I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"Now try to find my subordinates who were also arrested."

"As long as I find my subordinates, the chances of escaping will be greatly increased!"

Hasegawa, who has always loved soldiers like his son, would rather die than do such a thing as "abandoning his subordinates".

Toyotomi Nobuhide told him before: His subordinates are now being fed with good food and drink. Hasegawa believes that his words should be credible.

According to Hasegawa's observation and judgment, Toyotomi Nobuhide should really want to take him under his command.

Since he really wanted to win over Hasegawa and take him under his command, unless Toyotomi Nobuhide was a person with a bad mind, it was unlikely that he would do something like "kill Hasegawa and his subordinates" no matter what.

Hasegawa can only hope that his subordinates will also be locked up in this place.

In fact, even regardless of Hasegawa's compassion, from a practical point of view, these subordinates of Hasegawa must be saved.

Although Hasegawa is quite confident in his own skills, he also has self-knowledge that he is already an uncle who is almost 50 years old.

Physical strength or something has declined severely in recent years.

In an unfamiliar place, dragging an old body, leading three people to escape from the dangerous place alone, no matter how you think about it, it is extremely risky.

Instead of taking such a risk, it would be better to rescue his subordinates first and try to join his subordinates.

Military training is one of Hasegawa's proudest strengths.

Under his training and tempering, all the members of Huofu Thief Kai have extremely high combat effectiveness and organization.

He brought Koyasan's subordinates this time, a total of 23 people.

Although among the 23 people, there are some newcomers who were specially brought out to gain knowledge and experience, but experienced veterans still account for the vast majority of the 23 people.

If all 23 of his subordinates can be rescued, the chances of escaping from this place will undoubtedly be greatly increased.

How big is this place?

Because he is not familiar with this place, Hasegawa, who had to lead Naosuke and others to scurry through the narrow passage like a headless chicken, couldn't help expressing such emotion in his heart.

According to Hasegawa's observation, this place should be an underground prison transformed from a cave.

Connecting the various caves, and then repairing each cave, a beautiful and spacious underground prison was born.

Hasegawa is actually not afraid of the size of this underground prison.

He is only afraid that his men are not locked up in this place

After turning into an unknown number of narrow passages, Hasegawa finally heard the small voices of conversation coming from ahead.

After raising his hand to signal Naoshu and the others behind him to stop, Hasegawa held the knife, lowered his body's center of gravity, and moved forward bit by bit in a posture similar to squatting on the ground.

The bursts of small conversations came from behind the corner in front.

Hasegawa walked carefully to the edge of the corner, pressed his body against the rock wall of the corner, and poked half of his head out of the corner.

After sweeping his gaze to the corner, the moment he saw the scene behind the corner clearly, a smile of relief appeared on Hasegawa's face immediately.

"Finally found you guys"

Hasegawa strode away from the corner where he was hiding and walked outside.

Behind the corner is a huge prison cell.

This prison cell was probably remodeled from a certain natural cave. The space is extremely spacious, and it should not be a problem to accommodate more than thirty people. A wooden fence is built between the cave and the passage, and a spacious prison cell is like this It's done.

I saw that at the back of this prison cell, there were more than twenty people being imprisoned.

And these twenty or so people, without exception, are faces that Hasegawa is quite familiar with.

After Hasegawa appeared from behind the corner, the "residents" in the cell were stunned for a moment, and then all rushed to the cell door with ecstasy.

"Master Hasegawa! Why are you here?"

"Master Hasegawa, I finally saw you!"

"Master Hasegawa, where is this place?"

Facing the sentence of "Master Hasegawa", Hasegawa took out the bunch of keys he just got from the young man with narrow eyes, and said helplessly:

"Everyone calm down first."

"Let's escape from here first."

"Let's talk about these things in detail later."

After speaking, Hasegawa took out one of the keys from the bunch of keys picked up by the narrow-eyed young man, and inserted it into the big iron lock that closed the cell doors of his subordinates.

There are 13 keys in this bunch.

It only takes less than half a minute to try every key.

But after trying every key, Hasegawa found in astonishment that none of the keys matched the iron lock of the cell.

"Tsk, what a waste of my time." After swearing in a low voice, Hasegawa threw the bunch of keys at his feet like trash, and then waved to Naoki behind him, "Mr. Isshiki, please give me a Pretty solid."

"Ah good!"

Naoki hastily handed the iron cannon on his back to Hasegawa.

"Stand back, all of you."

After a low growl at the subordinates crowded by the cell door, Hasegawa raised the flintlock and pressed the muzzle of the gun against the short and thin lock tube, which was the weakest part of the iron lock.

boom!

Gunshots exploded at the same time as piercing cracks.

The locked barrel of the gun, like broken glass, had dense cracks.

After throwing away the empty musket in his hand, Hasegawa grabbed the iron lock and broke it hard. With a "click" sound, the iron lock was finally opened on a physical level.

"Come out quickly." Hasegawa opened the door and greeted his subordinates to come out of the cell, then turned his head and shouted to Naoshu and the others, "Mr. Isshiki, please give me the iron cannons you brought. subordinates."

Zhizhou: "Yes."

The subordinates were successfully rescued, and none of the subordinates was missing. This made Hasegawa's big rock that had been hanging in his heart since just now finally fell half.

However, the boulder in his heart had just fallen halfway, and at this moment the voice that suddenly entered Hasegawa's ears made the boulder rise back to its original position.

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Hasegawa heard the sound of extremely dense footsteps approaching here not far away.

With a sudden change in his expression, he raised his arms and shouted:

"Hidden, find a place to hide!"

It’s strange how it feels like today’s Russia and Ukraine are so peaceful and there is no big news. Before that, there were big news almost every day.

Chapter 706 Ogata's Tactics: Woodpecker Tactics 【5300】

After shouting the phrase "concealment", Hasegawa took the lead in rushing to the back of a rock wall protruding from a large piece beside him. Zhou and the others also pulled up together.

The high-level organization of Huofu Thief Gai, who was trained by Hasegawa himself, was revealed at this moment.

Following Hasegawa's order, these subordinates of Hasegawa scattered in all directions, looking for and hiding in suitable hiding places like Hasegawa did.

As soon as Hasegawa and the others hid their bodies, they saw a large group of people pouring out of the end of the corridor directly in front of them, like a spring bubbling out of the spring.

And it was Gao Qing who led the team.

Seeing that the person who went to escort Hasegawa had not returned, Gao Qing immediately took all the troops he could lead, 6 Iga ninjas and 18 musketeers, to the underground prison .

After coming to the cell where Hasegawa was originally held, Gao Qing saw the corpses all over the floor that Hasegawa had killed.

Knowing that her bad premonition really came true, Gao Qing didn't dare to neglect or hesitate any more.

Regarding the famous "Ghost Ping", Gao Qing had heard many deeds related to him a long time ago.

He solved a case that ordinary officials couldn't solve after a month of tossing about it in three days.

What is it that the mother of a certain official who was reformed by Huofu Thief was seriously ill, and he used his private money to advance money for that subordinate.

If it was that "Ghost Taira", he would definitely not just abandon his subordinates just like that, right? Gao Qing, who speculated in her heart, led the troops and went straight to the place where Hasegawa's subordinates were being held.

Sure enough, what he saw with his eyes was exactly the same as his speculation.

Although Hasegawa and the others hid in the obstacle quickly, Gao Qing still caught the moment when Hasegawa rushed behind the stone wall in time.

Tsk, this time is messing me up!

Gao Qing's cheeks were bulging outwards due to clenching her teeth vigorously.

At the moment when she was in a hurry to transfer from Koyasan, Hasegawa's actions made Gao Qing want to kill.

But even though her heart is full of killing intent now, Gao Qing suppressed her resentment, and said loudly to Hasegawa in as gentle a tone as possible:

"Mr. Hasegawa. Don't hide! I've seen you!"

"You are Lord Toyotomi's guest!"

"We don't want to hurt you!"

"Please put down your weapons and come out!"

"If you are afraid that we will take you to some terrible place later, then you can rest assured!"

"We are just transferring everyone in this cell, including you, for some reason!"

"I assure you! Everything I said just now is the truth!"

For Gao Qing, the best result right now is naturally to successfully persuade Hasegawa to surrender with her mouth.

Not only because Hasegawa is a guest of Toyotomi Nobuhide, but also a talent that Toyotomi Nobuhide is eager to earn under his command. If Hasegawa is accidentally injured or killed, it will be difficult to explain to Toyotomi Nobuhide.

It is also because Hasegawa and the others are now holding a number of weapons that cannot be underestimated.

Gao Qing not only captured the moment when Hasegawa and the others hid in various obstacles just now, he also witnessed that Hasegawa and the others were holding a large number of muskets in their hands.

Although the number of muskets possessed by Hasegawa and others, according to Gao Qing's visual inspection just now, is not enough for the number of hands, the number is far inferior to him who currently has 18 musketeers under his command, but muskets are muskets after all.

If there is a firefight with Hasegawa and others in such a narrow place, even if they win, they will definitely suffer a lot of casualties. This is not what Gao Qing wants to see.

Of course, Gao Qing is not a naive fool.

Naturally, he would not foolishly put all his hopes on persuading him to surrender.

Having prepared with both hands, he loudly persuaded Hasegawa to surrender and at the same time gestured to all the subordinates around him to be ready to fight at any time.

"Tsk..." Hasegawa secretly poked half of his head out of the rock wall to observe the strength of Gao Qing's troops.

Due to the angle and terrain, it is difficult to tell the exact number of Gao Qing's troops. The only thing that can be confirmed is that Gao Qing's side has the upper hand in the number of muskets.

Trouble

Hasegawa turned his head and looked at the subordinates beside him.

Due to the lack of weapons, more than half of the subordinates are unarmed.

And those who had arms carried only flintlocks which they had never seen before and were not at all familiar with.

"Master Hasegawa."

A subordinate next to Hasegawa, who was lucky enough to get a flintlock just now, asked Hasegawa in a low voice.

"How do you use this iron cannon? Why doesn't it even have a matchlock? There isn't even a matchlock, so how do you shoot it?"

"I don't know either." Hasegawa said in a low voice, "But the iron cannon seems to be able to fire just by pulling the trigger, so be careful not to accidentally fire."

"Master Hasegawa." Another person lowered his voice and asked Hasegawa, "What are we going to do now? Are we going to rush out and fight those people outside?"

"" Hasegawa didn't respond to his subordinate's question.

I saw him with a calm face showing thinking.

"You said just now: now for some reason, we are going to be transferred. Dare I ask what the reason is?" Hasegawa asked Gao Qing outside in a calm tone.

While asking Gao Qing such a question, Hasegawa quickly turned his gaze, scanning everything within his field of vision.

In the end, Hasegawa's eyes fixed on the cell behind him from which his subordinates had just come out.

To be precise, it is the large wooden planks that are fixed on the floor of the cell, one person long and half a person wide.

These large wooden boards, no more, no less, totaled 23 pieces, which was exactly the same as the number of subordinates who were imprisoned here.

Presumably these boards are the beds of the subordinates these days.

"Sorry." Gao Qing answered Hasegawa's question at this time, "Please forgive me for not being able to answer this question."

As soon as Gao Qing finished speaking, Hasegawa hurriedly asked a new question: