I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

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

Gourd Balls, on the open deck——

Ogata, Mamiya, and Makimura were all stunned when they saw the mainmast, which was hit by a naval gun, broke in two and slid into the sea.

"Is this lucky or unlucky...?" Mucun twitched the corners of his mouth.

Both Ogata and Mamiya knew what Mucun's sigh meant.

If they were lucky...they were indeed lucky.

If they had boarded this "bridge" a few steps earlier, even if they hadn't been bombarded by the ship, they would have fallen into the sea with the broken mainmast.

If it is unlucky...they are indeed unlucky.

The broken mainmast directly cut off their way to Rihuimaru, and separated the three of them on different ships from Genichi and Chuguang who went to Rihuimaru one step ahead of them.

Although the sudden accident shocked them, none of the three of them were mediocre people who would mess up their hands and feet because of such things.

"Tsk...you have to hurry over to meet Genda-sama and the others...!" Mamiya, who was still clutching his right arm, frowned.

Toyotomi Nobuhide is now on that Nikki Maru—although none of Ogata and the others have seen Toyotomi Nobuhide with their own eyes. However, based on the various information currently known, it can be concluded that this lunatic-like character is not an ordinary person.

Leaving Genichi and Chuguang alone on the battleship with that monster-God knows what will happen.

Mu Cun crouched on the railing of the ship, looking down with a sullen face at the sea as black as ink under the reflection of the dark clouds: "Do you still have to swim in the end...Damn..."

Ogata, who was lying on the railing of the ship at the same time as Mucun, looked at the sea below with Mucun, and then asked Mamiya and Mucun beside him in a deep voice:

"Jamiya, Mucun, can you still survive such a raging wave?"

Mucun was silent for a moment: "Although I really don't want to admit it... I'm not a very good swimmer. Now even if I hold a block of wood, I probably won't be able to swim in such an ocean."

Since just now, the wind and rain have intensified a lot.

Ogata and the others are now... as if they are at the bottom of a waterfall,

Withstand the splash of thick water droplets.

Under the blowing of stronger winds, the waves became far more violent than when Yuanyi and Mucun swam over with the planks together.

Very few waves rolled up can even directly hit the open deck of the battleship.

Mucun was born in Kyoto, which is far away from the sea. He is not the kind of person who has been in contact with the sea since childhood. Although he can swim, he is not that proficient.

He is a down-to-earth person, and he honestly confessed that it is difficult for him to cross such a vast ocean.

"Even if I tell you: I have a way to swim with you to Rihuimaru, you won't believe it." Mamiya smiled helplessly, shaking his hand just now to cut off the mainmast. The strained right arm that has not recovered until now.

"That is to say—I'm the only one who can swim across now..."

Ogata pursed his lips, and looked again at the dark water outside the railing.

"Then... Leave the next thing to me. I'll go after Master Yuan and the others. Mamiya, when your arm is better, try to get back to the shore with Mucun. I will be with Master Yuan and the others later. Come back to join you."

"Do you want to go to Rihui Maru alone to support Master Yuan and Miss Chuguang?" Mamiya asked, "Although you and Master Yuan can be as powerful as a thousand, it is an unchanging truth that two fists are no match for four hands what."

"On Rihui Maru, there may be unknown enemy combat power."

"It's too risky to let you support alone."

"Don't tell me: You have to ignore your physical condition and insist on swimming with me to Rihui Pill." Ogata curled his lips.

"...Ogata-kun, go ahead and support Minamoto-sama and the others. Mucun and I will rush over later and join you on the Hiki Maru."

"Meeting?" Ogata couldn't help being taken aback, and cast a suspicious look at Jiangong, "How are you and Mucun coming to join us?"

Not only Xu Fang was stunned, but Mu Cun was also stunned, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in Jiangong's gourd.

"It's too time-consuming to explain slowly. In short - we will rush over to meet you later." Mamiya looked at Ogata with firm, unflickering eyes.

Looking at Mamiya's gaze, the suspicion on Ogata's face slowly dissipated: "...I see."

Ogata and Mamiya... can be regarded as old friends.

Although he didn't know how Gamiya was going to catch up with them when he couldn't swim, and meet them on the Rihui Maru, but he had never seen Ogata who fell off the chain at a critical moment, so he put it away slowly. Doubts about Gamiya.

Believe in Mamiya——Ogata's heart is so inclined.

Time was running out, and the longer it dragged on, the more likely something would happen to Hikimaru, so Ogata didn't say any more.

He only nodded vigorously, and after saying "I see", he jumped into the dark ocean below.

After Ogata jumped into the sea, Mamiya and Mucun quickly leaned on the railing.

As soon as the two of them poked their heads out of the railing, they saw Ogata's head protruding from the surface of the sea. After vigorously spitting out the seawater that he accidentally drank into his mouth just now, he broke through layers of waves and faced the opposite Rihui in a freestyle posture. Maru swims.

No matter how the turbulent waves beat, he stood still.

"Under such waves, it's like swimming on a calm lake... Is this the 'power of immortality'..." Mucun's mouth twitched again, "It seems... Miss A-Machi will have a hard time in the future... …I don’t know if brother Ogata’s fertility will be enhanced by the ‘power of immortality’.”

After whispering a joke that he would never dare to say in front of Ogata and Atachi on weekdays, Mucun looked at Mamiya.

"So—how did you get to Hikimaru when you couldn't swim?"

Mamiya did not immediately respond to Mucun's question.

Instead, he turned his head and looked at the solitary foremast and mizzenmast on Huluwan after he cut off the mainmast.

"...Makimura, I have studied Dutch with Mr. Minagi before."

"Huh?" Mu Cun tilted his head, showing doubts.

"Thanks to the fact that I have learned Dutch, I used to... learn how to sail a Europa sailing ship from a few Dutch businessmen in Nagasaki."

Mamiya slowly lowered the hand that had been covering his right arm.

"Although the size of this battleship is much larger than those of Nagasaki's merchant ships...but they are all powered by wind, and the driving principles should be similar."

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Back in time to the present——

Nikki Maru, on the open deck——

After Ogata appeared and blocked his sword, Toyotomi Nobuhide's expression changed immediately.

Without too much hesitation - he directly jumped back a few steps, widening the distance between himself and Ogata.

Ogata did not launch a chase, he just stood there, silently holding Da Shitian and Da Zizai in front of him, and whispered to Yuanyi behind him:

"Master Yuan, where is Miss Chuguang?"

"Chuguang she..."

Yuanyi roughly informed Ogata of Hatsumitsu's situation.

"Did you fall into the water with that Jijiu..." The expression on Ogata's face sank uncontrollably.

After falling into the sea, the whereabouts of Chuguang is still unknown until now, so Ogata couldn't help feeling worried.

But the demon in front of him made him dare not take his eyes off him.

"... Kikyo flower..." Nobuhide Toyotomi, who held Yoshimitsu food in front of him in a mid-section posture, looked at the Kikyo family crest on Ogata Haori, and raised his eyebrows, "...it must be Ogata at the first step One-knife fast, right?"

Toyotomi Nobuhide's sentence is obviously an interrogative sentence, but the tone is that of an affirmative sentence.

"Heh, the portrait on your arrest warrant is amazing. It can draw you so much that people like me who have never seen you before can recognize you at a glance."

After hearing Toyotomi Nobuhide mentioning the portrait of the arrest warrant that he had been very upset about before, the corners of Ogata's eyes twitched uncontrollably.

"...Are you that Toyotomi Nobuhide?"

"That's right." Nobuhide Toyotomi, who was not smiling, admitted generously, "We met for the first time, Ogata Yidousai, and I am the 9th Patriarch of the Toyotomi Clan - Nobuhide Toyotomi."

"Your boy is that Toyotomi Nobuhide..." Ogata narrowed his eyes slightly, and slowly tightened his grip on the knife.

"Be careful... Ogata-kun..." At this time, Ogata heard Genichi, who was still kneeling behind him on one knee, whispering to him in a weak voice, "Nobuhide... is not that easy to deal with..."

"Just now... I had hoped to kill him..."

"But when he was about to win... he ate something... his strength increased... and he turned defeat into victory..."

"Did you eat something..." Hearing the precious information provided by Genichi, Ogata's expression became more serious, "...I see."

"Also...he's less human than I thought..."

Yuan briefly explained the whole process of how Toyotomi used Xiao Lin to seriously injure him.

In addition, Genichi also told Ogata one by one about Toyotomi's swordsmanship and fighting style.

When Ogata was listening carefully to the information that Genichi had just obtained after a hard battle, Toyotomi suddenly sneered, and then said to him in a strange tone:

"Ogata Yidaosai, I finally met you... I've wanted to see you for a long time."

"See me?" Ogata sneered, "You want to see my severed head, right?"

"Last night in Osaka... No, I have been 'taken care of' by you a lot."

Ogata emphasized the words "always".

"Thanks to the 'blessing' you gave Kunieda Junroku that can pretend to be my human skin mask, that night in Kyoto last year was so long that I will never forget it."

"As for the night in Osaka last night, it was also because of you that it was so long that I came to settle accounts with you at all costs."

"It seems—you seem to have a lot of misunderstandings about me." Toyotomi shrugged with a strange smile, "At the beginning, I liked you very much. I like you so much that I want to marry you in my dreams." income."

"I was very excited when I learned that there was a man who killed the lord with one enemy and one hundred in Hirose Fan."

"I think it's rare to find an interesting man in this country."

"A person who is powerful, but at the same time has a lot of trouble with the shogunate—this is my ideal subordinate."

"So when your name spread throughout the country for the first time, I began to send people around to look for you, try to recruit you, and take you under my command."

"The reason why I handed over the human skin mask made according to the portrait on your wanted warrant to Junroku Kunieda, who was being supported and helped by me at the time and was preparing to blow up Kyoto, was also to recruit you better in the future. "

The smile on Toyotomi's face became even weirder.

"Let Kunieda Junroku kill people around Kyoto in your face, ruin your reputation, and make it difficult for you to find a place in Japan under the rule of the Edo Shogunate, but it will allow me to recruit you in the future. Great benefit."

Ogata's face darkened involuntarily: "...so that's the case...you used the trick Song Jiang used in "Water Margin" to deal with me..."

Liangshan in the classic "Water Margin" is, to put it bluntly, a den of bandits.

As the leader of this gang of bandits, Song Jiang often used tricks that broke through the limits of human ethics to force people to go to Liangshan.

For example——Song Jiang's favorite trick is to drive someone to a dead end, so that he will have no place in this world if he doesn't go to Liangshan.

The most typical victim is "Thunderbolt" Qin Ming.

In order to force Qin Ming to join the gang, Song Jiang sent people to pretend to be Qin Ming to burn, kill and loot, causing his family members to be executed by the government and had no place to stay in the court.

"Ah, that's right. It's the trick Song Gongming used in "Water Margin"."

"It seems that you are not only good at swordsmanship, Ogata Iktosai, but also quite dabbled in literature."

"I also admit that this trick is quite low, and it is far from Liu Xuande's state of 'convincing people with virtue'."

"However--the scumbag is the scumbag, this trick is also very useful. It is just right for someone like you who is already wanted by the shogunate, and I only plan to accept it as an easy-to-use thug. .”

"It's a pity—that idiot Junroku Kunieda not only failed to complete the task of blowing up the capital, but also helped you complete the great cause of 'breaking Nijo Castle' in a disguised form, which further increased your reputation."

"Until then, I still want to take you under my command."

"Until... Shiranui was suddenly destroyed."

Toyotomi Nobuhide, who had been showing a weird smile just now, slowly put away the smile on his face, and his expression gradually became terrifying and frightening.

"After Shiranui was destroyed and I sent people to gather the remnants of Shiranui, I didn't know what happened."

"Ogata Yidaosai, do you know how long I have been planning in Shiranui?"

"I sent my confidants to sneak into Shiranui, and it took several years to finally complete the complete control of Shiranui."

"It turned out that because of you, all my years of hard work on Shiranui were in vain."

"The plan to overthrow the Edo shogunate also had to undergo extensive revisions."

"All of this is thanks to you... and Xiaolin who followed you to destroy Shiranui...!"

Speaking of this, Toyotomi gave Lin who was still in a coma while still leaning on the mainmast not far away with fierce eyes.

"I learned from Kikutaro and the others that besides you, Ogata Ittosai, among the people who raided Shiranui, there was also a petite girl holding a black knife, an old man with glasses, and an old man holding a knife. When you are a strong man with a big sword, I will know who is attacking Shiranui together with you."

"...Is it because I participated in the attack on Shiranui that you decided to get rid of me and hurry up?" Ogata asked.

Toyotomi shifted his gaze towards Xiaolin to Ogata.

"That's right." He shook his shoulders and sneered exaggeratedly, "What I hate the most is when someone sabotages my plan, making it impossible for my plan to be carried out as expected."

"Especially this kind of major plan that I have spent a lot of effort, invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and carried out the layout for several years."

"Anyway, you are not an indispensable talent."

"If I don't kill you, it's hard to understand the anger in my heart."

"I sent a large number of Iga ninjas to look for you everywhere."

"Finally——I finally found you in Osaka recently."

"I thought that even Ogata Ittosai, who was able to defeat the 10,000-strong army of the shogunate, would not be a match for the musketeers I spent a lot of money to train."

"I didn't expect it—you are my 'kind'."

When Toyotomi mentioned the word "similar", he specially used a yin and yang tone.

Then—

Snapped!

The sound of stomping on the deck sounded.

Toyotomi didn't make any run-ups, he just jumped and leaped towards Ogata.

When he jumped to the highest point, he switched from the knife-holding stance to the upper stance.

Facing the sudden attack of Toyotomi, Ogata's pupils shrank slightly.

Although the enemy's attack came suddenly, Ogata was also ready for the battle in a blink of an eye.

Footsteps slipped, and Ogata moved his body half a step to the side, away from where he was originally standing, and turned the tip of Da Shitian's knife, and stabbed Toyotomi who was falling with his sword.

Toyotomi changed his sword-holding posture, and held the sword that Kai Ogata stabbed in mid-air.

Pata——Toyotomi's feet fell back to the ground, and landed in front of Ogata.

The sound of the sword waving, and the sound of the sharp blade cutting the air, enveloped the surroundings of the two of them.

Toyotomi waved Ji Guanggushi, and danced a bright silver "silver net", covering Ogata.

Facing the "silver net" that was coming towards him, Ogata saw every move, broke through Toyotomi's offensive, and launched a counterattack that was not inferior to Toyotomi's offensive.

The two exchanged for a long time after fierce offense and defense——

clang!

Toyotomi swung his saber, and opened the Da Shi Tiange that Ogata had chopped off, blocking Ogata's counterattack, and then turned the blade—to slash at Ogata's chest.

Toyotomi's attack this time was not only extremely fast, but also at a good timing.

Although Ogata tried his best to lean back quickly and dodge Toyotomi's move, Yoshimitsu's knife tip still scratched a little bit of flesh on his chest.

And almost at the same time when a small wound was cut on Ogata's chest——

laugh……

The low sound of flesh being cut rang out again.

But this time the voice came from Toyotomi.

The moment he dodged Toyotomi's blow just now, Ogata swung Daziza and immediately launched a counterattack.

Facing the attacking Da Zizai——Toyotomi did not dodge, letting the tip of Da Zizai's knife leave a cut on his left wrist.

After a small cut was made on Ogata's chest, Toyotomi did not continue to pursue or stay in place to continue fighting with Ogata, but retreated quickly to widen the distance between him and Ogata.

"...Heh. It's been a long time since I've fought a 'similar'." Toyotomi stared at the wound on Ogata's chest, and let out a characteristic sneer.

I saw—the wounds on Ogata and Toyotomi's bodies grew red flesh at the same time, and then recovered almost at the same time...

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The author was worried that if he only wrote "Toyotomi", it would be easy to confuse "Toyotomi Nobuhide" with the "Toyotomi" group. But now it seems that there is no need to worry about this. For the convenience of writing, the full name of "Toyotomi Nobuhide" will not be written in the future, and he will be called "Toyotomi" directly.

The author has never understood——Why should such a thing as "Water Margin" be shown to elementary and middle school students?

Every time I see a book like "Water Margin: Children's Edition" in the bookstore, I feel complicated...

Those dark and cruel plots are the essence of Outlaws of the Marsh. If you delete the real essence of Outlaws of the Marsh, what do you see? Just look at the plots of these so-called "heroes" fighting tigers and officials, it would be better to watch the Internet...

Among the four great classics, it seems that only Romance of the Three Kingdoms is more suitable for elementary and middle school students...

PS: The author Jun once read a question on Zhihu: "Are Liu Bei and Song Jiang the same kind of people?"

When I first saw this question, the author laughed angrily.

How can Song Jiang, a beast, be compared with Liu Bei? ! !

Putting his name and Liu Bei's name together is an insult to Liu Bei! ! (Turn the table.jpg)

As far as Liu Bei's arrogance and charm of "asking for fields and homes, afraid of being ashamed, Liu Lang is talented", wouldn't it blow Song Jiang, a beast who can only play dirty tricks, hundreds of streets?