I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

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It is common sense in the world that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. It was around 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun moved halfway to the western skyline.

After exhausting all my strength, she finally sank to the ground slowly after shedding bunches of sunset that still made people feel hot and humid.

The sun goes down and the night goes up.

Tonight is a sunny day, and the moonlight illuminates every street in Osaka like daytime.

"Oh." While stirring the soup in the big pot in front of him with a huge spoon, Ah-Ming turned his head and looked at the moon outside the window, admiring, "Tonight is the night of the full moon, the moon is so beautiful."

"Miss A-Machi." Azuki, who was sitting opposite A-Machi, said at this moment, "The white radish has been cut."

"Okay." Ah-Ming turned his gaze back to the cauldron in front of him, "Come on, give me the white radish."

Ogata was sitting by the window at this moment, arranging his slightly messy bun.

After tidying his hair, he picked up the knife beside him and stood up slowly.

"Then I'm going to get the knife." Ogata hung the two cheap ones used to temporarily replace Da Shitian and Da Zizai on his left waist.

"Yeah. Remember to go and come back soon." A-cho said as he moved the white radish that Azhu had cut into the pot. Oh."

"Don't worry. According to my calculations - when I get the knife back, your hoe probably hasn't been cooked yet."

Hoe Yaki - one of the classic dishes in Japan.

It has a more familiar name: Sukiyaki.

The so-called hoe burning can be understood as Japanese hot pot.

This dish first originated from the peasant class. For the convenience of eating, farmers often put the food directly on the top of the hoe, and then baked it like this, so the name "hoe burnt" came into being.

With the passage of time, this rough dish originally created by the peasantry gradually spread and became popular. Until the current Kanzheng period, hoe roasting has become a famous dish loved by all classes.

"You guys have to be careful." Ogata said seriously, "Don't burn down other people's hotels."

"Don't worry." Ah-Ming shook the big spoon in her hand, "We won't make this kind of mistake."

Tonight, Ogata and the others decided to eat Hoyaki in their hotel room.

Since arriving in Osaka, Ogata and the others have gone to various restaurants outside the hotel for every meal.

Although the food in all the restaurants is delicious, for some reason, until today, Ogata and the others have not come across a restaurant that cooks and cooks to their liking.

Ogata's feelings for hot pot are neither good nor bad, and whether he can eat delicious hoyaki is just an insignificant matter to Ogata.

But A-Machi and A-Zhu don't think so.

Hoe burning is one of the favorite things of these two ninjas. Especially Ah Ding, she has an unusual feeling for Hoe Burn.

A-Machi really likes the feeling of sitting around a big pot with his friends, chatting happily, and cooking food in the pot together.

Tomorrow morning, they will leave Osaka with Genichi, Mucun and the others, heading for Mount Koya.

Starting tomorrow, and for a long period of time in the future, they will not have the conditions to sit together quietly and happily eating hoe burnt.

So at noon today, Ah-cho proposed: Tonight, let's have hoe roast in the hotel together!

As soon as A-Ming made this proposal, A-Zhu immediately expressed his agreement.

Faced with such an enthusiastic A-Machi, Ogata naturally couldn't find any reason to refute her. He was a person who didn't pay much attention to food, so he agreed.

In the afternoon, it took a long time for Ogata, A-Machi, and Azuki to persuade the hotel staff to allow them to set up a pot to cook and burn in the room.

Originally, they wanted to invite Feng Mo, and the four of them would have a lively meal together.

But it's a pity - Fengmo already has an appointment tonight, and he will have dinner at the home of his old subordinate: Xianbingwei.

for cooking,

Ogata is a complete half-baked guy, he can only cook food to be edible, but he can't cook food to taste.

Therefore, Ogata, who knew that he could not be of much help by staying in the hotel, decided to go to Master Yuer at this time to retrieve his Da Shitian and Da Zizai.

Today is the day he and Master Yuer agreed to pick up the knife.

On this day, Ogata has been waiting for a long time.

He couldn't wait to see how Master Yuer repaired his knife.

Ogata had originally planned to pick up the knife tonight, so it would be a good time to pick up the knife while A-cho and Azuki were cooking and cooking.

By the time they got the knife back, the two of A-Machi and the others probably had almost cooked the hoe, making the best use of time.

Although he knew that A-cho was not the kind of idiot who could set the house on fire even after cooking, but just to be careful, Ogata seriously told A-cho and Azuki to be careful with fire.

After the instructions were finished, Ogata took his own dark blue feather weave, bamboo hat, and face scarf that were placed on the ground next to him.

"Then I'm leaving." Ogata put on the haori, the bamboo hat and the face scarf.

"Is there really no need for Azuki or me to accompany you to pick up the knife?" Acho asked.

"No need." Ogata said in an annoyed tone, "I'm not a child who needs to be accompanied and watched for everything. I'll be back soon."

After finishing speaking, Ogata stopped staying any longer, tightened the haori that was draped around his body, and left the room quickly.

As soon as he walked out of the hotel, although his thighs were a little cold, the breeze that blew on his face without making people feel uncomfortable rushed to Ogata's face one after another.

- what a comfortable night...

Looking at the full moon hanging in the sky, a smile appeared on Ogata's cheeks.

The weather was clear, with a full moon in the sky, and a gentle breeze—it had been a long time since Ogata had such a comfortable night.

It will take a long time for Ah Ding and the others to cook the hoe, so Ogata is not in a hurry, and walks slowly towards Master Yuyi's residence at a leisurely pace.

In modern time units, it is about half past six in the afternoon.

The nightfall did not make this "Japan's No. 1 Commercial Capital" completely lose its vitality.

There is a faint smell of food in the air, and the streets are still full of people and cars. Shinmachi and many other places that can only show their vitality at night have shown dazzling prosperity.

Master Yoji's residence is located in a very remote place in Osaka.

Ogata, who headed straight for Master Yoji's residence, left one bustling street after another.

Farther and farther away from the bustling place.

It is getting closer and closer to the deserted place.

Soon, there were no more cries from vendors and the rumble of wheels turning in Ogata's ears, and there was no seductive aroma lingering at the tip of his nose.

The light shining around Ogata's body was only moonlight.

It's like coming to another world.

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...

In Osaka, in a room on the top floor of a deserted hotel——

"Hello. How is it? Has the target appeared?" A handsome man with a stern expression asked a hideous one-eyed man sitting beside him.

The one-eyed man known as "Baixiang" has nothing but a frightening hole in his left eye socket.

He held a spotting telescope in both hands, pressing his only eye to the lens.

"Not yet." Baixiang curled his lips, "Ha...it's really boring...Sakuma, when are we going to wait like this?"

"Wait until our target Shura appears." Toshio...that is, Sakuma said coldly.

"It's really troublesome..." Baixiang put down the binoculars, and then put his left index finger into his empty left eye socket, picking the dust in the left eye socket, "Didn't that Isshiki Zhizhou say that Shura will go to pick up the knife today? ?”

"We have been lying in ambush for so long at the place Shura must pass through when he retrieves the knife. How come there is no sign of Shura until now?"

"Didn't Isshiki Naoki leak false information to us?"

"Today is not over yet." Sakuma's tone was still cold, "Just keep waiting. Maybe Shura will come to pick up the knife at night."

"Tsk..." Baixiang curled his lips, "Fortunately, it's sunny and full moon tonight, so the vision is good."

After complaining, Bai Xiang picked up the binoculars again.

As soon as the camera came back to his eyes, Baixiang's expression froze for a moment.

"Ha ha!"

A ferocious smile appeared on Baixiang's face.

"Sakuma, our waiting is finally not in vain!"

Hearing Baixiang's words, Sakuma was stunned for a while, then hurriedly took out the binoculars from his arms and looked towards a certain street in the distance.

A figure in dark blue feathers, a bamboo hat, and a face scarf is reflected in the camera.

"...the characteristics match completely." Sakuma slowly put down the binoculars, "Baixiang, get ready to work."

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...

Ogata looked around, looking at the unusually desolate street he was currently in, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion:

——This place is really deserted... Sure enough, no matter how developed a city is, there must be a few places in the city that are very desolate.

This is the only place to go to the residence of Master Yu Er, so Ogata has visited this place once before.

Before, Ogata was surprised by the desertedness of this place.

Even though he has witnessed the solitude of this place once with his own eyes, Ogata still couldn't hide the emotion in his heart when he passed by this place again.

However, at this moment, Ogata stopped in his footsteps.

--wrong……

Ogata suddenly looked around with alert eyes.

He knew that this place was indeed deserted.

But here and now, it is really too "deserted".

It's not that there are too few people or voices.

Instead, there was a strange coldness in the air.

Ogata didn't know how to use words to describe the chill in the air at this moment.

This is the coldness that can only be felt by a person like him who has experienced many battles.

Crash la la la la la——!

Suddenly, hurried footsteps came from behind Ogata.

Ogata immediately looked behind him——

I saw two groups of people pouring out from the left and right sides of the street behind him like a tide.

These two groups of people quickly rushed to the center of the street intersection, forming a tight three-row line array.

The total number of people in these three columns is about 60.

They all wear swords and wakizashi around their waists.

In their hands, they all held weapons that reflected a chilling light under the moonlight.

Flintlock!

Looking at the more than 60 shining flintlock guns, Ogata's pupils suddenly shrank.

And at the same moment when Ogata's pupils zoomed in—

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

The person standing in the first row leveled the flintlock in his hand, pointed the muzzle at Ogata, and pulled the trigger.

The movements of these musketeers were uniform and extremely fast.

However, the reaction speed brought by Ogata's 15-point reflex nerve is faster than that of the musketeers.

With 15 points of reflex and 18 points of agility, Ogata jumped into a dark alley next to him.

Bullets whizzed past like raindrops.

Although the accuracy of the flintlock is poor, the distance between these gunmen and Ogata is only more than 40 meters.

At such a short distance, there are always a few rounds that can hit the target.

And in fact, it is true.

If Ogata had just stood there stupidly, at least 5 bullets would have shot his body through.

As soon as he jumped into the alley, Xu Fangli immediately pulled out the knife at his waist like a conditioned reflex.

The sudden attack caused chaotic thoughts to pass through Ogata's mind one by one.

——Flintlock...they are not from the government...then who are they?

Ogata's face sank like water now.

He saw very clearly just now that the weapons in these people's hands were not matchlock guns, but genuine flintlock guns.

The muskets used by the Edo shogunate are still matchlock guns, so the possibility that this group of people are official servants of the government can be ruled out first.

At the moment when the Edo shogunate closed the country and despised firearms, let alone flintlock guns, matchlock guns were very rare, and it was extremely difficult for non-governmental organizations to even obtain matchlock guns.

But this group of people who suddenly attacked him could take out more than sixty flintlock guns in one breath...

Not only that, judging from the actions of this group of people just now, they are not "just ordinary people with firearms".

No matter how you look at their uniform movements and neat formation just now, they are all well-trained and elite teachers.

Who are these people? Why did you sneak up on him with such great fanfare...

There are too many questions to ask.

But right now, the question that Ogata most wants to figure out is: Is this group of people targeting him alone, or is it that Acho and Azuki who are his companions are also one of their targets.

Before going out just now, the image of A-Ming and A-Zhu happily cooking hoe-yaki flashed through Ogata's mind.

Ogata's face was now so gloomy that it seemed as if water would drip out at any time.

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...

"As expected of Shura...you can even dodge this." Hidden in the distance, Bai Xiang, who was standing at the end of the gun array, grinned, "He hid in that alley. What a pity... We can't see the scene in the alley from this perspective, otherwise, I really want to see the expression of that famous Asura."

"Lord Toyotomi is indeed remarkable. The decision to invite 'Army instructors from England to train our warriors' is really wise."

"Look, Sakuma, these superb movements of our warriors are no different from those of the Red Army in England."

"Shura is now not so much fighting against my Toyotomi Warriors, it is better to say that he is fighting against the English Red Army."

Baixiang was talking there.

Sakuma did not immediately respond to these words of Baixiang.

Instead, wave your hand first:

"go ahead."

As soon as Sakuma's order was issued, the three rows of musketeers standing in front of him and Baixiang immediately stepped forward with their guns in their hands, stepping in neat steps.

After ordering the musketeers to move forward, Sakuma said lightly to Baixiang beside him:

"Under the training of those English army instructors, our warriors' movements are as exquisite as the English Red Army."

"But in terms of strength, it's still far behind the Red Army in England."

"Not to mention anything else, our warriors are greatly lacking in actual combat experience alone."

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...

——Go back to the hotel quickly...

Although he was worried about A-machi and Azuki who might be attacked, Ogata did not lose his composure.

Even after hearing the sound of the enemies outside the alley approaching here step by step, Ogata did not feel nervous or flustered at all.

This is the character of mind cultivated after going through hundreds of battles and storms.

——These two broken knives I'm carrying on my body now...if they get hit by a bullet, they will probably break off.

Ogata glanced at the sword in his right hand and the wakizasa still hanging on his waist.

Ogata still knows how poor the quality of the two cheap goods he bought temporarily to refill.

——Just relying on these two knives... trying to split the incoming bullets is completely idiotic.

——In other words...the only way to dodge the incoming bullets is...

Ogata listened attentively to the footsteps of the enemies outside the alley.

——The distance between them and me is about 30 meters away...

——They walked very slowly... Do they know that the alley where I am hiding is a dead end, and there is no way to escape...

Ogata turned his head to look at the end of the alley not far away—the alley where he was hiding was very narrow and short, and he could see the bottom of the alley that was sealed at a glance.

——They are very familiar with the layout of the alleys in this street...that is to say, they have scouted this place in advance...and came prepared.

Based on his current observations, Ogata quickly deduced that this group of enemies who didn't know the details came prepared.

This group of guys who didn't know the details knew that he would pass by this place today, and then launched a reconnaissance in this place in advance and set up an ambush.

Ogata looked back from the bottom of the alley.

——The actions of this group of people are the same as those of the army... It is completely different from the Cossacks I met in Ezo.

——The Cossacks who fought against Ezo before can only be regarded as stragglers.

——Let's try it out a little bit first.

Ogata picked up an empty wine bottle at his feet, and threw it forcefully out of the alley.

From the perspective of the musketeers who couldn't see the situation in the alley, a wine bottle flew out of the alley suddenly.

When throwing the wine bottle, Ogata heard clearly—the footsteps of the musketeers were very obviously messy.

—The footsteps are disordered... They were startled by the wine bottle I threw.

——They are so easily surprised by unexpected situations, their nerves are highly tense.

Ogata said in his heart with a firm tone.

——Although the movements are exquisite, the character is still lacking... This shows that their actual combat experience is quite insufficient.

——In that case... They must be very bad at dealing with enemies that surprise them.

Ogata raised his head and looked at the eaves of the two wooden houses that sandwiched the alley he was currently in.

A plan that can quickly defeat this group of enemies quickly took shape in Ogata's mind.

However……

Right now—

"Well……!"

Ogata's eyes widened suddenly, and he raised his hand to press his left neck.

Pain in the left neck... came.

The pain that erupted from Ogata's left neck quickly spread throughout Ogata's body, making Ogata feel like needles were being pricked everywhere in his body.

"Damn..." Ogata gritted his teeth and let out a low growl, "Why... just at this time... pulling my hind legs..."

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PS: The author found a pirated figure with good workmanship a few days ago. The shape of this figure is quite in line with the setting of "bears can be piled on kimono belts" by Acho and Isshika. I can see it in the starting point) →→