Chapter 335 38. Don't have a new idea

  Kisuke Kobayashi has never heard of it, but Keisuke Otori has heard of it. Chuemon's history is not that good, at best he was a primary school student. But this kid's **** in history, it can't be wiped clean all his life.

  Never mind, this guy still has some ability to engage in mining economy, so let’s keep the right...

  On the contrary, Jiang Chuan Yingmin, who walked through the back door, was really good. Like his father, he was a talented person with a deep understanding of Lan. Not only familiar with the old style of feudal bureaucrats, but also familiar with western guns, the army, and some western medicine. Probably this is the earliest "wake soul foreign talent". I have learned a lot of western skills, and this time I have really advanced my studies.

  Tadaemon Youxin chatted with Egawa Hidetoshi for a while, and by going to the shore of Shinagawa to learn about the progress of the project, he pulled up to Hidetoshi Egawa who was also curious about the construction of the fort.

  The spring is warm. Who is sitting on a sedan chair in this season? It must be riding a horse, watching the people of Edo and chatting all the way to Shinagawa. Yinglong Jiang went to help Keisuke Otorio, but did not go with the two of them. After all, he is an old banner, and he can eat well in the shogunate, and it is related everywhere.

  There is a saying that in history, Qiufan Takashima was imprisoned for conspiring to consolidate soldiers and conspiracy. He arrested dozens of people in a row, and a considerable number of his disciples were ordered to have their stomachs amputated. As a result, because of his great face in the shogunate, Jiang Chuan Yinglong landed safely, and was not involved at all. He even ran around to rescue Takashima Qiufan. This kind of person is probably the real person with connections, and everything can turn into good fortune.

  Back to the chat with Jiang Chuan Yingmin, since Chungemon took him to see the fort, the chat was naturally a cannon. Their Jiangchuan family is now in charge of casting cannons for the shogunate. The finished product has not yet been released, but Chuemon knows that they are not perfunctory people, and there will definitely be good cannons.

  While chatting, Yingmin Jiang sighed, although the current artillery, although there are cannons that can be curved, such as mortars, these cannons are often heavy, and they are used to attack fortresses and mountain cities. There is no such kind of curved artillery used by individual soldiers, which is inconvenient.

As Jiang Chuan Yingmin, who is relatively familiar with the development of Western military technology, he has some insights. He feels that the age of queuing for shooting is slowly passing by, and is replaced by a more flexible way of fighting. Arms such as skirmishers or dragoons that can move quickly should become more and more important in the future.

  The infantry fighting method that is arranged in a tight line will be gradually eliminated due to the development of guns and artillery. In the future, the armed forces on both sides of the battle will most likely become some form of positional warfare.

  As the number of people in battle continues to increase, large-scale field battles will become fragmented. Specific to a small area of ​​the battlefield, it may become a situation where one party is actively looking for cover, and the other is forced to attack the enemy with cover.

  It’s good to have that kind of field artillery at this time. It’s a good way to destroy the cannon directly, and shoot the cannon all the way to the past, and all the bunkers will be destroyed for you.

   But what if there is no cannon?

  Notice that in this era, artillery is still a heavy weapon in the army. Don’t expect dozens or hundreds of people to be equipped with several cannons as fire support. It often requires large-scale military operations to be equipped with a corresponding number of cannons, and they are generally used in a concentrated manner, rather than one on one side and one on the other.

  Generally, an infantry squad of dozens of people acts, that is, relying on the fire stick in the hand. If you really want to meet an enemy army with a wall in front of you, you basically can't break through, you can only stare. There are no countermeasures at all, and physical attacks are obviously not cost-effective.

  Do you think he thought of mortars?

  But not, he thought of the great fire arrow spread in Japan!

   is to improve on the old Japanese matchlock gun, or the giant matchlock gun, which is the so-called holding barrel. Try to make this weapon capable of firing at a long distance, projectiles can be projected, and rockets that explode can be projected.

  The focus is on clearing the soldiers behind the bunker, not destroying the bunker. After all, a soldier is just a piece of flesh, and a slight wound may kill the soldier, but those bunkers such as rocks or mud planks require more powerful firepower to be destroyed.

  The idea is indeed to keep up with the direction of military technology development these years, but this choice is a bit problematic. Jiang Chuan Yingmin hopes to use a big hug to hit something out, and this thing will kill and wound behind the enemy's bunker.

  What he is considering is a small projection device that can be used by a single soldier. This thing is similar to the hand mortar used by the Russians or Ottomans, but it seems to be different.

   was chatting, the horse under the hips of the two suddenly became restless and refused to carry any more. He stepped on his hooves back and forth, neighing, and even showed signs of running around.

  In the mud on the side of the road, a field mouse suddenly sprang out, followed by a group of small ones, which shocked the dismounted Chuemon. It must be the same when a normal person sees a nest of voles passing by.

  About half a minute later, the two obviously felt a shaking sensation, very obvious, it was an earthquake!

  嗐, it turned out to be an earthquake! Chuemon patted the horse's neck on the side, trying to comfort it. I don’t know much about other people in Japan, but I have seen earthquakes countless times~lightnovelpub.net~ It is said that earthquakes of magnitude two and three occur every day in Japan, and no one cares at all. An earthquake of magnitude three or four is naturally felt, but the problem is not big.

  If something is really going to happen, it must be at least level 5 or higher, which is destructive, so you need to be careful and deal with it properly.

  From the feeling just now, it should not be a small earthquake here in Edo, but a large earthquake in other places, and then it has been weakened in Edo, just like a normal earthquake of magnitude three or four.

  Just in case, it’s better not to go to the beach. It is not suitable to go to the water today. Even if Edo Bay is sheltered by the Boso Peninsula and Miura Peninsula, a tsunami is unlikely to occur. But Chugoemon regretted his life, because he was afraid that he would die very much, so he was unwilling.

  Egawa Hidetoshi worried that something happened near Izu, and was unwilling to go to see the fort anymore, so he immediately returned to Edo to send someone to Nirayama to ask about the situation. If there was an earthquake in Izu and Suruga, he would have to go home and rescue him quickly with his old man.

  The two returned to Edo. There was no major disturbance in Edo. They were all one-story wooden buildings. The seismic performance was reasonable, so it wouldn't happen if it shakes.

  One day later, the news reached Edo, and a major earthquake occurred in the Shinano Matsushiro area. Matsushiro Castle collapsed and collapsed. There was a flood of soil and rock, and Matsushiro Castle was in a mess. Together with other Tianling and Xiaofan, tens of thousands of deaths and injuries.

  (End of this chapter)