I started with the Shinsengumi in Bakumatsu

Chapter 8 Kill the ronin and become famous in Osaka

Under the guidance of Yamazaki Hao, Yagyu and more than sixty people left the camp in a mighty manner.

After a while, Yamazaki Hao pointed to the Yamada House in front and said: "This is right here. There are more than a dozen ronin discussing a plan to humiliate the shogun."

Yagyu looked at Hijikata Toisho and said, "Hijikata, take people to the back and block their retreat."

"Understand!"

Hijikata Toshizo immediately took the two teams of Harada Sanosuke and Toudo Heisuke around to the back of Yamada House.

Soon, Ozawa, who was accompanying him, ran over and said, "Director, Mr. Hijikata is already in place."

Yagyu strode towards Yamadaya, and the Shinsengumi members behind him immediately followed. The surrounding townspeople felt something was wrong and stopped to watch.

Yagyu walked up to Yamada House, opened the door curtain, and shouted: "Where is the owner? The imperial inspection is here!"

The movement at the door immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the store. Most of the people eating and drinking here were ronin, and they stared at the Shinsengumi with unkind eyes.

The owner of Yamadaya ran out immediately. When he saw Yagyu, he greeted him humbly: "This gentleman looks very unfamiliar. He is not an official of the Osaka Office."

Yagyu replied: "We are the newly-selected group of the Aizu Domain Kyoto Guardian Matsudaira-sama. This time we followed the shogun to Osaka and took charge of the guard duty. Now we have received a tip that someone in your store is conspiring against the shogun!"

"Whoa!"

Before he finished speaking, the ronin at several tables not far away had already stood up, with their hands on their waists, ready to fight at any time.

The shopkeeper immediately changed his face and tried to stop him, but Yagyu pushed him away and shouted: "Please accept the inspection. Anyone who resists will be shot without mercy!"

"You bunch of lackeys of the shogunate, we and other patriots who resist the barbarians will never be afraid of you!"

The leader of the ronin flatly rejected Yagyu's request.

"Then there's nothing to talk about."

Yagyu immediately slid forward, Iai slashed his hand, and the leader of the ronin's abdomen was cut open. He immediately fell to the ground and wailed. Before the person next to him could react, Yagyu struck his chest with a Tangzhu move.

As the two fell down, the other man finally took action and struck with a cassock chop. Yagyu raised his sword to intercept. The blade passed across the opponent's katana, then slashed, cut off his saber, and then stabbed him. The ronin covered his throat. Fall down.

In an instant, the first three ronin all fell in a pool of blood. The rest were shocked and didn't dare to fight. The ronin behind hurriedly turned around and ran away.

"mob."

Yagyu taunted and immediately asked the others to catch up.

"Kill Mimurazaemon"

"Yagyu Shininryu +5"

"Katori Shinto style +10"

"Kill Nakamura Tokichiro"

"Yagyu Shininryu +5"

"Katori Shinto style +10"

"Kill Sakata Kiyohei"

"Yagyu Shininryu +5"

"Katori Shinto style +10"

Yagyu glanced at the three ronin who had expired, and then said to the store owner: "Please bring some water."

The shopkeeper looked at Yagyu who was as simple as chopping melons and vegetables, and quickly ran to fetch a basin of water. Yagyu took out a piece of cloth and began to scrub Osaka Tsukiyama, and then put the sword into its sheath.

There were sounds of fighting from behind, but it stopped within a few minutes. Kondo Isamu ran over and reported: "Mr. Yagyu, five of the ronin who escaped were beheaded to death and seven were captured."

Yagyu Sheng stood up and said, "Take the prisoners and return to the camp."

As soon as the Shinsengumi walked out of Yamadaya, the townspeople who were watching the excitement screamed. They heard the screams inside. Then, they saw several ronin being escorted out by the Shinsengumi, and they immediately started talking.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

The security team from the Osaka Administrative Office pushed away the onlookers and stopped the Shinsengumi who were about to leave.

The leading samurai shouted and asked: "Who are you? You dare to commit murder on our streets in Osaka, and why don't you just arrest them quickly!"

Yagyu was not afraid at all, and slowly stepped forward and said: "We are the newly selected group of the Aizu Domain, responsible for protecting the shogun. These ronin intended to be detrimental to the shogun. When we arrested them, they tried to resist and were killed by us. Eight people, seven prisoners.”

The leading samurai was startled. He saw no less than fifty swordsmen densely packed behind the Shinsengumi. He felt guilty and relaxed his tone and said: "I see, remember to report it next time to avoid misunderstandings."

After saying that, he left in a hurry with a few of his colleagues.

This time, the onlookers' discussion became even more heated.

"This Shinsengumi is so powerful, even the people at the Osaka Administrative Office are afraid of it."

"Yes, yes, that's amazing. I've never seen anyone from the Osaka Jury Office be so easy to talk to."

"These rogues deserve to die too. They often eat without paying and molest women from good families. They should die well!"

Seeing the kind eyes of the townspeople, Yagyu said to the people around him: "Did you see it? These ronai keep saying they want to respect the emperor and fight the barbarians and save the country, but in the end they harm the people. We must clean up these scum."

Shannan Keisuke nodded and said: "These people are hateful." Takeda Kanryusai said: "I really didn't make the wrong choice!"

The Shinsengumi's actions in Yamadaya aroused praise from nearby townspeople, and the brutality of the Shinsengumi was also spread among the ronin. This allowed the Shinsengumi to recruit nearly 40 more people, making the team more than a hundred people.

However, the Shinsengumi's fame caused a huge loss of face for the Osaka Provincial Office. The Prime Minister and Rikiuchi Yamahikojiro were very dissatisfied. They scolded the Shinsengumi inside the office and said: "Assholes, the Shinsengumi are country people, they are nothing but peasants. Mind your own business in Osaka!

We Osaka people have to take care of things in Osaka. These bastards must be taught a lesson, otherwise they will not know the dignity of others! "

However, Osaka felt that the Shinsengumi was protecting the shogun, and he did not want to cause trouble, so he said not to pursue the matter.

However, Osaka did not calm down because of this. The Choshu clan would not give up if the goal of resisting the barbarians was not achieved. Hisaka Genrui and others wrote to the court, forcing the shogunate to set a date for resisting the barbarians.

The reigning Emperor Takamei hated foreigners, which led to the emergence of Emperor Zunong and the foreigners. The emperor stated his position, and the general Tokugawa Iemo could only give the date as May [-]th.

However, Hisaka Genzui felt that the shogunate was definitely not determined to fight off the barbarians, so he decided to return to Choshu and wait until May [-]th to fight the barbarians in Choshu and put the shogunate on the fire.

Because of the ambiguous attitude of the shogunate towards foreigners and the raw wheat incident, the shogunate paid compensation to the British, which aroused the excitement of the ronin. They began to assassinate shogunate officials and foreigners in Osaka.

In the evening, as night falls, the Shinsengumi camp becomes busy again.

Yagyu held up Haori with an iron forehead wiper and chain armor.

He looked at the team members below with a serious face and said: "Listen carefully, once an unidentified ronin is found on the street, he will be arrested as soon as possible. Anyone who resists will be killed without mercy!"

"set off!"

Yagyu asked Takeda to watch Ryuzai, Kawai Kisaburo and others to stay at the camp. He took nearly a hundred people and divided them into ten teams to inspect the nearby streets.

Although there are still people from the Osaka Prosecution Office patrolling the streets of Osaka, they are timid and will only sound the alarm when they see a ronin killing someone, and then run away.

In Shinchi, Osaka, a drunk shogunate official left this flower street with the support of his retainers. Although he was escorted by four samurai, there were more ronin who ambushed him.

They just walked to the bridge, and ten ronin rushed out from both sides of the bridge, shouting: "Thieves, die!"

The four samurai immediately drew their swords to protect their lord. The shogunate official was also frightened and hid aside.

"over there!"

"Sure enough, there is an ambush outside Flower Street!"

"Catch them all, don't let them escape!"

Yagyu and the eight team members behind him immediately rushed forward to help. He slid forward and slashed with his sword, causing three ronin to fall to the ground with injuries to their backs.

The ronin who was raiding the formation next to him immediately stepped forward to chop. Yagyu slashed horizontally with his sword and cut off an arm. The ronin screamed and fell to the ground.

"We are the newly selected group for the Aizu Domain. Those who surrender will avoid death!"

Shannan Keisuke, who was accompanying him, shouted loudly, which caused the remaining ronin to flee immediately, but Yagyu pursued him until the last person rushed into the flower street. Yagyu caught up with him, kicked him to the ground, and stabbed him in the chest with a knife.

"what!"

The women in Flower Street were so frightened by this scene that they screamed and ran away in all directions.

Uchiyama Hikojiro, who was drinking, was disturbed. When he walked to the street, he saw that he was a member of the Shinsengumi. He was so angry that he immediately shouted: "You bastard, who asked you to kill people here!"

Yagyu calmly wiped the blood on the knife and replied: "These ronin just ambushed the shogunate officials and were discovered by my Shinsengumi. I was performing official duties."

The drunken Hikojiro Uchiyama cursed: "Asshole, this is Osaka. No matter what happens, it only needs the Osaka Office to take care of it. You are a country boy, how can you have the face to take care of Osaka's affairs!"

Yagyu was not annoyed, but instead said teasingly: "Probably because Osaka is incompetent, the shogun put me in charge of this matter."

"you!"

Uchiyama Hikojiro was furious and wanted to get angry.

But the shogunate officials who came with the Shinsengumi members walked up to Uchiyama Hikojiro and roared: "How do you do the Osaka Office? If it hadn't been for the Shinsengumi, I would have been executed by Ronin Tenjin tonight, you bastard!"

Uchiyama Hikojiro didn't dare to vent, his face turned red from suppressing it, and he could only lower his head and bow: "I'm sorry, sir, this is a dereliction of duty."

The official scolded him, then came to Yagyu and said, "Director Yagyu, you did a good job. I will put in a good word for you in front of the general."

Yagyu saluted and said, "This is the duty of the Shinsengumi. You're welcome."

The official nodded happily and left with his men.

Yagyu smiled contemptuously at Hikojiro Uchiyama and said, "Sir Uchiyama, remember to ask someone to dispose of the body and wash away the blood on the ground, hahaha."

"hateful!"

Uchiyama Hikojiro shouted angrily.

But Yagyu had already turned around gracefully and left with the team members.

The news about the Shinsengumi protecting Osaka's safety soon reached the ears of Tokugawa Iemo, which gave the depressed Tokugawa Iemo a little comfort. He said happily: "There are still loyal ministers in the world. I will reward the Shinsengumi with three hundred gold. Let them keep up the good work.”

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