I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan - Chapter 745 Call you Ogata Yasushi? Or Mashima Goro? 【Five thousand two…

"Master Matsudaira..."

Inside the carriage, Tachibana said in a worried tone to the middle-aged man who was sitting opposite him and leaning against the window:

"You haven't had much rest since last night... Would you like to take a nap now?"

"I'm not sleepy." As soon as Tachibana finished speaking, Matsudaira said in a calm tone, "It's you—you haven't had a good rest since last night, right? Take advantage of the time to rest now, hurry up and sleep for a while. Bar."

"I am not sleepy…"

"Close your eyes and rest if you're not sleepy." Matsudaira put on an indisputable tough tone, "If you're tired, where can I find someone who can replace you?"

Tachibana has served Songping Dingxin for so long as a small surname, and he knows all about Songping Dingxin's various behaviors and habits.

Just listening to Matsudaira's tone of voice, Tachibana knew that he was afraid that he had no room to refute or bargain with the adult in front of him.

"...I see." Tachibana nodded lightly, then leaned back and closed his eyes.

After confirming that Tachibana really closed his eyes and started to rest, Matsudaira turned his eyes to the window and quietly watched the rain.

Last night, after escaping from Osaka and meeting with the troops stationed on the outskirts of Osaka, it was concluded that some extremely powerful and unknown force was challenging the Edo Shogunate's Matsudaira, and quickly issued orders one after another.

Send a letter to the feudal kingdoms and Oshiro around Osaka, asking them to immediately mobilize the army and enter a state of maximum security.

The hundreds of troops stationed on the outskirts of Osaka, they can't do much with this number, they continue to stay around Osaka to monitor and scout the movements of the enemy in Osaka.

As for Matsudaira himself, he returned to Edo at the fastest speed, and took up the headquarters of the Edo shogunate, mobilized troops and supplies, and strengthened the defense of Edo, so as to prevent Edo from repeating the mistakes of the Osaka attack.

At this moment, Matsudaira was sitting in the carriage returning to Edo.

Since last night, Matsudaira, who had basically had no rest, felt a constant "boom boom" in his head.

Feeling tired, but just can't sleep.

As long as you are free, your brain will operate uncontrollably, and you can't help thinking about how to complete the mobilization as quickly as possible after returning to Edo, and how to find out the gang of thieves who attacked Osaka last night. Identity and base…

He wanted to relax his brain by watching the rain. But as soon as he turned his eyes out of the window, he suddenly heard one of the cavalry guards outside the carriage shouting to him in a loud voice:

"Lord Zhong! There is a monk in front!"

"Monk?" Song Ping Dingxin raised his brows slightly, leaned half of his head out of the window, and looked towards the road ahead - there really was an old monk standing beside a small donkey in front of him.

Matsudaira Dingxin's eyesight has always been good, even with a thick rain curtain blocking him, he could still see the old monk's face clearly at the first time.

I saw Songping Dingxin's expression changed slightly after seeing the appearance of the old monk, and he hurriedly said loudly to the coachman who pulled the horse and the guards who were escorting him:

"Stop in front of that monk!"

Following the order of Matsudaira Toshin, the convoy began to slow down slowly, and finally stopped stably in front of the old monk.

"Master Qingyan?" Songping Dingxin stuck his head out of the car window, "Why are you in this place?"

"Songping...sir?" The old monk...or said: Qingyan dumbly looked at Songping Dingxin in the carriage.

Tachibana, who had just closed her eyes and rested for a while, opened her eyes when she heard the movement, and cast a suspicious look at Master Qingyan outside the carriage.

"Sir Matsudaira." Tachibana asked Matsudaira softly, "Who is this person?"

"Yeah, speaking of it... Tachibana, you have never seen Master Qingyan before." Matsudaira cleared his throat, "Master Qingyan is the abbot of Kongofeng Temple in Koya Mountain."

Songping Dingxin's introduction to Qingyan is very simple, just one sentence.

But it was this simple sentence that made Tachibana's expression immediately change wonderfully.

Koyasan is the main mountain of the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan.

The Kongobuji Temple, located on Koya Mountain, is the head temple of Shingon sect! The temples in Koyasan are all respected by Kongobu Temple!

The abbot of King Kongbong Temple... How detached his status is, one can only imagine.

The status of the abbot of Kongofeng Temple in Koya Mountain is basically equal to the status of the General Zhengyi in the Edo Shogunate!

Tachibana, who knew that she was being rude, hurriedly saluted the person on Qingyan who was outside the carriage.

Although Songping Dingxin and Qingyan Master have no personal friends, they have met several times in various official occasions because they have very special identities.

The identity of Master Qingyan is really special. Why would someone with such a prominent position in Koya Mountain be alone in such a place where he does not have a village in front of him or a store in the back? It is really difficult for Matsudaira to turn a blind eye to this issue.

Thinking of the previously received information that "a large number of weapons were transported to Koyasan", Matsudaira silently raised his vigilance against Master Qingyan.

The look of surprise in Qingyan's eyes has been slowly put away at this time.

When Songping Dingxin saw Qingyan looking at his carriage, and then at the more than 30 guards surrounding him, a thought appeared on his old cheeks.

"Master Songping! The poor monk has an unkind request! Could you please lend me a horse?"

Looking at Master Qingyan who suddenly made this request to him, Songping Dingxin's eyes sank slightly.

"...Master, where are you going?" Matsudaira asked in a calm, unhappy tone.

Qingyan nodded vigorously.

"In that case, can you tell me where you are going? If you can't give me a reason, I'm afraid it will be difficult to lend your precious horses to others."

"..." Qingyan fell silent.

After looking at Songping Dingxin's carriage and his guards again, he gritted his teeth:

"I can tell you what I want by borrowing a horse, but this matter is very important, I can only tell you one person."

"...I see." Dingxin Matsudaira opened the door of the carriage without much hesitation, stepped out of the carriage, and was exposed to the heavy rain.

"Lord Zhong!" Tachibana hurriedly said, "It's raining heavily outside! Please..."

"I'm not so vulnerable that I can't even get in the rain. Tachibana, stay in the car and don't follow." Songping Dingxin came to Qingyan alone, and leaned down towards Qingyan, who was a head shorter than him. , "Okay, Master, please speak."

Qingyan put his mouth close to Matsudaira's outstretched ear.

Selectively... Tell Matsudaira in a succinct way about what happened to him in Koyasan today.

Whether it was hearing that there were a large number of thieves lurking in Koyasan, or that the thieves of Koyasan were burnt down, and that the thieves of Koyasan were planning to escape by battleship, Matsudaira could barely keep his expression calm.

Only when he heard that Ogata Ichitosai had suddenly appeared in Koyasan and had gone to chase the thieves who were planning to escape by boat, Matsudaira's expression changed drastically.

Qingyan, who did not notice the change in Matsudaira's expression, then said sternly:

"I know where that Cape Village is."

"No matter what... I want to see with my own eyes whether there are really a large number of thieves trying to escape by boat."

"so…"

"...I know the specifics of what happened." Before Qingyan's words were finished, Songping Dingxin put his hands behind his back, straightened up, raised his head, and looked at the thick dark clouds above his head, "A large number of unidentified thieves are lurking in Koya Mountain. …"

After whispering in such a soft voice, Song Ping Dingxin casts a gaze that makes people unable to see through the emotions in his back to Qingyan.

"Master, are you used to riding in a carriage? Could you please give directions to my coachman?"

Qingyan was stunned for a moment, and then immediately realized what Songping Dingxin meant by this statement.

"...I see." After a moment of contemplation, Qingyan nodded vigorously.

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After the little donkey borrowed from Tianhai was temporarily hidden in a place that was not easy to find, Qingyan took Matsudaira Dingxin's carriage and went to the dock of the Toyotomi battleship with Matsudaira Dingxin.

The speed of the chariot and horse is indeed much faster than that of the donkey.

All the way down, Songping Dingxin and others began to smell the salty smell unique to the sea.

After smelling the smell of the sea, Matsudaira put his head against the window and stared blankly at the sea outside the window.

"It's almost time to reach Cape Village..." Qingyan, who was sitting opposite Matsudaira, also put his head to the window and looked at the sea outside the window, "As long as you turn over the small mound in front of you, you can reach the Cape. Village... Ah! Matsudaira-sama! Look over there!"

"Well, I saw it." Matsudaira's face sank, "Stop! Stop!"

After Songping Dingxin's shout, the convoy slowly stopped.

As soon as the carriage stopped, Songping Dingxin jumped out of the carriage impatiently and ran to a small high **** not far away, looking at the sea in the distance.

Just now, he and Qingyan both saw it at the same time - on the sea in the distance, there were bursts of fire rising into the sky...

Qingyan and Tachibana, who jumped out of the carriage after Matsudaira Dingshin, also imitated Matsudaira Dingshin's appearance, and stretched their necks to look at the beams of fire on the sea in the distance.

Tani

Obviously - at such a far distance, it is doomed to see nothing with the naked eye.

They only vaguely saw... Under the bursts of fire, what seemed to be the wreck of a huge ship...

"...Tachibana." Matsudaira looked at Tachibana behind him with impatient eyes, "Go and borrow a few boats from the fishing village we just passed by. You can borrow as many boats as you can."

After that, Matsudaira took out a purse from his arms and threw it to Tachibana.

"Huh?" Tachibana looked at the purse that Songping Dingxin threw, with a look of surprise, "Lord Zhong! Don't you want to take a boat..."

"Long-winded!" Matsudaira interrupted Tachibana impatiently, "What do I tell you to do, just do as you please!"

Hearing the impatient Tachibana in Matsudaira's words, he did not dare to make a sound. After shouting "Yes", he quickly brought some guards and rode back to the small fishing village they had just passed by.

Matsudaira's plan is very simple - isn't it just too far away to see clearly? That's easy to do! Can't you see it if you go directly by the boat?

After Tachibana and the others returned to Matsudaira Dingxin with the three borrowed boats, Matsudaira immediately demanded "Take 20 escorts and cross the sea with me".

In the face of Matsudaira's order, Tachibana naturally had tens of thousands of objections.

Tachibana brought out various reasons to oppose Matsudaira Nobuyuki's dangerous move.

And his objection, who is just a mere surname... Naturally, it's useless.

Matsudaira Sadashin, who ignored Tachibana's objection, sat directly on the boat, and Tachibana could only bite the bullet and walk with Matsudaira.

Qingyan also asked to go with him, Matsudaing Xin wanted to refuse, after all, if something happened to Qingyan while crossing the sea, it would be difficult to explain to Koyasan.

But Qingyan's attitude is very firm - no matter how Songping Dingxin refuses, he will not give in.

In desperation, Songping Dingxin could only agree to Qingyan's counterpart's request.

Matsudaira, Qingyan, Tachibana, and nearly 20 guards rode the boat and headed straight for the direction of the fire!

At this time, the wind and rain had subsided a lot, and the waves were not as violent as before. The whole process of crossing the sea was much easier than Matsudaira Dingxin and others expected.

Matsudaira Dingxin and his group arrived under the firelight without any risk.

Broken hulls, countless broken limbs floating around, flames that never go out even under such heavy rain...

This scene under the firelight... made the faces of everyone on the boat more and more ugly.

There were very few people who had never seen such a scene—such as Qingyan, who couldn’t help but leaned down and retched at the sea outside the boat.

However, what makes Qingyan look ugly is not only because of the **** scene, but also because of the scene in front of him, it is the same as the information that Ogata and others told him about the "thieves lurking on Koya Mountain". , which fits perfectly...

—There really is… the ship is here…

Qing Yan, who slowly stopped his retching, hung his head with an expression that made people unable to see through his emotions.

Matsudaira Toshin, who was used to seeing all kinds of wind and waves, turned a blind eye to the **** scene around him.

Since just now, Matsudaira has kept turning his eyes and scanning around, as if he was... looking for someone or something.

clang... clang... clang... clang...

At this time - Matsudaira Tashin suddenly heard a looming sound of gold and iron colliding.

Songping Dingxin, who raised his brows a little, quickly instructed everyone to chase after the sound of "dangdangdang".

As the distance got closer, the sound gradually became clearer, and the sound of the collision of gold and iron "Dangdangdang" slowly turned into a muffled sound of flesh being cut one after another.

After bypassing a large piece of the hull that was floating on the sea and obscuring the view, a scene that gradually complicated Matsudaira's expression gradually spread out in front of everyone's eyes.

I saw that on a wreck that was about to sink to the bottom of the sea, two figures who were barely able to stand still were facing each other in the distance.

One of them, Songping Dingxin, did not know him.

As for the other person... Matsudaira felt both familiar... and unfamiliar... And the appearance of this person was the "culprit" who made Matsudaira appear this complicated look.

While Matsudaira Toshin was still casting a complicated look at the man, very suddenly—the man suddenly turned around and ran towards the main mast not far away that pointed obliquely towards the sky.

- What is he going to do?

As soon as Matsudaira asked this question in his heart, the man had already climbed to the top of the main mast, and then...

Rumble Rumble Rumble—!

The blasting thunder light illuminated the faces of everyone, including Matsudaira, Qingyan, and others.

"This...this is..." When he was absent-minded, Songping Dingxin vaguely heard Qingyan whispering in surprise, "Buddha...has appeared...?"

How long have you been lost? Matsudaira didn't know.

All he knew was that when he finally came to his senses, he saw a guy he didn't know pop up out of nowhere and fight that man.

After exhausting the last bit of strength to end this short duel, the man finally collapsed on the deck that had been soaked with sea water due to the loss of strength in his body.

"...Let's lean beside that samurai!"

"Ah?" Tachibana looked at Matsudaira in amazement.

"I said—get close to that samurai!"

"Yes Yes!"

When Matsudaira was approaching the man in a small boat, the man who had lost consciousness was gradually enveloped and swallowed by the sea water.

And just when that person was about to be swallowed by the bottomless sea—

Snapped…

It sounded like a handshake.

At the critical moment, Matsudaira arrived at the man's side and held the man's hand...

…

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"...It was Matsudaira... saved me..." After listening to Qingyan's brief description of how he was rescued, a strange expression slowly spread on Ogata's face.

Qingyan naturally did not know why Ogata showed such an expression.

He only thought that Ogata, as the most wanted criminal of the shogunate, was worried that he would be escorted to prison by Matsudaira.

Qingyan didn't know what to say to Ogata who was "worrying about being imprisoned by Matsudaira".

Just when Qingyan was struggling with that, and Ogata still had that weird expression on his face—

pat, pat, pat...

Outside the tent, the footsteps of striding meteors were suddenly heard.

wow.

The tent's curtain was gently lifted.

The person who lifted the curtain... was a middle-aged man with a straight waist.

After the middle-aged man lifted the curtain and saw Ogata on the bed who had opened his eyes and woke up, he was taken aback for a moment.

Then—

"...Master, can you please leave here temporarily?"

Qingyan frowned, he looked at the middle-aged man, then at Ogata on the bed next to him, and finally let out a soft sigh, got up and left the tent.

After Qingyan left, the middle-aged man slowly stood where Qingyan was standing just now.

"...Long time no see. UU reading www.uukanshu.com"

The middle-aged man...or rather—Sadashin Matsudaira greeted Ogata in a tone that could not detect any emotion.

"Am I... should I be called Yasushi Yoshikata? Or should I be called Goro Mashima?"

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This "Jianhao" no longer needs recommendation votes, but new books do, so everyone's recommendation votes should not vote for this book, instead vote for the new book QAQ

Some people seem to be worried about whether the double-opening conference will lead to the collapse of both books. You are completely overthinking it. First of all, everyone should be able to see that all the pits, foreshadowing, and foreshadowing of "Jianhao" have all been filled in and exposed. The story of Ogata Ichitosai has basically been told, and it is only a little bit of finishing work.

As for "The Swordsman Group", I have a draft, and these days, I have also posted the draft, so until I finished typing the last punctuation mark of "The Swordsman", I concentrated on writing "The Swordsman", and wrote "The Swordsman". I'm not writing two books at the same time, so you don't have to worry about the author's double opening, which will lead to a decline in the quality of the two books.