I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

These bandits are really just a bunch of mobs—this is Ogata's only thought after sneaking into this bandit stronghold.

The sparsely arranged guard posts allowed Ogata and A-Ming to easily pass through the defense of these bandits, and successfully broke into the interior of their base.

Some tents are scattered here and there—this is the interior of the bandits' stronghold.

Tents vary in size, color and fabric. Larger tents should be able to sleep 4 or 5 people, and smaller tents should only be able to sleep 2 or 3 people.

Bandits lived in these tents.

After Ogata and Atachi broke into the base of the bandits, it was probably just after 8 o'clock in the evening.

In ancient times, this time point was already the time when many people slept.

Many of these bandits have already fallen asleep to meet Zhou Gong at this time-it is convenient for Ogata and A-cho.

At this time when some people have already fallen asleep, even if some people suddenly disappear, it is not easy to attract suspicion. Others will only think that these people who suddenly disappeared have gone to sleep.

As soon as they entered the bandits' stronghold, Ogata and Atachi found a tent where two bandits happened to be sleeping inside.

Using Shiranui's stealth technique to sneak into the tent, Ogata and Acho killed the two sleeping thieves in the tent one by one - the process was like flowing water.

The two bandits probably didn't realize what happened, and died in their sleep.

Some thieves have fallen asleep, but there are still some thieves who haven't gone to sleep, doing various things to pass the time.

For example - Ogata saw a bandit with a big beard sitting face to face with another bandit with a mustache in a corner of the base, chatting wildly.

Because the two were sitting opposite each other, it would be extremely difficult to assassinate them.

When Ogata was thinking about what to do to perfectly assassinate these two people, a very lucky thing happened-the bandit with the big beard suddenly got up and left.

It may be to urinate.

So Ogata immediately followed the bearded bandit's ass, and after he walked away from the bearded bandit, he raised the knife and stabbed him through the throat with a bird stab.

And when the little bearded bandit saw that the big bearded bandit hadn't returned, he was also killed by Ogata when he came to check the situation.

As soon as the little bearded bandit was killed, Ogata secretly said "forgot" - he forgot to ask the little bearded bandit, which tent did their leader named Koizumi live in.

But this is just an innocuous omission.

After all, there are still many bandits who are still alive and can be used for questioning.

So Ogata and A-Machi found another bandit who was staying somewhere outside the tent, putting oil on his saber.

They can only fight with the wind, without loyalty or righteousness to speak of, and fly separately when disaster strikes—this is the characteristic of most bandits.

Even those Liangshan bandits in "Water Margin" are not all loyal.

Ogata also read the original version of "Water Margin" in his previous life.

After reading the original version of "Water Margin\

,"Ogata has a big feeling, that is:

If the one hundred and eight heroes on Liangshan could be reborn once, many of the other one hundred and seven heroes besides Song Jiang would immediately eat Song Jiang alive.

After finding the bandit who was oiling his saber somewhere outside the tent, Ogata just put the knife on the man's neck, and the man immediately gave their leader sold.

Which tent their leader Koizumi lived in, which way to go there, what appearance characteristics did their leader have—all these information were sold out in one go.

After asking all the information they needed and sending the bandit off, Ogata and A-Ming followed the route the bandit said and found a big tent that was obviously much more magnificent than the others.

Dim firelight leaked out through the cracks in the tent.

Machi's amazing eyesight came in handy again.

The curtain at the door of this tent was not taut, and there was a gap almost two fingers wide.

A-Ming looked into the tent along this gap from a distance, and roughly finished scouting the situation inside the tent—there was only a strong man in the tent, and he seemed to be reading a book.

Although the strong man's face could not be seen clearly because his back was facing the entrance of the tent, his strong figure was consistent with the information obtained from the bandit just now.

Regarding how to assassinate Koizumi, Ogata had already thought up a strategy—a two-step strategy.

The first step - break into Koizumi's tent without being noticed by others.

The second step - stabbed him to death before he could react.

Ogata's plan is perfect - kill the enemy before the enemy finds you, and no one will know that someone is coming to assassinate you.

Just do it!

Using Shiranui's stealth technique, the two headed straight for Koizumi's tent.

After rushing into the tent, without saying a word, Ogata rushed towards Koizumi like a carnivorous beast pounced on its prey.

Ogata's speed was too fast.

Because Ohno had heard that Koizumi seemed to be a master of swordsmanship before, so in order to ensure that Koizumi could be killed with one blow before he could react, Ogata did not make any reservations.

Full fire directly.

Nerves were tense before rushing into the tent.

After rushing into the tent, go all out.

After calculating the distance between himself and Koizumi, he made a leap.

And Koizumi——hadn't reacted at all.

After the curtain at the entrance of the tent was lifted, he turned to look at the entrance of the tent with a confused face.

As soon as he turned his gaze to the entrance of the tent, he saw a black shadow flying towards him.

After this black shadow jumped on him, he covered his mouth with his left hand, and pierced his throat with a knife in his right hand.

When he pierced the throat of the person under him with Da Zizai, Ogata was stunned.

Swordsman? this one?

When pulling Ozizai out of Koizumi's neck, Ogata realized that his and Ohno's understanding of sword masters seemed to be a little off...

"Is this person Koizumi?" A-cho asked.

Ogata looked at the man's face: "The face is square, the lips are thick, and the figure is very burly. It is exactly the same as what the bandit said just now. It should be Koizumi."

The assassination of Koizumi was much easier than Ogata imagined.

Just as Ogata was wiping away the blood remaining on Da Zizai's sword with Koizumi's clothes, A-Machi suddenly said in a puzzled tone:

"Huh? What is this?"

After saying that, A-Machi leaned over and picked up the scroll that Koizumi was holding in his right hand.

Even after dying of breath, Koizumi still held onto the scroll tightly and did not let go.

A-Machi had just seen something that Koizumi was looking at through the gap in the tent.

A-machi thought that Koizumi was reading a book, but he didn't expect to be reading a scroll.

Momentarily curious, Ah-cho picked up the scroll and looked at it at a glance.

After reading it, Ah-Machi's expression changed slightly.

Ogata noticed the change in Machi's face and asked:

"What is written on this scroll?"

"It's not a big deal." A-Machi handed the scroll to Ogata, "It's just a compliment."

"Comment?" Ogata took the scroll and quickly read it.

Just like what A-Machi said just now——this is a certificate of commendation.

Its content is to praise Koizumi's work very seriously, and I am hereby issuing this letter of praise.

This kind of praise is quite common.

Some samurai are very serious about their work, or they have made some meritorious service, and they will send you a letter of commendation to praise your outstanding performance.

Among the values ​​​​of samurai in this era, there is nothing more important than honor.

For many samurai, receiving a certificate of commendation from above is a matter of great honor.

Ogata looked at the scroll in his hand - there was a lot of wear and tear, probably because it was opened and viewed too many times.

On it neatly wrote Koizumi's full name - Koizumi Seiichiro, praised Koizumi's serious work attitude with short words, and then said some nonsensical words about "You are a model of a samurai".

After quickly reading the contents of the letter of commendation in his hand, Ogata couldn't help but feel very ironic.

Today, Ohno told Ogata that their leader Koizumi was also a samurai who kept his own law.

After the "Tianming Famine" broke out, he was ruthlessly abandoned by the vassal government in order to reduce financial pressure, was demoted as a wanderer, and finally embarked on the road of no return as a thief.

That's how the meat-eaters of the domain treat their "model warrior"?

And this Koizumi was ruthlessly abandoned by the feudal mansion to which he had been loyal for most of his life, but he still kept this certificate awarded to him by the feudal mansion that he had read countless times, and he took it out to look at it in the middle of the night.

Ogata couldn't think of a suitable adjective to describe Koizumi who still had this praise.

Anyway, he didn't sympathize with Koizumi.

After the outbreak of "Tianming Famine", he was demoted to a wanderer by the feudal government, and then became a road tyrant, living by bullying men and women, killing people and looting money.

And now it has been 3 years since the "Famine at dawn".

After so many years, God knows how many innocent people have been brutally murdered by this guy.

After casually throwing the letter of commendation in his hand to his feet, Ogata suddenly heard shouts one after another:

"There is an enemy attack! There is an enemy attack!"

This is Ono's voice.

Hearing Ohno's voice, the expressions of Ogata and A-Machi both changed.

"What's going on?" Ah-Ming frowned, "Why did you hear that Ono's voice?"

Ogata: "I don't know. But thanks to Ohno's 'blessing', it seems that our assassination can only stop here."

"Let's get out quickly." Ah-ding turned around and rushed out of the tent.

"Wait a minute." Ogata stopped Ah-ding, then pulled out Da Shitian, and chopped off Koizumi's head with a single knife.

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The reason why Koizumi's head was cut off was because Ogata was sure that when he threw the head of Koizumi as the leader to the bandits who were still alive, it would definitely shake their fighting spirit and morale greatly.

And Ogata's judgment was quite accurate.

Holding Koizumi's head, he ran towards the direction Ohno had just shouted one after another.

From a distance, Ogata saw Hosaka and the others, as well as more than a dozen bandits who were confronting Hosaka and the others.

Then I just heard a guy shouting in a very confident tone:

"Don't worry! Ohno! We have a leader! You should know how powerful the leader Koizumi is?"

"If there are really two undead guys sneaking into our stronghold, our leader will definitely find out in time, and then kill those two guys!"

So Xu Convenience took advantage of the situation and asked, "Boss? Are you referring to this person?", while throwing Koizumi's head that had just been cut off.

After Koizumi's head fell firmly among the thieves, the thieves immediately became a mess.

"You, who are you?" The bandit who confidently called them and Koizumi's leader just now was shocked by the impactful scene after seeing Koizumi's head. He stuttered when he spoke.

"Just a samurai who just happened to pass by a nearby castle town."

After telling the truth, Ogata pulled out the Da Shi Tianhou from his waist, pressed the center of gravity of his body, and brought gusts of wind with his sprinting body.

Under the assassination of Ogata and Atachi, the base of 30 bandits has lost more than half of its combat power.

After seeing Ogata appearing and successfully assassinating the leader of the bandits, Hosaka and others felt their spirits and morale lifted.

After Ogata drew his sword and rushed towards the bandits, Hosaka and others followed closely behind, attacking the bandits back and forth together with Ogata who was behind the bandits.

"Quick! Kill this guy! Let's go together! Kill that guy!"

The person who uttered this anxious cry was Ohno.

With the help of his companions, Ohno had already cut the hemp rope that tied his hands behind his back.

Seeing Ogata rushing, Ohno immediately beckoned to the people around him to kill Ogata quickly with a face full of fear, and specifically reminded them to go all the way and launch a siege on Ogata.

But because Ogata's speed was too fast, as soon as Ohno's anxious shout fell, Ogata had already rushed into the bandits, swung two sharp knives, and beheaded the two bandits.

A-cho didn't just watch from the sidelines, when Ogata rushed towards the bandits, A-cho followed closely behind Ogata.

Machi is a person who has a fairly clear awareness of his strengths and weaknesses.

She knew that her sword skills were mediocre and her jujitsu was good.

So when she fights close combat with others, she mainly uses Shiranui-ryu jujitsu to attack the enemy.

A-cho stopped a bandit who was about to attack Ogata.

The bandit didn't even have time to react to A-Ming who suddenly jumped in front of him, when A-Ming stretched out his hands and directly grabbed his right hand holding the knife.

After A-Ming controlled the right hand he caught, he used the grappling technique in Shiranui-ryu-jitsu to twist the prisoner's right arm into a strange angle.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhn

The right arm was severed by A-Ming, and the bandit was unable to hold the knife due to the severe pain, and the knife fell off his right palm.

After letting the bandit's knife out of his hand, A-cho squatted down suddenly, quickly lowered his body's center of gravity, and then made a sharp sweeping kick.

Ah Ding's leg was like a whip made of steel, hitting the bandit's leg hard.

With the sound of a slight bone crack, the bandit was directly kicked to the ground by A-Ming, and the moment he landed, A-Ming quickly pulled out his wakizasa and stabbed the bandit in the throat. Put on.

After finishing off the bandit beautifully, Ah-cho couldn't help but sigh with emotion:

——Wearing such thick clothes will definitely affect the speed of your moves...

It's the freezing winter now, and A-Machi doesn't have Ogata's perverted physique that was tempered by the system, but A-Machi with an ordinary person's physique. In such a severe winter, he naturally wears thick clothes.

The overly thick clothes slowed down A-ding's speed no matter whether he was using grabbing or sweeping kicks.

If he was wearing a ninja uniform that was very easy to move, Ah-cho was sure that he would be able to kill the bandit more quickly.

By the way, A-Machi has always carried the ninja uniform in Shiranui.

Although there are basically only some bad memories of Shiranui, A-Machi has to admit that the female ninja uniform in Shiranui is indeed a set of clothing that is very easy to move, suitable for combat and stealth.

It would be a pity to throw away such a set of clothing that he was used to and suitable for battle, so A-cho always carried the ninja uniform with him.

It's just that in this kind of cold weather, there is basically no chance for female ninja uniforms with less fabrics and extra cool to appear on the stage.

Under the assassination of Ogata and Atachi, there were only a dozen bandits left in this group of bandits, not much larger than Ogata and others who had 6 people.

When the number of people is not too dominant, facing 6 people headed by Ogata... If their number is multiplied by 10, it may still make Ogata feel a little tricky, but there are more than ten people... The battle was doomed from the start.

Ogata is basically one knife.

No bandit could block or evade Ogata's attack.

As for the bandits' counterattack... their slow knives were either easily dodged by Ogata.

Or just as soon as the knife was raised, Ogata cut it off first.

Just like now - after beheading another bandit, Xu conveniently sensed that someone was approaching quickly from behind him.

He turned his head and looked back—it was that Ohno.

Ohno was holding high the sword that he probably picked up from his dead companion, and quickly walked from behind Ogata towards Ogata.

He probably wanted to sneak up on Ogata, so he kept his mouth shut and didn't even make a sound, and specially suppressed the sound of footsteps.

But his level was not good enough, even though he didn't make a sound and specially suppressed the sound of footsteps, Ogata still sensed his approach.

After seeing Ogata looking back at him, a strong color of fear immediately surfaced on his face.

But as soon as the color of fear appeared on his face, he gritted his teeth, suppressed the fear in his heart, and continued to rush straight towards Ogata.

In order to survive, Ohno has decided to put all his eggs in one basket.

Facing Ohno, who has already embraced the consciousness of mortal death, his mood does not change.

After measuring the distance between him and Ono with downcast eyes——

laugh.

The sound of a sword piercing through human flesh resounded.

Ogata used his best trick - grasping the bottom end of the hilt with his hand, greatly widening the attack distance of the knife, and then aimed at Ono's throat with a bird stab of Sakakibara's style.

The tip of Da Shitian's knife sank into Ono's throat.

Unexpectedly, Ogata would have such a move, and Ohno, who was weak at the same time, had his throat pierced by Da Shitian in this way.

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With Ogata present, the battle started suddenly and ended quickly.

The battle officially ends when Ogata cuts down a demoralized bandit who tries to escape.

Of the 13 bandits, 8 were beheaded by Ogata, and 2 were killed by Atachi. Hosaka, Kinjo, and Tsuchiya each picked up one head, and only Mizuno got nothing.

As soon as the battle started, Mizuno found a bandit and confronted the bandit with a sword.

However, due to lack of actual combat experience and fear of real knives in the hands of the bandits, Mizuno never dared to use them. He only dared to hold up the knife and constantly send out Qi He to deter the bandits.

And the opponent that Mizuno found was also a person who lacked actual combat experience and was afraid of real knives, so he only dared to hold up the sword and kept sending out qihe in an attempt to deter Mizuno.

So it turned into such a picture: Mizuno and the bandit were exuding qihe one after another while they were in the duo, but no one dared to go up.

Until there were fewer and fewer bandits who could stand still, the bandit confronting Mizuno gradually became frightened, so he voluntarily withdrew from the confrontation with Mizuno, turned around and fled.

But before the bandit escaped a few steps, he was caught up by Ogata not far away, and then he was killed by Ogata with a single knife.

After the battle, Ogata and others began to clean up the battlefield.

They first checked the bandit's stronghold to see if there were any fish that slipped through the net.

Ogata and the others found a lot of good things while checking to see if there were any fish that slipped through the net.

They found the bandits' money and the bandits' food.

These bandits don't have much food, only a large bag of polished rice, a large bag of brown rice, and a large bag of various vegetables such as pickles, radishes, and some salted fish.

These bandits have quite a lot of money.

Ogata and others counted and found a total of 32 taels of gold, 223 silver and 1225 copper coins.

After confirming that there were no living bandits around, they began to dispose of the bandits' bodies.

Ogata and A-machi found out the bandits who died in their assassination just now one by one, and then collected their bodies together with the body of the bandit who died in the battle just now—no more, no less, just right 30 corpses.

If these people were left alone, there might be an epidemic, so Ogata and others worked together to dig a big hole to bury the bodies of these bandits.

Also buried in the ground were the weapons of these bandits.

Ogata and the others had no intention of taking away the bandits' weapons and selling them.

Because they have no way to sell stolen goods.

And if he showed up in the town with a large number of weapons, it might attract the attention of the government and cause unnecessary trouble.

When they killed the dozen or so bandits other than Ono who came to "friendly negotiations" with the villagers this morning, Ogata and the others did the same with the corpses of the dozen or so bandits—buried them together with their weapons.

After dealing with these things, it was almost 11 o'clock in the evening.

Today, he was on his way again, fighting bandits, and burying bandit corpses. Ogata, who was quite energetic, didn't feel tired, but Hosaka and the others were a little tired.

And walking the mountain road at night is a very dangerous thing.

Therefore, Ogata and the others decided to spend the night in this bandit base, and return to that mountain village after dawn tomorrow.

After spending the night in the bandits' stronghold, they took their trophies—the food and the money—and set foot on the way back to the village when the sky turned pale.

After returning to the village smoothly, Ogata and others announced their success to the villagers.

After learning that the bandit who was thinking about their village had been wiped out, the villagers cheered, and some villagers even cried with joy.

As for how to distribute the loot brought back, Ogata and the others had already made plans on the way back to the village.

These grains are inconvenient to carry, so it is better to simply give them to the village that is so poor that they can barely afford food, and they will keep the money for themselves.

After returning to the village, Ogata and others told the villagers of their distribution plan.

No one in the villagers has any objection to the "spoils distribution plan" that Ogata and the others have drawn up—they probably dare not have any objection.

So a consensus was successfully reached in this way - the food that is not convenient to take away will be given to the villagers who can hardly afford to eat, and Ogata and the others will divide the money.

As for how to divide the money - Husaka and the others have already reached a consensus.

Ogata and Atachi took the lead - there is no doubt about it.

That group of bandits was basically wiped out by Ogata on his own.

Hosaka, Tsuchiya, Jincheng, and Mizuno only saw 5 heads in total.

Of the 42 bandits, 37 were killed by Ogata and Atachi-the two husband and wife took the lead, and no one had an opinion.

The money found from the bandit is 35 taels of gold, 223 silver and 1225 copper coins

Therefore, Hosaka made a suggestion-the 35 taels of gold belonged to Ogata and A-Ming, and they shared the remaining 223 taels of silver and 1225 copper coins.

Kanejo, Tsuchiya, and Mizuno all nodded in agreement with Kasaka's distribution proposal.

Although Ogata began to care more about the amount of money on his body after he formally established a husband and wife relationship with A-Machi, he is not a greedy person.

Although Hosaka and the others did not contribute much, they did.

Only letting them share the scarce silver and copper coins, Ogata always felt a little guilty.

Therefore, Ogata did not collect all the 35 taels of gold.

Instead, he divided 4 taels among them and gave one tael to each of Hosaka and others, and he and A-Ming took the remaining 31 taels.

At the beginning, Hosaka and others said that they did not want or could not accept the two gold coins, and that they could just divide the remaining silver and copper coins.

But at Ogata's firm request, Hosaka and the others could only look at each other in blank dismay, and then accepted the money Ogata gave them.

Ogata's generous behavior of donating money greatly improved the favor of Hosaka and others.

All the evil bandits were wiped out.

The villagers got the food they desperately needed.

Hosaka and others also received money.

And Ogata not only gained a lot of experience points, but also gained an extra fortune.

The outcome of this battle with bandits can be regarded as a happy one.

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By the way - I've always been curious, is there any female fans in this book?

Are there any girls who would like to read this book?

Can female readers leave a comment here? I wanted to see if any girls would like this book...

Alas... I think maybe not many girls will like this book (Leopard Head Cries)

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