Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 401 Attack
"Master, the palace of Kawahara is ahead!" The leader of the samurai bowed his head to Princess Saitama.

If only it was daytime!

Empress Saitama shook her head annoyedly. She was very familiar with this palace. She used to go there often when she was a child. She was very familiar with every building and every wall of that palace. With the sun, she could see the flags fluttering in the wind and the strength of the guards, but in the dark night, everything was gray and black, and the rain had stopped long ago, leaving only a thin mist.She looked up at the Kawahara Palace, where the oil lamps in the palace windows were burning, and the soft light flickered.Through the hazy night rain, the whole building looks weird and mysterious, like the dwelling of ghosts and gods in fairy tales, not human.However, she could still hear the drums and music of the sacrificial dance. Obviously, the people in the palace did not expect to be attacked by night on this holy day.

"Give me the bow!" Princess Saitama stretched out her right hand to the leading samurai, and the samurai's eyes widened in surprise: "Master, today is a sacred day of worship, you should not be contaminated with filth!"

"Give me the bow!" Princess Saitama's attitude was very firm, and the leading samurai had no choice but to hand over her bow. Princess Saitama drew a long arrow from her quiver, lit it with a torch, and then drew the bow to the full. Aim at the Kawahara Palace not far away, let go of the bowstring, only to see a little flame leave the string, cut through the night sky, draw an arc, and finally fall to the Kawahara Palace.

"If someone 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 drew a ditch in the ground, poured fish oil, and stuck torches into the ditch.The flame jumped up immediately, and the warriors inserted the prepared arrows into the ignited fish oil, then drew the bow and shot it with full force.Fire arrows pierced the night sky like raindrops, and then fell like a meteor shower.There was a sound of exclamation from the palace not far away, which was interrupted by the sound of drums. Princess Saitama heard someone shouting loudly, and someone was running with a torch on the outer wall. reflective.At this time, the second burst of fire arrows fell, and Princess Saitama heard someone screaming, and the flames rose from the roof. Seeing this scene, she couldn't help biting her lips tightly and showing a bloodthirsty smile.

"It's so beautiful, it's so beautiful! Brother, have you seen it? Have you seen this? But this is not enough, there are more, please read it carefully!"

After a few minutes, the fish oil dries up and the bow bag is empty.The samurai armed with steel knives, iron axes, and spears rushed towards the nearby palace in armor.

Princess Saitama stood on a high place, overlooking the battlefield.I saw that one of the two gates of the palace wall of Kawahara Palace had been captured.Then she saw the roof of the palace burst into flames, the walls began to overturn, the heavy roof fell on the heads of the crowd, the screams were so loud, she could even hear the words clearly through the music, black shadows moved towards the flames, steel flashed orange Light.

The fight, the fight is on!
She just felt like her blood was boiling, why am I a woman?Why am I a woman serving the gods?In an instant, 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 bows and knives.You can only kneel in front of the altar and pray to the gods.Compared with a warrior with a bow and a sword, this is too boring.

The palace became a battlefield, no, it should be said to be a slaughterhouse. The flames rising from the roof of the main hall reached into the air, and some nearby houses were also burning, and swords and swords were everywhere.Princess Saitama saw someone climb 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 oil that had been ignited.

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"Dear sister, do you think this is the eldest brother, the prince?"

The seaman prince frowned, looking at the charred corpse on the ground.

"This is the ring I found from his hand!" Princess Saitama clapped her hands, and there was a turquoise ring with obvious burn marks on the tray taken out by the maid. The seaman picked up the ring and looked at it carefully : "It really looks like the ring he usually wears, but the problem is that this ring can be worn by anyone!"

"I've already said it!" Empress Saitama frowned a little annoyedly: "That night was the Daisho Festival, and my attack caught Katsuragi by surprise. During the siege, he hid in the main hall and stood firm, but there were A lot of fish oil, the rocket hit the main hall, and it is also possible that he saw that there was no 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, "It's just that you don't think it's all gone too smoothly? Besides, we only have a piece of rotten meat that was burnt to pieces, so it's a bit convincing." Weak!"

Princess Saitama looked at Prince Hairen viciously, and the Hairen smiled at him. After a while, she turned her head and said, "It's all your fault, if you take off Nakatomi Kamazu's head, your persuasive power will also be reduced." That's enough!" It turned out that according to the agreement between the two of them in advance, Princess Saitama led troops to attack Kawahara Palace at night and took off the head of Prince Nakatomi; However, although Princess Saitama succeeded in the attack, she only found a charred corpse.

"That's right, it's indeed my fault!" The seaman laughed and said, "But there is another possibility: this was a trap from the very beginning!"

"trap?"

"Yes!" Hai Hairen said with a smile: "Gecheng expected that you would recruit me to attack him, so he asked me to tell you that in order to avoid conflicts, each family should not exceed 300 people. Then you will feel that you have an opportunity , and then both he and Nakatomi Kamazu hid, let the two of us do it first and expose the flaws!"

"This, how is this possible?" Princess Qiyu only felt a chill all over her body: "Didn't he already marry his daughter to you, why would he-"

"Gecheng doesn't only have one daughter!" Hairen laughed: "As you said, he has a son. If he can use this opportunity to kill you and me, then there is nothing to worry about!"

"This bastard!" Princess Saitama stomped her feet angrily: "It must be like this, it's okay now, both of us have violated the rules, and he can mobilize troops from various countries to conquer us! We are definitely not as good as him in this respect !"

"Don't worry, things may not be so bad!" Hairen patted Empress Saitama's right hand: "Maybe we still have a chance!"

"What chance? For the past 20 years, the state affairs have been in his hands. He is very familiar with the defenders of various countries. In just one or two months, tens of thousands of people can be gathered to attack us!"

"Yes, but it will take a month or two!" Hairen said with a smile: "If we become king now, and then immediately issue an order to all countries, declaring Katsuragi as an enemy of the dynasty, and punish them? Don't forget, no matter what Said that now the court and the country are in our hands!"

"Yes!" Princess Saitama's eyes lit up: "No matter how fast Katsuragi is, it will take a month or two to issue documents and recruit troops, and after we ascend the throne, we can issue orders immediately. As long as we are faster than him, we will enough!"

"Well! The most important thing right now is to control Namba Tsu and the land passage leading to Yoshino Kingdom!"

"Yes, I immediately ordered the shrines 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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building.

"Did the mutiny last night come to fruition?" Wang Wenzuo looked expectantly at Cui Hongdu who came in from the outside. He didn't sleep all night, as long as he was not deaf or blind, he would be awakened by the sound of killing.

"The result should be, but the Japanese haven't given an excuse yet!" Cui Hongdu smiled bitterly: "I really didn't expect it to come so soon!"

"The fuller the bow is, the faster the arrow will be shot! It used to be peaceful, but it came faster!" Wang Wenzuo frowned: "Cao Wenzong!"

"The villain is here!" Cao Wenzong bowed.

"Divide everyone into three teams, take turns to rest, don't relax!"

"Obey!" Cao Wenzong responded and withdrew.Cui Hongdu whispered: "Sanlang, are we going to make a move?"

"It shouldn't be that time yet!" Wang Wenzuo shook his head: "But if I'm not wrong, the new king of the Japanese people should come to see us soon!"

"Then whose side are we on?"

"Of course it's Datang's side!" Wang Wenzuo laughed: "It doesn't matter who becomes king, they are all Tang's vassals 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 the steps with a smile on her face. She raised her head with a haughty expression. It was as if he was on his own throne.

"Katsuragi died, just the night before yesterday!" Princess Saitama clenched her skirt tightly: "Hailin and I are about to become kings, your problem has been solved!"

"You mean that Prince Zhong died the night before yesterday!" Hearing the expected answer, Wang Wenzuo heaved a sigh of relief, even though he said every day that Princess Qiyu, Da Hairen and Brother Zhong were all the same in his eyes. But in the depths of his heart, the eldest brother and the prince are still the most important. Wang Wenzuo couldn't help feeling a little bit disappointed that such an enemy who had planned for a long time died so easily.

"That's right! I personally led the troops to attack Kawahara Palace. He was surrounded in the main hall and set fire to himself when he had nowhere to go!"

Wang Wenzuo looked at Princess Qiyu in surprise, how could this woman just admit it?It seems that the Japanese and Datang are really similar in terms of royal infighting, let alone the second brother.

"This is your country's internal affairs. As an envoy of the Tang Dynasty, I have nothing to say!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile, "It's just the three conditions my country mentioned earlier?"

"No problem, the country will definitely abide by it!" Princess Saitama replied very happily.

"That's good!" Wang Wenzuo breathed out a long breath. He had completed the main tasks of this trip, and he couldn't help feeling light in his heart, 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 help you with, please speak up!"

Empress Qiyu glanced at Cui Hongdu, her gaze was like flowing water, and said with a smile: "I heard that when Wang Shijun was in Baekje, he was a famous military master in the Tang army. Has the power of a king to envoy a king, I don’t know if it’s true or not?”

"Don't dare!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Everyone dare not to be an art of war, but Wang did put in a bit of effort in breaking the thief!"

"Oh? That would be great!" Qiyu 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 about Zhongchen's sickle feet?"

"I heard that it seems to be a famous minister of your country!"

"Well, this person is the minister of that guy of Gecheng. This time the capital changed drastically, he escaped and used the name of Gecheng to gather people to revolt in the county. This person is cunning and wise, and he is good at using soldiers. There are few opponents!"

"Fake Katsuragi's name?" Wang Wenzuo glanced at Princess Qitama, and his heart moved slightly.

"That guy Katsuragi has been in charge of state affairs for many years, and he is quite famous in various countries!" Empress Qiyu said with a smile: "The Zhongchen's move is just like Chen Sheng, Wu Guang's raising the names of Fusu and Xiang Yan, but it is very common!"

"The princess is right!" Wang Wenzuo laughed when he heard the words: "Since you have opened your mouth, I will naturally let you be urged!"

"Okay!" Princess Qiyu was overjoyed when she heard the words: "If the thieves can be put down this time, I will repay the whole country by myself!"

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"Your Majesty!" Looking at the back of Empress Qiyu leaving, Cui Hongdu lowered his voice and said, "I'm afraid there are many falsehoods in what this woman said!"

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Wang Wenzuo laughed.

"She first said that she killed Brother Zhong, the chief minister, but then said that Zhongchen Lianzu recruited troops to revolt in the name of Brother Zhong. Could it be that Brother Zhong didn't die at all, and she lied to us!"

"It is indeed possible!" Wang Wenzuo nodded: "However, one thing is certain, even if Brother Zhong and the prince are not dead, he has already fled the capital. Right now, the capital is under the control of this woman!"

"That's true!" Cui Hongdu nodded: "But I think there is no city wall in this capital, so there is no danger to defend it. Even if you occupy the capital, it doesn't seem to be of much use, right?"

As Cui Hongdu said, the capital city of ancient Japan had no city walls for quite a long time (in fact, except for Osaka, all the big cities in ancient Japan had no city walls). The overall situation has been decided (success in Shangluo).In this case, controlling Kyoto only has political and economic advantages, but it is actually of no great benefit militarily.

(End of this chapter)