Human beings are always very late in facing the great changes of the times. It is not that human beings are not smart. In fact, in the final analysis, it is because humans are too smart and they always worry about gains and losses when faced with choices.
During the second industrial revolution with the explosion of science and technology, all kinds of weird black technologies were born. Many things that seemed commonplace to later generations seemed deviant at the time.
Very few people or countries can grasp the soul and accurately find the most correct path for development. Human development is always groping on a detour. Once someone finds the correct path, they will rush forward.
In the early years when electric power technology first developed, a very fierce debate broke out between DC and AC. The DC technology represented by Edison and the AC technology represented by Tesla attacked each other and smeared each other, so it was almost a duel with guns drawn!
In order to discredit alternating current technology, Edison even went so far as to use alternating current in front of the public and electrocuted an elephant alive, which frightened the people at the time.
Edison kept preaching that DC is safe and AC is evil. In the final analysis, this is a life-and-death struggle between the two modes!
Two models, two systems, including countless technologies and patents, naturally represent countless money!
But in the eyes of people in the 21st century, alternating current is the absolute king in power applications, and direct current is just a little supplement!
A branch of electricity can cause such a fierce battle. You can imagine the difficult choices humans make when facing other technological breakthroughs. This is a historical choice to drive Virgo to death and murder obsessive-compulsive disorder!
The same is true for civilian technology, and the same is true for military technology, including the classic layout pattern of the dreadnought's central axis arrangement of naval guns, which was not recognized by everyone from the beginning. It was after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 when the Japanese combined fleet used this After this classic battleship layout defeated the traditional artillery layout models of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, military experts made the final decision.
Before the Sino-Japanese War, naval experts from many countries still favored artillery distributed on the left and right sides. The design of the fort with a large rotation of the central axis was deviant!
It can be seen that being able to explore the most correct path in the fog is a magical skill in itself. Anyone who has such a magical skill in human history is either a great man or a madman!
Xiao Letian is very smart. He will never be a big step ahead of the times. He will only be careful to be half a step ahead of the times, and then secretly plan the half step so that he will not be considered a madman and become a great man.
However, the half-step he secretly planned was not impeccably hidden. In the eyes of so many smart people, this half-step hidden secretly revealed his flaws.
In a victory parade, the three Chinese phalanxes conquered the whole world with a perfect performance that annihilated humanity. In the eyes of laymen, this is excitement, but in the eyes of experts, this is a secret.
William I asked Xiao Letian why he tortured his soldiers so much. Xiao Letian replied that he was a pervert, but no one believed the head of state's lies. Everything Xiao Letian did had a deep meaning.
The smart German soldier was the first to peep into the core of the secret. Bismarck's face changed greatly in shock, and many vague clues were completely connected at this moment.
The history of human war is actually a history of technological evolution in pursuit of powerful firepower output!
Even primitive humans would subconsciously pick up rocks and hit people during a fight, or pick up a wooden stick to beat them. The rocks and wooden sticks themselves are the outward extension of the body's muscles.
What energy do muscles rely on to maintain activity? It relies on the body's chemical combustion method. It is the combustion of carbohydrates and oxygen that releases heat energy, which provides the kinetic energy for human activities.
This kind of kinetic energy controls wooden sticks and stones to effectively kill the enemy. In the final analysis, it is also a release of firepower, which is very primitive but also very effective.
As humans became more and more intelligent, they understood the principle of energy storage from the elasticity of animal tendons, and this led to the creation of long-range weapons such as bows and arrows, crossbows, trebuchets, etc.
And further exploration, human beings are no longer limited to the use of body energy, but have turned their attention to external objects, using the firepower of nature to kill enemies.
Grease and firewood can be used for fire attacks, and primitive chemicals can provide explosive energy. After the development of modern chemical technology, the powerful power of chemical weapons has made human beings even more lethal.
The history of the pursuit of firepower is the history of the evolution of technological development!
By the time of the second industrial revolution, mankind was not only pursuing firepower, but also pursuing a more terrifying war power, that is, the power of mechanization.
There are no internal combustion engines in this era, and there are no tanks or airplanes, but this does not mean that humans cannot understand the huge power of mechanization.
The simplest is a steam-powered battleship, such as the Shu Zhiyuan. If you look at this behemoth from a scientist's perspective, then you will find that it is a huge killing machine composed of countless parts.
His powerful power requires the cooperation of hundreds of well-trained sailors and crew to be unleashed!
At this time, what are the important indicators to test the sailors of the Zhiyuan? They are not the brave, tenacious, fanatical, bloody, violent, cruel ones of the Army Special Forces...
For the Zhiyuan to exert its maximum lethality, what is needed is the precise operation and perfect cooperation of the entire crew!
I don't need your impromptu ideas, I don't need your passionate rush, and I don't need your genius in the art of war!
Just watch the steam pressure gauge carefully and complete various operations accurately. One is one, two is two. Calmness and accuracy are the only things you have to do.
The time is so accurate that it can be calculated in seconds. The ballistic trajectory of the naval gun needs to include the speed of the wind. A slight difference can make the difference thousands of miles! Any individual's disorderly improvisation is the biggest taboo.
"This means that the mainstream of future warfare will be the intimate combination of humans and machines. Humanity must lose many of its natural attributes and become mechanized, so that it can keep up with the operating frequency of machines!"
"For soldiers to become more mechanized, it is best for every soldier to be as calm and as accurate as a Swiss pocket watch!"
"Human beings in the future will be mechanized, and machines can become humanized if they are nourished by human flesh and blood!"
"This is the future world, the correct direction for the development of war. Mechanization will gradually replace the important role of humans..."
"Oh God! Xiao Letian is using this cruel and inhumane military training to prepare in advance 'inhumane' soldiers who are adapted to mechanical operation! It must be like this!"
