Inside the commander-in-chief's camp, Gui Yi was bent over a desk, handling military affairs one after another.
The army just arrived at the Red Moon Fortress today. There are a lot of things waiting for Gui Yi to deal with one by one, headed by "how to reinforce the blockade line". He is destined not to be able to go to bed early today.
However - although Gui Yizheng is very busy now, he does not feel any trouble or pain at all. On the contrary, the corners of his mouth have been slightly raised due to excitement since just now.
For Gui Yizheng, who is still pursuing fame and fortune, being busy is not scary, but being idle is.
When Nagatenmu was still alive and was the commander-in-chief of the First Army, Katsura Yoshimasa was just a general under Inamori who had a high position but did not hold much power.
During that period, Gui Yizheng basically spent every day leisurely.
For those generals who just want to get by, this kind of life where they can just spend their days leisurely is naturally great.
But for Katsura Yoshimasa, who wanted to establish his career and further increase his family's wealth, such a life was extremely painful.
Fortunately - Sheng Tianmu died in the battle.
Fortunately - Inamori sent him to take over the First Army.
"Lord Gui! The gate of Red Moon Fortress suddenly opened!"
At this moment, a loud announcement suddenly sounded outside the camp.
As soon as the announcement came, Gui Yizheng raised his eyebrows and put down the work at hand:
"Did those barbarians send envoys again?"
"It's too dark to see clearly!"
Gui Yizheng knew very well that it was a cloudy night with poor lighting, so he also knew that it was completely reasonable for the sentries responsible for monitoring all movements in the Red Moon Fortress to not be able to see clearly who and how many people came out of the suddenly opened gate.
"Continue to observe closely," Gui Yizheng ordered, "Once you confirm why the Red Moon Fortress was opened, report to me immediately."
"Ah, and..." Gui Yi added hastily, as if he suddenly remembered something, "Order all sentries to be on alert."
"yes!"
After responding loudly, the footsteps of the soldier who was responsible for reporting the news quickly disappeared from near to far.
After giving all the orders, Gui Yizheng stretched hard, completely stopped the work at hand, and waited for the delivery of new information.
The corners of Gui Yizhen's mouth, which were already slightly upturned, were now even more exaggerated.
He guessed that the barbarians might have sent envoys to propose new peace terms to them.
Gui Yizheng was already prepared to send back these barbarian envoys who had come with great effort to make proposals and conditions.
Inamori had previously told him repeatedly that he would not accept any peace terms except opening the city and surrendering.
In order to dispatch this army of 10,000, the shogunate and the northeastern feudal lords spent an incalculable amount of money. Only by taking over the Red Moon Fortress and completely occupying this strategic location can the losses be compensated.
Therefore, faced with any peace terms proposed by the Red Moon Fortress except "Kaesong surrender", Gui Yizheng only needed to reject them without thinking.
Gui Yi Zheng did not hate these barbarian envoys coming to negotiate peace with him - looking at the cautious attitude of these envoys and the expressions they showed after he rejected their peace terms, Gui Yi Zheng felt secretly very happy.
Of course, Gui Yizheng did not ignore the possibility that "the barbarians overestimated their own capabilities and planned to attack their camp at night."
"Sending another delegation of envoys to negotiate peace" and "sending soldiers to attack their camp at night" - Katsura Yoshimasa actually welcomed the latter more.
Because the latter can bring military merit to Katsura Yoshimasa.
Katsura Yoshimasa did not think that a group of Ezo people who had no cavalry, could only fight on foot, and did not know any tactics, could pose any threat to his great camp.
Therefore, Gui Yi was even more looking forward to the barbarians being able to overestimate their capabilities and attack his camp at night. In this way, he would be able to cut off some of the barbarians' heads and gain some military merit.
When he thought that they would never suffer any loss no matter whether those barbarians "sent envoys to negotiate peace" or "overestimated their own capabilities and tried to attack their camp", the corners of Gui Yizheng's mouth curled up even more and he even let out a low laugh.
Ever since Sheng Tianmu's death, Gui Yizheng felt as if his luck had changed.
He was first ordered by Inamori to take over the First Army, and then all subsequent military operations went smoothly.
They successfully reached the city at a speed faster than expected and completed the siege of the Red Moon Fortress.
Then, he successfully followed Inamori's orders and persuaded the barbarians in the Red Moon Fortress to surrender, and rejected the peace terms proposed by the so-called "envoys" of the barbarians.
Now - Gui Yizheng's only remaining task is to tightly block the Red Moon Fortress and wait for the arrival of the Second and Third Armies.
Recalling all the good things that had happened during this period, Gui Yizheng could hardly suppress his joy.
Katsura Yoshimasa even had the urge to thank Ogata Ittosai in person.
If Ogata Ittosai hadn't cut off the Shotenmoku, he would never be living such a smooth life now.
Katsura Yoshimasa, who tasted the sweetness of "the general above him was killed", couldn't help but fantasize - if only Ogata Ittosai could kill all the generals with higher status than him, then his status and power in the army would gradually rise.
Just as Gui Yi was still immersed in joy, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the tent.
Then, a panicked and anxious shout rang out:
"Gui, Master Gui! Something bad has happened! Someone is attacking the camp!"
"Oh? Those barbarians are so arrogant that they actually attacked our camp." Gui Yizheng acted like a calm and composed person. "Don't panic. They are just a bunch of barbarians. Stay calm. How many barbarians are there?"
"Xixi, the people who attacked our camp are not barbarians!" The soldier who was in charge of reporting the news outside the tent seemed to be about to cry, "The people who attacked our camp seem to be that Ogata Ittosai!"
Gui Yi's nonchalant look froze.
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[Ding! The host enters——"the state of no self"! ]
The reason why Ogata chose to set off tonight, in addition to the fact that every second counts, there is another important reason, which is that he calculated that the shogunate army had just arrived at the Red Moon Fortress today, and the camp and fortifications had not yet been completed.
It would naturally be much easier and safer to attack a large camp whose fortifications had not yet been built.
When there were about 200 to 300 steps left to the shogunate army's camp , Osamu began to drive Radish to slowly speed up.
When the camp was just a stone's throw away, Carrot's speed reached its peak.
As they were about to charge into the shogunate army's camp, the rise and fall of Ogata's chest changed to the unique breathing rhythm of the Source's Breathing.
A strange light bloomed in Ogata's eyes.
This is a battle that cannot be delayed.
So Ogata chose to go all out.
When they saw a strange man and a horse rushing towards their camp, the soldiers who were on guard outside the camp began to shout at Ogata and asked him to stop.
After noticing that Ogata had no intention of stopping, a certain samurai general immediately made a prompt decision and ordered the archers to shoot.
Because firearms were too scarce, many generals, including Gui Yizheng, were reluctant to let the arquebusiers stand guard outside the camp with precious firearms.
Moreover, the firing rate of the matchlock gun is extremely slow, so it is not suitable for standing guard or being on guard.
Therefore - at this time, only arrows were shot at Ogata, not bullets.
Because there has not been enough time to build a large number of platforms that can serve the two functions of "observing the movements outside the camp" and "for shooters to shoot", the soldiers on guard outside the camp are currently unable to launch a three-dimensional attack on Ogata.
Ogata lowered his body slightly and controlled the radish to move in a zigzag shape, making it more difficult for the archers to shoot.
At the same time, he drew his sword, and facing the arrows that were about to hit him and Luobo, he swung the sword to deflect them.
The rain of arrows attacking Ogata now was not dense. Relying on his already abnormal physical fitness and the blessing of the "selfless state", Ogata was fully capable of seeing through the flight paths of these arrows and deflecting them one by one.
And Luobo is indeed a Don horse that was carefully selected and bred for the purpose of "being thrown into the battlefield".
Faced with the incoming rain of arrows, Luobo was not at all panicked. Not only did he not retreat, but he even moved faster.
How fast is the Don horse, which has both endurance and explosive power?
In the blink of an eye, Xu Fang rushed in front of the archers.
Sakakibara Ittoryu: Ascending the Tower.
The knife flashed from bottom to top and hit an archer's chin.
The sharp blade chopped directly from his chin to his forehead, and the archer flew up to a height of half a person due to inertia, and then fell heavily to the ground.
While Ogata chopped down the soldier blocking his way with one sword, Radish was also fighting.
Huge body + extremely fast speed = whoever touches it will die.
Radish bumped into two archers at once.
The moment the sturdy body of Radish collided with the bodies of the two archers, the teeth-chilling sound of bones breaking quickly rang out.
The two archers spat out blood and flew backwards like cannonballs, flying several meters before landing on the ground.
Naturally, these two archers, whose height was not even as tall as Radish, could not even slow down Radish's speed by a single second.
“Ahhh! W-What is this?”
“Is this a horse?!”
“Can horses be this big?”
"This isn't a horse at all! How can a horse grow so big?!"
In this era when information exchange is extremely underdeveloped, only a few people have seen the Don horse.
Many people have only seen horses produced in Japan so far, which have an average shoulder height of 1.2 meters and are only 2 or 3 times larger than large dogs.
Suddenly seeing the radish that was nearly 1.6 meters tall at the shoulder, these inexperienced soldiers were naturally shocked.
For these generals and soldiers, whose average height is only about 1.5 meters, the carrot, which is 1.6 meters tall at the shoulder and taller than them, looks like a prehistoric monster.
Thanks to Luobo, many generals and soldiers were frightened to the point of their legs going weak.
Because there was not enough time to build fortifications , things like fences, deer horns, and archer platforms were not deployed in time.
Thanks to the lack of fortifications and thanks to Radish's intimidation of the enemy soldiers, Ogata easily broke into the shogunate army's camp.
Ogata held the reins in his left hand and the knife in his right hand. He concentrated and his nerves were tense as he rode the radish straight forward.
He had only one goal - to keep charging until he could no longer see the tents, until he left the camp.
"Someone is attacking the camp! Someone is attacking the camp! Meet the enemy! Meet the enemy!"
The camp, which had been peaceful just a moment ago, suddenly became noisy.
Shouts rang out one after another, and in the dark night, various troops took action.
"You are the thief who dared to attack the camp, right?!"
Not long after Ogata rushed into the military camp, he suddenly heard a roar from his side that sounded like "Zhang Fei of Yan".
Afterwards, a middle-aged man wearing a mighty battle armor and a battle feather robe, who was obviously a general in the army, led more than a hundred soldiers and blocked Ogata.
"Hmm? Not Ezo? You..."
Before the general could finish his words, his eyes suddenly widened.
After seeing Ogata's face, I felt that it was quite familiar for some reason...
I always feel like... I seem to have seen this face somewhere...
Ogata ignored the general from beginning to end.
Even though the general led his soldiers to block him, Ogata did not slow down his horse at all and rushed straight towards the general.
As Ogata rushed straight towards him, and when Ogata's face got closer to him, memories suddenly revived in the general's mind.
At the same moment his memory came back to life, the color on the general's face faded at an astonishing speed.
Then, he subconsciously screamed in a shrill voice:
"It's, it's the executioner Ittosai!!"
It was a coincidence that when Ogata broke into the First Army's camp to settle accounts with the guy named Mogami Yoshihisa, this general had been ordered to stop Ogata who was heading to the commander-in-chief's camp to look for Mogami.
His attempt to block the opponent was not successful.
After finding Ogata, before his troops could stop Ogata, Ogata rushed out of his unfinished blockade.
Afterwards, the general kept feeling fortunate - fortunate that he was able to save his life.
However - although he did not stop Ogata at that time, he did meet Ogata once.
The sight of Ogata holding a knife and killing people with blood all over his body left a very deep impression on the general.
It was so profound that when he saw Ogata again, his vocal cords vibrated uncontrollably and he screamed.
Bang! Bang! Bang…
A dull collision sound was heard.
Just like a bowling ball hitting pins, Radish knocked away all the soldiers standing between it and Ogata.
Ogata, who was sitting on the back of Radish, also swung the Daishikuten in his hand so hard that the blade could not be seen clearly.
One man and one horse fought their way through a bloody path and arrived in front of the general.
The general was only a little over 1.5 meters tall.
Although the horse he rode was a carefully selected high-quality warhorse, its shoulder height was only 1.3 meters.
A 1.5-meter-tall man riding a warhorse with a shoulder height of 1.3 meters, facing a warrior who is 1.7 meters tall and riding a warhorse with a shoulder height of 1.6 meters - this picture, it has to be said, is a bit funny.
It was as if the warriors from the "Lilliput Country" were fighting with the warriors from the "Broad Country".
The Great Master Shitian attacked the general’s head like a mountain pressing down on his head.
Ogata's sword speed is too fast.
The general didn't have time to react at all.
He only had time to utter the first syllable of "help" before Da Shitian's blade chopped from his forehead to his chin.
As his consciousness was about to fade away, the general said the last words of his life in his heart:
Why is Ogata Ittosai here again...!