37. Cavalry is hard to come by
Although RB is surrounded by the sea, it is not a marine nation. It is still an agricultural nation in its foundation.
He is very different from the British. Although the British were in the British Isles, except for the world-class navy that became stronger in the later world-class of the Sun-Dang Down Empire. The United Kingdom or the English region was actually a region full of cavalry.
In the late Roman Empire, England was already an imperial border province with heavy cavalry. Although this cavalry tradition had a period of low period, after the Norman Conquest, William I, the great Duke of Normandy, enfeoffed the entire Norman feudal aristocratic group that followed to all parts of England. As a result, the military tradition of feudal lords of all sizes, large and small, large and small, feudal lords carrying heavy cavalry with guns and charging was widely spread in England.
This also allowed England to have a cavalry team that could be used to fighting in the next eight hundred years, and the British cavalry shone on various battlefields (except when Crimea charged at the Russian position like a fool, and in the end, thousands of cavalry were finished together).
As a farming nation, it is very difficult for the RBs to pull a cavalry out. Firstly, although there are some good horses (the horses in the south are strong, with a height of more than 1.6 meters, which fully meet the requirements of military horses), the number is not enough to arm the army on a large scale. Secondly, it is long-term farming work, and ordinary leaders bent over and hunched backs, and there are many people who are 1.34 meters tall, so there is no possibility of training these people to become cavalry.
Although all modern horse racing riders are short and small, ancient cavalry still require strong soldiers with strong waist and back and steady and developed upper limbs.
Although the cavalry tradition is not without RB, tens of thousands of large-scale archers and cavalrymen were also seen in history (personally doubtful), and there were also a large number of samurai riding horses in the Mongolian sect. However, this tradition is not universal, but only exists in the samurai group or the samurai class.
So at present, RB only has the whole country. Yes, it is the tens of thousands of samurai in the entire RB (after all, it was not even considered a samurai in the Edo era). In addition, the slightly larger number of rich peasant landlords were considered to be able to pass the physical condition and had a tradition of cavalry.
Before this, Koheita had known the number of the feudal military class of the Yamauchi family. As a top samurai family with feudal military obligations, there were about 200 people (referring to 200 adult men who could wear warriors at any time, not including their relatives. Perhaps there were three adult men in their family, but only one of them served in office, the same below). There were six or seven hundred wealthy people with a slightly worse equipment and combat power from samurai (that is, the village heads of each village, the well-off farmers occupying more land and river beaches, the wealthy miners, and the powerful handicraftsmen).
In other words, the number of powerful and powerful Daming in the East is the largest cavalry of the Yamanuchi clan, with only less than a thousand cavalrymen. Of course, compared with the Shimazu clan, the old famous Shimazu clan, is already very good, because according to the circulating Shimazu clan, the Shimazu clan can only mobilize 292 cavalrymen. This is because he occupied the Hinaga Osumi Horse Producing Area. If he did not produce horses, he would not know what the scene would be.
The scarcity of samurai is still a superficial problem. In fact, most of the thousands of people in the Yamauchi family often need to command military troops, manage localities, and collect taxes. They have already had corresponding responsibilities. We can't take away all the village heads of each Yamauchi village. Who will organize the mobilization of the lowest-level military service members? Who will collect annual tribute? Who will count the book of the people? Who will mobilize general labor?
This is the biggest shortcoming of organizing cyclone cavalry, and the troops are extremely insufficient. When the Kamirukawa battles, the Guanrukawa warriors with the Uesugi family died dozens of samurai soldiers and their rule collapsed and declined. When the Hachim Mountain battles, the thirty-six families under the Mikawa Kira clan were beheaded in half, and the Kira clan was directly destroyed and destroyed. In some ways, there were too few samurai.
On the contrary, a expensive twelve-minded manuscript, a three- or five-piece full of life, is actually dead, and can be purchased as long as you have money. It is not a big deal for Yamauchi Yoshikazuki, who is rich and powerful, and he is too lazy to care about such subtle details.
In order to solve the problem of soldiers, Koheita and Yamauchi Yoshikazuki had only one way to find those rough men who came from martial arts or dedicated families, but were not the eldest son, and had developed limbs and simple minds.
These people have actually sorted out a lot of them when Xiaopingta recruited Tongxin last time. Xiaopingta basically knows that now he is using Yamauchi Yoshikazuki to recruit people, and the grand occasion is even more unprecedented.
Why? It's very simple. Yamauchi Yoshikazu is the young master of the Yamauchi family. Yamauchi Yoshiji has already allowed him to independently command the army and start training him to take over. At this time, people will be arranged to go to his subordinates, and in the future, they will be the team of Ryuu Yougong.
Moreover, since Xiaopingta had sorted out hundreds of warrior families in Yamauchi before, who doesn’t want any more family members (the son who has many samurai families really doesn’t want them, so he gives them away everywhere) his son is so clear.
So when Yamauchi Yoshikazuki was inspecting the manpower himself, it began to rumor that as long as Xiaoheita came to the house, Yamauchi Yoshikazuki would be selected as Yamauchi Yoshikazuki's guard iron cannon horse stool.
Although Xiaoheita explained it a few times, it didn't work at all. Because Xiaoheita took Yamauchi Yoshikazu to whom the family would basically be selected. He didn't have to take a good test of his appearance and only had Yamauchi Yoshikazu and their son fight on horseback. The more he got to the fight, the more he liked Yamauchi Yoshikazu, and the more he could be selected immediately.
Moreover, people don’t want the second son and youngest son to come in this opportunity. Many people even stuffed their eldest son over just to make a contribution to a hidden residence.
Just like this, Yamauchi Yoshikazuki spent more than a month to select more than forty martial arts children.
All of these people came from wealthy families, the second time was a Muzeng horse, full of all kinds of swords and rifles. There were also military servants and followers equipped by their father, even richer even had two horses, wearing iron armor and horses hanging on the curtains.
Some of them were not yet subdued, so their parents naturally asked Yamauchi Yoshikazu and Koheita to the heads. So before joining the army, Yamauchi Yoshikazu was a black hat and Koheita was a barber. They helped them all subdued. Koheita shaved more than a dozen heads a day, and his razoring technique was very diligent.
As the autumn harvest ended, the weather gradually became cold. More than 40 Japanese cyclone cavalrymen in Yamauchi Yoshikazu finally got all their men and had complete equipment. The training began.
Amid the roar of the iron cannon, a cavalry rushed from Guandong with frost.
Chapter completed!