Everyone's eyes were focused on Shuten Doji, quietly waiting for his specific instructions.

After thinking for a long time, the drunken boy said in a deep voice:

"...Our military strength is already quite tight and we cannot make too many sacrifices."

Having said this, he turned his head and shouted to Su Nuo:

"Bring up all the 'fireworks'!"

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Akasaka Imperial Gate, Wataru Gate——

"The enemy's defeat has become apparent! Drive them down!"

After roaring, Tokugawa Iemo shouted, and regardless of the dissuasion of the people around him, he raised the sword in his hand, stepped forward, and joined the battle.

The Russian soldiers did not understand Japanese, and they did not know what a "general who conquered the barbarians" was.

The members of the Raiders are not so ignorant.

They have seen through Tokugawa Iemo's true identity through his appearance and the series of words he shouted.

"Kill him! He is Tokugawa Iemo! As long as we kill him, we will win this battle."

"Don't worry about others! Deal with Tokugawa Iemo first!"

"Kill! The downfall is today!"

Huge numbers of enemy soldiers rushed towards Tokugawa Iemo from all directions.

Faced with this sudden crisis, Tokugawa Iemo did not panic.

While setting up the knife, he swept his eyes calmly to observe the battle situation.

"Damn national thief! God punishes you!"

An enemy soldier roared and rushed towards Tokugawa Iemo.

The knife raised above his head struck his head hard.

Judging from the perspective of swordsmanship, his sword is very good. It is very powerful, the sword tendon is very straight, and the control of the distance is also very accurate.

However, he misjudged one thing: Tokugawa Iemo has never been a pampered person!

Although he is a general who conquers barbarians, he has always maintained the habit of exercising and practicing swordsmanship.

Due to his limited talent, he is not a martial arts master with extraordinary skills, but he is definitely not a weak scholar with no power!

He aimed at the enemy's sword path, suddenly raised the sword in his hand, and held it diagonally above his head.

With a clang sound, two steel knives hit each other in the air.

Immediately afterwards, the enemy's sword slid sideways along the blade of the sword, like riding a slide.

This move is the most classic force reduction in swordsmanship.

After defusing the enemy's offensive, Tokugawa Iemo immediately launched a counterattack.

His ability to switch from defense to offense is quite skillful.

In the blink of an eye, he straightened the knife in his palm to the upper right section, and then slashed it down neatly!

Phew!

The sword's blade cut across the enemy's entire body, causing blood to spurt out.

After the enemy's body shook a few times, he fell to the ground with a "plop".

The general not only joined the battle in person, but also chopped down an enemy soldier with his own hands... cheers that boosted morale were heard all around again.

Although Tokugawa Iemo's bravery was deeply admired by the soldiers, no matter what, he was always the supreme commander of the shogunate.

If something happens to him, it will cause an irreparable and serious blow to the shogunate.

It is too dangerous to be exposed to the enemy's sword for a long time.

As a result, a group of soldiers cheered up and planned to step forward to protect Tokugawa Iemo.

It's just that... they all stopped just after taking a few steps.

It wasn't that they didn't want to support Tokugawa Iemo, but they later discovered that the other party didn't need their protection at all - because there was a very reliable bodyguard next to him!

"Be careful! This guy is the 'Sword Master' Seiichiro Tanani!"

"Don't back down! Even if he is a 'Sword Master', he is already an old man!"

"What's there to fear about an old 'Sword Master'?"

Several enemy soldiers formed a rough fan shape and surrounded Tokugawa Iemo.

However, they were very wary of the old man who was guarding Tokugawa Iemo. Their steps were slow and they could not cross the gap of just a few steps.

Although they encouraged each other and encouraged each other, they never dared to step forward and shake the "Sword Master"'s blade!

Throughout the ages, the only swordsmen who have held the title of "Sword Master" are Nobutsuna Kamizumi and Buden Tsukahara in the Warring States Period, Ittosai Ogata 70 years ago, and Seiichiro Otani today.

Such rare and powerful men cannot help but be nervous and cautious.

Seeing that the enemy soldiers did not dare to move forward, Tan Seiichiro was too lazy to accompany them!

Sooner or later, he stepped forward and slashed the first man's chest like a flying swallow. Then he adjusted the blade, raised it upwards, and knocked the second man to the ground. Then he turned the action of sheathing the knife into

The attack move is to cut open the belly of the third and fourth person in one breath.

Finally, he made a mistake and retreated to Tokugawa Iemo.

The speed of his sword was extremely fast. Not to mention blocking or dodging, the enemy soldiers could not even react. Some of them did not even know that they had been slashed.

Elodie did not know Seiichiro Tanani and Kiyone Kubota, she had only heard of their names.

A large part of the reason why Otani Seiichiro is revered as the "Sword Master" is because of his outstanding contributions to Japanese swordsmanship.

His greatest contribution was to unify the length of bamboo swords.

Before that, because the average height was very low, swordsmen were generally unable to wield long swords, so for a long time, the 73cm bamboo sword was the mainstream of Japanese swordsmanship.

It wasn't until the emergence of "Seven-foot-Unparalleled" Oishi Shin that the "mainstream" was shaken.

Oishi Susumu, who was seven feet tall (2.1 meters) and held a five-foot-three-inch long sword (1.6 meters), was invincible throughout Edo, and countless strong men were defeated by his sword.

Affected by this, long swords became popular in the fencing world for a while, and the concept of "the longer the sword, the better" became an undoubted truth.

The swordsmen rushed to pick up the long swords, fearing that their own swords would be half as short as their own, regardless of whether they had wielded such a long sword.

The man Seiichiro Tanani could not stand this trend, so he used a dagger (73cm) that had been abandoned at the time to knock Oishi to the ground despite the height difference of tens of centimeters.

After defeating Oishi Shin, Otani Seiichiro relied on this record and his own prestige to carry out a major reform in Japanese swordsmanship, unifying the length of the bamboo sword to the current 4 feet (1.2 meters), completely ending the "kenkoshi"

The longer the better” fallacy.

From then on, the bamboo swords of all sects were of the same length, and there was no longer a blind pursuit of long swords.

Otani Seiichiro's feat of unifying the length of his bamboo sword can be said to have laid the foundation for the current Japanese swordsmanship.

If there hadn't been such a highly prestigious master to consolidate everyone's ideas, I'm afraid everyone would still be arguing about the optimal length of the bamboo sword to this day.

Of course, the main reason why he won the title of "Sword Master" is his unparalleled strength!

The various anecdotes about how Otani Seiichiro conquered the heroes could take a day and a night to finish.

All in all, Seiichiro Tanani was always synonymous with "invincible" until his old age and strength failed him!

With him guarding Tokugawa Iemo, no matter how the enemy soldiers stepped forward and attacked desperately, they could not get even half a step closer to Tokugawa Iemo.

Judging from the overall effect, Tokugawa Iemo's courageous charge into battle played an important role that cannot be underestimated.

General Zhengyi's head... as long as he cuts it off, the battle will be won - this huge temptation makes the members of the Qi Corps no longer able to stay rational.

They rushed towards Tokugawa Iemo without caring about anything else.

Leaving their position without authorization... This made their array become messy and crumbling!

Elodie spotted this opportunity, shouted "Follow me", squeezed out the remaining strength in her body, stepped up her offensive, and tried to drive the enemy out of the imperial gate in one go!

To give a vivid metaphor... the enemy seemed to have punched out in order to defeat Tokugawa Iemo. The fist was raised, but the vulnerable side ribs were released - Elodie took the opportunity to throw a heavy punch.

, hitting his empty flank!

Her attack had an immediate effect.

With high morale like divine help, the soldiers swarmed forward and fought fiercely without fear of death.

The enemy troops were retreating steadily and suffered heavy casualties.

Those who were still alive quickly retreated to the ground along the way they came - the long ladders.

The enemy troops at the Waduo Gate retreated like a tide.

The defenders took advantage of the situation and killed those who had no time to escape, cutting down those who had no time to escape. Then they cut off the long ladders and overturned them.

At this point, there are no more enemy soldiers on the Duolu Gate.

"The enemy retreated! We won!"

"We are guarding Akasaka Mikado!"

"Woooooooooooooooo..."

Faced with the hard-earned results achieved through countless hardships, many people cried with joy.

Elodie was breathing heavily, racing against time to adjust her physical and mental state, while looking around blankly.

Just a moment ago, she couldn't help but feel desperate because she had nothing to do.

Unexpectedly, in just ten minutes, the situation on the battlefield took a shocking turn!
To be continued...