I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

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 height of the inner city wall is higher than that of 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 can completely resist the enemy's attack several times or even 10 times more.

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 in charge of standing guard outside the wall.

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

After approaching the fort for a certain distance, Asuma, who was walking in the 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 the 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 facilities such as towers with walls.

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 scrutinized like this, 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 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.

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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 (<ゝω·)☆

Once a bear eats a human, it loses its respect for human beings, and the "arm monkey method" at the end of the chapter does not 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.

Chapter 505 "The Executioner Yidao Zhai" and "The Foresight of the North Gate" [8800 words]

After Ogata and his group passed through the gate of the inner city wall and formally entered the Red Moon Fortress, they separated from Aisuma and the others.

Ai Suma and others went to return.

But Ogata and the others were first led to an open space not far from the gate of the inner city wall.

Ogata and the others were not left alone for too long.