The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 383: Heavy casualties

A section of the Qianquchuan river is not wide, that is, tens of meters to 100 meters, but just such a short distance, it took more than three hours for the 20,000 troops to cross the river.

And for such a long time, not all of the army has crossed the river, but only a thousand pioneers on the opposite bank.

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

But although these troops are waiting to cross the river, not everyone wants to go to the battlefield.

The war that just took over the river and crossed the river deeply frightened many recruits in the army.

Although the Dojo has a large number of troops, there are 20 people in total.

Because of the rapid expansion of the number of troops, many of the elite troops originally trained are assigned to the newly-built troops to serve as officers.

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

The overall composition is about 2 to 3 equipment. That is, two veterans and three recruits, and those two veterans are not experienced elites on the battlefield, they have only been on the battlefield once or twice, and have seen a little blood half-baked veteran.

Many of these veterans have not even killed anyone. They just followed the army to fight north and south. Seeing that they were a little bit open, they didn't panic much in the face of these fighting scenes, and they were able to maintain a certain level of calmness.

Now that I saw the scene of crossing the river just now, whether it was a veteran or a recruit, I was really terrified.

A total of 5,000 bamboo rafts were used to cross the river, but the river is so wide and the army is not so long. It is impossible to send 5,000 bamboo rafts all at once.

Actually, five thousand bamboo rafts are divided into batches, that is, one thousand and one thousand.

Each bamboo raft carries 4 people. A thousand bamboo rafts means 4000 people to cross the river. The scale is no longer small.

Although the non-transition river is said to be quite smooth, the damage is really amazing.

The reason why the army of the dojo was able to come down in one battle, but they took the ferry in one morning and sent the first army to the other side of the river, barely piercing a small nail.

It depends on this, regardless of the loss, regardless of the brutality of the casualties of the army.

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

Although these bows and arrows are shot extremely unstructured, they cannot be effectively coordinated to form a batch of arrow formations, forming a large-scale and efficient massacre.

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

Furthermore, they shot quite sparsely, and many people didn't even aim, so they shot the bows and arrows in their hands.

This method of using bows and arrows is quite inefficient. It can be said that most of the bows and arrows are shot out.

Some arrows even hit people, because they didn't have much strength, and even the flesh of the human body couldn't be inserted, and they bounced off.

But if those ten thousand people shoot an arrow once, there are ten thousand arrows. If you have only one or two thousand shots on a person with these ten thousand arrows, three or four hundred of them have hit the key. , Then this kind of lethality is quite considerable.

The establishment of Zhong Yu’s Dojo army was not long ago, because it was only for expansion, and the Dojo was not suitable for the formation of an army. So all armors are secret savings, not much at all.

The 20,000 elite disciples in the previous dojo, plus 30,000 external staff, can barely manage one person with a leather armor by seizing the reserves of those rich and powerful people, plus some of their own savings.

Many people even don't even have leather armor, they just wear a few bamboo armors, barely a little bit of protection.

However, the newly recruited army of 150,000 as newcomers is 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 pulled a few visible clothes on his 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, or even basically non-existent. After all, it was just a few thin and scary coarse cloth clothes, no way could stop sharp knives and guns.

However, even with this kind of equipment treatment and the ability to unify clothing, in the eyes of the local tyrants from all over the world, Da Ming, it is already extremely lavish.

Japan is a place so poor that people are speechless. Coupled with the year-round wars, basically all the people's livelihood construction is withered. Except for the basic production of livelihoods such as farming and fishing, everything else is marginalized. .

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

In order to survive, the ordinary people don't have the mind to think about other things. They just put their minds on plowing from the ground.

Under such circumstances, sericulture and weaving have become a rather rare and even extravagant term.

In many common people's homes in Japan, five or six people often share one or two pieces of clothes, usually those who go out and wear them.

In this case, the war in Japan is usually to send samurai as military officers, then recruit some farmers from their own territory, give them a bamboo spear, or even let them bring some farming tools, just like that. On the battlefield.

As for the uniform clothing, don’t be joking. If you have the money, it’s better to fight a few more weapons, buy more military rations, and enrich your strategic materials.

Even many samurai under the command of big names, they only wear one or two sets of clothes~IndoMTL.com~ can only barely change.

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

When many big names fought, the clothes of the two armies were actually the same, which was basically difficult to distinguish, because they were the clothes of ordinary people.

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

So Zhong Yu's army was able to unify clothing. For people from all parts of the Warring States period, whether it was from the local tyrants of the Ming Dynasty to the people of the untouchables, it was too extravagant in their eyes.

But having said so much, the protection of Zhong Yu's army is actually very weak.

When I was shot by a bow and arrow for nearly half an hour, although I finally broke through the barriers, it was only a dozen meters or even a few meters away from the opposite bank.

But in such a short time, the number of people who were shot dead by bows and arrows reached more than two thousand.

Not to mention the Iron Cannon team afterwards.

The power of the iron cannon is much higher than that of the bow and arrow. Although it is more troublesome to assemble, it is far not as fast as the bow and arrow.

However, people will die as soon as they are hit.

After dividing the Iron Cannon team into three batches, one round can take the lives of nearly 300 dojo troops.

These iron cannons shot him for 20 minutes, about 16 or 7 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 cannons are shooting, there are those pesky archers playing support, making the casualties even more scary.

At such a distance, when the first group of coalition forces arrived on the other side, 7,000 people had already died.

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