Chapter 35: Knife vs. Knife
Almighty Cultivation Supreme
After a short scream, calm returned to the woods. Sanosuke shook off the blood stains on the knife in disgust, and pulled a piece of linen from the evil party he had just chopped, wiped the blood and dirt from the knife, and then inserted the knife back into the scabbard.
Walking back to the array, Zuonosuke replied to Sasuke, "The evil party is all cut down!" ”
"Hmm!" Sasuke replied angrily. Like the others, he put away his weapon, took his leather armor from his luggage, and put it on. The leather armor resembles a suspender waistcoat, with two leather straps on the shoulders and armor protecting the front chest and back shoulder blades. This thing weighs only five or six pounds, but everyone hasn't worn it before. There is no weight on the long road, even if it is only five or six pounds, it is not a liking weight.
Putting on the leather armor, Sasuke angrily touched the opening on the clothes under his armpits. A bamboo arrow struck here, knocking a hole in his beloved flying fish suit. Because of this, in the pursuit battle after the musket and bamboo bow and arrow were fired, Sasuke personally cut down five or six evil parties.
Yuelian also put on the armor, and this encounter made Yuelian feel that the armor was also necessary. During naval battles, pirates did not use bows and arrows, and Zhao Jiaren's fleet did not look down on bows and arrows. In close combat, space is small, requiring a high degree of flexibility, and it is better to wear armor than not to wear it. However, the feeling of this land battle is completely different, the bamboo arrows are flying whizzing, and those who shoot at the head can still dodge or use the musket in their hands to pull away, and those who shoot at the body are difficult to deal with.
Buckle the leather armor and ask the military doctor. "Hey, is the wound healed?"
The military doctor stopped the probe and couldn't help sighing, "The bows and arrows of the Japanese people can't do it, and the stone arrows can't penetrate." However, the arrow broke the flesh of his arm. Gotta clean it up carefully. ”
The person who was hit by the arrow had bitten a wooden stick wrapped in cotton cloth in his mouth, but when he saw that the doctor actually stopped, he held the wooden stick with his other hand, and shouted with his free mouth: "I'll bear the pain, you can hurry up!" ”
Hu Yuelian reached out and patted the brother on the head, and said, "Continue to hold back!" "I started to examine the corpses of the evil party. When Yuelian stopped pursuing, she remembered the introduction to the evil party. The introduction of the evil party made Hu Yuelian feel that these people were very similar to those who resisted taxes and rebelled on Fujian Road, and they were also more like the Tusi of Guangnan East-West Road and Fujian Road. The appeal of these people is not to pay taxes, and the actions of these people are to hinder the collection of annual tribute by the Japanese government, and they attack the annual tribute convoy to seize the annual tribute.
The rise of killing after everyone was attacked, coupled with the rapid flight of the enemy, only those who fled and were killed were left in the evil party. Whether the other party is on a whim or instigated by someone can only wait for the next encounter.
Looking at Kobe in Fuzhou and Quanzhou, the residents of Kobe are already very poorly dressed. Examining the corpses, Hu Yuelian found that these evil parties were even less well dressed. At this time, Sasuke and the others began to search their bodies, and a total of more than a dozen people were cut, except for the guy in bamboo armor who had some copper coins on his body, and the others had at most some personal food.
"Poor man." Hu Yuelian sighed.
"Do you want to cut off the head of this leader? Maybe there is a bounty in Zhenxi. Sasuke asked.
"Don't!" Yuelian replied in disgust. She didn't want to see someone in her team carrying heads, that would be disgusting. Yuelian added: "The next time you meet these people, don't kill them all, leave a few alive." ”
Everyone responded, and everyone didn't mention Hu Yuelian shouting 'kill everything' after encountering the enemy. Killing everything is Hu Yuelian's habit in the long-term battle against the Pujia gang, and it is not surprising that she can't change it for a while.
At this time, the wounded man's wound had been treated, and after stitching up, the wound was smeared with alcohol, and the wounded let out a muffled grunt of pain. After that, a simple bandage with gauze, a cuirass was put on the wounded, the injured arm was immobilized, and a cloth strap was hung around his neck. As a wounded person has preferential treatment, others have to walk, he can sit in the cart. With a shout, hired Japanese laborers pulled carts carrying gifts and the wounded on.
After a night of silence, the team finally arrived at the Zhenxi Worship Office the next day. The office is a wooden building built on the side of a mountain. The leader in charge of guarding the road saw from a distance a group of unusually dressed people heading straight down the main road to the camp, and soon brought the soldiers out to inquire about it.
Seeing that these guys still wore straw sandals in November, Hu Yuelian gave these guys a failing grade in her heart. She is 161 tall, and she probably has to look upward when looking at people in the Song Kingdom. In the Wa Kingdom, Hu Yuelian has always used a level-up or even top-down perspective.
There were soldiers half-surrounded, and finally a few guys in shoes appeared. The man at the head stepped forward and asked, "Where are you from?" ”
"We are the envoys of His Royal Highness Zhao Jiaren on the Fujian Road of the Song Kingdom, and His Royal Highness Zhao Jiaren on the Northeast Road......" Hu Yuelian began to recite the words again.
Sasuke arrogantly translated these words to his subordinates who he didn't dare to provoke at all, because Sasuke used to be barefoot, and he didn't dare to provoke those who wore shoes. Even though his shoes are now more gorgeous than those who wear them, he is still at a disadvantage in his heart.
Of course, there is something new in this conversation. Hu Yuelian told the subordinates of the commission that the commission of Heiankyo was going to make preparations to welcome Hu Yuelian and others to meet in Beijing, so Hu Yuelian and the others took advantage of their free time to visit around Kobe. The country is not big, so I don't know if we will meet again in the future.
These words stunned the subordinates of Zhenxi. Looking at the men and women wearing shoes, they are all tall and gorgeously dressed, and the shoes on their feet are not silk shoes but boots. In the Wa Kingdom, ordinary guards may not be able to afford this dress. The beautiful black silk cap is raised high behind it, and this style is quite similar to the costume of the Japanese Kyoto. These people also carried weapons, and the Wa country at this time was the Kamakura shogunate, and the military had a very high status.
"Please wait. We'll report right away. Zhenxi's subordinates left a message and immediately rushed back.
After listening to the report of his subordinates, Zhenxi felt that he had to go and see, so he followed his subordinates out. After coming out a few steps, he saw that some of the subordinates of the cousins of the Emperor of the Song Kingdom were sitting on the chairs. The chair is a folding stool that used to be a person of status who could sit on the chair. For example, in "Water Margin", ranking is to be the first to be the first place. However, Zhao Jiaren didn't care about this, he asked his subordinates to take this to the Wa Kingdom to show off his majesty.
The chair has become popular in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the Wa State, which has learned a lot from the Tang Dynasty, is also hierarchical.
With a conclusion in his heart, Zhenxi simply came to meet directly. After the two sides talked, Yuelian ordered someone to carry the box containing the gift to the priest. Mirrors are extremely solemn and valuable gifts in Japan, and when he saw that there was a glass mirror in addition to the cloth in the gift, Zhenxi no longer had any doubts. He warmly invited everyone to the institute.
The guest and the host sat down in the reception room, and Yuelian still sent some cushions to the priest according to experience. The people of the Song Kingdom sat cross-legged on the mat, and the Zhenxi Priest was the same as the Kyoto Priest, and was very satisfied with such a soft cushion.
While everyone was drinking tea and talking, Hu Yuelian talked about being attacked by the evil party on the way. She wondered if the evil party was rampant on the Kyushu side, or if someone was targeting people who traveled between the office and the docks.
The surname Kujo was a distant relative of the current shogun. When he heard that these Song people easily killed those evil parties, he was greatly surprised. After asking about the location, Kujo immediately sent someone to check. And a retainer with a knife behind Kujo looked at Sasuke, who was kneeling on the back cushion on the side of the moon lotus, and couldn't help but ask, "That gentleman seems to be a native of the Japanese country." ”
Glancing back at Sasuke, Yueren smiled, "He is now a subordinate of His Royal Highness of my family. Who are you? ”
After Sasuke's translation, the retainer who spoke replied, "I am Yagyu Soichi, a retainer of His Highness Kujo, I wonder why His Highness Zhao's retainer wants to turn the blade up?" ”
At this time, the Japanese swords of the Wa Kingdom were still in the Taidao era, and most of the Japanese swords that Zhao Jiaren saw were swords. The knife is worn with the blade downward, and the knife is punched with the blade upward. The knife is longer than the knife, and the knife is longer than the small knife.
Yanagi Soichi is a very strong warrior under Kujo, and I heard that the people of the Song Kingdom easily defeated the evil party here, and they also killed a lot of people. Wen Wu is the first and Wu is the second, he is naturally unconvinced in his heart, Sasuke's sword hanging from his waist is very dazzling in the eyes of the warriors of the country opposite, in this unconvinced mood, Yanagi always couldn't help but ask.
Everyone is a knife and a knife, and this emotion does not need to be explained at all. Whether it was Hu Yuelian or Sasuke, or the group of people who participated in the meeting, everyone felt a kind of eagerness that a martial artist could feel. Sasuke stopped his waist and replied, "Such a saber is the only way to cut people when you shoot." ”
"Really?" Mr. Yanagi immediately climbed up the pole, and he immediately said to Kujo Commissioner: "Your Highness, I want to see it." ”
The Wa State pursued the principle of leading troops to fight, so they were not weak chickens without the power to restrain chickens. Kujou had also noticed that the kneeling guys in the Song Kingdom looked like Japanese people, and their unique saber pattern made Kujou also very concerned. Zhenxi followed the nine articles and tried to ask Hu Yuelian, the female official of the Song State opposite, in an elegant tone, "Your Royal Highness Hu, it's better for everyone to give it a try." ”
"Good. Don't kill people. "Hu Yuelian herself is proficient in melee combat, and she herself is also eager to see the level of the masters of the Japanese Kingdom.
Everyone walked out of the reception room, and in the open space outside the reception room, Yagyu Soichi and Sasuke stood face to face, with a distance of seven or eight paces in between. Yanagi bowed to the lord first, and then grasped the hilt of his sword. Seeing that Yagyu Soichi, a guy with a name and surname, was holding the hilt of the sword, Sasuke, a samurai with no surname and only a name, also holding the hilt and striding towards Yagyu Soichi.
Yanagi has actual combat experience, and what he felt from Sasuke's movements was a strong intent to attack, and the distance of seven or eight steps was very short, and Yanagi struggled to draw his sword. Just as his knife was unsheathed, Sasuke drew it. The blade of the knife is upward, and when it is pulled out, the blade is already facing the opponent.
The sword is already long, and the blade is still downward, and it needs to be adjusted after pulling it out before it can attack. In such a split second, Sasuke's knife was already on Yanagi's shoulder, and the tip of the knife was only two inches away from Yanagi's neck. And Yagyu's Taidao blade was still more than two feet away from Sasuke.
Yanagi felt disheartened for a moment, and he wanted to continue swinging his sword desperately, but the glory of being a warrior made him stop his arm. In Yanagi's view, this senseless act only made his shame worse.
Kujo thought he would see a fierce competition, but he didn't expect that after drawing his sword, the winner would already be decided. The difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides made Kujo Sho speechless. He turned his head to look at Hu Yuelian, who was standing next to him smiling, with alertness in his eyes and shock that he couldn't hide. The combat effectiveness of the Song Kingdom was stronger than Kujo had imagined.