The low-educated rogues don't know how to stay hidden, and their patrols are more on duty than on guard.

The roaring bonfire carried the smell of firewood embers far away after the wind changed direction, and the strong smell of wine permeated everyone's mouths and noses even after the boat slowly drifted out.

They were out of the cover of the reeds, but no rogues noticed them. Foul language with a feudal accent and northern slang was let out loud with laughter and burps, and it was fashionable at noon, but they had been drinking for hours. As if fearing that the ship would drift away, Henry and his party approached to find that they had tied all the dinghy together in chains.

Everyone bowed down at the behest of Henry and Narumi and approached without making a sound, some out of composure, while the strong men like the hot spring village were probably more nervous.

This is a very bold move. Because the speed of the fleet was not exactly the same, some were fast and some were slow, Henry coordinated with Narumi in sign language, so that the men and horses in charge of melee and long-range slowly reached the same position.

There was no rush to attack, and due to the lack of watchtowers, overhead vision, and lax defenses, the view from the rogues' own boats was obscured by the fact that they were able to remain hidden even after passing through the reeds.

The loud laughter and scolding in the camp did not stop until the remote personnel lined up in array at a distance of about 20 meters, secretly dropped the anchor into the water, and began to draw their bows and arrows, while the forward personnel clenched their weapons and approached the ship that was tied to the chain.

"Draw the bow—"

Narumi raised his hand.

"Put!!"

The rain of arrows from a dozen arrows was nothing to obscure the sky, but when they whizzed and fell, they still had an amazing effect.

The Japanese archers are not as adept at long-range throws from hundreds of meters as the Arvenella longbows, and they are more accustomed to shooting flat at close range. Despite the lack of the ability to strike at ultra-long ranges, the arrows also have a relatively higher hit rate.

Nine times out of ten, they hit the target. Some of the failures were due to tension or the cover of the tents, and the rogues who gathered outside to drink and have fun were instantly hit hard. Many people were still drinking one second, and the next second they were hit in the neck by an arrow and fell to the ground.

"Enemy, enemy attack!"

"Fuck! it hurts me!!" The hunting bow is not a war bow after all, and most of the arrows who were hit by arrows failed to hit the fatal parts were injured but did not die, and some of them had a more strong temperament, and directly broke the arrow on their shoulders, picked up the knife they put beside them, stood up and rushed over.

"Up. "But that's also when Henry and the others are in charge.

The boats in which the strikers were travelling collided with the enemy boats that had been chained to death, and the bundled ships became a solid landing platform, but they did not rush forward.——!

"Stop here. Henry took out his broadsword and slashed directly at a rogue, who had fallen behind and rushed up with a short spear, with both elbows in his hands - the other party tried to raise the block with the barrel of the hardwood gun, but how could he stop the power of Kramer.

Samurai and ashigaru, dressed in armor and light forehead guards on their heads, held large spears and swords at their waists, and drew a horizontal line in a small boat that was connected together.

"Raise and shoot at the rear targets!" while Narumi commanded loudly in the flotilla of ships floating on the water, sharpening their spears in battle, and the ranks of archers and samurai were haphazard, but in the end he succeeded in raising the bow and arrows under his orders, and changed the flat shot to a projectile.

"30 meters away, put!" The second round of arrows passed over Henry and the others, who had not advanced in front, and landed directly in the center of the rogue formation that was rushing over in a mess.

"Damn!" the foul mouth and scolding were accompanied by crawling and rolling, and the enemy who rushed towards him was interrupted by the rain of arrows, and the offensive was broken into two groups. The dozen or so people who were cut off by the striker were injured in the first wave of arrows, and at this moment they didn't realize that their teammates were intercepted and their own side lost their numerical advantage, and the moment they rushed up, they met Henry's party, who had already prepared.

"Ha!" the little young master and old Qiao and the great god all stabbed their fingers with big guns in a steady posture, and the rogues had uneven weapons, some were long knives, some were big guns, and some were only one-handed mountain knives, and there was no doubt that they would be defeated in front of the well-trained samurai.

"Keep shooting at the same distance!" Narumi then gave the order, and the archers shot arrow after arrow. They had already confirmed before setting off that they wanted the young man from the hunter-born hot spring village to pursue an accurate kill of his human opponents, which was somewhat reluctant. Therefore, the task of the archers has always been to cut off the enemy with long-range strikes and disrupt their formation, so that the vanguard is not overwhelmed by an overwhelming force of forty or fifty men in one go.

It was clear that this coordination worked, and the rogues, who lacked a sense of battle and good armor, were able to scold "fuck" and rush up with arrow wounds in the first wave of drunken morale. And once this first wave of one-on-one charges was hindered, they quickly became hesitant under the continuous rain of arrows that followed, fearing the attack of long-range fire.

However, this effect does not last forever, as hunter-turned-archers are not very good at shooting continuously. They don't need to draw their bows and arrows as often as they do when dealing with their prey, so the speed of pulling their bows after the first 10 arrows is noticeably slower. After all, the opponent has an overwhelming superiority in strength, and the lethality of the hunting bow is insufficient, and when the density of the arrow rain decreases, the rogue will definitely organize a charge again.

Narumi didn't doubt the strength of Henry and the others, but the ants bit the elephant to death, and if there were enough rogues, the most optimistic thing was that someone on their side would be injured - the anxiety made the samurai leader frown, but he didn't show it more obviously, because these militia archers, who were already demoralized, would be distraught when they saw him lose his cool.

"Resist!" Henry and the others formed a relatively tight line, and used a small area of attack to knock over the weapons to repel the rogue, because of the obscured vision, these enemy archers could not hit, and as the rain of arrows thinned, more and more people took advantage of this opportunity to rush up.

Little by little, the pressure on the strikers increased, and although the sage chopped many of them to the ground, the rogues barely felt the pain because they were drunk or for some reason.

Many of them had one hand cut off and were still attacking frantically, and the old Qiao and the young master, who had been a little aggressive in their armor, had they almost been defeated, but if it hadn't been for the sage's timely kick over the enemy in front of them, and a counter-charge to repel the rogues, they would have been crushed. However, Henry's departure caused a gap in the defensive line, and the pressure on Caleva, Lulu and Mira on either side of him instantly doubled.

After all, there are still some problems with fighting less, although these people don't know what combat techniques and equipment are very ordinary, but they are not afraid of death.

Trouble - a myriad of plans flashed through the samurai leader's mind, and he began to blame himself a little that maybe he shouldn't have ventured into waiting for Ryunosuke to attack first.

Luckily, looking out into the open space in the distance through the tents that had been overturned by the rogues who had fallen from the charge and dodging the rain of arrows, a group of heavily mounted samurai also rushed out of the reeds and cut down the rogue patrol from behind.

"Up!" Ryunosuke acted decisively and mercilessly, and the rogues who were cut to the ground were directly trampled and trampled by the war horse. And he obviously noticed that the battle had started on this side, and at the sound of the order, the thirty cavalry accelerated and rushed directly into the shallows, wading into the water with the higher mobility of their war horses.

"Behind, back, fucking behind!" Noticing that there were also enemy troops behind them, the rogues turned around and prepared to resist, but the condescending and heavily armed ronin swung their swords and commanded their horses to trample with heavy iron hooves, directly beating their formation to the point of collapse.

"Stop shooting, get up to anchor and get closer!" Narumi, who was worried about being injured by mistake, decisively gave the order, and Henry and the others also seized the moment when the rogues were confused by the attack from behind, and routed the few remaining people in front of them to push forward across the boat.

"Spread out!" The forwards were professional warriors after all, and under the command of the sage, they were divided into three groups and scattered to attack the rogues from different angles. Instead of facing away from allies in a tight array, there was a gap, and Narumi once again ordered the archers to draw their bows and arrows.

"Release!" Close-range flat shooting is not difficult for hunters who are active in the dense mountains and forests, they have exerted amazing efficiency at a distance of more than ten meters, and many arrows have hit the vital points of the rogues, Rao is these people are not afraid of death under the influence of alcohol, and the arrows that hit the vital points can still make them fall to the ground and die.

"Withdraw, withdraw!" flanked back and forth, and the originally loose formation of the rogues was gradually forced to become dense little by little. Qishu.com

In the panic, the overturned tent fell to the fire and gradually burned, and the sage picked up the top with his great sword and threw it into the swamp to extinguish the fire, so that the burning flame would not become a wolf smoke to alert the rogue reinforcements.

"Cavalry, return!" "Cavalry, return!" Charging back and forth, slashing and trampling the ronin on horseback trampled the rogue for a while, he was ordered by Ryunosuke to pull back, because the larger elite infantry team had pressed up, and their tactics were the same as Henry and the others, but the samurai archers with two-meter-long strides with large bows and palm-wide arrows could not be compared to Orion and the like.

"Release!" The moment the cavalry pulled back, the 40 samurai archers who squatted down released a rain of arrows in unison, they lowered their posture so as not to pass through the arrows and hit Henry and his party, and this lethal weight and arrows pierced deeply into the bodies of each of the rogues who hit, sharp, thin and very wide at the unarmored targets with arrows cut their skin muscles and injured important organs and blood vessels, and the rogues who were originally red under the action of alcohol and tension quickly lost their blood color and fell to the ground one after another.

"Infantry Clan—Forward!" The battle was only short-lived, and more than two-thirds of the living forces had been killed, and most of the rest were wounded, and the rogues crowded as they saw that the people on both sides were pressed up.

Henry lowered his sword and Kaleva, as well as Luo An Maiden, Lulu and the others and scattered to the other side, Old Joe and the Little Young Master and others reunited. The panting forwards pressed forward in a relatively loose formation. And the archers led by Narumi in the back also landed on the side. Several of the strong men of the hot spring village who participated in the battle for the first time vomited when they saw the dead people directly holding on to the ground, while the hands of the remaining people holding the bow were also bloodless and trembling because of the force.

An eerie sense of excitement and tension permeated their hearts, but based on the general tone of the Moon Country's extreme hatred of the Rogue, they didn't carry such a thing as guilt.

The young adults volunteered, and they saw the fight against the bandits and the subsequent eradication of crocodiles as a contribution to their village. Actually, there were far more people willing to participate than that, but Narumi only picked those who were good at using bows.

Ryunosuke ordered his cavalry to return to the avenue to guard the road, while the rest of the heavily armed infantry arrived on the island in the middle of the lake.

From more than 20 people against more than 80 people, to 100 people against more than 10 people. The tide is gone, and the balance of victory is clearly on Henry's side.

"I, we surrender!" blurted out a familiar feudal accent, but looking at these fellow villagers, Yajiro did not have the slightest cordiality and sympathy.

"These belongings. "The overturned tent was filled with boxes of rich silk women's clothing and supplies, which were evidently not obtained by these men through any legitimate gains.

The samurai long scabbard held by the man who shouted loudly to surrender was still stained with blood, and it is not difficult to imagine what kind of fate the original owner had.

Like filthy and hungry rats crossing the border, they surrender decisively when the situation is unfavorable, and when the scales tip in their favor, they reveal their greedy and ferocious nature.

A look of indignation flashed among the surrounding rogues, and as soon as the people on their side looked at them, they immediately lowered their heads and showed obedience. At the same time, many people couldn't help but look into the depths of the swamp, as if they were expecting something to come now. This further confirmed Henry's previous inference - Ryunosuke, who had obviously noticed this detail, immediately ordered half of the troops to return to the avenue and immediately began to deploy on the spot.

They weren't rogues, and Ryunosuke's elite ronins weren't just warriors or engineers. They took down all kinds of camping equipment and bamboo shields from the wagons, and with a slight change, they quickly set up simple fortifications on the swamp land route.

The carriage was the reason for their tardiness, but because they never gave up their baggage, they were able to quickly build fortifications on the spot.

"Tsk-" One of the rogues couldn't help but let out a tongue-smacking sound, and Ryunosuke, noticing this man, ordered his subordinates: "That person is arrested and tortured." ”

"The others killed. The moment the merciless ronin leader gave the order, the rogues immediately squeezed up anxiously, and three or four people dropped their knives and rushed out, and began to kneel and cry bitterly, saying that they were all forced, some old and some young, while others gritted their teeth and said that they would fight to the death.

No matter how they struggled, it was a fact that the general trend was gone, because Ryunosuke and his party were the main force in this battle, and Henry and the others stood by without too much involvement. Originally, arbitrarily disposing of these rogues was the condition that Ryunosuke agreed to assist, and then he had to rely on their manpower to help eradicate the crocodiles, and the people in the hot spring village only turned a blind eye.

The lives of these people have been set. If there is still a way back for the young and ignorant, these wanderers, with an average age of thirty, will basically not be able to return to normal life.

They don't work hard, because they've tasted the joy of breaking the law and know how to eat it, and they've lost their down-to-earth heart.

If you can only eat brown rice or even yellow rice and white potatoes in honest farming, and you can eat fragrant and spicy fish and meat and drink alcohol all day long, then not many people can settle down.

Just as a bear who has killed a person will incarnate as an Aragami, the karma of those who have indulged in looting has become too thick to be removed.

Ryunosuke would be so ruthless to them, perhaps because he had such a group of people under his command before, and the ronin also had something in common with them to a certain extent.

He can still bind himself and his men with revenge and what the samurai believe in, but what about once revenge is over?

Many people always feel that they will forgive when they understand the other person, and it is true that some hatred and hatred are based on misunderstanding and ignorance. But everything can't be generalized, and in Ryunosuke, it is precisely because of his deep understanding that he refuses to forgive.

There is still the main force to deal with next, and there is no time to waste.

Both those who surrendered and those who resisted were killed by an arrow, and the rogue, who smacked his tongue the moment he saw the fortifications—apparently recognizing what they were doing—was wounded and arrested. The ronins came and took the building materials from the camp to further strengthen the position, but ignored the belongings inside.

"The bodies were buried in the ground in front of them, and a few bodies were left at the water's edge, guarding them with bows and arrows. The Ronin Leader's further orders underscored his rich combat experience, with the corpses buried in case of the plague spreading among the army due to corruption in the summer heat, and the remaining part was used to lure crocodiles.

After luring it out, kill it and another mission will be completed.

He chose to camp on the land road in front of the island in the middle of the lake, to prepare further into the swamp to attack or defend against the enemy—all depending on the information that could be obtained by interrogating the man.

Ryunosuke didn't choose the small island itself because the part that seemed to be surrounded by water and had only one way out was not deep enough. If something happens, you can't retreat in time.

The ronins kept building the camp all the time, and the little master and Narumi and his party were also watching and learning. They only removed the reeds near their camp, but quickly set up a simple sentry post with the tents of the rogues and the various tools on their baggage.

The basic fence and the sentry post above the reeds were set up separately, and they were later covered with soaked hides over the wooden shields and the sentry posts' rudimentary anti-arrow roofs to protect them from rockets. They waited until the fortifications had been erected before they set up camp.

Handled a series of events with such speed that everyone had no real sense of fighting. "It's over, let the villagers go back by boat and report. You want to stay?" Ryunosuke said to the group, and Henry decided to stay here after discussing it with Narumi.

After all, the sage's combat methods and experience are Rigal mercenary-style, and the combat methods of the ronin with the same roots are more valuable for the samurai to learn. In addition, they also need to act as a regulator to ensure that this is implemented.

After receiving permission from the samurai to select some belongings from the camp of the rogues, the tired men of the hot spring village were content to sail back first, while the group who remained in place had to consider the second stage of the battle.

Some of the ronins began to torture the rogue in a place behind the camp that they couldn't see, and the screams were so loud that Mira was in a bad mood, so she called Lulu and Kaleva to the island in the middle of the lake. Henry and the samurai eventually decided to camp on the devastation of the island in the middle of the lake instead of with the ronin, as they would have been left without fortifications, but they could also leave by boat if something happened.

Cooperation doesn't mean intimacy, but it's more reassuring for them to keep some distance and vigilance.