Chapter 1925: Ezo Island

Although it is said that the Japanese samurai has a very strong fighting ability, but that is the advantage of taking advantage of the sharpness of the samurai sword. Moreover, when using samurai swords, Japanese samurai prefer to use two-handed chopping (mainly short stature, short arm length, only two-handed knife), rather than assassination. Therefore, the defense of samurai swords is mainly to prevent hacking and cutting.

If you can't resist the sharpness of the samurai sword, you will naturally be cut and injured by the fierce Japanese samurai. However, once the samurai sword can be blocked, the situation is immediately different.

When Qi Jiguang invented the Mandarin Duck Array, he discovered that the rattan card could resist the samurai sword. Therefore, in the mandarin duck array, the vine player holding the vine brand in the front is hiding the wolf manhand and the spearman. He draws a cold child to the Japanese samurai and kills them. After this battlefield matured, Qi Jiajun was basically invincible in the face of the Japanese pirates, and his losses were small.

Therefore, Marin is very sure to deal with those ferocious Japanese samurai. Like Jurchen warriors, as long as they are equipped with shields and armor that can withstand samurai swords, it is basically okay ...

The Jurchens were already fierce, and with the failure of the Japanese samurai sword, they would definitely be beaten by those Jurchen samurai. What's more, the superb swordsmanship of the Japanese samurai is useless in battle. Once the charge is killed, no matter how gorgeous the sword is, it is useless. The simple, direct and effective killing method is the most practical on the battlefield. Fighting on the battlefield often solves the battle three or two times. It is impossible to fight three hundred rounds like that. Unless, it is the battle before the battle.

This is because not only you and your opponents are on the battlefield, but there are also many friendly and enemy troops around you. Don't look at your martial arts, kill the enemies in front of you and defeat them. But if one is not careful and is attacked by another enemy in the back, even if your martial arts skills are high, it is difficult to resist.

Therefore, on the battle front, there is a strong emphasis on discipline and letting comrades protect your back. An army that can do this is easy to win. But what can't be done is often beaten to death by masters.

Just like Qi Jiguang's design in the Yuanyang array-three people are hiding behind the big rattan card. The rattan card blocks the Japanese samurai sword. In the end, the spear suddenly punctured ... This kind of play, even if the samurai martial arts are strong, they are very helpless. Because, he is not facing an enemy, but three, and the three well-matched enemies ...

In fact, Marin is now sending people to purchase the wolf masquerade made by China's bamboo. That stuff is extraordinarily sloppy, and it is very resilient after being dealt with by means of tung oil and roasting, and can jam the enemy's weapons. In other words, at least the enemy can be temporarily dragged down and affect the battle. At this time, the spearman on the other side of the rattan player took advantage of the enemy's weapons and entangled them, suddenly stabbing the cold gun, it was indeed difficult to resist.

Of course, the wolves are mainly effective for infantry, but they are less effective for cavalry, and they are also afraid of musketeers. However, Japan is mostly mountainous, and there is no cavalry at all. Even if there is, it is also a "primary school cavalry" riding a very thin Japanese local horse, lacking impact.

There are many mountains, so infantry is the mainstay, and the wolf man is the nemesis of the infantry. Especially in mountain warfare, it plays a big role. In the mountainous areas of Japan, soldiers can only walk on most occasions. In this way, what effect the Yuanyang array has achieved.

But Marin was too lazy to use the Yuanyang formation, which was used by the Ming military. For Jurchen Barbarians, it is difficult for them to learn to teach them Mandarin Ducks in a short time. Therefore, it is better to send them a steel knife and bring them a rattan card. There are rattan swords against samurai swords, and the steel sword held by their other hand can easily attack the enemy. Moreover, Jurchens also have a tradition of using a single pole. Give them a spear, they will not necessarily use it yet.

In fact, if you switch to Mongolia to go to Japan, it may not really work because Mongolians are good at horseback fighting, but most of Japan is mountainous, and it is difficult for horses to start.

While Jurchens are different, especially Savage Jurchens, most of them live in the Siehot Mountains in the outer northeast, where the terrain is very similar to the mountain terrain in Japan. Therefore, the Tokai Jurchen (that is, the Savage Jurchen) is well adapted to the mountainous terrain. At most, the Japanese mountains are warmer because of the Japanese warm current.

Therefore, using the Savage Jurchen to fight the Japanese army is definitely a very good choice. As long as you can defeat the Japanese samurai as the core, the remaining light infantry (the lowest infantry in Japan) with sharpened bamboo poles as weapons are completely not opponents of the Jurchen samurai.

However, the biggest problem of the Tokai Jurchen is not a question of combat effectiveness, but a question of the number of people ...

A few decades later, when Nurhachi unified the three major Jurchens (Jianzhou, Haixi, and Donghai Yeren Jurchen), there were more than 60,000 people in Zhuang. Even if the average of the three major divisions, the East Sea Savage Jurchen has more than 20,000 people.

But Marin knew that Savage Jurchen could not occupy one third of Jurchen's three major parts. Because, the population of Savage Jurchens living in the Sihot Mountains is certainly not as much as the Jianzhou Jurchens who have already started to engage in agriculture. Therefore, of the more than 60,000 Eight Banners soldiers, the East China Sea Jurchen has a maximum of more than 10,000 soldiers. Then, the East China Sea Jurchen has a population of up to tens of thousands.

Today, only 1516, not to mention Nurhaci who was born in 1559, even Nurhaci's grandfather Jue Changan has not been born yet. Therefore, at this time, the number of savages should really be less, and it can be considered scary to get 10,000 strong.

However, Marin did not fully count on Savage Jurchen. The savages are really not enough, and you can use the charm of the beggar ...

Before the Maozi massacre, the number of Qilie living in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River was fascinating. According to the records of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the Feyaka Department living at the time in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River (known as the charming Qilie in the Ming Dynasty and the Nevkh people in later generations) had 2,250 households and a population of tens of thousands. There are also 148 households in Feyaka living on Sakhalin Island.

In this era, even if there are less than tens of thousands of charming beggars, there are thousands of people who can attract a lot of people. They are almost the same as the Savage Jurchen, they are all wild and brave fishing and hunting tribes, and their fighting power is not much different.

In addition to the fascinating Qili, there are tribes of the Xibe tribe in the northeast, which were later incorporated into the new Manchuria and accompanied by the Sauron Battalion in West Xinjiang. At that time, Nurhachi compiled the Xibe tribe into 65 cattle records. A cow record is equal to three hundred soldiers, 65 cow records, which is equivalent to 19,500 people, close to 20,000 people.

Of course, this is a few decades ago, the Xibo people did not have nearly 20,000 heroes, but there should still be tens of thousands of heroes. As long as enough benefits are given, they can drink and eat meat every day without worrying about recruiting enough mercenaries.

In addition, in this era, there are not only Kui people on Sakhalin Island, but also many Hoi people on Hokkaido Island to the south.

Of course, Kuyi is the name of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, the Kui people and the Ainu people on the southern part of Sakhalin Island and Hokkaido Island are completely different tribes. However, the Ming Dynasty officials did not understand it and classified the Ainu people as Kuyi.

In fact, Kuyi is a real family of savages and women who moved to Sakhalin Island from the outer northeast region. They mainly live in the northern and central parts of Sakhalin Island. The Yi people are an islander living in Hokkaido and Sakhalin.

But the Ming Dynasty did not know that Sakhalin Island was called Kuyi Island, while Hokkaido was called South Kuyi Island. As for the people on the island, in addition to the charming Qili, they are all called Kuyi people.

But the real situation is ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ After the savages really came to the island from the north, because they were more stubborn, they drove the original Yi people to the southern end of Sakhalin Island. Of course, Hokkaido is still the home base of the Ai Yi people. In addition, there are still some people living near the northern tip of Honshu Island in Hokkaido, Japan.

In fact, it was not until the Battle of Mangyi in 1457 that Japan defeated all the Ezo people on the Honshu island and expelled the main body of the Ezo people from the island. In other words, most of the Yi people at the northern end of Honshu Island were slaughtered, and the rest were enslaved.

The history of Japan is, strictly speaking, the history of the Yamato people in the southeastern region competing with the Yi people for the northern half of Honshu Island. The source of the Japanese Shogun General's "General Yiyi" also originated from the war of conquest with the Aji people of northern Honshu ...

In this era, Japan has not yet taken control of Hokkaido. The earliest actions to control Hokkaido will not wait until the end of the 16th century before Matsumae Fan will send people to establish a trading point box hall at the southern end of Hokkaido, which is the Hakodate.

It is still the beginning of the 16th century, and it is still a long time before the establishment of Hakodate by Matsumae Fanduhai. Therefore, Hokkaido at this time is still a land of people in Yiyi. Marin didn't know that because Hokkaido has a much warmer climate than Sakhalin Island, there are a lot of people in Ajya, an estimated tens of thousands. You know, Hokkaido in later generations, but the northern granary in Japan.