Many people say that The Japanese samurai sword is so sharp that it can cut iron like mud. In fact, this must be an overstatement. In that year, after Qi Jiguang eliminated the Wukou, he went to Beijing to serve as a garrison in Jizhen. He brought some captured Japanese armor and showed it to the generals of the Northern Frontier Army of the Ming Army. As a result, these generals of the border army said: "It has always been said that thieves are easy to kill, so from this point of view, xiao should be above the enemy now, and now only have ears, if you talk about weapons, it is not one of the ten." ”
This means that the Japanese armor is also too poor, how can this equipment fight? This made the northern frontier generals, who were accustomed to seeing the lock armor and heavy armor, look at the tongue and stop spitting out their tongues. By the time of the Wanli War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and Aid to Korea, the armor of the Japanese army was even worse. Not to mention those foot-light infantry, but the armor of many famous generals is also very simple. For example, Sanada Masayuki's armor is only 9.2 kilograms in total.
Tokugawa Ieyasu's Kanetomi had only 6.2 kilograms of armor, and according to Ming army standards, these Japanese armor did not meet the basic protection standards at all. Japanese armor can only defend against non-lethal blows and stray arrows at best. Qi Jiguang complained that the meaning of the Armor of the Wokou was "expensive and short", which was too short to be fully protected.
In Japan, this armor is at medium distances and can barely block the shotgun flow of low charge fired by light arquebus guns. If it is a heavy arquebusier, neither the Ming armor nor the Japanese armor can stop it. Therefore, Japanese armor is actually enough in Japan.
The standard armor of the Ming Army was between 15 kg and 20 kg, so sometimes even Japanese swords could not split. During the Battle of Bijukan, Ukita Hideyoshi's vassal Guofuyuan Right Guard Gate encountered many of the ming army's most elite Liaodong town ironclad cavalry wearing luxurious armor. Guofuyuan Right Guard Gate took a samurai sword and slashed a Ming army ironclad cavalry three times, but it was actually bounced back three times, and it was also stunned! Shout out to the divine soldiers coming
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Aid to Korea, the elite cavalry of the Ming Army's Liaodong Army fought only 2 major battles, one was the Battle of Biheguan with 3,000 men against 40,000 Japanese troops, and the other was the Battle of Jishan. The 4,000 cavalry of the Ming army, riding the thieves did not reach the line, and they attacked them on a surprise basis, and the thieves walked away in defiance, and there were many dead. He also dispatched guerrilla swings, followed by two thousand horses, and pursued them with four generals, and broke them again. Defeated 5,000 Japanese troops in Kuroda Nagamasa.
In the field battles, the Ming army also won the Battle of Mastiff Tree, the Battle of Che Da, the Battle of Wanfu Temple, the Battle of Houfeng of Xiangxue, the Battle of Nanyuan Nancun, the Battle of Qiuli, the Battle of Liushuiyi, the Battle of Dingjin, and so on.
However, after the middle of the war, the Japanese army began to defend the city, using the advantages of Japanese castles and arquebusiers to defend, and the Ming army did not have many methods. Governor Konishi decided that in front of the castle, which was guarded by a large number of musket troops and had a high wall and deep ditch, the Ming army, which only used firearms such as bows and arrows and low-grade three-eyed rifles, could only look at the city and sigh.
Zhao Shizhen's "Genealogy of Artifacts", volume 1 records: More than 100,000 people and horses were mobilized, and more than 300,000 were attached to the indigenous people of Korea. The Wunu stopped taking the three thousand birds and wrenches of Feiluan Island as the precursor, and the hanging army went deep, sparing no effort to resist our two countries. With the full strength of the two countries, I cannot control the death of the widow. Yan Chi struck forward with an electric shock, calmly reviving the brigade and retreating, not only the chiefs were all the leaders, but also the Wu people felt that there was not much to lose.
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea, the Ming army had an advantage in cavalry clashes, mounted archery and armor, and Japan had an advantage in infantry fighting and arquebusiers. On the battlefield, it depends on how you can play your own strengths.
After the rise of Nurhaci, Li Rumei, the general soldier of Liaodong who participated in the War of Resistance against The Wu Dynasty and Aid Korea, the Li Rubai brothers believed: "This thief has seven thousand elite soldiers, and three thousand people with armor." Seven thousand thieves are enough to be one hundred thousand slaves. Although ten people invaded the territory, they reported to Liaodong and asked for help. Although there are tartars in the northwest, they are not such thieves." That is to say, Nurhaci's cavalry was even more elite than the elite of the Ming army in Liaodong, and its strength exceeded that of the Wukou by 10 times. But no one paid attention to this, and only then did the later Salhu War, the defeat of the light enemy's adventurous advance.