I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan - Chapter 720

Gourd Maru, near the stern—

Whoosh!

Ogata heard the sound of breaking wind coming from behind on his right side, which he was used to hearing after hundreds of battles.

This is the sound of the wind breaking when the arrow is fired.

“Makimura! Someone is shooting arrows in the back!”

After shouting a warning to Makimura next to him, Ogata took the lead and jumped aside, jumping to the obstacle next to him.

The moment he jumped away, an arrow much thicker and longer than an ordinary arrow plunged deeply into the position where Ogata had just stood.

Ogata looked in the direction from which the arrow was shot—a shooter with a crossbow was squatting on the sail of the mizzen of Gourd Maru.

The size of the crossbow in this person’s hand is quite amazing. Ogata, who has no research on crossbow equipment, can’t help but be stunned when he sees the crossbow in this person’s hand:

The principle of using the bow and crossbow is to rely on the elasticity of the bow string to shoot the arrow.

The bowstrings of the bow and crossbow are all made of animal tendons, let alone soaking in water, the dampness of the bowstring will greatly weaken the elasticity of the bowstring.

In addition to reducing the elasticity of the bowstring, rain will also cause the tail of the arrow to be affected by water and affect the flight.

– A crossbow of this size… It’s not for shooting people, but for shooting city walls…?

Makimura, who had just listened to Ogata’s warning and jumped to the side behind the obstacle, was also watching the shooter squatting on the mizzen.

“This person uses a whaling crossbow…” Makimura pouted, “Using a bow and crossbow on a rainy day… What a loser.”

Ogata stuck his head slightly out of the hiding barrier and observed the position of the shooter. .

He squatted on the lowest horizontal sail of the mizzen, and the height between him and the deck was about 7 or 8 meters, and the straight-line distance from Ogata and Makimura was about 20 meters.

“Among the people who are still attacking us, it seems that there is only the shooter left.” Makimura said.

In short – although a crossbow won’t catch you blind when it rains like a flintlock or arquebus, it’s not a wise act to use a crossbow in the rain.

Using a crossbow in rainy days will not only greatly reduce the power, but also greatly shorten the service life.

—A crossbow used for whaling… This crossbow is really not used to shoot people…

“How to deal with that guy?” Makimura asked Ogata, “I’ll cover you, and then you take the opportunity to get close, how?”

“No.” Ogata rejected Makimura’s proposal without hesitation, “There is no need for such trouble.”

After saying that, Ogata picked up a hard lump that Ogata didn’t know what it was called, and was only the size of a fist, which had just fallen at his feet.

“Well, it looks like it is.” Ogata glanced at the surrounding area covered with enemy corpses.

Although this ship’s counterattack against Ogata and the others is not without fierce, but “intense counterattack” and “effective counterattack” are two different things.

With Ogata and the others’ vigorous efforts to clear it, the only enemy that Ogata could see at present was this archer who was crouching on the mizzen and shot him and Makimura with a whale-hunting crossbow.

The unknown object crossed a straight line, hitting the person’s belly.

The archer, who was unable to resist this mighty force, fell from the sail with his head down like a kite with a broken string.

The shooter saw the wet deck splashed by the rain quickly “flying” towards him, followed by a shattering pain that spread all over his body, and countless gold stars were flying in front of his eyes.

After picking up this unknown object, Ogata immediately dodged out from behind the hidden obstacle with a thunderous momentum.

Seeing Ogata suddenly rushing out from behind the obstacle, the archer hurriedly raised his crossbow to shoot—but he was still one step away from Ogata.

He had just had time to lift the crossbow, and Ogata had already threw the unknown object out of his hand.

The blade flashes – the repair is complete.

After successfully filling the shooter with a knife, Ogata saw Makimura slowly walking towards him with emotion on his face.

“What a simple and straightforward solution. It’s a shame you can throw that thing so far and so accurately.”

Although the pain was so painful that he couldn’t even scream, he still struggled to get up quickly.

He got up hastily.

And when he just got up, he saw Ogata rushing towards him with a knife…

Crack-!

Before Ogata could finish his words, he heard a huge cracking sound comparable to thunder in the sky not far away.

Ogata and Makimura, who were startled by the sound, quickly turned their heads to look – the towering mainmast, now like a fragile reed fluttering in the wind, swayed gently, slowly heading towards the sun not far away. Twilight fell down.

“After suffering so much, I finally absorbed this ‘power of immortality’.” Ogata smiled, squeezed the hand that threw the unknown object just now, and said in a joking tone with a bit of self-deprecation. , “It’s a loss if you don’t make good use of this ‘new body’.”

“Okay, we don’t seem to have any enemies here.”

“Let’s see the relationship between Shimogenichi and Mamiya…”

Looking at the broken mainmast and Mamiya, who had not retracted his sword posture, Ogata and Makimura instantly understood what was going on.

“It’s really yours, Mamiya…” Makimura was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said what he and Ogata shared at this time, “Even this kind of ‘monster’ has been split open by you…!”

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At the base of the mainmast was Mamiya, who was holding the sword in the wind and rain, shimmering with purple awns.

The sturdy base of the mainmast, which was so huge that an adult would not be able to hold it with both hands, had now been cut with a flat, diagonal incision.

The huge cracking sound that Ogata and the others heard just now was the sound of Mamiya severing the main mast and breaking the main mast.

After receiving the task of “checking the damage of the ship” from Toyotomi Nobuhide, Kasubee immediately rushed to the stern of the ship to personally inspect the cause of the ship’s damage and the current state of the damage.

“Lord Hexuebee.”

At the stern of the boat, a cadre who had been inspecting and repairing damaged ships at the headquarters just now hurriedly bowed to Kasuga after seeing Kasuga coming, and then quickly reported to Kasuga:

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Hikari Maru, stern—

“What happened? What exactly was the damage to the ship?”

“Because the No. B ammunition warehouse is located at the stern, the explosion of the No. B ammunition warehouse caused a hole in the stern, which involved part of the gun positions near the stern, and caused damage to the stern rudder.”

“The hole that was blown out, I’ve sent someone to mend it.”

“Because the hole is not big, the repair work has been basically completed, and now the seawater flowing into the ship along the hole is being excluded.”

“The gunpowder explosion occurred in the No. B ammunition warehouse at the stern for unknown reasons.”

“The cause of the explosion is still under investigation.”

“The No. B ammunition warehouse was basically destroyed. There are currently 36 known casualties. Since the statistical work has not been completed, this number should increase.”

“Tsk… If it’s damaged like this, it’s useless at all…”

“You hurry up to organize a group of people to carry out emergency repairs to the stern rudder.”

“Then organize a group of people to strengthen the supervision of the gunpowder warehouse of No. A.”

“The stern rudder is more tricky… The damage is heavy, and it will take at least a day to repair the stern rudder.”

After listening to the cadre’s concise report, Hexuebee’s face darkened immediately.

He ran to the stern rail in three steps and two, and looked down—the stern rudder, which steered the boat, was now stained with the scorched black marks left by the explosion of the object.

After giving the order one by one to the cadre, Kasuga turned away and ran to the upper artillery deck below.

Like Hulu Maru, Rihui Maru has two artillery decks. The upper artillery deck is adjacent to No. B ammunition depot. Therefore, after the explosion of No. B ammunition depot, the upper artillery deck was mainly damaged.

Kasuga is now ready to check on the damage to the upper gun deck adjacent to the powder storehouse B.

“The gunpowder in No. B gunpowder warehouse can never explode for no reason. Someone must have deliberately ignited the gunpowder to cause the explosion.”

“and…”

After personally confirming the damage to the stern rudder, Kasuga-bee quickly issued one order after another to the officer beside him with a serious face.

After confirming that about a quarter of the artillery on the upper artillery deck was seriously damaged, and one-third of the gunners were killed or injured to varying degrees, Hexu couldn’t help but twitched in distress.

He loves both the gunners and the artillery.

As the “Fleet Governor”, Kasumi knows how valuable it is to be able to skillfully use naval guns in the raging wind and waves.

As soon as they came to the upper artillery deck, Hebei smelled an extremely unpleasant smell mixed with the smell of gunpowder and blood, and saw a mess.

The casualties affected by the explosion and the damaged artillery have been basically transported away, and only some of the gunners remain at their posts.

After briefly condoling to the gunners who were still on their posts, Kazuki began to carefully check the damage to the artillery deck, and from time to time asked those who had experienced the explosion just now.

—The artillery aside, the stern rudder is the most troublesome…

-Without the stern rudder, it is impossible to complete the delicate movement of “leaning the boat to the gourd pill”…

Kasugai made an abacus in her heart worriedly.

And each of these artillery pieces is expensive.

The purchase price of these damaged artillery pieces may have exceeded the total annual income of some small feudal states in Japan.

– The situation is worse than I thought… Not only the stern rudder was blown out of use, but the number of damaged artillery was far more than I thought…

“Get out of the way! Everyone get out of the way! It’s coming!”

…

Kasuga-bee suddenly heard that the open deck above suddenly became extraordinarily noisy, and also heard a strange “squeaky” sound.

But at this time-

“Hey! Look! Gourd Maru’s main mast is down!”

“It seems to be hitting this way!”

“What?!” Hebei, whose pupils shrank suddenly, hurried to the nearest gun muzzle and looked out.

As soon as he put his head beyond the muzzle of the gun, Hexubee saw that the main mast of Hulumaru, which had been traveling parallel to Hikarimaru, was broken by about half of the ship’s hull.

The long, towering mainmast seemed to want to break free from all restraints on its body, and it tore off the ropes connected to the other two masts. Come!

While he was wondering what was going on in his heart, a gunner not far away pointed his head out along the muzzle with a look of horror.

Gu Ming

“The main mast of Gourd and Gourd Maru has fallen!”

Boom-!

As soon as Kasugabee finished speaking, there was a loud explosion like an explosion from the upper deck!

The collapsed main mast of Gourd Maru hit Hikari Maru precisely!

Looking at Asahi Terumaru’s downturned mainmast, Kasugabee’s expression changed dramatically.

However, he was still shocked, and he still quickly showed the quick response and calmness that he should have as a “fleet governor”.

“The impact is coming!” He Xubee hugged the muzzle in front of him and shouted a warning to everyone around him, “Stand still!”

Although he had issued an early warning at the fastest speed just now, there were still many people who stumbled under this huge earthquake or simply fell into a dog to eat **** because their response was not timely enough.

After the vibration of Hikkimaru’s hull calmed down a little, Kasuga hurriedly stuck his head out of the muzzle again.

The collapsed main mast, like a bridge, spanned between Hulu Maru and Rihui Maru.

The top of the mainmast used gravity to punch a large hole directly on the open deck near the stern of Hikkimaru.

This huge impact made Hikki Maru’s hull tremble violently.

A lot of dust rustled down, and the Hebei was covered with dust.

“Ogata-kun! Makimura!” Mamiya clutched his right arm and shouted to Ogata and Makimura in the distance, “Come on! Let’s go to another ship!”

Mamiya’s shouting is actually a little redundant – even without Mamiya’s shouting, Ogata and Makimura are now consciously rushing to “Hashiguchi”.

Ogata and Makimura are farther from the “bridge”, while Genichi and Chuguang are closer to the “bridge”.

Looking at the extra “bridge”, Hexuebee’s teeth clenched subconsciously: “Are you going to step on the bridge and kill you…!”

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…

The crew of Hikari Maru rushed to the top of the mainmast that had fallen on their ship, ready to destroy this simple “bridge”.

If these people are allowed to destroy, the “bridge” that Mamiya has built with all his strength may be destroyed.

“Mamiya.” Naturally, it was impossible to watch the Hikari Maru crew on the other side destroy the source of the “bridge”, and said to Mamiya sternly, “I will go to the other side and build a ‘bridgehead’ for you to catch up later. , we’ll see you at Hikarimaru later.”

Just after the main mast fell and hit the Hikari Maru, the old man and the young man rushed to the “bridge entrance” at the fastest speed.

The crew members on Hikari Maru finally calmed down after experiencing a brief fright.

After seeing Yuan Yi and the others gathered on the “Qiaokou” of Hulu Wan, no matter how stupid they were, they knew what these uninvited guests were going to do.

After Yuanichi and Chuguang rushed to Hikari Maru first, Mamiya stayed where he was with a knife, to beware that there would be any younger generation on Hulu Maru’s side to destroy the “bridge”.

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Having said that, without waiting for Mamiya to respond, Genichi took his sword and rushed to the “bridge” ahead of him, and went straight to Hikarimaru at the other end along the bridge.

Chu Guang, who arrived at the bridge entrance almost at the same time as Yuan Yi, followed behind Yuan Yi, and He Yuan Yi rushed to the bridge body one by one.

The main mast of Gourd Maru is very wide. For a master like Genichi and a female ninja like Chuguang, this terrain is no different from walking on the ground.

At this moment, Hexu Bee was lying on a cannon, and along the muzzle, he was slightly manipulating the angle of the cannon upwards.

The direction the gun’s muzzle pointed… was the “bridge” outside the second ship.

“Huh? Why not?”

Hikkimaru, upper artillery deck—

“Reload!” Hexu ordered to the gunner next to him.

“He, Mr. Kasuga! It’s impossible to hit such a fine target!” the gunner shouted at Kasuga in front of him.

Hearing Hexuebee’s tough order, the gunner didn’t dare to neglect any longer, and quickly loaded the cannonballs into the muzzle together with his companions.

“Reloaded!”

After hearing the crisp “reloading completed”, Kasuki put his face close to the muzzle again, checking the firing angle.

Hexuebee grinned.

“Who do you think Lao Tzu is? Reload Lao Tzu!”

“Before managing the ship, like you, I was a gunner trained strictly by foreign instructors! Loading!”

Although the distance is very close, it is obviously difficult to hit such a thin object with a naval gun… The difficulty is obvious.

However, despite the difficulty, there was no fear on the face of Hexuebee.

Not only is there no fear – there is also a very obvious excitement on his cheeks and pupils.

This “bridge” is just above and to the right of the upper artillery deck where Kasuga is now.

As long as the cannon that Kasuga is now micro-manipulating is adjusted upwards by a certain angle, there is a good chance of hitting this “bridge”.

Of course – just by chance…

—As the captain of the fleet of Toyotomi-sama, I can’t let you board our flagship like this!

Kasuga grinned and pulled the lead of the cannon—

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– ahh…

The corners of Hebei’s mouth turned up slightly uncontrollably.

– It’s been a long time since I **** a gun…!

“Yeah.” Ogata nodded vigorously, “Let’s go…”

Boom!

Just as Ogata was about to put one of his feet on the bridge, another deafening noise hit his eardrums.

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“Mamiya.” Because it was far away from “Hashiguchi”, Ou, who had arrived at night with many of them, asked Mamiya, who was still holding his right arm, “Is your right arm injured?”

“Injury… that’s fine.” Mamiya smiled lightly, “In order to cut this thing off, I messed up a bit. Right now my right arm hurts badly, but I just need to rest for a while to recover. Okay, Let’s catch up with Master Yuan and the others, Master Yuan and Miss Chuguang have already arrived there first.”

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“Someone is here!”

Ogata, Mamiya, and Makimura, who were still on the gourd pill, stared blankly at the middle of the “bridge” that was now surrounded by flames.

The middle of the “bridge” is now enveloped in flames and thick black smoke.

Less than half a breath passed after the loud noise fell, and the “bridge” surrounded by flames and black smoke “groaned” in pain, and began to break from the middle where the flames burned most intensely. The two broken “bridges” slowly slid into the sea between the two ships…

The flintlock guns couldn’t be used on the weathered deck, so they all picked up the “whaling crossbows” that could barely be used even though their power was greatly reduced in rainy weather.

On the “bridge” that can only be walked to the end and cannot be avoided, facing long-range weapons is almost a living target – of course, this is for ordinary people.

After seeing the crew on Hikkimaru carrying their crossbows, Genichi leaped like a bird, jumping over the “bridge” in one breath to the last distance of Hikkimaru, before the shooters started shooting Jump into the enemy group.

“Prepare to meet the enemy! Prepare to meet the enemy!”

…

Yuanichi and Hatsumi, who chose to take the lead and open up the “bridgehead” for everyone, saw the crew on Hikumaru’s side get agitated when they saw the two of them.

But just when the first light just landed successfully—

Boom!

When Yuan heard the sound of an explosion behind him…

The next moment after jumping into the enemy group, blood flowers and raindrops flew together.

Yuan Yi’s bold attack successfully helped Chu Guang, who was following behind him, clear the obstacles to the landing.

After stepping up the Hikari Maru along the bridge body step by step, Chuguang immediately took out her shuriken and began to support Genichi.

A young male voice sounded that made Yuan stunned for a moment.

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He was about to turn his head to see what was going on—

“Oh? Carrying two knives, a lot of age… If you guessed correctly, you should be my uncle, right?”

Everyone should know the story of the gourd pill. During the Warring States Period, Toyotomi Hideyoshi conquered the world with the gourd as the seal of the horse. The gourd that stands tall is the characteristic of Toyotomi.

And the allusion to Hikari Maru is the title of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi developed, he swelled so much that he claimed to be the “son of the sun”, and also made a set of exaggerated armor, and the shape of the helmet was the golden sun. Let everyone Kangkang look like this armor→→

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