The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Matchlock.

In fact, as far as the current Ming is concerned, it does not show the feeling of a single-soldier artifact.

But this is also impossible.

The first appearance is to fight the Mongols.

The Mongols have an almost uniform cavalry team. Even infantry are basically slave soldiers, which cannot be regarded as a real Mongolian army.

The high mobility of the Mongolian cavalry, especially in an open scene like the grassland, is almost an unsolvable problem in terms of the current level of armaments.

The most disgusting thing is that every Mongolian grew up on horseback.

He has been herding sheep and herding horses since he was a child.

They grew up with horses since they were young, and they always sleep on horses.

The Mongolian cavalry with one man and two riders can travel day and night, just resting on horseback.

How high is the so-called high mobility?

That is, within twelve hours, eating, sleeping, except for defecating casually, all on horseback.

Eight hundred miles may be a bit exaggerated, without changing people and horses.

But three or four hundred miles is not a problem at all.

As for such a Mongolian, the most troublesome thing is that he is not an exception, but a large-scale popularity.

Such things as running thousands of miles are almost the most common things in Mongolia.

On the grasslands, the Mongolian cavalry is invincible.

What is the concept of three or four hundred miles in this era, this will make the enemies of Mongolia unable to eat ashes.

If I want to come, I will come.

I want to go, just go.

Even if Mongolia was defeated and was driven to the grassland by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Mongols who were seriously injured were still Zhu Yuanzhang's confidantes.

A large number of important border military towns were built, and only then did the Frontier King appear.

The purpose is to prevent the Mongols.

The vast grassland is the home of the Mongols, and even Zhu Ying has nothing to do about it.

After the debut of the matchlock gun, it did achieve good results, but it was just a tortoise shell.

Chase, it is impossible to catch up.

In the end, after thinking hard, he could only adopt a strategy of assimilation.

In fact, Zhu Ying still underestimated the Mongols.

Otherwise, such a thing as Zhu Di being captured alive would not have happened.

It sounds a little exaggerated, after all, Zhu Di was the Emperor Yongle in history, and he personally conquered Mongolia six times.

Well, even if they personally conquered Mongolia six times and consumed countless Ming power, they still haven't completely solved the problem of the Mongols.

This in itself is an insoluble problem.

Emperor Yongle personally conquered Mongolia under the protection of hundreds of thousands of troops.

Now Zhu Di only has tens of thousands of people. Although there are many cavalry, there is still a big gap between the cavalry trained by Daming and the Mongolian cavalry.

And in World War II.

That is, Daming set off to conquer Annan.

Annan is different from Mongolia.

Annan's firearms ability is actually not low.

If it weren't for Zhu Ying's emphasis on firearms, in terms of guns and cannons, in fact, Annan's craftsmanship is even higher than that of Daming in some other aspects.

The disadvantages of the emperor system are reflected here.

Even Annan's firearms are good, but they don't have the support from Zhu Ying to vigorously develop firearms.

Especially in the case of gunpowder granulation, which greatly increases the damage of firearms, the suppression is more obvious.

Plus Annan himself is actually a mess.

The kingship in Annan has long been desolate, the power minister Hu Jishang is unscrupulous, and the warlords in various places do not listen to the announcement, which makes it impossible to concentrate all their forces to fight against Ming Dynasty.

Even if Hu Jiyao rebelled in the end, relying on his own ability to make most of the Annan local warlords unite, but this is just like the Six Kingdoms, how can each have their own ghosts and can play real combat power.

What I think more about is how to preserve my own strength and consume allies.

In order to have greater development after the war.

The only one with some quality is probably the crusade against the Wa Kingdom.

In fact, the matchlock gun was not particularly brilliant in the war against Japan.

This is not to say that the Wa country has any ability to resist, the key lies in the cannon.

Due to the geographical environment of Wa Kingdom, earthquakes occurred frequently, which caused most of the city walls of Wa Kingdom to be very short.

In addition, the Japanese are also short in stature, so it really doesn't matter whether they use matchlock guns or not.

In field battles, the Japanese did not dare to confront the Ming army at all, but in siege battles, the city walls collapsed as soon as the cannons fired.

Obviously cannons are more useful than arquebuses.

In this way, people feel that the matchlock gun is really easy to use, but it is not as exaggerated as imagined.

Is that really the case.

Tension can tell you that's not the case.

The real horror of firecrackers like matchlock guns lies in small-scale combat.

There is also the most critical one, universality.

As far as Daming's current personal long-range weapons are concerned, they are roughly firecrackers and bows.

But the bow is so easy to use.

Archer, it sounds simple, but in fact the difficulty is simply exaggerated.

In many narratives, the strength of personal martial arts is roughly a sentence of being good at riding and shooting.

That doesn't sound like much.

However, whether it is for the present or the previous dynasties, archers are the symbol of personal force value.

Such as Guan Yu, horse archer.

For example, Zhang Fei, a step archer.

Only truly brave soldiers can be called archers.

But the difficulty of training an archer is simply too high.

How difficult is it to train an archer?

First of all, in terms of consumption, archery is not just about opening the bow, it also needs accuracy, which naturally consumes a lot of physical strength.

The consumption of physical strength requires the supplement of meat.

To put it simply, if you are hungry, how can you shoot the bow? On the contrary, if you don't practice every day, how can you be accurate.

In terms of food, the burden on the army is great.

Before that, almost [-]% of the common people had a big problem filling their stomachs, so how could they consume without any scruples.

Even now, it is impossible for the seemingly strong and prosperous Daming to feed the soldiers of the world without restraint.

Zhu Ying's army consumes a lot of meat every day, and in fact it is only the capital, or the surrounding guards.

In less prosperous and slightly remote areas, at most, there is only one meal of meat for three days, which is already very good.

Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic to train a large number of archers.

At present, Zhu Ying has the idea of ​​developing professional soldiers, but up to now at least [-]% of Ming soldiers are still in the relationship with the guard.

Can only be slowly.

At this point, the benefits of the matchlock gun are reflected.

Zhang Li's centurion is actually just low-level soldiers.

In theory, they wouldn't even have a single archer.

But the arquebus appeared.

You don't need to be too strong, the matchlock itself is not too heavy, and simple aiming is about the same.

It is naturally difficult for sharpshooters to appear due to accuracy restrictions, but the key to arquebus is that it is easy to get started.

A recruit can easily control a matchlock gun after only ten days of training.

This time can be shortened if a large number of fireball training is provided.

in Luzon.

The horror of the matchlock gun is truly reflected.

A centurion like Zhang Li can easily take down the strongest warrior among the natives with just a few shots.

As we all know, in the battle of cold weapons, especially the backward places.

The strongest warrior naturally rushed to the front.

Bang bang bang.

Just get rid of the most powerful group.

Then things become much simpler.

"Just now you screamed so viciously. Hey, I don't want to give you some flair. I don't know how powerful you are."

Tension stepped on one of the strongest natives.

I have to say that this native is really powerful, and even though he has been hit several times, lying on the ground and crying, he still feels full of energy.

It's a pity that under the suppression of the civilization level, there is no room for using force at all.

The entire village was easily controlled by Zhang Li, a team of hundreds.

The aborigine lying on the ground let out crazy curses.

The tension is naturally incomprehensible.

And this village belongs to the Visayans of Luzon.

The Visayans are the most populous indigenous people in Luzon, and in terms of character, the Visayans are also the most brutal.

During the Song Dynasty, the Visayas often invaded the Penghu Islands by boat, destroyed the agricultural production on the islands, and then went to the coast of Quanzhou to cause chaos.

Zhang Li and the others naturally don't know about historical events.

As for Zhang Li, the soldiers from Japan, the only military order they received was to dig out gold mines on the islands of Luzon and organize personnel to mine them.

Naturally, this person cannot be from Daming.

The feudal lords like Zhu Di don't want to disappear and spread to Daming, but to directly blockade the entire Luzon Island, and then arrest the locals for mining.

Situations like Zhang Li are just episodes in today's Luzon.

A large number of soldiers quickly swept the entire Luzon Island in units of hundreds of people.

In fact, there are so many translations.

It's just that their role is too small, and the key is that there are too few people.

There are hundreds of centurions, and the interpreter can't support them at all.

In this case, there is no need for translation.

This is the darkest moment in Luzon's history.

A large number of Luzon natives, Visayans, Cebuans, Tagalogs, etc., directly became slaves under the vassal king's army.

These officers and soldiers were not trained by Zhu Ying. In terms of quality, they were not much different from the past.

Especially after staying in the Wa country for so long, the suppression of oneself has long been completely let go.

As for the alien race, it doesn't matter so much.

Luzon Island began to fall on a large scale.

Even if some places did cause a lot of trouble to these vassal kings' troops, in terms of the overall trend, they have been unable to recover.

Even if there are some hard bones that are not easy to chew, the Fanwang Army directly pulled the cannons from the ship.

Let's put more than a dozen cannons on this village first.

As the feudal king's army took control of Luzon Island, a large number of gold mines were also discovered.

He came here for the gold mines, so naturally he had arranged craftsmen who were good at surveying.

When the gold mines were discovered one by one, the Fanwang Army was obviously more eager.

The news immediately spread to the ears of the four vassal kings along with the ships returning to the country of Wa.

Zhu Ying's return did not seem to cause any disturbance to the capital.

With Zhu Yuanzhang in charge, naturally there is no such thing as Xiao Xiao.

In fact, as far as the current imperial court is concerned, the existence of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ying completely concealed the brilliance of the courtiers.

It's not that the courtiers are not talented enough, but Zhu Ying's current reform speed is really too fast.

Every reform in history is full of blood and tears, because it will touch a large number of interest groups.

But in Zhu Ying's case, no matter in terms of bureaucracy, military power, or people's livelihood management, there is a sense of success without the slightest difficulty.

As a result, for many ministers, they only need to do their own jobs well, and then try their best to implement the latest policies promulgated by His Royal Highness the Grandson.

And Zhu Yuanzhang here, taking Xiao Wencheng with him every day is a joy.

Grandson, it's time to run more.

Save yourself too much laziness.

"Grandpa, can't you put Xiao Wencheng down?"

Zhu Ying looked at the old man speechlessly, but he had business to talk to the old man.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was opposite, treated Zhu Ying like air, and only cared about playing with Xiao Wencheng.

"If you have anything to say, just say it. I didn't see that we were having fun with Xiao Wencheng." Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to look at his grandson and said angrily.

Zhu Ying: Well, as expected, love will transfer.