Chapter 887 Crime City (Twenty-two)

The samurai sword is one of the few Japanese cultural and artistic products with some real history. As early as the Song Dynasty in China, Chinese literati began to pursue Japanese knives.

They regarded the ornately decorated Japanese swords as a luxury, and wrote many famous poems to praise the exquisite workmanship and high value of Japanese swords, such as Ouyang Xiu's "Japanese Sword Song".

Samurai swords are classified according to their shape and length, roughly divided into tachi, katana, wakizashi, and taiken (also known as short swords, dedicated to seppuku). In addition, there is a separately listed naginata, also called the glabella.

The length of the handle of the naginata is between one meter and two meters, and the length of the blade ranges from 30 to 60 centimeters. In the Edo period, because samurai were prohibited from carrying naginata, they were kicked out of the category of samurai swords.

Later, the naginata gradually evolved into an exclusive weapon for samurai women, such as the naginata of rice light that X-God game players are familiar with. Of course, everyone should prefer the milky knife in the original CV of Thor.

In addition, the katana and the katana are actually the same kind of sword. It is basically difficult to distinguish them just from the length and shape. They can only be distinguished by the position of the inscription on the blade and the scabbard. When worn, the katana is the one with the blade facing down, and the katana is the one with the blade facing up.

The reason why the samurai sword is called a cultural product is that it is not a serious battlefield weapon in itself, just like the Western sword and the big sword in the martial arts world, or even far inferior.

After all, the Western rapier and the big sword at least have the attribute of breaking armor. If they can't cut, they can be used to stab people, while the samurai sword has a worrying toughness due to its extreme pursuit of sharpness.

Plate armor is definitely not cut, and there is no way to use the lined chain mail. If you want to use it to stab people, it is very easy to break because of the curvature and brittle characteristics of the blade.

Therefore, there is also a small knife that was popular in the Muromachi period in the Japanese short sword, which is called Kaitong. As the name suggests, it is a special armor-breaking knife. In order to ensure the armor-breaking strength, the blade of this knife will be made very thick.

In summary, in addition to strengthening the hardness of the blade through local quenching technology to make it sharp enough to bully unarmed civilians, the samurai sword is more often worn as a symbol of status. The literati of the Song Dynasty even regarded it as a thing to ward off evil spirits and played with it.

And the so-called "sword saints" who rose from village fights in Japanese history were not the best at samurai swords, but were good at using spears and muskets.

The sword saint of the Ashina school who was good at the New Year's greeting sword technique "One Word Slash" in a certain game liked to hide a cross gun and a musket that could fire continuously in his crotch. This kind of thing really has its prototype in history.

After a famous "monkey" in Japanese history, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, issued the "Sword Hunting Order" aimed at separating farmers and soldiers, the two classes of samurai and common people were completely solidified, and samurai swords could only be worn by samurai from then on.

Considering that the Yakuza evolved from the declining wild samurai, it is reasonable that Richie likes to play with samurai swords.

Because of the time constraints, Jack didn't have the chance to get a broadsword, tie a piece of red silk on the handle and perform the "Eight Blades" to let the Yakuza experience the fear his ancestors had experienced.

However, the physics holy sword in his hand, which was "carefully crafted" by modern technology, was actually not bad. The octagonal stick body was made of T10A carbon tool steel, and the whole body had been subjected to high-temperature quenching, with a hardness between HRC60 and 64.

The most important thing was that Jack deliberately chose an imported product, and the label clearly said "Made in China".

"Who are you?" Perhaps because the other party was not an oriental face, the Japanese didn't completely anger Richie. He stared at Jack with his eyes fixed, holding the samurai sword in his hand upright on one side of his chest.

"Hey, aren't you going to say something? For example, the enemy is embarrassed, I'll take off her clothes, etc." Jack didn't answer his question at all, but he had played the "Musou" series after all, and had some impression of the single-player mode of "Ichikitao".

"Eh?" Richie's ferocious expression froze slightly. He didn't understand this old joke that only Chinese gamers could understand. It took him a long time to react, "You can speak Japanese? I'll say this after I take you down."

The other party had a gun and could defeat all of his dozen subordinates. Richie knew that he could not escape today. His only hope was to take down the foreigner who spoke incomprehensibly.

"Ah!"

With a roar, Richie raised his samurai sword with both hands and chopped it down diagonally, using an extremely fierce cassock slash.

"Ding" a crisp metal collision sounded, Jack turned the crowbar in his hand, held the curved end and attacked, hitting a beautiful rebound.

Richie took three steps back, and looked at the samurai sword in his hand. There was a gap as thick as a little finger at the blade.

Jack let out a sigh and thought to himself that he had made a mistake. Just by looking at the old scabbard, he thought that this knife was the so-called "treasure sword" passed down from Richie's ancestors, but it turned out to be a modern Japanese sword.

If it was a thin iron bar forged by hand, it would have broken directly with that blow just now.

The blade forged by modern technology using machines is much tougher. Although the edge was cracked, the blade is still tough and it actually withstood the blow.

"Go on." Jack waved at Richie. Now his perception and nerve reaction are far superior to ordinary people, and he doesn't mind the other party taking the initiative.

As the saying goes, "All martial arts in the world are invincible, except for speed. Those who win with strength will lose their strength, and those who win with strength will perish." Although this sentence is a movie line, it was said by the villain "Fire Cloud Evil God", but You can also look at it dialectically.

Whether it is martial arts moves or fighting skills, it is through thousands of repeated exercises to form muscle memory and achieve a fast word.

Either use tricks to attract the opponent's attention, or directly attack quickly, the purpose is to find a way to break the enemy's block and get to the vital point.

Ritchie chose the latter. The Japanese samurai yelled and yelled during the fight. It seemed that he was using his momentum to get the upper hand, but in fact, he also paid attention to the word "quick" when taking action. The most typical one is the so-called drawing of the sword. This technique is, to put it bluntly, a sneak attack.

I saw him shouting loudly again and performing a set of twelve Iai moves. The sword was fierce and the wind was whistling. A series of dazzling hand thrusts, three-way cuts, face-faced moves, added hand thrusts, and four-way thrusts. cut.

Jack held the crowbar in one hand and stared firmly into the opponent's eyes, blocking, blocking, intercepting or shooting, without giving an inch.

"Ding Ding Dangdang" rang for a while, and the continuous bounce back to the iron sound made people have the illusion of the blacksmith's shop. When Ricci returned to the original position, the hands holding the knife as if the trembling of Parkinson patients could not stop trembling. .

Looking at the katana in his hand, the originally radiant blade was now covered with countless large and small gaps, and it had turned into a tattered saw blade.

If Hannah were here at this time, she would be so excited that she couldn't stop screaming. "Sekiro" is her favorite iron-forging fighting game. If she saw Jack reenacting this scene in reality, she would definitely Will love him to death.

"Bagaya"

"Ba, your sister!" Jack, who was tired of playing with him, used the crowbar to break the broken iron bar in his hand, and kicked him out with his foot.

With a "clang", half of the handle of the knife fell out of his hand, and Richie spurted out a mouthful of blood. He struggled to get up and roared, "British and American devils!"

Seeing him tearing off his suit jacket and the silk flowered shirt underneath, looking like he refused to give up, Jack smiled and threw away the crowbar in his hand, and got into a boxing stance.

"Come on, I'll beat you until you are convinced today."

"Yeah!" Richie was overjoyed when he saw that Jack actually threw away the crowbar. He picked up a wooden chair and smashed it down on him.

"Crack!"

"Bang!"

Jack directly copied God Ma Dongxi's favorite one-punch Superman style. He bowed slightly and stepped forward, swung his right fist violently, and after smashing the chair, the strength did not decrease but increased, deeply imprinting on his memory. Richie's chest.

Richie flew backwards, his back hit the edge of the bar counter hard, making a crisp crunching sound, and there was no movement immediately.