Ignoring the tips of the guns in front of him that carried the light of death, Ran Hegui clenched the sword in his hand, and slashed the blade wrapped in true qi upward, the blade and the barrel of the gun slammed together, directly picking off the big bags of guns that were stimulating forward.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ran Hegui swept forward, running towards the ashigaru in front of him, the sword in his hand slashed horizontally, and the sword qi was released, accurately slashing their necks that were not protected by protective gear under the horrified gaze of the five Ashigaru standing side by side.

Blood splattered, staining half of his robe.

"Watch your back!" Ran Hegui let out a long breath, and before he could even out his breath, he heard Nie Zhan shouting loudly behind him.

Ran He didn't look back, he rolled forward directly to dodge, he just crouched down, a clatter passed through the noisy shouts of killing around him into his ears, and then he felt a projectile shoot over his head.

When he got up and turned around again, he saw Nie Zhan beheading the sneak attack iron cannon Ashigaru.

The two nodded in acknowledgement, and then plunged back into the scuffle.

A quarter of an hour ago, when they saw Zheng Yi's gesture, everyone in the Dao Sect was already mentally prepared to deal with such a situation.

During the previous confrontation, Zheng Yi unexpectedly threw a "Phoenix Eye Jiajiu" at each of the military formations on the left and right, and with the commotion caused by the explosion, they successfully broke into the Ashigaru army formation in front of them, greatly reducing the threat of those firearms and longbows.

The long guns they hold in their hands - that is, the "iron cannons" in their mouths - are not simple long guns such as arquebuses, and the style is also different from the commonly used fire guns in the East, although the power is not as huge as the "sun-shooting guns" of the Daomen, but they are also at the middle and lower level.

This level of long guns was definitely not something that could be created by the local smelting technology of the Owari Domain, and it should be the Western firearms that they had obtained from trading with the Daomen, that is, imported products.

This is not surprising, after all, the Owari clan still has some financial resources.

If nothing else, it is only a matter of time before the people of the Daomen break through - Mitsutoshi Takenaka only brought less than 300 ashigaru in total, and more than half of these ashigaru are ordinary soldiers, and most of the remaining half of the ashigaru cultivation with cultivation are only in the cultivation stage of the acquired people, and there are not even a few samurai in the Hudan stage. On the other hand, on their side, the eleven Taoist priests are all congenital people, and the leader Zheng is even more at the stage of cultivation in the stage of returning to the truth, and if they want to run, these people can't stop them at all.

……

Outside the Ashigaru Army.

Yai Aoyama Taiichiro of Atsuta Shrine held the ribs he was wearing with some annoyance, glanced at Mitsutoshi Takenaka standing beside him, and found that he still had that squinting and smiling expression, and couldn't help but be secretly annoyed in his heart.

"I really don't know what Master Quan Gong Si thinks, why he sent me to assist this kid so much." Taiichiro Aoyama said to himself.

But he still squeezed out an ugly smile, leaned in front of Takenaka Mitsutoshi and asked: "Lord Takenaka, I don't think those people under him can deal with those Taoist priests alone, why don't you let these warriors around you make a move, after all, the longer it drags on......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Mitsutoshi Takenaka's question: "Since Yai is so anxious, why didn't I see the shrine maidens and priests of Atsuta Shrine among the fighting soldiers?" I'm afraid it's not appropriate to urge my men to work hard, but you are hiding behind and watching the excitement. ”

Taiichiro Aoyama frowned, put away his smile, and replied in a deep voice: "Witches and priests are not suitable for frontal fighting, and the lord of Takenaka Castle knows this. Moreover, the arrival of the Daomen army is imminent, if there is any loss of officers and soldiers in the Divine Palace, what will the Lord of the Palace use to defend our Atsuta Divine Palace? Without the protection of the shrine, the fate of the lord of Takenaka Castle must not be too good. ”

Mitsutoshi Takenaka turned his head, stared at Taiichiro Aoyama's eyes, and said word by word: "So now it's me who is going to do dirty work and get tired, and you guys are watching from the sidelines, and in the end I am the one who offended the Taoist because of killing the Taoist priest, and you are the one who keeps the secret, am I right?" Tie me to your Atsuta Shrine's chariot with this means, and the Qianqiu lawsuit is really calculating. ”

Not to be outdone, Taiichiro Aoyama said: "If the Castle Lord of Takenaka thinks so, then I would like to ask the Castle Lord, didn't you propose to Lord Quan Gongji to round up these Taoist priests in the first place?" Why is it that we can't stop you now? ”

After a pause, Taiichiro Aoyama sneered: "To put it bluntly, the city lord also hopes to catch these Taoist priests to ask for credit from the lord of the domain, so he will think of cooperating with our Atsuta Shrine, since everyone gathers for profit, don't say anything like 'who calculates whom' and 'who is sorry for whom' - that will only expose your naivety and incompetence." ”

Mitsutoshi Takenaka raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn't refute it, just ordered the samurai behind him, "Tell the Honda Shogun that they can go into battle." ”

..

Inside the Ashigaru Army.

Although the melee between the two sides is still fierce, the ashigaru are gradually showing defeat, and some of them have even moved the idea of retreating and escaping.

After all, they were just soldiers in charge of the garrison in the city, and they were not elites at all, and if it weren't for the various group leaders and Ashigaru generals to supervise the battle behind them, I'm afraid they would have scattered and fled long ago.

Zheng Yi was also keenly aware of the lack of fighting intent of these ashigaru, and immediately shouted: "Don't fall in love with war, slaughter a few more of their leaders, and we will be able to break through immediately!" ”

Ran Hegui, who had just finished wiping the head and neck of a ashigaru group, heard Zheng Yi's shout, and glanced at Nie Zhan beside him, and the two of them let out a sigh of relief, and rushed towards the well-dressed warrior in the military formation.

In the army of Fenglu Prefecture, ordinary ashigaru can only wear "belly" and "array hat" on his head, and this kind of armor only has two pieces of armor before and after, which only protects the front chest and back, and the array hat can only protect the top of the head, and there is no armor on both sides of the neck at all.

The high-ranking samurai were dressed in a big way, not only on the basis of the abdomen, there were more "armels" to protect the shoulders, "cage hands" to protect the arms, "ribs" to protect the sides of the torso, "pei" and "grass fold" to protect the thighs, "shinosaki" to protect the calves, and even the "bowl" to protect the head to protect the neck.

Therefore, Ran Hegui and Nie Zhan easily locked on the ashigaru general with six squid tentacles on his pocket in a scuffle.

The "Squid" general was not very panicked when he saw the two people who were killing him, his cultivation was on par with these two, and there were more than 20 ashigaru guards by his side, as long as he resisted one or two, the other general who commanded the longbow team and the iron artillery team could come to help him besiege and kill these two bold Taoist priests.

"Move forward! Advance! Now is your chance to serve Amaterasu! ”

Those ashiki took advantage of the large number of people, and their courage was a little stronger, and they rushed towards the two Taoist priests with a roar.

Ran Hegui's speed did not decrease, and he just shouted towards Nie Zhan: "Brother Zhan, it's up to you!" ”

Nie Zhan slowed down his forward rush, took out a palm-sized talisman paper figure from his arms, sprinkled it into the air, and shouted: "The soldiers are safe!" ”

Before those paper figures landed, they turned into the height of others, all wearing paper armor, holding eighteen kinds of weapons, swords, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, but they also looked mighty.

This is the alchemist's "sprinkling beans into soldiers".

Taking advantage of the gap between Nie Zhan and the paper soldiers to stop those ashigaru, Ran Hegui continued to kill the "squid" general, and in an instant, the distance between the two was less than three zhang.

The surrounding Ashigaru saw that the Ashigaru general was in trouble, and he also surrounded this side under the leadership of his own group leader, wanting to protect the Ashigaru general.

But Zheng Yi and the other Taoist priests naturally couldn't let them get their wish, and stepped forward to intercept the ashigaru people, so that Ran Hegui and the others could avoid the interference of these little pawns.

Admiral Ashigaru took a deep breath, grasped the scabbard with his left hand, and held the handle of the knife with his right hand, making a standard knife drawing posture, quietly exhaling, and staring at Ran Hegui's movements with both eyes.

When the distance between the two was shortened to more than zhang, the ashigaru general burst into trouble, twisted the scabbard to the left with his left hand, pushed the knife off the sheath with his thumb, and twisted his waist to the right at the same time, stretched his waist forward and straightened his body.

This is the sword drawing technique in the swordsmanship of Fenglanzhou, which is called "Juhe".

Different from the straight sword that Daomen Taoist priests love to use, the Taidao, the knife, the rib difference and the scabbard of Fenglanzhou have a certain arc, and the knife drawing technique is to use this arc when the knife is drawn out of the sheath to create an instantaneous explosive force, and its strength and speed are much greater than that of directly swinging the knife out of thin air - this kind of knife drawing technique that requires the user to preemptively cut the enemy in the first move and strive for a fatal move is called "Juhe".

What Ashigaru Daisho used was the "Iai" in "Kageyama-ryu Swordsmanship".

From drawing the sword to striking at the close range of sword qi, but in a snap of a finger.

A layer of white light shrouded the body of the long knife in Ran Hegui's hand, which was the proof of the innate true qi released by the Qi Refiner.

Compared with the sword qi that the ashigaru general wielded with his sword, the true qi covered in this knife can be regarded as "sword qi" in the true sense.

Ran Hegui held the sword in his hand with both hands, and followed the knife, the whole person maintained a posture of sweeping forward, and the sword carried a rich sword qi and slashed at the knife qi that shot towards him.

In the flickering of the knife light, the two sword qi, one horizontal and one vertical, collided violently, forming a short "ten" shape, and then the two true qi in the confrontation completely shattered and collapsed, and suddenly scattered and sputtered out, and countless broken sword qi and true qi echoed around the two of them.

A majestic true qi gushed out from Ran Hegui's body, like the tide of the Dragon Boat Festival, with the momentum of destroying and decaying, bounced away all the broken knife qi that was about to fall on him, and even his clothes were not injured in the slightest.

It is the protection of the body.

Compared with this samurai inheritance general, Ran Hegui is an orthodox Qi Refiner inheritance of the Daomen, with the Kunlun stage of Qi refining realm cultivation.

Although there is not much difference in the cultivation of the two, the scattered inheritance of Fenglin Prefecture cannot be compared with the well-established Daomen inheritance at all.

The corners of Ashigaru's mouth twitched slightly, not daring to have a trace of contempt, and he also clenched the sword with both hands, putting on a defensive posture.

The opportunity has been lost, and the initiative to attack cannot take advantage, so it is better to defend with peace of mind.

Ran Hegui was not polite to him, and quickly narrowed the distance between the two, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed to the range of Zhang Yu beside General Ashigaru.

Ran He turned the long knife in a circle, and the three-foot knife swept roundly, transforming like a full moon, and slashing at the left side of the neck of the Ashigaru General with the sound of a strong wind, looking extremely strong.

I saw that the knife qi on the knife body was like the river tide during the Dragon Boat Festival, rising again and again, and now the sky was bright, and the sword qi lingered and was clearly visible, condensing almost substantially, as if adding another edge to the knife body, and approaching the Ashigaru general.

Shogun Ashigaru still maintained a defensive posture, and when the sword was less than a foot away from his neck, he immediately held his saber with both hands, and the green tendons of his arms under his sleeves flare up, and he used the back of his thick knife to block to the left, barely knocking away the sharp blade that was about to cut off his head.

Seeing the contribution of the defensive strategy, the general was overjoyed, his right hand did not move, and his left hand quickly grasped the ribs worn around his waist, preparing to repeat the old trick, and then use the previous trick to allocate - as long as this sneak attack is successful, the body of this Taoist priest will be cut into two pieces by himself.

But Ran Hegui did not continue to attack as he imagined, but did not hesitate to let go of the right hand holding the knife, and while his body retreated, his left hand pointed at the handle of the sword. Taidao suddenly let out a light trembling sound, the sword aura was restrained, and there was a faint white glow, and it instantly struck forward, stabbing straight into the face of the general Ashigaru.

The "Squid" general was horrified in his heart, and he turned his head sharply, and the general dodged the stabbing long knife, but the sharp knife qi still left an inch-long wound on his face.

Before the general of Ashigaru settled down, he saw Ran Hegui pinching out a sword trick in his right hand and making a movement of pulling back and pulling, General Ashigaru immediately felt that it was not good, and looked back, only to see that the long knife that had just swept over his face was under the traction of his true qi, and it was actually forced to turn out a circular arc behind him, like a swallow spinning around the beam, and stabbing him directly in the back of the heart again.

The "Imperial Sword Technique" of the Qi Refiner.

At the same time, the sword qi on the Taidao skyrocketed, so that the blade that was originally only three feet long was actually extended by half a foot - when Ran Hegui was killing this side before, he continued to inject his true qi into the Taidao, which was to prepare to make contributions now.

Shogun Ashigaru quickly twisted his body and faced the long knife that was stabbing towards him, and his left hand clenched the ribs, forcibly arousing his own strength, and struggling to use the "Iai Slash" in the "Kageyama-ryu Kenjutsu Iai" that was even more powerful than the previous move, "Iai Drawing".

As a half-moon-shaped sword qi that was released earlier than Ashigaru and released with the Tai Dao was a few points stronger and a little wider, slashed towards the flying knife, the rib cha finally shattered into several pieces of broken blades because it couldn't withstand such a strong use.

The sword qi and the flying knife collided violently, and the Taidao that was infused with true qi was only a mortal thing after all, and it was also broken into several sections under such destruction, and the true qi contained in the blade also burst directly, and countless shattered blades flew out with the disintegrating true qi, making the Ashigaru general who faced this small explosion suffer a big loss.

Shogun Ashigaru, whose face was cut by the blade of several bloody wounds, was furious in his heart, and he wanted to immediately kill the Taoist priest who had forced him so embarrassed.

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his right rib.

He turned back with difficulty, and found that the Taoist priest had taken advantage of the brief exhaustion of his strength after the expulsion, sneaked behind him, and stabbed himself in the chest.

In all fairness, the forging level of the Ashigaru Shogun is not low, even if it is not as good as the top mortal thing like the "Prison Ox Armor" of the man in black, it is not far from the "Flying Squirrel Armor".

It's a pity that his feet are not composed of layers of overlapping armor like the "Prison Cow Armor" and "Flying Squirrel Armor", so there are still a lot of gaps in some positions.

And Ran Hegui's ribs stabbed into the body of the ashigaru general from the gap that existed in the armpit, stabbed upward, and pierced his heart squarely.

Seeing that the general could still turn his head, Ran Hegui stirred the ribs he had stabbed into a few times.

"Despicable and shameless...... You sneak attack ......" The "squid" general unwillingly raised the knife in his right hand, ready to stab himself in the chest, and pierced the body of the Taoist priest with the long knife that passed through the chest, skewering his body with this shameless Taoist priest and dying together.

Ran Hegui didn't give him a chance to say the second sentence and die together, he pulled out the "Blue Bird Handcuff" that had already pressed down the hammer from his robe, put it directly on the back of the head of the "Squid" general, and pulled the trigger without hesitation, and a projectile engraved with an armor-piercing talisman shot out of his forehead, leaving a bloody hole the size of a Taiping Qian in his head, and he was already too dead to die.

Pulling out the ribs from the ashigaru, Ran Hegui swung his knife and cut off his dead head, and spat at his fallen headless corpse: "I still have to talk about combat etiquette when I slaughter animals?" ”

Giving a thumbs up to Nie Zhan, who had solved the roadblock behind him, Ran Hegui picked up a big bag of guns from the ground, picked up the head of the "squid" general who was still wearing the strange bowl with a spear, took a breath of true qi, and shouted in the Japanese language: "The thief will give the head!" Daomen Wansheng! ”

Zheng Yi, who was helping Ran Hegui and Nie Zhan to block Ashigaru, saw the beheading action of the two to establish a miraculous skill, and immediately used the divine power of the martial arts of the Heavenly Realm, "Spring Thunder", and roared like a spring thunder explosion: "The thief will give the head!" Daomen Wansheng! ”

Hearing this roar, the Taoist priests also followed suit, and for a while, riots of varying degrees broke out in the various ashigaru army formations, and even some of the ashigaru group leaders were thinking of fleeing in defeat.

Although the riots in the Longbow Team and the Iron Artillery Team were somewhat calmed down by the bullets of another Ashigaru general, the melee Ashigaru of the Spear Team and the Taiken Team, which were not under the command of the people, had already retreated.

Just when the people of the Daomen thought that victory was in sight, the ground under their feet suddenly rumbled, and the sound of horses' hooves played drums on the ground, and the neighing of horses and the shouts of the Japanese gradually reached the ears of the people in the melee.

"Look over there, it's Admiral Honda and his cavalry! Our reinforcements have arrived! Ashigaru, who had good eyes, pointed in one direction and shouted happily.

Ran Hegui looked in disbelief in the direction where the voice came from, and saw about 200 ashigaru people dividing into multiple phalanxes and surrounding this side, the most conspicuous of which were the more than fifty horseback riding warriors with tall horses under their crotches, wearing feet or barrels, and long fingers stuck behind their backs.

The leading horseback samurai, dressed in thick armor, was obviously the Honda Shogun.

Zheng Yi gritted his teeth, the local Japanese horses in Fenglin Prefecture were definitely not so tall and majestic, and the horses ridden by these samurai must have been imported from the Owari Domain through foreign trade!

Ironically, it was the Daimyo who benefited from the trade of the Daomen to obtain so many good things, and their Fenglan Prefecture Prefecture also occupied a very important position in these trades.

Maybe it's these Taoist priests who lift stones to shoot themselves in the foot.