I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

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Jiezheng hurriedly asked Ah Qing who was beside her.

"Hmm. I can't see it wrong." Ah Qing said in a deep voice, putting her hands on her lintels and looking to her northwest with narrowed eyes, "the red and white Wu clothes have a lot of splashes Blood, no shoes or socks on the feet, the bear is huge...the conditions fit perfectly."

At the end of Ah Qing's line of sight, it was Ah Ding who was hurrying to the hotel right now.

The urban area where A-Ming was located was almost empty of people, and there were few pedestrians on the empty streets except A-Ming, so A-Ming, who was sprinting on this street, was particularly conspicuous. Because of this, Ah Qing noticed this particularly conspicuous red and white figure just now.

"Finally found her..." Jie showed relief and joy, and then quickly jumped off the roof of the private house, "Ah Qing, please help us show the way."

Ah Qing: "Understood."

Under Ah Qing's guidance, Jiezheng led his subordinates to chase after Ah Ding.

In order to avoid being discovered by A-cho, Jiezheng intentionally keeps a certain distance from A-cho.

Ah Qing's eyesight is very good, even if the distance between the two sides is far, she can clearly see the position of Ah Ding.

Apart from jujitsu and marksmanship, A-cho has no other specialties. She is not good at anti-tracking or anything like that.

Ah-Ming, who hadn't noticed anyone following her from a distance, just entered the hotel under Ah Qing's gaze.

"Jie Zheng." Ah Qing, who was crouching on a big tree, immediately reported to Jie Zhenghui after seeing Ah Ding enter the hotel, "The woman has entered the hotel."

Jiezheng hurriedly climbed up the big tree where Ah Qing was, and squatted beside Ah Qing: "Which hotel?"

Ah Qing pointed forward: "It's the hotel with the door plaque of 'Tianchi House'."

Jie was looking at the hotel pointed by Ah Qing.

Showing thinking, after a moment of silence, he lowered his head and shouted to his subordinates waiting under the big tree:

"Ready to fight!"

Ah Qing was startled: "Jiezheng, are you planning to rush over and arrest people?"

"Ok.

Jiezheng nodded while jumping off the tree.

"That woman can kill Naganosuke, her skills will not be too bad."

Ah Qing hurriedly shouted at Jiezheng who jumped under the tree.

"That's why I think we should first inform the squadron and let the squadron send some reinforcements. While we wait for the squadron to respond, we can monitor the woman's movements. This method is safer."

"That would take too much time." Jiezheng said in a deep voice, "Sending orders to the formation, and then receiving a response from the formation, I don't know how long it will take after going back and forth. If the time is delayed for a long time , it is very likely that something unexpected will happen.”

"And... if you ask for reinforcements from this formation, your credit will be diluted."

At this moment, Jiezheng pursed his lips, and then looked at Ah Qing with meaningful eyes.

"...I need merit now."

"Besides—I don't think it's necessary to call in rescuers to catch that woman."

Jiezheng showed a gentle smile to Ah Qing.

"I have a total of 46 musketeers under my command. Counting you and me, there are 48 people in total. Even if there is that woman's companion in that hotel, they must not be able to compare with us in terms of numbers."

"In terms of numbers, I have the advantage."

"Not to mention the soldiers on our side, who also have an advanced flintlock gun."

"Besieged by more than 40 musketeers—in our Toyotomi army, only a few people, such as Lord Toyotomi and Lord Yoshihisa, were able to retreat unscathed."

After all, Jiezheng stopped talking and led his 40-odd subordinates to the inn where Ah-ding was staying, which was only a few hundred meters away.

Ah Qing cast a puzzled look at Jiezheng's back, muttered "What's wrong with him", jumped off the tree, and chased after Jiezheng's back.

These musketeers were all trained by the army instructors from England with a lot of money.

There was no need to give any orders. After learning that the hotel in front was about to be surrounded, the 40 or so musketeers immediately dispersed and surrounded the hotel from all directions.

When A-Ming discovered something strange outside the hotel, Jiezheng and his subordinates had already completed the siege of the hotel, like a gradually tightening spider web, enveloping the hotel...

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"Ah, Machi-san, Miss..."

Almost at the same time as A-Machi, A-Machi noticed a strange noise outside the hotel. When A-Machi opened the curtain to look out, A-Machi also hurriedly leaned his head over.

After looking outside... Azhu immediately became stuttering when he spoke.

So many people holding muskets—this was the first time Azhu had ever seen such a scene.

"W-Who are these people?"

"...Unidentified enemy." After saying these words with an ugly face, A-Ming slammed the curtains shut, and then whispered in a volume that only she could hear clearly: "Have I been followed just now? ..."

Machi pulls out Suzakura from the Mariana Trench.

"Azhu, don't take your luggage first, take your weapon and follow me, let's go see if there are any enemies on the other side of the hotel."

A Zhu, who had never seen any storms, was already in a state of confusion, and followed A Ding out of the room with a bewildered expression.

The windows of their room faced west.

Ah-Ming remembered that there was a window facing the east on the easternmost side of the corridor outside the room.

After running out of the room, A-Ming hurriedly led A-Zhu to the easternmost side of the corridor outside the room, and looked out along the east-facing window at the end of the corridor-there are also a large number of people on the east side of the hotel. musketeers.

Seeing that there were people on the east side, Ah-machi went to look for windows facing the north and south, only to find that there were enemies with musketeers in either direction.

——Are you surrounded...

A-Machi tightened Su Sakura in his hand.

——What happened to me tonight...why am I always surrounded by people...

After a turnaround, A-cho and A-zu returned to their room.

"Miss A-Ming." A-Zhu was also a little calmer now, but his face still had a strong expression of anxiety, "What should we do now...?"

A-Machi, who pursed his lips tightly, did not immediately respond to A-Zhu's anxious inquiry.

Because she doesn't know what to do now...

According to her observation just now, she and A Zhu have been surrounded. There are enemies on the southeast, north and south sides of the hotel, and there are no less than 10 enemies on each side, and each of them has a flintlock gun...

Previously, she relied on strategy and luck to narrowly escape from the siege of Baixiang.

But now, the number of people surrounding her is several times that of Baixiang and others just now.

Ah Ding asked herself—she didn't have the skill to escape from being surrounded by more than forty musketeers, and she didn't have the skill to dodge bullets.

Cha Cha Cha Cha...

Footsteps were approaching.

This is the sound of the enemy's footsteps approaching the hotel.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the anxious look on Azhu's face became more and more intense.

At the critical juncture—A-Machi's lips, which were originally tightly pressed, loosened at this moment.

She sat down cross-legged, and then took out Scarlet Sakura from the Mariana Trench, which hadn't had the time to reload just now.

"Azuki, take your weapon and prepare to fight." As Machi said, he took out gunpowder and projectiles, and began to load the bullets into Hizakura.

"Are we going to fight head-on with the enemy?" A Zhu stared wide-eyed.

"Of course not." Ah Ding's reloading technique was very skillful and neat, and while she was speaking, she had already stuffed the bullet into Fei Ying's barrel, "If we fight head-on with them, we definitely have no chance of winning."

"Later, you will hide with me on the ceiling and hide on the ceiling."

"The enemies outside are coming towards us. In order to catch us, they will definitely let people into the hotel."

"This gives us the opportunity to break down one by one."

"Let's wait for the opportunity to kill the enemies who rushed into the hotel. Reduce the number of enemies."

"The people who came in to arrest us were killed by us, and the rest of the enemies outside the hotel should be more or less flustered."

"At that time, let's look at the opportunity to escape from here."

"But... there must be many people sent into the hotel to arrest us..." A Zhu hesitated, "With just the two of us, is there a way to defeat all the people who rushed into the hotel...?"

"...Azhu, do you know? Ever since I followed Ayi and stayed with Ayi through so many storms, I realized a very profound truth." With a smile, he slowly said in a half-joking tone, "'In a crisis, whether you can grasp the vitality depends entirely on your strength and luck'."

Boom!

As soon as Ah-cho finished speaking, the sound of the door being kicked open happened to be heard from the first floor of the hotel.

It was also at this time that Ah-machi completed the reload of Scarlet Sakura.

"Azuki, come with me."

Temporarily stuffing Su Ying and the loaded Scarlet into the Mariana Trench, A-Ming took a small table next to it, stepped on the table, tiptoed, and moved the ceiling above his head away, and then Followed the removed hole into the ceiling, and then stretched out his hand to Azuki who was under the ceiling.

After hesitating for a while, Azuki gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand and grabbed the arm that Acho extended towards her, and with Acho's help, he went to the ceiling.

The hotel staff hadn't cleaned the upper level of the ceiling for an unknown amount of time.

Dust, cobwebs, everywhere.

A-Ming silently pushed away the spider webs hanging above her head, and then took out the double guns that had just been placed in the Mariana Trench.

Heartbeat—began to speed up uncontrollably.

While A-Ming struggled to control his breathing and reduce the sound of his breathing, he quietly listened to the sound of footsteps coming from the first floor...

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Jiezheng and Ah Qing are now just west of the hotel.

Due west is the direction where the gate of the hotel is located. Therefore, Jiezheng took special care of the west side of the hotel, and deployed the most troops in this direction.

After the siege of the hotel was completed, Jiezheng immediately waved his hand and sent a team of 16 elite fighters into the hotel to arrest people.

Boom!

The door of the hotel was kicked open by the "raid team".

Jiezheng, who was hiding in the dark alley, looked calmly at the "raid team" who were entering through the kicked-down gate with his hands behind his back.

The "raid team" that entered the hotel was divided into 4 groups of 4 people. The people in each group held guns and formed horns for each other, protecting each other's backs.

The people in the hotel had already run away - which greatly facilitated the "raid team" to find people.

The "raid team" was moving slowly.

Because they didn't move forward an inch, they would definitely poke the ceiling with their flintlock guns-this is what Jie Zheng ordered them to do.

If someone is hiding in the ceiling, the sound of stabbing the ceiling with a gun is bound to be completely different from the sound of stabbing the ceiling with nothing above it.

The purpose of this move is to confirm whether there are Tibetans on the ceiling.

Hearing the sound of the "raid team" stabbing the ceiling with a gun coming from the first floor, A-Machi subconsciously pursed his lips because of his heavy heart.

Although the speed of the "raid team" was not fast, the hotel they stayed in was not big. It only had 2 floors, and the area of ​​each floor was also very small.

After a while, Ah-Ming heard the footsteps of the "Assault Squad" at the stairway connecting the first and second floors.

"...Azuki." Azuki turned his head and whispered to Azuki who was behind him, "After the enemy entered the room below us, we jumped down to attack the enemy together."

"This room is not that spacious. This kind of terrain is good for us, but bad for enemies who use flintlock guns."

"We have a better chance of winning if we fight in the room."

"But... Listening to the footsteps, the number of enemies is at least 10 or more..." Azuki muttered, "Although the terrain is favorable to us when we start fighting in the room, the two of us are going to deal with a dozen or so people with flintlock guns. Enemies...that's too...I've never faced an enemy with a musket before..."

"Coincidentally." A-Machi smiled at A-Zhu, "I have very little experience in fighting enemies who use muskets as weapons."

After speaking, A-Ming held his breath, listening carefully to the enemy's footsteps, and judging the enemy's current position based on this, while quietly loosening the ceiling board in front of him, so that they could jump off later.

After panic and fear flickered in Azhu's eyes for a while, she gradually stabilized her mind.

Putting on an expression of "I'm going to fight it out", he slowly pulled out the wakizashi worn on his left waist.

The enemy's footsteps—had already appeared in the corridor outside the room.

After realizing that she was surrounded again, Ah-cho was also panicked and anxious, but she kept trying to stay calm.

But there is a limit to trying to be calm.

When he heard the enemy's footsteps outside the corridor of the room, a little bit of nervous sweat still broke out from the forehead and back of A-cho.

Even A-Ming broke out in a cold sweat, let alone A-Zhu.

Even though it was a warm night tonight, Azhu felt that his whole body was wet and cold, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

The enemy's footsteps—had already appeared outside the door of the room.

A-Machi swallowed hard, moistening the throat that had been dry due to tension just now.

Wow...

The sound of the paper sliding door being pulled open sounded.

The sound of enemy footsteps—has already appeared in the room!

The incomparably clear sound of footsteps reached his ears.

Enemies with more than 10 people... are now under the tatami mat 4 steps away from Amachi and the others.

tuk tuk tuk...

The "raid team" was still meticulously stabbing the ceiling with their muskets.

While checking every part of the room, including the ceiling, they slowly entered the room. The originally empty room gradually became crowded.

Tuk tuk duk...!

A-Machi and A-Zhu huddled in the southwest corner of the room.

There was a knocking sound on the ceiling three steps in front of A-Machi.

Tuk tuk tuk!

There was a knocking sound, only 2 steps away from A-Ming.

Tuk tuk tuk! !

The enemy... is already under Acho!

--It's now!

Ah Ding gritted his teeth, and tightly clenched the two guns in his hands.

And Azuki, who was squatting beside A-ding, gritted his teeth and gripped the knife without A-ding's order at this time.

But just when A-Machi was about to jump out of the ceiling and fight to the death with the enemies below——

"You are surrounded by us! Throw away your weapons obediently, it will be good for you and me!"

A male voice suddenly came from outside the hotel.

Hearing this male voice, A-Ming was startled.

Then subconsciously showed a happy smile.

It was an old male voice.

This is an old male voice that makes people feel a sense of security after listening to it.

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Jie Zheng, who was hiding in a dark alley, with his hands behind his back, looked at the hotel not far away expressionlessly, quietly waiting for the news of the "raid team" responsible for rushing into the hotel to arrest people.

Ah Qing, who was standing beside Jiezheng, showed impatience at this moment: "Why hasn't there been any movement for so long..."

"Ah Qing, don't worry." Jiezheng said in relief, "After all, we are going to arrest people in a hotel, so naturally it will take some time."

"Don't worry, that woman can't escape."

"It is us who seize the initiative on the battlefield."

The corner of Jiezheng's mouth raised a confident arc.

"We can attack when we advance, and we can defend when we retreat. Once we find that the woman is difficult to deal with, we will just avoid the battle for the time being."

"Anyway, the terrain here is wide and there are many ways to escape. If we want to run, who else can stop us..."

"Genichi, we barely caught up..."

"Well, yes... um...you are surrounded by us! Throw away your weapons obediently, it will be good for you and me!"

Jiezheng was still triumphantly expressing that the initiative on the battlefield was in their hands, when two old male voices suddenly sounded above his head.

Jiezheng, whose pupils suddenly shrank in fright, quickly looked up at his own head.

I saw two old men standing on the roof of a private house behind the dark alley where he was hiding.

One of the old men had a big beard, and his shiny head without a single hair, under the moonlight, reflected a strong light that made it difficult to look directly at.

Another old man, although he is also an old man with many wrinkles on his face, but his hair is very thick.

His thick white hair was tied into a neat bun, he was wearing a wine-red feather, his hands were wearing black full-finger gloves, and he wore a dark red sword and wakizashi with a dark red handle and scabbard around his waist.

The wine-red feathered hem swayed slightly in the evening wind.

Its appearance is so unrestrained.

"Who are you guys?" Jiezheng asked anxiously while leading the people around him back quickly to distance himself from the two mysterious people.

"If you don't obediently put down your weapons, you will all be cut down." The very handsome old man said lightly.

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Although Ogata, Yuanichi and others in this book are all musketeers for fun, please don’t forget—in the eyes of ordinary people, musketeers are still extremely powerful and can easily knock down masters Artifact.

(Pointing at Ogata, with a melancholy face) "It's because there are too many people like you that readers misunderstand the power of muskets.".jpg