I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Kyoto, Nijo Castle.

Shen Shan, who was sitting in the sedan chair, opened the window on the side, poked his head out along the open window, and looked forward.

Ahead is the only entrance and exit between Nijo Castle and the outside world - Higashi Otemon.

As the headquarters of the generals of the Edo shogunate in Kyoto, Nijo Castle is structured as a "city within a city".

The periphery of Ertiao City not only has a tall city wall, but also a wide moat outside the city wall.

Surrounded by walls and moats, Nijo Castle has only one entrance—the Higashi Otemon Gate on the east side.

The reason why the only entrance and exit of Nijo Castle is located in the east is to make the main gate of Nijo Castle face the direction of Edo Castle.

However, after all, Nijo Castle is only the palace of the shogun, not a fortress castle specially used to resist foreign enemies. Therefore, in order to show the financial resources and authority of the shogunate, Higashi Otemon, as the only entrance and exit of Nijo Castle, was built very gorgeously.

The copper doorposts of the Higashi Otemon Gate are all covered with beautiful gold leaf, which reflects dazzling light under the candlelight.

After looking forward, Kamiyama saw a young man in black standing on the left and right sides of Higashi Otemon.

As soon as the sedan chair on Mount Kamiyama approached the Higashi Otemon Gate, the two young men in black trotted over and asked who it was.

"Kyoto Town Pursuit, Kamiyama Eshinosuke." Kamiyama reported his name in a calm tone.

After some inspections, it was confirmed that the person sitting in the sedan chair was indeed Kyoto Machiho himself, and one of the two youths bowed respectfully towards the sacred mountain.

"Master Shenshan, please allow us to inspect your sedan chair."

Shenshan nodded slightly.

After the young man opened the sedan chair door and looked into the sedan chair, his eyebrows raised slightly in surprise.

Inside the sedan chair was not only the sacred mountain, but also a woman and a young girl.

Although the sedan chair was fairly spacious, it was still a bit crowded with 3 people sitting in it.

"Master Shenshan, may I ask who these two people are...?"

"My family.

"Shen Shan said, "The banquet tonight is allowed to bring family members, you should know this too, right?" "

"Of course I know." After lightly nodding his head, the young man briefly inspected the sedan chair.

After confirming that there was nothing abnormal in the sedan chair, the young man lowered the sedan chair door again, stepped back two steps, and saluted respectfully toward the holy mountain.

"Master Shenshan, please enter the city!"

Shenshan did not immediately order the person carrying the sedan chair to send him into Erjo City.

Instead, he looked up and down the two black-clothed youths guarding the Higashi-Otemon gate several times with somewhat curious eyes.

"...Are you two ninjas from Shiranui?" Kamiyama asked.

"Exactly."

Long before, Shenshan had heard about the cooperation between the shogunate and Shiranui.

As soon as he cooperated with the shogunate, Shiranui received a big task from the shogunate - to guard Nijo Castle when Owari Domain daimyo Tokugawa Munemu-sama held a banquet in Nijo Castle.

"Just the two of you guarding the gate?" Shenshan asked.

"Two people are enough." The ninja who inspected the sedan chair on Shenshan just now chuckled a few times, "This is Ertiao City. In the whole world, who would dare to enter Ertiao City to steal or attack Ertiao City? So it is enough to send two people to guard Ertiao City !"

Regarding the ninja's words, Shenshan was noncommittal.

To some extent, the task assigned by the shogunate to Shiranui was extremely easy.

Nijo Castle is considered the safest place in Japan.

Nijo Castle is the symbol of power of the shogunate.

Whether it's a vicious thief or a vicious vandal, no one in the world would dare to do anything to Ertiao Castle.

The last time Nijo Castle was attacked was when Akechi Mitsuhide launched the "Honnoji Change" in the 10th year of Tensho more than two hundred years ago.

Akechi Mitsuhide, who rebelled, commanded the army to besiege Nijo Castle tightly, and will besiege and kill Oda Nobunaga's eldest son, Oda Nobunaga, who was trapped in Nijo Castle.

After learning that the shogunate gave Shiranui the task of guarding Nijo Castle, Kamiyama saw what the shogunate planned to do: the shogunate planned to let Shiranui mix his qualifications and achievements.

It wasn't long before Shiranui reached a cooperation with the shogunate, and it needs enough achievements to convince those who are prejudiced against ninjas or who are not optimistic about this cooperation.

As for guarding Nijo Castle, which is an easy and meaningful task, it is very suitable for Shiranui to mix his qualifications and achievements.

After casually saying "You have worked hard" and "Keep working hard", Shenshan lowered the window of the sedan chair, and then signaled the person who carried the sedan chair to set off.

After the sedan chair passed through the Higashi Otemon Gate and entered Nijo Castle, Kamiyama lowered his voice and said to the woman sitting in front of him:

"Mrs. Inaba, Miss Inaba, later... I'll leave it to you two!"

Although there was a slight look of fear on their faces, Inaba's wife and daughter both nodded firmly.

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Kyoto, Sanji Street.

"Quick! Get rid of him!"

"Form a human wall! Form a human wall!"

The enemies wearing the Nanman body also realized that the guy who suddenly shot out from the ceiling was not a simple thing, so they hurriedly reorganized their formation.

After forming a dense human wall connected from the left side of the corridor to the right side of the corridor, this human wall made "click" and "click" on the one side, which was enough to make people feel toothache. Come quickly.

For the wall of people rushing straight towards him, Ogata seemed to have not seen it, and still looked calm.

【Ding! Using "Breath of Source", the reflex nerves temporarily increase by 5 points, and the concentration improves]

[Current reflex nerve value: 14 points]

【Increase concentration】

While slowly adjusting his breathing to the "breath of the source", Ogata turned his gaze over the human wall in front of him and looked towards the back of the human wall.

To be precise——looking at the guy who was giving orders to others just now and hiding behind the human wall.

"Is that guy the chief general of this group..." After muttering like this, Ogata shook the haori on his body, and quickly walked towards the human wall in front of him.

When he was about to collide with this human wall, Ogata stepped forward suddenly, and then jumped straight up.

After jumping into the air, Ogata used the shoulder of an enemy below him as a pedal, stepped on the shoulder of the enemy and jumped directly behind the wall of people.

There are only 9 people forming the human wall, and the thin human wall allows Ogata to easily jump over it.

After jumping over the human wall and landing with both feet, Ogata did not stop. Rush towards the general who is hiding behind the human wall!

Unexpectedly, Ogata would jump over the wall of people and take the main formation directly. The general of the gang raised the knife in his hand in a panic, and stabbed Ogata in the chest.

As soon as the knife was thrust out, the chief general felt a blur in front of his eyes - Ogata, who was still in front of him, flashed to his side.

Then, a huge force came from the back of his head——Ogata grabbed his head with his left hand, pulled his head back, and used jujitsu to throw the chief general to the ground, and then swung the big free jab Through its unprotected chin.

Jiu-jitsu was first born in ancient battlefields as a fighting technique of "overcoming rigidity with softness".

Throw the armor on the ground, subdue the enemy, and then use wakizashi or armor to attack those places on the enemy that the armor cannot protect.

"There are... 9 more..."

After taking Da Zizai back, Ogata looked coldly at the remaining nine who hurried back to defend.

The commander who was captured by Ogata and beheaded their commander - the remaining 9 people have begun to panic.

clang!

After using the Dazizaige to open the attack of the person who rushed to the front, Ogata dodged, rushed behind the person, and slashed at the person's back knee with a knife.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--!"

With a shrill scream, the man who was cut by Ogata in the back of the knee knelt down on one knee with a face full of pain.

Ogata didn't just use jujitsu to kill them with one blow.

When the enemy cannot be killed with one blow, take the opportunity to attack the rest of the enemy's body that is not protected by armor and is easy to cut, so as to limit the enemy's actions, such as: the back knee.

Not only will the guy with the slashed back knee be greatly less threatening, but his screams will further damage the morale of other people who are still alive.

At the moment when the commander had been killed by Ogata and his morale had plummeted, the remaining 9 enemies in Nanman's body were also killed by Ogata one by one.

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【Ding! Use Shiranui Ninjutsu Shiranui Jutsu to defeat the enemy]

[Gain 130 personal experience points, 125 experience points for ninjutsu "Shiranui Ninjutsu", and 20 experience points for swordsmanship "Nugo Two Swords Style\