Chapter 432: Hanging on the stick
At this time, the Joseon Kingdom practiced a system of separation of military and political affairs, and in order to control the entire army and prevent the emergence of private troops, the Joseon royal family turned most of the army into soldiers similar to the 'reserve system'. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is commonly known as 'no fixed soldier'.
It is true that without a fixed standing army, there will naturally be no warlords, and the nearly 1,000-strong Praetorian Guards of the Joseon royal family can basically run rampant on the Korean Peninsula......
However, the unified Korean kingdom does not represent a dictatorship in the absolute sense, and the Korean royal family needs the cooperation of the people below if they want to govern the country, and the Korean kingdom is still in the feudal system, and the officials and the big landlord class are actually related to each other, and even many people are agents pushed out by a family!
Therefore, even if the Joseon royal family holds the military power, it will not be able to disobey the interests of the entire Korean kingdom and take the initiative to surrender to the Han army!
And in the next military preparations of the Korean Kingdom, the power of the unity of the interest groups of the entire Korean Kingdom was also reflected!
A large number of reservist infantry soldiers were quickly formed, and a steady stream of them gathered in Seoul from all over the Korean Kingdom!
Although the Korean Kingdom was small in size and poor in country, it was far less rich than the Manchu Empire, but it also had the advantage of being small, that is, the speed of gathering troops far exceeded that of the huge and bloated Manchu Empire!
Especially in the era when railways were not widely available, almost a country with a small land area could easily gather a regular army of the whole country!
If it is a big country like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, at first glance, the total strength of the army is millions, which is very awesome, but if it really starts, let alone gather millions of troops, even if it can gather 100,000 troops, it will praise the Manchu Empire's efficiency and super level!
The large area of the country means that there are countless areas where troops are stationed in the country, and the garrisons of the south and the north of the world, not to mention whether leaving the garrison will cause turmoil in the locality, just running all over the land of China with their legs to rush to the battlefield is an impossible task in the era when there is no train transportation!
Because of this, when the Han army attacked the Manchu Empire, the main force of the Qing army encountered was at most tens of thousands, not counting those miscellaneous soldiers and people!
The lag in the mobilization of troops of the Manchu Empire was also one of the reasons why the Han army broke through quickly and hit the city of Beijing!
However, for the poor Korean kingdom with a small land area, there is no need to worry about the rapid advance of the Han army's landing force, when Xue Ziwu's men and horses completed the landing and advanced to a hundred miles away from Seoul, the Korean Kingdom interest groups that exploded beans for their own interests turned the reserves of the entire Korean Kingdom into a standing army, and completed the training and equipment, including miscellaneous soldiers, more than 30,000 people, Hulala drove out of Seoul, intending to teach the Han invaders a lesson with great dignity......
These 'local tyrants' of the Korean Kingdom can be regarded as 'advanced' flintlock pistols bought from smuggling ships by arming this old army of the Korean Kingdom with all their might, regardless of the price, only the quantity!
There are more than 5,000 people armed, all of whom are 'elite' soldiers in the Korean Kingdom!
Even, these 'local tyrants' of the Korean Kingdom got the grenades scattered by the British out of nowhere!
This thing is a good thing, simple and practical, and you can basically go to the battlefield and play with it once you use it once!
The saying that money can make ghosts grind has been well interpreted in the Eastern world......
If it weren't for the strict military law of the Han army and the absolute loyalty of the Han Imperial Forest Army supervision, I am afraid that the Han army's individual weapons would have been lost......
Of course, the military system of the Han army was much more advanced than that of the Manchu Empire, and it was difficult for soldiers and officers to resell weapons, unless they didn't want to live!
The national strength of the Han Empire is fierce, even if those money-hungry soldiers want to sell their weapons and fly away, they must also consider whether the power of the Han army will expand to the place where he fled, not to mention, the Manchu Empire's external channels are blocked by the Han army, and it is not easy to escape!
In addition to the smuggled flintlock pistols, the army of the Joseon Kingdom used the most shotguns and broadsword spears!
In this era, the Korean kingdom paid more attention to the use of firearms than the Manchu Empire, even though the Korean kingdom had long been conquered by the Manchu Tartars, but they still admired the glory of the Ming Dynasty in their hearts!
Worship the culture of the Ming Dynasty, and worship the military system of the Ming Dynasty!
The bureaucratic system of the Korean Kingdom has many similarities with the Ming Dynasty, and the army is also trying to learn from the Ming army of that year, equipped with a large number of arquebuses such as shotguns!
It's just that the artillery is too expensive, and for North Korea, which is small and weak, it is really impossible to assemble it on a large scale, and the 'local tyrants' of the Korean Kingdom searched the entire kingdom, and they pulled out dozens of earthen cannons, of which there are less than ten red-coated cannons, and the rest are imitations, antique-like Franc machine guns and curved tiger squat guns!
Today's Korean Kingdom army, and the Ming army and later Japanese army are somewhat similar, divided into the fire gun team and hand-to-hand soldiers, the hand-to-hand combat soldiers are equipped with cold weapons such as broadswords, spears and shields, and the fire gun team is equipped with bird guns and Japanese iron cannons that have been scattered to the Korean Peninsula, all of which belong to a series of arquebuses, which need to be lit with arquebuses......
In order to cope with the attack of the Han army, the magnates of the Korean Kingdom took out all the weapons that could be used and could not be used, such as the famous 'Monkey Piercing Monkey' series of products, which used a wooden box to make many holes, which were inserted with arrows tied to the powder cartridge on the back buttocks, and each hole would have an arrow with a gunpowder power system, and behind the wooden box, all the whole set of gunpowder cartridges were linked together with a fire rope, and as long as it was lit, the flame would follow the total Valve' burns all the gunpowder canister arrows and ignites the black powder in the powder canister!
Then, these arrows will fly out of the hole like the 21st century monkey piercing!
As for whether it can hit the target, it depends on whether the Buddha and his old man are powerful......
However, this kind of beehive of the 'Sky Piercing Monkey' series, a gun that can be loaded with two-digit gunpowder canister arrows, and the problem of not being able to aim can be completely compensated for by the quantity, and the fight is intensive shooting!
Of course, the range of this thing is very problematic, in the cold weapon combat during the Song Dynasty, this weapon used to be beautiful, dense gunpowder-powered arrows, and the armor-piercing ability of heavy armor is still quite gratifying!
The Korean kingdom can take out this kind of large-scale killing weapon of the Song Dynasty, and it can be regarded as hungry......
For the Kingdom of Korea, this battle must not be defeated, as long as there are tools that can kill people, they will never have too much!