I am the savior, do you have any objection?

The next moment, the sound of some huge creature moving rapidly in the night suddenly erupted along with the sound of crashing into the cliff.

The wolf jumped up, and without a prosthetic arm, he could only shake the lantern in panic and grab a branch.

With the help of the dim light, you can see a terrifying snake head covered with fist-sized white scales.

The moment he saw this thing, Kerry was stunned.

The system in Kerry's mind asked anxiously,

[Host, aren't you going to take it to the inner palace? Why are you standing there in a daze? ]

"Nothing...nothing. I just found out that the real thing is so beautiful, and I'm a little reluctant to give it up."

【Host, please be more normal at this time! 】

"What's abnormal? What man can resist such a giant reptile? I really want to raise one!"

In desperation, Kerry flew up, grabbed the dazed wolf, and began to fly slowly into the sky.

The White Snake God seemed to be starving. In the past, Ashina people would sacrifice living people from time to time, but he hadn't eaten for a long time. When he saw the two delicacies delivered to his door, he couldn't help but twist his body and chase after them on the mountain path.

"Look, if you don't eat it, it will all be wasted!"

Using his spiritual sense, Kerry discovered that the white snake had already crushed all the graves and offerings, and he couldn't help but angrily denounce the wolf's extravagance.

At this time, except for one-third of the people who were on night watch, the soldiers of the inner court were enjoying a baby-like sleep and preparing for the attack on Ashina the next day.

Chapter 162: Inner Court: Quack!

In front of the simple camp gate.

Two Red Army soldiers on night duty were chatting.

"Do you think it's really necessary to keep watch? The general is hoping that Ashina will come out on her own, so that we can just fight our way up the mountain and win, right?"

"That's what I think, but that's how it works on a march. Forget it, we're about to change shifts, so we can get some sleep. It's a pity that the young woman from that small village was taken away by the captain last time, so the brothers can only relieve themselves with a woman who looks older than my mother."

Just as the two were chatting, they suddenly felt some vibration under their feet.

The two looked at each other and immediately turned around and shouted.

"There's an earthquake! There's an earthquake! Everyone, get up!"

Earthquakes during marches were commonplace for Japanese soldiers. Fortunately, they were not stationed on the seashore, so they only had to call on everyone to stay away from the mountains and watch out for fires.

However, when the two turned around and shouted, they did not notice that a huge shadow had jumped out from under the cliff.

"What's wrong!"

Hearing the commotion outside, Honda Heihachiro suddenly stood up without taking off his armor.

The samurai of this era tended to believe in Miyamoto Musashi's approach, exposing as few flaws as possible and not letting their swords and armor be too far away from themselves to prevent sneak attacks.

Of course, it is said that Miyamoto Musashi never took a bath for the rest of his life, and in order to prevent being attacked during pleasure, he never touched women.

If it's the female Musashi in fgo who hasn't taken a bath for a long time... Hmm! Good smell~

Honda Heihachiro walked out, and his samurai attendants at the entrance of the tent also poked their heads in anxiously.

"No! It's bad! Sir, it seems that Ashina has used magic to summon a snake demon to attack the camp!"

Honda was already furious because of the failed siege and the fact that he was demoted from his command position. When he heard that monsters were attacking the camp, he immediately picked up his spear and rushed out.

It's just a monster. Every samurai in this era has killed one before, right?

According to legend, Miyamoto Musashi once slew a dragon, and later generations even painted a Ukiyo-e mural about it as a house-guarding mural.

What's so good about a mere little demon...

The first warrior of the contemporary era rolled aside the tent curtain and saw a white body like a train twisting violently past him.

Honda Heihachiro: “?”

He looked at the spear and sword in his hands, then looked at the snake neck and head that suddenly stood up in the distance, like a tall building in the moonlight.

This...isn't this right?

You call this thing a monster?

However, as a samurai, he took action immediately, stuffed a mouthful of imported medicine from Xianfeng Temple into his mouth and took action.

In order to raise funds for the experiment, Xianfeng Temple actually resold various drugs on a large scale. The most popular one was Yaksha Candy, which put a huge burden on the body but could greatly improve the user's physical fitness in a short period of time.

The White Snake God was originally very angry. He was sleeping soundly when some little creatures woke him up, and one of them was carrying the immortal power that he hated the most.

As a result, I wanted to eat it easily, but the little thing flew away and I couldn't eat it after chasing it for a long time.

But now it is not angry at all.

Cool! So cool! Eating! Cool!

The White Snake God found himself at a buffet, and unlike Ashina who might be noticed by the dragon if he went up there, the dragon didn't care about him.

With one bite, the big snake killed a palace soldier; with two bites, it killed a palace horse. The big snake completely forgot about chasing after the Long Yin contractors and just started eating like crazy!

On the cliff, the embarrassed Wolf and Kerry, who had accomplished his task, landed down. At this time, Genichirō was already watching here.

Looking into the distance, the entire stretched-out position of the inner palace was in chaos. Amid flames rising into the sky, the wails and screams of the inner palace soldiers could be heard everywhere.

The screams even reached the mountain, allowing them to hear them clearly.

"It has been worshipped by Ashina for many years, and it is time for it to do something for Ashina."

Genichirō spoke without mercy.

After stirring underground for more than ten minutes, a huge roar suddenly came from there.

Then the white snake in the army formation twisted wildly and began to retreat to the place where it came from.

It seemed that the white snake was traumatized, and the warriors of the inner court probably found the weak point of its head.

"Thank you. This is the first time I've heard a snake call in my life."

While watching the show, Kerry picked out some melon seeds and stuffed them into his mouth.

After one night, the entire area below Ashina Castle looked like ruins. It was estimated that after the imperial court left, there was still a lot of work to be done just to repair the roads.

The soldiers of the inner court sat in a place filled with thick smoke in a panic, unable to cry.

Everyone was busy all night putting out the fire and rescuing supplies and the wounded.

After counting the casualties, it was found that many siege machines were directly damaged, more than 300 soldiers were killed directly, and more than 2000 were injured.

Most of them were hit to death or crushed when the big snake was twisting around for no reason. There were actually only about a dozen of them eaten by the snake.

It was extremely cold in Ashina, and even though we worked hard all night and didn't die, we still lost half our lives.

Honda Heihachiro sat in the camp with his spear. It was he who took the secret medicine and severely injured the White Snake last night. Since he was not immortal, he was now suffering from the side effects of the medicine and his body was slowly adjusting.

Tired, he could only sigh as he looked at his junior Ii Naomasa, who was equally tired and even felt like he was about to die from overwork.

A little-known fact: in history, Ii Naomasa died of overwork during these two years.

The two of them sat around the fire, looking at each other in silence.

But just at this moment, panicked shouts were heard again.

"Not good! It seems that the Ashina insiders are mobilizing troops and are about to leave the city to attack us!"

The ninja who was monitoring the internal situation of Ashina from afar blew the flute below, and the ninja who had deciphered his companions' secret code came to report in a panic.

Actually, the inner court initially planned to hang ninjas on kites and release them into the sky for surveillance. But it was unknown where Ashina got so many super long-range weapons, and the ninjas that were sent up were treated as moving targets by Ashina Isshin in Ashina Castle.

When they came down, everyone either had their imaginations opened up or opened their hearts.

"what!"

Hearing that the other side was mobilizing troops at this time, the two commanders stood up immediately without caring about anything else.

"Organize the troops, form a battle formation and withdraw immediately! Anyone who disobeys orders for any reason will be executed!"

Neither of them had any intention of taking advantage of the other's exit from the city to allow these tired soldiers to fight a bloody battle with Ashina and then seize the city gate.

After all, they have a large rear base, unlike the Ashina who are probably cannibalizing each other as their trade routes have been completely blocked. Even if the general is in a hurry, he must consider casualties and can wait for a short rest, or fight while retreating and then launch a counterattack.

But they didn't know that the general they were thinking about was not much better than them.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, who fell off his horse and was injured, was dragged onto a carriage by the soldiers.

The soldiers could still hear his constant mumbling.

"Impossible, how could they lose in a land battle? They had an army of 6..."

The loud conversations of the Ming army could still be heard in the distance.

"Grandpa Taizu said that except for those in the mountains, we can't move. We will get 2% of the silver we robbed this time! I already have a wife!"

Chapter 163 Yuan Shen, activate!

Ashina, castle tower.

Ashina Isshin drank the liquid flowing from under Kerry's bracelet, and his face turned a little red.

"I hesitated. If I hadn't hesitated, I would have won."

No matter if there is a card or not, kill them all.

The inner palace had been attacked by a white snake one night before. During the day, as a military strategist and Grand Minister, Keri naturally adopted the tactical idea of ​​​​tiring the enemy and disturbing them, and directly ordered to beat the enemy who was down and out.

In order to reduce the losses on the Ashina side, Kerry was the first to bear the brunt.

As a result, when the old guy Ashina Isshin met Honda Heihachiro on the battlefield, he insisted on fighting with the opponent and even took off his clothes to embarrass the enemy.

As a result, when Honda Heihachiro saw Isshin going into battle, he also dismounted to fight.

The result was that the two old men announced each other's names and said they would use a secret sword to decide the winner.

Then...

Then, old man Yi Xin used his unique skills to create wind pressure and countless sword lights while taking out his pistol.

Old Deng over there also gave a look and called out Ii Naomasa, who was hiding in the chaotic army, to launch a surprise attack on old man Isshin.

The gun hit Honda Heihachiro's thigh, leaving a big wound on the old man who was known for being unscathed in hundreds of battles.

Yixin himself was stabbed in the shoulder. If Kerry hadn't seen it and stopped him, he would have been cut in two by a cassock.

According to the old man, he had actually discovered Ii Naomasa a long time ago, but facing such a strong enemy, the only way to win was to exchange injuries for injuries.

I don't know if this is just talk or the truth.

Anyway, the old man is lying down and recuperating now.

It is now the twelfth day since the White Snake attacked the Imperial Army Camp, and it is also five days after Tokugawa led his troops to fight a fierce battle with the Ming army on the Sakata coast near Kyoto.

In Kerry's perception, General Sakata Mori had already cut off ties with Tokugawa Ieyasu, and said that Tokugawa was the sinner who controlled the Emperor, and that the Emperor had no intention of going to war with the Ming Dynasty, and that it was all Tokugawa's own fault. He also asked General Qi to help eliminate the treacherous villain and return power to the Ming Dynasty.

General Qi naturally would not believe these people's lies. Although many Japanese pirates were actually people from the mainland in disguise, there were real ones. For example, in a place like Sakata, there was even a fleet that was specifically responsible for looting the ports of the Ming Dynasty.

Simply leave a part of the army to control the city and continue to move forward. Japan only has to go through one province and can reach Hokkaido in less than two days.

Tokugawa also reorganized his army and prepared for a decisive battle with the Ming navy at the entrance of Hokkaido and Honshu Port, in Aomori.

That place is also quite famous. If the map of Japan is compared to a seahorse, then that is where the seahorse's neck and head are connected. In fact, these two places are not in the same place because of the strait.

In the early years, Russia had ships passing through there, insisting that they were sailing on the sea and did not enter your Japanese territory. The United States also goes in and out every day to take care of its bad daughter's health. Japan shouts very loudly every day, and they dare not even fart if they really see someone passing through.

And because the location of the decisive battle was very close to Ashina, the troops surrounding Ashina also received orders from the headquarters to be transferred to Haikou.

The two brothers Honda and Ii were originally discussing how they felt guilty about their kindness to the general and wanted to personally take the head of the King of Ashina and apologize outside Nijo Castle.

When I received the news, I was completely stunned.

As mentioned earlier, in order to reassure the generals outside, Tokugawa did not actually tell the front line that there was a small problem at the rear.

Later, Ii Naomasa did hear some rumors, but when he left his post, the version he heard was one that was strongly condemned by an envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty, and he was asked to keep it secret.

So the two were discussing how to attack Ashina when they suddenly received the news.

Damn it! The suzerain state of Ashina has already sent a fleet to Haikou!

They're about to land and attack us!

No, isn’t it generally the case that such strong condemnation is followed by nothing being done, or all support other than actual support being given?

How the hell did this guy come straight to my doorstep?

And what is the general doing? Is our Yamato Navy a bunch of good-for-nothings?