Compared with the old medieval army, the gap between the new modern army and the old medieval army is not only equipment, but more importantly, people's thinking, even if the medieval thinking army is all equipped with modern foreign guns and artillery, if the tactical thinking cannot keep up, it is doomed to failure.

Today's bloody battle of Osaka Castle has proved this, and the 30,000 troops of the Southwest Alliance are the core force of the four feudal clans, of which the number of muskets has reached more than 13,000. However, numbers alone cannot form combat effectiveness, and the thinking of the coalition forces in the whole battle is still stuck in the Middle Ages.

Because it was a siege battle, the musketeers were always a supporting class, and they could only suppress fire outside the city walls, and could not form effective kills at all. The real battle was fought by the samurai and ashigaru.

This was the cunning of the French, who from the very beginning developed a very targeted strategic plan, and without the support of heavy artillery, pure musketeers fought siege warfare, which was not as useful as ordinary samurai and ashigaru.

And due to various reasons, Xiao Letian's heavy weapons to the four feudal clans in the southwest are in a state of embargo, large-caliber artillery, grenades, explosives packs, and Gatling heavy machine guns, these Xiao Lotian will not provide them.

And Western arms dealers have also been warned by Xiao Letian that if they want to place large orders in the Ryukyus in the future, they must follow the rules of the prime minister.

In fact, in the middle of the 19th century, Europeans had the concept of a ban on arms sales for a long time, and the most advanced weapons would not be sold by others.

Because the Austro-Prussian war proved the advanced performance of rear-loading guns, there is now a boom in rifle renewal throughout Europe, and all front-loading guns in the active army and warehouses have been eliminated, but these rifles cannot be thrown away in vain, and as a result, war-torn Asia has become the target of arms dealers.

The Qing Dynasty was preparing to quell the rebellion in the west and the rebellion in Xinjiang, which was a big business that must be grabbed, and the Japanese Shogun Movement also ignited the flames of war, which was also the key goal of the merchants.

But that's all, the only thing that the warlords in Asia can buy from the Europeans now is these obsolete rags, and the real most advanced weapons in Asia can be bought by everyone except Xiao Letian.

The four feudal clans in the southwest have asked Xiao Lotian more than once to purchase artillery, new explosives, and the last time they have to sell some grenades, and the quality of Ryukyu's grenades is well-known.

But due to various political considerations, Xiao Letian refused their request and only provided a lot of rifles.

Without the support of artillery and explosives, siege warfare became extremely difficult, and many times Saigo Takamori even had doubts about Western weapons, since seventy percent of the battles were solved by the spear of the sword, so why spend a huge amount of money to purchase Western weapons?

The number of people with this kind of thinking was not a small number in the coalition forces, especially the low-level fanatical samurai, who had already developed great suspicion of Western weapons in this war, and this suspicion even caused hostility towards Ryoma Sakamoto.

Ryoma Sakamoto was one of the most important pursers of the Shogunate, and his sea aid team barely fought a few battles, and spent most of their time trading, most of them with the Ryukyus.

Japan's gold, silver, local products, and even grain continued to flow into the Ryukyus, in exchange for boatloads of foreign guns, but now seeing that these weapons bought with huge sums of money did not play as great a role on the battlefield as imagined, a wave of dissatisfaction arose.

But today, when the Tokugawa New Army, trained by the French, stepped onto the battlefield, the new tactics completely subverted their imagination, and everyone knew that muskets should be used in this way.

Strict shooting discipline ensured that all firepower was concentrated, and modern military discipline quickly turned ordinary people into numb battlefield parts.

They can march in full rhythm to the rhythm of the snare drum under the rain of bullets, they can shoot at ultra-close range up to 50 meters, and they can also match the infantry and artillery according to the rhythm of the commander.

In the eyes of these Japanese samurai, those shells almost flew over the heads of the soldiers, wave after wave of shells cut the death zone in the crowd of allied charges, and high-explosive shells exploded to form thousands of high-speed fragments, whizzing in all directions, harvesting lives.

The explosion cut off the crowd of people who charged and prevented the enemy from forming a continuous wave of attack, and then the musketeers, under the orders of the commander, began to concentrate their fire to destroy those who rushed to the front.

After two musket salvos, the artillery in the rear was also ready to fire again, followed by another intensive fire.

The Southwest Coalition has never seen such an efficient way of killing people in their lives, and they can only use more crazy roars to boost their morale, and the battlefield is full of ducks giving and loading.

No matter how strong the human body is, it cannot withstand the attack of cannonballs and bullets, and the morale of the coalition forces is on the verge of collapse, and by the time they see more reinforcements from the enemy coming out of the woods, even the most powerful mental strength will collapse.

"Enemy reinforcements...... Oh my God, there are so many, and the enemy's reinforcements are not 3,000 ......."

"Defeated, we defeated, we fell for the scheme, the Tokugawa family is using Osaka Castle as bait to drain our blood, and then let these new troops make up for the last ......"

"Die here, let's break the jade here!"

The chaotic battlefield was filled with desperate roars, and instead of flinching, the soldiers brainwashed by Bushido began to attack even more frantically.

The French commander-in-chief, Sieduo, put down the binoculars and turned his head, Dumatsuna Rongbao said, "Now I already admire you a little, I know that I will definitely lose, but I still have to start a battle, what does that 'jade shatter' mean? Forget it, I'll look for the answer when I go back......"

"Command the artillery, extend the fire, fire to cover the enemy base camp...... Even if it can't be blown up, I'm going to scare them, I don't believe it, the samurai are very powerful, are those big people behind the scenes also powerful?"

Before Xie Wan finished speaking, Matsudaira Rongbao suddenly grabbed his arm, "No, absolutely not...... The Prince of Renhe Palace is in the base camp, and he can't hurt His Royal Highness!"

Xeduo stared at him like a monster, "War! We are at war now, I want victory, I don't care if he is a prince or not...... The artillerymen listened to my orders and fired at the enemy base camp ......"

"No, we are all courtiers of the emperor, and our Tokugawa shogunate is not a rebel, and all we are fighting for is what kind of governing philosophy we should use to govern Japan......

"The four feudal clans in the southwest thought that they would be able to revive Japan by withdrawing from the emperor, but we don't think so, the Tokugawa shogunate's 200 years of rule has accumulated enough experience, and the reform should be proposed by the shogunate to be more enforceable!"

"We started the war, in fact, to avoid a bigger war, if the coalition forces win, then our Japan will really fall into a civil war, the daimyo who supported the shogunate and the southwestern feudal lords will definitely not die, God knows how many years the civil war will be fought!"

Schedan is a purely professional soldier, he does not understand the complex political philosophy of the East, what bullshit is to start war to avoid war, what kind of bullshit truth is this?

"I'm sorry, I'm a professional soldier, I'm not a politician, I don't understand these words...... Open fire!"

At the sound of an order, the twelve guns raised the elevation angle, and the ballistic curve was quickly calculated under the measurement of the gunner, and then the muzzle of the guns sprayed white smoke and flames, and the twelve high-explosive shells went straight to the camp.

It's not that the Japanese soldiers have never seen artillery, but they really didn't expect that the rifled gun actually had a much longer range than the smoothbore gun, and the battalion that they thought was as stable as Mount Tai suddenly rose black smoke.

For a while, the whole camp was in chaos, and the prince of Renhegong collapsed on the ground in horror, and he saw with his own eyes that the waists of several soldiers at the gate of the camp were blown up, and their internal organs flowed all over the ground.

"Let's go...... Get out of here...... "The prince screamed, and fled with his attendant.

This was the straw that broke the camel's back, and the spirit of bushido has never been afraid of death, but death must be valuable. The banner of the four feudal clans in the southwest is to honor the king, and the emperor is their banner.

And His Royal Highness the Prince is the representative of the Emperor, the Imperial Banner was brought by him, and the 30,000 allied troops are fighting for the Emperor, but no one thought that everyone was shouting for the jade to die, why did the Prince be the first to escape?

The base camp was too far away from the artillery position of the Tokugawa New Army, and the shells were no longer accurate here, but they exploded a few rounds in the open space at the entrance of the camp, and a total of more than a dozen people died, but for the prince, who had always been pampered, the scene was already like hell.

The royal family and ministers who have been captive by the martial arts for hundreds of years have long been bloodless, don't look at what they say is very beautiful and atmospheric, they all sacrifice their lives and forget their lives like warriors, but when they really get to the battlefield, they are just pretending to be in the base camp.

But now the prince of Renhegong couldn't even pretend, and a few shells frightened him, and the enemy was four or five miles away from him, so he actually fled.

A sense of sadness welled up in the hearts of those present, is this the imperial family to whom they are to be allegiated? We have already died tens of thousands of people for the emperor, but in the end the imperial family was the first to flee.

"Damn, our lives are not blown by the wind, we are also the living people born and raised by our parents, why should we die in vain? Let's go, I won't do it......"

There is such a thing as running away, there will be a second one, and when the first Ashigaru chooses to turn around and flee the battlefield, fear spreads like a virus.

One becomes two, and two becomes four...... In the end, thousands of soldiers chose to retreat, and the morale of the Southwest Coalition Army completely collapsed at this moment.