A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Xiao Pingtai brought two iron cannons and asked Chen San to demonstrate to these people. He fired two rounds in a row, but these people still looked confused and stared blankly.

Although they looked like they were watching and learning seriously, unfortunately they couldn't turn their heads and had little knowledge. It seemed like they were overthinking to expect that they could easily teach them how to operate and fire iron cannons in three strokes, five divided by two.

Forget it, I'm in a hurry, let's eat. As soon as they heard about the meal, this group of people's eyes immediately lit up. They didn't need to give orders and were very conscious. They immediately lined up in a line, and it was a little straighter than yesterday.

Xiao Pingtai had already asked Pingliu and Aji to go home to get the wheat rice that their family had cooked in the morning. Pingliu was carrying a wooden basin on his back, and Aji was carrying a bucket with cold water with some salt in it.

When Heita Xiao saw the food coming, he suddenly had a bad taste and asked these ashigaru: "Who pays you? Who takes care of your food? Who do you want to be loyal to?"

This group of people was stunned for a moment, and said in a disorganized and unimpressive manner, "It is your lord who pays us wages." "It is your lord who takes care of our food." "We are all loyal to you, your lord." Xiaoping was quite satisfied after hearing this. Recognize the appearance.

Then they were given bowls and chopsticks to eat in order. Xiao Pingtai personally served them rice. The bowls were not very big, but everyone's bowls were piled high. Everyone looked very grateful when they got the food, and then stood and started to put the food into their mouths.

That's because Xiaopingtai is quite humane and uses wheat that has been hulled to cook rice. Nowadays, when people hear rice, they subconsciously think of eating rice. After all, the definition of rice seems to have been taken over by rice. Other rice will definitely add a prefix, such as pumpkin rice, sweet potato rice and so on. But this was not the case during the Warring States Period. Most of the time, rice referred to various kinds of steamed wheat and beans, or even boiled tubers of unknown starchy plants. After all, white rice is too expensive, so only senior samurai like Koheita can eat rice every meal. Of course, even Xiaopingta eats mixed rice with eight cents rice and two cents wheat, mainly to remind himself not to forget his roots.

So now the Japanese eat with rice, dumplings with rice, noodles with rice, pizza with rice, steamed buns with rice, and even rice with rice. Everything is a vegetable. Only rice is considered rice, and only rice is considered a staple food. This is really scary. From two thousand years ago to modern times, the entire society has had a thirst for rice since ancient times. Being able to eat rice is such a luxurious pursuit. The longing for rice is retained in the blood genes.

Of course, the homeless ashigaru who were half-dead and hungry a few days ago in front of Heita would not daydream about whether they could eat white rice. One bite will satisfy you, and it will fill you up. Two big bowls per person is no problem. It is served with light salt water, without any fishy taste or side dishes, and they are quite happy to see them eating.

Seeing the people in front of him devouring their food, Xiao Pingtai seemed to feel that Aji's throat was moving. "Are you hungry again?" Aji was stunned for a moment, "No, no, not hungry." He waved his hands quickly. Only then did Xiaopingta realize that Aji seemed to have a tendency to be taller than him. When I thought about it, I was right. The fastest period of Aji's growth was when he was eating a lot of food every day in Xiao Pingtai. How could he not grow so fast? Looking at him again, he was still staring at the wooden basin containing rice.

"It's okay. Just get some more when you're hungry." Aji felt a little embarrassed after hearing this. He took several spoonfuls with a spoon and ate them. He patted his belly with satisfaction to show that he was really full.

After finishing the meal, the mental outlook of the Ashigaru was a little different. At least the team lined up quickly, with everyone holding their heads high and chest out, looking a bit like soldiers. As expected, there was a big difference between whether they were full or not. As expected, these people didn't even have a bite of breakfast at home. They all came over to wait for Xiao Pingtai's two meals. No wonder everyone looked listless in the morning, and no one looked very energetic.

Now that they have eaten, it feels like they are all paying more attention. He seemed to be more able to listen to the explanation, so Heita Xiao asked Chen San to demonstrate the operation of the iron cannon twice, and then asked them to operate it one by one.

Look at the stupidity of these people. Xiao Pingtai put his hand on his forehead. Children cannot be taught, and rotten wood cannot be carved. When you are full, you will behave like this, these freeloaders.

I can only comfort myself. Although the result of the operation is full of loopholes, at least these people have learned a little bit. Take your time. In the first Middle East war, some Jewish militiamen mastered the maintenance and use of various firearms in just three days of training. Xiaoping estimated that although these people might not be able to read a word of Chinese characters and would definitely learn slower than other Jews who had at least a secondary education, they should be able to learn it in a few months.

And one month is enough for him to get a dozen iron cannons, so that after three to five months of training, he can be sent out to fight.

Xiao Pingtai didn't bother to watch these people operating the iron cannon clumsily. He was very worried about these two iron cannons. After all, according to the way these people play, it is very likely to be scrapped early. Maybe they will panic and reload twice, and then ignite it and launch. Even the gun and the person will be reimbursed for you with a bang.

In addition, according to Heiroku and Chenzo, what is the early combination combat method (that is, the gunpowder fixed installation), what is the segmented shooting (the three-step attack that is cited as a magical skill in the novel about intellectual retardation), and what is the bottle fishing method (one is said to be in the iron A strong archer is added to the artillery team to ensure the continuation of firepower. One is to shoot for one soldier with the best shooting skills, and the remaining three are to load.) Although these things are not bad, they have been used by many people for a long time.

Many Kyushu daimyo, including the local lord of the Five Islands who is now named Uku and will later be called Five Islands, have become proficient in using tactics such as Hayai. The Tanegashima clan was even more adept at using three-stage rounds, and even developed a method of stably firing from a bumpy ship (this statement is doubtful, and its main manifestation was when Shimazu Yoshihiro returned to the army from Korea, he was attacked The naval forces of China and North Korea were engaged in a pincer attack. The then head of the Tanegashima family, Tanegashima Kutsuki, was actually able to keep firing guns on the bumpy sea, which was quite capable). The Daimyo of the Western Kingdom already had a complete set of skillful tactics for using the new weapons, iron cannons.

If you are going to use this kind of thing to hit someone, it is probably like opening a cruiser to show off your awesome behavior in front of the aircraft carrier. Everyone is using it. You started using it later than others, and you are not as proficient as others. You dare to brag about it. Xiao Pingtai admires these keyboard strategists very much.

However, practicing close formation and walking in unison can be put on the agenda. After all, the era of queuing to be shot is coming soon. As for the retarded beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep, fuck it.