The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 148: The Trainer and the Battle of the Falklands
Tian Yiming stayed at the reception office of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Wuwangdu Cultural Department for two days. On the third day, he received a notice from the Military Affairs Department to report to the military camp outside the city.

Tian Yiming immediately took eight warriors and followed the officials from the Military Affairs Department, and was led to meet an officer in his thirties.

The military affairs officer introduced the two parties:
"Hello, Commander Liu. This is the grandson of the chief eunuch of Japan. He came to train under the king and was given the name Tian Yiming by the king.

"This is the commander of the First Brigade of the Japanese First Army Training Division, Brigade Commander Liu Biao Liu.

“Captain Tian Yiming, you are now directly under the jurisdiction of Brigadier General Liu.

"Brigade Commander Liu will take you to Java and assign you a practical position in the future."

Tian Yiming could already speak some of the elegant language of the Ming Dynasty, and he spent a month cramming on the way to the State of Wu. Now he can barely communicate in the elegant language of the Ming Dynasty.

After hearing the introduction, Tian Yiming immediately bowed and saluted:
"Your subordinate Tian Yiming pays homage to His Excellency the Brigade Commander!"

Liu Biao was one of the earliest officers of the Wu State and a member of the earliest Australian coast exploration team.

When exploring the Australian coastline, Liu Biao was still a company commander of the seventh rank.

After deciding to join the Australian Central Guard Corps of the Wu State, he was directly promoted two levels to become a battalion commander of the sixth rank.

After arriving in Australia, he reported the discovery of gold mines in the southern bay of Australia and was rewarded by Zhu Jianxuan, with his rank upgraded from fifth grade.

Afterwards, he was ordered by Cao Zhendong to explore the great basins and prairies in the Australian interior and was promoted to the rank of fifth-rank regiment commander.

During his years of service in Australia, he accumulated experience and was promoted to the rank of deputy brigade commander of the fourth rank.

This year, Zhu Jianxuan selected veterans and officers from the royal capital garrison to form a special training division to manage and train the samurai recruited from Japan.

When Liu Biao signed up and was selected into the training division, his years of service and merits were calculated, and he was incorporated into the training division as a brigade commander of the fourth rank.

The comprehensive development and exploration of the Wu State created a large number of new opportunities and new official positions.

In addition to Liu Biao's own encounters and contributions, it only took him six years to be promoted from a seventh-rank company commander to a fourth-rank brigade commander.

After completing the training of the Japanese Samurai Corps, there is a high probability that he will be promoted at least one level, at least to the level of deputy division commander.

Liu Biao can be said to be a representative of the new generation who quickly completed class leap in the wave of development and construction in Australia.

Liu Biao was in high spirits. He looked the half-grown child in front of him up and down, and warned him in a nonchalant way while encouraging him:

“I heard that you are the grandson of the Prime Minister of Japan, but in the army of His Royal Highness Prince Wu of the Ming Dynasty, they don’t care about your foreign origins.

"You are just an ordinary company commander in my place. I will treat you as an ordinary company commander. Don't have any complaints, otherwise you will be punished by military law!
"Don't be discouraged. You have made great contributions in the army of His Royal Highness King Wu. When you return to Japan in the future, your resume will naturally stand out from the crowd.

"It may not be impossible for you to take over your grandfather's job and continue to be Japan's Prime Minister."

Liu Biao said that he didn't care about Tian Yiming's background, but in fact Tian Yiming had already been specially arranged, otherwise Liu Biao would not need to directly manage him.

Tian Yiming did not have any complaints or opinions, and answered directly and forcefully:

"My subordinate understands!"

Liu Biao was quite satisfied with Tian Yiming's reaction. He completed the handover procedures with the officials of the Military Affairs Department and officially took Tian Yiming under his command.

After Liu Biao sent the officials from the Military Affairs Department away, he turned around and arranged for Tian Yiming to stay in the military camp.

Tian Yi stayed in the training division camp for two days, and on the third day he received the order to assemble and board the ship.

Tian Yiming has heard the title of coach many times in the past two days and is very curious about this name.

When he saw Liu Biao again on board, Tian Yiming couldn't help but ask:
"Excuse me, Brigade Commander, what is the mission of our training division?"

Liu Biao casually explained:
"I am a training division commander, but you are not one yet. The training division commander's task, as the name implies, is to teach and train the soldiers. The ones to be taught and trained are all you new recruits from Japan."

Tian Yiming said subconsciously:

"Our new recruits from Japan are all samurai. They have been trained in fighting and killing enemies since childhood, so they should not need special training."

Liu Biao laughed dryly and said:
“The fighting skills used in personal combat are not comparable to the ability to kill the enemy on the battlefield today.

“You so-called warriors, although your personal bravery is certainly stronger than that of ordinary farmers, but from the perspective of the army, you are still a group of rabble.

"Now we can only fight when the wind is favorable and bully the most useless savages.

"Before you actually go to the battlefield, you must train hard. Otherwise, let alone fight for His Royal Highness the King of Wu, it would be good enough if you don't hold us back on the battlefield."

Tian Yiming didn’t quite understand these things, but he didn’t dare to ask any more questions and just followed Liu Biao onto the boat obediently.

Cao Zhendong, Liu Biao's former boss, was appointed by Zhu Jianxuan as the admiral of the Red Sea Operation Navy, leading the Wu Navy fleet to escort the training division to Java Island.

On December 15, the 38th year of Xianning, the large fleets of the Ming Front Army Governor's Office and the Right Army Governor's Office returned with 50,000 Japanese and reunited with the Wu fleet on Java Island.

The fleet responsible for transporting 10,000 young Japanese women separated from the main fleet here and headed for the capital of King Wu on the Australian continent.

The Wu fleet transporting the training instructors was incorporated into the larger fleet and then sailed southwest across the Indian Ocean.

Two months later, they arrived at Damingmadaodusi, which is Madagascar Island.

The Falkland Islands Command was directly under the jurisdiction of the Right Military Governor's Office of the Ming central court, and was directly established by the Ming Crown Prince who was responsible for recruiting immigrants.

After four years of continuous immigration and development, more than 200,000 immigrants have now gathered and are organized into five guards in total.

The total area of ​​the Falkland Islands is 580,000 square kilometers, making it the fourth largest island in the world.

More than two-thirds of the island's area is now controlled by Ming immigrants, and a large amount of farmland has been reclaimed.

Temporary supplies are now able to be provided to tens of thousands of people.

Wu Guolai's 10,000 training division members were combined with 40,000 Japanese samurai and young and strong men to form five Japanese recruit divisions, which were collectively called a recruit army.

After the large fleet docked at the Falkland Islands, five divisions of recruits were sent to the jurisdiction of five guards and began a three-month training.

Ten thousand veterans and officers, including Liu Biao, showed extreme ferocity and trained the Japanese recruits, including Tian Yiming.

They were taught basic Chinese commands, and then began to be trained to obey orders, march in step, form battle lines, and practice bayonet fighting.

In the era of line infantry, emphasis was not placed on the individual initiative of soldiers, but rather on obedience.

Soldiers should be made to feel that officers are more terrifying than the enemy.

He would rather fight with the enemy and be beaten to death than be beaten half to death by officers.

This training method is high in intensity, but actually less complex. Veterans and officers with a little experience know how to teach new recruits.

Once all the soldiers are trained like machines, we will basically be successful.

After the 10,000 officers of the Ming Dynasty Training Division had trained 40,000 Japanese recruits to the point of mental numbness, they arranged their first actual combat test for them.

The five divisions acted separately, responsible for completely destroying the indigenous forces on the Falkland Islands and completely controlling the entire island.

The First Division, where Liu Biao was located, was assigned the most important task, which was to destroy the Merina Kingdom, the most civilized country on the island.

The Merina Kingdom was first formed in the mid-sixteenth century, and they established a relatively mature feudal state on the cool plateau in the central part of the island.

By the early 18th century, the kingdom controlled tens of thousands of square kilometers of land in the island's interior.

In their original history, they began a major split in the early eighteenth century that lasted for nearly a hundred years.

Then it should be unified again at the end of the eighteenth century, that is, within the next decade.

The reunified Merina Kingdom would gradually unify most of the land on the island of Madagascar until it was completely annexed by France at the end of the 19th century.

The Merina Kingdom had the legacy of Austronesian culture and was also influenced by long-term Arab and European cultures.

They eventually established the Merina Kingdom, which was the most civilized country in all of sub-Saharan Africa.

Among the several vassal states that split from the kingdom, the strongest one now is called Ambohimanga.

It was going to unify the whole of Merina and even the whole of Madagascar.

The kingdom is now in a period of growth with great cohesion.

The army also does a good job of enforcing orders and the army has a strong will to fight.

But compared with Shenzhou and Europe, they are still just a relatively high-quality civilization, and their feudal system is not very perfect.

Weapons and equipment were also quite backward, and cold weapons were still used extensively, including spears, swords, bows and arrows.

Less than half of the troops had matchlock muskets, which were obtained in exchange with Arabs, Portuguese and French who came to the island to trade.

Such an enemy with a stronger fighting will and slightly more advanced armaments and systems can help the recruits adapt to the battlefield.

Liu Biao led his troops upstream along the Bezibuka River and approached the old capital of the Merina Kingdom, Antananarivo.

Rambo Asarama, a prince of the Ambohimanga Kingdom, one of the four kingdoms that were split from the Merina Kingdom.

He was supposed to reunite the old kingdom in the future and lay the foundation for unifying the entire island. He was definitely considered a great leader on the island. He had realized the threat of Ming immigrants a few years ago, and when Ming began to attack the natives on the island, he called on the divided kingdoms to unite and protect themselves.

He united most of the power of the divided kingdom earlier than in history.

He eventually gathered more than five thousand warriors and faced the Ming army outside the old capital of Antananarivo.

Liu Biao held a telescope and observed the enemies on the other side of the battlefield. He said to his chief of staff with emotion:
"These island barbarians are very courageous. They are able to organize themselves and dare to continue to face our attack..."

The Chief of Staff's focus was elsewhere:

“I always find it very strange that the Falkland Islands are right next to southeastern Africa, and the natives in southern Africa are all black slaves.

“And the natives in the coastal areas of the Falkland Islands are mostly black slaves.

“But the people on this inland plateau are actually very similar to the island barbarians in Southeast Asia, and they are much more difficult to defeat than the black slaves on the edge of the Falkland Islands.

"If they are really descendants of the island barbarians, how did they get here from the South Seas?"

Liu Biao couldn't help but smile and shook his head:
"We should have gotten used to it a long time ago. The South Sea islanders are really all over the ocean.

“They can go to Yingzhou and the Baiyun Islands, so it’s not surprising to see them on the Falkland Islands.

“But since they are island barbarians, according to the tradition after Chongzhen, they can be registered as ordinary citizens, right?
"Since they won't surrender, a lot of people will die if we fight now."

The Chief of Staff answered the question casually:

“Yes, the island barbarians ‘can’ be registered as citizens, but they are not required to be registered as citizens.

"If they continue to resist and cannot be educated, we can only eliminate them."

Liu Biao nodded slightly, looked at his troops, and saw that the formation had been fully deployed, so he waved his hand and gave the order to prepare.

The sound of military drums and bugles immediately followed, which were orders for the troops to advance.

Although the target was only the natives, they were quite difficult to deal with, and there were often soldiers who were fearless and unafraid of death.

Liu Biao and his officers were now quite cautious and had carefully organized a very formal line of troops.

Liu Biao knew that this would probably be the last battle on the island and he wanted to end it as beautifully as possible.

He divided the infantry into two lines, each with three rows of infantry. The two lines were fifty meters apart and had a horizontal length of more than two hundred meters.

Many soldiers who went to the battlefield for the first time were so nervous that they were shaking all over, or their bodies were so stiff that they had difficulty walking.

But after three months of intensive training, all the movements have become instinctive.

They marched forward in unison, holding their muskets in stiff hands, and the entire line of troops continued to advance to the rhythm of the war drums.

There was a slight disturbance in the army of the Kingdom of Merina.

As if in response to the sounds made by the Ming army, they also blew their own trumpets, and many soldiers howled strangely at the top of their lungs.

The tense soldiers ignored the enemy's reaction and continued to advance to the rhythm of drums and bugles.

The artillery on both sides of the line and the skirmishers using rifled guns began to move at this time.

The order to ignite was shouted out by the messenger, and the dull sound of artillery firing was heard immediately.

Strings of solid shells whizzed across the battlefield, most of them hitting the flanks of the Merina Kingdom's army.

There were only a dozen or so unlucky people who were directly blown to pieces by the shells.

But the shells had a very good intimidating effect. Several soldiers were frightened and fled, and their original courage seemed to have suddenly disappeared.

Upon seeing this, Rambo Asarama immediately gave an order, asking the supervising officer to stab the deserter to death, thus stabilizing the team again.

Then he looked at the situation on the battlefield, and after a very brief consideration, he raised his head and let out a long roar, ordering the soldiers to take the initiative to charge.

The new recruits under Liu Biao were completely unmoved and continued to advance according to the habits formed during training. Artillery and rifled guns continued to bombard the troops of the Merina Kingdom.

The musketeers of the Merina Kingdom seemed to have lost control and opened fire when the two sides were nearly two hundred meters apart.

The smoothbore gun has limited accuracy and power at this distance.

After a round of gunfire, all the Ming soldiers were unharmed and not a single soldier was hit.

At the same time, Liu Biao observed that the enemy had teams of archers and javelin throwers. Considering that his side was the attacking side with absolute advantage in firepower, there was no need to exchange casualty rate for hit rate.

Besides, these soldiers are still recruits after all. If they are really asked to wait until they are 20 or 30 meters away before shooting, they may collapse before the order to shoot is given.

So when the infantry was just within a hundred meters, Liu Biao directly waved the command flag and issued an order to fire in turns.

Tian Yiming, who had become the official company commander, saw the flag signal and yelled at his soldiers reflexively:

"Loop shooting! Loop shooting!"

The crackling sound of musket firing immediately rang out, and gray black powder smoke quickly enveloped the battlefield.

The soldiers who were charging roaring fell down one after another with screams.

Under the roar and encouragement of Prince Rambo Asarama, the ranks of the Merina Kingdom became chaotic, but they were still able to move forward.

After the soldiers of the first line of the Ming Dynasty fired two consecutive rounds of gunfire, the distance between the two sides was only fifty meters.

King Rambo Asarama observed the situation and ordered the javelin throwers to start throwing.

The kingdom's soldiers immediately prepared to throw their spears, but the battlefield was filled with smoke and they could not see where the enemy was.

They could only throw their guns into the smoke in a mess.

There were sporadic casualties among the Ming soldiers on the march, and many recruits screamed subconsciously as they watched their companions fall.

But they immediately heard the officers' roar:
"Go forward, keep going forward. If you stop, you will die. Everyone will die. Only by moving forward can you win and have a chance to survive."

The soldiers, who had been trained to have conditioned reflexes, restored order and continued to shoot in an orderly manner.

A large number of soldiers from the Merina Kingdom have fallen.

As the distance between the two sides got closer, the hit rate of the muskets became higher and higher, and the death rate of soldiers from the Merina Kingdom also became higher and higher.

Their speed in running forward was getting slower and slower.

The Ming infantry fired another round of shots, and the distance between the two sides was only more than 20 meters.

Liu Biao waved the flag again, and the rhythm of the war drums and bugles immediately became extremely exciting.

The soldiers who had finished reloading fired a final volley.

Merina soldiers fell one after another, losing at least one third of their forces at once, and the remaining soldiers were on the verge of collapse.

They couldn't even touch their opponents, but they had already started to fall to the ground one after another. This was not a fair fight at all.

After the last round of shooting by the Ming infantry was over, Tian Yiming and other officers immediately began to yell:
"Bayonets! Charge!"

The soldiers' ruthlessness, which had been suppressed for a long time, was finally fully released.

They raised their muskets with bayonets and rushed towards the enemy who was no longer able to resist, roaring.

When the roar of the charge sounded, the morale of the remaining Merina soldiers finally collapsed completely, and they no longer paid attention to the intimidation and orders of their officers.

Some of them ran away screaming like crazy, while others simply knelt on the ground waiting to die.

Only a very few continued to charge forward numbly.

The new recruits in the front row chased after them with bayonets pointed, stabbing to death the few enemy soldiers who continued to charge, and then captured the enemy soldiers who fell to the ground and were waiting to die.

As for the enemy troops who began to flee, they were handed over to the bicycle infantry waiting at the edge of the battlefield.

They all carried revolvers.

Liu Biao looked at the battlefield through a telescope and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene:

"The battle is over. These new recruits have passed the test and can now try to fight against serious opponents."

The result was just as Liu Biao had judged, the final battle in the Falkland Islands was over.

The last warriors of the Merina Kingdom were completely defeated by the Japanese recruit division organized by the Ming Dynasty, and their last courage was completely wiped out.

Of the last five thousand Merina warriors, nearly two thousand were killed directly on the battlefield.

In the subsequent pursuit and annihilation process, more than two thousand people were killed, and more than one thousand prisoners were captured inside and outside the battlefield.

Prince Rambo Asarama was also captured by the soldiers and sent to the Ming officers led by Liu Biao.

(End of this chapter)