Chapter five hundred and seventy seventh dead end
The envoy of the Suzuki family said that Shigei Suzuki refused to come to the Red Leaf Army camp to negotiate, and the Yuqiu family also refused to let Yuqiuhei enter the city. The two sides were in a stalemate and the negotiations were about to be ruined.
At this time, the messenger of the Suzuki family suddenly made a suggestion.
"Why just find a place to negotiate in the back mountain of Jaga Castle."
"When you go to the back mountain of Zaga Castle, what if you suddenly come out?" Mimaezaki Naka Hide sneered disdainfully, "What's the difference between going to your town?"
"Zagazhong guaranteed his reputation that he would not do such a thing." The messenger whispered very solemnly.
"What's the use of asking for your reputation? Is our Highness's life important or your reputation important?" Ji Gang Shengzheng slapped his hand on the table, "Either surrender or beat him, where did so many things come from!"
"The lord is sincere in negotiating." The messenger saw the remaining officials of the Yuqiu family excitedly, his tone softened a little, and he whispered.
Just as Jigang Shengzheng was about to continue slapping the table and staring at him, a somewhat hoarse and low voice suddenly rang in his ears.
"We believe in your sincerity." Amano Keito replied in a low voice, "For the sake of the creatures in Zaga Castle, the lord is also willing to negotiate with you. Just negotiate on the mountain."
As soon as Amano Keito 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 that everyone had expressed such expressions that they realized that they were not hallucinating.
How is that possible? How could Amano Keito, who has always been the most cautious and used the most sinister attitude to speculate on others' intentions and can conspire in all ordinary trivial matters, would have agreed to Yu Qiuhei to go to that kind of place? He should be the one who firmly rejects this proposal!
"However, we need to send someone to control the east gate of Zaga Castle facing the back mountain to ensure that the Zaga crowd will not suddenly leave the city and attack the lord."
Then, Keidu Amano coldly put forward this condition, his tone firm and unquestionable. "Otherwise, everything will be free from discussion."
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On November 25, on the back mountain of Saga Castle, a fully armed team was escorting a man to the scheduled negotiation location. On the wall of Saga Castle East City not far away, the Red Leaf Army's Football and the Ninja of the Military Intelligence Division were taking control of the city gate.
Yu Qiuping was standing on a hill in the distance, watching the fully armed squad slowly moving into the forest. The squad was commanded by Tadao Honda, and they were escorting Yu Qiuping's shadow warrior - a substitute selected from the crow.
Yu Qiuping and the retainers of Yu Qiuqiu family were not wrong. Amano Keido was indeed impossible to agree to such conditions. He would never let Yu Qiuping take risks. The reason why he agreed to the negotiation was a complete conspiracy.
Yu Qiuhei himself would not go to the negotiation site. On the contrary, the one who went to the negotiation site was a ninja selected from the crow. Amano Keito firmly believed that the Saga people asked Yu Qiuhei to enter the mountain and would definitely attack Yu Qiuhei, so he found a substitute with a similar appearance. After Ye Gusuko put on makeup, people who were not familiar with Yu Qiuhei could not recognize him at first glance.
In order to win the trust of Yu Qiuping and let Yu Qiuping go up the mountain with peace of mind, Zagazhong agreed to the request to let the Red Leaf Army control the Dongcheng City Gate. Amano Keidu concluded that they must have ambushed the iron artillery team in the mountains early in the morning, so there was no need to transfer people from the Dongmen again.
When the substitute arrives at the negotiation site, the people of the Zaga people will definitely attack. Once they take action, the Red Leaf Army will be polite and immediately attack Zaga City. For this reason, Charlie led Ming Di Bei to approach the back mountain for a distance, ensuring that he could go to the East Gate within a short time after the attack began. The Red Leaf Army and the Ninja at the East Gate will be responsible for resisting for a period of time and waiting for Charlie's Ming Di Bei to enter the city.
Amano Keito's plan was to use the trick. Since the Zaga crowd was about to assassinate Yu Qiuhei, he would give him a substitute to assassinate him. The Red Leaf Army could gain the excuse of the attack and directly defeat Zaga Castle.
Yu Qiuping was worried about the safety of the bait force and tried to persuade Tada Honda not to lead the team himself, but was rejected by him.
"Stay with your subordinates." Honda Tadakashi replied, "As a samurai, how can you retreat from fear?"
If he couldn't tell Tadao, Yu Qiuhei had no choice. However, compared to this, he still felt that there was a major omission in the plan: "Main Side, if Shigei Suzuki really kept his promise, he came to negotiate with me and had no intention of assassinating me at all. What should he do? Shigei Suzuki had seen me, and when our substitute met him, the negotiations would be revealed at the beginning."
"If the Zaga people do not intend to assassinate Your Highness, let them come down." After hearing Yu Qiuhei's question, Amano replied almost without thinking, "I arranged a crow dressed as a Zaga people in the back mountain. If the Zaga people did not attack the bait, let them attack the crows. Then, use this as an excuse and start attacking the city naturally."
"What do you want to do, a crow? Is this conspiracy to make Your Highness lose trust in the world and abandon all the reputation accumulated over the past decade? Abandon your own beliefs?" Takenaka Shigeji was shocked when he heard this, and his face turned pale and retorted in a deep voice.
"I will handle it properly and will not stain your highness's hands." Amano Keidu shook his head, "I won't show any flaws, please rest assured."
"This is not a question of being uneasy." Takenaka Shigeji stepped forward, stood in front of Amano Keito, and stared into his eyes, "No conspiracy is a matter of principle."
"This is a war, not a joke. Conspiracy can make us die less." Amano Keidu was not infected by Takenaka Shigeji's emotions, but still whispered calmly.
"You are not a young man, you must know that there must be people doing dirty things in a family."
"Winning in the dark is nothing more than repeating the cycle of governance and chaos. What's the point of dying a few fewer people? The dark history aroused ambitions a few hundred years later. When war starts again, countless people will die." Takenaka Shigeji shook his head and said in a decisive tone, "I refuse to implement such a plan. If it is really a ninja attack from the Raven, please let Lord Fukuzawa take over my command temporarily, I will not participate in the command."
"That's your right." Amano Keidu nodded slightly, "You are very wise."
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Pulling his thoughts back to the battle situation in front of him, Yu Qiuping stared at the small army slowly towards the predetermined negotiation location. He was focused on guarding the mountains and forests on both sides of the road, fearing that gunfire would suddenly sound. However, he faintly hoped that the gunfire was fired by the Zaga crowd - so that he would not have to use conspiracy against his conscience.
When the team was about to arrive at the negotiation site, gunfire suddenly sounded loudly in the woods on both sides. The team that had already prepared was lying down on the spot and searched for cover on the spot. The iron gunner of the dynasty immediately climbed up to the high ground and shot blindly into the woods on both sides to suppress the forces of the dynasty. At the same time, the dynasty in the dynasty city also began to attack the east gate and fought fiercely with the Red Leaf Army guarding the east gate. Charlie immediately ordered the dynasty to move towards the east gate to meet the troops there.
However, Keido Amano, who was beside Yu Qiuping, only took a few glances and found something was wrong.
"Faint attack..." Amano Keidu reminded in a low voice, "They obviously guessed that the team would be a substitute."
"How can I see it?" Yu Qiuping 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 were really a slaughter, how could I hesitate?" Amano Jingde shook his head and immediately said in a deep voice, "This time the attack was just to find where His Highness is through the mobilization and banner of the Red Leaf Army. It is very likely that he has succeeded. Although it is easy to command, it is within the range of the iron cannon. Please transfer it immediately."
"Where did you transfer?" Yu Qiuping turned around, looked at Amano Keidu's confident expression, and felt relieved.
"Go there." Amano Keidu pointed to a small low-lying among hills. "As long as you enter the low-lying and strangle the surrounding high ground, it will become a dead end for the shooting of the iron cannon."
"Okay, let's go immediately." Yu Qiuping was also worried that his place would be exposed, and was hit by the sharpshooter of Zagazhong in the gutter - such as the little Skylark.
As expected, shortly after Yu Qiuhei left, sporadic iron cannons began to shoot at the place where he was just now. Zagazhong didn't know how to really determine Yu Qiuhei's location. And in this deep mountains and forests, Zagazhong obviously has an absolute advantage. Yu Qiuhei could not feel at ease unless he hid in the shooting dead corner of Amano Keito's mouth.
The iron gunners of the Zagazhong obviously noticed Yu Qiuping who was moving. From time to time, a few bullets flew out of the dense forest and shot at the army, knocking down the guards around Yu Qiuping, and forcing Yu Qiuping to rush to the depression for a moment.
When Yu Qiuping started to move his position surrounded by the guards, Charlie, who was located in another high ground, immediately had some doubts and sent an envoy to ask Yu Qiuping why he wanted to move his position. The reply he received was to move to a safe area where the iron cannon had no shooting angle.
"No shooting angle? Where is it?" Charlie asked Moriranmaru who was rushing to pass the order.
"Sir Charlie, there." Moriranmaru stretched out his little hand and pointed to the depression chosen by Amano Keito. "As long as you strangle the surrounding high ground, the enemy's iron gunner will not have the angle to shoot His Highness at all."
"Why are there no angle? Are there mountains further away?" Charlie pointed to a hill around the depression, "where you can see the depression."
"But the iron cannon can't shoot that far." Moriranmaru nodded confidently, "It's almost 30 meters from the high mountains to the depression."
"The iron cannon cannot be shot." Charlie shook his head, without saying anything, immediately turned over and called the cavalry platoon that was prepared by Mingdi and rushed towards Yu Qiuping.
Chapter completed!