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

They regarded the ornate 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 "Song of the Japanese Sword".

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

The handle of a naginata alone is between one and two meters long, and the blade is between 30 and 60 centimeters long. In the Edo period, samurai were prohibited from carrying naginata, so it was kicked out of the category of samurai swords.

Afterwards, the naginata gradually evolved into an exclusive weapon for female samurai, such as the Naginata of Inahi that all X-God game players are familiar with. Of course, what everyone likes more should be the milky sword in the original CV of Thor.

In addition, the tachi and katana are actually the same kind of sword. It is basically difficult to distinguish them based on their length and shape alone. They can only be distinguished by the position of the inscription on the blade and the scabbard. The tachi has the blade facing down when worn, and the tachi has 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 a rapier or the big sword in the martial arts world, or even far inferior.

After all, the rapier and the big sword at least have the property of penetrating armor, so if they can't cut people, they can be used to stab people, while the samurai sword has questionable toughness due to its extreme pursuit of sharpness.

It is definitely impossible to cut through plate armor, and there is no way to cut through chain mail with lining. If you want to use it to stab people, it will break very easily due to the curvature and brittle nature of the blade.

Therefore, among Japanese short swords, there is also a kind of small sword that was once popular in the Muromachi period. It is called Kaitsu. As the name suggests, it is a special armor-piercing sword. In order to ensure the armor-piercing strength, the blade of this sword is made very thick.

To sum up, in addition to strengthening the hardness of the blade through local quenching process to make it sharp enough to bully unarmed civilians, the samurai sword was mostly worn as a symbol of status. Literati in the Song Dynasty even regarded it as a talisman to ward off evil spirits and played with it.

The so-called "sword masters" in Japanese history who rose from village fights were not best at using samurai swords, but were instead very skilled at using spears and muskets.

In a certain game, the swordsman of the Ashina school who is good at using the New Year's greeting sword technique "Ichi-Zhan" likes to hide a cross spear and a rapid-fire musket in his crotch. This kind of thing actually has a prototype in history.

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

Considering that the Yakuza evolved from fallen wild samurai, it makes sense that Richie likes to play with the samurai sword.

Because of the time constraints, Jack had no chance to get a broadsword and tie a piece of red silk on the handle to perform the "Eight Blade Breaking Skills" to let the Yakuza experience the fear that his ancestors had experienced.

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

The most important thing is that Jack specifically picked out a handful of imported goods, with the label clearly stating “Made in China”.

"Who are you?" Perhaps because the other person did not have an oriental face, the word "Japanese" did not completely anger Richie. He stared at Jack, holding the samurai sword in his hand upright and holding it on the side of his chest.

"Hey, aren't you going to say something? Like, the enemy is embarrassed and I'm going to take off her clothes." Jack didn't answer his question at all, but he had played the "Dynasty Warriors" series after all, so he had some impression of the one-on-one mode of "Ikki Tou".

"Eh?" Richie's ferocious expression froze for a moment. 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 tell you this after I take you down."

The other side had guns but could still defeat all of his dozen men. Richie knew that he could not escape today. His only hope was to capture the foreigner in front of him who was speaking incomprehensible words.

"what!"

With a roar, Richie raised the samurai sword with both hands and slashed down diagonally, performing an extremely fierce cassock slash.

A crisp metallic collision sound was heard, and Jack turned the crowbar in his hand, holding the curved end to attack forward, creating a beautiful rebound.

Richie took three steps back and looked sideways at the samurai sword in his hand. He saw that there was a gap as thick as his little finger on the blade.

Jack let out a light exclamation and thought to himself that he had made a mistake. Just 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 that the knife inside was a Japanese sword made with modern technology.

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

The blade forged by machines using modern technology is much tougher. Although the cutting edge was cracked, the blade was still tough enough to withstand the blow.

"Go on." Jack waved at Richie. His perception and nerve reaction were now far beyond that of ordinary people. He didn't mind at all that the other party took the first step.

As the saying goes, "There is no martial arts in the world that is invincible except speed. He who wins by momentum will lose his momentum, and he who wins by force will perish when his strength is exhausted." Although this is a line from a movie and was said by the villain "Fire Cloud Evil God", it can also be viewed dialectically.

No matter whether it is martial arts moves or fighting techniques, they are achieved through thousands of repeated practices to form muscle memory and achieve the word "fast".

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

Richie chose the latter. When Japanese samurai fight, they shout loudly and their noisy behavior seems to be an attempt to gain the upper hand with momentum, but in reality, speed is also important. The most typical example is the so-called sword-drawing technique, which is actually a sneak attack.

He just shouted again and performed a set of Twelve Iai Styles. The sword light was sharp, the sword wind was whistling, and he quickly performed a dazzling series of hand thrusts, three-way cuts, face-locks, additional hand thrusts, and four-way cuts.

Jack held the crowbar in one hand, staring into the other's eyes, blocking, intercepting, and hitting, refusing to give an inch.

There was a chaotic sound of "ding ding dang dang", and the continuous sound of iron hitting made people feel like they were in a blacksmith shop. When Richie returned to his original position again, his hands holding the knife could not stop shaking like a Parkinson's patient.

Looking at the samurai sword in his hand, the blade that originally shone with cold light was now covered with countless large and small gaps, and had become a broken saw blade.

If Hannah was present at this time, she would probably be so excited that she couldn't stop screaming. "Sekiro" is her favorite blacksmith fighting game. If she saw Jack recreate this scene in reality with her own eyes, she would definitely love him to death.

"Bagaya"

"Fuck you!" Jack, who was tired of playing, broke the broken iron bar in his hand with a crowbar and kicked him out.

With a clang, half of the knife handle fell out of his hand. Richie spat out a mouthful of blood and struggled to get up, roaring, "British and American beasts!"

Seeing him tear off his suit jacket and the silk floral shirt underneath in a few moves, with a look of unwillingness to give up, Jack smiled and threw away the crowbar in his hand, and assumed a boxing stance.

"Come on, I'll beat you up today."

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

"Crack!"

"Oh!"

Jack directly copied the One Punch Man style that God Ma Dong-seok loved the most. He bent slightly and knelt forward, then swung out with his right fist. After smashing the chair, the force increased instead of decreased, and it was deeply imprinted on Richie's chest.

Richie flew backwards, his back hitting the edge of the bar counter with a crisp cracking sound, and then he stopped moving.