I started with the Shinsengumi in Bakumatsu

Chapter 35: Fooling Baby Songping Again

"Remember, force starts from the ground, legs, waist, and arms work together, do you understand?"

As Yagyu walked, he explained the slashing postures of everyone.

"You must learn to use force so that you can use the knife faster and more powerfully. You must do your best every time!"

"Shintaro, straighten your back and push hard!"

Yagyu swung the wooden sword and hit him on the waist.

"what!"

Araki Shintaro shouted and straightened his back quickly.

"Ojiro, relax your body properly. If you are too nervous, you will lose strength soon!"

Yagyu tapped the tight muscles on his back. Prolonged tension would quickly make his arms weak and weak.

"what!"

Kojiro Nakamura's slashing is much more flexible.

"Heizo, you have to use force with your feet. The force starts from the ground. Your feet are the first step!"

Yagyu saw that Sakamoto Heizo's steps were a little frivolous and immediately reminded him.

"what!"

This time Sakamoto Heizo swung his sword quickly and powerfully.

Okita Souji sat in the corridor, holding his hands behind his back, and said with a smile: "Gen-san, the director is really awesome. I wish I could be as awesome as the director."

Genzaburo Inoue said with a kind smile: "Soji, you are a talented young man. As long as you work hard, you will be able to do it one day."

Okita Souji jumped up, clapped his hands and said, "Yo Xi, I should work hard too!"

"Director, let's continue our discussion!"

Yagyu looked at Okita Souji and felt a little headache. He was jealous of a talented boy like Okita Souji who had cheats.

Yesterday, Okita Souji could only fight with him for 1 minute, but today he could fight with him for 2 minutes. Yagyu estimated that Okita Souji had already entered the stage of being a swordsman and was progressing too fast.

However, Souji Okita's request failed. While they were talking, Tomijiro Hirosawa walked into the courtyard.

Yagyu hurriedly stepped forward to say hello: "Master Guangze, why are you here?"

Hirosawa Tomijiro saluted and said: "Mr. Yagyu, my lord, I heard that you are back. I originally planned to invite you over yesterday, but I remembered that you have worked hard all the way, so I came here today."

"I see, let's go."

Yagyu immediately changed his clothes and left with Tomijiro Hirosawa. As for the task of training the team members, it was left to Okita Souji.

When Yoshiho Matsudaira saw Yagyu at Kurotani Guangming Temple, he said with a warm smile: "Jubei, now you are famous all over the world. The general heard about your stay in Osaka on the way back to Edo, and thought about it. I want you to go back to Edo."

Yagyu thought that it was already the end of June, less than two months before the coup on August [-]th. If he left now, he might not be able to catch up with the coup.

He thought of the right words and declined politely: "Lord Matsudaira, now the Choshu Domain has been pushed into a corner. Their ally, the Tosa Kinou Party has collapsed, and our supervisory party has found out that the Choshu Domain will make big moves. At this time, I'm sorry. I’m afraid I won’t be able to leave Kyoto.”

Matsudaira Yongho nodded and said: "You are right, I will write a letter to explain this matter to the general. This time the Tosa Kin royal party was wiped out by the Tosa clan because of you. The Choshu clan hates it deeply. Be careful of their plot.

Also, do you know what the Choshu clan is secretly planning? "

Yagyu saluted and said, "I can only tell you this matter, Lord Matsudaira."

Kotaro Komori said angrily: "Director Yagyu, what do you mean? We are all the lord's retainers, how can we still tell the truth?"

Yagyu Sheng said with a straight face: "If you don't keep secrets secretly, you will lose your ministers. If ministers don't keep secrets secretly, you will lose your virginity. If you don't keep secrets in a few things, you will suffer harm."

Matsudaira Yongho thought for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "You guys go down first."

Tanaka Tosa and Komori Kutaro could only retreat first.

Matsudaira Yongho then asked: "Can we talk now?"

Yagyu then said: "His Majesty the Emperor will travel to Yamato on August [-]th, right?"

Matsudaira Yongho nodded and said: "Yes, this is indeed the case. What do you mean?" "If Sanjo Sanimi and other Choshu faction prevent Matsudaira-sama from leading his troops to accompany him, His Majesty the Emperor will probably be in danger."

Although Yagyu's tone was calm, it was like thunder in Matsudaira Yongbao's ears.

Matsudaira Yongho looked surprised and said in disbelief: "Does the Choshu clan dare to harm His Majesty the Emperor?"

Yagyu immediately shook his head and said: "That's definitely not the case. The Choshu Domain can support the Emperor in repelling the barbarians before entering the capital. What I mean is that the Choshu Domain will snatch His Majesty the Emperor to Choshu."

"What, these traitors, how dare you do this!"

Matsudaira Yongho's worries that he had just put aside immediately turned into anger.

"No, Your Majesty trusts me, Aizu, and I will never allow Choshu's evil deeds!"

Yagyu said immediately: "Lord Matsudaira, these are just speculations. There is no actual evidence yet. There is still at least a month before the Choshu clan's plan. We must wait for them to take action before we can catch the clue."

Matsudaira Yongho calmed down and nodded: "You are right, we cannot act rashly now, but His Majesty the Emperor has agreed to Aizu's military performance in front of the emperor. I will take this opportunity to show the force of Aizu to Choshu and let them give up these dangerous ideas. !”

Yagyu secretly thought: This move will only be counterproductive.After all, it was his own suggestion to perform martial arts in front of the emperor. Naturally, he could not undermine himself, so he kept silent.

The Aizu Domain's Jōraku led a thousand elite troops to perform martial arts in front of the emperor. The team included not only the regular spear corps, but also the iron artillery corps and the artillery corps.

Now Songping Yongbo was worried about the lack of troops, so he immediately sent a letter back to the country and sent a thousand elite troops to help.

Yagyu took the opportunity to mention: "Matsudaira-sama, the situation in Kyoto is getting more and more intense now. The Shinsengumi has attacked the ronin very hard, which has caused the ronin to run to other areas to hide. The Shinsengumi is out of reach. I hope that the Shinsengumi's inspection team can be allowed. Enter other areas to investigate, and then the Shinsengumi, the shogunate infantry team, the Kyoto shogunate, and the noble domain soldiers will act together to arrest the illegal ronin?"

Matsudaira Yongho nodded. These days, he has heard from his subordinates that there are more ronin in Shangjing District and other areas. However, this matter involves a lot, and Matsudaira Yongho cannot agree immediately.

He said: "I will tell you about this matter after I have a chat with Mr. Inaba and Mr. Hitotsubashi."

In fact, Yagyu wanted to ask Matsudaira Yongho to help him talk to the general to expand the Shinsengumi to 400 people. Since the matters in the jurisdiction were not settled, he had no excuse to expand.

Matsudaira Yongho exchanged a few words with Yagyu, and then Yagyu stood up and left Guangming Temple.

As soon as Yagyu left, Komori Kutaro and others immediately walked into the palace. He was the first to accuse Yagyu: "My lord, Yagyu's move is clearly to alienate my Aizu lord and ministers, and his intentions are sinister!"

Matsudaira Yongho said with a headache: "Kutaro, I know you don't like Jubei, but Jubei is on our side now, so don't cause trouble."

Tanaka Tosa immediately answered: "My lord, what on earth did Director Yagyu say that he had to keep it secret like this?"

Matsudaira Yongho believed in his retainers, but when he remembered that the matter was indeed too important, he could only say vaguely: "It is about the conspiracy between the Choshu clan and Sanjo and other public figures. The matter has not been finalized yet, so don't worry about it.

Next, our army will conduct a military exercise in front of His Majesty the Emperor. Only Oda Nobunaga did this 300 years ago. We, the Aizu Domain, are the second ones. This matter concerns the shogunate and Aizu. We are absolutely Can't make a mistake.

Juema, you will train the iron artillery team and the artillery team. Make sure everyone is familiar with it and don't make mistakes! "

"Ha! I understand!"

The Aizu Domain became busy, but the Shinsengumi was much more leisurely. After all, Yagyu led the Shinsengumi to suppress the ronin in the area several times. In particular, the anti-barbarian campaign was a big hit, and many ronin fled Kyoto and went to Osaka.

Although he has a leisurely life, Yagyu has very strict requirements for his team members.

In order to ensure that what the team members learned was integrated, he asked Hijikata Tozo, Okita Souji, Inoue Genzaburo, Saito and others who were highly skilled in swordsmanship to serve as teachers and practice with a group of team members to hone their actual combat experience.

In the Shinsengumi camp, Toshizo Hijikata mercilessly slashed down diagonally, hitting the soldier's leg. The soldier immediately fell to the ground with a groan, and there was a scar on his leg.

Hijikata Toshizo shouted: "Next, take him away and apply medicine!"

Even though Hijikata Toshizo sometimes doesn't have the best swordsmanship, his swordsmanship is still very powerful. Among the Shinsengumi, only Yagyu and Okita can hold him down. For the others, Hijikata Toshizo is still confident of a tie.

Genzaburo Inoue immediately said from the side: "Susan, please be gentle. If this continues, at least half of the people present will not be able to patrol today."

Toudo Heisuke smiled and said: "According to Mr. Hijikata's situation, just the medicine for injuries caused by injuries will cost dozens of gold every day."

Hijikata Toisho looked lazy and said disdainfully: "Tsk, the Shinsengumi are not short of this medicine money now. I came here according to the director's wishes. If I defeat them now, it will be better than if the enemy slashes them with a knife." Much better, hurry up, next one, I’m very busy!”

Liu Sheng was sitting on the corridor, watching the competition in the yard, smiling and saying nothing.

　Thanks to Jin Xiaoyanei for the [-] yuan reward!
　　I will write more about daily life and try to make it longer. Please forgive me for any shortcomings.

　　In addition, the first [-] words of the previous chapter have been revised.

　　This chapter was supposed to be posted early in the morning, but I didn’t think about it, so I had to post it at [-] noon.

　　
　
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