Chapter 328: Reinforcements and Equipment
Then, when I saw these people, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed.
These soldiers were dressed in cloth clothes, and only a few had half-body leather armor or lacquered bamboo armor, all of which had the obvious characteristics of a certain ethnic group called "dwarf zi" and "luo lap leg", and their body shape was also thinner than most of our soldiers, and they were better than those hungry people on the road.
This is the replenishment sent to us? The so-called Fuso auxiliaries? Well, I don't know what expression to use to face it, and I can even imagine how the mysterious creatures in the back use their expressions and tones to spit on me.
When I thought that I was going to use the ancestors of a group of devils as subordinates to fight on the land of the Central Plains as a similar identity to Huang Xiejun, it was simply a mistake in some kind of time and space that made people feel ridiculous.
Well, at least it's a civil war among the people, and they're just consumables in a sense, I consoled myself.
In this time and space, as cannon fodder and coolies in the era of the Great Exploration of the South China Sea, they accompanied almost all the processes of the Tang people's overseas exploration, so most people may despise or discriminate against them, but they can't be called disgusted.
The reason why the Fuso Domain of the Wa Kingdom is rich in all kinds of coolies and cheap cannon fodder,
The main reason is that it can be traced back hundreds of years, since the time of King Xiaoqian, because of the favor of the monks of the Faxiang Sect, the Taoist Mirror, the Xuanfang, and entrusted with important tasks, and the traditional local forces rebounded, and the rebellion led by the Taisei Minister Fujiwara Nakamaro broke out in Heisei Kyo, and then after the introduction of foreign aid, it was completely defeated.
Then, as the price of foreign aid, the Tang people began to build bases in the coastal enclosures of the Wa State, and the Wa State also moved towards the road of colonization by the Tang people step by step with various leased lands and feudal divisions.
Of course, this kind of colonization was accomplished under the banner of persuasion of the king, because at that time, the upper echelons of the Wa Kingdom were almost all overturned with the leading party that admired China, and they almost did not resist the infiltration of various economic, cultural, and political influences from the upper country.
Later, like other pro-vassal countries, he sent the prince of the lineage into the court as a hostage, and then after the old king retired or died, he was directly escorted back to China by the royal division of the Celestial Dynasty to succeed to the throne, which more or less directly avoided the tragic succession struggle.
As a by-product of this colonization process, it also brought relatively advanced agricultural technology and abundant species to the backward Wa Kingdom, so the population of the Fuso Islands has skyrocketed a lot in the past, and in order to alleviate the contradiction between resources and living space, the export of labor to foreign countries has become a major tradition of the imperial court of the Wa Kingdom in successive dynasties, which has been inherited.
Therefore, the Japanese people have the difference between those born in the sea and those born in the native country, that is, those born in the Japanese country and those born in overseas feudal families, although they are all Japanese people, but the customs and appearance are already very different.
Because of their role as thugs and overseers on the Tang plantations, they were often assigned to women of various ethnic origins as spouses to reproduce the lineage, so their descendants were also mixed and strange, so they preferred to call themselves naturalized.
Some of them, as agents of the feudal lords, returned to Fuso to continue their development, and within the Wa Kingdom, they gradually became known as the factions of the Haisheng Wa people.
However, what is the use of the mountain activities that these Japanese soldiers are better at in this mainly plain terrain? Do you use your height to trip over enemies, or hide in the grass and play stealth backstabs?
Moreover, due to the influence of a certain tradition and innate environment, although the Japanese have a reputation for hard-working and hard-working, they can be maintained with little need, but on the other hand, they are known as soldiers for their stubbornness.
On the battlefield, they are also more lacking in vision and flexibility than the Chinese, so except for a few well-known Japanese soldiers in the feudal army, such as the "Hayato Army" and "Zhi Nengchang", more often than not, these Japanese are used as some kind of cheap consumables.
There is no other reason, they are usually like castrated animals, they are beaten and humiliated, and they are still obedient and obedient, but once they go into battle, it is easy to fall into some kind of uncontrollable madness.
Screaming and screaming and rushing forward, if you don't control it accidentally, it is easy to crash into the enemy's formation or stronghold, either in a short period of time in the dead and wounded, or exhausted the body and sharpness, and can not run away and is killed and captured, almost rarely left spare strength and back hand, to their own people and to the enemy as ruthless.
This kind of fluctuating combat power fluctuations and changes in mood are not liked by most generals, and most of the time their role is to use a wave of first attacks, which are used to test the depth of the enemy's army, and after consuming the enemy's bows and arrows, let the rear be fully pressed before the official attack.
And this group of Japanese soldiers is one of the troops provided to the Southern Dynasty by the Fuso feudal domains in the division of the princes, in accordance with the obligations of their vassals, and the group I have here is said to be mainly from the so-called Dazaifu under the jurisdiction of the so-called Dazaifu on the island of Kyushu.
Because of the fact that they followed their respective leaders and fought with each other all the year round, they had some experience in wielding blades and group battles, but after being requisitioned by the national dynasty, they completely broke up the belongings and classes, and distributed them according to the head.
This time, there were 3,000 men, and they only ate two meals a day, one rice ball per meal, and under the supervision of a hundred cavalrymen, they hurried over like a flock of sheep without any baggage or equipment.
In addition, there are two battalions of shooters from the Silla Domain, who seem to be in the dust, but can barely maintain a vague formation, and like that, they report their homes, but they are foot archers from the Silla Domain, one of the three feudatories in the East China Sea, because of the geographical relationship, the Silla Kingdom was colonized and infiltrated earlier than the Wa Kingdom, almost as early as the Sangdeok period more than two hundred years ago.
Because of the civil strife in the ups and downs of the ministers, he was repeatedly overwhelmed and bullied by the ministers, and the overwhelmed Silla queen Kim Sun-jin hurriedly sent a secret envoy into the court, dedicated the picture book, and then under the protection of the royal teacher, with the treasures and goods accumulated over the generations, the family moved to Chang'an to be a rich and prosperous Lelang Gong.
After the war calmed down a little, the hometown of Silla became a new feudal paradise called the Silla Domain, which is now one of the three feudal domains of the East China Sea.
Because the central and western parts of Silla's homeland were mountainous, and its mountain people were natural hunters and archers, the relatively weak plains and lowlands of the Silla people were also one of the important sources of shooting and righteous servants in the feudal army, and they were commonly used in the military ranks hired by the northern and southern feudal towns for long and short periods.
Although the field battle is not good, as the foot archers who defend the fortress, they are still quite competent, and even the fortress of the border army of the Tang Dynasty in the early years is also full of mountain people recruited by these vassals.
But the problem is that I'm his meow's firecracker troops, bows and crossbows are all out of the way, what do you want these short-legged and not good melee guys to do.
Well, what kind of crooked melons and cracked dates are sent to me.
But I still couldn't go back, so I could only hold my nose and accept it, and then I quickly made a decision to break up the widows, confiscate their personal equipment and belongings, and arrange them to be placed in the skirmishers, and let people supervise them to do some simple and heavy repetitive work first.
The Silla infantry archers were supplemented by regiments to the provisional 4th Battalion as a kind of transitional substitute for those auxiliary brigades that had not yet been firearmed.
Although I repelled the enemy, it was only a slight setback for being fired, and I had a chance to gather strength to deal with the next attack that I don't know where and when.
At this time, a real good news finally came from the south of Huaishui, my baggage leader Qian Shuining, with more than 3,000 unarmed soldiers recruited from Runzhou, Jiangyang, and Jiangning, as well as hundreds of reserve soldiers from Longzhou regimental training, finally arrived in Shouzhou after several days of hurrying and hurrying.
The Longzhou regimental training stationed in Lu Feng's generation has now become the training sequence of my reserve soldiers, and a large number of Borneo children from Longzhou and Fuyuan are receiving basic training and conduct there.
With this reliable source of soldiers, the battle losses accumulated in several major wars and the exhaustion accumulated for a long time were stabilized.
This time, he also brought more than a dozen samples of new weapons, which were first pulled by horse-drawn carts and sent over, and then the material officer Kong Jiji showed me how to operate and use them.
You know, the gunfire team led by Kong Jiji tried to fix and stack the barrels side by side to make a simple nest gun carriage.
Theoretically, it can achieve the effect of dozens of people shooting densely, but walking and accurate head, it is really unsatisfactory, there is still a lack of room for steering and adjustment, and it is quite time-consuming and difficult to reload once.
So my craftsmen started to think differently, and they came up with this new weapon with a strange shape: a tripod with a wooden pole and iron.
The long tube on the tripod and the huge roulette wheel behind it are like a pro-straight team and a teaching team, equipped with a magnified and simplified version of the quick grab of the wheel, about an inch and a half of pipe diameter.
Isn't this a revolving gun, I have seen something similar in the Museum of the Chinese Military Revolution, which belongs to a strange introduction project in the late Qing Dynasty, as a kind of backward vision of the times, and was cheated by people, but for the era in which I live, it is still quite advanced.
It's just that I didn't think of this thing, and they already made it.
The aperture, shape and principle are somewhat similar to the grenade launchers of later generations, but because of the limitations of metal materials, the wall of the pipe is thicker, and a wrought iron reinforced hoop is added, and the shot is also twenty or thirty pieces in a pack, and it is manually triggered and rotated for shooting.
However, because the size is enlarged, the requirements for processing technology are reduced, and the metal cartridge made of iron sheet is used to solve the problem of bottom leakage of the original flintlock pistol, and the two bullet wheels of fifteen and nine rounds ensure a rapid rate of fire in a short period of time.
It is said that under the operation of a veteran hand, he can shoot all the bullet wheels in a tenth of an hour, and as a large troll in a sense, the rate of fire of this kind of revolver is even faster than that of ordinary gunslingers.
And a rotary tube cannon, with at least five or six single-wheeled and specially loaded manpower, so that after a certain number is formed, some kind of sustained fire appears.
As for hits and accuracy, come on, this thing itself relies on fan-shaped dispersion to ensure quantitative kill coverage. Just fill in the buffer between the sampan cannon and the ordinary long gun, and the fire is blocked.
My cast-iron cannon, because of its own material and frequent use, has different degrees of wear and tear and expansion effect, and, compared with the cast-iron cannon, this kind of runner is also more suitable for placing on the car and shooting at medium and low speeds.
There are also more than a dozen catties of tripods removed, and the soldiers take turns to carry it, and there is no problem in marching on mountain roads.
This is also some kind of technology front-load, and I can't help but comfort myself, at least the prototype of the technology tree of metal fixed bullets has been pointed out.
However, there are also obvious defects, that is, if there are too many components, they will expand and deform, and failures are frequent, and then they need to be manually re-beaten to correct the straight tiger before they can continue to be used
And it's thicker and heavier than the guy I've seen before, which is also a matter of no choice, limited by materials and processes, and can only be made thick to increase the overall strength.