I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

In order to see what happened outside the city, the residents rushed to the city wall after hearing the news.

Originally—according to the rules, no one was allowed to climb the city wall without a good reason.

But because too many people want to rush to the city wall, the public opinion is hard to stop, so the people who are currently standing guard on the city wall can't stop them. They can only let these tribesmen who are frightened by the sound of the magic conch step on the city wall.

Squeezing the city wall and witnessing the army that suddenly appeared at their door, the Ainu people in the Red Moon Fortress had only two expressions on their faces—shock and fear.

Many people present saw such a battle for the first time.

There are many banners and flags, all kinds of big and small flags, unfurled in the autumn wind, making hunting sounds.

The horn roared like a monster roaring.

Thousands of people in armor are like a dense colony of ants... How have they seen so many people, and an army formation composed of thousands of people?

The residents who saw this kind of battle for the first time couldn't hide their shock and fear.

Just as Ogata followed the flow of people and stood behind the inner city wall, he saw the large army outside the city wall.

Looking at the army outside the city, Ogata narrowed his eyes subconsciously, and his heart sank.

He had thought before that the army of the shogunate might approach the Red Moon Fortress before Ah-ding's body recovered.

But he didn't expect the speed of the shogunate army to be so fast...

It was noon, and there was no morning fog or other mess to obstruct the view.

Ogata took out the binoculars he had won from Vasili in a fist fight before, and observed the status and movements of the troops outside the city through the binoculars.

According to Ogata's estimation, the total number of the troops currently stationed outside the city is about 3 to 4000.

They stopped at a place more than 1000 meters away from the wall, without a front, and only set up tents one after another—they were setting up camp outside the city.

At this moment, a surprise shout suddenly sounded from behind Ogata:

"Ah! Here comes Chanup! Here comes Chanup!"

The shout immediately seemed to trigger a chain reaction, and everyone turned their heads following the sound—including Ogata.

I saw Chanup climbing the inner city wall surrounded by many people.

The current position where Chanup is standing is just not far from Ogata.So Ogata can clearly see that Chanup's face and expression are very bad now.

He who usually never leaves his hand with a cigarette, was not holding a bong at this very rare moment, and only looked at the army outside the city with a solemn face.

However, the arrival of Chanup as the leader still played a somewhat soothing effect on the emotions of the people around him.

It just so happens that when Chanup climbed the inner city wall, in the army outside the city, an armored and woven general rode out majestically from the army formation, followed by hundreds of soldiers.

The general who suddenly rode out on horseback was none other than Gui Zhenghe.

After he led the hundred soldiers out, the sound of the conch slowly stopped.

Gui Zhenghe rode his horse all the way to a certain distance from the city wall of the Red Moon Fortress, then took a deep breath, and then——

"Barbarians! Listen up! I am Gui Zhenghe, and I am here to warn you!"

As soon as Gui Zhenghe's words fell, the hundred soldiers standing behind Gui Zhenghe shouted in unison, repeating what Gui Zhenghe said just now.

The yelling of a hundred soldiers in unison was loud enough that everyone on the city wall could hear it clearly—although only those who knew Japanese could understand what it meant.

Every time Gui Zhenghe yelled, the hundred soldiers behind him shouted in unison to repeat what Gui Zhenghe had just yelled.

In order to take care of the Eizu in the Red Moon Fortress, Gui Zhenghe specially used only simple words, without any complicated rhetoric or embellishments.

"In February of this year, you incited the citizens of Matsumae Castle and caused riots, resulting in countless deaths and injuries."

Gui Zhenghe first briefly counted the "sins" committed by the Ainu people in the Red Moon Fortress, and then changed the topic——

"You guys don't abide by benevolence and righteousness, but specialize in tricks, provoking each other, it's hard to reason!"

"We always believe in the way of peace and are willing to have equal and friendly exchanges with all ethnic groups."

"However, now that the matter has come to this point, it is difficult to give Gurong any more!"

"Let's start the army today, in order to overcome it quickly!"

Although there are not many Ainu who understand Japanese, there are also many—at least many people in the south wall of the Red Moon Fortress can understand what Gui Zhenghe said just now.

These residents who can understand Japanese, after hearing Gui Zhenghe's words just now, "Let's start the army now, in order to overcome it quickly", their expressions changed drastically.

However, Gui Zhenghe's shouting has not yet ended.

"I hope you can see the form clearly!"

"If you surrender with your arms tied, you will be settled easily! No one's life will be hurt!"

"If you don't change it—then please wait and do it yourself!"

After finishing speaking, Gui Zhenghe raised his right hand high and made a gesture.

Kuroda, who stayed in the army formation and kept an eye on Gui Zhenghe, immediately waved the military officer in his hand after seeing Gui Zhenghe making this gesture: "Blow the conch!"

Woo--!Woo--!Woo--!

The conch sound that had just stopped for a short time sounded again.

With the sound of the conch horn, there were also the shouts of the generals and soldiers.

The unison shouts of 3000 generals mixed with the sound of conch shells, converging into a huge sound wave, rushed towards the people who were currently standing on the difficult wall of the Red Moon Fortress with overwhelming force.

Faced with this huge sound wave, many people in the city wall couldn't help shrinking their necks, and a few people almost fell to the ground. The panic and uneasiness on their faces was so intense that it couldn't be added...

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PS1: The "Mukuri" (also translated as Mukeli) mentioned in this chapter is not the author's nonsense, it is a harmonica-like instrument that actually existed in the history of the Ainu people.

PS2: The character painting of Ogata that I mentioned to you a while ago has been completed! ! !

I will post this character painting in the form of an Easter Egg chapter at the end of this chapter, and I hope that the review of the Easter Egg chapter will quickly pass this picture...

Once again, I would like to thank the book friends who found an artist to draw pictures [Silent Kirin], and the artist [Master Yixin]

Because this character painting is based on a famous scene in the book, the author wrote an accompanying text for this painting. Because the Easter Egg Chapter cannot write too much text, I put the accompanying text of this picture Post it here:

[The dancing flames.

Oncoming heat.

Countless tongues of fire spewed out from the castle tower, and the scorched wooden pillars snapped off.

In the castle tower of Erjo City, in the sea of ​​flames, he set up the sword in his hand.

In this age of samurai decay, he has drawn his sword here, now, for what is dear to him.

Reckless and indomitable.

"Sakakibara One-Sword Style and Wugo Two-Sword Style, Ogata Yishi, please participate!"]

Chapter 541 All living beings under the artillery! 【6000 words】

, I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

There was a very embarrassing scene in the last chapter

The author is a bad namer, and he is not good at naming names, so when I name the characters, in order to save trouble, I often borrow the names of some real celebrities.The name of the new general of the First Army "Gui Yizheng" is based on the cartoonist "Gui Zhenghe" who created the classic "s" and I like it very much.

Then an embarrassing scene took place yesterday.

Because the name "Gui Zhenghe" is really deeply rooted in my heart, so when I was writing the relevant plots of "Gui Yizheng" yesterday, I subconsciously wrote it as "Gui Zhenghe". Those who watched the new chapter earlier yesterday can find the previous chapter "Gui Yizheng" is written as "Gui Zhenghe" If a book friend hadn't reminded me, otherwise I really didn't find that the leopard had a headache and cried p

These are all performances that Gui Yizheng arranged in advance.

The purpose is to frighten the barbarians in the Red Moon Fortress, so that these barbarians can see their force and see clearly the difference in force between them.

Before starting a fight, it is basically one of the practices of various countries to persuade the enemy to surrender.

To measure whether a battle is "played beautifully", not only depends on whether it is won, but also depends on the total price paid.

It can be said that there is no boundary between tragic victory and defeat.

Inamori was not some reckless guy who didn't know the art of war. He had previously ordered the first army, which was the vanguard, to persuade the barbarians to surrender after they approached the Red Moon Fortress.

If these barbarians were frightened and surrendered after seeing such a large army, it would be the best for them to take down the Red Moon Fortress without firing an arrow.

If these barbarians are unwilling to surrender the first army, they will stick to their original positions and wait for the follow-up second and third armies. After the 1 troops are assembled, they will slowly deal with these barbarians.

The "shouting in unison" and other performances performed by the First Army are all designed by Gui Yizheng.

If you just dryly shout "surrender" to those barbarians, these uncivilized barbarians will most likely ignore their persuasion to surrender.

So after being airborne to the First Army, Gui Yizheng, who was still ambitious and wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to show his talents, designed these performances with the purpose of "deterring the barbarians".

And these performances were all approved by Inamori before, and even praised by Inamori. Inamori praised Gui Yizheng's design of these performances as good, and they would definitely have a deterrent effect on those barbarians.

The performance Gui Yizheng designed is far more than just "shouting in unison".

Before the generals shouted, two thunderclaps suddenly exploded.

Afterwards, huge explosions suddenly occurred in two open spaces between the Red Moon Fortress and the army formation for no reason. A large amount of snow on the ground was blown up into the sky, and then fell like fine snow.

These two thunderous roars, and the two subsequent explosions scared many people on the city wall.

"what happened?!"

"What happened?!"

"Why did those two places suddenly explode?"

"Is this Kazuto's new weapon?"

Most of the people in Red Moon Fortress, to put it mildly, have lived in a place isolated from the world for too long, so they don't know the world.

To put it bluntly, they are just a bunch of country bumpkins who have never seen the world.

That's why many people in Red Moon Fortress didn't recognize that it was the roar of artillery, and the two explosions were also thanks to this artillery.

The oldest and strongest emotion of man is fear. The oldest and strongest fear comes from the unknown.

These people, who didn't know what the artillery was, even thought it was the power of the gods, and they almost sat down on the ground in fright.

For example, Otongpuyi was frightened by the huge explosion and collapsed to the ground.

Otunpuyi can be said to be the first group of people who were attracted by the sound of the conch and climbed the city wall.

When the Falcon blew, Otunpuyi happened to be near the southern city wall.After hearing the sound of the Faluo, Otunpuyi, who was frightened by the sound, immediately boarded the southern city wall.

Since climbing the city wall, Otunpuyi's eyes have remained in the same state, so staring that the eyeballs are about to fall off.

This was the first time he saw Kazuto's army.

Until now, Kazuto's army had only existed in his fantasy.

At this moment, after truly witnessing the majesty of Kazuto's army, Otunpuyi couldn't hide the shock in his heart.

After seeing the Kazuto army outside the city, the first thought that popped out of Otunpuyi's mind was that they are too powerful, and their fighters from Heyezhe can't be compared with them at all

boom!boom!

Two cannons exploded.

Otongpuyi, who was caught off guard by this, was so frightened that he screamed out, his legs went limp, and he slumped on the ground accidentally.

The buttocks fell heavily on the ground, and the pain made Otunpuyi feel that his buttocks were about to shatter.

But after the buttocks touched the ground, Otunpuyi ignored the pain and hurriedly got up from the ground, staring blankly at the two pieces that had been turned into small craters due to the bombardment of the artillery. Looking at this scene, Otunpuyi's jaw fell straight to the ground as if he had lost the pull of his muscles.

"This is" Otunpuyi murmured, "Is this the army of Kazuto?"

Otunpuyi himself didn't realize his naturally drooping hands, at this time he slowly clenched them tightly unconsciously.

For this battle against the Red Moon Fortress, the shogunate mobilized a total of more than 400 muskets, 9 artillery pieces, and 52 large cylinders of various types.

Most of the firearms were concentrated in the Second Army, which was dominated by the direct troops of the shogunate, and the First Army had only 2 artillery pieces.

For this expression, Gui Yizheng specially pulled out the only two cannons of their First Army.

At this moment, Gui Yizheng regretted that he should have brought his telescope too.

Because he really wanted to see the expressions of these unworldly bumpkins on the city wall after seeing the power of the artillery.

The corner of his mouth curled up triumphantly, and Gui Yizheng reined in the horse, driving the horse back to the army formation.

As soon as he returned to the army formation, Gui Yizheng saw Kuroda walking towards him.

"I really want to know what kind of expressions those Ezos will have when they hear the roar of our artillery." Gui Yizheng, who got off his horse, was the first to say to Kuroda in a joyful tone.