I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

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Speaking of this, Lin Ziping turned his head to look at Lei Tanuoye.

"Mr. Retannoe, have you painted the new batch of armor with our colors?"

Lei Tannoe nodded: "All the colors have been painted, and some people have put them on."

"That's good," Lin Ziping said softly.

These days, in order to make up for the inferior equipment, Chanup and the others have been picking up the armor and weapons of the peace generals left on the city wall and using them for their own use.

Although the armors they picked up were basically ashigaru armors that were not very protective, but they were better than nothing.

In order to avoid accidentally injuring "our own people wearing enemy armor", the chest position of each set of armor that was pulled out was painted red with the characteristics of their Red Moon Fortress.

After confirming the situation of "equipment recovery" with Lei Tanuoye, Lin Ziping looked around at the people in front of him.

"Anyone else have any questions?"

No one answered.

"Since there are no doubts, let's disband and go to rest." Lin Ziping said, "This afternoon, there will definitely be another hard battle."

"While there is still time, let's take a good rest."

"Especially you, Mr. Chanup."

Lin Ziping turned his gaze to Chanup who was standing beside him.

"You haven't rested since you started fighting this morning. It seems that you haven't even eaten lunch?"

"I think you'd better get some rest in time now. Or else you're worn out, and that's going to be a bad thing."

"Haha." Chanup chuckled a few times, "The way you persuade me to go to bed early is really like my daughter."

Chanup scratched his long hair.

"Don't worry. I'm not an idiot who doesn't know how to rest."

"I had planned to go back to my home to rest for a while after this meeting."

Red Moon Fortress, home of Chanup

Tang Shen, who had been sitting in the corner with his eyes closed and resting his mind, heard footsteps that he was very familiar with outside the house, and he recognized who it was without opening his eyes.

"You're back." After saying this, God Tang slowly opened his eyes, looked at the door, and looked at Chanup who had already passed through the door and entered the house.

Chanup, with a tired face, was holding his pipe in his mouth at this time, puffing and puffing.

After entering his home, he looked around first.

"Where are Asuma and Otunpuyi?"

"Haven't seen either of them since this morning."

"That's it"

Chanup didn't say anything more, just continued to smoke his cigarette, walked up to Tang Shen, and sat down cross-legged.

After Chanup sat down in front of him, Tang Shen looked at Chanup several times with hesitant eyes, then, as if to cheer himself up, he took several deep breaths, and then softly asked Chanup road:

"The battle this morning was quite fierce. The shout of killing was so loud that I could hear it clearly. Is today's battle very difficult?"

Chanup took down the bong in his mouth, and nodded lightly: "This morning, I had a good fight."

Chanup briefly told God Tang about the battle situation this morning.

"The Aizu Army is here." Tang Shen widened his eyes, "No wonder today's battle is so fierce."

"Although I had expected the Aizu Army to be extraordinary." Chanup smiled wryly, "but I didn't expect it to be this strong."

"This afternoon, we will strengthen the strength of the archers."

"I hope our shooters can suppress the Aizu army a little bit."

After finishing speaking, Chanup raised his bong and took a few puffs.

"It's rare that we both have time at this time, and at the same time there are no outsiders, so let's talk about your affairs now." Chanup spit out two big smoke rings, "Tangbu, Shendu, what is going on after you?" plan?"

"Before you were asked to break through and leave here with Mr. Mashima, but you refused because you thought it was dangerous."

"In the past few days, I have been shrinking in my house every day, either eating or in a daze. I neither helped us, nor did I make any actions that seemed to be trying to escape."

"What are you going to do after that?"

Facing Chanup's torch-like gaze, Tang Shen silently lowered his gaze, and then remained silent.

Looking at the silent Tang God, Qianup shrugged: "It doesn't matter if you don't say anything. I can probably guess what you want to do."

"You probably want to wait until the city is broken, and take advantage of the chaos to escape secretly?"

Chanup spoke in an affirmative tone, which was obviously an interrogative sentence.

As soon as Chanup finished speaking, Tang Shen's body trembled a few times.

"I was worried about offending you, so I kept refusing to tell you my own plan." Tang Shen's expression was a bit bitter in frustration, "How did you guess my plan?" ?”

"You and I are life and death friends." Qianup said slowly, "According to your usual way of thinking, it is not difficult for me to guess your intention."

"What's more, I can't think of any other way for you to get out of here, other than taking advantage of the city's destruction and using the chaos as a cover to escape."

Chanup raised his bong and took another deep draw.

"You don't actually have to worry about offending me or anything."

"It's understandable that you want to live. I don't have the position to accuse you of anything."

"However, Shendu. As your old friend, I feel that I still have an obligation to remind you that your method is not very safe."

"You are old after all. I don't believe that when you are old, you can still be as vigorous as when you were young."

"If it was you when you were young who could sneak into other people's villages without anyone noticing, take off other people's heads, and then leave the village without anyone noticing, I still believe that you have the one who took advantage of the city after the city was broken. Chaos, the ability to escape here safely."

"As for you now"

"I know." Tang Shen nodded, "I know that this kind of thing is quite difficult for me now that I am old."

"But apart from this method, I have no other way to get out of here, I can only give it a go."

After hearing Tang Shen's words, Chanup put down the bong in his hand, and cast complicated gazes at Tang Shen in front of him.

"Shen Du. Aren't you willing to help me no matter what? With your help, we will be as powerful as a thousand people."

Tang Shen raised his eyes and looked at Qianup.

He didn't speak, just nodded slightly with a dark face.

"Haha." Chanup chuckled suddenly and abruptly, "I've only now discovered that this situation is similar to when we first met when we were young."

"I beg you hard, hoping that you can avenge my father. No matter what I say, you don't want to."

"It wasn't until I was willing to teach you the hunting techniques that my family has passed down from generation to generation that you finally wanted to be my killer."

"But at that moment, it was completely different from this moment." Tang Shen suddenly said, "At this moment, no matter what kind of reward you give, I will not help you."

After all, the gloomy look on Tang Shen's face became more intense.

"Chanup. Let me make it clear today."

he said slowly.

"Although it is extremely dangerous to leave here while taking advantage of the chaos after the city breaks."

"But no matter how dangerous it is, it is not dangerous to assist you in defending the city."

"Leaving here while taking advantage of the chaos after the city breaks is a narrow escape. But assisting you in defending the city is a near death."

"I can't think of any hope of helping you guys."

"And I don't want to die now"

The more Tang Shen said, the lower his head lowered.

"Chanup, what I say next may make you laugh."

"But you can laugh if you want."

"There's no complicated reason why I don't want to help you, it's just because I'm afraid of death."

"I'm terrified of death now. Pretty much."

"When I was still a god, in order to get ahead, I had to wield a knife. I wielded a knife to gain fame. I faced death every day, and lived a life where it was not surprising when I died."

"But since I learned the hunting skills passed down from generation to generation in your family from you, and I made a living by selling pets, I finally lived a peaceful life after a long absence."

"Although there is no great wealth, but for me who is tired of the life that may lose my head every day, this peaceful life is like a treasure."

"I'm used to and love this peaceful life. I want to live, I want to continue living like this."

"Chanup, you just understand me as a bear who is used to living a comfortable life and whose teeth and claws have blunted."

"I am no longer a god who can face powerful enemies and death directly. I have long since lost the ambition to achieve fame even if I die."

"Now there is only the old man Tangshen who has become a philistine and fearful of death because he is used to living a peaceful life. I just want to live now, and I don't want to do anything that might kill me."

"When I think about facing those ferocious Japanese soldiers, and thinking that I will die in some unknown way, I am so scared that my hands are shaking."

Tang Shen raised his hands and showed his slightly trembling hands to Chanup in front of him.

"So Chanup, please understand me, an old man whose ambition and spirit have long been worn down."

Chanup has been quietly listening to Tang Shen's self-narration. Because of his concentration on the lecture, he didn't even take a puff of cigarette, and didn't even notice that the cigarette had been extinguished.

It wasn't until Tang Shen's voice fell completely and his own consciousness returned to the real space that Chanup belatedly realized that his cigarette had been turned off.

"Shendu. There is one thing I don't understand." Chanup showed a meaningful smile while adding new tobacco to the bong in his hand.

"You said that you don't want to do anything that might kill you now, so why did you come to inform me after you learned that the shogunate was going to use troops against me, He Yezhe?"

"And I have been staying here all the time, trying to persuade me to leave here to escape every day, which caused me to miss the best time to leave here."

After hearing Chanup's question, Tang Shen's expression froze, his lips were tightened, and confusion and confusion appeared on his face.

Chanup ignored Tang Shen, whose expression and expression were changing drastically. After refilling the pipe with tobacco and lighting it, Chanup slowly said while smoking a cigarette:

"Shendu. I understand what you said just now."

"How should I put it? I can understand your fear of death."

Speaking of this, Chanup put down the bong in his hand, and put on an emotional tone.

"Because I'm used to living a peaceful life, my fighting spirit has been flattened and I've become afraid of death. Why don't I?"

"Shendu, let me tell you something that I haven't told anyone else before. Before the army came to the city, I actually seriously considered the matter of surrender."

Tang Shen suddenly raised his head and cast a shocked look at Chanup.

Facing Tang Shen's shocked gaze, Chanup continued:

"Just like you are used to living a peaceful life. After this Heyezhe was built, I have lived a peaceful and prosperous life for 10 years."

"Don't worry about food and clothing. If you want status, you need status. You need fame and fame. You have both sons and daughters, and my daughter is a very competitive daughter. These 10 years of peaceful and prosperous life have not only made my stomach swell."

Chanup rubbed his slightly sizable belly.

"It also smoothed my mind."

"After learning that the Hejun was coming, I was actually quite scared and seriously considered surrendering to save my life."

"But fortunately, at the most critical moment, I turned back to my young self."

Chanup raised his hand and patted the ground in front of him.

"This Heyezhe is not just a new home that we have worked so hard to build."

"It's also my dream."

"Dream?" God Tang widened his eyes as if recalling something.

"This is also something that can be talked about for a long time in detail."

Chanup smiled, and then continued to say while showing memories:

"God Tang, regarding our great southward relocation 10 years ago, have you more or less heard how hard it was?"

"During that southward migration, I also experienced despair several times."