The northernmost city wall of Taizhou is set up on the top of the throat-like position on the road from the plateau to the plain.

The land mountain road that starts from Qingzhi Town and goes all the way to the southwest, after passing through the mountains and through the wetlands, the terrain gradually begins to descend and tend to flatten, and the end of the road leads to the plain area of the Yongchuan River Basin, which is the existence of Taizhou.

The word "Tai" in Taizhou is taken from the ancient word "Guotai Min'an" in the ancient language of the Land of the Moon, which has the meaning of resisting foreign enemies and protecting the peace of the country. The name of the northernmost prefecture of Shinkyo was clearly intended to warn the king of the Hokuchi domain to a certain extent.

The Padrossi Empire's translation of the geography of the Land of the Moon directly refers to Taizhou as the "Shield of the New Capital", which also shows the importance of this region and the fact that the situation within the long-term peaceful Land of the Moon is actually quite complicated.

At a cursory glance, the walls of Taizhou are similar to those of the castles that are often found in Rigal, after all, practical things always have similar elements: stone walls are about three or four meters high, and they are made of large shaped stones. But if you look closely, you will find many differences from the Rigalese walls.

Looking up from the bottom of the walls, the walls of Taizhou are built with a mud wall on a stone base and a Moonland-style eaves to shelter the soldiers below.

There is a square hole in the top of the wall that is slightly larger than a human head. The holes have a trapezoidal cross-section, with a large inside and a small outside, allowing archers shooting from the inside out to change their positions freely to the left and right without being exposed to enemy bows.

The trapezoidal design also has a stone base, and people have made this part a stone wall, which means that it is just a stone wall.

But what really distinguishes it from the Rigalese walls is that you have to go to the side to see it:

The walls of Taizhou are extremely thick.

Unlike the Rigali wall, which was erected vertically from the plains and reconnected to the ground as a whole, like an upside-down T-shape, the mountainous Crescent Island was built to the greatest advantage by humans. There are many undulating terrain in the mountains, and the cliffs and other elevation differences can be seen everywhere, and the castle built on this landform, the so-called stone wall, is actually made of treated rock reinforcement around the cliff wall.

The originally gentle uphill slope was artificially excavated and replaced with a vertical wall, and after filling and digging a pit to create a difference between the inside and outside, stones were laid on the perimeter of the dirt cliff.

The main difference between this wall and the vertical wall made of stone by the Rigalis alone is that it is made of solid earth behind it, which is why the siege equipment such as trebuchets used by the Rigalis will not be useful if you want to capture a castle in the Land of the Moon.

Because it is not a single stone barrier, even if the stone wall is broken, the back is still the thick earth of the cliff wall. The defenders can still take advantage of the high ground and attack with a rain of arrows and stone-throwing from a high position.

Such a unique design of the city wall, coupled with the mountainous and rugged terrain that makes it difficult to set up heavy siege equipment, the Xinjing Society is full of confidence in Taizhou, and even the reason why it is even directly called "a city that is difficult to attack and cannot be attacked" can be imagined.

Returning to the original place, the people walking towards the inside of the Taizhou City Gate began to walk on an uphill road because of their unique terrain. And the guards guarding the city naturally came forward to interrogate them after noticing their conspicuous team, but the subordinate Ashigaru, who was the head of the guards, was restrained and cautious when facing the high-level samurai, and there was no smell of interrogation at all, but it was as if he was asking for peace.

Narumi did not embarrass these routine soldiers, and after handing in the customs clearance documents stamped with the seal of the Qingtian family, the group waited under the bright sun for Ashigaru to hand in the report to his superiors.

Although there were shaded eaves near the city gates, they were not enough to accommodate their brigade of 100 men. In addition, because the samurai were already above the eaves on horseback, they could only withstand the direct rays of the sun.

The samurai were scorched by the scorching sun, and the painted armor of the Tsuki no Kuni was certainly not so easy to turn into hot steel plates compared to the polished plate armor that the Rigalis preferred, but since 9 o'clock in the morning, the armor has not been removed, and the samurai and ashigaru are already soaking wet.

The array of feathers that was originally used for keeping warm has been removed at the moment, and in order to increase the breathability, many samurai have also removed the shoulder armor, so that there is less cover and some heat can be dissipated through the armpits.

Despite this, wearing a metal helmet, the head, which occupies about 30% of the body's heat dissipation, is restricted, and the whole body still feels like it is trapped in a steamer.

That's why long-distance adventurers often don't like to wear helmets.

The head is the vital point of the human body, and if it is a conscription militia in Rigal, even if they can't afford iron body armor, they will often find a helmet when they go to the battlefield as much as possible to avoid being killed by a stray arrow headshot.

However, in the circle of adventurers who do not actively participate in large-scale battles and perform escort-type missions in small groups, the helmet is a less popular part.

Weight, heat, vision and breathing are one thing, but if you put a little discomfort and life on the scales, anyone will choose to endure discomfort.

The real reason was unnecessary: because the adventurer combat in small groups was more limited to street fighting, lacking the chaotic and dangerous crossfire of the frontal battlefield, and the individual martial arts more than made up for the lack of armor. On the other hand, if you are fully dressed, you will be exhausted early due to weight and exhaustion, and you will not be able to fight in real battles.

Whether it's equipment or armor, in the final analysis, you still need to choose according to the situation you are facing.

Human weight and physical strength are limited, and if you often participate in battles and often face the danger of your life, it is natural that everyone will wear as much as possible. But in the more peaceful environment of a long journey that could take ten days and half a month without encountering a foreign enemy, and carrying twenty or thirty kilograms of full armor meant that you had to abandon all kinds of supplies that were more useful on the road.

And in the final analysis, if you are at a disadvantage in other aspects such as numbers, no matter how well dressed you are, the battle situation is against the wind, and the other party still has a way to torture you.

Even if they have a full set of plate armor at the pinnacle of human individual armor, if the Rigal Knight encounters a professional listed war mercenary who is good at fighting people when he is alone, he will give priority to avoiding rather than fighting. Professional war mercenaries may only have the same equipment as a knight's full-body plate armor and horse armor, but because of their excellent coordination, they can beat elite plate knights to a bruised nose and swollen face.

Those with a spear longer than a cavalry spear and a spear of more than 4 meters will first limit the knight's charge, and then the person with a halberd of more than two meters will step forward and knock the knight down, but a well-trained knight with the protection of plate armor will not be killed by such a blow, and most of the knights will get up and continue the battle after falling. At this time, two or three more halberds or scythes will come forward with their sword and shield hands, and after hooking the knight's ankle or the inside of the knee with their long-pole weapons and lowering him, the three of them will cooperate to hold down their hands and feet, and stab them into the armpit with a half-sword or dagger, pry open the gap in the neck armor, or pierce through the observation hole of the face armor.

Of course, if the number is equal, and the heavy knights who are also composed of 4 people charge with guns, these mercenaries will definitely be directly defeated and killed. So in the final analysis, no matter how brave an individual is, no matter how complete his armor and weapons are, when he encounters a headwind in the battle situation, and the enemy is a veteran who understands the weaknesses of his armor, it is best not to rush to death like a fool.

- Words go back to the original place.

"Take off your helmet. Under the unbearable heat of the direct sunlight, Narumi finally gave such an order.

Although the Japanese samurai regarded many of these hardships and fatigues as a test of their will, they finally reached Taizhou, and if several of their party fell from heat stroke in order to be reckless, they would only become a laughing stock.

The helmets were removed from the wooden crates that had been removed along with the previous shoulder armor, and after the helmets were removed, the samurai still wore noble hats made of black gauze.

The ebony hat has a long top design that is unique to strangers like Henry and Mira, and through the mouths of Narumi and the flirtatious Yajiro, they learn something about the long years of the Tsuki Country.

The helmet of the Japanese people has a round hole at the top, called the "Heavenly Cave", and this seemingly weak design is not easy to be touched and stabbed by the enemy because of the light and flexible movement of the samurai armor. And while the fact that the hole is kept on today's helmets is only a matter of style, it used to be a real thing.

The samurai of Wajin began to grow long hair at the age of Ruo, and because of their pampering, the nobles were mostly fair-skinned and delicate. If an underage samurai boy wears his hair down and wears women's clothes without braiding men's hair, it will be difficult for outsiders to distinguish whether he is a man or a woman. Some of the older samurai had a semi-bald hairstyle that would be incomprehensible to outsiders, but still had enough hair to be braided at the sides and back of the head.

After the long hair is tied into a braid, and the black hat is placed on the top of the head, the hat and hair will be pulled out of the round hole at the top of the helmet, and the helmet will be fixed with its own hair with the black hat, which is the way to fix the classical helmet that was not lined in the Moon Country thousands of years ago.

This method of fixing the scalp that sounds like it makes the scalp tingle is actually quite stable, because the helmets of that era were made smaller and more suitable for the skull. It was only later that due to the lack of cushioning against blunt blows directly against the scalp, the helmet of the man gradually began to resemble Rigal, with an inner lining made of fabric.

The traditions of round holes, black hats, and long hair, though no longer useful, have been preserved as part of the long history of the warrior class.

For a small country like the Kingdom of Avenella, which was born on the west coast of the Rigal continent and has a short history, our Loan girl, who is inclined to pragmatism, is full of emotion when she hears all this.

The warrior class, which is well aware of its historical origins, retains its armor and weapons, which have no practical effect today, and are only details that bear witness to the thousand-year-old history.

This kind of situation is not only for civilian officials, but also for the warrior class, which has a long history and cultural precipitation, and has never been faulted or lost, and it can only be seen in the country of the moon that has been peaceful for thousands of years. Equipment is changing with each passing day, and the fierce competition of the Rigales, even if they are knights, are different in ten years, and the armor is always based on the most popular fashion and the most practical cutting-edge design, which lacks this kind of detail in the same line.

Which of the two is better or worse, it is actually pointless to dwell on it. Because they are all born in a specific environmental background, and they are closely related to the culture and historical origins of the region in which they are located, it is an act that only ignorant people can do when they are separated and compared.

In the unbearable heat, even if you use cranky thoughts to divert your attention, it still feels extremely slow. Although it only took about ten minutes for Ashigaru, who was guarding the door, to report to his superiors and press the seal, the group only felt that they had spent a longer period of time than the previous journey.

By the time the text of the customs clearance on the wooden board of rice paper, printed with the seal of Taizhou Chengguan, was finally handed back to Narumi by the hands of the respectful head of the Ashigaru group, almost everyone in this hundred-man brigade felt that they had been waiting for a century.

"Let's go, get some rest, replenish supplies. And when he turned back to the samurai leader who finally said that, the voice was like the cold mountain spring water in the summer.

Refreshing.

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