He saw a young warrior walking towards him quickly with a tense expression.

This young samurai is none other than Huosaka's apprentice, Mizuno.

Mizuno quickly ran in front of Ogata and stared at Ogata closely.

He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something.

But every time he opened his mouth, he would immediately close it again, as if he was about to speak but hesitated.

Although he was timid, his eyes were fixed on Ogata, full of fire.

"What's wrong?" Ogata asked, "If you have something to say, just say it. There's no need to be nervous or afraid."

Mizuno's words are less, second only to Tsuchiya.

All Ogata knew about Mizuno was that he was Huosaka's apprentice, and he was a very reserved and shy person.

It's because of being cautious and afraid of strangers that I speak so little.

Mizuno is now standing in front of Ogata, looking like he has something to say but is hesitant to say it. It must be due to his restraint and nervousness.

After hearing Ogata's encouragement, Mizuno seemed to be inspired.

After taking a deep breath, Mizuno said to Mizuno word by word:

"You...your swordsmanship is so amazing. I admire you so much."

After leaving these words quickly, Mizuno quickly left Ogata and returned to the room behind where the bandit leader was imprisoned.

After hearing what Mizuno said just now, Oubon was stunned for a moment.

After watching Mizuno leave, A-Machi on the side covered his mouth with a smile and said to Ogata:

"It's just a compliment about your swordsmanship. Why should you make it sound like you are expressing your feelings to the person you like?"

Ogata smiled and shrugged: "Maybe you were too shy. You were too embarrassed to talk to me in public just now."

Just when Ogata was about to continue leisurely watching the clouds in the sky with Amachi, Higasaka's voice suddenly came from behind:

"Hey! Majima-sama! The prisoner is awake!"

Ogata raised his eyebrows, picked up the sword in his arms and stood up.

"Are you awake... It happened quite quickly... By the way, why are you talking... so weird now?"

If Ogata heard him correctly, Huosaka seemed to have called him "Mashima-sama" just now, and the words just now were said using honorifics.

Hearing Ogata's question, Kawasaka showed his most common expression and grinned:

"I admire you very much, Majima-sama! It would be really rude if I still use the same address and tone to talk to you."

"Come on, Majima-sama, let's interrogate that scumbag together!"

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The review process was extremely easy.

Kasaka just rounded up his sandbag-sized fists and punched the little bandit leader twice in the face, and everything he knew was gone.

It can be seen from this that this man's will is quite weak and he succumbed after only being punched twice.

However, this man gave in so quickly, which was within Ogata's expectation.

People who would rather die than surrender basically have strong beliefs.

What kind of faith can a mere bandit have?

Maybe there really are those bandits who would rather die than betray their comrades out of loyalty, but such people can really be described as one in a million.

Ogata and others first asked the name of the bandit leader.

After learning that the little leader's surname was Ohno, he immediately asked where their stronghold was, what weapons they had, and other more important information.

According to Ohno, they are a group of bandits that have recently gathered and fled here. All the members are ronin, a total of 42 people.

They currently live somewhere in the mountains, and it would take more than an hour to walk from here to their stronghold.

The weapons are only the swords on each member's waist, and there is no such thing as armor.

Although with their numbers and combat power, it would be extremely easy to rob this small village with a population of less than a hundred.

But their leader also understands the concept of "sustainable development" and knows that if everything in this village is robbed, there will be very few villagers in this village who can survive this winter.

Their leader does not want to do this kind of thing.

So they sent Ohno to lead people to negotiate with the village today and let them go if they only handed over half of the food, property or women.

Leave some seeds for them so that they can continue to grab them in the coming days.

What Ohno said to the village chief before, "As long as they obediently hand over their money, food or women, they will not harass them again in the future" was just pure deception.

According to their plan, after "borrowing" half of the village's money, food or women, they would continue to "borrow" them again.

"There are no troublesome things like bows, iron cannons, armors, and spears..." Kasaka scratched his hair, "That would be much easier."

"We are not in the troubled times of the Warring States Period. Armor, spears and other equipment are not so easy to obtain." Jincheng on the side said lightly, "It is normal for the bandits not to have these things, but it would be strange if they did."

In the troubled times of the Warring States Period two hundred years ago, weapons were everywhere.

Just go to any battlefield and you can pick up a lot of weapons and equipment.

Some people even make a living by picking up weapons and equipment left on the battlefield and selling them.

During the Warring States Period, not only were bandits generally well-equipped, but even farmers often kept well-equipped equipment.

In order to protect themselves, farmers during the Warring States Period often picked up some weapons and equipment.

Either for the safety of the village, or just to retaliate against the samurai who made them uneasy, they chose to take risks, kill the lone samurai passing by their village, and then steal their equipment.

Because there were too many weapons and equipment scattered among the people, Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued the "Sword Hunting Order" not long after he unified the world and collected all the weapons and equipment that were scattered among the people.

After saying that, Jincheng crossed his arms and pondered for a moment before saying in a deep voice:

"42 people... Now we have killed 12, and there are still 30 left... Even without that troublesome weapon, there are still a lot of people..."

After pondering for a moment, Jincheng suddenly turned to look at Ogata and asked Ogata with the utmost respect:

"Mashima-sama, what are your ideas?"

Being called out suddenly, Ogata raised his eyebrows unconsciously.

Ogata happens to have a plan now.

Now that he was called by name, Oe simply cleared his throat and said slowly:

"We have now wiped out all their teams who came to 'borrow' money and food."

"The team's delay in returning will definitely arouse their suspicion."

"So I just have a plan now."

"Let's just fight and decide quickly."

"Draw your sword, go straight to Huanglong, attack their stronghold, kill the enemy on sight, and wipe out this group of bandits. This is my plan."

"What do you think?"

Fan filters exist in every era.

If it had been before Ohno and others attacked, Jincheng would have just sneered at Ogata's plan.

But now after learning that Ogata is a great swordsman, under the influence of this fan filter, and hearing Ogata's plan, Jincheng just feels that he is worthy of being a swordsman, he is courageous and heroic!

The fire in Jincheng's eyes burned even brighter.

Bathed in Jincheng's fiery gaze, Ogata couldn't help but lower the corners of his mouth and thought to himself:
Chapter completed!