Chapter 15: The First Battle

After breakfast the next day, everyone took out the big head and interrogated carefully, according to the big head, his tribe is in the northeast of the white lord, by the sea, the summer foot is about two days, and the straight show is about a kilometer. The number of people, the entire tribe is probably less than a hundred, and the adult men are about thirty, anyway, the big head muttered for a long time and didn't calculate it clearly.

As for weapons, the Wajin had always forbade the supply of weapons to the Ainu, so the tribe mainly used spears, only five pairs of bows and arrows, and no firearms at all.

The so-called life-saving of the big head actually just wanted to ask Naohide to give him some wine, so that he could go back and beg the leader for mercy. Wine, especially taro roast, is a good thing in the tribe, and then in the name of the people, it is estimated that the leader will be able to return some of the grain, which is the plan of the big head.

Armed with a sharp weapon, the murderous intent arises. Waiting for the big head to be taken down, Toranosuke and other people in the group couldn't hold it back, and they all wanted to take the opportunity to go out to show off their might, but Okubo and others resolutely objected, thinking that just a dozen people, dividing troops was a taboo, and sending troops in winter didn't know whether to live or die.

The noisy Zhixiu had a headache, so he had to ask everyone to go back first What should they do, he sat in the room and thought about the severity: what happened to the big head was insignificant, but he hadn't thought about it yet.

Okubo is right, the division of troops and the winter dispatch are not a good thing, but from another point of view, time does not wait for me, the implementation of the big head is very poor, and it is not impossible to go out to practice and train the troops.

The Lusians have already set up outposts and post stations at Miaotun at the mouth of the Wulong River this year. To be on the safe side, before the Black Ship came in 1853, or before the Black Ship came again in 1854, he was sure to uproot the nails of the Lucians in the North Ezo and at the mouth of the Oolong River. When the Crimean War broke out, the Lucians had no time to look east, and if this opportunity was missed, it would never be again.

From this point of view, this year's training is not bad, although there are few people, but the fan group is holding breech rifles and revolvers, and there should be no problem in suppressing the cold weapon team of 30 people.

"Bah, bah-" A few crisp gunshots came, and Naoxiu hurriedly took the iron cannon out to check.

At some point, Xuan Ming on the river had already climbed onto the roof, and he shouted loudly, "Enemy attack!" At the shack! ”

The white lord is very simple, there are only a dozen wooden houses and dozens of shacks, among which the workshop and warehouse are close to the southern dock, and the wooden houses where he lives are slightly northern, and dozens of shacks are scattered in the far north, where the Ainu people who help the workers live, and now they are empty, and Naohide has not sent anyone to clean them, and usually only dogs go there to wear them around.

Naoxiu and Izang also hurried up to the roof, the distance was very close, less than 100 meters, and they could see clearly without a telescope.

I saw more than a dozen figures flashing on the edge of the shack, and Toranosuke and his people were hiding in the corners of the wooden house and behind the firewood pile, and they were confronting each other.

According to the usual plan, the nine people in the fan group are on the first line, the others are on the second line, and Naoxiu, Yizang and Xuanming are the general reserves, hiding in the rear.

Naoxiu looked at it for a while, and his nose was crooked.

Fan Group and others shouted and let go of their guns in place, but they didn't hit a single person for a long time, but the attackers took advantage of the gap in the shooting and gradually approached under the cover of the shack.

But after seventy or eighty meters, the men on the second line also began to fire their guns, and finally suppressed the attackers.

Someone on the opposite side shot an arrow, and it shot quite accurately, and two arrows flew over the top of Zhixiu's head, and he didn't dare to brush up on it, so he quickly lay down.

Naoxiu brought twelve dogs, which would fight with the attacker's dog farther away, the dog's hair was scattered and blood sprayed, but although the stupid dogs were at a disadvantage, their fighting spirit did not change, and they didn't know who was putting their guns to help, and the fight was quite accurate, and from time to time the attacker's dog fell, and the scene was much more powerful than the human side.

The Sharps 1859 improved version had an accurate firing range of up to 913 meters, but as a result of the uprooting, the breech rifle Sharps 1

The scale of the 848 is only 500 yards, or 457 meters, which is only half the size of the 1859 type.

But in any case, breech guns are rifles to fight cold weapons, even if it is a single shot, the battle cannot be fought like this.

The wooden house where Naoxiu lives is the largest, he and Yizang and Xuanming are condescending, the vision is very good, Naoxiu's hands are itchy, but because of the rules, he has not put the gun, but when he sees the sparse scene, he can't help it, and says "shoot autonomously", and the three people on the roof also join the battle.

Zhixiu They were condescending, and actually played a role in controlling the field, and now the attackers could no longer withstand it, some people took the lead in escaping, and the rest began to retreat one after another.

The frontal battle of the fan group is not good, but the battle with the wind is strong, and they are chasing fast one by one.

"Niang Xipi, people can still run as fast as bullets." Naohide spits and shoots while complaining.

The first to achieve the results was Izang, and the one who took the lead in escaping was knocked down by Yizang with a shot, and then everyone's shooting accuracy finally began to improve, and the dozen or so people who escaped were put down four or five in succession, and the attackers did not run, threw away their weapons, and honestly knelt in the snow and waited for the verdict of fate.

Toranosuke's IQ is finally on the line, and he sends out a battlefield guard post, and then leads people to slowly approach.

When they reached more than ten meters, two people rushed up to grab their weapons, and they were immediately knocked down by random gunfire, and the rest of the attackers were lying on the snow in fright. After a while, the team took control of the situation, and Toranosuke shouted that it was okay.

Zhixiu asked the second line to continue to be vigilant, and he rushed to the front with Yizang and Xuanming to check the situation, and by the way, he refilled the guns of the attackers who died along the way.

Of the fifteen attackers, eight were killed and the remaining seven were captured.

These should be Ainu people, and the seven of them kept shouting "spare their lives", but the rest of the words were stumbling, and Naohide didn't figure out what was going on, so he had to tie their hands and take them back to the wooden house for interrogation.

The whole battle lasted less than half an hour, but everyone was quite nervous, and after the battle, many people vomited there after seeing the dead bodies up close.

Naoxiu was also very disgusted, he forced himself into the wooden house, and was agitated by the turbid air in the wooden house, and his stomach turned over and he couldn't hold back anymore, and he also held on to the door and vomited.

Mr. Miyama hurriedly instructed everyone to drink some tea and wine, but many people vomited repeatedly and tossed for more than ten minutes before stopping.

The seven captives were stuffed into the small black room, and the original big head was released, but everyone was very nervous, afraid that he would make a mistake, so they tied him directly to the stake outside the door with a rope, and gagged him with rags.

In addition to Mr. Miyama, including Naohide, everyone is in the first formation, that is, the first time in his life to go to the battlefield, although this raid counterattack lasted less than half an hour and the scene was not very intense, but it was not a small mental stimulation for everyone.

As soon as Naohide returned to the wooden house, he asked each group to quickly nod their heads to see if anyone was injured or even killed in battle. One after another, the heads of each group came to report, saying that no one died in the battle, only two people broke their feet in the snow, and after Mr. Miyama checked and dealt with it, he said that the problem was not big, and it would be good to rest for a few days.

Yuei was the last to come to report - it turned out that he had gone to count the dogs. Usually the twelve dogs are fed by Rong, and the relationship is very good, but this time the group of dogs are all injured, and two were bitten to death, so Yurong is particularly sad.

After resting for a while, Naohide and Toranosuke confirmed that they had sent guards, and then they ordered, don't clean up the battlefield for the time being, put the big head in first, and help interrogate the prisoners, what the hell is going on?

Before the captives arrived, the big head looked dumb and stupid, kneeling there and weeping vigorously. The people in the fan group just saw blood, and their temper was when they were short-tempered, so they kicked when they went up, and Naoxiu hurriedly stopped it, and by the way, let Genming Kawagami remember to remind himself that battlefield syndrome, this mental illness must be treated quickly, otherwise it is easy to destroy the personality of the society, and become indifferent to nothing but killing and.

Zhixiu asked someone to hand him a towel with a big head, and Wen Yan asked him what was going on.

Sure enough, these people were all from the Datou tribe, but they didn't know why they came to attack the ashram.

Naohide interrogated a few prisoners individually, and only then did he figure out what was going on.

It turned out that the big head had escaped at night, but was found the next morning. According to the captive, the tribal leader did not mean to force the big head family to die, but only saw that the big head was not pleasing to the eye and wanted to intimidate and intimidate him, so the leader asked someone to find the big head in the morning, and when the big head admitted his mistake, everyone was happy, and he would return some food to him.

But I didn't expect the big head to run away. The people in the tribe gathered to discuss, and they all felt that the big man had gone to complain to someone. He people usually bully these people, and as they talk, everyone's anger is getting bigger and bigger.

There are a lot of people who help with the people, and every year and the New Year, and the people ask the girls in the tribe to go to the white lord to accompany the wine, everyone knows that the white lord in winter only has two and two Ainu servants, under the excitement of the crowd, someone proposed, instead of waiting for the summer and everyone to punish everyone, it is better to kill the left behind and people, and no one knows what happened at that time.

This incident was originally provoked by the chief, but in the excitement of the crowd, the leader set out with fourteen people. They brought two dog-drawn sleds, and although most of them were also on foot, they were much faster than the big heads, who had trekked in the snow for two days and two nights (in the middle of which the big heads had rested a few times in the tree holes), but although the tribesmen had rested for a night in the middle, they still arrived at the white lord this morning.

The leader thought that the people were defenseless, and everyone rushed up to the end of the matter, but he didn't think that as soon as he touched the shack, it caused the dogs to bark, and more and more people appeared behind, and the iron cannon was much more powerful than before, and in the end it was a big defeat, and the fifteen people were broken eight, and even the leader was killed.

Naohide asked the people of the Fan Group to clean up the battlefield with the captives and take back the corpses, otherwise there would be a plague in the spring, and it would be too late to regret it.

When the big head and the captives were taken away, the leaders of each group began to discuss what to do with the captives.

At this time, the customs were extremely barbaric, and the samurai "beheaded the impudent civilians", and even their own people could be cut, let alone Ainu prisoners. Therefore, some people proposed to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, but most of the students here were Naoxiu's students, and they were influenced by Naoxiu and did not agree with this vicious method. It's just that you can't just let them go, it's too cheap for them. After discussing it for a long time, I didn't come up with a solution.

The Satsuma Shimazu family's policy towards the islanders was very cruel, and Okubo was affected by this, and finally proposed to let seven people draw lots, draw two people to die, and the rest of the people stayed to waste food, and sent them away to let them go.

"No matter how bright an act is, if it is stained with the blood of innocents, it will gradually become dark." Over the years, Naoxiu has seen the cruelty of this era, but he still can't do it indiscriminately.

"Is there any resentment when a companion dies?" Naohide and the other captives cleaned up the battlefield and asked them what they thought in the snow.

"To die in battle is to return to the embrace of the gods, to be able to enjoy eternal peace." When the big head translated the words of his companion, everyone present was shaken. The samurai were all about life and death without regrets, so the people's hatred for the Ainu was greatly reduced - after all, Naohide and his gang were unharmed. These people are simply straightforward, and they are very angry with Yurong, and even Yurong pleads with Naoxiu.

After experiencing life and death, Naohide temporarily dispelled the idea of bringing people to show off his might, and instructed Datou and the remaining Ainu to transport the body back, and if life was difficult, they could move to the white lord to live.

Unexpectedly, these Ainu pushed the corpse into the sea of ice in front of Naoxiu, and sang the song passed down from generation to generation, and the desolate song echoed among the mountains, and these Ainu helped each other to leave the white lord.

Okubo signaled that he wanted to keep the big head, but Naohide shook his head slightly - "I can't save a lifetime if I help for a while", if I don't return to the tribe, I'm afraid my family will not be able to protect it, but Naohide won't fight for an Ainu anymore, and there is enough blood today.