I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

What Chanupu said just now was not without shouting hoarsely like Upanu, only with a very calm tone.

But the words spoken in a calm tone were far stronger than every scream made by Upanu.

Upanu originally had thousands of words to scream at Chanup, who had deceived the young children in his village with "demon words," but these words he had prepared are now all because of what Chanup said just now. Blocked in the throat.

"...What are you doing here with me?" Upanu said in a deep voice, "Yes...Want to persuade me to go crazy with you?"

"No." Chanup shook his head, "I just heard that you are about to fight the young people in your village, so come and see how you are."

"It seems that you still insist on surrendering to the people..."

"Heh." Upanu sneered. "I'm not as fickle as you."

"I'm really curious-how did you manage to be so fickle?"

"Obviously, as of today, you were hesitant and silent in every meeting."

Rarely, Upanu was curious about the change in the mood of the same age who he just hated to confuse everyone with "demon words".

"There is no complicated reason." Chanup said slowly, "I just figured it out, no more hesitation and confusion."

"I figured it out-I really can't just hand over this new home that was built after so many sacrifices to Heren."

"There is no way to just make our children and grandchildren become'Ainu.'"

"...But the difference between our combat power and Heren's combat power is too great." Upanu gritted his teeth.

"Well, you are right."

Chanup smiled.

Obviously, he was chatting with the man in front of him about the violent and rattling words that might violently turn his head in the next moment, but Chanup showed a relaxed smile.

"This is a battle of great disparity."

"Our odds of winning are terribly low."

"Our **** battles, and weeping battles, maybe no one can record them and pass them on to future generations."

"But ah-Upanu."

"'Can it be done' and'should it be done"-don't you think the latter is far more important than the former?"

After that, Chanup stopped speaking and turned to leave.

Upanu said nothing.

He was silent.

Nor did he go after Chanup or watch Chanup leave.

He just bowed his head slightly and said nothing.

Retanoe, who had just reported the general wind to Chanu, told Chanup that Upanu was about to fight his tribe, just stood not far away all the time.

Before and after Chanup walked slowly back to him, Retannoe asked in a low voice:

"I thought you would spend a lot of words to persuade Upanu to stop being obsessed, and stop thinking about being a dog with people."

Chanup didn't respond to Retanoe's words, only smiled, and then sternly said to Retanoe:

"Retannoe, you help me summon all the ‘old guys’ now. Just summon them to my house."

Old guy—Chanup, one of their idioms. They refer to all the "big men" in their Red Moon Fortress who are eligible to participate in high-level meetings as "old guys."

"What are you going to do?" Retanoer asked.

"What else can I do? Of course, we are discussing how to keep our homeland together." Chanup said, "Anyway-trouble you. I'm going to a place now, and I will meet you soon."

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Red Moon Fortress, somewhere—

"Hey! What happened? Can't you tell me? I clearly heard two very loud cannons during the day today! What's the matter with these cannons? Is anyone attacking here? "

Lin Ziping slammed his face against the window, and shouted to the young man guarding him outside the window.

As of this afternoon, Lin Ziping was still living as usual-staying in this prison transformed from an uninhabited house, doing nothing.

Until-there was an extremely noisy noise outside, as well as the sound of two artillery pieces.

Lin Ziping is no stranger to the sound of artillery, he knew it was the unique bombing sound of artillery.

Why is there the sound of artillery in Ezo land?

Lin Ziping, who was startled by the sound of these two artillery pieces, jumped up and asked the man who was guarding him outside the house what happened—but the guards outside didn't pay attention to him at all.

Because the guards didn't know what was going on outside.

During this period, there have been several waves of guards, but when faced with Lin Ziping's questions, he was either unclear or ignored Lin Ziping.

"Stop arguing." An extremely impatient voice came from the guards outside the door. "You have been arguing there since just now. I have no obligation to tell you who are in jail...Ah! Mr. Chanup? What are you doing? Are you here?"

"I have something to find the person in the cage. You open the door."

-Um? Who is coming?

Just as Lin Ziping cast a suspicious look at the prison door, he saw that the prison door was slowly opened, and an Ainu who was similar to him slowly walked into the prison.

As soon as this middle-aged man entered, he closed the door of the prison himself and put himself in the same cell with Lin Ziping.

Before Lin Ziping had time to ask who the middle-aged man was, the middle-aged man took the lead in speaking in fluent Japanese:

"Mr. Lin, although this is not the first time we have met, it is indeed our first time in terms of'formal meeting'."

"When we first met, my name is Chanup."

"Chanup?" Lin Ziping raised his eyebrows.

Since the middle-aged man in front of him can speak fluent Japanese, Lin Ziping is also happy to communicate with him in Japanese.

"Why did He Yezhe's top leader suddenly come to see me as a prisoner?"

As a scholar who has studied Ezo land for many years, Lin Ziping naturally has a lot of knowledge about He Yezhe, who is very famous in Ezo land.

Heyzhe’s leader is named Chanupu—this kind of thing is no secret. Lin Ziping naturally knew about it a few years ago.

While Lin Ziping looked at Chanup up and down, Chanup was also looking at Lin Ziping.

This is the second time the two of them have met each other.

The last time they met was rather embarrassing-the young clansmen would return Lin Ziping, who was sneaking outside the city and suspected of being a spy, to Chanup.

At that time, after taking a few glances at Lin Ziping, Chanup ordered Lin Ziping to be taken to prison to check his identity.

"I'm here just to bring a word for Mr. Mashima." Chanup said.

"Mr. Mashima?" Lin Ziping frowned slightly, "Although he cares about what Mr. Majima wants you to bring to me, before that, can you tell me what happened today? What happened to the gunfire today? thing?"

"Don't you know what happened?" Chanup asked.

"I keep asking the person in charge of guarding me what happened." Lin Ziping said, "but they didn't tell me at all."

"That's it..." Chanup said slowly, "What happened... In a nutshell, it was a fight with an army of people."

Chanup briefly described what happened today with the simplest possible words.

After Chanupu finished his briefing, Lin Ziping widened his eyes: "The shogunate...has come here...?"

"Mr. Mashima, he has left here for some reasons." After briefly telling Lin Ziping what happened today, he switched the topic back to the topic he came to find Lin Ziping and wanted to talk to Lin Ziping this time. "Before he leaves, let me bring you a word for him."

Before Ogata was about to leave the Red Moon Fortress on his turnip, he had Chinup who came to see him off and mentioned Lin Ziping-he asked Chinup to bring him a word to Lin Ziping.

"Mr. Mashima left?" Lin Ziping hurriedly put away the astonishment and shock on his face, "What did he do?"

After Ogata returned with the injured Amachi, he met Lin Ziping once, but during that meeting, the two didn't talk much about it-Ogata only told Lin Ziping that he was safe. , And told Lin Ziping that because of some accident, he did not bring back books that might prove his identity as a scholar, and said that he would later think of other ways to fish him out of the cell.

Lin Ziping hasn't seen Ogata again since that meeting.

"Sorry. As for what Mr. Majima did, please allow me to keep it secret." Chanup shook his head.

"What are the words that Mr. Mashima asked you to bring?" Lin Ziping didn't get annoyed seeing Chinup keeping him secret, and only quickly changed the subject.

"It's just a very simple sentence."

Chanup cleared his throat, and then imitated Ogata's voice, saying:

"'Mr. Lin, for some reasons, I will be missing for a short period of time. When I return, the difficulty of getting you out of the cell should be reduced a lot. I hope you will wait patiently for my return and remember you and me. The promise made.'"

"Just this sentence?" Lin Ziping asked.

What is the "promise" Ogata said, Lin Ziping naturally knows-he and Ogata have agreed that if Ogata can help him restore his freedom, Lin Ziping will take Ogata and the others to the village with a strange doctor. .

"That's right." Chanup nodded. "I have a lot of important things to do afterwards. I can't stay here for too long."

"Now that the words have arrived, I should almost leave."

"Wait a minute!" Lin Ziping said anxiously, "Can I ask a question before leaving?"

Lin Ziping put on a serious face.

"How are you going to deal with the army of people outside the city?"

Regarding the question that Lin Ziping suddenly threw, Chanup raised his eyebrows, and then smiled:

"We will defend our homeland and fight until we retreat, or our city fortress is broken."

After that, Chanup stopped talking, and quickly left Lin Ziping's prison.

Lin Ziping stood there blankly, looking at the back of Chanupu leaving.

Until Chanup had left for a long time, Lin Ziping still stood still, motionless.

After a long time, Lin Ziping gritted his teeth, rushed to the wall next to him, and kicked bitterly against the wall.

"What on earth are the people like Matsudaira and Toshiki Kitagawa thinking... Why send troops to the Ainu...!"

"damn it…!"

He kicked the wall bitterly and growled in a low voice.

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The Red Moon Fortress, Chanup’s home—

"Are everyone here?" Chanup looked around at the people sitting next to him.

"Upanu hasn't come yet." Retannoe, who was sitting next to Chanup, replied, "Upanu is left alone."

Upanu is also one of the people eligible to participate in such high-level meetings-but until now, Upanu has not been seen.

"...Then don't wait for him." Chanup said, "let's get started."

Chanup looked around the people in front of him again.

"I have decided to guard the home to the last minute." Chanup said bluntly, "Is there anyone else who has objections?"

The eyes of the "main battle faction" headed by Retannoe have been focused on those who had been very active before.

At this moment, these prominent sects either bowed their heads and said nothing, or proclaimed that they were connected with Chanup, and they really couldn't bow down to Heren.

Chanup's speech just now completely overwhelmed the "main battle faction" over the "main battle faction".

Residents who make up the vast majority of the population of the Red Moon Fortress who have experienced the pain of "migrating to the south" 10 years ago—almost all of them were inspired by Chanup’s speech to defend the hard-won The fighting spirit of the homeland.

And those residents who have not experienced the "southern migration" 10 years ago have also risen in fighting spirit because of Chanup's speech just now.

These residents who have not experienced the "southern migration" 10 years ago had to abandon their original homes and live in Heye Zhezhong for various reasons.

Their feelings for Heyezhe are no more shallow than those of the "indigenous people" who have experienced the "southern migration".

Now throughout the Red Moon Fortress, the temperature seems to have risen several degrees due to the high morale and enthusiasm of the residents.

These "main surrenders" are not blind people, and they can naturally see that-no matter what surrender is mentioned now, no one will respond to them anymore.

However, some of the "main survivors" were indeed moved by Chanup's speech just now and completely turned to the "main warriors" side.

Seeing that no one was speaking, Chanup nodded.

Just as he was about to say something, the curtain at the door of the house was suddenly opened.

Everyone, including Chanup, immediately focused their attention.

I saw a middle-aged man with an expression that made people unable to understand his specific emotions, walked slowly to the opposite side of Chanup, and then sat down cross-legged.

"Upanu..." Chanupu whispered, "I thought you were not coming..."

"You came just right, the meeting has just begun."

"If you have something to say, just say it at this time."

Upanu's departure changed the expressions of everyone present.

People like Retannoe's "main battle group" turned ugly.

And some of the "main surrenders" who still care about "surrender" cast hopeful eyes on Upanu.

Upanu deserves to be a focal point.

Not only did he just show up, he changed the expressions of almost everyone.

After sitting down, he only said a word, and once again changed everyone's face.

"...Chanup. Let's talk about it." Upanu said softly, "Tell me how you plan to deploy defenses."

With this simple sentence of Upanu, Chanup couldn't help but shrink his pupils because of surprise—the rest of the people reacted similarly.

After showing a faint smile at Upanu, Chanupu showed a serious face and said loudly:

"Since no one has any more objections, then we will do our best to prepare for the war."

"To deal with the people outside the city, we must first increase the number of sentries on the wall and strengthen our guard."

…

A large number of young and strong boys, armed with bows and spears, rushed to the inner and outer walls of the city. The number of sentries on the walls doubled as usual.

All the people who stood guards on the wall were waiting, with their eyes wide open, carefully observing the actions of the people outside the city and the army.

…

"Open all warehouses, check and count all the food and drinking water in the stock. Pharmaceuticals are also counted uniformly."

…

The doors of the warehouses dedicated to storing grain and drinking water were wide open. The clansmen who were ordered to come to check and count, shuttled back and forth in the warehouse.

In Kunoya’s clinic, while smoking a cigarette, Kunoya said in a lazy tone to the young people in front of her, “Are you the one that Chanupu sent to help me count the medicines? Let’s start. Let's work."

…

"In addition to food and drinking water, weapons must also undergo a comprehensive inspection and inventory, and the weapons should be distributed."

…

A bundle of arrows and spears were removed, and they were distributed one by one while counting.

The sound of sharpened arrows and spear tips, one after another everywhere in the Red Moon Fortress.

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"This battle is related to the survival of our home, so we can't keep a little bit of it... and take out all those muskets."

…

Inside the Red Moon Fortress, a group of people from UU Reading www.uukanshu.com rushed to an inconspicuous warehouse.

In this warehouse, there is only one thing-neatly arranged rows of flintlocks with a red moon engraved on the handle of the gun...

And such muskets—they have 80 at all.

…

The Red Moon Fortress is like a machine running at full speed. Under Chanup's scheduling and arrangement, everyone is doing their work in an orderly manner.

Counting and sorting out inventory of food and medicine...

Standing on the wall, guard and human...

It's just that-this busy preparation for battle lasted only 3 days.

Because 3 days later, just 3 days after Ogata left the Red Moon Fortress—

The main force of 5000 led by Inamori is here!

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