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Chapter 541 All beings under the artillery! [6000 words]

. , I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

There was a very embarrassing scene in the last chapter...

The author is a sucker for naming names, so when I name characters, in order to save trouble, I often borrow the names of some real-life celebrities. The name of the new general of the First Army is "Gui Yi Zheng".

It is the cartoonist "Gui Zhenghe" who created the classic work "I"s" and whom I like very much.

Then an embarrassing scene happened yesterday.

Because the name "Gui Zhenghe" is really deeply rooted in my heart, when I wrote the plot related to "Gui Yi Zheng" yesterday, I subconsciously wrote "Gui Zhenghe"... Anyone who watched the new chapter yesterday can find it

"Gui Yizheng" in one chapter is written as "Gui Zhenghe"... If some book friends hadn't reminded me, I really wouldn't have discovered it... (Leopard Head Crying.jpg)

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These are all performances arranged by Gui Yizheng in advance.

The purpose is to shock the barbarians in the Red Moon Fortress, so that these barbarians can see their military power and see clearly the gap in military force between them.

Before starting a fight, it is basically a common practice in various countries to persuade the enemy to surrender.

To measure whether a battle was "well-fought", we should not only look at whether it was won, but also the total price paid.

It can be said that there is no dividing line between a tragic victory and a defeat.

Daomori was not a reckless man who didn't understand the art of war. He had previously ordered the First Army, which was the vanguard, to persuade the barbarians to surrender after they approached the Red Moon Fortress.

If these barbarians were so frightened that they surrendered after seeing such a large army, it would be best if they captured the Red Moon Fortress without firing an arrow.

If these barbarians are unwilling to surrender to the First Army, they will stay where they are and wait for the subsequent Second Army, Third Army, and after the 10,000-strong army is assembled, they will slowly deal with these barbarians.

The "Screaming in Unity" and other performances currently performed by the First Army were all designed by Gui Yi Zheng.

If you just dryly shout "surrender" to the barbarians, these uncivilized barbarians will most likely ignore their persuasion to surrender.

Therefore, after parachuting into the First Army, Gui Yizheng, who still had ambitions and wanted to take this opportunity to show off his talents, carefully designed these performances with the purpose of "shocking the barbarians".

All of these performances had previously been approved by Inamori and even praised by Inamori. Inamori praised Katsura Yoshimasa for designing these performances that were good and would definitely have a considerable deterrent effect on the barbarians.

The performance designed by Gui Yizheng is far more than just "Screaming in Unity".

Before the shouts of the generals could stop, two roars like thunder suddenly exploded.

Subsequently, huge explosions suddenly occurred in two open spaces between the Red Moon Fortress and the military formation. A large amount of snow on the ground was blown up to the sky, and then fell like fine snow.

These two thunderous roars and the two subsequent explosions scared many people on the city wall.

"what happened?!"

"What happened?!"

"Why did those two places suddenly explode?"

"Is this Kazuto's new weapon?"



Most of the people in the Red Moon Fortress... to put it mildly, have lived in isolation for too long, so they don't know the world.

To put it bluntly, they are just a bunch of country bumpkins who have never seen the world.

Therefore, many people in the Red Moon Fortress did not recognize the roar of artillery, and the two explosions were also attributed to this artillery.

The oldest and strongest human emotion is fear; the oldest and strongest fear comes from the unknown.

These people who didn't know what artillery was, even thought it was the power of gods, and were so frightened that they almost collapsed on the ground.

For example, Otunpuyi was so frightened by the huge explosion that he collapsed to the ground.

Otunpuyi can be said to be the first group of people who were attracted by the sound of the conch and climbed onto the city wall.

When the conch horn was blown, Otunpui happened to be near the south city wall. After hearing the sound of the conch horn, Otunpui, who was frightened by the sound, immediately climbed onto the south city wall.

Ever since he climbed onto the city wall, Otunpui's eyes had remained in the same state of eyes that were about to fall off.

This was the first time he saw Kazuto's army.

Previously, Kazuto's army had always existed only in his imagination.

At this moment, after truly witnessing the majesty of Kazuto's army, Otunpui could not hide the shock in his heart.

After seeing the Kazuto army outside the city, the first thought that came to Otongpuyi's mind was that it was too powerful...their soldiers of Heye Zhe couldn't compare with them at all...

Boom! Boom!

Two cannon shots exploded.

Otunpuyi, who was caught off guard, was so frightened that he screamed, his legs went weak, and he accidentally collapsed to the ground.

His butt fell hard to the ground, and the pain was so painful that Otunpuyi felt that his butt was about to break.

But after his butt hit the ground, Otunpuyi ignored the pain and hurriedly got up from the ground. He stared blankly at the two pieces of snow that had been hit by artillery and turned into small craters.

Looking at this scene, Otunpui's jaw seemed to have lost the pull of its muscles and fell straight to the ground.

"This is..." Otunpuyi murmured, "Is this Kazuto's army..."

Otunpuyi himself didn't realize that his hands that were hanging naturally were slowly clenched tightly without him realizing it...





For this campaign against the Red Moon Fortress, the shogunate mobilized a total of more than 400 muskets, 9 artillery pieces, and 52 large barrels of various types.

Most of the firearms were concentrated in the Second Army, which was mainly the direct troops of the shogunate. The First Army only had 2 artillery pieces.

For this expression, Gui Yizheng specially pulled out the only two cannons of his First Army.

At this moment, Gui Yizheng regretted that he should have brought his telescope.

Because he really wanted to see the expressions of these unseen country bumpkins on the city wall after seeing the power of artillery.

With a proud smile on his lips, Gui Yi reined in his horse and drove the horse back to the military formation.

As soon as he returned to the military formation, Gui Yizheng saw Kuroda walking towards him.

"I really want to know what the expressions of those Ezo people would be like after hearing the roar of our artillery." Katsura Yoshimasa, who got off his horse, took the lead and said to Kuroda in a joyful tone.

Unlike Katsura Yoshimasa who looked happy, Kuroda only had a wry smile on his face.

"Lord Gui, the cost of this performance was really too high... 2 cannonballs were used directly..."

The military situation of the shogunate, which has lived in peace for nearly 200 years... can be directly described as "unbearable".

Firearms are the hardest hit area. Due to the neglect of the development of firearms, not only the technical level of firearms has not been improved in the past 200 years, but even daily maintenance can hardly be called "ideal"...

Their 10,000-strong army only has 9 artillery pieces. The number of artillery pieces is so small, let alone how many artillery shells they have.

The number of shells in their artillery was not sufficient to allow them to open fire.

For the performance just now, they used 2 cannonballs, which not only made Kuroda feel a little distressed...

As soon as Kuroda finished speaking, Katsura Yoshimasa raised his hand and patted Kuroda on the shoulder:

"These are necessary sacrifices."

"Sun Tzu's Art of War: Planning and Attack Chapter says: 'Victory in a hundred battles is not a good thing; subduing the enemy's troops without fighting is a good thing.'"

"Although these barbarians are not something to be afraid of, if you fight with them, you will have to pay some sacrifices."

"If we can make these barbarians surrender with the sound of these two cannons and open the city to surrender, then these two cannonballs will be nothing more than a small amount of money worth mentioning."

Speaking of this, Gui Yi turned to look at the Red Moon Fortress in the distance and sneered:

"Okay... let's wait and see how these barbarians will react."

"I guess" Kuroda also sneered at this time, "These barbarians might have civil strife."

"There will definitely be some people who cannot see the situation clearly and will choose to resist."

"Those who want to fight stubbornly and those who understand current affairs may start fighting directly."

Gui Yi was looking up to the sky and laughing:

"If these barbarians directly start civil strife, then we 'fishermen' will reap the benefits!"





Red Moon Fortress, Kunoya's Clinic

Atachi, who had been waiting anxiously for Ogata's return, finally saw Ogata's return.

After seeing Ogata carrying a knife through the clinic door and returning to his side, Atachi immediately asked urgently:

"Ayi, I seemed to hear the sound of artillery just now! Is it the shogunate troops outside the city who are bombing the city wall?"

The sound of artillery bombardment covered the entire Red Moon Fortress.

So Amachi, who had been lying in the clinic, just now heard the roar of the two artillery pieces and the two explosions very clearly.

The sound of gunfire and explosions naturally made Atachi, who was unable to get up and go out, even more anxious and eager to know what was going on outside.

Ogata did not immediately answer the question that Atachi hurriedly asked.

He walked to A-Machi with the knife in hand, sat down next to him, and then said calmly:

"The shogunate army indeed fired artillery, but it was not used to bombard the city wall, but was fired on the ground outside the fortress. It should only be used to scare the residents of Red Moon Fortress."

Ogata briefly described everything he had just witnessed on the city wall in as simple a sentence as possible.

After learning about the current situation outside through Ogata's mouth, Atachi asked:

"So...how are the residents of Red Moon Fortress doing now?"

"Now..." Ogata showed a helpless smile, "It's very chaotic outside..."





"Hey! Esuma!"

Aisuma, who was busy, suddenly heard someone calling her.

Following the sound, she saw a dozen teenagers, probably only in their teens, running toward her uneasily with fear on their faces.

"Aisuma! I heard that if we don't open the city, the people outside the city will kill us all. Is this true?" One of the dozen teenagers asked Aisuma urgently.

"Where did you hear these rumors?" Aisuma argued without thinking, "Of course it's false!"

"But, but..."

When the young man wanted to say something else, Aisuma said first:

"Don't worry! Our bows are not for display! Even if those Kazuo people outside the city want to attack us, they may not be our opponents!"

Aisuma looked confident and patted the bow on her back.

"And father...ah, no, Chanup and the others have already started discussing countermeasures!"

"They must be able to find a way to drive away the Kazu people outside the city!"

"You should go home now and stop listening to rumors that come from nowhere."

These dozen teenagers looked at each other.

Aisuma's words just now had some effect, and the uneasiness on the faces of many of the teenagers faded slightly.

Finally, they left Aisuma with different expressions and expressions.

Aisuma let out a long sigh as she watched the dozen teenagers leave.

Immediately afterwards, the expression on her face changed extremely quickly.

The original confident smile was gone, only tiredness remained.

After Gui Yizheng's "capitulation performance" ended, Chanup, who was standing on the city wall and witnessed the whole process, immediately took action. He organized a small group of people and put them in charge of maintaining order in the Red Moon Fortress.

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Aisuma is one of this small group of people who were chosen.

From just now, Aisuma has been running around to maintain order.

Since just now, Aisuma has not rested.

From just now, Aisuma has seen all kinds of strange chaos...

This group of uninvited guests outside the city completely destroyed the original stability and tranquility of Red Moon Fortress.

No matter where you are in the Red Moon Fortress, all you can see is "chaos".

Some were frightened and looked panicky or howled loudly.

Some people who didn’t know what happened asked Esuma about it.

There were people with hot blood, carrying spears and bows and arrows, shouting loudly that they wanted to fight to the death with the people outside the city.

But the largest number of them still looked uneasy like the group of teenagers just now, asking Aisuma what they should do next, or verifying whether some rumors they heard from somewhere were correct.

In order to appease these people, Aisuma had to tell some white lies.

For example, what Esuma just said to these Kazuto, "Our bow is not inferior to Kazuto's", is a white lie...

Thanks to the hard work of Esuma and those responsible for maintaining order, although there is an atmosphere of panic everywhere in the Red Moon Fortress, no vicious incidents have occurred until now, and the order has not completely collapsed.

Aisuma raised her hands, rubbed her cheeks vigorously, cheered up, and prepared to continue to devote herself to the work of maintaining order.

But at this moment, out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly saw an extremely familiar figure sitting in an inconspicuous corner not far away.

"Otunpui? What are you doing here?"

Aisuma walked quickly towards the familiar figure of her brother.

At this time, Otunpuyi was sitting in that inconspicuous corner with a dull face.

It wasn't until he heard his sister's voice that Otunpuyi finally seemed to wake up, belatedly raised his head and looked at his sister.

"elder sister……"

Just now, when the people gathered on the city wall dispersed, Otonpuyi walked down the city wall with the crowd.

However, Otunpui has no memory of walking down the city wall, walking here, and sitting in this inconspicuous corner.

At that time, his whole body and mind were immersed in shock... and he had no time to care about things outside him...

"Don't sit here stupidly." Aisuma said, "You go home now."

After saying that, Aisuma raised her hand to pull Otunpuyi's arm but did not pull Otunpuyi up.

Otunpuyi was resisting her pull.

"Sister..." Otonpui murmured in a low voice, "Kazuto's army... turns out to be so powerful... It's more powerful than I imagined... It even has that kind of weapon... that kind of weapon

If a weapon hits a person, the whole body will be broken into pieces..."

Listening to Otunpuyi's words, Aisuma not only frowned.

"Don't say such incomprehensible words!" Aisuma shouted, "go home quickly!"





"Retannoe! It's all you people who are blocking us! That's why we missed the opportunity to escape from here!" The middle-aged man, who had always been a staunch "main escaper", blushed and said to Lei Tannoe.

The "war faction" headed by Tannoe cursed loudly.

After the "deterrent performance" directed and performed by Gui Yizheng, the senior officials of the Red Moon Fortress, headed by Chanup, naturally gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

As soon as the meeting began, the "escape faction" began to accuse the "war faction".

People from the "main escape faction" believe that it is because the "main war faction" is stubborn and obstructs them that they have created a bad situation in which "until the moment before Kazuto's troops came to the city, a final countermeasure was not decided", and

The best opportunity to escape was missed.

Naturally, the "war faction" headed by Retannoe would not be scolded there.

"Huh!" Retannoe snorted coldly, "I don't dislike you for obstructing us, but you started to accuse us first!"

After Retannoe took the initiative, other "militant" people joined in the war of words.

In the small and medium-sized room, three forces were immediately divided into the warring faction, the fleeing faction, and the "neutral faction" who did not participate in the scolding war between the two factions and remained silent.

Chanup is a member of the "neutral faction".

Chanup smoked silently without saying a word as in every meeting he had attended in the past. His expressionless face made it difficult to guess what he was thinking now.

When the "war of abuse" between the two factions reached a fever pitch, an unhurried voice suddenly sounded and intervened in the "war of abuse."

"Okay, let's stop arguing. Everyone, can you... listen to what I, the head of Kapasi Village, have to say?"

As soon as these words fell, the two groups of people who were scolding each other fell silent and turned to look at the owner of the words, a middle-aged man with ferocious scars on his face.

This middle-aged man's face was extremely terrifying, with a scar slashing from his left forehead to the right corner of his mouth.

Everyone who had fallen silent, including Chanup who had been smoking with his head down, also raised their heads and looked at the middle-aged man.

Look at the head of Kapasi Village.

This middle-aged man’s name is Upanu.

It was the head of the Kapasi village who participated in the "Battle of Kunasi Limenasi".

"...Upanu." Retannoe said first, "It's so rare that you actually want to talk."

Chanup is not lonely. He is not the only one who remains silent in every meeting.

Like Chanup, Upanu rarely spoke in every meeting, always smoking and remaining silent. He neither spoke of fight nor flight.

Seeing Uppanu taking the initiative to speak at this time, many people couldn't help but become curious and wanted to hear what Uppanu had to say.

After everyone's eyes were focused on Upanu, Upanu silently picked up the pipe in his hand, took a strong puff, and then said quietly:

"It's definitely impossible to escape now."

"Kazuto's army has arrived at our doorstep, and we have no choice but to escape even if we want to."

"But actually, even if we escape in advance, we definitely won't be able to escape."

"Kazuto has cavalry and can catch up with us easily."

"There is no chance of winning in a head-to-head confrontation with Kazuto's cavalry in the wild."

Hearing Upanu's words, the faces of the escapeists all looked as ugly as if they had eaten shit.

As for the "militant" people headed by Retannoe, they all nodded.

However, just as Retannoe and the others nodded, what Upanu said next caused their expressions to freeze instantly.

"But if we fight Kazuto to the death, it will also be a dead end."

Retannoe and the others cast surprised glances at Upano.

Upanu ignored the looks from Retannoe and the others and continued to talk to himself:

"Retannoe, you people have never fought with anyone."

"You... have no idea how powerful Kazuto is in combat."

Although Upanu's face remained as usual, his fingers that were holding his pipe slowly tightened at this moment.

He raised his left hand that wasn't holding the pipe and gently touched the big hideous scar on his face.

"Have you ever seen how powerful people in armor are when they line up in a military formation?"

"Have you ever seen what it's like when Kazuto's cavalry charges?"

"Have you ever seen how terrible Kazuto's cannon is when it fires?"

"You... have no idea how terrifying Kazuto's army is."

"The armies of the Japanese are like swift fire, like towering mountains."

"Even if we have this fortress, we have no chance of winning."

"Facing the fierce attack of tens of thousands of Japanese troops, we may only be able to hold on for a few days."

"Then what should we do?" At this time, someone screamed, "We can't escape, we can't fight... What should we do?"

"...Besides fighting and escaping, we actually have a third way to go." Upanu said quietly.

He raised his cigarette, took another strong puff, and said:

"The man who rode out of the city just now...has shown us another way out."

"Let's...surrender."

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Food, official system, life at all levels...

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