Civilization Guardian Front

Swinging the sword twice with one hand, the length and weight of the 80 cm sword is not as good as the European long sword, so it should be more convenient as a one-handed sword.

In order to show the specialness of his "Southern Barbarian", Chios thought for a while, and adopted the posture of "Bedadela de Streza", the Spanish sword technique most feared by Europeans, with his left hand hanging down naturally, and his right hand holding the sword facing Opponent, the tip of the sword pointed at the opponent's throat.

No one laughed at Chios's movements. They were all skilled in martial arts. Although everyone couldn't understand the meaning of the left hand hanging down, let alone how Chios would attack and defend, but from the solid footwork and footwork It can be seen that a person has enough foundation to use a sword.

The Singer on the opposite side holds the sword with both hands and sticks it to the right side of his cheek.There are only two types of people who can use this kind of sword-holding technique that is strong in offense and weak in defense, and actively reveals its flaws: one is a fool who knows nothing about swordsmanship, and the other is a master who is very good at attacking.As the top general of the Oda family, Singer is undoubtedly the latter.

"The first move will win, ha!" Sheng Jia shouted, stepped forward, with the momentum, the raised sword blade slashed heavily from the top of the head.

The knife light that could split people in half approached Chios in an instant, but Chios did not dodge or block unexpectedly, but instead stepped forward and raised his sword to meet him.

The strength of the winner will be the strongest when the arms are straightened. Once an offensive is launched, subsequent attacks will be more difficult to resist.Therefore, the answer given by Chios is to interrupt in advance!

Chios, who was already holding his sword flat, stepped forward and stabbed far faster than Singer's slashing. The Dadao who attacked the close range first turned his hand, and hit the back of the sword on the shroud of the Taidao in Singer's hand.

Clang!The strike, which was not yet full of strength, was thrown off the track by this blow.

Singer's sword was blocked, and the deflected blade brushed against Chios' right shoulder without causing any damage.At the same time, Chios took a step across and approached Singer's unsuspecting chest, turning the back of the knife and cutting the blade towards the lower left.

With a flash of sword light, he chopped off a few strands of hair.Singer made a left turn in time, dodging the killing knife, only the end of the swinging ponytail was wiped by the sharp knife point.

A brief confrontation was fruitless, and the two took two steps back to distance themselves.Although none of them were injured, Shibata Katsuie's awe-inspiring face was a little more dignified.

The close-fitting sword just now made Sheng Jia break out in a cold sweat. If she hadn't reflexively dodged to the left due to her rich experience in battle, she might have been killed by one blow.

Nobuna, who was watching the battle, also looked at Hidecho Niwa with lingering fear. In the blink of an eye just now, the top general of the Oda family was almost injured. Could it be that the southern barbarians are not only powerful in ships and guns, but also in martial arts?

(Sure enough, there is no common sense in the fantasy world, a cute girl has such tyrannical power...)

Although Chios looked downcast on the surface, he was quite dignified in his heart.His physical fitness is far superior to that of ordinary people. Originally, he should be able to disarm a girl like Shibata Katsuie by striking with the back of his knife.As a result, the Singer sword was still tightly held in his hand, which made Chios' wrist feel a little numb.

If he hadn't used Spanish swordsmanship to remove the opponent's strength, but had received it hard, Chios believed that he would have died.

In Chios' view, Shibata Katsuie's strength has exceeded the limit of ordinary human beings. The destructive power symbolized by 20 points of strength is not enough to describe it even if it is "natural power".

Feeling that it was only a moment, Chios focused his mind on the current battle.

With the experience of suffering just now, Sheng Jia stopped rushing to attack, and changed his sword holding position to the middle, focusing on defense. He made up his mind to observe Chios's swordsmanship before responding.

Chios didn't waste time in the confrontation, he stepped quickly, and in an instant came to the winner, raising his sword to stab the opponent's wrist.Singer prepared to defend following Chios's movement. At this time, Chios slid half a step to the left with his back foot, and his body rotated half a circle around the heel as the center, and circled to the side of Singer. Cut it, and lift it to Singer's armpits.

"I've already seen through it!"

Singer turned around ahead of time, the speed was extremely fast, and the blade swept across Chios' waist.If Chios does not retreat, the winner will be injured, but Chios will be cut off in the middle.

"Tsk..." Chios could only back away.

"Opportunity!" Singer took the opportunity to pursue, swiping his sword like a wheel, and a large swath of sword light slashed towards Chios.

Chios retreated three steps in a row, dodging and defending, and seemed to be at a disadvantage, but Singer's sword still didn't see blood, it just brushed the corner of his clothes.

After cutting more than 30 swords in a row, the momentum of Shengjia's sword slowed down slightly. Chios seized the opportunity and stepped forward, raised the sword and stabbed at Shengjia's chest. Sheng Jia's finger holding the sword cut off, but Sheng Jia had to block it with the jaw of his sword.

Offensive and defensive transposition!

Contrary to the winner's wide-open and wide-close style, Chios' sword always strikes at the most concise and rapid angle, with lightning-fast speed; the changeable attack methods force the winner to defend passively.This is also the most frightening aspect of Spanish swordsmanship. Never open the distance, the blade always stays within the distance that can stab the enemy with one step, and circles the opponent with circular footwork, looking for flaws to kill the enemy with one blow.

Although he fell into a defensive position, Sheng Jia's defense did not give Chios a chance, relying on his natural supernatural power and abundant physical fitness to keep himself airtight.With both hands holding a sword, she has an advantage in strength. When facing Chios' slash, she often tries to fight with all her strength. She believes that Chios, who holds a sword with one hand, will lose the sword faster.

Ding ding ding ding ding!

Oda Nobuna watched the two keep exchanging swords, his smooth face was slightly sweaty, and he wanted to stop but didn't dare to do so.Shibata Katsuie was obviously immersed in the battle, and even Nobuna was not confident that she could restrain her.However, Chios had a slight upper hand, and letting him stop at this time would inevitably make people think of favoring their own family.

The two sides have been fighting for more than half a quarter of an hour, and their physical strength is exhausted, but their spirit is becoming more and more focused.

If Nobuna spoke out and disrupted the delicately balanced situation, one of them would probably be seriously injured.

when!After a blade-to-blade collision, Chios took the initiative to retreat, and without waiting for the winner to react, he retracted the sword into its sheath and gave a deep salute.

"Master Singer's swordsmanship is superb, I think I can't do it, I admit defeat."

"What! Don't be joking, how can the winner be decided before the fight is over?" Sheng Jiajian pointed at Chios and said angrily.

"Stop, Six!" Seeing that Singer was about to make another move, Nobuna stopped immediately.

"your Highness!"

Singer looked at Nobuna with an expression of resentment, not hiding his dissatisfaction.

"Master Singer, the opponent's weapon is no longer usable, you are too immature to mess around again, thirty points."

Niwa Chohide pressed the folding fan on his leg, and said with a rare and stern expression.

"What..." Singer quickly turned his head to confirm, but Chios' sword had already been sheathed, so there was no problem at all.

"Oh~" Nobuna sighed, looking at Chios' calm eyes, and said:

"Qios, please show Liu the sword."

"This... okay." Chios pulled out the knife again, showing the severely damaged blade.

The two-foot-nine-inch long sword, except for the hilt and the jaw, is full of gaps on both the blade and the back. The original smooth mirror-like cross-section is full of cracks, and the entire blade seems to have been bitten by some kind of wild beast. generally.

"How come..." Shibata Katsuie looked at his sword with empty eyes, except for a few tiny wear marks, there was no defect at all.Beekios's weapon is almost like new.

(Could it be that the opponent surrendered to me just because I took advantage of the weapon...) Singer thought so, and the blood in the fierce battle just now cooled down.

"Master Ikeda, I'm very sorry for breaking your sword." Chios said to Hengxing Ikeda with apology.

"How, how can I make you apologize, it's all because my sword is too bad, I should apologize, I'm really sorry!" Hengxing Ikeda lowered his head in shame.

"The sword will be damaged because of the immaturity of the swordsman, don't worry about it." Chios said gently.

This sentence of consolation did not have any effect on Ikeda Hengxing, the girl's head was always lowered, unwilling to lift it up.

"Ah, that's enough!" Nobuna smashed the bag full of Jin Xiaopan on Ikeda Hengxing's head with a look of displeasure.

"It hurts!" The girl bowed her head and cried out in pain.

"Hengxing, you idiot, why do you look like you are about to be beheaded! No one would have thought that Singer and Chios would fight so fiercely, wouldn't they?"

Speaking of this, Nobuna's face turned soft, and continued:

"That money will be used as compensation for the damage of your saber, to buy a better sword, and kill enemies for me in the future, understand?"

Under Nobuna's cursing and comforting words, Ikeda Hengxing felt better, although his face was still flushed with embarrassment, at least his face did not continue to face the floor.

"Then it's six. Don't be discouraged. The outcome of this match will be decided by each individual's performance on the battlefield in the future!"

"Yes, Your Royal Highness."

Singer, who couldn't make up his mind for a while, felt a lot more relieved when he heard Nobuna's words.After thinking about it, that's right, anyway, as long as there is a competition on the battlefield who can win more enemies, can't the winner be clearly determined?

Thinking of this, Singer was also relieved, and sat back in his seat.

The retainer who solved his troubles, Nobuna pointed at Chios again, and said with a smile:

"Being able to fight a hundred moves with Singer has proved your superb martial arts skills, and you have not let me down. Chios, because of your performance, I will make an exception for promotion... From now on, you will be the ashigaru general of the family, with an annual salary of 150 kan! "

There are always ashigaru and ashigaru group heads, and the top is the ashigaru general, which already belongs to the category of intermediate samurai. This kind of promotion is not common in the Oda family.

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness." Chios knelt on the ground and thanked him. The shirt on his body was wet with sweat, and it was because of the cover of his coat that he didn't show his distressed look.

The battle with Shibata Katsuie was simply a thread of life. Many times, Chios felt the blade passing against his skin, and he was only a thin line away from the tragic ending of his death.But the corners of his mouth still couldn't help but curl up slightly. This was the first time he tried to test the fate of the plot, and he survived in the end.

The coat of arms on the back of the hand also gives timely reminders...

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[Completed side mission: Shibata Katsuya's test]

[You accepted the challenge from the number one general of the Oda family and achieved a near tie.You have broken through your own limits in this battle, wandering on the edge of life and death, and your understanding of strength and speed has deepened, strength +1, agility +1]

[The task reward has been issued, please check it yourself]

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"Congratulations, Lord Chios." "" Most of the samurai girls on the left and right congratulated with sincere smiles. These young girls are relatively simple-minded, and they don't have too many old-fashioned and insidious elements.

Nobuna stepped down from the main seat, and stretched out her small white hand to Chios who was sitting.

"Chios, let's conquer the world together!"

"Okay, Your Royal Highness."

Chios replied, and also reached out to hold Nobuna's soft hand, and then kissed lightly on the back of the hand...

"Hey... ah ah ah ah ah!"

Xin Nai took five steps back, looking at the back of her hand in disbelief, it seemed that there was still a wet touch, thinking about it made her ears burn.

"What are you doing! Difficult, are you... in heat with me?"

"You, you, you are indeed a shameless person!" Sheng Jia drew his sword.

"You really have the guts to attack the lord, 99 points!" Niwa Chohide shook out the folding fan and fanned it lightly, feeling his cheeks were getting hot.

"Why is this..." Ikeda Hengxing looked disappointed.

"..." Inuchiyo remained silent.

The girls in the Honmaru Palace in Cheongju City were in chaos.

Chapter 6? Speculation

After some confusion, everyone understood that Chios' behavior was a hand kiss used by European nobles.Nobuna, who was open-minded about the etiquette of the Southern Barbarians, also calmed down, and even said, "For the sake of Chios's special status, this etiquette can be kept as an exception."

Nobuna, who has another strong general in the family, is in a particularly good mood, and specially asks his servants to prepare lunch early, and share the meal with all the retainers.The Honmaru Palace was bustling and bustling until noon, when all the people left one after another.

Oda Nobuna sent his own dog, Chiyo, to take Chios to the samurai settlement of Sannomaru.

Maeda Toshiie, puppy Chiyo.It looks like he is only twelve or thirteen years old, and the corners of his big amber eyes are slightly upturned. Because he is too young, he does not have a vicious feeling, but rather gives off a puppy-like aura.Her long blue hair was tied behind her head, and the part of her two long sideburns that exceeded her shoulders was tied with a string.

"...Lord Chios, what are you looking at?" The petite Inuchiyo pulled the hem of Chios's dress coat and looked up at Chios.

"You mean this? This thing is called a pocket watch. It can clearly know the current time, and it is more accurate than a sundial."

Chios knelt down and held the pocket watch in front of Inuchiyo.The silver case opens to reveal the hands and hour dial inside.

Inuchiyo looked at the constantly rotating movement, although he couldn't understand it, he looked very powerful.

"This is the hour hand, and the I and II on it represent..." Chios patiently explained the moment corresponding to the characters on the pocket watch.

"...Amazing."

Inuchiyo said honestly that she only knows water clocks and sundials, but both of them are big and bulky, not as convenient and compact as a pocket watch.

"Yeah, do you like it?"

"...I like it, because Her Royal Highness likes Southern Barbarians, so I like it."

"Then this pocket watch is for you." Chios put the pocket watch into Inuchiyo's hand, and gently closed the other's hand.

In the 16th century, European aristocrats began to popularize "carry clocks". It is difficult to mass-produce exquisite craftsmanship such as pocket watches, and it is even more difficult to spread them to the far east. For those who love imported products from the Southern Barbarians, it can almost be said to be a treasure that is hard to find.

It is also very generous to give away.Not a relic of the "real" parents anyway...

"It's too expensive, Inuchiyo can't accept it." Inuchiyo shook his head, and handed it forward, about to return it to Chios.

"There's no reason to take back what you give away."

Chios first flatly refused to take it back, and then turned into an emotional tone:

"Oh, this is the first gift I gave out in Japan."

"...Lord Chios, it's cunning to say such a thing." Inuchiyo protested.But he didn't insist anymore, holding the pocket watch carefully with both hands, lest it be broken.

"Pfft!" Chios laughed seeing Inuchiyo's nervous appearance, and Inuchiyo could only puff up his face and stare at Chios to express his dissatisfaction.

I couldn't help but reached out and stroked Inuchiyo's lop-eared dog-shaped hair, and suggested a way to the girl:

"I think you could wear it around your neck with a string."

"..." Inuchiyo ignored Chios' ridicule, but he made up his mind to carry the pocket watch with him.

The two walked for a short distance, and Inuchiyo walked into a large house settlement and stopped.

"...Arrived."

"A lot of houses."

Chios said while looking at the surrounding environment.

There are at least [-] houses in this compound, most of which are simple houses made of inferior wood, only a few houses are separated from other residential areas by fences and earth walls, and the building materials used are also good. Some.

"This is the "Wuga Courtyard", the residence of junior warriors, and a few intermediate warriors also live here, and Chios's room is that one. "