Chapter 887 Crime City (Twenty-Two)
Katana swords are one of the few literary products in Japan that actually have some 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 product, and wrote many famous poems to praise the exquisite workmanship and high value of Japanese swords, such as "Japanese Sword Song" by Ouyang Xiu.
Katana swords are classified according to their shape and length, and are roughly divided into tachi, katana, wakizashi, and kaiken (also known as short swords, specially used for dissection). In addition, there is a separate type of naginata, also called eyebrow. knife.
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, samurai were banned from carrying naginata, so they were kicked out of the circle of katana swords. category.
After that, the naginata gradually evolved into an exclusive weapon for women of the samurai family, such as the Naginata no Inamitsu that is familiar to X God game players. Of course, what everyone likes more is the milky sword in the original Thor CV.
In addition, the tachi and the dagger are actually the same kind of sword. It is basically difficult to distinguish them based on their length and shape. They can only be distinguished by the position of the inscription on the blade and the scabbard. When worn, the tachi is the one with the blade facing down. The one with the blade facing upward is a fighting knife.
The reason why the katana is called a literary product is because it is not a serious battlefield weapon in itself. It is just like the Western sword and the big sword in martial arts, and it is even far inferior. .
After all, Western stabbing swords and large swords at least have armor-piercing properties. They can still be used to stab people if they cannot cut. However, the katana sword has poor toughness due to its extreme pursuit of sharpness.
Plate armor cannot be cut, and there is nothing you can do with lined chain mail. If you want to use it to stab someone, it will break easily because of the curvature and brittleness of the blade.
Therefore, among Japanese short swords, there is also a kind of small knife that was popular in the Muromachi period, called Kaitong. As the name suggests, it is a specialized armor-piercing knife. In order to ensure the strength of armor-piercing, the blade of this kind of knife will be very made. thick.
To sum up, in addition to strengthening the hardness of the blade through the partial quenching process to make it sharp enough to bully unarmed civilians, the samurai sword was also worn as a status symbol. The literati of the Song Dynasty even Play with it as a ward off evil spirits.
As for the so-called "Sword Masters" who emerged from village fighting in Japanese history, what they were best at was not samurai swords. Instead, they were all good at playing with spears and firecrackers.
In a certain game, the swordsman Wei Ming, who is good at using the "one-word slash" sword technique to pay New Year's greetings, likes to hide a cross gun and a repeating fire gun in his crotch. This is true in history. Its prototype.
After Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a famous "monkey" in Japanese history, promulgated the "Sword Hunting Order" aimed at separating peasants and soldiers, the two classes of samurai and common people were completely solidified, and the katana sword was only used from then on. Can be worn by warriors.
Considering that Yakuza evolved from the declining wild samurai, it makes sense that Richie likes to play with katana swords.
Due to the rush of time, Jack did not have the opportunity to get a plain knife, and then tied a section of red silk on the handle to make a section of "Eight Breaking Blades" to let this Yakuza experience the fear that his ancestors had experienced.
However, the physics holy sword "carefully crafted" in his hand by modern technology is actually not bad at all. The octagonal stick body is made of T10A carbon tool steel. The entire body has been quenched at high temperatures, and the hardness is Between HRC60~64.
The most important thing is that Jack specially selected a handful of imported goods, with "Made in China" clearly written on the label.
"Who are you?" Perhaps because the other person did not have an oriental face, the sentence "Japanese" did not completely anger Richie. He stared at Jack with his eyes fixed on Jack, and the katana in his hand was raised and held in front of his chest. one side.
"Hey, don't you want to say something? For example, if the enemy is embarrassed, I'll take off her clothes or something like that." Jack didn't answer his question at all, but he had played the "Wushuang" series after all. The duel mode is somewhat impressive.
“Eh?” Richie’s ferocious expression froze slightly. He didn’t understand this old joke that only Chinese gamers can understand. It took him a long time to react, “You can also speak Japanese? This sentence I’ll tell you after I capture you.”
The other party can kill all of his more than a dozen subordinates even if they don’t have a gun. Richie knows that he cannot survive today, and his only hope is to capture him. This foreigner speaks incomprehensibly.
“Ah!”
With a roar, Richie raised his katana with both hands and slashed down diagonally, using an extremely vicious cassock chop.
There was a crisp metal collision sound. Jack turned the crowbar in his hand, held the curved end of the pry bar and hit it upwards, making a beautiful bounce.
Richie took three steps back in a row and looked sideways at the katana in his hand. There was a gap as small as the thickness of his little finger on the blade. Jack let out a light sigh, secretly thinking that he had made a mistake. Just looking at the ancient scabbard, he thought that the sword was the so-called "treasure sword" inherited from Richie's ancestors, but it turned out that it was a Japanese sword with modern craftsmanship.
If it were a purely hand-forged thin iron bar, it would probably have broken immediately just now.
The blade forged by machines using modern technology is much tougher. Although the edge is cracked, the blade is still tough and can withstand the blow.
"Go on." Jack waved to Richie. Now, both his perception and neurological reaction were far superior to ordinary people, and he didn't mind at all if the other party struck first.
As the saying goes, "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 is still "Fire Cloud Evil God" This villain said it, but it can also be viewed 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.
Richie chose the latter. The Japanese samurai yelled and yelled when fighting. It seemed that he was using his momentum to get the upper hand, but in fact, he also paid attention to the word "quick" in his attacks. The typical one is the so-called sword drawing technique, which 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 sharp and the wind was whistling. A series of dazzling hand thrusts, three-way cuts, face-faced moves, additional hand thrusts, and four-way thrusts were launched. 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, and the continuous bounce back to the iron sound made people have the illusion of the blacksmith shop. When Rich returned to the original position again, the hands holding the knife seemed to be Parkinson's patient. Generally unstoppable trembling.
Looking at the katana in his hand, the originally radiant blade was now covered with countless large and small gaps, and it had become a tattered saw blade.
If Hannah were here at this time, I am afraid she would be so excited that she could not stop screaming. "Sekiro" is her favorite blacksmith fighting game. If she saw Jack come back to reality in person, I will definitely love him to death if I remember this scene.
"Bagaya"
"Bagaya!" Jack, who was tired of playing, 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 was taken off his hand, and Richie spurted out a mouthful of blood. He struggled to get up and roared, "British and American devils!"
I saw him tear it off three times. Wearing a suit jacket and a silk floral shirt underneath, looking like he was unwilling to give up, Jack smiled and threw away the crowbar in his hand, and got into a boxing stance.
“Comeon, I’ll beat you until you’re convinced today.”
"Yeah!" Richie was overjoyed when he saw that Jack had thrown away the crowbar. He picked up a wooden chair and smashed it down on him.
“Crack!”
“Bang!”
Jack directly reproduced God Ma Dongxi’s favorite one-punch Superman style, bowing slightly and kneeling He stepped forward and swung out his right fist fiercely. After smashing the chair, the force did not decrease but increased, and it was deeply imprinted on Richie's chest.
Richie flew backwards, his back hit the edge of the bar counter hard, making a crisp crunching sound, and suddenly there was no movement.
(End of this chapter)