If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 162 Under Fukuoka Castle
Facts have proved that even if the troops are divided, the Japanese army cannot be an opponent of the Ming army.

After Zhu Zhanquan saw the army landing in Fukuoka and defeating the Japanese troops fighting in Fukuoka with just one round of artillery bombardment, he realized deeply that the Japanese on the island were probably not as capable as the Japanese at sea. beat.

But this is not surprising. After all, the Japanese country did not promote the use of cannons and muskets until the Warring States Period nearly 200 years later. It was due to the continuous expansion of the scale of war and European trade in the late Warring States Period that cannons and muskets were gradually used. Two things are promoted.

At this time, the Japanese country did not have muskets, and their combat was still at the stage of cold weapons.

The first time the Japanese obtained muskets was probably in 1544, when Portuguese merchants brought matchlocks to the Japanese. This incident was called the "Iron Cannon Incident" by the Japanese. This started the history of the Japanese using firearms.

As for the cannon, a powerful weapon, it was even later, probably not until a few decades after the matchlock gun was introduced to Japan.

Therefore, although the Japanese nation of this era had seen the power of firearms when the Mongols conquered Japan, they had no idea about it and did not acquire any technology.

After all, the two failures of the Mongolian conquests had nothing to do with the Japanese themselves. It was simply that the Mongols were unlucky and their fleet was destroyed by typhoons.

As for Zhu Zhanjun, his Tianjin Three Guards may not have had time to equip muskets and tiger squatting cannons. They are generally still the traditional standard equipment of the Ming army. However, the Qingyu Guards have muskets and tiger squatting cannons, which are very important in this era. of advanced firearms.

In particular, Qingyu Guard had two thousand muskets and five hundred tiger cannons in one guard station, which was unimaginable to the Japanese.

You must know that even in the Battle of Nagashino, which was the first large-scale use of muskets during the Warring States Period in Japan, the total number of muskets used by Oda Nobunaga was only more than 1000, and at that time the Japanese still used matchlocks. , and the Jade Guard's flintlock are not the same concept at all.

"It seems that it is a waste to use artillery to attack these Japanese. It seems that just the Qingyu Guard's muskets can destroy the morale of the Japanese." Sitting on a specially designed chair on the boat, Zhu Zhanchen looked at the Japanese who were almost collapsed at the first touch. Jun, curled his lips with disdain at the battle situation.

Although Zhu Zhanjun has not experienced any large-scale wars, he also experienced the Jingnan disaster when he was a child. At the beginning of the year, he led an army to suppress Japanese pirates at sea. What will happen to an army when faced with firearms bombardment? I still generally understand what kind of reaction there will be.

It is understandable and will indeed happen to panic when facing a musket for the first time, or even to cause morale to collapse.

But even if they are just Japanese pirates at sea, they still have the courage to launch a desperate charge to fight for their own way of survival when facing the volley of muskets from the Qingyu Guards.

The Japanese troops in front of them were regular troops of the Japanese country after all. It was too embarrassing for them to lose their morale and flee after just one round of musket fire.

However, considering that the Ming army came across the sea, it came too fast. The local Japanese daimyo in Fukuoka did not have time to summon the army. They had less than a thousand troops. It was not unusual for them to be defeated. The shameful thing was that they only ate one meal. It collapsed after just one salvo.

You must know that after the large-scale application of European muskets entered the era of queuing and shooting, generally speaking, line infantry had to fight in a neat line formation despite the opponent's volleys.

In later generations, the British, who were known as the sun never sets, dominated the European continent by relying on a line of infantry that could walk a hundred steps away and enter the effective range before opening fire.

You must know that the practice in Europe at that time was to walk to a distance of 120 steps before firing, and the British could walk an extra [-] steps.Don't underestimate these twenty steps. On the battlefield where you are queuing up to kill, these twenty steps mean that you have to take one or two more rounds of enemy volleys. Not any army can withstand the opponent's volleys and look around you. A comrade who lost half his head due to bullets flying randomly on the battlefield could still remain calm and maintain the formation and continue to advance.

"If you ask me, this is His Majesty's power. How can a mere Japanese dare to block His Majesty's army!" A serving eunuch beside Zhu Zhanchuan said a compliment, not knowing whether he wanted to flatter him or please him.

However, as soon as these words were spoken, the expression of another older eunuch on the side suddenly changed, but seeing that Zhu Zhanchun had no reaction, he did not say anything.

After all, this was still the Yongle Dynasty. The eunuch didn't want to have an inflated status like after the Xuande Dynasty. If he talked nonsense on the battlefield, he could be immediately beheaded.

However, after Zhu Zhanjun heard this, he just glanced at the eunuch, shook his head slightly and did not deal with him.

It's just a flattering word. There is really no need to let a rootless person get beaten again for this kind of thing. Moreover, even if Zhu Zhanquan doesn't deal with it, according to the rules, someone will teach him a lesson and teach him not to talk nonsense. of.

But these words reminded Zhu Zhanjun that in order to completely destroy the morale of the Japanese and at the same time make the Japanese in this land obey the rule, it is not enough to defeat them by the army alone.

So Zhu Zhanju stood up from his chair and took a step towards the battlefield.

Taking one step forward, Zhu Zhanchun's feet did not fall on the ship deck again. Instead, a cloud emerged out of thin air, holding Zhu Zhanchun's feet and holding him in the air.

"Your Majesty!" Seeing Zhu Zhanjun suddenly rising into the air, all the guards and eunuchs on the ship were shocked. They hurriedly shouted and gathered around, trying to stop Zhu Zhanjun.

Of course they could see what Zhu Zhanchun wanted to do, and they also knew that there was no possibility that the Japanese could resist Zhu Zhanchun, but this was not the reason for them to stay where they were.

This was on the battlefield. Zhu Zhanquan was the most distinguished person in the army at this time. If something happened to him, it would be difficult for others to tell. All the guards and eunuchs who were guarding him on the ship would lose their heads. The unlucky three tribes You have to watch again and again, the nine tribes are about to lose their joy.

So no matter what, they couldn't let Zhu Zhanjun enter the battlefield. What if someone shot an arrow at him blindly?What if it was shot?

However, Zhu Zhanquan just waved his hand, and then turned into a blue dragon and flew into the clouds, attracting billowing dark clouds and gusts of wind.

The Ming army fighting under Fukuoka City couldn't help but shake their formation when they saw such a strange phenomenon in the sky, but then they regained their composure under the scoldings of officers at all levels.

On the contrary, when the Japanese saw this scene, they suddenly knelt down and prayed to the blue dragon in the sky. They seemed to have mistakenly thought that this was the dragon god of the Japanese country, who summoned the divine wind to destroy the Ming army fleet.

Then they realize how wrong they were.

(End of this chapter)