A full-scale conflict broke out between Ogata and the shogunate army. In order to facilitate everyone's interpretation of the plot of this book, the author has specially opened this free science chapter. Here he briefly talks about the military system of the Edo period.
The author will first tell you something:
[All the information in this chapter was found by the author by browsing the Internet and books. There may be some errors. After all, the author is not a professional scholar, and the information found is also diverse (Leopard Head Cries.jpg).
If there are any mistakes, you can mention them, but don’t say anything unpleasant. Let’s all get along in a friendly manner~]
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Kaisong Mingyi, everyone should not overestimate the combat power of the shogunate's army in the third year of Kansei (1791 AD), and there are only 70 years left before the demise of the Edo shogunate (1868 AD).
After you listen to the author's introduction to the military system of the Edo period, you will feel that it is not an exaggeration for Ogata to be unparalleled in the camp of the First Army alone.
First of all, the shogunate in the Edo period basically did not have a standing army that did nothing except military training as everyone remembers it.
In the Edo period, the only person who could be considered a standing army was an organization called the "Sanban-gu". Although it could be considered a standing army, its number was extremely small.
I will tell you more about the "Third Division" later.
If there is a war, like in this book where the shogunate plans to mobilize troops against the Red Moon Fortress, the shogunate will mobilize the Hatamoto samurai and the imperial family samurai who are directly subordinate to the shogun.
The author only found information from the Kuanyong period (1624-1643).
According to the military service regulations of the shogunate, during the Kan'ei period, for every Hatamoto samurai who earned 500 koku, 13 people were required to serve in the military. In other words, during the Kan'ei period, a Hatamoto samurai with an annual salary of 5,000 koku mobilized 130 soldiers in the war.
The obligation to participate in war.
The author has not found out how much military service the Imperial samurai are responsible for.
This is the origin of the saying "The flag has eighty thousand riders".
It does not mean that there are 80,000 Hatamoto samurai, but it means that theoretically all Hatamoto samurai and imperial family samurai can mobilize more than 80,000 troops.
These soldiers mobilized by the Hatamoto Samurai and the Imperial Family Samurai were the main component of a shogunate army.
And these temporarily mobilized soldiers may still be doing various tasks such as accounting and abacus the day before reporting to the military camp.
In other words, the vast majority of the 5,000 shogunate troops who accounted for half of the 10,000-strong army in this book were [soldiers temporarily mobilized by the Hatamoto samurai and the imperial family samurai].
When it comes to pulling the crotch, the vassal troops of each domain are even worse than the shogunate army.
Almost all vassal states did not have standing armies at all. When there was a war, they gathered the warriors in the vassal and started fighting directly.
for example:
If Ogata is still working as a treasurer in Hirose Domain and has an abacus, and a war suddenly breaks out in Hirose Domain, such as a peasant uprising or something, and the domain lord issues a summons order, then Ogata has the obligation to immediately put down the abacus in his hand and carry the abacus on his shoulders.
With his own sword, he rushed to the designated place to report and participate in the war, even though Ogata had never conducted any military training before.
So calling the 10,000 generals who are now planning the Red Moon Fortress "professional soldiers" is really flattering to them... The vast majority of them usually do not undergo any military training at all.
The samurai under the Kansei era had become corrupt and degenerate. There were very few samurai who could devote themselves to learning and studying martial arts.
The warriors at the bottom spent most of their attention and energy just solving the problem of eating.
After that, I will slowly explain to you the vassal armies of each vassal and what the "three divisions" are.
After listening to my explanation, do you think it is no longer an exaggeration for Ogata to be unparalleled in the First Army's barracks?
The vast majority of people in this First Army cannot be considered soldiers at all! Many of them may be accountants, warehouse managers, bridge managers who have never even wielded a sword or gun and are wearing samurai skins...