I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

As soon as Konnosuke's words fell, there were echoes one after another:

"Konnosuke-sama is right! You guys calm down!"

"There are so many soldiers of the shogunate outside, even if you guys have three heads and six arms, you are not their opponents!"

"What do you want to do? Don't you want to open the gate and fight with the soldiers of the shogunate?"

"Don't go looking for death!"

...

Ogata quietly listened to the criticisms of the people around him.

After their criticisms subsided a little, he softly repeated what Kinnosuke had just said to him:

"How could it be their opponent...?"

After repeating what Konnosuke said to him just now, Ogata smiled slightly at Konnosuke:

"You're right."

"The opponent is nearly a hundred well-armed and strictly trained shogunate soldiers."

"Even with the help of two people who don't know the actual strength of Mamiya and Mucun, I'm not sure I can defeat them."

"But ah—"

Ogata suddenly changed the subject.

"Master Konnosuke, do you know when a person is finished?"

"Eh?" Hearing Ogata's question, Konnosuke showed a dazed expression.

"There is only one situation in which a person is finished. That is when he has completely given up fighting."

Ogata's tone and expression gradually became serious.

"As long as you continue to fight, there is still hope of victory, and it is not considered a loss."

"Even if the odds are slim, I will never put down the sword in my hand."

"After all——" When he said this, a faint smile returned to Ogata's face,

"I am a ronin who lives by the sword and dies by the sword."

After all, Ogata seemed too lazy to talk to Konnosuke and the others, hugged the bundle of swords in his arms, and walked away.

Before they walked two steps away, a girl standing not far behind Ogata looked at their backs with a puzzled face and asked:

"Is there any point in this mortal battle?"

"After the soldiers of the shogunate rushed in, you might not be able to kill even one of you, and then you were stabbed to death by random guns!"

"Being stabbed to death by the soldiers of the shogunate... maybe."

As soon as the girl's voice fell, Xu Fang replied without looking back.

"It's just—there are two kinds of the highest level of courage in human beings."

"One is to face the unknown ahead with courage."

"The other is to keep moving forward in the face of what is doomed to be a tragedy."

"When the sky collapses, there should always be a few brave people like this who stand up."

"If no one comes forward, then I will be the vanguard!"

"Konnosuke-sama, take the villagers up to the second or third floor."

"You stay on the first floor, but it will affect our battle."

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At Ogata's request, the villagers led by Konnosuke, including the young men who had been blocking the door just now, all fled to the third floor of the mansion.

Without those few young men blocking the door, the overwhelmed "squeak" sound of the door became louder.

From the louder and louder "squeaks", it is not difficult to judge-this door will not last long.

In a short time, nearly a hundred soldiers of the shogunate army would break through the gate of the mansion, swarm up, and rush into the mansion with teeth and claws.

The four of Ogata were standing in the corridor facing the gate of the mansion right now.

After looking at the door that was being knocked into a "booming" sound, Mamiya smiled wryly and asked Ogata:

"Then—Ogata-kun, we have brought all the swords we have collected so far according to your order, can you tell us your clever plan to defeat the enemy?"

Just now, after hearing from the maid on the third floor that the shogunate army was attacking, Ogata pondered for a while, then said to Mamiya and the others:

"Take all the swords we have collected so far. If my plan goes well, I might be able to rely on the terrain to kill all the incoming shogunate troops."

Ogata didn't say what his plan was on the spot, but asked Mamiya and the others to take all the swords they had collected so far.

After beheading Sotaro and his party just now, Ogata and others adhered to the concept of not wasting, and collected all the swords of Sotaro and the others.

After supplementing the swords that Sotaro and the others can still use, Ogata and his party currently have a considerable number of swords: 29 swords and 36 wakizashis.

Although they couldn't figure out why Ogata asked to bring so many knives with him, Mamiya and the others decided to believe in the plan that Ogata said, and followed his orders to bring all the knives.

"Mamiya, Makimura, Atachi." After Mamiya's question fell, Ogata threw the knife in his arms to the ground at his feet casually, and said to the three people, "This is Konnosuke's The layout of this mansion is very special."

"There is no back door, and the only entrance is this gate on the first floor."

"After entering the gate, we have to go through the corridor that is neither long nor short under our feet before we can go to other places on the first floor, or reach the stairs leading to the second and third floors."

"so--"

Speaking of this, a meaningful smile appeared on Ogata's face.

"Do you still remember how 'General Swordsman' Ashikaga Yoshiki fought against the entire army by himself?"

As soon as Ogata's words fell, Mamiya raised his eyebrows, and then chuckled a few times: "So that's how it is..."

"Help me set up a position to meet the enemy." Ogata said softly, "Although I don't know why the shogunate suddenly went crazy and suddenly sent troops up to kill people."

"But since they are here to take my life, I will take their lives back without hesitation."

"I will stay here and give the shogunate a head-on blow."

"After setting up the position for me, it's up to you whether you want to follow me to meet the shogunate army, or take refuge on the second or third floor."

"Ogata-kun." Mamiya shrugged helplessly, "Stay here to help you or go upstairs to take refuge? Aren't you asking this question in vain?"

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boom!

After commanding the soldiers to carry out a new round of collisions towards the gate in front of him, the officer finally saw that the gate in front of him was obviously deformed to the extreme.

Looking at the gate that was finally about to fail, no matter whether it was an officer or other ordinary soldiers, all of them were happy.

"Keep on!" the officer yelled. "This door is going to fail! One more push and it will be knocked open!"

Encouraged by the officers, the soldiers, whose morale was high because the gate was finally deformed, were gearing up and their fighting spirit became even more high-spirited.

"one two Three!"

After shouting the neat slogan again, the dozen or so soldiers who were in charge of hitting the wall rallied again and slammed into the gate in front of them.

boom!

Boom!

This time, it wasn't just the sound of the door being slammed.

There was also the sound of the door being knocked down and falling heavily to the ground.

The dozens of soldiers who were in charge of knocking on the door fell to the ground after the wooden door was finally overwhelmed, and the rest of the soldiers who were behind the dozens of soldiers who had already been ready to go immediately stepped over the ten. Several comrades who fell to the ground followed the door and rushed into the house along the door that was knocked open.

However, as soon as they rushed into the house, the soldiers were all frightened by the scene in front of them, stopped in their tracks, and froze in place.

Behind the gate of the mansion is a corridor that is neither long nor short.

At this moment, the floor of this corridor and the walls on both sides are all filled with knives and wakizashis. There are dozens of them in total.

Dozens of swords are densely scattered throughout this corridor, making this corridor look like a forest - a "steel forest" with swords as trees and flowers.

In the middle of this "forest", there are 3 people standing.

3... people who seem to be waiting for their arrival.