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In fact, in the current Ming Dynasty, it does not have the feeling of a single weapon.
But there is nothing we can do about it.
His first appearance was fighting the Mongols.
The Mongols' almost exclusively cavalry team, even the infantry, are basically slave soldiers and cannot be considered a real Mongolian army.
The high mobility of the Mongolian cavalry, especially in open scenes like the grasslands, is almost an unsolvable problem in terms of the current level of armaments.
The most disgusting thing is that every Mongolian grew up on horseback.
She has been herding sheep and horses since she was a child.
They and horses have grown up together since they were young, and they always sleep on horses.
The Mongolian cavalry, with one person and two riders, can travel day and night, just resting on horseback.
How high is the so-called high mobility?
That means that within twelve hours, he would eat, sleep, and, except for urination and defecation, all be done on horseback.
Eight hundred miles may be a bit exaggerated, without changing people or horses.
But three or four hundred miles is not a problem at all.
The most troublesome thing about such Mongolians is that they are not an isolated case, but they are common in large areas.
Things like running thousands of miles are almost the most common thing in Mongolia.
On the grasslands, the Mongolian cavalry was invincible.
What is the concept of three or four hundred miles in today's era? This will make Mongolia's enemies even less able to eat ashes.
If I want to come, I will come.
If I want to leave, I will leave.
Even if the Mongols were defeated and Zhu Yuanzhang drove them to the grasslands, the severely weakened Mongols would still be Zhu Yuanzhang's thorn in their side.
A large number of border military towns were built, which led to the emergence of the frontier fortress king.
This is to prevent the Mongols.
The vast grassland is the home ground of the Mongols, and even Zhu Ying has nothing to do about it.
After the matchlock gun appeared, it did achieve good results, but it was just a turtle shell.
Chasing, it is impossible to catch up.
In the end, after thinking hard, I could only adopt the strategy of assimilation.
In fact, Zhu Ying still underestimated the Mongols.
Otherwise, Zhu Di would not have been captured alive.
This may sound exaggerated. After all, Zhu Di was the Yongle Emperor in history, and he personally conquered Mongolia six times.
Well, even though they personally conquered Mongolia six times and spent countless Ming national resources, the problem of the Mongols was not completely solved.
This in itself is an unsolvable problem.
Emperor Yongle personally conquered Mongolia under the protection of hundreds of thousands of troops.
Zhu Di now only has tens of thousands of people. Although there are many cavalry, there is still a big gap between the cavalry trained by the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian cavalry.
And in the Second World War.
It was the Ming Dynasty that went to Annan.
Annan is different from Mongolia.
Annan's firearm ability is actually not low.
If it weren't for Zhu Ying's emphasis on firearms, in terms of firecrackers and artillery, the current Annan craftsmanship would even be superior to that of the Ming Dynasty in some other aspects.
The shortcomings of the emperor system are reflected here.
Even though Annan's firearms are good, they don't have the support from Zhu Ying to vigorously develop firearms.
Especially when the gunpowder is granulated and the firearm damage is greatly increased, the suppressive effect becomes more obvious.
In addition, Annan itself is actually a mess.
The royal power of Annan had long been in decline, the powerful minister Hu Jisou was unscrupulous, and the warlords in various places did not listen to the propaganda, which made it impossible to concentrate all the power to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
Even if Hu Jisao rebelled in the end and relied on his own ability to unite most of the local warlords in Annan, it would be like the Six Kingdoms. How could they achieve real combat power with their own agendas?
What I think more about is how to preserve my own strength and consume allies.
In order to achieve greater development after the war.
The only one that had some success was probably the crusade against the Japanese.
In fact, the matchlock gun was not particularly outstanding in the war against the Japanese.
This is not to say that the Japanese country has any ability to resist. The key lies in cannon.
Due to its geographical environment, Japan suffered frequent earthquakes, which resulted in most of its city walls being very short.
In addition, the Japanese were also short in stature, so it really didn't matter whether they had fire or matchlocks.
In field battles, the Japanese did not dare to confront the Ming army, but in siege battles, the city walls collapsed as soon as the cannons fired.
Obviously cannons are more useful than matchlocks.
This gives the impression that the matchlock gun is indeed easy to use, but it is not as exaggerated as imagined.
Is this really the case?
Tension can tell you that this is not the case.
The true terror of firecrackers such as matchlocks lies in small-scale combat.
And the most critical one is universality.
As far as Daming's current personal long-range weapons are concerned, they are roughly muskets and bows and arrows.
But how can a bow be so useful?
Archer sounds simple, but in fact the difficulty is simply exaggerated.
In many descriptions, the strong personal martial arts is roughly said to be good at riding and shooting.
It doesn't sound like much.
However, whether it is now or in the past dynasties, the archer is a symbol of personal force value.
For example, Guan Yu, the horse archer.
For example, Zhang Fei is a foot archer.
Only truly brave soldiers can be called archers.
But the difficulty of training an archer is simply too high.
How difficult is it to train an archer?
First of all, in terms of consumption, archery is not just about shooting a bow, it also requires accuracy, which naturally consumes a lot of physical energy.
The physical exertion requires the supplement of meat.
To put it simply, how can you shoot a bow when you are hungry? On the contrary, if you don’t practice every day, how can you be accurate?
In terms of food, the burden on the army is huge.
Before, almost 70% of the people had a big problem filling their stomachs, so how could they consume without any scruples?
Even now, the seemingly strong and prosperous Ming Dynasty cannot feed the soldiers of the world without restraint.
Zhu Ying's army consumes a lot of meat every day. In fact, it is only the capital or surrounding garrison.
In less prosperous and slightly remote areas, you can only eat one meal of meat every three days at most, which is already very good.
Therefore, it is obviously very unrealistic to train a large number of archers.
Zhu Ying currently has the idea of developing professional soldiers, but at least 70% of Ming soldiers are still related to the garrison.
You can only take your time.
At this point, the benefits of the matchlock gun are revealed.
Zhang Li's 100-man team are actually just low-level soldiers.
Theoretically, they don't even have an archer.
But the matchlock gun appeared.
It doesn't require a strong physique, and the matchlock itself isn't too heavy, so it's just a matter of simple aiming.
It is naturally difficult for sharpshooters to appear due to accuracy limitations, but the key to the matchlock gun is that it is easy to get.
A new soldier only needs about ten days of training before he can easily control a matchlock gun.
This time can be shortened if a large amount of fire and ammunition training is provided.
In Luzon.
The terror of the matchlock gun is truly reflected.
A hundred-man team like Zhang Li could easily kill the strongest warrior among the natives with just a few consecutive shots.
As we all know, in a cold-weapon battle, especially in places that are lagging behind.
The strongest warrior will naturally rush to the front.
Bang bang bang.
Just the most powerful ones were eliminated.
What happens next becomes much simpler.
"You were screaming so ferociously just now. Hey, if I don't give you some color, you still don't know how powerful I am."
Tension stepped on one of the strongest natives.
I have to say that this native is really powerful. Even after he was hit several times, lying on the ground and wailing still made him feel full of energy.
Unfortunately, under the suppression of the civilization level, there is no room for the use of force.
The entire village was easily controlled by Zhang Li's hundred-man team.
The native lying on the ground cursed wildly.
Naturally, Zhang Li couldn't understand it.
This village belongs to the Visayan people of Luzon.
The Visayans are the most populous indigenous people in Luzon, and in terms of character, the Visayans are also the most brutal.
During the pre-Song Dynasty, the Visayans often invaded the Penghu Islands by boat, destroying agricultural production on the islands, and then went to the coast of Quanzhou to cause trouble.
Naturally, Zhang Li and others don’t know about historical events.
As for Zhang Li and other soldiers from Japan, the only military order they received was to discover the gold mines on the Luzon islands and organize personnel to mine them.
Naturally, this person cannot be from the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Di and other vassal kings did not want to disappear and spread to the Ming Dynasty. Instead, they wanted to directly blockade the entire Luzon Island, and then capture the local people for mining.
Situations like tension are just an episode in Luzon today.
A large number of soldiers, in units of hundreds, quickly carried out a comprehensive sweep of the entire Luzon Island.
In fact, there are several translations.
It's just that their role is too small. The key is that there are too few people.
There are hundreds of hundreds of troops, and translation cannot support them at all.
In this case, there is no need for translation.
This is the darkest moment in the history of Luzon.
A large number of indigenous people on Luzon Island, Visayans, Cebuanos, Tagalogs, etc., directly became slaves under the vassal army.
These officers and soldiers were not trained by Zhu Ying. In terms of quality, they were not much different from before.
Especially after staying in the Japanese country for such a long time, I have already completely let go of my suppression.
As for foreigners, there aren’t so many things to pay attention to.
Luzon Island began to fall on a large scale.
Even if some places did cause a lot of trouble for these vassal kings' armies, in general, there was no way to recover.
Even if there are some hard bones that are difficult to chew, the feudal king's army will directly pull cannons from the ship.
Let's fire a dozen or so shots at this village first.
As the vassal army took control of Luzon Island, a large number of gold mines were also discovered.
Since he came here for the gold mine, he had naturally arranged for craftsmen who were good at surveying.
When gold mines were discovered one after another, the feudal king's army became obviously more eager.
This news immediately reached the ears of the four feudal kings on the ships returning to Japan.
Zhu Ying's return did not seem to cause any disturbance to the capital.
With Zhu Yuanzhang in charge, naturally there is no such thing as Xiaoxiao.
In fact, as far as the current court is concerned, the existence of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ying has completely overshadowed the glory of the courtiers.
It's not that the courtiers don't have enough knowledge, but Zhu Ying's current reform speed is really too fast.
Every reform in history is full of blood and tears because it touches a large number of interest groups.
But in Zhu Ying's case, whether it is the bureaucracy, the military power, or people's livelihood management, there is a feeling that everything is done smoothly and without any difficulty.
This also means that for many ministers, they only need to do their jobs well and try their best to implement the latest policies promulgated by His Highness the Grand Sun.
But Zhu Yuanzhang is very happy to take Xiao Wencheng with him every day.
Grandson, it’s time to run around more.
To save too much is to be too lazy.
"Grandpa, can't you put Xiao Wen Cheng down?"
Zhu Ying looked at the old man speechlessly, but he had serious business and wanted to have a good chat with the old man.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was opposite him, simply regarded Zhu Ying as if he were nothing and just played with Xiao Wen Cheng.
"If you have any questions, just tell me. I didn't see that Xiao Wen Cheng and I were having fun." Zhu Yuanzhang turned to look at his eldest grandson and said angrily.