Although it is said that the individual combat effectiveness of the Japanese samurai is very strong, it is to take advantage of the sharpness of the samurai sword. Moreover, when Japanese samurai use katanas, they prefer to chop with two-handed knives (mainly because they are short in stature and have insufficient arm length, so they can only hold the knife in both hands) rather than assassinate. Therefore, to defend against the katana, the main defense is against slashes and cuts.

If you can't resist the sharpness of the katana, you will naturally be hacked to death by the fierce Japanese samurai. However, once you can block the slash of the katana, the situation is immediately different.

When Qi Jiguang invented the Mandarin Duck Array, he found that the rattan card could resist the slashing of the katana. Therefore, in the mandarin duck formation, the first in line is the rattan player holding the rattan card, and the back is hiding from the wolf player and the spearman, pumping the cold to the Japanese samurai to kill him. After this kind of battle formation matured, the Qi family army was basically invincible in the face of the Japanese invaders, and its own losses were very small.

Therefore, Marin is very sure to deal with those murderous Japanese samurai. For example, the Jurchen samurai, as long as they are equipped with shields and armor that can withstand the katana, it is basically fine......

The Jurchens are already fierce, and the Japanese katana is no longer effective, and they will definitely be beaten by those Jurchen samurai. What's more, the superb sword skills of the Japanese samurai are useless in the battle array. Once the charge is fought, no matter how gorgeous the sword technique is, it is useless, and the simple, direct, and effective way to kill is the most practical on the battlefield. The battle on the battlefield is often resolved in three or two clicks, and it is impossible to fight for 300 rounds like in the middle. Unless, it's a pre-battle fighter.

This is because you and your opponent are not the only ones on the battlefield, but there are many allies and enemies around you. Don't look at your martial arts skills, kill the enemy in front of you and retreat. But if one is not careful, and another enemy sneaks up on you in the back, no matter how high your martial arts are, it will be difficult to resist.

Therefore, on top of the battle formation, there is a lot of emphasis on discipline and letting your comrades protect your back. An army that can do this will be easy to win. And if you can't do it, often the master will be beaten to death.

Just like the design of Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Formation in the Sancai Formation - there are three people hiding behind the big rattan card, the rattan card blocks the katana of the Japanese Kou, and the wolf is stretched out to jam the enemy's katana. Finally, the spear suddenly pierced out...... This kind of fighting, even if the samurai is strong in martial arts, is very helpless. Because, he is not facing one, but three, and three enemies that are delicately coordinated......

In fact, Ma Lin is now sending people to buy wolf whisks made of bamboo in Huaxia. It was a very obscene thing, and it was very resilient after being treated with tung oil and roasting, and it could jam enemy weapons. Or at least let the enemy be temporarily dragged down and affect the battle. At this time, the spearman on the other side of the rattan player took advantage of the enemy's weapon and entangled, and suddenly stabbed out a cold spear, which was indeed difficult to resist.

Of course, the wolf is mainly effective against infantry, less effective against cavalry, and is also afraid of musketeers. However, Japan is mostly mountainous, and there are no cavalry at all. Even if there were, it was a "schoolboy cavalry" riding a very skinny native Japanese horse, lacking impact.

There are many mountains, so it is natural to be dominated by infantry, and the wolf is precisely the nemesis of the infantry. Especially in mountain warfare, the role is great. Japan is mountainous, and most of the time soldiers can only go on foot. In this way, the effect of the Mandarin Duck Array will be outstanding.

But Ma Lin didn't bother to use any mandarin duck array, it was used by the Ming army. For the Jurchen barbarians, it is difficult for them to learn the Mandarin Duck Formation if you teach them the Mandarin Duck Formation for a short time. So, it's better to give them a steel knife and bring a rattan sign to them. With a rattan card to resist the katana, the steel sword they hold in their other hand can easily attack the enemy. Moreover, the Jurchens also had a tradition of using a single knife. Give them a spear, and they won't know how to use it.

In fact, if the Mongols went to Japan instead, it might not really work, because the Mongols were good at fighting on horseback, but Japan was mostly mountainous, and it was difficult for horses to deploy.

The Jurchens, in particular, mostly live in the Sikhote Mountains in the outer northeast, where the terrain is similar to that of the Japanese mountains. Therefore, the East China Sea Jurchen (that is, the savage Jurchen) is very adapted to the mountainous terrain. At most, the Japanese mountains are warmer because of the Japanese warm current.

Therefore, it is definitely a very good choice to use the savage Jurchen to fight the Japanese army. As long as they can defeat the Japanese samurai as the core, the remaining ashigaru soldiers (Japan's lowest-ranking infantry) who use sharpened bamboo poles as weapons are no match for the Jurchen samurai.

However, the biggest problem of the Jurchen tribe in the East China Sea is not the problem of combat effectiveness, but the problem of population number......

A few decades later, when Nurhachi unified the three major Jurchen tribes (Jianzhou Department, Haixi and East China Sea Savage Jurchens), there were more than 60,000 Zhuangding in total. Even if the three major departments are average, there are more than 20,000 Jurchens in the East China Sea.

But Marin knew that it was impossible for the savage Jurchens to occupy one-third of the three major parts of the Jurchens. Because, the population of the savage Jurchens living in the Sikhote Mountains is certainly not as large as the Jianzhou Jurchens who have already begun to engage in agriculture. Therefore, among the more than 60,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, the Jurchens of the East China Sea have more than 10,000 soldiers at most. Then, the Jurchens of the East China Sea also had a population of tens of thousands at most.

Now, it's only 1516, not to mention Nurhachi, who was born in 1559, and even Nurhachi's grandfather Jue Chang'an hasn't been born yet. Therefore, at this time, the number of savage women should be even less, and it is scary to be able to make up 10,000 strong men.

However, Marin himself did not fully count on the Savage Jurchen. The savage girl is not enough, you can also make up for it with the beggar charm......

Before the Maozi massacre, the number of beggars living in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River was no less than that of the Jurchens of the East China Sea. According to the records of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there were 2,250 households and a population of tens of thousands of people living in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River at that time. And the Feyaka people living on Sakhalin also have 148 families.

In this era, even if there are less than tens of thousands, there are thousands of beggars, and many people can be recruited. They are actually similar to the savage Jurchens, they are both savage and brave fishing and hunting tribes, and their combat effectiveness is not too similar.

In addition to the beggar charm, there were also Xibe tribes in the northeast, which were later incorporated into New Manchuria and stationed in western Xinjiang with the Soren battalion. At that time, after Nurhachi was submissive to the Xibe, he compiled it into 65 oxen records. And one Niu Lu is equal to 300 soldiers, and 65 Niu Lu is equivalent to 19,500 people, close to 20,000 people.

Of course, this is a few decades ago, and the Xibe people did not have nearly 20,000 strong men, but there should still be tens of thousands of strong men. As long as they are given enough benefits, they can drink wine and eat meat every day, and they will not have to worry about not recruiting enough mercenaries.

In addition, in this era, there were not only Kuyi people on Sakhalin Island, but also on the island of Hokkaido in the south.

Of course, Kuyi is the name of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, the Kuyi and the Ainu of southern Sakhalin and Hokkaido are two completely different tribes. However, the Ming Dynasty officials did not understand and classified the Ainu as Kuyi.

In fact, Kuyi is a branch of the savage Jurchens, who migrated to Sakhalin from the outer northeastern region and lived mainly in the northern and central parts of Sakhalin. The Ezo people, on the other hand, are a group of islanders living in Hokkaido and Sakhalin.

But the Ming Dynasty did not know and called Sakhalin Island Kuyi Island, while Hokkaido, it was called South Kuyi Island. As for the people on the island, except for the beggars, they are all called Kuyi.

But the truth is that after the Kuyi people, who belonged to the savage Jurchens, landed on the island from the north, they drove the original Ezo people to the southern tip of Sakhalin because they were even more fierce. Of course, Hokkaido is still the home base of the Ezo people. In addition, there are still some Ezo people at the northern tip of Japan's main island near Hokkaido.

In fact, it was not until the Battle of Koxiang Mani in 1457 that Japan defeated all the Ezo people on the island of Honshu and expelled the main body of the Ezo people from Honshu Island. In other words, most of the Ezo people at the northern tip of Honshu Island were slaughtered, and the rest were enslaved.

The history of Japan, strictly speaking, is the history of the Yamato people in the southeastern region fighting with the Ezo people for the northern half of the island of Honshu. The origin of the title of "Seiyi General" of the Japanese shogun is also derived from the war of conquest with the Ezo people in the northern part of Honshu Island......

In this era, Japan had not yet taken control of Hokkaido. The first control of Hokkaido was not until the end of the 16th century, when the Matsumae clan sent people to establish Hakodate, a trading point at the southern tip of Hokkaido.

It was still the beginning of the 16th century, and it was still a long time before the Matsumae clan crossed the sea and established Hakodate. Therefore, at this time, Hokkaido was still the territory of the Ezo people. Marin didn't know that Hokkaido, because the climate is much warmer than Sakhalin, has a large number of Ezo people, estimated to be tens of thousands. You know, Hokkaido in later generations was the breadbasket of northern Japan.