The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 388

[Chapter 383 Heavy casualties]

A section of Qianqu River is not wide, that is, tens of meters to 100 meters. However, it took more than three hours for the 20,000 troops of the dojo to cross the river in such a short distance.

And for such a long time, not all of the army crossed the river, but only more than a thousand pioneers went to the opposite bank.

There are more than 10,000 troops behind them looking at the bamboo rafts eagerly, waiting for them to cross the river in batches.

But although these armies are waiting to cross the river, not all of them want to go to the battlefield themselves.

The war that just captured the river and crossed the river deeply frightened many of the new recruits in the army.

Although there are many people in the dojo army, there are 20 people in total.

But it is precisely because the number of people is expanding too fast that many of the military elites who have been trained have been assigned to each newly-built army as officers.

This has led to a large number of new recruits in their respective armies today.

The overall composition is about 2 to 3 equipment.

That is, two veterans lead three new recruits, and the two veterans are not experienced elites in the battlefield. They have only been on the battlefield once or twice, and have seen a bit of half-baked veterans.

There are many of these veterans who have never even killed anyone. They just follow the army to the north and south. Seeing that they have opened up a little, they are not too panicked in the face of these fighting scenes, and they can maintain a certain calmness.

Now seeing the scene of crossing the river just now, whether it is a veteran or a new recruit, I am deeply frightened.

A total of 5,000 bamboo rafts were built to cross the river before, but the river was so wide, and the length of the army was not that long. It was impossible to send 5,000 bamboo rafts all at once.

In fact, 5,000 bamboo rafts are divided into batches, that is, a thousand of a thousand.

Each bamboo raft carries 4 people, and a thousand bamboo rafts means 4,000 people crossing the river, which is not small.

Although the non-transition river is said to be quite smooth, the damage in it is indeed staggering.

The reason why the army of the dojo was able to go down in one battle was that they seized the ferry in one morning, sent the first army to the other side of the river, and barely pierced a small nail.

It depends on this, regardless of losses, regardless of the ruthlessness of the casualties of the army under his command.

First of all, the bow and arrow of the coalition forces just blocked.

Although it is said that these bows and arrows are shot very erratically, they cannot be effectively combined to form batches of arrows, forming a large-scale and efficient slaughter.

But after all, there are tens of thousands of archers, even though the bows and arrows in their hands are extremely poorly made hunting bows, and even hunting bows are inferior.

In addition, they shot quite sparsely, and many people didn’t even aim, and just shot the bows and arrows in their hands.

This method of using bows and arrows is quite inefficient, and it can be said that most of the bows and arrows are shot in the air.

Some arrows even shot at people. Because they didn’t have much force, they couldn’t even insert the flesh on the body, so they bounced off.

But if 10,000 people shoot an arrow once, there are 10,000 arrows. As long as you have 10,000 or 2,000 arrows that hit people, and among them, 300 or 400 arrows hit the key points, then this is the case. The lethality is considerable.

Zhong Yu’s dojo army was established not long ago, because it was only for expansion, and it was not suitable for dojos to form an army.

Therefore, any armament and armor are secret savings, not much at all.

Before, the 20,000 elite disciples of the dojo, plus 30,000 external staff, were able to barely get a pair of leather armor by capturing the reserves of those wealthy families, plus some of their own savings.

Even many people don’t even have leather armor, just put on a few bamboo armors, which is barely a little bit of protection.

However, the newly recruited 150,000 troops as new recruits are far from the core elite, and the dojo does not have so many economic conditions and enough time to equip them with armor.

So basically everyone just ripped a few clothes that could be seen on their body and dyed them blue uniformly, even if it was a military uniform.

The protective power of this kind of military uniform is quite weak, and it can even be basically called no.

After all, it’s just a few thin and scary coarse clothes, which can’t stop sharp knives and guns.

However, even with this kind of equipment treatment, being able to unify clothing is already considered extremely lavish in the eyes of the local tyrants of all countries in the world.

Japan is a place where people are speechless. Coupled with the perennial war, basically all livelihood construction has withered. Except for the basic production of farming and fishing, the others are all marginalized.

In order to collect enough rations, the people under strict orders can only produce some crops that can bring food.

And those ordinary people didn’t have the heart to think about other things in order to survive, and they only focused on shaving food from the ground.

Under such circumstances, raising silkworms and weaving cloth has become a rather rare and even extravagant term.

In many civilian homes in Japan, five or six people often share one or two pieces of clothing, and it is usually who wears it when they go out.

In this case, Japan’s war is usually to send samurai as officers, and then recruit some peasants from their own territory,

Give them a bamboo spear, or even simply let them bring some farm tools, and they are pulled into the battlefield like this.

As for uniforms, don’t be kidding, if you have this money, you might as well buy more weapons, buy more military rations, and replenish strategic materials.

Even many samurai under the daimyo only wear one or two sets of clothes.

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And their styles are different according to the wealth of their respective families, and their appearances are also strange and varied.

When many daimyo subordinates were fighting, the clothes of the armies on both sides were actually similar, and it was basically difficult to distinguish, because they were all the clothes of ordinary people.

In order to distinguish, it is just to make a mark somewhere on both sides, so that the soldiers under their respective command know who is their teammate and who is their enemy.

Therefore, Zhong Yu’s army can uniformly dress. For people from all over the Warring States Period, whether it is from the Ming Dynasty local tyrants to the untouchable people, in their eyes, it is too extravagant.

But having said so much, the protective power of Zhong Yu’s army is actually very weak.

When he was just shot by the bow and arrow for nearly half an hour, although he finally broke through the layers of interception, he was only a dozen meters or even a few meters away from the other side.

But in such a short period of time, more than 2,000 people were killed by bows and arrows.

Not to mention that the Iron Cannons came on stage after that.

The power of the iron gun is much higher than that of the bow and arrow, although it is more troublesome to assemble, it is far less fast than the bow and arrow.

However, people die when they are hit.

After the iron cannon team is divided into three batches, one round can take away the lives of nearly 300 dojo troops.

These iron cannons shot him for a full 20 minutes, about sixteen or seven rounds.

Under the bombardment of such artillery fire, about 4,000 people were completely buried under the river bottom.

Not to mention that while the iron guns are firing, there are those pesky archers who are assisting, making the casualties even more frightening.

At such a distance, when the first batch of the coalition army reached the other side, 7,000 people had already died.

This is already 1/7 of the total casualties of the dojo army.

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