"Thank you very much for your assistance, Your Highness. I am Narita Kai, the daughter of the Narita clan leader, the lord of Ninja City. What is your name, Your Highness?"
"You're welcome, Princess Jia Fei, just call me Gao Yunping." Marine Corps Commander Gao Yun raised his hands in a military salute and smiled slightly: "Her Royal Highness the Princess can actually speak Chinese. This is very good. You can save it in the future. A lot of trouble.”
Kaiji bowed her head deeply in a Japanese-like manner and replied: "I don't speak Chinese well. Please forgive me, Your Highness. I will continue to study hard."
"Haha, it would be great if we can communicate smoothly. As for learning...well, I think you will have many opportunities in the future." Gao Yunping grinned, paused and then said: "The princess must be curious about why I appear here, right? Don't ask, I was ordered to rescue Ninja City, but there is another more important task to ensure your safety, princess, so after arriving at Ninja City and learning your whereabouts, I brought someone to pick up the princess."
"Although it's very presumptuous, I still want to know, when did the Maritime Trade Alliance become an ally of the Hojo family?" Obviously, Kaiji didn't know the cause and effect of the matter at this time, so when she asked the question, she was not only confused, but even There is also three points of caution.
"Allies of the Hojo family? No, no, no, we are not an alliance with the Hojo family." Gao Yunping shook his head and replied.
"Not an ally of the Hojo family?" Kaiji was greatly surprised, and asked with a frown: "Then...could it be that my father had reached an agreement with the Sea Trade Alliance?"
Kaihime didn't ask, "Did my father form an alliance with the Sea Trade Alliance?" This was obviously very rational, because no one could deny the power of the Sea Trade Alliance. They didn't even join the Hojo family, and the Narita family naturally couldn't exclude them. Number.
Although the power of the Sea Trade Alliance has never been demonstrated on land before today, since the battle of Andong Navy, no one in Japan has dozens of "navy armies" of all sizes, large and small, who dare not to put the Sea Trade Alliance on land. In eyes. Most navies choose to proactively seek out the Sea Trade Alliance and form a "cooperative" relationship with them; some also follow the trend of the Sea Trade Alliance to "cooperate" after being "persuaded" by the Sea Trade Alliance.
There used to be one or two small forces that were not clear-headed. They thought that the Sea Trade Alliance came to cooperate with them with the intention of annexing them. They were hesitant and slow to react, so... they disappeared later.
Powerful at sea but without influence on land, this was the impression that most Japanese people had on the Sea Trade Alliance at this time. In Kafihime's mind at this moment, the land strength displayed by the Sea Trade Alliance was simply shocking.
Speaking of which, almost everyone who sees a large-scale "queue to be shot" for the first time will be shocked. It's just that the shock of professionals and the shock of non-professionals are sometimes completely different.
The shock of non-professionals is generally reflected in "This style of play looks really stupid." Professionals will look at this style of play from the perspective of the amount of projectiles fired per unit time, that is, the density of firepower, and by the way, this kind of army. The strict discipline produced a great shock.
There is no doubt that Kafihime, as the general of Ninja City, held back tens of thousands of troops for nearly half a year with three thousand old and weak civilians, belongs to the latter group.
However, apart from discipline, Kaiji was shocked. She only had vague guesses about firepower density, but she still keenly felt that the Sea Trade Alliance's method of using iron cannons had a profound impact on her years of study and practice. The tactics have a huge impact.
In her eyes, these soldiers stood in several rows with iron cannons. After the two sides gradually approached to a certain distance, they started shooting with their guns. No matter how the opponent changed, the soldiers of the Sea Trade Alliance did not hide at all (actually This is because the Toyotomi pursuers did not have a large cavalry force, so they did not even use bayonet formations), and they seemed to have made up their minds: whoever defeated the opponent would win.
This kind of war scene is also very weird in Kaiji's eyes. When fighting, shouldn't we use our strengths and avoid weaknesses? Why should we fight so stupidly? In her opinion, if Gao Yunping was confident that his army was elite enough, it would be better to set up a wild goose formation from the beginning, and then directly extend the wings to form an encirclement after the war started.
If you feel that this is not safe and there is a risk of being penetrated by the opponent's central army, you can also change the formation of arrows, concentrate your elite on the arrows, break through the enemy's center, directly form the enemy's potential, and then you can beat the drowned dog. .
However, Gao Yunping's style of play is three "one-word long snake formations" in front and back - well, according to Chinese parlance, this may be "Dragon Gate Triple Wave", but no matter how the language changes, it cannot change that this is the most powerful form. Mechanical flat push combat.
In later generations, this kind of queuing to shoot or "line infantry tactics" has long been thrown into the trash heap of history, but Kaiji, who had just watched the "performance" of the Marines, obviously did not dare to think so.
There is more than one factor that determines the outcome of a war, but in many cases the reasons can only be inferred from the results. Since the Sea Trade Alliance has used such a "three-line rotation progressive shooting tactic" and achieved brilliant results, it means that this tactic is obviously It was very successful - of course it was very successful. Both sides had about the same strength. As a result, after the battle, the other side suffered more than half of its losses, and its own casualties were only seventeen, of which only one was killed, three were seriously injured, and the remaining thirteen were all lightly injured.
The situation at that time was simply as follows: the Toyotomi Army came in pursuit and found the Sea Trade Alliance Marines lining up in front and took in Kafihime and her party, so the Toyotomi Army took advantage of Yu Yong to kill them directly, and was killed by the Sea Trade Alliance. The Trade Alliance's two rounds of volleys directly killed more than a hundred people. The army's ranks collapsed for the first time and the entire army retreated.
General Shi, who was responsible for leading the pursuit force, found that the Marines of the Sea Trade Alliance did not pursue the pursuit, but only kept moving forward slowly to the beat of the drums, so he believed that the other party had given up the best opportunity to win, and he still had a chance. One more fight.
So he immediately beat drums to gather troops, gathered the defeated troops to reorganize, and completed it quickly. He also considered that the opponent seemed to be a pure "iron artillery reserve" with relatively strong firepower, so he concentrated his elite troops in the center of the front - well, it was the sharp arrow array that Kafiji thought of - and then launched a second attack attack.
As expected, this time he... died even more miserably. Although Gao Yunping did not change the formation at all, soldiers are not machines. Although the position remains unchanged, the muzzle of the gun will obviously be fired at the "edge arrow" position where the troops are denser.
As a result, the elite soldiers of the Toyotomi Army who were under "concentrated fire" lost most of them in the first round of salvos. Then, in their sober state, they discovered something that they had not noticed during the previous chaotic attack: the opponent The reloading time of the iron cannon is extremely short, and the second salvo may only come again after a dozen breaths.
This time, the elite troops in the front line were almost completely wiped out, including General Shi and the two ashigaru generals. The troops who rushed up with them also suffered heavy losses. In addition, the elite troops in the front line were annihilated and the three core generals were also killed. Under the circumstances, they unsurprisingly collapsed and fled back screaming... and then were fired upon by another volley from behind by the Marines.
In this entire battle, the Marines only fired five rounds of volleys, causing the opponent Toyotomi's army, which was almost equal in strength, to lose more than half and the entire army to flee. Although this is a scene that Gao Yunping is familiar with, there is no doubt that it is shocking in the eyes of the Japanese. The Toyotomi Army almost "doesn't know how they were defeated", and Kaibihime and others don't know "how did they lose like this". Win”.
In fact, the reason is not that complicated. Simply put, the advancement of weapons has led to changes in tactics. In the era of cold weapons, everyone knew that the formation of the troops was extremely important during a war. In many battles, once one party's formation collapses, the troops are scattered, and the army is defeated like a mountain, it basically leads to defeat.
With the transition between hot and cold weapons, weapons underwent innovation and development, and muskets slowly appeared. The early muskets were all matchlock guns, muskets and the like. These muskets did not fire the streamlined pointed bullets seen in later generations, but projectiles, so many barrels did not have rifling.
In addition, due to the huge smoke and sparks produced by gunpowder, soldiers have to turn their faces to one side when pulling the trigger to avoid being burned by the fireworks. In addition, the air tightness and other designs were not in place. As a result, the power of the early muskets was moderate, but the accuracy and range were extremely poor.
This leads to a situation, that is, if the soldiers at this time were to shoot at each other in the trenches like in modern warfare, or even in World War I, the hit rate would be extremely low, and both sides would not be able to kill hundreds of people even if they fought for a year. Come someone.
Moreover, the reloading speed of muskets at this time was very slow. At this time, muskets made under the mainstream level of musket technology, such as Japanese iron cannons (Japanese iron cannons were praised by Qi Jiguang. Of course, Qi Jiguang mainly believed that the quality of Japanese iron cannons was better than that of the time). The quality of the iron cannons manufactured by the Ming Dynasty Guards is much better). Even well-trained soldiers can only fire two or three rounds per minute. In fact, the number on the battlefield has to be reduced by at least 20%, or even half.
Think about it, it takes a long time to load a bullet and then shoot the gun. Whether the shot is accurate or not depends on fate. At this level of weapon development, many ideas of modern warfare cannot be applied, and the ideas of "ancient" warfare are also not applicable. Therefore, there must be a way to use weapons produced at this level of technology.
The fundamental requirement of this method is to ensure the output of firepower during battles, so the "line infantry" tactics emerged. Of course, Gao Pragmatic is not original. He is plagiarism, but he later added some improvements with Chinese characteristics.
Line infantry was originally the infantry formation that was the basis of European armies from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. It usually consisted of two to five columns of infantry side by side. Each row of soldiers is spaced about half a meter apart, and is directed by the officer's orders and the drumbeats of military music to make the team advance, stop and shoot.
Since the loading, accuracy, and range of the musket limit the lethality and hit rate of a single bullet, even if the enemy stands there and aims at you, it is difficult to guarantee a hit. But if a large group of people fire at the same time, presumably aiming at the opposite army, the probability of hitting can be effectively increased. The principle is that if we all fire together, one of us can hit. Even if I can't hit you, I can still hit him. Anyway, as long as we can hit the enemy, it doesn't matter who we hit.
This is of course a rigid combat system, but it is difficult to solve this problem. The best way is of course to come up with the Maxim machine gun, which can sweep line infantry and cavalry into the garbage at the same time. It is a magical weapon that transcends the era. It's a pity that this thing can't be done just by talking about it. Without sufficient industrial system and technical level, it is meaningless even if Gao pragmatically knows some basic principles.
This thing is like a nuclear bomb in the 21st century. Most countries know the basic principles of nuclear bombs, but just because you know the principles doesn't mean you can do it. Not to mention that the five gangsters will definitely not sit back and watch unless there are special circumstances. Even if they let you do it, there is a high probability that you will not be able to do it. For most countries, they might be able to try to build a nuclear power plant or something, but to reach military level, not to mention other things, is just a level of abundance. Without strong technical level and equally strong national power, it is basically impossible. .
Besides, having nuclear bombs does not mean having the ability to successfully project them over long distances. For example, Third Brother's nuclear bombs can only be launched from one base, and they cannot reach the core areas of the Red Dynasty - the "Yin Chui Si Ting" people never mention this. Of course, the projection technology of the minibus was obtained from a certain dynasty, and the distance was just right enough to reach New Delhi from their home, but the minibus was more honest and never developed this technology.
Without further ado, let’s get back to the topic. Although Gao Pragmatic could not technically break through the tactical limitations, he still made some improvements. These improvements were based on the fact that Jinghua's musket technology was higher than the standards of the same era.
For example, the Gao family's armed forces generally do not deploy "line arrays" in five or more columns, but usually in three columns. This is not just to maintain the tradition of the so-called "Ming Dynasty three-stage attack", but because Jinghua used a flintlock gun after mastering the spring technology, and used a paper shell fixed charge, so the loading speed is faster and more stable. Three rows of musketeers have been able to ensure the density of firepower.
Although the modification of bullets is still continuing and cannot be considered complete, rifling technology has begun to be used. Although the problem of metal stress caused by metal processing rifling is still a big problem, so that only very shallow rifling can be used, but it is better than nothing.
As for smokeless gunpowder, this problem has actually been solved at the technical level, but the production cost is very troublesome. Compared with black powder, the key to smokeless gunpowder technology is the use of nitrogen. Although it can also be produced using nitrate ore, the cost is extremely high and it is basically impossible to produce it on a large scale - unless Gaowei now occupies Chile.
To put it simply, the large-scale use of smokeless gunpowder basically requires mastering the ammonia synthesis technology. Otherwise, even if it can be developed, mass production will not be possible - Jinghua will not engage in such a loss-making business.
"Princess Kaifi, there are indeed some...well, some negotiations between your father and the Sea Trade Alliance, and an exchange has been reached in principle, but I'm afraid we can't talk about an alliance for the time being." Gao Yunping said, adding: "I have to wait for my master's reply."
"When you say 'master', do you mean your lord?" Kaiji asked.
"Yes, the princess can understand that."
Ji Feiji said curiously: "I once heard that he was an important minister of Tang...er, the Ming Dynasty, but I don't know his specific duties. Can you roughly compare it with Japanese official positions?"
"Well, I'm not very familiar with the Japanese legal system of official positions, but if the princess is just an analogy to the authority in the country, I think my master should be your left and right ministers."
Kaiji was surprised: "Ah, that's amazing! He is second only to Lord Taizheng, Lord Zuofu. If placed in Japan, he is second only to Lord Guanbai, and even more respected than Lord Tokugawa." It’s there!”
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