16. The tragedy of a regime
.,6, On the tragedy of a regime, "But despite this, please don't take it lightly. Miss. The Mitsui chaebol, whom you came from, is still standing firm and prosperous in time and space. But this is a world that has been completely disrupted by the butterfly effect. These things in my memory can only be used as reference at most, and may even be misled!"
Seeing the little loli relaxed suddenly, Feili couldn't help frowning, and suddenly reminded with a serious expression, "For example, King Tkumse, who fought side by side with him on the Mazka continent last year, should have been able to completely defeat the elf colonists, suppress the separation tendency of various tribes, and finally complete the grand career of unifying the Mazka continent, and establish a powerful empire that has been passed down for generations." But now, this "immortal bird, lonely and desolate, was on a barren beach, and his last followers were also forced to wander around the world with me, the last ally. This is the result of the butterfly effect!"
Only, that is, even if you know clearly that. "The original history is not a pity to take?"
Mitsui Ryuki's expression froze. After a while, her little shoulder finally collapsed weakly. "If you want to keep your wealth and wealth in the upcoming turmoil, you must not be lucky. Everything can only rely on your own luck and efforts?"
"Well, I mean this. In fact, in the past few wars, I have basically not been able to rely on this prophet light awareness of history to create a very amazing military miracle. It is just the opposite. It almost shot myself in the foot several times."
Feiri explained this sincerely. In my opinion, the most important task of the shogunate at the moment should be to overcome all difficulties and difficulties. Win the counter-rebellion war against the Choshu family. Several days have passed since the Battle of Kumanotan. Is there any new news on the battlefield now? As Miss, you just said, you and I are already comrades in the same trench. Therefore, it is necessary to meet honestly first."
Only, there are, there are, but almost all are bad news.”
The little loli sighed helplessly, clapped her palms and called out several maids, and instructed them to spread a military map full of marks in the middle of the tea room. Just as you can help me learn more, please help me learn more. After all, you are a long-time general who have really fought many hard battles around the world. Compared with the so-called "military artsists in the shogunate who only know how to talk about war on paper, at least in terms of practical experience.
Haha, Miss, you are so ridiculous.”
"Because the originally prepared surprise attack team in Kumanotan, Jigou attacked the Choshu family, only four frontal main forces were left."
Mitsui Ryuki used a folding fan to click on the map a few times. The maid next to him immediately put Xiaojun Banner in those positions. The West Route Army was mainly composed of Okura Fan in the north Kyushu. The total number of troops was gathered. 20,000 troops were gathered to attack the opposite Maguan. The Northern Route Army divided 10,000 troops and took the mountain to recover the wild silver mountain. And further attacked Shizhoukou. The 40,000 middle Route Army took Shanyang Road to attack Yizhoukou, which was the main force of this battle. The remaining 7,000 new shogunate troops were all involved. My father Mitsui Ginji would also go to supervise the battle. The last 10,000 southern Route Army landed at Oshimakou to prevent the Changzhou Rebels from using this island as a springboard to attack our flanks and rears.
"The entire combat plan seems to be missing, but is there a problem with the number of this 150,000 army? After all, I calculated that there is only 80,000 troops in total. Where did the remaining 70,000 troops go?"
Feili looked at her chin for a while, then suddenly muttered and questioned.
"Baga! The shogunate is only known as "a 150,000 army."
Mitsui Ryuhime stared at Feili with pity with her eyes that she seemed to be looking at an idiot. She could control the moisture in the numbers below 10, which was already very conscientious. When the first general of the previous Ashikaga Shogunate started the Battle of Kokawa, she once boasted only 40,000 troops to 500,000!"
Only, Oh, my god! In other words, the Edo Shogunate mobilized half of the local vassal states and invested all its own central army to barely piece together these 80,000 rebels? You are a great abandoned country with a population of nearly 30 million!"
"Oh, I'm not afraid of you making a joke!" Mitsui Ryuki sighed helplessly, "Even these 80,000 troops are only present on paper. I want to recruit so many troops from the vassal states at once, which is really a protracted systematic project. The "Chang Chang Order" has been released for nearly two months, but less than 20% of the participating troops have arrived at the assembly site, so no unit along the way can attack at all. At the same time, the Changzhou Rebels have no intention of stopping. Alas, the defeat ahead is flying like snowflakes!"
She sighed again, then took out a booklet from her sleeve, "On April 21, the Changzhou warship went south to Kitakyushu, shelled Okurabaya, burned more than 1,000 houses, and detonated two ammunition depots, causing serious damage to the port, and the Western Route Army that had begun to gather in the network suffered heavy losses;
On April 28, the 600 Changzhou rebels attacked from Shizhoukou and once again attacked the Iron Yinshan Mountain.
The latest 1,500 shogunate flags who entered this place resisted fortifications for only two hours and collapsed in full swing, losing countless weapons, ammunition, and food;
On April 29, the Changzhou warships bombarded the Okura vassal again. The vassal lord was shot and killed when he organized a counterattack. The whole vassal was in chaos;
On May 1, 1,200 Changzhou rebels landed on the Okura vassal state, easily defeated the self-resistance of the vassal states, burned castles, warehouses, and forts, and retreated. At this point, the Southern Army, which had not yet been truly formed, had completely collapsed and disintegrated, and the food, fodder, armour, ammunition, ferries and horses were completely lost, and there was no possibility of reconstruction in a short period of time.
On May 3, the Satsuma clan publicly expressed opposition to the attack on the rebel party of Changzhou and declared that the vassal was neutral outside the vassal. He claimed that he was willing to mediate and mediate. On the same day, Emperor Renko sent an envoy to the capital to visit Okurama clan, and openly asked in the court about the possibility of rescheduling the war. These damn old bastards!"
After reading this, Mitsui Ryuki couldn't help but curse hatefully. Then he explained to Feili, who was still confused, "You may not quite understand that the Satsuma family's Satsuma family has a sword, and has 20,000 elite soldiers under his command. It has been the most powerful vassal state on Kyushu Island since ancient times. When he announced that "the small vassal states will naturally follow the examples, but if the horse is right, the shogunate will not be careless. One or two vassals will conquer one soldiers and one soldiers! The Western Route Army is completely declared to be broken;
The emperor's seemingly war-weary statement made Kinki and the Western vassals even more shaken, and they were even less active in recruiting and participating in the war. They even disbanded the troops that had just gathered together again using the excuse of the rainy season approaching, which was not conducive to marching and fighting!
In order not to let the battle against Changzhou miscarriage and become a laughing stock in the world, the shogunate has added another round of recruitment orders and decided to mobilize 40,000 troops from the various vassal states of Tokaido, Toyama and Hokuriku to make up for the gap in the military force caused by the vassal states of Kinki and Western countries. It is also scheduled to complete the assembly in Sekihara. It will first enter Kyoto parade and demonstrate to the court and the emperor who have not been at peace recently.
"Wait, wait. According to your opinion, in order to win this battle, the shogunate has already been selling out. Even the old man has been taken out. Moreover, the battlefield is within a convenient border, and there are not many difficulties in supply and transportation, but in the end, they can only get 80,000 miscellaneous troops with uneven combat power, and at least half of them are for making a living. In addition, the shogunate has almost no arrangements for the minimum reserve team.
Feri stretched out his finger in confusion and poked Kuzakra on the small flag marked with the number of troops. After all, Kuzakra is the second strong country in the East. The total population of the country is about 30 million. In the shogunate territory alone, there are at least eight million residents.
According to the total proportion of military conscriptions in various countries in the Feren continent, while maintaining long-term combat, a country can send up its strong population to the battlefield. Therefore, as long as the shogunate itself explores its potential, it can be used to collect 400,000 troops! Now that the shogunate has only sent 20,000 troops, Edo is almost empty. I really can't imagine how your country's military mobilization work is doing?"
He looked up at Mitsui Ryuki's eyes and asked quite sharply.
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What is the biggest difference between the war machines of modern countries and ancient countries?
It is not a strong ship, a sharp cannon, a new type of musket, or a tight military uniform. Although these things usually leave a deep impression on people. But in fact, even if a modern army only holds cold weapons, it can definitely easily defeat ancient troops of the same size and equipment level.
There are only two real differences: one is discipline and the other is mobilization. In short-term wars, the importance of the former is more significant. Once the war falls into a long-term state, the strength of the mobilization ability of all parties will become the last straw that broke Luo Zhu's back.
The so-called mobilization is the organizational technology of how to arm ordinary people and put them into war
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The army in the old era was generally mainly recruited mercenaries. If they were willing to spend a lot of money to purchase weapons and to spend energy and practice strictly, they could indeed be forged to be extremely strong, and even perform as much as the real modern army on the battlefield.
However, there is no possibility of death or injury in the war, and the army cannot be fully filled for a long time. If it is an ancient army, once there is a major defect in the elite troops, then even if the recruitment of new soldiers quickly and the ability to obtain the equipment and develop combat levels similar to those of the predecessors is a very arduous task, not to mention the running-in between each other and the difficulty of field recruitment. Therefore, no matter how outstanding the elite soldiers in ancient times have made outstanding achievements, it is difficult to maintain the best level in the war of attrition for a long time.
If you want to get a truly modern national military machine, you must not just introduce and learn advanced infantry exercises, strategies and tactics, warships and weapons, military technology, and finally train a modern army. This is actually just forging a thin hard shell. It is also necessary to establish a complete military mobilization system from bottom to top, which can transport every man and every iron nail in the country to the battlefield and give it useful; to make all resources within the sphere of influence be most fully utilized. It continuously provides abundant nutrients for this war monster; it must extract the last surplus from the people and tap the potential of war from any angle,
Therefore, in those modern countries, the number of regular troops was often very small. For example, the Naseril Empire had a population of 140 million. Its regular army had only twelve legions, less than 200,000, which was completely inconsistent with its vast territory. But the problem is that after the general mobilization of war, this small army could quickly become a behemoth of millions of troops in just a few months.
As for the military mobilization capabilities of the Elf Kingdom, they are even stronger. Among their 4 million citizens, 500,000 have been in the military for many years, and the mobilization ratio can be reached. Even women of appropriate age can be entrusted in large quantities. But the problem is that this mobilization mechanism only exists within the scope of their own citizens.
For many conquered races under its jurisdiction, the Elf Kingdom is still using the backward employment system to form an unreliable and difficult to supplement "the puppet army largely offset the advantages of the Elf Army's other game surfaces.
And more importantly, due to the existence of the military mobilization system, the new troops will no longer have no war experience like the strong men recruited by the ancient army.
Of course, forming an efficient military mobilization system is not just a simple military issue, but involves all aspects of political and social rights distribution, and is an extremely huge systematic project
First, it needs a perfect regime that can implement the grassroots level and has the power to coordinate and allocate all the manpower and material resources of its territory;
Secondly, it needs to use a long-term set of civilian militarization education so that every young man knows how to become a soldier;
In addition, it also needs to cooperate with clever incitement and propaganda, so that the soldiers under the throne can fight with a lofty ideal;
Finally, it requires various extremely precise and rigorous calculations and derivations: for example, when will the mobilization start? It will be completed within a few days, how to allocate mobilization batches, how to assemble, advance and disperse. How to supplement old units, how to form new units, how to accumulate potential for war in peacetime. How to transfer from peacetime to wartime as soon as possible, and how to control the consumption of important materials in wartime,
In short, this is a great military change with high entry standards, amazing operational difficulty, but also amazing effect. And the desire to implement military mobilization at the overall war level is an extremely difficult test for any country's regime organization.
Chapter completed!