Ogata's Shiranui-ryu jujutsu is also "advanced" now.
Previously, at the beginning of Volume 6, when leveling up at Owari's Calabash House base, Shiranui-ryu jutsu was upgraded to the fifth level. After possessing 3 exclusive skill points, Ogata used 2 of them to upgrade Shiranui-ryu jutsu.
, upgraded from intermediate to advanced.
The author accidentally forgot this plot...
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Ogata didn't understand military strategy, so he couldn't understand the level of sentry layout of this group of bandits.
But Atachi understands it even though he is not very proficient.
When Amachi was doing ninja training before, he received training on "how to judge the alert status of the enemy's position."
Even Atachi, who was not very proficient in this "course", could see that the sentry layout of this group of bandits was very poor.
All the sentry personnel were not concentrating on their sentry duties.
The placement of sentries is also in a mess.
According to Amachi, the location of the bandits' sentry posts gave her the feeling that "it was based on mood."
The number of sentries is also completely insufficient.
In a nutshell: There should be no one among this group of bandits who knows how to set up a camp and place sentries.
But from another perspective, it is quite normal that there is no such talent.
After all, apart from peasant uprisings, this country has never had any wars in the past two hundred years.
The samurai do not know how to fight. This group of bandits transformed from "original samurai" do not know how to set up camps and post sentries, which is related to war. It is completely normal.
A-Machi said: The only advantage of this group of bandits' sentry arrangements is that they know how to arrange hidden sentries.
The arrangement of concealed whistles is much more difficult than the arrangement of whistles.
Where is it appropriate to place a concealed whistle, where is it unnecessary, and where is it counterproductive... These are all highly technical matters.
This group of bandits even arranged the open sentinels so poorly, let alone the hidden sentries, which were almost random.
When receiving ninja training before, Atachi also received training on "how to find the enemy's hidden sentry". Of course, Atachi did not learn this "class" very well.
It's just that the knowledge A-Machi has is more than enough to deal with these bandits who have arranged both light and dark sentries in a mess.
At this moment, A-Machi detected a secret sentry ahead, and a relatively thin bandit was standing in the darkness.
Sure enough, the bandit was paddling in the water and was not keeping watch seriously at all. He was just yawning.
Ogata and Atachi looked at each other.
Let me do it. Ogata said to Omachi with his eyes.
And A-Machi didn't say much nonsense, just nodded, and then stopped where he was.
In order to prevent the saber at his waist from hitting something and making an abnormal sound, Ogata carefully held the saber at his waist with his left hand while squatting half-crouched, using the Shiranui-ryu stealth technique, bit by bit.
He leaned back towards the bandit who was standing guard.
The bandit was not concentrating on sentry duty at all, and he did not seem to have the ability to detect Ogata, who possessed the "intermediate" Shiranui-ryu stealth technique.
When he got close to the bandit, Ogata quickly became violent and covered the bandit's mouth with his left hand. With the other hand, he quickly pulled out the great freedom and used the bird thorn of Sakakibara's sword to strike from his back.
It penetrated the neck and exited from his throat.
The shorter Da Zi Zi is more suitable for assassination.
Just like penetrating a piece of soaked rice paper, Da ZiZhou penetrated the bandit's throat easily.
Under the influence of the flashback, the bandit burst out with powerful force and struggled violently, trying to break free from Ogata's control.
It's a pity that Ogata's current strength value is 20 points.
In Ogata's eyes, the bandit's struggle was like a puppy in his arms trying to kick its legs.
After struggling for only a moment, the bandit slowly stopped moving due to the slow loss of life force.
"2..."
[Ding! Sakakibara Itto-ryu Bird Thorn, kill the enemy]
[Acquire 70 personal experience points, 65 experience points for swordsmanship "Sakakibara Itto-ryu", and 10 experience points for ninjutsu "Shiranui-ryu Ninjutsu"]
Because Ogata had just used the Shiranui-ryu stealth technique to sneak up to the bandit's back before launching an attack, so according to the system's judgment, the Shiranui-ryu ninjutsu also gained a little experience value.
Even though it's not much, it's better than nothing.
After laying the lifeless bandit in his arms flat on the ground, Ogata waved to Atachi to indicate that he was safe.
Even God is helping Ogata and the others tonight. It is cloudy tonight. Thick clouds separate the sky from the earth, and the moonlight is blocked above the clouds.
This dim sight made it easier for Ogata and others to hide their figures.
The two of them continued to go deeper, and then discovered a bandit's outpost.
This time not only was the open post discovered, but also a hidden sentry not far from the open post.
The distance between the two outposts is extremely close. If you kill the bandits at any one outpost, you will be discovered by the bandits at the other outpost.
So if you want to avoid being discovered, you can only kill these two bandits at the same time.
Then Ogata and Omachi exchanged glances again.
Without any communication, just by exchanging glances, the two made decisions and assigned tasks.
Ogata walked towards the bandits at Ming Sen.
Omachi walked towards the bandit who was sent out secretly.
A-machi's movements are gentler than Ogata's, and she is less likely to be noticed because she also has the Shiranui-ryu Breath Holding Technique: a technique that reduces one's own breath by controlling the breathing rhythm.
Because Ogata felt that the Shiranui-ryu Breath Holding Technique was useless to him, he never spent any skill points to learn it.
Ogata repeated the steps he had just taken to assassinate the bandit under the secret sentry: he used the Shiranui-ryu stealth technique to sneak around behind the bandit, then used a bird thorn to pierce his throat, killing him with one blow.
While Ogata killed the bandit at the open post, Amachi also killed the bandit at the secret post.
Omachi used the Shiranui-ryu Assassination Technique, a swordsmanship technique specifically used for assassination.
After covering the bandit's mouth with his left hand to prevent him from making a sound, he flattened the side of his right hand and stabbed the bandit's heart accurately along the gap between his ribs.
The reason why the blade should be laid flat is to avoid being blocked by the bandit's ribs when it stabs through the bandit's heart.
Atachi who used the Shiranui-ryu assassination technique was much more agile than Ogata who simply stabbed the bandit through the throat.
Although among the four techniques of Shiranui style, apart from Jujutsu, Atachi's other three techniques - Stealth, Assassination, and Breath Holding - can only be regarded as weak compared to his peers, but they are still enough to deal with these weaklings.
Bandits.
"3, 4..."
After silently recording the number of bandits that he and A-Machi had killed so far, Ogata continued to head deeper into the bandit stronghold with A-Machi...
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"ha……"
A bandit with a big beard who was carrying a bottle of bad wine yawned loudly, and then said to a fellow bandit with a mustache who was sitting not far away from him:
"What time is it now?"
The bearded bandit and this little bearded bandit have been friends for a long time.
Both of them were samurai who were ruthlessly abandoned by their respective vassals due to "famine at dawn".
After becoming ronin, they got to know each other by various chances and coincidences.
After working as a thief for several years in partnership with several other companions, I was invited by the bandit leader, Koizumi, 2 months ago, so I joined Koizumi's subordinates and changed my position from a thief.
Today's bandits.
As soon as the big bearded bandit finished speaking, the little bearded bandit raised his head and glanced at the sky:
"It's cloudy now, so I can't tell what time it is. But it must be quite late."
After saying that, the mustachioed bandit raised the bad wine in his hand again and poured the bad wine into his mouth.
In this wilderness and wild forest, drinking heavily has become one of the few pleasures of bandits like them.
After dinner, the big-bearded bandit and the little-bearded bandit sat face to face under a certain tree, drinking low-quality rice wine and chatting nonsense.
After the little beard poured a sip of wine into his mouth, the big beard followed suit and raised the bottle with a mouthful of wine left in his hand.
After drinking all the wine left in the bottle, he threw the empty bottle aside and said casually:
"By the way, have Ohno and the others who were sent to 'negotiate' with that small village not come back yet?"
"It seems so." Mustache nodded, "I heard that the boss is very worried now. If Daye and the others haven't come back after dawn tomorrow, they will lead all of us to that small village to see what happened.
Already."
"Ha." The bearded man sneered, "Could it be that Daye and the others were killed by those villagers?"
"How is that possible?" Mustache smiled sarcastically, "The total population of that village is less than one hundred, and there are only about 30 young people at most. How can they deal with Ohno and the others?"
"Really, why bother and send people to negotiate with the people in that village?" The bearded man curled his lips in dissatisfaction, "Wouldn't it be better to just rush over and rob all the money and women in their village?
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"Don't you understand this?" Xiao Hu smiled, and then took another sip of wine. "If we directly rob the village of all its money and women, it would be equivalent to indirectly forcing all of them to death.
, it’s killing the goose to get the eggs.”
"We only need half of their money to prevent all the people in that small village from starving to death."
"This way, we can grab another wave next year."
"And if you rob all the money from that village in one go, it will easily attract the attention of the government."
"Only asking for half of the village's money in a 'friendly' way will make the government think that we are not a big threat, and they can focus more on dealing with other groups of bandits who are more threatening."
"Hmph, I don't understand these big things." The bearded man snorted coldly, "The reason why I became a bandit is to live a free life of drinking heavily and playing with women wantonly."
"Now I just want to live such a life quickly."
"Who doesn't want to live such a life." Mustache shrugged, and then took another sip of low-quality rice wine in his mouth. "Who doesn't choose to be a bandit in order to live a much happier life than before?"
"My only wish now is to live a happy life for a while before I am wiped out by the officials."
"Hey." The big beard cast a displeased look at the little beard, "What do you mean by 'before you are killed by the officials'? Don't say such unlucky words."
"I'm just telling the truth." Mustache shrugged, "In the past few years since the outbreak of the 'Tianming Famine,' the reason why the number of bandits in Ou has increased and become stronger is simply because the government has no time to take care of us.
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"The government has no time to take care of us, and there are a large number of samurai who are forced to become ronin for various reasons, so that the various bandits can always have fresh blood to join, so that the various bandits in Ou can continue to grow and develop.
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"Now the 'morning famine' is over."
"Stability is slowly returning to various places, and the government is gradually beginning to have enough energy to deal with bandits like us."
"You never know when we will be suppressed by the government."
"Tch!" The bearded man swollen his saliva on the ground, "You are such a nasty person to talk to! Can't you say something nice? I won't talk to you anymore! I'm going to pee!"
After saying that, the bearded man grabbed the knife placed aside and walked quickly towards the darkness not far away.
The mustache smiled bitterly as he watched the bearded man go to pee.
“Where are you going to pee?”
"Of course I went to pee somewhere where you couldn't see me. If there were other people around, I wouldn't be able to pee."
After the bearded man completely disappeared from the sight, the mustachioed bandit withdrew his gaze and began to drink wine while slowly waiting for the bearded man to come back.
But gradually Mustache began to notice something was wrong.
He found that the bearded man seemed to be too slow.
The little bearded man drank all the wine in the bottle, and the bearded figure reappeared in front of him.
Even if I have to poop, it won't last so long.
"Maybe he drank too much and fell drunk on the enemy..." The mustache muttered, grabbing the saber in his arms, stood up, and walked in the direction the bearded man left just now.
Big Beard did indeed drink a little too much wine tonight, so Little Beard wondered if Big Beard was half-peeing, drunk, and fell to the ground.
If that's really the case, then you have to drag him back to bed quickly.
You can easily die if you lie down in the snow and sleep all night.
Because some people were already sleeping, Little Beard did not dare to shout Big Beard's name loudly. He could only hold the knife and follow the direction where Big Beard left just now.
It is cloudy now and there is no moonlight.
Although my eyes have long been accustomed to the darkness, I still can't see clearly the things around my feet.
In order to avoid tripping or kicking something, Mustache could only slow down and move forward inch by inch.
But because it was too dark, when the little beard looked around, he could only see nothing but darkness, and the big beard could not be seen at all.
Just when Little Beard was thinking about whether to go back to find a torch or call others to find Big Beard, Little Beard suddenly felt as if his right foot had kicked something.
A piece... something with a bit of elasticity.
Confused, Mustache leaned down and looked at his feet.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, your whole soul will be scared away when you look at it.
His eyes immediately widened in horror!
Lying at his feet, the thing he just kicked was a big beard.
To be more precise, it's Bearded's corpse.
The bearded man lying on the ground had his throat penetrated by a sharp weapon.
Large streams of blood were pouring out from his punctured wound, dyeing the white snow under him blood red.
Anyone with a little bit of common sense and a normal mind would know that if a sharp instrument penetrates the throat, he will definitely die. The bearded man, whose eyes were wide open and lifeless, was now too dead to die.
His eyes that had lost their luster still retained a bit of fear and consternation.
Looking at the extremely miserable death and the unyielding bearded man, the bandit with the mustache immediately felt his legs become weak and almost fell to the ground.
However, Mustache was not someone who had never seen blood, so he quickly calmed down his mind and almost fell to the ground.
Mustache immediately opened his mouth, ready to shout loudly.
However... as soon as Mustache's mouth opened, he felt an extremely powerful hand stretch out from behind him and cover his mouth, making it impossible for him to make any sound.
Then, the mustachioed bandit felt a sharp pain in his throat and a wakizashi penetrated his throat from behind.
Although due to the viewing angle, he couldn't see the condition of his neck.
But Mustache was sure that warm blood must be gushing out from the wound in his throat like a spring.
The strong desire to survive caused the mustache's body to burst out with amazing power, and he began to struggle crazily!
However, the person standing behind Mustache and restraining him was very strong, and the left hand covering Mustache's mouth was like an iron pincer, clamping him firmly.
No matter how much Mustache struggled, he couldn't break free from the control of the person behind him, let alone make a sound.
Within a few seconds, the mustache's strength slowly weakened.
The look in his pupils also slowly dissipated.
Finally, his hands dropped softly, and the whole person stopped struggling.
Before Mustache completely lost consciousness, the last words he heard were
"11..."
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Kasaka and the others stayed where they were, waiting hard for Ogata and Omachi to return.
Kasaka crossed his arms in front of his chest and kept shaking his legs out of impatience.
Tsuchiya hugged the saber to his chest, sat aside, closing his eyes and concentrating.
Kinjo stood next to Tsuchiya, frequently looking in the direction where Ogata and Atachi left just now.
Mizuno was entrusted with the important task of standing next to Ohno and responsible for monitoring Ohno.
Mizuno, whose hands were still tied behind his back, sat on a stone.
At first glance he seems to be very well-behaved.
But in fact, he has been secretly observing the situation of Huosaka and others since just now.
No, it should be said that after being captured, he had been observing the warriors invited by the villagers of the small village and assessing their respective strengths.
The most powerful guy was of course Ogata, who single-handedly defeated him and his 11 subordinates.
Everyone else respected that guy, and he must be the most powerful.
And now the most powerful guy has left here with a beautiful woman.
Listening to the previous conversations between these people, it seems that the most powerful guy and the beautiful woman are husband and wife. They plan to sneak into their stronghold and assassinate his companions.
Ohno didn't know whether those two guys had the ability to assassinate all his companions, and he didn't have the time to think about such a problem now.
Ever since he became a prisoner, Ohno had been thinking about ways and opportunities to escape.
After becoming a prisoner of these samurai, it is still unknown whether he will live or die.
He had done many evil things before, and he naturally tended to think on the bad side when thinking about things.
If you continue to be their prisoner, the odds are against you. Oh Ye is so sure.
Because the guy with strong swordsmanship was always there before, Ohno didn't dare to mess around.
And now that guy is not here.
There were only these 4 warriors left around.
There is no better time to escape than now.
Ohno raised his eyes and glanced at the four samurai around him again.
Kasaka and Kaneshiro are anxiously waiting for the return of Ogata and Omachi.
Tsuchiya sat aside and closed his eyes to relax.
Mizuno, who was responsible for monitoring him, did his duty conscientiously. He always kept his spirits high and stood beside Ohno, monitoring Ohno.
After observing the situation of the four samurai around him, Ohno began to mentally calculate how long it would take him to escape from here and return to the stronghold.
Since choosing this place as their new base, Ohno has lived here for a while, so he is quite familiar with the surrounding areas of the base.
He is currently located in the southwest corner of the stronghold.
It takes about 30 steps to run from here to the stronghold and to a position where you can receive support from your companions.
In other words, as long as he can finish these 30 steps before being chased and hacked to death by Huosaka and others, and draw his companions over, he might be able to be saved.
So Ohno took a deep breath and let his heart beat calm down a little.
Then he raised his head and looked at Mizuno beside him:
"Samurai-sama."
"What for?" Mizuno asked.
"..." Ohno said something in a very soft tone.
Mizuno, who didn't hear clearly what Ohno was saying, frowned.
"What did you say?"
Mizuno asked, while subconsciously leaning towards Ohno.
This is the moment Ohno has been waiting for.
As soon as Mizuno leaned forward in the direction where he was, Ohno suddenly rose up, violently knocking Mizuno away, then spread his legs and rushed towards the stronghold with all his strength.
Because the sudden attack on Ohno was unexpected, Mizuno was knocked solid and sat down on the cold snow.
After being knocked down, Mizuno was stunned for a moment before finally reacting and shouting:
"Ohno, he wants to escape!"
Mizuno's reminder was actually too slow.
As early as when Mizuno was knocked away, Huosaka and others heard the strange noise, and then turned around to see what happened.
After seeing Ohno running wildly with his hands tied behind his back, Hosaka quickly pulled out the sabers on their waists in frustration and chased after Ohno.
While Ohno was running away, he opened his voice and kept shouting at the highest volume he could:
"There is an enemy attack! There is an enemy attack!"
Ohno's shout broke the silence around him.
Noisy noises began to be heard from the bandit stronghold not far away.
The faces of Huosaka and others began to look ugly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Under the influence of the desire to survive, Ohno burst out with extremely strong strength and speed.
Huosaka and others did not catch up with Ohno quickly for a while.
Jincheng is the fastest.
Although the distance between Jincheng and Ohno was getting closer and closer, they still couldn't catch up in time.
One by one, bandits followed the sound and rushed out of the stronghold, heading towards Ohno who kept shouting.
"Huh? Isn't this Ohno?"
A familiar voice came from in front of Ohno.
Hearing this familiar voice, Ohno couldn't help but feel reassured.
This was the voice of Matsumoto, who had a very good relationship with him.
Matsumoto, like Ohno, is also one of the veterans.
When they were both just "road bullies", they fought side by side.
As the footsteps approached, Ohno saw Matsumoto's familiar face.
After seeing Ohno, Matsumoto, who was leading a dozen of his subordinates, was slightly surprised at first, and then asked:
"Ohno, you're back? What happened?"
"We'll talk about this later! Help me stop those people behind me first!"
Matsumoto looked behind Ohno and saw Kawasaka and others chasing Ohno.
Although they didn't know what happened, Kasaka and the others knew at a glance that he was not their friend, so Matsumoto immediately led his men to greet Kasaka and the others.
In Huozan, Jincheng looked at the dozen or so bandits in front of him who were attracted by Ohno, his face looked as ugly as if he had just eaten a piece of shit.
He didn't dare to go forward, so he could only stop. He clenched the knife in his hand and stared at the bandits in front of him who were attracted by Ohno.
There are 13 people in total. Judging from the number of people, Huosaka and the others are at an overwhelming disadvantage.
Seeing Huosaka and others stopped, Matsumoto, who still didn't know what the situation was now, waved his hand and motioned to the subordinates behind him to stop as well, and first asked Ohno what the situation was.
Ohno quickly ran towards Matsumoto, hid behind Matsumoto, and then said urgently to Matsumoto:
"Be careful! These people are the samurai invited by that broken village! All my men have been killed!"
Ohno's only words made Matsumoto frown.
Ohno also said immediately:
"Two of them just sneaked into our stronghold and planned to assassinate our companions and leaders! Have you found the infiltrators?"
"Infiltrator?" Matsumoto looked confused, "No, no infiltrator was found."
After hearing Matsumoto's words, Ohno's face turned pale. Didn't he notice the infiltrator?
Is it because the infiltrators have not been able to successfully infiltrate their stronghold so far, or... their infiltration techniques are too clever?
Matsumoto, who had never personally experienced how good Ogata's swordsmanship was, saw Ohno's face suddenly turning pale, so he raised his hand and patted Ohno's shoulder, and said confidently:
"Don't worry! Ohno! We have a leader! You should know how powerful leader Koizumi is, right?"
"If there are two reckless guys who sneak into our stronghold, our leader will definitely find them in time and kill those two guys!"
As soon as Matsumoto finished speaking, a voice suddenly sounded from behind them:
"Boss? Do you mean this person?"
As soon as this unfamiliar voice fell, Ohno's body shook violently.
But Matsumoto only looked surprised and confused, and then turned his head following the sound.
As soon as he turned his head, he saw a man and a woman walking slowly towards them with knives in hand.
After Matsumoto turned his attention, the man threw the round object he was holding in his left hand.
This round object drew a beautiful parabola, and then landed steadily at Matsumoto's feet.
Matsumoto lowered his head and took a closer look at a head.
It's the head of their leader Koizumi...
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