Shannan, who had a bit of surprise on his face, looked at the people in the trial defense hall who had gathered together not far away and were cheering loudly to celebrate their victory.

"...It's really a sword hall with a good atmosphere." Shan Nan smiled slightly.

Sanako was still standing in a daze at the place where she had just been defeated.

"We...were defeated like this...?" After murmuring, Sanako raised his hand and touched his empty forehead without the porcelain bowl.

"It's just that the trial defense hall was lucky enough to win for a while!" An apprentice from the Little Chiba Sword Hall blushed and shouted, "We have not exhausted all the elites of the Little Chiba Sword Hall. If

Today all the masters from our Little Chiba Sword Hall are here, how can the Trial Guard Hall possibly win!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the apprentice pursed his lips and closed his mouth because he felt that what he had just said was unreasonable.

Indeed, all the elites of their Little Chiba Sword Hall were not gathered here today.

Many masters in their gym whose strength is only lower than Shannan or almost at the same level as Shannan either don't have time today, or Chiba Nobuyoshi was not selected to participate on the grounds that he "wanted to train more newcomers"

Today’s “red and white battle”.

Although Xiao Chiba Kenkan's lineup today is indeed not the strongest, its overall strength is not weak.

As a prestigious family with a high reputation across the country, the admission requirements for the Little Chiba Sword Hall are naturally quite strict. Not just cats and dogs are eligible to become apprentices at the Little Chiba Sword Hall.

Their little Chiba never recruits newcomers who have no foundation in swordsmanship. They only recruit swordsmanship veterans who already have good swordsmanship strength and talent.

Take, for example, the relatively weakest person in today's game - Asakura, who serves as their general.

Although Asakura is a newcomer to their Little Chiba Sword Hall, before he joined their Little Chiba Sword Hall, he had already mastered the swordsmanship in their hometown that taught the Beichen Itto Style, which was second only to the "Won Xu Jie"

"Catalogue" qualification of "Biography", with his strength, he can be ranked in the middle and upper reaches of those small and medium-sized sword halls.

Even though their lineup today is not the strongest lineup they can field, in terms of strength comparison on paper, the overall strength of their lineup today is far stronger than that of the Trial Guard Hall, and they should not lose to the Trial Guard Hall.

right.

Our lineup today was not the strongest - this cannot be the reason why they lost to the trial court.

"One more match! One more match!" Another person shouted, "Just now I just let the trial defense hall win by chance. As long as there is one more match..."

This person hasn’t finished speaking yet——

"That's enough, stop saying these embarrassing words. If you lose, you lose. Why are there so many reasons and excuses? When you started a life-and-death duel with others, you lost because of your inferior skills. How could you still say this to him?

"Today's defeat was due to my carelessness. Please spare my life and fight again tomorrow?"

An old voice interrupted the man's words.

"master!"

"master……"

"It's the master! The master is here!"

…

Chiba Sadayoshi, who put his hands behind his back, led Chiba Tamonshiro slowly through the arena.

The swordsmen from the Little Chiba Sword Hall gathered around Chiba Nobuyoshi.

"Father..." Chiba Jutaro lowered his head and walked slowly towards Chiba Nobuyoshi.

Sanako followed her brother to greet Chiba Nobuyoshi. She lowered her head slightly and bit her red lower lip. In the depths of her pupils, a strong hint of unwillingness swayed.

"Father...I'm sorry..." After coming to Chiba Nobuyoshi, Chiba Jutaro's face was full of shame and shock. The first thing he said was an apology, "We actually put today's game

Played so badly..."

"We'll talk about these later." Chiba Nobuyoshi smiled and raised his hand to pat Chiba Jutaro on the shoulder, "Hurry up and raise your head."

Having said that, Chiba Nobuyoshi, surrounded by everyone, continued to walk forward slowly, towards the people in the trial defense hall who were still hugging each other and still celebrating their victory.

At this time, Qingto and others noticed Chiba Sadakichi walking towards them, so they all stopped cheering and turned to cast doubtful glances at Chiba Sadikichi.

Shusuke, Abi, Kiryu, Mai Kinoshita, Saito and others also arrived at this time.

The five of them ran quickly towards Qingnobu and others on the playing field from another direction, arriving at Qingnobu and others before Chiba Nobuyoshi.

"What a wonderful match." Walking in front of Qingnobo and others, Chiba Sadakichi said with a gentle smile, "The exquisite formation and personnel arrangement have offset the strength of our little Chiba sword hall.

Advantage, I wonder which hero came up with this strategy?"

Hearing Chiba Sadaikichi's question, everyone in the Trial Guard Hall immediately consciously moved aside to the left and right, allowing Qingto's figure to emerge from the crowd.

Chiba Nobuyoshi raised his curious gaze and looked at Qingto, who was currently standing in the C position among the people in the trial defense hall: "Is this the strategy that I have drawn up?"

Qingdeng nodded.

"You don't know where to start?"

"I'm here in Juqingden."

Chiba Nobuyoshi's eyes immediately opened slightly in surprise.

It turned out to be the strategy drawn up by Aoto - after learning this truth, whether it was Chiba Jutaro, Sanako, Shannan and others who were standing behind Chiba Nobuyoshi, or Kiryu, Kinoshita Mai, Shusuke, Abi

, Saito and the others all looked at Aoden with a look of surprise.

"Oh...it turns out you are the Tachibana Aoden who is very famous these days."

The smile on Chiba Nobuyoshi's face became stronger.

"Tachibana-kun, how did you plan to defeat our little Chiba Sword Hall? Can you tell me... ah, no, tell us a little bit?"

Chiba Nobuyoshi's question touched the hearts of everyone present.

Kiryu, Mai Kinoshita, Shusuke, the Chiba brothers and sisters, Shannan... they all focused their curious eyes on Qingto.

It's not impossible to tell them how you came up with this strategy... it's not something that needs to be concealed anyway.

So, Qingden cleared his throat——

…

…

Rewind time back to before the start of the game——

"Our overall strength is far weaker than that of Little Chiba Sword Hall."

"Now that we are missing the two main players, Genzaburo Inoue and Toshizo Hijikata, if we want to win, we must use surprising troops and unique moves!"

"I divide the plan I have drawn up into two steps."

"The first step: hold fast. Arrange a line of defense that can block and hold back the large force of the Little Chiba Sword Hall."

"Part 2: Counterattack. When the large force of the Little Chiba Sword Hall was held back by our defense line, we sent a surprise force to attack the "main formation" of the empty Little Chiba Sword Hall and smash the porcelain of their general.

Bowl, win the game.”

"As for this line of defense that will hold back the large force of the Little Chiba Sword Hall, I plan to design it this way - six people will be deployed on each side of the left and right sides."

"Then……"

Qingden raised his head and cast a solemn gaze at Kondo.

"Kondo-kun will guard the middle lane alone."

"Okita-kun and I will be the 'surprise soldiers' responsible for the surprise attack on the Little Chiba Sword Hall."

"Okita-kun and I stay in the 'main formation' and wait for the best opportunity to counterattack."

"For a long time, because Okita-kun was too strong, Chiba Sword Hall could only send out their strongest Chiba brothers and sisters to effectively guard Okita-kun."

"So after seeing that we actually put Okita-kun in the rear, in order to guard against Okita, their Chiba brothers and sisters will not dare to act rashly. They will only send others except the Chiba brothers and sisters to participate in the attack."

"They will definitely concentrate as much combat power as possible to launch a fierce attack on the center where Kondo-kun is the only one defending."

"Once they concentrate their combat power to attack the center, there will definitely not be too many people who can be sent to attack the left and right flanks."

"In this way, we, who have deployed heavy troops on the left and right, will be able to gain an advantage in numbers. Even if the overall strength of the apprentices of the Little Chiba Sword Hall is better than ours, it will be difficult for them to defeat us when they are at a disadvantage in numbers.

In a short period of time, we will achieve breakthroughs on both our left and right sides.”

"Therefore - whether our line of defense can hold back the large force of Little Chiba Sword Hall, the key point is that Kondo-kun, who is responsible for guarding the middle road, can block the fierce attack of Little Chiba Sword Hall."

"If Kondo-kun can block it, then everything will be easy."

"Looking back at the past, in all the 'Red and White Battles', the Little Chiba Sword Hall always suppressed our trial defense hall."

"It is absolutely impossible to say that all the apprentices in the Little Chiba Sword Hall have not despised our Imperial Guard Hall."

"Therefore, as soon as the competition starts, the energy of the Little Chiba Sword Hall will be extremely high, and they will definitely feel that they will win today's competition."

"Enemies like them who think they can easily win will often be easily shaken in their momentum and fighting spirit once they encounter unexpected situations that they did not expect."

"Once our line of defense, which they think they can break through with a single poke, actually blocks all their offensives, their will will be shaken to some extent."

"At that time, it will be time for Okita-kun and I, the 'surprise troops', to launch a counterattack."

"Little Qianba Sword Hall should not have thought that our general would be so crazy and disregard the danger and go into battle himself."

"After they launched a fierce attack on our defense, most of the midfield and backcourt of the Little Chiba Kenkan were left with only the Chiba brothers and sisters to defend."

"Those two siblings can only fight to a draw against Okita-kun."
To be continued...