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As the knife was pulled out of the scabbard, more signs of damage appeared in front of Liang En and the three of them. It was obvious that the owner of the knife had experienced a fierce battle.

When the entire knife was pulled out, Liang En found that his previous inference was wrong. The knife now seemed to have no repair value at all.

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

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

Theoretically speaking, when fighting with these knives, you should attack the unprotected parts of the enemy as much as possible, so as to ensure the durability of the knife on the battlefield.

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

If you use those knives to chop the opponent's weapons or armor and other hard things, it will be easy to break directly on the battlefield if there are too many. This is why warriors on the battlefield will bring several weapons as long as they have the conditions.

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

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

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

And in the next moment, the five newly obtained cards made him realize that his guess was correct. This broken sword was the broken California Kiyomiru in the Ikedaya Incident.

To be honest, the quality of this Japanese sword that left its name in history can only be said to be average, at least not in line with its reputation. At the same time, the too long blade also makes this knife not so easy 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, this sword was able to avoid being submerged in the long river of history.

Okita Souji, captain of the Shinsengumi First Division, a pro-shogunate ronin armed group at the end of the shogunate, is recognized today as the number one master of the Shinsengumi swordsmanship.

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

In March of the following year, Kondo Isamu, Serizawa Kamo and others established the Shinsengumi's predecessor, the "Mibu Roshi-gumi" (also known as the "Seitada Roshi-gumi"). From then on, the Shinsengumi was also known as the "Mibu Rōshi-gumi". They recruited new members in Rensheng Village and formed a team of 36 people.

This team was later assigned by the guardian of Kyoto, Matsudaira Yoshiho, to maintain law and order in Kyoto and deal with the rogues who overthrew the shogunate. On August 18 of the same year, a coup occurred. The Mibu rōshi group assisted the shogunate and was named "New Selection" by the court. Group"

In the following years, this organization participated in a series of events at the end of the shogunate, including the Ikedaya Incident, the Meibo Yatei Incident, the Forbidden Gate Incident, the assassination of Sakamoto Ryoma, the Aburokoji Incident and a series of other incidents.

It was not until 1868 AD that the Battle of Fushimi Toba broke out, and the shogunate's side suffered a disastrous defeat. In the following series of battles, the shogunate's side retreated steadily. In September of that year, the Emperor of Japan changed his reign to Meiji, marking the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate era.

And with the surrender of the last Shinsengumi chief, Chief Souma, and the other members of the Shinsengumi, this influential organization in the last years of the shogunate also came to an end. Nearly a year ago, General Okita had already died of tuberculosis. died.

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

According to historical records, there were about twenty or thirty people in Ikeda House at that time, mainly feudal lords from the Choshu Domain. They tried to kidnap the emperor, assassinate Prince Nakagawa Palace and Kyoto Guardian Matsudaira Yōen, and set fire to the city.

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

During this battle. Kondo Isamu, Okita Souji and a group of ten people rushed directly into Ikeda's house where there were twenty or thirty rogues inside. The result of the battle was a one-sided victory for the Shinsengumi.

What caused this result was that in addition to the fact that the Shinsengumi members who entered Ikedaya were all masters of swordsmanship, the fact that they wore chainmail 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 katana. However, katana, which mainly focuses on chopping, is not suitable for opponents wearing armor. There is no doubt that you will be at a disadvantage.

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

Therefore, in the battle at Ikedaya, the Shinsengumi side had advantages in combat level and equipment, so they were able to win against 2 to 3 times the number of enemies.

Okita Souji showed a very strong fighting ability in this battle. He and Kondo Isamu took the lead in breaking through the layers of defense of the Ronshi on the first floor and rushed to the second floor.

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

Although the theory passed down by later generations is that Okita Souji had tuberculosis, so at this time he vomited blood due to a tuberculosis attack and fell into a coma, but according to the research of historians, this is just a fabrication by later generations.

Yes, Okita Souji did die of tuberculosis in the end, but it was several years later when his condition became serious. At least in the year of the Battle of Ikedaya, his condition was not that bad.

Especially judging from the subsequent records, the other party has participated in many battles in this area. It does not seem like something that a person in the late stage of tuberculosis who vomits blood can do.

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

This is just now, if you ask a college student or programmer who is in poor health to complete this set of actions, he may kneel on the spot... Besides, Okita is also a patient with lung problems.

The opponent's huge amount of activity can also be seen from the tip of this knife. After all, even breaking the tip of the knife on a hard object requires a lot of strength. This also shows the physical exertion of Okita Souji from the side.