Cursed Mountains and Seas

Chapter 236 Archery duel at Takara Hill, Ōtomo Yoshishige beheaded

At this moment, a large number of intelligence personnel from various parties had already gathered on the outskirts of the battlefield.

There are ninjas, monsters, ghosts that possess white paper figures, and the most common shikigami.

【Harmonizing Yin and Yang】With perfect insight, the full map display is activated, clearly marking all incoming combat units.

These people each have labels attached to them, mainly referring to the forces related to the area around Kowloon Peninsula.

The various daimyo were drawn to the ongoing battle between the Oo family and the Otomo family, and immediately dispatched their best men to try to gather firsthand intelligence and determine which daimyo would ultimately unify the nine islands.

A quick glance reveals the following labels on the heads: Chosokabe family, Saionji family, Kono family, and Miyoshi family from the four islands.
The Nankaido region, where the neighboring four islands are located, is much smaller than the nine islands, but its waters are shallow and teeming with turtles, and the various daimyo are far from reaching a point where a victor can be determined.

On the main island in the north, the two closest daimyo families, the Mori and Amago, arrived.

As the intelligence squads witnessed the rapidly changing battle situation and the diverse array of new weapons in the hands of the East Sea Nation, their eyes gleamed with a mixture of fear, greed, and fanaticism, and they discussed the situation amongst themselves.

"Don't you guys think that the firearms the Wang family has are more advanced and sharper than those of the Franks?"
It's like they're a whole generation ahead of our proud arquebuses!

"Nonsense! The Otomo family's arquebusiers and national collapse squads are already the best in Yingzhou. They were defeated and fled in terror, which already says it all."

My thought is that since the defeat of the Otomo family is inevitable, the unification of the nine islands by the Wang family is unstoppable.

Is it possible for us to buy these new weapons from them?

After all, when Prince Jing, the first patriarch of the Wang family, first arrived at Pinghu Port many years ago, wasn't he involved in the arms trade?

Upon hearing this, the eyes of his companions lit up:

"Yeah, why not make money if you can?"
Since they are not a samurai family and have no hope of establishing a new shogunate in Kyoto, shouldn't it be natural for them to sell arms and befriend other powerful daimyo?

The unification of the nine islands is also a defensive counterattack; the Otomo family is going too far!

"That's right. The Wang family lost a foot soldier, so they said they wanted to look for him in your Ōtomo family's territory, right? Your Ōtomo family can just let them go in to look for him."

Refusing someone's reasonable request is tantamount to courting death!

What's the point of provoking a fatal blow in the end? Are they really worried the Wang family will use the Guanmen Strait to travel to Luoyang from the capital region?

Clearly, in the eyes of these well-informed intelligence personnel...

The Wang family has no trace of the destiny of a martial family, nor are they warriors. Just as the lords of the Western Continent are not electors and have no claim to the Holy Roman Empire, they have no way of coveting the throne of "the people of the world".

Even if they conquer a lot of territory, it's all scattered land and can't be integrated with the dragon energy of Yingzhou to inherit the destiny belonging to the Japanese.

"With a developed military industry and no significant threat, it is the perfect military contractor!"

Many people are eager to contact Prince Jinghai after the war to conduct arms trade.

Only one side was an exception.

"Ha, Kubuqi Island will not belong to Otomo, nor to the Wang family. This land with a stone height of 250 million and the technology of new weapons will all eventually belong to our Mori family!"

Because Ōtomo Yoshishige and Prince Yasukai are about to die.

Mori Motonari, who had reached an agreement with Daisho Kameyama Publishing House, had already dispatched elite troops to closely monitor the movements of both companies.

The time has come to reap the benefits, and Onimaru Kunitsuna, one of the Five Great Swords of the Realm, who wields the power and destiny of the samurai family and can kill in dreams, enters the dream.

Falling asleep instantly is just a basic operation for officials of the Divine Path who specialize in sexual cultivation; no preparatory steps are required.

Even if that "sleeping descendant of the Maori family" came, he would have to admit defeat when he saw his ancestor.

At this time, Dong Piao, the newly promoted fourth-rank storyteller, was still completely immersed in his new art form:
"Beat the drums fast, beat the gongs slowly; stop the drums and gongs and listen to the song; all sorts of idle talk are sung in song; listen to me sing 'Eighteen Touches'."

On the opposite hill, an illusory hand appeared out of thin air and grabbed Yoshishige Otomo's calf, preventing him from moving an inch.

"Reaching out to touch the hair on my sister's face, dark clouds drift across half the sky; reaching out to touch the front of my sister's head, her forehead is full and alluring."

"Reaching out to touch my sister's fuzzy hair, it's spread out wide and round; reaching out to touch my sister's small eyes, they're dark and white."

As Dong Piao sang, touching and touching, one after another, illusory arms appeared out of the air, reaching out to grab Da Youyizhen.

This prevents him from escaping for a short period of time.

Moreover, it becomes more explicit and deadly as it progresses.

Instructor Franco, who commanded the "National Collapse Team" in the Otomo Army, felt a chill. He was a normal person and couldn't understand the various doctrines popular in Yingzhou at all.

“Even the sheep I used in the cabin during ocean voyages were a hundred times better than this thing!” Tachibana Yukichiyo had long been disgusted and pulled her father, Tachibana Michiyuki, away to avoid getting involved.

Of course, the most vehement reaction came from Yoshishige Otomo himself.

"Oh dear, how dare a lowly storyteller insult me, the 'Number One Archer of the Western Coast'? You're asking for death!"

With a flick of his wrist, he held the bow in his hand.

"Gyūjū" does not only refer to archery skills, but also symbolizes the identity of a warrior commander.

During the Sengoku period, the samurai class used the possession of a bow as a marker of their status. The title "First Bow Master" referred to the most powerful daimyo in the region, a title that was truly fitting for Yoshishige Otomo, as he was most skilled in archery.

Da Youyizhen drew his bow and aimed at Dong Piao on the city wall, while the military aura beside him churned and transformed into a giant black dog.

——【Ogasawara-ryu Archery: Dog Chasing Things】!
Wang Cheng had just finished a naval battle and led his elite troops from the Tsushima Strait to the battlefield, where he witnessed this scene.

His eyes lit up.

"good chance!"

Standing next to his own Uncle Seven, whose singing became increasingly flamboyant and had firmly attracted all of the other party's hatred, he naturally spread his feet apart, took a deep breath, and his body suddenly swelled to twice its size.

He held his own iron-framed bow, nocked an arrow, and drew it.

The three flames of the hundreds of temple soldiers behind him were all added to his body, and the surging military aura boiled down.

The twenty field guns around him were temporarily transformed, each manifesting a majestic general who, along with him, drew his bow and aimed at Otomo Yoshiji.

——【Shooting the Halberd at the Gate - The Whistling Arrow】!
The wind and thunder energies transformed into their original form, surrounding Wang Cheng, and the technique of the [Secret Weapon - Thunder God's Chisel Tooth] was also imbued into the arrows.

In an instant, the invisible lightning force pulled everything around it, even the dark clouds in the sky moved three inches toward the tip of the arrow.

It was as if the immense power of heaven and earth had been bestowed upon it.

Boom!

With a thunderous roar, wind and thunder energies were released from Wang Cheng's palm, and the steel arrow transformed into a dazzling silver point of light, piercing through the atmosphere and shooting out.

Along with it, twenty 12-pound field gun shells were also fired, followed by twenty streaks of fire, like shooting stars guarding the moon.

The large, black dog on the opposite side, [Dog Chaser], also flew towards them, carrying arrows with it.

The two powerful attacks collided violently in the sky above the Chikugo River, exploding into a dazzling cross-shaped light spot.

"The opportunity has come."

Having already entered the dream world with his sword, Mori Motonari stood outside the real world, ignoring spatial distance, and slashed down on the battlefield with a single blow.

Moreover, he didn't just make one cut as agreed with Kameyama Publishing House; instead, he made two cuts in a row, aiming to kill Wang Cheng and Otomo Yoshishige, two major enemies of the Kyuban Islands, at the same time.

—【Secret Technique: Twin-Headed Dragon Flash】!
Standing with his bow drawn and his mind highly focused, Yoshishige Otomo was overjoyed when he saw the real Wang Cheng appear, feeling that God was still looking out for him.

If I can kill him, then everything will be over.

The Wang family currently has no third generation. Once the second generation of the opposing family dies, the Otomo family will be able to turn the tide.

Naturally, he exerted all his strength, and with the blessing of the "mandala," most of his inner light was launched out with that arrow.

It was in the instant he fell into weakness.

A sudden, gleaming light flashed in the depths of my heart.

"what!!!"

A blood-curdling scream rang out.

Although Onimaru Kunitsuna's sneak attack failed to kill this powerful fourth-rank samurai with a single sword strike, it severely damaged his clay sculpture of a god and the foundation of a demon, which was mostly filled with dirt.

My mind and spirit are broken, and my head is throbbing with pain.

The [dog-chasing creature] in front also let out a mournful cry, exploded into a large, churning cloud of black mist, and vanished in the lightning.

However, this is not the key point.

The main issue was that the twenty cannonballs following behind "Mingdi" were completely unaffected by the Five Swords of the World or Wang Cheng's condition, and crashed down on the altar where Dayou Yizhen was located.

We'll wipe out the "Number One Archer of Saikaido" and his main camp, who had no time to dodge and no way to dodge at all!
(End of this chapter)