5 years is not long or short, but it is enough to change many things. Like what...... The composition of the troops of the Oda family. In the past, the vast majority of the army consisted of a large number of pikemen, archers, and a small number of muskets and cavalry, with few other arms.

This is not because they will only use these arms, after all, since ancient times, Japan has never given up absorbing all kinds of knowledge and technology from the Central Plains Dynasty. Even if there really isn't, it's impossible not to know.

The reason why this is the case is simply because these four classes are the easiest for them to get their hands on. After all, for the vast majority of forces, their money is simply not enough to support the need to equip a large number of troops, which is why the Oda family is almost invincible in the later wars.

And now, after the Oda family is under the same world, Oda Nobunaga naturally does not intend to continue to let those peasant soldiers or so-called reserve military service exist. Moreover, Oda Nobunaga not only converted all of his troops into standing forces, but also carried out a thorough armament reform.

First of all, it is the musket, a cross-era weapon, and at the prompting of Oda Yoshinobu, Charlie and Shigehide Suzuki finally invented the flintlock pistol. Well, in fact, Oda Yoshinobu didn't hint at anything, because he didn't understand the manufacturing principle of the musket, and the only thing he said was that he suggested that Charlie, Suzuki Shigehide and others study it to see if they could change the firing mechanism of the arquebus to flint, and at the same time roughly explained what he had in his impression that the flintlock pistol should be.

To put it simply, it is, "When the trigger is pulled, the flint can be struck to create a spark and ignite the gunpowder in the musket, while the ammunition is filled through the rear of the musket." ”

Unfortunately, the rearloading ammunition has been temporarily stranded because Charlie and Shigehide Suzuki have not been able to solve the sealing problem, but even if it is just to upgrade the arquebus to a flintlock pistol, it is already a very big improvement for the musket. After researching this, Oda Nobunaga immediately ordered a large number of flintlock pistols to be made in large quantities to equip the troops. And threw the replaced arquebus to Oda Yoshinobu and asked him to find a way to deal with it.

And Oda Yoshinobu's way of dealing with it was to sell this batch of arquebuses to the Ming Kingdom. Speaking of which, the firearms of the Ming Kingdom are not bad, and the Ming Kingdom is also constantly manufacturing firearms such as the Furlong machine gun. But even so, for the batch of arquebuses with tens of thousands of dollars sold by Oda Yoshinobu, Ming Guo still bought it.

On the one hand, it was because at this time the Ming Kingdom and Japan or the Oda family were in the honeymoon period, and neither Zhang Juzheng nor other ministers of the DPRK and China wanted to make trouble with Japan for such a trivial matter. On the other hand, it was also because the northern barbarians at the border gate began to try to invade the border pass again, and it was the time when a large number of weapons were needed. And this batch of arquebuses is at least as powerful as the firearms of the Ming Kingdom, and they are ready-made.

As for whether such a large number of arquebuses would give Ming Guo any ideas...... Unfortunately, not at all. The reason is also very simple, since Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, the Ming Kingdom also attached great importance to the development of firearms, perhaps not like Oda Nobunaga because of his firm belief that firearms must be the mainstream of future wars, and then invested a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources in the research and development, improvement, and manufacturing of firearms. But...... I can't suppress the vast land of the Ming Kingdom.

Even if it is just a little bit from between the teeth, it is enough to develop firearms into a very terrifying scale, just like today's Ming Kingdom, although the technology of arquebuses is inferior to Japan, and even artillery Ming Kingdom cannot be made, but the types of firearms in Ming Kingdom completely kill most countries in the world.

In addition, there is a very interesting thing, in the 37th year of Jiajing, that is, in 1558, through the study of the arquebuses seized from the Japanese invaders, in this year alone, the Ming Kingdom imitated 10,000 arquebuses. The so-called land is vast and abundant, you must know that when Oda Nobunaga improved the manufacture of arquebuses, it was already very powerful to be able to make dozens of them a month.

In addition to flintlock pistols, the Oda family's research on artillery has never been pulled down. The light cannon is the result of the improvement of the Oda family, although strictly speaking, it is very similar to the tiger squat cannon of the Ming Kingdom. The biggest feature of this kind of artillery is that it is light, but the weight of 5 or 60 catties allows it to be carried directly by only two people.

Although it is inferior in power and range compared to shipborne cannons, as long as the muzzle of the gun is tilted up with a special vehicle, it can reach a range of hundreds of meters by means of projectile fire. It can be said that when this kind of light cannon is developed, many siege equipment that was already on the agenda will completely go into history.

In addition, warships were manufactured on a large scale, and armor was constantly improved. At the same time, the pikemen Oda Nobunaga did not give up, although the musket was enough to fight with any class of troops after having a bayonet, but under the experiments of Mikatahara and other battles, both Oda Nobunaga and Oda Yoshinobu were helpless to find that although the appearance of the bayonet could give the musketeers the ability to fight in close combat, it could not replace the pikes at all.

Not that the bayonet is not powerful, but because ...... The cost is too high! After all, even if Oda Nobunaga tried to reduce the cost of a musket in various ways, the power of a musket was far greater than that of a spear. Melee combat, on the other hand, is very easy to damage the barrel.

In addition, the number of standing units has become more and more numerous over time, and it can be said that after five years, the combat effectiveness of the Oda family's troops is no longer comparable to that of five years ago. It can be said that if the Mikatahara or Tetorigawa battles were to be fought again, the Oda family would be able to easily defeat the forces of the Takeda and Uesugi families even without Oda Yoshinobu. It has nothing to do with tactics, it is just a simple crushing of equipment and the combat effectiveness of the troops.

All this was caused by Oda Nobunaga's tilting of most of his financial, material, and manpower resources towards the troops. Strictly speaking, it was the Oda family, which was already a very powerful force in the economy, and a large amount of money obtained from all sides after the unification of the world, to be able to support such a large expenditure. If it is replaced by other forces, it is like the historical Hashiba Hideyoshi, although he seems to be rich in the world, but in the first 5 years of reunification, there was not much change.

However, strictly speaking, Hashiba Hideyoshi at that time did not reform the army, but it was not as exaggerated as Oda Nobunaga. In fact, even Shibata Katsuya and other retainers, many people did not quite understand why Oda Nobunaga still invested so much money in the army now that he was in power.