I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"Step." His face changed drastically, frowning slightly, "All swordsmanship should be eliminated-what does this mean?"

The old man sitting next to Isse, his grandfather Zhizhou, also frowned at this time.

"It's just telling the truth." Ogata said lightly, "The sword is quite different from other tools-the sword has no other purpose except killing."

"Axes can be used to cut trees. Bows and spears can be used for hunting."

"But the sword is useless except for killing people."

"The sword is a tool that was invented to kill people from the very beginning."

"Swordsmanship is a skill designed to make it easier to kill with a sword."

"The sword is a killer, and swordsmanship is a killer technique."

"Since you just said that swordsmanship is based on physical training, it is a real sword. That means that you are also a person who believes that swordsmanship should be practical."

"So, for what I just said, you should agree with it?"

After being silent for a while, Isshi nodded slightly: "...Yes. I agree with what you just said. Sword is indeed a killer, and swordsmanship is a skill designed to kill people more conveniently."

"Hundreds of years ago. Swords and swordsmanship that existed in the world as killers and homicides indeed had an irreplaceable important position." Ogata continued at this time, "but now the times have changed."

"You should know the famous'War of Changsha' more than two hundred years ago, right?"

"Of course." Isshiki responded.

"Since you know this battle. Then you must also be very clear about the final result of that battle-the famous Takeda army was defeated by Oda Nobunaga's iron cannon force."

In the Edo period, anyone who had received a little history education knew about the battle of Changwa, a famous battle in the Warring States period more than two hundred years ago: the strategic decisive battle between the Oda clan and the Takeda clan.

Ogata inherits all the memories of "Ogata". As a samurai who successfully completed all basic education, "Ogata Hara" naturally has all kinds of knowledge about the battle of Nagasaki in his memory.

The Takeda family was one of the most powerful princes in the Warring States period more than two hundred years ago. It was famous all over the world by force. The Takeda army was called "the strongest army", and the Cavalry of the Takeda family was even known as "the best in the world." Cavalry".

But in the battle of Nagaku, Oda Nobunaga, the owner of the Oda family, assembled more than 3,000 matchlock guns, and shot the prestigious "strongest army" by alternating shots. Takeda is famous. The cavalry was nearly wiped out by the arquebus. After this battle, the Takeda family declined completely and was completely annexed by Oda Nobunaga 7 years later.

"...So, what do you mean-the appearance of the iron cannon has rendered swordsmanship useless?"

Speaking of this, Isshiji paused, then sneered disdainfully.

"Hmph, I thought you would say something high. In the end, it was these old-fashioned remarks."

"How can the iron cannon replace the sword?"

"The reason why the Takeda family lost so miserably in the Battle of Changhu was because the commander of the Takeda Army was a fool. It is not only possible that a better commander will command this battle. It will not be defeated, and it is possible to defeat Oda Nobunaga on the contrary."

"The various flaws of the iron cannon, let me say that I can't finish the time of the last cup of tea."

"First of all-the rate of fire of the iron cannon is extremely slow, and the reloading of ammunition is extremely troublesome."

"No matter how skilled an iron gunner shoots a round, it takes at least 10 breaths to complete the reload of the ammunition."

"Secondly-the accuracy of the iron cannon is still extremely low. Unless you are the kind of extremely talented marksman, if you shoot a target 5 rooms (about 9 meters) away with an iron cannon, it depends entirely on luck."

"Secondly-there are still many restrictions on the use of iron cannons. They cannot be used on rainy days, nor can they be used on snowy days, and they cannot be used in damp places..."

"Of course, I do not deny the power of iron cannons, nor do I deny that iron cannons can play a very important role in certain places."

"But you say that iron cannons can replace swords-this really makes me disagree."

At this time, Isshiki's face no longer had the same excitement and excitement as before, and he only looked at Ogata with a plain and indifferent gaze.

Ogata has been quietly listening to Isshiki's speech just now.

After Isshiki's voice fell, Ogata smiled slightly:

"You are right."

"Iron Cannon still has quite a few flaws to this day."

"But ah—the iron cannon is an extremely sophisticated instrument."

"One of the characteristics of ultra-precision instruments is that their'progress' has no upper limit."

"Iron cannons still have quite a few defects, but have you ever wondered what the iron cannon will look like in 50 or 100 years?"

"It is different from Japan. The people of Nanban attach great importance to the development of iron cannons."

"They are constantly improving the iron cannons. To this day, the Nanbarians have invented many extremely powerful iron cannons."

"Not only has the firing range been greatly extended, but the shooting accuracy has also been greatly improved."

"In time, iron cannons will be improved more and more severely, with fewer defects."

"In 50 years or 100 years, there will be iron cannons that can hit 50 targets (about 90 meters) away, or iron cannons that can shoot 100 shots in one go. It is not impossible."

"As for swords and swordsmanship..."

"The sword is a weapon that has little room for ‘progress’. At most, some new sword-making techniques will appear to make the sword sharper and harder."

"And swordsmanship...it's people who use swordsmanship. So human physical fitness determines the upper limit of swordsmanship."

"And people's physical stamina also has its limits, just like a person can't lick his elbow with his tongue no matter what."

"Only human beings themselves have ‘improved’. For example, one day everyone can lick their elbows with their tongues, and swordsmanship can ‘progress’ along with them, and there will be some new and more powerful swordsmanship."

"But even so, there is absolutely no way that swordsmanship that needs to be close to injure the enemy can be stronger."

"Imagine this scenario-a group of iron gunners holding an improved iron cannon that can shoot 100 shots in one breath, against the samurai who are still using their swords."

"Those samurai probably couldn't make 5 steps, so they were all killed."

"The sword is a'killer', and its killing efficiency is bound to be less and less than the iron cannon that is'progressing' at a rapid rate."

"Since the sword that exists in the world as a'killing device' has less and less killing efficiency than the iron cannon, what is the need for the sword? What is the significance of the existence of the skill of swordsmanship?"

"The only way out for the sword in the future is probably to completely become an ornament in the house. Swordsmanship is to become an entertainment and fitness exercise like Cuju."

Isshiki's expression has been green and white since just now.

"An iron cannon that can shoot 100 rounds of projectiles in one breath... What are you talking about." Isshiki gritted his teeth, "How could such an iron cannon appear."

Isshiki raised his head, craned his neck, and stared at Ogata with a little anger on his face.

Maybe it was because of the resentment, his cheeks turned dark red.

Isshiki's height is a little shorter than Ogata, only about 1.6 meters tall.

He was originally shorter than Ogata, but now he craned his neck and looked up at Ogata glaringly, even more so that he was short in stature.

Ah Ding, who had been listening in silence, found that the atmosphere around him was getting worse at this time, racking his brains to think about what to say to ease the atmosphere.

At this moment, Isshiki opened his mouth again, as if he was about to say something more.

But at this moment, his grandfather who was sitting next to Yishi stretched out his hand to hold Yishi's sleeve.

"Enough, Ryoma. Let's stop here, let's go back."

"Grandpa..." Yishi turned his head and looked at his grandpa-Yishi Zhou.

"That's it." Zhi Zhou stared straight, repeating what he had just said again every word.

After hesitating for a while, he snorted coldly.

"... I'm harassing my step. I thought the idea of ​​my step is similar to that of the next, but I didn't think about you and me, but the ideas are very different. I have a fate in the future, let me wait and discuss it."

After leaving this sentence coldly, Isshiki got up directly without leaving his head in front of Ogata.

As for Naoshu-after a simple bow to Ogata and Amachi, he quickly followed Isshi.

After the grandfather and grandson returned to the place where they were sitting, Ah Ting turned his head, smiled bitterly and said in a low voice toward Ogata:

"Really...I almost thought that Isshishi didn't fight the samurai with the birthmark on his head, but was about to fight you..."

"Although I also agree with the view that'firearms will eventually replace swords', what you just said was really too exaggerated. It's no wonder people will be upset."

"How can there be an iron cannon that can fire 100 rounds in one go? How big an iron cannon that can fire 100 rounds in one go, how big the gun has to be..."

After hearing this, Ogata couldn't help but smile helplessly because of feeling a little wronged.

—I’m just telling what will happen in the future...

In the future, there will be more than a gun that can shoot 100 rounds in one go. Even the bullets have fully evolved. A steel plate as thick as a finger can be penetrated by one shot.

However, Ogata also expressed his understanding of Amachi's remarks that seemed a little ignorant in his eyes.

Although Amachi, who loves firearms, is ahead of the Japanese in this era in terms of firearms, she is also a native of the Edo period, and her vision is limited.

So Amachi also had the musket that Yishi couldn't imagine that could fire 100 rounds, but Ogata felt it was excusable.

Ogata couldn't explain to Amachi that such a powerful musket would really appear in the future, so he could only smile helplessly while helping Amachi wipe off the fine sweat that came out again due to seasickness and physical discomfort.

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"Ryoma." Zhi Zhouchao said softly, "Are you still angry?"

"Of course." Ryoma replied without hesitation, "Grandpa, the man was nakedly belittling swordsmanship just now, aren't you angry?"

"I'm still angry now."

After snorting heavily, Isshiki continued:

"I thought that after going out to study for so long, I finally came across a person with similar views as mine."

"I was thinking about whether to invite him to join us."

"Unexpectedly, he turned out to be the kind of crazy talker."

"I see a lot of people who claim that ‘swordsmanship is useless’ in a brazen manner."

Isshiki twitched the corners of his mouth and sneered disdainfully.

"Grandpa, haven't such people appeared in our sword hall before?"

"I verbally claim that swordsmanship is useless, and ridiculed the people with excellent swordsmanship in the sword hall, saying that they are just learning skills that will not be useful in the future."

"In essence, those people just say grape sour if they can't eat grapes."

"The people who claimed that swordsmanship was useless before in our sword hall were all ordinary swordsman. Because they couldn't practice swordsmanship anyhow, they belittled swordsmanship and ridiculed people with excellent swordsmanship to save themselves. Poor self-confidence."

Isshiki turned his head and cast a disgusting and mocking look at Ogata, who was now focusing on wiping Amachi's forehead with sweat in the distance.

"That Goro Majima has spared no effort to belittle swordsmanship, he must be just like those people, he is an arrogant man who just wants to belittle swordsmanship to restore his self-confidence."

"That Goro Mashima really should thank you, grandpa. If it weren't for Grandpa, you just pulled me away in time, I really want to challenge him, and learn from him, let him take a good look at the swordsmanship he despised, how powerful is it? powerful."

Having said that, Isshiki sitting cross-legged on the ground, held a sword in the air in front of him.

"Enough." Zhi Zhou's face was unhappy, "Your temper, it's time to restrain yourself."

"The samurai with the birthmark just now, after demonstrating the secret sword of their genre, you shouldn't talk too much about his secret sword."

"Have you ever considered what trouble you would cause when you said those words to the birthmark samurai just now?"

"What if he really pulls out the knife to slash you?"

"You still have the face to tell me that if I didn't take you away in time just now, you have to discuss with that Mashima-kun."

"I've told you how many times, walking outside should make you less troublesome."

Since Zhi Zhou began to reprimand Yoshiki, Yoshiki lowered his head.

"...I admit that what I did just now was a little unconsidered." Isshiki flattened his lips and whispered, "But I can treat everything as if I didn't see it. Only when I met someone called juggling a swordsmanship, and When you belittle and insult swordsmanship, you can’t just turn a blind eye..."

After all, Isshiki seemed to be subconscious, turning his head to look at Ogata, who was still concentrating on wiping Amachi in the distance.

Looking at the head hanging down in front of him, Zhi Zhou sighed heavily.

"What a careless child..."

"Listen well. Before returning to Osaka, don't let me find that you are actively causing trouble again."

"If you commit another crime, I will never take you out again."

Yishi nodded like pounding garlic.

After he nodded until his head became dizzy, Yishi stopped.

"The long study tour is finally over..." Isshiki let out a sigh of relief, and said with emotion, "It's a little bit unwilling... We've all traveled to more than half of Japan, and we still can meet Ogata-sama..."

"Japan is so big, Ichidosai can't come across so easily." Nao Zhou said in an angry tone, UU reading www.uukanshu. com "If Ichidozai is so easy to meet, the shogunate would not need to spend so much time and effort to post wanted orders everywhere."

"I really want to meet Ogata-sama..." Isshiki said with a look of longing. "As the strongest swordsman in the world, he must also admire the practicality of swordsmanship. The concept of'physical exercise' must be very agreed."

"I really want to meet him and have a good chat with him..."

Speaking of this, Isshiki once again subconsciously glanced at "Mashima Goro" who had just brought him an unpleasant experience.

But at this moment, Isshiki suddenly seemed to think of something, his expression paused, and then he walked behind Zhizhou.

"Grandpa, you can block me." After saying that, Isshi hid most of his upper body behind Zhizhou.

"Huh? What's the matter?" Zhi Zhou turned his head and looked behind him.

I saw Isshiki stretched out his tongue, trying to reach his right elbow with his tongue.

"That guy said just now that people can't touch their elbows with their tongues." Isshiki said solemnly, "I'm so concerned about this...Does a person's tongue really can't touch the elbow?"

When he finished speaking, he stopped talking, stretched out his tongue intently, pressed his right elbow to his face, and tried to reach his elbow with his tongue.

Looking at Isshiki's current funny appearance, Zhizhou showed a dumbfounded expression, and then tried to straighten his waist so that no one could see Isshiki's current appearance.

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