Chapter 164: Reward and Punishment Training Mechanism
As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a huge sensation. Kiragi's current huge financial resources obviously wanted to stimulate them to forge ahead, so these warriors of Mikawa gathered enough strength to fight for victory on the battlefield. In order to let them The competition has become more diverse, and in order to test new arms, Kira Yoshiki specially added a spear and a vine shield that were only one and a half long, as well as a wooden scimitar, a wooden one-handed ax, and a wooden nail head. hammer.
However, it was obvious that the Ashigaru people did not like strange weapons, so Kira Yoshihide ordered the two hundred horses to return and divide them into four teams, holding scimitars and vine shields, spears and vine shields, and one-handed axes and vine shields. Make maces and vine shields, replace each other and rub them in pairs for confrontation training.
Perhaps it was because the horseback warriors had forgotten their skills in foot combat for a long time on horseback, or because they were not yet proficient in using new weapons. The new-style warriors of the horseback warriors could not organize a decent attack at all, and they were defeated after a short stalemate. They were defeated, so many samurai ridiculed these strange-looking weapons, which made Kira Yoshitoki very embarrassed.
The next day, the Mikawa people continued training. He did not let the Mahui people participate. Instead, he pulled them all to the shore of Lake Biwa north of Sakamoto and asked them to each hold these weapons and practice in a team of fifty people. These guys looked sad. When I looked at Kiragi, I had no choice but to refuse and had to go to training.
Among them, the sword and shield are the easiest to master. Although they don't know the fighting skills of combining the sword and shield, it is not difficult to master the skill of carrying the shield in front and suddenly attacking and slashing with the knife. However, some guys always like to throw away the shield and use bending skills to get smart. The sword is slashed with both hands like a samurai sword. Of course, the ending of such a person is also tragic.
The next more troublesome thing is the spear and vine shield. This requires the proper combination of spear and shield attack skills to be effective. Fortunately, Ma Huizhong is quite confident in the marksmanship. He can make do with it after a little experimentation. The fit is the worst. The two teams are one-handed axes with vine shields and wooden maces with vine shields. These two teams are not used to fighting without samurai swords and spears. The one-handed axes and wooden maces are both short, and they rely on slashing. and hammering, which leaves many people feeling at a loss.
Kira Yoshiki was angry at their poor performance and scolded: "Assholes! Look what you are all doing? You can't even use weapons! Keep practicing! Zenjiro, show them how to use maces and vines." shield!"
When Yamaoka Tokichō was in Mikawa earlier, he had seen Kira Yoshiki playing with all kinds of weird weapons, and of course he also played with maces and vine shields, so he returned to his old profession again, holding a real mace and vine shield. Dun walked up to a wooden puppet target and smashed the puppet's head hard.
This power is staggering, especially such a violent weapon as the mace, which completely subverts their understanding of war. Shouldn't infantry have longer guns and sharper knives to slash at each other? How come there is such a terrifying weapon?
This kind of mace made of cast iron is very simple. The mace used in early Europe was even simpler than this. It was just a big wooden stick with a big iron nail on it. Later, it gradually evolved into cast iron with iron nails or iron thorns. In the past hundred years, Later, due to the improvement of casting technology, many beautiful maces appeared. For example, the compact steel mace can be carried by travelers and businessmen. Its hammer head has become a very sharp angle, and some are similar to the hammer cane. The combination of long-handled mace staff is also a good development trend.
Cold weapons have gradually withdrawn from the mainstream in Europe. Even the Swiss mercenary army, which has been prestigious for more than a century, cannot resist the tide of technology. However, this is not the same in Japan. It is just that the country where the matchlock gun was just introduced is not at all familiar with gunpowder. With better understanding and research, cold weapon innovation will have a better future.
A mace weighs about seven or eight kilograms. Although the weight is a bit heavy for ordinary ashigaru, the horseback samurai did not feel this way. A few guys stood up and wielded the mace to violently hammer the wood. After destroying the miserable wooden puppet with the same ease as the puppet target, he then got a worn-out abdominal roll and put it on it without giving up, and still easily smashed the defense of the abdominal roll.
This shocked everyone. No one understood better than these guys how important this armor-piercing weapon was. Once a main force capable of armor-piercing assault appeared on the battlefield, it would have a terrible impact.
The specially weighted wooden mace is just to ensure that the weight is similar to the real mace. In fact, it is just a wooden stick with a protruding wooden bump on the front part. This kind of thing looks ugly and has no deterrent effect, so it is not a deterrent. Back in the day, the samurai hated this thing, but it was different after seeing the real thing. It would be absolutely thrilling to smash such a powerful thing out. Immediately, some people rushed to become mace soldiers, and those who were unwilling just now also immediately changed their positions. Stand in a position where the wind direction does not let others in.
With the influence of the mace in front, I tried a one-handed ax next. This guy's lethality against unarmored units is terrible, but it lacks the armor-breaking ability of the mace. How effective it can be is still a question. Question, Kira Yoshitsune immediately asked several ashigaru to demonstrate the attack of the gun team with a few three-room long hardwood sticks. The one-handed ax easily cut off several wooden sticks under the cover of the vine shield, and then rushed to the defenseless area. In front of the ashigaru, such a sharp attack effect made everyone present take a breath.
The katana can also chop bamboo spears, and it is even more beautiful and artistic than the one-handed axe. However, the katana is also famous for not being suitable for use in battle formations. Except for swordsman-level samurai like Nakajo Tokihide, this law can be ignored. Killing with a samurai sword, ordinary samurai still pick up a spear and charge.
But this one-handed battle ax is very different. The length of the one-handed battle ax is even longer than a mace. Although it is heavy, it is indeed a one-handed weapon. With a vine shield to block attacks and then split the long handle, it can completely break through the opponent. defense, its appearance just makes up for the problem that the mace lacks effective suppression of the three guns.
The characteristics of the mace dictate that it can only be used in close combat. The elite Ashigaru Sanjian Spear Formation cannot fully exert its armor-breaking effect. They are more suitable for dealing with Hatamoto samurai and horseback samurai wearing heavy armor. With its powerful attack power, it is definitely a nightmare for medium and heavy armor units. This is why Kira Yoshitoki requested the establishment of this weapon. There is nothing better than a mace against mounted warriors.
After half a month of intensive training, the horseback warriors gradually figured out when to resist with the shield, when to advance with the shield, and then swing the weapon to hammer and chop. Once these two heavy weapons were familiar to them, , the situation of the battle changed. The winning streak of the Sword and Shield team was ended, while the Gun and Shield soldiers still maintained a dismal last place. So far, they have not figured out the tactics. The Gun and Shield soldiers were beaten and retreated every time. .
In order to get the spear and shield soldiers out of their misunderstandings, Kira Yoshihide asked them to spread out and form a spear formation. The spear formation was an evolved version of the spear formation. Ashigaru mostly used Sangen guns called long-handled spears because of the length of the gun body.
It is too long and cannot be used flexibly, so one can only use the advantage of the gun length to press down and whip, or even smash the enemy's head with the gun. Therefore, during the Warring States Period, there was a weird situation of competing with whose Sanma Gun was longer.
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It doesn't matter if the offensive effect is just poor, but what's even more terrible is that the gun formation lacks effective flank defense. The crowded gun formation is not only the favorite target of bows and arrows and iron cannons, but also the favorite unit of mounted warriors to attack.
You only need to gently go around the flanks of the gun formation to attack their weak flanks, and then shatter the entire formation in one fell swoop.
After considering this problem, the gun cover dispersed the ashigaru into teams of more than a dozen people. They stood loosely at a distance and used the position difference between the front and rear rows to form a layered attack. And once they encountered the opponent's large group of people or horses,
When a samurai makes a surprise attack, he can quickly huddle up and transform into a spear formation to face the enemy. Overall, this is a very practical military formation.