I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

There was a very embarrassing scene in the last chapter...

The author is a bad namer, and he is not good at naming names, so when I name the characters, in order to save trouble, I often borrow the names of some real celebrities. The name of the new general of the First Army "Gui Yizheng" is based on the cartoonist "Gui Zhenghe" who created the classic "I"s" and I like it very much.

Then an embarrassing scene took place yesterday.

Because the name "Gui Zhenghe" is really deeply rooted in my heart, when I was writing the relevant plots of "Gui Yizheng" yesterday, I subconsciously wrote it as "Gui Zhenghe"... People who watched the new chapter earlier yesterday can find out "Gui Yizheng" in the first chapter has been written as "Gui Zhenghe"... If a book friend hadn't reminded me, otherwise I really didn't find it... (Leopard headache crying.jpg)

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These are all performances that Gui Yizheng arranged in advance.

The purpose is to frighten the barbarians in the Red Moon Fortress, so that these barbarians can see their force and see clearly the difference in force between them.

Before starting a fight, persuade the enemy to surrender—this is basically one of the practices of various countries.

Measuring whether a battle is "played beautifully" is not only based on whether it is won-but also depends on how much it cost in total.

Miserable victories and defeats—these two can be said to have no boundaries at all.

Inamori was not some reckless guy who didn't know the art of war. He had specially ordered the first army to fight the vanguard before—after approaching the Red Moon Fortress, he persuaded these barbarians to surrender.

If these barbarians were frightened and surrendered after seeing such a large army, and they took down the Red Moon Fortress without firing an arrow-that would be the best.

If these barbarians are unwilling to surrender—the first army will stick to its place and wait for the follow-up second and third armies. After the 10,000 troops are assembled, they will slowly clean up these barbarians.

The "shouting in unison" and other performances performed by the First Army are all designed by Gui Yizheng.

If you just dryly shout "surrender" to those barbarians, these uncivilized barbarians will most likely ignore their persuasion to surrender.

So after being airborne to the First Army, Gui Yizheng, who was still ambitious and wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to show his talents, designed these performances with the purpose of "deterring the barbarians".

And these performances have all been approved by Inamori before—and even praised by Inamori. Inamori praised the performances designed by Gui Yizheng as good, and they will definitely have a deterrent effect on those barbarians .

The performance Gui Yizheng designed is far more than just "shouting in unison".

Before the generals shouted, two thunderclaps suddenly exploded.

Afterwards, huge explosions suddenly occurred in two open spaces between the Red Moon Fortress and the army formation for no reason. A large amount of snow on the ground was blown up into the sky, and then fell like fine snow.

These two thunderous roars, and the two subsequent explosions scared many people on the city wall.

"what happened?!"

"What happened?!"

"Why did those two places suddenly explode?"

"Is this Kazuto's new weapon?"

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Most of the people in Red Moon Fortress... To put it mildly, they have lived in a place isolated from the world for too long, so they don't know the world.

To put it bluntly, they are just a bunch of country bumpkins who have never seen the world.

That's why many people in Red Moon Fortress didn't recognize that it was the roar of artillery, and the two explosions were also thanks to this artillery.

The oldest and strongest human emotion is fear; the oldest and strongest fear comes from the unknown.

These people, who didn't know what the artillery was, even thought it was the power of the gods, and they almost sat down on the ground in fright.

For example—Otunpuyi was frightened by the huge explosion and collapsed to the ground.

Otunpuyi can be said to be the first group of people who were attracted by the sound of the conch and climbed the city wall.

When the Falcon blew, Otunpuyi happened to be near the southern city wall. After hearing the sound of the Faluo, Otunpuyi, who was frightened by the sound, immediately boarded the southern city wall.

Since climbing the city wall, Otunpuyi's eyes have remained in the same state—the state of being so stared that the eyeballs are about to fall off.

This was the first time he saw Kazuto's army.

Until now, Kazuto's army had only existed in his fantasy.

At this moment, after truly witnessing the majesty of Kazuto's army, Otunpuyi couldn't hide the shock in his heart.

After seeing the Kazuto army outside the city, the first thought that popped up in Otunpuyi's mind was—too powerful...their fighters from Heyezhe couldn't compare to it...

boom--! boom--!

Two cannons exploded.

Otongpuyi, who was caught off guard by this, was so frightened that he screamed out, his legs went limp, and he slumped on the ground accidentally.

The buttocks fell heavily on the ground, and the pain made Otunpuyi feel that his buttocks were about to shatter.

But after the buttocks touched the ground, Otunpuyi ignored the pain and hurriedly got up from the ground, staring blankly at the two pieces that had been turned into small craters due to the bombardment of the artillery. Place——Looking at this scene, Otunpuyi's jaw fell to the ground as if he had lost his muscles.

"This is..." Otunpuyi murmured, "Kazuto's army..."

Otunpuyi himself didn't realize it—his naturally drooping hands were slowly clenched at this moment...

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For this battle against the Red Moon Fortress, the shogunate mobilized a total of more than 400 muskets, 9 artillery pieces, and 52 large cylinders of various types.

Most of the firearms were concentrated in the Second Army, which was dominated by the direct troops of the shogunate, and the First Army had only 2 artillery pieces.

For this expression, Gui Yizheng specially pulled out the only two cannons of their First Army.

At this moment, Gui Yizheng felt a little regretful—he should have brought his binoculars too.

Because he really wanted to see the expressions of these unworldly bumpkins on the city wall after seeing the power of the artillery.

The corner of his mouth curled up triumphantly, and Gui Yizheng reined in the horse, driving the horse back to the army formation.

As soon as he returned to the army formation, Gui Yizheng saw Kuroda walking towards him.

"I really want to know what kind of expressions those Ezos will have when they hear the roar of our artillery." Gui Yizheng, who got off his horse, was the first to say to Kuroda in a joyful tone.

Unlike Gui Yizheng who had a joyful face, Kuroda only had a wry smile on his face.

"Master Gui, the cost of this performance is really too high... 2 shells were used directly..."

After nearly 200 years of peaceful life in the shogunate, the military situation... can be directly described as "unbearable".

Firearms are the hardest-hit areas. Due to the neglect of the development of firearms, not only has the technical level of firearms not been improved in the past 200 years, but even the daily maintenance cannot be called "ideal"...

Their 10,000-strong army has only 9 cannons—even the number of cannons is so scarce, let alone the number of their shells.

The number of shells in their artillery was not sufficient enough to allow them to open fire.

For the performance just now, they directly used up 2 shells-this not only made Kuroda feel a little distressed...

As soon as Kuroda finished speaking, Gui Yizheng raised his hand and patted Kuroda on the shoulder:

"These are necessary sacrifices."

""Sun Tzu's Art of War: Mouth Attack" says: 'Victorious in a hundred battles is not the one who is good; the one who defeats the enemy without fighting is the one who is good.'"

"Although these barbarians are not to be feared, if you fight with them, you will have to pay some sacrifices."

"If these two cannonballs can make these barbarians succumb and surrender obediently, then these two cannonballs will be nothing more than small coins worth mentioning."

Speaking of this, Gui Yizheng turned to look at the Red Moon Fortress in the distance, and sneered:

"Okay... let's just wait and see how these barbarians will react."

"I guess—" Kuroda sneered at the same time, "These barbarians might have civil strife."

"There will definitely be some people who can't see the situation clearly and will choose to fight in the corner."

"Those who want to fight stubbornly, and those who know the current affairs, may fight directly."

Gui Yizheng looked up to the sky and laughed loudly:

"If these barbarians go straight to civil strife, then we 'fishermen' can reap the benefits of the fishermen!"

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Red Moon Fortress, Kunoya's clinic——

Atachi, who had been anxiously waiting for Ogata's return, finally saw Ogata's return.

Seeing Ogata passing through the gate of the clinic with a knife in his hand and returning to his side, A-Machi immediately asked urgently:

"Ayi, I seem to have heard the sound of artillery just now! Is the shogunate army outside the city bombing the city wall?"

The sound of artillery bombardment covered the entire Red Moon Fortress.

So Ah-cho, who has been lying in the clinic, heard the roar of the two artillery pieces and the two explosions very clearly just now.

The sound of gunfire and explosions naturally made Ah-ding, unable to get up and go out, even more anxious, eager to know what was going on outside.

Ogata did not immediately answer the question that A-Machi threw in a hurry.

Holding the knife, he walked up to A-cho, sat down beside A-cho, and said calmly:

"The shogunate army indeed fired artillery, but it was not used to bombard the city wall, but to the ground outside the fortress. It should only be used to scare the residents of the Red Moon Fortress."

Ogata briefly described everything he had just witnessed on the city wall in the simplest terms possible.

After learning about the current situation outside through Ogata's mouth, A-Machi asked:

"Then...how are the residents of Red Moon Fortress now?"

"Now..." Ogata smiled helplessly, "It's a mess outside..."

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"Hey! Asuma!"

Aisuma, who was busy, suddenly heard someone calling her.

Following the sound - more than a dozen teenagers who were only about ten years old ran towards her with fear and anxiety.

"Aisuma! I heard that if we don't open the city, the people outside the city will kill us. Is this true?" One of the dozen or so teenagers asked Aisuma anxiously.

"Where did you hear these rumors!" Asuma retorted without thinking, "Of course it is false!"

"But, but..."

When the boy wanted to say something more, Aisuma took the lead and said:

"You don't have to worry! Our bows are not for decoration! Even if those people outside the city want to fight us, they may not be our opponents!"

Asuma showed a confident bear, and patted the bow on her back.

"And father...ah, no, Chanup and the others have already started discussing countermeasures!"

"They must be able to figure out a way to drive away the people outside the city!"

"You go home now, don't listen to rumors that come from nowhere."

The dozen or so teenagers looked at each other in blank dismay.

Aisuma's words just now had some effect - the uneasiness on the faces of many of these teenagers faded slightly.

In the end, they left in front of Aisuma with different expressions and expressions.

Aisuma, who watched the dozen or so teenagers leave, let out a long sigh.

Immediately afterwards, the expression on her face changed extremely quickly.

The original confident smile disappeared, leaving only tiredness.

After Gui Yizheng's "surrender performance" ended, Chanup, who was standing on the city wall and witnessed the whole process, immediately took action-he organized a small group of people and let them be responsible for maintaining the Red Moon Fortress order.

Asuma was one of that small group of people who were chosen.

From just now, Asuma has been running around, maintaining order.

Since just now, Asuma has never rested.

From just now, Aisuma has seen all sorts of strange and chaotic phenomena...

The group of uninvited guests outside the city completely destroyed the original stability and tranquility of the Red Moon Fortress.

No matter where you are in the Red Moon Fortress, all you can see is "chaos".

Some looked panicked or wailed loudly after being frightened.

Someone questioned Asuma about what happened.

There were people with hot blood, holding spears, bows and arrows, and shouting loudly that they wanted to fight to the death with the people outside the city.

But the ones with the largest number still showed uneasiness like the group of teenagers just now, asking Aisuma what they should do next, or verifying whether some rumors they heard from nowhere were correct.

To appease these people, Asuma had to tell some white lies.

For example——What Asuma said to these Kazutos just now, "Our bow is not inferior to Kazutos", is a white lie...

Under the hard work of Aisuma and the others who are in charge of maintaining order, although the Red Moon Fortress is filled with panic everywhere, until now there have been no vicious incidents, and the order has not completely collapsed.

Aisuma raised her hands, rubbed her cheeks vigorously, pulled herself together, and was ready to continue working on maintaining order.

But at this moment, out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly saw an extremely familiar figure sitting in an inconspicuous corner not far away.

"Optunpui? What are you doing here?"

Asuma walked quickly towards this familiar figure—her brother.

At this time, Autong Puyi was sitting in that inconspicuous corner with a dull face.

It wasn't until he heard his sister's voice that Otunpuyi finally woke up, belatedly raised his head, and looked at his sister.

"elder sister……"

Just now, when the crowd gathered on the city wall dispersed, Aotong Puyi walked down the city wall with the flow of people.

However, Otunpuyi has absolutely no memory of walking down the city wall, walking to this place, and then sitting in this inconspicuous corner.

At that time, his body and mind were immersed in shock... He had no time to care about things outside of him...

"Don't just sit here." Aisuma said, "You go home now."

After all, Aisuma raised her hand to pull Otunpuyi's arm—but she didn't pull Otunpuyi up.

Otunpuyi was resisting her pull.

"Sister..." Otongpuyi murmured in a low voice, "Kazuto's army...is it so powerful...It's stronger than I imagined...It even has that kind of weapon...that kind of weapon... If a weapon hits a person, the whole body will be shattered..."

Listening to Otunpuyi's words, Aisuma not only frowned.

"Don't say such inexplicable words!" Asuma said loudly, "Hurry up and go home!"

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"Lei Tannoe! It's you people who obstructed that! We missed the good opportunity to escape here!" The middle-aged man who has always been a staunch "runner" blushed and said to Lei The "battle faction" headed by Tannoy cursed loudly.

After Gui Yizheng's self-directed and self-acted "deterrence performance" ended, the top executives of the Red Moon Fortress headed by Chanup naturally gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

At the beginning of the meeting, the "fleeing faction" lashed out at the "battle faction".

People from the "Major Fleeing Faction" believed that it was because the "Main Fighting Faction" was obsessed with obsession there and obstructed them greatly, which resulted in the bad situation of "until the moment before Heren's soldiers approached the city, they did not decide on a final countermeasure" , and missed the best opportunity to escape.

The "battle faction" headed by Lei Tannoe naturally won't obediently be scolded there.

"Hmph!" Lei Tannoe snorted coldly, "I haven't disliked you for obstructing us, but you are the first to criticize us!"

After Lei Tannoy started this, the rest of the "battle faction" joined in the scolding war.

In the small room, three forces were immediately divided-the main combat faction, the main escape faction, and the "neutral faction" who did not participate in the scolding war between the two factions and remained silent.

And Chanup is a member of the "neutral faction".

Chanup was like every meeting he had been in—smoking in silence and not saying a word. His expressionless face made it impossible to guess what he was thinking right now.

When the "war of scolding" between the two factions reached a fever pitch, an unhurried voice suddenly sounded, intervening in the "war of scolding".

"Okay, stop arguing. Everyone, can you... listen to me, the village head of Kapasi Village?"

As soon as the voice fell, the two factions who were cursing at each other fell silent, and turned their heads to look at the owner of the voice just now—a middle-aged man with a hideous scar on his face.

The middle-aged man's face was extremely terrifying, a scar stretched from his left forehead all the way to the corner of his right mouth.

The quiet people—including Chanup, who had been smoking with his head down, also raised his head and looked at the middle-aged man.

Looking at the village chief of Kapasi Village.

This middle-aged man is named Upanu.

It was the village head of Kapasi Village who participated in the "Battle of Kunasili Menasi".

"...Upanu." Retannoe said first, "It's so rare that you want to talk."

Chanup isn't actually alone -- he's not the only one who keeps silent in every meeting.

Upanu, like Chanup, rarely spoke in every meeting, kept smoking and kept silent. Neither war nor escape.

Seeing that Upanu took the initiative to speak at this time, many people couldn't help feeling curious. Want to hear what Upanu has to say.

After everyone's eyes were on Upanu, Upanu silently picked up the bong in his hand, took a strong puff, and then said quietly:

"Running now is definitely impossible."

"Heren's army has already arrived at our door, and there is no way to escape if you want to."

"But in fact—even if we escape early, we will definitely not be able to escape."

"Heren has cavalry, and can easily catch up with us."

"There is no chance of winning in a head-to-head encounter with Heren's cavalry in the wild."

Hearing Upanu's words, the faces of the fleeing faction were as ugly as if they had eaten poop.

As for the "battle faction" headed by Lei Tannoe, they all nodded.

However - Retannoe and the others had just nodded, and what Upanu said next made the expressions on their faces instantly froze.

"But if you fight to the death with Kato, that is also a dead end."

Retannoe and the others cast astonished gazes at Upanu.

Ignoring the gazes cast by Retannoe and the others, Upanu continued to speak to himself:

"Raitannoe, you people have never fought against Japanese people."

"You... don't even know how powerful you are in fighting people."

Although Upanu looked normal, his fingers that were holding his bong were slowly tightening at this moment.

He raised his left hand, which was not holding the bong, and gently touched the big hideous scar on his face.

"Have you ever seen the momentum of people wearing armor and lining up in an army formation?"

"Have you ever seen what it's like to charge with human cavalry?"

"Have you ever seen how terrible it is when Kazuto's cannons launch a bombardment?"

"You...have no idea how terrifying Kazuto's army is."

"Heren's army is like a raging fire, like a towering mountain."

"Even if we have this city, we have no chance of winning."

"In the face of the onslaught of tens of thousands of troops, we may only survive for a few days."

"Then what should we do?" At this time, someone screamed, "I can't escape, I can't fight... What should we do?"

"...In addition to fighting and fleeing, we actually still have a third way to go." Upanu said quietly.

Lifting the bong, he took another deep puff and said:

"The Kazuto who came out on horseback just outside the city...has shown us another way out."

"Let's...surrender."

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Diet, official position system, life of all classes...

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