Xinshun 1730

Chapter 428 Elite vs Elite

Yamauchi once again escalated this battle to the height of ups and downs, which shows despair.

After that incident, he quit drinking, and his mind became much clearer.

Jing Yi Naodada not only used the method of borrowing from the past to satirize the present, pointing out that he should learn from the Nanman technology, but also knew that this battle was really about the future.

During the Shimabara Rebellion, the Dutch sent warships to help attack the city occupied by Shimabara Catholics without saying a word, and bombarded it for several days.

This time, the Dutchman didn't even fart.

Whether Dashun can allow the Netherlands to trade in Japan in the future is still a question.

Japan has also banned religion, and it is impossible to seek cooperation with Catholic countries, but in Southeast Asia, apart from the Netherlands, there is only Spain, which is extremely fanatical about Catholicism in the eyes of the Japanese.Just the Spanish missionaries who were martyred and canonized while preaching in Japan could form a company.

Before, Liu Yu took the initiative to send Shi Shiyong to teach the method of riding, archery and bow drawing that Japan has always lacked, but blocked scientific and technological books, so that in recent years, Nagasaki has not even introduced a single scientific and technological book in Chinese.

Now that the war has started, the Jingyi family is the first generation daimyo, and now it can be regarded as clear.

When the time comes, Dashun will drive the Dutch away and use the navy to block the technology—I knew before that only the books on the Three Cardinal Principles and Five Constant Principles will be given away, which shows the sinister intentions. Can I forget this skill now—once the technology is blocked, build a gunship warship , How can it be so easy to learn new tactics?

Dashun's previous technology blockade was very serious, otherwise Nagasaki would not use trade letters as rewards to seek uncastrated war horses and military books.

North Korea is not stupid. Japan threatened North Korea with military power when the maharaja was still the title of king. The trade in Busan cost tons of silver, but the bottom line of the North Koreans has never been touched. They really don’t give war horses. .

Changing the horses into the current guns, Ii Nao must not feel any difference.

If Dashun doesn't give it, the Netherlands may even be forced to give up trade by Dashun, and Luzon in Spain believes in Catholicism...

Yamauchi once again said that the rise and fall of Japan is here in one move.

"Let's do it this way. When the country is in crisis, everyone has to make sacrifices. The common people are ignorant and unwilling to dedicate themselves to the country, so we will help them die. Go and burn down the houses of the people, create smoke and dust, and block sight."

"We must capture Xiaobin City and capture as many Tang soldiers and officers as possible."

After the order was issued, Yamauchi put on his armor again and offered to undertake the first wave of attack missions.

Even if they burn all the surrounding houses and cover them with smoke, they are not magicians, and they don't know how to shrink and expand.

The terrain is determined, and it can only be sent forward wave by wave, but the subsequent waves of assembly support can be coherent without the threat of naval guns.

More than [-] elite warriors were selected, and all of them abandoned the iron cannons, because there was no room for shooting cover.

The conscripted riverboats began to gather upstream, and the follow-up support waves were also divided into arrays outside the range of the gunboats.

Once the houses on both sides started to set fire, they would move the assembly point forward three hundred steps, as close as possible to Xiaobincheng.

The warriors in armor moved their muscles and bones, wiped their knives, and waited for Shigeji Yamauchi's order.

Not long after, houses near the coast caught fire.With the wind of autumn and winter, the fire quickly became one.Cries and screams came from the fire.

The arsonist samurai rode on a pony and threw the oil cans repeatedly.The burning fire took advantage of the wind to rise into the sky, and smoke and dust were everywhere.

Shanuchi leaned on the bow of the boat again, and under the order of the warriors, the people who were recruited to row the boats shook more than 30 small boats to the delta where Xiaobincheng was located.

The front of Xiaobin City is a bare open space. Before defending the city, the buildings that block the view must be demolished, the trees should be cut down, and the enemy should not be given the opportunity to approach in secret. This is the basis of fortress guarding knowledge.

The artillery officers in the city watched the approaching boats indifferently, and the artillerymen had already softened their hearts, especially when they touched the loot such as the Buddha statue found in Xiaobin City.

But following the officer's order, they still mechanically stuffed the wooden shell with the lead wire cut to the length into the muzzle.

The shooting position has been measured long ago, and all the artillerymen have to do is to fine-tune the angle after resetting.

Boom, a few cannons rang, and the explosive shells filled with gunpowder were sent out on a parabolic trajectory by a chamber pressure that was far inferior to that of a naval gun, and it happened to land on top of several ships.

It had been three days of killing, and the experience of the officers with the length of the fuse was enough to allow some of the shells to explode overhead very accurately.

Just like fireworks during the Chinese New Year, after the explosion, the scattered debris directly killed the warriors on the two ships.

Yamauchi stretched out his hand again and pulled out a piece of iron stuck in his cheek.

Wiping the blood all over his face, he drew out the Japanese sword, shouted "Serve the country", and took the lead to rush towards Xiaobin City, which is more than a hundred meters away.

The samurai in the back were carrying wooden ladders or other things to climb the city, subconsciously shrank their heads, as if the shells exploding above their heads would not hurt them.

The Xiaobin City in front of him had already changed its appearance. The not-so-high platform protruded outwards, like a hedgehog with its thorns sticking out.

There are no ditches in front, and the low defensive buildings only need a wooden ladder to climb over.

The heavy armor pieces made a rattling sound, reminiscent of Dashun's aggressive attack on the Acropolis of Muluhan Mountain that day.

But that time, most of the Cossacks still held matchlock guns, and Dashun's artillery still had an advantage in that battle.Even so, Dashun buried hundreds of veterans with meritorious service in front of the Muluhan Mountain Guard City.

Courage plays a decisive role when the difference in weapons is not large.

Therefore, in the war of Spring and Autumn, the courage of the husband is also in the battle; and when it comes to the expedition against the Huns, the Han soldiers with the rhubarb crossbow will be used as five Hu.

Shige Yamauchi had courage again, but had no cannon nor rifled muskets.

As long as he can remember, his family has been telling him the story that his ancestors were not allowed to be buried before Zhi Xiaogong died of illness.

From the age when he could hold a knife, he began to learn swordsmanship.He can cut off the rolled straw mat with one knife, the incision is smooth, and the straw mat that has no roots on the ground will not fall down.

When he went to Edo with the head of the family, he communicated with swordsmanship masters from all over the country, and learned the method of riding and archery from Shi Shiyong who came from Dashun.

He doesn't need to farm or work, and he eats his salary. What he has to do every day is to practice martial arts, learn the art of war, and sing poems and songs with others in his spare time.

The cocoon holding the knife in his hand can be pricked with a needle without bleeding; he can wear heavy armor, and still have the strength to kill a hundred steps; One against one hundred.

His salary is six hundred shi, three taels for one Japanese stone, which is larger than the weights and measures of Dashun, equivalent to the price of rice, about 300 taels of silver a year.

Then, he died.

When there were forty steps away from Xiaobincheng, a spinning lead bullet entered from his left eye, and the scorching lead that had softened somewhat pierced his eye and made his brain into a mess.

The one who shot Yamauchi Shigetsu to death was a mast shooter who had bet with his colleagues next to him whether he could kill the wounded samurai a hundred paces away.

In his early 20s, he wore a navy blue and white striped sailor shirt.

Because they can't bear the bite of life lice on board, sailors always like to burn their hair with fire, and then cover it with a wet towel to extinguish it, resulting in unevenness.

There are no shoes under the feet, and the big toes that need to be used to climb the mast are somewhat deformed and thick.

Even standing in the city instead of on a shaking deck, the toes are subconsciously spread apart, scratching the ground like the roots of an oak tree.

The young man was one of the disaster victims recruited by the Navy, certainly not the first batch.

There are disasters in Japan every year, and Dashun doesn’t have many things. It is cheap for hungry people to serve as soldiers. Most of the soldiers in the navy are hungry people.

Before joining the army, the young man had never touched a knife, let alone played with a bow and musket.Dashun didn't have a hunting order for swords, but he was poor in culture and martial arts, and this young man didn't even have the money to learn literature, so naturally he couldn't wield swords and guns.

As long as he can remember, his family has been telling him that children should not be idle and must work.When his mother was spinning, he rubbed the cotton into slivers with reed sticks; when he was seven or eight years old, he had to carry a basket and pick up dung around the village; when he was eleven or twelve years old, he had to go with his father Weed the fields.

During the Chinese New Year, you can have a meal of stewed cabbage and vegetarian meatball soup with a little fat added, one bowl per person, and a piece of white meat will be placed on top of each bowl-one piece for each person, not too big or small, because if there is a slight difference in size , There will be huge conflicts in the family because of this meal, thinking that the parents are partial.

On New Year's Eve, you can eat white steamed buns, but the inside is sweet potato noodles, and the outside is wrapped in white flour.

A random drought can ruin such a life.It just so happens that the Navy enlists, and being a soldier is a way out.

Three months of training, eating enough, distinguishing between left and right, and learning to queue.Then throw it on board.

Those who are seasick are dismissed to workshops, shipyards, or thrown to the iron smelter in Liaodong; those who are not seasick see if they have the ability to climb the mast.

The young man became a mast shooter by relying on the necessary skills for the poor in Dashun, such as climbing elm trees to pick elm money and mulberry trees to pick mulberries since he was a child, and relying on his excellent tree climbing skills.

Fired the gun and practiced every day.Practice well and eat well.

A month's salary is one and a half, and after becoming a full-time employee, you will be paid half and two. After retiring from the army, you may be arranged to work in a trading company, or to share the wasteland in the sea of ​​whales. From the age of 50, there is also a retirement annuity and dividends within the navy. There are many, but you can't die of hunger.Why is 50 years old, because the average life expectancy is less than forty.

He has been in the army for three years, and the monthly silver is two taels, a total of 40 taels.A set of military uniforms, a musket, and a lot of gunpowder, totaling 100 taels a year.

This is Dashun's most elite unit, the most expensive mast shooter.Whether it's an expensive rifled barrel or a precision head fed with countless gunpowder, money is needed, a lot of money.

He is not the kind of cheap line soldier who follows three months of training, fires guns and fills the line, and adds the average price of ordnance to two taels of silver a month from joining the army to death.

The young man didn't know that, with an average price of 100 taels, he just casually shot and killed an elite warrior who had inherited from the age of 20 and was now 35 years old, and received a total salary equivalent to 5000 taels.

He just followed the requirements of his daily training, standing on a high place, aiming at the enemy, looking for someone who looked like an officer.

Shigeji Yamauchi's armor was nice and conspicuous, so he took a shot.

After one shot, he took out the paper-wrapped bullets in the leather pouch at his waist, licked the oil smeared on them, tore open the paper bag with his teeth, put the lead bullets with wooden stock into the gun, and continued to look for the next target .

It wasn't until the first wave of offensive paused that he took out a small knife he had won in a bet, and carved two more orthographic characters on the stock of his gun. This was one of the first few characters he learned, and it was very suitable as a mark for recording How many people have been killed by oneself, one orthographic number is five.

He had never had the chance to kill people before, but since the Battle of Xiaohama, he really had the chance to kill people.Accumulated so far, three orthographic characters have been produced. Calculated based on the average price of [-] shi rice for a full-armored warrior, if replaced with the rice of these years, it is enough to feed a battalion of the cheapest line soldiers.

And a battalion of Dashun's cheapest line privates can always kill fifteen warriors.

Even if, these samurai's sword skills are like Miyamoto Musashi; archery skills are better than Imagawa Yoshimoto;

(End of this chapter)