This Qing is wrong

Chapter 234

The sound of cannon fire continued, but in fact the real lethality caused was very few. Both the Tang army and the Qing army had long been accustomed to the battlefield with heavy artillery fire, and the large formations of both sides were outside the effective range of the artillery.

Therefore, the purpose of firing artillery is mainly to boost the morale of one's own side. After all, if the enemy fires artillery and does not fire, it is easy to cause psychological pressure on soldiers.

Not surprisingly, the Qing army, which had a three-fold advantage in strength, took the lead in attacking.

This is not because Emperor Kangxi is inflated, and he feels that Li Changqing, a demon who cannot be used as a war puppet, is not his opponent.

It was because Emperor Kangxi wanted to show the momentum of the Qing army at the beginning.

The most important thing is that the Qing soldiers have many horses and can launch continuous onslaughts from almost all directions that can enter the field.

All those standing in front of the Tang army formation were Japanese mercenaries, and Li Changqing's core system troops were all located in the center of the formation.

Yasuo Yamashita is now a third-class lieutenant in the Tang Army, serving as a centurion. He squinted his eyes slightly and watched the Qing army slowly approaching in the distance pushing a chariot.

It is not difficult to see from the flags that those Qing troops belonged to the new green battalion.

The organizational system of the Japanese mercenary army is different from that of the traditional Han Tang army.

After the Japanese samurai among the Japanese mercenaries have accumulated enough military merit, there are two routes to choose from.

The first is to choose the corresponding level of fief based on the military titles you already have, and be a small feudal lord.

Obviously, choosing this path basically cut off the way to continue to gain military merit and advance to the top.

Although being a small feudal lord in the rear also has the opportunity to accumulate military exploits through low-intensity battles such as 'suppressing bandits', this accumulation method is more than ten times slower than following the emperor of the Tang Dynasty in the Southern Expedition and Northern War!
Therefore, Japanese samurai who really have great ambitions disdain to choose this route.

The second way is naturally to accumulate military exploits among the mercenaries.

The Japanese mercenaries adopted a new way of accumulating military merits.

Every Japanese samurai who enlists in the army will automatically obtain the status of a third-class soldier, and then be promoted to a first-class soldier through military exploits.

If the first-class soldier is promoted further, he can step into the rank of non-commissioned officer.

Starting from the rank of non-commissioned officer, there are nine levels in full!
Japanese samurai need to be promoted from the ninth-class non-commissioned officer to the first-class non-commissioned officer, and then they can enter the next big rank-the title of lieutenant.

In the same way, the title of school lieutenant is also divided into nine ranks.

If the Japanese samurai is lucky and brave enough, he can be promoted to first-class lieutenant, and then he can become a real general.

A Japanese samurai who becomes a general can choose to become a daimyo lord at the level of a feudal lord.

Of course, you can also choose to stay in the Japanese mercenary army and serve as a senior commander.

However, the Japanese samurai who were promoted to become generals could no longer accumulate military merits in the previous way. They needed to win important battles and be appreciated by the Tang court before they could continue to move forward.

And the Japanese samurai who have the title of major general (the lowest rank of general), and then go up to get hereditary power.

The Japanese samurai who obtained the fief have no hereditary power. The entrusted Japanese samurai will be degraded to the third-class military title every generation.

The minimum military merit title for obtaining fiefdoms is the ninth-class non-commissioned officer. If the military merit title of the successor falls below the ninth-class non-commissioned officer, the fief will be confiscated by the Tang court.

One generation lowers the rank of third-class military merit, even for Japanese samurai with the rank of first-class non-commissioned officer, the fiefdom is only passed on for three generations.

Therefore, many ambitious Japanese samurai who are quite confident in themselves are all rushing to the goal of hereditary qualifications to live with the country.

After reaching the rank of general, he was promoted from major general to general, and then he was granted a fiefdom, which is a hereditary qualification without demotion. As long as the Tang Empire is not destroyed, it can be passed on forever.

It was this hanging painting that made the morale of the Japanese samurai who stayed in the army high as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Among Japanese mercenaries, bloodlines are not considered, only military merits are considered!

And because the Tang army has been on an expedition, there are many opportunities for combat meritorious service.

The titles of the ordinary soldier level and the non-commissioned officer level are based on the number of kills and the number of tasks completed to accumulate military merits.

When it comes to the title of lieutenant, Japanese samurai generally hold a powerful military position, no longer a pawn, but an officer, and the way of accumulating military merit will naturally change.

The difficulty is far beyond the period of the sergeant title.

Of course, Japanese samurai can also exchange accumulated military achievements into gold and silver, but there are very few Japanese samurai who do this...

Even a Japanese samurai with no ambitions will work hard to raise his military merits to the bottom line of non-commissioned officer level, and then receive a small fiefdom.

This kind of Japanese samurai and small feudal lords all need to obey the orders of the local government, which is equivalent to the subordinates of the local government, without much autonomy.

Only the feudal lords who have reached the level of general daimyo are the real emperors.

Some Japanese samurai who only cared about their own enjoyment and did not care about the life of their offspring asked their superiors for titles after accumulating military achievements to the ninth rank of non-commissioned officers.

This is why there are tens of thousands of Japanese samurai who did not participate in the decisive battle of Lahore.

Of course, as the top warrior among Japanese warriors, Yamashita Yasuo is not willing to let himself be just a small feudal lord restricted by the local government. His goal is to become a daimyo lord, preferably a general-level hereditary No substitute!

The rank of general is the highest rank of military merit among Japanese mercenaries.

Of course, after accumulating to that point, if you are willing to give up the fiefdom, you can choose to enter the Han land of the Tang Kingdom and become a Marquis who has no fiefdom but is equally hereditary and rests with the country.

Although there is no land fief for that choice, it will receive a large amount of land awarded by the imperial court, as well as corresponding tax reduction policies, as well as a very good mansion of the Marquis in the capital.

Future generations can also obtain a better official career in the Tang Empire.

In the Tang Empire, everyone except the emperor had to pay taxes, so it was already a great favor to be able to get the land of the tax reduction policy.

This is the treatment that a general-level knighthood can receive.

The advantage of this Marquis treatment is that you can sit back and enjoy the benefits without having to work hard to manage the fief, and because you don't have real power in your hands, you can't threaten the imperial power of the Tang Empire, so you don't have to worry about being targeted and weakened in the future.

In the eyes of some people, this is much better than being entrusted to a remote land as a daimyo lord.

If you choose this route, there will be a way to continue to rise to the rank of military merit. If you are promoted from general to general, you will be able to obtain the honor of a king with a different surname.

Of course, it is the king of the opposite sex who has no real power.

However, the war has progressed to the present, and the highest rank among the Japanese mercenaries is the third-class lieutenant like Yamashita Yasuo, and there is no second-class lieutenant, let alone the title of major general...

The promotion of the title of Japanese mercenary is more and more difficult.

And every major promotion, there will be an invisible ceiling.

In fact, Li Changqing did not intend to promote the Japanese samurai to the rank of major general at all.

The so-called daimyo lords and hereditary rebels are nothing but sweet pancakes painted for Japanese warriors.

Moreover, the military ranks of Japanese mercenaries can match relatively low official positions with real power.

The rank of non-commissioned officer will not match the official position at all, and you must go to the rank of lieutenant to get a serious official position.

And the rank of lieutenant rank can only be promoted every third class. A third-class lieutenant like Yamashita Yasuo is already the highest military merit in the entire Japanese mercenary army, and he is just a centurion.

The battalion, regiment and division commanders at the top are all Han officers.

Of course, the Han people have another set of standards for accumulating military merit, which is different from the Japanese samurai.

The biggest difference between the two sides is that the Han people do not have so many levels of military merit to accumulate military merit, and the accumulation is not difficult, but the Han people have no choice of enfeoffment and can only follow the system route.

That is to say, Li Changqing does not intend to entrust the meritorious people among the Han people.

Because in the Great Tang Empire built by Li Changqing, the feudal lords were just a transition, and as the newly conquered land gradually stabilized, those feudal lords would be transferred to more front-line positions.

Therefore, being a feudal lord in the Tang Empire is a high-risk occupation, and it is never possible to be in the safe hinterland of the Tang Kingdom.

Naturally, this kind of high-risk position cannot be taken by Han people, and the brave Japanese samurai are just right.

Even though the Tang Empire conquered large tracts of land in the Western Regions and Central Asia, some of the aborigines in these lands have always rebelled for various reasons. Every year, a group of Japanese samurai entrusted in the countryside will be killed by the rebels.

No matter how much a Japanese samurai can cut someone down, he will be shot down!

In frontal combat, those aboriginal rebels are naturally no match for enfeoffed Japanese samurai, but sneak attacks with black guns are hard to guard against.

Most of the enfeoffed Japanese samurai were killed by surprise attacks.

Among them, the most frequently attacked place is the hut...

There have even been many similar cases in the Western Regions. There was a group of thugs who hated the regime of the Tang Dynasty very much. They were very strong-willed and specially lurked in the latrines. When the Japanese samurai went to the toilet, they aimed at the most vulnerable parts of the men and killed them. ...

But after the news spread, the enfeoffed Japanese samurai also learned how to go to the toilet. Not only would they send their own armed servants to check the security, but they would also check whether there were any Tibetans in the latrine...

It can be described as 'unprecedented'.

After all, sneak attack is not the right method. As long as the method of sneak attack is mastered and the news spreads, there will naturally be corresponding methods of defense.

The enfeoffed Japanese samurai were also advancing with the times in their battles with the rebels.

After all, the enfeoffed Japanese samurai are not alone, they all have the authority to hire armed servants.

If you encounter a large group of bandits, you can also ask for help from the local government of the imperial court, and the local government will gather Japanese samurai feudal lords from the entire area to resist together.

This is why there has been no large-scale rebellion since the Tang Empire conquered the Western Regions and Central Asia.

You know, the Western Regions have completely changed their beliefs, and temples have become Taoist temples. For those people in the Western Regions who have believed in Buddhism all their lives, only they know the pain.

Of course, it was precisely because the religious reforms in the Western Regions caused many disturbances that Li Changqing did not immediately carry out reforms in Central Asia.

It is planned to change the spiritual beliefs of the Central Asian people little by little after the war subsides.

Li Changqing, who comes from the 21st century, is very clear that nation and country are simply an ideological issue, not an ethnic issue.

In the 21st century, there are people with white skin and yellow heart, and yellow skin and white heart.

Mind determines nationality, not skin.

Otherwise, the country of bulk immigrants in the United States would have been torn apart!

In this social environment where the level of education is generally low, ideas are often linked to beliefs, so it is the best operation to start with changing beliefs to assimilate ideas.

In this regard, the countries of the Europa Continent in the Age of Discovery did a good job.

The colonial area of ​​European countries is larger than the native area, and the native population of the colonies far exceeds the native population, so why can they still maintain their rule?
It is because when the European colonial powers expanded, they all had guns and the Bible in one hand.

Use guns to subjugate the flesh of the aborigines, and then use the Bible to transform their minds.

When everyone believes in God, the gap between races will naturally be reduced.

As for the subsequent collapse of the colonial system, it was mainly the European powers who committed suicide. They clearly let Europe stand at the top of the world, but they insisted on fighting a civil war.

As a result, World War I wiped out a bunch of powerful monarchies in Europe, and World War II disintegrated the few remaining colonial empires...

The self-consumption of the powerful Europa during World War I, and the complete loss of Europa's world dominance during World War II.

The two world wars have wiped out the core hegemony that many powerful countries in the Europa continent have built up over hundreds of years.

Today's Li Changqing is actually following the old path of European colonization.

On the one hand, it used wars to conquer other regions, and on the other hand, it used Taoism to assimilate the ideas of other nations.

First assimilate beliefs, and then assimilate clothes, characters, language, etc.

In the world of Li Changqing's previous life, many countries in Africa used French or English as their official language. To put it bluntly, it was because of the legacy of the European colonial system.

Even a regional powerhouse like India regards English as the lingua franca of high society.

In front of Yasuo's headquarters at the foot of the mountain, there is also a row of chariots.

Carriages are very common in field battles in this era. This is not an invention of the Qing army!
Europe had already understood the car formation as early as the Hussite War.

The biggest highlight of the Hussite War is that the car formation ended the era when knights were kings in the Middle Ages.

Because there are several people pushing the car, the baffle can be made thick enough, so it can naturally be bulletproof.

Even a large-caliber musket can be prevented from shooting at close range. The Ming army was defeated by the Qing army with a chariot.

However, the car tactics are not very easy to use in Europe today, because smoothbore guns have long been popularized in European countries.

Carriage defense muskets are useful tools, but facing cannons will become a sharp weapon for massacring one's own people.

As long as the chariot is hit by a shell, it will immediately split into a large piece of wooden thorns, and the soldiers following the chariot basically sweep a large area!

This is also the reason why the Qing army vigorously developed artillery before and after entering the customs.

However, in this battle of Lahore, the Tang army and the Qing army did not have many artillery pieces, so there was a chance for the chariots to play their remaining heat.

(End of this chapter)