Chapter 495 A-cho! Clamp your legs! Relax your waist! [7000 words]
Today is the long-awaited 10 o'clock update...well, it's not very accurate, it's a few minutes late~
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Pu Sheng is the kind of person who is good at killing enemies with "agility".
He ran and writhed among the revolting mobs, and marched straight into the enemy lines.
The heroic posture of wielding the sword as easily as a lantern grass, causing the enemy's bodies to shatter one after another, is no less impressive than Sheng Tianmu and the others. Wherever Gomori went, the enemy groups retreated like waves.
The "Aizu people" don't shout like the "Sendai people".
The generals of the "Sendai Clan" rushed to kill every enemy in front of them one by one, lest they fall behind.
Their roars and screams could be heard clearly even from several streets away.
This is not the case with "Aizu Community".
They are very silent.
Everyone kept their mouths shut tightly and kept silent.
They just silently formed a tight formation, silently holding the weapons in their hands, silently following behind Pu Sheng, and silently killing every enemy in front of them.
One is where everyone shows off their martial prowess, and the other is where they line up in a tight formation to kill the enemy - the atmosphere and fighting style of the two teams are completely different, but the efficiency of killing the enemy is almost the same.
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"Forward! Forward!" Shen Tianmu roared, "Don't let anyone go! The Aizu people are not far away! Don't let the Aizu people see our jokes!"
After the words of Sheng Tianmu fell, a series of shouts sounded in response to his words.
For Sendai people, no words are more inspiring than "The people of Aizu are right next to you."
The Sendai samurai have always disliked the Aizu samurai.
The reason is that too many people think that the Aizu Domain is the strongest military domain in the Tohoku region.
This made the Sendai samurai very unhappy.
They felt that in terms of martial prowess, they would never lose to the Aizu samurai.
But because there has never been a chance to prove this to the world, since the opening of the Edo shogunate, except for the early stage of the shogunate, which launched the "Battle of Osaka" with the goal of annihilating the Toyotomi family, there has been no such thing in the past two hundred years.
A large-scale war broke out.
The Sendai samurai would not find a chance to compete with the Aizu samurai.
Therefore, the Sendai samurai cherished this opportunity to form an alliance with the shogunate to attack the Ainu.
To achieve a far more impressive record than the Aizu people in this battle - this is the small goal that many Sendai samurai set for themselves in this war.
After hearing Ichitenme's words, "The Aizu people are not far away," every Sendai samurai felt as if they had been given a shot of blood and fought even more bravely to kill the enemy.
Sheng Tianmu himself was more motivated than everyone present.
Although he has a simple personality, he is also a rough-and-tumble person.
When they learned that Matsudaira Sadanobu asked their "Sendai people" to go and quell this gang of thugs who suddenly got into trouble, Sheng Tianmu was keenly aware that this was most likely the test paper given to them by Matsudaira Sadanobu.
Later, after learning that the "Aizu people" would also join them in the battle, but in charge of different areas, Ikutenmu confirmed that his judgment was correct - Matsudaira Sadanobu was just to test their "Sendai people" and "Aizu people"
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Ikutenme had heard the relevant rumors before - Matsudaira Sadanobu, who was not familiar with Aizu and Sendai, was very curious about the specific strength of Aizu and Sendai.
Master Laonaka probably wanted to use this suppression of the mob to test the strength of Sendai and Aizu!
Whenever this thought came to his mind, he felt endless power pouring out of his body.
I don’t want to be even half a step behind Aizu! I want to show you the power of Sendai from Laonaka-sama!
This thought made Sheng Tianmu devote himself to the battle with all his strength.
The reason why Sheng Tianmu can become the leader of the "Seven Spears of Xianzhou" is not just because of his superior martial arts.
His ability to hold such a high status in the military is inseparable from his strong "determination".
Even if he is on a chaotic battlefield, even if he fights until he is covered in blood, Sheng Tianmu can remain calm at all times and observe the battlefield with calm eyes.
After breaking into the battlefield, Sheng Tianmu discovered that there was a guy who had been frequently giving orders to the others since just now.
The distance was quite far, so the third eye couldn't hear clearly what he was shouting.
But those actions of his were clearly visible to the Third Eye.
This guy's status must be quite high - Shen Tianmu believed this in his heart.
In fact, the judgment of the Third Eye is not wrong.
He believed that the person whose status was not low was the one who caused all these incidents—Maka Nao.
Since just now, the Third Eye has been consciously moving in the direction of Maka Nao.
Along the way, no one can defeat him.
This group of thugs who suddenly rebelled have begun to collapse.
There are fewer and fewer people who dare to fight to the end.
More and more people dropped their weapons and the yellow and white things they had just collected from everywhere, and ran away in a hurry.
When pointing arrows and spear points at the unarmed civilians just now, they acted like wolves and tigers.
After receiving thunderous blows from the army generals, they howled and scurried away with their heads in their hands.
"What a pity...!" Sheng Tianmu gritted his teeth and secretly thought it was a pity.
He was a little annoyed now - if he had more soldiers under his command, he could allocate some of his men to take a long detour and block the retreat of this group of thugs, leaving them with no way to escape.
Just when he was secretly feeling annoyed, he suddenly saw flags appearing one after another.
A military flag embroidered with clover.
Three-leaf Aoi - the family that dominated the entire Edo shogunate: the family crest of the Tokugawa family.
The appearance of a military flag embroidered with clover - what this represents is self-evident.
"Shogunate army...?" Sheng Tianmu murmured.
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Whether it was the battlefield where the "Sendai People" were in charge or the battlefield where the "Aizu People" were in charge, countless thugs were hurriedly fleeing for their lives away from the "Sendai People" and the "Aizu People".
They no longer think about such grand ambitions as revenge against Kazuto and the establishment of a country unique to the Ainu people.
I no longer want any money or property.
In order to escape faster, those who had just participated in the robbery had thrown everything they had just robbed all over the street.
There is only one thought left in their minds: escape.
They just want to escape for their lives at this time.
The clang of armor clashing was gradually forgotten by them.
These people, who thought they were getting farther and farther away from Kazuto's army, all showed happy smiles.
It's a pity that the smiles on their faces did not last long.
Because - they suddenly heard the sound of armor clashing and the sound of neat and powerful footsteps in front of them.
A group of soldiers wearing all black armor, arranged in a neat square formation, appeared in front of them and appeared in front of their retreat.
The military flags painted with three-leaf sunflower pattern on each side made it easier for these soldiers to suddenly appear in the queue and make a sound in the wind.
He is a soldier of the shogunate army.
These shogunate soldiers did not carry swords or guns.
But holding a musket.
A warrior dressed as a general, held up a military fan with a three-leaf sunflower pattern in his hand, and shouted loudly:
"Raise the gun!"
Click, click, click, click...
The sound of a musket being raised sounded.
These soldiers who suddenly appeared were all iron gunners in the shogunate army.
The matchlocks of the muskets in their hands were lit and ready to be fired at any time.
Japan has always despised firearms, so the firearms currently used by the Japanese army are exactly the same as those used in the Warring States Period 200 years ago, without any change.
The musket is still a matchlock.
The artillery is still the kind of bronze cannon.
Over the past 200 years, the development of firearms in Japan can be said to have completely stagnated.
However - although compared with the rifled guns currently used by Westerners, the matchlock is already a weapon that is so old-fashioned that it can enter the museum, but the musket is a musket after all, and its power is difficult for the human body to withstand.
After the soldiers in the first row raised their matchlocks and pointed their guns at the thugs who were hurriedly fleeing in front of them, the commanding general suddenly waved the fan in his hand.
"shooting!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...
Gunfire sounded like exploding beans.
These iron gunners don't need to care whether their guns hit the enemy.
The accuracy of matchlock guns is very poor, but if they stand in a row and shoot together, they can always hit the enemy.
A row of bullets whizzed away, and each of the thugs fell to the ground screaming.
"Change rows!"
The commanding general shouted again.
The soldiers in the first row who had just fired the bullets quickly retreated to the end of the phalanx with their matchlock guns in hand, then used skillful movements to fill the muzzles with new projectiles, put in gunpowder, and light the matchlocks.
The original second row of soldiers has now become the first row of soldiers.
"Raise the gun!" General Shi ordered.
The "former second platoon" soldiers who became the first platoon soldiers raised their matchlocks.
"shooting!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...
Another row of bullets roared towards the fleeing thugs.
"Change rows!"
The soldiers of the "former second row" retreated to the back of the square formation.
The third row of soldiers is now the first row...
There are 4 rows in the square array.
After the soldiers in the fourth row have fired their guns, the soldiers in the first row who have returned to the front row have been filled with new projectiles and can shoot at any time.
This tactic is the famous "three-stage attack."
"Three-stage attack" first appeared in China during the Ming Dynasty.
When General Mu Ying was pacifying Yunnan in the early Ming Dynasty, when he used matchlock guns to deal with the rebel elephants and other wild beasts, he felt that the shooting speed of the matchlock guns was too slow and improved the "three-stage strike" tactic.
"Three-stage attack", as the name suggests, involves soldiers standing in three rows to attack the enemy.
When shooting overhead, the second column is ready, the third column is loading, the first column shoots through the gap between the second column and the last column, the second column moves forward to fire, and the third column fills the position of the second column. This progressive firing cycle repeats to ensure that the barrage does not stop.
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Based on the "three-stage attack" tactic, "four-stage attack" and "five-stage attack" can also be derived...
During Japan's Warring States Period, Oda Nobunaga, the daimyo who almost unified all of Japan, also used a similar "three-stage strike" tactic.
When Oda Nobunaga launched a strategic decisive battle with the powerful princes of the time, the Takeda family, he used the "three-stage attack" tactic to give the Takeda family a head-on blow.
Oda Nobunaga first mobilized 3,000 matchlock guns, and then placed anti-horse fences in front of the shooters' formation.
Then arrange the soldiers into groups of three, and let the soldier with the highest shooting accuracy act as the shooter, while the other two are responsible for assembling the bullets and match ropes.
Oda Nobunaga relied on this tactic to give the Takeda Corps a deep sense of what "the times have changed."
Currently, what the shogunate army uses against these thugs is the "four-stage attack" tactic - the shooters line up in four columns and launch a non-stop barrage against the fleeing thugs.
In front of them were the "Aizu Soldiers" and the "Sendai Soldiers" who pursued them fiercely. Behind them, the iron gunners of the Shogunate Army launched a barrage against them.
These thugs who originally wanted to escape immediately became confused like headless flies.
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Turning back time not long ago——
Matsumae Domain, Matsumae Castle——
According to common sense, if a riot breaks out in Matsumae Castle, the feudal government of Matsumae Domain should step in to quell it.
However, Matsudaira Sadanobu himself took over the overall command of quelling the rebellion and expressed to the Matsumae Domain - you don't have to do anything, just leave everything to me.
After taking over the highest command from the feudal government, Matsudaira Sadanobu quickly conveyed the order, asking the "Aizu people" and "Sendai people" to come and fight. After quelling the rebellion in the city, Tachibana, who stood respectfully next to Matsudaira Sadanobu, asked:
"Lao Naka-sama, only the soldiers of Aizu and Sendai who are staying in the city are allowed to go to quell the rebellion. The number of people will be too small."
As soon as Tachibana finished speaking, Lao Zhong said:
"Of course I won't just let the soldiers of the Aizu and Sendai clans go to quell the rebellion."
"You need to add some insurance."
"Tachibana, go and find Inamori yourself."
"Let him immediately dispatch a team of iron gunners. It is up to him to decide how many people to send. Let the iron gunners block the retreat of those thugs."
"Don't let any of those thugs go."
"yes!"
Tachibana shouted loudly, then raised the hakama corner of his lower body and quickly retreated from Matsudaira Sadanobu's room.
After Tachibana retreated, Matsudaira Sadanobu was the only one left in the room.
Matsudaira Sadanobu walked slowly to the window again with his hands behind his back.
From his position, he couldn't see where the riots took place, and he couldn't hear any sounds of killing or smashing. He looked out the window and saw that the outside was peaceful, and there was no clue that there was currently a riot in the city.
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Matsudaira Sadanobu was just standing by the window, looking straight at the scenery outside the window, his face still expressionless, making it impossible to see what he was thinking right now.
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Turn back time to the present——
Although the Third Eye cannot see the shogunate army in full display due to distance, orientation, etc.
But based on the three-leaf sunflower pattern military flag raised high and fluttering in the wind, as well as the intensive firing of matchlock guns, Sheng Tianmu could roughly imagine that the fleeing thugs should be beaten to pieces by now.
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However, after seeing the appearance of the three-leaf sunflower pattern military flag, Sheng Tianmu also felt a little unhappy.
The fact that the shogunate army appeared in such a timely manner showed that arrangements had been made in advance.
When the order was given for the "Sendai Clan" and "Aizu Clan" to go out into battle, perhaps at the same time, the order was given for the iron gunners of the shogunate army to go out and block the retreat of the thugs.
Ingtenmu dared to conclude that these shogunate army iron artillerymen who were sent to block the thugs' retreat were not only to prevent too many thugs from escaping, but also to prevent the "Sendai people" and "Aizu people" from failing to quell the rebellion.
This feeling that he and his subordinates were being looked down upon made Sheng Tianmu a little unhappy.
But he was unhappy, and he didn't dare to tell others about his resentment.
The shogunate is the de facto lord of the world (the emperor's court is in name only, and no vassal country has the emperor), and the shogunate would not dare to express even a single word of complaint against the shogunate.
Sheng Tianmu was very dissatisfied with the command of the shogunate - if such words were spread, it would definitely have some impact on his future career.
Sheng Tianmu took off the evil ghost mask on his face, wiped the sweat from his face, and then abandoned all these distracting thoughts in his mind.
When he put the mask back on, he turned his eyes, as if staring at some treasure, back to the target that he had been paying attention to and staring at since just now.
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The sudden appearance of the shogunate's iron gunners completely collapsed the morale of the thugs, which was already on the verge of freezing.
Many people have never seen a matchlock gun with their own eyes, so many people don't know what the loud "bang" sounds are all about. They only know that these sounds are very dangerous. Every time they sound, someone will be killed.
Yelled, fell to the ground wailing.
Maka Nao's expression... To describe it in one sentence, it looked like a dead person.
He has been preparing for this day for a long time.
I have gathered so many subordinates and prepared a sufficient number of bows, arrows, wooden guns and other weapons. Just for this day, I will take revenge on Kazuto and take the first step towards his ideal of establishing a country unique to their Ainu people.
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However, in the end, his troops were defeated and collapsed without even seeing the shadow of the Matsumae Domain.
His subordinates are much more unreliable than expected - if they obey orders obediently and don't rob houses, their marching speed will not be slowed down.
Kazuto's army appeared much faster than he imagined.
But now it's useless no matter what I think about.
He had already seen that all his subordinates within his sight had lost the will to fight and were running for their lives in a panic.
Maka thought that she had actually lost the will to fight now.
Now he just wants to escape quickly.
After recovering from the shock and annoyance of the failure, Maka Nao gritted his teeth and then followed the surrounding subordinates to escape.
Maka was cheering herself up in her heart:
——As long as you are alive, you still have a chance!
However - as soon as he turned his body around and prepared to escape, he suddenly heard a strange noise behind him.
That was the sound of approaching footsteps.
Maka hurriedly turned her head and looked back - it was the Third Eye.
The Shengtianmu held his head, like a tiger descending from the mountain, and ran straight towards Maka.
Although he is wearing heavy armor, his movements are not slow at all.
Maka Nao felt that he just blinked his eyes, and the Third Eye had already "teleported" to him.
call--!
Ji Fei smashed towards Maka from top to bottom.
Maka Nao subconsciously raised the wooden gun in his hand to block.
Click!
His wooden spear only lasted for a moment before it was broken by Sheng Tianmu Jianfei.
Jie Fei broke through the wooden spear's defense and hit Maka Nao hard on the left shoulder.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--!"
Maka screamed, then fell to the ground and rolled around while holding her somewhat deformed left shoulder.
Sheng Tianmu was merciful and only broke his left shoulder but did not kill him.
These guys who look like high-ranking commanders, capturing them alive is far more valuable and can gain more military exploits than killing them - this is the only truth on the battlefield.
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Matsumae Domain, Matsumae Castle——
Matsudaira Sadanobu, who stayed behind in Matsumae Castle, has been paying attention to this suppressive operation against the sudden uprising.
The messenger responsible for communicating to Matsudaira Sadanobu at any time constantly shuttles through the corridor connected to Matsudaira Sadanobu's room.
No matter what news came, Matsudaira Sadanobu maintained a very calm and expressionless look.
"Lao Zhongsheng!"
Another messenger came outside Matsudaira Sadanobu's room.
"The thugs have completely collapsed. The generals are currently hunting the fish that slipped through the net. Sheng Tianmu captured one of the thugs' commander alive!"
What this messenger conveyed was a message of great success.
Tachibana, who was kneeling on Matsudaira Sadanobu's face, looked happy.
However, Matsudaira Sadanobu still maintained his calm appearance.
"I understand." Matsudaira Sadanobu nodded, "Step back."
"Yes!" The messenger who delivered the good news quickly stepped back.
After the messenger retreated, Matsudaira Sadanobu took a deep breath and then said slowly:
"It seems... Pu Sheng, Sheng Tianmu and the others are quite capable."
"I just hope they can perform like this when the real war begins."
When talking about the term "real war", Matsudaira Sadanobu specifically emphasized his tone.
"The senior generals of Aizu and Sendai are not cowards with empty mouths." Tachibana on the side continued, "You can feel at ease a little bit."
"Yes." Matsudaira Sadanobu nodded lightly, "Those thugs' riot came just in time. It gave me a chance to test Kamao, Ikutenmu and others."
"...It's a pity..." Tachibana lowered his head and said softly after a moment of silence, "These thugs... caused the death of many civilians in the city..."
After hearing Tachibana's words, Matsudaira Sadanobu's expression remained unchanged.
"These thugs not only gave me the opportunity to test Pu Sheng, Sheng Tianmu and others."
"He also gave us a perfect...reason to start a war against the Red Moon Fortress."
Speaking of this, Matsudaira Sadanobu's eyes burst out with a sharp light.
"It is a pity that so many ordinary people died."
Matsudaira Sadanobu continued in a nonchalant tone.
"But these casualties should be regarded as necessary sacrifices to allow us to test Aizu and Sendai, and to have an excellent reason to go to war."
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When a fierce bloody battle was breaking out at Matsumae Castle——
"A-Machi, relax your waist! Tighten your legs!"
"I have relaxed and tightened...ah!"
Ogata: (╬▔Van▔) "Didn't I tell you to relax your waist and tighten your legs? Look, you slipped down again!"
Amachi:???"I've really relaxed my waist and tightened my legs."
Amachi, who looked aggrieved, tried his best to sit upright on the horse again.
This place is somewhere in the wild far away from Qina Village. The ground is flat and there are no trees or other obstacles around it.
At this time, Ogata was teaching Amachi how to ride a horse.
Before Chepke left the village and went to Heyezhe, the Red Moon Fortress, Oufang proposed to Chepke that he wanted to take away two horses captured from the white-skinned people, as well as some weapons.
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Just as Ogata expected, Chepke and the others would not refuse their request, which was both reasonable and easy to handle.
In that fierce battle, many horses died or escaped, and a total of 16 horses were successfully captured.
When picking up horses, Skulucci, who was a Cossack and knew a lot about horses, came to help.
He helped Ogata and the others choose the two horses with the best temperaments and the gentlest temperaments.
He chose a reddish-brown horse for Ogata.
Then, in order to take care of A-Machi's height of only 1.55 meters, when Scrooge chose a horse for A-Machi, he specially picked a horse that was slightly shorter and had black and purple hair.
By the way - both of their horses are fillies.
This horse should be with them for a long time in the future, so Ogata and Atachi gave their horses a name each.
Ogata is not very good at naming.
Because Ogata's horse had reddish-brown hair and was colored like a carrot, Ogata randomly named his horse "Carrot".
A-Machi is also named based on the color of her hair, and she is not very good at naming.
She thought the color of her horse's coat was like grapes, so she named her horse "Grape".
After choosing a horse, Oubon began to teach A-Machi how to ride a horse.
Then...scenes appeared that made Ogata deeply realize the truth that "everyone has his own strengths and weaknesses."
Atachi seems to be particularly lacking in talent for horseback riding.
No matter how many times Ogata said, "Clamp your legs and relax your waist," and even personally gave some advice to Amachi, Amachi just couldn't grasp the trick and either slipped off or fell off the horse.
Come down.
If it weren't for Ogata's quick eyesight and quick hands, every time Amachi was about to fall, he would rush up to hug her in time.
Otherwise, Amachi would have been bruised and swollen after falling off the horse so many times.
Ogata wondered if his previous actions with A-Machi had caused him to develop very bad habits.
In the past, when Omachi rode on him, Ogata would hold her with both hands.
Now there is no one who can support Amachi on horseback. Amachi feels very unaccustomed and has been unable to grasp the trick.
"oops!"
Omachi slipped off the horse again.
Ogata:┗|｀O′|┛Ouch~~ “Didn’t I tell you to tighten your legs?”
Amachi:(.﹏.*)
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Maybe it’s because I worked so hard to update every day in the past few days, so yesterday I didn’t feel very well, and my head felt dizzy, and I felt like I didn’t have enough rest, so I wrote less today. I only have 7,000 words today - but