I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"Huh." The young man who delivered the meal sneered after hearing Lin Ziping's words, "It's good to give you a bite, don't pick and choose."

"The jerky I got from the old village chief a few years ago is delicious." Lin Ziping said with emotion, "Not only is it very fragrant, but it is neither hard nor soft to bite. I really want to eat it again... "

When he was still a few syllables away from speaking the complete sentence, Lin Ziping suddenly stopped.

Subsequently

"Yeah...how did I forget..."

After whispering like this, he rushed to the window and said loudly to the young man delivering food outside the window:

"Please do me a favor! Let those two Kazutos who entered this Heyezhe come here now! I have something to tell them!"

"Huh?" The young man who delivered the meal was full of doubts.

"Please!" Lin Ziping looked at the young man with sincere eyes.

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turn back time to present

After learning that Lin Ziping had something to look for him, Ogata and A Ding hurried to find Lin Ziping.

After hastily rushing to the cell where Lin Ziping is currently living, Lin Ziping said to Xu Fang excitedly:

"Mr. Mashima! I remembered! I thought of a way that might prove my innocence!"

"About 4 years ago, I came to Ezodi once for academic research."

"During the period, I passed a village called Huxi Village!"

"Because that village has been cooperating with Heshang, it likes to meet people very much. When I passed by that settlement, the people in that settlement even treated me with a feast."

"When I left that settlement, their old village head gave me a pack of delicious dried venison."

"Because the old village head knew Japanese and was very interested in books, I gave the old village head all the books I wrote that I carried at that time as a return gift. I remember a total of 3 Book"

"Book?" Ogata raised his eyebrows.

"Hmm! Three books written by me that specifically introduce the geography of the Mutsu region. They are officially published with the permission of the government!" Lin Ziping said, "My signature is on the book! There is also a map hand-drawn by me!"

"As long as you compare the map drawn in that book with my manuscripts that are now collected by the people of Red Moon Fortress, you can prove that the book was indeed written by me!"

"With that book, I should be able to prove that I am indeed a scholar, not a spy!"

"Mr. Mashima, Miss Atachi, can you go to that village and get the book I gave to the old village chief?"

"I remember that the village is adjacent to a large fjord, not too far from the Red Moon Fortress!"

"...the book I gave you four years ago..." Ogata said flatly, "It must have been too long... Maybe they lost the book..."

"I can only hope that the old village chief will take good care of the book I gave him..." Lin Ziping said with a wry smile.

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next day

Ezodi, somewhere

"Hoo... hoo... hoo... hoo..."

A giant bear with a waist as thick as that of two adults walked on a certain snowfield while exhaling heavily.

In winter, you can always see such bears who miss hibernation for various reasons.

And these bears who missed hibernation, without exception, are very irritable.

The bear, who was looking for food on the snow field, did not find an Ainu lurking in the bushes not far from him.

This Ainu is very young, a young man in his early 20s at most.

The young man held his breath, paying attention to the bear's movements.

He is waiting now.

Waiting for the best attack opportunity to appear.

Although this young man is still very young, he is already a hunter with rich experience in bear hunting. Five bears have fallen under his arrows.

Finally, the best attack opportunity that the youth had been waiting for all this time appeared.

The bear stopped.

The bear, which was walking forward without any haste, suddenly stopped, and then used its fat paws to fiddle with a pile of dead branches and leaves in front of it.

The young man saw right away that the bear was looking for worms to eat.

The bear is an omnivorous animal, and many animals and plants are included in his diet.

Not only do they eat meat, fish, and berries, but they also eat bugs.

Seeing that the long-awaited shooting opportunity appeared, the young man raised the bow in his hand without hesitation.

The arrow has already been placed on the bow, and it only needs to be drawn to shoot.

The poisoned arrow was aimed straight at the bear's flank, and the bowstring was stretched to a full moon.

Just when the young man was about to let go of the bowstring, he suddenly felt a strange movement from the sole of his feet.

The ground... seemed to be trembling.

The bear and the young man noticed this strange movement almost at the same time, shook their huge heads, looked around, and let out a low mournful cry as if they had discovered something, then shook off the four big fleshy palms , began to flee.

The appearance of Xiong fleeing in a hurry aggravated the uneasiness in the young man's heart.

The trembling that spread from the ground to the soles of the young man's feet became more and more intense.

The young man frantically scanned his surroundings, trying to find out where the source of the change was.

Finally he heard a strange noise coming from the south.

Looking to the south, the young man saw a black line at the junction of heaven and earth in the south.

This black line is like a surging water line.

The black line gradually emerged from the skyline, getting thicker and bigger, and the young man finally saw the true face of this black line, which was a large number of people.

Lots of people in strange, heavy-looking black attire.

The young man remembered that this strange costume was called "armor". It was one of the costumes that Kazuto would wear, and it had the effect of defending against a large number of attacks.

Those who make up this black line are thousands of Kazutos wearing this black armor.

These Japanese people not only wear armor, but also hold weapons such as spears.

There are also many people riding war horses, holding the reins in one hand and spears in the other, driving the horses to line up in neat formations, walking on the left and right sides of the "black line".

Flags are erected from this "black line".

Youth cannot read the patterns on these flags.

But if there is a person who knows the family crests of each feudal clan, he will probably gasp after seeing these flags.

Because these flags are painted with the family crests of many vassal states in the Northeast.

The bamboo sparrow pattern of the Sendai Domain.

Sasa Uesugi of the Yonezawa domain.

The inverse Jiuyao pattern of the Morioka domain.

……

The military flags with the patterns of each family painted on one side fluttered with the wind, as if to cover the entire sky.

These and others were silent, and no one made a sound.

The only sounds were the flapping of military flags in the wind, the rumble of horseshoes hitting the ground, and the clanging of iron armor.

Young people who have lived in an ordinary Ainu settlement since birth, have they ever seen so many people and such a formation?

The young man was so frightened that he raised his hand to cover his mouth, for fear that if he made a sound, thousands of people would find him.

The sense of oppression brought by these thousands of people made the youth feel unable to straighten his back, exert strength, or even breathe.

Fortunately, because of the distance

The young man only remembered that it took a long, long time before this "black line" composed of people and people finally disappeared from his field of vision.

It wasn't until this moment that the young man finally dared to breathe out.

After panting violently for a while and regaining his composure, the young man stood up and fled back to his village as fast as he could.

After returning to the village, he immediately informed the whole village in a loud voice that thousands of Kazuki had appeared near their village.

Upon hearing this news, the whole village was shocked.

The well-informed village chief was almost taken aback by the young man's description of the thousands of Japanese clothes.

"It's the army...!" The village chief, who was about to lose his temper, patted his chest vigorously, while growling solemnly, "It's the army of Kazuto! The army of Kazuto is here!"

Hearing the word "army", the expressions of horror on the faces of the villagers surrounding the village chief grew even greater.

"Why did the Japanese army come here?!"

"And there are still so many people..."

"Which tribe are you going to conquer again?"

The villagers chattered.

In the end, it was the old village head who firmly paused the crutch in his hand.

"Everything is quiet!"

The old village chief gave an order, and the surrounding villagers immediately fell silent.

The well-informed old village head knows exactly what a "military disaster" is.

In order to avoid the military disaster, the old village chief quickly issued instructions one after another:

"Now everyone go home and pack their bags!"

"Take all the precious items that can be taken away!"

"Bury the precious items that can't be taken away first!"

"Let's get out of here immediately! Hide in the mountains!"

"We will come back when this army of gentlemen is far away from us!"

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The 1-strong army composed of the shogunate and the Northeast vassals was divided into three armies.

The First Army has a total of 3000 soldiers, walking at the forefront of the entire army, and is commanded by Sheng Tianmu of the Sendai Domain.

The Second Army has 5000 people and is directly commanded by Inamori.

The 2000-strong Third Army was led by Gamo of the Aizu Domain.

What the young Ainu saw just now was the First Army led by Sheng Tianmu.

Sheng Tianmu is now wearing the red and black armor unique to their "Xianzhou Seven Guns", riding his horse, carrying his favorite gun, and marching forward in a show of power.

Qiuyue, Kuroda and other generals are closely following the living Tianmu.

No matter looking forward, backward, left or right, you can only see a vast number of soldiers.

"Look!" Perhaps because the weather is very good today, Sheng Tianmu, who has been in a high mood these days, is even more emotional, "So many soldiers are under our command now!"

Sheng Tianmu shouted to Qiuyue, Kuroda and other generals beside him.

Not only Sheng Tianmu is excited, but Qiuyue and the others are also very excited and high-spirited these days.

For those who are warriors, generals in the army, and eager for fame, there is nothing more exciting and exciting than being able to participate in such a large-scale battle.

Sheng Tianmu raised Jie Fei in his hand and pointed straight ahead.

He pointed at the Red Moon Fortress which was still some distance away.

"This time," Sheng Tianmu said in a sonorous and firm tone, "Our generals in Sendai will definitely win great fame!"