21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 637 - 633: Charging into Battle on Horseback

The protest demonstration even prepared weapons, clearly demonstrating a premeditated and organized criminal activity.

Although bamboo spears are simple, bamboo as a tough plant has been a good material for making weapons since ancient times. Cut and sharpened directly, it was extremely popular in the Warring States Period of Japan, and even killed many famous samurai.

In the early Warring States Period, before the separation of farmer soldiers from the warrior class, Daimyo lords enlisting farmer soldiers from their lands wouldn't provide each peasant with metal weapons, as that would have been far too wasteful. Bamboo spears, being abundant, easy to produce, and readily available, naturally became the Daimyo lords' weapon of choice for arming farmer soldiers.

Even though it's just a bamboo shaft, bamboo of the thickness of a goose egg is still very tough. Once sharpened at one end, it can easily be lethal if it pierces the body of someone without armor.

Even if it doesn't kill, the circular wound caused by a bamboo spear is difficult to stop bleeding. If injured, in the Warring States Period lacking in medical supplies, one could easily bleed to death.

As for modern society, against unarmed ordinary people, this thing is still very effective. And since bamboo is a building material, getting hold of it requires some effort, but it's much easier than obtaining formal weapons.

The organizer of this demonstration also naturally took advantage of this, getting bamboo spears through congregants in construction and then distributing them to these organized believers, intent on carrying out what they considered a divine mission.

Once every person had a bamboo spear in hand, what were originally peace demonstrators turned into violent militants capable of combat.

Seeing his subordinates armed, the organizer of the demonstration immediately called out, "Follow me! The blasphemer is inside that hospital!"

With that, he led this group of "farmer soldiers" in a charge towards the hospital.

Akabane Yuu, of course, saw all of this. As a police officer, he was dispatched to prevent these demonstrators from causing trouble.

However, clearly, his superiors hadn't expected that even in the 21st century, people would still resort to playing with bamboo spears and farmer soldiers, relics of centuries past. But it must be said, for something that was popular for hundreds of years in the age of cold weapons, its practicality was first-rate.

Akabane Yuu certainly had a gun on him, but the problem was that there were only a dozen or so police officers dispatched, and although they had several dozen rounds for their three handguns, the issue was they were facing hundreds of "farmer soldiers." Moreover, Akabane Yuu dared not to shoot.

Shoot whom? Three handguns could only shoot three people at a time, and the accuracy and lethality of handguns are both very questionable. If one shot doesn't kill, and with just a dozen or so assailants charging at them, a poke from each could be enough to have him considering penning a death poem.

So even though he had already drawn his gun, Akabane Yuu still didn't flip the safety off, but instead organized the officers he brought with him, positioning them in front of the hospital to block these "farmer soldiers," all the while praying that reinforcements would arrive quickly.

With such a commotion happening outside, the hospital naturally received the news and a small uproar ensued.

However, thanks to the previous assault, the hospital's security measures had significantly tightened. Upon seeing the demonstrators heading toward the hospital, the guards had already willingly retreated into the hospital building and locked the doors.

Although the hospital's main doors were glass, they were one-centimeter-thick tempered glass, and not easily smashed.

From the second-floor corridor of the hospital lobby, Chen Yu watched the guards clustered at the door, the police outside, and those "farmer soldiers" wanting to charge, feeling this was all a tedious farce.

Let us contemplate the Warring States Period: Could a few hundred farmer soldiers ever storm a castle guarded by a dozen Samurai? Assuming, of course, that the so-called castles in Japan were nothing more than mountain strongholds surrounded by walls.

If the siege lasted several days, and if there were also Samurai amongst the attackers, then it might be possible. But relying solely on farmer soldiers to swarm like ants... the outcome would likely just be to grant the Samurai a tally of heads.

However, Chen Yu did not sense the presence of any transcendent beings among those demonstrators wielding bamboo spears outside; they were just ordinary people.

"Miss Kusanagi, will your Metropolitan Police Department just stand by and watch the mob besiege the hospital?" Chen Yu turned to Kusanagi Ritsuko, who was standing by his side. He knew that if she were to intervene, she alone could subdue all those hundreds of "farmer soldiers" outside.

However, in any country, the police do not engage in violence with the public lightly, because the police are there to protect the people, not to suppress them.

Even so, in protecting the majority, the police will still use force against the minority, particularly when that minority shows a tendency toward violence.

"Reinforcements from the Metropolitan Police Department are on their way, they've dispatched a mounted police unit, which should disperse these people quickly," Kusanagi Ritsuko was of course informed as the incident unfolded, and after she inquired with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters, she knew that reinforcements would soon arrive.

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Chen Yu nodded in reluctant agreement, "Alright then, just make sure not to disturb the patients in the hospital."

The mounted police unit charging the farmer soldiers—it really was a throwback! With a slight sense of nostalgia, Chen Yu made his way downstairs.

Compared to the noisy farmer soldiers outside, it was the "Ninja" who had penetrated the "castle" that piqued Chen Yu's interest.

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The siege on the University Hospital affiliated with the Tokyo University Medical School was a significant event in Japan, given it was the most prestigious of its kind in the country, with many of its patients being wealthy and influential. Upon receiving the news, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters dispatched the one and only mounted police unit in Tokyo, along with several dozen fully-armed riot police.

The riot police, armed with shields and batons, quickly encircled the "farmer soldiers." Although a bamboo spear wasn't a bad weapon, it was ineffective against resin shields, at best causing the policeman behind it to stumble.

After all, this was just a group of demonstrators who couldn't even be classified as rioters. What could they achieve with bamboo spears?

The Heisei period layabouts were not simply referring to those absorbed in the two-dimensional world. These troublemakers were also physically idle and could not measure up to the stamina of the farming peasants; they were unsuitable even as farmer soldiers.

Once the police completed their shield encirclement, the horses and the mounted police unit brought in by transport vehicles began their charge at these rioters.

Of course, even though it was termed a cavalry charge, the mounted police unit did not use weapons, nor did the horses actually run — it was more about dispersing the crowd.

Yet even so, these so-called "farmer soldiers" crumbled at the touch, quickly abandoning their bamboo spears and scattering in disarray under the mounted police unit's advance, resulting in capture by the waiting riot police.