As soon as the words of Konnosuke fell, there was immediately a chorus of echoes:

"Kinnosuke-sama is right! Calm down, guys! ”

"There are so many soldiers of the shogunate outside, even if you have three heads and six arms, you are no match for them!"

"What do you want to do? Isn't it because you want to open the gate and fight the soldiers of the shogunate? ”

"Don't look for death!"

……

Ogata listened quietly to the criticisms of the people around him.

After their criticism had subsided slightly, he softly repeated what Konnosuke had just said to him:

"How could it be their opponent......?"

After repeating what Konnosuke had just said to him, Ogata smiled at Konnosuke:

"You're right."

"The opponent is nearly 100 heavily armed and well-trained shogunate soldiers."

"Even if there are two people who don't know the details of their strength to help, I'm not sure I can defeat them."

"But—"

Ogata suddenly changed his words.

"Kinnosuke-sama, do you know when people are finished?"

"Huh?" Hearing Ogata's question, Konnosuke looked dazed.

"There is only one circumstance in which a person is finished. That's when the fight was completely abandoned. ”

Ogata's tone and expression grew serious.

"As long as you continue to fight, there is still hope for victory, and you are not lost."

"Even if the odds are slim, I will never put down my sword."

"After all—" A faint smile returned to Ogata's face as he said this, "I'm a ronin who lives by a sword and dies for a sword." ”

With that, as if he was too lazy to say more to Konnosuke and the others, Ogata hugged the bundle of swords in his arms, raised his feet and left.

Before they had gone two steps, a young girl standing not far behind Ogata looked at their backs with a puzzled expression and asked:

"Is there any point in this mortal fight?"

"After the soldiers of the shogunate rushed in, you might not be able to kill even one of you, and then you were stabbed to death by random shots!"

"Were you stabbed to death by the soldiers of the shogunate...... Maybe. ”

As soon as the girl's words fell, she replied without looking back or thinking.

"It's just that there are two kinds of human courage at the highest level."

"One is to move forward in the face of the unknown."

"The other is to continue to move forward in the face of what is already destined to be a tragedy."

"When the sky falls apart, there should always be a few such brave people who come forward."

"If no one stands up, then I am willing to be a pioneer!"

"Kinnosuke-sama, you can take the villagers up to the second or third floor."

"You stay on the first floor, but it will affect our fight."

……

……

At Ogata's request, the villagers, led by Konnosuke, including the boys who had been in charge of blocking the door just now, fled to the third floor of the mansion.

Without the boys blocking the door, the overwhelming "creaking" of the door became louder.

From this increasingly loud "squeak", it is not difficult to judge that this door will not last long.

Soon, nearly 100 soldiers of the shogunate army will break through the gates of the mansion and rush into the mansion with their teeth and claws.

The four Ogata were standing in the hallway facing the main door of the mansion.

After looking at the gate that was being slammed, Mamiya smiled bitterly and asked Ogata:

"So, Ogata-kun, we have taken all the swords we have collected so far, as you instructed, can we tell us your plan to retreat from the enemy?"

Just now, after learning from the maid on the third floor that the shogunate army was coming, Ogata pondered for a while, and then said to the palace and the others:

"Take all the swords we've collected so far, and if my plan goes well, I might be able to rely on the terrain to kill all the incoming shogunate troops."

Ogata didn't say what his plan was on the spot, and asked them to take all the swords they had collected so far.

After killing Sotaro and his party just now, Ogata and the others gathered all Sotaro and their swords with the concept of not wasting them.

After replenishing the swords that Sotaro and the others could still use, the number of swords that Ogata and his party currently possessed had reached a considerable number: 29 swords and 36 swords.

Although they couldn't figure out why Ogata asked for so many knives to be brought, Mamiya and the others decided to believe in Ogata's plan and took all the knives as he told them.

"Mamiya, Makimura, Amachi." After Manomiya's questioning fell, Ogata casually threw the knife in his arms to the ground at his feet, and said to the three people, "The layout of this mansion in Konnosuke is very special. ”

"There is no back door, the only entrance and exit is this gate on the first floor."

"Once inside the gate, we have to go through this corridor that is neither too long nor too short under our feet before we can go to the rest of the first floor, or reach the stairs that lead to the second and third floors."

"So-"

Speaking of this, a meaningful smile appeared on Ogata's face.

"Do you remember how the 'Sword Hero General' Ashikaga Yoshiteru single-handedly fought against the entire army?"

As soon as Ogata's words fell, Mamiya raised his eyebrows, and then chuckled a few times: "I see......"

"Help me set up a position to meet the enemy." Ogata said softly, "I don't know what kind of nervousness the shogunate suddenly had to send troops up to kill people. ”

"But since they are here to take my life, then I will not hesitate to ask for their lives back."

"I'll stay here and give the shogunate a head-on blow."

"After helping me set up the position, whether you want to follow me to meet the shogunate army, or go to the 2nd or 3rd floor to take refuge, it's up to you."

"Ogata-kun." Jian Miya shrugged his shoulders helplessly, "Stay here to help you or go upstairs to take refuge?" Aren't you asking this question in vain? ”

……

……

Rumble!

After directing the soldiers to perform a new round of impact on the gate in front of him, the officer finally saw that the gate in front of him was visibly deformed.

Looking at the gate that was finally about to be untenable, whether it was an officer or other ordinary soldiers, they all looked happy.

"Keep it up!" The officer yelled, "This door is almost gone!" One more time to knock it off! ”

Encouraged by the officers, the soldiers, whose morale was already high because the gate was finally deformed, were even more geared up, and their fighting spirit became even more high.

"One! Two! Three! ”

After shouting the neat slogan again, the dozen or so soldiers responsible for hitting the wall once again made full efforts and slammed into the gate in front of them.

Rumble!

Boom!

This time, it wasn't just the sound of the door being slammed.

There was also the sound of a door falling to the ground after it had been knocked down.

The dozen or so soldiers who were in charge of slamming the door fell to the ground with the wooden door that was finally overwhelmed and destroyed, and the rest of the soldiers who were behind the dozen or so soldiers, who had already been ready to go, immediately rushed into the house along the dozen or so comrades who fell to the ground with the gate.

However, as soon as they rushed into the house, the soldiers were all frightened by the sight that appeared before them, and they froze in place.

Behind the main door of the house is a corridor that is neither long nor short.

At this moment, the ground and the walls on both sides of this corridor are all filled with knives and threats, and the total number of them is as many as dozens.

Dozens of swords dotted the corridor, making it look like a forest—a "steel forest" with swords as trees and flowers.

In the middle of this "forest", there are 3 people.

3 ...... It seems to be someone who is waiting for their arrival.