Warring States Eagle

It was dusk on December [-]th, the ninth year of Tianwen.

After nearly an hour's trek, Zheng Liang and others finally arrived at the mountain of Riyue Mountain.

Looking down from the mountainside tens of meters high.I saw a big city built on the mountainside looking extraordinarily beautiful under the winter sunset.

That is Kishidake Castle, the main city of Hatata.

As for why it was named Anyue City, even Zheng Liang didn't know. In private, he guessed that it was named so because the city was built on Anyue Mountain.Geographically speaking, behind Mount Kishidake is Mount Onodake, on the left is Mount Ridake where Masara is currently located, on the right is Mount Ri Highland, and in front of it is the Matsuura River that runs through Hizen from east to west.Since ancient times, if you don't want to detour from the sea to Higashi Matsuura, you usually take the mountain road between Mount Giandake, Mount Onodake, Mount Ri's Highland, and Mount Ridake, or take the Matsuura River directly.

As the center of these two roads, the geographical location of Mount Kishidake is particularly important. It can be said that as long as you control Mount Kishidake, you will control the passage between East and West Hizen.When Bodo started, it gradually developed because of occupying this geographical location.

In order to guard against the aggression of the Ryuzoji Temple in the east, Hatata built the Lion City on the other side of Rizhi Highland Mountain, which was used as the Matsuura River and the mountain road entering Kishidake Castle from that side.Now this city has been used as the front line to resist the threat from the Longzouji family and other tyrannical powers.

On the far side of Onoyake Mountain, at the junction of the Matsuura River and the Momogawa River, another fortress was set up.Named Ri Zaicheng.To monitor the passage into Mt. Kishidake from that direction.It is now the front line against the invasion of the Goto family and the Hirado Matsuura family.

Both Lion City and Rizai City are not far from Anyue City.Among them, Lion City can be reached in less than an hour along the mountain road, and it can be reached in less than half an hour if it is along the waterway.But Ri is in the city, because the streams and waterways in the mountains are difficult to walk, so they can only come along the mountain road.But it can be reached in less than an hour and a half.Don't think that such a distance is very far. In fact, it is because of the need to trek on the mountain road. As far as the straight-line distance is concerned, even as long as the smoke is ignited on the Anyue City, the other two fortresses can be vaguely seen.

"How's the situation in the city?" Zheng Liang stood on the mountainside and asked Hei Ying, who had been monitoring the city of Anyue nearby.

"Your Highness, since most of the defenders in the city were transferred back to Tangjin last night, there is not a large number of troops stationed today," Black Eagle replied.

"How many people are there in the city now?"

"Because I didn't dare to get too close. I can't accurately know the situation of the guards in the city for the time being, but judging from the situation of entering and exiting and the guards at the gate, the villain judges that there are only about a dozen guards in the city," Black Eagle replied.

Dozens of people?This time I also brought dozens of people, the number is the same.under the same number of people.Obviously it is more beneficial to the defenders.

But Zhengliang has the confidence to win this raid.

The other party definitely didn't expect that the Luo family's troops, who were supposed to deal with the coalition forces temporarily organized by Bodo in the Sashi family's territory, would appear here.As Onishi Kuniji said, since the opponent can respond so quickly after receiving the information from the East Matsuura Peninsula, then there must be someone with good intelligence in the opponent's formation.And often smart people are often mistaken by themselves.According to normal reasoning, it is not difficult to see.After facing the aid coalition led by Bodo, the Luo family could only form a confrontation with them.If the Luo family continued to attack, they would definitely be stopped by the coalition forces; if the Luo family retreated immediately, the coalition forces would most likely take advantage of the momentum to pursue them.This led to the collapse of the Luo family.So at this time, the best way for the Luo family to deal with it is to confront on the spot.Back away slowly.

Such reasoning is quite reasonable.It's a pity that the opponent definitely didn't expect Zheng Liang to be a guy who doesn't play cards according to common sense. This can be seen from the fact that he used to earn thousands of shi from the territory but built an army that can only be supported by tens of thousands of shi.

It is even more unexpected for the other party.The western region, which has always been regarded by the tyrants as a wild and chaotic place with many pirates, was occupied by the Luo family a long time ago.And the Luo family even secretly opened up a road in the vast forest to the vicinity of Anyue City.

With these two unexpected factors and when the guards of Kishidake City are empty at the moment, it is a favorable time for the Luo family to launch an attack.The chance of winning is [-]%.

There are two gates in Kishidake, one facing the direction of Matsuura River, which is facing the castle and the towns along the Matsuura River, which is the most developed place in Kishidake Castle; and the second gate is the gate facing Onoyake. The city gate here is more used as the back door and the role of monitoring the mountain road.

At dusk, at the gate of Kishidake Castle facing Onodake, the four ashigaru still stood firm at their posts.But it was already dusk, and in a few quarters of an hour, their duty on duty today would end, and the city gate behind them would be closed at night.So the few ashigaru who were eager to go home were a little bit depressed.

Then again, if it wasn't for the recent confrontation between the Lion City family and the Longzouji family, and the fact that Tangjin's family has been separated one after another, they would have been chatting with each other at this time, it would still be like today, so be careful Carefully pay attention to the passage below the mountain.

"Who is coming? Stop quickly." At this moment, an ashigaru yelled at the mountain road leading to the gate at the foot of the mountain.The rest of the Ashgaru, who were already a little distracted, immediately looked towards the mountain path.

I saw two people dressed in two ashigaru coming towards the gate quickly.After seeing the ashigaru of the gatekeeper yelling to stop, the two didn't intend to stop at all, but continued to run up quickly, one of them shouted while running: "Hurry up, Lion City urgent report!"

At this time, the two people who were approaching quickly were about to run to the city gate.The clothes of the two of them have become more and more clear.

"They are from Lion City," said one of the gatekeepers, Ashgaru.Because he could clearly see that the clothes of the two men and the banners behind them were the family crests of one of the retainers of Bodo in the Lion City.

"Let the people inside open the city gate" After confirming the arrival, the four ashigaru immediately asked the guards behind the city gate to open the city gate.

With a "squeak", the city gate slowly opened.At this time, the two ashigaru who came to report came to the front.

One of the gatekeepers casually extended his right hand to the two men.This is the token that the guard asked the two men to enter the city.Without a passing token, it is not allowed to enter the city.