Arquebus.

In fact, in the current Ming Dynasty, there is no feeling of a single-weapon magic weapon.

But there is nothing we can do about it.

The first appearance was in the battle against the Mongols.

The Mongols were almost entirely cavalry. Even their infantry were basically slave soldiers and could not be considered a real Mongolian army.

The high mobility of the Mongolian cavalry, especially in open scenes like the grassland, is an almost unsolvable problem given the current level of military equipment.

The most disgusting thing is that every Mongolian grew up on horseback.

I started herding sheep and horses when I was young.

They grew up with horses and slept on horses.

A Mongolian cavalryman with two horses on his horse was able to travel day and night and rest directly on horseback.

How high is the so-called high mobility?

That means eating, sleeping, and everything else, except for urinating and defecating, must be done on horseback within twelve hours.

Eight hundred miles might be a bit exaggerated if no one changed people or horses.

But three or four hundred miles is not a problem at all.

The most troublesome thing about these Mongolians is that they are not isolated cases, but are widespread.

Things like thousands of miles of raids are almost the most common thing in Mongolia.

On the grassland, the Mongolian cavalry was invincible.

What does three or four hundred miles mean in today's era? This will make it impossible for Mongolia's enemies to even see the dust.

I come when I want to.

If I want to leave, I leave.

Even though the Mongols were defeated and driven to the grasslands by Zhu Yuanzhang, the severely damaged Mongols were still a major threat to Zhu Yuanzhang.

A large number of important military towns were built on the borders, which led to the emergence of frontier kings.

It was to prevent the Mongols.

The vast grassland is the Mongolians' home ground, and even Zhu Ying has no way to deal with it.

After the matchlock gun made its debut, it did achieve good results in battle, but it was just a turtle shell.

It's impossible to catch up.

After much thought, the only strategy they could adopt was assimilation.

In fact, Zhu Ying still underestimated the Mongols.

Otherwise, Zhu Di would not have been captured alive.

It sounds a bit exaggerated. After all, Zhu Di was the Yongle Emperor in history, who personally led six expeditions to Mongolia.

Well, even though the Ming Dynasty personally led six expeditions to Mongolia, consuming countless national resources, it still did not completely solve the Mongolian problem.

This in itself is an unsolvable problem.

Emperor Yongle personally led the expedition to Mongolia, under the protection of hundreds of thousands of troops.

Zhu Di now has only tens of thousands of people. Although he has a large number of cavalry, there is actually a big gap between the cavalry trained by the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian cavalry.

And in the Second World War.

That is, the Ming Dynasty set out to invade Annan.

Annan is different from Mongolia.

Annan’s firearms capabilities are actually not low.

If it were not for Zhu Ying's emphasis on firearms, in terms of muskets and cannons, Annan's current technology would even be ahead of Ming Dynasty in some other aspects.

And this is where the drawbacks of the imperial system lie.

Even though Annan's firearms were good, they did not have the support from Zhu Ying to vigorously develop firearms.

Especially when gunpowder is granulated, which greatly increases the damage of firearms, the suppression effect is more obvious.

Plus, Annan itself is a mess.

The power of the Annan Kingdom had long begun to decline, the powerful minister Hu Jima was unscrupulous, and warlords in various places only followed orders and not decrees, which made it impossible to concentrate all forces to fight against the Ming Dynasty.

Even if Hu Jima finally rebelled and used his own abilities to unite most of the local warlords in Annan, it would be just like the Six Kingdoms. How could they truly fight with all their ulterior motives?

What they are thinking about more is how to preserve their own strength and consume their allies.

So that they can develop further after the war.

The only thing that was of some quality was probably the expedition against Japan.

In fact, the matchlock gun was not particularly effective in the war against Japan.

This is not to say that Japan has any ability to resist. The key lies in the cannon.

Due to its geographical environment, Japan suffers from frequent earthquakes, which results in most of its city walls being very short.

In addition, the Japanese were short in stature, so it didn't matter whether they used matchlock guns or not.

In field battles, the Japanese did not dare to fight the Ming army at all, but in siege battles, the city walls collapsed as soon as the cannons sounded.

Obviously, the cannon is more useful than the musket.

This gives people the feeling that the matchlock gun is indeed easy to use, but not as exaggerated as imagined.

Is this actually true?

Tension can tell you that this is not the case.

The real horror of firearms like the matchlock musket lies in small-scale combat.

And the most important one is popularity.

As for Yu Daming’s current personal long-range weapons, they are basically muskets and bows and arrows.

But a bow is not that easy to use.

Archer, it sounds simple, but in fact it is extremely difficult.

In many narratives, the strength of a person's martial arts is generally described by being good at riding and shooting.

That doesn't sound like much.

However, whether it is now or in previous dynasties, archers are a symbol of personal strength.

For example, Guan Yu, the horse archer.

For example, Zhang Fei, the archer.

Only truly brave soldiers can be called archers.

But the difficulty of training an archer is simply too high.

How difficult is it to train an archer?

First of all, in terms of consumption, archery is not just about drawing the bow, it also requires accuracy, which naturally consumes a lot of physical strength.

The consumption of physical energy requires the supplement of meat.

To put it simply, how can you shoot the bow if you are hungry? On the contrary, how can you be accurate if you don’t practice every day?

The food burden on the army is huge.

Before this, for almost 70% of the people, filling their stomachs was a big problem, so how could they consume without restraint?

Even now, the seemingly powerful and prosperous Ming Dynasty cannot provide food to soldiers without restraint.

Zhu Ying's army consumed a large amount of meat every day, but in fact it was only in the capital or the surrounding garrisons.

In less prosperous and slightly remote areas, people would only have meat once every three days, which was already very good.

Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic to train a large number of archers.

At present, Zhu Ying has the idea of ​​developing professional soldiers, but up to now at least 70% of the Ming soldiers are still in the garrisons.

We can only take it slowly.

At this point, the advantages of the matchlock gun are reflected.

Zhang Li's team of 100 men were actually just low-level soldiers.

Theoretically they wouldn't even have a single archer.

But then the matchlock appeared.

You don't need to be very strong, and the musket itself is not very heavy, so simple aiming is enough.

Sharpshooters are naturally hard to come by at present due to accuracy limitations, but the key to the matchlock gun is that it is easy to get started.

It only takes about ten days of training for a new soldier to be able to easily control the matchlock gun.

This time can be shortened if a large amount of fire bomb training is provided.

In Luzon.

The horror of the matchlock gun was truly demonstrated.

A hundred-man team like Zhang Li could easily eliminate the strongest warrior among the natives with just a few consecutive shots.

As we all know, in the battle of cold weapons, especially in the backward place.

The strongest warriors will naturally rush to the front.

Bang bang bang.

Just take care of the most powerful ones.

Things become much simpler from then on.

"You were yelling so fiercely just now. Hey, if I don't teach you a lesson, you won't know how powerful I am."

The tension stepped on one of the strongest natives.

I have to say this native is really amazing. Even after being hit by several bullets, he still looks strong even when he is lying on the ground wailing.

Unfortunately, under the suppression of the civilization level, there is no room for the use of martial arts.

The entire village was easily controlled by Zhang Li’s team of a hundred people.

The native lying on the ground uttered crazy curses.

Zhang Li naturally didn't understand.

This village belongs to the Visayan people in Luzon.

The Visayans are the most populous indigenous people in Luzon, and in terms of character, they are also the most brutal.

During the pre-Song Dynasty, the Visayan people often invaded the Penghu Islands by boat, disrupting agricultural production on the islands and then causing chaos along the coast of Quanzhou.

Zhang Li and others naturally didn't know about historical events.

As for Zhang Li and other soldiers coming from Japan, the only military order they received was to explore the gold mines on the islands of Luzon and organize personnel to carry out mining.

Naturally, this person could not be from the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di and other vassal kings did not want the news to spread to the Ming Dynasty, so they wanted to directly blockade the entire Luzon Island and then capture the locals to mine.

Situations like tension are just a brief episode in today's Luzon.

A large number of soldiers, divided into units of hundreds, quickly carried out a comprehensive sweep of the entire Luzon Island.

In fact, there are several translations.

It’s just that their role is too small, and the key is that there are too few people.

There are hundreds of teams of 100 people, and the translators cannot provide enough support.

In this case, there is no need for translation.

This was the darkest moment in Luzon's history.

A large number of the indigenous people on Luzon Island, including the Visayans, Cebuanos, Tagalogs, etc., were directly turned into slaves under the feudal lords' armies.

These officers and soldiers were not trained by Zhu Ying, and in terms of quality, they were not much different from before.

Especially after staying in Japan for such a long time, he had completely let go of the suppression on himself.

For foreigners, there are not so many requirements.

Luzon Island began to fall on a large scale.

Even though some places did cause considerable trouble to the princes' armies, the overall trend was beyond their control.

Even if some of the problems were difficult to solve, the princes' army would simply pull cannons from the ships.

Let’s fire a dozen or so cannons at this village first.

As the feudal lords' army took control of Luzon Island, large amounts of gold mines were discovered.

Since they came here for the gold mine, they had naturally arranged for craftsmen who were good at surveying.

When gold mines were discovered one after another, the princes' armies became obviously more enthusiastic.

This news immediately reached the ears of the four great feudal lords along with the ships returning to Japan.

…

Zhu Ying's return did not seem to cause any ripples in the capital.

With Zhu Yuanzhang in charge, there are naturally no villains.

In fact, as far as the current imperial court is concerned, the existence of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ying completely overshadows the glory of the court officials.

It’s not that the court officials are not talented enough, but that Zhu Ying’s current reform speed is really too fast.

Every reform in history is filled with blood and tears, because it affects a large number of interest groups.

But for Zhu Ying, whether it was the bureaucratic system, military power, or people's livelihood management, there was a feeling that everything was going smoothly and there was no difficulty at all.

This means that for many ministers, they only need to do their own jobs well and implement the latest policies issued by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince as much as possible.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang, he had a lot of fun taking little Wencheng with him every day.

As for my eldest grandson, it’s time for him to run more.

So as to avoid being too lazy.

"Grandpa, can't you just let Xiao Wencheng go?"

Zhu Ying looked at the old man speechlessly, because he had something serious to discuss with the old man.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang on the opposite side simply ignored Zhu Ying and was only concerned with playing with little Wencheng.

"Just tell me what's the matter. Can't you see that we are having fun playing with little Wencheng?" Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to look at his eldest grandson and said unhappily.

Zhu Ying: Well, it turns out that love can be transferred.