Chapter 24: Gun Technique First

As Shinono's first snowfall fell, it had been more than forty days since Li Xiao arrived in Japan's Warring States Period.

The renovation of Takato City had already started a few days ago. Although the bandits complained for a while when they heard that they could not become samurai, under the persuasion of Li Xiao and the suppression of Yamamoto Kansuke's force, the bandits finally agreed to participate in the renovation of Takato City. At the same time, Yamamoto Kansuke also promised to give them a certain reward and settle their families.

Since the incident of recruiting bandits, Yamamoto Kansuke's attitude towards Li Xiao has improved a little, at least not as if he had just met before, and he didn't even say hello. Well, in fact, he won't take the initiative to say hello to you now.

This made Li Xiao, who came from the etiquette country of China very unhappy.

As the former military advisor of Takeda Shingen, Li Xiao actually wanted to chat with him, and his purpose was of course to dig up some secrets that the Takeda family cannot be rumored. The content was nothing more than which woman Takeda Shingen loved the most in his life, did Takeda Shingen really like to make fun of the genius, how ambiguous had been between Takeda Shingen and Takasaka Masatoshi, etc.

Well, Li Xiao never denies that he is a very gossipy person.

However, Yamamoto Kazusuke has been busy dealing with all kinds of affairs in the territory of Takao City all day long, and he has no leisure to chat with others. In Li Xiao's eyes, this person is purely Zhuge Liang's life. He has done everything and is not afraid of turning Takeda Katsurai into the second Liu Chan.

But fortunately, Yamamoto Kansuke has not assigned any more tasks to Li Xiao in the past few days.

Now Li Xiao finally has time to take out time to study his gun skills and see if there is a way to maximize the improvement to deal with the duel with Shigang Ichiyu less than three months later.

In fact, Li Xiao thought that based on the previous strategy of playing Taige, the first choice to learn gun skills was to go to the Nara Dojo to find Treasure Inn Yinrong.

Treasure Inn Yinei received guidance from Nobutsukoshi Nara, and was the head of the Treasure Inn of the Kofukuji Subin. As a monk, he was obsessed with martial arts. In addition to Nobutsukoshi Uchizuki, he also became a disciple of many people when he was young. Finally, he integrated martial arts in middle age and created a sequel to the sequel spear technique that integrates offense and defense. His spear technique is the famous Baozi Inn in Japanese history, and has been passed down to this day.

In this era, if you talk about swordsmanship, Fukahara, you can be called Japan's number one, and when it comes to gunsmanship, the throne of Japan's number one is Treasure Inn Yoshiro.

Unfortunately, this plan is unrealistic. Nara cannot be reached in a few days. As a retainer of Takeda Katsurai, Li Xiao cannot leave Takato Castle easily for too long. After a long holiday, Yamamoto Katsusuke would agree to it no matter what, so Li Xiao's plan to go to Nara died.

However, Li Xiao immediately thought of other solutions, and he set his mind on the bullets Masatoshi Masatoko, who was also a retainer of Takeda Katsurai.

As a local wealthy family in Shinono, the family name has existed for hundreds of years. When Gaoyuan Castle was still in the Gangyuan family, Masatsutsuki Boko and his father Boko Masatsu were the retainers of the pen who were the master of Gaoyuan, Gaoyuan Lai Ji.

Therefore, in Shinono, the Boko family is a notorious family. It is undoubtedly arbitrary to go to seek gun skills as an ordinary samurai warrior.

Fortunately, Li Xiao opened the joints. The former security officer of Takato Town, Hirazo Nishimura, happened to have a marriage relationship with Boko. Li Xiao met Masatsu Boko through Heizo Nishimura, his eldest son, Masatsu Boko, and his third son, Masatsu Boko.

Boko was only twenty years old, and just after the Yuan Dynasty, Li Xiao knew that this man was also a powerful general in history. The Takeda family was destroyed and later fought for the Tokugawa family and granted 25,000 stone territory to Tokugawa Ieyasu. His younger brother Boko Masatsuki was later renamed Naito Masatsuki, and was nurtured as an adopted son by Naito Masatsuki, one of Takeda's four ministers. After the death of Naito Masatsuki in the battle between Naito Masatsuki and Naito Masatsuki, he inherited the governor of the Naito family.

Li Xiao and Baoke are upright and Baoke Changyue brothers are about the same age. After Li Xiao invited them to the Izakaya to drink a few times, the three of them gradually became familiar with each other. After getting closer, Li Xiao mentioned that he had long admired Bokeke Masatsu's gun technique and had always been eager to visit him.

When these two brothers heard that Li Xiao admired his father so much, they were very happy to recommend it to Li Xiao. Before coming to the door, Li Xiao also used the gold he had given him before, and bought three pretty good tai knives as a meeting gift, and prepared to give it to Masatsutsuki Boko to improve friendship.

After accepting the gift, Masatsutsuki Boko was very happy. He was amazed when he heard that Li Xiao had blocked Kenshino Uesugi and saved Shingen Takeda in the battle between Kawaakashima. Therefore, he also looked at Li Xiao with a high glance and did not treat him as an ordinary samurai.

Li Xiao immediately asked Baoke Zhengjun for gun skills. After the two sides' discussions, Li Xiao found that although Baoke Zhengjun was over fifty years old, his gun skills were sophisticated and strong that he had been trained on the battlefield for many years. His son Baoke Zhengjun was honest and Baoke Changyue, although his gun skills were not superb, they were better than young and strong.

However, what disappointed Li Xiao was that although the gun skills of the three Baoke father and son were well-known in Shinno, they did not show any strength above their own when fighting against him.

On the contrary, Li Xiao gradually became familiar with the three-person gun technique routine, and could already suppress them well. Of course, the gun technique that Li Xiao learned was passed down from China. After a long period of polishing, it was removed and preserved. The gun technique was definitely not inferior to any school of gun technique in Japan in this era. He was tall, long arms, young and strong, and had a long strength. These two advantages were not available to them.

Bo Ke Zhengjun may be twenty years younger than Li Xiaoyi, but his gun skills must not be as superb as he is now. As if he realized this, Bo Ke Zhengjun and his son admired Li Xiao's gun skills and were promising.

The Japanese admire the strong from the bottom of their hearts, and not only worship them, but also strive to learn from the strong. At present, Masatsutsuki, the two sons of Masatsuki, have been appointed as Li Xiao as their teacher. Of course, Li Xiao would not refuse. This is also a foundation for laying a good connection with Takeda's family.

So after Takeda Katsurai, Li Xiao came to this chaotic era and took two more cheap apprentices.

The family of the insurance department was warmly entertained by Li Xiao, who lived there for three days and talked about gun-raising skills. The father and son of the insurance department all praised Li Xiao very much. Then Li Xiao also mentioned to them the decisive battle with Shigang Yiyu three months later.

These three people have heard of Shikaoka's fame. They are famous swordsmen in Kashima and have defeated many famous swordsmen.

As for Kashima Shintoru who mentioned Fukahara, Masatoshi Joko's face became much heavier. For Fukahara, the best Japanese swordsman, he no longer had to describe it as admiration in his heart, but reached a deep fear.

Even though Fu Ya Tsukahara is now a 73-year-old man, he is still recognized as the best in Japan in his career in swordsmanship. In his later years, he traveled around Japanese countries to practice martial arts. He followed his disciples and followed hundreds of followers, just like a daimyo traveling.

Many local daimyos, wealthy families, and military generals all took Fuji Tsukahara as their troops, hoping to get his guidance. Takeda Shingen also hired Fuji Tsukahara to spend some time as the guide to Takeda's military strategy, and asked Fuji Tsukahara to give guidance to the generals under his command of swordsmanship.

Masatsuru Boko has also seen it once, and he still admires Tsukahara Fuka's swordsmanship.

Boko Masatsutsu also said that he did not have no confidence in Li Xiao's gun skills, but he felt that his gun skills were definitely the first-class level in Japan. However, Li Xiao's shortcomings are also obvious, that is, what he lacked is practical experience, which was learned from countless battles on the battlefield and personal duels.
Chapter completed!