I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Someone let out a sigh of relief: "It's great that we just lack people who know how to defend this kind of fortress. That Lin Ziping appeared too timely."

"Leitannoe." The other person said suddenly at this moment, "Is that Lin Ziping trustworthy? After all, he is a friend."

"Heh." As soon as this person finished speaking, Lei Tanuoye sneered, "We can only trust him now. Otherwise, what else can we do? Throw him aside, and continue to reproduce this morning. Is that a frantic fight?"

"We don't have the energy to pick and choose now. Those who can be used, whether they are Heren or Lucia, must be used together."

"But don't worry. Me and Chanup will keep an eye on him."

"If he does anything suspicious"

Retannoe raised his hand, aiming at his head as if to shoot an arrow.

Lim Tze Ping's residence

In order to facilitate rushing to the inner city wall in various emergencies, at Lin Ziping's request, Chanup allocated an empty house near the inner city wall to Lin Ziping to live in.

At this moment, Lin Ziping was sitting cross-legged on the ground, leaning against the wall behind him, closing his eyes and meditating.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of someone walking in at the door.

Lin Ziping looked up and saw Chanup holding a handful of dried meat in each hand, entering the room and walking towards him quickly.

"Mr. Lin." Chanup handed the food in his hand to Lin Ziping in front of him, "Here, this is dinner."

"It's convenient." Chanup raised the jerky in his other hand, "Can you have dinner with me?"

"Please go ahead, Mr. Chanup." Lin Ziping nodded.

The two sat opposite each other, holding their own jerky, tearing and chewing.

"Mr. Lin." Chanup just stuffed a small mouthful of dried meat into his mouth, and suddenly asked Lin Ziping, "After the command this afternoon, how long do you think we can hold this fortress? "

"Although I expected you to have dinner with me, there must be some other purpose." Lin Ziping smiled wryly, "But I didn't expect you to reveal your purpose so quickly."

After tearing off another piece of dried meat and stuffing it into his mouth, Lin Zi calmly said:

"You have many advantages, but you also have many disadvantages."

"In my eyes, your most fatal weakness is that there are a total of 3 lack of sufficient defensive weapons, poor personal equipment, and the walls of the fortress are made of wood."

"I don't need to repeat the first two points."

"What I am most worried about now is the defect of the third point I just mentioned."

A dark cloud appeared on Lin Ziping's face.

"Whether your inner city walls or outer city walls are made of wood."

"I guess that the Lucians who built this fortress at the beginning should have considered the cost and were unable to build a stone fortress in such a remote place, so they built this fortress into a wooden fortress."

"Although it is strong, it is not afraid of being hit by people, and it is not afraid of arrows and musket shooting, but it is difficult to withstand the bombardment of artillery"

"Judging from the known information so far, the army outside the city undoubtedly has artillery, but the number is unknown."

Lin Ziping sighed heavily.

"Now we can only hope that their guns are few in number, of poor quality, and that they don't have enough shells."

"The artillery currently used by the shogunate is still the backward copper cannon of the Warring States Period 200 years ago. The range is short and the accuracy is poor. Even if 10 shots are fired, one shot may not hit the target."

"If the number of shells carried by the army outside the city is small, then there is nothing to fear. Otherwise."

Lin Ziping didn't continue to talk, just let Chanup to imagine.

"So, Mr. Lin." Chanup said slowly, "How long do you think we can hold out if the Japanese troops outside the city don't use firearms?"

"It's hard for me to say." Lin Ziping said, "The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, and I don't have an exhaustive strategy. I can't guarantee how long this fortress can hold for you because it will win against Jin Kongming, who is thousands of miles away."

"The only thing I can promise you is that I will do my best."

"I see." Chanup nodded solemnly.

"Although we successfully defended the fortress today, we can't take it lightly." Lin Ziping continued, "The army outside the city has nearly ten thousand people after all."

"Maybe they still have some hidden elite troops that haven't been dispatched yet"

Speaking of this, Lin Ziping's expression became serious at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he even forgot to put the jerky in his hand into his mouth.

"According to my speculation, the Edo shogunate should have pulled all the vassal troops from the Northeast vassals to help out this time."

"So now I'm worried that the troops from Aizu are also coming."

"Aizu" Chanup's expression also changed.

Noticing that Chanup's expression had also changed, Lin Ziping raised his eyebrows.

"Huh? Mr. Chanup, do you know the Aizu clan?"

Chanup nodded: "When I traveled to Herendi, I heard about this feudal kingdom. I only know that this feudal kingdom is quite powerful. I don't know anything about the rest."

"You have even traveled to Herendi."

"It was just a very short trip, and during that trip, I didn't go to any other Japanese places other than the Matsumae Domain."

Lin Ziping tore off a piece of jerky and stuffed it into his mouth.

"If Aizu's troops come, it will be a big trouble."

"The Aizu domain is the pillar of the shogunate."

"Mr. Chanup, do you know that our and people's vassal state is divided into three levels according to the relationship with the shogunate? The pro-vassal daimyo, the descendant daimyo, and the foreign daimyo."

"Our Japan is the northeast region of our Kazuto land, and most of the vassal states are foreign daimyos."

"The Aizu Domain, as one of the few pro-vassal daimyos in the Northeast, shoulders the heavy responsibility of sitting in the north, guarding the North Gate for the shogunate, and deterring the Northeast vassals."

"Under the influence of such a heavy responsibility and the influence of the folk customs, the samurai of Aizu can fight and are loyal. Although the samurai of Sendai always say that they are the strongest samurai in the Northeast, anyone with a little insight and knowledge knows that The Aizu Army is undoubtedly the strongest army in Tohoku."

"If the Aizu army comes, it will be a big trouble."

Lin Ziping stuffed all the remaining jerky into his mouth.

After chewing and swallowing the jerky in his mouth, Lin Ziping asked Chanup abruptly:

"Mr. Chanup. May I ask a question now?"

"Huh? Excuse me."

"Can you tell me how you got your muskets?"

Hearing Lin Ziping's question, Chanup frowned imperceptibly.

Although Lin Ziping noticed Chanup's reaction, he still chose to continue to say "

"The flintlock guns that you all use are all popular in the current Europa continent."

"This kind of musket is not generally difficult to obtain. I once thought about buying a flintlock gun like this to study it carefully, but after exhausting my efforts to find a way to buy it, I didn't know how to buy it. Find out I have to go without food or drink for three years to buy one.”

"You have a total of 80 of such expensive and hard-to-buy muskets, and you have plenty of bullets and gunpowder."

"How on earth did you get so many muskets?"

"" Chanup fell silent.

like thinking.

Seeing that Chanup was silent, Lim Tze Ping added:

"If you don't want to say more, then that's all. I'm not a person who is too curious to stop asking."

Chanup shook his head slightly: "No. If you want to know, I can still tell you."

"The muskets we have are all traded with someone."

"Heren?" Lin Ziping frowned.

"I don't know the person's full name," Chanup said. "The person only told me his surname, Kinoshita."

Crimson Moon Fortress, Kunoya's Clinic

Kunoya briskly walked back to her clinic with her bong in her mouth wearily.

Since the resumption of the battle this afternoon, Kunoya has basically never rested.

Although Lin Ziping's command greatly increased their combat power in Red Moon Fortress, it was impossible to reduce their casualties to zero.

Kunoya has been busy until now, and finally she can take a break.

After finally being able to rest, the first thing Kunoya did was to go back to the clinic to see how the little girl named Ating was doing.

Since Ogata left, Kunoya has completely become Atachi's doctor and nanny, but Kunoya has no complaints about this.

As a doctor, she has long been used to the feeling of being both a doctor and a nanny.

And Ah-ding has been very quiet and well-behaved these days, so Kunoya doesn't need to bother too much.

"Girl, I'm back"

Kunoya stepped into the clinic, before she could utter the last syllable of "I'm back", this syllable was directly stuck in her throat.

Kunoya was not only unable to speak, her eyes also opened wide at this time.

"Little girl, what are you doing?"

With wide-open eyes, she looked at the scene in front of her in astonishment. In the small clinic, A-Ming was lying on her floor as usual.

But at this time, Ah-Ming crossed his hands between his armpits and the "Southern Hemisphere", and rubbed them with moderate strength.

"Ah, Kunoya, you're back." After these days of meditation and recuperation, A-Ming finally recovered a little bit of anger when he spoke now.

When she was talking to Kunoya, she still kept moving her hands and continued to rub them there.

"The wounds are almost healed, so I'll be back." Kunoya looked at Ah Ding's hands that were still rubbing and rubbing, "What the hell are you doing?"

"I'm doing what I can. I'm rubbing acupuncture points."

"I suddenly remembered today that someone once told me that if the upper body is injured, massage the acupuncture points in this place, which can help blood flow and promote wound healing."

"Where did you hear this nonsense?" Kunoya said in a helpless tone, "Massaging the acupuncture points in that place will not be good for your wound healing."

"But it's not bad for you." Kunoya shrugged, "It's not good for your body if you lie on the floor all the time. It's not good for your body to do such simple exercises in moderation." benefit."

"Kunoya, when will I be able to stand up and walk around freely?" Tomachi asked.

"Let's rest for a few more days." Kunoya replied, "You are recovering pretty well now, and after a few more days of recuperation, you should be able to stand up and walk around."

"What? Are you in a hurry to stand up? I advise you to lie here obediently. It's not safe and peaceful outside now."

"I want to get better as soon as possible." A-cho said softly, "at least well enough to stand up and walk with my own strength."

"I want to do something as quickly as I can."

After that, Ah-Ming glanced at a large cloth bag that was placed next to her bed.

Under the big cloth bag, there seemed to be some long pole wrapped tightly, so that people couldn't see clearly what was under the cloth bag.

"Then you continue to rest obediently, eat and sleep on time obediently. If you want to get better soon, there is no other way but to rest." Kunoya took down the bong she was holding, "Be obedient now Have dinner, change your dressing after dinner, and I'll see how your wound recovers later."

"Yeah." Machi nodded slightly.

next day

The 4th day when Ogata left the Red Moon Fortress

Today is like a replica of yesterday.

At dawn, the soldiers of the First Army rushed towards the Red Moon Fortress again like a tide.

After resting for a while at noon, they launched an attack again in the afternoon, and did not retreat until dark.

Not only was today's attack rhythm a replica of yesterday's, but even the results of the battle were almost the same as yesterday's failure to capture the outer city wall of the Red Moon Fortress.At the end of the day, not even a few strongholds for the steady delivery of troops could be established on the outer city wall.

Inamori's brows did not loosen until today's battle was over and the sky was completely dark.

Under the night sky, he stood on a small high slope, looking at the Red Moon Fortress in the distance.

"It's much harder than expected," Inamori murmured softly.

"Master Inamori is very sorry"

Inamori was not alone on this high slope.

Gui Yizheng, the general of the First Army, was standing beside Inamori.

Daomori and Gui Yizheng just stood one after the other on this high slope, and there was no third person accompanying them.

Standing beside Inamori, he lowered his head apologetically.