediately ordered each shrine to recruit soldiers and food and control the roads!" Princess Saitama grabbed Hairen's arm: "Then we will ascend the throne, the sooner the better!"
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Library building.
"Did the mutiny last night have any results?" Wang Wenzuo looked expectantly at Cui Hongdu who came in from the outside. He didn't sleep all night long. Anyone who was not deaf or blind would be woken up by the killing cry.
"The result should be there, but the Japanese haven't given me an excuse yet!" Cui Hongdu said with a bitter smile, "I didn't expect it to come so soon!"
"The fuller the bow is drawn, the faster the arrow will be shot! It was peaceful at first, but it happened faster!" Wang Wenzuo frowned: "Cao Wenzong!"
"The villain is here!" Cao Wenzong bowed.
"Divide everyone into three teams and take turns to rest. Don't relax!"
"Yes!" Cao Wenzong responded and retreated. Cui Hongdu whispered: "Sanlang, are we going to take action?"
"It shouldn't be time yet!" Wang Wenzuo shook his head: "But if I guess correctly, the new king of the Japanese will come to see us soon!"
"Whose side are we on?"
"Of course it's on the side of the Tang Dynasty!" Wang Wenzuo laughed: "It doesn't matter who ascends the throne as the king, they are all vassals of the Tang Dynasty anyway!"
"That's true!" Cui Hongdu laughed: "Then we will wait patiently!"
Just as Wang Wenzuo expected, the new Japanese king did not keep him waiting too long. At noon the next day, a familiar guest came to the building. Princess Saitama climbed up the steps with a smile on her face. She held her head high and looked arrogant. As if he were ascending his own throne.
"Katsugi died the night before yesterday!" Princess Saitama clenched her clothes tightly: "Haijin and I are about to ascend the throne as kings, your problem is solved!"
"You mean that Prince Zhongdaxiong died the night before yesterday!" Wang Wenzuo breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the expected answer. Although he kept saying that Princess Qiyu, Dahairen and Brother Zhongda were all the same in his eyes, But deep down in his heart, the eldest brother and the prince still hold the most weight. For such an enemy who had been planning for a long time to die so easily, Wang Wenzuo couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
"That's right! I personally led the troops to attack the Kawahara Palace. He was surrounded in the main hall, and in desperation, he set fire to himself!"
Wang Wenzuo looked at Princess Qiyu in surprise. This woman actually admitted it like that? It seems that the Japanese and the Tang Dynasty are quite different in terms of royal infighting, the eldest brother let alone the second brother.
"This is your country's internal affairs. As an envoy of the Tang State, I have nothing to say!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Just the three conditions my country mentioned before?"
"No problem, I will definitely abide by everything!" Princess Saitama answered happily.
"That's good!" Wang Wenzuo exhaled a long breath. Several of the main tasks of his trip had been completed. He couldn't help but feel lighthearted and said with a smile: "Your Highness, since the official business has been completed, we can talk about our personal friendship. . You and I, Brother Cui, have had a late-night friendship in Juguang Palace. If there is anything I can do to help, please speak up!"
Princess Qiyu glanced at Cui Hongdu, her eyes were like running water, and she said with a smile: "I heard that when Wang Shijun was in Baekje, he was a famous military master in the Tang army. He quelled the chaos of Baekje and defeated the soldiers of the country. I have the power of a king to envoy you, but I don’t know if it’s true or not?”
"I don't dare to take it!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "We don't dare to take the art of war, but Wang did put in a lot of effort to defeat the thief in the first place!"
"Oh? That's great!" Saitama said with a smile: "I do have a difficult problem here, and I need a master of military art!"
"Oh? What's the matter?"
"Does Wang Shijun know that Nakatoshi Kamazu?"
"I've heard of it. He seems to be a famous official in your country!"
"Well, this man is a subordinate of Katsuragi. During the great changes in the capital, he escaped and pretended to be Katsuragi's name to gather people in the county to revolt. This man is cunning and wise, and is good at using soldiers. He is very popular in our country. There are few opponents among us!”
"Fake Katsuragi's name?" Wang Wenzuo glanced at Princess Saitama and felt slightly moved in his heart.
"That guy Katsuragi has been in charge of state affairs for many years and is quite famous in various countries!" Princess Saitama said with a smile: "The move of the central minister Kamazu is just like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang raising the names of Fusu and Xiang Yan, which is quite common!"
"The princess is right!" Wang Wenzuo laughed when he heard this: "Since you have spoken, I will naturally let you be driven!"
"Okay!" Princess Qiyu was overjoyed when she heard this: "If we can pacify the thieves this time, I will repay the favor by overwhelming my country!"
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"Master Fu!" Looking at Princess Qiyu's leaving figure, Cui Hongdu lowered his voice and said, "I'm afraid there are many untruths in what this woman said!"
"Oh? Why do you say that?" Wang Wenzuo smiled.
"She first said that she had killed the eldest brother of the Japanese chieftain, but then she said that Nakatomi Kamazu was recruiting troops to start a rebellion in the name of the eldest brother. Could that mean that the eldest brother was not dead at all? She lied to us!"
"It is indeed possible!" Wang Wenzuo nodded: "But one thing is certain, even if the eldest brother, the prince, is not dead yet, he has already fled the capital. Now the capital is controlled by this woman!"
"That's true!" Cui Hongdu nodded: "But I think this Japanese capital has no city walls, so there is no danger to defend it. Even if we occupy the Japanese capital, it doesn't seem to be of much use, right?"
As Cui Hongdu said, in ancient Japan, the capital city did not have city walls for a long time (in fact, except for Osaka, all major cities in ancient Japan did not have city walls). The result was that as long as the local army reached the vicinity of the capital city, The overall situation has been decided (Shangluo is successful). In this case, controlling Kyoto only has political and economic advantages, but it does not have much benefit militarily.
(End of chapter)
