I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Kill one person in ten steps and never stay for a thousand miles.

—Li Bai · "Xia Ke Xing"

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When Songping believed that they were still in the camp and had a meeting—

Outside the first army camp —

Falling snow still doesn't stop.

Faint sunlight pours into the white snow field from the gaps in the clouds. Under the slightly gloomy sky, everything is quiet, only a few snowflakes fall.

If there is no one next to the snow, the snow spreads out mixed with the evening haze, and the field of vision is gray.

"...Is that your barracks?"

"Yes, yes! That is the barracks of our army!"

Ogata lifted the hat on his head slightly and looked down the hillside.

Ogata is now standing on a hillside.

Although the visibility is a bit low because the evening haze in the early morning has not spread out, we can still clearly see through the layers of evening haze-under the hillside, flags with various family patterns are waving in the wind.

The radish was now tied to a tree not far behind Ogata. While snorting boredly, he scratched the ground under his feet with his hoofs.

Sakaguchi stood tremblingly behind him when Ouyan looked at the military camp under the hillside expressionlessly.

Last night, after letting him get on the horse, Okinawa directly ordered Sakaguchi: "Show me the way. Take me to your army camp."

Facing Ogata, Sakaguchi, who had no desire to resist, silently took Ogata to the camp of their First Army.

Looking at Ogata, who was standing in front of him on the hillside and the military camp underneath, Sakaguchi only felt shock and shock in his heart now.

After hearing Ogata's request to take him to the camp of their army, Sakaguchi roughly guessed what Ogata was going to do.

Although he vaguely guessed what Ogata intends to do, he can't believe that Ogata really intends to put it into practice...

It wasn't until Ogata Yoshihide hesitated to follow his directions and came to the camps of their First Army camp before and after Sakaguchi was convinced that the man in front of him was really going to do it, and he felt his hair standing upright just by imagining it. Thing...

—This person...seriously...Is he really planning to break into the barracks to kill the best...

When Sakaguchi Yu thought this way in his heart, a few drops of cold sweat emerged from his forehead, and then slowly dripped...

Sakaguchi was afraid to speak.

Ogata didn't speak, but silently looked at the barracks under the hillside.

The surrounding air plunged directly into the atmosphere of dead silence.

Until a moment later, Ogata put his hands on the handle of Taishaten's sword, and whispered to himself in a voice that only he could hear:

"...It's worthy of being a barracks."

Despite the poor visibility, Ogata can barely see that there are many soldiers standing guard and patrolling in the camp.

Unlike the crappy way of standing and patrolling the bandits that I have dealt with before, even people like Ogata who don’t know much about military laws can see how these soldiers stand and patrol are the same as Ogata’s previous actions. Compared with those bandits who have passed, it is simply a difference.

Sakaguchi, standing behind Ogata, has been looking at Ogata in front of him from time to time with hesitant eyes since just now.

Until this moment, the color of hesitation in Sakaguchi's eyes finally slowly dissipated, turning into a color of firmness.

"Then, that...please, please let go...I..."

Sakaguchi stammered, after finally getting courageous.

"I have brought you to the barracks..."

"Please have mercy on me... and spare my life..."

Having said that, Sakaguchi knelt directly on the ground, and rushed to Ogata in front of him to perform the heaviest gift in Japan—kneeling on the ground with both knees, putting his palms and forehead on the ground under the seat.

Sakaguchi didn't want "the dignity of a samurai" anymore, he just wanted to survive now.

Ogata listened to Sakaguchi's prayers in silence, without looking back at Sakaguchi.

It wasn't until Sakaguchi's voice fell that Ogata said in a calm tone:

"You help me with one last thing, and I can spare your life."

"Wh, what's the matter...?" Sakaguchi raised his head, before he had time to wipe the snow on his forehead, he asked cautiously.

For some reason, Sakaguchi felt an unknown premonition emerging from his heart at this time.

"I need you to help me get the top level of Yoshihisa."

"Are you asking me to help you assassinate the Supreme Master? No way!" Sakaguchi said without hesitation, "I can't help you with such a favor! I don't know where the Supreme Master is in the camp now. He is not someone who is good at stealth, and he can't help you assassinate the best man!"

"...You seem to misunderstand what I just said."

"When did I say I was going to assassinate the top one?"

When Ogata said this, a few snowflakes happened to be close to the edge of Ogata's hat, and fell on the hilt of the double sword on Ogata's waist.

Ogata raised his right hand and brushed the snow from the knife handle bit by bit.

"...Huh?" Sakaguchi cast a suspicious look at Ogata in front of him.

"There are not too many buildings in the camp, there is only one camp, and there is nowhere to hide if you want to hide. I am afraid that only those ninjas who have reached the highest level of skill can sneak into this kind of camp silently and undetected."

"And it's still early in the morning, not at night when the line of sight is not good, and this kind of weather is not suitable for infiltration and assassination."

After all, Ogata's right hand, which was blowing the snow from the hilt, slammed the handle of Oshaten's knife, and pulled the blade inch by inch from its sheath.

The blade was shining with clear blue light under the light.

"There are no conditions for infiltration and assassination."

"So I decided to change to another method."

Hearing this, Sakaguchi's ominous premonition was extremely strong...

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The First Army Camp, at Xiyingkou—

"Ha..." A soldier standing on guard at Xiyingkou with a spear in his hand yawned greatly.

He who was in charge of the "morning shift" had already gotten up before dawn. He was already a little lacking in sleep, and had to perform such a boring "stand-by" task, which made him even more sleepy.

In order to dismiss this boring task of standing sentry, he wanted to find a companion next to him to chat for one or two, but because of military regulations, it is clearly stipulated that chatting is strictly prohibited when standing on sentry and patrolling. Once found to be severely punished, the soldier did not violate the military regulations. The guts.

Just as this soldier was fighting desperately against the Sandman, he suddenly saw—at the end of the evening outside the camp, something black suddenly appeared...

The soldier frowned slightly and fixed his eyes on this "black thing".

Xi Ha hasn't dissipated until now, and when you look around, the field of vision is still gray.

After looking closely at it for a while, the soldier finally recognized that the black thing was a figure.

As soon as the soldier recognized that it was a figure, this figure appeared from the depths of the evening—a young warrior wearing a hat and a thin kimono.

With a knife in his right hand, the young warrior passed through the Xiyingkou where Xi Ha slowly walked towards the camp.

After the figure slowly appeared in the evening, the young samurai suddenly accelerated.

He had just walked slowly.

Then walking became a brisk walking, then a trot, and finally a sprint.

When the young warrior had just changed from walking to jogging, the soldier who first spotted the young warrior suddenly widened his eyes.

At this moment, the rest of the soldiers at Xiyingkou also spotted the young warrior, and they all looked at the young warrior with shocked eyes.

The soldier who first spotted the young warrior opened his mouth:

"Enemy attack..."

Before the last syllable of the soldier’s "enemy attack" could be called out, he saw the young warrior, who had rushed to Xiyingkou, 10 steps away, jumped up and leaped towards him...

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Standing on the hillside and observing the camp, Ogata realized that there was no such condition to carry out "infiltration and assassination." His "advanced" Shiranui current stealth technique was not enough to infiltrate a camp with 3,000 generals.

So Ogata decided to use another strategy.

This new strategy is quite simple and rude, there are not too many twists and turns, just four words-direct attack.

With a run-up, Ogata made a leap, leaping high towards a soldier at Xiyingkou, about 10 steps away from him.

Leaping a distance of 10 steps in one breath-this kind of thing is nothing more than a trivial matter for Ogata, who now has 20 strength.

After accurately jumping to the top of the soldier's head, Ogata clamped the head of the soldier who had not had time to react with his legs, and then threw it to the ground with Shiranui ninjutsu.

[Ding! Use Shiranui Ninjutsu·Shiranui Jiujitsu to defeat the enemy]

[Get 45 points for personal experience, 40 points for Ninjutsu "Shiranui Ninjutsu"]

[Current personal level: LV38 (1650/6000)]

[Shiranui Ninjutsu level: 8 stages (3190/7500)]

After subduing the soldier with Shiranui ninjutsu, Ogata didn’t rush to the other soldiers around, but first cut off the torch tied to the long wooden stick on the ground, and then took it with his free left hand. At the torch that was chopped down.

Because of the poor visibility early this morning, torches for lighting are still being planted everywhere in the camp.

After getting the torch, Ogata directly threw the torch to a watchtower not far away.

The flame touched the wooden watchtower, and the tongue of fire immediately began to burn, spread, and roar on the watchtower as if it was alive.

After setting the watchtower next to him on fire, Ogata raised his sword and rushed to the soldier next to him.

The light of the knife and the light of the fire complement each other.

Ogata didn't charge aimlessly.

While struggling to defeat the garrison at Xiyingkou, he specifically overturned the surrounding torches and threw the torches at the surrounding combustibles, increasing the level of chaos in the camp.

The more chaotic the camp, the better it is for Ogata.

In Japan, which has been in peace for nearly 200 years, the combat effectiveness and organization of the military cannot be compared with the military of the Sengoku period 200 years ago and the military when the Edo Shogunate was first established.

Among the 10,000 troops gathered in Ezo land, most of them have never fought before.

Those who have fought, the battles they took part in were basically small fights such as the suppression of mountain bandits and the suppression of the peasant rebellion.

The sound of the golden drum has not been heard for too long, and the generals in the army generally lack experience in dealing with emergencies.

Until Ogata was almost rushing into their camp, the soldiers had time to sound the alarm in the future.

It wasn't until Ogata came in that the soldiers finally reacted with hindsight to what had happened, and when the alarm was quickly sounded, they shot Xiang Ogata.

After throwing a torch at a flammable object not far away, Ogata turned his head and shouted outside Yingkou:

"Hurry up!"

"Yes, yes!" A panicked voice sounded from the depths of the evening.

Afterwards, a samurai with an extremely pale face and a Tsukidai head appeared from the depths of the evening, and rushed towards Sakaguchi.

Ogata's task for Sakaguchi was simple-to show Ogata the way.

Tell Ogata where their military doctors treat the wounded and where their soldiers live.

When he first received Ogata's mission, Sakaguchi naturally shook his head and refused.

"Please forgive me! I really can't do this kind of thing!"-This is Sakaguchi's original words at the time.

When hearing Sakaguchi's words, Ogata didn't say much.

Only put the tip of Dashaten's sword against Sakaguchi's neck...

"I'm sure to lose my mind, and I will hang my life!"-This is also Sakaguchi's original words.

Ogata also specially reminded him in "kindness": if he finds that Sakaguchi has not followed him in time, he will temporarily put aside the matter of taking the top of his head aside and do his best to hunt him down.

After appearing in the evening, and rushing to a short distance behind Ogata, Sakaguchi cried out to Ogata with a sad face:

"My lord! You must protect my safety!"

Ogata didn't take care of Sakaguchi—he is now focusing his mind and body on the strategy of Xiyingkou.

Hearing dense footsteps from the right side, Ogata followed the prestige—six soldiers with long spears, lined up in a slightly loose formation and rushed towards Ogata.

Ogata took off the hat on his head and threw the hat at the six soldiers.

Ogata’s hat is a snow-proof hat. The rim of the hat is very wide. After throwing it out, the snow accumulated on the hat was scattered and splashed, disturbing the sight of the 6 soldiers, and the momentum of these 6 soldiers' forward rush could not help but stop. .

But Ogata seized this opportunity, his body and the knife in his hand turned into a stream of light sweeping toward the six soldiers.

Six sword lights bloom at the same moment.

The hat flew straight behind the six soldiers.

Ogata clearly threw the hat first, but his hat came to the back of the six soldiers.

Ogata raised his hand to catch the hat. The next moment he caught his hat, the bodies of the six soldiers fell to the ground like noodles.

Ogata only felt the blood all over his body boiling, and adrenaline was secreting rapidly, but his mind was clear.

He did not forget what he was here for.

Ogata has no love for war. After breaking through the siege of the Xiyingkou garrison, he took Sakaguchi and rushed into the depths of the camp...

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Head coach camp—

After receiving the news of the attack on the camp, the tent exploded in an instant.

In terms of combat experience, most generals in the tent are actually the same as most soldiers in the army-basically no experience.

The reason why they were able to wear the mighty battle armor and the gorgeous Jinbaori was only because they were of noble origin and were the superior warriors in their respective domains, not because of how amazing achievements they had made.

Under this kind of Shi Qing Shilu system, many of them might not even read the military books.

The lack of experience caused them to be confused in an instant.

"Hey! Make it clear! Is there really only one enemy attacking our camp?", "Could it be that Ogata Ichitosai killed him?", "Is his head okay? He even dared to attack the army's camp. ?"...

After all, Sheng Tianmu was a veteran who had personally led the army and fought many battles-although the battles he fought were only small battles to quell banditry and peasant uprisings.

However-even if it is just a few small battles that are not worthy of a big book, it is enough to make Shengtianmu far win these "generals" who may not even read "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Jiayang Junjian".

The calm Shengtianmu once again yelled: "Quiet!"

Sheng Tianmu's roar slowly calmed down the tent that was originally noisy.

"Who is the enemy? This kind of thing doesn't matter at all."

Shengtianmu said solemnly.

"No matter who the enemy is, we will not do what we should do now."

"The top priority now is to stabilize the army. As long as it stabilizes, even an attack by a thousand troops shouldn't be feared!"

Sheng Tianmu turned his head to look at the white stone who had just threatened to conquer the "thief".

"Shiraishi, the place where your Yonezawa clan's army is stationed is far away from the attacked Xiyingkou. You will now return to your Yonezawa clan's general's residence to calm the military's mind."

"Spring, you go to organize the iron gunners and archers, and bring them to the coach's camp."

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Sheng Tianmu calmly issued one order after another.

Those who have experience in marching and fighting naturally know how terrible it is to "explode camps".

Therefore, the mission issued by Sheng Tianmu to most generals is to return to the troops of their respective territories to stabilize the military spirit.

Sheng Tianmu's calm tone gradually calmed down the panicked general's mood.

After the Weisheng Tianmu gave the last command, he stood up and scanned the generals in front of him with a serious face.

"Everyone. Have you heard their respective tasks clearly, right?"

The crowd nodded vigorously.

"Then act separately!" Shengtianmu said loudly, "Let the thieves who dare to attack our army barracks come and go!"

General: "Oh!"

The generals who calmed down drank in unison, and then one after another got up and filed out on their own.

In an instant, there were only a few people left in the camp.

After issuing various military orders, Sheng Tianmu turned his head to look at Songping Dingxin beside him:

"Old Master, this place is not safe now, please retreat to a safe place for the time being!"

After thinking about it for a moment, Songping Dingxin nodded slowly.

"Hey!" At this moment, a voice full of displeasedness sounded, "Master Sheng Tianmu, why don't we have a task?"

The master of this sentence is heaven.

Just now, all the generals in the camp received the task.

Only 3 generals did not receive any tasks.

These three people are exactly Qiuyue, Kuroda, and Tiandao who are the same as the "Seven Spears of Xianzhou" with Tianmu.

All three of them looked at Shengtianmu with suspicious eyes.

"The three of you, I have other arrangements." After coldly responding to this question from Tiandao, Sheng Tianmu called out several guards who were guarding outside the camp.

"Take the top away!" Sheng Tianmu ordered to the guard who had just entered.

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It can be said that Ogata got help from God.

The evening mist this morning was heavy and visibility was extremely low.

This not only allowed Ogata to get rid of those generals more smoothly, but also further increased the level of confusion among the generals in the camp.

What could be more frightening than looking at the gray and invisible where the enemy is?

Ogata has already seen many soldiers hurt his own people because they didn't see clearly, coupled with excessive mental tension.

And Ogata's attack timing is also very good. Early in the morning, many soldiers were just waking up and in a state of vague consciousness.

Many soldiers couldn't find Ogata because of their poor vision. There were noisy shouts in all directions, and they couldn't tell Ogata's position based on the sound.

Some people who have finally found Ogata either did not dare to step forward, or they stepped forward, but they made Ogata's steps slower and couldn't do it...

With the help of this evening, Ogata plunged into the barracks like a wedge.

When Ogata rushed from left to right in the barracks, in order to increase the level of chaos in the camp, so that he could fish in troubled waters more conveniently, he always paid attention to cutting down all the torches along the way, and then threw the torches to nearby flammable torches. Material.

Under Ogata's series of destruction, the flames gradually passed the sword light and sword shadow.

The expanding fire has also made the organization of the battalion generals more chaotic.

The shogun who was going to put out the fire and the shogun who was going to hunt down Ogata interfered with each other, and only made Ogata a favor.

"Front, front...ha...turn left...it's...ha...the place to heal the wounded...!" Sakaguchi, who was following Ogata, supported his side abdomen, which was faintly painful from running violently, while giving it to Ogata. Pointing the way.

Ogata followed Sakaguchi's directions and turned left, and just saw a few big bald heads who were looking flustered and were about to flee for their lives.

In Japan in the Edo period, doctors generally kept a big bald head, so after seeing these bald heads, Ogata immediately concluded that these people must be military doctors.

Ogata swooped forward and caught the bald head closest to him, then he swung Da Shitian to the neck of the bald head and asked quickly:

"Last night there should have been a general named Sushang Yoshihisa who was sent back to the camp. Do you know where he is?"

Ogata didn't charge aimlessly.

After breaking into the camp, Okinawa followed Sakaguchi's guidance and headed straight for the treatment place of the injured—because the doctors here are the people most likely to know where the best is now.

Coincidentally, this doctor happened to be the one who just gave the best pulse and confirmed the best current state.

This doctor is not a pedantic samurai who puts "famous" more important than "fate". After hearing Ogata's questioning, the doctor immediately nodded:

"I know! I know! He is at the coach's camp now! At the coach's camp!"

After getting the information he wanted, Xu Jian let go of the doctor who was no threat to him and there was no need to kill him, and let the doctor crawl and run away.

"Take me to the coach's camp!" Ogata turned to look at Sakaguchi.

Sakaguchi, who has not had any retreat for a long time, wailed his face: "Go straight along this road, and then turn right twice, you will see a very conspicuous big account, that is the coach's account!"

"Follow up!" After spitting out these words to Sakaguchi coldly, Ogata ran in the direction Sakaguchi had just pointed.

"Found it! Kill! Kill!"

A dozen generals and soldiers appeared in front.

The shogun who appeared in front of Ogata this time was a little different from the previous ones.

This time the leader of the team, dressed in a mighty armor, draped in a beautiful Jin Yuori, and carrying a large sword.

Look at the dress should be a general of the magistrate.

"The thief! Stop!" The attendant, who was holding Odachi and stopped in front of Ogata, shouted majesticly, "I am the descendant of the Twenty-Four God General of Takeda, Kobata Torori...guh!"

Before this person had time to report his lengthy "self-introduction", he saw Ogata suddenly speeding up in front of him and rushing to him.

Before he came to remember to make a move, UU reading www.uukanshu.com felt a sharp pain in his throat, and then he saw with his own eyes a large squirt from his throat.

After killing the magistrate who hadn't even had time to introduce himself with a single blow, Ogata directly smashed through the encirclement of the magistrate with more than a dozen soldiers, and continued to rush straight towards the chief accountant.

The soldiers who escaped Ogata's blade by chance looked at the general who had just reported himself in awe-inspiring manner and now fell to the ground and died, and then looked at Ogata's leaving back-no one dared to go up again. Go to stop Ogata.

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PS1: The easter egg chapter that was accidentally deleted by the author has been re-released by the author, just in the previous chapter (only available online.)

PS2: The author started to write a novel in March 19, and it has been more than 2 years since I wrote that some occupational diseases have begun to appear... The author now feels some pain in his right wrist from time to time... I am a little afraid of tenosynovitis... I think I need to change my wrist Good keyboard. Do you have any knowledgeable book friends, please introduce me? The author has no other requirements, as long as it is the kind of keyboard that is good for the wrist.