Samurai of the Takeda Family

The days have entered the cold winter. The feather-like heavy snow fell in the air, covering the entire Gaoyuan city and the castle town with a layer of snow white.

　　 After the sun came out in the daytime, the heavy snow gradually stopped, the castle tower was covered with snow, and the foot soldiers in the city began to remove the snow with broomsticks and sweep the steps. The samurai stationed in the city also began a day of training. They all changed into wooden knives and performed one-on-one hacking and hacking with each other.

　　 On the training ground, in addition to the pair of knives, one can occasionally see a sturdy man with only a crotch cloth hanging all over his body, dealing with four or five feet holding a wooden knife with his bare hands.

　　 On the horse farm on the side of Ninomaru, more than a dozen horseback warriors, carrying quiver and holding longbows, drove their horses, and practiced riding and shooting towards the target 20 or 30 steps away.

　　 At this time, in addition to swordsmanship, samurai must also be proficient in marksmanship, jiu-jitsu (non-judo), archery, and riding. Those with higher levels must also learn cultural characters.

　　Similarly, as a samurai, you must get up early and greedily practice martial arts day and night. This is a tradition that has been passed down since the Heian period.

　　 Unless those warriors with hereditary territories, as a warrior who serves the king with martial arts, it is necessary to have a good martial arts, this is the cost of the samurai's food.

　　The daimyo will generally give you salaries based on your contribution to the main house and your ability to pay. If the samurai is negligent or unsuitable for combat, the daimyo will relentlessly deprive you of your salaries.

　　 This is the same as the saying that the boss of later generations often verbally said, the ability of the staff must be worthy of your salary, otherwise they will be ready to leave.

　　During the Warring States Period, Japan was a barren land due to the continuous wars, so disasters and famines were normal. At this time, it was not only the peasants, but sometimes the samurai, and even the lord of the city, could not get enough to eat.

　　 At this time, some big names will either take pay cuts or expel the worst samurai from the family directly.

The most overkill is the demon king of the Oda clan. In order to keep his generals motivated, he will expel several latecomers from time to time, such as the veteran Nobumori Sakuma, his son Nobuyoshi Sakuma, Lin Xiuzhen, Ando Moriyuki, Niwa Shi Katsura, etc. And so on belong to this column of dismissed.

　　 So in Takato Castle, even if Takeda Katsuyori didn't urge him, the samurai under his team kept training every day, and no one would be lazy regardless of weather or rain.

　　 While the warriors in the city were practicing martial arts, in a small courtyard in Gaoyuan City, the sound of gun barrels and wooden knives continued to be heard.

　　 There was a chilly breath in the air, and occasionally the tip of the gun could suddenly be rolled up and a large piece of snow drifted out. On the corridor of the courtyard, more than a dozen warriors were sitting in various positions, with wooden knives and armors in their hands randomly thrown beside them. They held their breath and watched the confrontation in the courtyard.

　　 Li Xiao separated his legs and stood in the center of the field with a gun in both hands. He was wearing a bamboo armor headband. Now the head of the big gun that was more than four meters long in his hand has been removed, and the two ends of the barrel are wrapped with a cotton ball, which is stained with black charcoal powder.

Confronting him are the eight samurai around him who are holding wooden knives and also wearing bamboo armor. They are slowly moving parallel around Li Xiao, staring at each other closely, not daring to be distracted. In this winter, many people were so nervous that they were holding the sweat with their hands holding wooden knives. They couldn't even breathe smoothly, and white smoke came out from their mouths and noses.

　　 At this time, Li Xiao was still calmly looking down. He felt that the big gun had been connected to his people as a whole at this moment, breathing smoothly and orderly. In the face of the crowded attack from all sides, his vision could not take into account the range of three hundred and sixty degrees, and the opponent also used the sudden and slow movement to confuse him, making him feel like a soldier.

　　 The more at this time, the more you have to be calm, and then concentrate all your strength to launch a fierce blow to the attacker.

　　 Ten minutes passed, Li Xiao was sitting still like an old monk, motionless. At this time, one of the samurai finally lost his breath and struck Li Xiao's left side with a wooden sword, while the other samurai used his idea to attract Li Xiao, and he took the opportunity to push into the gap behind Li Xiao.

　　 At this moment, Li Xiao’s big spear was like a big python. First, he attacked the samurai behind him, and only heard a muffled sound. The barrel of the spear was stuck on the bamboo armor of the opponent's chest, leaving traces of pitch-black charcoal. The opponent was also hit by the momentum, and his vest landed on the ground.

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　　 Li Xiao yelled, twisted his legs to avoid the wooden knife cut on the left, pulled the tough barrel of the gun with his left arm and bounced back like a spring, neatly stabbing another person with the tail of the gun. Immediately, Li Xiao horizontally fired the wooden knife that the other two attacked.

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Then Li Xiao flung the big gun on all sides, dancing imperviously, and forced a few other samurai who wanted to take advantage of the short-inch advantage of the wooden sword and infiltrate the circle of Li Xiao's big gun and confront him at close range. .

　　 Use the length of the big gun to maintain a sufficient distance and not give the enemy any chance to enter the circle, so that you can remain undefeated. This is the only trick to using a long spear to fight a katana. As the saying goes, one inch is strong, and one inch is short and one inch is dangerous.

　　 Of the eight samurai, two were hit by the black charcoal on the tip of the gun.

　　 "Master Li Xiao's martial arts has improved again."

　　 On the Tianshou Pavilion in Gaoyuan City, a small window was opened diagonally, and the position of the window was exactly facing this corner of Li Xiaobiwu.

　　 Behind the small window, the lord Takeda Katsuyori and Yamamoto Kansuke were both standing, holding their chests in both hands and watching carefully, how Li Xiao picked eight. These eight people are not ordinary peasants. They are all Kachimoto samurai under Takeda Katsuyoshi's command, and several of them have experienced several battles.

Hearing Yamamoto Kansuke's rare praise of Li Xiao, Takeda Katsurai said with a smile: "Yes, a month ago, his strength was almost equal to challenging four samurai by one person, and after ten days he increased from four to six. Ming, five days ago, he could actually fight against eight samurai."

Yamamoto Kansuke shook his head and said, "No, what does this mean? It just means that he is very good in group battles. Isn't the long-handled weapon expert in the battlefield? If you meet a swordsman, a one-on-one duel. Li Xiao may not be so relaxed."

　　As soon as Yamamoto Kansuke finished speaking, Li Xiao flew again and kicked a samurai into the air, and in a blink of an eye he solved another one.

　　 Based on the good nutrition of modern people and the foundation laid~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Li Xiao is far taller than the average height of a Japanese samurai in terms of size and strength.

　　As the so-called one force drops ten guilds, it is not difficult for Li Xiao's strength to be far higher than that of the ancients in the same period.

Takeda Katsurai smiled and said, "I don’t think so. You don’t know. Li Xiao said in a chat yesterday that he went to a Katori Shinto-style swordsmanship contest in Suwa-no-cho ten days ago, and he defeated him alone. The opponent’s pavilion master and six or seven disciples joined the wheel fight."

　　 Yamamoto Kansuke's eyes narrowed slightly, and Li Xiao went to the Suwa Town to compete. How could he not know that Li Xiao’s whereabouts were reported to Yamamoto Kansuke by a special ninja all day long.

　　 In the message sent back from the ninja, Li Xiao went to the town of Suwa that time, where he went to the competition, it was a kick.

　　 The process is to first go to the opponent's dojo to practice swordsmanship, first knocking over a dozen students, and finally using words to ridicule, forcing the opponent's master and the master's direct disciple to do one-on-one singles.

　　 Li Xiao used a big gun to fight the disciples of the gymnasium. He won seven games in a row. The last one broke the ribs of the opponent. That's all. The most excessive thing is that Li Xiao also took away the signboard outside the Taoist temple when he left. The reason was that it was saved as a memento.

　　 Hit people without slapping faces, kicking halls without planting signs, this is indeed a bit ruthless.

　　 Yamamoto Kansuke couldn't help but shook his head when he thought of this. He didn't know that in China four hundred years later, there was a movie called Jingwumen, and there was an actor named Bruce Lee in the movie, who was the idol most admired in Li Xiao's school days.

　　 The most powerful thing in the film is the scene where Bruce Lee singles out a Japanese dojo with his nunchakus. So after the journey, Li Xiao decided to carry forward the sport and plan to make it a hobby of his in the future and stick to it for a long time.