!--Chapter content begins-- Take the Gatling gun as an example. Nowadays, not counting the number of equipment but the per capita equipment ratio of soldiers in various countries in the world, the Chinese army under Xiao Letian is undoubtedly the highest.
There are 40,000 people in the Far East Volunteer Army, and they are equipped with 20 Gatling heavy machine guns. On average, 2,000 people are assigned one Gatling. The Chinese regular army on the main island of Ryukyu is even more exaggerated to the point that every thousand people can be assigned one, and the number will continue to increase in the future. Finally, Xiao Letian's goal is to get the firepower support of one Gatling for every one hundred people.
This is a figure that even Western countries are stunned by. It is not that the great powers cannot afford this money, but that the military thinking of both sides is not at the same level.
Xiao Letian is a weak country with a new army to catch up with the great powers. He must develop by leaps and bounds to close the gap, so he must invest heavily in building the Zhiyuan instead of building an excessive warship like the British, because Xiao Letian knows If you and your opponent can't compete with each other in terms of quantity, you can only compete with black technology.
In the eyes of senior British military officials, Gatling weapons do have advantages, but their shortcomings are also obvious. Firstly, there are many mechanical failures, and you have to have a mechanic following you at all times. Secondly, manual shooting requires too much psychological quality of the shooter. Once again, the number of bullets in the manual reloading magazine is too small, and the most skilled ammunition supply hand must be constantly assisted.
This kind of weapon is a typical uncle weapon. It is not reliable enough, no matter how powerful the firepower is, it cannot be promoted. It can only be said that a batch is purchased among some special forces.
Only Xiao Letian dared to set up a dedicated squad of troops to serve a Gatling. This was to make up for the shortcomings with people.
Because Xiao Letian is very clear about the importance of machine guns in the future, adding Uncle is just an overkill. Wait until Uncle Maxim is invented, then it will be the real battlefield meat grinder.
To prepare for a rainy day, Xiao Letian requires the army to adapt to the existence of this weapon from now on. Training must be carried out on the use of machine guns and how to cooperate with artillery and infantry.
This is preparation work for the future. When the more reliable Maxim comes out, other countries will have to adapt for a year and a half, but the Chinese army already has ready-made experience to share, and even combat regulations. .
When an expert abuses a novice, the time difference of a year and a half is enough to fight a beautiful battle, and a victory may change the course of the war.
Why does Xiao Letian affectionately call the observation sentries on the hot air balloon the Air Force? Others thought this was a joke said by the prime minister, but who knew that Xiao Letian was instilling the concept of air force in advance. God knows whether aircraft in this world would have appeared decades earlier.
This is the essence of Xiao Letian's military management. It does not mean how advanced his weapons are. In fact, the practical weapons and equipment can be produced by Europeans. What is awesome is Xiao Letian's forward thinking.
From the beginning, Xiao Letian was building the framework of the Chinese army for future wars. This created a strange illusion. Xiao Letian's army was always incompatible with the mainstream of the times.
The Chinese code of law has been promulgated, and the concept of the Chinese nation has been formed, but until now the Chinese have no army! This was a behavior that was very surprising to countless military observers, including the Manchus, who had no idea what kind of medicine Xiao Letian was selling in his gourd.
What the hell is the Marine Corps? It is clear that the army can be expanded, but the number is suppressed to 30,000. What is Xiao Letian doing?
What to do! It's all about firepower! Xiao Letian wants to put more resources into improving firepower. Whether an army is strong in combat effectiveness does not depend on the number of people. It depends on the intensity of firepower poured in per capita.
To put it bluntly, there are only one to two hundred people in a Chinese Marine Corps squad. As long as they have the fire support of the Zhiyuan 210-caliber artillery behind them, and they have two or three heavy machine guns in their hands to stabilize their position, Then there is no need to be afraid of the 20, 30,000 people coming from the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.
Because the average firepower output intensity of these two hundred people will be a hundred or even a thousand times that of those swordsmen, spears, shotguns and firecrackers! The powerful firepower output cannot be filled with just one life!
By the same token, the New Army is destined to compete with the Western powers in the future. Whether it can overwhelm the European powers in terms of firepower output is an important issue that Xiao Letian must consider.
This difficult and difficult battle in Vladivostok was just a small test of Xiao Letian's military thinking, but he did not expect that the results would be so terrifying.
The two hot air balloons carried only fifty homemade aerial bombs, and the total weight was only 500 kilograms. However, the power of these fifty bombs exceeded everyone's imagination. Compared with this, Grandpa's fire dragon is just a small toothpick.
The ice in Suifenhe finally couldn't hold on any longer. Nobel's new explosives were easy to use even on mountains, let alone blasting through the ice.
The ice surface, which was more than a thousand meters wide, was riddled with holes, and the cracks made a loud cracking sound, as if there was a water monster under the ice trying to crash up.
At this moment, Gogol could only adjust his tactics. He knew that his strategy of capturing Emperor Tongzhi alive was completely ruined. Looking at the back of Emperor Tongzhi who was gradually becoming unclear, Gogol cursed angrily, "Get back, stop attacking... damn bastard !Why do these Chinese have so many strange weapons!"
Beep beep beep...the retreating bugle sounded. The cavalry who were preparing to rush across the river stopped. The surviving soldiers on the ice began to retreat. Of course, many fell into the river and froze to death. in.
Suddenly, the entire Suifen River came alive! There was a loud crackling sound like thunder, the cracks twisted and extended to form dense spider webs, and the ice cap of the entire river collapsed completely, reaching an astonishing length of more than a thousand meters.
"Long live!" The whole camp was in jubilation, and even more excited were the sentries on the hot air balloon. At this moment, all the bombs carrying the load were lost, and the balloon flew higher and higher. Although there were angry enemies shooting at them below, the bullets were difficult to resist. The attraction of the earth, those weak rifle bullets pose no threat to them at all.
The sentries hugged each other and cheered, but the next step was dumbfounded: "Oh my God! It's east wind now... aren't we going to drift to the enemy's rear?"
"Don't be afraid. Since we have already flown over, let's fly a little further toward Jilin and land at the Xiaotumen Mountain area... The people there have the best relationship with us. As long as they land wherever they land, they will You can protect us!"
"Check the coal reserves... Doraemon No. 1 is safe... Doraemon No. 2 has sufficient supplies and is safe!"
"Let's go, go to Tumen Mountain to meet the folks for a drink, but I'm so damn freezing... Doraemon controls the altitude and moves forward..."
Yes, you heard it right, all the hot air balloons under Xiao Letian are numbered with Doraemon. No one in the world knows what these four words mean.
