I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Today is the long-lost 10 o'clock update... Well, it's not very accurate, a few minutes late~

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Gamo is the kind of person who is good at killing enemies with "agility".

He ran and writhed among the rising mob, and drove straight through the enemy ranks.

The heroic figure of waving the Taidao as easily as if burning a lamp grass, causing the enemy's body to shatter, is not inferior to Sheng Tianmu and the others. Wherever Kamo went, the enemy group retreated like waves.

The "Aizu people" did not shout like the "Sendai people".

The generals of the "Sendai Congregation" scrambled to kill every enemy in front of them, lest they fall behind.

Their roaring and rattling can be clearly heard even if they are several streets away.

This is not the case with "Aizu Public".

They are silent.

Everyone kept their mouths shut and kept silent.

Silently lined up in a tight formation, silently carrying the weapons in their hands, silently following behind Gamo, silently beheading every enemy in front of him.

One is that everyone demonstrates bravery, and the other is to form a tight formation to kill the enemy-the atmosphere and style of play of the two troops are completely different, but the efficiency of killing the enemy is comparable.

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"Forward! Forward!" Sheng Tianmu roared, "Don't let anyone go! Aizu people are not far away! Don't let Aizu people see our joke!"

Sheng Tianmu's voice fell, and a series of call signs sounded, responding to his words.

For the people of Sendai, there is nothing more inspiring than "the people of Aizu are right next to you".

The Sendai samurai have always disliked the Aizu samurai.

The reason is that too many people think that the Aizu Domain is the number one military domain in the Northeast.

This made the Sendai samurai very unhappy.

They felt—in terms of martial prowess, they would never lose to the Aizu samurai.

But I have never had the opportunity to prove this to the world. Since the opening of the Edo shogunate, except for the "Battle of Osaka" aimed at destroying the Toyotomi family in the early days of the shogunate, there has been no such incident in the past two hundred years. A large-scale war broke out.

The Sendai samurai couldn't find a chance to compete with the Aizu samurai.

Therefore, the Sendai samurai cherished this opportunity to form a coalition with the shogunate and crusade against the Ainu.

In this battle, to achieve a record far more impressive than that of the Aizu people-this is the small goal that many Sendai samurai set for themselves in this war.

After hearing Sheng Tianmu's words "Aizu people are not far away", every Sendai warrior fought the enemy more courageously as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

Sheng Tianmu himself was more motivated than everyone present.

Although his personality is simple, he is also a rough and fine person.

When he learned that Sadanobu Matsudaira asked them "Sendai people" to go and put down the mob who suddenly rose up, Sheng Tianmu was keenly aware that this was most likely the test paper given to them by Sadanobu Matsudaira.

Afterwards, after learning that the "Aizu people" were going out with them, but they were in charge of different areas, Sheng Tianmu confirmed that his judgment was correct - Matsudaira Sadanobu was to test their "Sendai people" and "Aizu people" .

Sheng Tianmu had heard about it before—Sadanobu Matsudaira, who was not familiar with Aizu and Sendai, was very curious about the specific strength of Aizu and Sendai.

Mr. Laozhong probably wants to test the strength of Sendai and Aizu by taking advantage of the suppression of the mob this time!

Whenever this thought appeared in Sheng Tianmu's mind, he felt endless power gushing out from his body.

I don't want to be even half a step behind Aizu! Let the old middle-aged adults see the power of their Sendai!

With this thought, Rangsheng Tianmu threw himself into the battle with all his might.

The reason why Sheng Tianmu can become the top of the "Seven Spears of Xianzhou" is not just because of his superior martial arts.

He can have such a high status in the army, and his strong "concentration" is also inseparable.

Even if you are in a chaotic battlefield, even if you are fighting until you are covered in blood, Sheng Tianmu can keep calm at all times and observe the battlefield with calm eyes.

Ever since he broke into the battlefield, Sheng Tianmu discovered that there was a guy who had been frequently making orders to the others since just now.

The distance was a little far, and Sheng Tianmu couldn't quite hear what he was shouting.

But his third eye can see all his movements.

This guy's status must not be low - Sheng Tianmu firmly believed in his heart.

In fact, Sheng Tianmu's judgment was not wrong.

He thinks that the person whose status is not low is the one who caused all these incidents-Ma Ka Nao.

Since just now, Sheng's third eye has consciously moved in the direction of Maca Nao.

Along the way, no one is invincible.

This gang of thugs who suddenly rose up has begun to show signs of defeat.

There are fewer and fewer people who dare to fight to the end.

More and more people dropped their weapons and the yellow and white things they had just looted from everywhere, and ran away in a hurry.

When they aimed their arrows and spear points at the unarmed civilians just now, they acted like wolves and tigers.

After being struck by the thunder of the army generals, they cried and ran away with their heads in their hands.

"What a pity...!" Sheng Tianmu clenched his teeth, thinking it's a pity.

He was a little annoyed now - if he had more soldiers under his command, he could send some of his men to go around the long way, blocking the escape route of these thugs, so that these thugs had no way to escape.

Just when Sheng Tianmu was secretly annoyed, he suddenly saw the flags appearing one after another.

Army banner embroidered with shamrocks.

Clover - the family that ruled the entire Edo shogunate: the family crest of the Tokugawa family.

The military flag embroidered with clover appeared - it is self-evident what this represents.

"The shogunate army...?" Sheng Tianmu murmured.

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Regardless of whether the "Sendai Crowd" or the "Aizu Crowd" was in charge of the battlefield, countless thugs ran for their lives in a direction away from the "Sendai Crowd" and "Aizu Crowd".

Now they no longer think about the grand ambition of avenging Kazuto and establishing a country that belongs exclusively to their Ainu people.

I don't want any money or property anymore.

In order to escape faster, those who participated in the robbery just now have thrown all the things they just robbed all over the street.

There is only one idea left in their minds now: escape for their lives.

They just want to escape at this time.

The clang of armor colliding was gradually forgotten by them.

These people, who thought they were getting farther and farther away from Kazuto's army, all showed joyful smiles.

It's a pity-the smiles on their faces didn't last long.

Because—they suddenly heard the sound of armor clashing and the sound of orderly and powerful footsteps in front of them.

Soldiers in all-black armor lined up neatly in square formations appeared in front of their eyes and in front of their retreat.

The military flags painted with three-leaf sunflower patterns on each side are conducive to the sound of the wind in the queue of these soldiers who suddenly appeared.

A soldier of the shogunate army.

These soldiers of the shogunate army did not carry knives or guns.

Instead, hold a musket.

A samurai dressed as an attendant held up a military fan with a clover pattern in his hand, and shouted loudly:

"Raise the gun!"

Click, click, click, click...

The sound of the musket being raised was heard.

These soldiers who suddenly appeared were all iron gunners in the shogunate army.

The matchlocks of the muskets in their hands were all lit and ready to fire at any time.

Japan has always underestimated firearms, so the firearms used by the current Japanese army are exactly the same as those used in the Warring States Period 200 years ago, without any change.

The musket was still an arquebus.

The artillery is still the same kind of bronze cannon.

In the past 200 years, the development of firearms in Japan can be said to have been completely stagnant.

But—although compared with the rifled guns currently used by Westerners, arquebuses are old weapons that can enter museums, but muskets are muskets after all, and their power is hard to resist with the human body.

After the soldiers in the first row had raised their matchlock guns and pointed their muzzles at the thugs who were fleeing in a hurry, the commanding officer swung the fan in his hand violently.

"shooting!"

boom! boom! boom! boom! boom……

Intensive gunshots like popping beans sounded.

These iron gunners don't need to care whether their guns hit the enemy at all.

Matchlock guns are poorly aimed, but standing in a row and shooting together will always hit the enemy.

A row of bullets roared away, and a mob fell to the ground screaming.

"Change column!"

The Commander in charge yelled again.

The first row of soldiers who fired the bullet just now held their matchlock guns and quickly retreated to the end of the square formation, and then used skilled movements to fill the muzzle with new projectiles, put gunpowder, and light the matchlock.

The original second row of soldiers has now become the first row of soldiers.

"Raise the gun!" the general waiter ordered.

The "formerly second row" soldiers who had become soldiers in the first row raised their matchlock guns.

"shooting!"

boom! boom! boom! boom! boom……

Another row of bullets roared towards the fleeing mob.

"Change column!"

The "former second row" soldiers retreated to the back of the phalanx.

The third row of soldiers is now the first row...

The phalanx has 4 rows.

After the soldiers in the 4th row finished firing their guns, the first row of soldiers who returned to the front row had been filled with new projectiles and could shoot at any time.

This tactic is the famous "three-stage strike".

"Three Duan Strike" was first seen in the Ming Dynasty in China.

When the general Mu Ying in the early Ming Dynasty pacified Yunnan, when he used matchlock guns to deal with rebel elephants and other beasts, he felt that the shooting speed of matchlock guns was too slow, so he improved the "three-stage attack" tactic.

As the name suggests, "three-stage attack" is to let soldiers stand in three rows to attack the enemy.

When shooting overhead, the second row prepares, the third row loads, the first row shoots through the gap between the two rows to the last row, the second row goes forward and fires, and the third row fills up the position of the second row. exhaust.

Based on the "three-stage strike" tactic, it can also be derived from "four-stage strike" and "five-stage strike"...

In Japan's Warring States period, the daimyo who almost unified all of Japan - Oda Nobunaga also used a similar "three-stage strike" tactic.

When Oda Nobunaga launched a strategic decisive battle with the powerful princes at that time, the Takeda family, he used the "three-stage strike" tactic to give the Takeda family a head-on blow.

Oda Nobunaga first mobilized 3,000 matchlock guns, and then placed anti-horse fences in front of the shooters.

Then arrange the soldiers in groups of three, let the soldier with the highest shooting accuracy act as the shooter, and the other two are responsible for the assembly of bullets and matchlocks.

Oda Nobunaga relied on this tactic to give the Takeda Legion a deep sense of what "the times have changed."

At present, the shogunate army is adopting the "four-stage strike" tactic against these mobs - the shooters line up in four rows and spread a non-stop barrage against the fleeing mobs.

In the front, there were "Aizu people" and "Sendai people" chasing and fighting fiercely, and then the iron gunners of the shogunate army spread barrages on them.

These thugs who originally wanted to escape immediately ran into a mess like headless chickens.

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Back in time not long ago——

Matsumae Domain, Matsumae Castle——

According to common sense, if a riot breaks out in Matsumae Castle, it should be quelled by the Matsumae clan's mansion.

But Sadanobu Matsudaira took over the overall command of the suppression of the chaos by himself, and said to the Matsumae domain that you don't need to do anything, and I will arrange everything.

After taking over the supreme command from the vassal mansion, Matsudaira Jonobu quickly conveyed an order, asking the "Aizu people" and "Sendai people" to go to meet and put down the rebellion in the castle, and Tachibana, standing respectfully beside Matsudaira Jonobu, asked:

"My lord, only let the Aizu and Sendai feudal soldiers who stayed in the city go to quell the chaos. The number may be too small."

As soon as Tachibana finished speaking, Lao Zhong said:

"Of course I won't just let the soldiers of Aizu and Sendai go to quell the chaos."

"You have to add an insurance policy."

"Tachibana, go and find Inamori yourself."

"Let him immediately send a team of iron gunners. How many people to send is up to him. Let the iron gunners block the back of those thugs."

"Not one of those thugs will be spared."

"yes!"

Tachibana shouted loudly, then lifted the hakama corner of the lower body, and quickly retreated from Matsudaira Sadanobu's room.

After Tachibana retreated, Matsudaira Sadanobu was the only one left in the room.

With his hands behind his back, Matsudaira Sadanobu walked slowly to the window again.

From his position, he couldn't see the place where the riot took place, and he couldn't hear any sounds of killing or smashing. Looking out the window, the outside was peaceful, and he couldn't tell that there was a riot happening in this city at the moment. .

Just standing by the window and looking straight at the scenery outside the window, Matsudaira Sadanobu still had no expression on his face, making it hard to see what he was thinking right now.

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Back in time to the present—

Although Sheng Tianmu couldn't see the majestic shogunate army because of the distance and azimuth.

But according to the military flags with cloverleaf patterns fluttering in the wind, as well as the dense arquebus firing, Sheng Tianmu can roughly imagine that those thugs who are fleeing should be beaten to the crap right now. Bar.

However, after seeing the military flag with the three-leaf sunflower pattern appearing, Sheng Tianmu was also a little upset.

The appearance of the shogunate army in such a timely manner shows that arrangements have been made in advance.

When the order was issued to let them "Sendai people" and "Aizu people" go out, they might also order the iron gunners of the shogunate army to attack and block the rear of the mob.

Sheng Tianmu can tell that these iron gunners of the shogunate army who were sent to block the back of the thugs, in addition to preventing too many thugs from escaping, must also prevent their "Sendai crowd" and "Aizu crowd" from failing to quell the chaos.

This feeling of being underestimated by himself and his subordinates made Sheng Tianmu a little uncomfortable.

But he didn't feel happy, he didn't dare to tell others about his grievances.

The shogunate is actually the lord of the world (the emperor's court is in name, and no vassal state is like the emperor), so Shengtianmu dare not say a word of complaint against the shogunate.

Sheng Tianmu was very dissatisfied with the command of the shogunate - if such words spread, it would definitely have some impact on his future career.

Sheng Tianmu took off the evil ghost mask on his face, wiped the sweat off his face, and discarded all these distracting thoughts in his mind.

When he put the mask back on, he would look like he was staring at some treasure, and cast his gaze back on the target he had been paying attention to and staring at since just now.

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The sudden appearance of the shogunate iron gunner completely collapsed the morale of the thugs, which was already on the verge of freezing point.

Many people have never seen an arquebus with their own eyes, so many people don't know what the loud "bang" sounds are all about. They only know that these sounds are very dangerous, and every time they sound, someone will definitely die. Shouting and wailing, he fell to the ground.

Maca's complexion... To describe it in one sentence, it was like a dead person.

He has been preparing for this day for too long.

Gathering so many subordinates, and preparing a sufficient number of bows, arrows, wooden guns and other weapons, just for this day, to avenge Kazuto, and take the first step towards his ideal of establishing a country that belongs exclusively to their Ainu people .

However, in the end, he didn't even see the shadow of the Matsumae feudal mansion, and his troops were beaten to pieces.

His subordinates are much more unreliable than expected - if they obediently obey orders and don't rob houses, their speed will not be slowed down.

The appearance of Heren's army was also much faster than he had imagined.

But it's useless to think about anything now.

He had already seen that all the subordinates within his vision lost the will to fight and ran for their lives in a panic.

Maca himself has actually lost the will to fight now.

Now he also just wants to escape quickly.

After recovering from the shock and annoyance of the failure, Maca Nao gritted his teeth, and then followed the surrounding subordinates to flee for their lives.

Maca cheered herself up in her heart:

——As long as you are alive, you still have a chance!

However—just as he turned his body around and was about to run for his life, he suddenly heard a strange noise behind him.

It was the sound of footsteps approaching.

Maca turned her head in a panic and looked back—it was the Third Eye.

Sheng Tianmu held his Jie Fei, and like a tiger descending the mountain, he ran straight towards Maca Nao.

Although wearing heavy armor, Sheng Tianmu's movements are not slow at all.

Maca Nao felt that he just blinked his eyes, and Sheng's third eye had already "teleported" to him.

call--!

Jie Fei slammed at Maca from top to bottom.

Maca Nao subconsciously raised the wooden spear in his hand to block.

Click!

His wooden spear lasted only for a moment before it was smashed by Sheng Tianmu Jie Fei.

Jie Fei, who broke through the defense of the wooden spear, hit Maca Nao's left shoulder heavily.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--!"

Maca let out a scream, and then clutched her deformed left shoulder and fell to the ground and rolled around.

Sheng Tianmu was merciful, but only shattered his left shoulder, but did not kill him.

These guys who looked like high-ranking commanders, capturing them alive were far more valuable than killing them, and they could get more military exploits—this was the only truth on the battlefield.

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Matsumae Domain, Matsumae Castle——

Matsudaira Sadanobu, who stayed in Matsumae Castle, has been paying attention to the suppression of the sudden rioters.

The messenger responsible for communicating to Matsudaira Jonobu at any time constantly shuttles through the corridor connecting Matsudaira Jonobu's room.

No matter what news came, Matsudaira Sadanobu maintained a very calm and expressionless appearance.

"My lord!"

Another messenger came to Matsudaira Sadanobu's room.

"The mob has completely collapsed, and the generals are currently hunting down the fish that slipped through the net, and captured the commander of one of the mob alive!"

What the herald sent was a complete victory.

Tachibana, who was kneeling on Matsudaira Sadanobu's face, showed joy.

And Matsudaira Sadanobu still maintains a calm appearance.

"Understood." Matsudaira Sadanobu nodded, "Let's step back."

"Yes!" The messenger who brought the good news stepped back quickly.

After the messenger retreated, Matsudaira Sadanobu took a deep breath, and then said slowly:

"It seems... Gamo and Sheng Tianmu are quite capable."

"I just hope they can perform like this when the real war starts."

When talking about the word "real war", Matsudaira Sadanobu specially emphasized his tone.

"The high-ranking generals in Aizu and Sendai are not cowards with an empty mouth." Tachibana on the side said, "You can feel a little more at ease."

"En." Matsudaira Sadanobu nodded lightly, "The riots of those thugs came in a timely manner. It gave me a chance to test Gamo, Sheng Tianmu and others."

"...It's a pity..." Lihua lowered his head and was silent for a while, then said softly, "These thugs...caused many civilians in the city to death..."

Hearing Tachibana's words, Matsudaira Sadanobu's expression remained unchanged.

"These thugs not only gave me the opportunity to test Gamo and Sheng Tianmu."

"It also sent us the excellent...reason to go to war with the Red Moon Fortress."

Speaking of this, Matsudaira Sadanobu's eyes shot out a sharp light.

"It's a pity that so many ordinary people died."

Matsudaira Sadako continued in a nonchalant tone.

"But take these casualties as a necessary sacrifice to allow us to test Aizu, Sendai, and have an excellent case for war."

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While a bloody battle was erupting at Matsumae Castle——

"Machi, relax your waist! Clamp your legs!"

"I'm already relaxed, I'm already clamped...Yeah!"

Ogata: (╬▔皮▔) "Didn't I tell you to relax your waist and tighten your legs? Look, you slipped down again!"

A-cho: ??? "I have really relaxed my waist and tightened my legs."

A-cho, who looked aggrieved, tried hard to get his body upright on the horseback again.

This place is a certain place in the wild a little far away from the village of Kina. The ground is flat and there are no obstacles such as trees around.

At this time, Ogata was teaching Ah-cho how to ride a horse.

Before Chepke left the village and went to Heyezhe—that is, the Red Moon Fortress, Xufang proposed to Chepke: He wanted to take away the two horses captured from the white man and some weapons. .

As Ogata had expected, Chepke and the others would never refuse their reasonable and easy request.

In that fierce battle, many horses died or escaped, and a total of 16 horses were successfully captured.

When picking horses, Skulucci, who is a Cossack and has a good knowledge of horses, came to help.

He helped Ogata and the others choose the two best and most docile horses.

He picked out a reddish-brown horse for Ogata.

Then, in order to take care of Ating's height of only 1.55 meters, Skulucci specially chose a slightly shorter horse with black and purple hair when picking a horse for Ating.

By the way—both horses are fillies.

This horse should be with them for a long time, so Ogata and Atachi each gave their horses a name.

Ogata is not very good at picking names.

Because Ogata's horse has reddish-brown hair and the color is like a carrot, Ogata named his horse casually: "radish".

And A-Machi is also named according to the color of her hair, and she is not very good at naming.

She thought her horse's coat color was like a grape, so she named her horse "Grape".

After picking out the horses, Obeyo began to teach Ah-machi how to ride a horse.

Then... the scenes that made Ogata deeply understand the truth of "everyone has his own strengths and weaknesses" appeared.

A-Ming seems to be particularly lacking in horseback riding talent.

No matter how many times Ogata said "tighten your legs and relax your waist", and even pointed out A-Machi himself, A-Machi just couldn't grasp the trick and either slipped off the horse's back or fell directly from the horse's back down.

If it weren't for Ogata's quick eyesight and quick hands, every time A-Ming was about to fall, he would rush up to hug her in time.

Otherwise, after falling from the horse so many times, A-Ming must have had a bruised nose and a swollen face.

Ogata wondered if what he did with A-cho before made A-cho develop very bad habits.

When Ogata rode a horse on top of him before, Ogata would support her with both hands.

Now there is no one who can support Ah-Ming on horseback, and Ah-Machi felt very uncomfortable, so he couldn't grasp the knack for a long time.

"oops!"

A-Ming slid off the horse again.

Ogata: ┗|｀O′|┛哩~~ "Didn't I tell you to clamp your legs tightly?"

A-cho: (.﹏.*)

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Maybe it’s because I’ve worked too hard on the daily explosions a few days ago, so I didn’t feel very comfortable yesterday, and I felt dizzy and swollen, a feeling that I didn’t have enough rest, so I wrote a little less today, today I only have 7000 words—but This kind of word count is quite a lot~

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