What do you say about this battle between the Shogunate Army and the Chinese Loyal Army? It can only be said that the whole battle is very ornamental.

Of course, this is very ornamental, and it is aimed at the 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Renaissance Army Marine Corps who are watching from the side.

For the two sides of this battle, the 50,000 shogunate troops and the 18,000 Chinese loyal soldiers, this is a real war, and for the soldiers on both sides of the war, there has never been such a thing as ornamentation.

From the perspective of this battle, the difference in strength between the two sides is very obvious.

Although the shogunate army had more than 50,000 soldiers recruited from various places by the Tokugawa shogunate, only two or three thousand high-ranking samurai played the main role. These people are serious 800 and are the most powerful combat power in the entire Wa Kingdom in this era. They are all the kind of professional samurai who practice martial arts all year round.

Unlike the tens of thousands of peasants who came from Ashigaru, these samurai were simply competing in martial arts, and the warriors of the Chinese Loyal Army from the countryside of southern Kyushu were definitely not opponents.

You must know that although these people can be regarded as carefully selected by the Baxing Army, before receiving formal military training, more than a year ago they were still a group of peasants in the feudal era who did not have enough to eat and worked the land every day with hoes.

Even after more than a year of military training, all they can do is to understand the Chinese passwords of grassroots officers according to the content of the training, and then make corresponding tactical actions.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the Ba'ath Navy's navy had easily "swept away" the thousands of shogunate troops who had just been on the beach, these first-time soldiers would still have their legs and stomachs spinning.

And although it is said that there are 10,000 people without borders, there are only 18,000 people on their side, and there are 50,000 or 60,000 people on the other side, and they still know these basic information. The thought that the other party has more people than their own makes these people tremble in their hearts.

Of course, the Renaissance Army's training of the Chinese Loyal and Brave Army for more than a year was not without effect. The greatest effect of military training over the past year or so is that the Renaissance Army did not use the normal military training method in China, but used a method of "giving three guests" to use the grassroots noncommissioned officers of the Chinese Loyal and Brave Army who had learned basic Chinese to train them by the most brutal methods of corporal punishment and starvation.

Therefore, these people have already developed a conditioned reflex to the passwords of junior officers in more than a year of military training. Under rigorous training, no matter how scared they are, their bodies will respond to the password. To paraphrase the phrase of later generations, "the mouth is upright", these soldiers are a situation of "the heart is not upright".

In a sense, their actions on the battlefield were a completely Pavlovian reaction.

However, the reason why these junior brothers from the battlefield who were born in southern Kyushu of the Chinese Loyal Army are afraid of the shogunate army is because their basic education level is still relatively low, and they cannot correctly understand the huge difference between themselves and the shogunate army on the other side.

Take Qin 14, a company commander of the Chinese Loyal Army, as an example, a middle-level officer of the Chinese Loyal Army who had already obtained official citizenship of the Chinese Empire, because of his excellent academic performance, he had mastered a lot of cultural knowledge. When he was trained in the course of the intermediate officer class, Comrade Qin 14 already knew very clearly how advanced the weapons used by the Chinese Loyal and Brave Army were.

It is precisely because he has a rational understanding of his own weapons that Qin Shihua, who is standing in front of the queue and directing the troops to advance, although it is the first time to go to the battlefield like everyone else, his heart is very calm.

In this era, the weapons of the Chinese Loyal and Brave Army are the second most advanced weapons in the world after the Chinese People's Rejuvenation Army.

They used the second-generation weapons used by the Renaissance Army back then, that is, the Fuxing II series.

The so-called Fuxing II series refers to the second-generation weapons of the Fuxing Army. That is, the Murata rifle, which is modeled on the Shasebo rifle and has been improved to use a single-shot copper-shelled bullet; Hand grenade; As well as the Grusen 57-mm field gun.

However, it is different from the advanced tactics adopted by the Fuxing Army back then, because considering the receptivity of these Chinese Loyal and Brave Army soldiers, the entire Chinese Loyal Army adopts the simplest line tactics.

Regardless of how far behind the regular armament of the Chinese People's Renaissance Army, the regular national defense force of the Chinese Empire (the Renaissance Army now uses repeat-firing Mosingana rifles, Makqin water-cooled machine guns, bazookas, and a variety of advanced artillery guns ranging from 75 mm to 150 mm in the form of liquid springs), their opponents in this war were armed with only a small number of light and heavy arquebuses called iron cannons. The main weapons and operational ideas are still in the shogunate army in the era of cold weapons.

It must be said that the shogunate army, like all armies in the feudal era, adopted a dense array formation in the traditional sense because of the range and lethality of the weapons, especially because of the quality of the soldiers (mainly peasants with bamboo poles) and the ability of the officers to control the troops.

At the outermost end are the ashigaru (light infantry) with so-called bamboo spears as cannon fodder, the charging soldiers (heavy infantry) with shields and the like in the middle, and then the hundreds of musketeers with arquebuses.

After these soldiers, whose basic role is to charge into battle (cannon fodder), there are samurai who are very good at individual force of various types. Some of them rode horses, some did not have horses, but they were all equipped with a variety of weapons and armor of the highest quality.

These people were the main force of the shogunate army. Their number is also not large, only two or three thousand.

But don't look at the two or three thousand people on the battlefield, it looks inconspicuous. However, at present, only the Tokugawa shogunate, which nominally ruled the entire Wa Kingdom, could recruit so many high-ranking samurai. You must know that among these two or three thousand people, many of them are great swordsmen (disciples of Yanagisamon) that Tokugawa Iemitsu wasted a lot of effort to invite.

How to say it, in terms of the current military level of the entire Wa State, the Wa State has lagged behind the times.

If nothing else, things like swordsmanship were still very popular in the Edo period, which shows that the Edo period was still at the level of the classical cold weapon era in terms of tactics.

From the perspective of the Shogunate War in later generations, the Satsuma Domain and the Choshu Domain, which were the first to learn Western military techniques and use the tactics of lining up and shooting, and the Mine-style rifle could easily defeat the shogunate army, which cannot but show that even after more than 200 years, the military level of the entire Wa Kingdom, whether it was the Shogunate army or the shogunate army, was still quite backward.

Therefore, from the point of view of military level, the Chinese Loyal Army, which was equipped with and used weapons and tactics that were even more powerful and advanced than those of the Shogunate Army more than 200 years later, had no reason to lose the war against the Shogunate Army.

Like all barbarian wars against civilized people, the battle begins with a barbarian charge.

The Chinese Loyal Army, which had already quickly formed a formation in the preset position before the shogunate army charged, began a large-scale artillery bombardment after the shogunate army entered the artillery range.

The Chinese Loyal and Brave Army is a student of the Chinese People's Rejuvenation Army, and she has very well copied the basic ideas of the Rejuvenation Army such as "winning with firepower" and "concentrating on the use of artillery."

Therefore, when more than 100 Grusen 57mm field guns were overwhelmingly firing shells filled with high spirits, the whole scene was very beautiful.

However, it was only about three minutes of effort, and after a salvo, within the range of five thousand meters, there was no shadow of the shogunate army on the entire battlefield. The shogunate army, which was attacking five thousand meters away, stood on the spot as if they had been frightened by something.

Mainly because the array of the shogunate army was too dense, the damage caused by this salvo to the shogunate army was very huge. More than 100 shells actually killed nearly 3,000 people of the attacking shogunate army.

In fact, on this battlefield, apart from the fact that the soldiers of the Chinese People's Revival Army Marines, who were mainly responsible for military observation missions, had no special reaction, both sides of the battle, whether it was the Shogunate Army or the Chinese Loyal Army, were frightened by the tremendous power of modern artillery.

So much so that on the entire battlefield, there was a quiet field for about two minutes.

Tokugawa Iemitsu himself was not present on the battlefield, but he was standing on the top floor of the castle tower in Edo Castle, looking at the battlefield with a very precious monocular given to him by Dutch merchants in the past.

To tell the truth, as early as when the giant ships and cannons of the Chinese Empire ploughed down the shogunate troops on the shore, Tokugawa Iemitsu knew that this battle was not won.

As the supreme ruler of the entire Wa Kingdom, Tokugawa Iemitsu was an ideal man. Rational people are also very rational when faced with forces that cannot be resisted.

However, even though he knew that he was definitely not an opponent of the Chinese Empire, Tokugawa Iemitsu was unwilling to accept the "Treaty of Friendship between the Chinese Empire and the Wakoku Clan" given to him by the Chinese Empire.

He clearly knew that once the Tokugawa shogunate signed such a humiliating treaty, then the Tokugawa shogunate established by his grandfather Tokugawa Ieyasu, the absolute rule that the three generations of the Tokugawa shogunate had worked hard to establish in the Wa kingdom, would directly face the danger of collapse.

Even if the Chinese Empire really showed mercy to the Tokugawa Shogunate and allowed the Tokugawa Shogunate to continue to exist, under the circumstance that the Emperor and his family were sent to the Chinese Empire as sinners after the land was ceded and the reparations were paid, the daimyo who were secretly dissatisfied with the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate in various places would immediately launch an opposition and attack on the Tokugawa Shogunate.

At that time, there was only one Wa country left on the island of Honshu, and the second Warring States period was about to be ushered in.

Feudal rulers are also rulers. Although they base everything on their own feudal rule, to a certain extent, the interests of the feudal rulers themselves and the interests of the state are also related. Even the most reactionary and backward feudal rulers do not neglect the interests of the country at all.

Therefore, after witnessing the irresistibility of the cannons of the giant ships of the Chinese Empire, Tokugawa Iemitsu made a desperate struggle from the perspective of safeguarding the interests of the Japanese state. He hoped that the 50,000 shogunate troops he had gathered over the course of more than two years would be able to earn even a little dignity for the Tokugawa shogunate in the subsequent battles, so that he could serve the Wa state in the subsequent negotiations with the Chinese Empire, and also for the Tokugawa shogunate to earn a little negotiating confidence for himself.

But after Tokugawa Iemitsu saw the desperation of the shogunate army under the bombardment of the Chinese Imperial army (he didn't know that it was a group of puppet troops of the Japanese Empire), his mind immediately turned.

The current Tokugawa Iemitsu no longer thinks about the national interests of the Japanese state. He quickly accepted the reality and decided to reserve the maximum power for the Tokugawa shogunate itself, in preparation for the Second Warring States Period, which was sure to take place in the future.

At the same time that he ordered his subordinates to immediately issue a signal for the withdrawal of troops, Tokugawa Iemitsu was full of thoughts about how to use the national interests of the Japanese state as a bargaining chip, and do everything possible to exchange the support of the Chinese Empire for the Tokugawa shogunate in the subsequent negotiations with the Chinese Empire.

Today, the Tokugawa family was no longer thinking about the harsh terms of the "Treaty of Friendship between the Chinese Empire and the Wakoku Clans", but the question of how much benefit the Tokugawa shogunate could use to exchange for the Chinese Empire.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was definitely a qualified feudal ruler.

His thoughts are very rational and very intelligent. For any person, as long as this person is a member of the Tokugawa shogunate, it is not necessarily as good as Tokugawa Iemitsu to do so well and react so quickly.

However, no matter how well the Tokugawa family thought and reacted, it was not as fast as the situation on the battlefield changed.

The samurai of the Wa Kingdom were the pioneers of bushido thought in the future little devil imperial army, and in the 17th century, like their descendants, they carried out their spirit with practical actions.

Just a few minutes later, the two or three thousand samurai did not scatter and flee like tens of thousands of farmers Ashigaru, but, contrary to them, let out a hysterical howl, and rushed towards the position of the Chinese Loyal Army.

Also surprised by the power of artillery, the Chinese Loyal Army reacted much faster.

After all, it was your own artillery that brought damage to the enemy. Therefore, under the reprimand and shouting of the grassroots officers, the soldiers of the Chinese Loyal Army quickly reacted.

The samurai of the Wa State deserve to be the backbone of the feudal ruling class of the entire Wa State, and the samurai of the Wa State deserve to be the class with the highest military quality in the entire Wa State. The thousands of Japanese samurai, led by some samurai from famous Yagyu families, formed a scattered formation in the process of carrying out a desperate charge, and they were very close to having tactical cultivation.

However, there is no "egg" in this.

The Chinese Loyal Warriors who had used the modified method of lining up to shoot had formed a dense array long before they rushed into range.

Under the command of the officers of the Chinese Loyal Army, who had undergone sufficient study, when the two or three thousand Japanese warriors had all entered the firing range, the soldiers of the Chinese Loyal Army, who had formed a "middle bracket" formation, quickly fired their guns under the orders of the officers.

With only three rounds of guns, the two or three thousand samurai who rushed into the "middle bracket" all "heroically" implemented their samurai spirit.

When the battlefield fell into silence again, Qin Shixi, who was also born as a samurai and was now a citizen of the Chinese Empire, Qin Shixi, a middle-level officer of the Chinese Loyal Army, couldn't help but sigh:

"The life of a samurai is really blooming like a summer flower! To be able to die under the heavenly might of the Chinese Empire is also the luck of these warriors! ”