"How?" Asacho asked Oka, who had just looked at Red Moon Fortress from a distance with his telescope, "What does Red Moon Fortress look like?"

"It's too far away to see clearly, only a piece of wooden wall and a river next to it."

Okata handed the telescope in his hand towards Amachi.

"Do you want to take it and take a look?"

"I won't need it." Asuma shook his head, "Anyway, it's coming soon."

At this moment, a very young man suddenly came.

After the young man said something to Aizan, who was next to Ogata, he quickly left and ran towards the rear of the team.

"What did that person just said?" Oba asked.

"That young man is here to convey the village chief's order." Ayizan said, "The village chief just ordered: Now rest on the spot for a while."

"Now rest on the spot?" Okayama raised his eyebrows, "He Yezhe is already in front of him."

"That young man just mentioned the reason." Ayizan said, "We have been walking for a long time just now. Many old and weak are now feeling very tired."

"Although He Yezhe is now in front of him, the only distance left is not too short."

"It's a bit too hard to let the old and weak in the team go through the remaining distance."

"Anyway, it's still some time before dark, so I don't rush to enter He Yezhe as soon as possible."

"That is why the village chief decided to take a break for a while and then walk the last section of the road after almost the rest."

Ogata was not in a hurry at first. Since Village Chief Chepuke decided to continue to do rest for the sake of the elderly and weak in the village, Ogata would not say anything more.

At this moment, Ogata suddenly remembered something.

"Are you rest..." A strange smile appeared on Okata's face, "Esuma and the others should be very happy..."

Hearing Okaga's feelings, Amachi on the side couldn't help but smile strangely.

Okata felt that Ahili's grandmother was really a pity to stay in the Essay.

He felt that Ahri's grandmother should go to Osaka, Kyoto, and Edo to be a storyteller, and she would definitely make a fortune every day.

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...

It was indeed as Yukao said - after receiving the order for temporary rest from village chief Chepuk, the people of the Red Moon Fortress headed by Asuma were very happy.

They can finally continue to listen to the story.

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...

"Mother-in-law! You are here!"

Emma said in an excited tone toward Ahri's grandmother who was walking slowly towards them.

"Hohoho..." Grandma covered her mouth and smiled, "Sorry, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

In front of grandma, there were people sitting in the Red Moon Fortress on the snow in various postures.

Everyone looked at grandma with a bit of impatient gaze in anticipation.

"Mother-in-law! There is a dead tree that falls to the ground here!" Asuma took grandma's hand and led grandma to a dead tree that was horizontal to the ground.

The snow on the dead trees was just now swept away by Asuma and the others.

Grandma was not polite, and sat directly on this dead tree and folded her hands on her legs.

"Where did I talk about it last time?" asked grandma.

"When there was a white-skinned man who was planning to escape, he ran away, but was blocked by Goro Mashima!" said Asuma.

"Oh, there." Grandma raised her hand and patted her head, "I remembered it."

"That... mother-in-law." Asuma suddenly said in a cautious tone while posing a strange expression, "Is there a way to finish the story today?"

"Hohoho..." Grandma covered her mouth and let out her very unique "Hohohoho" laughter. "The story is coming to an end. Grandma promises you that she can tell the story thoroughly during this break."

After saying that, grandma cleared her throat and then said slowly:

"That's right, the white-skinned man who was planning to escape on his horse and fled all the way."

"Just as he was about to escape from the village, Goro Mashima jumped out from the side."

"He just stood in front of the white-skinned man who was planning to escape on his horse."

"At this time, there was no extra time and effort to change directions, so the white-skinned man decided to ride a horse and knock Goro Mashima away."

...

Aishoma and others, who were sitting in front of her in various positions, listened to grandma's story intently.

Grandma used to tell young children in the village about heroic epics passed down from generation to generation, so she had already developed the ability to tell stories sharply.

Grandma knew that if she finished Ogata's story too quickly, she would fall into the previous situation where she had nothing to do when she had rest time.

So grandma made a very smart decision - to tell Ogata's story as long as possible.

So, with the storytelling skills she had trained to tell stories to children in the village, my grandmother has not finished telling Ogata's story until now - it has been a few days since then...

In order to avoid the situation where Asuma and the others get tired of listening, grandma also kept a little careful - every time she stopped at the most exciting moment to calm down Asuma and the others' appetite so that Asuma and the others would constantly invite her to tell stories in order to continue listening to the subsequent content.

So—after walking with the villagers of China Village, sitting around grandma’s knees like now and listening to grandma’s talk about the specific process of “save the village by one person” has become something that Asuma and his friends must do every time they rest.

As the protagonist of the story, Okata learned about this shortly after Aheli's grandmother began to tell Esuma and the others about his story.

When Ogata learned that Aheli's grandmother had a way to tell him about his deeds of "saving the village by one person" for so many days...

Okara has listened several times.

The night when the village was attacked, the elderly grandmother did not participate in the battle, but hid at home.

Although she had not witnessed Okata's battle with her own eyes, she had heard about Okata's deeds from different people afterwards, so she had no worries about not having any content, and the content she was told was generally correct.

Through the few times I listened, Okabaya found that my grandmother could tell his story for so long, not through any complicated methods, but just dragging the plot in a very ordinary way.

Grandma can tell him how he draws his sword to block such an action for a minute.

But grandma's eloquence is very good.

Such a watery content can be so scattered by her. Even though she knew she was very delayed, she still couldn't help but want to continue listening.

After listening to grandma's "story meeting", Okata's first feeling was that it was a pity that Aheri's grandma would not be a storyteller.

But grandma is also a conscientious person.

She knew that the Red Moon Fortress was approaching, so she knew that now should be their last rest time.

Therefore, my grandmother did not follow the story of water this time, and ended Okata's story very neatly, so that Asuma and the others would no longer have to be hung up.

At the end of the break, grandma happened to tell the whole story.

When I learned that the story was finally over, whether it was Asuma or the rest of the Red Moon Fortress, they all felt like the big stone in their hearts had fallen to the ground, and a breath that had accumulated between their chests finally came out.

After the rest time passed, the team set off again.

After the team set off again, Asuma took the initiative to ask their Red Moon Fortress residents to walk in the front so that it would be convenient for communication with the compatriots on the city wall to let them go.

There was no reason to refuse such a proposal, so Chepke agreed readily.

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The re-departing team approached the Red Moon Fortress little by little.

The fortress, which could only see a little shadow in a vague way, is now gradually condensed into a clear entity.

When I was using a telescope to observe the Red Moon Fortress for the first time, Okayama didn't see it very clearly because the distance was returned to Taiyuan.

As he got closer and closer to Red Moon Fortress, Okara finally gradually saw the specific appearance of Red Moon Fortress and its surrounding environment.

The Red Moon Fortress is built along the river.

There is a "ji"-shaped river flowing through it around it. The river channel is very wide and the river water is very turbulent, so it will not freeze in such a cold weather.

The Red Moon Fortress was built in this word "媞".

To give an image example - the Red Moon Fortress and the river flowing from it just form the word "天".

The river is the "ji" in the character "fan", and the Red Moon Fortress is the "一" in the character "fan".

The fortress faces the river three times, and Ogata and his team are now approaching the wall that is not close to the river.

The wall without the river has a huge door.

Whether it is the wall or the door, it is all made of wooden.

After getting closer to the Red Moon Fortress and being able to see the appearance of the Red Moon Fortress more clearly, Okara was surprised to find that the Red Moon Fortress was actually a structure of a double city wall.

There is an outer city wall, and there is an inner city wall inside the outer city wall.

The height of the inner city wall is higher than that of the outer city wall.

According to Okayama's visual observation, the height of the outer city wall is about 4.5 meters.

The height of the inner city wall is about 5.5 meters.

This double wall structure has two major benefits.

1: The attacking party must break through two walls in a row before it can take down this fortress.

2: The defense can launch three-dimensional strikes through two walls. Soldiers responsible for melee stand on the outer wall to meet the enemy. Soldiers responsible for long-distance attacks stand on the inner wall higher than the outer wall and shoot down the incoming enemies.

In addition to its double-city wall structure, Red Moon Fortress also has a very remarkable feature.
To be continued...