I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Hearing Makino's words, Ogata realized belatedly that everyone in the sword hall, including his master Hanbei Sakakibara, was looking at him suspiciously.

And in the center of the sword hall, there was already a senior brother who was also looking at Ogata with puzzled eyes.

Just now Ogata had been concentrating on researching the system, so when it was his turn to go up to the sword competition, he didn't hear Master Sakakibara Banhei calling him at all.

After laughing awkwardly a few times, Ogata immediately got up and walked quickly to the sword stand not far away, randomly picked a wooden sword, and then quickly walked to the front of his opponent this time.

His opponent this time is Ogata's senior brother.

Although he is not very familiar with this senior, but according to the memory in his mind - his senior is much better than Mu Ye.

Because he didn't know Ogata very well, his senior brother didn't exchange any greetings with Ogata, instead he put the wooden sword in his left waist and squatted down.

Ogata followed suit, put the wooden sword in his left waist, and squatted down.

Seeing that the two were ready for the sword competition, Sakakibara Hanbei directly shouted "Start".

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Both Ogata and his senior brother held a mid-section stance.

The so-called middle posture is a kind of sword-holding posture in Japanese Kendo.

There are three main knife-holding postures: upper section, middle section and lower section.

In addition to these three main knife-holding postures, there are other types of relatively unpopular knife-holding postures such as Baxiang and dragging the knife.

Different knife holding postures have different attack characteristics.

The middle stance, which is to point the tip of the sword to the enemy's face, is the most commonly used sword holding posture by warriors.

The middle posture is a relatively versatile knife holding posture, which can be used for both attack and defense.

The upper part of the stance is to hold the sword high above the head and focus on attacking. However, because the sword is held high above the head, the door of the body is wide open, which can be regarded as a defensive posture for holding a sword.

The lower stance is to place the sword lower and aim the sword tip at the enemy's knees. It is a defensive stance that is good at defense but weak in attack.

According to different battle needs, switching different stances is the basic skill of those great swordsmen.

Ogata is obvious—he can't do that yet.

At present, he is only good at the upper and middle stances.

For other postures except the upper and middle sections, Ogata can really be said to be a pick.

He and his senior brother each held a mid-section posture, facing each other.

No one was the first to attack.

Whoever moves first often means that whoever breaks through first.

Therefore, until the moment when you are confident that you can kill the enemy with one blow, no one will move lightly. Unless you're a fool.

After confronting the senior brother for a long time, the first person who lost his composure was the senior brother.

The senior brother stepped closer and rushed into Ogata's attack range - and at the same time let Ogata enter his own attack range.

After stepping into the range enough to launch a stab at Ogata, the senior brother directly used the thrust technique in Sakakibara's sword style-the bird stab, and stabbed at Ogata's chest.

Although the senior brother moved quickly, Ogata's eyes could still catch it.

Snapped!

There was a loud crash of wood banging.

Ogata parried his senior brother's thrust with his sword, and quickly stepped back a few steps to distance himself from his senior brother.

The first round of offense and defense between the two ended in a tie.

——As expected of a senior brother...

While adjusting his breathing, Ogata thought to himself.

——The speed just now is really extraordinary... In terms of strength, this brother should be on par with me...

Sakakibara Ichidou-ryu is a kind of Ichidou-style swordsmanship that was born not long ago.

The founder of the Sakakibara Ichidou style is the elder brother of Sakakihara Hanbei, the master of Ogata and others, Sakakihara Denichiro.

Denichiro is a great swordsman who knows quite a lot of styles of swordsmanship.

When he was approaching middle age, Denichiro took the advantages of various schools and developed a brand new Ichidou style of swordsmanship - Sakakibara Ichidou style.

Sakakibara Ichidou is a very simple swordsmanship, because it only has 4 moves in total - bird stab, water drop, climbing a building, and dragon tail.

Bird Thorn: Thrust skill.

Water drop: downward hacking technique.

Climb upstairs: challenge skills.

Dragon Tail: Slashing skills.

Without any fancy secret skills, Sakakibara Ichidou-ryu only has these 4 extremely practical sword skills with different attack methods from the beginning to the end.

After Denichiro developed Sakakibara Ichidou style, he passed it on to his younger brother, Hanbei.

Not long after handing down Sakakibara Ichidou to Hanbei, Denichiro sadly passed away.

In order to carry forward the swordsmanship that his brother spent almost his entire life inventing, Hanbei established this "Sakakibara Sword Hall".

Trying to carry forward this set of young swordsmanship of Sakakibara Ichidou-ryu.

Afterwards, Obiri was extremely fortunate to be one of the first batch of disciples to worship under Hanbei's sect.

——This senior brother is really strong...

——If you don't want to use some tricks, it's probably hard to defeat this senior brother...

Ogata thought for a moment.

Then he adjusted his sword-holding posture.

He raised the sword in his hand above his head, and adjusted the middle posture to the upper posture.

After Ogata changed the posture of holding the sword to the upper posture, it caused bursts of exclamation in the sword hall.

Makino, who was kneeling and watching the battle, said in a low voice that only he could hear clearly:

"Senior, is he going to use his best 'Water Falling'..."

The sword skill that Ogata is best at using is the chopping skill "Waterfall" - this is not a secret in the Sakakibara Sword Gym.

After all, everyone usually competes with each other, and everyone has already known who is good at which sword skill.

After Ogata changed his sword-holding stance to the upper stance, many people in the museum were like Makino—thinking that Ogata would use his best sword skill "water drop" to defeat his opponent.

And Ogata's opponent, his senior brother, also thinks so.

Ogata's senior brother swallowed, and silently prepared to defend against "Shuiluo".

Ogata moved his feet, slowly closing the distance between himself and his senior brother.

And the senior brother didn't evade on purpose, he let Ogata approach, and let the distance between the two slowly narrow.

The moment the distance between the two of them was so close that their swords could touch each other——

Ogata jumped up slightly, as if about to make a powerful downward chop.

And the senior brother, who had prepared for defense early, raised the sword in his hand at an extremely fast speed, ready to catch the sword that Ogata had slashed.

Looking at the senior brother who raised the sword, a faint smile appeared on Ogata's face.

--I won.

After saying this in his heart with a very firm tone, Ogata's waist and abdomen exerted force, causing himself who had jumped into the air to "sink" back to the ground quickly.

And the senior brother who was deceived by Ogata's fake action just now still puts on the appearance of raising his sword to defend.

With the current appearance of the senior brother, it can be said that the empty door is wide open.

And the state with the empty door wide open is the easiest state to "die" in the sword competition.

Aiming at the chest of his senior brother, Ogata directly used the only thrusting technique in Sakakibara Ichidou style - "Bird stabbing".

"Well!"

The senior brother who was stabbed in the chest by the tip of the wooden sword took a few steps back, and then fell to the ground.

【Ding! Use Sakakibara Ichidou-Bird Thorn to defeat the enemy]

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