I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival! At the moment when many people are asking for leave reasonably, the author is still conscientiously updating.

The author wishes all book lovers a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Having said that, do you have the custom of eating barbecue on Mid-Autumn Festival? For some reason, the Mid-Autumn Festival here in Guangzhou has a custom of eating barbecue... I never understood how barbecue is equated with the Mid-Autumn Festival...

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Red Moon Fortress——

It's supper time now.

The air everywhere in the Red Moon Fortress is filled with the smell of rice and festive atmosphere.

Everyone is celebrating today's victory.

As Chanup said to Raitannoe before—although today is only their first day of fighting against the peace army, it is also a great encouragement to them.

Because they successfully defended the city wall, it was difficult for Kazuto to cross the barrier.

Of course—in addition to celebrating the victory, there were also many people discussing it there.

Discuss that Kazuto who suddenly appeared this afternoon.

"Hey, have you heard? The reason why we played so smoothly this afternoon is because of the command and deployment of a friendly person."

"Kazuto? Which Kazuto? Is that Mashima Goro?"

"It doesn't seem to be. It seems to be a very old old man."

"By the way, where did that Mashima Goro go? Why haven't I seen that person recently?"

"who knows."

"No wonder it felt much easier to play this afternoon... so it was a different person to command and deploy..."

"Heren... When did our Heyezhe have such an old Heren?"

"have no idea."

"Can Kazuto be trusted?"

"How do I know... But since Mr. Chanup can entrust him with important tasks, it should be trustworthy."

"Why did Lao He help us? He is helping us,

Is it tantamount to fighting against your own compatriots? "

"He might have a grudge against the Edo shogunate. No matter what his reason for helping us, as long as he can help us!"

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Retan Noeben stayed quietly in an inconspicuous corner, eating dinner silently.

But at this moment, he suddenly saw several familiar figures walking towards him.

"Raitannoe, I finally found you."

"What?" Retannoe asked back.

These few people are quite prestigious in Heyezhen, and like him, they are also the backbone of the "Battle faction".

"What happened to the person in charge of command and dispatch who suddenly appeared this afternoon? Where did that person come from? Explain to us."

Retannoe: "That person has always been in our Heyezhan."

He explained in as few words as possible where Xia Lin Ziping came from, and how he decided to fight alongside them.

"...I asked that Lin Ziping afterwards."

Ray Tannoe added.

"I asked him: Was he ever a general of the Hejun?"

"He said that he had never stayed in the Japanese army for a day. He just loved reading military books since he was a child, and he had also studied the military strategy of the Europeans, so he knew how to behave in a fortress built by the Lucians. Defend."

"Europa? What's that?"

"From what Lin Ziping said, they seem to be people from the far west who live on the other side of the sea. The Lucia people are a branch of the Europa people."

Someone heaved a sigh of relief: "Great... We just happen to lack people who know how to defend this kind of fortress... That Lin Ziping appeared too timely..."

"...Leitannoe." The other person said suddenly at this moment, "Is that Lin Ziping... trustworthy? After all, he is a friend..."

"Heh." As soon as this person finished speaking, Lei Tanuoye sneered, "We can only trust him now. Otherwise, what else can we do? Throw him aside, and continue to reproduce this morning. Is that a frantic fight?"

"We don't have the energy to pick and choose now. Those who can be used, whether they are Heren or Lucia, must be used together."

"But don't worry. Me and Chanup will keep an eye on him."

"If he does anything suspicious..."

Retannoe raised his hand, aiming at his head as if to shoot an arrow.

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Lin Ziping's residence——

In order to facilitate rushing to the inner city wall in various emergencies, at Lin Ziping's request, Chanup allocated an empty house near the inner city wall to Lin Ziping to live in.

At this moment, Lin Ziping was sitting cross-legged on the ground, leaning against the wall behind him, closing his eyes and meditating.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of someone walking in at the door.

Lin Ziping looked up——I saw Chanup holding a handful of dried meat in each hand, entering the room, and walking towards him quickly.

"Mr. Lin." Chanup handed the food in his hand to Lin Ziping in front of him, "Here, this is dinner."

"If it's convenient—" Chanup raised the jerky in his other hand, "Can you have dinner with me?"

"...Please go ahead, Mr. Chanup." Lin Ziping nodded.

The two sat opposite each other, holding their own jerky, tearing and chewing.

"Mr. Lin." Just as Chanup stuffed a small mouthful of dried meat into his mouth, he suddenly asked Lin Ziping, "After the command this afternoon... how long do you think we can hold this fortress?" Woolen cloth?"

"Although I expected you to have dinner with me, there must be other reasons..." Lin Ziping smiled wryly, "But I didn't expect you to reveal your purpose so quickly... "

After tearing off another piece of dried meat and stuffing it into his mouth, Lin Zi calmly said:

"You have many advantages, but you also have many disadvantages."

"In my eyes, there are three of your most fatal weaknesses - lack of sufficient defensive weapons, poor personal equipment, and the walls of the fortress are made of wood."

"I don't need to repeat the first two points."

"What I am most worried about now is the defect of the third point I just mentioned."

A dark cloud appeared on Lin Ziping's face.

"Whether your inner city walls or outer city walls are made of wood."

"I guess—the Lucians who built this fort at the beginning should have considered the cost and were unable to build a stone fortress in such a remote place, so they built this fortress into a wooden fortress."

"Although it is strong, it is not afraid of being hit by people, and it is not afraid of arrows and musket shooting, but it is difficult to withstand the bombardment of artillery..."

"Judging from the currently known information, there is no doubt that the army outside the city has artillery, but the number is unknown..."

Lin Ziping sighed heavily.

"Now we can only hope that their guns are few in number, of poor quality, and that they don't have enough shells."

"The artillery currently used by the shogunate is still the backward copper cannon of the Warring States Period two hundred years ago. The range is short and the accuracy is poor. Even if 10 shots are fired, one shot may not hit the target."

"If the number of shells carried by the army outside the city is small, then there is nothing to fear. Otherwise..."

Lin Ziping didn't continue to talk, just let Chanup to imagine.

"...Then, Mr. Lin." Chanup said slowly, "How long do you think we can hold out if the Japanese troops outside the city don't use firearms?"

"It's hard for me to say." Lin Ziping said, "The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing. I don't have a perfect strategy. I can't guarantee how long this fortress can last."

"The only thing I can promise you is that I will do my best."

"I see... I see." Chanup nodded solemnly.

"Although we successfully defended the fortress today, we can't take it lightly." Lin Ziping continued, "The army outside the city is nearly ten thousand after all."

"They might have hidden elite troops that haven't been dispatched yet..."

Speaking of this, Lin Ziping's expression became serious at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he even forgot to put the jerky in his hand into his mouth.

"According to my speculation, the Edo shogunate should have pulled all the vassal troops from the Northeast vassals to help out this time."

"So... I'm worried that Aizu's troops are coming too."

"Aizu..." Chanup's expression also changed.

Noticing that Chanup's expression had also changed, Lin Ziping raised his eyebrows.

"Huh? Mr. Chanup, do you know the Aizu clan?"

Chanup nodded: "When I traveled to Herendi, I heard about this feudal kingdom. I only know that this feudal kingdom is quite powerful. I don't know anything about the rest."

"You have even traveled to 'Herendi'."

"It's just a very short trip, and during that trip, I have not been to any other 'harmonious places' other than the Matsumae Domain."

Lin Ziping tore off a piece of jerky and stuffed it into his mouth.

"If Aizu's troops come...that's a big problem."

"The Aizu domain is the pillar of the shogunate."

"Mr. Chanup, do you know that our and people's vassal state is divided into three levels according to the relationship with the shogunate? The pro-vassal daimyo, the descendant daimyo, and the foreign daimyo."

"In our Japan...that is, in the northeast region of our 'Heren Land', most of the vassal states are foreign daimyos."

"The Aizu Domain, as one of the few pro-vassal daimyos in the Northeast, shoulders the heavy responsibility of sitting in the north, guarding the North Gate for the shogunate, and deterring the Northeast vassals."

"Under the influence of such a heavy responsibility and the influence of the folk customs, the samurai of Aizu can fight and are loyal. Although the samurai of Sendai always say that they are the 'strongest samurai in the northeast', people with a little vision and knowledge We all know—the Aizu Army is undoubtedly the strongest army in Tohoku."

"If the Aizu army comes...it will be a big trouble..."

Lin Ziping stuffed all the remaining jerky into his mouth.

After chewing and swallowing the jerky in his mouth, Lin Ziping asked Chanup abruptly:

"Mr. Chanup. May I ask a question now?"

"Huh? Excuse me."

"Can you tell me—how do you get all your muskets?"

Hearing Lin Ziping's question, Chanup frowned imperceptibly.

Although Lin Ziping noticed Chanup's reaction, he still chose to continue to say "

"The flintlock guns that you all use are all popular in the current Europa continent."

"This kind of musket is not generally difficult to obtain. I once thought about buying a flintlock gun like this to study it carefully, but after exhausting my efforts to find a way to buy it, I found it difficult to find a way to buy it. Find out I have to go without food or drink for three years to buy one.”

"You have a full 80 of such expensive and hard-to-buy muskets, and you have plenty of bullets and gunpowder..."

"How on earth did you get so many muskets?"

"..." Chanup remained silent.

Like thinking.

Seeing that Chanup was silent, Lim Tze Ping added:

"If you don't want to say more, then that's all. I'm not a person who is too curious to stop asking."

Chanup shook his head slightly: "No. If you want to know, I can still tell you."

"The muskets we have are all traded with someone."

"Heren?" Lin Ziping frowned.

"I don't know the person's full name," Chanup said. "The person only told me his surname—'Kinoshita'."

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Red Moon Fortress, Kunoya's clinic——

Kunoya briskly walked back to her clinic with her bong in her mouth wearily.

Since the resumption of the battle this afternoon, Kunoya has basically never rested.

Although Lin Ziping's command greatly increased their combat power in Red Moon Fortress, it was impossible to reduce their casualties to zero.

Kunoya has been busy until now, and finally she can take a break.

After finally being able to rest, the first thing Kunoya did was to go back to the clinic to see how the little girl named Ah Ding was doing.

Since Ogata left, Kunoya has completely become Atachi's doctor and nanny-but Kunoya has no complaints about this.

As a doctor, she has long been used to the feeling of being both a doctor and a nanny.

And Ah-ding has been very quiet and well-behaved these days, so Kunoya doesn't need to bother too much.

"Little girl, I'm back..."

Kunoya stepped into the clinic, before she could utter the last syllable of "I'm back", this syllable was directly stuck in her throat.

Kunoya was not only unable to speak, her eyes also opened wide at this time.

"Little girl, what are you doing?"

With wide-open eyes, she looked at the scene in front of her in astonishment—in the small clinic, A-Ming was lying on her floor as usual.

But at this time, Ah-Ming crossed his hands between his armpits and the "Southern Hemisphere", and rubbed them with moderate strength.

"Ah, Kunoya, you're back." After these days of meditation and recuperation, A-Ming finally recovered a little bit of anger when he spoke now.

When she was talking to Kunoya, she still kept moving her hands and continued to rub them there.

"The wounds are almost healed, so I'll be back." Kunoya looked at Ading's hands that were still rubbing and rubbing, "What the hell are you doing?"

"I'm doing what I can. I'm rubbing acupuncture points."

"I suddenly remembered today—someone once told me that if the upper body is injured, massage the acupuncture points in this place, which can help blood flow and promote wound healing."

"Where did you hear this nonsense..." Kunoya said in a helpless tone, "Massaging the acupuncture points at that place won't be good for your wound healing."

"But it's not bad for you." Kunoya shrugged, "It's not good for your body if you lie on the floor all the time. It's not good for your body to do such simple exercises in moderation." benefit."

"Kunoya, when will I be able to stand up and walk around freely?" Tomachi asked.

"Let's rest for a few more days." Kunoya replied, "You are recovering pretty well now, and after a few more days of recuperation, you should be able to stand up and walk around."

"What? Are you in a hurry to stand up? I advise you to lie here obediently. It's not safe and peaceful outside now."

"...I want to get better as soon as possible." A-Machi said softly, "at least well enough to stand up and walk around with my own strength."

"I... want to do what I can as soon as possible."

After that, Ah-Ming glanced at a large cloth bag that was placed next to her bed.

Under the big cloth bag, there seemed to be some long pole wrapped tightly, so that people couldn't see clearly what was under the cloth bag.

"Then you continue to rest obediently, eat and sleep on time obediently. If you want to get better soon, there is no other way but to rest." Kunoya took down the bong she was holding, "Be obedient now Have dinner, change your dressing after dinner, and I'll see how your wound recovers later."

"Hmm..." Machi nodded slightly.

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the next day—

On the 4th day when Ogata left the Red Moon Fortress——

Today is like a replica of yesterday.

At dawn, the soldiers of the First Army rushed towards the Red Moon Fortress again like a tide.

After resting for a while at noon, they launched an attack again in the afternoon, and did not retreat until dark.

Not only was today's attack rhythm a copy of yesterday's, but even the results were almost the same as yesterday - they failed to take down the outer city wall of the Red Moon Fortress. At the end of the day, not even a few strongholds for the steady delivery of troops could be established on the outer city wall.

Inamori's brows did not loosen until today's battle was over and the sky was completely dark.

Under the night sky, he stood on a small high slope, looking at the Red Moon Fortress in the distance.

"...far harder than expected..." Inamori murmured softly.

"Master Inamori... I'm very sorry..."

Inamori was not alone on this high slope.

The general of the First Army - Gui Yizheng, was standing beside Inamori.

Daomori and Gui Yizheng just stood one after the other on this high slope, and there was no third person accompanying them.

Standing beside Inamori, he lowered his head apologetically.

"It's my incompetence. Facing a group of barbarians, I have no results for 2 consecutive days..."

"No need to apologize." As soon as Gui Yizheng finished speaking, Daomori shook his head and said, "This is not your fault."

"Although the opponent is a barbarian, he is sitting on such a tall fortress with two walls."

"Facing an opponent who occupies a favorable location, it is naturally difficult to deal with."

"What's more--they also have the help of masters who are good at defending the city."

"And your first army is composed of the vassal armies of the northeast vassals, and their combat power is not strong."

"It's not easy to be able to make it like this."

Hearing Daomori's relief, Gui Yizheng finally looked better.

"Although this fortress is much tougher than we imagined, it is actually not a big trouble." Inamori turned his gaze back to the fortress in the distance, "No matter how strong their fortress is, their No matter how powerful the 'high men' are, it can't change the fact that they are few in number and poorly equipped."

"A large part of the reason why we fought so hard these two days is because the generals of our first army are too weak."

"Switching to a strong force, the result should be very different."

"Master Inamori..." Gui Yizheng said tentatively, "You mean...wait for the third army...wait for the Aizu army to come?"

Inamori smiled wryly at this moment:

"Although I am very unwilling to face this fact...but I have to admit that the strength of the Aizu army is higher than that of our shogunate army."

"I don't want to spend too much time on a bunch of barbarians. When Aizu comes, let the Aizu army take over from your first army."

"Shoot this barbarian fortress in one go!"

"But..." Gui Yizheng said softly, "The Aijin Army won't arrive until tomorrow morning..."

"So let's wait slowly now." Inamori nodded, "Wait for the Aizu Army to join us..."

"Master Inamori!"

At this time, a general ran towards Inamori with joy on his face.

"What's the matter?" Inamori asked.

"Hui, Aizu is here!" The general suppressed the ecstasy on his face, "Master Gamo, the third army general, is waiting at the South Yingkou now!"

"Aizu is here?" Rao Yi Inamori, with his strong concentration, still couldn't help showing a shocked expression after hearing the news, "Didn't he say before that he would not arrive here until tomorrow morning? "

Holding the saber at his waist, Daomori hurried to the Nanyingkou of Daying, and Gui Yizheng naturally followed closely behind.

As soon as he arrived outside Nanyingkou, Inamori saw Gamo's young face that he hadn't seen for a while, and the Aizu army behind Gamo holding high the military flag embroidered with "Aizu Sankui".

"Kamo-kun!" Inamori hurried up to meet him, and walked up to Gamo, "You said in the letter that you will not arrive here until tomorrow morning, and you will be much earlier than the time you said in the letter. . Are you on a hasty march?"

"I heard that the battle on the front line is tense, and the barbarians are more resistant to fighting than expected." Gamo said seriously, "So I led the troops to speed up the march a little."

"But please rest assured, Inamori-sama, we Aizu samurai are all strong men, so just speeding up a little bit won't make us tired enough to be unable to move for several days."

Inamori looked up at the Aizu generals behind Gamo - although all of them looked tired, they all looked resolute.

"... Gamo-kun. You guys came just in time." Inamori raised his hand and patted Gamo's shoulder, "Come on, let's get into the camp first."

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the next day—

The fifth day Ogata left the Red Moon Fortress——

The sun had just risen from the horizon, and Lin Ziping, accompanied by Chanup, went up to the inner city wall to observe the movement of the army outside the city.

After 2 days of fighting, whether it is the inner city wall or the outer city wall, there is now a faint smell of blood.

"Mr. Lin, look." Chanup said, "The peace army has started to leave the camp and gather."

Lin Ziping nodded lightly: "Let everyone get ready...Huh? No. There is something wrong with the Hejun outside the city..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Ziping suddenly stopped talking, then narrowed his eyes, staring at the troops gathered outside the city in the open space between the Red Moon Fortress and the barracks.

"It's not right...it's not the same as the army's flag...!"

After taking a closer look, Lin Ziping suddenly found out what was wrong with the "wrongness" of Hejun he had noticed just now—the flag was different.

At this moment, the peace army outside the city no longer held the military flags of the various northeastern feudal clans.

Instead, they hold a unified flag - a unique "Kwai Banner" that is slightly different from the "Shamrock" of the Edo Shogunate.

As a scholar who has traveled all over the world, Lin Ziping is no stranger to this sunflower flag.

"Aizu Sankui..." Lin Ziping murmured palely, "I'm really afraid of something..."

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