Atachi, who was holding his wakizashi and guarding the entrance of the stairs, heard the shouts of death coming from the first floor gradually getting quieter.
The shouts of death became quieter, making Atachi become nervous and began to make random guesses about what was happening on the battlefield on the first floor.
However, before she was nervous for too long, she heard Ogata yelling:
"The enemy general Zorai has been captured by me!!"
Ogata's shout was very loud, even Amachi and others on the third floor could clearly hear his shout.
Listening to Ogata's shouting, Atachi's face, which had been tense all the time, relaxed a little.
From the change in the voice, it is not difficult to deduce that Ogata and the others should have the advantage on the battlefield on the first floor.
Konnosuke also followed Amachi to guard the stairs.
After hearing Ogata's shout, Konnosuke excitedly said to Amachi beside him:
"Miss Omachi! On the first floor, Ogata-sama and the others should have the upper hand now, right?"
"It should be so." A-Machi showed a relaxed smile, "Now that the general's head has been taken, the morale of the shogunate army should soon collapse."
After hearing what Amachi said, Konosuke let out a sigh of relief.
Then, he hurriedly left the stairs and rushed towards the rooms on the third floor.
He couldn't wait to convey this good news to the villagers who were hiding in various rooms on the third floor, so that the villagers who were already tortured by panic, fear and other emotions could cheer up a little.
"Everyone!"
Konnosuke casually opened the sliding paper door of one of the rooms where the villagers were hiding, and shouted to everyone in the room.
"Lord Ogata and the others have suppressed the shogunate army!"
Konnosuke's shout made everyone hiding in this room look excited.
"Kinnosuke-sama! Is this true?"
"Great...are you saved..."
"It's unbelievable... They were able to defeat nearly a hundred soldiers of the shogunate army with such a small number of people..."
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Konnosuke did not listen carefully to the cheers and sighs of people hiding in this room.
Because he was still in a hurry to convey the good news to the people in other rooms.
After looking at the people in the room with different expressions with a smile on his face, Konnosuke turned and left...
However - as soon as he turned around, a loud noise suddenly sounded from the window of this room.
Both Kinnosuke and the villagers hiding in this room were all looking at the window in astonishment.
The originally intact windows were now turned into clumps of debris, scattered inside and outside the room.
A strong man holding a naginata, over 7 feet tall, and wearing monk robes stood in front of the broken window.
The strong man glanced at Konnosuke and the others in the room, turned his neck, and made a tooth-piercing "click, click, click" sound.
"I heard the voices of old people and children on the third floor, so I climbed up to take a look."
"I didn't expect that there are actually old people and children here..."
A ferocious smile appeared on this strong man's face.
"It's great. It's not in vain that I spent so much effort to kill all the 30 soldiers blocking the road at the wooden wall, and spent so much effort to climb so high."
Having said this, the strong man no longer said any unnecessary words.
He rounded the naginata in his hand and struck at the young man closest to him.
The naginata in his hand seemed to have just been wiped.
The blade is extremely clean. Under the reflection of the dim candlelight, the bright, snow-white blade reflects an attractive cold light.
However, soon—the originally snow-white blade became stained with a thick layer of blood.
The strong man's strike directly chopped the poor young man's head into pieces.
The blade of the sword, stained with a lot of blood, reflected a somewhat eerie light under the candlelight.
After beheading the poor young man to death, the strong man without any hesitation or pause, swung the naginata in his hand again and cut a villager on the other side in half.
It wasn't until this strong man, who was as tall as a giant, killed two people in a row at extremely fast speeds that the other people in the room finally realized and screamed and rushed out of the room with all their strength.
go.
"Don't even think about running away!"
The strong man laughed, waving the naginata that was still bleeding in his hand, and rushed towards the villagers who were rushing out of the house.
He looked like a carnivore who had smelled blood and had been hungry for a long time. His face was full of excitement and he couldn't wait to rush towards his prey.
Kinnosuke was the person closest to the entrance of the room, but he was not the first to escape.
Instead, he turned his body to one side and stood outside the entrance of the room, instructing everyone in the room not to be crowded and to leave the room in an orderly manner.
It's a pity - there are too many people in the room.
And this room is too narrow.
Under the command of Kinnosuke, the others have successfully escaped, except for Konosuke himself who has not yet left.
This strong man, who is over 7 feet tall, can easily catch up with Chichichinosuke before he can escape as long as he takes one step forward.
The strong man caught up with him easily, rounded the naginata in his hand, and struck at Konnosuke.
Looking at the naginata coming towards him, Konnosuke gritted his teeth and subconsciously ducked back.
laugh!
The sound of the blade cutting into flesh was heard.
The strong man's naginata struck Kinosuke.
However, Konnosuke was not killed directly.
Because of Konnosuke's critical and timely dodge just now, the strong man's naginata did not directly kill Kinnosuke as he wanted, but only made a large wound on his left shoulder.
Although he was not killed on the spot, the huge wound that was bleeding crazily outward looked particularly scary.
"Oh?" The strong man raised his eyebrows, "You are lucky, you managed to avoid my knife."
Kinnosuke ignored the strong man's words, but covered the wound on his left shoulder with a face full of pain, and struggled towards the door of the room.
Due to his injuries, Konnosuke could not even walk steadily.
And the strong man behind him has rounded the naginata in his hand again...
Just when Kinnosuke was about to strike at Kinnosuke who was standing at the door of the room before he could rush out of the room...
"Kinnosuke! Get down!"
A loud shout suddenly sounded outside the door of the room.
Hearing this loud shout, Konnosuke was stunned for a moment and fell to the ground in time.
After Kinnosuke lay on the ground, a figure standing outside the door of the room was revealed.
Because Kinnosuke was blocking him just now, the strong man in the room did not see that someone had just come to the door of the room and squatted down, aiming an iron cannon into the room.
After Konosuke lay down and without the cover of Konosuke, the muzzle of the iron cannon was pointed directly at the strong man behind Konosuke.
Looking at the dark muzzle of the gun pointed at him, the strong man's pupils shrank suddenly.
Then, like a conditioned reflex, he jumped on his feet and jumped to his side.
Bang!
Almost at the last moment, because the strong man jumped away in time, the iron cannon's projectile did not hit his chest - but it still hit his left shoulder.
The burning stinging sensation coming from his left shoulder made the strong man's already ferocious face look even more terrifying.
The strong man looked towards the door of the room.
The one squatting outside the door of the room and shooting at him with an iron cannon was a beautiful girl.
After putting down the iron cannon that was still smoking, the girl said in a deep voice to Konnosuke, who was still lying in front of her with a look of fear:
"Kinnosuke... take everyone down to the second floor quickly."