Pawn Crossing the River

Before he finished speaking, Qi Xuansu punched the elder directly.

The elder's whole body collapsed instantly, and a thin layer of smoke rippled around him, as if there was an air leak, and then turned into a thin piece of human skin wearing clothes and fluttering to the ground.

Han Yongfeng stepped forward, picked up the human skin and looked through it, his face changed drastically. This was not a skin film that had been prepared long ago, nor was it artificial leather, but something that had just been completely peeled off from the human body, with bloody flesh and blood.

This is also the reason why Qi Xuansu decided to take action. He is extremely sensitive to the smell of blood.

At this moment, countless flying needles shot out like a cloud of mist.

Qi Xuansu took a step forward, pushed with both palms, and a wall of energy was born out of thin air, blocking all these flying needles.

Two more Japanese knives stabbed out from the ground. Qi Xuansu stood on one foot without even looking at them, then kicked them left and right, breaking the two Japanese knives directly.

Then he took advantage of the situation and slammed his foot on the ground. The huge house shook with a crash, and blood oozed from the ground under his feet.

Obviously, someone just used the earth escape technique to hide underground and make a sneak attack. As a result, Qi Xuansu was shocked to death.

Seeing how terrifying Qi Xuansu was, the person who attacked with a hidden weapon did not dare to continue to entangle him. A black shadow flashed and disappeared.

Qi Xuansu did not give chase and ordered several people: "Everyone, check around and be careful of traps."

Everyone responded and dispersed.

Han Yongfeng went to the inner room and came back after a while to report: "Deputy Hall Master, there is a corpse inside, which has been completely skinned. I think he is the owner of this human skin."

As he spoke, he pointed to the human skin from before.

Lu Yuting checked the tea boiling on the hanging stove: "Deputy Hall Master, this tea is highly poisonous. This group of Japanese pirates are quite scheming. They are playing hard to get with us. They first refuse our request and let us leave quickly. If they don't show any mercy, The unwillingness to agree makes us relax our vigilance and subconsciously think that there will be no problem with them. If we are not careful, we will get into trouble with them. "

Qi Xuansu said: "It seems that they were in a hurry. If it weren't for the extremely subtle smell of blood, it's hard to say what the result would be."

Qian Daren sighed: "They all say that Japanese pirates are cunning and cruel. When I saw them today, it turned out to be true."

On the other side, Li Mingshan carefully picked up a flying needle. He saw that these flying needles were sharp at both ends, which was different from many hidden weapons in the Central Plains.

"Deputy Hall Master, please look." Li Mingshan raised the flying needle.

Qi Xuansu asked: "What does this flying needle mean?"

Li Mingshan said: "In Fenglin Continent, concealed weapons that can be taken off the hands are collectively called 'shuriken'."

Han Yongfeng sneered: "The Japanese really call everything a sword. It's obviously a sword, but they insist on calling it a sword. Now the hidden weapon has become a sword. There are swords everywhere, but there is no real sword."

Li Mingshan continued: "These shurikens are divided into stick shurikens and chariot swords. Stick shurikens are single-pointed, commonly known as flying needles, and double-pointed shurikens, called senbon. Chaukuri swords are the ninja darts as the saying goes. Zhongyuan is generally called a meteor dart and has multiple points, usually eight-pointed shuriken, hexagonal shuriken, cross-shaped shuriken, triangular shuriken and swastika-shaped shuriken.”

Qi Xuansu looked at the flying needle in Li Mingshan's hand and said, "In this case, this is the so-called thousand books."

Li Mingshan nodded and said: "The stick-shaped shuriken is light to carry and simple to make, but it is difficult to use and requires long-term practice. The level of skill directly affects the distance and accuracy of the shooting range, so most people will not use it."

Qi Xuansu said: "To put it bluntly, this thing called Qianben has certain thresholds and cannot be used by just anyone. What do you think the identities of these people are?"

Li Mingshan said with certainty: "Iga ninja."

Qi Xuansu said: "I've heard of ninjas, they seem to be professional spies, scouts, and assassins."

"That's right. In Iga, there is a temple called 'Iga 49-inner'. This is where the Iga ninjas originated. There are three major families, the Hattori family, the Momochi family and the Fujibayashi family, which are collectively called For the three Iga jounin families, the Hattori clan later left Iga and became the retainers of the Ashikaga shogun, and the Mochichi clan took control of the real power of Iga."

"The earliest Iga ninjas were actually princes. Before the Prime Minister Toyotomi, the Oda clan was the most powerful. Even the Toyotomi clan was a retainer of the Oda clan. The head of the Oda clan called himself the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven. Back then, Enryaku-ji Temple, which defeated Hongan-ji Temple, was destroyed by this man. The head of the Ichigo clan called him the 'Enemy of Buddha', and the head of the Oda clan called himself the Sixth Heavenly Demon King."

"When the Oda clan was prosperous, they built Maruyama Castle in Kobe and prepared to attack Iga. The Iga ninjas repelled it and burned Maruyama Castle. The following year, Oda... The ? clan sent another 10,000 troops to attack Iga, and lost more than half of them. This is called the first Iga Ninja Rebellion. "

Qi Xuansu interrupted: "Mr. Li, is the Kobe you are talking about very close to Suzuka Mountain?"

"Yes, the two places are only separated by one county, and they are both within the territory of Ise State." Li Mingshan said.

Qi Xuansu nodded and signaled Li Mingshan to continue.

Li Mingshan continued: "The year after the first Iga Ninja Rebellion, the Oda clan solved the problem of Ishiyama Honganji Temple, forcing the Honganji Temple to give in and compromise, and finally freed up his hands. On the sixth day, the Demon King personally led an army of 40,000 The attack on Iga, coupled with the surrender of some people in Iga, resulted in the death of the other two families except the Hattori family, who had already left Iga, and only the last two thousand people surrendered to the Oda family. He Ninja is no longer an independent force, but is employed by the feudal lords. It is somewhat similar to our 'inn' in the Central Plains. There is also a group of ninjas under the command of Toyotomi Prime Minister, who belong to the Hattori family. "

Qi Xuansu nodded and said nothing.

Naturally, everyone can't stay here and continue on the road.

Not long after walking, we passed a small river with a bridge on it.

Just as a few people were crossing the river, there were loud roars and fire and smoke in the dense forest on the other side.

People in the Taoist sect are very familiar with this situation. It is obvious that someone is ambushing in the dense forest and attacking with a fire blunderbuss. They were not surprised by this, and since they had recovered a lot from their injuries, they all evaded. Tang Yongshui even drew out his gun and took advantage of the situation to fight back.

Qi Xuansu did not dodge, and allowed the projectiles to fall on him, as if he was indestructible.

This reminded Qi Xuansu of when he met Marshal Tianpeng of the "Tianting" in Jinling Mansion. The "Shenlong Gun" could not do anything to him. Now he is much stronger than Marshal Tianpeng back then.

When the gun stopped for a moment, Qi Xuansu shook his robe and many projectiles fell to the ground.

Almost at the same time, more than ten black shadows jumped out of the water and attacked Qi Xuansu from all directions.

Qi Xuansu still didn't move and allowed these people's Japanese swords to chop at his body. Not only could he not be hurt at all, but he was shattered into pieces. He took advantage of the situation and punched. Anyone who received his punch would, on the surface, It seemed that he was fine, but in fact he was so shocked that all his internal organs were injured, and he fell to the ground and died in an instant.

This is the warrior's state of seeing the gods and not being bad. In the past, Qi Xuansu met too many masters, most of whom were higher than him, and there were even great masters like the King of Liao, so the word "not bad" seemed to be untrue. , but when an opponent whose level of cultivation was not as good as his met him, he realized that facing the despair of seeing God's indestructibility was really like the indestructibility of a vajra.

For a long time, there was no sound of firecrackers.

It seems that those who ambush are also a little desperate.

Such an opponent should not be dealt with by them.

Such people should be attacked with cannons, not blunderbuss.

This is indeed the case. If the Yamata no Orochi hadn't destroyed the flying boat, Qi Xuansu and others would never have appeared in this place.

They didn't move, but Qi Xuansu moved instead.

Qi Xuansu's figure disappeared in a flash and disappeared into the dense forest.

After a while, the roar of fire, thunder, explosions and shouts of death were heard in the dense forest, and soon fell into silence again.

When Han Yongfeng, Lu Yuting and others rushed to the dense forest, apart from the traces left by the explosion, only Qi Xuansu and his body were left.

Still an Iga ninja.

It's not that Qi Xuansu doesn't care who sent these people, it's just that the ninjas definitely won't say that there is still something to say about the word "forbearance", and Qi Xuansu is too lazy to bother. time.

He held a long gun in his hand and threw it to Tang Yongshui: "Master Tang, you are from Tianji Hall, take a look at this fire gun."

Tang Yongshui took the fire gun, inspected it for a moment, and said: "The structure is simple, similar to a matchlock gun. The ammunition is gunpowder and steel pellets, so it produces very thick smoke. It is not a fire gun of the regular army. It is placed in our Central Plains, that is, the knot." The level of self-defense or banditry.”

At this point, Tang Yongshui said softly: "But the smelting level is very high, almost as good as our Class C workshop in Tianji Hall."

Qi Xuansu became interested and asked, "How do you say it?"

Tang Yongshui said: "The most important part of the fire gun is actually the barrel. As long as the barrel is strong enough, it will not explode. As long as the barrel will not explode, the amount of powder can be increased. The more powder, the more powerful it will be." If the material is not good enough and you want to increase the charge, the caliber must be large. In order to avoid exploding the barrel, you can only increase the length of the barrel to obtain a longer projectile acceleration time, or Increase the thickness of the blunderbuss tube wall. If this continues, the blunderbuss will become a cannon. These long blunderbuss are only of ordinary length and use ordinary gunpowder, but they can be shot from the dense forest to the bridge because the blunderbuss tube is strong enough. , can be loaded with gunpowder in large quantities.”

Qi Xuansu nodded, thoughtfully.

If you want to maintain the strength of the gun tube without increasing the length and thickness of the gun tube, the requirements for the smelting level are naturally extremely high. Later, steel could no longer meet the conditions for gun tubes. For example, Qi Xuansu's "Dragon Painting Hand Gun" is small in size but surprisingly heavy. In order not to explode, the material used is no longer copper and iron. It is said to be a hand gun, but it is actually a hand cannon. However, precisely because of the special materials, this kind of fire blunderbuss cannot be installed on a large scale.

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Qi Xuansu took the fire gun from Tang Yong's sailor and used the strength of a heavenly warrior to pinch out a fingerprint on the barrel: "Such a level of smelting is not something that private blacksmiths can achieve. There must be big forces behind these people. What do you think?" Which force will it be?"

Lu Yuting said: "Fenglinzhou imperial court or the Holy Court. We allow the Holy Court's merchant ships to trade with Fenglinzhou, and those merchant ships may also bring this technology."

Qi Xuansu sighed: "No matter what the possibility is, it is not what we want to see."