I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

I almost forgot to tell you - the author has slightly revised Chapter 534 "The Storm is Rising, the Great War is Imminent" and Chapter 535 "Wei Xufang Ruhu".

The plot has not been changed, but a little more content has been added to it to make the plot fuller, making these two chapters more than a few hundred words.

You can go back and look at the 2 chapters that have been refined~~

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Before Chanup had even started his speech.

"Otongpuyi! You are here! I finally found you!"

Asuma rushed to a small open space in front of her with anxiety and joy.

In this small open space, a figure that Aisuma is very familiar with is squatting there - this figure is none other than Autongpuyi.

Previously, when Aisuma was patrolling around to maintain order in various places, she saw her younger brother sitting in an inconspicuous corner with a dull expression.

At that time, Aisuma, who was busy, asked her younger brother to go home quickly, and personally watched Otunpuyi leave—but after Aisuma returned home, her younger brother was nowhere to be seen.

Until it was almost dark, Asuma, who was worried about Otunpuyi who had not returned home, left home and went looking for her younger brother.

Asuma ran all over the places where her younger brother often went, and finally——finally found her younger brother in this small open space in front of her.

This unremarkable little open space is also a place full of memories for the two siblings, Aisuma and Otunpuyi.

When the two were very young, the two often played in this small open space.

"Sister..." Otong Puyi, who was squatting on the ground, turned to look at her sister behind her.

"What are you doing here?" Aisuma scolded her younger brother loudly with an angry face, "Why don't you obey me obediently and go home obediently?"

"I'm sorry..." Otongpuyi apologized in a low voice, "I just want to find a quiet place to think about problems..."

"Thinking about something?" Aisuma frowned, "What are you thinking about?"

"I was thinking about what we should do in the face of the Japanese army outside the city.

"Otongpuyi said word by word with a very serious expression.

Hearing her younger brother's answer, Asuma's face flashed a bit of surprise.

"...This kind of thing is not for a child like you to think about." Aisuma said seriously, "Father and the others will think about this kind of thing, so you don't have to think about it so much."

"Okay, get up, come with me. Father, he summoned all of us in Heyezhe, as if he wanted to say something to everyone."

"Have you summoned everyone?" Otunpuyi showed astonishment, "What does father want to tell everyone?"

"I don't know. So get up quickly." Asuma stretched out her hand towards her younger brother, "Let's go and listen to what father wants to tell everyone."

Otunpuyi grabbed Asuma's outstretched hand, stood up with Asuma's help, and then went to the "old place" with Asuma.

The two siblings came just in time.

When the two of them came to the "old place", Chanup happened to be standing on the high platform.

Since their father started his speech, the two siblings have shown the same expression very tacitly - the two siblings maintained a shocked expression until Chanup's speech ended.

At the beginning, I was shocked by the first story Chanup told - that is, he had been to "Heren Land" when he was young.

Their father actually went to "Herendi" when they were young-the two of them, who are the children of Chanup, had never heard of this matter, and their father never told them about it.

Then they were shocked by how powerful their father's speech had exploded.

Looking around at the clansmen who were roaring and responding to her father, Asuma wondered for a moment if she was dreaming.

Compared to her sister's excited expression, the reaction of her younger brother next to Aisuma was relatively calm.

Otunpuyi stared blankly at the clansmen who were responding to his father.

Look complicated.

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After coming down from the high platform of the "old place", Chanup went straight home first, even though there were a mountain of things waiting for Chanup to deal with after successfully arousing everyone's fighting spirit.

Because he had made an agreement with Ogata before - after he finished speaking with He Yezhe's people, he would go back to his home and wait for Ogata to hear what Ogata wanted to say to him.

As soon as he got home, Chanup saw Tang Shen who was still sitting cross-legged in his old position, staring at him with sharp eyes.

Chanup ignored Tang Shen's gaze, looked around for the next four weeks, and asked:

"Have Asuma and Otunpuyi come back?"

"No." Tang Shen replied.

"Has Mr. Mashima ever been here?" Chanup continued to ask.

"nor."

"That's it..." Chanup responded softly, took off the bow on his back, and sat opposite Tang Shen, "Then wait here for Mr. Mashima."

"...Qianup." Tang Shen asked suddenly, "Do you know why I stayed here after I told you the news of the 'shogunate attack'?"

"I don't know," Chanup replied honestly, "You didn't explain it to me, did you?"

"The reason why I have stayed here is for you, for your old friend." Tang Shen said in a deep voice, "I don't want you to die. So I choose to stay here until I confirm with my own eyes that you have chosen to be able to the way of life."

Chanup made a few self-deprecating laughs: "So that's how it is... No wonder you have been trying to persuade me to escape these days. You never persuaded me to have a decisive battle with the people outside the city. If you advise you to leave quickly, you will not leave. "

"In this way, I feel a little guilty...Because of me, you have missed the best time to escape..."

"Put mine aside in advance, I have my own plan." After finishing speaking, Tang Shen sighed heavily, "Why do you choose this kind of narrow death... no, it's close to ten death and no life?"

Before Chanup officially conveyed his belief of "defending the homeland to the death" to Heyezhe's people, Chanup informed Tang God of his determination in advance.

After learning what Chanup was going to do, Tang Shen persuaded Chanup not to do stupid things without thinking.

Of course—in the face of Tang Shen's persuasion, Chanup was naturally unmoved until the end.

"...God Tang. You haven't experienced our southward migration 10 years ago." Chanup said softly, "You can't understand our feelings for the land under our feet."

"Alas..." After being silent for a while, Tang Shen let out a long breath.

With this long sigh, Tang Shen's face became haggard.

"Forget it... the matter has come to this point, no matter what I say, it should be useless."

"...God Tang. What will you do next?" Qianup asked, "Thousands of troops outside the city have already blocked the entrance and exit of our Heyezhe. How do you plan to leave here?"

"You don't need to worry about my affairs." Tang Shen replied in a somewhat impatient tone, "I will find a way to save my life."

Chanup: "..."

"Why?" Tang Shen glared at Chanup, "Why are you looking at me like this?"

"...God Tang." Qianup sat up slowly while speaking, "After reuniting with you after a long absence, I have something that I have always wanted to tell you."

"Words? What words?"

Chanup slowly turned his gaze to the thick and long crutch on the right side of Tang Shen's body.

"I didn't expect that so many years have passed." Chanup said softly, "You still carry this crutch I made for you with you."

Tang Shen's pupils shrank slightly.

"God Soup."

Chanup softly called God Tang's name, while reaching out to pick up the crutch beside God Tang.

For Chanup's behavior of reaching for his crutch, Tang Shen did not do anything to hinder him.

"God Tang, don't leave here. Can...can you help me like before?"

Click.

With a "click" sound, the head of Tang Shen's crutch was twisted away.

After removing the unscrewed head of the cane, the inside of the cane was fully revealed—the inside of the cane was hollowed out.

Inside the cane was a knife.

When Chanup took off the head of the crutch, the handle of the knife happened to be exposed.

Chanup grabbed the handle of the knife, and slowly pulled the knife with its sheath out of the crutch.

This is a whole body white knife.

The hilt, blade, and scabbard are all beautiful snow white.

The firelight from the oil lamp shone on the scabbard, and reflected a dazzling white light.

This is also a strangely shaped knife.

The blade is the blade of the sword.

Its handle, however, was not the handle of a katana sword wrapped in fish skin and wrapped around a non-slip handle.

The style of its hilt is more like Tang Tu's Tang sword. The bottom of the hilt is also tied with a slender snow-white sword tassel.

Chanup held the scabbard of the knife, pointed the hilt at Tang Shen who was looking at the knife in Chanup's hand with complicated eyes.

"Stay here and help me."

"With your help, I will have the power of a thousand people!"

Chanup's tone rose.

"It's like you helped me avenge my father's death."

"Just use your Japanese sword!"

"Your skills must not have been abandoned. Am I right? God Tang..."

Just as Chanup was about to say the name "God of Soup", he suddenly paused.

After pausing for a moment, Chanup put on an extremely serious expression, and changed his words word by word:

"No...it should be—Shendu Impurity Fasting."

"Unclean fasting! Draw your sword!"

"Please... help me again!"

Tang Shen crossed his arms and looked quietly at Chanup who was looking at him with fiery eyes.

"...Shendu unclean fast..." Tang Shen let out a low chuckle.

There was a hint of self-deprecation in the laughter.

"It's such a long-lost name...I can't remember the last time I heard someone call me that..."

After finishing speaking, Tang Shen raised his hands and held the knife in Chanup's hand.

After gently stroking the scabbard a few times as if caressing some soft silk, Tang Shen slowly put the Japanese sword in his hand to his side.

Looking at Tang Shen's actions, a faint look of disappointment appeared in Chanup's eyes.

Facing Qianup's disappointed gaze, Tang Shen said softly:

"Sorry, I'm sorry."

"What you just said was wrong."

"I have been relying on the hunting skills you taught me these years, hunting all kinds of small animals, and selling them to various merchants for a living. I have been a pet merchant for so many years, and I am completely unfamiliar with how to swing a knife. What's more —I'm still old."

"Now—forgive me for my harsh words."

"I still want to live."

"I don't want to stay here, and follow you to fight a battle with little chance of winning, and to die together."

Tang Shen's refusal was straightforward and straightforward.

Chanup, who had a complex look on his face, looked at Tang Shen for a while, and then sighed heavily.

"I see... Now that you've said that, I won't force you..."

"I will find a way to get out of here on my own." Tang Shen grabbed the Japanese sword again, then stuffed the Japanese sword back into the crutch, and then stood up from the ground.

"Where are you going?" Chanup asked.

"I'm going to feed my sled dogs." Tang Shen replied, "Go and go back."

After speaking, Tang Shen grabbed his crutch and strode away from Chanup's house.

Chanup kept watching Tang Shen leave his home before turning his gaze back.

Silently, he took out his bag containing tobacco, took out a roll of tobacco from the bag, stuffed it into his bong, took the oil lamp next to him, and lit the cigarette.

Chanup just smoked.

Smoking a cigarette that has no taste for some reason.

Before Chanup had time to take a few sips, the voice he had been waiting for since he came home finally sounded outside the house:

"Mr Chanup, it's me."

Chanup quickly took down the bong in his mouth: "Mr. Mashima, come in!"

After Chanup's words fell, Xufang took his knife, opened the curtain, and entered Chanup's house.

"I also listened to your generous statement just now under the high platform." Ogata said to Chanup in a tone of admiration as he knelt in front of Chanup. , "After listening to your impassioned statement, and seeing the reactions of others, I am stunned."

"Thank you for the compliment." Chanup said modestly, "In Tangtu, on the other side of the sea, there is a saying called 'Do it when you know what you can't do'."

"The friend I mentioned on the high platform just now took my young self and sneaked to live with Matsumae Fan once explained this sentence to me-do not ask if you can do something, but ask if you should."

"I just practiced this sentence and did what I should do."

"You still understand this famous saying of Tang Tu?" Ogata's eyes flashed with surprise.

"I only know a few words." Chanup smiled wryly and shook his head.

After the words fell, Chanup raised his eyes and looked at Ogata's face in front of him.

"Mr. Mashima, I feel guilty as soon as I see your face." Apologetic expressions appeared on Chanup's face, "The war between us and Kazuto has affected you and your wife..."

Ogata shook his head slightly: "Mr. Chanup, you don't have to apologize to me for this kind of thing."

"I stayed here to treat my wife's injuries."

"I jumped into this vortex on my own initiative."

"I don't regret doing it for my wife either."

"Instead of watching my wife who failed to receive professional treatment die from injuries afterwards, I would rather face the thunder above the nine heavens."

"I was also mentally prepared to be affected by the war early on."

"Mr Chanup, our goal, now is unity."

"You want to protect your homeland."

"And I also want to protect my wife who has not been able to move freely."

"So our goal is the same - to drive the wolves out of the city."

"So - Mr. Chanup."

With a serious face, Ogata said word by word:

"Let's form an alliance."

"Work together to drive away the Heren army outside the city."

As soon as Ogata finished speaking, Chanup's face was filled with surprise.

"Mr. Mashima, are you willing to assist us?"

Ogata nodded, then took out a map from his pocket and spread it between him and Chanup.

"Mr. Chanup, I happen to have a plan right now that will greatly improve our chances of winning."

"I have a friend who is in this place right now."

Ogata pointed to a place marked with a special symbol on the map.

"My friend is a Lucian. He has dozens of well-tested and elite cavalry under his command."

"I'm going to ask my friend to help us!"

Ogata didn't talk any extra nonsense, and succinctly informed Chanup of his plan.

"Ask that friend of yours to help?" Chanup frowned immediately.

At this moment, a lot of questions emerged from Chanup's mind one by one.

And Chanup also asked his questions one by one.

"Mr. Mashima, you said that you want to ask your friend to help... How do you go to see your friend? Now the only entrance and exit of our Heyezhe has been blocked by thousands of troops. Think There is no need to go out."

"I know." Ogata said in a deep voice, "So——I will try to forcefully break through the blockade of the army outside the city."

"Break through the blockade of the army outside the city?" Chanup's eyes widened instantly, "Mr. Mashima, I know your sword skills are not ordinary...but... no matter how superb your sword skills are, it is impossible to break through thousands of swords. Army blockade, right?"

"Besides breaking through the blockade of the army outside the city, there is no other way to leave here." Ogata smiled wryly, "It seems difficult at first glance, but it is not impossible--I am not going to follow Thousands of troops are fighting head-on, just to break through their blockade."

"So I don't need to defeat all these thousands of generals, I just need to defeat the people in front of me—but the speed must be fast, so I have to break through on horseback."

"Even if you say that... it's really crazy to plan to break through the blockade of the army outside the city alone without help..." Chanup shook his head.

Chanup just shook his head a few times when his shaking head stopped suddenly.

In just a moment ago, something slowly condensed and formed in Chanup's mind.

This thing is a Japanese sword with a snow-white body.

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I saw a reminder from a famous book friend yesterday, and I suddenly remembered—I seem to have never told you: In reality, in the Edo period, there were actually more than one old man.

In real life, there are usually 4-5 people, just like Ruonianji.

In the historical facts, Matsudaira Sadanobu is deeply trusted by the general and has power over the world, so the other veterans who served the same term as him have no sense of existence.

For the sake of the plot, this book was changed to "the only one among the old masters is Matsudaira Sadanobu".

I would like to remind everyone—don’t mistake the setting of this book for historical facts~~

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