.    Xiaogu City is 299 meters high. In fact, it is not that its wall is really 299 meters high, but because it is built on a hill that is more than 280 meters high. This hill is very strange. Its four sides are like a knife-cut cliff, which makes it look like it is hanging in the air when it looks from the foot of the mountain.

This cliff was built manually to form several steps surrounding the mountain wall, circling upward from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, with thousands of steps.

Yi Yun and Chen Yuanyuan held hands and walked up the stone staircase surrounding the mountain...

The stone stairs are not slippery, and there is no longer any moss. In fact, before the Oda family's army surrounded the mountain, the Asai family members had to go up and down the stone stairs every day, either carrying water, transporting food, or a large number of troops entered and left the city. Because people walked for many years, these stone stairs were very clean and not slippery. Walking on them was quite relaxing.

Yi Yun and Chen Yuanyuan were both very careful and took every step very lightly, for fear of a sound coming out.

"My husband, your pace is getting lighter and lighter when you sneak. It seems that you are quite proficient in the profession of assassin." Chen Yuanyuan bit his ear and smiled.

"That's right, since I was able to work part-time, I have been using this profession almost anytime and anywhere. Invisibility is really useful." Yi Yun said with a smile.

"My husband, the closer we get to the castle, please put your steps lighter! It won't take long to encounter the enemy's ninjas." Chen Yuanyuan's voice sank: "Do you remember the last time we reinforced Hangzhou, we fought with the ninja troops? That time, even I was almost stabbed by a fourth-level ninja. Don't take Fusang Ninjas lightly."

Yi Yun nodded.

"Confirm the difference between the Assassin of the Great Man Kingdom and the Fusang Ninja again!" Chen Yuanyuan said seriously: "This will affect the success or failure of our battle."

Yi Yun replied honestly: "I know, you once said that the invisibility technique of Fusang Ninja is called the Mist Hidden Technique. The person who casts the technique will turn into a fog, so... Fusang Ninja will not make any sound at all when invisible, but if you look carefully, you can see a faint light smoke. But our Assassins in Da Mengguo are different. We use stealth, which is a skill that makes ourselves invisible, so we will still make a sound when we walk around. In short, Fusang Ninja can see, but not hear. Da Mengguo Assassins can hear, but not see."

"Very good! You remember correctly." Chen Yuanyuan said seriously: "There is another point. Our Assassins in the Great Mansion have stronger physical combat power, but Fusang Ninjas are better at using various ninjas. In short, they are powerful with strange tricks, and they are powerful in front of us."

"Understood!"

"Remembering these two points will be useful when we encounter Iga ninjas."

"I know, my wife."

The two of them rotated up the stone stairs, but they did not encounter the enemy's post along the way. The reason was very simple. The Oda family army was at the foot of the mountain. In order to better defend, the Asai army had already reduced all its combat power into the Koya Castle on the top of the mountain. If the soldiers were arranged on the stone stairs on the hillside, it would be better to disperse the troops and set up defenses everywhere in order to avoid wasting some force.

Of course, it is not right to say that this mountain road is not entirely unguarded, because sentries are monitoring every move on the mountain road at any time in the castle. If any suspicious shadow appears on the mountain road, the sentries will immediately call the police. However, the sentries can only see ordinary people in their eyes. They cannot see invisible professions.

The two of them walked to the top of the mountain, touched the cold city wall, and then stopped. Yi Yun estimated that the city wall was about seven or eight meters high, which was the city wall of Xiaogu City itself. After climbing over this wall, you can enter the city.

"Note... there are sentries on the wall in front of the left... there is a patrol team fifty steps away from the front of the right..." Chen Yuanyuan reminded in a low voice.

Yi Yun nodded: "He can actually feel these sentries."

"In the shadow in the corner of the city wall in front of the left, there is a ninja lurking, probably a third-level ninja." Chen Yuanyuan pointed to the position of a shadow.

Yi Yun was slightly shocked and quickly turned his head to look. He saw that there was indeed a wisp of clear 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 weren't for Chen Yuanyuan's reminder, Yi Yun wouldn't have seen it.

Yuanyuan is still better at his skills... Yi Yun couldn't help but think from the bottom of his heart.

At this time, Chen Yuanyuan took out a hook claw with a rope from her arms and wanted to throw it onto the city wall. Although she is a fifth-level god of death, it is not so easy to climb up the smooth city wall. She must use certain tools.

Yi Yun couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "This hook claw is made of iron? Can it be silent when thrown on it?"

"Well, it's very difficult!" Chen Yuanyuan said bluntly: "Even I was not sure that I would throw the hook into the city without any sound, so... the assassins in our Sanjiang Pavilion often acted when it rained heavily or when it was strong winds. But this time the action was different. If it was delayed, the three girls would be done, so they had to try it forcibly."

"Then be careful." Yi Yun couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Chen Yuanyuan gently pinched the hook claws and threw it gracefully like a cat's movement. The hook claws were set against the dark night sky, and even a trace of parabola was not drawn out in the air. Then they slid onto the city wall without any sound, hooking onto the bricks on the top of the wall.

"Good!" Yi Yun was overjoyed: "I deserve to be my Yuanyuan girl."

The two of them climbed up the wall one after another, following the rope. Since an enemy third-level ninja lurked nearby, they did not dare to make any sound. This took a lot of effort and was much harder than ordinary rope climbing.

It was not until he climbed into the city wall and fell into a dark corridor that Yi Yun breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, let's guess where the enemy imprisons the prisoners!" Chen Yuanyuan asked Yi Yun: "My husband, aren't you a good friend in Fusang? Where does Fusang people usually imprison the prisoners in the castle?"

This question really made Yi Yun pass the exam. If the prisoners were locked in the castle of Da Mengguo, they would almost be locked in the dungeon without exception. People from Da Mengguo like to do this, digging a cellar under the castle, making it dark and damp, and then hanging the torture instruments and other things inside, and then getting the prisoners in it, which would look very gloomy and terrifying.

But how did the people in Fusang during the Warring States Period imprisonment? Will there be dungeons in this castle? Yi Yun was confused. He had to say helplessly to Chen Yuanyuan: "I don't know!"

"Then there is nothing to do, just look for it slowly." The two of them searched aimlessly in the castle along the dark alley.

Both of them thought they would have to search for a long time, and they might have to search all the rooms before they could find them. Unexpectedly, after only passing through a few alleys, they found the target they were looking for in a yard in the back city.

This is an empty yard with a flat ground in the middle of the yard, with three wooden cages placed on the flat ground, and three depressed girls were imprisoned in these three cages. Not far from the cage, there was also a group of Fusang samurai and a few hidden ninjas. It seemed that they were responsible for guarding the prisoners.

Yi Yun Dahan: "It's so simple to lock it up? Just put it in such a conspicuous place?"

It is no wonder that Yi Yun was surprised. In fact, during the Warring States Period of Fusang, it was not popular to imprison prisoners. The defeated side often killed all the samurai soldiers of the defeated side, or brought them to their commands. Few people were locked up. Because the warriors could not stand such a great humiliation, they either surrendered or committed suicide before being locked up.

So during the Warring States Period of Fusang, the daimyos generally did not imprison prisoners, so of course there was no dungeon-like things. Of course, they would occasionally catch someone and not kill them for the time being. For example, Tokugawa Ieyasu caught Mitsunari Ishida and did not kill them in a short period of time. Where should they be locked up? In fact, it is very simple. Put them in a cage and throw them directly on an open space in the middle of the castle... simple and convenient!

What Yi Yun encountered now was the simple and direct way for the Fusang people to detain prisoners.

He and Chen Yuanyuan did not dare to get close for the moment, but only looked at each other from a distance. The cage closest to them was Takigawa Ichii. This ninja girl who was just young was lying in the cage. Because she was facing down, she couldn't see her face clearly. She could only see the blood on her shoulders slowly leaching out. Her clothes were all red, and a pool of blood was flowing on the ground. Look, if no one came to save her, even if the Asai family members didn't kill her, she would die.

The cage next to it was Kasuka Kojiro. She was sitting, staring at Takigawa Ichii's cage, as if muttering something in her mouth, as if: "Sir Ichii, hold on, don't die!"

In the farthest cage, there was a noble and elegant woman sitting. Although she was in the cage, she sat very dignifiedly. She wore a pink kimono embroidered with tassels on her body, making her look like a young man. In fact, she was originally a princess, and she was the princess of the Oda family, Lord Oda City Hime.

Her face looked very similar to Nobunaga, and her eyebrows and eyes seemed to be poured out of the same mold, but the temperaments of the two were completely different. Nobunaga's temperament was charming and ruthless, which made him feel that he was not a gentle woman, but a ruthless samurai. But Ichihime was different. She was about twenty-five years old this year, as tall as jade and as gentle as water. Looking at her, you can tell that she did not survive as a samurai, but as a traditional fusanthemum woman.

Tsk, this is what a woman is called! Yi Yun couldn't help but sigh: "I still like such a woman more!"

After hearing this, Chen Yuanyuan snorted coldly and bit Yi Yun's neck in one bite.

"Oh! You... why did you learn from foxes?" Yi Yun knelt.
Chapter completed!