I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"Add our page in the history books!"

——Sadanobu Matsudaira/Before the army set off

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Aisuma and the others' appetites have already been whetted by grandma.

Everyone looked at grandma expectantly.

And the grandma sitting on a big rock, after clearing her throat, said slowly in a tone like a heroic epic:

"Whether that Goro Mashima beheaded 10 people or 100—it really doesn't matter."

"There's absolutely no need to worry about this kind of thing."

After hearing grandma say "There is no need to worry about this kind of thing at all", whether it is Aisuma or the rest, they all showed surprise, not understanding what grandma's words meant.

What grandma said next answered their questions.

"The real strength of Goro Mashima is not how many people he beheaded the night he was attacked in our village."

"It's not how many people he saved."

"What's really great about him is that he chose to rush into our village at that time and extended a helping hand to us."

Grandma used to tell the heroic epics of the Ainu nation to the young children in the village sitting around her lap, so grandma is also a very good storyteller, whether it is the tone of speech or the rhythm of speech, all Just right.

Whether it's Aisuma and the others, or the young man who just came to carry the dried meat with his grandma, they are all fascinated by listening, watching and listening attentively.

"Our village has nothing to do with him. He didn't need to come to save us. He could just stand by and watch, or just fly away."

"Even if he stands idly by or flies away, no one can criticize him. After all, he really has no reason to lend a helping hand to our village."

"But he didn't do that."

"He chose to help our village, even though doing so may not benefit him at all, and may even risk injury and death."

"In my opinion, judging a person's bravery is not based on how many people he has killed.

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"Even if a person has outstanding skills and killed hundreds or thousands of enemies, that person is very likely to be a coward."

"Conversely, even if a person doesn't even have the ability to kill a chicken, and hasn't killed a single person, he is very likely to be a true brave."

"From the moment Mashima Goro chose to rush into the village and fight side by side with us, he was a true brave man."

"Compared to the appearance of him rushing into our village without hesitation, how many people he killed and how many people he saved-these things are all just trivial matters, which don't need to be further discussed."

Grandma's voice fell.

Ai Suma and others, as well as the young man who was delivering meat with grandma just now, are all staring at grandma in a daze.

The young man who delivered the meat with his grandma now has his eyes widened.

Just now he thought grandma was going to talk nonsense, saying that Goro Mashima beheaded hundreds of people or something...

Grandma has a gentle smile on her face.

Aisuma and the others were silent, with a thoughtful expression on their faces.

After a while, Asuma finally let out a breath, and broke the silence with a sound.

"...It feels like my head has been hit hard by a sledgehammer." Aisuma smiled wryly, "Grandma, you are right... We who are entangled in how many people Mashima Goro killed... indeed kind of stupid..."

"What we should pay more attention to is not how many people Mashima Goro killed..."

Including Ai Suma, many people present showed guilt.

"Hohohoho..." Grandma raised her head and covered her mouth with a chuckle, "Children, you don't need to show such an expression."

"Okay, you still want to hear the detailed story of Mashima Goro that night, right?"

"Grandma, I will tell you now."

"It might be a little long."

Grandma's words made Aisuma and the others immediately put away the shame on their faces, and looked at grandma intently as before.

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At this very moment—

"It's the same as the rumors..." A-Machi said to Ogata next to him in a low voice while brushing the grapes, "The Ainu people in the Red Moon Fortress really have muskets...and flintlocks , I really want to borrow their muskets to take a look. See what their muskets look like..."

At this moment, A-Ming's heart that loves firearms is burning fiercely.

While Machi was brushing her grapes, Ogata was also brushing his radishes.

"I think it's difficult." Ogata smiled wryly, "I always thought they wouldn't lend us their muskets so easily."

"You don't know if you don't try this kind of thing." Ah-Ming said, "I think that girl named Aisuma seems to have a pretty good personality. Maybe she will be willing to lend us their musket."

"Just now, I was a little worried that the group of people who came to the Red Moon Fortress suddenly might be a group of people who don't welcome us and others."

"Fortunately, my worries were unnecessary. They are very kind to us."

"Especially that girl named Asuma."

As soon as A-Machi finished speaking, Ooyo who was at the side immediately added:

"But not everyone is kind to us. I just noticed that some people are not very friendly when they look at us."

"Remember what Village Chief Chepke told us earlier?"

"The Red Moon Fortress has just taken in a group of Ainu who were defeated in the Battle of Kunasi Limenasi and lost their homes recently."

"The few people who looked at us with unfriendly eyes just now may be the Ainu who lost to Kazuto."

"There may be many such people in Red Moon Fortress..."

"All in all—don't take it lightly."

"I know about this kind of thing." A-machi Asaogata stuck out his tongue.

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Matsumae Domain, Matsumae Castle——

Although today is a sunny day without snow, the weather is exceptionally cold.

The icy cold wind was blowing.

At this very moment, a sedan chair, which is obviously expensive from the outside, is moving at an extremely fast speed on a certain street in Songqian City.

Around this sedan chair, there are 33 horse-riding warriors closely following the sedan chair.

Of the 33 mounted warriors, only one did not wear armor.

The unarmored man had a youthful, handsome face, with only a samurai sword on his waist.

The other 32 people were all wearing red helmets and red armor, with spears in their hands.

A gorgeous sedan chair and 33 horse-riding warriors closely guarding the sedan chair—this naturally attracted a lot of attention.

The common people on the street gave way to both sides of the street one after another, while looking at the team composed of sedan chairs and cavalry, they discussed in a low voice who was sitting in the sedan chair.

These 32 red cavalry are the elite cavalry of the shogunate - the red cavalry.

The Chibei Squad is one of the oldest troops of the Shogunate. At the end of the Warring States Period, the first general of the Edo Shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu, modeled on Takeda's Chibei Squad and formed the Tokugawa Chibei Squad.

Since the establishment of the red reserve team, it has continued to this day and has been under the direct jurisdiction of the general.

When Matsudaira Jonobu went north this time, General Tokugawa Iesai specially sent 32 of the most elite knights from his red team to serve as Matsudaira Jonobu's personal bodyguards.

The 32 red cavalry who were in charge of guarding the security of the Laozhong surrounded the sedan chair—the identity of the person sitting in the sedan chair was already revealed.

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"It's so cold..."

Matsudaira Sadanobu, who was sitting in the sedan chair, let out a long breath.

Every breath condensed into white mist.

Although the climate is cold, but fortunately the weather is not bad, the sun is high in the sky, and there is no rain or snow.

"My lord."

At this time, Tachibana's voice came from outside the sedan chair.

"We've already left Matsumae Castle!"

Among the 33 horse-riding warriors tightly guarding the sedan chair, the only unarmored warrior was Tachibana.

Although Tachibana is Matsudaira Sadanobu's minor surname, he is not qualified to ride in the same sedan chair with Matsudaira Sadanobu, who is a senior middle-aged man, so he can only ride his horse and follow closely around the sedan chair.

"En." Matsudaira Sadanobu nodded lightly, and raised his hand to open the windows on the left and right sides of the sedan chair.

Matsudaira Sadanobu cast his gaze out of the window.

The people who were in charge of carrying the sedan chair for him were experienced veterans. They lifted the sedan chair at such a fast speed, but the sedan chair barely shook, allowing Matsudaira Sadanobu to sit very comfortably and at the same time allowing Matsudaira Sadanobu to see the scenery outside the window clearly .

The white snow, forests, streams, and distant mountains on the field are receding at an extremely fast speed.

Because of leaving Matsumae Castle, I couldn't see any houses.

After confirming that he had really left Matsumae Castle, Matsudaira Sadanobu couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief.

——Finally, I no longer have to see the letters and interview requests from the monarchs and ministers of the Matsumae Domain...

The monarchs and ministers of the Matsumae Domain were terrified by the "Naturalized Ezo Riot".

At the moment when the second-in-command of the shogunate was in the Matsumae domain, the naturalized eizu in the city actually rioted-there is no worse scandal than this.

Therefore, since the riot, the feudal lord of the Matsudaira domain, and the courtiers of the Matsumae domain who are qualified to meet with Matsudaira Jonobu, all went to Matsudaira Jonobu to plead guilty.

Japanese officials in this period were not as comfortable as modern Japanese officials.

Modern Japanese officials often only need to bow and apologize when they do something wrong-officials in the Edo period did not have this treatment.

If a very serious mistake is made, seppuku suicide can only be regarded as a trivial matter.

The most serious punishment is that you not only have to commit seppuku, but your family will also be deprived of the samurai household registration, and the whole family will be reduced to civilians.

In this era when samurai valued honor, losing one's samurai status because of a mistake-this is a matter of humiliation so much that no one can hold their heads up.

After the riots broke out, many important ministers of the Matsumae Domain wrote to Matsudaira Sadanobu, asking for their permission to apologize.

The lord of the Matsumae Domain also met with Matsudaira Sadanobu in person, and asked Matsudaira Sadanobu to allow him to abdicate to apologize.

The lord of the Matsumae Domain was also frightened by the sudden riot.

At the moment when the second-in-command of the shogunate is in the Matsumae domain, even the law and order cannot be maintained well-if the shogunate intends to use this as a reason to impose severe punishment on the Matsumae domain.

The lord of the Matsumae Domain would rather abdicate and give up the position of the lord to his adult son, rather than subject the Matsumae Domain to punishment such as land cuts and transfers.

They Matsumae domain was not very rich at first, because the geographical location was too far north, so there were very few fertile fields, agriculture was extremely underdeveloped, and the total number of stones in the whole domain was only 10,000 stones.

If it weren't for the large-scale trade activities with Ezo and the commercial blood transfusion, they would have been able to compete with the famous "poor clan" like the Yonezawa Nitta clan to see who is the poorest in Japan Phan.

Whether it is cutting land or transferring the title, it will be a great blow to the Matsumae domain, which is not very wealthy.

During that time, Matsudaira Sadanobu had been receiving frequent letters and interview requests from the Matsumae clan's monarchs and ministers.

The number of times is so frequent that the current Matsudaira Sadanobu can't help but twitch his mouth just thinking about that memory at that time.

Matsudaira Sadanobu also thought about how to deal with the monarchs and ministers of Matsumae Fan for a long time.

In the end, Matsudaira Sadanobu decided-to relax the monarchs and ministers of the former domain.

All the monarchs and ministers of the Matsumae Domain made verbal criticisms.

The feudal lord was banned for 2 months.

Some ministers were fined for 3 months.

Foot confinement in this era is actually just to stay in your own room and not go anywhere.

Sleep, eat, play—these things are all unrestricted, except that there is no freedom.

Matsudaira Sadanobu's punishment can be described as extremely merciful.

Originally, even if Matsudaira Sadanobu asked the feudal lord to abdicate and some ministers apologized, no one would feel wronged.

The reason why Matsudaira Sadanobu relaxed the former vassal's monarchs and ministers was because the riots they launched by Maca helped them indirectly, giving them more reasons to declare war on the Red Moon Fortress.

The second reason is that the war is about to start, and Matsudaira Sadanobu doesn't want to cause more troubles when the war is about to start.

Therefore, under the grace of Matsudaira Sadanobu, the monarchs and ministers of the Matsumae Domain were only given a very light punishment that they had never imagined before, and they all wept with joy.

By the way, the captured Maca Nao and others had all been beheaded in Songqian City in front of many ordinary people in the city three days ago.

Maca said that they no longer have any value to keep them alive.

The only value they have left is probably to push them out and behead them, so as to appease public anger.

The angle of view returns to the present moment——Sadanobu Matsudaira is now heading for a place on the outskirts of Matsumae Castle.

At that place, a large army of 800 men was waiting for him.

Matsudaira Sadanobu closed the opened window again, closed his eyes, and began to close his eyes and meditate.

After half an hour, the sedan chair slowly stopped.

At the same time, Tachibana's voice sounded again outside the car:

"My lord, we are here."

As soon as Tachibana finished speaking, Sadanobu Matsudaira, who had been resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened his eyes.

"Open the car door."

Tachibana: "Yes!"

The car door was slowly opened.

The light shone through the opened sedan door into the dim interior, illuminating Matsudaira Sadanobu's wrinkled face.

Matsudaira Sadanobu slowly stepped out of the sedan chair.

Tachibana and the 32 red cavalry who were in charge of personal guards had dismounted at this time, and stood respectfully around the sedan chair.

In front of the sedan chair door, stood a dozen or so generals in full helmets.

And standing at the forefront of these generals was a middle-aged veteran with a burly figure, standing like a giant tower.

And this veteran is none other than Inamori.

Seeing Matsudaira Sadanobu coming out of the sedan chair, Inamori and the other generals behind him immediately bowed to Matsudaira Sadanobu.

"My lord!" Inamori shouted in a high-pitched voice, "Welcome!"

"Inamori." Matsudaira Sadanobu put his hands behind his back and squeezed out a smile, "How is the troop assembled?"

"Ready to go!" Inamori's answer was concise and powerful.

"Take me to have a look." Matsudaira Sadanobu continued.

"yes!"

Under the guidance of Inamori, Matsudaira Sadanobu came to a hillside not far away.

Standing on the top of the hill, looking down.

The cold wind swept across the sky, and also passed by the side of the armored soldiers under the hillside.

Under the hillside, 800 shogunate soldiers formed a dense phalanx.

Long spears protruded from the formation, piercing straight into the sky, forming a dense forest of spears.

The armor on his body shone coldly under the sky.

The big flags with "clover" painted on one side fluttered in the wind.

The 800 Shogunate soldiers all had solemn faces, and the temperature of the air around the military formation seemed to have dropped a few degrees because of the pristine military appearance.

This is a soldier of their shogunate.

This is the soldier who is about to send troops to the north to pacify the Red Moon Fortress.

Standing on the hillside and looking down at the army formation, Matsudaira Sadanobu slowly showed a satisfied and confident smile on his face.

The army formation under the hillside is just an 800-man army formation, just one of their 10,000 troops.

Although their 10,000-strong army is still scattered everywhere, they have all begun to gather to the north without exception.

The fastest vanguard has crossed the northern border of the Matsumae Domain, in the territory of Ezo to the north of the Matsumae Domain.

"Purge the army." Matsudaira Sadanobu said softly, "Good job, Inamori. It seems that choosing you to guard the north and letting you serve as the general of the entire army is indeed the right choice."

"This is not due to me alone." Inamori, who was standing behind Matsudaira Sadanobu, said hastily, "With the help of the old middle-aged adults and the full support of the subordinates, I, Masa Inamori, can train successfully."

As a military commander, Inamori is a rough man, he is not good at speaking politely, and he can't shoot that kind of tactful and advanced flattery.

Listening to Inamori's simple and direct flattery, Matsudaira Sadanobu showed a faint smile.

As a man of action, Matsudaira Sadanobu doesn't really like the people under him to flatter him.

But Inamori is his confidant after all, so Matsudaira Sadanobu didn't say much.

Matsudaira Sadanobu is in a great mood right now.

Looking at the 800-man army formation in front of him, he now only feels his heart beating.

In a few days, when the 10,000 troops were fully assembled, what would appear in front of him would no longer be a small army of 800 people.

It is a veritable army that can spread from one end of the earth to the other, and is boundless as far as the eye can see!

The heroic spirit is surging, and the ambition is soaring.

"Inamori, let's go!"

Matsudaira Sadanobu waved his hand in high spirits.

"In the history books, add our pages!"

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"Ho... ho... ho... ho..."

Grandfather Jiang leaned against a big tree, panting hard.

Now he felt as if his chest was about to explode, his lungs had completely turned into a bottomless pit, no matter how much air he inhaled into his belly, he still felt that it was not enough.

His throat was very dry, and his mouth was filled with the unique bloody smell after running hard.

After his chest felt a little more comfortable, grandfather Jiang untied a bamboo tube of drinking water hanging from his waist, and poured the drinking water in the tube into his dry throat that felt like it was about to split open.

As the clear water entered his throat, Grandfather Jiang felt that not only his throat but also his own soul had been moistened.

Given his current level of thirst, he could completely drink up the water in the bamboo tube in one go.

A villain named "Desire" deep in Grandfather Jiang's mind kept saying to Grandfather Jiang: Drink quickly, drink to your heart's content.

Although this villain's words are full of temptation.

But reason eventually prevailed over desire.

After drinking only half of the water in the bamboo tube, grandfather Jiang resisted the desire to drink more, put down the bamboo tube in his hand, covered the lid, and hung it back on his waist.

The current environment does not allow grandfather Jiang to drink water as much as he wants.

He was now in a completely unfamiliar environment, where and where there was fresh drinking water—he had no idea.

So every drop of water is very precious, if you can't drink it, don't drink it.

The reason why grandfather Jiang was sweating profusely leaning against a big tree until his lungs almost fell out of his throat was because he had just met a bear by chance.

Just about half an hour ago, grandfather Jiang found a lot of mushrooms by the root of a big tree.

Grandfather Jiang also recognized all these mushrooms. All edible mushrooms.

Excited, he ran off to pick mushrooms.

However, as he was picking, he suddenly heard a strange sound of snow treading from his side.

Turning his head to look at the sound - not far from him, a big brown bear was standing upright, leaning on a large boulder with its two forelimbs, protruding its upper body from behind the stone, with a black A pair of small eyes looked at him.

If an experienced hunter was present, he would never move around after encountering a bear.

However—grandfather Jiang was not an experienced hunter.

The startled grandfather Jiang screamed, and then drew out his saber.

The bear who was watching not far away didn't know whether it was frightened by Grandfather Jiang's screams, or by the knife in Grandfather Jiang's hand. In short, the bear roared at Grandfather Jiang.

Then he rushed towards his grandfather Jiang like a thunderbolt.

The mediocre grandfather Jiang Na may be Xiong's opponent.

Grandfather Jiang was thrown down by the bear before he even had time to draw a knife.

When he was thrown down, the knife in his hand also fell aside.

Xiong opened his mouth wide, pointing his sharp teeth at Grandfather Jiang's head. Grandfather Jiang could smell the stench from the bear's mouth.

Probably because the desire to survive played a role at this time. Grandfather Jiang suddenly remembered that when he was panning for gold with his companions, a fellow gold panner who had been a hunter once introduced to him the method of self-rescue after being thrown down by a bear. .

The self-rescue method described by the hunter friend is very simple - smash your arm into the bear's mouth, block its throat, and preferably grab its tongue and pull it back and forth.

According to this hunter friend, once the bear's throat is blocked, it will be very uncomfortable, and the body will not be able to exert strength. Not only will it bite your arm, but it will run away because it finds that this human is not easy to mess with.

(Author’s Note: This self-rescue method is not the author’s nonsense, it is a real and reliable self-rescue method, please see the end of the chapter for details)

Ever since the hunter friend heard about this self-rescue method after being thrown down by a bear, grandfather Jiang has always doubted whether this method is true and reliable.

After all, smashing your arm into the bear's bloody maw—it's pretty dangerous no matter how you think about it...

However, at this moment, there was no room left for Grandpa Jiang to think otherwise.

If he didn't do something quickly, his head would be bitten off by the big brown bear that was pressing on him.

So grandfather Jiang gritted his teeth and begged all the gods and Buddhas he could ask for. After praying that the self-rescue method that the hunter friend said was really useful, he clenched his right hand into a fist and smashed it straight into Xiong ita In the gaping mouth that was biting towards grandfather Jiang's head.

A wonderful warm touch wrapped around Grandfather Jiang's entire right arm.

After smashing his right arm into the bear's bloody maw, grandfather Jiang felt something soft—it was the bear's tongue.

After touching the bear's tongue, grandfather Jiang immediately grasped the tongue tightly as the hunter friend told him, and then pulled it back and forth vigorously.

"Woo...!"

The bear growled in pain with its throat blocked by the big, thick arm, its tongue caught and pulled back and forth.

One man and one bear fought on the snow for a long time before the winner was finally decided—the bear jumped off his grandfather Jiang.

Seeing that the bear seemed to want to leave, grandfather Jiang also let go of the bear's tongue and retracted his arm from the bear's mouth.

After freeing its throat and tongue, the bear immediately fled.

After the bear ran away, Grandfather Jiang didn't bother to wipe the bear's saliva on his right arm, and ran away in the opposite direction to the bear.

After running until the bear was about to explode and his legs began to tremble, grandfather Jiang finally stopped.

Hence, the present scene of grandfather Jiang leaning against a big tree to breathe.

Although he has drunk nearly half of the water in the bamboo tube, Grandfather Jiang is still very thirsty.

But he dared not drink any more.

--damn it……

Grandfather Jiang cursed in his heart.

He crazily cursed in his heart that those Ezos suddenly appeared a few days ago.

The reason why he has been reduced to this day is all thanks to Ezo who suddenly appeared a few days ago.

Before that, grandfather Jiang was a member of the gold panning team led by Undead Chuan.

However, just a few days ago, when their team was resting in a forest, a group of Ezo suddenly rushed out from all directions.

These Ezos are all wearing bright red costumes.

It's fine if it's an ordinary Ezo, but the terrible thing is-these Ezo have muskets in their hands.

After they rushed out from all directions, gunshots erupted immediately, and many of grandfather Jiang's companions fell under the guns after only one meeting.

Grandfather Jiang and the others were attacked by surprise, and their number was far smaller than the other party.

So the fight was over as soon as it started.

Grandfather Jiang and the others were beaten to pieces.

Grandfather Jiang actually doesn't have much memory of this attack.

All he remembered was running, running, running... running like hell.

The last time he ran away recklessly like this was in Kyoto last summer, when he went to the castle tower of Nijo Castle and found that Ogata Yasushi was a monster at all, and then fled out of Nijo Castle in a hurry.

And grandfather Jiang's luck was really good - he even managed to escape from the encirclement and suppression of these Yezo, and even escaped the pursuit.

Red clothes and muskets - the two characteristics of Ezo living in the Red Moon Fortress.

The one who attacked them was undoubtedly Ezo of the Red Moon Fortress.

Before being attacked, grandfather Jiang Cai had just discussed the Ezo of the Red Moon Fortress with his leader Undead Chuan.

Before the group of Ezos from Red Moon Fortress attacked, the leader of Undead River told him in a firm tone: It is not so easy to meet Ezos from Red Moon Fortress in the wild...

Grandfather Jiang felt very sad when he thought of the leader of Undead River.

When he was attacked, he only cared about his grandfather Jiang who was escaping, and didn't have the energy to see if the leader of Undead River and other companions escaped smoothly.

And now that he has successfully escaped, he doesn't have the ability to find other people, because he is also unable to protect himself now.

Although he managed to escape the attack of the Red Moon Fortress' Eizu, his grandfather Jiang fled to a place he didn't know at all because of his hasty escape.

I don't have a map at hand, I don't know where I am, and I don't know where to go to have water to drink—in short, I'm lost.

To get lost in such wilderness—it was a terrible thing.

These days, grandfather Jiang has been trying to get rid of the predicament of getting lost, trying to return to familiar places, or to return to Matsumae.

Grandfather Jiang didn't have much knowledge of survival in the wild.

He knows direction only by the position of the sun.

All he can do now is to go all the way south.

If you go all the way south, if you are lucky, you may be able to return to Matsumae domain smoothly.

Grandfather Jiang leaned against the big tree and rested for a while. After confirming that his body, which was full of fatigue from avoiding the brown bear just now, had recovered a bit, he whispered to himself, "Okay... let's go...!"

Grandfather Jiang stood upright, and after identifying the south through the sun, he walked slowly towards the south.

He wants to live.

He didn't want to die young so soon.

Grandfather Jiang raised his hand to wipe a cloth bag in his arms.

This cloth bag contained the gold sand that had been saved after panning for gold with Undead River during this period of time.

When he was running away from the guns and bows of the Red Moon Fortress's eizi, his grandfather Jiang threw everything he could throw away in order to run faster.

Only this bag of gold dust was not thrown away.

He wants to live.

Return to the Heren society alive.

Trade this bag of gold dust for a new life.

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After a while—

A few days ago, Ogata stopped counting the days.

I didn't remember that it was the first few days before I set off for the Red Moon Fortress.

Every day, I just follow the team slowly forward, forward, forward...

Today's weather is not very good.

Thick clouds separated the sky from the earth, and it felt like snow might fall at any moment.

Today's weather is a bad one.

But what happened today was a good thing.

Just now, when Ogata and A-cho rode forward side by side as usual, Aizan ran towards them with an excited expression on his face.

While running towards Ogata and the others, he shouted excitedly:

"Mashima, Machi! We're here! Heyezhe can already be seen!"

Ogata raised his eyebrows: "Is He Yezhe in front?"

Aizan nodded vigorously.

Ogata reined in the horse's reins, forcing the carrot under his crotch to stop.

Then Ogata pulled his feet out of the stirrups, stood on the saddle, took out the binoculars he had won from Vasily, and looked forward.

Through the lens of the telescope, Ogata saw—just in front of them, there was a row of towering wooden walls.

Ogata only saw one side of the wall.

But at that size and height, Ogata couldn't help but gasp in admiration the next moment he saw the wall.

"Is it finally here... Red Moon Fortress..."

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The author has been studying the book "What should I do if I meet a bear?" ", now the author has a lot of knowledge about bears, and he can call himself "Dr. Xiong".

The hardest core knowledge I have learned from this book is the method of self-rescue after being pushed down by a bear.

And the self-rescue method used by grandfather Jiang in this chapter is the method mentioned in this book.

This book is a popular science book compiled by a hardcore hunter who hunted dozens of bears in Hokkaido.

According to the hardcore hunter, he once had a companion who was also a hunter who accidentally missed and was knocked down by the bear when he was hunting a bear.

At that time, the bear opened its mouth to bite, so he clenched his hand into a fist, smashed his arm into the bear's mouth in one breath, grabbed the bear's tongue and pulled it back and forth. Just ran away.

People are afraid of bears, and bears are also afraid of people. In the world view of bears, human beings are terrible animals (except for those bears who have eaten human flesh), so as long as human beings make violent resistance, bears will often be frightened and run away.

If the bear's throat is blocked, it will not be able to exert much strength, so there is no need to worry about the arm being bitten off.

The hardcore hunter also hinted in the book: When stuffing your arm into the bear's mouth, it's best to stuff the whole arm in, it's better to grab the bear's tongue and pull it back and forth, as long as you have the will to survive Strong enough, this kind of thing is not difficult to do.

Of course - this method is limited to bears that have not eaten human flesh.