I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

The sound of the trigger of the flintlock gun and the friction sound of the vibration of the bowstring resounded on the inner city wall of the Red Moon Fortress, and the projectiles and arrows showed great power.

The soldiers of the First Army paid a huge price before they touched the walls of the Red Moon Fortress.

When the soldiers of the First Army rushed towards the city wall, the archers of the First Army also covered and shot for their companions.

However, they can only attack from their backs, and many of them can't even shoot arrows to the city wall. In addition, there are not many archers, so their cover shooting can only be said to be better than nothing.

Finally, after paying a lot of sacrifices, the soldiers of the First Army finally rushed under the outer wall of the Red Moon Fortress, and put the long ladder on the wall.

"Quick! Quick! Climb up! Climb up!"

Under the orderly command, the soldiers climbed along the long ladders towards the wall of the outer city wall like a colony of ants.

The clansmen who had been waiting on the outer city wall for a long time finally started their attack.

Many long ladders were pushed down as soon as they were erected.

And the soldiers who managed to climb up the outer city wall along the long ladder that was not pushed down in time, will be greeted with sharp spears one after another.

As soon as many soldiers exposed their heads, they were stabbed back to the ground by random guns.

The shooters on the inner city wall were also actively covering their companions on the outer city wall, shooting and killing all the enemy soldiers who tried to climb the city wall.

Under the joint onslaught of the Ainu on the inner and outer city walls, the soldiers of the First Army who climbed up the long ladder screamed one after another, and then fell down from the long ladder.

Soldiers kept falling from the long ladder, but at the same time, new soldiers climbed up the long ladder to replace the companions who had just fallen from the long ladder. In the footsteps of soldiers who fell from the ladder.

Chanup, standing on the inner city wall, was directing the battle while observing the battle on the outer city wall.

At present, the battle on the outer city wall is going well, but Chanup's brows are still frowning.

Because of Chanup, he noticed that there was an aura of "disorder" everywhere on the defenses on the outer city wall.

"Hey! Why are you gathering so many people there? There are not many people there!"

"Hurry up! A few people come here! Kazuto here is about to climb up!"

Remarks similar to this continue to appear everywhere on the outer city wall.

The reason for this situation is that they lack a "commander" who really knows how to defend the city.

This "disorderly" situation soon produced evil results.

"Hey! Come here to help! Everyone here is on board!"

A scream sounded from somewhere on the outer city wall.

I saw that the place where the sound came out, a lot of people had already rushed up.

These ashigaru who successfully climbed the long ladder to the city wall used the wooden shields in their hands to form a wooden wall to block the outside of their long ladder, desperately blocking the Ainu's attack, and built a building that can ensure that the follow-up soldiers A small stronghold that keeps climbing.

Seeing this, the surrounding Ainu people naturally rushed to support, and tried their best to destroy the small stronghold built by Kazuto.

the first army

Gui Yizheng, who stayed behind in the formation, had been using binoculars to observe the battle on the outer city wall.

The said distance is a bit far, but relying on the high-performance telescope in his hand, Gui Yizheng can still see the battle situation on the outer city wall relatively clearly.

Looking at the barbarians in a hurry on the outer city wall, Gui Yizheng couldn't help showing a smug expression.

"Sure enough, a barbarian is a barbarian." Gui Yizheng put down the binoculars in his hand and sneered, "Even if he has a musket, it's just helping a barbarian who doesn't know how to fight."

Inamori was also watching the battle with binoculars.

Inamori stood on a high slope, watching the battle in the distance with a telescope. He also showed a proud expression like Gui Yizheng.

At this time, there were only a few of Inamori's cronies standing on this high slope accompanying Inamori.

"It seems that the difficulty of taking down this fortress is much smaller than I imagined." Inamori smiled, "These barbarians don't know how to defend the city at all. , It really made me want to laugh when I saw it."

"There is no need for our firearms to appear on the stage." A close aide responded.

Inamori nodded: "From now on, we only need to attack the city in a normal way, and finally enter the fortress that has been breached leisurely."

The reason why Inamori didn't use heavy weapons such as artillery and canisters to wash the ground and smash the inner and outer walls of the Red Moon Fortress was to protect the fortress.

Their Edo shogunate launched such a large-scale expedition this time to occupy this fortress located in a dangerous position.

As long as you hold this fortress in your hand, it will be of great benefit to all subsequent Ezo land development actions of the Edo shogunate.

Inamori didn't take the resistance of the Red Moon Fortress seriously from the very beginning. He had already regarded the fortress as the private property of their Edo Shogunate at the beginning of the expedition.

In other words, smashing the fortress is equivalent to smashing the fortress of their Edo shogunate, and then they have to spend a lot of money to rebuild the city wall of the fortress.

Therefore, Inamori had to avoid damaging the walls of the Red Moon Fortress as much as possible.

Inamori's goal is to take down the undamaged Red Moon Fortress as much as possible.

"My lord." At this time, another trusted aide said, "It will be noon in half an hour."

"At noon, are we going to withdraw the generals of the First Army and replace them with our troops to launch a continuous attack on those barbarians?"

The "our troops" he mentioned naturally refers to the generals of the Second Army, which are all composed of direct troops from the shogunate.

"No need." Inamori said without thinking, "It's not time to send our troops to the field yet."

Speaking of this, Inamori sneered.

"Our troops of the Edo Shogunate are only responsible for the final harvest."

"The sowing and cultivation in the early stage should be handed over to the first army composed of the vassal armies of each vassal."

"The more people they die, the more benefits to our Edo shogunate far outweigh the disadvantages."

The confidant who proposed just now whether to send their direct troops to launch a continuous attack on the Red Moon Fortress smiled and said in a half-joking tone:

"My lord, you are really bad. You actually want to rely on this battle to easily weaken the strength of the Northeast clans."

"I'm just continuing what our shogunate has been doing for 200 years." Inamori shrugged.

The first army's attack on the Red Moon Fortress lasted until noon.

It was not until noon, when the sun was already high in the sky, that the First Army finally sounded the horn to retreat.

The generals of the first army, who were launching a fierce offensive against the Red Moon Fortress, retreated like a tide after the order to retreat was issued. While preparing lunch, they also let the generals who had been fighting for a long time rest for a while. .

Gui Yizheng's current expression can be described in one word, which is "smug".

Although their battle this morning, judging from the results, except for killing and wounding some Ainu people, they achieved nothing.Although some small strongholds were successfully built on the outer city wall during the battle, they were all destroyed very quickly.

But even though nothing was gained from the battle this morning, Gui Yizheng's eyes were still full of excitement.

Although there were no results, the battle this morning exposed the disadvantages of those barbarians who did not know how to fight.

This greatly increased Gui Yizheng's confidence.

After returning to the camp majestically, Gui Yizheng was pleasantly surprised to find that Daomori came to greet him in person.

"Gui, you played well." Inamori smiled, "Continue to maintain such vigor, and show me how to defeat those barbarians as soon as possible."

In this society that emphasizes respect, superiority, and hierarchy, a compliment from the superior is enough to flatter the inferior.

"Yes!" Gui Yizheng hastily responded loudly, "I will definitely eliminate all the idiots who dare to resist in the Red Moon Fortress as soon as possible! Clear away all obstacles to taking this fortress for the Lord!"

After all, Gui Yizheng and Inamori tacitly showed each other meaningful smiles at the same time.

Gui Yizheng is not a fool either, he naturally knows that the huge honor of capturing the Red Moon Fortress must not be the turn of the First Army, which is a collateral force.Their First Army can only do the toughest jobs.

So what Gui Yizheng said just now was very playful "smoothing obstacles", not "taking down the fortress".

Gui Yizheng actually didn't care at all about how many military exploits the other generals of the First Army could achieve after the battle.

After all, he is one of Inamori's trusted confidantes, and he is a "direct line general".

"Hurry up and have lunch and rest." Inamori raised his hand and patted Gui Yizheng on the shoulder, "We still have to fight in the afternoon."

Gui Yizheng: "Yes!"

Red Moon Fortress

Since the start of the battle, there has been a steady stream of wounded being carried off and carried into the "rescue area".

The so-called "rescue area" is nothing more than an open space near the city wall, with strips of blankets specially used for the wounded to lie on the open space.

After the battle, the clansmen were free to carry the wounded, and the number of wounded in the "rescue area" immediately increased sharply.

As the number of wounded continued to increase, the smell of blood in the "rescue area" became heavier and heavier.

The strong smell of blood is firmly locked in this open space like an invisible chain, no matter how you try to dispel the strong smell of blood, it will gather again.

In addition to the strong bloody smell drilling into your nostrils, there are endless screams and wailing sounds here.

Many wounded pressed their wounds in pain, wailing and screaming one after another.

"Ahhh! My hand!"

"It hurts, it hurts"

"Miss Kunoya, my leg hurts so much"

The doctors headed by Kunoya shuttled back and forth in the "rescue area".

Kunoya has been putting on a calm expression since the beginning of treating No.1 wounded.

Whether she was treating the wounded with only skin trauma or the wounded with a horrifying amount of bleeding, Kunoya kept her face calm, with the appearance of "any injury is just a minor injury".

In an inconspicuous corner at the outermost edge of the treatment area, two middle-aged men silently looked at the painful wounded with complicated eyes.

"Chanup, it's impossible to continue like this." Retannoe said, "If we don't find a way to make up for our lack of commanders who know how to defend the city as soon as possible, I'm afraid we won't be able to last long."

"I don't understand what you said." Qianup said in a deep voice, "How can we make up for this shortcoming?"

"How about going outside to capture a peaceful general who knows how to defend the city?"

"Retannoe, is what you said just now true?"

"Of course not, I was just joking."

"Stop making jokes that aren't funny at all at this time."

Even people like Inamori and Gui Yizheng who can only use binoculars to observe the battle situation can see that their battles are full of "disorder", and they stand on the inner city wall to command the battle, and at the same time they know that they lack "disorder". Chanup, who is a qualified commander, doesn't know?

After witnessing the appearance of these painful children in the "rescue area", Chanup deeply realized how fatal their current biggest shortcoming is.

If there is a powerful commander to command and dispatch, the casualties should be much smaller.

But his perception was useless.

Because they can't think of any solution at all.

After Chanup raised his hand and rubbed his frowning brows, he said to Retannoe beside him in a half-joking tone:

"It would be great if someone who knew how to defend the city could fall from the sky at this time."

"You said just now not to make bad jokes at this time." Retannoe glanced at Chanup angrily, "And then you started telling silly jokes yourself."

"How can there be such a good thing in the world"

Before Lei Tannoe could finish his words, a somewhat anxious shout sounded from behind the two of them:

"Mr. Chanup! Finally found you!"

A young man hurried towards Chanup.

"What's wrong?" Chanup asked.

"That, that..." The young man was a little out of breath because of the fast pace all the way, but he still held back his shortness of breath and tried his best to piece together a complete sentence, "The prisoner and the person Said that I want to see you, said that I want to fight side by side with us"

"Ah?" Chanup tilted his head, "Want to fight with us?"

"The locked Kazuto?" Retannoe also showed doubts, "Who is it? When did we lock up a Kazuto?"

about an hour later

the first army

"Okay!" Gui Yizheng lightly slapped the military equipment in his palm, "Let's continue!"

Gui Yizheng not only had a full lunch just now, but also had a good night's sleep to refresh himself.

Because of his good mood, Gui Yizheng took a particularly sweet nap today.

After taking his position in the formation, Gui Yizheng waved the military equipment in his hand imposingly: "Attack!"

Following Gui Yizheng's order, the same scene as in the morning appeared, and the soldiers of the First Army rushed towards the Red Moon Fortress like a colony of ants.

After giving the order to attack, Gui Yizheng held the military equipment in his right hand and the binoculars in his left, watching the battle situation leisurely.