I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Chapter 302 Western muskets painted with a red moon

Text Chapter 302 Western musket painted with a red moon

The person who can snipe Inaba——Ogata thought about it, and only came up with one suspect: those who kidnapped Inaba's wife and daughter!

And the person who kidnapped Inaba's wife and daughter, the only request for Inaba was to call all the masters and apprentices of the Six Great Sword Gyms to assist the officials and bounty hunters to capture Ogata together.

After hearing the only request made by these unknown people from Inaba just now, Xuren couldn't help recalling what Mucun had said to him:

(In fact, I am the same as Master Shenshan. I also feel that the current murder case that has disturbed Kyoto is not as simple as it seems on the surface. The mastermind who planned this murder case is very likely to have other plans.)

Thinking of what Mucun said to him, combined with the fact that Inaba's wife and daughter were kidnapped and threatened, Ogata had no choice but to come up with an idea:

The person who kidnapped Inaba's wife and daughter, and the person who caused him to be wanted by the whole city are most likely the same group of people!

For a certain purpose, let all the officials and bounty hunters in the city hunt down Ogata, and further make Ogata's enemies more...

So no matter what, Ogata has a good reason to catch up and catch the person who sniped Inaba.

The third-floor hut where the gunpowder smoke was just now was about 130 meters away from the Xuanxue Hall.

If you rush to arrest people now, you will still have a chance to catch the murderer.

Ah-Machi didn't know exactly what happened at this time.

Only a gunshot was heard from the 3-story hut not far from the Xuanxue Hall.

Feeling puzzled in his heart, he ran over with Feng Mo to take a look, and saw Ogata who just jumped out of the window, and heard Ogata's shout.

Although he didn't know what happened at all, after hearing Ogata's shout, Machi didn't say anything, just nodded silently.

After separating from Ogata at the ramen shop, Machi changed her shoes for convenience.

I put on the white foot bag I bought on the spur of the moment, and replaced the clogs with straw sandals.

Ogata and A-Ming ran towards the small building as fast as they could, seeing many terrified civilians along the way.

The loud gunshot just now shocked many nearby civilians.

In this long period of peace and rule, the common people have not heard the sound of firearms for a long time.

Many people didn't even recognize that it was a gunshot, thinking it was thunder.

At first, Fuma wanted to follow Ogata and A-Ming to chase the murderer.

It's a pity——I'm getting old, and I can't keep up with Ogata and A-Machi who are running at full speed.

When Ogata and A-Ming rushed to the downstairs of the small building, Fumo had been completely thrown away by Ogata and the others.

Now at this time, Ogata couldn't care about Feng Mo anymore, so he could only leave Fu Mo behind for the time being, and let Fu Mo follow behind slowly.

After rushing under the small building, Ah-ding, who had the best eyesight, raised his hand and pointed in a certain direction.

"Ayi, look!"

Ogata raised his eyes and looked in the direction that A-Machi's finger was pointing at - a man dressed in black from head to toe in black pants jumped from the highest floor of this 3rd-floor hut to the roof of a neighboring house, and then Moving on the roof of the houses, jumping from one house to another...

Although his eyesight was not as good as that of A-Machi, Ogata could still vaguely see the musket on his back.

After discovering this person's trace, neither Ogata nor A-Machi said a word to each other.

But at this moment, the two of them made the same action with great tacit understanding—turning over and jumping onto the roof of the nearby private house.

Although Ogata's Shiranui-ryu stealth technique is only "primary", but jumping up low houses and moving between houses-this kind of thing, Ogata can still do it.

After making an appointment with A-Machi on the roof of the private house, Ogata stared at the figure of the murderer, while jumping from one adjacent private room after another, leaning towards the murderer little by little.

It's night now, the light is dim, if you don't pay attention, your eyes will lose sight of the murderer's figure, so both Ogata and Atachi's eyes are fixed on the murderer, and they dare not take their eyes off the murderer for a moment .

This was the first time Ogata moved on the roof of the house.

I have to say——I was a little apprehensive.

The houses in this era are basically made of wood, and the roofs of some houses have obviously not been repaired for a long time, and they will make creaking noises when stepped on, which is really quite scary...

The appearance of Ogata and his party galloping on the roof of the private house attracted the attention of many passers-by on the street.

Many ordinary people stopped to watch Ogata and others who were shuttling on the roof, and exclaimed high or low.

The murderer seemed to have noticed that someone was chasing him, so he began to change his escape route.

Started to take those... routes that Ogata and Machi would not be easy to follow.

Because of this, Ogata and A-Machi chased harder and harder...

After the murderer turned into a new block, Ogata couldn't help cursing "Damn it".

Because if he wanted to follow the murderer into this new neighborhood, Ogata had to jump over the street below and onto the roof across the street from here.

And Ogata doesn't think that he has the ability to jump over such a wide street, from one side of the street to the other side of the street...

When Ogata was thinking about what to do, he noticed from the corner of his eye—a mountain hoko stood not far from him...

The height of this Yamahoko is just higher than the nearby houses. Many common people gathered around this Yamahoko, as if admiring the Yamahoko that was about to be taken on a parade later.

Without any further hesitation, Ookai gritted his teeth and rushed towards that mountain hoko.

After a run-up and accelerating to a sufficient speed, Ogata leapt towards the top of the Yamahoko.

The moment his feet reached the top of this Yamahoko, Ogata used this Yamahoko as a pedal and jumped to the roof of a private house on the opposite street in one breath.

After landing smoothly, Ogata couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief.

There were a lot of scolding from the people who were admiring the Yamahoko behind him—but it was too late for Ogata to apologize to them. After using the Yamahoko to successfully jump to the house across the street, Ogata continued to chase the murderer .

A-machi's side is much smoother than Ogata's. There is no need to jump the mountain hoko like Ogata, and keep moving on the roofs of private houses.

The speed and skill of the murderer moving on the roof of the house is obviously not as good as that of Ah-Ming.

At such a steady speed, A-Ming gradually narrowed the distance between him and the murderer.

After getting closer to a certain distance, A-Machi put his hand into his lapel, and then took out her plain cherry blossoms.

Aim the gun at the murderer, cock the hammer, and pull the trigger——A-Ming's movements are like flowing water, all in one go.

Machi didn't just shoot once.

After firing one round, he pulled the hammer again and fired again... directly emptying all the four bullets in Su Ying's chamber.

Ogata didn't know how many of the four projectiles A-Ming fired hit.

All I saw was the murderer's body staggered, and then fell softly from the house.

Although Ogata felt happy in his heart, he soon became troubled.

Because—unknowingly, they have gone to a place where there are few people.

Due to the lack of people, the nearby houses are also sparse, and it is impossible to get close to the place where the murderer fell by moving on the roof.

In desperation, Ogata had no choice but to temporarily jump off the house, jump back to the street, and move on the ground instead. The direction of A-machi, who was chasing the murderer, was different, and the houses nearby were fairly dense. Therefore, there is still room to move on the roof of the private house, so Ah-machi still chooses to get close to the murderer by "walking on the roof".

Although the murderer had been wounded by A-Machi, just in case, Ogata, who got down to the ground, still ran with all his strength, hoping to reach the murderer's side as quickly as possible.

Because it is running at full speed without any reservations, it is inevitable that it will be difficult to control the direction.

While turning a corner, Ogata accidentally bumped into the shoulder of a man who happened to be turning the corner from the other side.

"Hey! Why don't you look at the road when you walk?!"

The person who was bumped into the shoulder by Ogata yelled in displeasure.

For some reason, Ogata felt that the voice was somewhat familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere.

Turning his head to look, a look of astonishment immediately appeared on Ogata's face.

— Kondo?

The person who accidentally collided with each other was the man who boldly questioned Mizuno Shinyong's swordsmanship at Sengakukan today: Kondo Uchisuke.

Ogata recognized Kondo, but at this time Kondo did not know Ogata—because when the two met for the first time, Ogata was wearing a tengu mask.

Ogata has no extra time to waste on Kondo now, so after saying "sorry", he hurriedly ran towards the direction where the murderer landed.

"Hey! Your apology is too perfunctory!"

Ogata ignored Kondo's yelling behind him, and kept on walking with his head covered.

Ogata and A-Machi arrived at the place where the murderer fell just now at almost the same time.

The murderer fell in an alley between private houses, and there was no one nearby.

At this moment, the murderer was holding his stomach with one hand, leaning on the wall with the other, struggling to get up.

After seeing Ogata and A-Machi attacking him from two directions, the murderer paused for a moment.

Then slowly fell to the ground.

Looking at the murderer who suddenly collapsed to the ground, Ogata felt ominous foreboding.

Running to the murderer's side, he lifted the murderer up, and looked at the murderer's face, Ogata's pupils shrank slightly in surprise.

The murderer had an ordinary, unremarkable face.

And this ordinary face, at this time, turned into a strange maroon.

Large streams of blood flowed out from the corners of the murderer's tightly closed lips.

With just one glance, it is easy to see what happened to the murderer—biting his tongue and committing suicide!

After secretly cursing "Damn it", Ogata forcibly opened the man's mouth to see if he could save the murderer.

The murderer's mouth was full of blood at this moment. Although his vision was blocked by the thick blood, Ogata could still see that there was no severed tongue in the murderer's mouth.

--This guy……! Did you swallow the tongue you bit off? !

Ogata stuck his fingers into the man's mouth, trying to pull the guy's severed tongue out of his throat.

However, the murderer's severed tongue had been swallowed so deep that it was impossible to pull it out with only fingers.

The fat tongue seemed to block the guy's throat, leaving the guy in a choked state.

When Ogata helped this guy up, this guy was already in a state that was not far from death.

When Ogata put his fingers into this person's mouth, the person was not breathing at all...

I just don't know if this person choked to death on his own tongue, or was choked to death by this huge amount of blood...

When Ogata was rescuing this guy just now, A-Ming took the musket that this guy was carrying behind his back, and carefully looked it up and down.

After Ogata put the murderer's body on the ground with a sullen face, A-Machi, who was standing beside Ogata, said in a deep voice:

"Ayi... this group of people is incredible..."

A-Machi handed the musket in his hand to Ogata.

"This is the latest iron cannon of the Nanban. It is a flintlock."

"And it's not just an ordinary flintlock."

"See this stuff in the barrel? It's called rifling."

"A flintlock gun with rifling will greatly improve both its range and accuracy."

"According to my father - even in the country of the southern barbarians, this kind of rifled iron cannon is a rare thing..."

"A rifled flintlock..." Ogata muttered, "No wonder this guy was able to hit Inaba precisely at that distance just now..."

Although Ogata said so, he also understood in his heart that even with this rifled flintlock, it is still extremely difficult to accurately hit the target at a distance of nearly 130 meters .

Only a talented shooter like Ah Ding who is one in a million can shoot accurately at this distance.

After returning the flintlock gun in his hand to A-Machi, Ogata sighed lightly:

"The background of this group of people is really unusual..."

Owning this kind of rifled gun is quite rare even in Western countries today.

There is also a sniper who can shoot accurately at a distance of hundreds of meters.

At the same time, this sniper is still a dead soldier who can bite his tongue and kill himself without hesitation when he sees the enemy approaching...

Not everyone has the courage to kill himself by biting his tongue.

Combining these three points, it is not difficult to deduce that the power behind the scenes is not ordinary, not an ordinary force...

Ordinary organizations let alone rifled guns, even the matchlock guns still used by the Edo shogunate can't get it.

After taking the rifled gun back from Ogata's hand, A-Machi looked at the rifled gun again.

"Ok?"

At this moment, A-Machi let out a suspicious cry.

"What's wrong?" Ogata asked.

"Ayi, look."

A-Machi turned the rifled gun in his hand, turned the butt of the gun to Ogata, and raised his hand to point at the bottom of the butt.

Ogata looked in the direction that Machi's finger pointed.

"...What is this?" Ogata couldn't help wondering, "A red moon?"

I saw a red crescent moon painted on the butt of this rifled gun.