Purely based on the first impression of appearance, outsiders tend to think that the long swords used by the Japanese samurai are very monotonous. The same handle curl grip, the same knife blade, the same size and knife shape.

In a way, there is nothing wrong with this view - as a country that has been unified for more than 4,000 years, the knives commonly used today in the Land of the Moon do have a high degree of consistency. Compared to the simple handguard design of the east coast of Rigal and the simple handguard design of the west coast, and the size of the slam from the slender bayonet sword to the broad-bladed slashing sword, and then from the one-handed sword to the hand half-sword to the long sword and even the large sword, the Japanese-waisted sword, which is generally about one meter and used with both hands, does lack a bit of personality.

It is not that he has no other weapons, up to the big bow and half bow, and there are naginata knives, wild swords, big guns, blunt weapons, and golden rods. But when it comes to sidearms, it is difficult to compare this highly culturally unified country, including the military, with its many different customs and customs on the Rigal continent.

But this conclusion is still not entirely correct.

Just like anything else that seems very simple and brainless at first glance, it is precisely because of the exquisite calculations and rich experience behind it that it can present this kind of glimpse and different results.

The same length and hilt means you can seamlessly switch to the picked up weapon with the same technique. A Rigal adventurer who is accustomed to a long sword will inevitably be in a hurry if he picks up a one-handed sword, but if the samurai is damaged during the battle, he only needs to pick up someone else's to continue using it. This is a system of rationing weapons based on the "nation" and the "army" as standard units, although even the Wazuto themselves no longer remember the original reason because of the long peace, they just continue to do so by inertia.

Depending on the target, the blade of the long knife made can also be different.

— like the latest one our Loan girl ever got.

Mira actually doesn't like to fight with people.

The Rigal standard for large-handed half-swords or long-swords is basically at the level of 110-130 centimeters. And the waist knives of Kazumi are always shorter than them, which makes Rigal's swordsmanship have to adapt to the shorter attack distance. In addition, the blade of the knife can only passively block the opponent's attack on the hand, and when using the "simultaneous" technique of Rigal's advanced sword technique, which means using the handguard to jam the opponent's weapon and lunge forward while defending, there is always a risk that the opponent's weapon will break away from the card position and hit oneself because the handguard is too small.

But the most important thing is the general lack of piercing ability against harder targets that is destined to be made by the way the long knife is made.

The spear-shaped weapon with a ridge in the middle and beveled sides of the weapon has the least impediment to piercing the target, so it can deal effective damage when stabbing with the appropriate weapon against some light armor such as leather armor that cannot deal effective damage with a slash.

Double-edged Rigal swords are generally characterized by this characteristic, while single-edged swords often come at the expense of thrusting abilities due to their heavy backs.

In the hands of the Rigal swordsmen, who made extensive use of stabbing techniques, the Japanese-made long sword, which was more focused on slashing, could only be said to be barely suitable.

But not all knives are destined to be so, either.

The watery blade was polished to the point of mirror, and she held one hand close to the blade, while her left hand rested against the end of the grip.

The wind blew through the swamp, and the reeds were pressed low, and beside it there was another, relatively dwarf grass, with white flowers, and long, green and slender leaves with pointed ends like long swords.

The flower is called calamus.

And this long knife system that is good at piercing is named after the shape of its leaves.

Calamus made.

"Whew-" "Whew-t-t-h

"Poof-" The hard, shell was pierced and pierced by the devastating tip of the knife, and Mira pulled the tip back as she pushed the blade forward, using the hole that had been broken to widen the damage.

Dark red blood mixed with black fluid began to flow.

"Kaleva!" she shouted, and the stunned young man on the side rushed from the side with a large shield and smashed the battered monster to the ground.

"Drink!" The tall Suomir was comparable to a ghost when he wielded a heavy weapon, and he directly smashed the head of the fallen monster, but before he could catch a breath, he was pulled aside by Mira.

"Bang!" another shriveled monster fell, its twisted finger phalanx bulging open the skin of its fingertips and distorting into bony claws, just a flutter that tried to scratch Kaleva with it. Stunned Qing has no armor, not to mention that this thing can be poisonous.

"Boom-smack-" Henry slashed the monster with one hand without looking, and his shriveled body instantly collapsed to the ground like a puppet that had lost control, and was incapacitated by the simultaneous attack of several other monsters that attacked at the same time.

The few that had scurried to this side had been cleared, and the group could breathe a sigh of relief and observe the situation for a while, but they still maintained a tight formation to prevent these agile things from attacking from other directions.

The ribs and spine of the emaciated humanoid monster protrude under the gray-green epidermis, and the pure black pupils could not distinguish between the whites of the eyes and the pupils, but for some reason they could feel endless hatred for the living. All of this, including the black bodily fluids, felt extremely familiar to some of the team, and perhaps only a little different.

"It's too weak. Yajiro next to him said, these monsters that are ghouls no matter how you look at them, except for a little tenacious vitality, can hardly compare with the one they encountered at the beginning. For Mira, this is also a big difference from what happened to her past in Rigal. Even though it was a long time ago, and our Loan Maiden had come a long way in battle, she was still impressed by the ghouls who were able to rush at the humans after being stabbed with several spears.

But apart from the same obnoxious stench and relatively tenacious physical and vital abilities, these things are as different from those ghouls as they are from catching a random swordsman and Henry.

- I can't stand the large number of them.

"Spirits!" Ryunosuke's ronins were visibly flustered, and some of the Buddha-eaters even recited scriptures in an attempt to retreat by the power of faith. Although the armor they wore was strong enough to withstand these weak attacks, the Netherworld Yellow Spring creatures that seemed to crawl out of the Santu River greatly shocked the hearts of the warriors. In addition, several of them had their heads cut off but were still showing their teeth and claws, although there were more people, their results could not be compared to Henry's side for a while.

Ghouls, roughly the same number as the ronin, surrounded the outside of the ronin troops, roaming like wolves, occasionally stepping forward to try to attack, while the ronins were guarded in a tight circular formation.

The dilapidated camp and several large sailing ships floating next to it all tell that this is undoubtedly the location of Saburo's base camp, and after successive attacks on the main troops, Henry judged that the time had come, so they launched a general attack, but they ran headlong into not the expected chaotic rogues, but a group of monsters hiding in the reeds.

Hunched over like emaciated old men, these new ghouls retain more human form than they have encountered in the past, they are also painless and fierce, and their wild animal-like physical abilities and frantic offensive instincts make them one-on-one against well-trained samurai - although this is much weaker than the one that required a long infantry squad to deal with in the Padrosi Empire, and given the dense numbers, it still makes it impossible for the group to get out for a short time.

The wind and rain were coming, and the white hair of the Luoan girl fluttered along with the robe on her body, and Henry stood on the other side, and the goblin seemed to be afraid of Kramer and did not dare to step forward, but he did not venture alone.

"Change formation, back to the sailboat, fan spread!" The circular formation is suitable for defense, but it is very bad for your morale if it is consumed, and Ryunosuke quickly ordered to change the formation, allowing the team to rely on the part of the sailboat by the water to concentrate the combat power in front.

"Come forward, don't be afraid, what can bleed will be killed. Archers, shoot slowly and freely, save stamina and arrows!" Although it was the first time he had seen an enemy, Ryunosuke still calmly commanded his team. Once he had judged that these things resembled wolf packs, he let the archers shoot freely instead of throwing them in clusters - the latter was better against humans marching in dense formations, but less effective against scattered enemies.

"Prepare to charge, flank them. "After seeing Ryunosuke change the formation, Narumi and Henry's side also made a decision, although they don't have war horses, but the small high ground occupied by the group can be a lot of help even if they charge on foot.

The Heavy Ronin Force and Henry's Einsatzgruppen were in a 90-degree angle - this was according to the original battle plan: Henry and they first attacked the camp to cause chaos and distraction, and then Ryunosuke's Heavy Ronin swarmed up in an attempt to break morale in one go.

However, after arriving, they found that the enemy had changed, and their tactics became conservative as a result, but for now, they seized the opportunity to cooperate with Ryunosuke's side to attack and defend the guarded fan formation, and after the main ronin force attracted the attention of a large number of ghouls.

"Cone formation. Henry said this, and the samurai leader nodded.

"Galeva come here. The sage was a few centimeters shorter than him, and the stunned green man carried a large shield weighing 9 kilograms like a chicken.

"The strikers are me, Joshua and Caleva. Lay out the flanks and tail. "The cone-shaped formation needs to pay attention to the combat ability of the perimeter, so the personnel who are good at melee combat are arranged on the perimeter, but in the end, the only ones who are not good at melee combat in their team are Lulu who came with them and Narumi who injured one hand.

The looser formation, with Henry as the striker and Galeva and Joshua expanding the results on either side behind him, after establishing their purpose, Narumi pulled out a bamboo whistle hanging from his waist: "Beep-beep-beep-" One long, two short and one long, Ryunosuke, who was surrounded by heavily armed ronin, immediately looked over, and after seeing their formation, the former prefectural commander realized their purpose.

"The friendly troops in the west are approaching, be careful not to accidentally hurt the arrows!" he immediately informed the ronin under his command: "The archers strike on both sides, and the spearmen are in three teams, and cooperate with the friendly forces to charge!"

"Hah!" the ronins responded to Ryunosuke's command, and although the demons panicked them at first, as a master of a hundred battles, as long as they acted, they would soon be able to regain their form in battle.

A soldier bears a nest of bears. In the face of the unknown, the most fearful thing is that the commander panicked and failed to give instructions, and everyone did not know what to do, if they fell into this situation, it was only a matter of time before the morale of the entire army collapsed.

"Stomping-" The distance of dozens of meters has the advantage of a slope, and the speed of the walking charge is also fast.

"Whew-" The sword lowered, followed by a slash of pace.

"Whew——!" The ghoul who had been on the ronin's side turned around and roared, but abruptly stopped, "Woo-" Under the unparalleled blade of the sword, the sword that struck from the elbow sliced half of the upper body with it, and before it could land on Henry's second sword, it had already slashed out.

He shifted his sword in both hands as he swung diagonally to the middle, and then slashed the three ghouls at once with a massive horizontal slash.

"Ha-a-aa-aa!" Stunned Qing let out a somewhat uncompromising cry of cheering for himself, holding a large shield and rushing to knock away the two ghouls, while Joshua on the other side slashed and killed both with a sword.

"Spread out to the sides!" Narumi commanded loudly, and instead of chiseling through them in a cone formation, they spread out to the sides to further disperse the ghouls who were besieging the ronin from behind.

"Three teams, charge!" The previous prefectural commander also immediately gave an order, and the heavily armed ronin with spears on the west side also stepped forward to attack with the charge of Henry and his party, directly slaughtering the ghouls between the two sides, and then they immediately spread to both sides.

"One team, two teams, keep up!" Ryunosuke immediately threw in the rest of his forces after beating the ghouls around.

"Archers, draw your sword!"

"Hah!" the archer, who had been slightly depleted with bows and arrows, quickly pulled his sword behind his back and drew his waist knife at his command.

"Forward!" Mixed with the blood of the black liquid and the monster's limbs flew sideways, although many of the ghouls with very tenacious vitality were still showing their teeth and claws when half of their bodies were gone, the ronins who had mastered the key points in the head and neck also cooperated with each other, taking advantage of their heavy armor to stomp on the chest, and under the desperate scratching of the other party, they used their waist knives to kill these monsters.

The battle quickly drew to a close, and the panting Ronin and Henry checked on the still active ghouls and quickly mended their knives. Many of the ronins were celebrating their victory loudly and happily, and the atmosphere influenced Yong and the others to smile as well.

But Henry, Narumi and Ryunosuke, the actual planners, all frowned in unison.

"How many followers under Saburo's command. Narumi suddenly spoke.

"It's impossible to know the exact situation, but based on previous intelligence and estimates drawn during the operation, if everything goes well, there will be at least 500 people. Henry replied that the ronin and the ninja were not only Saburo's henchmen, but also his subordinates who were responsible for controlling the existence of these rogues. It is precisely because they deeply understand the psychology of these low-level hooligans that they formulated this operation.

Although it would be more troublesome for these people to be dealt with if they dispersed within Pingshan County, no matter how scattered the small stream of gangsters was, it would be less threatening than the forces that were united.

There are many things they can do with other options, maybe they should ask Pingshan County for help, and the samurai should send regular troops if there are thousands of rogues. But the distrust of the bureaucracy's inefficiency and the delicate atmosphere between the Ryunosuke ronin clique and the regular Chinese community did not necessarily lead to better results.

The information was only learned after torturing the captured ninjas, and before entering this side, they expected that the enemy would be at most two or three hundred low-fighting rogues. And judging from the current experience, choosing to attack as soon as possible may be the right decision.

"There are about a hundred and fifty of them here..... Monsters, sir, don't you think—" Narumi stopped talking, the ghoul's body could clearly see the silhouette of a person, plus some of them still had tattered clothes hanging on their bodies, and some of them could even distinguish between men and women—even though most of them were men.

"You mean, these are the ones that were converted by people?" Ryunosuke looked a little flustered, he touched the pipe on his body, and then remembered that the tobacco was soaked because of the previous wading, and he shook his hand a little irritably.

"It's a possibility, just on this scale. Henry took the stone out of his pocket, fired it, looked around, and finally threw it in the direction of the sailboat.

"Bang-" The magic stone made by the druid is made of pure magic, just as a person with magic in his body will have a stress reaction when faced with a high concentration of magic on the periphery - often manifested as an illness and fever - the magic stone will also have a counteracting reaction due to the magic of the outside world.

Magic stones that match the user's wavelength can create a more stable environment in a harmful mana environment at the cost of consuming their own stored mana, and in the face of these harmful mana, the magic stones that are fired will be-

"Bang-" A dazzling blue light flashed, followed by a dense and creepy footsteps inside the sailboat.

It's like there are countless people running in the cabin at the same time.

"Get your people back. Henry immediately said to Ryunosuke.

"Everyone, retreat!" and the former prefectural commander, although he didn't know what was happening, listened to his swift action.

"Prepare rocket torches, you have to burn those ships. ”

"Although it was only a half-baked thing, I didn't expect it. ”

The sage said word by word.

"He literally opened the door. ”