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75. General conclusion before the war Futtsu

Perry was preparing, and Tadaoemon was also preparing, as nervous and without any slackness. More than 900 people who were newly defeated by Totsu are now surrounding Tadaoemon.

If you want to die in battle, I’m sorry, more than 20 deaths were killed in battle. These casualties were nothing for the entire army. So why did you lose if you fought well? What is the reason?

Tadaoemon sat in the middle of the crowd and asked the soldiers about their thoughts.

"Mr. Jiangchuan died in battle and was panicked and could not fight..." A soldier spoke with a little sadness and entanglement.

"This is the first one." Tadaoemon nodded.

The only thing that was the most important thing was that the Xi team did not set up a corresponding wartime officer replacement mechanism. The entire Fujin Xi team relied on Jiangchuan Yinglong to operate alone. He grabbed the beard and eyebrows. The military chief was Jiangchuan Yinglong, the staff chief was also Jiangchuan Yinglong, and the logistics chief was still Jiangchuan Yinglong.

Under such circumstances, once something happens to Jiangchuan Yinglong, the entire army will collapse immediately. No one can replace Jiangchuan Yinglong to take over the baton command. This is one of the biggest drawbacks of the Xi team. The Xi team has not learned all the organizational structure system of the modern army.

Because when Tokugawa Ikei ordered the establishment of the army, it was to use the teaching team as a direct subordinate of the shogunate to guard Edo. He did not particularly think about using this army. Naturally, the loyalty of the army was the primary key. Therefore, the chief officers of the army were all the confidant ministers of the shogunate, including Matsuhei Shinobu, Eikawa Hiderō and Tadorsuemon.

Innate deficiencies naturally lead to acquired bad habits. The shogunate is very resistant to other senior officers joining the training team and is only willing to choose a few important officials from the relatives. Once this person dies, an avalanche will naturally occur later.

"Everyone and the left and right have been defeated, and the subordinates cannot restrain their subordinates." A captain promoted by a veteran replied with his head down.

"Yeah, this is the second one."

The second and very critical ones are that the teaching team lacks grassroots officers on a large scale. The early officers were more than ten from the Dutch officers' regiment, as well as dozens of disciples and families of Akihiro Takashima and Eikawa. Dozens of officers who have learned modern military can barely manage the teaching team of more than a thousand people.

Later, it was no longer possible, and the army expanded to almost 5,000 people at once. As a result, one veteran was forced to lead two new recruits. Although the joint camp training exceeded one year, the facts could not be changed. The grassroots level was about the same as there were no officers.

The dozens of small officers promoted over the years have become intermediate officers. Whenever they train, the whistle sounds, the teams of men can still obey orders. When the war comes, the cannons roar, foreign guns are fired, and the neighing sounds are endless. Is it useless to have a whistle? How can the hundreds of people on both sides hear your order?

More importantly, before the war, Matsuhei Kiyonaga believed that there was a shogunate's own officer regiment, so there was no need for the Dutch officer regiment. He was preparing to kick Pedro and others and transfer them all directly from the army. Although Pedro and others finally became Matsuhei Qisun's staff regiment, it was very difficult for them to be easily promoted in the battle.

So when Jiangchuan Yinglong died, some people went to rescue his body, some launched a desperate charge, some turned around and ran away, and they acted without any restrictions. The morale also fell a lot and was defeated in a daze.

"There is also the fact that guns and cannons are not in harmony, and there is so much panic when dealing with the enemy." Eimin Eimin suddenly got up and said this.

"What's the point?" Tadaoemon wanted to hear the thoughts of this top student who studied in the UK.

"After Miyi got ashore, his father ordered cannons to bombard the boat in front of the beach to disrupt the enemy's formation. The following officials seemed to replace the shotgun and shoot directly at Miyi's troops on the shore, which would kill Miyi and make it more chaotic."

"I see."

Yes, this is indeed a problem. The training team has always had only two directions. One is to learn artillery and garrison the fort, and in the future, facing the English-American ghost animals, they will be very hard to fire. The other is to protect the fort and Edo Castle to drive with static.

This is an expected war situation that the teaching team may encounter in the future, and it is targeted and specialized training. In fact, the two trainings are good. The artillery on the Fujin Fort are actually not too low.

However, in defensive warfare, the major is fortified position defense warfare, and there is no corresponding training to deal with landing warfare. As a relatively old-school officer, Eilong Jiangchuan did not change his mind in time. He always regarded artillery as a purely long-range and destructive weapon, rather than a useful infantry support weapon.

So when the US military landed, the artillery only allowed the artillery to shoot the small boats that were docking and about to dock hundreds of meters away, instead of immediately changing the shotgun and cleaning the beachheads.

To put it more bluntly, Jiangchuan Yinglong has no practical experience and has not adapted to the pace of modern warfare. If one step is wrong, then one step will be wrong.

"So Mi Yi calmly landed on the shore, attacked our soldiers, intertwined, and hit the enemy sharpshooter." Eimin Jiangchuan sighed.

"well……"

It was really bad luck. At that time, Yinglong, Jiangchuan, was at least 200 meters away from the sharpshooter of the US military. He was hit by the US military just because he was riding on a horse and his target became more obvious.

But thinking about it, he was not the most unlucky. A few years later, the Battle of Sportselvenia in the Civil War, the 110,000 Northern Army attacked 50,000 Southern Army. At that time, General John Sedgwick, the commander of the Sixth Army of the Northern Army, was more than one thousand meters away from the Southern Army's position, but was still shot by the Southern Army's sharpshooter and killed him on the spot.

Where to go to reason? Novels need to be logical, rules, and cater to readers. This is impossible and that is impossible. But reality doesn’t need to talk to people so much. One thousand meters away, holding a rifle, aiming at the naked eye, hitting the enemy’s eyeballs directly, and hitting the target, because John Sedgwick was running on a horse and encouraging the soldiers.

Good guy, what do you say?

Everyone shared the experiences exchanged with blood and life with each word. Tadaoemon ordered people to record them in detail and compile them into a book. In the future, they can be specially used as examples in the classroom of the Infantry Training Institute.

In terms of Japan's terrain, how many artillery wars and landing wars you need to face in the future are not guaranteed. Learn more at this time and you will be able to remember more in the future and avoid making any low-level mistakes.

"Okay, okay, everyone doesn't have to be discouraged. Just lose once. As long as everyone is still there, we can continue to fight and always beat Miyi away!" Tadaoemon clapped his hands and loudly encouraged the soldiers.

The problems found need to be solved quickly. The Dutch officers who were thrown into the staff must return to the army immediately, at least before the war is over, they must be in the army.
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