The envoy of the Suzuki family said that Suzuki Shigey refused to come to the Hongye Army camp for negotiations, and the Yu Qiu family also refused to let Yu Qiuping enter the city. The two sides were in a stalemate, and the negotiations were about to collapse.
At this time, the messenger from the Suzuki family suddenly made a suggestion.
"Why don't we find a place to negotiate in the mountains behind Zahe City."
"When we go to the mountain behind Zahe City, what if you suddenly kill someone?" Gomaezaki Nakahide sneered disdainfully, "What's the difference between going to your city?"
"Zahezhong guarantees his reputation that he will not do such a thing." The messenger whispered very solemnly.
"What's the point of asking for your reputation? Is our Highness's life more important or your reputation?" Yoshioka Katsumasa slapped his hand on the table, "Either surrender or fight, how can there be so many things!"
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"My lord is sincere in negotiating." Seeing the excitement among the retainers of the Yuqiu family, the envoy softened his tone and said in a low voice.
Just when Yoshioka Katsumasa was about to continue slapping the table and staring, a somewhat dry and low voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
"We believe in your sincerity." Amano Jingtoku replied in a low voice, "In order to celebrate the lives of the people in the city, my lord is also willing to negotiate with you. Let's negotiate on the mountain."
As soon as Amano Keide said this, the retainers of the Yuqiu family present were stunned for a moment, looking at each other and wondering if they had heard the wrong words just now. It was not until they saw everyone's expressions like this that they realized that they had not
Auditory hallucinations.
How is that possible? How could Amano Keide, who has always been the most cautious and cautious, and used the most sinister attitude to guess other people's intentions, who can detect conspiracies in all ordinary trivial matters, allow Yu Qiuping to go to such a dangerous place? He should obviously be
The person who most firmly rejects this proposal!
"However, we need to send people to control the east gate of Zahe City facing the back mountain to ensure that the Zahe people will not suddenly come out of the city to attack the lord."
Later, Amano Keitoku put forward this condition coldly, with a firm and unquestionable tone. "Otherwise, there is no need to discuss anything."
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On November 25th, on the mountain behind Zaga Castle, a heavily armed team was escorting a person to the scheduled negotiation location. Not far away, on the east wall of Zaga Castle, the Ashigaru and Military Intelligence Division of the Red Leaf Army
The ninja is taking over control of the city gate.
And Yu Qiuping was standing on a hill in the distance, watching the heavily armed team slowly drive into the forest. That team was commanded by Honda Tadakatsu, and they were escorting not Yu Qiuping, but Yu
Akihira's Kagemusha - a substitute chosen from among the crows.
Yu Qiuping and the retainers of the Yu Qiu family were right. It was impossible for Amano Keide to agree to such conditions. He would never let Yu Qiuping put himself in danger. And the reason why he agreed to negotiate was completely a conspiracy.
Yu Qiuping himself will not go to the negotiation site. On the contrary, the person who goes to the negotiation site is a ninja selected from the crow. Amano Jingde firmly believes that the Zahe people who asked Yu Qiuping to enter the mountain must attack Yu Qiuping, so he found him
A stand-in with a similar appearance. After some makeup done by Yegu Suiko, people who are not familiar with Yu Qiuping would not be able to recognize him at a glance.
In order to win Yu Qiuping's trust and allow Yu Qiu to go up the mountain safely, Zahezhong agreed to let the Red Leaf Army control the east city gate. Amano Jingtoku concluded that they must have ambushed the iron artillery team in the mountains early in the morning, so there was no need to start again.
Send people out from the east gate.
And when the substitute arrives at the negotiation site, the people of Zahe Zhong will definitely launch an attack. Once they do it, Hongye Army will have an excuse to attack Zahe City immediately. For this reason, Charlie led Ming Dybei and also moved a distance closer to the back mountain.
, ensuring that they can go to the east gate within a short period of time after the attack starts. The red leaf army and ninjas at the east gate will be responsible for resisting for a period of time, waiting for Charlie's Ming Dynasty to enter the city.
Amano Keide's plan is to use his tactics to his advantage. Since Zahe Zhong wants to assassinate Yu Qiuping, give him a substitute to assassinate him. This will give Hongye Army an excuse to attack and directly knock down Zahe City.
Because Yu Qiuping was worried about the safety of the decoy force, he tried to persuade Honda Tadakatsu not to lead the team himself, but he refused.
"I stay with my subordinates." Honda Tadakatsu replied, "As a samurai, how can I shrink back out of fear?"
There was nothing he could do about Honda Tadakatsu and Yu Qiupei. However, compared to this, he still felt that there was a major flaw in the plan: "Kwonbei, if Suzuki Shigei really keeps his promise, he is here to negotiate with me.
You have no intention of assassinating me at all, what should you do? Suzuki Shige has told me that as soon as our stand-in meets him, the secret will be revealed as soon as we start negotiations."
"If Zahezhong has no intention of assassinating His Highness, please let me come down." After hearing Yu Qiuping's question, Amano Jingde replied almost without thinking, "I have arranged a crow dressed as Zahezhong in the back mountain.
If the Zahe people don’t attack the bait, let them attack the crow. Then, use this as an excuse to naturally start attacking the city.”
"What do you want to do, crow? With such a conspiracy, are you going to make His Highness lose faith in the world and give up the reputation he has accumulated for more than ten years? Are you also giving up your own beliefs?" Takenaka Shigeharu was shocked when he heard this, and his face was ashen.
Shen Sheng retorted.
"I will handle it properly and won't dirty your Highness's hands." Amano Keidero shook his head, "I won't reveal any flaws, so please don't worry."
"This is not a matter of being uneasy." Takenaka Shigeharu took a step forward, stood in front of Amano Keitoku, and looked him in the eyes, "Don't use conspiracy, this is a matter of principle."
"This is war, not a child's play. Conspiracy can save us a lot of deaths." Amano Keitoku was not infected by Takenaka Shigeharu's emotions, but still whispered calmly.
"You are not a young child. You must know that in a family, there will always be someone who does dirty things."
"Winning in the dark is nothing more than repeating the cycle of chaos. What's the point of losing so many lives? Hundreds of years later, dark history will arouse ambitions, and war will resume, but countless people will still die." Takenaka Shigeharu shook his head and said decisively.
He said in a deep tone, "I refuse to implement such a plan. If it is really Crow's ninjas who launch the attack, please let Mr. Fukuzawa temporarily take over my command. I will not participate in the command."
"That's your right." Amano Jingtoku nodded slightly, "You are very wise."
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Pulling his thoughts back to the battle situation at hand, Yu Qiuping stared at the small army slowly walking towards the scheduled negotiation location. He concentrated on guarding the mountains and forests on both sides of the road, fearing that gunshots would suddenly ring out. However, he
But he was secretly hoping that the gunfire would be fired by the Zahe crowd - so that he would not have to carry out conspiracy without conscience.
Just as the small team was about to arrive at the negotiation location, there was a sudden burst of gunfire in the woods on both sides. The team that had been prepared immediately fell down on the spot and looked for a bunker. The iron gunner who fired the weapon was ready.
He immediately climbed up to a high place and blindly fired into the woods on both sides to suppress the Zahe Zhong's troops. At the same time, the Zahe Zong in Zahe City also began to attack the east gate fiercely, and fought fiercely with the Hongye Army guarding the east gate.
Charlie also immediately ordered Ming Dynasty to move towards the east gate to meet the troops there.
However, Amano Jingde, who was right next to Yu Qiuping, just took a few glances and realized that something was wrong.
"Fake attack..." Amano Keide reminded in a low voice, "They obviously also guessed that the person in this team will be a substitute."
"Why do you see it?" Yu Qiuping also asked in a low voice.
"I saw the sound of iron cannons, but there were not many casualties, and no one rushed up the mountain road. If it was really an assassination attempt, how could you be so hesitant?" Amano Kagetori shook his head, and immediately said firmly and solemnly,
"This upward attack is just to find the location of His Highness's true identity through the mobilization and flags of the Hongye Army. It is very likely that we have succeeded. Although this place is convenient for command, it is within the range of the iron cannon. Please move your Highness immediately."
"Where to move to?" Yu Qiuping turned around, looked at Amano Jingde's confident expression, and felt relieved.
"Go there." Amano Keide pointed at a small depression among the hills, "As long as you enter the depression and strangle the surrounding highlands, it will become a blind spot for the iron cannon."
"Okay, let's leave immediately." Yu Qiuping was also worried that his location would be exposed, and he would be shot by Zahe Zhong's sharpshooters in the gutter - such as the little skylark.
Sure enough, not long after Yu Qiuping left, sporadic iron cannons began to shoot at the place where he was just now - Zahe Zhong didn't know how to really determine the location of Yu Qiuping. And in this deep mountain
In the old forest, Zahe Zhong obviously had an absolute advantage. Yu Qiuping could not feel at ease unless he hid in the blind spot mentioned by Amano Jingde.
The iron gunners of Zahezhong obviously also noticed Yu Qiuping who was moving. From time to time, a few bullets flew out from the dense forest and shot at the troops, knocking down the guards around Yu Qiuping and forcing Yu Qiuping to move around.
Rush to that depression.
When Yu Qiuping began to move his position surrounded by guards, Charlie, who was located on another high ground, immediately became confused and sent an envoy to ask Yu Qiuping why he wanted to move his position. The answer he received was that he wanted to move to a place where the iron cannon had no shooting angle.
safe area.
"There's no shooting angle? Where is it?" Charlie asked Mori Ranmaru who came to deliver the order.
"Charlie-sama, over there." Mori Ranmaru stretched out his small hand and pointed at the depression chosen by Amano Keitoku, "As long as the surrounding high ground is strangled, the enemy's iron gunners will not have the angle to shoot at His Highness."
"Why is there no angle? Aren't there mountains farther away?" Charlie pointed to a hill around the depression, "You can see the depression there."
"But the iron cannon can't shoot that far." Mori Ranmaru nodded firmly, "It's almost 300 meters from the mountain to the depression."
"Iron cannons can't hit them." Charlie shook his head and without saying anything else, he immediately got on his horse, greeted the cavalry platoon that was firing, and rushed towards Yu Qiuping.
But bows and arrows can.
Chapter completed!