Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 104 Fleeing for Your Life
Time went back to the evening of the previous day.

Tuka led more than 20 men who returned with a full load. When they went ashore and returned home, it was already dark.

Lighting torches, everyone walked through the woods into the village laughing and laughing, and agreed to pick up the goods on the Thunder God tomorrow morning.When they were about to wave goodbye, hundreds of people came out from behind the houses in the village and from the shadow of the fence.

Before these Ainu could see clearly who was coming, dozens of ten-character guns and straight guns showed sharp sharp edges from the darkness, and surrounded Tuka and the others.

"Who!" Tuka was shocked.Immediately, he woke up halfway from Jiu Jin, and threw the two bottles of wine in his hand towards the black figure in front of him, and reached out to touch the dagger at his waist.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the hand was placed on the handle of the knife, a long-bladed feather gun (the tip of the gun is a long blade, which can be slashed except for stabbing, and later some people directly used the tip of this gun as a short knife) was already under heavy pressure. at his neck.The sharp blade-like gun tip cut through the skin, and traces of blood immediately flowed down.

The Shachuan people around him were shocked when they saw it.Everyone threw away the cargo on their shoulders, some pulled out the short knives exchanged on the Thunder God, and others held wooden spears or bows and arrows, and rushed towards the shadows around them to fight.

In the darkness, the assailant brandished a spear that was 1.8 meters to more than two meters long, and stabbed the Ainu people to the ground from the front and the side. (The length unit of the island country gun is calculated by "room". One room is 1.8 meters, and the longest can reach three rooms. However, most islanders in this era are only 1.5 meters tall.)
The continuous screams echoed over the village, and soon, except for Tuka who was restrained early in the morning, half of the other Shachuan people standing in the field were left

The massacre in the open space caused a commotion among the families in the village.Seven or eight Ainu women screamed and broke free from the obstruction of their family members, crying and rushing out of the house, and ran towards the open space.

"Wow!" The sound of the samurai sword being unsheathed sounded.A few rays of cold light kept flashing across, and these women fell down in the empty field one after another.

At this time, Tuka's eyes were tearing apart, but he was controlled by others, so he could only shout: "Stop! Let the woman go!"

At this time, a voice sounded from a dozen steps away: "Clan Chief Tuka, tell your clansmen not to act rashly again! Otherwise..."

Tuka didn't wait for the man to finish speaking, and hurriedly shouted, telling the clansmen not to move.

In the dark night, a person took out flint and flint (steel sheet) from the "fire bag", cracked it a few times, and the cattail ears mixed with nitrous powder were quickly ignited.Immediately afterwards, white lanterns with a circular pattern of splitting water chestnuts (a kind of stone folded family crest) painted on the outside were lit up one after another.

At this time, Tuka finally saw clearly that the painting on the lantern was the family crest of the Matsumae clan.

"What are you going to do?!" He didn't expect Matsumae-fan to react so quickly. Just as something happened in the afternoon, these guys came in the evening.

"Put down your weapons!" shouted several gun-wielding warriors around them with bowl-tied heads.The Ainu who survived had to drop the weapons in their hands and crouched on the ground dejectedly.

At this time, the surrounding warriors made a way out of the way.A man wearing small sleeves and a haori hood came in from outside the crowd, following a samurai.

"It's you?" With the light of the lantern, Tuka could clearly see the two leaders.

The samurai who came over was the leader of the four Matsumae samurai who boarded the Thunder God this afternoon; as for the man next to him, he had never seen it before.

The leader of the samurai looked stern, and said sharply: "The Shachuan clan colluded with foreign barbarians and killed the warriors of the Songqian family. According to Zhimo's orders, capture all the Shachuan clan! Bind them all!"

"おー!!!" All the warriors present responded in unison, and then a dozen warriors stepped forward with ropes, and tied their hands behind their backs for Tuka and others who had put down their weapons.

While struggling, Tuka and several clansmen yelled angrily at the warrior who gave the order: "The Shachuan clan is not under the control of the Matsumae clan, why are you arresting us?!"

The leader of the samurai sneered, pointing to the man in haori beside him and said, "This is Hida Yakuhei. He has been authorized by the domain. From now on, the trading rights in Shachuan will belong to Hida Ya."

(Hidaya is the business name, and Jiubei is the name; like the previous Katsuyama Densan, strictly speaking, it should be called Katsuyama House Densan.)
At this time, Hida Yakuhei smiled apologetically and bowed to the samurai, saying, "Thank you Sekiguchi-sama."

What the samurai was talking about was the "system of asking for responsibility for places" implemented by the Matsumae clan mentioned earlier.

That is to say, the Matsumae Domain granted the trading rights and fishing and hunting rights of Shachuan to Hida Yakube, and collected taxes from him.And Tuka and the tribe led by them have changed from local masters to indigenous laborers squeezed by the missile house.

Tuka struggled and shouted: "Where's my family?!"

"Your family members are all in the house over there. If you leave the house without an order, you will be killed immediately." The leader of the samurai saw that the Ainu people present had been tied up, and he waved his hand. Tuka and others entered the biggest house in the village - Tuka's own home.

Immediately, several officials from the Sapporo tax office began to torture Tuka and others in turn, making them tell everything about the Thunder God.

Because the samurai was shot and died during the day, these officials will only attack the Ainu who are colluding with foreigners in front of them.

As soon as he entered the door, Tuka was stripped of his clothes.Before he could react, an official held a bamboo whip full of burrs and slapped him hard on the back.

The bristles of the bamboo whip pierced deeply into his back, and Tuka immediately felt excruciating pain.At this moment, even if he wanted to confess, he couldn't say anything, and his mouth was all used for howling.

After Tuka was beaten with more than a dozen lashes, the officials who executed the torture stopped temporarily.According to the past experience of these people, basically 50 whips in a row, no matter how strong a person is, will die of anger.

"Master Patriarch! Tell me. What is your relationship with Yang Yi on that big ship? How many people are there? Where did they come from?"

"I, I also met them today... today. Where did they come from... They didn't, they didn't say anything." Tuka had already shouted out of strength, and spoke intermittently.

Several officials looked at each other, it seems that the first round of torture did not get the answer they wanted.At this time, one of the officials nodded, and the other two immediately started to tie Tuka's hands and feet behind his back, and then lifted him up, about three or four inches above the ground.Then the thorny bamboo whip began to shine again.

The second round of interrogation began.

Outside the house, a dozen or so Ainu people kneeling on the ground heard the howls coming from the big house, and their faces turned pale with fright.

A warrior looked at these natives and scolded: "If you don't tell the truth, not only will you be whipped, but you will also be executed tomorrow morning!"

"Tell me, what's the name of their leader?!" The sound of whipping in the room stopped again, and an official asked viciously.

"ら...い...じ...ん (Raytheon)." Tuka's body was already full of scars, many of which were pierced with large and small bamboo thorns.

"Nonsense! No one would call that kind of name! Hit again!" The interrogating official was furious.According to the descriptions of the three samurai who came back, those people all had oriental faces, and they were obviously a group of foreign pirates who dared to call themselves gods.

After a few more whips, Tuka was already unconscious.

Afterwards, the dozen or so Ainu people kneeling outside the house were all tortured and tortured. In the end, the confessions obtained by the officials were exactly the same as what Tuka had said before.

After the samurai named Guan Kou got the report from the official in charge of interrogating, he couldn't figure it out for a while.

It is said that the negotiating members under his leadership were shot and killed by a group of inexplicable foreigners, which is really unprecedented.If this is the case, which tribe in Ezo will be afraid of Matsumae in the future?

For the Matsumae clan, the death of a samurai is nothing, but the damage to the clan's face is a big deal.

So he and his men rushed back to the tax office in Sapporo immediately after they left the Thunder God in despair and landed.

The responsible official of the Sapporo tax office was also furious after hearing Sekiko's report.The Matsudaira clan had never suffered such a big loss before, so he immediately ordered Sekikou to lead dozens of warriors from the clan, as well as ronin and servants recruited from several companies, to go to Shachuan overnight, trying to drive back the foreigners.

But Guankou knew that the opponent's boat was too big, and the Ainu's small boat or the Guan's boat would definitely not be able to beat it.

When everyone was thinking about it, a ronin leader suddenly suggested that he had a mixed blood of Ainu and island people under him, so that he could pretend to be a member of the Shachuan tribe and go to the big ship to report the news tomorrow; to lure those people on the big ship Land, and then ambushes.

(The shogunate, which suffered a great loss from the Tsarist Russians, did this later. In 1811, the garrison stationed on Kunashir Island attacked the Russian crew members who came ashore, captured them all, and sent them to the Ezo Magistrate for imprisonment.)
Guan Kou's eyes lit up, this is a good way.As for the location of the ambush, it was chosen in the dense forest southwest of the village.There are overgrown bushes, and the more than 100 people under his command hid there, and those foreigners would definitely not be able to find out.

Guan Kou is still a little apprehensive about the musket in the foreign barbarian's hand, which can kill his men without firing it.After thinking about it, he ordered his men to build wooden shields overnight.

Fortunately, in the Shachuan tribe's village, apart from leather goods, the most common material is birch wood, which is very convenient to make wooden shields.By daybreak, more than a dozen wooden shields had been made and camouflaged with moss and mud.

When all the samurai set out to enter the ambush site, they saw a forest of knives and guns, thick wooden shields, and seven or eight iron cannons at the pass. They felt relieved, so they sent out the mixed-race Ainu spy, and then all the samurai ronin passed by Put on a disguise and wait for the other party to come ashore.

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Since Guan Kou was shot, his crotch has been bleeding profusely.He kept rolling on the ground, trying to relieve the severe pain in his lower body.The two subordinates rushed up with cats on their backs, and saw the injured position of Guankou, and they couldn't do anything for a while.

You can't take off your pants in public...

One of his subordinates took out a handkerchief from his pocket, sprinkled some hemostatic powder on it, then hurriedly wrapped Guan Kou's crotch, put him on his back and ran towards the village.

Their horses were all tied up in the village, and they were so seriously injured that they had to take Sekiko back to the Sapporo Tax Office for treatment.

At the entrance of the village outside the woods, Hida Yakuhei and several of his subordinates were anxiously waiting for the news from ahead.He originally thought that after this battle, the leather goods and fishing and hunting business here in Shachuan would all belong to him.

But the whistling sound coming from the woods made him very surprised. Just as he was about to send his men down to see what was going on, he saw a samurai running out of the woods with a man on his back, followed by another.

"What's going on?" Hida Yakuhei stepped forward and asked.

"Master Guankou was hit by a barbarian's iron cannon and was seriously injured. We have to send him to Sapporo as soon as possible." The samurai carrying Guankou stopped, and the other hurried to lead the horse.

"How is the battle ahead?"

"The iron cannons of the barbarians are very sharp. Jiubei, I advise you to come with us."

While the two were talking, there was a continuous sound of "bang bang bang" like a rainstorm from far away from the beach.The complexion of the samurai with the pass on his back changed, and he said in a low voice, "Why is this barbarian's musket so sharp! Jiubei, it seems that our side is in danger, let's run away."

After finishing speaking, he helped Guankou to the horse with his companion who led the horse.In a panic, the two touched the wound on Guan Kou's crotch, and the unconscious Guan Kou let out a scream and passed out completely.

The two warriors didn't care too much about it. After getting on their horses, they grabbed the reins of the horse at the pass and galloped towards the east.

Hida Yakuhei was so frightened at this time that he was at a loss, and quickly called his men to run away together.As for the ronin who are recruited, wish for luck.
　This chapter is not very good, it was updated in a hurry, I am really sorry, I will revise it tomorrow.

　　
　
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