The author originally wanted to write a big chapter of 12,000 today, and write directly about the plot of Ogata's "solo camp" as the title indicated two days ago.
However, a piece of bad news suddenly appeared this afternoon... A very good friend of the author, who was as close as a brother, fell out of love. He suddenly broke up with his girlfriend who he had been dating for several years and was supposed to be discussing marriage...
In order to comfort my friend, I chatted with him all afternoon. As a result, I didn’t have time to type until the evening. So I couldn’t finish writing a hearty chapter of “Ogata’s Camp” today... (Note
:Since the day before yesterday, I have seen some book friends guessing the purpose of Ogata's solo camp, but so far no one seems to have guessed it correctly)
Due to the above-mentioned force majeure reasons, this chapter only has 5,400 words, which is less than half of the original plan and cannot cover the plot of Ogata starting to break into the camp. Therefore, the author deliberately left the title of this chapter blank so that the real "
A single player with two swords and two guns to break into a 3,000-strong military camp alone (Part 2)" will be left until tomorrow.
I hope everyone can understand the author... (Leopard Head cries) Novel is important, but friends are more important. My friend is still in a bad mood... I am still thinking about how to comfort him...
Does any reader have experience in this regard? Can you give the author some advice... What should I say to my friend and what should I do to comfort him...
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Mogang, who was kneeling on the ground, secretly cast a somewhat anxious gaze toward the Third Eye.
He eagerly wanted to tell his uncle the good news that he had successfully completed the task as soon as possible, and hoped to hear his uncle's praise for him as soon as possible.
Mogami has always treated Utenmu, who almost treated him as his own son, as half of his father.
Shen Tianmu always treated him very harshly, and the number of times he showed a stern face to Mogami was far more than the number of times he praised Mogami.
The Supreme Being has the greatest respect for the Third Eye. One of the happiest things in daily life is to receive praise from the Third Eye.
Fortunately - Mogami didn't have to wait too long for the Third Eye to be born.
After Matsudaira Sadanobu spoke a somewhat polite compliment to Mogami, and after Makoto Muren said a few modest words, he lowered his voice and asked Mogami sternly:
"Mogami, how is that village?"
After finally asking how his mission went, Mogami felt joy on his face. He quickly took a few deep breaths and tried to put on a serious face.
Mogami was not a fool. Knowing that a big shot like Matsudaira Sadanobu was present, he had to avoid putting on a playful smile as much as possible.
"Fulfilling the mission." Not only his face, Mogami deliberately made his answer as "serious as a samurai" as possible, "We only cost 9 dead and 21 injured to capture the village!
A total of 39 heads were taken in this battle, please take a look, sir!"
Sheng Tianmu nodded, twitched the corner of his mouth, and showed a faint smile: "Nice job."
Finally, when his uncle praised him, Mogami suppressed his joy and said modest words such as "I don't dare to take it".
Makoto Meuchi Mogami waved his hand: "You go down and rest first. As for the heads you brought back, put them away first, and I will conduct the first actual inspection later."
First actual inspection: In ancient Japan, an ancient ritual in which warriors inspected the heads of enemy chiefs.
In ancient Japan, as in ancient China, an important act of obtaining military exploits on the battlefield was to obtain the enemy's head. The military exploits were evaluated based on the identity and popularity of the owner of the head.
Therefore, it is necessary to identify the head to determine whether it is the head of a famous general, an ordinary soldier, a woman, or a child. This process is called "first-level actual inspection" or "first-level actual inspection."
"Fellow, I'm in so much trouble, I'm going to lend you your head to get some military glory" - this kind of thing was not uncommon in ancient Japan.
Many people not only use the heads of civilian men to claim military merit, but also use the heads of women, children, and the elderly to claim military merit.
Regarding how to use the heads of women, children, and the elderly to pretend to be military merits, the soldiers also developed a unique idea - to chop the faces as badly as possible so that no one can tell whether they are women, children, or old people.
Precisely because too many people use the heads of ordinary people to make excuses, the "first actual inspection" is now regarded as one of the essential rituals on the battlefield.
If the heads of women, children, and old people were mixed with the heads, they might be scolded by their uncle. Therefore, before leaving Takta Village, Mogami himself conducted a "first actual inspection."
They only took away the head of a young man who could be seen at a glance, so it was difficult to tell the gender and age. Mogami did not bring back the head.
"Yes!" Mogami responded loudly while saluting, and then slowly exited the tent.
After Mogami left, Matsudaira Sadanobu, who had been silent just now, said softly:
"This battle with Lord Mogami should be regarded as the first battle of this battle, right? Although the target is not the people of Red Moon Fortress."
"That village has a close relationship with the Red Moon Fortress." Sheng Tianmu answered at this time, "Destroying that village will reduce the number of potential allies of the Red Moon Fortress, and act as a disguised attack on the Red Moon Fortress and others who have a relationship with the Red Moon Fortress.
With the deterrent effect of good villages, this battle can be regarded as a huge gain."
"...I hope that after the official close combat with the Red Moon Fortress, it will be as smooth as today's battle against the village." Matsudaira Sadanobu smiled.
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As early as before on Butterfly Island, Ogata and Mamiya had tried the trick of "disguising soldiers".
In order to gather together the soldiers now scattered throughout the village, Ogata decided to repeat this old trick.
Putting on the armor of the Scar Warrior, he put on Dai Shiten, Da Zi Zai and Mei Ran, who could no longer pretend to be in his arms after putting on the armor. Kasumi Nagi hid and put on the ordinary-looking one of the Scar Warrior.
He wore a sword, smeared blood on his face and armor, and transformed into a "blood-stained soldier" who claimed to have seen Ainu reinforcements.
The scenes that happened in front of Ogata's eyes after that were perfectly in line with Ogata's expectations.
After receiving Ogata's false information, Izawa quickly summoned the soldiers who were now scattered in the village without doubting his fault.
After Izawa gathered the soldiers, Ogata saw that there was no need to act any more, so he tore off his disguise and changed from "blood-stained samurai" back to "Ogata Yoshi".
Ogata's first target was naturally Izawa, who looked like a commander and was the closest to him.
Because he still had some questions to ask Izawa as the commander, Ogata did not attack Izawa's vitals directly, but aimed at the back knee which was not fatal but could directly destroy Izawa's combat effectiveness.
Leaning over, stepping in, and thrusting straight, Ogata used the wakizashi to penetrate Izawa's right rear knee, directly piercing Izawa's entire right leg. Then, Ogata directly left the wakizashi in Izawa's body.
On his leg, he pulled out the knife from his waist.
bump!
Ogata brought the bottom of the sword's handle into close contact with the side of Izawa who was still screaming. Although Izawa was wearing armor, facing Ogata's current extremely high strength, Izawa's armor
It doesn't provide very efficient protection.
Ize felt as if a wild boar had hit his flank, and the internal organs in his abdominal cavity seemed to be twisted together. After Ize flew several steps laterally, he fell heavily to the ground.
After completely losing Izawa's combat effectiveness, Ogata turned the blade and pointed the sharp blade at the soldiers who were still confused and did not realize what had happened.
Ogata first waved the blade and swept it across the face of the nearest "Soldier 1" from bottom to top. Then he slightly raised the tip of the blade and stabbed the other guy behind him. When he retracted the blade, he also swept the body of "Soldier 3"
——He successively used the three sword skills of Climbing the Tower, Bird Stab, and Dragon Tail, and killed three enemies in one breath.
What Ogata is using now is not his Daishiten, but the ordinary quality sword that he just took from the Scar Warrior.
Although when fighting an enemy wearing armor, the most ideal way to deal with it is to attack the enemy's areas that are not protected by armor, but these areas are quite difficult to hit.
When he used the dragon tail to kill "Soldier 3" just now, because he couldn't find a suitable angle to attack "Soldier 3"'s face and throat, Ogata could only slash at his chest and directly cut through "Soldier 3" with brute force.
Soldier 3" breastplate.
Although he successfully killed "Soldier 3", the ordinary-quality katana in Ogata's hand also curled up due to the head-on collision with the armor.
Afterwards, the soldiers, who finally realized what had happened, finally began to riot.
Some people started screaming.
Some people looked gloomy and drew their weapons to attack Ogata.
They were soldiers who were left to clean up the battlefield, so naturally they did not carry any powerful weapons such as bows, arrows, muskets, etc. The only weapons they had on hand were spears and knives.
There are nearly 30 of them. If they form a dense spear formation, even Ogata will find it difficult.
But it's a pity - they are too close to Ogata now.
They simply didn't have enough time and distance to slowly form a spear formation.
Ogata made a mistake in his steps and used a step to dodge to a place where he would not be attacked from the front or back. He aimed at the throat of "Soldier 4" and shot another bird thorn, piercing the soldier's throat.
The feel of piercing a person's throat is completely different from the feel of piercing ordinary flesh and blood.
After the peculiar feeling of piercing a person's throat was transmitted to Ogata's palm, Ogata decisively abandoned the curled and nearly scrapped knife in his hand, raised his left hand and snatched away the knife in front of him with the knife still in its sheath.
The soldier's knife had been pierced by him in the throat.
After seizing the sword, Ogata used his right foot as an axis to spin half a circle on the spot. While spinning, he put his right hand on the handle of the newly captured sword, and then used centrifugal force to slash the "Soldier 5" on his right.
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Wuwo Sword Style·Raikiri!
Leveraging the power of centrifugal force, Ogata's lightning strike was heavy and ruthless, cutting deeply into the belly of "Soldier 5".
From now on, the system beeps reminding me of gaining experience points have been ringing endlessly.
But at this moment, a voice that he had not heard for a long time appeared in Ogata's mind:
[Ding! Because I have become proficient in the use of the Wuga Two-sword style martial arts, Raikiri, the Wuga Two-sword style martial arts, Raikiri, has been promoted to an "intermediate" skill!]
The system sound that increased the level of martial arts due to the increase in proficiency - Ogata couldn't remember the last time he heard it.
Because Raikiri is not very practical in actual combat, Ogata has not spent skill points to upgrade Raikiri's level since he learned this sword skill.
After accumulated training over time, Reiki finally gained an upgrade and was upgraded to an "intermediate" sword skill.
After a little calming down his mind that was slightly disturbed by this unexpected joy, Ogata continued to concentrate on fighting the enemy.
After giving up the sword he had just snatched, Ogata used step steps to quickly escape from where he was just now.
The soldiers who had come to their senses were now launching counterattacks one by one.
But their level... is like a rabbit trying to attack a tiger with its paws.
As soon as he got away from "Soldier 5", a soldier shouted and raised his spear high to stab Ogata.
After noticing the location of "Soldier 6" and the attack he issued from the corner of his eye, Ogata did not run away directly, but went directly towards "Soldier 6".
Ogata first lowered his body, avoiding the soldier's stabbing attack, and then approached "Soldier 6" in one breath. Then he stretched out his hands, grabbed the right shoulder of "Soldier 6" with his left hand, and grabbed "Soldier 6" with his right hand.
On the left waist of "Soldier 6", use Shiranui-ryu jujitsu to knock "Soldier 6" directly to the ground.
Uh-huh! Uh-huh!
There were two sounds of drawing swords - after knocking "Soldier 6" down, Ogata took away the two swords from "Soldier 6"'s waist, then swung his wakizashi and stabbed "Soldier 6" in the throat.
With two swords in hand, Ogata's enemy-killing efficiency directly rises to a higher level.
The "Mugo Two Sword Style" is originally good at one-to-many swordsmanship, but in this situation, its power has been fully displayed.
Ogata's katana was seen drawing an arc in the air. The sharp blade cut off the heads of two soldiers of similar height in one go. At the same time, Ogata stabbed his side with his wakizashi.
of a soldier who was about to sneak up on him.
When the katana and wakizashi were swung again, the faces or throats of three more people were cut open.
Immediately afterwards, Ogata relied on brute force to pierce a soldier's body with a katana. In the blink of an eye, the wakizashi shot out of Ogata's hand and pierced the face of a soldier.
Ogata's main attack site was the throats of these soldiers - it happened to be the place where the bleeding was quite large, so the blood had not stopped spraying since just now.
Handful after handful of blood poured out from Ogata's blade, and then scattered on the snow-covered ground.
There is no trace of white in the surrounding land. As far as the eye can see, it is all "red snow" dyed red with blood.
In such a fierce battle with one enemy against many, Ogata did not have enough room to dodge the splattered blood. From the beginning, Ogata became a bloody man.
Ogata just kept repeating the steps of grabbing the sword, killing people, and grabbing the sword again...
Because Ogata was the only enemy, the soldiers were given the illusion that they could defeat Ogata with their numerical superiority.
It wasn't until Ogata killed "Soldier 19" that the remaining people finally realized how wrong their misconception was.
The people who were still alive began to run away in all directions. In order to run faster, most of them simply threw away the weapons in their hands.
If it weren't for the fact that the armor was not so easy to take off, they might just throw it away.
After all, Ogata only had one pair of hands and one pair of feet, so it was impossible to catch up and kill all the soldiers who were fleeing in all directions.
Because the pistol could not fit into the gap between the armor and the cloth, in order to put on the camouflage armor, Ogata left his Umeizen, Kasumi Nagi, Daishiten and Daijizai in that building.
In civilian houses, there was no way to kill these fleeing soldiers with pistols.
After catching up with a few people and killing them, the remaining soldiers completely disappeared and they couldn't catch up even if they wanted to.
After seeing that there were no enemies still standing in the field of vision, Ogata threw away the knife in his hand, picked up a handful of white snow that was not contaminated by blood, and smeared it on his face. After wiping the blood on his face, he took off his armor.
, while walking slowly towards Izawa who was still struggling to get up.
"You, who are you?" Izawa endured the pain and tried to get up, but because his leg was too seriously injured and the residual pain from Ogata's heavy blow to his flank just now was still there, Izawa now had nothing but
Writhing on the ground like a maggot, unable to do anything except struggle.
"Just a passing ronin." Ogata responded in a calm tone.
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"...It's so miserable..." Looking at the mountain of corpses in front of him, A-Machi couldn't help but murmured with an unbearable expression.
"We arrived a step too late..." Ogata, who was standing next to Atachi, whispered, "We couldn't save anyone..."
After getting rid of the group of soldiers who stayed in the village, leaving only Izawa alive, Oufang took back the Da Shi Tian, Da Zi Zai, and his two pistols that had just been placed in the house.
, and allowed Atachi and others who had been hiding outside the village just now to show up.
When Ogata and the others arrived at the village, the soldiers had almost finished cleaning up the battlefield.
Corpses one after another were piled in a corner of the village by the soldiers, many of them missing their heads.
Both Ogata and Atachi knew that the army followed a system of "discussing combat merit by head," so they naturally knew that most of the heads of these corpses were removed as a result of combat merit.
Ogata and others are now standing in front of this mountain of corpses, staring blankly at the mountain of corpses in front of them with heavy expressions.
As for Lilata - she was speechless and choked, slumped on the ground, staring blankly at the two male corpses and one female corpse in front of her.
These three corpses were those of Lilata's grandfather, father, and mother. Ogata and the others had just worked together to dig them out for Lilata from the mountain of corpses.
The three corpses all looked miserable.
Grandpa's body suffered severe injuries to his abdomen and was almost broken in two.
The father's body was headless.
The clothes on the mother's corpse were very messy... Although it had not been violated, it had probably been subjected to many rude actions...
Perhaps because she had cried so much that all her tears had dried up, Lilata did not cry anymore, but stared blankly at the corpses of her relatives with red eyes.
"Huh?" At this time, Ating suddenly looked at the ground not far away, "This person is actually dead..."
Ogata followed Amachi's gaze and looked over - he saw that Izawa, who had just been captured by him, had made no sound.
Just now, Ogata tortured Izawa a lot.
As a general, Izawa has a high status in the army, so he naturally knows a lot of information.
After some torture, Oufon asked many things from Izawa's mouth.
For example-their large force that attacked this village has returned to the military camp.
For example--their army is now divided into three armies. The one to which Izawa belongs and is responsible for bringing peace to the village is the First Army with 3,000 troops.
Another example - the one who decided to attack this village was their army commander-in-chief, Daomori.
Another example - I learned that the shogunate attacked this village just because it felt that this village was very likely to become an ally of the Red Moon Fortress...
Just now, after hearing the name "Inamori" from Izawa's mouth, Ogata couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Feeling that the name seemed familiar, Ogata asked Izawa about the full name of "Inamori".
After learning that the full name of "Inamori" was "Inamori Masaya", Ogata suddenly remembered who this person was.
The name Inamori Masaya is not unfamiliar to Ogata.
He vaguely remembered that he had seen that Inamori when he was brought to Butterfly Island. It was this Inamori who was on the front line of Kii.
When he was interrogating Izawa just now, Ogata had already noticed that Izawa was very weak when he spoke. This was probably because Ogata had suffered internal injuries when he hit Izawa hard on the side.
After a lot of struggle, he finally stopped breathing completely just now.
When Ogata looked away from Izawa, Aizan walked towards Ogata and the others at that moment.
"Mr. Majima, Miss Atachi." Aizan said solemnly, "Let's find some fish oil together and burn these corpses."
"Yeah." Ogata nodded lightly, "Let's go."
"What should we do about the child?" Atachi nodded his chin towards Lilatana, who was still sitting on the ground.
"... Let's deal with the corpses in this village first." Ogata let out a long sigh.