Chapter 156: The Road to Expansion
Seichoin Ena led 20,000 soldiers to attack Japan, and after the destruction of the Nanban Fleet, the first battle of Kyushu Island, the first battle of Shikoku Island, and the first battle of Owari Province, the number of troops skyrocketed to 100,000. The extra 80,000 troops are not the follow-up troops of the Ming Kingdom, there have never been any follow-up troops, and the follow-up troops are just immigrants composed of ordinary people and missionaries of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, and these 80,000 soldiers are the servant army of the Japanese mainland that Ena requisitioned from Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island. It's about the same as the ordinary daimyo of Japan's Sengoku period. No, it should be said that it is a poor person who has no combat effectiveness than the Ashigaru of Japan's Sengoku period.
Although there are some people on Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island, it is also a very difficult thing to levy 80,000 ashigaru, and it is a very influential thing, and how many soldiers were mobilized when Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan for a cross-sea expedition to Korea, how could it be possible for Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island to draw out 80,000 surplus laborers, especially when a large number of ashigaru were killed, it was completely impossible.
But Wyna did it anyway. Regardless of whether the troops are stable or not, as many as they can be levied, even if there are no in the cities, they can be forcibly wrapped from the countryside and the countryside. As long as you are a man, it doesn't matter if you are a samurai or a peasant, whether you are an old man or a child, if you find out, you will be forcibly requisitioned, and if you don't leave, you will die directly.
Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island have millions of stone to follow, and it is no problem to get tens of thousands of men. It's just that the behavior is a little bloodier. In order to levy so many ashigaru in a short period of time, Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island were bloody and bloody, and many people fell in a pool of blood. How many families have been ruined. How many cities and villages have been burned to the ground, but these are completely indifferent to Huina. Ena just wanted those conquered places and had no ability to resist. After all, Ena really didn't have a lot of troops stationed on the two islands, and as for the rest, Ena had no interest in taking care of it.
The men were all taken away, and even if they wanted to, they couldn't resist. It's impossible for girls to form an army to fight against the invasion of the Ming Dynasty. Although there is such a thing as Ji Wujun in this Warring States now, but. The main body of the combat unit is still men, after all, men have a natural advantage in fighting and fighting.
A force composed of all women, not to mention the ancient antiquity of the Warring States, even in the modern era of the twenty-first century, there are not many such troops, and the war makes women go away, this sentence is not false.
During the conquest of Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island. When I fought with the Shimazu family, the Ryuzoji family, the Otomo family, and the daimyo of the Nagamune family, I killed a group, and when I requisitioned the servant army, I killed a group, and the 80,000 servant troops who were transferred away were counted as a group, and now, there are not many men on Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island. This is a very great security guarantee for the subsequent immigrants from the Ming Dynasty and the missionaries of the Church of the Lord of the Sky.
As for the problem of the men on the few islands killed, the problem of the lack of population, and the problem of lack of believers, this is not a problem at all for Huina. Don't say that Zheng Shuanglong doesn't care about such a little faith, and he doesn't lack so much fantasy. In fact, the only purpose of the First Expeditionary Force, which is dominated by the Third Division, is just land, that is, living space. As for the rest, they were not at all the goals of the 1st Expeditionary Force. There is only land, only land.
You must know that the population base of the vast Ming Dynasty is very high. Based on this kind of population, if there is an outbreak, it will only be a matter of more than ten years. Medical conditions are better. In addition, if there is no limit, it will not be long before a billion people are not a dream, in this case, a random population can fill the population gap of this small island.
After all, even if the Church of the Lord of the Sky has been reformed for a few years, there are still some poor people who can't survive, even if they are not very willing, but in order to survive, they will follow in the footsteps of the Church of the Lord of the Sky and live a good life in the colony.
The huge population of tens of millions is the greatest power of the Ming Dynasty. There is great power in numbers, but it is not a joke.
As for the issue of the 80,000 unstable servant army that was transferred to accompany the army, as long as they followed the new army of the Ming Dynasty, it was okay not to cause trouble to the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty behind, as for the rest, Hui Na would not care.
For these servant troops, Huina has never expected their combat effectiveness, these servant troops are not even cannon fodder in Huina's eyes, and they can even be said to be scum that drags down the average combat effectiveness, and there is no need to expect them to fight, and they have to waste food to feed them, although the food is relatively poor, but how to say that it is 80,000 people, well, now it is 120,000 people, after the defeat of Owari Province, it is naturally indispensable to such a sweep, 120,000 people, and the daily rations add up to a large amount of food.
Although the local area can solve a part of the food, but the amount of this solution, is very not optimistic, if only rely on the supply of Japan, it is estimated that even the bark will be eaten up, more than 100,000 people flow, but it has a very terrifying lethality, how to say that it is already a conquered place, if you do too many evils, Hui Na will also be a little embarrassed, and this is a place where you can choose a lot of beauties for the dragon, so it is better to give ordinary people a little way to live, therefore, Most of the supplies of Huina's troops were supported by sea, and the grain sent from the Ming Dynasty was supported.
Although it is a sea freight, the amount of transportation is also relatively large, the wear and tear on the road, the freight is not very high, but, after all, it is transported from Daming, and the road is not very close.
Starting from Dagu, arriving at Kyushu Island, transferring to Shikoku Island on Kyushu Island, and crossing Kii, Ise, and Shima, before arriving at Owari, although all the pirates and navies of other countries were sunk to the bottom of the sea, but this transportation was not so easy. The total tonnage of the ship is so much, grain plus oil, ammunition and the like, counting a considerable part of the transportation capacity occupied by immigrants, the supply of Qingqiu Yuan Huina is not so abundant.
The most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty has only been developed for more than two years, and has done some basic construction, but the foundation is still a little weaker, and now the material support of the other world for the Ming Dynasty has stopped.
If it weren't for the fact that Japan was the playground of Ena of the Qingqiu Temple, those servant soldiers who built roads, mined, and worked as coolies after the war were also considered a labor force, and the Japanese battlefield was played like this. It has long been corrected by the Church of the Lord of the Sky who is troubled by logistics.
That's right, the biggest task of these servants now is to change the road conditions in Japan, and building roads is the only thing they have to do every day. For this terrible situation that only armored vehicles, tanks, and other vehicles with considerable cross-country ability can run, Huina is very dissatisfied. Isn't this a delay in the conquest of Japan?
The tank can't drive in the mountains, this Ena knows very well, but if you can't even drive a tank on the plains, it will really make Ena very angry. Time is life, time is a qiē, and time is the most precious thing.
Even Ena knew that his existence had caused a lot of pressure on the Church of the Lord of the Void. The materials used by the First Expeditionary Force themselves. The ration has been greatly exceeded. This has a considerable impact on the mission of the Church of the Lord of the Sky to conquer the world, so Ena also hopes to end the war against Japan as soon as possible.
Even if this game can allow Zheng Shuanglong to accompany Hui for a longer period of time, he can enjoy more time alone with Zheng Shuanglong like this. However, Ena also felt that he couldn't be so willful. A little wayward is cute, it's tsundere, it's ......
But she is very willful, even if she is a beautiful girl, she will be annoying, and Hui Nake doesn't want Zheng Shuanglong to hate herself at all.
If you really hate Zheng Shuanglong. Ena felt that she was going to die, and her heart was going to die. Hui Na now only has Zheng Shuanglong. If even Zheng Shuanglong hates Hui Na, then Hui really can't find the meaning of saving zài. So. Seichoin Meina won't do too much.
Ena's game has a great impact on the mission of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, but who is the lover of the Lord of the Sky in Seicho-in Temple? The Church of the Lord of the Void cannot afford to mess with. Even if there were really too many things that Qingqiu Yuan Ena asked for, he had to squeeze a little from other fronts. A part of the supplies were transferred to the Japanese front.
It is precisely because of this move of the Church of the Lord of the Sky that the already insufficient food and other materials on other fronts are even more scarce. There are not enough materials to do this. I had to kill them, leaving no prisoners, so that the excess rations would not be consumed, and a considerable part of the rations would be captured.
To this end, the Second Expeditionary Force composed of the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Tatar New Army, the 3rd Expeditionary Force composed of the 4th Division of the Indonesians, Europeans and Indonesian natives who drilled the rainforest, the 4th Expeditionary Force composed of the 5th and 6th Divisions in Southeast Asia to conquer the so-called non-conquest countries, and the 7th Division and the 5th Expeditionary Force of the 7th Division to the American continent, all these units began to kill on a large scale. The dead enemy is the best enemy, as for the prisoners and the like, all you need is some guides and some coolies to open mines and build roads, and the rest is completely unseen.
Ancient people, sometimes very cruel. The soldier is not a good person in the first place. Accompanied by the killing, how can it be a lovely person. In the Ming Dynasty, soldiers were more terrible than bandits, and it was common sense to kill good and take risks. The people's defenders or something, let's wash and sleep. It's a joke. There has never been such a thing in the Ming Kingdom.
A Ming State that had just laid an industrial foundation, and a Ming Dynasty with a little bit of savings, directly launched a war in five directions, spanning tens of thousands of miles, and the consumption of more than 100,000 troops was really too much pressure on logistics. The pace of expansion is too fast for shipping to keep up.
In the final analysis, the foundation of the Ming Dynasty is not enough, and the materials accumulated in the rapid development of the past two years are simply not enough to guarantee hundreds of thousands of troops in so many directions.
Not to mention that the materials are not so abundant, even if there are enough materials, with the current transportation conditions and transportation forces, there is simply no way to deliver the materials to the hands of the troops in a timely manner.
Roads have not been built much, and most of the country still uses horses, mules and other livestock as the main means of transportation. Not to mention the railway network, there are only two railways in the country, the north one is fine, and the south side is not within reach. Shipping is not very ideal, the tonnage of the ship is so much, it is completely insufficient. Such transportation conditions, even if the forces of the private sector are mobilized, will not be much better.
Materials, transportation, and the environment were the big problems that limited the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, which had a population of tens of millions.
The Second Expeditionary Force on the Tatar side was okay in the early days, after all, it was on the steppe, and it could be transported by train and car anyway, plus it was not so far from the development center, and the sweep of the steppe peoples brought quite a lot of food, which could be purchased from the subsequent immigrants.
Although the Second Expeditionary Force, composed of the first and second divisions, had a somewhat difficult time, it could survive no matter how it was said. Relying on the armored forces, which are hundreds of years more than this era, the battle on the prairie was decided, and the Hu people who killed did not dare to go south and herd horses.
The most important thing is that as the Gundam construction team quickly paves the railway, the allocation of materials will always get better and better. But. The destination of the Second Expeditionary Force is Europe, and this is still a long way off. It took the Russians hundreds of years to complete the erosion of Siberia, and the First Expeditionary Force had to spend three years to kill and conquer Europe, which was really too big.
Compared with the Second Expeditionary Force, which had good conditions, the Fourth Expeditionary Force was much more difficult for the troops in Southeast Asia, obviously with modern armored troops, but the advance was basically by walking, playing peek-a-boo with the natives in the jungle all day long, plus the difficulty of material transportation. The commander of the Fourth Expeditionary Force almost didn't cry, this is one thing.
"We need construction machinery such as excavators, rollers, forklifts." The commander of the Fourth Expeditionary Force roared to the headquarters of the Beijing Division on the phone more than once, but unfortunately these things were not enough for the Ming Dynasty to build by itself, how could it be transported to the front line, and even if it was transported to the front line, there would be no driver. Now the situation in the entire Ming Dynasty is that there is a shortage of talents in the machine and the people. After all, two years ago, the cultural penetration rate of the Ming Dynasty was less than one percent. There is no way around it.
The poor road conditions in Southeast Asia, which have not undergone modern development, are collapse, not to mention personnel carriers that run on wheels, even armored vehicles, tanks and other combat vehicles with good cross-country ability with belly belts cannot walk, and not only that. In many places, horse-drawn carriages can't even go, and in some places, people can't even pass normally. Country roads, how to say that there are still roads, but there are many places in Southeast Asia. It's just a jungle, and there is no beast path out of it, and it's such a sad thing.
The Second Expeditionary Force that pursues the tribes in the steppe. All heavy weapons can be used, not to mention this kind of envy and jealousy. Although most of the heavy artillery and other things of the First Expeditionary Force in Japan were left on Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island for defense, it can still use some combat vehicles, tanks, small artillery, etc., which is a very good thing compared to the Third Expeditionary Force and the Fourth Expeditionary Force.
As for the Fourth Expeditionary Force, except for a few mortars, heavy machine guns, and the like, other heavy weapons could not be deployed at all, and this was such a depressing thing. Obviously, he has a big killing weapon in his hand, but he can't use it. I don't want to say anything about this kind of Cheng dù.
In the sweep of Southeast Asia, a significant part of the troops of the Fourth Expeditionary Army fell, and they were not knocked out by the enemy, but by the environment. There are quite a few non-combat attritions, and the use of modern weapons to fight natives is comparable to that of the Italian army.
However, the Fourth Expeditionary Force also has results, although it is not as good as the First Expeditionary Force and the Third Expeditionary Army, but after exhausting the more than 300,000 natives captured, the road to India was finally opened. After conquering India, a populous country, they will follow the route of Alexander the Great's eastward expedition to the Mediterranean. Conquer the whole of West Asia and finally conquer Africa.
The Fourth Expeditionary Force is complaining, but compared with the Third Expeditionary Force with the Fourth Division as the main body, they are in heaven, the same jungle, the rainforest has different characteristics, and the Third Expeditionary Force, which has enjoyed the hospitality of the tropical rainforest, wants to kill people physically and mentally, although they are indeed killing, but this kind of killing really can't eliminate the depression in their hearts. Basically all heavy weapons become depressing, because the environment is not adaptable, and the problem of adaptation to the water and soil has the depression of non-combat attrition every day. Fighting in the rainforest is something they don't learn at all.
Perhaps, the Third Expeditionary Force should ask Bei Ye to teach him what is the ability to survive in the wild that can be eaten after removing the head. In the face of the power of nature, in the face of this dangerous tropical rainforest, most of the heavy weapons cannot be used, they are really a little powerless.
The great task of decisively developing the rainforest is still left to the immigrants and the Church of the Empty Lord, and they will decisively kill the ones who should be killed. The army is originally an institution of violence, and it is too much to talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality.
Although the progress of the Third Expeditionary Force in the development of the rainforest is really very low, in terms of combat achievements, the Third Expeditionary Force can be said to be far ahead. Killing one is a crime, slaughtering ten thousand is a male, and slaughtering nine million is a male in a male.
Although no one knows whether the Third Expeditionary Force slaughtered 9 million, the Third Expeditionary Force also killed very pleasantly, beating the European visitors and driving their forces out of the Strait of Malacca.
Steel destroyer against an ancient galleon. The advantage is too great, if it weren't for the fact that there weren't enough of them, just a few destroyers, and this part of the sea area in Asia would be Alexander, maybe they could go directly to Europe, after all, it was not a level at all.
While it won a great victory over the European visitors, the Third Front Army was also very loving to the natives who were not very friendly to the natives, and almost wiped out the natives of Indonesia. If it weren't for the fact that there were so many islands, perhaps. It's really going to kill the natives of Indonesia, the country of a thousand islands, it's really still very troublesome. Third, there are not enough ships for the expeditionary force.
But in any case, the mission of the Third Expeditionary Force was completed, and troops were stationed in Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. It can be said that the occupation of Oceania was officially completed.
However, even if the Third Expeditionary Force achieved such a great record, it would not change their current embarrassing living situation. The supply was less than a fifth of what had been planned, the fuel was completely stopped, and all the tanks were furnished. The supply of ammunition such as shells and bullets was less than one-fifth of the original plan, and the food was better, and it was finally able to meet the needs of the troops, as for other living materials other than food. That's really not at all.
If it weren't for the fact that the civilian maritime merchants were a little more powerful, there were already a lot of Chinese people in Nanyang, and they would have been able to provide some of them, and the Third Expeditionary Force would really be crying. Obviously, there is enough money. But you can't buy anything, that's what it's all about.
Don't blame the headquarters of the Beijing Division for being so ineffective, and the overall supplies are not enough. On the one hand, a considerable part of the materials of the Third Expeditionary Force were transferred to the First Expeditionary Force, and the most important thing was that there was only so much tonnage of ships, and after deducting the part of the Fifth Expeditionary Force, which had probably just arrived on the American continent and the First Expeditionary Force that was raging in Japan, there was not much left, plus the tonnage occupied by the Church of the Lord of the Sky for the immigrants of the civilian population, there was really not much left that could be allocated to the Third Expeditionary Force.
It was precisely because of the lack of overall tonnage of ships that the Fourth Expeditionary Force had to kill from land to Southeast Asia and from Southeast Asia to India. Finally to the Mediterranean, do you like to play peek-a-boo with those chiefs as soldiers of the Fourth Expeditionary Force? Drilling ravines, going into the jungle, arresting people everywhere to build roads, it is not that they have no choice, there is no way to guarantee sea transportation, and they have to open a transportation line on the road. If there is enough tonnage, it is much more comfortable to sit on a large warship and fight it by sea, which is far more comfortable than this jungle life.
Experience jungle life for a short period of time, as a camping or something is not bad, but in the jungle for a long time, it will really drive people crazy, snakes, insects, rats, ants or something, not to mention, muskets and sometimes in the jungle is really not as powerful as a chopping knife, not to mention the failure caused by moisture, the range of 500 meters can play an effective range of 20 meters in the jungle Thank God. There are really too many obstacles.
This kind of process is caused by insufficient development. It seems to be a bit of a problem to say that the development is not enough, in fact, the shipyard still has a considerable number of freighters, cruise ships, transport ships, destroyers, cruisers, troop carriers and other ships parked in the port, if you can use these tonnage, the expeditionary force will be a little more comfortable, but unfortunately, there is no manpower, no sailors who can operate these steel warships, there is not a sufficient number of navy. These ships can only be docked in the harbor, waiting, waiting for someone who can operate them.
In more than two years, hundreds of thousands of modern army forces capable of going to the battlefield can be trained, and even if these armies are strictly speaking unqualified armies, they can still exert their combat effectiveness on the battlefield and kill the soldiers of the enemy country to the ground, because the gap between the other side and these unqualified armies is too far. The army of the Ming State is an unqualified army, and those troops that are attacked by the Ming State are a group of scum. The guy with less than five combat strength. The difference in rank is too far. Modern firearms against ancient swords, how could this possibly win. Not all of them have cultivated to the transcendent level. Able to dodge bullets. There is no pressure on one person against a company of heavily armed soldiers.
They were just a bunch of paupers who had just put down their hoes and picked up their swords, no, some of them didn't even have a sword, but a sharpened bamboo pole as a weapon.
How could they win in the face of modern units equipped with assault rifles, mortars, howitzers, armored vehicles, tanks and a range of other weapons. (To be continued......)
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