I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Looking at the Ertiao Castle that was still emitting fire and black smoke, Hexian twitched the corners of his mouth:

"That executioner, Yidao Zhai...is really a lunatic..."

After commanding Ryunosuke's subordinates to rush into Nijo Castle, He Xian fled to the side secretly.

After all, He Xian is not a fighting school. For his own safety, He Xian chooses to hide away and pay attention to this battle that is destined to be recorded in history from a distance.

Just now, Hexian had received definite information from his subordinates: Ryunosuke's subordinates who entered Nijo Castle, and the ninjas in Shiranui who guarded Nijo Castle died or fled.

As for Ogata Yidao Zhai, he is nowhere to be found.

After taking a last look at Erjo Castle in the distance, He Xian withdrew his gaze.

"What should we do now?" He Xian asked the young man who had just asked him this question, "What else can I do, of course I'm leaving the capital."

"We originally came to Kyoto with them to help Ryunosuke to disgust the shogunate, and provided them with weapons and raw materials for making explosive bombs."

"I even lent him an elite shooter under my command to monitor the owner of the Metaphysics Hall. It's a pity that the shooter died. It's not easy to train such an elite."

"Now Ryunosuke and his 'gravediggers' are finished, and their plan to destroy Kyoto has also failed, and we have no reason to stay in Kyoto anymore."

"Catching Ogata Yidaosai alive was originally a temporary idea on my part, it's fine if I didn't catch him."

After finishing speaking, He Xian shook the cloak on his body.

"Let's go, let's go back to Ryukyu!"

Chapter 333

Although Shun Liu's last straight stab didn't hit Mucun's vitals, and didn't kill Mucun, but with such a big wound on his abdomen, he wouldn't feel good no matter what.

Mucun covered the huge wound in his abdomen, blocked the bloody hole in his abdomen with his palm, and walked towards the bustling street outside "Baidi".

As soon as he got to the main street, Mucun saw his acquaintance.

"Senior Mucun! I finally found out why you are like this?"

Shimada hurried towards Mucun with a look of astonishment.

"It's Shimada, this is a long story, and I'll tell you how I became what I am now. First tell me, have all the explosive bombs in Yamaboko been dismantled?"

"It's safe!" Shimada nodded vigorously.

Shimada roughly talked about how he and Hasegawa led the officials who were mobilized by them to dismantle the explosive bombs of Yamaboko.

Among the officials mobilized by them, there are many old people who have been working in Kyoto for decades.

Under the guidance of those old people, they took one shortcut after another.

At the same time, he exercised the privileges unique to official posts over and over again, ordering all the civilians blocking the way ahead to get out of the way.

Seeing such a large group of official errands, no one would dare to confront such a large group of errands.

After running desperately like this, they finally arrived at the scene of the Yamaboko parade just before Yamaboko had just completed half of the journey.

After arriving at the scene of the Yamaboko parade, they didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked for a temporary suspension of the parade, and then surrounded the twenty or so Yamabokos separately, preventing anyone from getting close to the Yamaboko. , look for all square-shaped unidentified objects in Yamaboko.

The behavior of the officials who forcibly rushed into the scene of the Yamaboko parade and so rudely demanded that the parade be temporarily stopped naturally aroused the opposition and disgust of many citizens present.

Some citizens even excitedly yelled at the officials, asking them to get out as soon as possible.

Because there is no extra time to explain what happened to these ignorant citizens.

So the officials are also very simple and rude. After they showed off their various trapping tools with amazing shapes, the citizens who were still angry just now immediately became quiet and obedient.

There are big and small Yamabokos, but no matter what size Yamaboko is, there are not many places that can hold explosive bombs inside.

After a while, the officials found strange square objects in various mountains.

As soon as they saw officials rushing into the meeting place where the Yamaboko was parading, the expressions of some hikifu who were in charge of pulling the Yamaboko changed.

Some of these hikifu with strange expressions on their faces turned pale, and dropped the long ropes that were holding the Yamahoko, turned around and fled.

Some showed vicious expressions and dropped the long ropes in their hands, but instead of running away, they ran towards the Yamahoko they were responsible for pulling, intending to detonate the explosive bomb inside the Yamahoko right now.

In terms of arresting people, the officials are all professional.

For highly skilled people like Ogata and Mucun, the officials may not be able to do what they want.

But to deal with this kind of ordinary people, the officials are more than enough.

Except for a few "gravediggers" who got into the crowd and escaped successfully under the cover of the crowd, the rest of those who planned to escape, or those who planned to detonate the bombs in Yamaboko immediately, were basically arrested by the officials. captured.

After confirming that there were no more bombs in each Yamaboko, the officials escorted the towers who showed their feet away, and informed the surrounding citizens that the Yamahoko parade could continue.

The surrounding citizens were basically at a loss until the end, unable to figure out what was going on.

Although many hikifu were captured, the number of hikifu was not so small that it would hurt the muscles and bones, and the Yamaboko parade could still continue.

The sudden intrusion of the officials can be regarded as a small episode in tonight's Yamaboko tour.

Now that the officials have left, everyone at the parade site cheered up and continued the parade.

Under the command of Hasegawa, the officials did not go far.

They stayed on the periphery of the parade site, monitoring the site.

It was Hasegawa's idea to stay on the periphery of the parade site.

Although a lot of trollers with problems showing their feet have been captured, there may still be some members of the "gravediggers" mixed in with the trollers, but they neither escaped nor tried to detonate the bomb immediately. , so successfully continued to hide among the draggers.

After the Yamaboko parade is over, take away all the towmen at the parade site, and then investigate one by one to find out if there are any fish that slipped through the net. This is Hasegawa's plan.

Hasegawa's plan was approved by almost all officials.

After successfully dismantling the explosive bomb in Yamaboko and resolving the crisis, Shimada ran out, followed the direction Mucun had left just now, and searched for Mucun bit by bit, looking for Mucun's figure.

Then they ran into Mucun, who had just come out of the "Baidi" where the decisive battle with Shun Liu was, covered in blood, and couldn't even walk steadily.

After learning that Yamaboko's crisis was resolved, Mucun's expression relaxed, as if a big stone had fallen from his heart.

But just after a short breath, the expression on Mucun's face became tense again.

"Can't relax yet," Mu Cun said softly, "There are still many members of the gravediggers mixed in the six sword halls, so find them out as soon as possible."

"About this," Shimada smiled wryly, "Makimura-senpai, you don't have to worry."

"The members of the gravediggers who infiltrated the Six Great Sword Halls should have been killed."

"What?" Mucun looked at Shimada in astonishment, "Killed it? Who killed it?"

"I also heard it from passers-by when I was looking for you around."

Shimada succinctly recounted to Mucun what he had just heard from a passerby.

The owner and many disciples of the Six Great Sword Gym were killed by unknown people. Those disciples who were still alive suspected that Ogata was the murderer, so they gathered in Erxiang Town and asked Ogata to confront him.

Then Nijo Castle was suddenly attacked by others.

For some reason, those disciples who originally gathered in the Six Swords Hall in Erxiang Town began to flock to Nijo Castle.

Then, most of the disciples of the Six Great Sword Gym, who were killed or injured, escaped from Erjo City.

Based on the known information, it is not difficult for Mucun to deduce that the so-called "disciples" who gathered in Fuxiang Town and asked Ogata to confront him should be members of the "Gravediggers".

After all, apart from the members of the "gravediggers" who were mixed in various sword gyms, no one had the ability to kill so many people scattered in various sword gyms in such a short period of time.

After listening to Shimada's retelling, Mucun was stunned and said:

"Could it be the person who attacked Nijo Castle?"

Shimada smiled wryly:

"It should be him"

"Ha." After being silent for a while, Mu Cun let out a chuckle mixed with complicated emotions, "It's really him! So that's what happened to the flames of Ertiao City."

嗖

At this moment, Mucun and Shimada both heard the sound of something rising into the sky not far away.

As soon as the two looked around, they saw a red "flower" blooming in the sky.

It's fireworks.

"Start setting off the fireworks," Mu Cun said softly.

Mucun is also clear about the flow of activities tonight. The first is the Yamaboko parade. After the Yamaboko parade is over, the fireworks display that Shenshan specially added this year will begin.

Now that the fireworks are going off, it means that the Yamaboko parade is over or is about to end.

It was like a chain reaction, after the first firework vacated, one after another, the fireworks rose up, emitting colorful lights in the sky, illuminating most of the sky.

These people who are responsible for setting off fireworks are all "temporary workers" temporarily hired by the government from the private sector.

Their task is to light the fireworks when the time is almost up.

Some of them also saw the flames emanating from Nijo Castle, and realized that something serious had happened, but because no one came to tell them to stop the fireworks, they did their duty when they saw that the time was about the same. Fireworks are ignited one after another, causing the sky to emit clusters of lights of different colors.

Kyoto, Oike Street.

After the Yamaboko parade started, Granny Gao followed the Yamaboko closely with the flow of people, moving slowly along the street together.

After walking to the street of Oike Street, Granny Gao, who was already old after all, felt a little weak in strength and could no longer walk, so she went to the side to rest.

Although she couldn't follow Yamaboko to the finish line, Grandma Gao was very satisfied.

After the fireworks went off, Granny Cake and everyone around her immediately raised their heads and looked towards the sky.

Kyoto, dirty original.

"My lord."

Layman Yinxin's personal entourage, Ah Gong, knelt beside Yinxin on one knee, and said respectfully to Layman Yinxin:

“Many people want to go out to watch the fireworks”

Before Ah Gong finished speaking, layman Yinxin who was reading a book said without thinking:

"Let them go. Huiyuan is indeed not a good place to watch fireworks. There are not many fireworks to watch all year round. Let those who want to watch fireworks see enough."

"Yes!"

"That guy from Shenshan is really daring to think and do it."

Yinxin suddenly let out a chuckle.

"In order to let the people of Kyoto, who have been through a lot of hardships these years, have a good time at this year's Gion Festival, it is very courageous for Kamiyama to decide to add a fireworks display to the Gion Festival, which is against tradition. guy figured it out"

After finishing speaking, Yinxin closed the book in his hand and stood up.

"Agong, let's go."

"Master Yinxin." Ah Gong asked doubtfully, "Where are we going?"

"Of course it's to watch the fireworks." Yin Xin said, "The government spent so much money to buy so many fireworks, it would be a pity not to take a look."

Kyoto, Shimabara.

"Sister, I heard the sound of fireworks"

Chufeng, whose body was covered with erythema unique to syphilis, said this weakly to Dieyin who was beside him who was feeding her medicine.

"En." Dieyin put aside the empty medicine bowl in her hand, "Come on, Chufeng, I'll help you up."

Dieyin helped Chufeng up, who was no longer able to get up by his own strength, and then helped Chufeng to the side window, so that Chufeng could see the fireworks blooming in the distant sky.

The wandering girls who were still staying behind the wooden fence also leaned closer to the wooden fence in front of them at this time, so that they could better see the scenery of the sky outside.

Kyoto, in a burnt area.

Dosuke and the others, who were watching the flames of Nijo Castle just now, turned their eyes to the fireworks blooming everywhere in the sky.

Kyoto, Nishi Honganji Temple.

Those dignitaries who originally held the banquet tonight escaped from Nijo Castle along the secret road of Nijo Castle, and fled to the Nishi Honganji Temple in Nijo Castle before they dared to stop.

After the fireworks were lit, these dignitaries also raised their heads to watch.

Of course, there are some people who don't have the energy and mood to watch the fireworks.

For example: Toda Tadahiro, the governor of Kyoto.

Another example: Owari domain name Tokugawa Munemu.

Toda's face is pale now, and cold sweat can't stop breaking out from his forehead.

Tokugawa Munemu, on the other hand, remained calm and walked slowly in front of Toda.