Chapter 1501: If you make a mistake, you must atone for it(2/2)
"Your Majesty, I can only agree with part of what you said.
I am in awe of you and know that the island country has a large population.
But this volcanic island is covered with hills and plains divided into fragments, so it is naturally not suitable for organizing large-scale human resources.
No matter how large the population is, if it cannot be organized effectively, it will have no military value.
With all due respect, your method of war is too backward.
A battle of several hundred people in several villages can determine the fate of several families. A battle of several thousand people in several towns can determine the rise or fall of a political power.
This is true for the island country, and so is my hometown, but war and war are different.
In my opinion, the local armed nobles who fight against each other on the island country are just a bunch of mobs.
I am not accusing them of not being skilled enough in martial arts, but that they lack military organization and are far inferior to my hometown."
Yiyin looked at Christina and said coldly.
"Southern barbarian, you must take responsibility for what you say."
Christina said seriously.
"Your Excellency, of course I will take responsibility for my words.
The foundation of military organization is logistics. You just said that you are about to face a major battle involving 200,000 people. So, how do you solve the logistics problem of 200,000 people?"
Yiyin was stunned for a moment.
"Of course we have our own ways."
Christina smiled slightly, quite disdainfully.
"Yes, you have your own methods. I have studied your fighting methods in Kyushu.
The battle between two villages relied on the soldiers to carry dry food with them. The distance between the two villages would have farmers participating in labor to prepare military rations for about ten days.
So, if the battlefield is more than a thousand miles away and involves 100,000 logistical supplies, how are you going to solve it?
The difference between a regular army and a ragtag army does not lie in the personal qualities of the soldiers, but in whether they can be effectively organized to fight without worries. This is logistics.
Your Excellency, your army has no real logistics at all. You cannot organize an expedition of thousands of miles and a war of hundreds of thousands of people. Your war methods are extremely backward.
In a battle involving 200,000 people, only tens of thousands of people may actually be able to gather to participate in the battle. Most of the people may be marching, resting, or watching, but they definitely did not participate."
Christina's statement made Yiyin unable to refute.
He can emphasize the island country's population and its potential, but he also knows in his heart what kind of bad war the Wu family fought.
Two thousand years ago, the Chinese Empire was able to organize an expedition of tens of thousands of people to the Mobei and Western Regions. This was because the civil service system under the centralized power system of the Chinese Empire was planning, supporting logistics, and playing a role.
After the beginning of the Age of Discovery, Europe was forced to learn lessons from one voyage after another and pay more and more attention to the power of logistics.
As for the island country? The emperor's court has never had a real civil service system, and the political form of the samurai shogunate cannot have the concept of overall planning.
During the war with the Yuan Dynasty, the Kamakura shogunate was just waiting for the Yuan army to come ashore. Even so, the economy was dragged down and the Kamakura shogunate collapsed.
The Ashikaga Shogunate was even worse. The Ashikaga shogun, co-leader of the samurai family, had never truly centralized power. The concept of territory became increasingly fragmented, and the scale of the war also became fragmented.
Even in the large-scale melee in Kanto and Kansai like the Yatsudai Shogun Rebellion, the samurai from various places were divided into two factions and fought in a small area, and large-scale joint battles rarely broke out.
The example of the island nation traveling thousands of miles and gathering hundreds of thousands of people to fight can be traced back to the time when the Kitahata Ken family moved south from Oshu to the King of Kin, and Ashikaga Takauji fled to Kyushu to make a comeback in the Western Kingdom.
After that, the scale of the Wu family's wars gradually became smaller and smaller. As Christina said, the rabble, the fragmented territory, and the weak logistics were unable to fight a real big war.
Warrior Ji is highly skilled in martial arts, brave and good at fighting. In small-scale battles, he can easily gain the upper hand, making the Japanese pirates a headache for the entire empire.
But if the Wu family really confronts the Celestial Empire, and both sides gather hundreds of thousands of people for war, logistics alone can bring down the Wu family regime.
With the civil service system of the Chinese dynasty supporting logistical support, and the military attache system supporting corps operations, even if the military family could compete for a while, they would not be able to win the war.
This is because the Wu family has no logistical experience with expeditions involving more than 100,000 people, and is extremely lacking in combat experience with large corps of tens of thousands of people.
Swinging a knife in front of your home is not the same thing as leading a team to go out to kill someone.
Christina despised the Wu family as a mob, and these words really hit the Wu family's weakness. Yiyin was speechless, and Christina could not be aggressive.
After all, her goal is to prove her worth and save the lives of Lilu and herself. She does not want to deliberately anger Yiyin and drag them out to behead them.
Seeing that Yiyin was touched, Christina immediately changed the topic and started to talk softly.
"Your Excellency, I do not want to belittle your heroic subordinates, but I hope you can give me a chance to serve you to repay the mistakes I made today.
Killing us will only allow you to vent your temporary anger. But keeping us will give you more benefits.
I am willing to command the artillery in this subsequent battle and provide some military advice to serve your victory."
Yiyin glanced at Christina. She had just experienced a sexual intercourse. She looked exhausted at this time, and her wet red hair was stuck to her forehead, which looked very sexy.
Under this enchantment, the embers began to rekindle in Yiyin's heart. He secretly complained that killing you would not necessarily vent his anger, but not killing you would still vent his anger.
In fact, Yiyin had no intention of killing the two of them from the beginning. His target was the four cannons on their ship.
Being ruthless and ruthless, seizing cannons and killing people is not Yi Yin's style. He is very compassionate.
At this moment, Christina's self-rescue made Yiyin see their new value, and naturally she was even more reluctant to part with them.
Since Christina sincerely wanted to atone for her sins, Yiyin was naturally happy to accept it. As for her hint in her words that she would only help this war, Yiyin didn't care.
Chapter completed!