Chapter 245 The enemy general has been taken by me! (Part 2)
After sending Saray's sword flying, Ogata's eyes narrowed.
He fixed his sight on——Zorai’s right armpit!
While rushing towards Saray's right armpit, Ogata adjusted the direction of the sword in his hand and the posture of holding the sword.
This situation made Ogata couldn't help but think back to the first fight to the death in his life - the fight to the death with Toyama in the sacrificial contest to the gods.
In that fight to the death, Ogata did the same thing. After deflecting Toyama's sword, he went into Toyama's armpit and cut Toyama directly in half.
But this time - it's a little different.
Zoray was wearing iron armor. If Ogata was given a sword that could cut iron as well as clay, Ogata would still have the confidence to cut Zoray in half.
But with the broken sword in Ogata's hands right now, the whole sword might be damaged if he cuts it, and there's nothing he can do about it even with Saray's armor.
So Ogata's target is not Saray's waist, but Saray's lower armpits!
Up to now, Ogata has accumulated a lot of experience in fighting people wearing armor.
The most effective way to deal with people wearing armor is to attack their unprotected areas.
For example, their faces, necks, armpits, back knees, and feet.
He rushed straight towards Saray's right armpit. When he passed by Saray, Ogata waved the knife in his hand and cut open the flesh of his right armpit, splashing out a string of blood beads.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!"
After letting out a shrill cry of pain, Saray endured the pain while twisting his waist and slashing at Ogata who rushed behind him with his sword!
But - at the same time as he turned around, Ogata also turned around.
After inflicting severe damage to Saray's right arm and rushing one step behind Saray, Ogata quickly stopped his forward movement, turned around and attacked Saray again!
Due to the severe injury to his right armpit, the power and speed of the sword that Zorai currently wields have been greatly reduced.
Saray's current sword, Ogata can already pick it up and flick it away casually.
But because there was no need to catch Saray's sword anymore, Ogata only turned his body to avoid Saray's slash.
Saray simply turned his upper body around and struck Ogata, who was on his right rear, while his lower body remained motionless.
In other words - Ogata, who is currently located behind Saray, can clearly see Saray's back knees!
While using a step to dodge Saray's slash, Ogata turned the sword in his hand and used a bird's spine on Saray's right hind knee!
The tip of the knife easily pierced through Saray's unprotected hind knee, and Ogata could even clearly feel the feeling of the tip of the knife piercing the kneecap from behind.
The cry of pain that Saray let out at this time exceeded the cry of pain that he made when his right armpit was injured just now.
This heartbreaking cry of pain is enough to make people change their color.
After Ogata pulled the blade of the sword out of Saray's right knee, Saray fell to one knee on the ground because he couldn't bear the severe pain.
And this was the moment Ogata was waiting for.
He quickly approached Zorai, grabbed the armor at Zarai's collar with his left hand, and grasped the handle of the knife tightly with his right hand, pointing the tip of the knife towards Zorai's neck.
Because Saray was already kneeling on one knee, Ogata could easily grab Saray.
"The outcome has been decided."
After saying this softly, Ogata stabbed the sword in his hand into Zorai's neck, and then pushed the blade of the sword forcefully into Zorai's body along the wound.
Ogata's knife penetrated Zorai's right neck, then directly penetrated Zorai's entire neck, and stabbed out from the left side of his neck.
After Ogata pulled the knife out of Zorai's neck, large amounts of blood spurted out from Zorai's wound like a fountain.
Due to the close distance, Ogata's body and face were inevitably stained with blood.
After letting go of Saray in his hand and letting the lifeless Saray fall to the ground, Ogata did not wipe the blood spattered on his face.
While letting the blood on his face drip down his cheeks and from his chin, he slowly turned his head and looked at the shogunate soldiers on the opposite side who were looking at him with horrified eyes.
Then——
"The enemy general Zorai has been captured by me!!"
He yelled at the loudest volume he could muster at the shogunate soldiers who were still very lucky to be alive.
Ogata's roar seemed to have special magic power.
After seeing Saray who had fallen to the ground and hearing Ogata's roar, some soldiers began to have a look of extreme fear on their faces.
After less than two breaths, soldiers began to abandon the enemy in front of them in twos and threes, and turned around and jumped back without any hesitation.
However - as soon as they rushed out of the gate of the mansion, their faces were full of astonishment and they stopped in shock.
Because - outside the gate of the mansion, a strong man holding an Odachi appeared at some point.
After seeing soldiers finally rushing out of the mansion, the strong man grinned and then swung the knife in his hand!
There were only two soldiers who rushed out of the mansion first.
The strong man's sword slashed horizontally and directly chopped the two soldiers away!
The two soldiers were slashed away by the big sword wielded by the strong man. After flying in a low parabola, they fell heavily to the ground.
The two people who landed on the ground no longer have any life, and they don't know whether they are dead or alive.
This strong man is naturally Makimura.
Looking at Makimura at the gate, Mamiya said softly to Ogata in front of him:
"It turns out you just asked Makimura to block the retreat of the shogunate army..."
"Yes." Ogata nodded lightly, "I asked Makimura to climb to the second floor, and then jump out of the house through the window on the second floor to block the door of the residence."
"Are you planning to kill all the shogunate troops?" Mamiya asked back.
"That's right." Ogata replied without thinking, "I just figured out a way to get us out of this hellish place. But before I can use my method, I have to make sure that all the shogunate troops are killed."
Although his body was as tired as lead, Ogata slowly raised the knife in his hand.
"Mamiya, let's go up and kill all the shogunate troops..."
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh-!"
Before Ogata could finish speaking, a very loud scream suddenly came from upstairs.
This scream was not the scream of a single person, but the scream of many people - the scream of the villagers hiding on the third floor.
After hearing this scream, both Ogata and Mamiya frowned.
"What happened upstairs..." Mamiya said in a deep voice.
"...Mamiya." Ogata said seriously, "I'll leave this place to you and Makimura for the time being. I'll go upstairs and take a look."
Having said that, without waiting for Mamiya to respond, Ouri threw away the somewhat broken sword in his hand, and casually pulled out a still intact katana next to him. He held the katana tightly with his right hand and held the wakizashi at his waist with his left hand.
He quickly ran towards the stairs.
As soon as he climbed to the second floor, Oban saw the villagers who were escaping from the third floor along the stairs.
"What happened?!" Ogata grabbed a young man and asked him.
"Yes, there is a giant!" the young man said incoherently, "A giant is attacking! The woman who is traveling with you is fighting with the giant now!"
"Giant?" Ogata's expression instantly became serious.
Although he didn't know what the "giant" he meant, Ogata knew - he had to go to support Amachi immediately!
Letting go of the villager, Ogata hurried down the stairs toward the third floor without any hesitation.
However - he had just climbed halfway up the stairs, when Ogata heard a strange noise coming from above his head, his pupils shrank slightly, and then he jumped back quickly.
As soon as he jumped away from where he was standing, a sword stabbed down from the ceiling of where he was standing.
If Ogata hadn't jumped back in time, he would have been stabbed or even killed by the sword that suddenly stabbed down from the ceiling.
"Humph, the response is pretty quick."
After the wakizashi was retracted, a cold snort sounded from the top of the ceiling.
Then, a young man wearing special black clothes jumped from the ceiling holding a wakizashi.
Looking at this young man, Ogata couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Because——this man’s clothes were exactly the same as Sotaro whom he had just fought tonight.
And his appearance is very similar to that Sotaro.
Looking at the unknown person who suddenly appeared in front of him, the expression on Ogata's face involuntarily became more solemn.
He sighed secretly at a volume that only he could hear clearly: