"Chapter Eighty-Eight: One Hundred Thousand People"
Science is extroverted, religion is introverted, and in between is aesthetics, which is a bridge, so it is better to enter the world of art.
- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)
The day after Naoki Yoshikawa left the Kirkwall camp with the ninja and the spies, Jun Nishimura, who got up before dawn, put on armor that did not belong to a ninja for the first time;
Yes, it was not the rebels, but the Lu Nan Army! Yesterday's speech by Yamashita Yangxi not only made the barbarian people who felt like they were bursting enthusiastically join the army, but also convinced them of their identity as saviors.
In the hearts of the 650,000 people in the Kirkwall camp, the Lunan Army is the hope for saving the entire Luxi tribe, and it is the only Lucy army that can represent the Luxi tribe!
It has to be said that the hundreds of years of rule of Luxi on this vast land have made the barbarian people living in this land have a strong sense of identity with Luxi Tribe, so much so that Yamashita Yangxi, who has successfully used this sense of identity, is shocked.
The 3,000 dead soldiers carefully selected by Nishimura were all young and strong barbarian warriors, and although they wore tattered leather armor and held mutilated weapons in their hands, their high will to fight was more than enough to make up for the lack of these hardware.
Because these 3,000 dead soldiers had to be mixed among the 100,000 people, they could not use the relatively high-quality weapons and equipment sent by Bai Feng, and could only use these simple weapons and equipment that did not attract the attention of the enemy, so as to hide their identities.
When Nishimura changed the 3,000 dead soldiers into rudimentary weapons and equipment, he explained to them that we had limited weapons and equipment, and the robezawa brothers who remained in the camp wanted to protect our families, so we should leave better weapons and equipment for them to protect their homes.
As soon as these words full of pathos were spoken, the trace of dissatisfaction that the 3,000 dead soldiers had in their hearts was immediately thrown out of the clouds, and the eyes of the 3,000 left-behind soldiers who received these weapons and equipment were even more reddened, and even the people who were watching were red-eyed because of this.
As for why Nishimura Jun left the camp with 3,000 soldiers and 100,000 civilians and advanced eastward, the reason given by Yamashita Yoki was: The enemy army that is about to come to the city is too strong, and we must leave a never-say-die seed for the righteous heroic army in the south!
The subtext of Yamashita Yoki's words was: Under the attack of the enemy, the soldiers and civilians who remained in the camp had little chance of surviving, and in order to save the fire of saving the tribe in the southwest of Luxi, 100,000 people were sent east.
Needless to say, this was deliberately sensationalized by Yoki Yamashita and Jun Nishimura, but the effect was very significant; the soldiers and civilians who stayed behind were all fearless and fearless in the face of death, while the soldiers and civilians who went east were helpless and aggrieved to survive.
It is a pity that neither the soldiers and civilians who stayed in the camp, nor the soldiers and civilians who went east, did not know that Gregory's 100,000 counterinsurgency army did not pour down from the north to the south, but from the east, west, and north!
Yamashita Yoki and Nishimura Jun, who had achieved their goal, did not waste too much time in the camp; only an hour after the handover of weapons and equipment, Nishimura Jun, who personally led 3,000 soldiers, commanded the soldiers to escort 100,000 people out of the camp and slowly left eastward.
The migration of 100,000 people should have been a painstaking and laborious matter, but the barbarian people who were still immersed in life and death and did not come back to their senses showed a super high quality that ordinary barbarian people did not have, which made Nishimura Jun save a lot of heart.
In order to make it easier for the 3,000 dead soldiers under his command to hide their identities, Nishimura Jun deliberately broke them up into a team of 10 people and sent them to various places of 100,000 people, and his reason was that the soldiers should help those people who had difficulty moving with their families and mouths, so that no one would be left behind!
Even the people of some conquered settlements believed the words of Yamashita Yoki's speech yesterday and began to question their identity as the leaders of the original settlements and the noble warriors.
These simple barbarian people did not know that the seven or eight thousand old and weak women and children who came to the forefront of them were not ordinary people at all, but all of them were special people with men in their families in the counterinsurgency army; they were, in the final analysis, pawns in the hands of Naoki Yoshikawa and others.
From seven o'clock in the morning when the last people left the camp to half past eleven at noon, just as the migrants who were slowly moving eastward stopped to prepare lunch, a group of barbarian cavalry from the east appeared in Nishimura's field of vision.
Looking at this small cavalry in yellow armor that had just appeared and quickly fled, Nishimura Jun, who knew well, understood that the counterinsurgency army that Lu Xi's tribe had killed from the east was less than five miles away.
Even so, he still did not blow the horn of an urgent rally, because the next step was not a battle, but a one-sided slaughter, and how to force the enemy to raise the butcher knife in their hands was what Nishimura really should do.
About twenty minutes later, as soon as the busy people had eaten their prepared lunch, an army of Lucy, large enough to describe the mountains and fields, appeared in the field of vision of everyone, including Nishimura.
At this time, there was no need for Nishimura Jun to remind him, there were already soldiers in a hurry to blow the horn; as soon as the hurried horn sounded, the first reaction of the vast majority of the barbarian people was not to run in a panic, but to hurry up and finish the lunch in their hands and then pick up their weapons.
Iron weapons such as long swords and battle axes are not only weapons, but also special weapons such as sharpened wooden spears and stout wooden sticks, and the barbarian people, who have belligerent blood in their bones, have never had a tradition of fleeing when they encounter an enemy, because it is their nature to fight!
Accidents in war are always everywhere, and Nishimura was still thinking about how he should provoke the 100,000 people around him to fight with the enemy, and it was not until the enemy army appeared that Nishimura realized that he had underestimated the warlike nature of the barbarian warriors.
Everyone knows that the barbarians are a nation where all the people are soldiers, but who has really seen the real all-people soldiers? The shogunate ninja Nishimura Jun from the city of Rome was fortunate enough to be the lucky one who witnessed what it was to be a soldier for all.
When 45,000 enemy soldiers came in a rage, less than 10,000 of the 100,000 barbarian people did not participate in the battle, and the remaining 90,000 barbarian people rushed to the enemy shouting chaotic slogans.
What is meant by all the people being soldiers, at this moment, has been the most perfect interpretation. Nishimura himself, who reacted from the shock, laughed and let go of all the thoughts in his heart, raised the long sword in his hand, and killed the enemy as the general of the Lunan Army!
More than 90,000 barbarian civilians are slashing and killing the soldiers of the counterinsurgency army in a life-threatening manner; in the same way, the officers and men of the counterinsurgency army are also using the determination to kill them completely, swinging their butcher knives at the people of Lunan who are far inferior in combat power, and the battle of rivers of blood has just begun.