At this point, Ogata, who had defeated four people in a row, finally gained the attention of everyone present.
Many people looked at Ogata, who had transformed into "One Punch Man," with shock on their faces. Some were so shocked that they exclaimed in various ways:
"Hey, that Japanese guy is so strong! He has already defeated 4 people! (Lucia)"
"I don't think he knows any boxing skills, he just throws ordinary punches! (Lucia)"
"Look at the wounds all over his body, could he be a member of the Japanese army? (Lucia)"
"It doesn't matter! We have Sania! Sania should be able to deal with that Japanese!"
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The "shirtless camp" to which Ogata belongs has seen the balance of victory tilt greatly towards them because of Ogata's presence.
Although they are at a disadvantage, the people in the opposing "clothed camp" have not yet collapsed and they are still holding on tenaciously.
The two Lucia people who had just dealt with their opponents rushed towards Ogata almost at the same time.
These two men are about the same height as Ogata, but their muscles are much stronger than Ogata's, with big and hard muscles all over their bodies.
Ogata's figure is "lean", not the kind of "big guy" with arm muscles bigger than a baby's head.
The two men attacked Ogata from the left and right.
Although Ogata didn't know any boxing, he could still instinctively feel from the movements of these two people that they must have learned some corresponding skills.
His footwork is very good, his close combat is very accurate, and when he punches he does not just use the strength of his arms, but he knows how to mobilize the strength of his whole body, and he does that very well.
However, their techniques are of no use.
The little skill they had was not enough to make up for the physical difference between them and Ogata.
In a hand-to-hand combat, if your physical fitness is weaker than that of others, it would be a very hopeless thing.
So there is an old saying in China that goes - if you practice martial arts without practicing your skills, it will all be in vain when you get old.
No matter how well you have practiced various skills, if you lack strength, speed and other qualities, even if you hit the opponent, you may not be able to hurt him.
Faced with the attack from both men, Ogata tried to do two things at once, quickly retreating several steps to avoid the fists that were coming from two different directions.
Then he took another step forward, closing the distance between them, and swung two punches at a speed so fast that it left afterimages, hitting the two men in the chest and face respectively.
The two men only felt pain in the places where they were hit by Ogata's fist, which was almost enough to make them faint.
He covered the place where he was hit and tried to hold on for a while, but finally he fell to the ground like the previous "predecessors" who had fought with Ogata.
Ogata didn't even look at the two men he had knocked down. After knocking them down, he immediately went looking for new opponents.
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Ogata focused on dealing with all the people wearing thin clothes.
Ogata dodged and moved, constantly changing his position.
The current highest record is that of a short man with muscular body - he fell down after being hit by three punches from Ogata.
Most of the people were knocked down by Ogata's punches.
Until now, no one has even been able to touch Ogata...
"Sanya! Sanya! (Lucia language)" A young man with dull blond hair shouted urgently to a burly man with a shiny bald head not far away.
The sturdy man whom the young man called "Sanya" just knocked down the opponent in front of him.
After the young man finished speaking, he turned around.
"Saniya! Go deal with that Japanese guy! (Lucia)" the blond young man said, "That Japanese guy has killed 8 of us! If we don't kill that Japanese guy, we will definitely lose! (Lucia)"
Saniya glanced at Ogata not far away.
He didn't answer the blond young man.
He merely revealed a smile filled with joy, and then answered the blond young man with his actions—he rushed towards Ogata like a brown bear charging at its prey.
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Ogata heard a series of footsteps approaching him rapidly.
Following the sound, he saw a bald head.
A big man with a shiny bald head was rushing towards him.
There are no muscles on the sturdy man's body, only pieces of fat. His big belly makes him look like a pregnant woman with a child.
Although this sturdy man has no hair on his head, his chin, chest and abdomen have a very dense amount of hair, so dense that it makes people feel a little disgusted.
Ogata, who didn't know any boxing, just casually stood sideways with his right hand in front and left hand behind.
Although he cannot use a sword, the various abilities he has developed from years of sword-swinging combat can still come in handy in fist fights.
For example - the ability to calculate the distance between us and the enemy.
The moment the bald man rushed into his attack range, Xu Fang immediately punched the bald man's huge belly.
Ogata didn't expect that the bald guy didn't defend or dodge.
Instead, he swung his right arm, swung his right fist, and slammed his fist heavily towards Ogata's fist.
Bang!
The two men's fists collided.
Ogata's expression changed slightly.
Instead, the bald man's expression changed suddenly.
The reason why Ogata's expression changed slightly was because the bald man's power was much stronger than he had imagined.
He actually felt a numbness and pain in his fist that could not be ignored - but compared with the injuries he had mentioned before, this pain was nothing to mention.
As for why the bald man's expression suddenly changed... it was the same reason why Ogata's expression changed, he also misjudged Ogata's strength.
Ogata's thin figure looks so deceptive - it makes people mistakenly think that he is a man whose strength is limited, no matter how strong he is.
The bald man, who had seriously misjudged Ogata's strength, screamed while covering his right hand which was in so much pain that it felt like it was about to break.
Ogata would not miss this excellent opportunity to decide the outcome.
Ogata used his left fist to hit the bald man's big belly hard.
After hitting the bald man's belly with his left fist, Ogata realized that this bald man was not the kind of person who had only fat on his body.
He is the kind of guy with big muscles and a layer of fat.
This body shape reminded Ogata of a sumo wrestler.
Sumo wrestlers all have this body type - strong muscles covered with a layer of fat. They have both powerful strength and a weight that is difficult to move.
Protected by this circle of fat and muscles, the bald guy had a strong ability to withstand blows. Ogata hit him four times before he finally fell down, successfully breaking the record of "number of punches endured by Ogata".
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The pace of this fist fight became unusually fast due to Ogata's presence.
In less than half a minute, all 20 people in the "clothed camp" fell to the ground - 14 of them were knocked down by Ogata.
As for the "bare-shirted camp" on Ogata's side, there were still 10 people, including Ogata, who were not defeated due to Ogata's activeness.
Most of their opponents were knocked down by Ogata who suddenly joined in with one punch...
“Oooooohh ...
After the last person in the "clothed camp" fell to the ground, the members of the "shirtless camp" who were still standing, except Ogata, cheered.
"Too strong! This Japanese guy is so strong! This is the first time I've had such an easy fight! (Lucia)"
"Most of the people were killed by the Japanese. I didn't feel satisfied... (Lucia)"
"This Japanese guy should really come to our country! Participate in those boxing matches with gambling! He will definitely make a lot of money! (Lucia)"
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In addition to cheering, these people also spoke in Lucia language that Ogata could not understand.
"Mashima! You're amazing!"
At this time, Vasili came over and praised Ogata in Japanese. Ogata finally heard the language he could understand after a long time .
"Are you from the military?"
"No." Ogata shook his head. "I'm not a soldier. I'm just an ordinary ronin. Well, I've already fought with you guys, it's time to fulfill your promise - tell me what those two Japanese you met before looked like."
"...Mashima, I have a request." After pursing his lips, Vashili said seriously, "Can you fight me? Just the two of us."
"Huh?" Ogata frowned slightly.
"I just watched you fight, and it made my blood burn. I want to compete with you! Let's have a fight!" There was some earnestness in Vasili's tone.
"After you fight me, I'll tell you everything I know!"
Looking at Vasili in front of him, Ogata muttered helplessly in his heart:
——Another person who loves fighting...
How many people who like to fight and learn from others have I met so far? Ogata himself has lost count.
However, the ones he had met before were all those who liked to fight with weapons. This was the first time that Ogata had met someone who liked to fight with fists.
"No way." Ogata said without hesitation, "You promised me that if I participate in your traditional activities, you will tell me the details of the two strange-looking Japanese you met before."
"Now you suddenly want me to fight you again."
"Are you planning on breaking your promise?"
After hearing the words "breaking the promise" from Ogata's mouth, Wasili showed impatience and difficulty.
Vashili pursed his lips, and after thinking for a moment, he seemed to suddenly remember something and said "ah" softly.
Then he hurriedly said:
"Oh, right, how about this!"
Vasili quickly ran to his shirt that had just been thrown aside, fumbled inside the shirt for a while, and took out a long tubular object.
"This thing is called a 'telescope'!" Vashili ran back to Ogata holding the long tube-shaped object. "It can see distant objects clearly! It's a very useful thing!"
"As long as you fight me again now, I will give you this telescope!"
"Telescope?" Ogata raised his eyebrows.
As a time traveler, Ogata certainly knows what a telescope is.
This is indeed a good thing.
"Can you show it to me?"
"Here you go." Vasili handed the telescope to Ogata readily. "Just pull the two tubes apart and you can use it."
The telescope in Vasili's hand is a monocular telescope that was very popular in that era.
It was very small, only as long as Ogata's palm before it was pulled open.
Ogata took the telescope handed to him by Vasili, opened it and tried it out - he could see quite far and clearly.
"A-Ming!" Ogata called out to A-Ming who was standing not far away, "Do you want to come over and try out this telescope?"
At that time, Japan was still pursuing a policy of isolation, so such Western toys were very rare on the market.
Although A-Ming had heard of the name of the "telescope" before, he had never used it.
After Ogata asked her if she wanted to try the telescope, Atachi, who was very curious about the telescope, immediately trotted over and took the telescope handed to her by Ogata.
"Wow!" After putting one eye close to the lens, Ating immediately exclaimed, "I can see so far. So this is a telescope..."
The practicality of the telescope goes without saying.
In Japan, which is still a closed country, telescopes are a luxury item that is in short supply. Probably only the rich and powerful have the channels to get a telescope.
"As long as you fight with me, no matter you win or lose, I will give you this telescope!" Vasili added.
Looking at Atachi who was having a lot of fun playing with the telescope, Ogata thought for a while and then looked at Vasili.
"...Okay, I'll fight you again."
"Thank you so much!" Vasili's face showed ecstasy.
"A-Ting, please stand a little further away. Vashili, after the fight, you must keep your promise and tell me the details of the two Japanese you met before."
"Don't give me anything else to worry about."
"Don't worry!" Vashili pressed the joints of his fists. "After fighting with you, I will immediately tell you everything I know!"
Ogata and Vasili had been communicating in Japanese, so Vasili's subordinates had no idea what they were saying or what they were planning to do.
But after seeing Ogata and Vasili assuming their respective boxing stances, they all cheered - although they didn't know why Ogata and Vasili were planning to duel, it was enough for them to know that there would be a good show to watch.
Some people who had just fallen to the ground but were not seriously injured also got up again and gathered not far from Ogata and Vashili, ready to watch the duel between Ogata and Vashili.
Ogata now just wants to end the battle quickly.
So as soon as he got ready, Oufang rushed towards Vashili like an arrow.
Vashili's eyes couldn't keep up with Ogata's speed at all.
Unable to react in time, Vashili naturally had only one outcome - he was hit hard in the stomach by Ogata.
But Vasili did not give up.
After coughing forcefully a few times, he threw a swinging punch at Ogata's head.
Ogata dodged Vasili's attack by simply lowering his head, and then punched Vasili in the chest and stomach.
However, Vasili did not fall.
At this moment, surprise appeared in Ogata's eyes.
The reason why Ogata was surprised was not only because Vashili could withstand three punches from him without falling.
It was also because he discovered that Vashili, who had been punched three times by him, actually showed a joyful smile.
As if being beaten by Ogata was such a happy thing...
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Vasily was born in a rural area near Moscow.
His father taught him a lot.
The teaching that impressed him the most was: "Celebrate the holidays with your fists."
In Vashili's hometown, people not only fight with others on Maslenitsa, but also fight with people from their own village and other villages during every festival.
So Vasili started fighting with others as far as he could remember.
Maybe it's his personality, he really likes fighting with people.
Especially when fighting with someone very strong.
As long as he hits a strong person with a punch, or is hit by a strong person with a punch, Vashili will feel very happy.
That feeling is like suddenly having a stomachache in the wilderness, enduring it for half a day, finally finding a toilet, and finally successfully defecating.
Vasili would only feel extremely happy when he hit a strong person or was hit by a strong person.
Among their group, Vashili only felt happy when fighting with their red-haired boss. The others were too weak, and there was no joy in fighting with them.
And now, Vashili finally experienced the joy of fighting among people other than the red-haired boss after a long time.
Every time Ogata's fist hit him, he felt pain, but also great joy.
There is a strange feeling of pleasure.
Pain and happiness - this is probably how Vashili feels now.
Having been fighting since he was a child, Vasili has developed a very strong ability to withstand blows.
This strange kind of happiness also allowed Vashi to withstand Ogata's heavy punches longer.
Because he couldn't avoid Ogata's fist at all, Vashili took Ogata's fist and counterattacked him at the same time.
However, his punches were too slow, and Ogata easily dodged them and launched a torrential attack on Vashili.
After discovering that Vasili was even thicker-skinned than he had imagined, Ogata increased his strength slightly.
But Ogata became more and more surprised as the fight went on.
Vashili smiled - he could still understand after all.
Ogata guessed that the reason he smiled so happily was probably because he met a strong man he hadn't seen for a long time.
But for some reason, he always felt that Vashili's smile looked very strange.
After the ninth punch aimed at Vasili's chest, Vasili's body shook a few times and finally fell to the ground.
"Hahaha……"
Vasili was lying in the snow in a spread-eagle position, gasping for breath.
"Thank you for your advice..."
Vasili rolled his tongue and spoke in a slightly awkward Japanese honorific.
Even though his body was covered with bruises, he still had a strangely happy smile on his face.
I have to say that Vashili is really tough - after taking so many punches, apart from some bruises on his body, there is no other serious injury.
Although this was also related to Ogata showing mercy.
"Are you satisfied?" Ogata asked, "Can you tell us everything you know?"
"Of course...but...ha...please let me rest for a while..."
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After lying in the snow and resting for a while, Vashili asked Ogata and the others to follow him, saying that it was not suitable to talk here, and asked Ogata and Ating to come to his camp.
Ayaka had already left by now - it was already noon, after all, and his wife had been waiting for him to come home for lunch for quite some time.
Ogata and Atachi followed closely behind Vasili and, under his leadership, entered the camp of Vasili and his group of Lucia people.
Not long after entering Vashili and his group's camp, Ating let out a cry of surprise.
"Ayi! Look! Their horses are so tall!"
Ogata and his companions were passing by a stable.
Inside the stable, there are many majestic horses.
Looking at the horses in the stable, a bit of surprise uncontrollably appeared in Ogata's eyes.
Ating is about 1.55 meters tall.
And every horse in this stable is taller than Ating at the shoulder.
The shoulder height alone is higher than that of Ating. When the height of the head is added, the height of each horse in this stable is between 1.7 and 1.9 meters.
Since traveling to the Edo period, Ogata has become accustomed to seeing horses that are not much taller than donkeys.
Suddenly seeing so many tall horses made Ogata feel a little uncomfortable.
Japan also produces horses, but Japanese horses are generally short and basically not much taller than donkeys.
All the horses that Ogata had seen before were probably only between 1 meter and 1.4 meters tall at the shoulder.
When they escaped from Choujima last year, Mamiya and his friends gave Ogata a horse.
It was at that time that Ogata learned to ride a horse. He then rode with Mamiya and Makimura from Kii to Owari, and then rode from Owari to Kyoto alone.
The horse that Ogata was riding at the time was not as tall as Ogata even if the height of its head was taken into account...
In terms of overall height, it is probably only on par with Ating.
Judging from shoulder height alone, the horse that Ogata was riding at the time was probably only about 1.2 meters.
"Hahaha!" Vasily, who was walking in front, laughed a few times, then turned his head and cast a gentle look at the horse in the stable next to him, as if he was looking at his own child. "How is it? Are you surprised? The horses used by us Cossacks are all Don horses."
"The Don horse is the strongest horse breed in the world."
"It has both speed and strength, great endurance, and can tolerate rough feed. It is the most suitable horse to be used as a war horse."
"These horses are like our close friends and wives to us. They have accompanied us from the distant steppes of Eastern Europe to the far East."
"Cossacks?" Ating tilted his head, revealing a cute puzzled expression, "Aren't you from Russia?"
"Hahahaha." Vashili laughed a few more times. "Although it's not wrong for you to call us Russians, I prefer you to call us 'Cossacks'."
"We ourselves like to call ourselves 'Cossacks'."
"Is Cossack... an ethnic name like 'Japanese' and 'Ainu'?" Atachi asked.
Vashili shook his head.
"It's not a national name. How should I put it... You can think of 'Cossack' as the name of a group."
"'Cossack' is a Turkic word that means 'free man' or 'brave man'."
"The history of our 'Cossacks', to put it simply, is that about 200 years ago, a group of people could not bear the oppression and decided to flee to another place, and eventually succeeded in settling down in a fertile land."
"This group of people includes people of all nationalities. Together, they have tenaciously taken root and survived in a foreign land."
"The group grew and grew, and over time people started calling them 'Cossacks.'"
"We don't ask about nationality, as long as you come to that land and join us, you are a 'Cossack'."
"So in 'Cossacks' you can see people of all nationalities."
"For example, under my command, there are two Germans who are both Germans and Cossacks."
"And our boss - he's a Scotsman, but he's also a Cossack."
Having said this, Vashili paused, then quickly added.
"By the way, I don't think I've told you yet that there's a boss above me, but he's out for some drawing right now."
"I know." Ogata nodded, "Aiyaka told me something about your boss yesterday."
"So according to what you said, we can also become Cossacks?" A-Ming on the side interrupted.
Although A Ting did not recognize what Vasili had just said about Germans and Scots, she barely understood what Vasili meant.
"You can say that." Vashili nodded, "It's a pity that we Cossacks are no longer 'free people'."
A hint of helpless bitterness slowly emerged on Vashili's face.
"We Cossacks are now under the control of the Russian Tsar."
"At the request of the Tsar, we had to come to the Far East to explore."
"I haven't been home for four years."
"I really want to go home..."
After raising his hand to scratch his hair, Vashili pointed forward.
"We're here. That tent in front is my tent."
Vasili is the second-in-command of their group, but the tent he lives in is no different from that of others, it is very simple.
Vashili lifted the curtain at the entrance of the tent and said, "Come in. It's a little messy, please don't mind."
After entering the tent one after another, Ogata and Atachi looked around the place where Vasili lived.
Ogata found Vashili extremely dishonest - this was more than a little messy.
The three tables of different sizes in the tent were filled with all kinds of messy things.
The space on the floor was also occupied by all kinds of messy things, leaving almost no place to stand.
With this level of dirtiness, even if you told Ogata that this tent was used to store sundries, he would believe it.
Although there were all kinds of miscellaneous items in the tent, there was one thing that caught Ogata's attention.
There was a gun rack on a small table not far away.
And on the gun rack was a very long musket.
It was this long musket that caught Ogata's attention.
A-Machi discovered the musket almost at the same time as Ogata.
With shining eyes, Ating carefully stepped on the few empty spaces on the floor that were not covered by various debris and came to the small table where the long musket was placed.
"Is this the musket you use?" Ating asked Vasili, "This is the first time I have seen such a long musket..."
"Hahaha!" Vasili casually pulled over a table next to him and sat down. "This gun is called the 'Kentucky Long Rifle'. It should be considered the most advanced musket at present."
“He can shoot with greater accuracy and at a greater distance.”
"Eight years ago, the Americans on the American continent relied on this Kentucky long rifle to defeat the English army, win independence, and establish a brand new country."
"The American continent?" Ating looked puzzled.
"Across the sea east of your country of Japan is the American continent," said Vasili. "Eight years ago, a group of people who had immigrated to that continent established a new country."
"It is said that during the War of Independence, a gunner named 'Moses Murphy' shot and killed the enemy commander at a distance of 300 yards."
"300 yards...how far is that?" asked Ating.
"Hmm... I don't know what unit of length you use in Japan."
“It’s about 30 yards from our camp to the Kuma village of Ayaka.”
"So a distance of 300 yards is roughly equivalent to five round trips from our camp to the village of Ayaka."
"This gun can shoot at such a long distance?" Ating's eyes widened in surprise, "And it can also accurately hit the target at such a long distance..."
"This kind of gun is currently only equipped on a small scale among our Cossacks." Vashili shrugged.
Vashiri looked at Ogata.
"Okay, let's get down to business."
"You said you were looking for two Japanese, right?"
"More than a year ago, we did encounter two Japanese people whose appearance matched what you just described, but I don't know if they are the ones you are looking for."
“We were moving to new places, exploring new unknown places.”
"When I was passing through a forest, I suddenly heard a strange sound."
"We were curious and rode over to take a look. We found that two Japanese people, one old and one young, were arguing."
"We were very far away at the time, so we couldn't hear what the two were arguing about."
"The younger one, I don't know why, I always feel that he..."
Vashili raised his hand and nodded his head.
"It seems like there's something wrong here."
"Because he looked really weird at the time, like he was hysterical."
Hearing this, Ogata's eyes narrowed slightly.
If the old and young couple that Vashili was talking about were Xuanzheng and Xuanzhen, then this would be consistent with the information he had previously heard from the pet dealer named Tang Shen - Xuanzhen seemed to be mentally abnormal.