After driving Wang Yadong home, Zhang Yicheng immediately called Guo Mingzhong, who had just been cured by himself, and now he was unfamiliar with life in Cangzhou, and if he wanted to inquire about this so-called Lin Xueyi, he could only count on this person.

Receiving a call from the life-saving benefactor, Guo Mingzhong was naturally very polite, although he had never heard of Lin Xueyi as a person, but he recommended a person to Zhang Yicheng: Liu Baochang, a local folklorist in Cangzhou, according to Guo Mingzhong's words, Liu Baochang once wrote a book on folk customs, during which he made a special trip to visit himself several times in order to understand the folk yin customs, and the relationship between the two is not bad, it is said that this person is also a martial artist, and should know more about the unpopular history in the martial arts circle.

According to the address and phone number provided by Guo Mingzhong, the uncle and nephew quickly found Liu Baochang's residence. I heard that it was Guo Mingzhong's friend, Liu Baochang was very enthusiastic to let the two into the house, from Liu Baochang's mouth, Zhang Yicheng learned that Lin Xueyi belonged to a controversial figure in Cangzhou's martial arts circle, this person's kung fu skills were overwhelming, and he belonged to the pillar level in the martial arts circle at that time, but he lost the face of Cangzhou people and even Chinese in the competition with Japanese officers, and finally did not know what to do, some rumors were ashamed and committed suicide, and there were also rumors that this person went away incognito until his death, All in all, this man's death was neither glorious nor magnificent.

Of course, since it is a so-called controversial figure, there are naturally both praise and disparagement, in addition to those who think that Lin Xueyi disgraced the Chinese and then poured dirty water, there are also some friends and protégés of Lin Xueyi before his death and people who know Lin Xueyi as a person, and they believe that Lin Xueyi committed suicide after defeat, and thanked the world with his death.

Many people have this kind of thinking, as long as you do this thing is right, and no matter whether you succeed in the end or not, as long as you die, no matter how you die, there will be people who praise, such as Deng Shichang, one did not win the naval battle and the other did not sink Yoshino, but dead, dead is a hero, thinking that this is the embodiment of the integrity of the Chinese. Lin Xueyi is the same, but because he has no face to see his ancestors, his body is not buried in the ancestral grave. As for the tomb that Zhang Yicheng mentioned that was stolen and dug up by Hu Wanquan, it was actually not Lin Xueyi's real tomb, but the well-dressed tomb that the die-hard fans and their disciples and grandchildren who thought that Lin Xueyi was still honored despite his defeat donated funds for him to repair in the ancestral grave area. During the special period, Liu Baochang also participated in a lot of movements, and also knew that Lin Xueyi's grave was stolen and dug up, but he did not hear that there were Lin Xueyi's bones in the tomb, and Hu Wanquan only stole some burial utensils......

In September 1937, due to the disparity in equipment, the 39th Division of the 40th Army of the National Army, Pang Bingxun, and the 105th Division of the 49th Army, Liu Duoquan, lost in the defensive battle of Yaoguantun in Cangxian County, and the 10th Division led by the Japanese Kou Isoya Liansuke took the opportunity to occupy Cangxian, it is said that Lin Xueyi's only son Lin Xiaoyuan joined a paramilitary organization called the "Anti-Japanese War Volunteer Regiment" under the organization of local patriots, and the main job was to assist the logistics troops of the National Army to deliver supplies to the front-line soldiersLater, under the persuasion of his father Lin Xiaozeng, Lin Xueyi did not take extreme measures, but imitated Japanese customs and officially issued a decisive battle letter to the commander of the 10th Division, Ryosuke Isoya.

In order to create momentum, the war letter was sent to the temporary headquarters of the Japanese army in Cangxian County by the gong and drum team beating the gong and encouraging the lion, this kind of non-violent high-profile provocation, so that Isoya Ryosuke lost his temper for a while, in terms of the Japanese bushido spirit, if there are foreigners who write a war letter and are so high-profile, if they do not accept it, they will be regarded as not daring to accept it, which not only affects personal reputation, but also damages the "prestige" of the "Great Japanese Imperial Army", but in the war years, As the supreme commander of the division, Isoya Ryosuke naturally would not be stupid enough to single-handedly go to a duel with a folk martial artist from a hostile country, but he could not lose the face of the Imperial Japanese Army, and as a trade-off, Isoya Ryosuke used the reason that "the civilians of Shina are not qualified to fight a duel with the senior commander of the Imperial Japanese Army", and sent a Japanese officer who claimed to be his apprentice to the battle, and Lin Xueyi was defeated in the hands of this so-called apprentice.

"It's said to be a martial arts competition, but in fact, it's not much ......" Liu Baochang said with a vivid voice, as if he had experienced it himself, "Lin Xueyi took the initiative to test the knife technique, because he was running for the life of the Japanese at all, the knife cut is more painful, if it is a fist and kick, it is difficult to kill the enemy in one move, the Japanese officer happily agreed to the knife competition, more than a dozen moves...... At most, there were only a dozen moves, and Lin Xueyi's knife was cut in two, and he was defeated. ”

"Lin Xueyi's knife has been cut in two!" Hearing this, Zhang Yicheng was shocked in his heart, "What kind of knife did that Japanese officer use?" ”

"Someone's own knife, of course!" Liu Baochang frowned and said, "Actually, Lin Xueyi is also quite wronged, purely in terms of kung fu, the Japanese devil is definitely not an opponent, but no one thought that he would be defeated in weapons!" ”

This kind of formal duel in front of everyone's eyes cannot be like a child's house, and it is impossible to allow "I don't have my shoes on, you stop and don't fight, wait for me to put on my shoes; Or you are cheating, this doesn't count, you have the ability to do it again" and so on, no matter what the reason, defeat is defeat, there is no second chance. After the Japanese officer cut off Lin Xueyi's knife, the Japanese knife stopped firmly on Lin Xueyi's shoulder, just a few centimeters away from his neck, and then the Japanese officer put the knife into the sheath and walked away laughing. Theoretically speaking, no matter how good a knife is used to cut a bad knife, it takes a lot of strength to cut a knife, and the Japanese officer's knife can stop firmly on Lin Xueyi's shoulder without injuring his neck, which shows that the Japanese wield the knife with very accurate power, and the purpose is to cut the knife rather than to cut people, that is to say, from the beginning of the battle, the purpose of the Japanese is to cut off Lin Xueyi's knife. The Japanese did not kill Lin Xueyi, probably because they had benevolence, but it could also be a deliberate insult. At that time, whether it was China or Japan, in the eyes of those who practiced martial arts, such a devastating declaration of war suffered such an earth-shattering defeat, and surviving was definitely a more humiliating thing than defeat.

Listening to Liu Baochang's analysis, Zhang Yicheng's heart was about to jump out of his chest, he didn't mention the knife at all, he just wanted to inquire about Lin Xueyi, but he didn't expect to ask for clues related to the knife.

"Boy, I forgot to tell you something! Just now you mentioned that Hu Wanquan stole and dug up Lin Xueyi's tomb, and forgot to tell you that there was a Japanese knife among the burial goods stolen by Hu Wanquan, which is said to be the knife used by the Japanese! ”

"Uh-huh......!" Zhang Yicheng listened with relish, to be honest, he had already expected this result as early as when Liu Baochang mentioned that Lin Xueyi's knife was cut by the Japanese.

"Do you know how that knife got into Lin Xueyi's clothed mound?" Liu Baochang was mysterious.

On August 14, 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan issued the "Edict of the End of the War" through the radio, on the 15th, Japan announced its acceptance of the "Potsdam Proclamation" unconditional surrender, and on September 9, the supreme commander of the Japanese invasion of China, Okamura Ninji, submitted the instrument of surrender to He Yingqin, commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Army, in Nanjing.

After the surrender of Japan, Xu Changning, chief of staff of the 626th Regiment of the 105th Division, accepted the surrender of the 36th Infantry Wing of the Third Division of the Japanese Army in Wujin as a representative of the Chinese side. After a careful inquiry, I learned that although the so-called 36th Infantry Wing belonged to the Third Division on the number, it was adapted from the 39th Wing of the 10th Division that had fought in Cangxian County.

Through further inquiry, Xu Changning learned that the owner of this knife was the commander of the wing, the commander of the joint bone cave Sanzhongzuo, this person is the descendant of the famous samurai Jiegu Masashi in the Edo period of Japan, and also the eighth generation of the ancient Japanese swordsmanship school Jiegu Wind Flow, after receiving the surrender order, he committed suicide by cutting his abdomen, and it was this person who competed with Lin Xueyi in Cangzhou.

Coincidentally, when the 49th Army was stationed in Cangxian County, Lin Xueyi once visited Gu Huiquan, the head of the 626 Regiment, and it happened that Xu Changning was present, Lin Xueyi wanted his son to join the army to serve the country, hoping that his son would be exercised, but because his son was too young and only sixteen years old (the age at that time basically referred to the virtual age, if the virtual age was sixteen years old, the first year old was only fifteen years old), he wanted to privately ask Gu Huiquan to arrange a rear errand for his son first, and was finally rejected by Gu Huiquan, on the grounds that Chairman Jiang said: " No matter who the land is divided into north and south, no matter who is old, everyone has the responsibility to defend the land and resist the war, and they should all have the determination to sacrifice everything. "At this moment, the current enemy is young, and it is not a reason to do anything in the rear. Although the result of the meeting was not pleasant, it left a very deep impression on Xu Changning on Lin Xueyi, and later Lin Xueyi's challenge to Isoya Liansuke's deeds also deeply touched Xu Changning, so that he came to the scene of the competition in civilian clothes, although in the end Lin Xueyi suffered a fiasco because the knife was not as good as a person, but Xu Changning also understood that Lin Xueyi was lost on the knife, although defeated, but as a civilian, he dared to challenge the Japanese senior officers, at least the courage is commendable, and it can be regarded as a defeat. From beginning to end, Xu Changning was a person who stood on the position of "standing up for the forest".

"You mean that this knife was put in Lin Xueyi's mound by Xu Changning?" Zhang Yicheng frowned.

"Not exactly ......," Liu Baochang said, "After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Xu Changning specially sent someone to send this knife to Cangzhou, in the hands of Lin Xueyi's cousin Lin Xueli. The one who put this knife into the mound should be Lin Xueli. ”