Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 461 California Qingguang
As the knife was pulled out of the scabbard, more signs of damage appeared in front of Liang En and the three of them. Obviously, the owner of this knife had experienced a fierce battle.

And when the whole knife was pulled out, Liang En found that his previous deduction was wrong, and the knife now seemed to have no repair value at all.

Because the tip of the knife was completely broken, it seemed that it must have accidentally slashed against a hard object while chopping, causing the front half of the knife to be broken directly.

Combined with the scratches on the knife, the knife should have been destroyed in a fierce battle, which is a very common condition for any knife used in actual combat.

In theory, when fighting with these knives, you should attack the unprotected part of the enemy as much as possible, so as to ensure the durability of the knives on the battlefield.

But this is only the most ideal state. After all, people do many actions subconsciously in fierce battles, so sometimes head-to-head encounters are almost impossible to avoid.

Use those knives to chop the opponent's weapons or armor, which are hard things, and it is easy to break them directly on the battlefield. This is why soldiers on the battlefield will carry several weapons as long as they have the conditions.

Now this knife was obviously one of the countless weapons that were damaged in the battle, but Liang En didn't know why Mr. Kimura wanted to keep this apparently damaged waste knife.

After careful inspection, Liang En found that the knife was a Japanese sword, but it was longer than a traditional sword. If the tip of the knife was not broken, it would be roughly equivalent to the traditional Japanese size of two feet and four inches.

After dismantling the wood on the handle, Liang En found that the two Chinese characters Qingguang were engraved on the handle, and these two Chinese characters combined with the size and condition of the knife made him immediately think of something.

And in the next moment, the five newly acquired cards made him understand that his guess was correct, this broken knife was the broken California Qingguang in the Iked House Change.

To be honest, the quality of this Japanese sword that has left its name in history can only be said to be average, at least it does not match its reputation. At the same time, the too long blade makes this knife not so smooth to use.

However, because the user was Okita Souji who was very popular in the late shogunate period, and the battle was also famous in history, so this knife can not be overwhelmed by the long river of history.

Okita Souji, the leader of the Shinsengumi [-]st Division of the pro-shogunate ronin armed group at the end of the shogunate, is recognized today as the number one swordsman of the Shinsengumi.

The end of the Shogunate in Japan was a very chaotic era. For this reason, in the second year of Bunkyu, that is, when Tokugawa Iemo, the Edo shogunate general, went to Beijing in 1862, Hachiro Kiyokawa proposed to recruit rogues to form a general guard, which was adopted by the shogunate.The Edo shogunate adopted a gentle policy to control ronin, and specially organized the ronin group.

In March of the following year, Isamu Kondo, Serizawa Kamo and others established the predecessor of the Shinsengumi, the "Mibu Roshigumi" (also known as the "Jingzhong Roshigumi"). Since then, the Shinsengumi has been called "Mibu Wolf".They recruited new members in Mibu Village and formed a team of 3 people.

This team was later appointed by the guardian of Kyoto, Matsudaira, to maintain law and order in Kyoto and deal with the rogues of the shogunate faction. On August [-] of the same year, the coup took place. Group"

In the next few years, this organization participated in a series of events in the last years of the shogunate, including the Ikedaya incident, the Meibaoyeti incident, the forbidden gate incident, the assassination of Sakamoto Ryoma, the oil Koji incident and a series of incidents.

Until 1868 AD, when the Battle of Fushimi Toba broke out, the shogunate suffered a disastrous defeat. In the following series of battles, the shogunate retreated steadily.In September of that year, the Emperor of Japan changed his reign to Meiji, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate era.

With the surrender of the last head of the Shinsengumi, Mr. Soma, and the other members of the Shinsengumi, this organization in the last years of the Shogunate also came to an end. Nearly a year ago, Director Okita had suffered from tuberculosis. died.

The sword now appearing in Liang En's hands is the samurai sword used by Mr. Okita in the Ikedaya incident. I don't know where this Mr. Kimura found this sword.

According to historical records, there were about 30 to [-] people in the Ikeda house at that time, mainly from the vassals of the Changzhou domain, who tried to kidnap the emperor, assassinate Prince Nakagawa and the guardian of Kyoto, Matsudaira Yoboun, and set fire to the city.

Considering the last point, the Shinsengumi at that time should be regarded as preventing a terrorist attack. After all, judging from the traditional Japanese architecture and the dense buildings in Kyoto at that time, once it was set on fire, it would definitely have catastrophic consequences.

In this battle.Isamu Kondo and Souji Okita and their group of ten rushed directly into the Ikeda House where there were two No. 30 rogues inside.The result of the battle was that the Shinsengumi won overwhelmingly.

This result was caused by the fact that the members of the Shinsengumi who entered the Ikeda House at that time were indeed masters of swordsmanship, and the chain mail they wore also gave them a great advantage.

After all, the Japanese samurai who lived at the end of the Edo period were more inclined to small-scale daily fights after nearly 400 years of peace, so they were accustomed to using swords, and the swords that mainly slashed were used when facing opponents wearing armor. Undoubtedly at a disadvantage.

Unlike the armor in movies or most games that feels like paper, real armor, even hardened leather armor, can bring great advantages to the user in battle.

Therefore, in the Ikedaya battle, the Shinsengumi side had advantages in combat level and equipment, so they were able to win when they faced 2 to 3 times as many enemies.

Okita Souji demonstrated a very strong fighting level in this battle. He and Kondo Isamu took the lead in breaking through the layers of defense of the first floor Langshi and rushed to the second floor.

Then Isamu Kondo went downstairs to track down the escapees, and Souji Okita blocked and killed the few people upstairs in the battle, but he also passed out after killing the last enemy.

Although there is a saying in later generations that Okita Souji had tuberculosis, so at this time he was in a coma due to vomiting blood caused by tuberculosis, but according to the research of historians, this is just a fabrication by later generations.

That's right, Souji Okita did die of tuberculosis in the end, but it was several years later that his condition was serious. At least in the year of the Battle of Ikedaya, his condition was not so bad.

Especially judging from the subsequent records, the opponent has participated in many battles in this area, which does not seem to be something that a person with advanced tuberculosis who vomits blood can do.

Therefore, a more reasonable explanation should be that Okita itself is relatively weak, and it was already early summer when the Ikedaya incident occurred, so in this season, he squatted in armor for an afternoon, and then ran a 400-meter weight-bearing run, followed by Knock people on the first floor, go up to the second floor and continue to chop...

That's right now, if you ask a college student or code farmer who is not in good health to complete this set of movements, he might even kneel on the spot... Besides, Okita is a patient with lung problems.

And from the tip of this knife, you can also see the opponent's huge amount of activity. After all, even breaking the tip of the knife on a hard object requires a lot of strength.

(End of this chapter)