Matchlock gun.
In fact, for the current Ming Dynasty, it does not show the feeling of a single weapon.
But there is nothing we can do about it.
His first appearance was fighting the Mongols.
The Mongols' almost exclusively cavalry team, even the infantry, are basically slave soldiers and cannot be considered a real Mongolian army.
The high mobility of the Mongolian cavalry, especially in open scenes like the grasslands, is almost an unsolvable problem in terms of the current level of armaments.
The most disgusting part is that every Mongolian grew up on horseback.
She has been herding sheep and horses since she was a child.
They have grown up with horses since they were young, and they always sleep on horses.
The Mongolian cavalry, which is one man and two horses, can travel day and night, just resting on horseback.
How high is the so-called high mobility?
That is, within twelve hours, he would eat, sleep, and, except for urination and defecation, all be done on horseback.
Eight hundred miles may be a bit exaggerated, without changing people or horses.
But three or four hundred miles is not a problem at all.
The most troublesome thing about such Mongolians is that he is not an exception, but is widespread in large areas.
Things like running thousands of miles are almost the most common thing in Mongolia.
On the grasslands, the Mongolian cavalry is invincible.
What is the concept of three or four hundred miles in today's era? This will make Mongolia's enemies unable to even eat ashes.
If I want to come, I will come.
If I want to leave, I leave.
Even if Mongolia was defeated and driven to the grasslands by Zhu Yuanzhang, the severely injured Mongols were still Zhu Yuanzhang's henchmen.
A large number of border military towns were built, which led to the emergence of the frontier fortress king.
The purpose is to prevent the Mongols.
The vast grassland is the home field of the Mongols, and even Zhu Ying has nothing to do about it.
After the matchlock gun appeared, it did achieve good results, but it was just a turtle shell.
Chasing, it is impossible to catch up.
In the end, after thinking hard, I could only adopt the strategy of assimilation.
In fact, Zhu Ying still underestimated the Mongols.
Otherwise, Zhu Di would not have been captured alive.
It may sound a bit exaggerated. After all, Zhu Di was the Yongle Emperor in history and personally conquered Mongolia six times.
Well, even though they personally conquered Mongolia six times and spent countless Ming national power, the Mongolian problem was not completely solved.
This in itself is an unsolvable problem.
Emperor Yongle personally conquered Mongolia under the protection of hundreds of thousands of troops.
Zhu Di now only has tens of thousands of people. Although there are many cavalry, there is still a big gap between the cavalry trained by the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian cavalry.
And in the Second World War.
It was the Ming Dynasty that set out to conquer Annan.
Annan is different from Mongolia.
Annan's firearm ability is actually not low.
If it weren't for Zhu Ying's emphasis on firearms, in terms of firecrackers and artillery, Annan's current craftsmanship would even take precedence over the Ming Dynasty in some other aspects.
The shortcomings of the emperor system are reflected here.
Even though Annan's firearms are good, they don't have the support from Zhu Ying to vigorously develop firearms.
Especially when the gunpowder is granulated and the firearm damage is greatly increased, the suppressive effect becomes more obvious.
In addition, Annan itself is actually a mess.
The royal power of Annan had long been in decline. The powerful minister Hu Jiyou was unscrupulous, and warlords in various places did not listen to the propaganda. This resulted in the inability to concentrate all power to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
Even if Hu Jisao rebelled in the end and relied on his own ability to unite most of the local warlords in Annan, it would be like the Six Kingdoms. How could they achieve real combat power with their own agendas?
What he thinks more about is how to preserve his own strength and consume his allies.
In order to achieve greater development after the war.
The only one with some success was probably the crusade against Japan.
In fact, the matchlock gun was not particularly outstanding in the war against the Japanese.
This is not to say that the Japanese country has any ability to resist. The key lies in cannon.
Due to its geographical environment, Japan suffered frequent earthquakes, which resulted in most of its city walls being very short.
In addition, the Japanese are also short in stature, so it really doesn't matter whether they have fire or a matchlock.
In field battles, the Japanese did not dare to confront the Ming army, but in siege battles, the city walls collapsed as soon as the cannons were fired.
Obviously the cannon was more useful than the matchlock.
In this way, it feels like the matchlock gun is indeed easy to use, but it is not as exaggerated as imagined.
Is this really the case?
Tension can tell you otherwise.
The true horror of firecrackers such as matchlocks lies in small-scale combat.
And the most critical one is universality.
As far as Daming's current personal long-range weapons are concerned, they are roughly muskets and bows.
But how can a bow be so useful?
Archer sounds simple, but in fact the difficulty is extremely exaggerated.
In many accounts, the strong personal martial arts is roughly said to be good at riding and shooting.
That doesn't sound like much.
However, whether it is now or in the past dynasties, the archer is a symbol of personal force value.
For example, Guan Yu, a horse archer.
For example, Zhang Fei is a foot 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 shooting a bow, it also requires accuracy, which naturally consumes a lot of physical energy.
The physical exertion requires the supplement of meat.
To put it simply, how can you shoot a bow when you are hungry? 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 very heavy.
Before, almost 70% of the people had a big problem filling their stomachs, so how could they consume without any scruples.
Even now, the seemingly strong and prosperous Ming Dynasty cannot feed the soldiers of the world without restraint.
Zhu Ying's army consumes a lot of meat every day. In fact, it is only the capital or the surrounding guards.
In less prosperous and slightly remote areas, you can only eat one meal of meat every three days at most, 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 at least 70% of the Ming soldiers are still related to the garrison.
You can only take your time.
At this point, the benefits of the matchlock gun are revealed.
Zhang Li's hundred-man team are actually just low-level soldiers.
Theoretically, they wouldn't even have an archer.
But the matchlock appeared.
It doesn't require a strong physique, and the matchlock itself isn't too heavy, so it's just a matter of simple aiming.
It is naturally difficult for sharpshooters to appear due to accuracy limitations, but the key to the matchlock gun is that it is easy to get.
A new soldier only needs about ten days of training before he can easily control a matchlock gun.
This time can be shortened if a large amount of fire training is provided.
In Luzon.
The terror of the matchlock is truly demonstrated.
A hundred-man team like Zhang Li could easily kill the strongest warrior among the natives with just a few consecutive shots.
As we all know, in the battle of cold weapons, especially those who are lagging behind.
The strongest warrior will naturally rush to the front.
Bang bang bang.
Just the most powerful ones were eliminated.
What happens next becomes much simpler.
"You were screaming so ferociously just now. Hey, if I don't give you some color, you still don't know how powerful I am."
Tension stepped on one of the strongest natives.
I have to say that this native is really powerful. Even though he was hit several times, lying on the ground and wailing still made him feel full of energy.
Unfortunately, under the suppression of the civilization level, there is no room for the use of force.
The entire village was easily controlled by Zhang Li's team of 100 people.
The native lying on the ground cursed wildly.
Naturally, Zhang Li couldn’t understand it.
This village belongs to the Visayan people 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 pre-Song Dynasty, the Visayans often invaded the Penghu Islands by boat, destroying agricultural production on the islands, and then went to the coast of Quanzhou to cause trouble.
Naturally, Zhang Li and others didn’t know about the historical events.
As for the soldiers who came from Japan like Zhang Li, the only military order they received was to discover the gold mines on the islands of Luzon and organize personnel to mine them.
Naturally, this person cannot be from the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Di and other vassal kings did not want to disappear and spread to the Ming Dynasty. Instead, they wanted to directly blockade the entire Luzon Island, and then capture the local people for mining.
Situations like tension are just an episode in Luzon today.
A large number of soldiers, in units of hundreds, quickly carried out a comprehensive sweep of the entire Luzon Island.
In fact, there are several translations.
It's just that their role is too small. The key is that there are too few people.
There are hundreds of hundreds of troops, and translators cannot support them at all.
In this case, there is no need for translation.
This is the darkest moment in the history of Luzon.
A large number of indigenous people on Luzon Island, Visayans, Cebuanos, Tagalogs, etc., directly became slaves under the vassal army.
These officers and soldiers were not trained by Zhu Ying. In terms of quality, they were not much different from before.
Especially after staying in the Japanese country for such a long time, the suppression on oneself has been completely relaxed.
As for aliens, they don’t have to pay so much attention.
Luzon Island began to fall on a large scale.
Even if some places did cause a lot of trouble to these feudal kings' armies, in terms of the overall direction, there was no way to recover.
Even if there are some hard bones that are difficult to chew, the feudal king's army will directly pull the cannon from the ship.
Let's fire more than a dozen shots at this village first.
As the vassal army took control of Luzon Island, a large number of gold mines were also discovered.
He came here for the gold mine, so naturally he had already arranged for craftsmen who were good at surveying.
When gold mines were discovered one after another, the feudal king's army became obviously more eager.
This news immediately reached the ears of the four feudal kings on the ships returning to Japan.
...
Zhu Ying's return did not seem to cause any disturbance to the capital.
With Zhu Yuanzhang in charge, there is no such thing as Xiaoxiao.
In fact, as far as the current court is concerned, the existence of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ying has completely overshadowed the glory of the courtiers.
It's not that the courtiers haven't learned enough, but Zhu Ying's current reform speed is too fast.
Every reform in history is full of blood and tears because it touches a large number of interest groups.
But in Zhu Ying's case, whether it is the bureaucracy, the military power, or people's livelihood management, there is a feeling that it is a matter of course and there is no difficulty at all.
This also leads to the fact that many ministers only need to do their own jobs well, and then try their best to make the latest policies promulgated by His Highness the Grand Sun
Just land on the ground.
As for Zhu Yuanzhang, he was very happy to bring Xiao Wencheng with him every day.
Grandson, it’s time to run around more.
To save too much is to be too lazy.
"Grandpa, can't you put Xiao Wen Cheng down?"
Zhu Ying looked at the old man speechlessly. He had serious business and wanted to have a good chat with the old man.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was opposite him, regarded Zhu Ying as if he were nothing and only played with Xiao Wen Cheng.
"If you have anything to say, just tell me. I didn't see that Xiao Wen Cheng and I were having fun." Zhu Yuanzhang turned to look at his eldest grandson and said angrily.
Zhu Ying: Well, love can transfer as expected.
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