How should the history of human war be dated? Bronze weapons, iron weapons, long-range weapons, military weapons, wild horse taming... Various technologies can be used for dating, but no one of them is as crazy and hysterical as industrialization. Vertex Novel Ｘ 23 Ｕ Ｓ． COM
Human wars before industrialization were full of strong artistic atmosphere and various unpredictable accidents. As shown in film and television works, wars were full of bloody violence, but also full of warmth and tragedy.
In that era, fighting was really a matter of luck. Even in the age of muskets and artillery, various battlefield miracles emerged one after another.
It is not unusual for the cold weapon army to defeat the musketeer army. The battlefield situation is ever-changing, maybe it is the weather, maybe it is morale, maybe it is logistics supplies, maybe it is a disease!
If the musketeers were invincible, the South African Boers would not have defeated the British Empire at its peak. It is worth mentioning that the son of Napoleon III died in that war.
Even a country more backward than the Boers, Ethiopia has defeated the well-armed British and Italian armies several times!
Although the musket is very powerful, it is still a weapon before industrialization in essence. It relies too much on the quality of people. In the hands of veterans, the musket is a murderous weapon, but in the hands of the barbarians, the musket is just a fire stick.
What is the symbol that truly represents industrialized weapons and equipment? In fact, it is an armored battleship equipped with a steam turbine. This large-scale war weapon is the real product of industrial technology.
Thousands of tons of behemoths, driven by blazing boiler steam, steel armor pierced the waves, and super-large-caliber naval guns swept across the ocean.
The seaports and river ports of backward ethnic groups are trembling under the powerful ships and cannons!
The old artillery of backward nations could not tear apart the steel plates stamped by the 10,000-ton hydraulic press. The infantrymen holding muskets could only watch stupidly as the steel behemoths showed off their power on the water.
Each shell of the armored battleship's main gun has a charge of several hundred kilograms. The power of the explosion of one shell can destroy an ancient military formation, and even the soldiers who are heartbroken will be directly vaporized!
This is the top killing weapon that truly carries the aura of industrial power. Under its absolute firepower, any traditional method of warfare is ineffective!
Moreover, this weapon also has a very special attribute, that is, it is uncontrollable by lower ethnic groups!
Even if this warship was given to the Qing Dynasty, no one would know how to pilot it. It would take more than ten or even decades to train such a sailor, which is why there is a saying about a century-old navy.
A battleship is a huge machine, and after the invention of the internal combustion engine, tanks, armored vehicles, aircraft and other weapons were actually machines of different sizes.
A battleship can be operated by hundreds or even thousands of people, and a tank requires four or five pilots to cooperate with each other to operate. Even a lone wolf pilot in the sky needs a huge ground crew to coordinate and maintain, otherwise it will not work at all. No fighting power!
The people who operate these machines, these soldiers of the new era, must have unique talents that are completely different from those of the soldiers of the medieval era!
They must receive education, they must be able to understand mechanical words and numbers, and they must be able to perform some simple calculations!
At the same time, they must also be trained in punctuality, quantification, and collaboration... They must throw away all the old habits of the small-scale peasant economy that are easy-going and fuzzy and quantitative.
Otherwise the machinery will just be a pile of scrap metal!
Xiao Letian has been stocking up on such a legion because Xiao Letian knows very well that the era he is facing is an era where farming civilization is still dominant. It is impossible for him to directly recruit qualified soldiers from the civilian population!
Not only was Asia unable to do this, but the same was true in Europe. European rural areas were also extremely backward at the end of the 19th century!
Except for Prussia, no other country in Europe currently has compulsory education!
What are the characteristics of the people raised in the small-scale peasant economy? They are kind, honest, and easy to manage... these are their advantages, but their shortcomings are also countless.
Agricultural production depends on the weather, and their concept of time is based on the solar terms on the lunar calendar. As long as the solar terms are correct, there is no difference between sowing one day earlier and sowing one day later, and there is not much difference in yield between harvesting one day early and harvesting one day late.
There is no concept of time that is accurate to the minute and second! this is a big problem!
Agricultural production is difficult to quantify. If a shovelful of manure is spread out, what is too much? What is less? I'm afraid no one will weigh it!
Lacking the precise concept of mathematics, he simply could not understand why the shell charges were calculated in grams! Is there a difference between a few more grams* and a few grams less*?
There is no difference in their eyes!
How can such a quality mass of people provide soldiers who can adapt to mechanized warfare?
Maybe someone has said that you can train temporarily, as long as you are willing to spend money and time, right?
This is again a question of concept. In the face of war, what should be human equipment? Or do you have to wait for equipment?
Xiao Letian's answer is very clear. People must wait for the equipment, not the other way around!
This is a war, not a life for ordinary people. Maybe three months or six months will lead to a completely different outcome!
You have obtained the warships, but the soldiers have not been trained yet. In just one month, our already prepared army will be able to wipe out your naval base.
Between life and death, every minute and every second must be snatched up! Isn't that what the Franco-Prussian War was like? Napoleon was not given time to prepare. France is obviously much richer than Prussia, but before you had time to prepare, my army had already blocked its throat with one sword!
Maybe you will say in hindsight, "Isn't it just a Krupp breech-loading steel cannon? We can also produce it in France. Isn't it just an extra breech block structure? It's very simple. We can produce 10,000 in a week..."
"I'm sorry, the war will not give you a week. Even if the French steel cannons you produce in a week are a hundred times better than mine, this week is enough for me to massacre your army and *your people!"
Sure enough, there is strength in numbers. The smart Prussian military experts found the thread of Xiao Letian's military thinking like peeling off cocoons, and then began to swarm to dissect, peel off, and analyze!
The Germans finally cracked the tip of the iceberg of the head of state's huge military strategic concept!
Bismarck threw the knife and fork excitedly, "I found it, I found the direction of future military development!"
"It seems that Xiao Letian's judgment is mechanistic. That's why he would tighten his belt and let us build the Zhiyuan!"
"Maybe in his plan, the Zhiyuan is just the beginning, and his navy will have more complex and powerful warships in the future!"
"This guy needs soldiers who are worthy of such precision machinery, so he has that perverted training method!"
"He wants to transform people with peasant mentality into brand new humans suitable for mechanical warfare! This is to completely change a person's soul!"
Old Moltke also said excitedly, "Not only the navy, but our staff also have bolder speculations... Maybe in the next few decades, the army will also have special mechanical weapons that can increase manpower hundreds or thousands of times." Increase firepower output!”
William I also sighed, "Don't forget there are Zeppelin airships! Maybe the air force will appear in our lifetime! How can such a mechanical airship be operated by a group of farmers?"
