I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

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What did Toyotomi eat, and whether he could further increase his strength by eating this "unidentified object"? Ogata, who lacked information, knew nothing about it.

If he had entered the "Non-Self Realm" since the beginning of the war, it might force Toyotomi to eat that "unidentified object" again.

Therefore, Ogata decided to use "Ogata Flow"——

Let Toyotomi mistakenly think that this is his full strength, let Toyotomi "get used to" his strength.

Then, taking advantage of Toyotomi's unpreparedness, he suddenly entered the "Non-Self Realm" and gave Toyotomi a surprise attack!

One blow decides the outcome, take off Toyotomi's head directly, and end the battle!

The above is the battle plan made by Ogata.

The "surprise attack timing" chosen by Ogata is the moment when he and Toyotomi pass by, and the moment when Toyotomi is turning his back on him!

After passing by Toyotomi, Okai immediately switched his breathing rhythm to "breathing of the source".

Enter the "Non-Self Realm", use the left foot as the axis, quickly turn around backwards, and use centrifugal force to chop Da Shitian out - the movement is done in one go!

The sword that holds Ogata's determination falls like a summer meteor to the head of the demon!

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Seeing the Empress Dowager Da Shitian who was slashing towards his head, Toyotomi didn't have too many negative emotions in his mind at this time.

Because the change came so fast that Toyotomi's brain had no time to react.

He is now... still immersed in the comfort of thinking that he has the upper hand.

However, although his brain didn't react, his body did—

Scoff.

Toyotomi felt a sharp pain in his throat.

He caught a glimpse of blood spurting down his slit throat,

Either drenched Ogata's body, or sprinkled into the air, and then fell to the deck with the raindrops.

When Da Shitian's blade was about to hit his head, his body moved before his brain.

Withdrew his feet and tilted his head back as much as possible - the slash that could have cut off Toyotomi's entire head, but because of Toyotomi's timely retreat, only cut off half of his throat.

If it were an ordinary person, with half of the throat cut open, death is not far away, victory or defeat is not far away.

However... it was Toyotomi who faced Ogata.

The severe pain coming from the throat can be regarded as a disguised form to promote Toyotomi's brain to come back to his senses.

Holding the cut throat with one hand and the knife in the other, he retreated quickly to distance himself from Ogata.

Because the throat was cut, he couldn't speak for a while, so Toyotomi, who was bleeding from his mouth, could only spit out meaningless words such as "goo" and "poof".

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—Tsk...didn't he beheaded...!

Toyotomi's quick reaction made the surprise attack fail, and he failed to see Toyotomi's head fall as expected-this made the expression on Ogata's face change slightly.

——Can you even dodge this blow...

Ogata silently adjusted his estimation of Toyotomi's current physical fitness - even his "surprise attack" could be missed, and Toyotomi's current reaction speed is really beyond Ogata's expectations.

Although the surprise attack failed, Ogata did not let time just waste away.

Quickly cleared up his mood, then took a step forward, raised his knife, and launched a pursuit of Toyotomi.

This time, it was Ogata's left hand that attacked Toyotomi's head.

Between two points, the straight line is the shortest. for

Seeking to pursue Toyotomi whose head had been cut off in half as quickly as possible, Ogata pointed the tip of Da Zizai's knife at Toyotomi's throat that was being held——

Sakakibara One Sword Style, Bird Thorn!

The blade of Dazizai is drawn into a straight line of white light——

clang--! !

Toyotomi set up Jiguang Gushi to hold back Da Zizai who was stabbing him, and once again resolved the crisis.

"Your... your... breath..."

A large amount of red shredded meat emerged from Toyotomi's injured throat.

The huge wound was quickly "filled up" and repaired by the red shredded meat, and Toyotomi gradually recovered his ability to speak.

"At Uncle's place just now, I also saw such a strange breathing rhythm."

Toyotomi stared straight at Ogata's chest, which was rising and falling in a strange rhythm, with solemn eyes.

"So that's how it is...you all rely on this peculiar breathing technique to increase your strength..."

Toyotomi's judgment is quite precise and commendable.

But Ogata Ri ignored Toyotomi's murmur.

He only silently increased the strength instilled in the great freedom of his left hand.

Toyotomi now feels... as if he is holding a weight that is constantly gaining weight.

The freedom of Ogata's left hand is actually only used to confuse.

When Toyotomi was strenuously supporting his Daziza, Ogata lifted Dashiten and lifted Toyotomi's legs from below.

In order to prevent his legs from being cut off, Toyotomi could only grit his teeth and push Da Zizai's blade away with all his strength, then quickly retreated to a position that Da Shitian could not cut.

He tried his best to dodge, but the tip of Da Shitian's knife still cut his thigh, cutting a not shallow but not deep wound on his thigh.

——Have you dodged again... Forget it, whatever.

After thinking like this, Ogata quickly adjusted the posture of holding the knife, and then relentlessly rushed towards Toyotomi who was retreating, "sticking" to Toyotomi tightly.

Ogata also thought about it in advance: If the surprise attack launched by relying on the "Selfless Realm" fails and fails to take off Toyotomi's head with one blow, what should be done.

The countermeasure is also very simple - just rely on the increase brought by the "Selfless Realm" and directly kill Toyotomi!

Ding! clang! clang! clang! Ding……

The sound of hammering iron was dense enough to be compared with the sound of raindrops falling on the deck now.

2 knives, but Ogata danced out the effect of 8 knives.

The "8 swords" attacked Toyotomi from different angles and directions.

The situation of the battle has undergone tremendous changes as Ogata entered the "state of selflessness".

Toyotomi, who was enduring Ogata's onslaught, clearly felt that after using this special breathing method, Ogata's physical fitness and swordsmanship skills have improved a lot!

Ogata's physical fitness, which was originally inferior to his, is now directly shifted! The one who lost his physical fitness turned out to be Toyotomi himself.

However, Ogata's swordsmanship was not as good as it was, but the gap was widened even further!

Although Ogata's current swordsmanship is still slightly inferior to Genichi's, it is not much inferior! Basically the difference between 90 points and 100 points!

If we say——Ogata and Toyotomi just now had an inextricable battle, and neither of them lost. Now, Ogata had the upper hand.

There is no one place that can surpass Ogata's Toyotomi, who is completely suppressed, not to mention the power to fight back, even the power to parry can only barely maintain.

Ogata can be said to always keep in mind: "Toyotomi can greatly enhance his own strength by eating some unknown objects."

Therefore, in order to prevent Toyotomi from having the opportunity to eat anything again, Ogata truly did not even give Toyotomi a chance to breathe.

One after another, the knife in his hand attacked Toyotomi like a wave, so that Toyotomi didn't have the slightest free hand to do things other than "defense".

Toyotomi, who had already fallen into a complete disadvantage, had no way of dodging or dodging Ogata's attack completely.

Therefore——in order to prevent Ogata's attack like a torrential rain, Toyotomi had to make some necessary sacrifices.

Take the head as the key protection object, and the rest of the parts... Unless it is an attack that will cause limbs and limbs to be severed, any attack that cannot be successfully blocked or dodged will be directly attacked.

Therefore, I saw that Toyotomi's body was continuously cut with large and small wounds, and then quickly repaired, just like this...

The blood that flowed and spattered from his wound mixed with the raindrops falling from the sky, dyed the decks around him and Ogata a strange light red...

The sword in Toyotomi's hand was swung at high speed in order to defend against Ogata's onslaught.

And what is "moving" at a high speed is his brain——

—Damn it...! Damn...!

Toyotomi once again vented his inner emotions by roaring in his heart.

——The plan deviated again due to the appearance of an accident... It's really endless!

——The breathing technique that can greatly improve a person's strength... Uncle Bogong can master it, but why does Ogata Iktosai also have this kind of skill...!

—Forget it...it's useless to think about it now.

——It's better to quickly regain your composure, and then think about how to break the situation.

Taking advantage of the gap between Ogata's attacks, Toyotomi took a deep breath, and with this deep breath, Toyotomi calmed down a little from his irritability and disgust.

——The current situation is already very clear.

——Ogata Ittosai's physical fitness and swordsmanship skills are all better than mine now.

——If the fight continues like this, I will definitely lose.

——Do you want to let the Venerable Master and the others come to "help" me now...

Toyotomi's eyes narrowed slightly, and both eyes became half-closed.

——No, asking the Venerable Master and others to "help" me is the same as the head of the eight hundred bhikkhunis. It is a last resort that should be avoided as far as possible.

--Think again……

——What else can I do now?

——What else... the advantage I have against Ogata Ittosai...

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Rihuimaru, in the cabin, in an inconspicuous corner——

"Quick! Quick! Execute the order of Master Kasube! Push all the unimportant heavy objects in those areas into the sea! Lighten the load on the ship!"

"Is this useful?"

"Hehe, Taro-sama, I heard that there is no one on the deck of the gourd ball that is about to hit, and now the ghost is driving the gourd ball, is this true?!"

"Of course it's a lie! If there really are gods and ghosts in the world, why don't they punish those bastard landlords who killed my parents and usurped my land at that time! Stop talking nonsense! Hurry up and execute He Xu Lord Bee's order!"

Nearly 10 sailors hurried along a corridor that few people pass by on weekdays, and rushed to the lower cabin.

After the bluffs and footsteps of these sailors faded away——

"It's very noisy now..."

A murmur with a bit of comfort and pride emerged from an inconspicuous dark corner in the corridor.

Immediately afterwards, a black shadow "squirmed" out of the dark corner here.

If any cadre of the Toyotomi family is here now, he will be able to recognize it immediately-this black shadow is the remnant of Shiranui who was "taken in" by Toyotomi: Kikutaro.

Kikutaro looked at the direction where the crew left just now, and the corners of his mouth curled up with emotions such as complacency, ridicule, and happiness.

"Is the gourd pill going to collide..."

"Then I'll just wait..."

"Wait for this ship to be a little more chaotic..."

After muttering, the ninja who survived retreated into a dark corner again...

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"Hmm..." Yuan Yi endured the pain, and used the torn pieces of clothing to make a simple bandage for the wound on his chest.

He wanted to light a fire, and then use the flames to sear the wound—although this method was painful, it was very convenient to stop the bleeding.

It's a pity—this heavy rain that seemed to pour all the sea water in the sea made Yuan Yi unable to light a fire.

——Okay...wrapped like this, it's almost enough...

——We have to take advantage of Ogata-kun's suppression of Toyotomi now... quickly rescue Xiaolin...

Yuanichi knew that he might not be able to support Ogata and help Ogata defeat the evil Toyotomi now.

So—he decided to try his best to do something that he can do now.

Genichi grabbed the sun god stuck on the deck beside him, leaned on the knife, and tried to stand up.

Relying on the remaining strength of his arms, Genichi managed to stand up - but his now weak and powerless legs could no longer allow him to stand still.

As soon as he stood up, Yuanyi's body trembled violently like a needle standing on the ground.

Wow!

Hit by a handful of big waves, Rihuimaru's hull shook greatly.

Genichi, who was unable to stand still amidst the sharp shaking, fell to the ground again.

"Damn it..." Yuan put his hands on the ground, slowly propped up his upper body, and muttered in a calm and regretful tone, "I don't even have the strength to stand still..."

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Ding! clang! Ding! clang! clang! clang……

The duel between Ogata and Toyotomi has gradually intensified.

I saw Ogata held up Da Shitian, and first slashed Toyotomi's cheek.

When he stabbed Toyotomi face to face, he crossed five fingers of his left hand, switched the free hand of his left hand to an inverted grip, and stomped towards Toyotomi's lower body.

No matter which direction the attack is, it is quite deadly.

Although trauma other than the brain is no longer easy to kill him, Toyotomi still wants to avoid injury as much as possible.

Although he now has a recovery ability that far exceeds that of ordinary people, his pain sensation has not disappeared, and he will still feel pain when he is injured.

In this kind of battle where the whole body is tense, a little carelessness or relaxation will lead to irreparable consequences, any injury may lead to accidents.

Because of the pain caused by the injury, it is very easy to cause the reaction to become sluggish, or the movement becomes insensitive.

Whether it is an attack on the face or an attack on the lower body, Toyotomi is not something that Toyotomi can take casually.

He jumped to the side, and while dodging the slash that hit his face, he switched Jiguang Gushi to the lower stance to protect his lower body.

The slash attacking his lower body was successfully blocked by him.

But the slash that hit his face...but he didn't completely dodge it.

The sharp blade brushed past his right ear, cutting off a section of his ear...

Although the cut-off section of the ear soon grew back, and the pain from the ear was not too strong, Toyotomi's expression at this time was still serious enough to fight against just now." The source of the "transparent state" is a ratio of the momentary state.

Even people who don't understand "battle" at all can see that the battle situation is already obvious.

Toyotomi has been completely suppressed by Ogata, the kind of suppression that is impossible even to stand up.

Toyotomi is holding on now - as long as he reveals the slightest flaw in the defense of his head and relaxes, Ouyang can take his head in an instant.

It is clear that the situation has completely gained the upper hand - but in Ogata's heart, there is always a kind of... inexplicable ominous premonition...

He always felt—Toyotomi seemed to be too calm...

Already completely suppressed, with no power left to fight back, Toyotomi is still calmly defending and dodging...

In this regard, Ogata can only think of two possibilities.

Either Toyotomi is the kind of person who can be extremely calm no matter what happens.

Either...it's because Toyotomi still has some tricks that can turn defeat into victory...

If it's the former, it's fine.

if the latter one……

——Regardless of whether Toyotomi has any means...

Ogata said to himself in his heart.

——Suppress him all the time, so that he has no time to play any tricks, that's right...

With such a determination in his heart, he did not dare to relax and continue to attack Toyotomi.

Ogata pointed Da Shitian and Da Zizai's knives at Toyotomi, stepped on the deck with his hind feet, and slammed into Toyotomi like a wild buffalo, and the two knives in his hands were the horns of the bull.

Sakakibara One Sword Style Bird Thorn!

The knives in both hands use bird spines at the same time - with the blessing of "Selfless Two Swords", he can easily do this kind of skill.

For this trick, Ogata tentatively named it "Bird Thorn Double Sound".

Two knives stabbed towards Toyotomi's head and waist respectively.

Looking at the two knives stabbing towards his own body, Toyotomi opened his nostrils slightly, took a deep breath through his nose, and rushed towards Ogata who "hit".

When the two were about to miss each other, Toyotomi managed to dodge Ogata's "Bird Thorn Double Sound" with a little reluctance by virtue of his agility and reflexes.

The two staggered past and slammed their bodies towards Toyotomi like cannonballs—with such a huge potential energy, Ogata only took half a step forward, but he insisted on relying on brute force and body flexibility to stop it.

Stopping the body that continued to rush forward, using the left foot as the axis, quickly turned the body, and by virtue of the centrifugal force brought by the turning body, swung Da Shitian, and slashed horizontally at Toyotomi.

Da Shitian slashed at Toyotomi's neck at such a speed that he seemed to shake off the cold light reflected from the sword.

Seeing Da Shitian who was getting closer and closer to his neck, Toyotomi raised his Ji Guanggushi, as if intending to forcibly accept Ogata's move.

However, at this moment——

--Ok?

The corners of Ogata's eyebrows twitched slightly.

At the moment when Toyotomi raised his auspicious light bones... Ogata vaguely saw—the corner of Toyotomi's mouth seemed to have a hint of a smile...

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At this very moment—

Nikkimaru, on the open deck, on the watchtower of the mainmast——

Slap... Slap... Slap... Slap...

On the watchtower of the mainmast, there were intermittent strange sounds of "crack, clack, clatter".

Focus on the observation deck—I saw a young man sitting on the railing of the observation deck.

There is no belt on his waist, only a red sheathed knife with a yellow handle.

Apart from this knife, no other weapons were seen on his body.

In his hand, he held a small bamboo tube.

The young man holding the bamboo tube kept playing with the bamboo tube, and the intermittent strange "click, click, click" sound was the sound made by this person when he was playing with the bamboo tube.

Generally speaking, people sitting on the observation deck observe the course and the surrounding sea conditions.

But this person didn't do that—his eyes, from beginning to end, were firmly fixed on the battlefield between Ogata and Toyotomi...

"...Master Toyotomi..."

While muttering like this, he stopped his hand playing with the wooden barrel, and tightly grasped this small wooden barrel.

"It seems...it seems that we don't need the 'help' from Master Xianyuan and me..."

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Can any reader guess who the young man at the end of this chapter is? What are you going to do?

I originally wanted to write a large chapter of more than 6,000 words today, but I still underestimated the busyness of today’s tomb-sweeping... 5400 is the limit... Tomorrow, the author will try to write more (Leopard Head Crying.jpg)

The author said before: This book will be finished in about mid-March.

However, misestimating the volume of the plot seems to be the author's traditional art skills...

Now it seems...it will end in late April, and it is not impossible...after all, the author is planning to write some chapters similar to the future talk after the war.

Because it is about to end, the author also intends to unban some settings about this book that have never been mentioned before.

The author has designed several "IF lines" for this book.

These few "IF lines", the author must have no time to write slowly, but I can give you a general introduction.

The author personally thinks that one of the most interesting "IF lines" is the "Sura line" in which "Ogata single-handedly captured Edo Castle, and finally fought a decisive battle with Genichi in Edo Castle". Are you interested in listening to it? ?

If you are interested, I will tell you the general plot bit by bit in the "Writer's Words" in the subsequent chapters.