Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 120 Famous Sword - Osafune Black Dragon Maru
Xiang Chuan and this child, because of his background, have always been disobedient to Yuan Qin, and were given to Xiang Chuan's family as a political tool early on.

Kagawa Amiwa, who just came to Sanuki, is still that ambitious young man.Under He Shengcheng, he dared to fight head-on with Yuxiduo's army, which was as large in number as he was, but was severely educated by Yuxiduo's arrow rain in the end.

With the comeback of Yuanqin, Kagawa Kagawa wants to perform well in front of his father, so he does his best for Sanuki's strategy.

He built the main structure of Takamatsu Town and set up more beacon towers in the coastal area. These are the methods he came up with to prevent the second landing of the Xiu family after studying the Xiu family.

Even after hearing that Ukita was going to go to the island for the second time, he still had full confidence in his father. Changzong Gabu Yuanqin was his belief, and he believed that Yuanqin was invincible and invincible.

Back then, Changzong’s army, which had only 1.3 troops, was able to defeat the 3.2 Oda Army. General Oda Nobutaka boarded the ship and fled for his life. Now that the two sides have the advantage in numbers, there is no reason why we cannot win.

However, in the Battle of Ruyi Mountain, in order to effectively resist the rain of arrows from the Ukita family, he and Chang Zongwu gave advice and made hundreds of wooden dungeons in a short period of time. The cannon went.

Kagawa, who was in the second formation, witnessed the destruction of the Tosas with his own eyes. Only less than 2500 people escaped from the 800-strong reserve team.

Later, as the first army, he suffered the most severe beating. The Kagawa people, who only had more than 2000 people, were chased and beaten by more than 3 people from three reserve teams. I am afraid that he himself will be surrounded at the foot of Ruyi Mountain and cannot escape the fate of being captured or killed.

The most important thing was his father's defeat, as if the sky in his heart had collapsed. After seeing Yuxi's strong affinity, he became afraid of Yuxi's family.

After returning from the battlefield, Qin He couldn't sleep all day and all night, fearing that Yu Xi's family would come to besiege the city, until he heard the news that 99 Mountain City blocked Yu Xi's footsteps.

Unexpectedly, he hadn't slept well for a few days, and Yuxi's family was approaching the city. The fort on Mulberry Mountain could even bombard Takamaru Castle directly. The shell that landed beside him might be the medicine for his real relief. He simply smashed the can and threw it , Abandoning the soldiers in the city, fled back to Tosa.

At the beginning of the Kagawa Affinity period in history, they also tried to resist the attack of the Hashiba army, but after being defeated by the joint offensive of Hachisuka Masakatsu and Ukita Hideka, they fled back to Tosa without looking back, and finally incurred the scolding of Yuanqin .

After the death of Xinqin, Yuanqin also rushed over without considering that this son could succeed the family governor. At the same time, in order to ensure that Shengqin would succeed to the throne, and for the stability of Changzong's family, he became that unsightly stepping stone again, and was eventually taken over by his own father. A glass of poisoned wine was sent away in person.

Throughout his life, Kagawa Ami is pitiful and pathetic. He is just a child who lacks the love of his father and wants to behave better to win the attention of his idol father.

The sad thing is that this idol father has never seen his goodness, but he sneered at his failure, completely forgetting that he himself was defeated by Hideyoshi, and what is even more sad is that his life came from his father , went away because of his father, and was poisoned by his own idol himself.

The Hide family even had some pity for this child. Before they captured Takamaru, they had already considered what to do with him. They planned to transfer him to Ako 8000 shi, and at the same time restore the Miao character of Nagamune Gabu's family, so as to establish another clan, and Tosa Changzong and our department contended.

Who knew that this child was so afraid of the Xiu family, and after several rounds of shelling, he abandoned the city like in history.

With the escape of Kagawa Amiwa, the two counties of Sanye and Toyota could no longer organize effective resistance. Hideka captured Kannonji Castle on the 22nd and Fujime Castle on the 24th, and then divided into two groups, with Fujido Takatora leading the attack on the left Ben Xiaocheng led the attack on the right side of Daping and Shibicheng.

These two cities are the cities of the Taira family, the boss of the Kagawa family. After Ohira Kunisuke died in Ruyi Mountain, Ohira Kunihisa was captured by the Hideka in Takamaru Castle. The two gates on the Sanuki border were taken by the Hideka without bloodshed. .

Xiujia finally completed the attack on West Sanuki at the end of December, 11. When he returned to Tianwu City, Ukita’s family and Takayama’s family also completed their surrender to Zhong Sanuki. Come to Xiangxiu's family to join the battle.

Therefore, Xiujia chose to evaluate the battle of Sanuki in Tianwu City.

Yuxi's family took full control of Sanuki, and Xiu's family was in a good mood, ordering all the soldiers who participated in the battle to be rewarded with a piece of dried fish and two dishes of rice wine.And set up a banquet in Tianwu City to reward the generals.

Of course, before the banquet begins, the most important thing is to calm down after the war.

At this time, the Xiu family had already paid homage to the five major generals of the lower left guards, and they already belonged to the "Master of the Palace". In order to reflect the nobleness of the Xiu family, Hanfang Zheng fortunately brought a brand new red silk belted attire from Okayama.

The Xiu family wore this court-style robe and participated in the pacification. The 12-year-old Xiu family looked extraordinarily heroic against the backdrop of this dress. There was an attendant in front of him, and Zhuang Zhiqing, the personal servant of the Xiu family, was holding the favorite knife of the Xiu family. ——Changchuan Xinfa Changguang followed closely behind Xiujia.

The name of Changguang, the new method of long boats, is simple and rude. It is a hundred-fold sharp blade forged by Changguang, a famous craftsman of long boats, after the water conservancy forging machine was built.Through the use of water conservancy, the hundred-fold method, which was previously difficult to achieve by manpower, can be realized.

Bizen Osafune is one of the main sword-making factions of Japanese swords. It can even be said that most of the Japanese swords in later generations belong to Bizen swords.When it comes to the origin of this sword system, we have to mention the long boat school, which has produced a large number of outstanding blacksmiths in history.

The most famous one should be the favorite sword "Bizen long captain light" in the hands of Sasaki Kojiro, a famous swordsman in the Azuchi Momoyama era.

Since the length of this knife is very long, it is only a little shorter than the bamboo pole used to dry clothes on weekdays, and it cannot be carried on the waist, so it has to be carried on the back.

Since then, the length as one of the characteristics of the Bizen knife has been deeply implanted in people's minds, but you have to know that as the knife is elongated, the pressure per square meter it has to withstand is lower, and it will also be stronger when chopping. Easier to be cut off.

The longship faction itself has its own secrets to alleviate this situation. According to later studies, in addition to the high quality of Mizusa iron ore, they will also add a certain amount of copper, zinc, tin, tungsten, molybdenum and other metals to it. Forging, this may be the earliest artificial alloy in history.

Now with the emergence of water forging technology, the swordsmith can fold wrought iron more easily, making the fusion of different metals more fully. Through continuous folding and beating, the hardness of the knife is improved while maintaining a certain toughness, which is not easy to be chopped. broken.

More importantly, with the emergence of the water forging method, forging methods such as Jiafu forging and Bensanmai have been mass-produced, and the more difficult square forging has also been realized. This knife is made using the square forging method under the water forging method. new knife.

The above three forging methods, in simple terms, are no longer all-steel forging blades. Different parts will insert steel with different degrees of softness and hardness, so as to ensure that each part of the steel is balanced in force (I will post pictures).

Before the water forging method, it was very difficult to fuse steels of different densities together. It is already a very good swordsmith who can complete the Jiafu forging under the hand forging method, let alone the square forging.

In addition, the Bizen series also has a certain degree of attention to decoration, and the most famous one is the Bizen Osafune Kanemitsu forged by Kanemitsu.The sword forged by Mitsutada, the ancestor of the Bizen Osafune series, was donated to the Emperor in the Meiji era.

And Xiujia’s Bizen Shinfa Changguang is one of the most satisfying finished products forged by Master Nagamoto Nagamitsu using water forging technology.

Due to the application of special metal, the color of the full length blade itself is no longer the ordinary silver steel color, but black and yellow.

There are special patterns on the blade due to repeated forging, from the sword to the handle, like a black dragon, majestic and solemn.

The scabbard is decorated with a leather case made of sharkskin, on which is painted with gold leaf, depicting the scenery of Okayama, and gemstones are pasted on the colored parts as embellishments.

The handle and the handle of the knife have also been specially beautified. After Xiujia painted blue paint, he wrapped the handle with a white handle to create a blend of blue and white colors.

It can be said that this sword has completely broken away from the definition of a samurai sword at this moment, and has become a ceremonial sword that symbolizes the power of Ukidami and even the power of the world in the future.

In order to commemorate the application of water forging technology and Master Changguang's excellent technique, Xiujia specially named this knife "Xinfa Changguang".

But it has another more domineering name in the family, because of the unique lines on his knife, they think that Master Changguang sealed a black dragon on the knife to cast this indestructible sword, so it is called "long boat" by his retainers. Black Dragon Ball".

(End of this chapter)