1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 287 Generation Difference
"It's really a bunch of lifeless things."

Sven stood on the deck, looking at the Japanese fireboat floating on Kanagawa Bay and said.

Beside him stood the armed employees of the Universal Shipping Company. Due to the limited number of Dreiser needle guns, there were only [-] of them, and they were given priority to the California Infantry and Arizona Infantry by Liang Yao.

The employees of World Shipping Company are all equipped with Walter M1851 rifles made in Sacramento, California. Although this gun does not fire with a firing pin, its performance is not much worse than that of the Dresser needle gun.

In some respects it is even better than the Dreiser needle-fired gun. For example, the metal-cased needle bullet used in the gun is more resistant to moisture and more durable than the paper-cased bullet used in the Dreiser needle-fired gun on a wet ship. Perfect for these crews.

These rifle-armed crews were responsible for killing Shogun sailors on fireships at close range.

But there were not many opportunities to shoot them. Most of the Japanese fireships were sunk by the naval guns on board before they approached them.

The counterattack on land was sharper than the counterattack at sea. Liang Yao threw all his artillery to bombard the barracks of the shogunate army.

Facing the sudden offensive of the American army, the generals of the shogunate were at a loss. They couldn't believe that the American army, which numbered less than [-] people, dared to take the initiative to attack the shogunate army whose number was seven or eight times larger than theirs.

In fact, Liang Yao didn't even have [-] troops to attack. He had only one and a half regiments of serious regular troops, including the two regiments' artillery company, engineer company, and cavalry belonging to the California Infantry Regiment. Even, the number does not even reach two thousand.

The rest of the people were the chores in charge of logistics in the Kanagawa military camp, but the shogunate army mistook them for soldiers.

The shogunate army managed to organize three thousand archers and firecrackers with bows, holding firecrackers and approaching Liang Yao's army, trying to suppress the attack of Liang Yao's army by taking advantage of their numbers.

Unexpectedly, the U.S. military opened fire first outside their range. It was five companies of the California Infantry Regiment who faced the three thousand shogunate archers and gunfire soldiers.

Facing the shogunate archers and firecrackers six times as many as themselves, the officers and soldiers of the California Infantry Regiment did not panic at all. They methodically kept loading and shooting on the spot like a factory machine.

Mechanically and proficiently repeating the work they have trained thousands of times, at this time, they are not so much human beings as they are emotionless bullet launchers.

Their only task is to shoot the bullets out of the gun chamber.

The five companies of soldiers insisted on playing the momentum of three thousand firecrackers.

The shogunate army had never fought against Liang Yao before, and they didn't know the weapons equipped by Liang Yao's army.

In the eyes of the shogunate army, what Liang Yao's army had in their hands was nothing more than better firecrackers.

These ignorant shogunate soldiers still wanted to take advantage of the gap between the opponent's loading to approach the opponent, but before they took a few steps, the opponent's next round of volleys hit us head-on, and in an instant there was another row of shogunate soldiers like autumn's Like wheat, harvested by the relentless rain of metal bullets.

The shogunate army had never seen such a battle before, the formation was quickly disrupted, and the morale also collapsed. The remaining shogunate archers and firecrackers scattered one after another.

The cavalry of the two thousand shogunate army wanted to take advantage of their maneuverability and break through the flank of Liang Yao's army.

Soon, the Arizona infantry deployed on the two wings smashed the attempts of these shogunate cavalry with the Dreiser needle guns in their hands.

Soldiers of the Arizona Infantry preferred to call these Shogun cavalry monkeys on dogs rather than cavalry.

The appearance of the short Japanese cavalry riding a short Japanese horse is very funny. From a distance, it looks more like a monkey riding a dog, without the majesty of a cavalry.

The battle near the Kanagawa barracks ended soon, even faster than Liang Yao expected.

"I still overestimated the combat power of the shogunate army."

Liang Yao was riding on a horse with binoculars in his hand, and what came into view was the defeated shogunate army.

"This is not a war, this is simply a one-sided massacre."

Kang Enze, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, was an eye-opener. His suppression of bandits in Guangdong was not as easy as Liang Yao's suppression of the shogunate army.

Before the war, Kang Enze was not optimistic about the prospects of the U.S. military. He believed that although the U.S. military had sharp guns, the gap between the U.S. military and the shogunate army was too large, and it would be difficult to defeat the shogunate army.

Kang Enze even had the feeling that Liang Yao was hitting a rock with a pebble. This battle completely overturned his perception of war.

It must have been so easy ten years ago when the English fought against the Qing Dynasty.

"The war has developed to this day, and it is not the number of people that determines the outcome of a war, but technology." Liang Yao put down the binoculars in his hand.

The medieval feudal army was vulnerable to the modern army.The disadvantage of technology and civilization generation gap can no longer be compensated by pure quantity.

"Technology?"

Kang Enze didn't know what Liang Yao meant by this word he had never heard of. It probably meant utensils.

Kang Enze thought to himself, if the Guangdong Navy can have such equipment as Liang Yao's army, even if a small part of them obtain such equipment, not only will Guangdong's coastal defense be safe, but it will even make a lot of trouble and fight Guangdong and Guangxi. There is no need to worry about the helpless long hair of the green camp in the Lianghu area.

Liang Yao even had half a regiment of soldiers from the California Infantry Regiment, and the cavalry company was not used.

These troops were originally intended to be the last to go into battle as a reserve team, but they didn't expect the shogunate army to fight so hard.Not as good as the army of Hizen Saga Domain.

Seeing the defeated shogunate army, the officers and soldiers of the reserve team felt itchy, and the company commanders all begged to fight, and if they didn't fight, they didn't even have a chance to capture prisoners.

Seeing that the shogunate army was in danger and it was almost impossible to organize an effective counterattack, Liang Yao only left two companies in charge of vigilance, and sent the remaining troops to defeat the last stubborn shogunate army.

In less than half a day, the [-] shogunate troops near Kanagawa collapsed.

As for how many shogunate soldiers were killed, Liang Yao didn't even have time to count.

After binding more than [-] captives of the shogunate army and handing them over to the employees of the global shipping company to take care of them, Liang Yao led the main force and marched towards Edo.

Bing is precious and fast, and the sooner the soldiers arrive at the Edo castle, the greater the psychological shock to the top leaders of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The troops deployed by the Tokugawa shogunate around Kanagawa are already elite forces under the shogunate.

The remaining elite troops of the shogunate were all huddled in Edo Castle.

The probability of encountering a counterattack and ambushes on the road is very small, and Liang Yao does not think that under the pressure of the bombardment of the American East India Fleet at Edo Port, the top shogunate has the courage to release the elite of Edo City to fight with him.

Of course, if the shogunate army wanted to fight in the field, it was exactly what he could only wish for.

Along the way, as Liang Yao expected, after defeating the army near Kanagawa, Liang Yao marched triumphantly along the way, as if he had entered the land of no one, and came to the city of Edo without encountering decent resistance.

At this time, people in Edo City were panicked and in chaos.

It's not that the top shogunate didn't expect the American army to arrive at the foot of Edo city, but they didn't expect the American army to come so fast that they would advance by sea and land.

Obviously, the high-level shogunate underestimated the strength of the US military.

The frail Tokugawa Iekei was at the head of Edo Castle, and he could even see the Stars and Stripes fluttering in the wind below the Edo Castle from a distance.

This war has completely exceeded the cognition of Tokugawa Jiaqing.

(End of this chapter)