Volume 7 Jiangnan Green Looking Maple Red Chapter 935 Military Parade
After noon, the military parade was about to begin. The weather had entered autumn, and the temperature at noon was neither cold nor hot. Otherwise, sitting on the high platform and basking in the sun would have been too much for the frail and sick new emperor.
After the elegant palace music sounded, a grand guard of honor was seen escorting the emperor out of the street that had been carpeted long ago, and slowly walked from the east gate of the Kyoto Imperial Palace to the elegant high platform where incense had been arranged for him.
The people watching around Kawaramachi Street immediately cheered like a tsunami - ordinary people like them are lucky to have the opportunity to see the emperor from a distance. I don't know that at this moment, the new emperor is enjoying the support of all the people.
Emperor, will Liu Bang feel like he did back then, "I now know how noble I am as an emperor."
However, in Yu Qiupei's memory, the original crown prince of Emperor Masachimachi died young, and was later succeeded by the emperor's grandson. Because Emperor Masachimachi was accidentally assassinated in this generation, the throne was passed to the frail Seihito. And his
His son Zhou Ren, who was the emperor's grandson in the previous life, Emperor Yosei, was only 10 years old.
What brought Yu Qiuping's thoughts back to reality was the sound of several cannons coming from Xiangguo Temple in the rear - that was the signal for the start of the military parade that Oda Nobunaga ingeniously chose - which somewhat coincided with the habits of later generations. However,
Only a man like Oda Nobunaga, who was fearless and fearless, could think of firing cannons so close to the Imperial Palace.
As the military parade signal was given, Oda Nobunaga and his flag corps, who were at the front of all the parades, set out from Amida Temple and headed south along the streets of Kawaramachi Street. Ame Akihira boarded a two-man parade in Amida Temple.
At the window of the Zen room, he took out his telescope and looked at Oda Nobunaga's team to see what his name was. After adjusting the focus, he focused the lens on Oda Nobunaga——
He is currently wearing a dark and shiny Southern Barbarian knight's armor, a velvet cloak, and two famous swords, Onimaru Kunitsuna and Doji Kiriyatsuna, on his waist. The horse he is sitting on is also a big horse from Europe.
.Looking from a distance, he looks like a Templar rather than a Japanese samurai.
"Not bad... Lord... you look decent." Yu Qiuping not only praised a few words secretly, but also slowly moved the camera back to look at the team behind Oda Nobunaga. What Oda Nobunaga brought out was
The horses of the more than 500 Hatamoto knights were all white horses, and their equipment was also painted white. Among the white, the black of Oda Nobunaga was like an ink mark on a white paper, which was particularly conspicuous.
500 white horses with no stray hairs... This is something that all the other daimyo in the world combined may not be able to come up with. Even the previous shogunate and the Fujiwara family and the Heijing family in their heyday may not be able to come up with it. Oda Nobu
Chang's way of showing off his wealth and strength is really ingenious. He didn't use many people, just using these 500 white horses was enough to explain everything.
Yu Qiuping swallowed secretly, and at the same time moved the telescope quickly, and looked at the arbors on both sides of the high platform, where the envoys sent by various famous families and wealthy families were sitting. As expected, the envoys opened their mouths in surprise.
He didn't even notice that his saliva was drooling. He stared at the group of white horses with wide eyes. The red light in his eyes seemed to be eager to rush forward and grab a batch back. Obviously these envoys sent to Shangluo were also from home.
A samurai of the family's senior level who has seen the world, but he can't help but lose his composure when encountering such a shocking scene of showing off his wealth. Even one of such a good horse is enough to show off in a country and become a good talk. Even his own family governor
You may not be able to ride such a good horse - but Oda Nobunaga just effortlessly dumped 500 horses. This daunting crushing difference in quantity is enough to defeat the opposition of anyone trying to challenge the behemoth of the Oda family.
The person feels despair.
Yu Qiuping put down the telescope again and looked at his colleagues next to him. Shibata Katsuie, Hashiba Hideyoshi, Akechi Mitsuhide and others were also stunned, but the degree of surprise was slightly less than those of the envoys.
Yu Qiuping suddenly realized that he seemed to have missed something, so he picked up the telescope and looked at it again. He saw the cavalry team moving forward slowly and in full force. In addition to the sabers around their waists, everyone was carrying a sword on their back.
Iron artillery——This is... a horse-mounted iron artillery team?
This time it was Yu Qiuping's turn to be dumbfounded - he didn't expect that the new military unit dreamed up by Date Masamune in his previous life would be developed by Oda Nobunaga in this life? I really didn't know that the envoy of the Date family would go back and break the news.
What would Date Masamune say after telling him - if he had been born twenty years earlier, would he have been the first to develop a riding iron?
Just when Yu Qiuping was secretly slandering this horse-mounted iron artillery team that looked like a dragoon, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have missed something. So he picked up the binoculars again and looked at Oda Nobunaga's flag.
The iron artillery team looked at it, but after looking at it for a while, they couldn't see anything. He twisted the lens barrel, magnified the focus several times, and locked it on the face of a knight - he still looked like a very young boy.
Woolen cloth.
"Could Ayou be here too?" This thought came to Yu Qiuping's heart, and he couldn't get it out of his mind. So he kept moving the camera, looking for the faces of Hatamoto's team one by one. Since it was from the side,
I watched it later, so I could only see half of the face - but it was enough for my father.
Soon, Yu Qiuping saw the figure in the crowd who made him miss him day and night. After Yu Qiuyou left, he reflected on himself countless times, reflected on his excessive preference for Yu Qiu Shang, and reflected on his love for Yu Qiu Shang.
Yu Qiuyou tried his best to ignore it, but also reflected on the injustice he had done to the two brothers in the engagement.
However, it is useless to reflect on it no matter how many times. The pain caused to Yu Qiuyou is difficult to eliminate in this life. The originally happy family may never be able to return.
However, seeing Yu Qiuyou's valiant figure and heroic face, Yu Qiuping felt a faint sense of security in his heart. Isn't it a good thing for him to leave the halo of Yu Qiuping and Yu Qiu Shang and go out to explore?
Thinking of this, Yu Qiuping's eyes suddenly became moist. He put down the telescope and wiped his eyes. When he picked up the telescope again, the lens happened to fall on the iron cannon on Yu Qiuyou's back. Yu Qiuping didn't know why.
Xin Si took another look, but almost screamed in surprise.
That iron cannon has no match rope...
He adjusted the focus to the maximum distance in disbelief, stared at the iron cannon on Yu Qiuyou's back for a while, and finally had to accept the fact that it was a flintlock gun.
The Oda family... where did the flintlock gun come from? After our Yuqiu family got the flintlock gun, we were worried that the technology would be taken away and copied, so we have not mass-produced it and put it into the army. We have not been able to have mature research and development until now.
technology…
When Yu Qiuping thought of this, he suddenly realized something even more terrifying - he immediately twisted the lens barrel and narrowed the focus, looking like an entire horse-mounted iron artillery team.
Then he discovered that the 500 horse-mounted iron cannon warriors were carrying flintlock guns on their backs.
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Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment and briefly lost the ability to think. After he came to his senses, he realized what the scene in front of him meant.
Oda Nobunaga already had 500 flintlock guns, while Yu Qiuping only had the few he bought, and half of them were dismantled by Lan Xianghua's Military Industry Department to study the internal structure.
500 flintlock muskets...Did Oda Nobunaga master the technology of developing flintlock muskets on his own, or did he reach some large orders with European businessmen? Nowadays, flintlock muskets are not a common commodity in Europe.
There are very few merchants who deal in flintlock guns. The few flintlock guns they see are bought by the fleet for their own protection, and they would not consider selling them at all.
Where did Oda Nobunaga get so many flintlock guns?
Since Yu Qiuping founded the army and introduced iron cannons to completely replace bows and arrows, the Hongye Army has always been the most powerful force in long-range firepower in Japan. After all, the iron cannon equipment ratio of 3/8 is the best in the world. After the establishment of the Jingzhe Army, there are
Equipped with dozens of artillery pieces, the Hongye Army is even more capable of destroying any opponent in long-range firepower. It is precisely because of its powerful firepower that the Hongye Army can force the enemy to rush forward to engage in combat in tactical duels, thereby using
Our side's best defensive spear array.
A large part of the strength of the Hongye Army is based on this set of tactics of "long-range fire suppression - forcing the enemy to attack - defensive counterattack". If the opponent's firepower is stronger than that of the Hongye Army, the entire tactical system will be on the verge of collapse.
The loss of firepower advantage means that the Hongye Army cannot use crossfire to force the opponent to attack, but has to let its own pikemen attack to destroy the opponent's long-range soldier positions. However, the Hongye Army has always trained in dense square formations and queues.
Assault, this dense formation is tantamount to massacre when exposed to long-range firepower - not even as good as those loosely positioned powerful troops. And the "strong military strength" that the Hongye Army has always been proud of will also become a liability
, because no matter how good the weapon is, it cannot stop bullets. Instead, the weight of the weapon will restrict the soldier's speed and movement, and the metal may be penetrated by the bullet and mixed into the wound, which may lead to further infection.
If you want to effectively attack the opponent's long-range troop positions, you must train skirmishing line tactics, but this is something the Hongye Army does not currently possess. Once the Hongye Army loses its firepower advantage, all the achievements and military prowess they have established in the past twenty years will be affected.
impact.
During the siege of Ishiyama Gobo, Yu Qiupei had already seen dozens of large barrels forged by Oda Nobunaga using the artillery casting technology he took from Yu Qiupei, and the number of those large cylinders will increase in the future. In addition,
Take these 500 flintlock muskets...Does Oda Nobunaga only have these 500, or may he have thousands more hidden? If the opponent has all equipped with flintlock muskets, their long-range firepower can be said to be superior.
Above the Red Leaf Army...
Fortunately, we don't have to be enemies with the Oda family... Yu Qiupei secretly rejoiced in his heart. If he really had to fight against the Oda family, is the current Red Leaf Army sure of winning? Not necessarily... If the place is already equipped with flintlock guns or
Iron cannon, if the opponent has completely abandoned bows and arrows, should the Red Leaf Army consider abandoning armor and switching to military uniforms as Takenaka Shigeharu suggested before?