I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"How?" A-Machi asked Ogata who had just glanced at the Red Moon Fortress from afar with a telescope, "What does the Red Moon Fortress look like?"

"It's too far away, I can't see clearly, I only see a section of wooden wall and a river beside it."

Ogata handed the binoculars in his hand to A-Machi.

"Would you like to take a look at it?"

"I don't need it." A-Ming shook his head, "Anyway, I'll be here soon."

At this time, a very young man suddenly came.

After the young man said something to Aizan who was next to Ogata, he quickly left and ran towards the rear of the team.

"What did that person just say?" Ogata asked.

"That young man is here to pass on the village chief's order." Aizan said, "The village chief just ordered: Now stay where you are and rest for a while."

"Rest in place now?" Ogata raised his brows, "He Yezhe is already right in front of us."

"The young man just said the reason." Aizan said, "We have been walking for quite a long time just now, and many old and weak are already feeling very tired."

"Although Heyezhe is right in front of us now, the only distance left is not too short."

"It's a little too much for the tired old and weak in the team to go on and finish the rest of the distance."

"Anyway, there is still some time before it gets dark, so there is no rush to enter Heyezhe."

"That's why the village chief decided to rest for a while, and then finish the last part of the road after resting."

Ogata was not in a hurry at first, since the village head Chepke decided to take a rest for the sake of the old and weak in the village, then Ogata would not say anything more.

At this time, Ogata suddenly remembered something.

"Rest..." Ogata had a strange smile on his face, "Aisuma and the others should be very happy..."

Hearing Ogata's emotion, A-Machi couldn't help showing a weird smile.

Ogata felt that Ahili's grandmother stayed here in Ezo, it was really a shame.

He thinks that Ashley's grandma should go to big cities like Osaka, Kyoto, and Edo to be a storyteller.

Absolutely earn a lot of money every day.

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It was indeed as Ogata said - after receiving the order from the village head Chepke to take a temporary rest, the people in the Red Moon Fortress headed by Aisuma were very happy.

They were finally able to continue listening to the story again.

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"Grandma! You are here!"

Asuma spoke in an excited tone to Ashley's grandmother who was slowly walking towards them.

"Hohohoho..." Grandma covered her mouth and smiled, "Sorry for keeping you waiting for so long."

In front of grandma were people from Red Moon Fortress sitting on the snow in various poses.

Everyone looked at grandma with anticipation and impatience.

"Mother-in-law! There just happened to be a fallen dead tree here!" Aisuma took her grandma's hand and led her to a dead tree lying on the ground.

The snow on the dead wood was swept away by Aisuma and the others just now.

Grandma was also polite, and sat directly on the dead wood, with her hands folded on her legs.

"Where was the last time I talked?" Grandma asked.

"It tells about a white-skinned man who was about to run away on his horse, but Mashima Goro blocked his way!" Asuma said.

"Oh, there." Grandma raised her hand and patted herself on the head, "I remembered."

"That...mother-in-law." Aisuma suddenly put on a strange expression, and said in a cautious tone, "The story... can I finish it today?"

"Hohoho..." Grandma covered her mouth and let out her very unique "hohoho" laughter, "The story has come to an end, grandma assures you that during this break time, the story Completely finished."

After finishing speaking, grandma cleared her throat, and then said slowly:

"It is said that the white-skinned man who planned to escape on horseback ran all the way."

"Just as he was about to escape from the village, Mashima Goro jumped out from the side."

"He just stood in front of the white-skinned man who was about to ride away on horseback."

"At this time, there is no extra time and energy to change direction, so the white-skinned man decided to ride Mashima Goro into the air."

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Sitting in front of her in various poses, Aisuma and the others listened attentively to grandma's storytelling.

Grandma used to tell the young children in the village about heroic epics passed down from generation to generation, so she has already developed a sharp storytelling ability.

Grandma knew herself—if she finished telling Ogata's story too quickly, she would fall into the previous situation where she had nothing to do when it was time for a break.

So grandma made a very wise decision—to tell the story of Ogata as long as possible.

So grandma relied on the storytelling ability that she had honed by telling stories to the children in the village until now—a few days have passed, and she still hasn’t finished telling Ogata’s story...

In order to avoid the situation where Aisuma and the others get tired of hearing it, grandma specially kept a careful eye—every time, she stopped at the most exciting moment to whet Aisuma's appetite, so that Aisuma and the others could do it for them. Then listen to the follow-up content and keep asking her to come and tell the story.

So——after walking with the villagers of Qina Village, sitting around grandma's lap like this now, listening to grandma explain the specific process of Ogata's "one person saving the village", became Aisuma and the others every time they rested. time to do.

Ogata, who is the protagonist of the story, learned of this not long after Ashley's grandmother began to tell Isuma his story.

When he learned that Ahili's grandmother had a way to tell the story of "saving the village by himself" for so many days, Ogata was shocked...

Ogata had attended several times.

The night the village was attacked, the elderly grandmother did not participate in the fighting, but hid at home.

Although she didn't witness Ogata's battle with her own eyes, she heard about Ogata's deeds from different people afterwards, so she didn't have to worry about having nothing to say, and what she said was generally correct.

Through the few times of listening, Ogata found that grandma was able to tell his story for so long, not through any complicated method, but just dragging the plot in a very ordinary way.

He drew his sword to block such an action, and grandma could talk for a minute.

But how grandma's eloquence is very good.

The content of such water can be described by her in a gaudy manner. Knowing that she was procrastinating, she still couldn't help but want to continue listening.

After listening to grandma's "story meeting", Ogata's first feeling was that it was a pity that Ahili's grandma didn't become a storyteller.

But grandma is also a conscientious person.

She knew that the Red Moon Fortress was just around the corner, so she knew that now should be their last rest time.

Therefore, grandma did not continue the water story this time, and ended Ogata's story very neatly, so that Aisuma and the others would no longer have to be hung up.

At the end of the break, Grandma just finished telling the story.

When they learned that the story was finally over, whether it was Aisuma or the rest of the people in Red Moon Fortress, they all felt as if the big stone in their hearts fell to the ground, and the breath accumulated in their chests finally spit out.

After the rest period, the team started again.

After the team set off again, Aisuma took the initiative to ask the residents of Red Moon Fortress to go ahead, so that it would be convenient for them to communicate with the compatriots on the city wall later and let them go.

There was no reason to refuse such a proposal, so Chepke readily agreed.

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The re-starting team approached the Red Moon Fortress little by little.

The fortress, which could only be vaguely seen at first, now gradually condenses into a clear entity.

When I used the telescope to observe the Red Moon Fortress for the first time just now, Ogata couldn't see it very clearly because the distance was still in Taiyuan.

After getting closer and closer to the Red Moon Fortress, Ogata finally gradually saw the specific appearance of the Red Moon Fortress and its surrounding environment.

The Red Moon Fortress is built along the river.

There is a "ji"-shaped river flowing through it. The river is very wide and the water is very fast. It will not freeze in such a cold weather.

The Red Moon Fortress was built inside the word "ji".

To give a vivid example-the Red Moon Fortress and the river flowing beside it can just form the character "fan".

The river is the "ji" in the character "Fan", and the Red Moon Fortress is the "丨" in the character "Fan".

The fortress faces the river on three sides, and Ogata and the others are now approaching the wall that is not adjacent to the river.

The side of the wall that did not face the river had a huge gate.

Whether it is the fence or the door, everything is made of wood.

After getting closer to the Red Moon Fortress and being able to see the appearance of the Red Moon Fortress more clearly, Ogata was surprised to find that the Red Moon Fortress actually had a structure of double walls.

There is an outer city wall, and inside the outer city wall there is an inner city wall.

The inner city wall is higher than the outer city wall.

According to Ogata's visual inspection, the height of the outer city wall is about 4.5 meters.

The height of the inner city wall is about 5.5 meters.

This double wall structure has two major advantages.

One: The attacker has to break through two walls in a row to take the fortress.

Two: The defender can launch a three-dimensional strike through the two walls. The soldiers in charge of close combat stood on the outer city wall to meet the enemy, while the soldiers in charge of long-distance attack, such as archers and musketeers, stood on the inner city wall higher than the outer city wall, and shot down at the incoming enemies.

In addition to being a double city wall structure, the Red Moon Fortress has another very eye-catching feature.

"Hey." A-Ming turned his head and whispered to Ogata beside him, "Why is the wall of the Red Moon Fortress so strange? It's uneven."

"Ah... yes, yes, it's very strange..." Ogata said something casually, and after perfunctory A-Ming, he continued to look at the uneven wall of the Red Moon Fortress with astonished eyes.

Ah-cho, who had never seen the world, could not recognize this kind of city wall.

But Ogata, who is a time traveler, does recognize it.

Ogata had read an introduction to this kind of fort in a certain book.

Walls of this type were an important feature of certain fortresses of great renown.

"Bastion..." Ogata murmured in a low voice that could only be heard clearly by the extreme.

Bastion - a big killer that came out after the use of firearms in the West.

After gunpowder and firearms were introduced to the West and the West entered the age of firearms, urban offensive and defensive warfare entered a new stage. The brief period that followed was a golden age for offense.

The old-fashioned fortress can't defend against new weapons such as firearms.

One fort after another succumbed to the might of the cannon.

But Westerners are not stupid either.

However, a new type of city defense system, the bastion, has entered the stage of history in half a century.

The essence of the so-called bastion is to change the fortress from a convex polygon to a concave polygon.

This improvement made it possible to attack any point of the castle without exposing the attacker to more than one bastion face, allowing the defender to use crossfire for multiple strikes.

To put it simply, no matter where the attacking party attacks, it will be hit by 2 to 3 or even more directions at the same time.

After the birth of the bastion, the West has returned to the era when "the defenders take advantage and the attackers suffer."

The bastion plus a sufficient number of soldiers and weapons-it can completely resist the attack of several times or even more than 10 times the enemy.

At this moment, Ogata vaguely saw a lot of figures shaking on both the outer city wall and the inner city wall—these figures should be the security personnel standing on the wall to guard the outside of the fortress.

The guards on the wall had spotted Ogata and the others, and the figures were moving rapidly.

After approaching the fortress for a certain distance, Asuma, who was walking in front, shouted something to the guards on the outer city wall.

Afterwards, the guards on the outer city wall also responded with a few words in Ainu, which Ogata could not understand.

Afterwards, Xu conveniently saw the gate of the fortress being slowly opened.

There is no moat around the fortress, but the gate of the Red Moon Fortress is a very European style suspension bridge gate.

Most of the villagers in Qina Village have never entered the Red Moon Fortress.

So whether Ogata, Atachi, or the villagers of Kina Village, after slowly entering the Red Moon Fortress through the open gate, they turned their heads frequently and looked around.

When the team first entered the fortress, many security personnel wearing their red moon fortress' iconic red costumes surrounded them with various weapons.

After Aisuma, who was walking in front of the team, said something to them, the guards immediately stepped aside and opened a path for Ogata and the others to pass.

After passing through the gate of the outer city wall, Ogata looked around - there was actually nothing to see around.

There was almost nothing between the inner city wall and the outer city wall, only some people with weapons were seen walking between the two city walls.

The distance between the inner city wall and the outer city wall is about 15-20 meters.

The inner city wall, like the outer city wall, is a bastion-style enclosure.

After Ogata and the others passed through the gate of the outer city wall, the gate of the inner city wall opened immediately.

After passing through the gate of the inner city wall again, Ogata and the others finally entered the Red Moon Fortress.

After passing through the gate of the inner city wall, looking around, you can see houses full of Ainu style.

Now many residents of Red Moon Fortress gathered around to join in the fun after receiving the news of "someone is visiting".

Although they have not officially entered the residences of the residents of the Red Moon Fortress, but now they are standing under the inner city wall and looking around - the number and density of private houses are far beyond Ogata's imagination.

Also beyond Ogata's imagination, there is also the excitement of the Red Moon Fortress. Although there is still a distance from the residents' residences, Ogata can already hear the noise.

Ogata glanced back at the inner city wall behind him—it has to be said that the defense system of Red Moon Fortress is not enough to describe it with the word "powerful".

Double wall structure + bastion-style wall = nightmare for the attacker.

The most powerful part of a bastion is not its defense, but its firepower.

The design of the walls of the bastion allows the defenders to have no shooting dead ends.

And the design of the double city walls allows the defenders to launch a three-dimensional attack.

In other words, no matter which direction the person who attacks Red Moon Fortress is attacking, they will be attacked from the front wall, the side wall, and the inner wall—at least three directions.

Ogata guessed—the Lucians who built this fortress must have planned to use this fortress for military purposes.

If it was just to set up an ordinary outpost, it would definitely not build such a time-consuming and labor-intensive double-walled bastion.

However, probably because of the lack of manpower and material resources in a distant foreign country, the construction of the walls of the Red Moon Fortress is still a bit crude.

The walls are not of stone, but of wood.

This kind of wooden wall is doomed to the defensive strength of the Red Moon Fortress. No matter how hard the wood is, it cannot be as strong as the artillery. If the artillery hits the city wall directly, the consequences will be disastrous.

And according to Ogata's observation, there are not many towers and other facilities on the fence.

However, it is not easy to build such a wooden fortress with double city walls in a distant foreign country without financial, manpower, and material resources.

If the walls of the Red Moon Fortress are made of stone, and there are sufficient towers and other facilities, then the Red Moon Fortress is a real iron wall.

More and more residents gathered around the Red Moon Fortress to join in the fun.

They looked at the villagers of Kina Village, as well as Ogata and Atachi with curious eyes.

Compared with the villagers of Kina Village, Ogata and Atachi, who have completely different faces and clothes that are completely different from them, are more likely to attract the attention of the residents of Red Moon Fortress.

"It feels like we are being watched by animals..." A-Machi, who didn't like being looked at by such eyes, complained in a low voice to Ogata beside him.

"Maybe in the Red Moon Fortress, it's very rare to see people." Ogata smiled wryly, "It's been a long time since the Red Moon Fortress... Maybe he hasn't even visited with anyone."

"The two of us should be the only two Japanese in the Red Moon Fortress."

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At this very moment—

Red Moon Fortress, somewhere——

"Hey! It's time to let me out, right? I've said it many times! I'm not a spy of the shogunate! I hate the shogunate the most! How could I work for the shogunate!"

In a certain private house, there was a frantic old voice.

What this voice said was somewhat non-standard Ainu language.

Two young men with bows and arrows stood guard outside the door of this folk house.

"It's so noisy!" One of the two youths shouted, "Be quiet! We will let you go after we confirm that you are indeed not a spy in Heren!"

"How long will it take?!" The old voice sounded again.

"I don't know!" said the young man.

"Then can you give me some paper and pen, or return my luggage to me? There is nothing in this room, are you trying to suffocate me?"

"No! We won't return your luggage to you until we confirm whether you are a spy!"

"That's enough!"

The voice fell, and the sound of kicking the wall came from this private house.

"Why is my luck so bad recently..."

The distraught voice in the private house turned into a distraught and annoyed voice.

"First, I ran into an inexplicable village doctor in a certain village...and I was kicked out of the village."

"Now he was arrested as a spy of the shogunate..."

"That's enough!"

The sound of kicking the wall was heard again in the room.

*****

Can anyone guess who this man is being held as a spy?

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Yesterday, a famous book friend asked: What should I do if I meet a bear? "Is there any popular science in "What to do if you encounter a bear that has eaten human flesh.

The book does mention what to do if you encounter a bear that has eaten human flesh.

According to the author, when encountering a bear that has eaten human flesh, there is only one way to deal with it: resign yourself to fate (\u003cゝω·)☆

Once a bear eats a human, it loses its reverence for human beings, and the "arm monkey method" of popular science at the end of the last chapter doesn't work anymore. There is nothing else to do but to pray for a miracle.

However, the author of this book has proposed a very useful way to prevent bears from approaching-constantly twisting plastic bottles.

Whether it is a bear that has eaten human flesh or not, it hates the "cracker" sound made when twisting a plastic bottle. After hearing this sound, the bear will often leave directly.