Written accounts of both Frederick Coyett and Albrecht Herport focused on describing Koxinga's soldiers at Battle of Baxemboy, of which 240 Dutch musketeers led by Captain Thomas Pedel went up against at most 750 Koxinga's soldiers (exaggerated by Frederick Coyett into 4,000) led by commander Chen Ze (陳澤)...
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Coincidentally, Tie Ren was introduced well before Chongzhen years, because Ming Empire needed a force that can counter Jurchen armored cavalry, but it took well until the years of Koxinga to have a force of such assembled.
ReplyDeleteKinda goes to show that, much like how the politicization of Ming court ruined the land effort of Imjin campaign, it ruined - yet again - another actual effort to prevent Ming Empire's downfall, which led to the downfall of entirety of East Asia.
On another note - because I caught glimpse of the random trivia - wasn't the Liaodong Wall, bordering Korea, supposedly very shoddily and poorly constructed? Please do correct me.
If you mean heavily armoured infantry, those probably always existed in one form or another throughout Ming period. However Tie Ren was a specific unit devised by Zheng Chenggong.
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