Part 7
The Battle
7.1
The army of Great
Leader Tut of three hundred and fifty, was joined with another one thousand
five hundred of Leader Keo' own rebels. They are camped all around and laying a
siege now. It was a strategy of challenging the other to make the first move.
They were faced off by the Lord Setra nine hundred warriors including the
Second Column of three hundred which had evacuated the non-combatants, now
joined by the hundred odd men and slaves. Lord Setra asked Rini strategized the
battles, and it conferred with the samurai.
"Lord
Noriake, we need your armor to fight them." Rini asked outright but Lord
Noriake feigned off the use of armor. Taisa and him knew its weakness; he would
preserved it for the last battle.
"Leader Rini,
tell us what are the deployment of the rebels?" Taisa asked the Nihonzaru.
Rini outlined the
rebel camps which are split into four; Tut and Micten, Keo main force of seven
hundred, and two other Council Lords; Yurt with five hundred and Meno with
three hundred. The two Lords were of the Council but openly rebelled against
the Lord Setra.
"All of them
covered each corner of the city but Council Lord Yurt and Meno are rivals for
the post of Lord of Chimera. Their warriors are well trained but if we removed
the Lords, we could trade their loyalty to Lord Setra." Leader Rini
reported in but Taisa was not convinced.
"The warriors
like ours, never changed side." Then he paused and apologized. "I
forget we are no more in Nippon. Truly the ways here may differed from
ours."
"Even ours
are degrading daily. Soon we would forget the codes of bushido and deployed our
own whimsical code." Lord Noriake was showing his senile side again as he
forgets the role he was to play. Taisa cut in and asked the other leader of any
other surprises that they have.
"We have none.
But there are the Ryu' we have gathered. If we move them to the enemies, they
are a formidable force. Wild and dangerous." Rini explained of the Ryu
that Taisa have seen the dozen in the underground pens. "We captured them
to hold them here, as their shrieks scared the others to approached the walls.
We think the shrieks are warning of traps."
"They were
hard to capture, and we lost many hunters to these traps too." Rini
explained."But if we released them among the rebels, they would be a foe
that even the Hibagon would fear."
"What happens
if you let loose a young one?" Taisa asked again.
"The young
one would call out for its guardians. They will come in numbers." Rini
spoke out. "We caught a small one once and the pack came to rescue it with
our dead and wounded lined up by the numbers."
"Do we have
any in the pen now?" Taisa asked.
"No. But
there is a pack near the city." That set the trapping into motion.
There are eleven
of them in the pack; seven adults and four young ones. The Nihonzaru does not
have the skills of the farmers in trapping animals. They immediately
coordinated in the building of wooden fences with stakes and nettings. Soon
they got these done, the volunteers of twenty men and twenty Nihonzaru warriors
were on their way to tracked the creatures.
First, they have
to cleared the siege by the rebels.
They split the
group into eight warriors each and each was given the choice to slip through on
their own accord. The five groups are led by Taisa, Gunso, Lord Noriake, Edo
and Rini. They would meet at the designated area behind the enemy line.
It was Gunso group
which got into trouble.
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