Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 246: The enemy general has been captured by me! (Part 2)
After deflecting Sarai's knife, Ogata's eyes fixed.
His sights were fixed on – Zuo Lai’s right armpit!
While rushing towards Sarai's right armpit, Ogata adjusted the direction of the knife in his hand and the posture of holding the knife.
This scene reminded Ogata of the first life-and-death duel in his life - the life-and -death duel with Toyama in a kami-sacrifice competition.
In that fatal fight, Ogata did the same thing. After deflecting Toyama's sword, he drilled into Toyama's armpit and cut Toyama in half.
But this time - it's a little different.
Sarai was wearing iron armor. If Ogata was given a sword that could cut through iron like mud, he would have the confidence to cut Sarai in half.
But with the broken sword in Ogata's hand, he might be able to break the entire sword and would be helpless against Sarai's armor.
So Ogata's target was not Sarai's waist, but Sarai's - armpit!
Up to now, Ogata has accumulated a lot of experience in fighting with people in armor.
The most effective way to deal with people wearing armor is to attack the parts of their body that are not protected by armor.
For example, their face, neck, armpits, knees and feet.
He rushed straight towards Sarai's right armpit, and when he passed by Sarai, Ogata swung the knife in his hand, cutting the flesh of his right armpit, splashing out a string of blood beads.
“Aaaaaaaaaaah !”
After letting out a shrill cry of pain, Sarai endured the pain, twisted his waist, and swung his sword at Ogata who rushed behind him!
However—at the same time he turned around, Ogata also turned around.
After inflicting a severe blow to Sarai's right armpit and rushing to within one step behind Sarai, Ogata quickly stopped his forward steps, turned around and attacked Sarai again!
Due to the serious injury to his right armpit, the power and speed of the knife swung by Zuo Lai were greatly reduced.
Ogata could already easily catch and deflect Sarai's sword.
But since there was no need to block Sarai's sword, Ogata simply turned his body to avoid Sarai's slash.
Sarai simply turned his upper body and attacked Ogata who was behind him on the right, while his lower body remained motionless.
In other words - Ogata, who is currently standing behind Sarai, can clearly see Sarai's back knees!
While dodging Sarai's slash with a step, Ogata turned the knife in his hand and used a bird stab on Sarai's right knee!
The tip of the knife easily pierced through Sarai's unarmored knee, and Ogata could even clearly feel the tip of the knife piercing his kneecap from behind.
The cry of pain that Zuo Lai made at this time exceeded the cry of pain he made when his right armpit was injured just now.
This heart-wrenching cry of pain is enough to make anyone shudder.
After Ogata pulled the blade out of Sarai's right knee, Sarai fell to one knee because he could not bear the severe pain.
And this is the moment Ogata has been waiting for.
He quickly approached Zuo Lai, grabbed Zuo Lai's armor at the collar with his left hand, and gripped the hilt of the knife with his right hand, with the tip of the knife pointing at Zuo Lai's neck.
Because Sarai was already kneeling on one knee, Ogata could easily grab Sarai.
"The winner has been decided."
After saying this softly, Ogata stabbed the sword in his hand into Sarai's neck, and then pushed the blade into Sarai's body along the wound.
Ogata's knife pierced into Sarai's right neck, then went straight through Sarai's entire neck and came out from the left neck.
After Ogata pulled the knife out of Sarai's neck, blood spurted out from Sarai's wound like a fountain .
Because of the close distance, Ogata's body and face were inevitably stained with some blood.
After letting go of Sarai and letting the lifeless Sarai fall to the ground, Ogata did not even bother to wipe the blood off his face.
While letting the blood on his face drip down his cheeks and from his chin, he slowly turned his head and looked at the shogunate soldiers who were looking at him with horror.
Then——
"I have captured the enemy general Zuo Lai!!"
He shouted at the shogunate soldiers who were lucky enough to be alive at the loudest volume he could muster.
Ogata's roar seemed to have a special magical power.
After seeing Sarai who had fallen to the ground and hearing Ogata's roar, some soldiers began to show expressions of extreme fear on their faces.
In less than two breaths, soldiers began to ignore the enemies in front of them in groups of three or two, and turned around and jumped back without any hesitation.
However - they had just rushed out of the door of the mansion when they stopped in astonishment and shock.
Because - outside the gate of the mansion, a strong man holding a large sword appeared at some point.
Seeing that some soldiers finally rushed out of the mansion, the sturdy man grinned and swung the knife in his hand!
There were only two soldiers who rushed out of the mansion first.
The sturdy man swung his sword horizontally, directly chopped the two soldiers away!
The two soldiers were chopped away by the big sword swung by the strong man. They flew in a low parabola and fell heavily to the ground.
The two people who fell to the ground no longer had any signs of life, and no one knew whether they were dead or alive.
This strong man was naturally Mucun.
Looking at Makimura at the gate, Mamiya said softly to Ogata in front of him:
"So you just asked Makimura to block the shogunate army's retreat..."
"Yes." Ogata nodded gently, "I asked Makimura to go up to the second floor, then jump out of the house through the second floor window and block the door of the residence. "
"Are you planning to kill all the shogunate troops?" Mamiya asked back.
"That's right." Ogata answered without hesitation, "I just thought of a way for us to leave this damn place. But if we want to use my method, we must first ensure that all the shogunate troops are killed."
Although his body was exhausted as if it were filled with lead, Ogata still slowly raised the knife in his hand.
"Mamiya, let's go. Kill all the shogunate troops..."
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa——!”
Before Ogata could finish his words, a very loud scream suddenly came from upstairs.
This scream was not the scream of a single individual, but the scream of many people - the scream of the villagers hiding on the third floor.
After hearing the scream, both Ogata and Mamiya frowned.
"What happened upstairs..." Mamiya said in a deep voice.
"... Mamiya." Ogata said sternly, "I'll leave this place to you and Makimura for now. I'll go upstairs and take a look."
After saying this, without waiting for Mamiya to respond, Obe threw away the already somewhat broken sword in his hand, casually pulled out a relatively intact katana next to him, held the katana tightly in his right hand, held the wakizashi at his waist with his left hand, and quickly ran towards the stairs.
As soon as he reached the second floor, Oufang saw the villagers escaping from the third floor through the stairs.
"What happened?!" Ogata grabbed a young man and asked him.
"Yes, yes, there is a giant!" the young man said incoherently, "A giant is attacking us! The woman you were traveling with is fighting with the giant now!"
"Giant?" Ogata's expression suddenly became serious.
Although he didn't know what the "giant" he was talking about meant, Ogata knew that he had to go and support Atachi immediately!
Letting go of the villager, Ogata hurried up the stairs to the third floor without any hesitation.
However - he had only climbed halfway up the stairs when he heard a strange sound coming from above his head. Ogata's pupils shrank slightly, and then he jumped back quickly.
Just as he jumped away from the position where he had just stood, a wakizashi stabbed down from the ceiling where he had just stood.
If Ogata had not jumped back in time, he would have been stabbed or even killed by the sword that suddenly fell from the ceiling.
"Huh, you react pretty quickly."
After the wakizashi was retracted, a cold snort sounded from the ceiling.
Then, a young man wearing special black clothes jumped down from the ceiling holding a wakizashi.
Looking at the young man, Ogata couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Because—this man’s clothes were exactly the same as Sotaro, whom he had just fought tonight.
And his appearance is very similar to that of Soutarou.
Looking at the unknown person who suddenly appeared in front of him, the expression on Ogata's face involuntarily became more solemn.
I sighed in a voice that only I could hear:
"Tonight... is such a long night..."
