We have fought to the Arctic Circle, and you want me to inherit the throne?

Kaibe Munemasa kicked open the door of the shrine.

When he saw the scene in front of him clearly, he was stunned.

Twelve priestesses in pale hunting robes formed a rigid circle.

The witches lowered their heads, their long hair covering their faces, and their exposed jaws were as pale as paper.

In the center, a young girl is tied in front of the shrine.

Her eyes were hollow and her lips were dotted with a glaring cinnabar red.

The leading witch raised a copper bell covered with green rust and rang it gently.

Ding--

The ringtone was sharp, yet strangely sticky.

All the witches responded, their movements as clumsy as puppets with rusty joints.

The prayers he recited were distorted and inhumanly unclear, and they echoed in a buzzing voice in the empty hall.

"Clouds...God...Feast..."

As the prayers quickened, the witches' dance suddenly became frantic and disordered.

The neat circle was disrupted, some people staggered, and some people's heads tilted back at strange angles.

The pale hunting robes fluttered in the dim candlelight, like countless struggling ghosts.

The girl fell into a daze while dancing in this strange way, and her chest gradually stopped rising and falling.

Not far away, several little girls were huddled in a corner, shivering.

Two witches stepped forward, carried the girl's body away, and then looked at the other girls, obviously wanting to continue this step.

At this moment, Kaibu Munezana finally lost all his patience, stepped forward with his hip sword, grabbed the leading miko, and said coldly:

"The time is up and what I want hasn't arrived yet!"

The witch looked at him and said slowly, "It's not the time yet."

Haibu Zongzhen gritted his teeth and said, "But the Fengtian Army has arrived!"

Tens of thousands of Fengtian troops rushed straight to Xiaguan City, and even their iconic black royal flag was changed to blood red.

Kaibu Munemasa didn't know what this meant exactly, but the keenness cultivated through years of fighting still allowed him to sense the danger.

The Fengtian Army...I'm afraid they're going to get serious!

The witch turned over and over the words and only had these few words: "The will of the gods has not yet arrived."

"When exactly will it take? If the gods say it will take ten days to arrive, do I have to wait ten more days?!"

The witch shook her head, as if she was communicating with the gods.

After a while, she suddenly raised her head and said slowly, "Today."

Kaibu Munezana suppressed his anger: "It's only been two hours since sunrise!"

"Today." The witch repeated.

Kaibu Munezane's expression kept changing, but he finally compromised: "Okay! Today is the day, I'll buy you some time!"

After saying that, he pulled the witch over and shouted to the warriors behind him:

"Bring them all to the front!"

After hearing this, a trace of panic finally flashed across the witch's expressionless face.

The warriors in red armor didn't say much to them. They roughly grabbed a shrine maiden and drove her out of the shrine.

. . . . . .

Outside Shimonoseki City, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers lined up outside the city gate, most of whom were foot soldiers wearing bamboo and leather armor.

Among them, the majority were archers carrying longbows, and only a small number of them carried cannons.

After observing the Fengtian Army for a long time, Haibu Zongzhen gave up the idea of ​​fighting them in close combat, especially the battle report of the beach landing battle a few days ago, which further strengthened his mind.

Although he was also afraid of the Fengtian Army's firepower, fighting close to an army full of demon-like soldiers would definitely cause the soldiers to feel intense fear and even rout.

Therefore, standing in front of the archers and musketeers were not sword and shield soldiers, but spearmen holding extra-long spears.

Most of these spears were over three meters long, and looked extremely funny when held by Japanese soldiers who were less than one and a half meters tall.

Haibu Zongzhen did not expect that the spear formation formed by spearmen could kill the Fengtian Army, he just hoped that they could stop the Fengtian Army from charging.

There were also a large number of chevaux de frise and chariots next to the spearmen to resist the Fengtian Army's cavalry.

Li Che took in everything in Xiaguan City, then took off the telescope, smiled slightly and said to those around him:

"How dare you! Instead of retreating to the city and defending it, you're marching in formation to challenge me?"

"This Kaibu Munezana is quite interesting."

Yang Xuan beside him looked puzzled: "Why are the Japanese like this?"

"The area outside the city is flat and flat, with no strategic location to defend. Although the walls of Xiaguan City aren't very high, they're still better than having no city to defend at all."

Li Che handed the telescope to Xue Wei beside him and replied:

"I don't know either. Perhaps he had too many troops and it was difficult to defend the city, so he resorted to this desperate measure."

Xue Wei picked up the telescope and took a look, then shook his head. "If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to keep the extra troops in reserve?"

Wen Zaiyin stroked his beard and said, "It's possible that the city is running low on food and supplies, so they're using this to deplete their own forces so they can hold out longer."

Li Che looked at Wen Zaiyin deeply.

This old scholar is quite something. After such a short time of contact with the little ones, he has already figured out their habits.

Don't say it, this seems like something that can be done in daily life.

Li Che said slowly: "Don't worry about how they struggle, whether they die on the battlefield or starve to death in the city, they will all die anyway. Not a single Japanese in this city can escape."

If he said he would massacre the city, he would massacre it. Li Che would never change his mind.

Xiaguan City has been preparing for war for such a long time that the people in the city who should have fled have already fled.

The rest were either soldiers or diehards, or they believed that Kaibu Munemasa could resist the Fengtian Army.

Every death counts, it’s not unfair.

In ancient times, massacres were not the norm, but they were by no means isolated cases.

Li Che knew very well that when the war broke out, the people of other countries might be innocent, but the people of the Japanese devils were not innocent.

The Fengtian Army has always treated the people well and has never massacred a city, but today they broke the rules.

It was the first time that everyone felt such a strong evil spirit coming from their own prince, and they all fell silent and dared not speak.

I don’t know how these Japanese offended Your Highness. Along the way, I’m afraid that more than 100,000 Japanese died at the hands of the Fengtian army.

The scouts came straight towards the crowd from a distance, finally breaking the silence, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The person who came was Jie Ming, the vanguard of the front army.

Jie Ming dismounted and headed straight for Li Che's position, bowing and saying, "Your Highness."

Li Che nodded slightly and asked, "Have you found out the situation?"

"The Japanese are probably crazy," Jie Ming quickly replied. "They've assembled 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers at the city walls, mostly archers and musketeers, and they're still pouring out of the city gates."

"Also, when I was ordered to conduct reconnaissance, Kaibu Munemasa sent several scouts with white flags."

Li Che frowned slightly: "What did he say to you?"

Jie Ming suddenly burst into laughter, causing everyone to be confused.

Then, Jie Ming was heard saying:

"That Japanese wants to fight us!"