The military technology of the Far Eastern Kingdom has developed in great strides, and this leap is hundreds of years, but the Tokugawa shogunate did not know all this.

Because Yang Wenli attaches great importance to military secrecy, the Black Armor Army either trains in the barracks or in the deserted valley, and outsiders can't see it, let alone Japanese businessmen who just stay for a few days.

In addition, the Far Eastern Kingdom is rich and the people are safe, and there are special patrol police in the localities, and there is no need for the army to maintain law and order, and there is no need for the National Guard to come forward to maintain law and order, where can those Japanese businessmen go to spy on military secrets?

What they saw was almost unprepared, and those who were traitors were willing to accept the rule of the Han Chinese.

It has been almost two years since the Far Eastern Kingdom was established, and those Japanese merchants had sent the information back to China more than a year ago, and it stands to reason that the shogunate should have sent people to conquer Ezo Island a long time ago, but in fact, it was a stone ox that sank into the sea, and there was no news.

This is to blame for Japan's clear hierarchy, the status of Japanese merchants is very low, even the shabby samurai are ashamed to be in company, and their usual contact with the people at the bottom is also the low-level people, and it took a whole year for the news to reach the ears of Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Here I have to introduce the system of the shogunate, the Tokugawa shogunate itself was also a daimyo, but a more powerful daimyo, and the Tokugawa shogunate ruled all of Japan by virtue of his strong military strength.

The daimyo in various places were not cronies of the shogunate, so the management was loose, and the symbolic meaning was greater than the practical meaning, and the shogunate really relied on the power of his family and the power of his cronies and retainers, which was the origin of the direct daimyo and the outer daimyo, and the so-called external daimyo meant that he was not a cronie of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Another point is that in the eyes of the Tokugawa shogunate, Ezo Island is a desert island, you must know that when Oyster Keihiro was given the title of daimyo, he was one of the few daimyo in Japan without a stone high, which is enough to see that Ezo Island has no oil and water, which is why Ezo Island has not been annexed by Japan.

Besides, Ezo Island is not a real borderless land, there are still a large number of Ezo people (Ainu people) on it, they are barbaric and backward, I heard that there is still a custom of cannibalism, and it is not so easy to occupy Ezo Island.

Also, since the rebels of the Ming Dynasty can conquer the Matsumae Domain and the Ezo people, then they themselves are not very simple, at least they are well-equipped, not soft persimmons, and the Tokugawa Shogunate must also be fully prepared to conquer Ezo Island, at least not to sacrifice too much strength of their own family, it is best to recruit other daimyo to go to the expedition, and there must be an army of more than 200,000 people, with the momentum of lions and rabbits, to quickly end the war.

That's why it's been almost two years, and the Tokugawa shogunate hasn't moved.

The absence of movement did not mean that the shogunate was inactive, and at this time, the pre-war mobilization meeting was being held at the location of the Edo shogunate.

“…… Ladies and gentlemen, the Matsumae Domain betrayed Japan, and the Shogun decided to revoke the identity of the Matsumae Domain's Shima Mamoru Clan, which means that the Ezo Island of Yudai has become a no-man's land, and the General will not be stingy, who supports the conscription of troops, according to the number of troops, to occupy Ezo Island, and I only need a small Fukuyama Castle is enough! ”

At this point, Tokugawa Iemitsu glanced at the audience with a majestic gaze, and then asked sharply, "Are you willing to support the righteous action of the Shogun to defeat the rebellion and recover the country?" ”

"Let the general be reprimanded, and the ministers will not dare to disobey."

All the high-ranking daimyo or daimyo representatives, under the gaze of Tokugawa Iemitsu, replied respectfully and loudly with their heads bowed.

"Hahahaha! Well, your patriotic heart can be learned, it is really commendable, this general decided to meet together in the Kamitsu Strait on August 15, and after the time is checked, the troops will be sent to Ezo Island, this time, our army has an absolute superiority in strength, and it will be effortless to win in one fell swoop.

May the great god of sunshine bless his people and succeed! ”

This time to send troops, not only Tokugawa Iemitsu is confident, but the daimyo from all over the country are even more confident, who of them does not know the family background of the Matsumae Domain! A daimyo without a stone height, any daimyo can be easily requisitioned.

Only the rebels of the Ming Dynasty may be troublesome, but they are thousands of miles away, there must not be many troops, this time to gather more than 200,000 troops, with the momentum of the lion and the rabbit, it will be easy to win, maybe the army has not arrived, they have already handed over the table, so they are so easy to agree to send troops, Ezo Island is very large, although it is a wild place, occupy a place there, it is also a good deal.

But Tokugawa Iemitsu was wrong, and all the daimyo who attended the meeting were also wrong, and this seemingly profitable deal must have been lost.

On July 1, the commanders of all the units gathered in an unnamed valley in the central mountain range to watch the test firing of the new weapon.

This time, there were many more troops in charge of the experiment, and it was Yang Wenli who specially transferred a company of troops from Yang Renxuan's guards, and one company was the strength of the previous general banner, with 1,339 soldiers.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please see, this is a company-level demonstration force, and the main force of the Black Armor Army will be in this configuration in the future, and the company-level will have four field cannons, each with 15 people, a total of 60 people.

In the future, these 60 people will be professional artillerymen, and generally do not participate in hand-to-hand battles and gunfights on the front line.

In the future, a soldier leading five slave soldiers is the strength of a squad, the squad is the most basic combat unit, equipped with 5 Far East Type 1 automatic rifles, said to be automatic rifles, but does not support continuous firing, at most three rounds can be fired in a row, that is, three bursts, under normal circumstances, it is best to shoot a single shot, because the burst will cause the barrel to overheat, the bullet chamber to overheat, resulting in bullet jamming, firing failure and other emergencies, which is fatal on the battlefield. ”

In fact, the prototype of the Far East Type 1 automatic rifle developed by Yang Wenli is the famous M16 automatic rifle of the United States imperialism, the appearance has not changed at all, this classic design makes the rifle very cool, Yang Wenli liked it very much in his previous life, so he naturally copied it.

There are three classic points in it, the first is that the butt and barrel receiver are in a straight line, which can make the bullet shoot without jumping at the muzzle, which can significantly improve the accuracy of hitting.

The second is its movable handle and heightened front sight, so that the soldier does not need to stick to the butt when aiming, so that the heat from the gun chamber will not burn the soldier's eyes, and can also improve the aiming speed.

The third is that it cancels the shock-absorbing piston mechanism, and replaces it with a long spring buried in the butt, and the complex automatic loading mechanism is replaced by high-pressure gas in the barrel, which greatly reduces the gun structure and shortens the length of the gun, thereby improving reliability and ease of use.

However, because of the different times, the mechanical materials are also different, naturally there is a little difference, first of all, he does not have aluminum alloy, can only be replaced by alloy steel, the material strength of alloy steel is better, it can be thinner, and the weight added is not much.

In addition, because his engineering plastics are not very qualified, in terms of heat resistance, material strength is not up to the requirements, he temporarily replaced the butt handguard and other parts of the engineering plastics with wood, so that the whole gun is no longer pure black, but red and black mixed half, but in the future, as long as the engineering plastics are qualified, he will definitely change back.

In this way, the weight of the whole gun has increased significantly, reaching the level of AK47, but this small flaw is imperceptible in the hands of ancient people.

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