I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

The coach's camp——

"Uncle, uncle...!" When several soldiers were about to carry Mogami lying on the plank away, Mogami resisted the severe pain in his chest and asked Sheng Tianmu next to him, "That... The guy who broke into our... big camp...could it really be...that Ogata Issai...? Is he planning...to kill me?"

Even though he tried his best to control it, there was still a bit of fear uncontrollably in Mogami's pupils.

Because of the extreme panic, Mogami at this time couldn't care less about Qiuyue and other outsiders present, and called Sheng Tianmu "uncle".

At this time, he is no longer a young handsome talent who has attracted much attention, but a child who yearns to be protected by his elders.

Mogami, who came from a famous family in the Sendai feudal clan, has enjoyed unimaginable resources since he was a child.

Excellent family genes make him have a tall figure far exceeding the average of this era.

Eating high-quality meals and nourishing the body is far stronger than most of the same age.

Excellent spear masters can be invited to teach spear skills in person.

After becoming an adult, you don't need to do anything more, just relying on your own background, you can get a high official and generous salary in the Sendai Domain.

After becoming an official, because of his uncle Sheng Tianmu secretly supporting him, his official career has always been smooth.

Mogami had never suffered any setbacks—until yesterday.

Yesterday, Mogami felt for the first time what it was like to "almost die"...

Ogata charged straight at him with a knife, and the image of himself being almost cut was deeply imprinted in the depths of Mogami's mind...Mogami felt that he would never forget this image in his life, and when he thought about it, his whole body trembled cold sweat...

As of yesterday, Mogami was still able to shout outrightly: "A samurai should become a 'death maniac', and should be fanatically obsessed with death! Don't be afraid of death!"

But after encountering yesterday's incident where he almost went to see Amaterasu, Mogami no longer dared to utter these words confidently...

He already knows what "death" is and how terrifying "death" is, and he already knows the horror of death and the beauty of life.

When I thought of Ogata Yidao Zhai coming to seek revenge, I only felt fear and panic.

What "dignity of a samurai" has long been forgotten.

"... Mogami, calm down." Sheng Tianmu said in a deep voice, "Whether the attacking enemy is Ogata Yidao Zhai is yet to be known."

"Even if Ogata Yidaosai really came to kill us, we don't need to be afraid of him! No matter how powerful he is, he is only one person. With 3,000 troops, we have no reason to lose to a single-handed Yidaosai."

The number "3000" seemed to have some magical power, which calmed down Mogami's flustered heart.

Sheng Tianmu also seized this opportunity, and shouted to the soldiers who were in charge of carrying Mogami away with the board:

"Take him away!"

"yes!"

These few soldiers carried them to the top of the plank, and hurriedly walked away from the commander's tent, humming and humming.

"Master Shengtianmu—" After watching Mogami being carried away, Tiandao asked Sheng Tianmu with a long tone, "Can you tell us what tasks we have? Don't tell us: we The three of them just need to stay in the coach's tent and pick their noses."

After all, Tiandao pouted at Qiuyue and Kuroda, who sat opposite him and who, like him, had not received any tasks in the military meeting just now.

Sheng Tianmu turned his back and walked slowly towards a corner of the coach's camp.

In one corner of the coach's camp stands a gun rack.

On the gun rack was a three-gun gun with a crimson body—it was Sheng Tianmu's favorite gun: Jie Fei.

Sheng Tianmu grabbed his favorite gun with one hand.

"...The three of you have a mission of course." Sheng Tianmu said in a calm tone, "The three of you will follow me to intercept and kill the thieves who attacked the camp."

The faces of Qiuyue, Kuroda, and Tiandao changed as the words of Sheng Tianmu fell.

However, the complexion changes of the three people were different.

The way of heaven is to become excited and excited.

Qiuyue was surprised.

Kuroda frowned slightly, showing a thoughtful expression.

"Master Shengtianmu." Qiuyue asked, "Shall the four of us go up together?"

"The other party is most likely Ogata Yidaosai." Sheng Tianmu said quietly, "Since Ogata Yidaosai is the opponent, it is not too much to be serious."

"...So that's how it is." Kuroda's slightly frowning brows slowly relaxed at this time, "Master Sheng Tianmu, you just asked Kasuga and Yokoyama to mobilize soldiers, and you planned to join the three of us." Do you want to lead these soldiers together to intercept and kill the thieves who broke into the camp?"

Sheng Tianmu nodded: "That's right."

Under Ogata's mistake, he chose an excellent timing to attack.

At this moment, not only is the mist filling the air, but it is also the time when all the senior generals in the barracks are gathering together to discuss military matters.

A large part of the reason why the big camp is in such a mess under the attack of a mere one person is that the senior generals just don't sit in the troops under their respective command now, and they lack the command of the backbone.

Except for the dozen or so guards guarding the entrance of the commander's camp, Sheng Tianmu and Qiuyue didn't have any soldiers who could be quickly mobilized to fight.

Therefore, when Sheng Tianmu issued a series of orders to the generals in the battalion just now, he gave an order to Kasuga and Hengshan—quickly mobilize the troops to gather here at the commander's camp. The former is responsible for mobilizing iron gunners and archers, while the latter is responsible for mobilizing infantry.

The Sendai domain has sent a large number of troops, so the senior generals are not limited to the "Seven Guns of Xianzhou", there are also several senior generals who are not "Seven Guns of Xianzhou" but are also qualified to participate in the senior military council - Kasuga and Yokoyama They are all part of it.

Both Kasuga and Yokoyama are talented talents that Shengtianmu appreciates, so Shengtianmu entrusts them with the important task of mobilizing troops.

"...So we have to wait for the soldiers to assemble first?" Tiandao curled his lips in displeasure, "It's really troublesome..."

"Heavenly Way." Sheng Tianmu glanced at Tiandao, "If you think you have the ability to single-handedly intercept and kill the attacking thief, I won't stop you, you can just leave here now and go find that thief."

"But don't blame me for not reminding—the thief who is making a fuss in our camp right now is most likely Ogata Yidaosai."

After all, Sheng Tianmu no longer talked with Tiandao, hugged his favorite gun, sat back to his seat calmly, closed his eyes, and rested his mind.

Hearing Sheng Tianmu's words just now, Tiandao was startled for a moment, and then showed resentment.

"Then I'm going to take the head of the thief who dared to break into our camp now!" - Tiandao originally wanted to yell at Sheng Tianmu.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, words rushed into his throat, but he couldn't spit out the words no matter what.

Because what Sheng Tianmu said to him just now echoed in his mind.

Every time Sheng Tianmu's words echoed in his mind, the hesitation on his face became more intense.

In the end—Tiandao chose to keep his mouth shut.

With a face full of displeasure, he crossed his arms and sat on the chair without saying a word.

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"what……"

While running quickly, Ogata put his right hand holding the knife to his lips, breathing hot air into his right palm.

It was still falling lightly, and the dots of snowflakes fell on Ogata's right hand that had to be exposed to the sky because of holding the knife.

The snowflakes falling on the right hand melted and took away the temperature of the right hand.

In order not to freeze his hand and affect his sword swing, Ogata had to breathe hot air into his right hand from time to time.

My left hand has been hidden in the wide sleeve, so there is no need to breathe and maintain body temperature.

"Please... ha... please slow down... ha... a little...!" Sakaguchi, who followed closely behind Ogata, held his flank that was so painful that it was about to burst, while posing a picture that seemed to want to With a crying face, he begged Ogata in front of him out of breath, "I...I...ha...run away...don't move...ha...ha..."

Unlike a monster like Ogata whose physical strength and vitality have been raised to an extremely abnormal level, Sakaguchi is just an ordinary person.

Ever since he and Ogata started to enter the camp, they have been sprinting left and right in the camp at a speed of 100 meters, almost without stopping.

The reason why he can survive until now is because the desire to survive is at play.

Last night, Ogata ordered Sakaguchi to remove all the armor on his body on the grounds that "wearing armor will bring a great burden to the radish", so Sakaguchi is now only wearing ordinary civilian clothes.

Sakaguchi was very lucky—fortunately, he didn't have any armor on his body at the moment, otherwise, he would have been exhausted long ago after running such a high-intensity sprint while wearing armor, no matter how strong his desire to survive was.

But at the same time—he was feeling unlucky that he wasn't wearing armor now...

Standing in the already chaotic camp, the roaring roar, the shaking of armor and weapons... These sounds have been stimulating Sakaguchi's nerves...

Sakaguchi is now extremely afraid that he, who currently has no armor to protect him, will accidentally be killed by cold arrows and cold guns...

Ogata naturally ignored Sakaguchi's request to slow down.

Ogata's mind remained sober and calm from the beginning to the end, and because he had been sober and calm all the time, he knew very well—he couldn't slow down now.

The reason why he was able to charge the camp so smoothly at present was because two things played a big role: the evening mist that had not dissipated and the generals in the camp had not had time to react.

I don't need to go into details about the role played by the diffuse mist that obscures people's sight.

Although on the surface, this is a 1vs3000 battle, in essence it cannot be counted as such.

The 3,000 generals in this camp are now scattered in various places instead of all concentrated in one place, so Ogata actually only needs to defeat all the generals standing between him and Mogami Yoshihisa.

If Ogata's pace slowed down, leaving too much time for the opponent to deploy troops, then more and more soldiers would stop in front of Ogata, which would be more and more unfavorable to Ogata.

So Ogata had to play a "fast break", and he must not slow down no matter what.

After ignoring Sakaguchi's request to "slow down", Ogata continued to follow the direction Sakaguchi pointed, heading straight for the camp's commander's camp.

Finally, through the thin evening mist, Ogata finally saw, right in front of him, there was a big tent that was far bigger and more imposing than the other tents beside it.

Next to this big tent is a tall flagpole.

On the flagpole, a military flag with the "clover sunflower pattern" painted representing the Edo shogunate curled lazily in the morning breeze.

Ogata happened to be facing the opening of this large tent, and a dozen soldiers were guarding the opening with long guns in their hands.

At the same time that Ogata saw the dozen or so guards guarding the tent, these ten or so guards also discovered Ogata.

Ogata saw with his own eyes the dozen or so guards in a mess, and then one of them hurriedly turned around and rushed into the magnificent tent behind him.

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"My lord! My lord!" A guard hurriedly rushed into the tent, "Yes, a man covered in blood is approaching here!"

Hearing the guard's words, Sheng Tianmu, who was originally closing his eyes to rest his mind, suddenly opened his eyes.

"...Damn it." Sheng Tianmu gritted his teeth, "Did you come here..."

Qiuyue, Kuroda, and Tiandao looked at each other, and unstoppable astonishment emerged from their faces.

"Have you come here..." Kuroda murmured, "Our troops haven't even had time to gather yet..."

Whether Shengtianmu or Qiuyue and the others, none of them thought that Ogata not only came to their coach's camp, but also at such a fast speed.

The generals they sent to mobilize and gather troops have not returned yet...

"...You all come with me." Sheng Tianmu put away the astonishment and shock on his face, and walked quickly outside the tent with his love gun in hand.

Qiuyue, Kuroda, and Tiandao glanced at each other, nodded solemnly, and got up to follow Sheng Tianmu.

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When he was about 20 steps away from this magnificent tent, Ogata suddenly saw someone walking out of this magnificent tent.

And not 1 person, but a full 4 people.

The clothes of the four people are surprisingly consistent, all wearing red and black armor and haori.

The leader of the four was a veteran with gray hair and beard, about 40 years old, holding a three gun with a red body in his hand.

The three people who followed him were much younger, probably over 20 years old and under 30 years old.

Ogata looked intently and found that one of the three young generals was someone Ogata knew—it was Qiuyue who had met once in Nishino Town before.

The veteran with the red three-pistol—that is, Ogata, who was born with third eyes and looked at each other so close that they could see each other's faces clearly.

Although there was a lot of blood splattered on the face of the person in front of him at this time, Sheng Tianmu could still recognize it: the face of the person in front of him was exactly the same as the face painted on Ogata Ittosai's arrest warrant.

Although he was already mentally prepared, Sheng Tianmu still couldn't help feeling his heart sink after confirming the identity of the thief.

Ogata did not make any superficial cover-ups during his camp break--because there was no need to cover up.

When Mogami's troops were defeated yesterday, Mogami had already recognized Ogata.

Since the people in this camp are very likely to know from Mogami that the person who injured him was Ogata Itsuki, there is no need to do anything to cover up.

Ogata also didn't care for a long time whether his future bounty would become 1,000 taels or 2,000 taels.

Sheng Tianmu took a deep breath——

"Qiuyue, Kuroda, Tiandao, follow me!"

Having said that, Sheng Tianmu shook the Jifei in his hand, changed the gun from one hand to two, and pointed the gun directly at Ogata.

With a step on the back foot, a large amount of snow on the ground splashed, Sheng Tianmu just stepped on the snow like this, and rushed straight to Ogata.

And Qiuyue, Kuroda, and Tiandao standing behind Sheng Tianmu, as members of the "Xianzhou Seven Guns", are naturally not slow to respond.

As early as when he was still in the tent, when Sheng Tianmu asked the three of them to leave the tent with him, the three of them roughly guessed what Sheng Tianmu wanted to do.

After Sheng Tianmu's voice fell, the three of them each grabbed a spear from the guards beside them, and then rushed towards Ogata from 4 directions together with Sheng Tianmu.

Four generals wearing mighty battle armor of the same color and style approached with spears in their hands——Ogata's pupils shrank slightly.

Ogata, who has experienced hundreds of battles and fought against masters from all walks of life, just from the posture of these four people charging forward with guns, it can be seen that none of them are waiting for nothing.

How wide is the attack range of the spear.

When Ogata and Shengtianmu were still nearly 3 meters away, Shengtianmu shook off Jiefei in his hand, and controlled the blade of the gun to sweep towards Ogata's calf.

Shengtianmu spear was very fast—but not so fast that Ogata couldn't resist it.

Ogata quickly stopped in his footsteps, put on the lower stance, and swung his blade to meet the spearhead that Sheng Tianmu swept towards.

clang!

The sound of gold and iron hitting enough to make one's scalp tingle sounded - Ogata successfully shook the head of Sheng Tianmu's gun.

Sheng Tianmu's gun head was just shaken away, and another... no, it was a full three long spears attacking Ogata - Qiuyue, Kuroda, and Tiandao wielded the guns in their hands, coming from three different directions Launch a stab at Ogata.

Ogata did not take these 3 stabs hard, but used stepping steps, retreated a few steps, and avoided Qiuyue's stabs.

Seeing that Ogata was successfully pushed back, the three of Qiuyue did not bother to fight, and quickly returned to Shengtianmu with their guns in hand, forming horns with Shengtianmu, and surrounded Ogata in a semicircle.

Ogata stabilized his unstable figure due to the rapid retreat.

Stretching the five fingers of his right hand that were slightly numb due to the slashing of the celestial eye, Ogata scanned the four generals in front of him with calm eyes.

The four generals in front of them were wearing mighty battle armor, and they were all not short in stature. Sheng Tianmu and Qiuyue were even taller, and they all carried long spears that kept flashing coldly—at first glance, they looked like The four martial gods who descended from the mortal world and descended to the mortal world.

As an ordinary person, standing in front of these four extremely intimidating generals, it would be extremely difficult to even stand firm.

But Ogata looked as usual.

He held the knife and stood naturally.

"Get out of the way, you are blocking my way."

In a calm tone, he spoke words like orders to the four generals in front of him who looked like gods of war.

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Today's condition is not very good...Because I'm running around looking for a job today...I really miss the college life that can change 8000 times a day...