I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Unlike Gui Yizheng who had a joyful face, Kuroda only had a wry smile on his face.

"Master Gui, the cost of this performance is really too high. I just used up 2 shells."

After nearly 200 years of peaceful life in the shogunate, the military situation can be directly described as "unbearable".

Firearms are the hardest-hit areas. Due to the neglect of the development of firearms, not only has the technical level of firearms not been improved in the past 200 years, but even the daily maintenance cannot be called "ideal".

Their 1-strong army has only 9 cannons, and even the number of cannons is so scarce, let alone expect their cannonballs to be much larger.

The number of shells in their artillery was not sufficient enough to allow them to open fire.

For the performance just now, they directly used 2 shells, which not only made Kuroda feel a little distressed

As soon as Kuroda finished speaking, Gui Yizheng raised his hand and patted Kuroda on the shoulder:

"These are necessary sacrifices."

"Sun Tzu's The Art of War has a saying: A hundred battles are victorious, and those who are not good will not fight and defeat others' soldiers. Those who are good are also good."

"Although these barbarians are not to be feared, if you fight with them, you will have to pay some sacrifices."

"If these two cannonballs can make these barbarians succumb and surrender obediently, then these two cannonballs will be nothing more than small coins worth mentioning."

Speaking of this, Gui Yizheng turned to look at the Red Moon Fortress in the distance, and sneered:

"Okay, let's wait and see how these barbarians will react."

"I guess" Kuroda sneered at the same time, "These barbarians may have civil strife."

"There will definitely be some people who can't see the situation clearly and will choose to fight in the corner."

"Those who want to fight stubbornly, and those who know the current affairs, may fight directly."

Gui Yizheng looked up to the sky and laughed loudly:

"If these barbarians go straight to civil strife, then we fishermen can just reap the benefits of the fishermen!"

Crimson Moon Fortress, Kunoya's Clinic

Atachi, who had been anxiously waiting for Ogata's return, finally saw Ogata's return.

Seeing Ogata passing through the gate of the clinic with a knife in his hand and returning to his side, A-Machi immediately asked urgently:

"Ayi, I seem to have heard the sound of artillery just now! Is the shogunate army outside the city bombing the city wall?"

The sound of artillery bombardment covered the entire Red Moon Fortress.

So Ah-cho, who has been lying in the clinic, heard the roar of the two artillery pieces and the two explosions very clearly just now.

The sound of gunfire and explosions naturally made Ah-ding, unable to get up and go out, even more anxious, eager to know what was going on outside.

Ogata did not immediately answer the question that A-Machi threw in a hurry.

Holding the knife, he walked up to A-cho, sat down beside A-cho, and said calmly:

"The shogunate army indeed fired artillery, but it was not used to bombard the city wall, but to the ground outside the fortress. It should only be used to scare the residents of the Red Moon Fortress."

Ogata briefly described everything he had just witnessed on the city wall in the simplest terms possible.

After learning about the current situation outside through Ogata's mouth, A-Machi asked:

"How are the residents of Red Moon Fortress now?"

"Now" Ogata showed a helpless wry smile, "it's a mess outside"

"Hey! Asuma!"

Aisuma, who was busy, suddenly heard someone calling her.

Xunsheng saw a dozen or so teenagers running towards her with fear and anxiety on their faces.

"Aisuma! I heard that if we don't open the city, the people outside the city will kill us. Is this true?" One of the dozen or so teenagers asked Aisuma anxiously.

"Where did you hear these rumors!" Aisuma retorted without thinking, "Of course it is false!"

"Yes, but"

When the boy wanted to say something more, Aisuma took the lead and said:

"You don't have to worry! Our bows are not for decoration! Even if those people outside the city want to fight us, they may not be our opponents!"

Asuma showed a confident bear, and patted the bow on her back.

"And father, no, Chanup and the others have already started discussing countermeasures!"

"They must be able to figure out a way to drive away the people outside the city!"

"You go home now, don't listen to rumors that come from nowhere."

The dozen or so teenagers looked at each other in blank dismay.

Aisuma's words just now played a little role, and the uneasiness on the faces of many of the teenagers faded slightly.

In the end, they left in front of Aisuma with different expressions and expressions.

Aisuma, who watched the dozen or so teenagers leave, let out a long sigh.

Immediately afterwards, the expression on her face changed extremely quickly.

The original confident smile disappeared, leaving only tiredness.

After Gui Yizheng's "surrender performance" ended, Chanup, who was standing on the city wall and witnessed the whole process, immediately took action. He organized a small group of people and asked them to be responsible for maintaining the order of the Red Moon Fortress. .

Asuma was one of that small group of people who were chosen.

From just now, Asuma has been running around, maintaining order.

Since just now, Asuma has never rested.

Since just now, Aisuma has seen all sorts of strange and chaotic phenomena

The group of uninvited guests outside the city completely destroyed the original stability and tranquility of the Red Moon Fortress.

No matter where you are in the Red Moon Fortress, all you can see is "chaos".

Some looked panicked or wailed loudly after being frightened.

Someone questioned Asuma about what happened.

There were people with hot blood, holding spears, bows and arrows, and shouting loudly that they wanted to fight to the death with the people outside the city.

But the ones with the largest number still showed uneasiness like the group of teenagers just now, asking Aisuma what they should do next, or verifying whether some rumors they heard from nowhere were correct.

To appease these people, Asuma had to tell some white lies.

For example, what Asuma said to these Kazuto just now, "Our bow is not inferior to Kazuto", is a white lie

Under the hard work of Aisuma and the others who are in charge of maintaining order, although the Red Moon Fortress is filled with panic everywhere, until now there have been no vicious incidents, and the order has not completely collapsed.

Aisuma raised her hands, rubbed her cheeks vigorously, pulled herself together, and was ready to continue working on maintaining order.

But at this moment, out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly saw an extremely familiar figure sitting in an inconspicuous corner not far away.

"Optunpui? What are you doing here?"

Asuma walked quickly towards the familiar figure of her brother.

At this time, Autong Puyi was sitting in that inconspicuous corner with a dull face.

It wasn't until he heard his sister's voice that Otunpuyi finally woke up, belatedly raised his head, and looked at his sister.

"elder sister"

Just now, when the crowd gathered on the city wall dispersed, Aotong Puyi walked down the city wall with the flow of people.

However, Otunpuyi has absolutely no memory of walking down the city wall, walking to this place, and then sitting in this inconspicuous corner.

At that time, his body and mind were immersed in shock and he had no time to care about things outside of him.

"Don't just sit here." Aisuma said, "You go home now."

After all, Aisuma raised her hand to pull Otunpuyi's arm but did not pull Otongpuyi up.

Otunpuyi was resisting her pull.

"Sister" Otongpuyi whispered, "Is Kazuto's army so powerful? It's even stronger than I imagined! Even that kind of weapon has that kind of weapon hitting people's bodies, and the whole body will just break it up"

Listening to Otunpuyi's words, Aisuma not only frowned.

"Don't say such inexplicable words!" Asuma said loudly, "Hurry up and go home!"

"Lei Tannoe! It's you people who obstructed that! We missed the good opportunity to escape here!" The middle-aged man who has always been a staunch "runner" blushed and said to Lei The "battle faction" headed by Tannoy cursed loudly.

After Gui Yizheng's self-directed and self-acted "deterrence performance" ended, the top executives of the Red Moon Fortress headed by Chanup naturally gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

At the beginning of the meeting, the "fleeing faction" lashed out at the "battle faction".

People from the "Major Fleeing Faction" believed that it was because the "Main Fighting Faction" was obsessed with obsession there and obstructed them greatly, which resulted in the bad situation of "until the moment before Heren's soldiers approached the city, they did not decide on a final countermeasure", and Missed the best opportunity to escape.

The "battle faction" headed by Lei Tannoe naturally won't obediently be scolded there.

"Hmph!" Lei Tannoe snorted coldly, "I haven't disliked you for obstructing us, but you are the first to criticize us!"

After Lei Tannoy started this, the rest of the "battle faction" joined in the scolding war.

In the small room, three forces were immediately divided: the main combat faction, the main escape faction, and the "neutral faction" who did not participate in the scolding battle between the two factions and remained silent.

And Chanup is a member of the "neutral faction".

Chanup smoked in silence, as he had done in every meeting he had attended.His expressionless face made it impossible to guess what he was thinking right now.

When the "war of scolding" between the two factions reached a fever pitch, an unhurried voice suddenly sounded, intervening in the "war of scolding".

"Okay, stop arguing. Everyone, can you listen to me, the village head of Kapasi Village?"

As soon as the voice fell, the two factions who were cursing each other fell silent, and turned their heads to look at the owner of the voice just now, a middle-aged man with a hideous scar on his face.

The middle-aged man's face was extremely terrifying, a scar stretched from his left forehead all the way to the corner of his right mouth.

The quiet people, including Chanup who had been smoking with his head down, also raised his head and looked at the middle-aged man.

Looking at the village chief of Kapasi Village.

This middle-aged man is named Upanu.

It was the village head of Kapasi Village who participated in the "Battle of Kunasili Menasi".

"Upanu." Retannoe said first, "It's so rare that you want to talk."

Chanup is actually not lonely. He is not the only one who keeps silent in every meeting.

Upanu, like Chanup, rarely spoke in every meeting, kept smoking and kept silent.Neither war nor escape.

Seeing that Upanu took the initiative to speak at this time, many people couldn't help feeling curious.Want to hear what Upanu has to say.

After everyone's eyes were on Upanu, Upanu silently picked up the bong in his hand, took a strong puff, and then said quietly:

"Running now is definitely impossible."

"Heren's army has already arrived at our door, and there is no way to escape if you want to."

"But in fact, even if we escape early, we will definitely not be able to escape."

"Heren has cavalry, and can easily catch up with us."

"There is no chance of winning in a head-to-head encounter with Heren's cavalry in the wild."

Hearing Upanu's words, the faces of the fleeing faction were as ugly as if they had eaten poop.

As for the "battle faction" headed by Lei Tannoe, they all nodded.

However, just as Retannoe and the others nodded, what Upanu said next made the expressions on their faces instantly froze.

"But if you fight to the death with Kato, that is also a dead end."

Retannoe and the others cast astonished gazes at Upanu.

Ignoring the gazes cast by Retannoe and the others, Upanu continued to speak to himself:

"Raitannoe, you people have never fought against Japanese people."

"You don't even know how powerful you are in fighting with people."

Although Upanu looked normal, his fingers that were holding his bong were slowly tightening at this moment.

He raised his left hand, which was not holding the bong, and gently touched the big hideous scar on his face.

"Have you ever seen the momentum of people wearing armor and lining up in an army formation?"