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Volley fire solves the musket's inaccuracy and slowness by organizing massed soldiers to fire in sequence rather than relying on individual aim.
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Volley fire solves the musket's inaccuracy and slowness by organizing massed soldiers to fire in sequence rather than relying on individual aim.
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Schools arise, in Jiang's explanation, from the military need to create obedient mass soldiers who can be conscripted into gunpowder armies.
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"...all, it's very slow. So the only solution is, to have mass army, to have a lot of soldiers firing at once. So you..."
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"...the need to create as many soldiers as possible for your mass army, okay?"
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"...the steppe invasion. The invaders. Mainly gunpowder. Okay? The technology and mass armies will overwhelm the steppe people. And eventually. Over time. The agricultural..."
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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