I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

The latest website: Reverse the time to not long ago——

Osaka, in a forest in the outskirts——

Kara, Kara...

In the woods, a certain boulder suddenly trembled unnaturally.

If there is a passer-by here now, seeing this stone that suddenly moves by itself, he will be frightened out of his wits, and mistakenly think it is haunted.

But in fact, the reason why this rock "moves by itself" is purely because someone is pushing the big rock under the big rock.

With the sound of "Kara", the big stone was pushed upwards through a gap.

A pair of sharp eyes looked around along the gap.

After confirming that there was no danger outside, the owner of these eyes - a short warrior, pushed the big stone above his head away.

It turned out that there was a secret passage connected to the bottom of the big rock, and this big stone was used to cover the secret passage. .

After pushing away the stone blocking the secret passage, the short warrior jumped out of the secret passage with a neat figure, and then shouted into the secret passage:

"It's safe outside, come out quickly."

After the words fell, people headed by Matsudaira Sadanobu filed out from the secret passage.

"Escape here...it should be safe..." Masahun Hotta, the Osaka Castle representative, looked palely at the distant Osaka Castle.

Cultivating the secret way was very popular in the Warring States period more than 200 years ago. Even now, two hundred years later, the Edo shogunate is still keen to build secret passages for escape in various important places.

As a fortress built by the shogunate, Osaka Castle spent a lot of money. It is naturally impossible to lack such things as secret roads.

After learning that there was an overwhelmingly superior number of enemies attacking Osaka Castle, and that it would not take long for Osaka Castle to fall, Hota Masajun immediately led Matsudaira Sadanobu and some guards into a secret road in Osaka Castle that could lead directly to the outskirts of Osaka.

The whole process of leaving Daban City along the secret road was without any danger.

After walking this long secret road and arriving in the outskirts of Osaka, Hotta finally let go of the heart that had been hanging all the time.

While Hotta was looking at the Osaka Castle they had just escaped from, Matsudaira Sadanobu was also looking at this majestic fortress. Immediately afterwards, I looked at the downtown area of ​​Osaka, where flames were blazing out from all over the place.

"...Masajun Horita." He said, "How on earth did you become the representative of Osaka Castle? The rebels swaggered and dragged artillery to bombard Osaka Castle, but you didn't even have any relevant information before the incident happened. Not detected."

Matsudaira Sadanobu's tone was very flat, as if he was talking about trivial matters.

But after he finished his words, Masahiro Hotta immediately turned pale and broke out in cold sweat as if he had heard the most severe and vicious criticism in the world.

"Please, my lord, please forgive me..." Masatsumi Hotta, who was so frightened that his head went blank, knelt down on the ground, his body trembling at an exaggerated frequency.

Matsudaira Sadanobu ignored Hotta Masajun who knelt down and apologized.

He turned his head again to look at Osaka and Osaka Castle in the distance.

There was a thoughtful gleam in his eyes.

At this time, his surname Tachibana said to him in a deep voice:

"My lord, although we are now in the outskirts of Osaka, I don't think this place is absolutely safe."

"Let's go to the barracks outside the northeast of Osaka now, how about meeting the 500 generals who have gathered in the barracks so far?"

"With those 500 generals to rely on, our safety will be greatly guaranteed."

"...Yes." As soon as Tachibana finished speaking, Matsudaira Sadanobu nodded lightly, "That's exactly what I mean."

"However, you can't just leave without doing anything."

"We now need to collect intelligence on the enemy as quickly as possible."

"At the very least, we need to know who is attacking Osaka."

After that, he turned his head to look at the four guards beside him.

"Kawara, Fujita, Niimi, and Saeki. The four of you are now entering Osaka to find out as much information about the enemy as possible. Remember to protect yourself and join us at the barracks outside Northeast of Osaka before dawn."

The four people that Matsudaira Sadanobu pointed out were his four bodyguards. They were not only skilled, but also extremely loyal to Matsudaira Sadanobu.

As soon as Matsudaira Sadanobu's order was issued, the four people immediately agreed with "Yes" without saying a word, and then turned and ran towards Osaka without any hesitation.

"Tamaki, Miyagawa. The two of you go to Kyoto immediately and tell the situation on our side to the representative of Kyoto: Ota Suzuki, let him immediately organize the army, do a good job in the defense of Kyoto, and prepare to lead the army south to support Osaka at any time. preparation."

"Yes!"*2

"Mizuguchi, Sanpin, Soma." Matsudaira Sadanobu named the names of three more people, "You three are in charge of returning to Edo, tell the situation on our side to Wakonian, let them immediately start war mobilization, and strengthen Edo The vigilance in the city is to prevent Edo from repeating the mistakes of Osaka tonight."

[Note Ruo Nianzhi: In the shogunate, the official position is second only to the senior officials of the old middle school, responsible for assisting the old middle school in handling state affairs]

"Yes!"*3

After arranging this series of tasks, Matsudaira Sadanobu turned around, facing the northeast of Osaka, facing the direction where the 500 generals were stationed.

"The rest follow me."

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Back in time to the present——

In the barracks of 500 generals, in the commander's tent——

At this moment, the general-level figures headed by Machang all gathered in the coach's big tent.

The person sitting on the main seat of the big tent is none other than Matsudaira Sadanobu.

Tachibana sat next to Matsudaira, and told Baba and others what happened to them in Osaka tonight on Matsudaira's behalf.

After knowing that Osaka and Osaka Castle were attacked, and that this group of unidentified enemies had an astonishing number of firearms, even artillery, Baba and the others immediately opened their mouths wide open, looking completely dumbfounded.

"Could it be that people from the Satsuma and Changzhou domains rebelled?" Bachang raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his brow.

Enemies with a large number of firearms - the only ones Bachang can think of are Satsuma and Changzhou, who have sufficient reasons to raise troops.

The feudal clans of the Western Kingdom, headed by the Satsuma clan and the Changzhou clan, were forced to surrender to the Edo shogunate two hundred years ago due to their coercion. It is not surprising that they rebel anytime.

However, as soon as Baba put forward this conjecture, he was ruthlessly refuted by Matsudaira Sadanobu:

"If Satsuma, Changzhou and other feudal clans rebel, it is impossible for us not to get any news in advance."

"That's right..." Ma Chang mumbled.

Machang is a very typical military general who is used to living a peaceful life, and his senses have been paralyzed by the peaceful life, without the slightest ability to deal with emergencies.

He was completely frightened by the shocking news of "Osaka attack", and asked Matsudaira Sadanobu in a daze:

"Then... my lord, what should we do now?"

Matsudaira Sadanobu glanced at Baba who asked such a foolish question with displeased eyes, and said:

"Now wait for the guards I sent to collect information to come back, and make plans after collecting enough information."

Just as Matsudaira Sadanobu finished speaking, the curtain at the mouth of the coach's big tent was suddenly lifted.

"My lord." The person who lifted the curtain and entered the account was one of Matsudaira Sadanobu's personal bodyguards, "Chuanhe is back."

Kawai——Matsudaira Sadanobu remembered that this person was one of the people he sent to Osaka to spy on intelligence just now.

"Chuanhe is back? Is he the only one coming back?" Matsudaira Sadanobu frowned slightly.

"yes!"

"...Let him come here quickly."

"Yes." The guard who came to report the letter retreated out of the tent.

Immediately afterwards, after a while, he returned to Matsudaira Sadanobu with Kawai who could not hide the tired look on his face.

"My lord..." Chuanhe bowed on his knees, and said hello to Songping with a tired voice.

"Are you injured?" Matsudaira Sadanobu asked first.

"I'm fine...but...everyone else has died..."

"What on earth happened?"

Chuanhe reported the whole process of their entry into Osaka to inquire about the news to Matsudaira Jonobu.

After the four of them entered Osaka under the order of Matsudaira Sadanobu, they immediately and conscientiously carried out the task of espionage.

At the beginning, their "Osaka infiltration" went smoothly, and they have not encountered any enemies.

Until...they came to Osaka Port by accident...

After they came to Osaka Port, they heard a strange "whooping" sound.

Before they could react, they saw shells falling...

Two of them were blown to pieces on the spot, and the other was seriously injured. Only Kawai was lucky enough to escape the explosion.

Chuanhe dragged the companion who was seriously injured by the explosion to escape from Osaka Port.

Just after escaping from the bombing area, the seriously injured companion also died. Thus, Chuanhe became the only survivor.

"Osaka Port and all the ships in the port have been destroyed?" Matsudaira Sadanobu's pupils shrank slightly.

"Yes..." Chuanhe nodded vigorously with a look of lingering fear, "It was the two extremely huge ships on the sea outside the port that destroyed the Osaka Port and the ships in the port."

"Those two warships unleashed a large amount of shells, turning Osaka Port into a sea of ​​flames in just a moment..."

"Because of the distance, I can't tell how big the two warships are, but I saw the two warships head east after bombing the port of Osaka."

"Going east..." Matsudaira Sadanobu muttered, frowning slowly.

"I really feel that the information related to those two warships must be of great significance, so I hurried back to report this matter to you."

"... Chuanhe, thank you for your hard work. Your judgment is correct. This information is indeed of great significance. Go down and rest."

"Yes, thank you, my lord."

After Chuanhe saluted and thanked him, he slowly left the military tent.

"Two warships...going east..." Matsudaira Sadanobu kept a calm face, chewing on the words Kawai just mentioned.

Although I didn't get the information such as "who are the enemies" that I want to know most now, but I also got a major harvest that I didn't expect.

"My lord..." Baba, who was already terrified by the current situation of "the attack on Osaka", swallowed forcefully for an unknown number of times after listening to the information Kawai just reported, " How about... how about we lead our troops to the east first?"

"Now the troops we can mobilize under our command are only 500 generals here."

"With such a small number of people, nothing can be done."

"It's better to go east first, go to Edo, and join the army of Edo, and then..."

The racecourse is not finished yet——

"What about 500 generals?" Matsudaira Sadanobu said.

With an unquestionable expression on his face, he continued:

"Even with 500 generals, there are many things that can be done with 500 generals."

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Osaka, the Buddhist temple where Ogata and the others are currently hiding——

"Ayi, what are you doing there? The Buddhist hall is going to start questioning Chuguang and the others." Ah-machi is now sitting on the ground not far away, stroking his left thigh with his hand. Cast a suspicious look.

Just now, Genichi and the others took Chuguang, Shibata, and Zaemon and other prisoners out of this slightly cramped room, and were going to interrogate Chuguang and Shibata in the spacious Buddhist hall outside.

Everyone left, but Ogata stayed in this room.

"It's nothing... I just want to... take a look at the injury on my leg while I finally have some free time." Ogata said while pulling up Hakama's left leg tube, exposing the wound wrapped around his left thigh. A thick circle of sackcloth.

His left thigh was accidentally scratched by a bullet fired by a sniper tonight. This circle of sackcloth was bandaged for him after meeting the owner of the hall Ishikawa by chance.

Looking at the sackcloth on Ogata's left leg, A-Machi let out a low exclamation, and walked quickly to Ogata's side in three steps at a time.

"What happened to your leg? Was it shot by a gun? Or was it cut by a sharp object?"

"It was indeed injured here before, but now... it should not be injured anymore." After finishing speaking, Ogata raised his hand to untie the sackcloth on his leg.

When he heard "The host has completely absorbed the 'power of immortality'" in his head, the wound on his leg that had been aching all the time no longer hurt.

Also no more pain... There is also the small knife wound on his right shoulder left by Yu Hachiro, who is good at fighting in water.

After waking up, Ogata immediately raised his hand to touch his right shoulder - he couldn't feel any wound...

At that time... Thinking of the series of system sounds in his mind, Ogata had already vaguely guessed why these injuries on his body didn't hurt anymore...

Because he had just woken up and was about to engage in a decisive battle with Yoshiemon and the others, it was only now that Ogata finally had the opportunity to see the wound on his leg with his own eyes.

"What do you mean you were injured before, but you are not injured now?" A-cho asked puzzled.

And when A-Machi asked in doubt, Ogata had already completely untied the sackcloth on his legs—under the sackcloth, there was a piece of smooth skin without scars.

"What..." Ah Ding pouted, "You're not hurt there, why are you wrapped in sackcloth?"

"...About this... I will explain to you slowly later." After Ogata showed a weird wry smile, he patted his buttocks and stood up, "Let's go, A-Machi, let's go to the Buddhist hall."

"Ok."

Ogata and A-Machi walked side by side towards the Buddhist hall outside.

The Buddhist hall of this temple is now very lively.

Fengmo, Azhu, Huluya and his party, Chuguang and Shibata...all of them are now gathered in the Buddhist hall of this Buddhist temple.

Only a spacious Buddhist hall can accommodate so many people.

Also gathered in the Buddhist hall were the prisoners captured by Ogata and the others.

The left and right guards captured by Ogata, and the Jiezheng and Iga ninnobu named Haru who were captured by Acho and Genichi before, were randomly thrown in the corner of the Buddhist hall by Ogata and the others.

Yoshiemon hasn't woken up yet.

And before A-Ming and the others went to Longshui Temple, in order to prevent Jiezheng and A-Qing from escaping, they knocked them unconscious and tied them to a certain wooden post with hemp rope. The strength was a little too strong, so the two of them have not woken up until now.

In other words, these three captives are currently in a coma.

Ogata and the others were not in a hurry to wake the three of them up immediately.

Because——they wanted to concentrate on asking Chu Guang, who had an extremely friendly attitude towards them, everything they wanted to know.

Seeing that Ogata and Machi had finally arrived, Genichi said angrily:

"Ogata-kun, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"Sorry, sorry." Ogata Chongyuan smiled apologetically.

"Okay, now that everyone is here, let's... get started."

Yuan Yi quickly walked up to a man and a woman who were kneeling in the center of the Buddhist hall, and sat down cross-legged carelessly.

"You two are called Chuguang and Shibata, right?" Genichi asked the man and woman sitting in front of him—that is, Chuguang and Shibata.

As soon as Yuanyi's questioning voice fell, Chuguang nodded.

"That's right. Just call me Chuguang."

"You can just call me Shibata..."

The hemp ropes that had been tied around Chuguang and Shibata's wrists and ankles had now been untied, and they knelt side by side on the ground.

Shibata, who always had a very obvious expression of nervousness on his face, his shoulders clenched together, his lips pursed tightly, and his uneasy eyes glanced around.

Compared with Shibata, Chuguang's posture and movements are much more graceful.

She knelt and sat quietly, with a natural expression, as if she was sitting in the hall of her own home.

"Then—Chuguang." Yuan Yi, who was sitting face to face with the two, turned his eyes away, and met Chuguang's four eyes, "Before talking about important matters, please allow me to thank you first."

"Thank you very much just now. If you hadn't told us the weakness of that old guy and that crazy woman in time, in the battle just now, we would most likely be killed by those two people due to the lack of information. It's overcast."

"You're welcome." Chu Guang said lightly, "I was also helping myself at that time. At that time, you were my only hope of survival. If you hadn't defeated Ji Jiu and Mrs. Lao at that time, I would definitely be determined to myself in the future. No guarantee."

"Jijiu, Mrs. Lao...is that the name of the two people just now?" Yuan Yi asked.

"That's right. The old guy's name is Ji Jiu, and the dead mad woman's name is Lao Fu."

After thanking Chuguang simply, Yuan Yi changed the topic.

"Chuguang, Shibata. I won't talk too much about the twists and turns, but just explain it to you two—how about making a deal with us?"

"We have a lot of questions for you right now."

"As long as you can answer our questions honestly, we will set you free."

"Okay." Chu Guang nodded.

As soon as Yuanyi finished speaking, Chuguang immediately nodded his head—the response was so fast that many people present couldn't help but show surprise.

"I have no choice but to cooperate with you now, right?" Chu Guang said helplessly after looking up at those people with surprised expressions.

The corners of Yuan Yi's mouth turned up slightly, showing a smile: "It's really rare to see a heroine who is as straightforward as you. Then, without further ado - can you please introduce yourself first?"

"I see that you and the Shibata next to you are both wearing Iga ninja costumes. You both seem to be one of the Iga ninjas. Why did you get tied up and thrown on the ground when I saw you for the first time? "

"...It seems that you know a lot, and you can even tell that the clothes Shibata and I are wearing are the clothes of Iga ninjas." Chuguang paused, "You are right, Shibata and I are both Iga ninjas." He is one of the ninjas."

"But both Shibata and I really hate Iga."

"In order to ensure that there are enough fresh blood, Iga has been filling up newcomers in an extremely inhuman way."

"They searched for those children who were quite qualified, captured those children, and brainwashed those children in a way that was almost abusive, and trained them to become new ninjas."

"That's how Shibata and I became Iga ninjas."

"Iga's training method has successfully trained many loyal people."

"But at the same time, some fighters who have a bitter hatred for the cruel Iga have also been trained."

"Shibata and I belong to the latter."

"The two of us have been racking our brains to think of ways to completely destroy Iga."

"The Yoshihisa you met just now is the current head of Iga no Sato, and he is also the person I most want to kill."

"It's this bastard who came up with the evil method of replenishing fresh blood by catching children."

"Tonight, I plan to sneak into Longshui Temple, ignite the gunpowder stored in Longshui Temple, and blow up Jijiu and the others to the sky."

"I didn't expect it. That Jijiu knew that I was a traitor. He predicted that I might come to the bomb depot tonight, so he waited for a rabbit and captured me."

"When you were about to send me to a temporary cell, and then deal with me slowly, you came here."

"So that's how it is..." Yuan Yi muttered "So that's how it is", and then asked a series of new questions, "I just talked to that girl named Yishihua, and she said: Did you ask her And then, the troops that are raging around in Osaka tonight are from the Toyotomi Clan. The person who leads the Toyotomi Clan...is a young man named Toyotomi Nobuhide or Kinoshita Nobuhide?”

When the name "Toyotomi Nobuhide" was mentioned, Genichi's expression darkened slightly.

Just now, Chuguang's expression remained calm from the beginning to the end.

However, after hearing Genichi's question just now... To be precise, after hearing Genichi's name "Toyotomi Nobuhide", Hatsumitsu's expression was shaken for the first time.

"...It seems that you really know a lot of things, even the name Toyotomi Nobuhide."

"You are right. The name of the leader of the Toyotomi Clan is indeed Nobuhide Toyotomi."

As soon as Chu Guang said this, the expressions of everyone on the field, especially the Huluwu group, immediately changed.