Chapter 738 'Invincible State'! The strongest warrior in the world!
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"Su Nuo, stop talking nonsense, come and help!"
"Okay, okay, I'll come right away."
As he spoke, Su Nuo raised the two swords in his hands, like a mantis with its claws spread out.
In the next breath, he jumped up like a green onion and jumped into the fierce battle not far away.
It was only then that Katsura Kogoro realized that there were three more unfamiliar figures on the scene.
One of them was none other than Su Nuo.
The Erdao style is a genre that is extremely difficult to encounter in reality.
The two-sword style that best fits the popular impression is a katana and a wakizashi.
Unless you are extremely brave, you will not be able to use these two knives.
Even the most mainstream "one sword and one wakizashi" is so rare, let alone the ability to use two swords.
In his entire life, Katsura Kogoro has never heard of, let alone seen, anyone using two tachi as weapons.
It was an eye-opener for him today.
I saw that Su Nuo really looked like a praying mantis! The two swords seemed to be connected to his arms, and every move and every style was so flexible.
He swings his knife as fast as a propeller, harvesting human lives as he pleases!
The other person has a big bald head. At first glance, I thought he was a monk soldier.
He is obviously not young, but he dances a nearly 2-meter-long Odachi sword up and down.
As a well-informed top swordsman, Katsura Kogoro could tell at a glance that this bald man was a student of Satsuma Shigenryu.
The Odachi is a powerful and heavy weapon.
And the Satsuma Show Style is a style that maximizes attack power.
The two combined...the power is jaw-dropping!
He just turned the Odachi into a war hammer!
Wherever the Odachi passed, the tree broke and the human body shattered!
As for the last person, he is a handsome young man with a handsome face.
From the outside, he doesn't look like a swordsman at all.
He has fair skin, a tall figure, and handsome features. He looks like a scholar, but he doesn't look like a samurai wielding a sword or a spear.
However...his strength is the strongest among the three!
The fierceness of his sword skills is truly astonishing.
He seemed to be transformed into three, five, or eight people, constantly swooping, running, leaping, and attacking.
Vertical chop, horizontal slash, thrust, upward thrust... the blade in his hand was as flexible as a whip.
Every time his body moves, every time the blade in his palm is injured, the Huisa soldiers around him will definitely be killed or wounded!
With his extraordinary experience, Katsura Kogoro saw the shadow of many swordsmanships in him.
The agility of Beichen's Yidao style.
The tyranny of Shinto Muken-ryu.
Jing Xin is smart and unrestrained.
The so-called "gathering the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought" is nothing better than this!
His artistic and graceful swordsmanship even stunned Katsura Kogoro, a great swordsman.
Thanks to these three top masters who suddenly appeared, the rear army, which was originally at a disadvantage, suddenly turned the tide of the battle!
The Huisa soldiers on the scene also tried to kill these three people.
From duels to sieges, from frontal challenges to shameless sneak attacks, they tried every trick.
However...their counterattack was like a mantis trying to block a car! It was of no use at all!
Not to mention annihilating these three people, the blades of the Huisa soldiers could not even scratch the corners of their clothes!
Under the violent attack of these three men, the Huisa soldiers who had reached this point finally collapsed because they could not bear the casualties and pressure.
They scrambled to escape.
After a while, the noisy woods, which had been extremely noisy due to the chaos of fighting, slowly returned to silence.
"Aizu and Satsuma...that's all."
While Su Nuo said this, he vigorously vibrated the knife to shake off the blood on the two swords.
As soon as he finished speaking, Master Umibo next to him sneered "ha".
"Stop bragging here."
"The group of enemy soldiers just now only numbered a hundred or so at most. They were just a small unit of the Huisa Allied Forces."
"If a large force of the Huisa Allied Forces comes, I would like to see if you can still say such beautiful words."
At this time, Shuten Doji interrupted:
"Okay, stop bickering and focus on the business now."
With that said, he put away the sword in his palm, then turned around and walked towards Katsura Kogoro who was not far away.
Katsura Kogoro had already gotten up from the ground and picked up a new knife at the same time.
He just held the knife, lowered his body weight, and looked at Shuten Doji who was getting closer and closer with a wary expression.
The surviving officers and soldiers of the rear army also gathered in twos and threes, guarding Katsura Kogoro's back and left and right sides, and treated this group of uninvited guests cautiously.
"You are Katsura Kogoro, one of the 'Three Heroes of Choshu', right?"
The sentence structure of a question...but the tone of an affirmative sentence.
It seems that Shuten Doji knows Katsura Kogoro, at least he knows what he looks like.
"I've admired your name for a long time, so I'm going to drink wine and swallow the boy..."
"...I've heard of you."
Before Shuten Doji finished speaking, he was interrupted by Katsura Kogoro.
Katsura Kogoro lowered his voice and looked solemn.
"Although I don't know much about it, I have heard the name 'Kill the Party with Law'."
"It was established during the Kanzheng period (1789-1800), more than 70 years ago."
"To a certain extent, you can be considered an organization with a long history."
"Are you the Shuten boy who is as famous as Otakemaru and Tamamozen?"
"You are...younger than I thought."
"I thought that in an 'old organization' like yours, the senior cadres would be older."
Shuten Doji raised his long eyebrows, and then smiled slightly:
"Kasura Kogoro, what you said is wrong."
"Although our party has a long history, our journey along the way has been extremely difficult."
"We have gone through countless changes."
"There were even times when we almost disbanded on the spot."
"In the struggle against the shogunate, we were defeated again and again."
"The cadre level has been replaced countless times."
"For this reason, our cadres are generally young."
"I can even tell you - our most powerful Otakemaru is even younger than me."
Speaking of this, Shuten Doji paused and looked ashamed:
"Oops, that's not good. We started chatting all day long without paying attention."
"Kasura Kogoro, let's talk in detail later."
"Now... let us escape from here together."
There is a saying that "don't hit someone with a smiling face".
From the beginning, Shuten Doji had a friendly smile on his face, and at the same time, he always spoke in a soft voice.
However... Katsura Kogoro didn't buy it.
He did not let down his guard because of Shuten Doji's advances.
His eyes were still full of wariness and suspicion.
"...What exactly do you want to do?"
"I'll be honest - I don't want to get involved with you rioters who only know how to cause destruction."
Shuten Doji seemed to have expected that Katsura Kogoro would say this.
His expression remained unchanged and he still looked like a good gentleman.
"Kasura Kogoro, I understand your fear of us."
"But, at least at this moment, we are not your enemies."
"I sincerely want to help you get rid of the pursuit of the Huisa coalition forces."
"The bloody battle we just fought should be enough to express our position, right?"
Katsura Kogoro: "..."
Despite all the suspicions, Katsura Kogoro had to admit that Shuten Douji and the others did not exude murderous intent.
Moreover, their timely appearance and assistance just now really helped a lot.
After a moment of silence, Katsura Kogoro asked:
"...What are you going to do?"
"Although you are extremely powerful and skillful, in front of an army of three thousand armed with guns, cannons and cavalry, with only three of you, you are nothing more than a worm shaking a tree."
"Or do you have follow-up reinforcements?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Master Umibo interrupted:
"Shuten Doji, he got the idea right."
Umibozu said as he walked quickly towards Shuten Douji:
"What are we going to do next?"
"Although we rushed in at your command, but...to be honest, I am completely confused now."
"With just the three of us, it is nonsense to stop an army of 3,000 people."
"I know you must be holding back some clever ideas."
"Stop hiding it, light it up quickly."
Faced with the doubts of Katsura Kogoro and Umibozu, Shuten Doji chuckled a few times with "hehehe".
"Kasura Kogoro, Master Umibo, when thinking about problems, you must learn to open your mind."
"Our goal is to intercept the Huisa coalition forces and buy time for the Changzhou Army to withdraw."
"In this case, our options are not limited to 'facing the enemy head-on'."
""Sun Tzu's Art of War" says: Those who are on the battlefield first and wait for the enemy are useless; those who are behind the battlefield and rush to fight are tired. Therefore, those who are good at fighting will cause others without harming them."
"Therefore, we want to cause the enemy, not to the enemy."
"Have you ever heard of the story of 'surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao'?"
"If you want to mobilize the enemy and force him to run exhausted, you must attack what the enemy must save."
"Obviously. Just in the town of Kyoto, not far from here, there is a place that the Huisa Allied Forces will never abandon..."
Hearing this, Katsura Kogoro seemed to realize something, and his pupils shrank suddenly:
"Shuten Doji, are you trying to..."
As for Su Nuo and Haifangzhu, they also showed "Oh! That's it" expressions of sudden realization.
There was a meaningful look in Shuten Doji's eyes, and then he turned to Su Nuo and Umibozu and said:
"I'll go there myself. Su Nuo, Master Haifang, I'll leave this place to you."
"This forest is very nice."
"If we can effectively use this forest and the dark night tonight, it shouldn't be a problem for one or two hours."
"Su Nuo, you are a 'child of the forest'. Forest warfare is your specialty. You must do it well."
Su Nuo chuckled lightly:
"I'll do my best, but you have to move faster. If you don't finish the job before dawn, we will be in danger."
Shuten Doji smiled slightly, then turned around and jumped on the horse left by a certain Aizu cavalry not far away.
"Then...I'll take the first step. I wish you good luck in martial arts!"
After finishing speaking, the drunken boy shouted "drive" and drove the horse away.
Looking at Shuten Doji's quickly retreating back, Katsura Kogoro couldn't help but asked quickly:
"Wait! Are you going to let him go out alone? It's too dangerous!"
"Although the large forces of the Huisa Allied Forces have come to pursue us, it is impossible for them not to set up defenses in that place!"
"If you try to break into this place single-handedly, you will definitely have a narrow escape!"
Katsura Kogoro's anxiety was beyond words.
However...looking at Su Nuo and Haifangzhu, they were extremely calm and didn't even move their brows.
"Guests from Changzhou, you can rest assured."
Master Umibo said quietly:
"Shuten Doji is not an ordinary person, and he cannot be measured by the common sense of the world."
"Since he was born, he has naturally learned a kind of...'invincible state'."
"He is a true genius."
"It's hard for me to describe Shuten Doji's power in words."
"In short - don't worry about his personal safety."
"He is incredibly strong!"
Master Umibo's words revealed strong admiration and reverence.
Su Nuo smiled intriguingly and took over Master Haifang's words:
"Kasuru Kogoro, let me tell you this."
"Except for Otakemaru and Ogata Issei, who is still alive, Shuten Douji is definitely the strongest warrior in the world! No one!"
"Even the 'Nioh' Tachibana Aoto who is currently at the top of his game is definitely no match for Shuten Douji!"
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About half an hour later——
Kyoto, Imperial Palace——
After leading the army to pursue the Choshu people, Matsudaira Yongho and Saigo Kinosuke left more than 200 people to guard the imperial palace.
At this moment, these more than 200 soldiers were evenly dispersed outside the "Nine Gates of the Imperial Palace", boringly performing garrison tasks.
"It's so hot... stuffy and hot..."
"How long are we going to stand here stupidly?"
"By the way, do we really need to guard the imperial palace? It's impossible for anyone to come and harm the imperial palace now, right?"
It is not surprising that these soldiers have this kind of "passive sabotage" idea.
The Choshu people have all retreated, and the Sabuta faction has completely dominated the ancient capital. At present, no other force in Kyoto town dares to challenge the Sabuta faction - anyone would think so, right?
At this time when the gentle night was enveloped in the palace and inside and outside, and there was silence——
Ta da, da da, da da, da da, da da...
The rapid sound of horse hooves approaching the imperial palace suddenly sounded from the distance south of the Sakai-cho Imperial Gate.
[Note: Sakai-machi Imperial Gate: the southern gate of the Imperial Palace]
At first, the soldiers guarding the imperial palace thought it was a messenger arriving and did not take it to heart.
It wasn't until the sound of horse hooves was approaching them that they realized something strange.
I saw that the knight on the horse was not the messenger of Gui Sa, but a handsome young man with a handsome face.
Before anyone could react, the beautiful boy took his feet out of the stirrups, jumped onto the saddle with his whole body, and then jumped!
His body drew a beautiful parabola in mid-air, and then landed accurately on the soldiers outside the royal gate!
In the process of falling, he pulled out the saber from his waist, raised it above his head, and then used gravity and the potential energy of the fall to slash the saber down diagonally!
Cracking - the sound of flesh and blood being chopped into pieces.
The beautiful boy... also known as Shuten Doji, was like a predatory beast that pounced, "crushing" a soldier with just one blow!
"Uh, uh, uhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
"There are enemies! There are enemies!"
"What are you still doing? Why don't you kill him quickly!"
After a brief shock, the soldiers reacted and ran quickly, quickly deploying a half-moon-shaped formation and tightly surrounding Shuten Doji.
Shuten Doji rolled his eyes calmly and scanned the enemies.
"There are quite a few people... It looks like we are going to sweat a little more tonight."
As he spoke, he slowly half-closed his eyes and exhaled a breath of thick air.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw a deep and strange light shining in his eyes.
Under the reflection of this light, his eyes became "cold" and "quiet".
With such a demeanor and appearance, at first glance... he looks like an eminent monk who has no desires or desires.
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