Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 559

Naturally, it is impossible to keep Todo Takatora just to talk about the Artillery Team. Hideka also wants him to train shield swordsmen in the standing equipment.

There are shields in Japanese history. During the Yayoi period, Japan was still in the Stone Age. Shields were the main defensive weapon. It is recorded in the records of the Three Kingdoms that Japanese soldiers also held half-human Takagi shields.

The previous article has introduced why shields are not used as the main weapon of soldiers in Japan. The development of bows has promoted the development of shields, but the lives of p people at the bottom are worthless. Samurai masters have straw sleeves with large armors, which can achieve similar defensive effects as shields.

Coupled with the lifespan of the Japanese bow and the complicated craftsmanship, the Maruki bow has become a mainstream long-range weapon. However, the power of the Marugi bow is very weak. Shoots with most bows and arrows.

Of course, some unlucky ones are not counted.

At this time, the Hayato shield was mainly used as a burial of the tomb and a ceremonial prop at the entrance of important mansions and buildings, which meant to prevent the invasion of evil spirits.

Later, in the Warring States period, the influx of iron cannons did not even have the power to resist the large armor. Since all living beings are equal, what is the use of shields?
Of course, later the daimyos of the Warring States Period discovered that the bundles of bamboo tied together had a certain effect of defending against the penetration of iron cannons, but this kind of thing was only used when attacking and defending the city, and it was not convenient to carry.

After that, the Japanese technology tree seemed to be crooked, and the shield never rose again.

But you must know that at the same time, European gentlemen, when muskets and cannons had become the main weapons, cuirassiers and cuirassiers would still charge with shields.

You must know that the so-called Nanman armor was actually modified according to the tastes of samurai masters, and because of the small size of the Japanese at that time, the thickness of most Nanman armor was deliberately thinned. Even European masters had to wear shields. Japan Why don't people take it with them?

The Xiu family discovered this problem from the very beginning, but for samurai masters, holding a shield and a one-handed sword is not as handsome as holding a double-handed samurai sword and wielding a long spear.

For ordinary ashigaru, the shield is not an easy weapon to control.

You must know that the round shield held by a single person in the "Wu Bei Zhi" of the Ming Dynasty weighed 5 kilograms. According to the records in Qi Jiguang's "Records of Military Training", even the weight of the rattan plate was 5 kilograms, and 1 kilogram in the Ming Dynasty was 598. gram, equivalent to 3 kilograms.

In fact, Xiujia was also deeply touched by this point. In fact, the wooden trusses, which are widely used in the Jibei army, are the same as the bamboo beams. Because of the weight problem, they can only be used as semi-fixed military equipment. It is impossible for a person to stand alone. Holding a wooden pole and a knife in one hand, he went up to fight.

If you really want to go up with a wooden pole, it is better to learn from the tauren and directly use the wooden pole as a weapon to be more efficient.

In addition to the weight of the wooden pole, there is another reason that the shield is actually the most difficult to train.Many people are influenced by the game and think that newcomers are suitable for receiving shields, because they feel that they can avoid being beaten.

In fact, novices are more prone to accidents when using shields, because the power point of dual-wielding weapons is on the wrists, and if they are not careful, they will be in their hands.

Moreover, the purpose of holding a shield is to defend and counterattack, but limited by the rainproof area of ​​the shield, it cannot protect all positions at all. Many people cannot use weapons to attack in the face of a flood of offensives.

The essence of the sword and shield is to use the shield to cover the enemy's field of vision after getting close to the shield, and at the same time block the attack angle of the attacking enemy, and at the same time give your own weapon a sufficient attack angle, and then attack after restricting the opposite weapon.

Just writing a paragraph and using five lines of characters, think about how cumbersome and technical it is in actual combat.

As for the shield formation, don't even think about it. The essence of the shield formation is to quickly form a formation when encountering an enemy, and quickly fill up the position without any reaction after someone falls.

In this era of such a high illiteracy rate, this is not something that can be trained in a few months.

Famous shield-bearing troops in history, such as Roman legionnaires and Macedonian shield spearmen, are elite troops, and the units they form are equivalent to citizens above the wealthy.

In China, rattan players are not the cannon fodder that can be promoted by issuing shields and knives in film and television dramas. On the contrary, shield and knife players often need veterans who have been fighting for more than a year before they can be promoted. They are the most trusted class in the army. .

You are still disbelieved, because the war will not lie. Recall which arm has the most cannon fodder when the countries are fighting.
That's right, they are spearmen. Because of the existence of the gun array, they are consumables. Just send out a spear. Even if you miss it, someone else will forgive him.

Of course the Japanese know this too, no one wants to be cannon fodder, and the long gun is just a weapon that is easy to catch fish in the battle, so tens of thousands of people on both sides of some wars fought for a whole day, and in the end Only a few hundred people died.

This is why the battle of Chuanakajima shook the world after a total of 4k people were killed by both sides.

Later, after the introduction of the iron cannon, 20 people fought in the battle of Guanyuan all morning, and a total of 2 to 3 people died in the battle.

Do you see that technology is the only way to change the productivity of labor? Great men do not deceive me~!

And in the Warring States Period of Japan, the war itself was a job for the lord.

Now it is often said that if someone gets a salary of 2~3k, you still expect them to work hard?
You must know that the samurai and ashigaru of the Warring States period went to fight for the master at their own expense. You can’t expect him to work hard even if you give money, let alone fight for you at your own expense.

Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered the advertisement of the big goose's loan war that appeared on the Internet recently.People are even more ruthless, and they will directly give you debts to fight.

If it is said that before the battle in the Western Kingdom, the shield saber hand could be temporarily slowed down, as time is getting closer and closer to that historical moment, the Xiu family's demand for this unit that can fight on the front line is increasing. urgent.

Therefore, Xiujia said to Fujido Gaohu, "Select those who are strong and courageous, teach them the art of sword and shield, and line up in the first row. Each battalion must be equipped with at least 100 shield swordsmen. One person must be prepared."

"The shield he holds is a half-man-wrapped iron square shield. There is a gap the size of a fist on the right side of the waist, which is used to place short spears. When fighting in battle, line up the shield in front, and hold the shield and spear to break through the enemy formation. From time to time, he used the iron-clad round shield on his back to fight with a sword."

"I can roughly teach you about the gun-shield battle formation. This is mainly about the uniformity of training, but I don't know much about sword-shield combat. You have to find someone to go to Sakai and Hirado to find the southern barbarians. Especially the Spaniards, there are systematic ways there."

Yes, the shield sword soldiers in Xiujia's plan hold a total of two shields, one half-man high square shield is used in formation, with a short spear for stabbing; a single-man round shield is used with a knife.

In order to match this one-man shield, the sword used cannot be a samurai sword, and it has to learn from the Yanling sword of the Ming Dynasty.After all, the samurai sword is a two-handed sword, which focuses on chopping, while a one-handed sword must take care of both cutting and stabbing.

Considering the current level of physical fitness and training of soldiers during the Warring States Period in Japan, it is already remarkable that Hideka can let Todo Takatora pick out thousands of people from the standing staff to learn shield swordsmanship.

But Hideka didn't intend to stop, he wanted to let his Gomoto fans also use shield swords.After all, the most important purpose of Gomoto fans is to defend Iwafu Castle and protect the nobles. They don't usually go out to fight, and it is a bit wasteful to use long spears and samurai swords.

In addition, when going out to fight, the bannermen who guard the Xiu family around should also learn the art of sword and shield, otherwise would they use their bodies to protect the Xiu family in a critical moment?

So it seems that the Japanese can really do it.
It's a pity that the reality is as good as the Xiu family's thoughts, and it's simply impossible for the samurai to abandon their handsome spears and katana swords.

Even the sleeve gun was gradually accepted by the ashigaru people after Hideka changed the quilt to a gun array, because they found that the sleeve gun was really more suitable for stabbing than the plug-in jerk gun.

It's a pity that the samurai masters don't care, the sleeve gun is mostly stabbed and killed, and there is no such thing as a cool dance with a gun!
Maeda Keiji, Shobayashi Isshin, Ikaruga Heiji, Yasuda Sakubei, and Keji Saizo are all staunch catch-and-grab fans.

Heads, heads, and military exploits are all secondary. Holding a spear and waving it like the wind in war is the most important thing. After all, for people like them who are powerless, swinging a spear is not impossible to get a head.

Now let the lords of Gomoto Banzhong and Hatakemoto use the iron-clad wooden shields that look like tortoise shells?

impossible!Absolutely impossible.

The Xiu family did not expect that the use of the shield sword would cause such a big resistance in their own family, so that the Xiu family had to recruit special shield sword soldiers from the people, and the entire eight states of Kanto managed to scrape together a team of 2000 people. .

In fact, Xiujia forgot that he had a combat unit skilled in using shields in his hands, but he was used to using axes together. Over there was the Ezo Shield Axeman.

In the morning, I was mainly planning for the problems discovered in Kanto and the future development of Kanto.

It was not until the afternoon that Hideya began to make arrangements for Ou Yu's appearance in the battle. This time it was a real family elder meeting, and Togawa Tatsuan and others did not attend.

"I just had a discussion with Sado during lunch. The samurai brought by our family from Kibi have just been entrusted to each territory. Although the military service account has been settled, the formation of the reserve team has not yet started.

Coupled with the fact that spring is about to start, and construction progress is being rushed everywhere, it is obviously unrealistic to mobilize the army at this time.

Therefore, I am not planning to mobilize in the territory this time, but I will send 1000 people from the banner, and the damage in the Kanto expedition is not serious. Now that there are not many labor conscripts, 3000 people will be transferred from the Ueno, 1500 from the Lower Field, and 1500 from the Lower General. 2000 people accompanied the army.Ueno let Sanada Nobushige's red team of 1000 people directly participate in the battle, and another [-] people were organized. "

After finishing speaking, he said to Todo Takatora on the side, "Now that Okadan is not here, you should pick up the armaments on the Kanto side first, and you should complete the formation of the reserve teams for Shimono and Shimono as soon as possible.

It does not require the combat power that was directly under the Central Government in the past, it is just used as a template to set up the appearance first.This trip to Ou will not have too many battles, and the main force will be undertaken by Toyotomi Banner and Ou Daimyo, who are counseled by Toyotomi. "

"Yes" Hearing Hideo's order, Fujido Takahu responded, but then said, "But there is a problem. The red armor and red spears and horses of the red reserve team have not yet been prepared. The reserve teams of Xiaye and Shangzong The armor is not ready either."

According to Ukita's military system, in order to reduce the cost of participating in the war for ordinary ashigaru and increase his enthusiasm in the war, Hideka will provide armor and armaments for the soldiers on the military service account who are really unable to afford armor. .

When going to war, the armor and armaments provided by Xiujia are distributed to individuals in the form of loans. After the war is over, the relevant expenses will be deducted from the silver rewards and spoils of war.

Of course, if there is a death in battle, the loan will be written off and the corresponding pension will be obtained according to the military system.

The main reason Hideka did this is that in the past, there were various armors of ashigaru and samurai in the Warring States Period. Many ashigaru even used wooden armor when they only used Jomon. It is already a very good person to have a leather carcass.

Bamboo armor is even more impossible. In Japan, bamboo armor is a high-end product, and the big armor is made of bamboo and leather.

In fact, most of the armor passed down by peasants and soldiers in the early Warring States period was made of wood chips connected in series. By the middle and late Warring States period, the affluent ashigaru had begun to wear a simplified version of the ashigaru armor with full body in the world.

But this wealthy Ashgaru obviously does not refer to the two countries of Bizen and Misaku.

Fortunately, Bizen was originally a well-known military training country in Japan. After Hideka arrived, he upgraded his industry and expanded production capacity, and finally let the ashigaru staff have an iron shell. The southern man's body armor is well-equipped in the world, and it can be said that there is no shortage of armor in Ukita's army.

Therefore, Hideka was very surprised when he heard Takatora Todo said that there was no armor. He looked at Takatora Todo and Sadain Osafune in surprise and asked, "There are more than 3 people who have marched from Kibi, and there is no one who rents armor? Is it productive armored samurai and ashigaru?
It doesn't make sense, I deliberately mobilized the troops of Izumo, Hoki and other countries. These places are all poor places. I remember that most of them were fighting in the army, right? "

Hearing the Xiu family's question, Nasafune Sadakin gave a dry cough in embarrassment, and said, "His Royal Highness has been in Kyoto for more than three months. At the beginning, he promised those soldiers to guard the Kanto for half a year, starting from April. has expired.

The military funds we brought from Jibei have long been used up. At that time, we were unable to pay for the money, and we were afraid that they would cause trouble in the Kanto region, so we agreed to give them the armor as a reward, which made these Western soldiers settle down. . "

“一件足轻甲在市面上是5贯文，制式武士甲从15贯到60贯（60贯是单面南蛮胴甲）不等，我们这边的成本是2贯文~45贯。

Many armors were given to those Ashgaru and samurai, and they promised to guard His Highness until next year's spring plowing. "

The Xiu family was silent for a while, and didn't mean to blame Changchuan Zhenqin, after all, it was the same sentence~ no money!
(End of this chapter)