Chapter 809 Cossack cavalry Marquis Cabot only discovered the true atmosphere of the Ming Empire at this time.In all fairness, the quality of these soldiers is simply impeccable, however, Da Ming can casually take out 180,000, in fact, a million.Of course, these soldiers are not on the same level as those royal armies guarding the city of Beijing, as far as Capote observes, the number of Ming guards in the capital is actually not much.There were even groups of Royal Army in black uniforms to be seen on the streets, and Capote also had a certain understanding of the Ming army through translation.So far, the Ming Royal Army has only 16 divisions, which are the strategic establishment of the Ming Royal Army, with each division under the jurisdiction of five to six infantry brigades, each brigade with 8,500 to 11,000 people.So guessingly, the number of the Ming Royal Army is about one million.At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also has more than 1,500 warships, of which about one-third are the main warships, and the rest are medium-sized warships, and this huge fleet is divided into the first, second, and third fleets, which are deployed in the north, south, or South Seas.However, when the envoy of Cabot came to the capital, he saw about four or five hundred Ming warships sailing to the waters of the South Sea, and he did not know whether it was for military exercises or because of combat deployment.The Spanish Empire was now in the midst of a strategic contraction, unable to take care of the Far East.The more he understood the strength of the Ming army, the more Capote felt that there were still many fools in the Spanish Empire, and someone actually proposed that 10,000 people could go on an expedition to the Ming Dynasty.It's a joke, 10,000 Spanish troops came to Daming, and they didn't use weapons at all, Daming casually pulled up a brick, and he could bury 10,000 Spanish troops."
Chen, my friend, you have gained the friendship of my Capote family!"
Capote gave Chen Ying a warm hug.Chen Ying still had his signature smile on his face.If people who know Chen Ying know that once Chen Ying shows this kind of smile, it means that he is ready to trap people, don't look at Chen Ying stationed in Huaiyuan Town for a long time, in fact, Quan Xu's many classic economic wars made the Jiangnan gentry want to die, which was Chen Ying's handiwork.Chen Ying clapped his hands, two Royal Army soldiers pushed a two-wheeled shelf wheel, slowly came to the test site, and waited for the shelf car to stop, Chen Ying opened a slender box, through the length of the box, it can be speculated that this is at least two and a half meters in length or so.Chen Ying and the other soldiers opened the box and took out a long gun shaft from it.This kind of spear adopts a spiral structure, the handles of the two spears are knotted together to form a long spear of four meters eight, the biggest difference between the spear and the Spanish spear is the blade, the length of the blade is about half a meter, and the triangular structure is reckless.Marquis Capote took a deep breath and said with some puzzlement: "Why not a musket?"
”"Alas!"
Chen Ying sighed and said: "Although the musket is good, but you haven't seen the Daming spear, I dare to guarantee that as long as you have used the Daming spear, you will definitely fall in love with this spear!"
”Capote did not deny the spear, and the current army of the Spanish Empire is still obsessed with their Spanish phalanx, that is, more than ten years later, when the French Army pressed the Spanish Army to the ground and rubbed it, the Spanish Empire will reform the Spanish phalanx.Of course, it was already the imperial twilight of the Spanish Empire.Capote asked the soldiers of the Spanish mission to dance with this kind of Ming spear, and the Spanish phalanx could be separated from the cavalry to fight, and it was a rectangular quadrangle formed together, focusing on anti-encirclement and anti-cavalry.Although the well-trained Spanish phalanx had good anti-cavalry combat effectiveness, with the development of the times, this form of army combat has fallen far behind.Whether it is Hainan Island or Luzon Island, the Zheng army equipped by the Spanish phalanx has been pressed to the ground by the whole family army and rubbed repeatedly, of course, the Qing army armed by Spain has not escaped the fate of being rubbed.However, the army of the Spanish Empire did not think so, although they did not fight the Ming army, the people who fought were actually dead, and in this case, they were still confused and confident.For Chen Ying, he sold Capote the cold weapons that the Ming Dynasty had long since eliminated, and even twenty-six mm heavy muskets, including one hundred and five mm portable field guns.In the eyes of the Spaniards, the equipment was already very sophisticated and very advanced.However, the price of such equipment is very expensive.Capote smiled bitterly: "Chen, my friend, you may not know that our Spanish Empire is now in financial difficulties!"
”It's strange if you don't know.It is because we know that it is easier for us to gather your wool."
You can continue to follow the La Plata strategy, and you can't trade land with any money!"
Chen Ying said with a smile on his face: "Don't you still have Brazil?"
It's useless for you to ask for that place!
”Capote shook his head: "You don't know, I'm just the envoy in charge of the trade in the plains of La Plata, and the specific transaction still needs the authorization of His Majesty the King!"
”"Don't worry, these things don't cost money, we can give them to you for free!"
Chen Ying learned from Quan Xu that Spain's war with Europe had reached a critical moment, and in this case, they could only grit their teeth and hold on.Chen Ying didn't know Quan Xu's source of information, thinking that Quan Xu might still have an intelligence source that he didn't know, for this emperor with great powers, he followed Quan Xu's instructions.As a gift, the number should not be too much, of course, it should not be too little, too little is really too much to take.The Ming gifts to Spain included 1,000 Ming spears, 500 sets of Ming plate armor, 300 broken sabers, and 12 105 mm field cannons.Of course, these equipment are actually not the equipment produced by the Gun Bureau for a long time, and I don't know which corner they were found from, after temporary polishing, oiling and lacquering, they look very new, in fact, the service life of the barrel is close to the limit.Capote and his party successfully completed the mission of Fili IV and embarked on the return journey.At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also sent a group of immigrants to the plains of La Plata.This group of immigrants were mainly the families of the Jiangnan gentry or prisoners, including those soldiers under Hong Chengchou, who were reorganized into a construction corps and went to the plain of La Plata to establish immigrant settlements.Of course, the establishment of this construction corps is not the same as that of the Ming Royal Army, but adopts the Ming guard system, after all, many Tuntian construction corps are the guards of the Ming Dynasty.The first batch of immigrants consisted of fifty transports, and under the protection of thirty-two Exocet and eight capital ships, they were ready to set off in a month and a half.The official war between the Ming Imperial Navy and the Ottoman Empire had not yet begun to break out, but Luo Shiming reported to Quan Xu that they had encountered a large number of horse bandits in the Siberian wilderness.After receiving the news, Quan Xu quickly reacted, where is this horse bandit, this is obviously the Far East invasion army of Tsarist Russia, that is, the Cossack cavalry.This is actually Quan Xu's misunderstanding, for this history, Quan Xu does not know much, he once thought that the current Siberian ownerless wasteland, he once thought that the expansion of Tsarist Russia to the Far East, should be in the early Qing Dynasty Kangxi period, however, just now actually met the Cossacks.However, in this period, the Cossack cavalry met opponents.At this time, Tsarist Russia had already begun to expand into the Far East, and it was because of the expansion of Tsarist Russia that Mongolia could not deal with the fierce Cossack cavalry, and only warmed the Manchu regiment.In all fairness, the Cossack cavalry was extremely combat-ready.Fierce, adventurous, and bloodthirsty by nature, they carry muskets, machetes, and axes to deal with the ordinary steppe tribes, so to speak, and the autumn wind sweeps away the leaves.They marched eastward, swept all the way, killed all the way, and were invincible all the way.Countless steppe tribes or Mongol tribes were slaughtered by the Cossack cavalry.Now they have established a stronghold in Siberia, and the natives living in Siberia are no match for them, either expelled or slaughtered.At this time, the Ming Dynasty was exploring westward, and happened to collide with the Cossacks.In the original historical time and space, my Qing Dynasty was pressed to the ground by Tsarist Russia and rubbed all the time, from Shunzhi Kangxi to Puyi, I have been bullied enough and almost never took advantage.But, but, but, the royal army of the whole clan is not afraid of these hairs, besides, even if you are afraid, it is useless, you can't go back in disgrace, right?
Da Ming can't afford to lose this person.After a dozen small units suffered losses, the cavalry units of the Royal Army began to move to Siberia in an orderly manner.In this case, the big war is a touch of the tongue.From the very beginning of the chase battle of more than a dozen people, to the scale of hundreds of thousands, and then to tens of thousands of battles.In all fairness, the cavalry of the Ming Royal Army did not have the level construction of a brigade, and the largest formed unit was only a cavalry regiment.Moreover, the equipment of the cavalry regiment was not armed to the teeth like the army infantry, due to the need for cavalry to pursue speed, rifles and light and heavy machine guns were not very much equipped, and Siberia was difficult to supply.Of course, this is not to say that the cavalry of the Ming Royal Army does not have an advantage in equipment, on the contrary, the advantage is still very obvious, many cavalry regiments are equipped with at least twelve heavy machine guns, dozens of light machine guns.But the problem is that the bullets are consumed too quickly for the kind of Cossack cavalry that comes and goes like the wind, and the Cossack cavalry is not like the Qing army, which often organizes large-scale decisive battles of tens of thousands of horses and hundreds of thousands of horses.They had learned the guerrilla tactics of the nomads of the Central Plains, usually breaking up into pieces and using the vast grasslands to carry out roundabout tactics.Just like the many lines of the soldier's assault, the war is ultimately a battle between people, and no matter how advanced the director's bullets are, the aircraft and artillery will be consumed.The cavalry of the Royal Army encountered this kind of problem, the bullets ran out, and they could not replenish it for a while, so they could only rely on sabers to sabers, bows and crossbows, and carried out cavalry fighting in the primitive cold weapon way.…………………… From the very beginning of the chase battle of more than a dozen people, to the scale of hundreds of thousands, and then to tens of thousands of battles.In all fairness, the cavalry of the Ming Royal Army did not have the level construction of a brigade, and the largest formed unit was only a cavalry regiment.Moreover, the equipment of the cavalry regiment was not armed to the teeth like the army infantry, due to the need for cavalry to pursue speed, rifles and light and heavy machine guns were not very much equipped, and Siberia was difficult to supply.Of course, this is not to say that the cavalry of the Ming Royal Army does not have an advantage in equipment, on the contrary, the advantage is still very obvious, many cavalry regiments are equipped with at least twelve heavy machine guns, dozens of light machine guns.But the problem is that the bullets are consumed too quickly for the kind of Cossack cavalry that comes and goes like the wind, and the Cossack cavalry is not like the Qing army, which often organizes large-scale decisive battles of tens of thousands of horses and hundreds of thousands of horses.They had learned the guerrilla tactics of the nomads of the Central Plains, usually breaking up into pieces and using the vast grasslands to carry out roundabout tactics.Just like the many lines of the soldier's assault, the war is ultimately a battle between people, and no matter how advanced the director's bullets are, the aircraft and artillery will be consumed.The cavalry of the Royal Army encountered this kind of problem, the bullets ran out, and they could not replenish it for a while, so they could only rely on sabers to sabers, bows and crossbows, and carried out cavalry fighting in the primitive cold weapon way.From the very beginning of the chase battle of more than a dozen people, to the scale of hundreds of thousands, and then to tens of thousands of battles.In all fairness, the cavalry of the Ming Royal Army did not have the level construction of a brigade, and the largest formed unit was only a cavalry regiment.Moreover, the equipment of the cavalry regiment was not armed to the teeth like the army infantry, due to the need for cavalry to pursue speed, rifles and light and heavy machine guns were not very much equipped, and Siberia was difficult to supply.Of course, this is not to say that the cavalry of the Ming Royal Army does not have an advantage in equipment, on the contrary, the advantage is still very obvious, many cavalry regiments are equipped with at least twelve heavy machine guns, dozens of light machine guns.But the problem is that the bullets are consumed too quickly for the kind of Cossack cavalry that comes and goes like the wind, and the Cossack cavalry is not like the Qing army, which often organizes large-scale decisive battles of tens of thousands of horses and hundreds of thousands of horses.They had learned the guerrilla tactics of the nomads of the Central Plains, usually breaking up into pieces and using the vast grasslands to carry out roundabout tactics.Just like the many lines of the soldier's assault, the war is ultimately a battle between people, and no matter how advanced the director's bullets are, the aircraft and artillery will be consumed.The cavalry of the Royal Army encountered this kind of problem, the bullets ran out, and they could not replenish it for a while, so they could only rely on sabers to sabers, bows and crossbows, and carried out cavalry fighting in the primitive cold weapon way.They had learned the guerrilla tactics of the nomads of the Central Plains, usually breaking up into pieces and using the vast grasslands to carry out roundabout tactics.Just like the many lines of the soldier's assault, the war is ultimately a battle between people, and no matter how advanced the director's bullets are, the aircraft and artillery will be consumed.The cavalry of the Royal Army encountered this kind of problem, the bullets ran out, and they could not replenish it for a while, so they could only rely on sabre to sabre, bow to crossbow, and carry out the cavalry in the primitive cold weapon method