A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

After wandering around Kasugayama for a few days and being warmly entertained by several old acquaintances, Xiaoping returned home happily riding a hundred sections. In addition, I bought an extra ordinary military horse that I had planned to buy from the beginning as a replacement. After all, one horse would not be enough for a slightly fiercer battle.

After returning to the mountains, the autumn harvest soon began.

The two horse barrels of Xiao Pingtai were also ready. Xiao Pingtai tried it and was able to kill accurately and effectively within 20 meters. He felt very satisfied. The craftsman who made the gun was rewarded with a piece of rice and asked him to make a few more.

Then Koheita rode his own Hyakudan and took his own horse tube to show off to Yamauchi Yoshikatsu.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu's horse was also a gift from Uesugi Teruhora. It was a very good horse, but he was not particularly envious of Koheita's Hyakudan. Although his horse is slightly inferior to Xiaopingtai's, he doesn't want to covet Xiaopingtai's.

But when Xiao Pingtai demonstrated to him how to shoot with a horse barrel on a war horse running at a constant speed, he keenly caught something. He first checked Xiaopingtai's horse barrel, and then asked Xiaopingtai about the manufacturing status of the horse barrel.

What he cared about was the Ogasawara clan's Ryudyashi equestrian skills that were popular before Shinano protected the Ogasawara clan. Many of the samurai of the Ogasawara clan are skilled in bow and horse, and can even shoot left and right. Therefore, during the battle between Shinano's guardian Ogasawara Nagaki and Murakami Yoshikiyo, he often sent Yabusuma warriors back and forth to harass Murakami Yoshikiyo's military formation. When there was a flaw in Murakami Yoshikiyo's military formation, he abandoned his bow and replaced his gun with a fierce assault composed of infantry. phalanx. With this hand, he and Murakami Yoshikiyo had been at odds with each other in Shinano for several years. If Murakami Yoshikiyo hadn't later recruited some Echigo samurai and Ueno samurai to fight against him, maybe Ogasawara Nagaki would not have been beaten away to Kyoto by him.

As for the Yamauchi clan in Minami-Shinano, when the first generation of Yamauchi Yoshiaki's imperial family declined, at first they only had a territory of 3,000 kanmon on paper, but more than 5,000 kanmon in actuality. He also had to raise two family elders, Hosokawa and Isshiki, and maintain the dignity of his own son, so he didn't bring any famous archers with strong heritage from Kyoto.

This is also a place in the mountains where horses are produced more or less, and the breeding centers within the territory have also developed over the years. Generally speaking, the needs of the Yamauchi samurai for horses were met, but there was no reason why any famous samurai who combined man and horse and was skilled in horse and bow was not born.

After all, practicing horseback archery does not mean just picking up a bow and shooting arrows on the horse. If you only pursue the ability to shoot arrows on horseback, then you can get results by recruiting a few warriors for a month or two, but it will be extremely difficult to pursue accurate arrows.

During the previous Numata battle, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and Koheita saw more than a hundred Echigo cavalry with their own eyes. They also relied on Yabusame tactics to continuously disrupt the Hojo side's formation. After the Hojo side's infantry showed signs of vacillation and flaws visible to the naked eye, Then, like a wave, the cavalry and the infantry rushed forward in unison to engage in a wheel battle. It actually took only a thousand men to defeat Hojo Yasumoto's 4,000 men. This deeply impressed Yamauchi Yoshikatsu himself, and it was also the beginning of his tendency to ally with the Uesugi clan.

It may take three to five years to train a foot archer, but it takes far longer to train a horse archer. Of course, if you are a nomad, just pretend I didn’t say that. Considering the shape of Japan's landform, Japan cannot produce large-scale cavalry in a short period of time, let alone cavalry.

Judging from the current situation, the Japanese are definitely not a nation on horseback. (Later, the so-called father of Japanese cavalry, Akiyama Yoshiko, created Japan's modern cavalry, which was no longer a pure cavalry. In the famous Japanese story of "three hundred miles behind enemy lines", less than half of the Japanese cavalry were fast and mobile. Cavalry artillery and machine gunners. The number of cavalry is still very small, a complete cavalry regiment only has 442 people). Although most warriors can ride horses, and many are excellent at equestrian skills, not everyone can shoot a bow on horseback.

This is quite different from the foot bows that these samurai have been training since childhood (the Homoto-Heiji Rebellion, which was the Genpei War), most samurai practiced horseback archery. The legendary most powerful marksman Nasu and Ichi Riding a horse and galloping in the sea, he could shoot an arrow at a fan swinging on a boat in the water. His archery skills were so unparalleled that later Japanese games set the "Yoichi Bow" as a magical bow skill. , among other things, on horseback and on the ground, the focus and center of gravity of the human body are completely different. Not to mention how bumpy the horseback is, and it is difficult to use skilled hands to draw the bow while riding. There are even fewer people who can draw the bow left and right.

The horse cannon does not have these problems. Although it is slightly inferior to bows and arrows in terms of effective killing distance, it only takes a month or even less to learn how to load iron cannons. It can have the same effect as using bows and arrows to harass, and it is so much simpler.

This advantage has infinitely increased the comparison of mobility, firepower and battlefield assault power between nomadic peoples and farming peoples. It is difficult for the Tatar-style cavalry in Europe to have a significant impact on large-scale infantry and cavalry legions armed with muskets. Threatened.

Xiaoheita naturally knew that this was a very important part of military development. The revolving cavalry used by European armies continuously attacked the phalanx with carbines on horseback, going back and forth in circles until a flaw appeared in the enemy phalanx, and then swarmed forward.

Each of these cavalrymen has five or six muskets, and they are all loaded before going to the battlefield. They only need to shoot at people. The firepower of the densely packed cavalry at close range cannot be underestimated.

This has also led to the great promotion of this type of arms that seems to be able to serve two purposes. Almost more than half of the cavalry in the entire European continent have been transformed into this type of revolving cavalry. This caused an even worse consequence. Most of the cavalry lost the courage to fight in close combat and attack the phalanx. (Since you can kill people by firing muskets from a long distance, why take the risk and fight head-on? ), eventually degenerated into a salty unit that only dared to shoot from the outside and was eventually eliminated.

After all, the cavalry is still the most important assault force of the army in the current era and in the next two to three hundred years. If the cavalry does not dare to assault, what use does the cavalry have?

Nowadays, it is too expensive and unrealistic for farmers to become swivel cavalry. Horses, armor and weapons have to be remade all over again. If you arrange samurai to do it, you can ask the samurai to bring their own equipment, but there are only a few samurai in Japan, which is very useless.

To use a cliché, it is inconsistent with the national conditions and the current social environment, and cannot be copied mechanically.

However, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu now has his wife's dowry, so he can still spend some money himself, and he can also blackmail some of his father's money. He and Xiao Ping were so excited that they wanted to get a few dozen to ride out and test the waters.

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