At the Tanegashima Daredevils Training Base, a brigade of newly trained Daredevils is ready for battle and ready to be deployed at any time. Two days later, the troops will be incorporated into the first detachment of the Southern Corps of the Japanese Campaign Command and land on the island of Kyushu by ship. They were joined by two brigades of the Overseas Corps, as well as a large number of combat logistical support units.

There is a relatively big gap between the equipment of the newly trained daredevils and the old daredevils of the Central Military Commission. Most of them are armed with only one katana, and a small number of samurai who are good at using iron cannons will be equipped with an additional front-loading rifled fire cap gun. The samurai of the Death Army, armed with muskets, made up only 30% of the troops.

But there is not much water in the protective gear, the same steel helmet, grimace mask and chest armor, but the clothes and equipment are the same grade as the Outer Northeast Indigenous Militia, and the worst kind among the troops of the Far Eastern Army.

These hastily newly trained death army units are mainly assault troops, and to put it bluntly, they are cannon fodder. After all, in the future, the company will train a large number of daring troops as the main force of the Military Commission in foreign wars in the future.

In addition to the upcoming Japanese campaign, in the future, they will also be the main ground assault force of the Military Commission in the Indochina Peninsula, the New Guinea Islands, Australia, and even Africa, the Americas, and other regions.

The first batch of daredevils in the Far East, that is, the daredevils united by Fujita, and the samurai of the independent daredevils brigade formed in the later period, all belong to the traditional Japanese samurai with family heritage, superb swordsmanship, and brave combat, as long as they are loyal to the main family, they will start from the beginning.

However, as the company launched the Japanese campaign in advance, the company could only train a group of daredevils in a short period of time. So the origins of the wandering samurai recruited from all over Japan are much more complicated.

After Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan entered into a temporary peace. As a result, the number of wandering samurai in Japan increased dramatically, and because of the peace of Japan, they were useless. Originally, they only knew a group of people who went to the battlefield to fight. Now that there is no income, even life has become a problem, a few have risen again or become a generation of wealthy merchants, and most of them have become thieves or wild samurai who endanger one party.

The samurai of the Far Eastern New Training were mainly wandering samurai from all over Japan. They came from a variety of sources, including landless peasants, deserters, routs, defeated soldiers, exiled samurai, samurai who lost their lords, samurai who were destroyed by the country, samurai who broke away from the feudal domain, and even daimyo in Shimono.

Many were originally just farmers. But he also held a katana, and made it look like that, swaggering around. In fact, it is a group of people who have no income, no job, and no fixed residence, or it is more appropriate to call them homeless.

There are not many truly traditional samurai among them, and most of them are not national warriors, big men, righteous thieves, renxia, or heroes, but later generations have romantically beautified them according to literary works, and as a result, these people have been portrayed as rangers.

Fortunately, the quality of the soldiers in several veteran units of the Military Commission is very good. It can also support the skeleton of a huge number of newly trained death troops. A large number of cadres and non-commissioned officers of the veteran Death Army units have been transferred from the old Death Army units to the Tanegashima Death Army Training Base. In a few months, two brigades of the Death Army were trained, with a total of more than 20,000 people.

Although the quality of these Japanese vagabond warriors was relatively average, and there were many people who were confused, the Military Commission didn't care so much, and all of them were sent to the base and began an extremely cruel intensive training.

Faced with such a situation. The Military Commission had no choice but to issue a strict order to the instructors, that is, to train to the death. Not only is the amount of training extremely large, but the discipline is also extremely strict, as long as the person who dares to disobey is a word "kill"!

As a result, over the course of a few months, more than a thousand wandering samurai lost their heads, and hundreds more were trained by cruel amounts. Exhausted to death. Tanegashima Daredevil's Training Base has also had the reputation of "Death Base".

Despite this, the brutal training and strict discipline also played a role in removing the chaff and removing the mud from this group of wandering samurai. All of them were cleared out of the team, although the process was a little cruel, but at this time, who cares.

In the following years, the Tanegashima Daredevils Training Base trained more than 100,000 Daredevils. The mortality rate is said to be one in tenth. Although many people died in the brutal training in the "Death Base", the vast majority of the wandering samurai who came here, and even many Ashigaru and peasants who used it to make up the numbers, were still trained.

There are two main reasons for this, one is that Japan's centuries-old "family-oriented" social structure has allowed all kinds of occupations such as samurai, priests, craftsmen, merchants, and peasants to be hereditary, and the rigidity and fixation of social hierarchy is not only unseen in Chinese dynasties, but also beyond the reach of the European Middle Ages.

In other words, if you are a farmer, then you and your descendants can only be hard-pressed farmers for generations. It has been passed down from generation to generation, and there is no day for it to emerge, so that the Japanese are accustomed to obeying and accepting their fate to this day. So the character is also more tenacious.

There is another reason, that is, in Japan at this time, the level of agricultural production is low, the country is still a mountainous environment, there is not much arable land, and the grain output is so small that it is not even enough to feed the whole country.

In Japan in this era, the tax specification of the six public and four people, that is, 60% of the grain output goes to the government and 40% goes to itself, which is not counting the landlord's share of rent. Sometimes, ruthless lords would set the tax at seven dukes and three people, or even eight dukes and two people. If it were in China, there would have been smoke everywhere and displaced people would have risen everywhere. But in Japan, it has been the norm for more than a thousand years.

In ancient times, the Japanese formed the habit of eating only two meals a day, breakfast and lunch, and they had to work from morning to afternoon, so they must eat to maintain their physical strength, and the evening was the time to rest, and at that time people did not have much entertainment, as long as they went to bed early, they would not be hungry, so they could save food for a meal. This custom was observed not only by the peasants, but also by the emperor and the samurai, and it became an unwritten rule throughout the country, and the custom of skipping dinner was enforced throughout the country.

During the Warring States period, the Japanese faithfully enforced the Zen mantra of "not eating in vain", and they rarely ate outside of the main meal, and of course they were not in a position to eat. Even if you have money, you can only eat enough fish for one meal, and the real high-end fish and big fish are only eaten at weddings and celebrations such as the New Year.

And the Tanegashima Death Army Training Base, although the food standard is already the lowest level in the Far Eastern Army, but for these hard-pressed homeless samurai who can't eat all year round, it is really too happy. (To be continued......)

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