The strength of this wooden wall was far lower than what the officer had imagined. Looking at the wooden wall that began to tilt inward after just one impact, the officer's face showed a little joy.
He waved his hand several times to signal his subordinates to start the next attack immediately.
Bang!!
The second impact caused the wooden wall to tilt further.
Bang!!
After the third impact, the wooden wall was about to fall to the ground.
Bang!!
After the fourth impact, the wooden wall in this area was finally completely knocked to the ground, revealing a gap nearly two rooms wide.
"Follow me!" As soon as the two wide gaps appeared, the officer yelled, pulled out the knife from his waist, and took the lead to rush into the wall along the gap.
The officer did not lead all his subordinates in.
Instead, the troops were divided again here - leaving 30 soldiers to guard this gap to prevent the islanders inside the wall from escaping through this gap.
90 generals, including the commanding officer, were responsible for entering the wall together and exterminating all living people inside the wall.
After rushing into the wall, the first living people they encountered were the young villagers responsible for guarding the rice fields.
The sound of the shogunate's troops using battering rams to break open the wooden walls could be heard in every corner of Toyowa Village.
The villagers who were closest to the wooden wall and responsible for guarding the rice fields naturally heard clearly the four muffled sounds made by the shogunate's army when they hit the wall just now.
They looked confused, and before they could figure out what was going on, they saw groups of soldiers wearing black armor rushing toward them.
"Hey! Who are you..."
Before a young man could finish his questioning, five soldiers from the shogunate army rushed forward, and four of them pierced his body with the spears in their hands.
The soldier who was not responsible for the attack used his head to wrap the head of the dead villager after his companions withdrew their spears.
The death of this young man was just the beginning. In just a few breaths, all the villagers responsible for guarding the fields were slaughtered by the incoming shogunate generals.
This group of shogunate generals all acted in small groups - each group had a total number of five people, and attacked the villagers in small groups.
After the soldiers of each group killed the villagers together, they would immediately wrap the dead villagers' heads with sacks.
In this way, after the villager dies and turns into an ogre, it will not be able to pose any threat to them due to its blocked vision.
This is currently the most effective method of combat against cannibals designed by the shogunate army based on the fact that cannibals only attack living people within sight.
Although you can't kill the cannibal, you can rely on this strategy to restrict the cannibal's movements.
The soldiers of a certain group wrapped the head of a villager who had just died in their hands with a sack, and then breathed a sigh of relief, and then sighed to their companions:
"It would be great if we could know this weakness of the cannibals in advance when we launched the general attack on Butterfly Island."
The "Ogre Rebellion" just broke out on Butterfly Island. After the islanders asked the shogunate for help, the shogunate immediately sent Inamori to lead an army to eliminate the cannibals on the island.
At that time, neither the islanders of Butterfly Island nor the shogunate army knew that cannibals would only attack living people within sight.
Therefore, in the general attack on Butterfly Island, the shogunate army, which was helpless against the cannibals, failed miserably. The army withdrew hastily not long after they landed on the island.
The 150 elite soldiers who were responsible for wiping out all the living people on the island had basically participated in the defeat at that time, and they all had fresh memories of the defeat at that time.
As soon as the soldier finished his emotion, a comrade standing next to him looked scornful:
"Our tactics can only be effective when the number of cannibals is small."
"As soon as the number of cannibal ghosts increases, dozens or hundreds of cannibal ghosts rush towards us side by side, ringing and ringing at the same time, where will you find the time and opportunity to wrap their heads in sacks one by one?"
After hearing these words from his comrade, the soldier who had just expressed emotion immediately stopped talking - because his comrade was right.
Their tactics can only be effective when the number of cannibals is small. Once their number increases and they rush towards them in groups, there will basically be no time and space to block these cannibals one by one.
The vision of ghosts - unless their total military strength is several times or even ten times that of cannibal ghosts.
After clearing out the villagers near the rice fields, the shogunate generals immediately divided their troops into groups and headed deeper into the wall without making any stops...
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Although the strange muffled sounds no longer sounded, not long after these four strange muffled sounds fell, both Ogata and Omachi heard new strange sounds coming from outside the house.
And this new strange sound seems to be... a killing cry and a scream.
Ogata and Atachi, whose expressions changed one after another, rushed to the window and looked out.
Although the light was poor, the two of them could barely see clearly - groups of soldiers with helmets and armor poured into the village from all directions, launching an indiscriminate attack on all the villagers in sight.
massacre.
No matter whether the villagers in front of them are male or female, old or young; no matter whether the villagers in front of them are roaring or asking for help, these soldiers who suddenly poured into the village will wave their swords and guns mercilessly.
"Shogunate Army...!" After muttering something like this in a deep voice, Ogata grimaced, picked up the sword he had just placed aside, and rushed out of the room.
Atachi also quickly put the socks she had just taken off back on, picked up her own weapon, followed Ogata, and rushed out of the room with Ogata.
As soon as they rushed out of the room, the two of them saw Mamiya and Makimura, who were also rushing out of the next room with a sullen face - Mamiya and Makimura's room was located next to Ogata and the others.
While seeing Mamiya and Makimura, Ogata and the others also saw a girl rushing up the stairs.
This girl is the only maid in the Kinnosuke family.
After rushing to the third floor where Ogata and his party were, the maid with an anxious look on her face shouted urgently to Ogata and his party in a crying tone:
"Shogunate, the shogunate's army is coming!"
"How could it be..." A-Machi's face turned pale, "Why would the shogunate's army attack at this time... and also carry out indiscriminate killings..."
Compared to the pale-faced Omachi and the maid who was about to cry, Ogata, Mamiya, and Makimura were much calmer.
"Where's Konnosuke?" Ogata asked the maid in a calm tone.
Ogata's calm look and calm tone had an invisible influence on the maid, making the maid who was originally a little panicked due to anxiety gradually become calmer.
"Kinnosuke-sama is on the first floor right now! Commanding the villagers to hide in his house!"