Chapter 112 36. Japanese-Style Spinning Dragon Rider

After wandering around Kasugayama for a few days and receiving warm hospitality from several old acquaintances, Xiaoping returned home happily riding a hundred sections. In addition, I bought an extra ordinary military horse that I had planned to buy from the beginning as a replacement. After all, one horse would not be enough in a slightly fierce battle.

After returning to the mountains, the autumn harvest soon began.

The two horse barrels of Xiao Pingtai were also ready. Xiao Pingtai tried it and was able to kill accurately and effectively within 20 meters. He felt very satisfied. The craftsman who made the gun was rewarded with a piece of rice and asked him to make a few more.

Then Koheita rode his own Hyakudan and took his own horse tube to show off to Yamauchi Yoshikatsu.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu's horse was also a gift from Uesugi Teruhora. It was a very good horse, but he was not particularly envious of Koheita's Hyakudan. Although his horse is slightly inferior to Xiaopingtai's, he doesn't want to covet Xiaopingtai's.

But when Xiao Pingtai demonstrated to him how to shoot with a horse pistol on a war horse running at a constant speed, he keenly caught something. He first checked Xiaopingtai's horse barrel, and then asked Xiaopingtai about the manufacturing status of the horse barrel.

What he cared about was the Ogasawara clan's Ryudyashi equestrian skills that were popular before Shinano protected the Ogasawara clan. Many of the samurai of the Ogasawara clan are skilled in bow and horse, and can even shoot left and right. Therefore, during the battle between Shinano's guardian Ogasawara Nagaki and Murakami Yoshikiyo, he often sent Yabusuma warriors back and forth to harass Murakami Yoshikiyo's military formation. When there was a flaw in Murakami Yoshikiyo's military formation, he abandoned his bow and replaced his gun with a fierce assault composed of infantry. phalanx. With this hand, he and Murakami Yoshikiyo had been at odds with each other in Shinano for several years. If Murakami Yoshikiyo hadn't later recruited some Echigo samurai and Ueno samurai to fight against him, maybe Ogasawara Nagatoki wouldn't have been beaten away to Kyoto by him.

As for the Yamauchi clan in Minami-Shinano, when the first generation of Yamauchi Yoshiaki's imperial family declined, at first they only had a territory of 3,000 kanmon on paper, but more than 5,000 kanmon in actuality. He also had to raise two family elders, Hosokawa and Isshiki, and maintain the dignity of his own son, so he didn't bring any famous archers with strong heritage from Kyoto.

This is also a place in the mountains where horses are produced more or less, and the breeding centers within the territory have also developed over the years. Generally speaking, the needs of the Yamauchi samurai for horses were met, but there was no reason why any famous samurai who combined man and horse and was skilled in horse and bow was not born.

After all, practicing horseback archery does not mean just picking up a bow and shooting arrows on the horse. If you only pursue the ability to shoot arrows on horseback, then you can get results by recruiting a few warriors for a month or two, but it will be extremely difficult to pursue accurate arrows.

During the previous Numata battle, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and Koheita witnessed more than a hundred Echigo cavalry, and they also relied on Yabusame tactics to continuously disrupt the Hojo side's formation. After the Hojo side's infantry showed signs of vacillation and flaws visible to the naked eye, Then, like a wave, the cavalry and the infantry rush forward in unison to engage in a wheel battle. It actually took only a thousand men to defeat Hojo Yasumoto's 4,000 men. This deeply impressed Yamauchi Yoshikatsu himself, and it was also the beginning of his tendency to ally with the Uesugi clan.

It may take three to five years to train a foot archer, but it takes far longer to train a horse archer. Of course, if you are a nomad, just pretend I didn’t say that. Considering the shape of Japan's landform, Japan cannot produce large-scale cavalry in a short period of time, let alone cavalry.

Judging from the current situation, the Japanese are definitely not a nation on horseback. (Later, the so-called father of Japanese cavalry, Yoshiko Akiyama, built Japan’s modern cavalry, which was no longer a pure cavalry. In the famous Japanese story of “three hundred miles behind enemy lines”, less than half of the Japanese cavalry were fast and mobile. Cavalry artillery and machine gunners. The number of cavalry is still very small, a complete cavalry regiment only has 442 people). Although most warriors can ride horses, and many are excellent at equestrian skills, not everyone can shoot a bow on horseback.

This is quite different from the foot bows that these samurai have been training since childhood (the Hogen-Heiji Rebellion was also the Genpei War. Most of the samurai practiced horseback archery. The legendary most powerful marksman Nasu and Ichi Riding a horse and galloping in the sea, he could hit the fans swinging on the boats in the water with one arrow. His archery skills were so unparalleled that later Japanese games set the "Yoichi Bow" as a magical archery skill). , among other things, on horseback and on the ground, the focus and center of gravity of the human body are completely different. Not to mention how bumpy the horseback ride is, and it is difficult to use skilled hands to draw the bow while riding. There are even fewer people who can draw the bow left and right.

The horse cannon does not have these problems. Although it is slightly inferior to bows and arrows in terms of effective killing distance, it only takes a month or even less to learn how to load iron cannons. It can have the same effect as using bows and arrows to harass, and it is so much simpler.

This advantage has infinitely increased the comparison of mobility, firepower and battlefield assault power between nomadic peoples and farming peoples. It is difficult for the Tatar-style horse archers in Europe to have a significant impact on large-scale infantry and cavalry legions armed with muskets. Threatened.

Xiaoheita naturally knew that this was a very important part of military development. The revolving cavalry used by European armies continuously attacked the phalanx with carbines on horseback, going back and forth in circles until a flaw appeared in the enemy phalanx, and then swarmed forward.

Each of these cavalrymen has five or six muskets, and they are all loaded before going to the battlefield. They only need to shoot at people. The firepower of the densely packed cavalry at close range cannot be underestimated.

This also led to the promotion of this type of soldiers that seemed to be able to do two things at once. Almost half of the cavalry in the entire European continent turned into this type of whirling cavalry. This led to a worse consequence. Most of the cavalry lost the courage to fight in close combat and attack the phalanx (since people can be killed by long-range musket shooting, why take the risk to fight hard?), and finally degenerated into a salted fish soldier who only dared to shoot continuously on the periphery and was finally eliminated.

After all, cavalry is still the most important assault force of the army in this era and in the next two or three hundred years. If the cavalry does not dare to attack, what is the use of this cavalry?

At present, it is too costly and unrealistic to let farmers do whirling cavalry. Horses, armor and weapons have to be started from scratch. If samurai are arranged to do it, the equipment can be required to be provided by the samurai themselves, but there are only a few samurai in Japan, which is very tasteless.

To put it in a clichéd way, it is not in line with national conditions and the current social environment, and it cannot be forced to copy.

But now that Yoshikatsu Yamauchi has his wife's dowry, he can still spend some money and extort some money from his father. He and Xiaoping Tai have decided to get a few dozen riders out to see if they can test the waters.

Sure.

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