Chapter 141: Foreign Legion (3) "And how many people are there in your Third Army at the moment?"
Qin Huaiyu finally asked the most important question, which was related to the success rate of the next operation, if the number of the Third Army was too small, then he would have to reformulate the plan.
"The number of our Third Army is still very large."
Speaking of this, Honda Gongliang couldn't help but show pride: "There are currently a total of 5,000 people in the Didan army, all between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, each of them is a warlike elite who can fight and dare to fight, not to mention those so-called samurai in the Shangwei Kingdom, even against the local army of the Tang Dynasty will not necessarily be defeated, and even if it encounters the young army, it may not be without the strength to fight......
If the opponent is only a samurai of the Wa Kingdom, then Lord Governor, you can relax, even against ten times or twenty times the enemy, our Third Army can easily destroy them. ” What Honda Kyoliang said was justified, because this is the truth, at this time, the Japanese people did not have too high civilization, especially after they offended Li Zhen back then, the Tang Dynasty completely blocked the cultural transmission work leading to the Japanese country, not to mention sending Tang envoys to study abroad, and even simple farming techniques were not passed on.
Although the current Wa Kingdom has also gotten rid of the category of barbarians, and does not drink blood, it is not much better, even compared to Europe under the shadow rule of the Holy See.
Not to mention the smelting technology, at this time, the Wa Kingdom was indeed able to smelt iron ore, but the quality of their iron tools was surprisingly poor, worse than pig iron, and it was similar to the iron tools of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China.
However, even such iron tools were not available to anyone in the Wa Kingdom, and in fact, the main weapons of the Wa Kingdom at this time were mainly bronze tools.
In history, after learning the technology of the Tang Dynasty, the smelting technology was able to develop by leaps and bounds, and if there was no teaching of the Tang Dynasty, if you want to develop to future generations, you don't know how many thousand years it will take.
But this time with the influence of Li Zhen, Datang did not give them the opportunity to learn, so their domestic smelting technology has always been the same as the original bird, that is, with the discovery of the Wa Kingdom, some forces have put their hands in, and established their own industries and forces here, and the Wa people have only spied a little bit of Datang technology from it, but if they want to carry out the steel revolution, they are still far behind.
Although the current Third Army of the Foreign Legion is a young army and is not equipped with hot weapons, it is not bad at least in terms of cold weapons and equipment, and it uses excellent blades produced by Datang's domestic arsenal.
The well-trained, no less than the Boys' Army's Foreign Third Army, coupled with excellent weapons, mainly bronze, completely unqualified training, purely composed of civilians, Honda Kyora really couldn't think of their own reasons for failure.
"That's great."
Qin Huaiyu's face showed joy, although the number of 5,000 people is much worse than the number of young soldiers who are tens of thousands at every turn, but it is enough to use in the next operation, and even if it is used properly, and then cooperate with the marines of the Bohai Naval Region, it is not impossible to destroy the Japanese State with their hands, and then they and the Dengzhou Fleet can be proud in front of the Lingnan Naval Region - although our combat achievements are not as good as yours, but we destroyed two countries (Baekje was also destroyed by them), You've only sunk a few pirates, huh?
"Governor, what should we do next?"
Honda Kyora said with a little excitement: "In order to train this third army, my subordinates have been dormant here for six years, and even Tianzhu was here before it was conquered......
When the subordinates thought of this, they trembled with excitement. ” "Don't say it, I can understand it."
Qin Huaiyu smiled and reassured, he had a deep understanding of Honda Gongliang's words, why wasn't he the same back then?
At that time, Xiao Rui, the governor of the Dengzhou fleet, was deposed by the imperial court because of his inaction and unauthorized entry into the city, and he and Wei Chi Baoqing were recommended by Li Zhen to become the new governor, at the beginning of the Dengzhou fleet only three or two big cats and kittens, his heart was broken, and later, although the Dengzhou shipyard manufactured a large warship, the Dengzhou fleet also changed guns, and became one of the main forces of the Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop, but because the Bohai Sea is located in the heart of the Tang Dynasty, no enemy dared to attack, so the Dengzhou fleet became an ornament, In addition to using them once during the conquest of Goguryeo over the years, they fought a few battles with the Japanese and Ezo people, and occupied a little territory.
But with the naval strength of the Wa State, let alone the main battleship, even the smallest fifth-class battleship at that time could sweep them, which was the case in that war, you must know that the Dengzhou fleet was not even equipped with a fourth-class battleship at that time, which shows that the naval development of the Wa State is rotten.
As for the Ezo people, not to mention, they didn't even have a navy, when the two sides faced off, the Dengzhou fleet only fired a few shots, and the defenders on the shore ran away, not even rushing to the beach, and directly drove the warships to the shore without encountering decent resistance, which was really not enjoyable at all.
Until now, although the reputation of the Bohai Sea Region is not small, and it can even be faintly compared with the Lingnan Naval Region, but in fact, the combat exploits that can be obtained are not much worse than the Lingnan Naval Region - only the occupation of Ezo Island (Hokkaido) gave them a little comfort in their hearts, but in fact, those who know the situation know that this war exploit is completely in vain, and the Ezo people on the island have not resisted at all.
"Thank you for the Governor's comfort, my subordinates are much better."
Kyora Honda asked again, "Then what should we do next?"
” "The specific situation is like this, we will ...... next" Qin Huaiyu quickly said his plan.
"That's right......
It's a good idea, but the problem is that there are so many of us......
Such a sudden......
It's their base camp again, will it be ...... by them Found something wrong?
After listening to Qin Huaiyu's plan, Honda Gongliang first agreed, but then raised his own concerns.
"Don't worry, we have inside them too, and secondly, I don't want everyone to go......
And there's a good opportunity recently, it's said that their Emperor is going to recruit palace guards, which is a good opportunity......"