I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

As soon as Tachibana finished speaking, Sadanobu Matsudaira, who had been resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened his eyes.

"Open the car door."

Tachibana: "Yes!"

The car door was slowly opened.

The light shone through the opened sedan door and into the dim interior, illuminating Matsudaira Sadanobu's wrinkled face.

Matsudaira Sadanobu slowly stepped out of the sedan chair.

Tachibana and the 32 red cavalry who were in charge of personal guards had dismounted at this time, and stood respectfully around the sedan chair.

In front of the sedan chair door, stood a dozen or so generals in full helmets.

And standing at the forefront of these generals was a middle-aged veteran with a burly figure, standing like a giant tower.

And this veteran is none other than Inamori.

Seeing Matsudaira Sadanobu coming out of the sedan chair, Inamori and the other generals behind him immediately bowed to Matsudaira Sadanobu.

"My lord!" Inamori shouted in a high-pitched voice, "Welcome!"

"Inamori." Matsudaira Sadanobu put his hands behind his back and squeezed out a smile, "How is the troop assembled?"

"Ready to go!" Inamori's answer was concise and powerful.

"Take me to have a look." Matsudaira Sadanobu continued.

"Yes!"

Under the guidance of Inamori, Matsudaira Sadanobu came to a hillside not far away.

Standing on the top of the hill, looking down.

The cold wind swept across the sky, and also passed by the side of the armored soldiers under the hillside.

Under the hillside, 800 shogunate soldiers formed a dense phalanx.

Long spears protruded from the formation, piercing straight into the sky, forming a dense forest of spears.

The armor on his body shone coldly under the sky.

The big flags with "clover" painted on one side fluttered in the wind.

The 800 Shogunate soldiers all had solemn faces, and the temperature of the air around the military formation seemed to have dropped a few degrees because of the pristine military appearance.

This is a soldier of their shogunate.

This is the soldier who is about to raise his troops to the north to pacify the Red Moon Fortress.

Standing on the hillside and looking down at the army formation, Matsudaira Sadanobu slowly showed a satisfied and confident smile on his face.

The army formation under the hillside is just an 800-man army formation, just one of their 1 troops.

Although their 1-strong army is still scattered everywhere, they have all begun to gather to the north without exception.

The speed vanguard has crossed the northern border of the Matsumae Domain, in the territory of Ezo to the north of the Matsumae Domain.

"Purge the army." Matsudaira Sadanobu said softly, "Good job, Inamori. It seems that choosing you to guard the north and letting you serve as the general of the entire army is indeed the right choice."

"This is not due to me alone." Inamori, who was standing behind Matsudaira Sadanobu, said hastily, "With the help of the old middle-aged adults and the full support of the subordinates, I, Masa Inamori, can train successfully."

As a military commander, Inamori is a rough man, he is not good at speaking politely, and he can't shoot that kind of tactful and advanced flattery.

Listening to Inamori's simple and direct flattery, Matsudaira Sadanobu showed a faint smile.

As a man of action, Matsudaira Sadanobu doesn't really like the people under him to flatter him.

But Inamori is his confidant after all, so Matsudaira Sadanobu didn't say much.

Matsudaira Sadanobu is in a great mood right now.

Looking at the 800-man army formation in front of him, he now only feels his heart beating.

In a few days, when the 800 troops were fully assembled, what would appear in front of him would no longer be a small army of [-] people.

It is a veritable army that can spread from one end of the earth to the other, and is boundless as far as the eye can see!

The heroic spirit is surging, and the ambition is soaring.

"Inamori, let's go!"

Matsudaira Sadanobu waved his hand in high spirits.

"In the history books, add our pages!"

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"Ho... ho... ho... ho..."

Grandfather Jiang leaned against a big tree, panting hard.

Now he felt as if his chest was about to explode, his lungs had completely turned into a bottomless pit, no matter how much air he inhaled into his belly, he still felt that it was not enough.

His throat was very dry, and his mouth was filled with the unique bloody smell after running hard.

After his chest felt a little more comfortable, grandfather Jiang untied a bamboo tube of drinking water hanging from his waist, and poured the drinking water in the tube into his dry throat that felt like it was about to split open.

As the clear water entered his throat, Grandfather Jiang felt that not only his throat but also his own soul had been moistened.

Given his current level of thirst, he could completely drink up the water in the bamboo tube in one go.

A villain named "Desire" deep in Grandfather Jiang's mind kept saying to Grandfather Jiang: Drink quickly, drink to your heart's content.

Although this villain's words are full of temptation.

But reason eventually prevailed over desire.

After drinking only half of the water in the bamboo tube, grandfather Jiang resisted the desire to drink more, put down the bamboo tube in his hand, covered the lid, and hung it back on his waist.

The current environment does not allow grandfather Jiang to drink water as much as he wants.

He was now in a completely unfamiliar environment, where and where there was fresh drinking water—he had no idea.

So every drop of water is very precious, if you can't drink it, don't drink it.

The reason why grandfather Jiang was sweating profusely leaning against a big tree until his lungs almost fell out of his throat was because he had just met a bear by chance.

Just about half an hour ago, grandfather Jiang found a lot of mushrooms by the root of a big tree.

Grandfather Jiang also recognized all these mushrooms.All edible mushrooms.

Excited, he ran off to pick mushrooms.

However, as he was picking, he suddenly heard a strange sound of snow treading from his side.

Following the sound, he turned his head and looked - not far from him, a big brown bear was standing upright, with its two forelimbs leaning against a large boulder, and its half body was sticking out from behind the stone, with a black A pair of small eyes looked at him.

If an experienced hunter was present, he would never move around after encountering a bear.

However—grandfather Jiang was not an experienced hunter.

The startled grandfather Jiang screamed, and then drew out his saber.

The bear who was watching not far away didn't know whether it was frightened by Grandfather Jiang's screams, or by the knife in Grandfather Jiang's hand. In short, the bear roared at Grandfather Jiang.

Then he rushed towards his grandfather Jiang like a thunderbolt.

The mediocre grandfather Jiang Na may be Xiong's opponent.

Grandfather Jiang was thrown down by the bear before he even had time to draw a knife.

When he was thrown down, the knife in his hand also fell aside.

Xiong opened his mouth wide, pointing his sharp teeth at Grandfather Jiang's head. Grandfather Jiang could smell the stench from the bear's mouth.

Probably because the desire to survive played a role at this time. Grandfather Jiang suddenly remembered that when he was panning for gold with his companions, a fellow gold panner who had been a hunter once introduced to him the method of self-rescue after being thrown down by a bear. .

The self-rescue method described by the hunter friend is very simple - smash your arm into the bear's mouth, block its throat, and preferably grab its tongue and pull it back and forth.

According to this hunter friend - once the bear's throat is blocked, it will be very uncomfortable, and the body will not be able to make any strength. Not only will it bite your arm, but it will run away quickly because it finds that this human is not easy to mess with.

(Author's Note: This self-rescue method is not the author's nonsense, it is a real and reliable self-rescue method, please see the end of the chapter for details)

Ever since the hunter friend heard about this self-rescue method after being thrown down by a bear, grandfather Jiang has always doubted whether this method is true and reliable.

After all, smashing your arm into the bear's bloody maw—it's pretty dangerous no matter how you think about it...

However, at this moment, there was no room left for Grandpa Jiang to think otherwise.

If he didn't do something quickly, his head would be bitten off by the big brown bear pressing on him.

So grandfather Jiang gritted his teeth and begged all the gods and Buddhas he could ask for. After praying that the self-help method that the hunter friend said was really useful, he clenched his right hand into a fist and smashed it straight into the bear In the bloody mouth that opened wide and was biting towards grandfather Jiang's head.

A wonderful warm touch wrapped around Grandfather Jiang's entire right arm.

After smashing his right arm into the bear's bloody maw, grandfather Jiang felt something soft—it was the bear's tongue.

After touching the bear's tongue, grandfather Jiang immediately grasped the tongue tightly as the hunter friend told him, and then pulled it back and forth vigorously.

"Ugh...!"

The bear growled in pain with its throat blocked by the big, thick arm, its tongue caught and pulled back and forth.

One man and one bear fought in the snow for a long time before the winner was finally decided—the bear jumped off his grandfather Jiang.

Seeing that the bear seemed to want to leave, grandfather Jiang also let go of the bear's tongue and retracted his arm from the bear's mouth.

After freeing its throat and tongue, the bear immediately fled.

After the bear ran away, grandfather Jiang didn't even bother to wipe the bear's saliva on his right arm, and ran away in the opposite direction to the bear.

After running until the bear was about to explode and his legs began to tremble, grandfather Jiang finally stopped.

Hence, the present scene of grandfather Jiang leaning against a big tree to breathe.

Although he has drunk nearly half of the water in the bamboo tube, Grandfather Jiang is still very thirsty.

But he dared not drink any more.

--damn it……

Grandfather Jiang cursed in his heart.

He crazily cursed in his heart that those Ezos suddenly appeared a few days ago.

The reason why he has been reduced to this day is all thanks to Ezo who suddenly appeared a few days ago.

Before that, grandfather Jiang was a member of the gold panning team led by Undead Chuan.

However, just a few days ago, when their team was resting in a forest, a group of Ezo suddenly rushed out from all directions.

These Ezos are all wearing bright red costumes.

It's fine if it's an ordinary Ezo, but the terrible thing is-these Ezo have muskets in their hands.

After they rushed out from all directions, gunshots erupted immediately, and many of grandfather Jiang's companions fell under the guns after only one meeting.

Grandfather Jiang and the others were attacked by surprise, and their number was far smaller than the other party.

So the fight was over as soon as it started.

Grandfather Jiang and the others were beaten to pieces.

Grandfather Jiang actually doesn't have much memory of this attack.

All he remembered was running, running, running... running like hell.

The first time such a reckless escape was in Kyoto last summer, when I visited the castle tower of Nijo Castle, found that Ogata Yasushi was a monster at all, and then fled Nijo Castle in a hurry.

And grandfather Jiang's luck was really good - he even managed to escape from the encirclement and suppression of these Yezo, and even escaped the pursuit.

Red clothes and muskets - the two characteristics of Ezo living in the Red Moon Fortress.

The one who attacked them was undoubtedly Ezo of the Red Moon Fortress.

Before being attacked, grandfather Jiang Cai had just discussed the Ezo of the Red Moon Fortress with his leader Undead Chuan.

Before the Ezos of the Red Moon Fortress came, the leader of Undead River told him in a firm tone: It is not so easy to meet the Ezos of the Red Moon Fortress in the wild...

Grandfather Jiang felt very sad when he thought of the leader of Undead River.

When he was attacked, he only cared about his grandfather Jiang who was escaping, and didn't have the energy to see if the leader of Undead River and other companions escaped smoothly.

And now that he has successfully escaped, he doesn't have the ability to find other people, because he is also unable to protect himself now.