I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

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After telling Chepke briefly and concisely what he had just witnessed that Skulucci led his people to help China Village, Chepke showed a complicated expression.

"Is it true... that white man with red hair really came to help us with his men... Ainu"

Chepke's current expression is so complicated that it is difficult to describe it in words.

He couldn't help but think back to their not-so-friendly attitude towards Skulucci when they met this afternoon. When he thought about it, the expression on Chepke's face became more complicated...

"Village Chief! Village Chief! Ainu"

Suddenly, an anxious shout came from not far away, attracting the attention of Chepke and others.

Is a young girl.

The girl rushed to Chepke anxiously, and said to Chepke in a tone that seemed to be about to cry:

"Village chief! There are so many injured people! We may not have enough medicine! Let's go to other villages for help! Ainu"

As soon as the girl's voice fell, the faces of Chepke and the others suddenly became ugly.

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When it comes to beheading people, Ogata is a master with both experience and technique.

But when it comes to saving people, Ogata is helpless.

The same is true of A-cho, both of them are people who have no knowledge of medicine.

The only medical skill that Ogata knows is to apply saliva to the wound.

It is a blessing in misfortune that the village doctor of Qina Village is still alive.

Although it can't help much in terms of treatment.However, Ogata and Atachi can still help the villagers who are still able to move around to find out the injured villagers and carry them to the village doctor.

The two of Ogata and the others... especially Ogata, now hold an unusually high status in the hearts of the villagers of Qina Village.

Anyone with a little brain knows that the reason why they were able to repel those white-skinned men was all thanks to the help of this person.

Without the help of this Heren, those white-skinned men must have held a "celebration banquet" in their village by now, and then wantonly abused the women in their village.

When they saw Ogata and A-Machi helping them to find and transport the injured, the villagers quickly stopped them, saying that there was no need for this and they wanted to let Ogata and A-Machi rest well.

In the imagination of the villagers, Ogata should be very tired now. After all, nearly half of all the white-skinned men who fell to the ground were beheaded by Ogata.

Facing the kindness of the villagers, Ogata only declined with a smile.

Although he was indeed a little tired, and his physical strength would be consumed rapidly in the "Non-Self State", Ogata was not so tired that he couldn't even move.

Anyway, in the eyes of Ogata, helping the villagers find and transport the injured villagers is just a trivial matter, so Ogata decided to send the Buddha to the west, and also help this little favor.

The number of injured people far exceeded Ogata and Chepke's imagination.

It wasn't until the sky was slightly bright that they finally cleaned the whole village.

All the injured were located and transported to the village doctor.

The corpses of the Cossacks were randomly thrown into a group, intended to be cremated directly afterwards.

As for the dead villagers, their bodies were carefully placed, and a funeral was held for them later.

China Village is a village with a little more people than Kuma Village.

Even after the "disappearance incident", there are still 209 villagers in Qina Village.

However, after the fierce fighting last night, more than half of the population in Qina Village was killed or injured... 39 people were killed and 67 people were injured.

Although it was a victory, the number of casualties told everyone a cold fact about this bloody and tragic victory.

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China Village, Rescue Area for the Wounded

The so-called rescue area for the wounded was actually an open space in the village.

Because there are too many wounded, they can only be placed in an open space.

"Uripaxi." Chepke whispered to a middle-aged man in front of him who was crouching next to a wounded man and bandaging the wounded man, "How's the situation?"

The middle-aged man named "Uri Paxi" is the only village doctor in China Village.

He is both a village doctor and an excellent hunter.

He also participated in the fierce fight last night.

And very lucky to survive, and not even a little injury.

I have to say that this is really a blessing in misfortune.

If even Uripahi was seriously wounded or died, there would be no one to heal so many wounded.

As soon as Chepke finished his sentence, Uripahi happened to have wrapped up the villager who was cut with a saber in front of him with a clean cloth.

Uripahi stood up slowly, and then winked at Chepke: Let's go where no one is.

Chepke, who understood the meaning of Uripaxi's eyes, nodded, then followed Uripaxi and walked quickly away from the rescue area.

Uripahi sighed heavily after walking all the way to a place where the wounded in the treatment area could not see them and there was no one else around.

"Pretty bad..."

"There are too many injuries...the medicines in the village are not enough..."

"And... Chepke, let me tell you the truth."

Uripahi put on a serious tone.

"I don't know how to treat those who are wounded by the white men's muskets."

"I've never treated this type of injury before."

"How to get those round things out of the body, and what medicine to give them, I don't know at all..."

After quietly listening to Uripaxi's words, Chepke fell silent.

After a while, he sighed heavily.

He had no intention of blaming Uripahi for not being able to heal a gunshot wound.

Chepke would be surprised if Uripaxi could heal the wound he received from the musket.

Although they knew what a musket was, they had never been attacked by a musket before.

"...Chepke, should we try to seek help from Heyezhe's people?" Uripaxi said softly, "Heyezhe's people have muskets, and their doctors may know how to treat musket wounds people."

As soon as Uripaxi finished speaking, Chepke shook his head quickly.

"No. Heyezhe is too far away from us. It will take several days to send someone to fetch their doctor, even by dog ​​sled."

"And the muskets used by Heyezhe's people are also very different from those used by the white-skinned men."

"I don't think their doctors will treat the wounded by those white men's muskets..."

Speaking of this, Chepke sighed heavily again.

"I have sent people to get medicine and doctors from villages that are closer to us and have a better relationship with our Qina village."

"Uripaxi, please continue to focus on treating the injured as best you can."

"The rest, I'll find a solution..."

"En." Uripaxi nodded lightly, and then quickly returned to the treatment area.

And Chepke also quickly left from where he was.

Before he had gone far, Chepke saw a one-armed middle-aged man walking towards him.

"Manakr. How's the situation?" Chepke asked.

Manaker can be regarded as one of Chepke's right-hand men.

After the battle last night, Chepke sent Manaker to manage and arrange for the villagers who died in the fierce fighting last night.

Facing the question thrown by Chepke, Manaker nodded lightly:

"I put all the dead bodies in the house."

"Four rooms are fully filled..."

After all, Manaker and Chepke walked side by side.

"It's really sad..."

Manaker sighed in a mournful tone.

"Why do we always suffer from such unreasonable disasters..."

"That's right..." Chepke lowered his head, "Why do such unreasonable disasters always happen to us..."

First there was the "disappearance incident", and now there is another "attacked by white men".

The previous "disappearance incident" had reduced a large number of young and strong men in their village.

And now a large number of villagers have been killed and injured...

"There are already very few young men in our village..." Manaker said with a wry smile, "Now there are a lot of casualties..."

"There are so many men missing... I don't know how people in other villages will treat us..."

Among the still primitive tribal Ainu, population is everything.

Basically, the tribe with more young males is richer and more powerful and vice versa.

Villages with few young men are often bullied and looked down upon by people from other villages.

Although many women in their Qina village have picked up bows and arrows to do the work that should be done by men, women's physical strength and strength are still no match for men.

"Chepke, I've done the math." Manaker continued, "There are only 14 men in our village who are between 40 and 41 years old..."

"This also includes those who were injured last night and are still awaiting treatment."

"If some of them are not rescued and die, this number will continue to decrease..."

"If we don't want other villages or others to look down on us and bully us, we have to find a way to increase the number of young men in our village..."

"I see..." Chepke couldn't remember how many times he sighed.

After sighing, Chepke stopped where he was.

He lowered his head and looked pensive.

I just don't know what I'm thinking about.

"village head!"

At this time, Chepke suddenly heard a loud young male voice.

Chepke followed the sound and saw that it was Aiyaka.

Aiyaka walked quickly towards Chepke.

"Village Chief, I finally found you." Aiyaka said quickly, "It's dawn now, and I plan to set off now."

"I will return to Kuma Village as soon as possible and bring back our village doctor from Kuma Village."

"I'll probably be back this evening."

Last night, when he learned that there were too many wounded patients in China Village and that the medicine was not enough, Aiyaka, who was born in Kuma Village, who had a good relationship with China Village, agreed to Chepke without hesitation:

After dawn tomorrow, he will return to Kuma Village as soon as possible to bring back their medicine and village doctor from Kuma Village.

Seeing that Aiyaka came to say goodbye to them, Chepke nodded vigorously with emotion.

"Thank you, Aiyaka."

"Well. Then the village chief, I'll go first."

After saying that, Aiyaka turned around, ready to stride away, and returned to Kuma Village on a dog sled alone.

However, just as he turned around, Chepke suddenly called out to him.

"By the way, Aiyaka. I have a question for you."

"Huh? What's the problem?"