Verse 53: Swords and swords
The wind was howling.
The bright moonlight covered the ground with a layer of silver frost.
This is the largest moon in Rigal, known to the Lamanites as the Moon of Magic of the West Funk, and it is also the image of the Moon Palace where the people of the Land of the Moon believed that their royal ancestor, the Great Moon God, used to live.
After less than 10 minutes, the "door" in the form of a fragment of light disappeared behind them with a "poof" a little earlier.
Another samurai who had come with him had been stabbed in the vital point and fell not far away in order to buy him time, and now he has lost his life.
I've become alone. There was some water in the ground under my feet, and the straw sandals on the soles of my feet soaked the cloth toggles, and my toes began to numb from the cold. He kept his long knife pointed at the three on the other side, moving some distance away from the ground that would affect the sensation of his feet.
An army of more than 2,000 men was taken out by himself and left in the Atlas, and before that time a well-known village in the Northlands was burned, but it was not completely destroyed.
Survivors who fled along the waterways of the Yongchuan River's tributaries will inevitably spread the news like wildfire. At the critical juncture of the plan, I need to be a man with my tail between my legs, and now I am afraid that my family will no longer be able to protect myself. There was no place for him anymore. Even if you go back, you will inevitably be forced to end up with a seppuku apology, and if you don't do it, you may even have to affect your parents and relatives.
The best outcome is to die in battle here.
For some reason, when this conclusion was made in his heart, Wu felt relieved in his heart.
He suddenly remembered a book translated from the Lamo people that he saw in the Nanban Bookstore when he went to Xinjing about four or five years ago.
Although the high-level of the Moon Country is quite conservative about the outside world, it doesn't mean that the people below are not interested in foreigners. Many people are very curious to know how overseas evaluate their country, so this kind of Lamo people's description of the people is quite marketable among the literati and bachelors.
Even as time passed, he was still impressed by one of the descriptions: "Although the samurai of Wato are pretentious, they are actually pitifully small. Personal creeds that are too rigid to follow make them incapable of seeing the big picture. They are more suited as independent swordsmen than generals with great power. ”
At that time, Wu scoffed at this, and countless Japanese literati and scholars naturally reacted violently to this evaluation of "barbaric and soulless Southern Barbarian Aliens".
But now it seems that this is so apt. The reason why he scoffed at one side and still remembered it, and the reason why others reacted violently and began to fight back forcefully, was it because this outsider's evaluation hit the nail on the head?
I don't have to worry about all the burdens, I don't have to worry about the aftermath, I don't have to worry about the impact, I don't have to think about how to deploy troops.
It's just that as a samurai, following the creed of the samurai for 4,000 years, if there is kindness, there will be revenge, and even if you risk your life, you must carry out your personal revenge to the end.
In his eyes, there was only the enemy on the other side, this enemy who had not even met for more than 15 minutes and had never even had a word of conversation, but in his heart he seemed to be an old enemy who had been entangled for a lifetime.
"Ha-" The white breath exhaled dissipated in the cold wind in a moment.
The dark clouds that had been gathering in the evening had now dissipated, and it was clear from the standing water on the ground that it had rained heavily. The moon shone so brightly that there were no torches on the ground, and the weeds on the long beach in the distance were pressed low by the wind, and the two women hid a little farther away, and at this moment they were the only ones on the dirt slope where there were some weeds.
Is this the case with my brother in the end?
He couldn't help but think about it in his heart.
The Land of the Moon is a long-term peaceful country, and the samurai have undoubtedly had sword skills that have been passed down for thousands of years, but rarely do they really come in handy.
"It's okay once, I really want to fight with someone to prove my sword skills. ”
Similar words are the voices of countless people and martial artists.
"Whew-" A gust of wind blew, and Henry's half-length black hair and Takeshi's long blue hair both swayed slightly.
Neither of them wore helmets, which exposed their weaknesses, but also allowed them to see and breathe unobstructed.
It would be foolish to rely on armor for defense, and Wu Zai had just used a knife to cut the ropes of the huge shoulder pads on both sides and discarded them. This iron plate shoulder pad is good for resisting the opponent's bow when riding, but when it comes to close combat and facing a master, it is no different from a burden.
This is a competition of skills, verifying his sword skills that he has practiced hard in spring, summer, autumn and winter for more than ten years, and also verifying the superb swordsmanship accumulated over more than 4,000 years in the Land of the Moon.
"O swordsman of the outsider, I will prove the way of my sword with your life!" According to the custom of the land of the moon, samurai must shout a declaration before going to war. But for some reason, what Wu blurted out was not the idea of avenging his brother for days, but such a sentence like kicking the gym.
"Whew-" The breath drifted away in the wind again, and he took a stance, lowering his center of gravity.
The stagnant water on the leaves bent the grass that had only sprouted in spring, and the moment it fell, Wu raised the broadsword in his hand, and then landed on tiptoe and shook his feet.
"Bang ——!!"
The sword of one meter and seven is as fast as the bayonet sword in the hands of the Lamanites.
"Kadang ——!!" Even Henry did not choose to avoid it, but blocked with Kramer to avoid falling into the rhythm of the other party in the moment of regression.
"Whew-when!" The sage used the key points of Rigal's swordsmanship to use the strong part of the root of the big sword to try to block the long knife and attack at the same time, but Wu's skills were the top level he had encountered since coming to Crescent Continent, and even if he fought Rigal's swordsmanship for the first time, he immediately realized Henry's intentions.
"Smack!" the blue-haired warrior in red armor flipped his wrist in an instant and pressed the back of his thick knife against Kramer, followed by a "click-" "click-" spark, which made the two weapons entangle together and defuse the sage's attack, he did not rush to get close, because the length of the weapon was his advantage, and it was more beneficial for him to keep a distance.
"Be ——!" But Henry didn't intend to entangle, he drew his weapon and chose to attack this time. Rigal-style swordsmanship is very good at using gauntlets and melee skills, but when the attack range advantage is mastered by the opponent, choosing close range means stepping into the opponent's attack range.
So he chose the simplest and crudest method, suppressing it with force.
"Boom-boom-" sparks flew around, and as a top-of-the-line weapon, Kramer could fully withstand rough application.
Therefore, when faced with a weapon that is longer than his own, Henry can choose to ignore the opponent and instead aim at the weapon attack, destroying the weapon and taking advantage of the opponent.
In the face of long-pole weapons, the greatsword and the power of the sage are completely enough to cut it with one blow, and even other swords made of steel are rarely able to withstand it. "Bang-" His attack trajectory was very obvious to be aimed at the weapon, but the opponent did not back down, not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't.
After a little fighting, he already understood that this man's fighting style did not mean to drag the mud and water at all, as long as a gap was exposed, he would bite like a piranha smelling blood.
Although the slender Great Taidao has a longer attack range and stronger power, it is not as agile as the Small Taidao, and if you change the current posture of facing the opponent with the tip of the knife, you will be defeated at close range if you lose this threat.
The physical advantage will be more obvious after close quarters, and if he loses the safety of distance, he won't even have a chance to win-
"Cut off the weapon, that's how you killed my brother!" he had surveyed the battlefield and seen the tragic condition of the knife.
The sword and the one in his hand were a pair, both from the hands of Fuso's famous swordsmith, but even so, he was still defeated by the strangely shaped Nanban sword.
Hard-hitting won't work, and losing the quality of your weapon to your opponent may sound speechless, but it's a situation that is inevitable in battle.
Therefore, among the sword techniques that have been passed down in the country of the moon for more than 4,000 years, there must be measures to deal with them.
"Bang-" collides with the opponent's weapon with the plane of the blade, and uses pure technique to cushion and weaken the opponent's attack without moving the weapon while still keeping the tip of the knife against the enemy.
"Hum!!" The long knife shook and numb, even though he used the technique of unloading, Wu still felt that he was about to lose his grip on the knife. "Tsk-" But after this knife was caught, he also won the opportunity, and the samurai who had lowered his body pulled a step back, and then shook his feet again - the sword technique of the country of the moon is always with a rush, if the Rigal-style swordsmanship is a move and a combination of steady and steady, the country of the moon is fast in and out, and it takes people with speed.
Even the Great Tai Sword, which is longer than a big sword, is swinging at an amazing speed because of its footwork.
"Xiu ——!" waist with footwork, after rushing and then pulling away, the continuous slash swing is impenetrable, and the Luoan girl, who was resting in the rear because of the exhaustion of magic power, just glanced at it, and was shocked that this technique used by the samurai was so similar to the iron butterfly.
"After all, it can't match our country's 4,000-year-old heritage. Seeing that this foreigner was forced to only parry, the corners of Wu's mouth showed a chuckle.
The Southern Barbarians are Southern Barbarians after all, and what if they laugh at the small pattern and can only become a swordsman without the material of a general?
After all, it is because you feel inferior in the face of our country's peerless sword skills, so you find another entry point to try to win back a city!
"Outsiders!!" "When ——!" "Bang-" Kramer and Dataidao were handed over, and Wu once again used the technique of weakening the impact to not directly confront.
"It's just a good sword!" he roared again, and then stabbed Henry with his sword faster than the sage when he tried to parry with his gauntlet for the second time.
"Carving insect skills, carving insect skills!" But after watching a confrontation, he learned the so-called foreign swordsmanship.
Compared to the changeable and swift Moon Country Sword Technique, it's really not worth mentioning if it's just a gauntlet to hinder the opponent's attack.
Violent sparks ——!! emerge from where the two weapons clashed, and he could clearly see that the stranger wanted to block but was not quick enough to react due to his large size.
"Stupid, stupid!" the other party missed a little, the big sword in his hand was not the backward and stupid straight sword of a foreigner.
A broadsword with a curved surface is perfectly fine.
Bypass the opponent's protection and stab!
"Succeed, suffer death, outsiders!" the roaring samurai stabbed at the sage's torso, and Sakura on one side didn't dare to blink, holding her breath as she watched the successive exchanges.
Henry's movements were a beat slower than Takeshi had expected, and although the samurai could undoubtedly feel the resistance coming from the sword, he was already a step too late between the lightning and flint exchanges.
The curved arc of the big sword was still aimed at his heart even if it was pushed away, and the sharp tip of the knife was still aimed at his heart.
'I have won this contest!' The samurai, who had already come to such a conclusion in his heart, stabbed this sword with all the strength of his body.
The tip of the knife cut through the air, and it was the pinnacle of his life.
"When !!"
"Huh?!"
Imaginary sounds piercing flesh and hot blood, and the unbelievable anguish expression of the alien.
None of them appeared.
Henry was pushed back a few steps by the impact, and Wu stood in place in a daze.
The garment worn by the sage was cut by a long knife and the flannel on the surface revealed the shiny metal underneath.
"You, this ......" The blue-haired warrior stared at him like he was about to spit out his eyes, and for a moment he felt that he could not breathe, and he could not say a word.
"Despicable-" "Bang Dong!!" Henry unmistakably seized the moment when the other party was stunned, and stabbed the weak point of the breastplate from the side after slashing the great sword with a wrong body.
"It's so, it's despicable. The lobe of the lung was pierced, and the samurai, who spat blood from his mouth, spat out his last words.
"......" and the sage shrugged: "Financial resources are also a part of strength, if you have good equipment, why not use it." ”
He pulled Kramer out, and Sakura watched in amazement as what was supposed to be the pinnacle of Eastern and Western skills ended in this way, and he was speechless for a moment.
"Mr. Sage. ”
"What a terrible grown-up. And the pale-faced Luoan girl gasped back and said.
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