"Le ...... My lord, no, a large group of pirates killed several fishermen in our county on the beach......"

Lewen didn't expect that on his first day as a Shanghai inspection envoy, there would be Japanese pirates invading fishermen near the coast. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"What! And what about the officers and soldiers guarding the coast? ”

Le Wenzheng, Ding Ke'er, and Long Chao were having lunch in the house arranged for them by Han County Lingxin, and one of his servants named Li Erhu was sweating and hurriedly came to report the news.

"Where are the officers and soldiers along the coast, my lord, you just came, you may not know, the officers and soldiers guarding the coast have changed several times, and if they come, they will sacrifice a group, and the officers and soldiers who came a few days ago have all died, and no people have been sent from above."

Li Erhu wiped the beads of sweat from the corners of his forehead, put on a sad face and said.

"Go and call the others to gather at the yamen, and we'll set off."

"Yes!"

Lewen put the half-eaten rice bowl on the table, then picked up the black gold sword next to him and walked out.

"Brother Wen, I'll go with you."

Long Chao wiped the rice from the corner of his mouth and dared to step forward and say.

"You're not an official or a soldier, so don't go."

Lewen doesn't know what the strength of the Japanese is in the end, if the strength of the Japanese is really as strong as said in history, then the two of them will go this time, it is likely that they will all return to the west, and if he dies, it will be just a matter of him, if Long Chao is also dead, then who will take care of his father and mother in the future.

There was a war in China, which is rare in history, which proves how strong the Japanese were at that time.

A group of only 53 Japanese invaders sacked Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces, and approached Nanjing, the capital garrisoned by tens of thousands of Ming troops.

This group of Japanese robbers killed and wounded four or five thousand officers and soldiers, and was finally surrounded and annihilated by the Ming army, which had an absolute advantage in numbers. Why are tens of thousands of Ming troops so vulnerable?

The equipment of the militia and government servants of the Ming army was naturally much worse than that of the Japanese invaders.

However, compared with the regular army of the Ming army, the weapons and equipment of the Japanese were rudimentary.

Their main weapons are cold weapons such as knives, guns, bows, and arrows. As for clothing, most of them fought naked. Compared with the Japanese Invaders, although the Ming army was also dominated by cold weapons, the hot weapons in the formation were very powerful.

For example, the arquebus, known as the bird gun in the Ming Dynasty, has a long range, up to 300 meters, high accuracy and great lethality. In terms of armor, the Ming army was basically dressed in light cotton armor inlaid with copper nails, and wore tall iron helmets, which were far superior to the "naked" Japanese robbers in terms of style and solidity.

Then why couldn't the Ming army defeat the Japanese invaders?

The answer is just two words: corruption.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty was the hereditary system of military households created by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the sergeants were established in the guards, and the fields were tuntian on weekdays and protected the place during wartime.

There was no problem with the guard system itself, but in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, because of the occupation of land and military salaries, a large number of military households fled, and only 30% of the soldiers were left on the coastal defense front line with a garrison of 300,000 in the early Ming Dynasty.

The barrenness of the guard is all appearance, and what is even more deadly is that because it has been peaceful for a long time, the quality of the generals and soldiers is amazingly poor, and some hereditary generals can't even ride horses, and they can't even figure out the flag. Soldiers, on the other hand, have no combat effectiveness to speak of.

The young and strong soldiers in the guard house all fled, and the rest were weak, and of course they were about to collapse at the slightest touch.

And the Japanese are convenient, because most of these people are samurai who were not hired in the Warring States period of Japan, all of them are strong in martial arts, and their individual combat ability is extremely strong, and the Japanese are brave in battle, compared with the two, the Ming army is of course invincible.

There is an idiom in China called "wolf running to pigs", which means to run around like wolves and pigs, harassing everywhere, which is a completely derogatory term.

There is also an idiom in Japan called "pig sudden", but it is praised, and in Japanese culture, the wild boar is a symbol of courage and strength. If you say that a naughty little boy looks like a "pig" in a Japanese park, his mother will most likely smile and thank you.

When I see this history, the first thing I feel is that it has the same vitality as a wild boar.

After they came ashore, they were not as enthusiastic about rape and plunder as the ordinary Japanese robbers, but straightforwardly "pigs rushed forward", attacking and setting fire to small counties along the way, and fighting and killing officers and soldiers.

According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", this group of people "raided Huiji County, robbed Hangzhou, Shexian County, Huizhou Prefecture, Jixi and Jingde, slaughtered Jing County, approached Nanling, and went to Wuhu." Burn the south bank, go to Taipingfu, commit Jiangning Town, and go straight to Nanjing. ”

What impresses people most about this gang of pirates is their combat effectiveness like that of special forces. "Preparing for the Sea Atlas" exclaimed: "The fifty-three people who cover this are slippery and strategic, fierce and combative, the best of the thieves, very thieves!" ”

Let's take a look at the combat effectiveness of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the army was still quite strong, but by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, this huge military machine was full of holes, and the generals who deducted military salaries and lied to their soldiers, and the overwhelmed soldiers made it commonplace for a large number of military households to flee.

The flight rate of military households along the coast has been frighteningly high, and a large number of guards have become useless, and some guards have only one person left! The combat effectiveness of the soldiers is low, and they will collapse at the touch of a button.

Zhang Huan, a front-line official, once went to the emperor and described the front-line officers and soldiers with bitterness: "Going into battle is like child's play, there will be no orders, and the soldiers are undisciplined. ”

On the one hand, it is "a selection of thieves, very thieves", and on the other hand, it is "like child's play to go into battle", no wonder this 53 widows can run rampant for a while.

The most jaw-dropping scene is yet to come -- this group of pirates has begun to attack Nanjing!

Nanjing was the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and there were more than 10,000 troops defending the city. But it was just like this that dozens of would-be robbers were able to attack with great fanfare and staged a farce of outnumbering the crowd. "The thief then went straight to Nanjing, his chief was dressed in red and rode a horse, Zhang Huang covered the whole thing, and the people committed the Da'an De Gate, and our soldiers hit it with fire from the city, and the thieves went back and forth along the gates of the outer city Xiao'an De and Jiagang, and went back and forth to spy on the city, and obtained their place, and sent spies, and the thieves led the people to go from the shop to the Moling Pass."

The incident happened in a hurry, and he knew nothing about the enemy's situation, and the city of Nanjing was boiling, and the army and the people were shocked. At that time, Zhang Shiche, the largest official in Nanjing, hurriedly ordered the city gate to be closed, and ordered the citizens to prepare their own food and equipment to defend the city.

He Liangjun, an eyewitness to this incident and a literati who was the Confucius of the Nanjing Hanlin Academy at the time, said indignantly in his notes: "The thief is only seventy-two ears. The Nanjing soldiers were opposite to each other in two formations, killing two commanders-in-chief, and the sergeants died eight or nine hundred, and these seventy-two people did not break one person.

The thirteen gates of Nanjing are closed, and the people of the city are all on the city, and the elders and subordinates of the hall guard each door, although the thieves retreat and do not dare to lift the strictness.

The garrison of the capital city can not be said to be secret, and the nobles and nobles ride from the hug to gallop in the road on weekdays, and the soldiers ask for 80,000 grains per month, which is today.

Today, with seventy-two mobs blocking the door, that is, Emperor Zhang is like this, rather than being humiliated by the court? ”

This passage is to the effect that dozens of Japanese invaders came to invade Nanjing, and the defenders were killed by eight or nine hundred people, while the other side suffered no casualties.

The thirteen gates of Nanjing were closed, and the people were guarded in the city.

Nanjing's defense is not tight, and the military expenditure on weekdays is also very large, but I did not expect that dozens of Japanese robbers would attack, and the defenders would behave in such a hurry, which was really a great shame.

At that time, the famous scholar Gui Youguang also participated in the scientific expedition in Nanjing, and he was also emotional: "What is the result of raising an army in the past? ”