Buddha! This Is... the Demon Firearm of the Mongol Invasion!
The Sun had tilted slightly west, and outside the Cold Swamp Tribe's village stronghold, fallen Ainu People corpses lay everywhere, like an altar bleeding sacrifices to Kamuy. And yet the Kamuy of the Ainu People had no custom of human sacrifice. They accepted only all kinds of animals, especially bears and salmon. This altar of war looked more and more as if it had been set up for the Main God, prepared with blood and sacrifice for the God of War who had come from ten thousand li away on the plateau...
"Main God protect us! Open the gate, gunners and archers ready! As long as the gunners... the archers will... the Samurai too..."
"Right! Just like that! We have to seize the opening! If their formation is scattered, if Kamuy stuns them... then charge over in one rush and kill them!..."
"Put on double armor! Over the cloth-faced Bronze Armor, add another layer of Leather Armor! Xiong Da, you're the strongest Unangan warrior. You wear three layers of armor and charge at the very front!..."
"Yes! I'll listen to the chief!..."
A moment later, the Kingdom spear formation arrayed outside the stronghold gate suddenly grew loose, with faint signs of men shifting about, though from a distance it was impossible to see clearly. And from the Wajin ranks three hundred paces away, all they could see was the Sanda spear formation vaguely splitting into three groups, as if it meant to support the Ainu clans on both wings.
"Hm?!..."
The old general Kudo Shigeyasu, who had been watching calmly and waiting for a chance, abruptly straightened his back, his eyes sharpening in an instant. He had come all the way from Wakasa to Ezo Land and fought wars his