Samurai of the Takeda Family

Shioka Kazuha is still holding it at this moment, taking a step forward on the right, bending his body like a big bow, holding the handle of the knife with both hands and swinging the knife upwards. Shigang Yiyu's gaze followed the tip of the knife, looking at the sky with flying snow powder, suddenly a touch of silence flashed in his eyes, and then he let out a long breath.

Shigang Yiyu stood still in place like this, and after a long time, he slowly retracted his gaze and saw that on his right shoulder, the remnant spear head was inserted into his shoulder, and the blood leaked out of the wound. Flowing little by little.

　　 Shioka Kazuma flicked his wrist and took the sword back into its scabbard, stood up straight again, dropped the katana in his hand into the snowdrift, and then sat directly in the snow with his knees folded.

　　 "I lost." Shioka Kazuha lowered his head and put his hands on his knees.

　　 After hearing Shioka Kazuha's words, Li Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, let go of his right hand, and gave up his plan to pull out his ribs from his waist and fight again. The samurai sword needs to be held with both hands. Shioka Kazuha cannot use his right shoulder. It is estimated that he will not be able to use such a fast swordsmanship in the next battle, so he gave in.

　　 "Accepting the concession, I will win a fluke, thank you for your advice." Li Xiao clasped his fists and shook his hands slightly in Chinese manners.

　　 Shioka Kazuha glanced at Li Xiao, and then pulled out his ribs from his waist, saying: "Since you are defeated, you must accept the fate of defeat. Please trouble you to be my fault."

After 　　 Shioka Kazuha finished speaking, he took out a piece of white silk from the inside of the clothes to wrap the blade of the ribs, then opened the clothes, revealing his abdomen. This posture is clearly to kill himself.

　　 "Wait." Li Xiao stopped.

Shigang Yiyu gave Li Xiao a sideways look, and said: "Suicide by cutting abdomen is the honor of a warrior, so you don't have to persuade me, forget it, anyway, you Ming people won't understand it." Li Xiao looked at Dao Shengmeng. At a glance, Shima Shengmeng shook his head, expressing that he could do nothing about this matter.

Shioka Kazuha looked straight ahead and said with a solemn attitude: "The reason why I committed suicide was not because I couldn't afford to lose, nor was it regret and humiliation. In the contest just now, I have tried my best, so I fulfilled my wish without any regrets. Death is an awareness of my own life, do you understand?"

　　 Is this the so-called samurai spirit in Japan?

At that time, the spirit of the so-called samurai had not been nurtured by the Edo shogunate, and there was a large-scale brainwashing of militarism after the Meiji era. However, the universal values ​​of the samurai in Japan at that time had begun to take shape. The spirit of the samurai at that time was in addition to the idea of ​​loyalty As a warrior, you must see through life and death, not afraid of death, not remembering death, not hesitating to die, and not caring about death.

　　 This is out of reaction to Confucianism. For example, Confucianism has something to say, the ruler has had a history, and the ministers do not listen to it, and then run away. But the spirit of the samurai is different. It is a cowardly act to run away from the eyes of the samurai. The same example, in the words of the samurai spirit, is that the ruler has had the experience, the ministers do not listen to the three remonstrances, and the ministers remonstrate with death.

　　 For example, Oda Nobunaga’s teacher Hirate Masahide, after persuading Oda Nobunaga to have no choice, he cut his belly to death.

　　 The death remonstrance of Masahide Hirate said that he had tried his best. Even if he continued to persuade him, it would not be possible to change Oda Nobunaga. Therefore, his responsibility has been fulfilled and he has no regrets in his death.

This point conflicts with Li Xiao’s concept. I remember that in the American series "Pacific Battlefield", when a large number of Japanese soldiers were desperate, they launched a wave of suicide group charges, and then they were shot by American soldiers with machine guns like a turkey. Suddenly.

　　 Just when Shioka Kazuha was about to cut his belly, Li Xiao raised his ribs and stopped his self-judgment.

　　 Li Xiao asked slowly, "I would like to ask Mr. Shioka Kazuha, what is the purpose of your life in learning swords and competing with others? Is it to learn how to use swords to kill people and to study the skills of how to kill?"

Hearing what Li Xiao said, Shigang Yiyu was immediately angry and said loudly, "Of course not. The sword is a murder weapon, and the sword is a method of murder. I never deny that, but the process of learning the sword lies in the heart Refinement, and the ultimate goal is to pass the sword to heaven and human beings. This is the true pursuit of every warrior in learning the sword."

Li Xiao shook his head after hearing this, and said: "In that case, I am very disappointed in you. Before you cut your belly, please ask yourself whether your heart has been refined enough, or you have already reached the way of connecting heaven and man with the sword. Realm?"

　　 Shioka Kazuha was taken aback for a moment, and then he sighed and said, "No, because I have already lost the road of kendo, so I left my unfinished kendo to you to complete."

Damn, Li Xiao cursed from the bottom of his heart, as if in a novel I read before, after 40 years later, in the duel of Yanlijima, after Miyamoto Musashi defeated Sasaki Kojiro, Sasaki Kojiro also told Miyamoto Musashi before his death. .

　　 Please come, please, so that the two are not rivals in a life-and-death duel, but rather like a pair of friends.

"Wrong," Li Xiao yelled and preached loudly, "I can only accomplish my unfinished business by myself. There is no reason to leave it to others. I am from Mingguo, and I don’t know the truth of you Japanese, but We know what is not forgiveness, what is failure is success, oh no, yes... Success is always conceived in failure. If because of a failure, UU reading www.uukanshu.com will give up. The pursuit of kendo, while looking for death to escape, on the contrary, this is even more cowardly, irresponsible for one's own pursuit."

　　 "Failure is success fucking?" Shioka Kazuha couldn't help chewing these words repeatedly.

"It's not that failure is the **** success, but success is always conceived in failure." Li Xiao yelled to correct Shioka Kazuha. He was very painstaking, using his own experience of picking up girls to teach Shioka Kazuha, thinking How unforgiving it was when I chased girls by myself before, what a small setback is.

　　 Didn't it mean that kendo can lead to humanity? Li Xiao can also use humanity to lead kendo.

After hearing what Li Xiao said, Shigang Yiyu thought for a long time, and finally seemed to have made a decision. His eyes let out a strange light, he stood up firmly, reorganized his clothes, and drew the spear head on his shoulders. The white silk cloth wrapped around the ribbed blade bandaged the wound. "Master Li Xiao, you are right. As a samurai, you should not have short-sightedness, and you shouldn't give up lightly before the goal is reached." Shioka Kazuha said lightly, as if the self-confidence that disappeared just now seemed to disappear. He was back on him again.

"Well, very good, Master Shigang, how do you pursue Kendo next? The road to pursuing Kendo alone is lonely, and there is no one to support it. It is better to go together with everyone. Anyway, everyone has the same pursuit, right? "Well, Li Xiao just said so generous and upright words, and at this moment he finally revealed the fox's tail.

　　 Shioka Kazuha was taken aback, turned his head to look at Li Xiao. Li Xiao nodded to him with an affirmative expression.

　　 Promise me, Li Xiao's eyes revealed these four words.

　　 Shioka Kazuha smiled slightly, nodded and said: "Okay, I will ask Master Li Xiao for your care in the future."