I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

At this very moment—

The first army camp, the commander's camp——

In the huge camp of the coaches, there were only 3 figures, one old, two young, and young.

The old one, holding a military uniform in his hand, wearing a mighty battle armor and a gorgeous feather weaving, sat upright on the horse.

The two young ones, one sitting next to the old guy, were also armored and draped, and they were young generals.

The other knelt on one knee in the middle of the tent. Wearing only ordinary soldier armor.

"... Thank you for your report." The old man waved at the young soldier in armor kneeling in front of them, "Go down and rest first."

"Yes!" The young soldier kneeling in the center of the camp echoed loudly, saluted the old man and the young man sitting in front of him, and then quickly left the tent.

After the young man exited the tent, the old man fanned himself a few times with a military fan, and said softly:

"Kuroda-kun, what do you think?"

This old man is not a guy with mental problems, so he is naturally asking the young general sitting next to him.

"Lord Gui, since the road ahead is clear, then I feel safe and bold to move forward, speed up a little bit, and head straight for the Red Moon Fortress." The young general sitting beside the old man said slowly.

This young general is none other than Kuroda, one of the "Seven Guns of Xianzhou".

The injuries on the palms of his hands have not healed, and his palms are still wrapped in thick linen.

And the old man who was sitting next to Kuroda at this time was the new general of their First Army——Gui Yizheng.

Their 10,000-strong army is composed of the shogunate army and the vassal armies of the Northeast vassals. Naturally, there are many factions among the generals.

Among them, the most powerful factions are naturally the "Shogunate", "Aizu faction", and "Sendai faction", which rank among the top three in terms of troops dispatched.

Originally, the three most powerful factions each commanded an army, which happened to achieve a delicate check and balance.

However—after the death of Sheng Tianmu, the leader of the "Sendai faction", this created a very embarrassing situation—I don't know who should command the first army.

The remaining generals of the "Sendai faction"—Akizuki and Kuroda—do not have enough ability and qualifications.

Gamo, the leader of the "Aizu Domain", is already in charge of commanding the Third Army, and it is not appropriate to let someone from the "Aizu faction" command the First Army.

And because the people of other factions are too weak, it is difficult for them to command the first army.

So not long after the first army and the second army merged, after multiple considerations, in order to avoid disputes, Inamori finally decided to let the "shogunate" take over the first army.

The "Shogunate" has an undoubted dominant position in the entire army, so it is easier to convince the masses if people from the "Shogunate" lead the First Army than to send people from other factions to lead the First Army.

And this Gui Yizheng is a general of the "Shogunate".

This 54-year-old veteran was born in the Banner family with a salary of 7,000 shi. Although he is old, he is quite trusted by Inamori.

After Kuroda's observation during this period, the ability of the new general is quite outstanding.

After being airborne to their first army, they took over all command and command work in a vigorous and vigorous style.

According to Kuroda's observation - Gui Yizheng's command and management ability may not be as good as Sheng Tianmu, but at least it is far better than him. Gui Yizheng's ability is fully qualified for the position of general of the First Army.

After Gui Yizheng was parachuted into the First Army, Kuroda was downgraded to be the deputy general of the First Army, and was responsible for helping Gui Yizheng.

Although Gui Yizheng's ability is not bad, but there is something about him that makes Kuroda feel very impatient.

That is - this old guy loves hanging book bags too much.

Opening his mouth on "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and shutting his mouth on "Wu Zi's Art of War", a sentence from these military books popped out from time to time.

Sure enough——after Kuroda's voice fell, Gui Yizheng nodded lightly:

"Heroes see the same thing. There is a saying in "Sun Tzu Nine Lands": "Soldiers' affection drives speed". Since the road ahead is smooth, we really need to speed up a little bit."

Hearing that Gui Yi was dropping the book bag again, Kuroda resisted the urge to roll his eyes.

The day after Gui Yizheng parachuted to become the general of their first army, their first army was separated from the second army again, and continued to perform the important task of playing the vanguard and opening the way for the whole army.

A large army must have a unit responsible for spearheading the entire army, conducting reconnaissance and opening the way for the entire army.

Moreover - the first army and the second army have a total of 8,000 people, and in the still primitive state of Ezo, there are basically few roads that can support 8,000 troops. Only by dividing troops can the marching efficiency be improved. Therefore, the re-separation of the First Army and the Second Army is inevitable.

After the first army and the second army separated, Matsudaira Sadanobu also returned to the second army and acted together with Inamori.

Just now, Kuroda and Gui Yizheng were listening to the report of the scouts.

The soldier who was kneeling in front of them and in the center of the tent just now was the scout who returned to the camp and reported the reconnaissance situation.

After the "Ogata Attack" incident, under Inamori's order, the number of scouts they sent to scout the way forward tripled.

It's a pity - this dense reconnaissance network has not found Ogata Yidaosai until now.

Although Ogata Yidaosai was not found, the efficiency of reconnaissance has improved a lot compared to the past because the number of scouts sent to reconnaissance has increased.

According to the report of the scout who just returned to the camp - the road ahead is smooth, and there are no rivers that need to be bridged and other things.

That's why—the scene where Kuroda bluntly said, "The road ahead is smooth, you can move forward with confidence and speed up a little bit".

Gui Yizheng tapped his right hand to his left, "Since you and I agree, let's make a decisive decision."

"Kuroda-kun, please help me gather the generals."

"I want to convey the order to 'speed up the march' to the generals!"

"Take a good rest tonight. Start marching faster tomorrow."

"Try to make sure that within 4 days, the soldiers will approach the Red Moon Fortress!"

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Red Moon Fortress——

After saying "Of course", Kunoya, who was taking the medicine in the huge Chinese medicine cabinet, turned her head to the side and cast doubtful eyes on A-Ming.

"What? Could it be that you have something important to do, and you can't stay here for a month?"

Just as A-cho was about to say something out loud, Ogata suddenly raised his hand and tugged at A-cho's sleeve, and then said to Kunoya:

"Then I will trouble you to treat my wife." Ogata bowed his head to Kunoya and said loudly, "If you need any reward, please feel free to mention it to me. Any reward I can give will be given to me. I will do my best to give.”

"You don't need to pay for anything." Kunoya showed an ambiguous smile, then shrugged, "You probably won't be able to give me what I want."

"Since Asuma brought you here, you should be Asuma's friends."

"Aisuma usually takes care of me a lot, so I won't charge you for this treatment."

"As long as you can cooperate with my treatment."

"I hate patients who don't cooperate with treatment, or who think they are smart and go against the doctor's orders."

"Okay, I'm going to re-sew your wound."

Kunoya took all kinds of herbs and utensils, knelt and sat down beside Ah-ding again.

"This is for you, bite it in your mouth, so that you can relax later."

Kunoya put a clean cloth to Machi's mouth.

"I'm going to use Lucian's wound suturing technique to suture your wound, it may hurt a little, bear with it."

A-Machi turned his head and looked at Ogata—although he was hiding something, there was still a hint of worry in his eyes.

Ogata raised his hand to Ogata who was looking at him worriedly.

"Machi, the most important thing now is to make sure your injury can be healed first." Ogata said softly.

Hearing Ogata's words, A-Machi pursed his lips.

After thinking for a while, he separated his white teeth and bit the cloth Kunoya handed over.

"Bite tight." Kunoya put on a clean cloth like a mask for herself, then picked up the utensils, and began to re-suture A-Ming's wound.

And after Kunoya began to treat Ah Ding's wounds, Aisuma on the side seemed to finally be unable to restrain her curiosity, and asked Ogata:

"Mr. Mashima, how did Machi-san get hurt so badly? I think her wound looks like a wound stabbed by a spear..."

"...Before I talk about what happened to us after we left Heyezhe... Aisuma, please tell me what happened to Heyezhe these days."

Ogata turned his head to look at Aisuma, then said seriously:

"When I was outside the wall gate just now, I found that the people on the city wall were weird."

"A lot of people were nervous and panicked."

"After entering Heyezhe, the people watching us on the side of the road were also like this. They all looked at me and Ah Ding with nervous and panicked eyes."

"It was obviously not like this before."

"During the time we left Heyezhe, what happened to Heyezhe?"

Hearing this question from Ogata, Asuma was stunned.

After a moment of hesitation flickered in the depths of Aisuma's pupils, she sighed softly:

"I'm sorry... Mr. Mashima, please forgive me. Everyone is just... a little scared... afraid that you are enemies..."

"Enemy?" Ogata frowned slightly.

"A few days ago, there were two guests one after another... No... It's not accurate to say that they were guests. It should be that two uninvited guests suddenly came to us, He Yezhe..."

"It is because of that second uninvited guest who 'visited' our place" that made us, Heyezhe, into the current state..."

Asuma cleared her throat, and then slowly told Ogata what happened a few days ago...

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Back in time to a few days ago——

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a few days ago—

Red Moon Fortress, outside Chanup's home——

"It's so slow... What the hell is father talking to that god of soup for so long..." Aisuma looked at the door in front of her and pouted in displeasure.

Kimship, who was ordered by Chanup to guard the door of the house and not let anyone in, smiled wryly when he heard Asuma's displeasure muttering.

Just now, after learning that an old man named "Tang Shen" suddenly came to visit her father, Aisuma hurried back home, wanting to see what was going on - but she was turned away.

Chanup doesn't allow anyone in, so Aisuma was turned away straight away.

She had been waiting for nearly half an hour, and she hadn't waited until the door of the house opened, and she hadn't waited for her father and the man named Tang Shen to come out.

"It's boring...don't wait." Aisuma stood up and patted her buttocks.

"Miss Aisuma, are you leaving?" Kim Ship asked.

"Yeah. It's really boring to wait here." Aisuma patted the bow and arrow behind her back, "I'll go practice bow and arrow again."

"Miss Aisuma, you are really hardworking." Kim Ship said sincerely, "If only my son could be half as hardworking as you..."

"After all, besides hunting, I don't have any other hobbies."

After bidding farewell to Kim Ship, Asuma strode towards her usual bow practice ground.

His own home was left far behind.

The favorite bow practice ground is getting closer and closer.

Just after the bowing ground appeared in Asuma's field of vision, out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure running towards her.

"Autongpuyi." Aisuma stopped, "What's the matter? It's so urgent."

This familiar figure is none other than Asuma's younger brother, Otunpuyi.

"Sister!" Otunpuyi ran to Aisuma and said out of breath, "Ha... sister... finally found you... ha... sister, something happened! There is Takta Villagers from the village have come to us!"

"Huh? Is it strange that the villagers of Takta Village came to us?" Asuma showed a puzzled expression.

Taketa Village, which is not too far away from them, has a very good relationship with their Heyezhe, and the two places often exchange courtesy, so it is really normal for villagers from Taketa Village to visit their Heyezhe suddenly .

Otumpui shook his head vigorously.

"The villagers of Taketa Village who came to us suddenly did not come to give us gifts! They came to ask us for help! He said that their Taketa Village was attacked by Japanese people! The whole village was destroyed. I hope that He Yezhe can help help him!"

"What?!" Asuma's eyes widened suddenly.

"Now that person is outside the wall." Otunpuyi added, "Everyone on the wall is at a loss now..."

"Go! Let's go and have a look!" Aisuma spread her feet and ran towards the direction of the city wall.

After the city wall appeared in her field of vision, Aisuma saw a lot of villagers gathered under the city wall who heard the relevant news and came to join in the fun.

After rushing to the bottom of the inner city wall, Aisuma heard shrill shouts one after another from outside the wall:

"Our Takta village was slaughtered by someone!"

"Please help me! I'm homeless!"

The shout was so loud and shrill that even standing under the inner city wall, one could clearly hear it and clearly feel the sadness between the words...

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Back in time to the present——

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"Taketa Village?" Ogata's pupils shrank slightly.

On the other hand, Ah Ding, who was biting the cloth pad and enduring the pain of suturing the wound, also changed slightly.

Takta Village——it is the village where the Lilata they rescued before came from...

The tragedy of Takta Village... Ogata doesn't know if Ah-Machi still remembers it, but he still remembers it fresh.

Asuma, who didn't notice the slight change in the expressions of Ogata and A-Machi, continued:

"After the villagers from Takta Village came to us, the person who was standing guard on the city wall at that time notified my father immediately."

"After my father put the man in, we finally knew what was going on."

"This Takta villager who has escaped to us is a very young boy."

"Just one night a few days ago, Taketa Village was suddenly attacked by a group of soldiers in armor."

"The young man escaped from the village by chance. He has been hiding in the deep mountains, and he didn't dare to go back to the village to check the current situation of the village until dawn."

"After returning to the village, I saw that the village had been slaughtered without any living people..."

"The young man is homeless, so he can only turn to us who have a good relationship with them in Takta Village for help."

"He planned to come to Heyezhe on foot, but he was very lucky to meet a kind-hearted man from another settlement on the road."

"After the kind-hearted man knew what happened to the young man, he personally used his dog sled to send the young man to our Heyezhe."

"Since the survivor from Taketa Village came to our Heyezhe, rumors are flying around our Heyezhe these days..."

Asuma smiled wryly.

"Everyone is panicking... I don't understand why Kazuto's army appeared, and I don't understand why Kazuto's army suddenly attacked Takta Village, which has never done anything to offend Kazuto..."

"So gradually all kinds of rumors spread."

"It is said that Kazuto is finally planning to launch an all-out war against us Ainu people, and that the group that attacked Takta Village was a group of gold diggers who stole the armor of the army... In short, there are no rumors. Have……"

"It is because of these rumors that the clansmen are so nervous now seeing you with Kazumi faces."

"All in all—please forgive me..."

"...So that's how it is." Ogata closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Mr. Mashima, Ms. Atachi." Aisuma changed into a look of eagerness at this time, "You are Kazuto. Before you left your country, did you hear that What happened to us Ainu people? For example, where are you and the human army going to attack...?"

Ogata did not immediately answer Asuma's question.

He only closed his eyes and remained silent.

After opening his eyes again, Ogata whispered to Asuma beside him:

"Miss Asuma, can you please take me to see your father later?"

"Ah? Yes, yes...but my father should be busy now, so I may not be able to see him in time..."

"It's okay." Ogata continued, "Just take me to see him, I want to meet him as soon as possible."

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ps1: Many book lovers may not know what "military distribution" is, so the author is here to post a set of stills for you, which are stills of the movie "Shadow Warrior" by the famous director Akira Kurosawa (the picture is only Can be viewed online)→

ps2: In the last chapter, when Kunoya used scissors to cut the sackcloth on A-Ming's upper body, I actually did a little... more exciting description.

But I was worried that it would be harmonized, so I changed it to "After cutting the sackcloth in one go, Kunoya raised her eyebrows".

The original text is actually about 50 characters long.

In order to avoid harmony, many places in this book have been "self-edited" before it was released. It is a pity... these "self-edited" plots should have no chance to be released (Leopard Head Cry.jpg )