As one of the most popular practices of the Japanese people around the world, seppuku has almost become synonymous with "failure" or "punishment". Originally, seppuku was a criminal law that was only allowed to be used by the samurai class. Farmers, craftsmen, and businessmen were not allowed to use this "honor death".

Seppuku was first born at the end of the Heian period. In 1156, after losing a battle against the Taira clan and his brother Minamoto Yoshitomo, Minamoto was exiled to Izu Oshima, he was exterminated when he rebelled against the Imperial Court again, and he himself "invented" the form of seppuku for the first time when he committed suicide. After his defeat, he picked out his intestines with a knife and wanted to throw them in the face.

The seppuku method of death is actually quite painful. Seppuku is actually the dissection of the belly. Due to the thick fat in the abdomen, the depth of the wound is about 5 to 10 centimeters, and then the horizontal incision is about 12 to 20 centimeters. After these two basic movements, the blood loss is about 200 ml, which is not as much as our modern blood donation at one time!

Even if you add a lift and make a cross, you won't die at that time. After completing these basic steps, the seppuku begins to lose blood incessantly, enduring the pain of cutting open the belly and injuring internal organs. Therefore, the actual result of seppuku suicide is due to the debilitation caused by excessive blood loss and eventually death, and the process will be very long.

The longest recorded seppuku death is recorded in 1793 by Hikokuro Takayama, who had seppuku at 2 p.m. the day before and hung up at 9 a.m. the next day, lasting 19 hours.

For this reason, after seppuku, samurai sometimes stood on the ground and threw themselves on the sword, piercing the heart. There is also the practice of pulling the knife out of the abdomen and inserting it into one's neck. It is worth mentioning that in a "perfect" seppuku, the samurai had to make a cross in his abdomen, which required three movements to complete, and the pain he suffered can be seen. Therefore, the seppuku person behaves in everything, crying, screaming, rolling on the ground, incontinence...... The whole nine yards!

Later, as seppuku became ritualized, it was common for a "seppuku" to stand behind the seppuku and cut off his head after the samurai had cut open his abdomen. In the Edo period, the so-called "fan belly" was even introduced, in which the fan was used as a short knife, and the person who made the seppuku only had to hold the fan in his hand to make a seppuku in the abdomen, and the person who was on the side would cut off his head. Therefore, the person who seppuku actually died at the hands of the wrong person, and it has nothing to do with seppuku!

Don't underestimate the wrong person, the wrong person is not to chop the person with a machete, the operation of the general person is like this: watch the seppuku person cut himself, and then watch the seppuku person endure the pain and pretend to be forced, once the seppuku can't stand it, when the head is lowered, follow the exposed position, go down, and cut the head down the neck to nine-tenths is the most ideal, that is, cut off the head but still have to leave some skin, and can't separate the head from the body, which is called "holding the head". Those who have this skill are all people with excellent martial arts, at least they have quick eyes and hands and hearts like iron stones.

Liu Pei said: "Don't be in a hurry to thank me. As the wrong person, I can promise to cut off your head, but I can't do it to the point of holding your head. ”

Hisaka Kayama said, "It's okay! Just don't make me miserable for too long. May you also ask, what would you do with the captured samurai and ashigaru? ”

Liu Pei thought for a while and said, "I can allow the Shimazu family to redeem them." However, before being redeemed, both samurai and ashigaru had to do unpaid labor in exchange for their own food. ”

Hisaka Kayama sighed and said, "Please allow me to intercede for the samurai!" Don't let them do such a menial thing as servitude, please! ”

Liu Pei thought about it and nodded in agreement, saying, "Okay then." They can get certain preferential treatment. There weren't a few samurai left anyway. ”

Hearing this, Hisataka Kayama smiled bitterly and didn't say anything for those samurai. He bowed directly to Liu Pei and said, "It's been too much time!" Then the rest is up to you! ”

Liu Pei stood up, took the sword handed over by the warrior next to him respectfully, and said, "Then, goodbye!" ”

Hisakama didn't speak, just nodded. Then he pulled out the rib difference in front of him, and he paused with the rib in his hand and stabbed it violently in the abdomen! Maybe Kayama Hisaka was a strong person, maybe he didn't want to lose face in front of Liu Pei, he roared in a low voice and inserted the knife into the left side of his abdomen, and then pushed it hard to the right, cutting a hole! After that, Birshan, Hisataka gasped loudly! You can see that he is in great pain!

At this moment, Liu Pei held the knife with both hands and slashed down diagonally! With one sword, he cut off the head of Hisakama Hisadaka! The samurai beside him caught the flying head, and the headless body fell forward to the ground. Blood gushed out, staining the ground beneath the corpse.

After Kayama Kutaka seppuku, three of the four samurai around him seppuku followed one after another. Their intermediary is the samurai who hugged the head of Hisaka Hisaka, and it seems that his status is still quite high.

Liu Pei said to the last warrior, "What should you do? Need me help you? ”

The warrior bowed respectfully to Liu Pei and said, "I have a low status, so I don't dare to trouble my lord." After I send the ashes back to my family, my family will arrange for someone to help me make a mistake. ”

Liu Pei nodded and said, "Then forget it, let it be." ”

The warrior bowed to Liu Pei again and said, "Thank you very much, your lordship. ”

Liu Pei didn't bother to pay attention to him, and at this time, many family members had already escorted the captives back. Liu Pei left a personal soldier to help him, and asked him to arrange the cremation with a team of captured ashigaru.

In fact, it is not Liu Peizun who has been high for a long time. You must know that Liu Pei was born in modern times, and of course he remembers how terrible it was for Japan to inflict the catastrophe on China decades ago! This is something that no Chinese will ever forget. In addition, during this Ming Dynasty, the Japanese people were also eyeing China. Even Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the little monkey, actually said that he wanted to annex China and spend his old age in Hangzhou. So Liu Pei was born with no good impression of the Japanese people.

The reason why Liu Pei is willing to let Huashan Jiugao seppuku is mainly because he has a long-term plan for the Japanese state. In the Wa Kingdom, the samurai group had a great deal of voice. If Liu Pei doesn't even leave a little dignity to a person who is about to seppuku, it will leave a great hidden danger among the Japanese samurai group, which is not good for the future.

Another reason, and the most important reason, is that Liu Pei has never seen seppuku when he is so old, he wants to see it! And it's fun to be able to get involved!

arranged the affairs of Birch Mountain Jiugao, and then he went to dispatch the family members, gathered a team of firecrackers, and rushed to the dock under the leadership of Qi Qitao to accept the results. The sailors at the dock themselves were not strong in combat on land, and they were overly frightened by the burning of the ships. Then he was tormented by the black smoke of burning oil for a whole day, and his morale had dropped to freezing point.

And later, when the deserters who fled back cried about the defeat of the whole army, the sailors completely lost their fighting spirit! So when Qi Qitao appeared at the dock with 500 musketeers, these would-be men laid down their weapons very respectfully.

What follows is much simpler. It is to send people to let the villagers clean up the battlefield, arrange for the family to capture prisoners and so on. Then the villagers listened to the sound of fighting all day, and they were already trembling with fear. At this moment, I heard that Liu Pei had won, so I came out tremblingly. When they saw the corpses and blood all over the ground, they were even more frightened! After repeated urging, the battlefield began to be cleaned up.

At the same time, Liu Pei also offered a reward, and grabbed a widow and rewarded 20 copper coins. If you can bring the right person to catch someone, you will be rewarded with 10 copper coins. Therefore, many brave people spontaneously went to capture the prisoners. There are also a group of people who dare not catch it themselves, so they lead their families to catch it. They are familiar with geography and know that people can hide there. So under their guidance, it was very difficult for those widows to escape! And these people have already been recorded under Liu Pei's orders, and they will be one of Liu Pei's target personnel for recruiting family members in the future.