I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan - Chapter 729

The latest website: Rewind time to not long ago——

Gourd Maru, on the open deck—

Ogata, Mamiya, and Makimura were all stunned when they saw the mainmast, which was hit by naval guns, broke into two pieces and slid into the sea.

“Is this lucky or unlucky…?” Makimura twitched the corners of his mouth.

Both Ogata and Mamiya knew what Makimura’s emotion meant.

If lucky…they were lucky too.

If they had boarded this “bridge” a few steps earlier, they would have fallen into the sea with the broken main mast, even if they were not bombarded into the sky.

If they were unlucky… they were indeed unlucky.

The broken mainmast directly cut off their way to Hikari Maru, and separated the three of them on a different ship from Genichi and Chuguang who headed to Hikki Maru one step ahead of them.

Although the sudden accident shocked them, none of the three of them were mediocre people who would lose their hands and feet because of such a thing.

“Tsk…you have to rush over to meet up with Master Yuan and the others…!” Mamiya, who was still clutching his right arm, twitched his eyebrows.

Toyotomi Nobuhide was on the Hikari Maru right now – although none of Ogata and the others had ever seen Toyotomi Nobuhide with their own eyes. But based on the various types of information currently known, it can be concluded that this lunatic figure is not an ordinary person.

Let Yuanyi and Chuguang be alone on the battleship with that monster around – God knows what will happen.

Makicun was lying on the railing of the ship, looking down at the black ink-like sea under the shadow of the dark clouds with a sullen face: “Do you still have to swim in the end… Damn…”

Ogata, who was lying on the railing of the ship at the same time as Makimura, followed Makimura to look at the water below, and asked Mamiya and Makimura beside him in a deep voice:

“Mamiya, Makimura, can you still experience such raging waves?”

Makimura was silent for a moment: “Although I don’t want to admit it… I’m not that good at swimming. Now even if I hold a block of wood, I probably won’t be able to swim in such a sea.”

Since the beginning, the wind and rain have intensified a lot.

Ogata and the others are now… as if they were at the bottom of a curtain of waterfalls, enduring the splash of thick water droplets.

The waves were blown by the stronger wind… It became far more violent than when Yuanichi and Makimura swam over with the plank together.

Very few waves that roll up can even hit the open deck of the battleship directly.

Makimura was born in Kyoto, which is far from the sea. He is not the kind of person who has been exposed to the sea since childhood. Although he can swim, he is not that proficient.

He is a down-to-earth person, and he candidly confesses that it is difficult for him to survive such an ocean.

“Even if I tell you: I can swim with you to Hikari Maru now, you won’t believe it.” Mamiya showed a helpless smile, shaking his head just now to cut off the main mast. The right arm that has been strained and has not recovered until now.

“That is to say – the only person who can swim past is me…”

Ogata pursed his lips and glanced at the pitch-black water outside the railing again.

“Then… Leave the rest to me, and I’ll go after Mr. Yuan and the others. Mamiya, when your arm is better, try to get back to shore with Makimura. I will be with Mr. Yuan and the others later. Come back to join you.”

“Do you want to go to Hikari Maru on your own to support Gen-sama and Hatsune-san?” Mamiya asked, “Although you and Gen-sama can be a thousand horses, it is a constant truth that two fists are invincible with four hands. what.”

“Hikki Maru, maybe there is an unknown enemy’s combat power.”

“It’s too risky to let you alone to support.”

“Don’t tell me: you have to ignore your physical condition and just swim with me to the Hikari Maru.” Ogata pouted.

“…Ogata-kun, go ahead and support the source and the others. Makimura and I will rush over in a while to join you on the Hikari Maru.”

“Meet?” Ogata couldn’t help but stare at Mamiya suspiciously, “How are you and Makimura going to rush over to join us?”

Not only was Ogata stunned, Makimura was also stunned, wondering what medicine Mamiya Gourd was selling.

“It’s too time-consuming to explain slowly. Anyway—we’ll rush over to join you later.” Mamiya looked at Ogata with firm, unflickering eyes.

Looking at Mamiya’s gaze, the doubts on Ogata’s face slowly dissipated: “…I see.”

Ogata and Mamiya… can be considered an old friendship.

Although he didn’t know how Mamiya was trying to catch up with them when he couldn’t swim and join them on the Hikari Maru, he had never seen that Mamiya had Ogata who fell off the chain at a critical moment, so he slowly put it away. questioned Mamiya.

Believe in Mamiya——Ogata’s heart is so directed.

The time is short, and the longer it drags on, the higher the possibility of an accident at Hikari Maru, so Ogata did not say any more.

He just nodded vigorously, said “I know”, and jumped into the pitch-black ocean below.

After Ogata jumped into the sea, Mamiya and Makimura hurriedly leaned on the railing.

As soon as the two of them stuck their heads out of the railing, they saw Ogata’s head sticking out from the sea. After spitting out the seawater that had just accidentally drank into their mouths, they broke through the layers of waves and faced the opposite Sunlight in a freestyle posture. Maru swims away.

No matter how the surging waves beat, he stood still.

“Under such waves, it’s like swimming on a calm lake… Is this the ‘power of immortality’…” Makimura’s mouth twitched again, “It seems… Miss A-Machi will have a hard time in the future… …I don’t know if Ogata-san’s fertility will be enhanced by the ‘immortal power’.”

After whispering a joke that he would never dare to tell in front of Ogata and A-cho on weekdays, Makimura looked at Mamiya.

“So—how did you get to Hikarimaru when you couldn’t swim?”

Mamiya did not immediately respond to Makimura’s question.

Instead, he turned his head first and looked at the lonely foremast and mizzen on the gourd pill after he cut off the main mast.

“…Makimura, I used to learn Dutch from Mr. Yuan.”

“Huh?” Makimura tilted his head, looking puzzled.

“Thanks to having studied Dutch, I used to learn how to drive a Europa sailboat in Nagasaki from a few Dutch merchants.”

Mamiya slowly put down the hand that had been covering his right arm.

“Although the size of this battleship is much larger than those of the merchant ships in Nagasaki… but they are powered by wind, and the driving principles should be similar.”

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Time goes back to the present-

Hikarimaru, on the open deck—

After Ogata appeared and blocked his sword, Toyotomi Nobuhide’s expression changed immediately.

He didn’t hesitate too much – he jumped back a few steps, widening the distance between himself and Ogata.

Ogata did not pursue the pursuit, he just stood there, silently holding Da Shitian and Da Zizai in front of him, and asked Genichi behind him quietly:

“Master Yuan, where is Miss Chuguang?”

“The first light she…”

Genichi informed Ogata about Hatsumi’s situation.

“Did you fall into the water with that Yoshihisa…” The look on Ogata’s face sank uncontrollably.

Since falling into the sea, Chu Guang, whose whereabouts are still unknown, naturally makes Ogata anxious.

But the monster in front of him made him dare not take his eyes away from him.

“… Bellflower…” Toyotomi Nobuhide, who held Yoshimitsu’s bone food in front of him in a mid-section, raised his eyebrows when he looked at the bellflower family pattern on Ogata Yuori, “…It must be Ogata with one step. One knife fast?”

This sentence of Toyotomi Nobuhide is obviously a question pattern, but the tone is the tone of an affirmative sentence.

“Oh, the portrait on your wanted notice is really amazing. It can draw you so similar that people like me who have never seen you before can recognize you at a glance.”

After hearing Toyotomi Nobuhide mentioning the wanted portrait that he had been very bad about before, Ogata’s eyes twitched slightly uncontrollably.

“…Are you that Toyotomi Nobuhide?”

“That’s right.” Toyotomi Nobuhide, who was not smiling, admitted generously, “For the first time, Ichitozai Ogata is the ninth-generation head of the Toyotomi family, Nobuhide Toyotomi.”

“You kid is that Toyotomi Nobuhide…” Ogata’s eyes narrowed slightly, and he slowly tightened his grip on the knife.

“Be careful… Ogata-kun…” At this time, Ogata heard the weak voice of Genichi, who was still kneeling behind him, and whispered to him, “Shinxiu… he is not that easy to deal with…”

“I just… had hope to kill him…”

“But just as he was about to win…he ate something…strength…turned him into victory…”

“Have you eaten something…” Hearing the valuable information provided by Genichi, Ogata’s expression became more solemn, “…I see.”

“And…he’s less human than I thought…”

Yuan explained the whole process of how Toyotomi used Xiao Lin to seriously injure him in a succinct manner.

In addition, Genichi also informed Ogata of the swordsmanship used by Toyotomi and the style of play that he was good at.

When Ogata listened carefully to the information that Genichi had just obtained after a hard fight, he heard Toyotomi sneer suddenly, and then said to him in a strange tone:

“Ogata Ichitosai, I’ve finally seen you… I’ve been wanting to see you for a long time.”

“Meet me?” Ogata sneered, “Do you want to see my head cut off?”

“Last night in Osaka… No, I’ve been under a lot of ‘care’ from you all along.”

Ogata emphasized the words “always”.

“I entrusted the ‘blessing’ you gave to Junroku Kunieda that could pretend to be my human skin mask. That night in Kyoto last year was so long that I will never forget it.”

“As for the night in Osaka last night, it was because of you that it was too long for me to come to you to settle accounts at all costs.”

“It seems—you seem to have a lot of misunderstandings about me.” Toyotomi showed a strange smile and shrugged, “In the beginning, I liked you very much. I like you to the point of dreaming of you. income under his command.”

“I was very excited when I learned that the Hirose Domain had a man who killed a hundred people with one attack and killed the lord.”

“I think it’s rare to find an interesting man in this country.”

“A person who is powerful and at the same time has a great relationship with the shogunate – this is my ideal subordinate.”

“So when your name first spread across the country, I started sending people around to find you, try to recruit you, and bring you under my command.”

“The reason why I gave the human skin mask made according to the portrait on your wanted list to Junroku Kunie, who was under my support and help at the time and was about to blow up Kyoto, was also to better recruit you in the future. ”

The smile on Toyotomi’s face became even weirder.

“Let Shunroku Kunieda carry your face to kill people in Kyoto, smear your reputation, and make it hard for you to find a place in Japan under the rule of the Edo shogunate, but it will allow me to recruit you in the future. It’s a huge benefit.”

Ogata’s face sank involuntarily: “…So that’s the case…You used the trick Song Jiang used to use against me in “Water Margin”…”

Liangshan in the classic novel “Water Margin” is said to be a den of bandits.

And Song Jiang, as the leader of this gang of bandits, often used some tricks to break through the limits of human ethics to force people to go to Liangshan.

For example – Song Jiang’s favorite trick is to force someone to a dead end, so that if he does not go to Liangshan, he will have no place in this world.

The most typical victim is Qin Ming, “The Torch”.

In order to force Qin Ming to join the gang, Song Jiang sent someone to pretend to be Qin Ming to burn, kill and loot, causing his family to be executed by the government and have no place to live in the court.

“Ah, that’s right. That’s the trick Song Gongming often used in “Water Margin”.”

“It seems that you are not only skilled in swordsmanship, Ogata Ichitosai, but also in literature.”

“I also admit that this move is quite inferior, and it is far from the realm of Liu Xuande’s ‘convincing people with virtue’.”

“However – the next one is the next one, this trick is very useful, it is just right to deal with people like you who are wanted by the shogunate, and I only intend to take it as a useful thug. .”

“It’s a pity – that idiot Kuozhi Shunliu not only failed to complete the task of blowing up the capital, but also helped you in a disguised form to complete the great cause of ‘break the city of Erjo’, which further increased your reputation.”

“Until then, I still really want to give you to my commander.”

“Until… Shiranui was suddenly destroyed.”

Toyotomi Nobuhide, who had been showing a strange smile just now, slowly put away the smile on his face, and his expression gradually became terrifying and terrifying.

“After it was destroyed in Shiranui, and I sent people to gather the remnants of Shiranui, I didn’t know what happened.”

“Ogata Ichitosai, do you know how long I have been laying out in Shiranui?”

“I sent my confidants to sneak into Shiranui, and it took several years to finally complete the complete control of Shiranui.”

“In the end, because of you, the years of hard work I invested in Shiranui were all wasted.”

“The plan to overthrow the Edo shogunate also had to be extensively revised.”

“All of this is thanks to you…and from Xiaolin who followed you to destroy Shiranui…!”

Having said this, Toyotomi used a fierce look to stab Rin, who was still in a coma, leaning on the main mast not far away.

“I learned from Kikutaro and the others that among the people who raided Shiranui, in addition to seeing you Ogata Ichitosai, there was a petite girl with a black sword, a pair of glasses, an old man, a When I was a strong man with Otachi, I knew who the people in Shiranui were attacking with you.”

“…Did you decide to get rid of me just because I participated in the attack on Shiranui?” Ogata asked.

Toyotomi turned his gaze towards Xiao Lin and moved it back to Ogata.

“That’s it.” He shook his shoulders and gave an exaggerated sneer, “As a person, what I hate most is that someone sabotages my plan and prevents my plan from being implemented as expected.”

“Especially for this kind of major plan that I spent a lot of effort, invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and carried out a layout for several years.”

“Anyway, you are not an indispensable talent.”

“If you don’t kill you, it’s really hard to understand the wickedness in my heart.”

“I sent a large number of Iga’s ninjas to look for you everywhere.”

“Finally – finally let me find you in Osaka recently.”

“I thought that even Ogata Ichitosai, who could defeat the 10,000-strong army of the shogunate, would definitely not be a match for the musket troops that I spent a lot of money to cultivate.”

“But I didn’t think – you are my ‘similar’.”

When Toyotomi mentioned the word “similar”, he used a strange tone of yin and yang.

Then—

Snapped!

The sound of slamming on the deck sounded.

Toyotomi didn’t make any run-ups, and jumped directly towards Ogata.

When jumping to the top, he switched from the knife stance to the upper stance.

Facing the sudden attack of Toyotomi, Ogata’s pupils shrank slightly.

Although the enemy’s attack came suddenly, Ogata was also ready to fight.

Footsteps slid, Ogata shifted his body to the side by half a step, left the position he was standing, and turned the tip of Oshiten’s sword and stabbed his sword towards Toyotomi who was falling.

Toyotomi changed his stance with the sword, and opened the sword from Ogata in mid-air.

Papa—— Toyotomi’s feet fell back to the ground and landed in front of Ogata.

The sound of the sword swinging and the sound of the sharp blade cutting through the air enveloped the two of them.

Toyotomi waved Jiguang Bone Food, danced a bright silver “silver net”, and covered it towards Ogata.

Facing the “silver net” that was covering him, Ogata saw the tricks, broke through Toyotomi’s offensive, and launched a counterattack that was not inferior to Toyotomi’s attack.

After the two exchanged fierce offense and defense for a while—

clang!

Toyotomi swung the knife away, blocking Ogata’s counterattack, and then slashed the blade toward Ogata’s chest.

Toyotomi’s attack this time was not only extremely fast, but also the timing was quite good.

Although Ogata tried his best to quickly lean back and dodge Toyotomi’s move, he still let the tip of Yoshimitsu’s knife scrape some flesh on his chest.

And almost at the same time that Ogata’s chest was cut with a small wound——

laugh……

The low sound of the flesh being cut sounded again.

But this time, the voice came from Toyotomi.

The moment he dodged the blow that Toyotomi had just done, Ogata waved his ease and immediately launched a counterattack.

Facing the attacking Da Zizai – Toyotomi did not dodge, and let Da Zizai’s blade leave an incision on his left wrist.

After a small wound was cut on Ogata’s chest, Toyotomi did not launch a chase or stay in place to continue fighting with Ogata, but quickly retreated back and opened the distance from Ogata.

“…Huh. It’s been a long time since I fought a ‘similar’.” Toyotomi stared at the wound on Ogata’s chest with a characteristic sneer.

I saw—the wounds on both Ogata and Toyotomi grew red shredded flesh at the same time, and then recovered almost at the same time…

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The author, Jun, was worried that if he only wrote “Toyotomi”, it would be easy to confuse “Toyotomi Nobuhide” with the “Toyotomi” group. But now it seems that there is no need to worry about this. For the convenience of writing, the full name of “Toyotomi Nobuhide” will not be written, and he will be referred to as “Toyotomi”.

The author has never understood why something like “Water Margin” should be shown to primary and secondary school students?

Every time I see books like “Water Margin: Children’s Edition” in the bookstore~www.mtlnovel.com~ I feel complicated…

Those dark and cruel plots are the essence of Water Margin. If you delete the true essence of Water Margin, what are you looking at? Just look at the plots of these so-called “heroes” fighting tigers and officials, then it’s better to go to the Internet…

Among the four famous novels, it seems that only Romance of the Three Kingdoms is more suitable for primary and secondary school students…

PS: The author Jun once read a question on Zhihu: “Are Liu Bei and Song Jiang the same kind of person?”

When I first saw this question, the author laughed angrily.

How can Song Jiang, a livestock, be compared with Liu Bei? ! !

Putting his name and Liu Bei’s name together is an insult to Liu Bei! ! (lift the table.jpg)

As for Liu Bei’s arrogance and charm of “asking for fields and asking for shelter, afraid of being embarrassed to see, Liu Lang is talented”, wouldn’t it explode Song Jiang, a beast who can only play dirty tricks, hundreds of streets?