C691 last straw (1/2)

Compared to the ancient armies, the modern armies were not only lacking in equipment, but more importantly, in terms of human thought. Even if the armies of the ancient armies were equipped with modern Gun and cannons, if they could not keep up with the battle tactics, they were destined to fail.

The bloody battle of Osaka City today had proven this point. Thirty thousand Southwest Allied Army s were the core strength of the Four Seasons Soldiers, and the number of guns and weapons had already reached over thirteen thousand. However, quantity alone was not enough to form the fighting capacity, the thoughts of the allied army stayed in the Middle Age.

As it was a siege, the Musketeers had always been a support troop. They could only suppress the fire outside the city walls, and were unable to cause any effective damage. The real battle was fought by the warriors and the light men.

This was the cunning side of the French. From the very beginning, they had formulated a strategic plan, and without the support of heavy artillery, the pure Musketeers could not even be compared to ordinary warriors and light soldiers.

And due to various reasons, Xiao Letian placed an embargo on the heavy weaponry of the Southwest Four Seasons Soldiers. The cannons, grenades, explosives, and Gatling heavy machine gun s would not be provided to them by Xiao Letian.

As for the arms merchants of Xi Yang, they received Xiao Letian's warning, if they wanted to order a large amount of the Ryukyu in the future, they would have to follow the rules of the Prime Minister.

In fact, the Europeans already had the notion of banning the sale of weapons. The most advanced weapons would not be sold by others, and all the small and large arms dealers in Asia were now helping Europe digest their stocks.

As the Poo War had proven the advanced performance of the after-loading rifles, there was an upsurge of rifles in Europe. All the pre-loading rifles in the active army and warehouses were eliminated, but these rifles could not be thrown away for nothing.

Great Qing was preparing to pacify the chaos in the west and the rebellion in Xinjiang. This was a big business that had to be robbed, and the Japanese campaign to overturn the curtain had started to blaze, which was also the main goal of all the merchants.

But that was all, the Asian warlords could only buy these dilapidated weapons from the Europeans, the most advanced weapons were only available to Xiao Letian, no one else in Asia would be able to buy them.

The Southern Four Soldiers had requested for to purchase cannons more than once, and even new types of explosives. At the very least, they had to sell them to a few grenades, the quality of which was well-known in the Ryukyu.

However, due to political considerations, Xiao Letian rejected their request and only provided them with a few rifles.

Without the support of the cannons and explosives, besieging the city was exceptionally difficult, and Xi Xianglongsheng had doubts about most of the time about Western Weapons. Since they had to rely on the Katana s to solve seventy percent of the battles, why did they need to spend so much money to purchase Western Weapons?

Those who had such thoughts were not small numbers within the Alliance Army, especially the lower level fanatical warriors. They had already suspected Western weaponry greatly in this war, and this skepticism had even caused them to view Sakamoto Ryoma with hostility.

Sakamoto Ryoma was the most important money bag for Curtainfall's power, his sea rescue team had almost never fought a few battles, most of their time was spent on trading, the majority of it was with the Ryukyu.

What they got in return was ships after ships of Gun. However, looking at the weapons which were bought with such a huge sum of money on the battlefield, they did not have as much use as they had imagined, and a sense of dissatisfaction arose in his heart.

But today, when the Dechuan New Army trained by the French stepped onto the battlefield, the new tactics completely overturned their imagination.

The strict shooting discipline ensured that all the firepower was focused. The modern military exercise code quickly turned ordinary citizens into numb parts of the battlefield.

They could march according to the rhythm of the military drum, withstand the rain of bullets, and fire at an extremely close range of fifty meters. They could also coordinate their cannons according to the rhythm of the commander.

In the eyes of these Japanese samurai s, those cannonballs had almost brushed past the heads of the soldiers. Wave after wave of cannonballs sliced open a area of death in the midst of the charging soldiers, and with just one explosion, the high explosive projectile would form thousands of high-speed pieces that would fly everywhere to reap lives.

The explosion cut off the charging crowd, preventing the enemy from forming a continuous stream of attack waves. After that, under the order of the commander, the musket team started to concentrate on firing, eliminating the enemies that were in the front.

After firing twice, the cannons behind them were ready to fire again, followed by another barrage.

Southwest Allied Army had never seen such an efficient way to kill people in her life, all of them could only use their crazier roars to boost her morale. Duck roars were everywhere on the battlefield.

No matter how strong the human body was, it would not be able to withstand the attack of the cannonballs and bullets. The morale of the allied army was on the verge of collapse, and when they saw more reinforcements coming out of the forest, no matter how strong their mental strength was, it would still collapse.

”Enemy reinforcements... Oh my god! ”There's still so many left, the enemy reinforcements aren't even 3000 …”