I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"Afterwards, we have to fight the enemy in hand-to-hand combat on the ship."

"The narrow cabin and deck are not conducive to your shooting skills at all."

"What's more, we will swim there later."

"In this way, all the firearms on your body will inevitably be wet by the sea water."

"I don't think you need me to teach you about science: if the firearm gets into the water, what will happen?"

"And more importantly, you are still seasick, A-Ming, and you can't fight people on the boat at all."

The three reasons given by Ogata for "requiring A-Machi to stay on the coast" are more convincing than the other, and each makes A-Machi speechless.

Atachi, who was told by Ogata without any room for refutation, bit his lip lightly, lowered his head, and remained silent.

When A-Machi was silent, Ogata turned his gaze to A-Zhu.

"Azhu, although there is a wooden plank to hold, but crossing the sea with such rough waves, it is bound to consume a lot of energy."

"And you just happen to be the kind of person who doesn't have enough physical strength."

"So you stay here too."

A Zhu, who was known for his own strength, didn't say much, but nodded obediently.

"...A-Machi." Ogata turned his gaze back to A-Machi who was still silent, "...I will leave these two short guns to you for safekeeping for the time being."

Ogata took out the two pistols that he couldn't take across the sea with them: Kasumi Nagi and Ume Ran, and handed the two guns to Machi.

"Don't worry." Ogata smiled, and raised his hand to stroke A-cho's wet forehead hair, "I'll come back as soon as I go."

"...Mmm." A-Machi nodded vigorously, took and solemnly put away the two guns that Ogata asked her to keep.

When Ogata successfully persuaded A-Ming and A-Zhu to stay, a soft drink suddenly pierced Ogata's eardrum.

"Please take me with you!"

Ogata raised his eyebrows, and looked at Chu Guang, the coquettish master just now.

Chuguang, who was a little shorter than Ogata, stood beside Ogata, raised his head, and looked at Ogata with firm eyes.

"Please take me with you!"

Chuguang yelled again what she had just yelled.

"Jikuta... is most likely on those two ships."

Chu Guang turned his head, looked at the sea next to him, and clenched his teeth.

"So please take me with you!"

"My physical strength is good. I am confident that even after crossing the sea on the plank, I will still be alive and kicking."

"I am also very confident in my strength. After boarding the ship, I will never hold you back!"

Chuguang sincerely pleaded with Ogata.

"Hmm..." Looking at Chuguang who insisted on chasing the ship together, he hesitated.

He secretly glanced sideways at Azhu.

Azuki noticed that Ogata was looking at her.

Azuki pursed his lips tightly, like Ogata, with hesitation on his cheeks.

It wasn't until a moment later that Azhu nodded slightly as if he had finally finished his ideological struggle.

Azuki stood beside Acho.

Because A-Machi's body was in the way, Chuguang didn't see A-Zhu's little move.

"...Let me just remind you." Ogata looked away from Azhu, and nodded at Chuguang, "We must first cross the sea against the waves and enemy fire, and then we have to cross the sea on the ship. It is not an ordinary difficulty to engage in close combat with the enemy."

After hearing this, Chuguang smiled slightly:

"At the beginning, when I decided to confront Ji Jiu, I put life and death aside."

Contained in Chuguang's smile is the calmness and strength that can be lifted lightly.

"...I see. Then you have to...follow us closely."

"Thank you so much!" After Chuguang solemnly thanked Ogata, he turned his head and said to Shibata who was behind him, "Shibata, you stay on the coast with the others."

As soon as Chuguang finished speaking, Shibata opened and closed his mouth like a fish that fell onto the shore, as if he wanted to express his opinion on the order that Chuguang gave him just now.

But he, who is used to being obedient to Chuguang, finally chose to be a "good baby", lowered his head in frustration, nodded and said "yes".

In less than a cup of tea, Ogata and the others have decided on the members Ogata, Genichi, Mamiya, Mucun, and Chuguang who will cross the sea to pursue.

Genichi looked like he was going on an outing later, and asked Mamiya and Mucun in front of him with a smile, "Are you all ready to fight against the waves and artillery fire?"

Facing Genichi's question, Mamiya only smiled slightly: "I can't wait any longer. I just happened to learn the firing speed and firing method of naval guns."

Mucun was more straightforward. He didn't say anything, but after a smile, he took the lead in carrying the roof of the carriage and jumped into the sea.

Yuanyi, Jiangong, and Chuguang followed Mucun one after another, embracing the cold sea water.

Ogata didn't say any more words of farewell to Atachi.

With gentle movements, he helped his wife smooth her forehead hair that was wet by rain, and then strode out towards the sea ahead.

Just as he was about to jump into the sea, Ogata quietly put his hand into his bosom, and took out a... small object carefully wrapped in a handkerchief.

He unfolded the contents of the handkerchief, which was a small black medicine box.

This medicine box was specially purchased by Ogata for the convenience of shipping a certain medicine that he got from someone. When buying this medicine box, according to the shopkeeper: this medicine box is of excellent quality, especially waterproof , even if it falls into the water, there will be no drop of water seeping into the box.

This medicine box... or the medicine contained in this medicine box, was Ogata's last secret weapon that he carried with him just in case when he left Osaka lightly last night... the ultimate secret weapon.

After carefully looking at the medicine box with complicated eyes, Ogata wrapped the medicine box tightly with a handkerchief again, put it back in his arms, and then walked towards the sea in front of him.

As he walked towards the sea, Ogata's chest rose and fell slowly with a special rhythm.

Finally, a special light flashed in Ogata's pupils.

……

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time back to now

"Quick! Quick! Quickly reload!"

On Huluwan, several gunners on the muzzle of a certain gun pulled back the cannon on the muzzle with skillful movements, cleaned up the gunpowder residue left over from the previous round of shooting, and then loaded new shells.

The recoil of artillery in this era is generally extremely astonishing. Once fired, the artillery can run several meters backward.

Therefore, in order to limit the impact caused by the recoil of the artillery, on the battleship, the artillery will be fixed on the muzzle with inclined wooden blocks and ropes. In this way, after the artillery is fired, it will be blocked by the inclined wooden blocks and ropes Without flying too far back.

After a shot is fired, the gunners will quickly complete the reloading of the artillery, and then push the artillery out of the muzzle to shoot.

"It's loaded!"

"Okay! Push it out!"

Every cannon on Rihui Wan and Hulu Wan is the most advanced artillery in England.

Regardless of the firepower or the rate of fire, they are not comparable to the old antiques currently used by the Edo shogunate that have been behind the West for many years.

When the gunners in charge of the muzzle hurriedly planned to withdraw the loaded artillery from the muzzle again

Plop, plop...

They suddenly heard outside the muzzle... To be precise, it was a strange sound coming from the lower end outside the muzzle.

This sound... a bit like something hit the wall of their ship...

A very curious gunner, frowning, walked to the head and to the muzzle. He planned to see what was going on outside and where the strange sound came from.

"Did our ship hit something..." the "curious baby" muttered, poking his head out of the cannon.

And the moment he poked his head out of the muzzle of the gun... this person's face immediately became terribly pale as if covered with white foam.

a human face.

He saw a human face.

To be more precise, it was the face of a samurai who was under the muzzle of a gun.

And this samurai was exactly Ogata who had sneaked under the gourd pill just now under the cover of Yuan Yi and the others.

After the gunner poked his head out of the muzzle, Ogata also immediately raised his head when he heard the movement.

The two of them just stared at each other under the close distance.

The strange silence between the two lasted only for a moment.

The gunner, who had reacted, was about to retract his head, and loudly issued an "enemy attack alarm" to his companions.

This person's reaction can be regarded as quick.

It's a pity that Ogata's reaction was faster.

"There are enemies... ohhhhhh!"

Ogata raised his hand, grabbed the man's skirt, and then pulled the man out of the cannon muzzle, forcing him out of the cannon muzzle, allowing him to fall into the sea in a free fall.

The gunner's "enemy attack alarm" instantly turned into a terrified scream.

While the gunner was solved, the muzzle that was blocked by a big living person was also "cleaned up".

Ogata kicked his feet and climbed into the cabin along the cannon port that was vacated by the gunner falling into the sea.

Although the muzzle is narrow, it is not completely unable to accommodate a person in and out.

After Ogata, a wet stranger, suddenly appeared in the cabin along the muzzle of the gun, there were immediately screams one after another.

In order to cross the sea at the fastest speed, Ogata specially used the breath of source before jumping into the sea to enter the "state of no self".

This is the first time that Ogata's body has entered the "state of no-self" after absorbing the "power of immortality".

The feeling... Ogata is hard to describe in words.

Feeling as if I am omnipotent This is what Ogata felt after entering the "Selfless Realm" just now.

Every part of the body is filled with power that seems inexhaustible, and with a kick of his legs in the sea, he can break through the sea water and waves at a speed that even surprised Ogata.

The waves that were higher than his whole body hit him, to him, it was like a small splash of water splashing on his body, and it couldn't stop him in the slightest.

Under the cover of Yuan Yi and others, and with the blessing of "Selfless Realm", Ogata finally managed to "smuggle" under Huluwan's boat.

Although Ogata's physical strength has been greatly increased by absorbing the "power of immortality", the fact that "the state of no self" will consume a lot of physical strength will not change.

Next, on these two warships that I am not familiar with at all, no matter what kind of unexpected situation occurs, it is not surprising.

Therefore, in order to be on the safe side, and to preserve enough physical strength to cope with various emergencies that may occur later, at this moment, Ogata has withdrawn from the state of "Non-Self Realm".

Anyway, there is no need to use the "Selfless Realm" to deal with most of the people on the ship.

After crawling into the ship along the muzzle, Xu conveniently pulled out Da Shitian from his waist, and with a backhand knife, knocked down the gunner who happened to be at a certain gun position on his right. throat was cut open.

The crew members on Nikki Maru and Gourd Maru are worthy of being the elite talents trained by Toyotomi Nobuhide who spent a lot of money to invite the English Navy instructors.

After a short period of confusion, all the gunners present regained their composure one after another, took the muskets placed in various places in the cabin, and prepared to meet the enemy.

The gunner, who stood about a few steps away from Ogata, looked anxious, but his movements were steady.

He took the musket next to him with smooth movements, raised the muzzle, and pointed directly at Ogata.

A few steps away, this is out of Ogata's attack range.

Ogata didn't rush to dodge, or step forward, closing the distance between him and the musketeer.

Instead, very calmly, when the gunner had already pressed the trigger halfway, he stretched out the Da Shitian in his hand with lightning speed.

Although his sword could not cut the gunner, it could touch the musket in his hand.

Ogata pressed the tip of his knife against the muzzle of the man's musket, and then flicked it to the right.

The gunner has already knocked the trigger halfway, and can no longer retract his fingers...

then

boom!

The muzzle of the gun was deflected, and the projectile from the chamber hit one of Ogata's companions standing behind him.

After successfully letting this person injure his friendly army by mistake, Ogata took a step forward, stepped in front of this person, and pierced his chest with his sword.