I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

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After hearing the sound of the cannon, Matsudaira Sadanobu's body immediately started to move by itself, and quickly ran to the side window, looking out with his head.

But nothing was seen.

Due to the angle of view, Matsudaira Sadanobu only saw a few faint wisps of gunpowder smoke.

"My lord! My lord!"

At this time, Tachibana, surnamed Tachibana, and Masahiro Hotta, the second generation of Osaka Castle, shouted anxiously outside the room.

"Come in!"

As soon as Matsudaira Jonobu's permission to enter the room was issued, Tachibana and Hotta hurriedly opened the door and rushed into the room.

Both of them showed very similar expressions at this time.

Tachibana panicked.

Masahun Hotta was a little better, but still flustered.

"My lord!" Hotta said quickly, "Osaka Castle has been attacked by unknown people!"

Matsudaira Sadanobu showed a completely different reaction from Tachibana and Hota Masahiro.

"How many enemies are here? Where are they attacking from?" Song Ping Dingxin asked in a calm tone.

"The number of enemies is more than 200! Equipped with a large number of artillery and other firearms! They are currently surrounding the entrances and exits of Osaka Castle! They are bombarding the city gates with artillery!"

There is a tall city wall around the city of Osaka, and there is a wide moat around the city wall.

If you want to enter Osaka Castle, you can only go to the four bridges located in the southwest, southeast, northeast, and northwest of Osaka Castle.

After learning that the only four entrances and exits of Osaka Castle were surrounded by enemy troops, Matsudaira Joshin's originally very calm expression finally showed a slight change - his face sank slightly.

"My lord! The enemy's artillery is very powerful! It won't be long before the gates of the city will be blasted open! With the current strength of Daban City, it is impossible to stop the enemy! Please hurry up and take the secret road and leave Daban." Sakagi!"

Matsudaira Sadanobu also has a number of the current defense force of Osaka Castle - there are less than 50 people in total.

50 people face an enemy army whose number is conservatively estimated to be more than 200, and the enemy army still has a large number of artillery... In such a battle, there is no suspense about the outcome.

Two hundred years of peaceful life has left the armaments of all parts of Japan abolished, and Osaka Castle is not a particularly important place, so the defensive strength of Osaka Castle is becoming more and more unbearable.

And the current defense force of less than 50 people has been strengthened.

Last year, after the "Kyoto Nijo Castle Attack" incident, many places, including Osaka Castle, have stepped up their security.

Previously, there were only a little over 30 warriors in charge of defending Osaka City...

At this time, Matsudaira Sadanobu slowly clenched his naturally hanging hands into fists.

"Nijo Castle was attacked last year... This year, Osaka Castle was attacked..." Matsudaira Sadanobu gritted his teeth, "What happened to this country..."

...

...

Osaka, Osaka Castle, the southwestern gate—

boom!

Another shell flew out of the barrel and hit the city gate not far away.

Under the bombardment of shells, the gate in the southwest of Daban City was already crumbling, and it would not take long for the gate to be opened.

"Hmm..." A strong man with a large naginata in his right hand and his left palm resting on his eye sockets, looking at the southwestern gate of Osaka City, smiled and nodded gently, "Not bad, these are from France. The cannon bought from China is really powerful."

This brawny man has an extremely strong figure, nearly 2 meters tall, and his muscles bulge out the clothes on his body. Compared with a human, this figure is more like a bear.

"Saemon Youemon Saemon-sama." A black-clothed Iga male ninja walked quickly to the side of the strong man, "The gate to the northeast has been breached."

"Hey... The first person to break the city is the northeast... But our side is coming soon."

The burly man called Zaemon Immon Saemon stretched vigorously.

Then he said with emotion:

"Every time I see the scene of the roaring of the cannon, I can't help but feel sad—swords, guns, swords, halberds, etc.

Sure enough, he was going to be eliminated. "

boom!

A shell hit the southwest city gate again.

The city gate, which was hit head-on by the shell again, made a crackling sound.

Immediately afterwards——

Boom!

With a bang, the originally extremely towering city gate in the southwest turned into large or small pieces and collapsed to the ground.

Looking at the collapsed city gate, Yoshiemon showed a sinister smile.

"Follow me!"

He didn't say too many unnecessary words.

After yelling "Follow me", he just carried his big naginata and rushed towards the collapsed city gate.

...

...

Osaka, a bustling commercial street——

Boom...boom...boom...

The sound of the rumbling cannon came to the ears of Ogata who was rushing back to the hotel now.

——This is... artillery?

While continuing to run, Ogata turned his head to look in the direction from which the rumbling cannon came.

He was sure he heard right.

Because on the commercial street where he is currently, many passers-by have stopped now, looking in the same direction as Ogata.

After living a peaceful life for a long time, the common people have long been ignorant of war. Therefore, after hearing this rumbling sound, many people were confused or confused because they didn't recognize it as the sound of artillery roaring.

——Which direction... is Osaka Castle...?

During this period of time, Ogata has been wandering around Osaka with A-Machi and the others, so Ogata has a general understanding of the directions of various important places in Osaka.

—Which place was bombarded? Are these people who are bombarding a certain place the same group as the people who just attacked me?

——Hmm...Damn it...my head hurts so much that I can't concentrate on thinking.

As time passed, Ogata's body not only did not improve, but gradually deteriorated.

Just now, it was just aching all over the body.

But now, not only is there still pain all over the body, but the body temperature is also gradually rising.

Ogata felt that his current body temperature was about 37 and a half degrees, and the breath he exhaled gradually became scorching hot, and his head began to swell and ache.

Ogata's head was already uncomfortable, but now it was fueled by fuel, and all kinds of questions kept popping up in his mind, which made Ogata feel his head was getting more and more swollen.

Physical discomfort naturally caused Ogata's current physical condition to plummet.

——The feet are so heavy... I'm a little out of breath after running for such a short distance...

Ogata raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, swallowed, and moistened his parched throat.

Although his body was quite uncomfortable, Ogata still did not stop his feet.

——In this state, I can't fight people at all...

——I have to meet up with A-Ming and the others as soon as possible, and then hide in a safe place until the "immortality poison" fades away...

laugh!

The sound of fireworks rising from behind Ogata interrupted his thoughts.

At the same moment when the fireworks went off, Ogata's expression was startled.

He quickly stopped his feet and looked behind him.

I saw a red flower blooming in the sky behind him.

The people on the street looked at the fireworks in the sky for no reason, which should not have appeared at this time of year.

Below this "red flower" is a man in black standing on the roof, holding a small wooden tube and aiming at the sky.

Looking at the man in black's attire, a strong sense of familiarity surged in Ogata's heart.

It took only a moment for Xu to remember why he felt that the man in black's outfit was quite familiar.

The attire of the man in black... has quite a lot of similarities with Azhu's Iga ninja costume.

After setting off the fireworks, the man in black turned around and fled without any hesitation.

Ogata used his ass to think about it, and he knew that the man in black was definitely not a "civilian who wanted to set off fireworks for entertainment on a whim".

——Did the decline in my state also weaken my perception... I didn't realize that the man in black was following me from the beginning to the end just now...

While Ogata let out this annoyed shout in his heart, he was about to leap onto the roof of a nearby shop to chase after this suspicious-looking man in black who was most likely following him.

If this guy is really following him, he cannot be let go no matter what.

Ogata hurried to a nearby wagashi dessert shop, and when he was about to jump onto the roof, a strong dizziness suddenly came to his head.

This strong dizziness made Ogata feel as if the sky and the earth had turned upside down.

"Well……"

Ogata let out a low cry of pain, then covered his head and knelt down on one knee.

This strong dizziness came suddenly and went away quickly.

In just 2 breaths, my head returned to the original state of pain and swelling, but it was still tolerable.

Before Ogata had time to feel lucky that the intense dizziness just now was not continuous, the sounds he least wanted to hear now came to his ears from far and near—the sound of footsteps It sounded from the intersection ahead of Ogata.

A musketeer appeared from both sides of the intersection, and then formed a neat three-row square array in the center of the intersection.

And standing behind the gun array was Sakuma.

"It's so lucky, my troops and I happen to be nearby..." After Sakuma murmured softly, he waved his hand, "Shoot!"

When this musketeer appeared within the field of vision, Ogata's body had already moved like a conditioned reflex.

With a clever movement, he turned over and jumped into a nearby tree whose trunk was thick enough to hide his entire body.

As soon as Ogata hid behind the big tree, rows of bullets roared towards him.

The bullet missed Ogata, who was hiding behind a tree trunk.

But it hit... those ordinary people on this street who didn't react at all...

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

"I, my hand!"

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa—!"

...

Bloody, ruthless, cruel... This is... the current scene of this bustling street.

This street is already busy, and 70% of the space on the road is crowded with people.

In such a densely populated place, being fired at such a short distance by flintlock guns... one can imagine what the result will be.

The people on the street fell in large numbers under the first round of shooting.

The people who did not fall to the ground fled away from the musketeers in horror.

There were already many people on the street, and everyone fled in chaos, you crowded me and I crowded you, and the street became extremely congested.

Facing the people suffering from the disaster for no reason, Sakuma didn't even frown the people who were crying in horror.

He looked calm, as if the people who died under his "shoot" order were not individuals, but ants.

And the musketeers in front of him also faithfully fulfilled the orders given by Sakuma. After the gunmen in the first row emptied their guns, they immediately exchanged guns with the gunmen in the second row.

With a dazed expression, Ogata looked at the people who were just a short distance away from him, who were suffering from indiscriminate disasters.

If he had been hiding behind the tree trunk like this, under the protection of this thick tree, even if these musketeers emptied their ammunition, they would not be able to hurt a single hair of Ogata.

Only... these innocent people will suffer heavy casualties.

The people are fleeing in a panic now, the streets are congested, and God knows when they all leave this place.

Those musketeers obviously didn't care about the life and death of these ordinary people. Even if there were a large number of innocent people in front of them, they could not miss it.

Continue to hide behind the tree trunk, you will be safe, and many innocent people will be accidentally injured.

It would be dangerous for you to actively expose your body, but the people on the street will be much safer.

In front of Ogata's eyes, there was such a multiple-choice question.

But in essence... no multiple-choice questions appeared in Ogata's mind at all.

Because one of the options in this question never appeared in Ogata's mind from the beginning to the end.

When the musketeers in the first row and the musketeers in the second row exchanged their guns, Ogata jumped out from behind the tree trunk without thinking, and then jumped onto the roof of a nearby tea house.

"Aren't you going to kill me?!" Ogata pulled out the knife from his waist, "I'm here! Let the horse come over!"

After Ogata's figure appeared on the roof of the building, the musketeers raised their guns in unison, pointed at Ogata standing on the roof of the teahouse, and clicked the trigger.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom...

At the same moment when the musketeers pulled the trigger, Ogata immediately jumped aside, and the bullets roared and hit the place where Ogata was standing just now.

Because the musketeers raised the muzzle of their guns, the people on the street naturally escaped from the range of the musketeers' attack. In the second round of shooting by the musketeers, no innocent people were accidentally injured.

Ogata struggled to avoid the bullets fired by the musketeers, while moving on the roof, approaching the gun array.

When fighting against the rows of flying bullets, perhaps because his attention was attracted by the battle in front of him, Ogata felt the pain in his head subside a little, and his thoughts gradually became more agile and active. stand up.

——The man in black pulling the fireworks just now...was he specifically responsible for finding my tracks...

— Once you find me, immediately set off red fireworks. Then these musketeers who happened to be nearby immediately rushed over following the fireworks...

——Looks like... In order to kill me, these people really came prepared...

Every musketeer in the gun formation now, in accordance with Sakuma's order, removed all the sabers from their waists, and only held a flintlock.

Ogata discovered this when he hid behind the tree trunk just now.

The enemies no longer carry swords - what this means is clear to Ogata who does not have a good sword now.

But even so, he still resolutely rushed to the gun array without any hesitation.

- 20 meters... 18 meters... 16 meters...

Due to the climate, the roofs of houses in Osaka are basically pitched.

Every ridge on the sloping roof is an excellent obstacle for Ogata.

Ogata relied on moving from roof to roof to avoid bullets.

- 14 meters... 12 meters... 10 meters...

When he silently counted to 10 meters in his heart, Ogata tightened the knife in his hand.

At the same time, start to slowly change your own breathing rhythm to the breathing rhythm of the source breath.

Just get a little closer.

Once he got closer to 8 meters, Ogata was able to leap into the enemy's formation in one breath just like in the last battle.

—— 9 meters...!

Ogata put his left hand on the handle of Wakizashi's knife, and pulled out Wakizashi too.

But at this moment...

The peripheral vision from the corner of Ogata's left eye reached to the end of his left field of vision, and there was a little light.

He turned his head and looked, his pupils shrank suddenly - he saw 5 people crouching at the entrance of an alley not far to his left.

These five people pointed their guns at him.

The light he noticed in the corner of his eyes just now was the cold light emitted by the moonlight hitting the barrels of their guns...

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The five snipers clicked the trigger together.

On the roof, Ogata, who was rushing towards the position where the gun array was located, suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Then, like a yellow autumn leaf, it fell backwards into a dark alley between two shops.

"Do you think I will still make the mistake of 'letting you into the gun formation'?" Sakuma said to himself in a cold tone, "I know that you are very likely to come along the roof again, so I specially arranged for a sniper to shoot coldly."

After murmuring, Sakuma took out a flintlock pistol from his arms.

Apart from being easy to carry, flintlock pistols have no other advantages. In terms of power, range, and accuracy, they are all inferior to rifles. There is no need to deploy them on a large scale among ordinary soldiers. On the other hand, only a commander-level character like Sakuma will have a flintlock pistol specially used for self-defense.

"Forward!" Sakuma raised his flintlock pistol.

The musketeers lined up in a neat line and slowly approached the alley that Ogata fell into just now.

This is a dark, deep and narrow alley. The alley is so narrow that only one person can enter and exit. Standing at the entrance of the alley and looking into the alley, you can't see the end at a glance, only see the seemingly endless darkness.

Sakuma tried his best to look into the alley a few times, but under the cover of darkness like ink, he couldn't see Ogata's figure at all.

So Sakuma ordered to the four musketeers beside him: "You four go in and have a look. When you see that man, don't approach him, and don't care if the man is dead or not. After a few shots to his vitals Get closer."

"Yes!"*4

The four musketeers, armed with flintlock guns, lined up in a long line and filed in, entering this narrow alley where two people could not walk side by side.

After a while, the musketeer who was walking in the front saw Ogata lying face down on the ground with his hands still holding the knife tightly in the alley.

He was motionless and seemed to be dead.

The musketeer at the head followed the order Sakuma gave just now meticulously.

After seeing Ogata, he stopped in time, and then raised the flintlock in his hand.

But... just as he raised the flintlock, he felt a blur in front of his eyes.

Then, there was a heart-piercing pain in the neck.

He subconsciously wanted to open his mouth and scream.

But after he opened his mouth, he found that he couldn't utter a single word. When he opened his mouth, a lot of blood poured down his throat into his mouth, choking his mouth full of blood.

His throat was pierced by the sharp point of a knife.

And the person holding the knife——it was Ogata who was still lying in front of him.

Ogata was still lying face down on the ground, but his right hand holding the sword was raised upwards.

The right hand grasped the bottom end of the hilt—this was one of Ogata's old tricks.

Hold the lowermost end of the hilt to widen the attack range of the sword.

Relying on his old trick and his arm length, which is far above the average of this era, he pierced the musketeer's throat.

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