Suddenly two old men appeared - Jie Zheng was confused at first, then frightened.
I was confused about the identities of these two old men.
He was terrified that he didn't even know when these two old men stood so .
Although I am not a person with strong perception ability, I should not have failed to notice that there were two living people on the roof behind me.
Jie Zheng's vigilance towards the two old men who suddenly appeared has been raised to the highest level.
Based on the words and actions of that very handsome old man, there was no doubt that the two of them had come with bad intentions.
Therefore, Jie Zheng did not hesitate any more.
"Three-stage attack! Fire!" Jie Zheng waved his big hand at the two old men on the roof.
After letting the "assault team" consisting of 15 elite soldiers rush into the inn, there were only 12 people left around Jie Zheng...that is, the musketeers responsible for guarding the west side of the inn.
Following Jie Zheng's order, the 12 people around him immediately divided into three square formations with 4 people in each column.
The musketeers in the first row raised their rifles and poured their bullets on the old men on the roof.
At this time, the old men also showed skills that were extremely inconsistent with their age.
When the musketeers in the first row raised their guns, the two old men, with extremely deft and agile movements, rolled over and hid behind the roof at their feet.
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Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The roar of bullets hitting the roof reached Fengmo's ears.
"This kind of Western iron cannon, I remember it is called a flintlock rifle, right?" Fengma said to Yuan Yi beside him while picking his ears which were numbed by the gunshot.
"Well, yes." Yuan Yi said lightly.
"When I think about it carefully... this is the first time I'm fighting against so many arquebusiers armed with flintlock rifles..." Feng Mo smiled bitterly and touched his smooth head.
"When I was wandering in Europe and America, I often had to deal with the masters of flintlocks."
Yuan Yi shrugged, then placed his hands on the hilts of Yang Shen and Yan Rong's swords and pulled out the two swords inch by inch.
"After so many encounters with strong men armed with various firearms, I have discovered a sure-fire way to win when fighting against enemies using long-range weapons. Ganshi, guess what it is."
"Attack while the enemy is reloading?"
"No. It's 'Just don't let them hit you.'"
"Genichi, you are awesome. With just a few words, you have successfully made me feel like a fool for talking to you just now."
Yuan Yi smiled, then quickly put away his smile as if changing his expression.
"Okay, enough joking around."
"Feng Mo, too many bad things happened tonight, and I am in a very bad mood now."
Genichi's chest was now rising and falling in a strange rhythm.
"So... I might be a little quick in dealing with those guys outside later."
"Keep up."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Yi, holding two swords, turned into a wine-red afterimage and rushed out from the rooftop where he was hiding...
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After Genichi and Fuma dodged and hid behind the roof, causing their first round of shooting to miss.
—Damn it…Hidden behind the roof…
No matter how powerful their flintlock rifles were, they could not penetrate the thick roof.
Just when Jie Zheng was beginning to think about what to do with Yuan Yi and the other two who were hiding behind the roof, Yuan Yi himself rushed out from behind the roof where he was hiding.
The speed at which it jumped out from behind the roof was jaw-dropping.
By the time Jie Zheng's reflexes had reacted, Yuan Yi had already landed steadily on the ground in front of them, his feet touching the ground and stirring up a layer of dust.
"Fire, fire!"
Before Jie Zheng had even uttered half of the order to open fire, Genichi's body had already started moving.
He lowered his center of gravity extremely low and ran at high speed with his whole body as if it was pressed against the ground.
Because of the fast speed, the hem of the burgundy haori on Genichi was lifted up high.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The first row of musketeers fired their bullets - but all of them missed.
Genichi didn't run towards them in a straight line, but in a zigzag pattern.
Relying on flexible and swift movements, Yuanyi dodged all the bullets in this round.
He seemed to have already mastered the skill of "how to dodge bullets". Facing the whistling bullets, there was no fear on Genichi's face.
——Is this guy really an old man? !
The color on Jie Zheng's face was fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Jie Zheng's face was already looking ugly - but what happened next made his face look more like he had eaten feces.
Crash——!
Quite suddenly, Jie Zheng heard the sound of iron chains swinging.
Before he could follow the sound to see the source of the swinging chain, he saw a soldier in the second row of the simple gun formation in front of him being hit hard on the head by a thin chain. A small hole was smashed in his forehead, and blood and brain matter spurted out.
The chain was like a living "little black snake". After smashing a hole in the soldier's forehead, it immediately "flew" back along the same path it came from.
Jie Zheng quickly raised his head and moved his gaze to follow the "black snake" - the one who controlled this "black snake" was Feng Mo.
Fengma took advantage of the moment when Jie Zheng and the others' attention had been diverted by Yuan Yi and jumped out from the eaves where he was hiding.
Unlike Yuanyi who only uses a sword as a weapon, Fuma has long-range attack capabilities.
The gun array happened to be within the attack range of his chains.
He swung the chain in his hand, blowing up the head of a soldier in the gun formation. While retrieving the chain, he cunningly escaped from the spot along the eaves and fled into a place out of Jie Zheng's sight.
Emergencies|situations occur one after another.
Genichi and Fuma, one is responsible for close-range charging, and the other is responsible for long-range support.
The "surprise" brought to Jie Zheng was far more than just the fierce attack from these two old men.
"Ah, ah! Enemy attack!"
"Shoot! Shoot! Kill these two guys!"
Bang! Bang! Bang…
Jie Zheng heard the screams of his subordinates from the other side - the east side of the hotel...
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East of the hotel -
"Hey, what happened to the master? Should we send someone to see what happened?"
The eight musketeers who were in charge of guarding the east side of the inn looked at each other with worry.
Genichi's shout just now, "You are surrounded by us! Just drop your weapons, it will be better for both you and me!" was also heard by the people guarding the east side of the inn.
As soon as they heard the sudden shout, they heard gunshots.
Hearing such noises, even a fool would know that something must have happened to the west side of the hotel.
Some of them suggested sending someone west of the inn to see what was going on.
But most people feel that they should not leave their posts without orders.
They were so distracted by the noise coming from the west side of the inn that no one noticed that two figures, one sturdy and one slender, were quietly approaching from behind them.
The two men came within seven steps of the Musketeers before one of the Musketeers finally noticed their movements.
"Huh?" The musketeer who first heard the strange noise behind him looked back with a puzzled look on his face.
As soon as the musketeer turned his head and looked back, the thinner man suddenly jumped up.
In the blink of an eye, he leapt in front of the musketeer.
A purple sword light flashed by.
A good head flew out.
It was not until this moment that the remaining people finally realized that they had been copied.
"Ah, ah! Enemy attack!"
"Shoot! Shoot! Kill these two guys!"
Now that we have been discovered, there is no need to be cautious anymore.
The slender man held the katana tightly in his hand, which reflected a charming purple cold light under the moonlight.
The burly man drew the large sword from his back.
The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, attacked the only seven remaining musketeers in front of them in a pincer attack .
This was just a one-sided battle.
The musketeers were killed in pieces in the blink of an eye.
Why was the battle so one-sided? The reason was not complicated—it was just because they were unlucky to be caught in close combat by two sword masters, and they had no chance to use the long-range attack advantage of the flintlock rifle.
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From the east side of the inn, screams were getting weaker and weaker.
I encountered two more monsters here.
There have been no strange noises coming from the north and south of the hotel, but no one can tell whether there will be any new surprises.
Jie Zheng didn't dare to gamble anymore.
He took out from his bosom a flintlock pistol that every commander like him had.
As he pulled out his gun, he shouted in a calm voice:
“Assemble! Assemble!”
Jie Zheng's shouting filled the entire hotel.
The "assault team" guarding the various sides of the inn and those rushing into the inn to arrest people all heard Jie Zheng's order to retreat.
After issuing the order to retreat, Jie Zheng waved his hand towards the gun array in front of him and said, "Stop them!"
Jie Zheng knew very well that in the current situation, they had to concentrate their forces.
His troops are now scattered, which gives the enemy the opportunity to defeat them one by one, so as long as the scattered troops are concentrated, he may be able to counterattack the enemy.
It will take time for subordinates from other locations to arrive.
Therefore, no matter what, we must stop Genichi who is in front of us and Fuma who is hiding somewhere unknown, until all the troops are gathered here.
Jie Zheng's plan was very well drafted.
But planning and practice are always two different things.
Yuan Yi's speed is too fast.
Jie Zheng and the gun formation in front of him retreated while fighting.
As a result, after just two rounds of bullets, Genichi had already rushed to the position where his sword could cut Jie Zheng's subordinates.
Yang Shen and Yan Rong were danced at the same time.
Yang Shen slashed from left to back. Yan Rong slashed from right to left.
Two knives took the lives of two people at the same time.
There is no need to elaborate on the fate of the soldiers in this spear formation after being approached by Genichi.
The battle situation became even more one-sided than that on the east side of the inn.
The movement of Yuan Yi drawing the sword was delicate and perfect, like a work of art.
Take the shortest route and use the least effort to take someone's life.
In order to ensure the power of the flintlock rifles, the guns were arranged very closely - this made it easier for Yuan to swing his sword.
According to Yuan Yi's statistics, it only took 5 seconds to kill all the soldiers in the gun formation.
On average, two people are killed every second.
These soldiers were killed by Genichi before they even had the chance to beg for mercy.
After 5 seconds, the only people still standing in front of Genichi were Jie Zheng and Aqing.
Jie Zheng, with his eyes wide open with fear, suddenly pushed A Qing beside him.
"Ah Qing, get out of here!"
Jie Zheng pushed Aqing with his left hand, and raised the flintlock pistol in his right hand towards Yuan Yi in front of him.
After being pushed by Jie Zheng, Aqing hesitated for a while, then turned around and jumped onto the roof of a nearby house.
Genichi ignored Aqing who was running for his life.
He held two swords in his hands and flashed in front of Jie Zheng.
Jie Zheng had just raised his flintlock pistol halfway into the air when Yan Rong drew an arc and swept across the barrel of his flintlock pistol.
The flintlock pistol broke into two pieces with a sound.
After using Yan Rong to destroy Jie Zheng's short gun, Yuan Yi grasped the hilt of Yang Shen's sword with his backhand and hit Jie Zheng's neck hard with the bottom of Yang Shen's sword.
A strong feeling of dizziness immediately hit Jie Zheng's brain.
——Damn it…
Jie Zheng collapsed to the ground, trying his best to fight against his eyelids which were becoming increasingly heavy.
——This guy... is he trying to capture me...
—Take poison... It's too late...
——Whatever... As long as Aqing can escape... it's fine...
Jie Zheng just said this in his heart -
Click.
Jie Zheng suddenly saw a person falling from the roof next to him, landing right in front of him.
It was the bald man who was using the chain just now.
Looking at this old man, Jie Zheng's eyes, which were about to close, opened slightly wider.
It wasn’t because my eyes were dazzled by the bald man’s bright forehead or for any other reason.
The old man was holding a girl who had fainted in his arms.
It was Aqing who had just escaped by jumping onto the rooftop...
Jie Zheng subconsciously wanted to call Aqing's name.
But he still succumbed to the growing dizziness.
Not only did he not have the strength to speak, his eyes, which had just opened a little wider, slowly closed again...
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"You captured this female ninja so quickly." Genichi swung the Yang Shen and Yan Rong in his hands downwards heavily to shake off the blood that was attached to the blades.
The reason why Genichi ignored that Aqing just now was because he knew that he had another partner.
"Yeah." Feng Mo glanced at Ah Qing who had fainted in his arms, "This girl has bad luck. She just happened to run into the place where I was hiding."
Just now, after Ah Qing jumped onto the roof, before she could even run a few steps away, she was caught up by Feng Mo, who happened to be hiding in the darkness nearby, observing the battle situation and waiting for an opportunity to strike.
The battle between Fuma and Aqing... was an instant kill.
With just one strike, Fengma knocked Aqing unconscious.
"We are lucky." Fengma continued, "We not only captured a commander, but also a female ninja."
While Genichi and Fuma were talking, the musketeers guarding the north and south sides of the inn, as well as the ones who had just rushed into the inn to arrest people, all swarmed over.
After seeing that their companions who were responsible for guarding the west side of the inn were all killed and the commander Jie Zheng's life or death was unknown, some of the more than 20 surviving musketeers looked terrified.
But there were also people who raised their flintlock rifles without saying a word and pointed them at Genichi and Fuma.
Genichi and Fuma quickly pulled the unconscious Jie Zheng and Aqing and hid them where bullets could not reach them.
But at this moment, screams were heard behind them.
A sturdy man and a slender man rushed out from behind them.
The knives in the hands of the two men splashed out handfuls of blood.
"Ha." Genichi raised his lips, "Mamiya and Makimura are here. It seems that they have cleared the east side of the inn."
"Kanmi, let's go. Together with Mamiya and the others, we can attack from the front and back and defeat the remaining enemies in one fell swoop."
Appearing from behind the twenty or so surviving musketeers were Mamiya and Makimura, who had just successfully cleared out the enemies on the east side of the inn.
After clearing the east side of the inn, the two of them immediately rushed to the west side of the inn and just ran into the remaining twenty or so enemies.
The two Mamiyas suddenly appeared from the rear and successfully threw the remaining enemies into chaos.
To make matters worse, it rains all night - before the remaining musketeers could turn around to deal with Mamiya and Makimura, a new blow came.
This new attack was not from Genichi and Fuma.
Bang!
Suddenly, a gunshot slightly different from the sound of a flintlock gun was heard in the inn.
The gunshot was rang out, and a musketeer's head was immediately cut open.
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Inside the hotel——
Atachi gently moved the barrel of the Suying gun resting on the window frame, looking for a new target.
The remaining enemies are now concentrated to the west of the inn.
The windows of Ating and his friends' room face west.
After a while, Ating found a new target.
Aim well.
Hold your breath.
Pull the trigger.
Bang!
Another person's head had extra openings besides the mouth, nostrils and ears.
When the "assault team" that had already arrived under the ceiling where Atsumi and his companions were hiding received the "assemble" order and left, Atsumi and Azuki immediately jumped down from the ceiling.
As soon as his feet landed back on the tatami, Atachi quickly leaned towards the window to observe the situation outside.
Although A-Machi already knew that it was Genichi and his men who had arrived when she heard their voice just now, after witnessing with her own eyes the enemies outside the window being killed to pieces by Genichi and his men who arrived in time, A-Machi's cheeks couldn't help but be filled with excitement.
Without any hesitation, Atachi put Suying on the window frame to provide remote support to Genichi and others.
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After hearing the sudden gunshot, Yuan Yi and others were all stunned.
Looking up in the direction of the sound, they saw that the source of the sound was Atachi, who had only half of his head sticking out of the window. Genichi and the others all smiled.
At this time, Genichi and Fuma were like two fierce tigers, they dodged and leaped in front of the remaining enemies.
The remaining enemies, because they had lost unified command, had not yet formed a gun formation that could be called a "formation" until they were approached by Genichi and Fuma.
The commander's life or death is unknown, and he has no command. He witnessed the annihilation of his companions guarding the west side of the inn. He is now attacked from both sides, with a sniper above his head. Even for a well-trained soldier, the morale plummets like an avalanche under such a heavy blow.
In the blink of an eye, they fled in all directions without any desire to fight.
Only a little over ten people managed to escape.
Yuan Yi and his men did not chase after those who fled in all directions. Firstly, there was no need to do so, and secondly, they could not catch up with them even if they wanted to.
After these defeated soldiers basically disappeared from Yuan Yi and his men's sight, two graceful figures slowly walked out of the hotel's door.
It was A-Ming and A-Tsuku.
"Master Genichi, Master Feng, Mamiya, Makimura." A-Machi looked at the four people in front of him with excitement and a bit of doubt, "Why are you here?"
"Ms. A-machi, I'll explain this to you slowly later." Mamiya said seriously, "Is Ogata-kun here now?"
Hearing the name "Ogata", the excitement on Atachi's face instantly disappeared, "No. He has not come back since he went to get the knife."
"Is there any trouble over there too..." Mamiya, who usually looks like he is at ease no matter what happens, now has a very rare serious expression on his face.
"'Also'?" Atachi opened her beautiful eyes wide and repeated the word that Mamiya had just mentioned.
"A-Ming, take your things and follow us." Genichi said at this time, "Once we are in a safe place, I will explain to you slowly what happened to us just now."
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Somewhere in Osaka——
Crash...crash...crash...
Ogata grabbed the bank of the canal and slowly climbed out of the river.
——This is…where…
Ogata raised his head and looked around in confusion.
In order to shake off the musketeers on the river bank, he had been swimming westward along the current.
I swam until I could no longer hear the gunshots and then climbed ashore.
Although he successfully got rid of the enemies on the river bank, Ogata swam to a place he was completely unfamiliar with.
There are quite a few houses around, but most of them are in dilapidated condition.
It was quiet and silent. Ogata guessed that the residents here were probably scared away by the fires that were spreading all over Osaka...
——It’s so hard…
Ogata now felt that his body was extremely heavy.
Under the influence of the "Immortal Poison", Ogata felt as if his body was filled with lead.
Now that he had just climbed out of the river, his clothes had become extremely heavy due to being soaked with water, which made Ogata feel that his body had become even heavier.
——Anyway… I had to take care of the wound on my leg first. If I let the blood continue to flow like this, I would only have half of my blood left before I got back to the hotel.
——Then squeeze out the water from your clothes...then find someone to ask for directions...
Ogata dragged his heavy body away from the river bank.
We walked until we could no longer see the canal.
After saying "Let's do it here" to himself, Ogata leaned against the wall of a dilapidated house behind him, slowly sat down on the ground, and looked up at the wound on his leg that he had been injured by Sakuma's sniper when he was dealing with Sakuma just now.
—Is there any clean cloth around here that I can use to bandage the wound?
Snap...
At this moment, Ogata suddenly heard the sound of faint footsteps in front of him.
Click!
Ogata, who had no idea how many battles he had fought tonight and whose nerves had never relaxed, immediately raised his hand and grabbed the handle of the katana as if by reflex and pulled the katana out more than an inch.
"Woo wow, don't be nervous, you are Ogata Issei, right? It's me, it's me. Do you remember me?"
A figure walked out from behind the house in front of Ogata.
Ogata looked at it intently with a puzzled look on his face.
After seeing who was coming, Ogata's eyes immediately widened in surprise.