I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"Mr. Mashima" before and after Ogata walked up to him, the village head first said to Ogata in a hoarse voice, "I'm really sorry for you, Ainu language"

Aizan who came with Ogata stood behind Ogata, translating for Ogata.

The village chief kept saying sorry to Ogata, apologizing for betraying his kindness to Ogata who told them that there was news that the Kazuto army was approaching.

The village chief, who didn't know that Ogata and the others had been attacked by the shogunate army, apologized, but also warned Ogata and the others to leave here quickly to avoid being found by the army.

Ogata glanced at the village chief's left palm where two fingers had been torn off with brute force, and sighed silently.

"Village chief, you don't need to apologize to us." Ogata smiled, "It's not your fault, it's those in the army who are at fault."

"Thank you for your reminder, we will leave here immediately."

"Mr. Mashima Ainu language"

At this time, a childish voice sounded.

It was Lilata's voice.

Ogata looked down at Lilata who was holding tightly the little windmill he made.

It wasn't until this moment that Ogata realized that the small windmill was damaged, and one piece of blade was missing.

Lirata raised her head high and looked directly at Ogata.

His face was full of grievances.

"Sorry I almost sold you out Ainu"

"This child insists on coming with the village chief to apologize to you." Lilata's grandmother said softly at this time, "For the past two days, this child has been blaming himself for the Ainu language that he almost betrayed you."

"Almost betrayed us?" Ogata asked back, "What do you mean?"

"The child said that she was beaten by four soldiers at that time, and she was beaten very painfully, because it was too painful, so she was already planning to confess your whereabouts to get relief."

Lilata's grandmother wiped her tears as she spoke.

"When she was about to reveal your whereabouts, those soldiers left."

"Although you didn't tell the soldiers your whereabouts until the end, this kid still blamed himself for being too shameless these two days, and he almost betrayed his savior Ainu language"

Ogata listened quietly.

After listening to Aizan's translation, Ogata lowered his eyes again, looking at Lilata who now buried her head low and dared not look directly at Ogata.

Ogata just looked at Lilata quietly.

until a moment later

"Lilata, thank you. You have persisted for so long for me."

Ogata showed a faint smile, and knelt on one knee on the ground, so that he was at eye level with Lilata.

"You are not shameless at all, you are already very brave. Facing such a fierce torture, you can persist for so long. I may not be as brave as you at your age."

After saying that, Ogata held out his hand to Lilata who was looking at him with surprised eyes.

"Come on, lend me the windmill."

Lirata looked at Ogata in front of her, then at the windmill in her hand, and then slowly handed the windmill to Ogata.

Ogata took the windmill from Lirata, and then took a leaf on the ground next to it.

Ogata flipped his ten fingers deftly.

As if by magic, in the blink of an eye, Ogata repaired the damaged windmill of Lilata with the leaf he had just picked up.

"Here." Ogata handed the windmill back to Lilata.

Lilata took the small windmill back in a daze.

Looking at the repaired windmill in her hand, Lilata was stunned at first.

Then, all of a sudden, the backlog of emotions exploded.She cried and said "thank you" to Ogata.

"Village chief, hurry up and hide in the deep mountains." Ogata smiled at Lilata and stood up, "Village chief, Lilata, you should take care."

"Yeah." The village head was also crying at this time, "Thank you, Mashima-san, you should take care too."

3 days later

"The above is the loss of our army."

"Thank you." Inamori, who was seated at the top, nodded to the general who had just been in charge of reporting casualties, "Please take a seat."

And the general officer also bowed lightly to Inamori as a gesture of return, and then sat back in his seat.

"It's so miserable." Inamori folded his arms and said softly, "There is only one enemy who attacked, and you, with an army of 3000, were beaten like this."

As soon as Daomori's words fell, the generals of the First Army headed by Kuroda and Qiuyue in the camp all showed shame and embarrassment, and buried their heads low.

If there is a hole here, then many people present may just get into the hole directly.

After these days of treatment, Qiuyue's body has recovered to the point where she can barely sit in a position to participate in military discussions.

After the camp was attacked, Kuroda, who temporarily took over the command, immediately dispatched his trustworthy generals to the camp of the Second Army, the main force behind their First Army, to report to their commander-in-chief, Inamori, that it was doomed. The "attack incident" that will make Inamori's jaw drop.

In fact, it was true. After hearing the news, Inamori's jaw almost dropped from shock.

After sending a message to Inamori, Kuroda led the First Army to stay where they were, waiting for Inamori's instructions and orders.

When Inamori learned that the First Army had encountered a major event that could be called a "huge scandal", he immediately conveyed the order of "urgent march" to the Second Army with 5000 troops under his command.

It took only 3 days for the second army to catch up with the first army which was on standby and merge with the first army.

After merging with the First Army, Inamori originally wanted to see Sheng Tianmu who died in battle.

But because too much time had passed, and the corpse of Sheng Tianmu had been collected, Inamori had no choice but to give up.

After giving up the plan of "seeing the eye with a single eye", Inamori immediately called all the generals of the 1st Army and the 2nd Army to hold a military meeting.

Because the participants will be all the generals of the First Army and the Second Army, the scale of the meeting is huge, and the camps of the generals will be filled to the brim.

Sitting in the main seat is naturally Inamori and Matsudaira Sadanobu.

Just now, Inamori was listening to the damage of the First Army after encountering Ogata Ittosai's attack.

The death toll was 74, and the number of minor and serious injuries was 168. Most of the casualties were not killed or injured by Ogata, but were caused by one's own people hurting one's own people under the chaotic order.

The loss of property was not particularly serious, but some tents and facilities were burned, and the baggage was intact.

The loss of generals was particularly severe.

A total of 3 generals were killed in battle, and these 3 generals were all generals with high status in the army.

The chief general of the First Army was born with Tianmu and died in battle.

The other two guns Tiandao and Mogami in the "Seven Guns of Xianzhou" were also killed.

Of the "five guns" involved in this battle, there are only two guns left by Akizuki and Kuroda.And the two remaining shots were both wounded.

If the First Army was attacked by the Ainu with more than a thousand people, then Inamori could still accept the heavy casualties.

However, it was not the thousands of troops that brought such heavy losses to the First Army

At first, when he learned that the camp was attacked by a samurai, Inamori thought he had heard wrong.

Then something miraculous happened.

Afterwards, when he learned that the samurai who attacked the First Army Camp was that Ogata Yasushi, Inamori suddenly had the miraculous thought of "So, it's understandable" and "No wonder there were so many casualties"

"Sigh," Inamori let out a long breath, "I never thought that Ogata Istosai would be in this Ezo land."

"And we still unknowingly offended him"

"damn it"

Based on the currently known information, continue to clarify the reason why Ogata Yidaosai broke into the camp of the First Army.

Mogami wounded a young woman the day before the First Army was attacked, and then prepared to take the woman away for interrogation.

Then Ogata Yidaosai came and defeated Mogami's troops.As soon as Mogami fled back to the camp, Ogata Yidao Zhai chased after him, and then forced his way into the camp, beheading Mogami with a single blow.

After integrating these information, it can be deduced that Ogata Ittosai is for revenge.

Inamori guessed that the young woman must be an extremely important person to Ogata Isai, otherwise Ogata Isai would not have done such a crazy thing as "breaking into the camp alone".

From a legal point of view, Ogata's behavior of calling on the door to seek revenge is completely legal and encouraged.

In order to maintain its own rule, the Edo shogunate vigorously praised the distorted "Bushido".

One of the core principles of "Bushido" in the Edo period is to value "reputation" more than "life".

"Revenge" is an important behavior to protect one's own reputation and even the meaning of existence itself, so a very weird "hatred culture" developed in the Edo period.

In the Edo period, "revenge without revenge" was a behavior that was despised by everyone.The society is permeated with the ethos of "revenge for revenge".If there is a grudge and you don't pursue it, you will be disgusted and despised by the people around you.

If the samurai does not retaliate, he will also be punished such as "deprived of the right to inherit the family business".

There are various regulations on how to take revenge.For example: You can ask someone to help you take revenge, but when you kill the enemy, you must do it yourself.

Another example: repeated revenge is prohibited, that is, it is not allowed to retaliate against those who have succeeded in revenge.

Another example: Qiu Qiu's honor is affirmed, but Qiu Qiu will still be punished.That is to say, after you succeed in revenge, everyone will praise you, but you will still be punished for "homicide".

It is because of this weird culture of hatred and begging that when Ogata committed the crime of lord killing that shocked the whole country a year and a half ago, many people still praised him and respected him.

Therefore, according to this weird "revenge culture", Ogata's behavior of entering the camp for revenge is worthy of recognition and praise

If someone else's army was attacked by Ogata Isai, then Inamori might praise Ogata Isai and respect Ogata's courage.

The problem however is the unit under attack, his unit

"Master!"

At this time, a certain general shouted loudly.

This general is a general of the Second Army, about 20 years old, and this general, who is in his prime of life, made a speech generously.

"This matter must not be left alone!"

The young general was about to say something more, but Daomori raised his hand first, signaling that he doesn't need to say more.

What the young general wanted to say, Inamori guessed it was nothing more than telling him how heinous Chen Xufang Yidaosai's trespassing on their camp was, and then asked Inamori to send troops to pursue Ogata Yidaosai.

"Everyone, stay calm."

Inamori said in a calm tone.

"I can understand your feelings."

"When something like this happened, I was also heartbroken."

"But everyone can't lose the big because of the small. The big event was delayed because of Ogata Yidaosai."

"What is the purpose of our mobilization of [-] troops this time?"

"It's to flatten the Red Moon Fortress."

"It's not to pursue Ogata Yidaosai."

"We shouldn't be putting the cart before the horse right now."

"Now we should do our best to complete the important task of bringing down the Red Moon Fortress."

As soon as Inamori's words fell, Matsudaira Sadanobu who was sitting next to Inamori said abruptly:

"Inamori is right."

"The pacification of the Red Moon Fortress cannot be delayed because of Ogata's one-knife fasting."

The commander-in-chief of the entire army and the old middle school of the shogunate both spoke, expressing the same point of view, which is so oppressive.

But in the face of this huge oppressive force, there are still some young generals who are still young and not afraid of tigers when newborn calves are afraid of tigers and said:

"But the boss, are you just ignoring that Ogata Yidaosai?"

"Of course not." Inamori said without hesitation, "I'm just saying that you can't miss a big deal because of Ogata Yidaosai."

"We will continue to advance the Red Moon Fortress step by step according to the plan."

"But starting today, increase the number of scouts by 2 times no, 3 times!"

"Let all scouts beware of all the young and men along the way."

Inamori's eyes flickered with a cold light.

"It would be best if we could find traces of Ogata Yidaosai on the way to the Red Moon Fortress."