I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Almost no one knows—while Upanu was giving a "speech" impassionedly, Chanup was also listening underneath.

After learning from his daughter Isumana that Upanu was about to give a "speech", Chanup immediately let Isoma lead the way and rushed to the scene under the leadership of Isoma.

But he came a little later-he was only a little bit faster than Retanoé and the others.

After arriving at the scene, Chanup hid in an inconspicuous place, so apart from Isoma who accompanied Chanup to this place, no one noticed that their "supreme leader" was listening now. "Lecture" by Upanu.

When Chanup arrived at the scene, he only heard Upanu shouting "Let’s surrender!" at the highest volume he could reach, and the following sentence, "As long as you surrender, you can avoid this. A battle that must be lost! Everyone can live, and our race can survive!"

Later, Chanup saw Retannoe and others rushing forward, dragging Upanu from the barrel where he was standing, and dispersing all the onlookers.

Looking at Upanu who was dragged away by Retannoe and the others, Chanup quietly smoked a cigarette and said to Isoma beside him, "Isoma, thank you very much. You started from just now. I haven't rested much, right? Go home and have a rest." Then he turned and left silently.

"Father, where are you going?" Esuma asked.

"Don't worry about me." Chanup said, "You haven't rested since just now? You go home and rest now, and I will be back later."

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"Upanu, although I already know that you are a coward, I didn't expect you to be so cowardly." After pulling Upanu to a corner of no one, Retano Aibian said to Upanu viciously.

"Even in the crowd, advocating surrender...you bastard!"

Retanoé, who was already grumpy, couldn't contain his anger anymore, raised his hand and punched Upanu's face fiercely, knocking Upanu directly to the ground.

Those who had just dragged Upanu away with Reitanoe, immediately pulled the two away.

Upanu didn't show the slightest irritation after being slapped severely by Retannoe.

After touching the place where he was beaten just now, he said softly:

"It doesn't matter how you laugh at me. All I ask for is that everyone is alive and the race continues."

It's okay for Upanu not to speak. His words directly made Retannoe's anger even worse.

Just when Reitanoer wanted to give Upanudo a few more punches, a majestic voice that was neither salty nor light suddenly sounded from behind them:

"Okay, Retanoer. He's still fighting at this time, in what manner."

"Chanup?" Retannoe turned his head to look at the master of this majestic voice—Chanup.

Chanup held his smoking gun and slowly leaned towards Retannoe and the others.

"Chanup, why are you here?" Retannoe asked.

"You and I should have arrived at Upanu's'speech' scene at about the same time." Chanup said, "After seeing you drag Upanu away, I followed you secretly."

Chanup glanced at the wound on Upanu's face that had just been beaten by Retannoe.

"Retannoe, calm down."

"If we kill each other now, it will only make the people outside the city laugh."

"Upanu, so are you. You can calm me down, too."

"At this kind of time, if you preach'surrender' loudly, it will only make everyone more uneasy."

"If we are in a mess inside, it will only make the people outside the city laugh."

"Since it's wrong for me to do this... then Chanupu, tell me-what should we do now?" Upanu laughed self-deprecatingly, with a bit of sorrow in his eyes, "It's time for you to say something, too. What, did you do something? Stop pretending to be dumb!"

"...Should we try to contact the Japanese people outside the city first?" Chanup let out a puff of cigarette slowly, "Maybe we can use peaceful negotiations to drive away the Japanese people outside the city."

"Heh." Retannoe sneered, "Chanup, you have been pretending to be dumb all this time. After you finally speak, can you only say such silly things?"

"Heren dispatched such a large-scale army to attack us. The money spent must be countless."

"Do you think it is possible to negotiate peacefully with someone who has spent so much money?"

"Anyway...try it first." Chanup let out a long sigh.

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Esuma has always respected her father and has hardly violated Chanup.

After Chanup told her, "Go home and rest first," Esuma obediently returned home according to her father's orders.

And I was indeed a little tired. I haven't rested since just now, and I have been running to maintain order.

Esuma, who is good at hunting, has a fast footwork, and after only a while, Esuma returned to their home.

Now, many people gathered in front of Chanup's house have dispersed-only 13 people remain in total.

Although the number was much smaller, these 13 people immediately gathered after seeing Chanup's daughter.

With anxious faces, they asked Esoma: Has Chanup come back, what is going on with Chanup now, and is there any way to get rid of outsiders and people, etc.?

It took a lot of effort for Esuma to send the questions asked by these people one by one and break out of their encirclement.

He opened the door curtain and entered the house, Tang Shen's voice immediately rushed towards Esuma.

"Huh? Why are you alone? How about Chanup?"

"Father, he seems to have something to do, so he let me come back to rest by myself."

Aisuma is now a little accustomed to this guest who has been staying at their house for a while.

An old man who has never seen him walks swaying along the road-this will always cause all kinds of troubles, so these days, Tang Shen has always been nestled in Chanup's home, and he has hardly left Chanup. Nupp's home.

During the days when Tang Shen stayed in their house temporarily, he kept his own self and didn’t do anything that disgusted Esuma, so Essuma also let this old man, who is suspected to be his father’s old friend, live in their house. NS.

For Tang Shen, Aishuma was only dissatisfied with Tang Shen-Tang Shen never told her too much about him.

For this guy who was suspected to be an old friend of his father, Esuma had always been curious about his identity and how he met his father.

However, no matter you ask, Tang Shen is very secretive about his own affairs and his past with Chanup—this makes Esoma a little unhappy.

After unfastening the bow on her back, Esuma looked around.

"Huh? Mr. Tangshen, have you seen Otunpuyi?"

"Your brother? He has not come back." Tang Shen said.

"Didn't he go home?" Ai Suma was taken aback.

Tang Shen nodded.

"That's weird..." Esuma murmured, "I ran into him just now when I was keeping order around and told him to go home...Where did he go to stray around...What an uncomfortable kid... "

After all, Esuma sat down not far from Tang Shen, rubbing her legs that were sour because she hadn't rested since just now.

Tang Shen on the side glanced at Esuma, then cleared his throat: "How is it? Did the guy named Upanu say something?"

"When my father and I arrived, it was a little late. So I didn't hear anything."

Esuma told Tang God what she had witnessed and heard after rushing to the "speech scene" of Upanu with Chanup just now.

After the notification, Esuma let out a long sigh:

"I thought Mr. Upanu, who had fought with him and had a **** feud, would definitely choose to fight him to the end... I didn't expect..."

Tang Shen: "Huh? Has that Upanu ever fought against the Japanese?"

Esuma nodded: "He participated in the'Battle of Cunassili Menasi' 3 years ago."

Yushen made a light "Oh" and said, "That's it," he didn't ask any further questions-Yushen, who had lived in Matsumae Clan for a long time in the battle that ended with the defeat of the Ainu people, Naturally knows...

Tang Shen didn't speak any more, only lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

And Esuma, who was not familiar with Tang Shen, also didn't say a word, silently rubbing her sour legs.

It wasn't until a long time that Tang Shen said quietly:

"...Actually...surrender is not an unacceptable option..."

"Huh?" Ai Suma looked at Tang Shen.

"Fighting hard with Heren, the odds of winning are slim." Tang Shen continued, "Rather than fighting this kind of battle with a slim chance of winning, it is better to surrender...Although you may be humiliated and you may lose some freedom, but at least you can survive this way... "

Listening to Tang Shen's words, Ai Suma instinctively wanted to refute it.

But as soon as his mouth opened slightly, the refuted words couldn't be uttered.

Because—Isuma didn’t know what to say to refute Tang Shen...

After staring at Tang Shen with a complicated gaze, Esuma closed her slightly opened lips again, lowered her head, rubbing her legs intently, and ignored Tang Shen.

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The Red Moon Fortress was half-surrounded by a river in the shape of "Ji". The Red Moon Fortress and the "ji"-shaped river half-enclosing it can just form a "fan" character.

There are wide rivers to the north, east, and west, and only the south is connected to the land. At the same time, only the southern city wall has a gate for entry and exit.

Therefore, for the shogunate army, they only need to camp south of the Red Moon Fortress to block the only entrance and exit of the Red Moon Fortress and completely surround the Red Moon Fortress.

After the soldiers came to the city, the generals of the First Army set up camps on the south side of the Red Moon Fortress at an extremely fast speed, and set up a large number of surveillance posts to monitor the actions of the Red Moon Fortress.

At this moment—almost all surveillance posts saw: The gate of the Red Moon Fortress suddenly opened slowly.

Three dog sleds drove out along the open gate and drove straight toward the barracks.

According to the estimates of the soldiers at the surveillance post-about a dozen people were sitting on these three dog sleds.

At last there was movement in the Red Moon Fortress—the soldiers on the surveillance post naturally immediately relayed the news to their general, Gui Yizheng.

Upon hearing the news, Gui Yizheng laughed: "It seems that the barbarians want to come to negotiate with us. Let them in! I want to hear what they have to say!"

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Although some people headed by Retannoe disagreed with Chanup's proposal of "talking to the peacemaker," and felt that it was just a waste of time, Chanup still insisted on his views.

In the end, at Chanup's insistence, the mission team responsible for negotiating with the peacemaker was sent out.

The leader of the mission was a middle-aged man named Glock.

He not only speaks Japanese, but is also considered a "harmony". He knows how to deal with people, knows how to deal with people very well. He has a good tongue and a clever head. Therefore, he was selected as the leader of the messenger group by Chanupu, and he is fully responsible for the peace. Negotiation.

Glock and his entourage drove a dog sled, and in the blink of an eye, the gate of the Heren army camp was close at hand.

After getting closer, Glock saw a warrior dressed as a general, leading dozens of soldiers, standing under the gate.

This general and the dozens of soldiers were the "reception staff" sent by Gui Yizheng to receive Glock and others.

"We didn't come here with hostility!" Glock first yelled at the "reception team" under the gate, "We want to talk to you! Please let me see your general!"

The general in charge of receiving Glock and others looked up and down Glock with indifferent eyes, and said indifferently:

"Welcome to you. Please allow us to check if you are carrying a murder weapon."

After speaking, the general made a gesture to the dozens of soldiers behind him involuntarily. These dozens of soldiers immediately stepped forward to surround Glock and the others, and then checked the bodies of Glock and others up and down.

Glock naturally felt extremely dissatisfied and unhappy about Kazuto's slightly arrogant physical examination.

But he didn't have any capital to get angry, so he could only hold it back.

After confirming that Glock did not carry weapons, the general waved his hand at Glock:

"Come with me."

Under the leadership of this general, Glock and others walked through the gate and walked slowly towards the depths of the barracks.

Although he was mentally prepared, after driving a dog sled and arriving at the gate of the Heren barracks, Glock couldn't help but fear and fight after looking at the surrounding top military tent that seemed invisible to the end. Swallowed nervously.

The performance of the entourage behind Glock was similar to that of Glock.

After walking to the extreme depths of the barracks, the coach's account where Gui Yizheng was located finally appeared in his field of vision.

At this moment, outside the coach's big tent, 100 soldiers with helmets and armour were arranged in a neat square in front of the tent.

This is a performance designed by Gui Yizheng on a temporary basis-in order to frighten the envoys sent by the Red Moon Fortress.

The performance designed by Gui Yizheng was quite successful.

Looking at this neat phalanx, looking at the long spears like dense forests, looking at the pieces of armor reflecting the cold light under the sunlight, Glock and the others have tried their best to cover up, but they still can't hide their fear and panic. .

After passing through the dense phalanx formed by these 100 soldiers and entering the coach's tent, Glock saw Gui Yizheng sitting on the main seat with the knife holding on to his waist.

Gui Yizheng originally wanted to call all the generals in their first army to be strong, but then he thought about it-for such a group of barbarous messengers, it seemed a bit worthless.

Therefore, after weighing it over and over again, Gui Yizheng decided to meet the barbarians alone, while the other generals continued to do their own duties.

After Glock and others entered the camp, before they had time to speak out, Gui Yizheng took the lead:

"I am General Gui Yizheng!"

Gui Yizheng, sitting on the horse, straightened his waist, with a majestic appearance.

"Waiting for this time, why are you waiting for this time? There is no way to say that you will not take it lightly!"

The entourage behind Glock was made pale by Gui Yizheng, who had sufficient aura.

However, Glock could barely maintain his composure. After bowing to Gui Yizheng in a Japanese manner, he said in proficient Japanese:

"Master Gui, I am waiting for peace!"

"We want to have a good talk with you!"

Just as Glock wanted to continue, Gui Yizheng waved his hand and interrupted roughly:

"We have nothing to discuss with you."

"You don't respect benevolence and righteousness, and do everything you can to beasts and beasts. There is nothing we can talk about with you unscrupulous rats."

"We must have some misunderstanding!" Glock said anxiously, "We have never incited the residents of Matsumae Castle! We have never done anything like this! It must be a misunderstanding! We would like to help you investigate together!"

As a general qualified to command the 3000 army, Gui Yizheng naturally knew that the "Naturalized Ezo Riot" that occurred in Matsumae Castle had nothing to do with the Red Moon Fortress. They just splashed this dirty water on the Ainu people in the Red Moon Fortress, so that they could use this as an excuse to go to war.

Knowing that they are just Gui Yizheng who splashed dirty water, it is naturally even more impossible to admit that the Red Moon Fortress is innocent.

"Misunderstanding?" Gui Yizheng sneered, "You are still arguing! Since you don't have the slightest awareness of admitting crime, then I have nothing to talk about with you."

Seeing Gui Yizheng who got up and left, Glock was taken aback and said quickly:

"Master Gui! Please wait!"

Gui Yizheng looked at Glock's horrified expression with interest—their horrified expressions gave Gui Yizheng a different kind of pleasure.

"I have nothing to talk about with you!" Gui Yizheng sat back, "You either surrender to the city, or just wait to suffer the anger from me, there is no other option!"

The generals headed by the commander Inamori had actually expected that the barbarians of the Red Moon Fortress were very likely to come to them for peace talks.

Before this, Inamori had already discussed with Gui Yizheng-if the barbarians of the Red Moon Fortress came to negotiate, they would not accept all options except Kaesong surrender.

They spent astronomical amounts of money to launch this expedition.

The purpose of their expedition this time was to win the Red Moon Fortress, which was exclusively located in a dangerous position.

If the Red Moon Fortress cannot be taken, no matter what conditions the barbarians of the Red Moon Fortress offer, it will not be enough to make up for their losses during this expedition.

At this moment, Gui Yizheng was only acting on Inamori's order.

For Gui Yizheng with such a tough attitude, Glock was anxious and sweaty, but he still told their request tremblingly.

"Master Gui, we really want to restore peace with you!"

"Humph." Gui Yizheng sneered, "Since you really want to restore peace, don't waste time and surrender quickly."

The cold sweat on Glock has wetted his clothes...

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After dispatching the dead group headed by Glock, the senior officials of the Red Moon Fortress headed by Chanup gathered in a small room, waiting for the return of the envoy group together.

Although there are people like Retanoé who have no hope for this peace talks, there are also people who have strong hopes for this peace talks.

After everyone's waiting, finally-the messenger group came back, much faster than they expected.

Glock and the others came back in frustration.

Looking at Glock, who looked frustrated, Glock was not allowed to speak, Chanup and the others already understood the result.

Glock told Chanup and others about the negotiation process just now in a brief and concise manner.

Their negotiation uses one word to describe it-failure.

Before Glock set off, Chanup told Glock that their biggest bargaining chip could not impress Gui Yizheng at all.

No matter what Glock said or talked about, no matter what conditions were offered, Gui Yizheng's attitude was extremely tough, not accepting all options except surrender.

After Glock's report was over, Chanup's face sank, and a faint resentment and anger emerged on his face.

But as his face became gloomy, a ray of light appeared in Chanup's eyes.

After listening to Glock's report, Retanoer slapped his thigh and yelled:

"Look! He doesn't want to talk to us at all! They just want to destroy us."

As soon as Leitanoer's voice fell, the rest of the main combatants responded one after another.

"That's right! You shouldn't waste time on peace talks with someone!"

"What **** incites their townsfolk, I think they just found an excuse to go to war with us, the purpose is to **** our land."

"Fight with them!"

When the people of the main battle group were excited, Upanu's voice sounded untimely:

"You crazy guys, do you want to go to death like that?"

It's okay for Upanu not to speak, but as soon as he spoke, the anger of Reitanoe and the others was hooked away.

Faced with the verbal abuse from Retannoe and others, Upanu was not to be outdone.

Not surprisingly-the main battle faction and the main surrender faction quarreled again.

But what is different from the past is that as soon as the main battle faction and the main surrender faction quarreled, Chanup said in a calm tone:

"Don't make any noise."

Regardless of whether the main battle group or the main surrender group, they all slowly stopped the curse at this time and cast their surprised eyes on Chanupu.

During this time, Chanup had been pretending to be dumb and did not express any opinions. When the two factions began to fight and scold, they never stopped speaking.

Like it is now. It was the first time to directly stop the scolding war.

"Heren's wolf ambition is now clearly revealed."

Chanup said slowly while smoking a cigarette.

"The so-called incitement to the townspeople is probably just throwing dirty water on us as an excuse to go to war. This is how war is, and fabricating reasons for war is just the norm."

"They are just to seize our land and occupy our homeland. Except for the surrender of the "Kaicheng Surrender", no matter what conditions are used, there is no way to get them to retreat."

"Then let's surrender quickly!" Upanu said anxiously, "As long as we surrender..."

Before Upanu's words were finished, Chanup sneered.

"Surrender?" Chanup sneered several times, so that his shoulders shook slightly. "The surrender only delays our death."

"Furthermore—the ‘death’ brought about by the surrender is a ‘death’ that is more terrifying than physical death?"

"Chanup?" Upanu looked at Chanup with a stunned look.

For some reason, Upanu instinctively sensed that Chanupu seemed a little strange at this time.

Do not.

It should not be said to be strange.

It should be said that it is somewhat different from the past.

Before Chanup, every meeting, he was always expressionless, only knowing that he kept smoking.

At this time, Chanup, even though he was still expressionless, but Upanu suddenly realized that his eyes were a little different for Chanup at this time.

Chanupu now has sharp eyes like a knife, like an eagle hovering in the sky.

And Retannoe also noticed the changes in Chanup at this time.

If Upanu was just astonished when he noticed such a change in Chanup, then Retannoe was shocked.

As an old acquaintance of Chanup, Retannoe is most familiar with this look-10 years ago, Chanup led them to find a new home.

Noisy and yelling.

Suddenly there was a clamor outside the house.

"What's the matter?" Retanoer frowned and looked out the window.

As soon as Leitanoer's voice fell, a voice familiar to Leitanoer sounded outside the house:

"Mr. Chanup! Mr. Chanup!"

"Puccina?" Retanoé's eyes widened in surprise.

The voice that sounded outside the house was the voice of Pucciner, Retanoer's only son.

Chanup was also surprised at the sudden sound of Puccina outside the house. After raising his eyebrows, he got up and walked outside the house.

As soon as he got out of the house, the scene in front of Chanupu made Chanupu's pupils shrink because of surprise.

I saw more than a dozen young people standing outside the house holding spears and bows and arrows on their backs.

After Chanup came out, they looked straight at Chanup with flame-like eyes, and the head of the more than ten young people was Puccina.

"Puccina, what are you doing?" Retanoer's expression was a little bewildered.

After Chanup walked out of the house, the rest of the people headed by Retannoe also followed Chanup to get a glimpse of the situation outside the house.

"Father, as you can see." Puccina shook the spear in his hand. "We are ready to defend our home until the last minute."

Puccina's words were brief, but his tone was sonorous and powerful.

"Mr. Chanup." Puccina said every word. "We are here this time just to tell you-whether you want to surrender or fight to the death..."

Puccina beckoned to the dozen or so young people who surrounded him: "We will all fight and fight to the last minute."

"Are you crazy?" As soon as Puccina's words fell, he stood behind Chanup and followed Upanu, who saw the scenery outside the house, and said anxiously, "Do you know how good you are with people? It depends on how you can fight against each other, it's just sending you to death in vain."

Puccina's reaction to Upanu's reprimand was calm.

"We know," Puccina said lightly, "Mr. Upanu. In fact, I was listening underneath when you were speaking."

"Although we have never fought with anyone, we also know how powerful the armor and the weapon of the person are."

"Even if we can count on ten each, we are no match for anyone with an army of ten thousand."

Upanu: "Then you guys..."

Before Upanu's words were finished, Puccina interrupted Upanu's words righteously.

"But we would rather die in battle than give up our hard-earned home to others for nothing."

"Even if we stay here, the chance of victory is slim, we don't want to just give up like this."

Just now, after listening to Upanu's "speech", Puccina returned home without a word.

When he got home, he put down the dried deer that he had planned to feed to Esuma.

He took up his spear and bow and arrow.

Then there were like-minded people gathered everywhere.

Calling all those who are like him, unwilling to surrender, unwilling to give up their homes to others in vain.

At this moment, the more than a dozen young people standing beside Puccina are the loyalists who were summoned by Puccina.

At this moment, Chanup's mood has returned to calm.

He glanced at Puccina and others in front of him with a calm gaze, then slowly said:

"Young people, I understand your feelings and your thoughts."

"But do you know-if you fight to the end with Heren, your chances of winning are slim, you are very likely to lose, and... very likely to die?"

"...In the beginning, when they moved south to find a new home, countless people made sacrifices, and finally persisted here, and finally built a new home here. Now we are just doing what the predecessors did. That's it." Puccina's tone was full of firmness.

Chanup seemed astonished by Puccina's words, and a look of surprise flashed through the depths of his eyes.

Then-this flash of surprise turned into an extremely dazzling light.

"...Everyone." Chanup turned around and looked at Retannoe and the others behind him, "You go and gather everyone, so that everyone will gather in the ‘old place’ this evening."

"Everyone?" someone exclaimed.

"That's right." Chanup nodded. "It's everyone. We must have one of the thousand residents of Heyezhe."

"Chanup, what are you going to do?" Retannoe asked.

Chanup smiled mysteriously: "Wait until this evening, you will know."

After all, Chanup paused.

After a pause, he cast his gaze at Reitanoe with a faint smile. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

"Retannoe," Chanup said, "I haven't grown old yet."

"I am still the'hero' who succeeded in leading everyone to find a new home."

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It's been a long time to update on time for more than a month! And it's still a long-lost 8000-word chapter!

The author revealed the puzzle at the end of the previous chapter!

Ogata once revealed to XX that he likes the girls of Opida. And this "XX" is-the melon life show!

From Chapter 415, "The Realm of No Self!" "If you forget this story, you can go back and see. This story can be regarded as the foreshadowing of the previous chapter.

That chapter is also a very meaningful chapter. Because this chapter is the climax of Volume 6, Ogata reveals his identity in front of his little fan girl, Kao. The author remembers very clearly—the monthly ticket for that day was directly exploded...

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