Chapter 544 Come on! Which warrior is willing to share the glory with me! (2) [8200 words]
Almost no one knew that while Upanu was giving an impassioned "speech", Chanup was also listening below.
After learning from his daughter Aisuma that Upanu was about to hold a "lecture", Chanup immediately asked Aisuma to lead the way and rushed to the scene under the leadership of Aisuma.
But he arrived a little later and was only a little faster than Retannoe and the others.
After arriving at the scene, Chanup hid in an inconspicuous place, so except for Aisuma, who accompanied Chanup here, no one discovered that their "top leader" was also listening.
By Upanu's "Speech".
When Chanup rushed to the scene, he only heard Upanu shouting "Let's surrender!!" at the highest volume he could reach, followed by the sentence "As long as we surrender, we can avoid fighting this
This is a losing battle! Everyone can live, and our tribe can survive!!"
Later, Chanup saw Retannoe and others swarming up, dragging Upanu from the barrel where he was standing, and dismissing all the onlookers.
Looking at Upanu being dragged away by Retannoe and the others, Chanup quietly smoked a cigarette and said to Aisuma next to him, "Thank you for your hard work, Aisuma. You started from just now."
You haven’t had much rest, right? Let’s go home and have a rest first.” Then he turned around and left silently.
"Father, where are you going?" Aisuma asked.
"Don't worry about me." Chanup said, "You haven't had a rest since just now, right? You go home and rest now, I will be back later."
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"Upanu, although I already knew you were a coward, I didn't expect you to be cowardly to this extent." After dragging Upanu to a deserted corner, Reitano
Eben said this to Upanu fiercely.
"You actually advocated surrender in public... you bastard!"
Retannoe, who was already grumpy, could no longer restrain his anger. He raised his hand and punched Upanu in the face, knocking Upanu directly to the ground.
Those who had just dragged Upanu away with Retannoe, now quickly pulled the two away.
Upanoe didn't show any anger at being punched hard by Retannoe.
After touching the place where he was beaten just now, he said softly:
"It doesn't matter how you laugh at me. All I want is for everyone to live and for the continuation of the tribe."
It was okay that Upanu didn't speak. His words directly made Retannoe even more angry.
Just when Retannoe wanted to punch Upanu a few more times, a majestic voice that was neither salty nor cold suddenly sounded from behind them:
"Okay, Retennoe. How unbecoming is it to fight among ourselves at this time?"
"Chanup?" Retannoe turned to look at Chanup, the owner of this majestic voice.
Chanup held his pipe and slowly approached Retannoe and others.
"Chanup, why are you here?" Retannoe asked.
"You and I should have arrived at Uppanu's 'speech' at about the same time." Chanup said. "After seeing you drag Uppanu away, I followed you secretly."
Chanupu glanced at the wound on Upanu's face where Retannoe had just beaten him.
"Retannoe, calm down."
"If we kill each other now, we will only make Kazuto outside the city laugh."
"Upanu, you too. Just calm down."
"If you loudly preach 'surrender' at this time, it will only make everyone more uneasy."
"If we are in chaos internally, we will only make Kazuto outside the city laugh."
"Since what I did is wrong... Then Chanup, tell me what should we do now?" Upanu laughed at himself, with a bit of pathos in his eyes, "It's time for you to say something.
What, have you done something? Stop pretending to be dumb!"
"...How about we try to contact the Kazuto outside the city first?" Chanup slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, "Maybe we can use peaceful negotiations to drive away the Kazuto outside the city."
"Ha." Retannoe sneered, "Chanup, you have been pretending to be mute all this time. You finally spoke, can you only say such stupid things?"
"Kazuto sent out such a large army to attack us. The money spent must be countless."
"Do you think you can use peaceful negotiation to get rid of someone who has spent so much money?"
"Anyway... let's give it a try first." Chanup let out a long sigh.
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Aisuma has always respected her father and rarely disobeyed Chanup.
After Chanup told her to "go home and rest first", Aisuma obediently followed her father's instructions and went home.
And I am indeed a little tired. I have not rested since just now and have been running to maintain order.
Aisuma was good at hunting and walked very quickly. In just a moment, Aisuma was back in front of their home.
Now, many of the people gathered in front of Chanup's house have dispersed, leaving only 13 people in total.
Although the number was much smaller, the 13 people immediately gathered around Chanup's daughter after seeing her.
With anxious faces on their faces, they asked Aisuma: has Chanup come back, how is Chanup doing now, is there any way to get rid of the people outside, and various other questions.
It took a lot of effort for Aisuma to answer the questions asked by these people one by one and break out of their encirclement.
After lifting the door curtain and entering the home, Tang Shen's voice immediately came to Aisuma.
"Huh? Why are you the only one coming back? Where is Chanup?"
"Father seems to have something to do, so he asked me to come back and rest alone."
Aisuma has now become somewhat accustomed to this guest who has been staying in their house for a while.
An old He who has never been seen before walks struttingly on the road, which will always cause all kinds of troubles, so these days, Tang Shen has been staying at his home in Chanupu and has almost never left Chanupu.
Pu's home.
During the past few days that Tang Shen had been living in their house temporarily, he had always behaved himself and had not done anything to offend Aisuma, so Aisuma also allowed this old man, who was suspected to be her father's old friend, to live in their house.
Already.
There is only one thing that Aisuma is dissatisfied with about Tang Shen: Tang Shen never tells her too much about him.
As for this guy who was suspected to be her father's old friend, Aisuma had always been curious about his identity and how he met her father.
However, no matter who asked, Tang Shen kept secret about his own affairs and the past events between himself and Chanup, which made Aisuma a little unhappy.
After taking off the bow on her back, Aisuma looked around.
"Hmm? Mr. Tangshen, have you seen Otongpuyi?"
"Your brother? He never came back." Tang Shen said.
"Didn't he come home?" Aisuma was stunned.
Tang Shen nodded.
"That's weird..." Aisuma muttered, "When I was going around to maintain order, I met him and asked him to go home... Did he go wandering around somewhere again... It's really disturbing
children..."
After saying that, Aisuma sat down not far from Tang Shen, massaging her legs that were sore from not having any rest since just now.
Tang Shen on the side glanced at Esuma a few times, then cleared his throat: "How is it? Did that guy named Upanu say something?"
"When my father and I arrived, it was already a little late. So we didn't hear anything."
Aisuma told Tang Shen in a concise and concise manner what she had witnessed and heard after she accompanied Chanup to the "speech scene" of Upanu.
After the announcement, Aisuma let out a long sigh:
"I thought that Mr. Upanu, who had fought with Kazuto and had a bloody feud, would definitely choose to fight to the death with Kazuto... I didn't expect..."
Yugami: "Huh? Did Upanu fight with Kazuto?"
Aisuma nodded: "He participated in the 'Battle of Cunasil-Menasse' three years ago."
Yugami said softly "Oh" and said "That's it", and then stopped asking any more questions. For this battle that ended in the disastrous defeat of the Ainu people, Yugami, who had lived in Matsumae Domain for a long time, naturally felt that
is aware...
Tang Shen didn't speak anymore, just lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
Aisuma, who was not familiar with Tang Shen, also remained silent and silently massaged her sore legs.
It wasn't until a long time passed that Tang Shen said coldly and quietly:
"...Actually...surrender is not an unacceptable option..."
"Huh?" Aisuma looked at Tang Shen.
"The chances of winning against Kazuto are slim." Tang Shen continued, "Rather than fighting this kind of battle with slim odds of winning, it is better to surrender... Although it may be humiliating and you may lose some freedom, at least you can survive this way.
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Listening to Tang Shen's words, Aisuma instinctively wanted to refute.
But as soon as his mouth opened slightly, no words of rebuttal came out.
Because Esuma doesn't know what to say to refute Tang Shen...
After glaring at Tang Shen with a complicated look, Aisuma closed her slightly opened lips again, lowered her head, concentrated on rubbing her legs, and ignored Tang Shen.
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The Red Moon Fortress is semi-surrounded by a "ji"-shaped river. The Red Moon Fortress and the "ji"-shaped river that semi-surrounds it can exactly form the word "fan".
There are wide rivers to the north, east, and west, and only the south is connected to the land. At the same time, only the south wall has a gate that can be entered and exited.
Therefore, for the shogunate army, they only need to set up camp in the south of the Red Moon Fortress to block the only entrance and exit of the Red Moon Fortress and completely surround the Red Moon Fortress.
After arriving at the city, the generals of the First Army quickly set up camp in the south of the Red Moon Fortress and set up a large number of surveillance posts to monitor every move of the Red Moon Fortress.
At this moment, almost all the surveillance posts saw: the gate of Red Moon Fortress suddenly opened slowly.
Three dog sleds drove out through the open gate and drove straight towards the military camp.
According to the estimates of the soldiers at the surveillance post, there were about ten people sitting on these three dog sleds.
There was finally movement in the Red Moon Fortress. The soldiers at the surveillance post naturally immediately conveyed the news to their general, Gui Yizheng.
After learning the news, Gui Yizheng laughed loudly: "It seems that those barbarians want to come and negotiate with us. Let them in! I want to hear what they have to say!"
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Although some people, led by Retannoe, did not agree with Chanup's suggestion of "talking to someone" and felt that it was just a waste of time, Chanup still insisted on his opinion.
Finally, at Chanup's insistence, the envoy responsible for negotiating with Heren was sent.
The leader of the envoy group is a middle-aged man named Glock.
Not only can he speak Japanese, but he is also a "Japanese person". He knows the etiquette of Japanese people and how to deal with them. He is sharp-tongued and clever. Therefore, he was selected by Chanup as the leader of the envoy group and is fully responsible for dealing with Japanese people.
of negotiations.
Glock and his entourage were driving a dog sled, and in just a blink of an eye, the gate of the Kazuto barracks was within easy reach.
After getting closer, Glock saw a warrior dressed as a general, leading dozens of soldiers, standing under the camp gate.
This general and these dozens of soldiers were the "reception staff" sent by Gui Yizheng to receive Glock and others.
"We did not come with any hostility!" Glock took the lead and shouted to the "reception group" under the camp gate, "We want to talk to you! Please let me see your general!"
The general responsible for receiving Glock and others looked at Glock up and down with indifferent eyes, and then said coldly:
"Welcome to your arrival. Please allow us to check whether you are carrying any weapons."
After speaking, the general made a gesture to the dozens of soldiers behind him without explanation. These dozens of soldiers immediately stepped forward to surround Glock and others, and then inspected the bodies of Glock and others.
Naturally, Glock felt extremely dissatisfied and displeased with Kazuto's somewhat arrogant physical examination.
But he didn't have any ability to get angry, so he could only endure it.
After confirming that Glock and the others were not carrying weapons, the general waved his hand at Glock:
"Come with me."
Under the leadership of this general, Glock and others passed through the camp gate and walked slowly towards the depths of the military camp.
Although he was mentally prepared, after driving the dog sled and arriving at the gate of the Kazuto military camp, and looking at the military tents that seemed to have no end in sight, Glock couldn't help but feel fear and anger.
Swallowed nervously.
The performance of the entourage behind Glock is similar to Glock.
After walking all the way to the very depths of the military camp, the coach's tent where Gui Yizheng was located finally appeared within his sight.
At this moment, outside the commander's tent, 100 soldiers wearing helmets and carrying armor were arranged in a neat square formation in front of the tent.
This was a performance designed by Gui Yizheng on the spur of the moment to frighten the envoys sent by the Red Moon Fortress.
The performance designed by Gui Yizheng was quite successful.
Looking at this neat square formation, looking at the spears like a dense forest, looking at the pieces of armor that reflected the cold light under the sunlight, although Glock and the others tried their best to hide it, they still couldn't hide their fear and panic.
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After passing through the dense square formation composed of 100 soldiers and entering the commander's tent, Glock saw Gui Yizheng, who was holding the knife on his waist and sitting on the commander's seat.
Gui Yizheng originally wanted to call all the generals in their first army over to build up their momentum, but then he thought that it seemed a bit unworthy to mobilize such a large number of troops for such a group of barbarian envoys.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Gui Yizheng decided to receive the barbarian envoys alone, while the other generals continued to do their respective responsibilities.
After Glock and others entered the camp, before they could say anything, Gui Yizheng took the lead:
"I am General Gui Yizheng!"
Gui Yizheng, who was sitting on the horse, straightened his back and looked majestic.
"Why did you come here this time? I don't have an explanation, so I won't spare you any mercy!"
The entourage behind Glock was suppressed by Gui Yizheng, who had plenty of aura, and turned pale.
Glock, on the other hand, could barely keep his composure. He bowed to Katsura Yoshimasa in a Japanese style without being humble or arrogant, and said in proficient Japanese:
"Lord Gui, we come for peace!"
"We want to have a good talk with you!"
Just as Glock was about to continue, Gui Yizheng waved his hand and interrupted rudely:
"We have nothing to talk about with you."
"You don't uphold benevolence and justice, and do all the things of animals. We have nothing to discuss with you, these unbenevolent and unjust rats."
"We must have some misunderstanding!" Glock said urgently, "We have never incited the citizens of Matsumae Castle! We have never done anything like this! It must be a misunderstanding! We are willing to assist you in the investigation!"
As a general qualified to command an army of 3,000 men, Katsura Yoshimasa naturally knew that the "naturalized Ezo riot" that occurred in Matsumae Castle had nothing to do with the Red Moon Fortress. They just poured this dirty water on the Red Moon Fortress.
For the Ainu, they just use this as an excuse to start a war.
Gui Yizheng, who knew that they were just spreading dirt, was naturally even less likely to admit that Red Moon Fortress was innocent.
"Misunderstanding?" Gui Yizheng sneered, "You are still arguing here! Since you have no consciousness to admit your crime, then I have nothing to talk about with you."
Looking at Gui Yizheng who stood up and left, Glock was shocked and said quickly:
"Lord Gui! Please wait!"
Gui Yizheng looked at Glock's frightened expression with great interest. Their frightened expressions gave Gui Yizheng a different kind of pleasure.
"I have nothing to talk about with you!" Gui Yizheng sat back, "You can either surrender in Kaicheng or wait to suffer our wrath. There is no other option!"
The generals led by Commander-in-Chief Daomori had actually long expected that the barbarians from the Red Moon Fortress would most likely come to them for peace talks.
Previously, Daomori had discussed with Katsura Yoshimasa that if the barbarians from the Red Moon Fortress came for peace talks, they would not accept any option except Kaesong surrender.
They spent an astronomical amount of money to launch this expedition.
The purpose of their expedition is to capture the Red Moon Fortress, which is located in a strategic location.
If the Red Moon Fortress cannot be captured, no matter what conditions the barbarians of the Red Moon Fortress offer, it will not be enough to make up for their losses in this expedition.
At this moment, Katsura Yoshimasa is just acting on Inamori's orders.
Glock was so anxious that he was sweating coldly for Gui Yizheng, who had such a tough attitude, but he still told their request with trepidation.
"Lord Gui, we sincerely want to restore peace with you!"
"Hmph." Gui Yizheng sneered, "Since you really want to restore peace, then don't waste time and surrender quickly."
The cold sweat on Glock's body had already wet his clothes...
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After dispatching the group of the dead headed by Glock, the senior officials of the Red Moon Fortress headed by Chanup gathered in a small room and waited patiently for the return of the envoy group.
Although there are people like Retannoe who do not have any hope for this peace negotiation, there are also people who have strong hope for this peace negotiation.
After everyone waited patiently, the envoy team finally returned, much sooner than they expected.
Glock and the others came back with frustrated faces.
Looking at Glock who looked depressed and not allowing Glock to speak, Chanup and the others already understood the outcome.
Glock informed Chanup and others of the negotiation process just now in a concise and concise manner.
To describe their negotiations in one word, they failed.
Before Glock set out, Chanupu told Glock that their biggest bargaining chip for peace talks failed to impress Gui Yizheng at all.
No matter what Glock said or negotiated, no matter what conditions he offered, Gui Yizheng's attitude was extremely tough and he did not accept any option except surrender.
After Glock's report, Chanup's face darkened, with a hint of resentment and annoyance appearing on his face.
But while his face became gloomy, a gleam of light emerged in Chanup's eyes.
After listening to Glock's report, Retannoe slapped his thigh and shouted:
"Look! Kazuto doesn't want to negotiate with us at all! They just want to destroy us."
As soon as Retannoe finished speaking, the rest of the warring factions responded one after another.
"That's right! You shouldn't waste your time having peace talks with Kazuto!"
"What nonsense is inciting their townspeople? I think they just found an excuse to start a war with us. The purpose is to seize our land."
"Fight them!"
When the militants were excited, Upanu's voice sounded at an inappropriate time:
"You crazy people, do you really want to die?"
It was good that Upanu didn't speak, but when he spoke, he aroused the anger of Retannoe and others.
Faced with the abuse from Retannoe and others, Upano was not to be outdone.
As expected, the main war faction and the main surrender faction started to quarrel again.
But what was different from the past was that as soon as the main war faction and the main surrender faction started to quarrel, Chanup said in a calm tone:
"Stop arguing."
Whether it was the warring faction or the surrendering faction, they all slowly stopped scolding each other and turned their surprised eyes to Chanup.
During this period, Chanup has been pretending to be mute and not expressing any opinions. When the two groups began to quarrel, he never spoke out to stop them.
This is the first time that I have directly stopped the scolding war like this.
"Kazuto's wolfish ambitions are now clearly revealed."
Chanup said slowly while smoking a cigarette.
"The so-called townspeople who incited them are probably just throwing dirty water on us and using it as an excuse to start a war. That's what war is, and fabricating reasons for war is just normal."
"They just want to seize our land and occupy our homes. Apart from the 'Kaesong surrender' surrender, no matter what conditions are used, there is no way to make them retreat."
"Then let's surrender quickly!" Upanu said urgently, "As long as we surrender..."
Before Upanu finished speaking, Chanup sneered.
"Surrender?" Chanup sneered several times, laughing so hard that his shoulders shook slightly, "Surrender will only delay our death."
"And the 'death' that comes after surrender is a 'death' that is more terrifying than physical death?"
"Chanup?" Uppanu looked at Chanup with stunned eyes.
For some reason, Upanu instinctively sensed that Chanup was looking a little strange at this moment.
No.
It shouldn't be said to be strange.
It should be said that it is a little different from before.
In the past, Chanup always had an expressionless face during meetings and just kept smoking.
At this time, although Chanup was still expressionless, Upanu suddenly discovered that Chanup's eyes at this time were a little different from before.
Now Chanup's eyes are as sharp as a knife, like an eagle circling in the sky.
Retannoe also discovered changes in Chanup at this time.
If Upanu was just stunned after noticing such changes in Chanupu, then Retannoe was shocked.
As an old acquaintance of Chanup, Retannoe was most familiar with this look in his eyes when Chanup led them to find a new home 10 years ago.
Noisy.
At this time, there was a sudden noise outside the house.
"What's going on?" Retannoe frowned and looked out the window.
As soon as Retannoe finished speaking, a voice that was quite familiar to Retannoe sounded outside the house:
"Mr. Chanup! Mr. Chanup!"
"Pucina?" Retannoe's eyes widened in surprise.
The voice that sounded outside the house was the voice of Retannoe's only son, Puccina.
Chanup was also very surprised by Puchina's voice that suddenly sounded outside the house. After raising his eyebrows, he got up and walked outside the house.
As soon as he got out of the house, the scene that appeared in front of Chanup made Chanup couldn't help but shrink his pupils in surprise.
I saw more than ten young people standing outside the house holding spears and carrying bows and arrows.
After Chanup came out, they looked directly at Chanup with eyes like fire, and the leader of these more than ten young people was none other than Puccina.
"Pucina, what are you doing?" Retannoe looked a little confused.
After Chanup walked out of the house, the rest of the people, led by Retannoe, also followed Chanup to take a look at the situation outside the house.
"Father, as you can see." Puccina shook the spear in his hand, "We are ready to defend our home until the last moment."
Although Pucciner's words were brief, his tone was sonorous and powerful.
"Mr. Chanup." Puchina said word by word, "We are here this time just to tell you whether you want to surrender or fight to the death in the end..."
Puccina waved to the dozen young people surrounding him: "We will all fight with Kazuto until the last moment."
"Are you crazy?" As soon as Pucina finished speaking, Upanu, who was standing behind Chanup and also took a look at the scene outside the house, said anxiously, "Do you know how powerful Kazuto is?
?How can you possibly defeat Kazuto? You just die in vain."
Puccina's reaction to Upanu's rebuke was calm.
"We know," Puccina said calmly, "Mr. Upanu, in fact, when you were speaking just now, I was listening down there."
"Although we have never fought anyone, we also know how powerful Kazuto's armor and weapons are."
"Even if we can each be as strong as ten, we can't defeat anyone with an army of ten thousand."
Upanu: "Then you..."
Before Upanu finished speaking, Puchina interrupted Upanu's words righteously.
"But we would rather die fighting than give up the home we built with great difficulty to others in vain."
"Even if we stick to this place and have little chance of victory, we don't want to give up just like that."
Just now, after listening to Upanu's "speech", Puccina returned home without saying a word.
When he returned home, he put down the dried deer he was planning to give to Aisuma.
He picked up his spear and bow and arrow.
Then he gathered like-minded people from everywhere.
Gathering all those who, like him, are unwilling to surrender and give up their homeland to others.
At this moment, the dozen or so young people standing next to Puccina are the patriots summoned by Puccina.
At this moment, Chanup's mood has returned to calm.
He glanced at Puccina and the others in front of him with calm eyes, and then said slowly:
"Young people, I understand your mood and your thoughts."
"But do you know that if you fight Kazuto to the end, the chances of winning are slim, you will most likely lose, and... you will most likely die?"
"... When we moved south to find a new home, countless people made sacrifices before finally persevering and building a new home here. Now, we are just taking what our predecessors have done and doing it again.
Just do it once." Pucina's tone was full of determination.
Chanup seemed to be surprised by Puchina's words, a look of surprise flashed in the depths of his eyes.
Then this flash of surprise turned into an extremely dazzling light.
"...Everyone." Chanup turned around and looked at Retannoe and others behind him, "You go and gather everyone and let everyone gather at the 'old place' this evening."
"Everyone?" someone exclaimed.
"That's right." Chanup nodded, "That's everyone. Of our thousand residents in Heyezhe, no one can be absent."
"Chanup, what are you doing?" Retannoe asked.
Chanup showed a mysterious smile: "You will know after this evening."
After saying that, Chanup paused.
After a pause, he looked at Retannoe with a faint smile.
"Retannoe," Chanup said, "I haven't grown old yet."
"I am still the 'hero' who successfully led everyone to find their new home."
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It’s been a long time since I’ve updated on time for more than a month! And it’s a long-awaited 8,000-word chapter!
The author reveals the mystery at the end of the previous chapter!
Ogata once revealed to XX that he likes European-style girls. And this "XX" is Gua Shengxiu!
It comes from Chapter 415 ""The Realm of Selflessness"!". If you forget this plot, you can go back and read it. This plot can be regarded as a foreshadowing of the previous chapter.
That chapter is also a very meaningful chapter. Because this chapter is the climax of volume 6, Ogata reveals his identity in front of his little crush Gua Sheng. The author remembers clearly that the monthly tickets exploded on that day...