I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

The latest website: The bamboo hat on Ogata's head and the face scarf on his face were washed away by the current when he was dueling Yuhachiro in the water just now.

Therefore, Ogata is now in the state of "pure makeup".

Ogata, who was in the "pure makeup" state, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then looked intently at the old man in front of him.

"Ishikawa... my lord...?"

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Osaka, Osaka Castle—

The current situation of the originally majestic Daban City... can be described as extremely bleak.

The four entrances and exits were blasted open by cannons, and the generals of the Toyotomi Army who rushed into Osaka Castle from all directions wantonly slaughtered every Tokugawa samurai who appeared in front of them.

Be prepared to attack the unprepared.

The majority beats the minority.

A battle without any suspense.

Although the resistance of the Tokugawa samurai who were in charge of guarding Osaka Castle was heroic, in the face of the flintlock guns of the Toyotomi samurai, their resistance was more than heroic and lacked in effect.

But even so, it took Toyotomi's army a lot of time to completely clear Osaka Castle.

After all, the area of ​​Osaka City is too large, and it will take a lot of time to walk around with your feet.

"Hey, have you found 'Old Middle School' Matsudaira Sadanobu and 'Osaka Joyo' Hotta Masahyun?"

In a certain corridor in Osaka Castle, Zaemon Yomon Saemon, who was in charge of leading the troops to attack Osaka, was carrying his big naginata, and asked a subordinate in front of him with a lot of blood on his body.

"No." The subordinate replied, "We have searched every corner of Osaka City, but we have not found any traces of Matsudaira Sadanobu and Hota Masahyun, nor have we found any secret passages."

Yoshiemon curled his lips: "Should we let them escape... Forget it, they are not important. Anyway, Lord Toyotomi's order to me is 'It's best to catch them, it doesn't matter if you can't catch them' .”

"Send an order to everyone—to withdraw troops. Withdraw from Osaka City and gather in the southwest of Osaka City."

"yes!"

"And—tell everybody,

Don't relax your mind just because Daban Castle has fallen. "

Soemon raised his eyebrows and smiled.

"We still have the big battle of 'Eradication of Shura' to fight."

"Sura might be even more difficult to deal with than Dabancheng."

Just now, Saeemon also received an order: to start the "B plan" to encircle and suppress Ogata.

When he just received this order, Zaemon was so excited.

"Taking Osaka Castle", this task is far easier and less interesting than Saeemon imagined.

Therefore, when he learned that "Project B" had been launched, Yoshiemon hurriedly sent down an order: speed up the purge of Osaka Castle, and whoever dares to slack off will be punished on the spot.

He couldn't wait to join the siege against Ogata as soon as possible.

After watching this subordinate leave, Soemon raised his big fan-like hand and scratched the back of his head, then muttered in a volume that only he himself could hear clearly:

"Lord Toyotomi is really strange... He asked to burn down all the facilities and places related to the Edo Shogunate, such as the Osaka Prefectural Office and Dojima Rice Market, but he only asked to keep this Osaka Castle, and ordered me to protect the Osaka Castle as much as possible." in good condition."

"I really want to set fire to this Osaka City...to burn such a majestic city, the scene must be spectacular...!"

Yoshiemon smacked his lips with a look of regret on his face.

Suddenly, very abruptly——

"Saemon Youmon Saemon-sama."

A cold female voice reminiscent of ice cubes sounded behind Saemon.

Hearing this female voice that suddenly came from behind him, Saemon——had a calm expression on his face.

It was as if he had long known that there was someone behind him.

The left and right guards turned their heads and looked at the woman who had appeared behind him at some unknown time and was now kneeling on the ground.

To be more precise, it is a beautiful woman wearing an Iga ninja costume.

"Master Jijiu sent me to remind you."

Not only did the female ninja have no emotion in her voice, but her beautiful cheeks also showed no emotion at all, she said slowly in her cold voice with no expression on her face.

"After the fall of Daban Castle, every cannon must be sent back to the main camp intact."

"Ah...he's here to remind me to send back the cannon..." Yoshiemon pulled the corners of his mouth down, stretched out his finger and picked his ear, "That guy Yoshihisa is really long-winded as always..."

"I know these cannons are very precious, but is it necessary to send someone to remind me to send the cannons back to the main camp intact..."

"Hey, Nunin, you came just in time. I just happened to clear the city of Daban on my side."

"You go back to the main camp and tell Jijiu: Your reminder, I, Zaemon Youemon and Lefty Gate, have already known about it. Osaka City has been cleared, and I will immediately send people and horses to transport all these cannons back to the main camp."

After finishing speaking, Left and Right Gate waved his hands, indicating that the ninja could leave.

The ninja bowed her head, bowed to the left and right guards and gave a salute, then stood up slowly.

But just when she was about to turn around and leave, Saimon raised his eyebrows suddenly.

"Huh? Wait a minute."

The ninja turned her half-turned body back.

After looking up and down the face of the ninja in front of him for a while with the eyes of an archaeologist looking at archaeological relics, Yoshiemon showed a smile that narrowed his eyes.

"No wonder you always look familiar."

"I remember you."

"You are Chuguang, right?"

"That kid who was picked up and adopted by Ji Jiu because he was too talented."

"My lord, you actually remember me. I'm really terrified." Nuren... or Chuguang, said lightly.

If there are Chuguang's "fans" here, they will definitely be stunned.

The sacred and unattainable "No. 1 artist in Osaka" in their eyes is now dressed in such a dishonorable manner.

The upper body is like a sleeveless kimono, exposing all the skin of the arms, and the lower body is like a short skirt, covering only about half of the thighs, with black leggings covering the entire calf, black socks and black straw sandals on the feet— — This is the style of Iga's ninja uniform, and it is also Chuguang's current dress.

In terms of exposure, Iga's ninja uniform is not as good as the Shiranui ninja uniform that exposes the skin of the entire back and arms, but it is still far better than ordinary women's clothing of this era.

"The reason why I have a deep impression on you is because I remember that Jijiu has always been partial to you."

Left and right guard shrugged.

"If I remember correctly, until tonight, you have been lurking in Shinmachi, Osaka as a musician, collecting information for my Toyotomi clan, right?"

"Actually, with your appearance, the most suitable disguise and hidden location for you are You Nu and You Kuo."

"With your appearance and temperament, you can easily become the top brand in any Youkou."

"In terms of intelligence collection efficiency, it is also easier to collect useful information by disguising as a popular wandering girl."

"But Ji Jiu didn't do that."

"He didn't ask you to pretend to be a prostitute, but instead asked you to pretend to be a musician who doesn't need to sell your body and is more relaxed."

"Judging from the current situation, in this grand battle tonight, Ji Jiu still favors you."

"Since you are here to deliver a message to me, it means that your mission tonight is to serve as a 'herald'."

"I didn't ask you to do that kind of dangerous task, but I asked you to be a safer 'herald'. Jijiu's preference for you can be seen."

"Obviously based on your status, asking you to be a 'herald soldier' ​​is simply overkill."

To Sawaiemon's words, Hatsumitsu's expression was—expressionless.

She listened impassively.

Between his brows and eyes, there was a faint... impatience.

"Oh? Don't you like to hear this topic?" After noticing Chuguang's expressionless face, Saemon laughed a few times, "Since you don't like to hear it, then I won't talk about it."

Afterwards, Saemon waved his hand towards Hatsumitsu.

"Okay, you go back to the main formation, and convey what I just said to Jijiu in its entirety."

Chu Guang answered "Yes" in a low voice, then lowered her body weight and ran towards the end of the corridor behind her.

In the blink of an eye, she completely disappeared in front of Yoshiemon's eyes.

"Okay..." Saemon stretched vigorously, "I'll leave Osaka Castle quickly too..."

Left and right door carried his big naginata, and walked towards the southwest exit of Osaka Castle at a leisurely pace.

After passing through several corridors, Yoshiemon came to a... "Bloody Mill".

It's a corridor full of dead bodies.

In this not-so-long corridor, there were 10 corpses lying there.

A small-scale battle broke out here just now.

The Tokugawa samurai who were in charge of guarding Osaka Castle met the Toyotomi samurai who attacked Osaka Castle in this corridor.

The battle... or the one-sided massacre began like this.

This unavoidable corridor is the most favorable terrain for musketeers.

Without exception, the 10 corpses in the corridor were all samurai responsible for guarding Osaka Castle.

There is still a faint smell of gunpowder and gunpowder smoke in the air.

The blood that flowed from their bodies dyed the floor of this corridor dark red.

Yoshiemon ignored the corpses in the corridor and the blood stains all over the floor, and continued walking along the corridor in a leisurely manner.

at this time!

Just as Yoshiemon walked to the middle of the bloody corridor, a pile of corpses behind him moved.

Immediately afterwards, a bloody corpse was gently moved away.

A pair of eyes full of hatred appeared from the shadow between this corpse and the corpse below him.

He stared at Saemon who was still walking leisurely.

—he didn't notice me...

——This is a good opportunity...

——Even if you die, you have to drag a thief to back your back...!

A young samurai who had been shot in the abdomen and whose cheeks were extremely pale due to severe blood loss crept out of the pile of corpses.

The young samurai named "Arii Ichiro" was one of the guards responsible for guarding Osaka.

In the encounter just now in this corridor, he was very unfortunate to be pierced through the abdomen by a bullet.

But he was very lucky - the bullet missed his vitals, so he was not killed immediately.

He has been in a coma.

Has been in a coma until now.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Zaemon who was strolling in this corridor.

Although he didn't die directly like other companions, Arii also knew that he was just lingering on his last breath, he was bleeding too much, and he couldn't live long.

Arii, who knew that his own death was approaching, set his eyes on Saeemon with hatred.

Die and die! Even if it is death, there must be someone to back him up - this is the only thought left in Ai's mind.

Yoshiemon didn't seem to notice Arei who was creeping out from the pile of corpses behind him, and continued walking forward on his own.

Seeing that Yoshiemon didn't notice him, Arii felt more confident.

Breathe slowly.

Hold the knife tightly.

Slowly approaching Yomon from behind Yoshiemon at a silent pace.

— 8 steps... 7 steps... 6 steps...

While approaching the left and right gate, while counting the distance between himself and the left and right gate.

Every time he took a step closer to the left and right gates, Arii's breathing became rougher.

- 5 steps... 4 steps... 3 steps...!

There was a well of feet.

The resentment, fear, and tension squeezed in my heart poured out at this moment!

"Thief! Go to hell!"

Arii poured all the strength left at this time into his hind legs, kicked the ground suddenly, and leaped the remaining 3 steps away from the left and right gates in one breath.

laugh!

The feeling of the blade piercing into the flesh was transmitted to Arii's palms.

-Success!

His knife pierced through the back of the left and right gate with precision, pierced his vitals, and then protruded from his chest.

A joyful smile bloomed on Arui's cheeks——however, this joyful smile lasted only for a moment, then froze, and then slowly dissipated.

Because he saw... the left and right guards slowly turned their heads expressionlessly and looked at him with admiration.

"Even if you die, you have to pull another enemy back."

"I appreciate your courage."

"It's not in vain that I have been waiting for you to rush over."

"Looking at your courage, I'll leave you a whole body."

Arii's mouth opened uncontrollably.

His face became even paler than before.

"No... maybe..." Youjing murmured, "I should... pierced your vitals... that's right..."

Arii probably didn't expect that his words were actually his last words.

call!

The last image Arui saw in his life... was a huge naginata that fell from the sky.

Pooh!

Like cutting a watermelon, Saemon chopped off Arii's head with his naginata.

Arii's head was split from forehead to throat, split into two neat halves.

"Hmm... the knife pierced through my body, it still hurts..."

Saemon shook off the blood remaining on the naginata, and at the same time pulled out the sword that had pierced his body.

The moment he pulled the sword out of his body, a strange scene that made one's hair stand on end appeared on Saemon's body.

I saw a lot of red bloodshot "grown" from the left and right side's wound.

These red blood threads were intertwined, and after a while, the huge penetrating wound on Saemon's body recovered to its original state.

"Didn't expect that?"

The left and right guards threw the drawn sword aside, and said to Arii's body in a joking tone.

"Just piercing the vitals of my abdomen is not enough to kill me."

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Osaka, somewhere——

"The wound on your leg is not deep, but it's not shallow either." The old man kneeling beside Ogata carefully looked at the wound on Ogata's leg, "I don't have any medicine on me right now. I only brought a little sackcloth..."

"In short, let me bandage your wound with sackcloth to stop the bleeding from your wound."

After that, the old man opened a large package beside him, and took out a roll of linen from it.

"You need to find a doctor with good medical skills to treat your injury, otherwise you will leave an ugly scar on your leg."

"Haha, it doesn't matter, anyway, I have more scars on my body." Ogata said half-jokingly, "It doesn't matter to me whether there is one more scar or one less scar."

Ogata had already taken off his original suit of clothes that soaked up the river water.

He has now changed into clean and dry clothes, but a little too small

The dry clothes on his body were provided to him by the old man in front of him.

"...Thank you very much, Lord Ishikawa." Ogata thanked the old man in front of him who was helping him bandage his wound with a heartfelt tone.

"Hahaha." The old man smiled.

In the face of Ogata's thanks, the old man nodded with a smile and didn't say much.

Looking at the old man, Xu asked slowly with doubts:

"Master Ishikawa, why are you here?"

This old man was the owner of the Ishikawa Sword Gym that competed with Sakakibara Gym when the Sakakibara Gym was still there - Ishikawa Bingma.

This was the first time Ogata met someone from his hometown since he left the Hirose Domain.

Although Ogata had quite an unpleasant experience with Yuanshan and others of the Ishikawa Sword Gym, Ogata has no ill feeling toward the owner of the Ishikawa Sword Gym.

Not only did he not feel bad, he also had some respect for Ishikawa Bingma.

At the beginning, the pile of moths assembled by Yuanshan were all done with Ishikawa's soldiers on their backs.

Shi Chuanyou, who didn't want to make things big and troublesome, tried his best to dissuade and reprimanded Yuan Shan and others not to go looking for trouble, but he couldn't control Yuan Shan and others at all.

"Hehehe..." Ishikawa smiled awkwardly, "Ogata-kun, before that, can you tell me—have you ever seen Itagaki? It's that Itagaki Shichigoro, do you remember him?"

Ogata: "Itagaki Shichigoro?"

Hearing the name "Itagaki Shichigoro", Ogata's expression was immediately startled.

Ogata naturally remembered who Itagaki was.

One of the younger brothers of Toyama, the first person Ogata killed since he came to the Edo period.

When Toyama and others went to Sakakibara Sword Gym and the izakaya where Ogata worked to find trouble for Ogata, Itagaki was the one who led the team to the izakaya where Ogata worked.

After Ogata could not be found in the izakaya, Itagaki shamelessly injured the mother and daughter of Saki and Afu.

Ogata later went to the Ishikawa Sword Gym to avenge the brothers in the sword Gym and the izakaya's Saki, Afu mother and daughter, Ogata took care of Itagaki and beat Itagaki half to death.

Since then, Itagaki, who was seriously injured, has been recuperating at home. Because of this, after beating Itagaki half to death, Ogata never saw this person again.

"No." Ogata shook his head, "After beating him seriously, I never saw him again."

"Is that so... Does that mean he hasn't found you yet..."

Ishikawa's face showed a look of regret and gratitude.

"Ogata-kun, I'm not afraid of your jokes... I left the Hirose Domain this time to find Itagaki and the others."

"Not long after you left the feudal clan, Itagaki left the feudal clan together with the other people in my sword hall who respect Yuanshan."

"On the eve of leaving the feudal clan, they sent a letter to the Jianguan. The letter said: We will go to Ogata Yishi to avenge Brother Yuanshan. If we don't take the leader of this thief, we will never return home."

"When I received this letter from Itagaki and the others... I was quite annoyed..."

Ishikawa smiled wryly.

"I had only one thought at the time: I really failed as a master."

"Tell Yuan Shan not to expand the dispute - Yuan Shan didn't listen to me."

"After Yuanshan died in the performance of worshiping gods and martial arts because he didn't listen to my advice, I advised Itagaki and others to stop here and stop doing stupid things-itagaki and the others also didn't listen to me."

"If I were a master who could discipline my disciples well... perhaps this series of disputes and tragedies would not have happened."

"The series of disputes between you and Yuan Shan, from the source, it is Yuan Shan's fault first."

"Because of Yuan Shan's fault, one tragedy after another has happened like a chain reaction."

"I don't want more people to be injured or even killed because of this dispute that Yuanshan was at fault first."

"If I just let Itagaki and the others be so obsessed with obsession, then what I, my master, has really failed."

"So I closed my Ishikawa Sword Gym, left the Hirose Domain, and looked for Itagaki and the others."

"I don't know where Itagaki and the others went to find you, so I can only look for people aimlessly."

"I came to Osaka about a month ago."

"This place is one of the settlements of poor people in Osaka."

Ishikawa stretched out his finger and pointed to the ground under his feet.

"There's a cheap hotel here. Here, that's the house, do you see it? That's the hotel I've been staying in lately."

Ishikawa pouted at a two-story wooden house that looked like a dangerous building not far away.

"Because I don't have much money left on me, I've been staying in that cheap hotel for a while."

"Now there are unknown fires and gunfire everywhere in Osaka, so the residents here are scared and run away."

"I didn't plan to escape with the people here, because I observed the location of the fire, and the location of each fire is quite far from here, and the fire may not necessarily burn here, so I didn't follow here. Residents leave here together."

"But just now, I found out that I can't run anymore."

"The speed and scope of the fire's spread far exceeded my imagination."

"Somewhere in the neighborhood not counting from here has been affected by the fire."

"It would be dangerous to stay here any longer, so I hurriedly left the hotel and prepared to escape to a safe place."

"As a result, I just left the hotel when I ran into you who was wet."

"Fate is really a wonderful thing... I never thought that I would meet you before Itagaki and the others."

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This "old friend" is Ishikawa Bingma, did not expect it?

Those who have forgotten the relevant plots of Ishikawa Bingma, Toyama, Itagaki and others can review Volume 1. Ishikawa Bingma is the poor museum owner who is treated as fart by Yuan Shan and others no matter how much he persuades Yuan Shan and others not to do stupid things.

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