I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan - Chapter 691

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Osaka, in some woods on the outskirts—

Kara, Kara…

In the woods, a large rock suddenly shook unnaturally.

If there was a passerby here, seeing this stone that suddenly moved on its own, it would definitely be frightened and go crazy, thinking it was haunted.

But in essence, the reason why this stone “moves by itself” is purely because someone is pushing the big stone under the big stone.

With the sound of “Kara”, the big stone was pushed upwards by a gap.

A pair of sharp-eyed 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—under the big stone, there was a secret road, and this big rock was used to cover this secret road. .

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

“It’s safe outside, come out quickly.”

The voice fell, and the crowd led by Matsudaira Tsinobu filed out of the secret passage.

“Escape here… it should be safe…” Masahiro Osaka Castle looked at the distant Osaka Castle with a pale face.

The practice of esoteric Taoism 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 that the shogunate spent a lot of money building, Osaka Castle is naturally impossible to lack for things like secret roads.

After learning that there were an overwhelming number of enemies attacking Osaka Castle, and it would not take long for Osaka Castle to fall, Horita Masaru immediately led Matsudaira Tashin and some of the guards to a secret road in Osaka Castle that could lead directly to the outskirts of Osaka.

The whole process of leaving Osaka City along the secret road can be described as a near miss.

After walking this lengthy secret road and coming to the outskirts of Osaka, Hota Masahiro’s heart that had been hanging all the time was finally released.

While Masahiro Hota was looking at the Osaka Castle they had just escaped from, Matsudaira was also looking at this towering fortress. Immediately afterwards, I looked at the downtown area of ​​Osaka, where there are firelights emerging from all over the place.

“…Horita Masahiro.” He said, “What on earth did you do, the Osaka Castle generation? The rioters and thieves dragged artillery to bombard the Osaka Castle, and you didn’t even have any relevant information before the incident. detected.”

Matsudaira’s tone was flat, as if he was talking about trivial matters.

But after his words, Hota Masahiro immediately seemed to have heard the harshest and most vicious criticism in the world, his face turned pale with a “swoosh”, and he was sweating profusely.

“Please, Lord Zhong, please forgive me…” Horita Masaru, whose head went blank with fright, fell to his knees, his body trembling with exaggerated frequency.

Matsudaira ignored Masayoshi Hota who knelt down and apologized.

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

A thought flashed in his eyes.

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

“Lord Zhong, although we are now in the outskirts of Osaka, I don’t think this place is absolutely safe.”

“How about we immediately head to the military camp outside of northeastern Osaka, and meet the 500 generals who have assembled in that military camp?”

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

“…Well.” As soon as Tachibana finished speaking, Matsudaira nodded lightly, “That’s what I meant.”

“However, you can’t just leave without doing anything.”

“We now need to gather intelligence on the enemy as quickly as possible.”

“At the very least, you have to know who is attacking Osaka.”

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

“Kawai, Fujita, Niimi, and Saeki. The four of you are now entering Osaka to inquire about the enemy’s intelligence as much as possible. Remember to protect yourself and join us at the military camp outside of northeast Osaka before dawn.”

The four people that Songping Dingxin ordered were his four personal bodyguards. They were not only skilled, but also extremely loyal to Songping Dingxin.

As soon as Matsudaira Tashin’s order was given, the four of them immediately agreed “Yes” in unison without saying a word, and then turned around and ran to Osaka without any hesitation.

“Tamaki, Miyagawa. The two of you will go to Kyoto immediately and tell the Kyoto Director of the situation on our side: Ota Ziai, let him immediately reorganize his army, do a good job in the defense of Kyoto, and be ready to lead the army south to support Osaka at any time. preparation.”

“Yes!”*2

“Mizuguchi, Sanpin, Soma.” Matsudaira called the names of three more people, “The three of you are responsible for returning to Edo, and tell the Ruonianji the situation on our side, so that they will immediately start war mobilization and strengthen Edo. A vigilance in the city 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 Laozhong, who are responsible for assisting Laozhong in handling state affairs]

“Yes!”*3

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

“The rest come with me.”

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Time goes back to the present—

The barracks of 500 generals, in the commander’s tent—

At this moment, the general-level figures headed by the racecourse are all gathered in the coach’s tent.

The person sitting on the main seat of the large tent was none other than Matsudaira.

Tachibana sat next to Matsudaira, and told the horse farm and others about their encounter in Osaka tonight for Matsudaira.

After learning that Osaka and Osaka Castle had been attacked, and that this group of unidentified enemies had an astonishing number of firearms, including artillery, Baba and the others immediately opened their mouths, looking completely dumbfounded.

“I-Isn’t it the people from the Satsuma and Choshu domains who rebelled?” The horse farm raised his hand and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

The only enemies who possessed a large number of firearms, the horse farm, were the Satsuma and Choshu domains, which had sufficient reasons for raising troops.

The Western feudal feudal lords, headed by the Satsuma domain and the Choshu domain, were forced to surrender to the Edo shogunate two hundred years ago due to their obscenity. It is not surprising that they rebelled at any time.

However, as soon as the horse farm made this conjecture, he was ruthlessly refuted by Songping Dingxin:

“If the Satsuma domain, the Choshu domain and other domains rebelled against the curtain, we could not get any news in advance.”

“Say, that’s right…” Ma Chang murmured.

The horse farm is a very typical military general who is used to living a peaceful life and whose senses are paralyzed by peaceful life, and has no ability to deal with emergencies at all.

Completely frightened by the horrific news of the “Osaka attack”, he asked Matsukatashin in a dumbfounded manner:

“Then… Mr. Zhong, what should we do now?”

Matsudaira glanced at the horse farm who asked such a foolish question with displeased eyes, and said:

“Now wait for the guards I sent to collect information to return, and then make plans after collecting enough information.”

Just after Songping Dingxin’s words were finished, the curtain at the entrance of the coach’s tent was suddenly lifted.

“Lord Zhong.” The person who lifted the curtain and entered the tent was one of Songping Dingxin’s personal guards, “Kawahe is back.”

Kawhi-Matsuhei Tadashin remembered that this person was one of the people he had just sent to Osaka to spy on information.

“Kagawa is back? Is he the only one back?” Matsudaira Dingxin frowned slightly.

“Yes!”

“…let him come here.”

“Yes.” The guard who came to report the letter returned to the outside of the account.

Immediately after that, after a while, he returned to Matsudaira Toshin’s eyes with Kawami, who had an irresistible look of tiredness on his face.

“Lord Zhong…” Chuanhe knelt down and saluted, saying hello to Matsudaira in a tired voice feebly.

“Are you injured?” Matsudaira asked first.

“I’m fine…but…everyone else has unfortunately died…”

“What on earth happened?”

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

After the four of them entered Osaka under the order of Matsudaira, they immediately carried out the task of spying on intelligence.

At the beginning, their “Osaka infiltration” went smoothly, and they never encountered any enemies.

Until…they came to Osaka Port by accident…

After they came to Osaka Port, they heard a strange “woooo” sound.

Before they could react, they saw shells fall one by one…

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

Kawanai fled the port of Osaka with the severely injured companion.

Just after escaping outside the bombing area, the seriously injured companion died. So, Kawai became the only survivor.

“Osaka Port and all the ships in the port were destroyed?” Matsudaira’s pupils shrank slightly.

“Yes…” Kawaii nodded vigorously with a look of lingering fear. “It was two extremely huge ships on the waters outside the port that destroyed Osaka Port and the ships in the port.”

“Those two warships poured out a large amount of shells, and in just a moment, the port of Osaka was turned into a sea of ​​fire…”

“Because of the long distance, I can’t tell how big the two warships are, but I saw the two warships after bombing the Osaka port, so they headed east.”

“Go east…” Song Ping Dingxin muttered, his brows slowly wrinkling.

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

“…Kanhe, thank you for your hard work. Your judgment is right, this information is indeed of great significance, you should go down and rest.”

“Yes, thank you, Mr. Zhong.”

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

“Two warships… heading east…” Matsudaira said with a sullen face, chomping on the words Kawaii just mentioned.

Although I didn’t get the information about “who are the enemies” that I wanted to know most now, I also got an unexpected major gain.

“Lord Zhong…” The racecourse, which was already quite frightened by the current situation of “Osaka attack”, after listening to the information just reported by Kawanai, swallowed hard for the first time, “We …how about leading troops eastward first?”

“The only troops we can mobilize now are the 500 generals here.”

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

“It’s better to go east first, go to Edo, join the army of Edo, and then…”

The racecourse is not finished yet—

“What about the 500 generals?” Matsudaira said.

With an unquestionable look on his face, he continued:

“Even with only 500 generals, there are many things that can be done with only 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 Hatsuko and the others.” A-Machi is now sitting on the ground not far away, stroking Ogata on his left thigh with his hand. Cast a suspicious look.

Just now, Genichi and the others left this slightly cramped room with Hatsumi, Shibata, and Yoemon and other prisoners, ready to go to the spacious Buddhist hall outside to interrogate Hatsumi and Shibata.

Everyone was gone, but Ogata stayed in this room.

“It’s nothing… I just want to… Take advantage of the free time now, just look at the injury on the leg.” As Ogata said, he pulled up the left leg tube of the hakama, revealing the thick layer wrapped around the left thigh. of burlap.

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

Looking at the linen on Ogata’s left leg, A-cho let out a low exclamation and walked quickly to Ogata’s side in three steps.

“What happened to your leg? Was it shot by a gun? Or was it cut with a sharp weapon?”

“It was indeed injured here before, but now…it should be no more.” After saying that, Ogata raised his hand to untie the linen on his leg.

When I heard “The host has completely absorbed the ‘power of undeath’” in my mind, the wound on the leg that had been aching all along, no longer hurt.

Also no longer hurt… There is also the small knife wound left on his right shoulder by Yuhachiro, who is good at fighting in the water.

After waking up, Ogata immediately raised his hand and touched his right shoulder—he couldn’t feel any wounds…

At that time… Thinking of the series of system sounds in his mind, Ogata had already vaguely guessed why these injuries on his body would not hurt anymore…

Since he had just woken up, he was about to throw himself into a decisive battle with Yoemon and the others, so Ogata had only had the opportunity to see the wound on his leg until now.

“What do you mean you were injured before, but are not injured now?” A-ding wondered.

And when A-Machi asked that questioningly, Ogata had completely untied the sackcloth on his leg—under the sackcloth, there was a piece of smooth skin that didn’t even have a scar.

“What…” A-ding pouted, “You haven’t been hurt there, why are you wrapped in sackcloth?”

“…about this…I’ll explain it to you later.” Ogata showed a weird wry smile, patted his **** and stood up, “Let’s go, A-cho, let’s go to the Buddhist temple.”

“Ok.”

Ogata and A-cho walked side by side towards the Buddhist temple outside.

The Buddhist hall of this temple is now very lively.

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

There is only a spacious Buddhist hall that can accommodate so many people.

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

The left and right guards caught by Ogata, as well as A-cho, Genichi and the others they caught before, and the Iga Ninja named Aharu, the three of them were randomly thrown into the corner of the Buddhist hall by Ogata and the others.

Yoemon has not woken up yet.

Before going to Longshui Temple, A-Ming and the others knocked them out in order to prevent Jiezheng and A-Qing from escaping, and tied them to a wooden pole with hemp ropes. The force was a little too strong, so the two still haven’t woken up until now.

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

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

Because—they want to concentrate first now and ask everything they want to know from Chu Guang, who has a very obvious friendly attitude towards them.

After seeing Ogata and A-machi finally coming, 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’s here, let’s… get started.”

Yuan Yi quickly walked to the front of a man and a woman who were currently kneeling in the center of the Buddhist hall, and then sat down with careless knees.

“You two are called Chuguang and Shibata, right?” Yuan Yichao asked the man and woman sitting in front of him—that is, Chuguang and Shibata.

As soon as Yuan Yi’s question fell, Chu Guang nodded.

“That’s right. Just call me Chuguang.”

“Just call me Shibata…”

The hemp ropes that had been tied to Chuguang and Shibata’s wrists and ankles had now been untied, and the two knelt side by side on the ground.

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

Compared to Shibata, Chu Guang’s posture and movements are much more generous.

She knelt quietly, with a natural demeanor, as if she were sitting in the hall of her own house.

“Then—Chuguang.” Yuan Yi, who was sitting face to face with the two, turned his eyes away and met Chuguang’s eyes, “Before we talk about important matters, please allow me to thank you.”

“Thank you so much just now. If you didn’t tell 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 dark.”

“You’re welcome.” Chu Guang said lightly, “I was helping myself at that time. At that time, you were my only hope for survival. If you hadn’t defeated Jijiu and Lady Lao at that time, I would have determined myself in the future. Hard to guarantee.”

“Jijiu, Lady Burning… is that the name of the two people just now?” Yuan Yi asked.

“That’s right. The old guy’s name is Jijiu, and the mad woman who’s dead is called Lady Lau.”

After thanking Chuguang simply, Yuan Yi changed his words.

“Chuguang, Shibata. I won’t talk too much about the twists and turns, I will tell you two directly – how about making a deal with us?”

“We have a lot of questions for you right now.”

“As long as you answer our questions honestly, we’ll set you free.”

“Okay.” Chu Guang nodded.

As soon as Yuan Yi finished speaking, Chu Guang nodded immediately—the response speed was so fast that many people present couldn’t help showing surprise.

“I don’t have any other choice other than to cooperate with you now, do I?” Chu Guang said helplessly after looking up at the people with surprised expressions.

The corners of Yuan Yi’s mouth twitched slightly, revealing a smile: “It’s really rare to see a heroine who acts like you do it easily. So, it’s not too late – can you please introduce yourself first?”

“I see that you and the Shibata next to you are both wearing Iga ninja costumes. Both of you seem to be members of the Iga ninja. Why were you **** and thrown to the ground when I first saw you? “

“…It seems that you know a lot. You can actually tell that the clothes that Shibata and I are wearing are the clothes of Iga ninjas.” Hatsumi paused, “You are right, Shibata and I are both Iga. One of the ninjas.”

“But Shibata and I both hate Iga quite a bit.”

“In order to ensure that there is enough fresh blood, Iga has been filling new people in a very inhuman way.”

“They went around looking for those qualified children, took them back, and brainwashed those children into new ninjas in an almost abusive way.”

“That’s how Shibata and I became Iga ninjas.”

“Iga’s training method has successfully trained many diehards.”

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

“Me and Shibata belong to the latter.”

“The two of us have been racking our brains for a long time to think of ways to bring Iga down.”

“The Yoshihisa you met just now is the current leader of Iga no Sato, and the person I most want to kill.”

“It’s this **** who came up with the wicked way of catching kids for fresh blood.”

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

“I didn’t expect it. That Ji Jiu knew that I was rebellious. He predicted that I might come to the bomb store tonight, so he waited and captured me.”

“You came when you were about to put me in a makeshift cell and slowly deal with me later.”

“So it is…” After Yuan Yi muttered “So it is”, UU read www. uukanshu.com then threw a series of new questions, “I have chatted with the girl named Isshiki just now, and she said: You have mentioned to her that the troops that are wreaking havoc in Osaka tonight are Toyotomi. The person who leads the Toyotomi family…is a young man named Toyotomi Nobuhide or Kinoshita Nobuhide?”

Genichi’s face sank a little when he said the name “Toyotomi Nobuhide”.

Just now, Chu Guang’s expression remained calm from beginning to end.

However, after hearing the question from Genichi just now… to be precise, after hearing Genichi’s name “Toyotomi Nobuhide”, Hatsumi’s expression wavered for the first time.

“…It seems that you really know a lot of things. You even know the name Toyotomi Nobuhide.”

“You are right. The name of the commander of the Toyotomi family is indeed Toyotomi Nobuhide.”

As soon as Chu Guang’s words came out, the expressions of everyone on the field, especially the Huluwu group, changed immediately.