I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Upanu said nothing.

He was silent.

Nor did he go after Chanup, or watch Chanup leave.

He just lowered his head slightly and remained silent.

Retannoe, who had just informed Chanupu and informed Chanupu that Upanu was about to fight with his people, stood not far away the whole time just now.

Before and after Chanup walked back to him slowly, Retannoe asked in a low voice:

"I thought you would spend a lot of time trying to persuade Upanu to stop being stubborn and stop thinking about being a dog with people."

Regarding Retannoe's words, Chanup did not respond, just smiled, and then said seriously to Retannoe:

"Retannoe, help me call all the old guys now. Just call them to my house."

An idiomatic phrase for the old guys Chanup.They used to refer to all the "big shots" in their Red Moon Fortress who were qualified to attend high-level meetings as "old guys".

"What are you going to do?" Retannoe asked.

"What else can we do? Of course we are discussing how to protect our homeland." Chanup said, "Anyway, I'm bothering you. I have to go to a place now, and I will join you soon."

Red Moon Fortress, somewhere

"Hey! What happened? Can't you tell me? I heard 2 loud cannons during the day today! What's the matter with the cannons? Did someone attack here? "

Lin Ziping pressed his face against the window, and shouted to the young man who was guarding him outside the window.

As of this afternoon, Lin Ziping was still living his usual life in this prison transformed from an uninhabited residential building, doing nothing.

Until there was an extremely noisy noise outside, and two artillery shots.

Lin Ziping was no stranger to the sound of artillery, and he immediately recognized that it was the unique bombing sound of artillery.

Why is there the sound of artillery here in Ezodi?

Lin Ziping, who was startled by the sound of the two cannons, hurriedly asked the guards outside the house what happened, but the guards outside ignored him at all.

Because the guards didn't know what happened outside.

During the period, there were several waves of guards, but in the face of Lin Ziping's inquiries, they were either vague or ignored Lin Ziping.

"Stop arguing." The guard's impatient voice came from outside the door, "You have been arguing there since just now, I have no obligation to tell you who is in prison! Mr. Chanup? Why are you here? This is it?"

"I have something to do with the man in the cage. Open the door."

Um?Is there anyone here?

Just as Lin Ziping cast doubtful eyes towards the prison gate, he saw the prison gate being slowly opened, and an Ainu of his age slowly walked into the prison.

As soon as the middle-aged man entered, he closed the prison door by himself and put himself and Lin Ziping in the same cell.

Before Lin Ziping had time to ask who the middle-aged man was, the middle-aged man took the lead in saying in fluent Japanese:

"Mr. Lin, although this is not the first time we have met, but in terms of formal meeting, this is indeed our first time."

"Nice to meet you, my name is Chanup."

"Chanup?" Lin Ziping raised his eyebrows.

Since the middle-aged man in front of him can speak fluent Japanese, Lin Ziping is also willing to spend his time communicating with him.

"Why did He Yezhe's leader suddenly come looking for me, a prisoner?"

As a scholar who has studied Ezo for many years, Lin Ziping naturally has a lot of understanding of He Yezhe who is very famous in Ezo.

It is no secret that Heyezhe's top leader is named Chanup.Lin Ziping naturally knew about it a few years ago.

When Lin Ziping looked at Qianup up and down, Qianup also looked at Lin Ziping.

This time, the two of them met for the second time.

The last time they met, it was rather embarrassing. The young clansmen took Lin Ziping, who was sneaking outside the city and suspected of being a spy, back to Chanup to have a look.

At that time, after taking a quick look at Lin Ziping, Chanup ordered Lin Ziping to be put in prison and carefully checked his identity.

"I'm here just to speak for Mashima-san," Chanup said.

"Mr. Mashima?" Lin Ziping frowned slightly, "Although I am very concerned about what Mr. Mashima wants you to bring to me, but before that, can you tell me what happened today? What happened to the cannon fire today? thing?"

"Don't you know what's going on?" Chanup asked.

"I have been asking the people in charge of guarding me what happened." Lin Ziping said, "But they didn't tell me at all."

"Is that so?" Chanup said slowly, "What exactly happened can be summed up in one word, that is, the army of Heren came over."

Chanup briefly described what happened today in as few words as possible.

After Chanup finished his brief introduction, Lin Ziping widened his eyes: "Is the shogunate calling?"

"Mr. Mashima has left here for some reason." After briefly telling Lin Ziping what happened today, he switched the topic back to the main topic that he came to find Lin Ziping this time and wanted to tell Lin Ziping. "Before he leaves, let me bring you a word for him."

Before Ogata was about to ride his radish to leave the Red Moon Fortress, he mentioned Lin Ziping to Qianup who came to see him off. He asked Qianup to bring him a word to Lin Ziping.

"Mr. Mashima left?" Lin Ziping hurriedly put away the astonishment and shock on his face, "What did he do?"

After Ogata came back with the injured Ah Ding, he met with Lin Ziping once, but the two of them didn't talk much about that meeting, Ogata only told Lin Ziping that he was safe, And told Lin Ziping that due to some accidents, he did not bring back books that might prove his identity as a scholar, and said that he would find another way to get him out of the cell later.

Since that meeting, Lin Ziping has never seen Ogata again.

"Sorry. Please allow me to keep it a secret as to what Mr. Mashima is doing." Chanup shook his head.

"Then what did Mr. Mashima ask you to bring?" Seeing that Chanup kept it a secret from him, Lin Ziping was not annoyed, and only changed the topic quickly.

"It's just a simple sentence."

Chanup cleared his throat, then imitated Ogata's tone, and said:

"Mr. Lin, for some reason, I will be missing for a short period of time. When I come back, the difficulty of getting you out of the cell should be eased a lot. I hope you will wait patiently for me to come back, and remember the agreement you made with me." promise."

"Just this sentence?" Lin Ziping asked.

What is the "promise" that Ogata said, Lin Ziping naturally knows that he and Ogata have made an agreement, if Ogata can help him regain his freedom, Lin Ziping will take Ogata and the others to the village with the strange doctor.

"That's right." Chanup nodded, "I still have a lot of important things to do, and I can't stay here for too long."

"Now that the words have been brought, it is almost time for me to leave."

"Wait a minute!" Lin Ziping said urgently, "Before I leave, can I ask a question?"

Lin Ziping put on a serious face.

"How are you going to deal with the Japanese army outside the city?"

Chanup raised his eyebrows at Lin Ziping's sudden question, and then smiled:

"We must defend our homeland to the death, and fight until our troops retreat, or our fortress is breached."

After all, Chanup said no more, and quickly left Lin Ziping's prison.

Lin Ziping stood there in a daze, watching Chanup's leaving back.

After Chanup had left for a long time, Lin Ziping still stood there, motionless.

After a while, Lin Ziping gritted his teeth, ran quickly to the wall next to him, and kicked the wall resentfully.

"What are Matsudaira Sadanobu and Kitagawa Toshiki thinking and why they sent troops to the Ainu!"

"damn it!"

He kicked the wall resentfully while growling in a low voice.

Red Moon Fortress, home of Chanup

"Is everyone here?" Chanup looked around at the people sitting around him.

"Upanu hasn't come yet," Retannoe, who was sitting next to Chanup, replied, "Upanu is the only one left."

Upanu is also one of the people who are qualified to participate in this kind of high-level meeting. However, until now, Upanu has not been seen.

"Then don't wait for him," Chanup said. "Let's get started."

Chanup once again looked around at the crowd in front of him.

"I have decided to guard my home until the last moment," Chanup said bluntly. "Anyone else have any objections?"

The eyes of the "main combat faction" headed by Lei Tannoe focused on those "main surrender faction" who were very active before.

At this moment, these vassalists either bowed their heads in silence, or sang Chanup loudly, expressing that they were connected, and they really could not bow down to others.

Chanup's speech just now made the "battle faction" completely overwhelm the "surrender faction".

Almost all of the residents who accounted for the vast majority of the population of the Red Moon Fortress and experienced the "south migration" 10 years ago were inspired by Chanup's speech to defend this hard-won homeland. fighting spirit.

And those residents who did not experience the "south migration" 10 years ago were also motivated by Chanup's speech just now.

These residents who have not experienced the "south migration" 10 years ago basically have to abandon their original homes for various reasons and move into Heye Zhezhong.

Their affection for Heyezhe is not shallower than those of the "aboriginal people" who have experienced "south migration".

Now in the entire Red Moon Fortress, the temperature seems to have risen several degrees due to the high fighting spirit and enthusiasm of the residents.

These "surrenderers" are not blind people. They can naturally see that if they mention surrender now, no one will respond to them.

However, some of the "Maintenance Faction" were indeed moved by Chanup's speech just now, and they completely defected to the "Maintenance Faction".

Seeing that no one spoke, Chanup nodded.

Just when he was about to say something, the curtain at the door was suddenly thrown open.

Everyone, including Chanup, immediately focused their attention on it.

I saw a middle-aged man, with an expression that made it difficult to understand his specific emotions, walked slowly across from Chanup, and then sat down cross-legged.

"Upanu," said Chanup softly, "I thought you weren't coming"

"You came just in time, the meeting has just begun."

"If you have something to say, just say it at this time."

Upanu's departure changed the expressions of everyone present.

People from the "battle faction" like Lei Tannoe turned ugly.

However, some of the "surrender faction" who are still concerned about "surrender" cast a hopeful look at Upanu.

Upanu deserves to be the focal point.

Not only did he just show up, he made almost everyone's expressions change.

After he sat down, he only said a word, and the expressions of everyone changed again.

"Chanup. Tell me." Upanu said softly, "Tell me how you plan to deploy your defenses."

Upanu's simple sentence made Chanup's pupils shrink involuntarily in surprise, and the rest of the people reacted similarly.

After showing a faint smile at Upanu, Chanup looked serious and said loudly:

"Since no one has any objections, we will prepare for the battle with all our strength."

"To deal with Heren outside the city, we must first increase the number of guard posts on the city wall and strengthen our guard."

A large number of young and strong men with bows, arrows and spears rushed up the inner and outer city walls, and the number of guard posts on the city walls doubled.

All the people standing guard on the city wall are waiting in full battle, with their eyes wide open, carefully observing every move of the army outside the city.

"Open all warehouses, check and count all food and drinking water in stock. Medicines are also counted uniformly."

The doors of the several warehouses dedicated to storing food and drinking water were wide open.The clansmen who were ordered to come to inspect and count, shuttled back and forth in the warehouse.

In Kunoya's clinic, while smoking a cigarette, Kunoya said to the young people in front of him in a lazy tone: "Are you the ones sent by Chanup to help me count the medicines? Then start Let's work."

"In addition to food and drinking water, weapons must also be thoroughly inspected and counted, and the weapons will be distributed."

Bundles of arrows and spears were taken out, and they were distributed one by one while counting.

The sound of sharpening arrows and spear points echoed throughout the Red Moon Fortress.

"This battle is about the survival of our homeland, so we can't hold back any of those muskets."

Inside the Red Moon Fortress, a group of clansmen hurried towards an inconspicuous warehouse.

There is only one thing in this warehouse: a neat row of flintlock guns with a red moon engraved on the handle.

And they have 80 such muskets.

The Red Moon Fortress is like a machine running at full speed. Under the scheduling and arrangement of Chanup, everyone is doing their work in an orderly manner.