I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"How?" Amachi asked Ogata, who looked at the Red Moon Fortress from a distance with a telescope, "What does the Red Moon Fortress look like?"

"It's too far to see clearly. I only saw a wooden wall and a river beside it."

Ogata handed the telescope in his hand to Amachi.

"Do you want to take a look?"

"I don't need it." Ah Ding shook his head, "Anyway, I'll be there soon."

At this moment, a very young guy suddenly came.

After the young man said something to Aizan who was next to Ogata, he quickly left and ran towards the back of the team.

"What did that person just say?" Ogata asked.

"The young man is here to deliver the village chief's order." Ayzan said, "the village chief just gave the order: Now rest on the spot for a while."

"Right now?" Ogata raised his eyebrows. "He Yezhe is already here."

"The young man just said the reason." Aizan said, "We have been walking for a long time just now, and many old and weak are now very tired."

"Although Heyezhe is now in sight, the remaining distance is not too short."

"It's too reluctant to let the tired old and weak in the team go through the rest of the distance."

"Anyway, there is still some time before dark, so I don't rush to enter He Yezhe."

"That's why the village chief decided to take a rest, and after the rest is almost the same, then walk the last part of the road."

Ogata was not in a hurry. Since the chief of Chepke decided to take a rest for the old and weak in the village, Ogata would not say anything more.

At this moment, Ogata suddenly remembered something.

"Resting..." A weird smile appeared on Ogata's face. "Azuma and the others should be very happy..."

Hearing Ogata's emotion, Amachi on the side couldn't help showing a weird smile.

Ogata feels that Aheli's grandmother is really a talent for staying in Ezo land.

He felt that Ahili's grandmother should go to be a storyteller in big cities like Osaka, Kyoto, and Edo, and she would definitely make a lot of money every day.

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Indeed, as Ogata said-after receiving a temporary rest order from the mayor of Chepke, the people at the Red Moon Fortress headed by Esuma were very happy.

They can finally listen to the story again.

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"Mother-in-law! You are here!"

Esuma spoke with excitement toward Ahili's grandmother who was slowly walking towards them.

"Ohhhhhh..." Grandma covered her mouth and smiled, "Sorry, I kept you waiting for so long."

In front of grandma, there is a person sitting in the Red Moon Fortress in various poses on the snow.

Everyone looked at grandma with a kind of impatient look in anticipation.

"Mother-in-law! There just happened to be a dead wood here!" Ai Suma took her grandma's hand and led her to a dead wood that ran across the ground.

The snow on the dead wood was swept away by Aizuma and others just now.

Grandma is also welcome, sitting directly on the dead wood, crossing her hands on her legs.

"Where did I talk last time?" Grandma asked.

"Speaking of a white-skinned man who was going to run away, but was stopped by Majima Goro!" Esuma said.

"Oh, there." Grandma raised her hand and patted her head, "I remember."

"That... mother-in-law." Esuma said in a cautious tone while putting on a weird expression suddenly, "the story...is there a way to finish it today?"

"Hahhhhhh..." Grandma covered her mouth and let out her very unique "Hahhhhhhhh" laughter, "The story has come to an end. Grandma assures you that she will be able to fully understand the story during this break. Finished."

After all, grandma cleared her throat, and then slowly said:

"By the way, the white-skinned man who planned to escape on horseback ran away all the way."

"Just as he was about to escape the village, Goro Majima jumped out from the side."

"He just stood in front of the white man who was going to escape on horseback."

"At this time, there is no more time or energy to change directions, so the white-skinned man decided to ride and hit Goro Mashima."

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Sitting in front of her in various poses, Esuma and others listened attentively to the story told by her grandmother.

Grandma used to tell young children in the village about heroic epics that have been passed down from generation to generation, so she had already developed a sharp storytelling skill.

Grandma knew that if she told Ogata's story too soon, she would be trapped in the same situation where she would have nothing to do when she rested.

So grandma made a very witty decision-tell Ogata's story as long as possible.

So my grandmother relied on her storytelling skills that she had cultivated by telling stories to the children in the village, until now-a few days have passed and I still haven't finished telling Ogata's story...

In order to avoid the situation that Esuma and the others are tired of listening, she also kept a careful eye-every time she stopped at the most exciting juncture to hang Esuma and their appetites, so that Esuma and the others could continue. Listening to the follow-up content, I kept asking her to come over and tell the story.

So-after walking with the villagers of Jina Village, sitting around grandma's knees like this, listening to her grandma talk about the specific process of Ogata's "one person saves the village", it became Asoma and the rest time. Must do.

As the protagonist of the story, Ogata learned of this not long after Ahili's grandmother started telling Esuma his story.

After learning that Ahili’s grandmother had a way of telling his story of "saving the village by one person" for so many days, Ogata was shocked to the heavens...

Ogata has audited several times.

On the night the village was attacked, the elderly grandmother did not participate in the battle, but hid at home.

Although she had not witnessed Ogata's battle with her own eyes, she had heard of Ogata's deeds from different populations afterwards, so she did not worry about having nothing to say, and what she said was roughly correct.

Through the observations these times, Ogata found that grandma could tell his story for so long, not through any complicated methods, but just a very ordinary plot.

He drew his knife to block such an action, grandma could talk about it for a minute.

But grandma's eloquence is very good.

The content of such water can be talked about by her in such a big way. Knowing that she was procrastinating, she couldn't help but want to continue listening.

After attending grandma's "story meeting", Ogata's first feeling was that it's a pity that Ahili's grandma didn't become a storyteller.

But grandma is also a person of conscience.

She knew that the Red Moon Fortress was already in front of her, so she knew it should be their last rest time.

Therefore, grandma did not continue the story of water this time, and ended Ogata's story very neatly, so that Esuma and the others no longer have to be appetite.

At the end of the break, grandma happened to finish telling the story.

When I learned that the story was finally over, whether it was Esuma or the rest of the Red Moon Fortress, it all felt like the big stone in my heart had fallen to the ground, and the breath that had accumulated in my chest was finally exhaled.

After the break time, the team set off again.

After the team re-started, Aisuma actively asked them, the residents of the Red Moon Fortress, to be in the forefront, so as to facilitate the communication with the compatriots on the city wall later and let them go.

There was no reason to refuse this kind of proposal, so Chepke readily agreed.

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The re-starting team approached the Red Moon Fortress bit by bit.

The fortress that could only see a little shadow vaguely, now gradually condensed into a clear entity.

When I used a telescope to observe the Red Moon Fortress for the first time, Ogata couldn't see clearly because of the distance to Taiyuan.

After getting closer and closer to the Red Moon Fortress, Ogata finally gradually understood the specific appearance of the Red Moon Fortress and its surrounding environment.

The Red Moon Fortress was built by the river.

There is a "ji"-shaped river flowing through the surrounding area. The river course is very wide and the river water is very turbulent. It will not freeze in such a cold day.

The Red Moon Fortress was built in this "ji" word.

To give a vivid example-the Red Moon Fortress and the river flowing by it can just form the word "Fan".

The river is the "ji" in the word "fan", and the Red Moon Fortress is the "dian" in the word "fan".

The fortress faces the river on three sides, and Ogata and the others are now near the wall that is not near the river.

The wall without Linhe has a huge gate.

The walls and doors are all made of wood.

After getting closer to the Red Moon Fortress and being able to see the appearance of the Red Moon Fortress more clearly, Ogata was surprised to find that the Red Moon Fortress was actually a double wall structure.

There is an outer city wall, and inside the outer city wall there is an inner city wall.

The height of the inner city wall is higher than that of the outer city wall.

According to Ogata's visual observation, the height of the outer city wall is about 4.5 meters.

The height of the inner city wall is about 5.5 meters.

This double city wall structure has two major advantages.

One: The attacker has to break through two walls in a row to win this fortress.

Two: The defender can launch a three-dimensional attack through two city walls. Soldiers in charge of close combat stood on the outer wall to meet the enemy, while soldiers in charge of long-range attacks, such as archers and musketeers, stood on the inner wall higher than the outer wall and fired at the incoming enemy.

In addition to the dual city wall structure, the Red Moon Fortress has a very eye-catching feature.

"Hey." Amachi turned his head and whispered towards Ogata beside him, "Why is the wall of the Red Moon Fortress so strange? It's bumpy."

"Ah...yes, yes, it's very strange..." Ogata said something casually, and after passing Amachi perfunctorily, he continued to look at the bumpy walls of the Red Moon Fortress with stunned eyes.

Ah Ting, who had never seen the world, could not recognize this kind of city wall.

But Ogata, as a traveler, recognizes it.

Ogata once read an introduction to this fortress in a certain book.

This style of wall is an important feature of some famous fortress.

"Bastion..." Ogata whispered in a low volume that only the extreme can hear.

Bastion-after the use of firearms in the West, it was brought out as a big killer.

After gunpowder and firearms were introduced to the West and the West entered the era of firearms, urban offensive and defensive warfare entered a new stage. The next brief period was the golden age of the offensive side.

Old-fashioned fortresses can't defend against new weapons like firearms at all.

One fort after another succumbed to the power of the cannon.

But Westerners are not fools.

However, a new type of urban defense system-the bastion has been on the stage of history in half a century.

The essence of the so-called bastion is to transform the fortress from a convex polygon into a concave polygon.

This improvement allows the attacking side to be exposed to more than one bastion face regardless of any point of the attack on the castle, and the defending side can use cross firepower for multiple strikes.

To put it simply, no matter where the attacking side is attacking, it will be attacked at the same time from 2 to 3 or even more directions.

After the birth of the bastion, the West returned to the era when the defenders took advantage of the city and the attackers suffered.

The bastion, coupled with a sufficient number of soldiers and weapons-can completely withstand the attack of several times or even more than 10 times the enemy.

At this moment, Ogata vaguely saw that there were many figures shaking on both the outer wall and the inner wall—these figures should be the guards who stood on the fence outside the wall.

The guards on the fence had spotted Ogata and the others, and the figures were shaking quickly.

After getting closer to the fortress for a certain distance, Esuma, who was walking ahead, shouted something to the guards on the outer city wall.

Later, the guard on the outer wall also responded with a few words in Ainu language that Ogata couldn't understand.

Afterwards, Xu Jian saw the door of the fortress slowly opened.

There is no moat around the fortress, but the gate of the Red Moon Fortress is a very European-style drawbridge-style gate.

Most of the villagers in Qina Village had never entered the Red Moon Fortress.

So no matter whether Ogata, Amachi, or the villagers of China Village, after slowly entering the Red Moon Fortress along the open door, they turned their heads at high frequency and looked around.

When the team first entered the fortress, many guards wearing their red moon fortress's iconic big red costumes surrounded them with various weapons.

After Esuma, who was walking at the front of the team, told them something, these guards immediately stepped aside and separated a path for Ogata and the others.

After passing through the gate of the outer city wall, Ogata looked around—actually, there was nothing beautiful around him.

There was almost nothing between the inner city wall and the outer city wall, only people with weapons were seen moving between the two walls.

The distance between the inner city wall and the outer city wall is about 15-20 meters.

The inner city wall, like the outer city wall, is a bastion-like wall.

After Ogata and the others passed through the gate of the outer wall, the gate of the inner wall opened immediately.

After passing through the gate of the inner city wall, Ogata and the others finally entered the Red Moon Fortress.

After passing through the gate of the inner city wall and looking around, you can see houses full of Ainu style.

At present, many residents of the Red Moon Fortress have come to join in the fun after receiving the news of "someone is visiting".

Although the residents of the Red Moon Fortress have not yet officially entered the residences, they are now standing under the inner city wall and looking around—the number and density of private houses far exceed Ogata's imagination.

Also beyond Ogata's imagination, there is also the lively degree of the Red Moon Fortress. It is clear that there is still a distance from the residents' residence, but Ogata can already hear the noise.

Ogata glanced back at the inner city wall behind him—I have to say that the defensive system of the Red Moon Fortress, using the word "excellent" to describe it, was already a bit unqualified.

Double city wall structure + bastion wall = the nightmare of the attacker.

The most powerful thing about a bastion is not its defense power, but its firepower.

The walls of the bastion are designed so that the defenders have no dead spots for shooting.

The design of the double city wall also allows the defender to launch a three-dimensional attack.

In other words, those who attack the Red Moon Fortress, no matter which direction they attack, will be attacked from the front wall, the side wall, and the inner wall—at least 3 directions.

Ogata guessed that the Lucias who built this fortress must have planned to put this fortress into the military.

If it was just to set up an ordinary outpost, it would definitely not be built such a time-consuming and labor-intensive double-walled bastion.

But probably because of the lack of human and material resources in a distant foreign country, the various constructions of the walls of the Red Moon Fortress are still a bit rudimentary.

The fence is not made of stone, but made of wood.

This kind of wooden wall is destined to deviate from the defensive power of the Red Moon Fortress. No matter how hard the wood is, it is harder than the artillery. If the artillery directly hit the city wall, the consequences would be disastrous.

Moreover, according to Ogata's observation, there are not many facilities such as towers on the wall.

However, it is already very difficult to build a wooden fortress with a double-wall structure in a remote foreign country, in the absence of financial, manpower, and material resources.

If the wall of the Red Moon Fortress is made of stone, and there are sufficient towers and other facilities, then the Red Moon Fortress is a genuine copper wall and iron wall.

There are more and more residents in the Red Moon Fortress that leaned over to join in the fun.

They looked at the villagers of Kina Village, Ogata and Amachi with curious eyes.

Compared with the villagers of China Village, Ogata and Amachi, who have completely different faces from them and wear clothes different from them, are more able to attract the attention of the residents of the Red Moon Fortress.

"It feels like we are watching animals..." Amachi, who doesn't like being looked at by such gazes, whispered to Ogata beside him.

"Maybe at the Red Moon Fortress, Japanese people are also very rare." Ogata smiled bitterly. "It's probably been a long time since the Red Moon Fortress...maybe I haven't even visited with anyone."

"We should be the only two people in the Red Moon Fortress now."

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At this moment—

Red Moon Fortress, somewhere—

"Hey! It's almost time to let me out? I've said it many times! I'm not a spy for the shogunate! I hate the shogunate the most! How could it be possible to do something for the shogunate!"

An old and furious voice came from a private house.

The words spoken by this voice were in a somewhat non-standard Ainu language.

Two young men holding bows and arrows guarded the door of this private house.

"It's so noisy!" one of the two young people shouted, "Be quiet! After we confirm that you are not a spy in the same person, we will naturally let you go!"

"How long will it take?!" The old voice sounded again.

"I don't know!" said the young man.

"Then you can give me some paper and pen, or return my luggage to me? There is nothing in this room. Are you trying to suffocate me?"

"No! We won't return your luggage to you until we confirm whether you are a spy!"

"That's enough!"

The voice fell, and the sound of kicking the wall came from this private house.

"Why is your luck so bad these days..."

The angrily and depraved voice in the house turned into a sound that was both depraved and annoyed.

"First I ran into an inexplicable village doctor in a certain village... I was driven out of the village."

"Now I've been arrested again as a spy from the shogunate..."

"That's enough!"

The sound of kicking the wall came from the room again. UU reading www.uukanshu.cóm

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Can anyone guess who this man was held as a spy?

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Yesterday, a famous book friend asked: What should I do when I meet a bear? "Is there any science to do if you encounter bears that have eaten human flesh?"

This book does mention what to do after encountering a bear that has eaten human flesh.

According to the author, there is only one way to deal with a bear that has eaten human flesh: Let it be fate (<ゝω·)☆

Once a bear eats a human, it loses awe of human beings, and the popular science at the end of the last chapter does not work anymore. There is no other way but to pray for a miracle.

However, the author of this book has proposed a very useful way to prevent bears from approaching—continuously twisting the plastic bottle.

Whether it is a bear that has eaten human flesh or not, it hates the "Krakala" sound made when twisting a plastic bottle. After hearing this sound, the bear often leaves directly.