"Chief, this one's too light! This one's still light... This one's good! Chief, this one's got strength, this one's good!..."
On the eastern side of the camp, in the wooden courtyard of the iron-armored smithy, Tiger Slave held a two-meter-long polearm broadsword in one hand, sweeping and chopping through the snow, his swings whipping up a fierce wind!
"Whoosh!..."
"Main God and Buddha! Such a long nagamaki, a full twelve jin in weight, with a blade more than an arm long! If that thing were swung on the battlefield, ordinary Samurai or peasant soldiers would be swept down in swathes with one stroke!..."
Looking at the scene before him, Master Blacksmith Matsushita Tessuke sucked in a cold breath. A great tachi nagamaki weighing a full twelve jin was being swung one-handed by this giant-like "Toi" barbarian as if it weighed nothing at all; his jaw nearly dropped to the ground! When forging this two-handed long weapon, he had never imagined that anyone could actually wield such a long blade, such a "Great Nagamaki," with one hand!
That was right. The long blade in Tiger Slave's hand was precisely a "Great Nagamaki," with a ninety-centimeter blade and a one-meter-ten handle. The "nagamaki" here was actually extremely similar in size to a Naginata, a pole weapon that only began to grow popular in the Muromachi era, used specifically to counter cavalry or to charge on the battlefield. Its only difference from the Naginata was that the nagamaki's blade had a shinogi triangle similar to a Samurai sword. In later generations, the Uesugi Clan would specifically select brave elites to form a famous nagamaki corps.
As for the so-called "Great Nagamaki," that was an even further lengthened version, making it easier to swing and hack in battle formations. Its battlefield role was the