The Rise of the European Emperor

Although it is said that Japanese samurai's personal combat power is very strong, but that is taking advantage of the sharpness of the samurai sword. Moreover, when Japanese samurai swords are used, they prefer to slash with both hands (mainly because they are short in stature and their arms are not long enough, so they can only hold swords with both hands), rather than stabbing. Therefore, the defense of the samurai sword is mainly to prevent chopping and cutting.

If you can't resist the sharpness of the samurai sword, you will naturally be hacked to death by the fierce Japanese samurai. However, once he could block the slashing of the samurai sword, the situation would be different immediately.

When Qi Jiguang invented the mandarin duck array, he discovered that the rattan shield can resist the slashing of the samurai sword. Therefore, in the mandarin duck formation, the rattan player holding the rattan card is at the forefront, and the wolf and spearman are hiding in the back, so that the Japanese samurai can come and kill them. After this kind of battle formation matured, the Qi family army was basically invincible against the Japanese pirates, and their own losses were very small.

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

The Jurchens are already fierce, and the Japanese samurai swords have lost their effect, so they will definitely be beaten by those Jurchen warriors. What's more, the superb sword skills of Japanese samurai are useless in battle. Once charging and fighting, no matter how gorgeous the sword technique is, it is useless. The simple, direct and effective killing method is the most practical on the battlefield. Fights on the battlefield are often resolved in three or two strokes, and it is impossible to fight for three hundred rounds like in Li. Unless, it is a front-line fighter.

This is because there are not only you and your opponent on the battlefield, but also many friendly and enemy troops around you. Don't look at your martial arts skills, you can kill the enemy in front of you and retreat steadily. But if one is not careful and is attacked by another enemy from behind, no matter how good your martial arts are, it will be difficult to resist.

Therefore, on the battlefield, there is a lot of emphasis on discipline and letting your comrades protect your back. An army that can do this will easily win. And those who can't do it, often masters will be beaten to death.

Just like the design of Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck team and the Sancai team - three people are hiding behind the big rattan card, the rattan card blocks the samurai sword of the Japanese pirates, and the wolf stick sticks out to block the enemy's samurai sword. In the end, the spear suddenly stabbed out... This kind of fighting style, even if the samurai has high martial arts skills, is so helpless. Because, what he faced was not one enemy, but three, and three enemies with exquisite coordination...

In fact, Marin is now sending people to purchase wolf whisks made of moso bamboo in Huaxia. That thing is very wretched, and it is very resilient after being treated with tung oil and roasted, and can jam the enemy's weapons. In other words, at least it can temporarily hold the enemy back 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, and suddenly stabbed a cold spear, which was indeed very difficult to resist.

Of course, the Wolf Whip is mainly effective against infantry, less effective against cavalry, and is also afraid of musketeers. However, Japan is mostly mountainous, and there are no cavalry at all. Even if there are, they are "primary school cavalry" riding very thin Japanese native horses,

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There are many mountains, so the infantry is naturally the main force, and the wolf is exactly the nemesis of the infantry. Especially in mountain warfare, it has a great effect. Japan is mountainous, and soldiers can only walk on foot most of the time. In this way, the effect of the mandarin duck formation is outstanding.

But Marin was too lazy to use the mandarin duck formation, which was used by the Ming army. For Jurchen barbarians, it is difficult for them to learn even if you teach them mandarin duck formation in a short time. So, it's better to give them a steel knife and bring a rattan badge to them. There is a rattan shield against the samurai sword, and the steel sword held in their other hand can easily attack the enemy. Moreover, the Jurchens also have a tradition of using single swords. Give them a spear, and they might not know how to use it yet.

In fact, if the Mongols went to Japan, it might not work because the Mongols are good at fighting on horseback, but Japan is mostly mountainous, and it is difficult for horses to deploy.

The Jurchens are different, especially the savage Jurchens, who mostly live in the Sikhote Mountains in the outer northeast, where the terrain is very similar to the Japanese mountain terrain. Therefore, Donghai Jurchen (that is, Savage Jurchen) is very suitable for mountainous terrain. At most, the mountains in Japan are warmer because of the Japanese warm current.

Therefore, it is definitely a very good choice to use the savage Jurchen to fight the Japanese army. As long as the Japanese samurai as the core can be defeated, the remaining foot light soldiers (the lowest level of infantry in Japan) who use sharpened bamboo poles as weapons are not opponents of Jurchen warriors at all.

However, the biggest problem of the East China Sea Jurchen Department is not the issue of combat effectiveness, but the issue of population...

Decades later, when Nurhachi unified the three Jurchen tribes (Jianzhoubu, Haixi, and Donghai Savage Jurchen), there were only more than 60,000 young men in total. Even if the three major volumes are averaged, there are only more than 20,000 Jurchen savages in the East China Sea.

But Marin knew that it was impossible for the savage Jurchen to occupy one-third of the three major parts of the Jurchen. Because the population of wild Jurchens living in the Sihot Mountains is definitely not as large as the Jianzhou Jurchens who have started farming. Therefore, among the more than 60,000 Eight Banners soldiers, the East China Sea Jurchen has a maximum of more than 10,000 soldiers. Then, the Donghai Jurchen has a population of tens of thousands at most.

Today, it is only 1516, not to mention Nurhachi who was born in 1559, even Nurhachi's grandfather Jue Changan has not yet been born. Therefore, at this time, the number of savage Jurchens should be even smaller, and it is scary to be able to gather 10,000 strong men.

However, Marin himself did not fully count on the wildling Jurchen. The savage Jurchen is not enough, you can also use Qilie charming to make up for it...

Before the Maozi massacre, the number of Qilie Charming living in the lower reaches of Heilongjiang was no less than that of Jurchens, the savages in the East China Sea. According to the records of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the Feiyaka tribe living in the lower reaches of Heilongjiang at that time (called Qilie Charming in the Ming Dynasty, and Nifhe people in later generations) had 2,250 households with a population of tens of thousands. There are also 148 households of Fayaka people living on Sakhalin Island.

In this day and age, even if there are less than tens of thousands of Qilie charming, there are several thousand, and it is possible to recruit a lot of people. They are actually similar to the savage Jurchens. They are both wild and brave fishing and hunting tribes, and their combat effectiveness is not much different.

In addition to Qiliemei, there are Xibo tribes in the Northeast, who were later incorporated into New Manchuria and stationed in the western border with the Sauron camp. At that time, after Nurhaci was surrendered by the Xibe people, he compiled them into 65 Niulu. And one Niulu is equal to three hundred soldiers, and 65 Niulu is equivalent to 19,500 people, which is close to 20,000.

Of course, this was decades ago, and the Xibe people did not have nearly 20,000 strong men, but there should still be tens of thousands of strong men. As long as they are given enough benefits, they can drink and eat meat every day, and they don't have to worry about not recruiting enough mercenaries.

In addition, in this era, there were not only Kuyi people on Sakhalin Island, but also many Kuyi people on the southern island of Hokkaido.

Of course, Kuyi was the name of the people in the Ming Dynasty. In fact, the Kui and the Ainu in southern Sakhalin and Hokkaido are two completely different tribes. However, the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not understand and classified the Ainu people into the category of Kuyi.

In fact, Kuyi is a branch of wild Jurchen, who moved to Sakhalin Island from the outer northeast region, and mainly lived in the northern and central parts of Sakhalin Island. The Ainu people are an islander living in Hokkaido and Sakhalin Island.

But the Ming Dynasty didn't know it, and called Sakhalin Island Kuyi Island, while Hokkaido was called South Kuyi Island. As for the people on the island, except Qiliemei, they are all called Kuyi people.

But the real situation is that after the Kui people who belonged to the savage Jurchen landed on the island from the north, they drove the original Ainu people to the southern tip of Sakhalin Island because they were more aggressive. Of course, Hokkaido is still the stronghold of the Ainu people. Moreover, there are still some Ainu people near the northern tip of Honshu Island in Japan near Hokkaido.

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

Strictly speaking, the history of Japan is the history of the struggle between the Yamato people in the southeastern region and the Ainu people for the northern half of Honshu Island. The source of the title of the Japanese shogunate "General Conquering Yi" also originated from the war of conquest with the Ainu people in the northern part of Honshu Island...

In this era, Japan has not yet controlled Hokkaido. The earliest action to control Hokkaido would have to wait until the end of the 16th century, when the Matsumae clan would send people to establish a trading point Hakodate at the southern end of Hokkaido, which is later known as Hakodate.

It is still the beginning of the 16th century, and there is still a long time before the Matsumae domain crossed the sea to establish Hakodate. Therefore, Hokkaido at this time is still the territory of the Ainu people. Marin didn't know that because the climate in Hokkaido was much warmer than that of Sakhalin Island, there were a large number of Ainu people, estimated to number in the tens of thousands. You know, Hokkaido in later generations is the northern granary of Japan.