I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Skulucci’s superior’s name was originally "Daniel Mikhail Alexander".

However, the book friend "White Porcelain Chess" introduced: The Russian name format is "First Name-Father Name-Last Name", and the name of this person is not strong enough. For example, "Daniel" should be pronounced as "Daninovs" in Russia. base".

So the correct name for this person should be "Alexander Mikhailovich Daninowski".

I really don't know much about Russian name culture, so I am very grateful to this book friend. I have also been taught.

Therefore, the name of this Alexander has been changed to "Alexander Mikhailovich Daninovsky" since this chapter-although this person has nothing to do with the role...

*******

*******

Tang Shen looked blankly at Chanup, who was coming towards him, and the soldiers standing in front of him consciously separated to the sides, giving way to them.

The surrounding soldiers also looked at Tang Shen who had helped them just now with eyes that were similar to those of Lei Tanuoai and Lin Ziping.

"...If you have anything, let's talk after the city wall." Tang Shen whispered, "Can you get me something to eat by the way? I haven't tossed myself like this for a long time, and I'm a little hungry."

…

…

Outside the city, the shogunate army—

Inamori looked sullenly at Kasuo, who was lying on the bed in front of him, closed his eyes, and was unconscious.

The other generals stood silently behind Inamori—knowing that Inamori was in a very bad mood, they obediently watched their noses and their hearts, staying silent, and even their breathing slowed down.

"We have done our best to deal with Master Kamao's wound." The doctor standing beside Inamori whispered to Inamori, "but Master Kamao seemed to be hit hard, although Master Kamao did not see any nosebleeds. Or there is something else, so the possibility of'Master Kabu's head was injured' cannot be ruled out."

"So now I have to wait for Pu Sheng to wake up first, and then check whether his sane is clear."

"And...Although we have had Master Pusheng's wound, this does not prevent infection 100%."

"So... I would also like to ask you to make corresponding psychological preparations in the future."

"...I see." Inamori nodded, "Doctor, you have worked hard. After that, please take care of Pu Shengjun."

After confessing some things to the doctor, Inamori turned away with a gloomy face and left the camp where Pusheng was resting.

As soon as he left the camp, Daamori saw that one of his cronies was walking towards him.

"Inamori-sama." The confidant said directly to Inamori, "The Aizu army has been gathered and integrated. It's just that...Although we have already publicized a lot of Kamao-sama not killed in battle, their morale is still a little sluggish... "

"...I really underestimated our opponent this time." Inamori turned his head, put on the face of a gloomy bird, and looked at the Red Moon Fortress in the distance. There are so many masters lurking in the fortress occupied by the barbarians of civilized life."

"First came out a'superior' who knows how to defend the city."

"Then there came up today an old and skilled man..."

Just now, while waiting for Gami's treatment to end, Inamori was not idle.

First, he personally supervised the gathering and sorting of the Aizu army generals who had withdrawn from the fortress. Then, in order to stabilize the military's mind, he sent an order to the whole army: Kuma was not killed, but slightly injured.

In fact, the injury suffered by Pu Sheng is not light, but in order to stabilize the military spirit, Inamori intends to tell a "white lie."

In addition, Pu Sheng also recruited soldiers who had witnessed what happened to Pu Sheng, and asked them in detail how Pu Sheng suffered such severe injuries.

Not asking, I was shocked when I asked. Everyone said: Pu Sheng was defeated by an old man with a weird knife in his hand with a very sharp spear skill.

After learning that Pu Sheng was defeated by such an unknown master, Pu Sheng's face was so gloomy-he would rather hope Pu Sheng was injured by a barbarian because of a momentary carelessness, rather than seeing Pu Sheng being injured. A certain master was defeated in a one-on-one situation.

The latter will be much more troublesome than the former...

"Master Inamori." said the confidant in front of Inamori, "There is still nearly an hour and a half before nightfall. Do you want to launch a new attack on the fortress?"

Inamori pondered for a moment:

"...Forget it today. Wait for tomorrow to launch a new attack."

Speaking of this, the cold light in Inamori's eyes is even more compelling.

"I don't believe it... A gang of barbarians can defeat us?"

As Inamori gritted his teeth, the generals who followed him and followed Inamori to visit Gami just now, all turned towards the fortress in the distance, showing expressions of righteous indignation.

But—there are some alternatives. Although there are also expressions of righteous indignation, they can still detect a little joy and gloat in their eyes.

And such a group of people are basically the generals of the First Army.

The generals from the Sendai clan, Kuroda and Akizuki, were particularly gloating in their eyes.

…

…

The Red Moon Tournament, Chanup’s home—

In Chanup's home, only Tang Shen and Chanup are sitting opposite each other.

Tang Shen, who sits cross-legged on the ground casually, grabbed a piece of dried meat and chewed it bitterly.

And Chanup sitting in front of him did not speak, silently waiting for the soup **** to finish eating.

Tang Shen was not slow to eat, and in a short while, a whole piece of dried meat entered his stomach.

"...There is no particular reason why you suddenly changed your mind and chose to help you."

After eating that piece of dried meat, Tang Shen slowly said:

"It's just that I suddenly feel that you are my only friend now... I should be regarded as my only friend, so I can't just tell you if I don't help you."

"...In other words, you are not going to tell me why you suddenly changed your mind to help me." Chinup was not so stupid as to be fooled by the perfunctory words of Tang Shen just now.

"Never mind... Since you don't want to say more, I won't follow up. When you are willing to tell me, tell me again."

Chanup raised his eyes and looked directly at Tang Shen's eyes.

"...Shendu. Are you going to help us all the way, or... just a whim today?"

Tang Shen was silent for a while, then slowly said:

"...Chanup. Through today's battle, I clearly feel that the Japanese soldiers outside the city are not all lazy and weak."

"Even with my help, I want to continue until the military supplies are cut off, and then retreat... I'll just say something ugly-I'm afraid I won't even have a chance of winning."

Tang Shen wanted to continue, but Chanup suddenly interrupted:

"I know."

"But at least... it will last for another 10 days."

"10 days?" Tang Shen cast a suspicious look at Chinup. "What do you mean? Why should it last for at least 10 days?"

"...I'm sorry, I can't say too much about this." Chanup shook his head, "All in all-from tomorrow, at least another 10 days..."

"After 10 days, our slim chance of winning...maybe it will no longer be so slim."

Tang Shen used his gaze as if he was about to pierce Chanup's entire face, and after staring at Chanup's face for a while, he smiled:

"...It seems...you really are planning something secretly..."

When the voice fell, Tang Shen turned the laughter into a silent sigh.

"Then... I will accompany you slowly... Let me see what you are doing."

Speaking of this, Tang Shen lowered his head slightly, and changed to whisper in a low volume that only he could hear:

"Let me also see if my swing of the knife this time... is also valuable..."

…

…

The next day—

On the 6th day of Ogata’s departure from the Red Moon Grand Tournament—

"The change in the battle situation is really unexpected." Kuroda said to Akizuki next to him in a half-joking tone. Pu Sheng, who had captured the outer wall of the Red Moon Fortress, was lying on a sick bed today, and has remained unconscious."

"Okay, Kuroda. The people in Aizu are also our friends, so let's say less." Although Qiuyue said so, his face still had a slight mockery.

After yesterday's battle, the morale of the Aizu army plummeted. Even after nearly half a day of rest and reorganization yesterday, it still hasn't adjusted.

Therefore—today’s main attack was switched to the First Army where Kuroda and Akizuki belonged.

The generals of the First Army have lined up, and now they are waiting for Gui Yizheng, the general of the First Army, to order an offensive.

Kuroda and Akizuki chose to use small talk to pass the free time waiting for Gui Yizheng to order an attack.

"The ridicule is ridicule. But what happened to the Aizu army yesterday is worthy of our vigilance." Kuroda slowly put away the mockery on his face at this time. I thought it would take only two days to capture, but I didn’t expect to fight until now and it’s still hard to separate..."

"First came out an expert who knows how to defend the city, and yesterday came out another expert who can defeat Pu Sheng in a one-on-one situation."

"Although I don't like that Pu Sheng, I still have to admit that Pu Sheng is very skilled."

"Our future battle, I'm afraid it will be far more difficult than originally expected..."

"...It's a pity that the injury I've suffered isn't healed yet." Qiuyue raised his hand and touched the injury to his collarbone by Ogata. "Otherwise, I would like to go to the wall personally, and the guy that hurt Kasho. The people will fight."

"Then I have to thank you for the injury, so you can't make trouble around." Kuroda gave Qiuyue a white look.

As soon as Kuroda's voice fell, the rapid sound of conch suddenly pierced into their ears.

"It's attacking..." Kuroda turned to look at the fortress in the distance, "Okay... let's continue... Barbarians."

"Let me see if you can't hold it at first. Or we can't hold it at first."

…

…

"He and others are coming up!", "Kick them all off!"...

The sound of the conch representing the attack turned the outer wall of the Red Moon Fortress into a "flesh mill" again.

The soldiers who had become more familiar with defending the city pushed the Japanese soldiers who climbed up one by one back to the city wall in various ways.

At this time, a certain skillful soldier successfully climbed the long ladder and boarded the city wall.

"go to hell!"

He roared like this, while preparing to slash at a young soldier in front of him.

But his knife had just been raised high, and suddenly from the corner of his eye, he saw a knife light slashing towards him from his side.

Then... there is no more.

The moment he saw the light of the knife, the light of the knife slashed across his neck, and his head was chopped off and fell to the bottom of the city wall.

The man who chopped off the soldier's head—is Tangshen who is now wearing an Ainu coat.

After cutting off the soldier's head and roaring, Tang Shen shouted in fluent Ainu:

"Push all those who climbed up!"

As soon as Tang Shen's voice fell, there were shouts of response immediately.

Just last night, Chanup introduced Tangshen to everyone, and introduced this helper who, like Lin Ziping, chose to help them even though he was a peaceful person.

In order to better identify the enemy and ourselves, Tang Shen specially put on an Ainu coat.

Just as Gama's skill and fighting inspired the generals of the Aizu Army yesterday, Yushen's skill and fighting also inspired the soldiers of the Red Moon Fortress.

Since the beginning of the battle, Tang Shen has been wandering around, cutting down difficult enemy soldiers one after another, reducing the defensive pressure on the outer city wall.

When another enemy soldier was chopped over, and he raised his hand to wipe the sweat dripping from his forehead, Tang Shen turned his head and looked at Chanup who was standing on the inner wall.

At this time, Chanup was staring at the battlefield, commanding and scheduling battles in various places with the help of Lin Ziping.

Because of being too concentrated, Chanup didn't notice that Tang Shen was looking at him now.

"On the 10th..." Tang Shen mumbled, showing a helpless expression, "It's really a difficult goal..."

After speaking, Tang Shen once again clenched the knife in his hand, and slew another soldier of the First Army who climbed the city wall.

…

…

The 7th day Ogata left the Red Moon Fortress—

Ezo land, on a plain—

This plain, which was supposed to be full of natural breath, was suddenly mixed with the breath of "human civilization" in the air.

I saw that this area was located in the dense forest on a not-so-wide plain with an incalculable number of dense camps.

If the Ainu or people are here, facing this type of camp, most of them will feel a little strange.

But for people in Europe...especially in Eastern Europe, these camps should be familiar—not only familiar, but after seeing these camps, they should still feel shudder.

Because these camps are full of Cossack style camps.

Near this stronghold of the Cossacks, there are densely packed guard posts and patrol personnel.

The current time, converted into units of modern earth, is about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

The weather is very good now, there is no fog obstructing the vision, and the sky is quite clear, illuminating the surrounding area. Today's weather is undoubtedly a great help to these Cossacks who are responsible for guarding outside the camp.

At this moment, a certain Cossack suddenly saw-on the horizon in front of him, there seemed to be a small dark shadow shaking.

After squinting his eyes and looking closely, he found that this tiny black shadow was a person.

A man riding a horse.

This man was riding a horse, rushing straight towards him, slowly emerging from below the horizon.

This Cossack has sharp eyes, so even if the distance is a little far away, he can barely see clearly-the man on the horse is a young man.

This Kazuto, whether he is himself or the horse under his hip, looks like a servant.

The Cossack hadn't had time to shout loudly to stop the peaceful person, and heard this young peaceful person shout loudly, a little non-standard, but able to hear clearly the meaning of the Russian shout:

"Славагосударю! (Glory to His Majesty the Tsar!

"ЯдругСкулуччи! (I am Skulucci's friend!

…

…

"Excellent!"

A middle-aged man with a big belly clapped vigorously.

"Skulucci! This armor is really suitable for you! Your current heroic appearance, the knight under the command of the Knight King, who is known for his gracefulness and handsomeness: Gao Wen, shouldn't be able to compare to you!"

Skulucci stroked his red hair, which is more common in Scotland:

"Boss Alexander, I didn't expect that you still seem to have a good understanding of our Scottish Celtic mythology."

"I like Celtic music!" The middle-aged fat man, who put his legs on the long table in front of him with extreme dignity, made a flute action, "I like your Celtic bagpipes very much! Because I like your Celtics’ music, I have learned some of your Celtics’ myths due to various coincidences."

"The story of King Arthur in Celtic mythology, I am still quite interested."

"That's a **** coincidence." Skulucci shrugged. "I know too much about Celtic mythology!"

"Especially the story of King Arthur, the king of knights, I'm so **** familiar with it."

"Boss Alexander, if you are interested in the future, we can talk about mythology!"

After gagging with the middle-aged fat man named "Alexander" for a while, Skulucci went back to the topic:

"I thought that this armor would be a piece of iron that I didn't want to use, but I didn't expect it to be a good thing with both aesthetics and practicality."

"This steel is not ordinary steel... It's a good armor."

Having said that, Skulucci raised his hand and patted the breastplate of his upper body a few times.

At this moment, Skulucci is wearing a set of armor—a set of blue and gold southern barbarian carcass.

Since separating from Ogata, Skulucci has been restoring the team, and at the same time, in order to have a good winter, he led his subordinates to his superiors—that is, the potbellied middle-aged man sitting in front of Skulucci. : The residence of Alexander Mikhailovich Daninowski, meeting with him.

After the rendezvous, during these days, in order to pass the boring time every day, Skulucci often drank and chatted with his superior.

Although Skulucci doesn't like the boss very much, Alexander is the kind of person who doesn't feel bored talking to him, so Skulucci still likes to chat with him.

The two have been talking from noon until now, and they don't even know how many bottles of wine they have drunk.

Alexander, who was chatting with Skulucci in high spirits, just took out the armor he bought a while ago to show off to Skulucci, and made the size of Skulucci match this armor. Lu Qi came to try on this armor.

Alexander has a strange collection of weapons. For those weapons he is interested in, he can often slam a jaw-dropping amount of money to purchase—the armor Skulucci now wears after Alexander came to explore the Far East. , Purchased from a businessman with 10 precious Don horses.

The Don Horse, which can be called the "strongest war horse", is not generally expensive.

Use 10 Don horses for a suit of armor-most people will probably comment that this is extremely stupid.

Skulucci originally thought so too.

But now after trying on this armor, and after personally experiencing the performance of this armor, Wizard Sculp discovered that this armor is so expensive, and there is a reason why it is so expensive.

Not only does this armor sell well, but the steel used is not ordinary steel, and it has excellent protection performance. Normal swords and arrows should not be able to break the defense of this armor.

"It's a good set of armor. I'm a little bit greedy."

After another compliment, Skulucci began to take off the armor.

Alexander let out a hearty laugh:

"It's a pity that this is not the age of armor!"

"Now the armor has no effect on the European battlefield."

"From now on, the armor will become people's collection completely."

After the sigh was over, Alexander waved his hand at Skulucci, who had already taken off his armor.

"Come on, let's continue to drink at the bar! I took out my treasured herring today. If you don't eat it all, it will be wasted!"

"Today's wine is really worthy of the name." Skulucci sat in front of Alexander again, and continued to say in a half-joking tone, "I almost forget what it was to eat herring like this last time. Time is up."

"Skulucci, don't speak Latin." Alexander said grimly. "You know, I don't understand Latin."

at this time-

"Master Dofner! Master Dofner!"

Suddenly a call to Skulucci sounded outside the camp tent.

"What's the matter?" Skulucci turned to look out of the book.

"Master Dofnar! A friend came to us! He kept yelling "Glory to His Majesty the Tsar" and "I am Skulucci's friend"."

"Is he your friend?"

"Peace?" Skulucci raised his eyebrows vigorously, and then quickly stood up.

…

…

Skulucci rushed to the northeast of the camp as quickly as possible.

Soon, he saw from a distance-a young and dusty man, leading a horse, standing silently and waiting under the guard of several sentinels.

"Mr. Majima!" Skulucci, with a strong doubtful color on his face, quickened his pace a bit.

Looking at Skulucci walking towards him, the young Kazuto-or Ogata, smiled faintly.

"Sculucci, long time no see."

"It's true that I haven't seen you for some days." Skulucci, who walked quickly to Ogata, patted Ogata's chest. "Why are you here?"

"It's a long story..." Ogata said solemnly, "In short-I have something to ask you for help.

Skulucci shook his eyebrows: "Come in first. Go to my camp and speak slowly."

*******

*******

PS: Skulucci’s sentence is Latin, meaning "treasures from mountains and seas". In order to make the dialogue between Skulucci and Alexander more European-like, I decided to apply those common European stalks-the characters in it will pop out of Latin from time to time.