Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 239: The Shogunate Army Attacks (Part 2)
The strength of this wooden wall was far weaker than the officer had imagined. Looking at the wooden wall that began to tilt inward after just one collision, a hint of joy appeared on the officer's face.
He waved his hands several times, signaling his subordinates to start the next attack immediately.
BANG!!
The second impact caused the wooden wall to tilt further.
BANG!!
After the third impact, the wooden wall was about to fall to the ground.
BANG!!
After the fourth impact, the wooden wall in this area was finally completely knocked down to the ground, revealing a gap nearly two rooms wide.
"Follow me!" As soon as the two wide gaps appeared , the officer yelled, drew the sword from his waist, and rushed into the wall through the gap.
The officer did not lead all his men inside.
Instead, they divided their troops again here - leaving 30 soldiers to guard the gap to prevent the islanders inside the wall from escaping through the gap.
90 soldiers, including the commanding officer, were responsible for entering the wall together and killing all living people inside.
After rushing into the wall, the first living people they met were the young villagers who were responsible for guarding the rice fields.
The sound of the shogunate army using battering rams to break down the wooden walls could be heard in every corner of Toyoha Village.
The villagers who were closest to the wooden wall and were responsible for guarding the rice fields naturally heard clearly the four muffled sounds made by the shogunate army when they crashed into the wall just now.
They were confused and hadn't figured out what was going on yet, when they saw teams of soldiers in black armor rushing towards them.
"Hey! Who are you?"
Before the young man could finish his question , five soldiers of the Shogunate army rushed forward, and four of them pierced his body with the spears in their hands.
The soldier who was not in charge of the attack, after his companions pulled back their spears, wrapped the dead villager's head with a sack.
The death of this young man was just the beginning. In just a few breaths, all the villagers responsible for guarding the fields were slaughtered by the attacking shogunate soldiers.
These generals and soldiers of the shogunate army all acted in groups - each group had a total of 5 people, and they attacked the villagers as groups.
After each group of soldiers worked together to kill the villagers, they would immediately wrap the dead villagers' heads with sacks.
In this way, when the villager dies and becomes a cannibal, it will not be able to pose any threat to them because of its obstructed vision.
This is the most effective tactic currently designed by the Shogunate Army against cannibals based on the fact that cannibals will only attack living people within their field of vision.
Although this method cannot kill the cannibal, it can restrict the cannibal's actions.
After wrapping the head of a villager who had just died in their hands in a sack, a group of soldiers let out a long sigh and said to their companions:
"If only we had known about this weakness of the cannibals before launching the general attack on Butterfly Island."
As soon as the "Ogre Rebellion" broke out on Choujima and the islanders asked the shogunate for help, the shogunate immediately sent Inamori to lead a large army to clear out the shogunate on the island.
At that time, neither the islanders of Choujima nor the shogunate army knew that cannibals would only attack living people within their field of vision.
Therefore, in that general attack on Choujima, the shogunate army, which was helpless against the cannibals, suffered a terrible defeat and retreated in a hurry not long after the army landed on the island.
The 150 elite soldiers who were responsible for wiping out all living people on the island had basically participated in the great defeat at that time, and they all remembered it vividly.
As soon as the soldier finished his sigh, a comrade standing next to him sneered:
"Our tactics can only be effective when there are fewer ogres."
"As long as there are a lot of ogres, dozens or even hundreds of them will rush towards us shoulder to shoulder, clock to clock. How can you have the time and opportunity to wrap their heads with sacks one by one?"
After hearing his comrade's words, the soldier who had just expressed his emotion immediately stopped talking - because what his comrade said was right.
Their tactics are only effective when there are fewer ogres. Once their numbers increase and they rush towards them in groups, there is basically no time and space to block the vision of these ogres one by one - unless their total strength is several times or even dozens of times that of the ogres.
After clearing out the villagers near the rice field, the shogunate army divided their troops into teams and marched deep into the wall without stopping...
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Although the strange muffled sounds had stopped, not long after these four strange muffled sounds stopped, both Ogata and Atachi heard new strange sounds coming from outside the house.
And this new strange sound seemed to be... shouting and screaming.
Ogata and Atachi's faces changed as they rushed to the window and looked out.
Although the light was poor, the two could still barely see clearly - team after team of armored soldiers poured into the village from all directions, launching an indiscriminate massacre of all the villagers within their sight.
No matter whether the villagers in front of them were male or female, old or young; no matter whether the villagers in front of them were roaring or begging for mercy, these soldiers who suddenly rushed into the village would ruthlessly swing their swords and guns.
"The Shogunate Army...!" After muttering this in a deep voice, Ogata, with a dark face, picked up the katana that he had just placed aside and rushed out of the room.
And A-machi quickly put on the socks she had just taken off, picked up her own weapon, followed Ogata, and rushed out of the room together.
As soon as they rushed out of the room, they saw Mamiya and Makimura who were also rushing out from the next room with sullen faces - Mamiya and Makimura's room was next to Ogata and his friends.
At the same time as they saw Mamiya and Makimura, Ogata and the others also saw a girl rushing up the stairs in a hurry.
This girl was the only maid in Chikanosuke's family.
After rushing up to the third floor where Ogata and his group were, the anxious maid shouted to them in a crying voice:
"The shogunate's army is attacking!"
"How could it be..." Ating's face turned pale, "Why would the shogunate's army attack at this time... and kill people indiscriminately..."
Compared to the pale-faced Atachi and the maid who was about to cry, Ogata, Mamiya, and Makimura were much calmer.
"Where is Chikanosuketo?" Ogata asked the maid in a calm tone.
Ogata's calm appearance and calm tone invisibly affected the maid, making the maid, who was originally a little flustered due to anxiety, gradually calm down.
"Lord Chikanosuke is on the first floor right now! He is directing the villagers to hide in his house!"
