Chapter 456 Ogata: Sneak? What is that? (Drawing a knife) [6200 words]
"I think Majima-sama's plan is very good!"
Kaneshiro, who regarded Ogata as a role model, was the first to express his agreement with Ogata's simple and crude plan.
Huosaka followed closely behind.
Hi Sakamoto is also the kind of person who is very simple and crude in his thinking and behavior, so Ogata's plan suits him very well.
"Do you want to directly attack their stronghold? This is a good plan!"
"The small group of people they sent to 'make suggestions' to the villagers is gone. They cannot remain indifferent."
"Their small group of people has not returned for a long time. They will definitely suspect that something has happened to this village."
"It would be troublesome if they knew that the people in this village invited samurai to help."
"While the bandits don't know that people from this village have invited samurai, the best thing to do is to take the lead."
After both Hosaka and Kaneshiro expressed their approval of Ogata's plan, only Tsuchiya and Mizuno were left to express their opinions.
Tsuchiya, who was not very talkative, rarely said a long sentence at this time:
"I also agree to take the lead and go straight to Huanglong."
"But this is easier said than done."
"That group of bandits has a total of 42 people. Even though 12 have been killed now, there are still 30 left."
"And there are only five of us."
"It's too dangerous for me to defeat 30 bandits with only 5 people, even if Majima-kun's swordsmanship is extraordinary."
"You can't rush straight into the bandit's stronghold headlessly."
"We have to think of a detailed strategy to deal with the bandits entrenched in the stronghold."
"So I have a strategy."
Tsuchiya, who spoke very little like a mute, actually formulated a strategy, which surprised everyone present, so they all listened attentively.
"Let's find a way to sneak into their stronghold."
Tsuchiya said word for word.
"Assassinate their leader."
"The bandits are just a bunch of rabble."
"Without the leadership of the leader, they will be just a piece of sand."
"As long as their leader is gone, our chances of winning will be greatly improved in one fell swoop."
Tsuchiya Yan stated his plan concisely and concisely.
As soon as he finished telling his plan, Huosaka showed a wry smile:
"Shoot the man first, the horse... Your plan sounds great, but the question is how do we sneak into the bandit's stronghold and assassinate their leader?"
As soon as Huosaka said this, the atmosphere at the scene and everyone's expressions became heavy.
Even Tsuchiya, who proposed this "assassination plan", pursed his lips and had a solemn expression.
Only Ogata and Atachi looked normal.
After the two of them looked at each other in tacit understanding, Oufang folded his hands in front of his chest and said:
"Sneaking into the bandits' stronghold and killing their leader is a good plan. It's very sound."
"How about we do it more thoroughly?"
"Not only assassinate their leader, but also assassinate all targets in their stronghold that can be assassinated."
Ogata's words shocked the entire audience.
"Mashima-sama, you are right..." Huosaka hesitated, "But the question is...how to sneak in?"
Hearing this question from Kasaka, Ogata smiled and shrugged.
"About this...you don't have to worry."
As Ogata spoke, he turned to look at the sky outside.
"It's almost nine o'clock (12 noon) now. After we finish lunch and build up our strength, we will ask this guy to lead us to their stronghold."
Ogata nuzzled towards Ohno who was being tied up by Wu Huada.
"After arriving at their stronghold, stay still and wait for dark."
"After it gets dark, my wife and I will take action first."
"My wife and I will sneak into their stronghold at night and eliminate some of the bandits in the dark."
Ogata raised his hand and scratched his neck horizontally.
"My wife and I have reduced the number of bandits to almost the same level. I will give you a signal and you will attack together."
Ogata simply stated the specific battle plan he had just drawn up.
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, Huosaka was the first to widen his eyes and asked Ogata:
"Mashima-sama, do you still plan to take Ling Zheng with you to defeat the bandits? Do you want Ling Zheng to sneak into the bandits' stronghold with you?"
"Um...with all due respect, it is very difficult to sneak into a place and carry out an assassination operation without anyone noticing..."
"I know." Ogata smiled and nodded, "But I still know a little bit about sneaking in and hiding my body."
"As for my wife..."
"Don't underestimate your wife."
Ogata changed into a half-joking tone.
"Her skills are far better than you think. At least she is stronger than the bandits who attacked today."
"And she's also very good at sneaking into places without anyone noticing."
"It would be better to say that my skills of sneaking in and hiding my body were originally taught to me by my wife."
"It's just a bandit stronghold. I have the confidence to sneak into it and assassinate all the bandits who can be assassinated in the stronghold."
Speaking of this, Ogata suddenly remembered that since leaving Kyoto, he seemed to have not used the "Shiranui-ryu Stealth Technique" to sneak into a place for a long time.
What he said just now, "My skills of sneaking in and hiding my body, were originally taught to me by my wife" is actually not wrong.
Although Ogata was able to light up the "Shiranui-ryu Ninjutsu" skill tree, it was all thanks to the system.
But without Atachi covering up the various moves of Shiranui-ryu Ninjutsu for him at that time, Ogata would not have been able to use the system to unlock "Shiranui-ryu Ninjutsu".
Therefore, it is not wrong to say that Atachi is Ogata's master in "Shiranui-ryu Ninjutsu".
As soon as Ogata said this, everyone present looked at Amachi in shock.
"Miss Atachi." Kawasaka murmured, "Are you so powerful?"
Everyone, including Kawasaka, originally thought that Atachi was just an ordinary woman except for her good looks.
Because he was not used to being looked at in shock by so many people, A-Machi couldn't help but smile a bit shyly.
If it had been this early morning, before the bandits headed by Ohno attacked, when Ogata had said that he and his wife would sneak into the stronghold to assassinate the bandits, Kinjo and the others would have scoffed and thought Ogata was crazy.
But now that they have seen Ogata's strength and learned that Ogata is a great swordsman with such superb swordsmanship, Kinjo and the others have all changed their thoughts and concepts.
Seeing that Ogata vowed that he was confident that he and his wife could easily sneak into the bandit stronghold and assassinate the bandits one by one, Jincheng and others only thought that Ogata might really be able to do it!
In addition, except for the relatively dull Tsuchiya, Higasaka, Kinjo, and Mizuno admired Ogata even more.
The three of them only felt that Ogata, as a great swordsman with extraordinary swordsmanship, took the initiative to take on the most dangerous task.
When the bandits led by Ohno attacked today, Ogata was the first one to rush forward.
What kind of spirit is this?
Ogata's image in their minds has become taller...
Out of trust in Ogata, everyone agreed to Ogata's extremely bold battle plan.
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After getting all the information we wanted from Ohno and briefly formulating a battle plan, it was almost time for the sun to reach its highest point.
In order to thank Ogata and the others for their heroic performance today, the villagers prepared a much richer lunch for Ogata and the others than before, but in reality it was just radishes and more pickles on each person's plate.
After lunch and a brief rest, Ogata and the others took their respective sabers and rushed to the bandits' stronghold.
The little leader named Ohno had his hands tightly tied behind his back with a hemp rope and walked in front, leading the way for Ogata and others.
Ogata walked behind Ohno, always on guard against Ohno escaping.
Ohno also knew Ogata's strength, so he did not dare to make any mistakes and obediently led Ogata and others to their stronghold.
Soon, Ogata and others went deep into the vast snow-capped mountains in the south of the village.
While on the way, Ogata and the others also took a look at the nearby scenery, although there was nothing particularly beautiful.
There is snow under your feet, there is snow all around, and everything within your field of vision is snow.
Looking up, there are mountains nearby and mountains in the distance.
The Ou area is indeed a mountainous place, and you can see continuous mountains wherever you go.
Mountains of different shapes and forms are all covered with white snow. Under the sunlight, they reflect silver light. If you have never seen snow before, you may be very excited when you first see the snow scene. But there are many things like snow scene.
That's it. Ever since entering the Ou area, Ogata was tired of seeing the snowy scenery.
While letting Ono lead the way, Ogata and others continued to scrape more information from him, mainly asking for some details about their group of bandits.
According to Ohno, their leader is named Seiichiro Koizumi. He has superb swordsmanship and was once a low-level samurai of a certain domain.
After the "Tianmei Famine" broke out, in order to reduce the financial burden, the feudal government stripped some of the samurai's jobs and demoted them to ronin.
Their leader, Koizumi, happened to be one of the demoted members and was forced to leave the feudal country where he grew up and find a way to find his own way out.
Due to class attributes and other reasons, there are many jobs that do not recruit samurai at all.
Therefore, after becoming a wanderer, there were too few jobs to find, so no matter what I did, I could not escape the plight of poverty and poverty.
About six months ago, he finally decided to take the risk and become a bandit.
He gathered some ronin who were also poor and almost unable to survive, and together they went to be road bullies and rob passers-by of their money.
The companions that Koizumi gathered basically had the same experience as him. After the "Tianming Famine" broke out, they were ruthlessly abandoned by the feudal government to which they were originally loyal.
It was at that time that Ohno joined Koizumi's staff.
Ohno's previous experience was almost exactly the same as Koizumi's.
Ohno was once a low-level samurai in a certain vassal state, and then after the great famine that spread across the country, he was ruthlessly abandoned by the vassal government in order to reduce financial pressure and became a ronin.
After becoming a ronin, he tried hard to make a living, but because there were so few jobs, he gradually fell into a dilemma where he was about to starve to death.
After Koizumi found him and invited him to join him as a Roadhog, Ohno nodded without hesitation in order to survive.
So something very ironic happened:
When he was still a serious samurai, he worked hard to serve the public, but he could only receive a death salary that might not change for the rest of his life. When disaster struck, he was regarded as a burden by the feudal government and was ruthlessly discarded like garbage.
After becoming a ronin, he did not give up hope and still worked hard to make a living. However, since many jobs did not recruit samurai at all, it was difficult to change the dilemma of poverty.
After breaking the rules and deciding to be a bad person, life immediately got better.
By showing the sword on your waist and saying a few threats, you can steal money and food from passers-by.
If you are lucky, you can grab a beautiful woman and be happy for a while.
At the beginning, there were only a few people under Koizumi.
There are so many wandering ronin in the Ou area now, and there is no shortage of fresh blood. As long as you can prove that you can lead everyone to live a prosperous life, there will be a large number of people willing to follow you and put their heads in their belts.
superior.
As a result, the number of people gradually increased, and gradually developed to a scale of more than 40 people now.
After growing in scale, Koizumi was no longer satisfied with being a road bully who only robbed passers-by of their money.
He decided to do something big and rob the village.
So they chose this small village with a total population of less than 100.
This was their first time to rob a village, and they encountered a tough challenge unexpectedly...
After Ohno finished telling the history of the establishment and development of their group of bandits, he sneered, and then said to Ogata and others who were walking behind him:
"Since you will be hired by farmers, you should all be wanderers with no fixed abode and no food left to eat, right?"
Ohno's words were full of certainty in his tone, as if he already knew what the answer would be.
"So what?" Huosaka replied.
As soon as Huosaka finished speaking, Ohno shrugged and then sneered:
"It's nothing, I just think you guys are weird. Why are you helping the farmers in that village?"
"I know that the village is very poor, and it will definitely not be able to get any generous remuneration."
"Do you choose to fight against dozens of bandits just for such a small reward? Don't you think you are stupid?"
"Why don't you become a thief like us? It's so fun to be a thief."
"Heh." Jincheng laughed sarcastically, "What? Are you proud of being a thief?"
"I am indeed very proud." Ohno's shoulders shook a few times because he was smiling, "When I was a well-behaved samurai, I served the public wholeheartedly, but I could only receive a meager salary."
"When disaster strikes, they are ruthlessly abandoned."
After Tsuchiya heard Ohno's words, his lips pursed uncontrollably.
It's like...recalling some bad memories.
"After becoming a thief, my life has become much smoother than before."
"In today's world where being an evil person is more rewarding than being a good person, why shouldn't I feel proud?"
"I have always been proud of myself as a free thief."
Speaking of this, Ohno turned his head and looked at Ogata behind him.
"Hey, let me tell you, haven't you ever thought about becoming thieves together?"
Ohno looked at Ogata with burning eyes.
"Your swordsmanship is so superb. As long as you wave your arms, there will definitely be many ronin willing to respond to you and follow you to become bandits."
"With your swordsmanship, whether it's robbing a village or robbing passers-by of their money, it will definitely be easy."
"You can live a much more generous and comfortable life than you do now..."
Before Ohno finished speaking, Oufang turned his sharp eyes like swords to him.
"Shut up."
Ogata said in a calm tone.
"I have no interest in being a thief."
"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll cut your tongue out."
Ogata's gaze was so sharp that Ohno felt as if he had been stabbed.
After shrinking his neck out of fear, Ohno did not dare to say any more and quickly turned his head back, not daring to look at Ogata again.
While turning his head back, Ohno curled his lips, and a trace of resentment appeared in his eyes.
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When it was close to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Ogata and others saw smoke rising from a hill in the distance.
Looking at the rising smoke, Ogata whispered:
"Looks like we've arrived..."
After getting closer to the bandits' stronghold, Ogata asked Omachi to climb a nearby tree to scout the bandits' stronghold from a distance.
With his amazing eyesight, Atachi is simply a "walking telescope".
After climbing onto a nearby tree that was high enough, A-Machi reported to the people under the tree what she could see with her eyes.
"There are people on guard duty, but there are not many of them. All I can see are only five guard posts."
"Mashima-sama." Jincheng asked, "Would you like to get closer?"
Invisibly, everyone has regarded Ogata as their backbone.
"...Let's get closer." Ogata pondered for a while and said, "There is a forest ahead, let's hide there and wait for dark."
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It's winter now and it gets dark quickly.
After Ogata and others hid in the woods and ate some dry food to replenish their physical strength, the sky began to gradually darken.
After the sky completely darkened, Ogata and Omachi looked at each other, and then nodded at the same time.
"Atachi, let's go."
"Um."
"Mashima-sama," Kasaka said seriously, "I wish you and your Majesty good luck."
The rest of the people also sent their blessings to Ogata and A-Machi.
After Okinawa and the others nodded in response, Oubon waved to Omachi beside him, then lowered his body weight, half-crouched, and walked towards the darkness in front of him at an neither fast nor slow pace.
go.
Soon, the figures of Ogata and Atachi were swallowed up by the darkness and completely disappeared from the sight of Higasaka and others.
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This group of bandits built their stronghold on a small hill.
Although the number of people is small, they are surprisingly very defensive. No matter it is day or night, there are organized manpower to stand guard, but the number of people is not large.
A bandit held the knife at his waist and leaned against a big tree.
There was a long wooden stick stuck beside him, and a lighting torch was tied to the wooden stick. He relied on the light emitted by the torch to warn the surroundings.
But he was actually just pretending to be alert.
Whether he was sleepy or tired, he just cast his blank eyes into the surrounding darkness that could not be reached by the firelight, and was not keeping watch seriously at all.
His careless attitude prevented him from noticing that there was another person on the tree trunk above his head.
The black figure crouched on the tree trunk above his head, after adjusting its downward direction, it conveniently landed on the ground and jumped down quickly.
Hearing the strange sound of breaking wind above his head, the bandit instantly felt refreshed and then raised his head to look above him.
But it's obviously too late.
As soon as he raised his head, he felt like his head was clamped by something.
Then...
Kara
The bandit heard a cracking sound on his neck.
As the cracking sound sounded, the bandit didn't even have time to scream, and felt his consciousness gradually dissipating...
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After leaping down from the tree trunk, Ogon clamped the bandit's head with his knees, and then used several killing techniques in Shiranui-ryu jujutsu to twist off the bandit's head.
Shiranui-ryu jujitsu is a jujitsu produced in Shiranui, and it has many techniques and moves that are particularly suitable for assassination.
[Ding! Shiranui-style ninjutsu and Shiranui-style jujutsu, kill the enemy]
[Acquire 70 personal experience points and 70 experience points for the Ninjutsu "Shiranui-ryu Ninjutsu"]
From jumping down from the tree to using jujitsu to assassinate the bandit, Ogata kept very quiet the whole time.
"1..."
After killing the bandit, Ogata whispered the number of enemies killed while placing the bandit's body away.
At this time, A-Machi also held her wakizashi and walked slowly out of the darkness not far away.
The wakizashi in A-machi's hands was exactly the wakizashi that A-machi spent a lot of effort to modify when he left Kyoto a few months ago and was resting at the Calabashya base in Owari.
The inside of the handle was hollowed out, and the handle was filled with healing medicine.
The handle of the knife was wrapped with a thick black strip of cloth.
This black cloth strip can not only be used to stop bleeding and bandage when injured, but can also be used to recover the wakizashi when using the wakizashi handle to climb somewhere.
Atachi, who was lurking not far away just now, had a panoramic view of Ogata's figure as he swiftly killed the enemy.
"You can be quite annoying sometimes."
Atachi flattened her mouth and whispered in a low voice that only she and Ogata could hear clearly.
"It's only been a few months since I learned Shiranui-ryu jujutsu."
"It only took you a few months to practice Shiranui-ryu jujitsu to this point... If we were to compete in jujitsu now, I would definitely no longer be your opponent."
Ogata smiled:
"In terms of skills, I'm definitely not as good as you. If I compete with you in Jiu-Jitsu, I can only beat you with my physical advantage."
According to Ogata's estimation, the level of Amachi's Shiranui jujutsu is roughly "advanced".
In terms of skills, Atachi's jujitsu skills are definitely above Ogata's, whose jujitsu level is only "intermediate".
However, this kind of unarmed combat skill is greatly affected by physical fitness.
With the same moves, people with better physical fitness can use more powerful ones.
Ogata's current physical fitness is infinitely better than that of Omachi, who is born as a girl.
So even if Omachi's jujitsu level is one level higher than Ogata's, Ogata can still beat him mercilessly and press him to the ground and rub him.
"Let's go."
Ogata waved to Amachi.
"There are still 29 people waiting for us to kill them one by one."
"Are you planning to kill all these bandits by yourself?" Amachi asked in a half-joking tone.
"If I have the opportunity to do this, I wouldn't mind doing it." Ogata smiled slightly, and then responded to Amachi in a half-joking tone.