I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

A-Machi had just seen something that Koizumi was looking at through the gap in the tent.

A-machi thought that Koizumi was reading a book, but he didn't expect to be reading a scroll.

Momentarily curious, Ah-cho picked up the scroll and looked at it at a glance.

After reading it, Ah-Machi's expression changed slightly.

Ogata noticed the change in Machi's face and asked:

"What is written on this scroll?"

"It's not a big deal." A-Machi handed the scroll to Ogata, "It's just a compliment."

"Comment?" Ogata took the scroll and quickly read it.

As Ah-Machi said just now, this is a commendation.

Its content is to praise Koizumi's work very seriously, and I am hereby issuing this letter of praise.

This kind of praise is quite common.

Some samurai are very serious about their work, or they have made some meritorious service, and they will send you a letter of commendation to praise your outstanding performance.

Among the values ​​​​of samurai in this era, there is nothing more important than honor.

For many samurai, receiving a certificate of commendation from above is a matter of great honor.

Ogata looked at the scroll in his hand, which was quite worn, probably because it was opened and viewed too many times.

On it neatly wrote Koizumi's full name Koizumi Seiichiro, praised Koizumi's serious work attitude in short words, and then said some nonsensical words about "You are a model of a samurai".

After quickly reading the contents of the letter of commendation in his hand, Ogata couldn't help but feel very ironic.

Today, Ohno told Ogata that their leader Koizumi was also a samurai who kept his own law.

After the "Tianming Famine" broke out, he was ruthlessly abandoned by the vassal government in order to reduce financial pressure, was demoted as a wanderer, and finally embarked on the road of no return as a thief.

That's how the meat-eaters of the domain treat their "model warrior"?

And this Koizumi was ruthlessly abandoned by the feudal mansion to which he had been loyal for most of his life, but he still kept this certificate awarded to him by the feudal mansion that he had read countless times, and he took it out to look at it in the middle of the night.

Ogata couldn't think of a suitable adjective to describe Koizumi who still had this praise.

Anyway, he didn't sympathize with Koizumi.

After the outbreak of "Tianming Famine", he was demoted to a wanderer by the feudal government, and then became a road tyrant, living by bullying men and women, killing people and looting money.

And now it has been 3 years since the "Famine at dawn".

After so many years, God knows how many innocent people have been brutally murdered by this guy.

After casually throwing the letter of commendation in his hand to his feet, Ogata suddenly heard shouts one after another:

"There is an enemy attack! There is an enemy attack!"

This is Ono's voice.

Hearing Ohno's voice, the expressions of Ogata and A-Machi both changed.

"What's going on?" Ah-Ming frowned, "Why did you hear that Ono's voice?"

Ogata: "I don't know. But thanks to Ohno, it seems our assassination can only stop here."

"Let's get out quickly." Ah-ding turned around and rushed out of the tent.

"Wait a minute." Ogata stopped Ah-ding, then pulled out Da Shitian, and chopped off Koizumi's head with a single knife.

The reason why Koizumi's head was cut off was because Ogata was sure that when he threw the head of Koizumi as the leader to the bandits who were still alive, it would definitely shake their fighting spirit and morale greatly.

And Ogata's judgment was quite accurate.

Holding Koizumi's head, he ran towards the direction Ohno had just shouted one after another.

From a distance, Ogata saw Hosaka and the others, as well as more than a dozen bandits who were confronting Hosaka and the others.

Then I just heard a guy shouting in a very confident tone:

"Don't worry! Ohno! We have a leader! You should know how powerful the leader Koizumi is?"

"If there are really two undead guys sneaking into our stronghold, our leader will definitely find out in time, and then kill those two guys!"

So Xu Convenience took advantage of the situation and asked, "Boss? Are you referring to this person?", while throwing Koizumi's head that had just been cut off.

After Koizumi's head fell firmly among the thieves, the thieves immediately became a mess.

"You, who are you?" The bandit who confidently called them and Koizumi's leader just now was shocked by the impactful scene after seeing Koizumi's head. He stuttered when he spoke.

"Just a samurai who just happened to pass by a nearby castle town."

After telling the truth, Ogata pulled out the Da Shi Tianhou from his waist, pressed the center of gravity of his body, and brought gusts of wind with his sprinting body.

Under the assassination of Ogata and Atachi, the base of 30 bandits has lost more than half of its combat power.

After seeing Ogata appearing and successfully assassinating the leader of the bandits, Hosaka and others felt their spirits and morale lifted.

After Ogata drew his sword and rushed towards the bandits, Hosaka and others followed closely behind, attacking the bandits back and forth together with Ogata who was behind the bandits.

"Quick! Kill this guy! Let's go together! Kill that guy!"

The person who uttered this anxious cry was Ohno.

With the help of his companions, Ohno had already cut the hemp rope that tied his hands behind his back.

Seeing Ogata rushing, Ohno immediately beckoned to the people around him to kill Ogata quickly with a face full of fear, and specifically reminded them to go all the way and launch a siege on Ogata.

But because Ogata's speed was too fast, as soon as Ohno's anxious shout fell, Ogata had already rushed into the bandits, swung two sharp knives, and beheaded the two bandits.

A-cho didn't just watch from the sidelines, when Ogata rushed towards the bandits, A-cho followed closely behind Ogata.

Machi is a person who has a fairly clear awareness of his strengths and weaknesses.

She knew that her sword skills were mediocre and her jujitsu was good.

So when she fights close combat with others, she mainly uses Shiranui-ryu jujitsu to attack the enemy.

A-cho stopped a bandit who was about to attack Ogata.

The bandit didn't even have time to react to A-Ming who suddenly jumped in front of him, when A-Ming stretched out his hands and directly grabbed his right hand holding the knife.

After A-Ming controlled the right hand he had caught, he used the grappling technique in Shiranui-ryu-jitsu to twist the prisoner's right arm into a strange angle.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

The right arm was severed by A-Ming, and the bandit was unable to hold the knife due to the severe pain, and the knife fell off his right palm.

After letting the bandit's knife out of his hand, A-cho squatted down suddenly, quickly lowered his body's center of gravity, and then made a sharp sweeping kick.

Ah Ding's leg was like a whip made of steel, hitting the bandit's leg hard.

With the sound of a slight bone crack, the bandit was directly kicked to the ground by A-Ming, and the moment he landed, A-Ming quickly pulled out his wakizasa and stabbed the bandit in the throat. wear.

After finishing off the bandit beautifully, Ah-cho couldn't help but sigh with emotion:

Wearing such thick clothes will really affect the speed of moves.

It's the freezing winter now, and A-Machi doesn't have Ogata's perverted physique that was tempered by the system, but A-Machi with an ordinary person's physique. In such a severe winter, he naturally wears thick clothes.

The overly thick clothes slowed down A-ding's speed no matter whether he was using grabbing or sweeping kicks.

If he was wearing a ninja uniform that was very easy to move, Ah-cho was sure that he would be able to kill the bandit more quickly.

By the way, A-Machi has always carried the ninja suit in Shiranui.

Although there are basically only some bad memories of Shiranui Ri, A-Machi has to admit that the female ninja uniform in Shiranui Ri is indeed a set of clothing that is very easy to move, suitable for combat and stealth.

It would be a pity to throw away such a set of clothing that he was used to and suitable for battle, so A-cho always carried the ninja uniform with him.

It's just that in this kind of cold weather, there is basically no chance for female ninja uniforms with less fabrics and extra cool to appear on the stage.

Under the assassination of Ogata and Atachi, there were only a dozen bandits left in this group of bandits, not much larger than Ogata and others who had 6 people.

In the case that the number of people is not too dominant, facing the 6 people headed by Ogata, if their number is multiplied by 10, it may still make Ogata feel a little tricky, but the battle of more than ten people in the district started from the beginning. The result is already doomed.

Ogata is basically one knife.

No bandit could block or evade Ogata's attack.

As for the bandits' counterattack, their slow knives were either easily dodged by Ogata.

Or just as soon as the knife was raised, Ogata cut it off first.

For example, after beheading another bandit now, Xu conveniently sensed that someone was approaching quickly from behind him.

Turning his head and looking back, it was Ohno.

Ohno was holding high the sword that he probably picked up from his dead companion, and quickly walked from behind Ogata towards Ogata.

He probably wanted to sneak up on Ogata, so he kept his mouth shut and didn't even make a sound, and specially suppressed the sound of footsteps.

But his level was not good enough, even though he didn't make a sound and specially suppressed the sound of footsteps, Ogata still sensed his approach.

After seeing Ogata looking back at him, a strong look of fear immediately appeared on his face.

But as soon as the color of fear appeared on his face, he gritted his teeth, suppressed the fear in his heart, and continued to rush straight towards Ogata.

In order to survive, Ohno has decided to put all his eggs in one basket.

Facing Ohno, who has already embraced the consciousness of mortal death, his mood does not change.

After measuring the distance between him and Ono with lowered eyes,

laugh.

The sound of a sword piercing through human flesh resounded.

Ogata used his good hand to grab the bottom of the handle of the knife, greatly widening the attack distance of the knife, and then aimed at Ono's throat with a bird stab of Sakakibara's style.

The tip of Da Shitian's knife sank into Ono's throat.

Unexpectedly, Ogata would have such a move, and Ohno, who was weak at the same time, had his throat pierced by Da Shitian in this way.

With Ogata present, the battle started suddenly and ended quickly.

The battle officially ends when Ogata cuts down a demoralized bandit who tries to escape.

Of the 13 bandits, 8 were beheaded by Ogata, and 2 were killed by Atachi. Hosaka, Kinjo, and Tsuchiya each picked up one head, and only Mizuno got nothing.

As soon as the battle started, Mizuno found a bandit and confronted the bandit with a sword.

However, due to lack of actual combat experience and fear of real knives in the hands of the bandits, Mizuno never dared to use them. He only dared to hold up the knife and constantly send out Qi He to deter the bandits.

And the opponent that Mizuno found was also a person who lacked actual combat experience and was afraid of real knives, so he only dared to hold up the sword and kept sending out qihe in an attempt to deter Mizuno.

So it turned into such a picture: Mizuno and the bandit were exuding qihe one after another while they were in the duo, but no one dared to go up.

Until there were fewer and fewer bandits who could stand still, the bandit confronting Mizuno gradually became frightened, so he voluntarily withdrew from the confrontation with Mizuno, turned around and fled.

But before the bandit escaped a few steps, he was caught up by Ogata not far away, and then he was killed by Ogata with a single knife.

After the battle, Ogata and others began to clean up the battlefield.

They first checked the bandit's stronghold to see if there were any fish that slipped through the net.

Ogata and the others found a lot of good things while checking to see if there were any fish that slipped through the net.

They found the bandits' money and the bandits' food.

These bandits don't have much food, only a large bag of polished rice, a large bag of brown rice, and a large bag of various vegetables such as pickles, radishes, and some salted fish.

These bandits have quite a lot of money.

Ogata and others counted and found a total of 32 taels of gold, 223 silver and 1225 copper coins.

After confirming that there were no living bandits around, they began to dispose of the bandits' bodies.

Ogata and A-machi found out the bandits who died in their assassination just now one by one, and then collected their bodies and the bodies of the bandits who died in the battle just now into one piece, no more, no less, exactly 30 corpse.

If these people were left alone, there might be an epidemic, so Ogata and others worked together to dig a big hole to bury the bodies of these bandits.

Also buried in the ground were the weapons of these bandits.

Ogata and the others had no intention of taking away the bandits' weapons and selling them.

Because they have no way to sell stolen goods.

And if he showed up in the town with a large number of weapons, it might attract the attention of the government and cause unnecessary trouble.

When they killed the dozen or so bandits other than Ono who came to "friendly negotiations" with the villagers this morning, Ogata and the others did the same with the corpses of the ten bandits, burying them with their weapons.