Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1755 Aiding Korea and Fighting the Japanese ([-]) Increased troops
In fact, Gao Yushi did not tell Liu Xin all his analysis, especially some of his own thoughts.

For example, he has a very key idea in thinking about the Japanese issue, which is to try not to let the Sea Trade Alliance directly intervene in Japan while Toyotomi Hideyoshi is still alive.

As the first "man of the world" to unify Japan after the Great Rebellion—whether his unification is limited to name only—as long as he lives, Japan will have a "co-lord".Under such circumstances, if Japan faces such a big change as another day, everyone is very likely to spontaneously unite and fight under his banner.

Obviously, Gao Pragmatism must try to avoid such a situation, lest he, an "imperialist reactionary", "fall into the vast ocean of people's war" all at once.

"The vast ocean of people's war" is not only owned by China. At this time, Japan has a population of more than 1200 million. If they can unite as one, it will also be a vast ocean for high-level pragmatists. Therefore, the priority of political means still needs to be solved. higher than military means.

According to the high-practical idea, first use political means to make it impossible for Japan to unite, then win over a group, attack a group, and stabilize a group, so as to establish an absolute superior force, and then start to implement the ruling strategy.

Today, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, as the co-lord of Japan, has established Toyotomi Gongyi. Unless he completely goes against the law in the country and offends all the factions, the basics of this system will be stable, even if the high pragmatism provokes Tokugawa Ieyasu to The rebellion will most likely not succeed—if Tokugawa Ieyasu had really had that strength, he would not have expressed his allegiance to Toyotomi Hideyoshi before.

It is true that if the Maritime Trade Alliance fully supports Tokugawa Ieyasu and recruits the Shimadzu family as a helper to fight Toyotomi Hideyoshi with the strength of the three parties, of course they can win in the end, but the question remains: Is it worthwhile? ?

Conquest is no child's play.Conquest is an act of expanding the power of domination, while dominion must pay attention to the cost of domination and the benefits of domination. The price paid in the process of conquest is also the domination cost, which is a kind of "advance investment".If the initial investment is so huge that the cost cannot be recovered later, or it takes a very long time to recover the cost, then such a conquest is obviously not worthwhile.

Why did the ancient Chinese ancestors seldom have the motivation to continue to conquer foreign countries after the expansion of the "thirteen states in the pass"?It is nothing more than this reason: In terms of the objective conditions at the time, continuing to conquer would become a "losing business".

Gao Yushi wanted to conquer Japan under the banner that Japan "has mines", but he knew deep down that it was more than that.Whether it is talking about feelings, that is, anger at Japan's ungrateful aggression against China after the rise of Japan in the original history, or from geopolitical considerations, that is, as long as Japan can rise, it will definitely play the role of the "offshore balance hand" that Britain has for Europe. , affect the stability and harmony of the East Asian continent. In short, high pragmatism will not allow Japan to become a force alone.

This idea does not seem to be based on the cost of governance, but in fact it is still considered from the cost of governance, but the geographical scope of consideration has been enlarged, from "China" to at least the entire East Asia.

It's just that these words can't be said now, neither to the emperor nor to his colleagues, and it doesn't even make much sense to say them to Liu Xin.It's not that Gao Wushi doesn't know that Liu Xin doesn't have much interest in these things. The reason why she helps herself is largely because she is not as well integrated in this world as she is. Apart from herself, she has no real confidant .

Loneliness is terrible, and it may be even more terrible for women who are more dependent on social groups.

After Gao Wushi and Liu Xin talked about these strategic issues, they gradually refined them to specific operations, especially for the negotiations that Kai Jiji would host after returning to Japan. In terms of daring to fight, it seems to be a little bit worse. She suggested strengthening the strength of the Kanto side, especially the land power.

Gao Yushi agrees with this view in principle. After all, the only land force in Misaki Castle is Gao Yunping's Marine Corps bid, and the formal establishment is only about 800 people.

The flintlock team of 800 people is also equipped with some relatively advanced land artillery. This kind of strength cannot be said to be weak in Japan, but its weak force is still certain.

According to the theory that Gao Pragmatism has always believed before, the power of firearms troops comes from the "bomb volume per unit time".If a 800-strong flintlock Marine Corps were to fight [-] Japanese troops, or even [-] Japanese troops, considering the technical advantages of flintlocks and effective range, they could still fight.

However, if the opponent's army is larger, the outcome of the war will be difficult to predict.Considering that although the Japanese army's artillery is stretched, but the level of muskets is not bad, the result can only be said that victory or defeat is possible, and more probably depends on the discipline of the opponent's army and the firm will of the opponent's generals to attack.

Gao Wushi and Liu Xin found out the city defense maps and various data submitted by Misaki Castle and Yusheng Castle. After careful study, they believed that in terms of the strength of the current Marine Corps, it is not a big problem to defend Misaki Castle.

This actually depends on Gao Yushi’s previous site selection for the Kanto Fleet. There is an island in the south of Misaki City. Because of the relationship with the Kanto Fleet, the island is a safe area. People from Misaki Castle.

In addition, Misaki Castle itself is located in the southwesternmost part of the Miura Peninsula. It is also surrounded by seas on both sides. It should be said that the Japanese army, which lacks heavy firepower, is foolproof.

But the problem is that Jinghua not only needs to ensure the safety of Misaki Castle, but more importantly, Yusheng Castle.As Jinghua's only subordinate force on the main island of Japan, whether the Narita family's Tamawa Castle can stick to it is a political issue.If it can hold on with the support of the Maritime Trade Alliance, then other daimyos who may seek refuge in the future will be assured; on the contrary, if it is lost, who will dare to seek refuge easily in the future?

The biggest task of being the boss is to ensure the safety of the younger brother. This principle is the same everywhere.If you, the boss, can't even cover the little brother, why should people mess with you?From this perspective, among the "hegemony needs to provide public goods" mentioned in later generations of international politics, "security" must be one of the key public goods, and may even be the most basic public goods.

This principle is very easy to understand, just as no one in NATO will be fine, except the United States, because the United States is the hegemony that provides the basic public product of security in NATO.

"Then how much do you think the number of troops should be increased?" Gao Wushi asked.

"Send at least one more bid." Liu Xin said simply: "Since you didn't give Jia Feiji the power to command the defense of Yusheng City, then the strength of the Narita family itself is not worth mentioning in my opinion. Moreover, considering The position of the Narita family may not be [-]% firm yet, so we have to consider the possibility of internal changes.

In this way, not only must we have our own armed forces in Yusheng City, but this force must also have the ability to quickly counter the rebellion anyway.There are not many troops for one target, so we can't just send one battalion, can we?No matter how elite the battalion is, if the number is too small, the deterrence will not be enough. "

The high-practical and determined new-style army organization, from large to small, is army, town, association, standard, battalion, company, platoon, and shed, a total of eight levels.Obviously, compared with the military system of later generations, the town here corresponds to the division, the association corresponds to the brigade, and the standard corresponds to the regiment. The three levels of the battalion, company and platoon remain unchanged, and the shed corresponds to the standard squad.

Specifically, each town has two infantry associations, one association has 38 officers and soldiers; each association has two bids, and each bid has 750 officers and soldiers (Ma Biao has slightly fewer officers and soldiers, 110 and [-] officers and soldiers); The bid is divided into three battalions, each battalion has four companies, each company has three rows, and each row has three sheds...

In the end, there were 12512 officers and soldiers in each town, consisting of infantry, horses, artillery, workers, and luggage.According to the difference between the northern and southern regions, sometimes there will be certain adjustments, but generally the difference will not be too big.

There are only less than 800 people per battalion, and the average battalion has less than 600 people, which is obviously not enough. Therefore, if you want to send more soldiers, you must send at least one more soldier.

However, Gao Wushi said: "In this case, the navy doesn't care, but the army has a mark for Misaki Castle and Yusheng Castle, but there is no unified command. Once fighting breaks out in the two places at the same time, it is likely to leading to confusion in command."

Liu Xin was a little surprised, and asked, "You mean to simply upgrade the size of the Marine Corps in the Kanto region to an alliance?"

"That's right." Gao Wushi nodded, and said: "Gao Yunping's defeat of Toyotomi Hidekatsu before has not been officially rewarded, but a sum of money has been given out. Now we can use this as an excuse to award another reward. Let his standard be upgraded to the Association on the spot."

After some calculations, Liu Xin felt that this was fine, so she nodded and said, "In the past, their organization has been changed once, and now they are the No. [-] independent unit of the Jinghua Marine Corps stationed in Japan. If they are upgraded now, should they be changed to the No. [-] independent unit stationed in Japan?"

"Yes." Gao Wushi replied very happily, but added: "However, this time, instead of expanding the old with the new, we will directly transfer a bidder from the newly formed Marine Corps. Biao Tong will take over the position of Biao Tong, and the following will be filled in order.

As for the deputy coordinator and the chief of staff, you choose two people from the Taiwan colonization force to report to me for approval, and then transfer them there as soon as possible with the troops. "

The reason why the last paragraph is "together with the troops" is that Jinghua's marines are currently trained in Taiwan, and most of them are usually stationed in Taiwan, and a small part of them have changed their defenses to Luzon.

After talking about this, Liu Xin winked her eyes and asked: "Jia Feiji will return to Japan tomorrow, do you want to see her off?"
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(End of this chapter)