Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1582 Taking Chestnuts from the Fire ([-])
"Thank you very much for your assistance, Your Highness. I am Narita Kai, the daughter of Narita Clan, the Lord of Shinobi Castle. What is your name, Your Highness?"

"You're welcome, Princess Jiafei, you can just call me Gao Yunping." Gao Yun, the commander of the Marine Corps, paralleled the military salute of a Gao family's armed servant, and smiled slightly: "It's very good that your highness can speak Chinese, and it can be saved in the future. A lot of trouble."

Kai Ji bowed her head deeply in a very Japanese way and replied: "My Chinese is not good, please forgive me, Your Highness, and I will continue to study hard."

"Haha, it's good to be able to communicate smoothly. As for learning... Well, I think you will have opportunities in the future." Gao Yunping grinned, paused and said, "Princess must be very curious about why I appear here, right? I don’t need to ask, I was ordered to rescue Ninja City, but there is another more important task to ensure your safety, the princess, so after I arrived at Ninja City and learned of your whereabouts, I brought people to meet the princess.”

"Although it's presumptuous, I still want to know when did the Sea Trade Alliance become an ally of the Hojo family?" Obviously, at this time, Kai Ji didn't know the cause and effect of the matter, so when she asked the question, she was not only full of doubts, but even Still have three points of vigilance.

"The allies of the Hojo family? No, no, we are not considered an alliance with the Hojo family." Gao Yunping replied with a big shake of his head.

"It's not the allies of the Hojo family?" Jia Feiji was very surprised, and asked with a frown: "Then... Could it be that my father reached an agreement with the Maritime Trade Alliance?"

Kai Ji didn't ask "Could it be that my father has reached an alliance with the Sea Trade Alliance", which is obviously very sensible, because no one can deny the strength of the Sea Trade Alliance, they didn't even go to the alliance with the Hojo family, and the Narita family naturally couldn't exclude On the number.

Although the strength of the Sea Trade Alliance has never been shown on land before today, since the first battle of the Anton Navy, none of the dozens of various "navy armies" large and small in Japan dare not put the Sea Trade Alliance in the first place. In the eyes.Most naval forces chose to actively seek out the Shanghai Trade Alliance and form a "cooperative" relationship with them; there were also some "persuaded" by the Sea Trade Alliance to "cooperate" along the way.

In the past, there were one or two small powers who were not clear-headed, thinking that the Maritime Trade Alliance approached them to cooperate with the idea of ​​annexing them, and because of hesitation and slow response, they...then they disappeared.

Strong at sea but no influence on land, this is the impression most Japanese have of the Sea Trade Alliance at this time, and in the mind of Kai Ji at this moment, the land strength displayed by the Sea Trade Alliance is simply shocking.

Speaking of it, almost everyone who sees a large-scale "queuing to shoot" for the first time will feel this kind of shock, but sometimes the shock of professionals and the shock of non-professionals are not on the same channel at all.

The shock of non-professionals is generally reflected in "this style of play looks really stupid", while professionals will look at this style of play from the perspective of the amount of projectiles fired per unit time, that is, the density of firepower. His strict discipline produced a great shock.

Undoubtedly, as the general of Ninja City, Jia Feiji, who blocked tens of thousands of troops for nearly half a year with three thousand old and weak civilians, belongs to the latter.

However, apart from discipline, Jiafei Ji was shocked. She only vaguely guessed about the density of firepower, but she still keenly felt that the method of using iron cannons by the Sea Trade Alliance had a great impact on her years of study and practice. The tactics have a great impact.

In her eyes, these soldiers stood in several rows with iron cannons, and when the two sides gradually approached to a certain distance, they started shooting with their guns. No matter how the opponent changed, the soldiers of the Sea Trade Alliance did not hide at all (actually This is because the Toyotomi Army's pursuers did not have a large group of cavalry, so they didn't even use bayonet formations), it seemed that they had made up their minds: whoever defeated the opponent would win.

This kind of war scene is also very weird in the eyes of Jia Fei Ji.Isn't it necessary to use strengths and avoid weaknesses in war? Why do you have to fight so foolishly?In her opinion, if Gao Yunping is confident that the army under his command is elite enough, it is better to form a wild goose formation at the beginning, and after the battle starts, the two wings will be stretched out to form an outflank encirclement.

If you feel that this is not safe, and there is a danger of being penetrated by the opponent, then you can also change the formation of front arrows, concentrate the elite on the arrows, and break through the enemy's middle, directly forming a momentum to destroy the enemy, and then you can beat the dog in the water up.

However, Gao Yunping's style of play is three "one-character long snake formations" before and after-well, according to the Chinese language, this may be "Three Folded Waves of the Dragon Gate", but no matter how the language changes, it will not change. Rigid flat push combat.

In later generations, this kind of queuing and shooting or "line infantry tactics" has long been thrown into the garbage dump of history, but Jia Feiji, who has just watched the "performance" of the Marine Corps, obviously dare not think so.

There is more than one determinant of the victory or defeat of a war, but in many cases the reason can only be deduced from the result. Since the Maritime Trade Alliance has used such a "three-line rotation progressive shooting tactic" and achieved brilliant results, it means that this tactic is obviously It was very successful—of course it was very successful, the two sides had about the same strength, and after the battle, the opponent lost more than half of them, with only 17 casualties, of which only one was killed, three were seriously injured, and the remaining thirteen were slightly injured.

The situation at that time was simply like this: the Toyotomi army came after them, and found that the Marine Corps of the Sea Trade Alliance was in the front line and took in Kaiji and her party. More than 100 people were directly destroyed by two rounds of gunfire from the Trade Union. The army collapsed for the first time, and the entire army retreated.

The general who was in charge of leading the chasing troops found that the Marine Corps of the Sea Trade Alliance did not launch a pursuit, but just marched forward slowly with the beat of the drums, so he thought that the opponent had given up the best chance of victory, so he still had a chance Fight again.

Therefore, he immediately beat the drums to gather the troops, gathered the defeated troops and reorganized, and it was completed very quickly.He also considered that the opponent seemed to be a pure "iron cannon reserve team" with relatively strong firepower, so he concentrated the elite soldiers in the center of the front—well, it was the front arrow array that Jia Feiji thought of—and then launched the second attack.

This time he really... died even worse.Although Gao Yunping did not change his formation at all, the soldiers were not machines. Although the positions remained the same, the guns would obviously be fired at the "front arrow" position where the troops were denser.

In this way, the elite soldiers of Toyotomi's army under the "concentrated fire" lost most of the first round of volleys, and then they discovered something that they hadn't noticed in the previous chaotic attack in a sober state: the opponent The reloading time of the iron cannon is extremely short, and the second round of salvo may come again after only a dozen breaths.

This time, the elite soldiers in the front line were almost completely wiped out, including the general attendant and the two ashigaru generals, and the troops who rushed up with them also suffered heavy losses. Under the circumstances, they collapsed without any surprise, and fled back screaming...then they were shot again by the marines from behind.

In the entire battle, the Marine Corps only fired five rounds of volleys, causing the opponent Toyotomi's army with almost equal strength to lose more than half, and the entire army fled.Although this is a scene Gao Yunping is familiar with, the shock in the eyes of the Japanese is undoubted. The Toyotomi Army almost "does not know how to lose", and Kai Feiji and his team don't know that the Marine Corps is "how can this be?" won".

In fact, the truth is not that complicated. Simply put, the advancement of weapons has led to changes in tactics.In the era of cold weapons, everyone knows that the formation of troops is extremely important when fighting.In many battles, once one side's formation collapses, the troops are scattered, and the army is defeated like a mountain, it is basically a defeat.

With the transition of hot and cold weapons, weapons have been innovated and developed, and muskets have gradually appeared.The early muskets were arquebuses, muskets and the like. What these muskets fired were not the streamlined pointed bullets seen in later generations, but projectiles, so many barrels did not have rifling.

In addition, due to the huge smoke and sparks produced by gunpowder, for soldiers, when pulling the trigger, their faces have to be turned to one side to avoid being burned by fireworks.In addition, the airtightness and other designs were not in place, resulting in the early muskets, the power is not bad, but the accuracy and range are extremely poor.

This creates a situation, that is, if the soldiers at this time are shooting at each other in the trenches like in modern warfare, or even in World War I, the hit rate must be extremely low, and the two sides may not die even if they fight for a year. Come alone.

Moreover, the reloading speed of the musket was very slow at this time. At this time, the muskets produced under the mainstream level of musket technology, such as the Japanese iron gun (the Japanese iron gun was praised by Qi Jiguang by name, of course, Qi Jiguang mainly thought that the quality of the Japanese iron gun was better than that of the time. The quality of the iron cannons made by Damingwei is much better), even for well-trained soldiers, basically only two or three shots per minute, but in reality it has to drop by at least 1% or even half on the battlefield.

Think about it, it takes a long time to load a bullet, and then fire the design, it depends on fate whether you can hit it accurately.At this level of weapon development, many ideas of modern warfare cannot be applied mechanically, and the ideas of "ancient" warfare are also not applicable. Therefore, there must be a method of using weapons that meets the conditions of this level of technology.

The fundamental requirement of this method is to ensure the output of firepower during the battle, so the "line infantry" tactic appeared.Of course, Gao Pragmatism is not original. He is plagiarism, but he added some Chinese-style improvements later.

Line infantry was originally the basic infantry formation of the European Army from the 17th century to the mid-19th century, usually consisting of two to five rows of infantry.Each row of soldiers is about half a meter apart, commanded by the officer's order and the drumbeat of military music, so that the team can move forward, stop and shoot.

Since the loading, accuracy, and range of the musket limit the lethality and hit rate of a single bullet, even if the enemy stands there and aims at you, it is difficult to guarantee a certain hit.But if a large group of people fire at the same time, probably aiming at the opposite army, the probability of hitting can be effectively improved.The principle is that if there are many people, if you fire together, one of them will always hit. Even if I can't hit you, I can hit him. Anyway, as long as you can hit the enemy, it doesn't matter who you hit.

This is of course a rigid combat system, but it is difficult to solve this problem.The best way is of course to get the Maxim machine gun, which can sweep the line infantry and cavalry into the garbage dump at the same time. It is a magic weapon that crosses the ages.It's a pity that this thing can't be done just by talking about it. Without a sufficient industrial system and technical level, it is meaningless to know some basic principles even if it is highly pragmatic.

This thing is like a nuclear bomb in the 21st century. Most countries know the basic principles of nuclear bombs, but knowing the principles does not mean you can do it.Not to mention that the five gangsters will definitely not sit idly by under non-special circumstances, even if you are really allowed to do it, there is a high probability that you will not be able to do it.For the vast majority of countries, it may be possible to try to build a nuclear power plant or something, but it is basically impossible to reach the military level, not to mention other things, without a strong technical level and the same strong national power .

Besides, having a nuclear bomb does not mean having the ability to successfully project it from a long distance. For example, the third brother's nuclear bomb can only be launched from one base, and it cannot reach the core area of ​​​​the Red Dynasty—the "Indian Crowd" never mention this.Of course, the projection technology of the minibus was obtained from a certain dynasty, and the distance is just enough to take a taxi from their home to New Delhi, but the minibus is relatively honest and has never developed this technology.

Long story short, let's get down to business.Although Gao Yushi was unable to technically break through the tactical limitations, he still made some improvements. These improvements were based on the fact that Jinghua's musket technology was higher than the contemporary standard.

For example, the Gao family's armed forces generally do not deploy "line columns" in five or more columns, usually three columns.This is not only to maintain the tradition of the so-called "Three Duan Strike of the Ming Dynasty", but because Jinghua used the flintlock gun after mastering the spring technology, and used the paper shell fixed charge, so the loading speed was faster and more stable. The three rows of musketeers have been able to guarantee the density of firepower.

Although the transformation of bullets is still going on and cannot be considered complete, rifling technology has already begun to be used.Although the metal stress problem caused by metal processing rifling is still a big problem so far, so that only very shallow rifling can be used, but it is better than nothing.

As for smokeless gunpowder, this problem has actually been solved at the technical level, but the production cost is very troublesome.Compared with black powder, smokeless gunpowder, the key to technology is to use nitrogen.Although it can be produced using nitrate ore, not to mention the extremely high cost, it is basically impossible to manufacture it on a large scale—unless Gao Wuzhen now occupies Chile.

To put it simply, the large-scale use of smokeless gunpowder basically requires the mastery of synthetic ammonia technology, otherwise even if it can be done, there is no possibility of mass production-Jinghua will not do such a loss-making business.

"Princess Jiafei, your father and the Maritime Trade Alliance did have some... well, there were some negotiations, and an exchange was reached in principle, but I'm afraid it's not an alliance for the time being." Gao Yunping said, adding: "Wait for my master's reply."

"Do you mean your lord by 'Master'?" asked Jia Feiji.

"Yes, the princess can understand that."

Jia Feiji said curiously: "I once heard that he is Tang...uh, an important minister of the Ming Dynasty, but I don't know his specific duties. Can you roughly compare it with Japanese official positions?"

"Well, I'm not very familiar with the official position of the Japanese legal system, but if the princess is just comparing the authority in the country, I think my master should be a minister like your left and right government."

Jia Feiji was taken aback: "Ah, it's really amazing! Is it actually Master Zuo Fu who is second only to the Minister of Taizheng? If it were placed in Japan, it would be second only to Master Guanbai, and even more respected than Master Tokugawa." of it!"
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PS: I wonder if I'm going to make up some lessons on Dahe drama or Japanese manga animation, I feel that the dialogue is not enough for the second class!
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