"Aim in the direction of Ii Naomi's sedan and stride forward."

"There is no need to think about anything and everything except 'forward'."

Having said that, Kurosawa Chuzaburo turned his gaze back to the street outside the dark alley.

His eyes suddenly condensed: "Here we come...!"

Jing Yi's queue...finally marched to their scheduled combat location!

Mori Gorokuro, who had been standing on the inconspicuous roadside and was responsible for the first attack, saw this, raised his hands to his lips, breathed heavily into his palms, kicked the snow on the ground, and ran towards Ii

The front of the queue.

"I'm asking you to play! I'm asking you to play!" Gorokuro Mori took out the "complaint of grievances" in his arms and said, "Please, the elder, please plead the grievances for the villain! Please, the elder, plead the grievances for the villain!"

"

Ii's queue was forced to a halt by Gorokuro Mori who suddenly stood in front of them.

"Huh?" Jingyi Naobi frowned and asked outside the sedan, "What happened?"

"My lord." Chuzaemon Kawanishi, the deputy captain of the guard guarding the sedan door, responded solemnly, "There is a ronin blocking the front of the team, saying that he has a grievance to report."

"Injustice?" Ii Naobi's brows furrowed even more.

It was not uncommon for samurai or civilians to suddenly stop in front of a high-ranking official's car or queue and ask someone to redress their grievances.

In Ii's queue, Kusakabe Saburoemon, the "donor" who was specially responsible for handling such matters, quickly stepped out of the queue and rushed to Gorokuro Mori, who was kneeling in front of the queue.

"What's wrong with you..."

Before Saburoemon Kusakabe finished speaking, Gorokuro Mori threw the "Complaint of Grievance" in his hand into the sky.

What was thrown into the sky at the same time was the bamboo hat on his head and the feather fabric on his body.

Under the haori, the sleeves on both sides have been tied with sleeve tape!

In this flash of lightning that no one in Ii's queue could react to, the red and fierce light in Mori Gorokuro's eyes popped up together with the cold light of the blade!

Gorokuro Mori, who was proficient in the art of drawing swords, drew his sword suddenly, and the light of the sword cut a slender gap in the snow curtain, cutting Kusakabe Saburoemon's throat, and Kusakabe Saburoemon's body shook a few times.

He fell down and fell heavily to the ground.

Hot blood splashed out along the tip of Mori Gorokuro's knife, splashed to the ground, and turned into beautiful red plums on the snow.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"Protect your lord quickly!"

…

The originally orderly queue suddenly became chaotic.

Mori Gorokuro worked up his nerves, dodged to the guard closest to him, and slashed his chest with a cassock slash.

Inside the sedan chair, Ii Naomi, who until just now was still admiring the snowy scenery outside the sedan chair and thinking about the lyrics of the Shinwa lyrics, was startled when he heard the shouts of "enemy attack" that were rushing one after another.

Immediately afterwards, a color that was difficult to describe in words slowly appeared on his eyebrows...

Looking at Goroku Mori who had successfully completed the task of "attracting attention", Kurosawa Chuzaburo felt that all the blood in his body was rushing to his head.

He gritted his teeth, raised the revolver in his hand, pointed it at the sedan not far away, and fired the trigger crazily.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...

All the bullets in the gun's chamber were emptied by Kurosawa Chuzaburo in one go.

Of the projectiles whizzing by, only two successfully hit Naoki Ii inside the sedan.

The only two bullets that hit Ii Naobi...one hit Ii Naobi's thigh, and the other hit Ii Naobi's waist.

"Ugh!" Ii Naobi felt a sweet sensation in his throat as he felt severe pain in his waist and thighs.

His mouth opened, and drops of blood flowed out from the corners of his mouth.

He tried to move, but his lower body was completely unconscious...

The wind is strong!

The goose feathers and heavy snow are flying, and the sky and the earth merge into one color.

His vision was blocked by the snow, and everything around him disappeared into a vast white curtain of snow.

Kurosawa Chuzaburo threw away the empty revolver in his hand and pulled out the Peikawa Nishi Chuemon sword from his waist.

"Tenchu——!" Kurosawa Chuzaburo shouted, and then he took the lead and rushed to the battlefield!

"Ahhhhhhhhhh-!" Arimurajizaemon seemed to be pouring out all the fear and tension accumulated in his chest in one breath. He shouted while pulling out

His own sword followed Kurosawa Chuzaburo.

All the patriots on the left and right wings were in action.

The members of the right wing who had been sitting around the tea stall pretending to be country warriors dropped their teacups one after another, pulled out their swords from their waists, and joined the fight.

"God's punishment! God's punishment!"

"Kill the national traitors!"

"Kill ahhhhhhhh--!"

…

The tea stall owner and the girl who worked at the tea stall were so frightened by the changes in front of them that all the color drained from their faces. They did not bother to clean up the stall and hurriedly fled the battlefield that had turned into a flesh and blood mill.

Because of the heavy snowfall, all the guards of the Ii family tied handle covers on the handles of their swords, and the scabbards were wrapped in sheath bags made of oiled paper. They did very strict snow protection work. If the rope on the handle cover was not untied,

If it is open, the knife cannot be pulled out.

Many people were hacked to death by the patriots in a daze while they were hurriedly unhooking the handles.

Some guards were anxious and simply took out the sword from their waist without removing the sheath and used it as a stick.

The deputy captain Kawanishi Chuemon, who was guarding the sedan chair, hurriedly unhooked the handles of the swords at his waist and shouted to the bearers responsible for carrying the sedan chair: "Bring your lord back to the mansion quickly!"

The cry of killing shook the sky, and blood and broken limbs were scattered everywhere.

The patriots launched a frantic attack, killing all the Jingyi guards who blocked them.

The important person in charge of the response, Libuchi, Hasuda City Goro and others witnessed this increasingly fierce fight to the death, and their blood boiled with excitement.

Liyuan asked people to throw away the oil-paper umbrellas in their hands, tear off the feathers on their bodies, draw their swords, and join the battle.

"Heavenly Punishment!" Liyuan's leader slashed the back of the head of a guard who was fighting with his companions from behind.

However, just after he beheaded a Jingyi guard, his forehead was accidentally hit by a sneak attack from the person beside him, causing a large gash in his forehead.

(When the battle begins, all you have to do is move forward. Aim in the direction of Ii Naomi's sedan and stride forward.)

The words Kurosawa Chuzaburo said to him just now suddenly flashed through Arimura Jizaemon's mind.

"Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Arimura Jizaemon, who is proficient in Gegen-ryu, let out the classic Gegen-ryu roar "Saru" while slashing the sword in his palm from the top and smashing it into pieces.

He hit the head of a guard standing in front of him.

--forward……

After breaking through the obstruction of the two men, Arimurajizaemon felt as if someone had cut his left shoulder.

It was obvious that he had been stabbed, but strangely, he didn't feel any pain at all.

The tension and fear that had been plaguing him just now, for some reason, he couldn't feel at all after the battle started.

At this moment, there was only one thought left in his mind.

Aim in the direction of Ii Naoki's sedan and stride forward.

forward!

Arimurajizaemon returned the sword and chopped down another guard who was blocking him.

--forward……!

He galloped forward in a galloping manner, his sword flashing and killing! Flashing and killing again! The blood instantly dyed his sword and clothes red.

A splash of hot blood splashed onto Arimurajizaemon's left eye, but he couldn't spare his hand to wipe it, so he continued to kill the enemy with his only remaining right eye.

--forward!

A guard cut Arimurajizaemon's right cheek.

Arimurajizaemon, who felt no pain at all, allowed the blood to gush out from the wound on his right cheek, and killed the guard who had disfigured him with a backhand slash.

--forward!!!

Arimura Jizaemon, who mustered up all his strength and charged forward, realized at this moment that he had rushed very deep into Ii's queue.

Ii Naoki's sedan chair...was just 3 meters away from him!

The deputy leader Chuzaemon Kawanishi, who is a master of the Nitō-ryu, was like a door god at this time, holding two swords in his hands and guarding the sedan chair behind him.

The bearers responsible for carrying the sedan were either killed or fled, and the sedan fell to the snow.

The first one to break through the numerous defensive lines and attack near the sedan was Inada Juzo on the right wing.
To be continued...