The mechanical revolution will completely change the mode of human warfare. The wars full of miracles and romanticism in the medieval era will no longer exist. Humanity has entered an era of absolute digital crushing.
Xiao Letian clearly knew the development of the future era, and had been subtly instilling this analysis into the Chinese officers and soldiers. He did not dare to speak too directly, because that would really make him look like a bastard. He could only Little by little, push forward this strategic thinking.
In fact, there is still a kind of war thought among the Chinese people that man can conquer nature. This kind of thought cannot be wrong. But for Xiao Letian, this kind of thought can only be a spiritual weapon for the military and the people, but cannot become the foundation of a country's security.
The rise of the Chinese nation was very reckless. It was a miracle created by a group of bandits from the Taihang Mountains, deserters from the defeated Kingdom of Heaven, and the lonely overseas Chinese struggling to survive in adversity.
When the power was first established, at a time when the name "Chinese" did not even exist, these Chinese descendants who gathered around Xiao Letian have always used their lives to defend this lonely light of civilization in Asia!
In a bloody night in Naha, the Chinese almost used their unprotected bodies to attack the enemy's spear array!
When the French fleet attacked Ryukyu, the dead soldiers sank the enemy warships with their lives, and the soldiers and civilians even used cold weapons to fight in the streets with the French troops who were armed to the teeth!
It is the fire in the heart that supports these unyielding Chinese people to risk their lives. They use the fighting enthusiasm of man to conquer nature to create miracles one after another.
Even in Europe, whether it was the Battle of Stone Bridge in the Austro-Prussian War or a series of battles in the Franco-Prussian War, you can see it anytime and anywhere. When the battle situation becomes stalemate, countless soldiers with swords will brave the rain of bullets. Launch a countercharge and use hand-to-hand combat to crush the enemy's will to fight.
How many young soldiers held bayonets and strangled the enemy together, without fear even if they were one against ten!
This fighting spirit is the most precious asset of the Chinese people, and it is the military soul of the Chinese people who have gone through blood and fire all the way!
Of course the military spirit should not be lost, but Xiao Letian also saw some bad signs. At this moment, many officers and soldiers in the Chinese army have begun to be overly superstitious about the idea that man can defeat nature.
They exaggerate the role of fighting will and even make it a myth! This is a very dangerous signal. If this continues, it is very likely that the Chinese will miss out on future military reforms ideologically!
What will war look like in the future world? It is an era when mechanical power gradually replaces manpower, and discipline and knowledge slowly replace crazy human sea tactics and hand-to-hand combat!
What does it take to make a warship like the Zhiyuan display its outstanding combat effectiveness? It relies on the close cooperation of every technical unit.
Your mission is to repair this line and pay attention to the ten pressure gauges. Then you don't have to worry about other war matters. You just study your profession desperately, be accurate and work closely with other departments.
If you are a boiler burner, you should burn the boiler. The steam pressure that can be prepared in thirty minutes should not be rushed up in an hour!
You are in charge of the ammunition depot, so you must strictly follow the discipline and weigh all the ammunition packages carefully to ensure that there is not even a gram of error!
You are an artillery observation post, so you just calculate ballistics for me every day. You don't have to worry about marching and cooking!
To give a simple example, future wars require strictly disciplined and knowledgeable workers and technicians, not peasant soldiers who fight tooth and nail when their heads are hot!
Only when hundreds or thousands of people are willing to obediently make human parts of the war machine and do the work of this part perfectly, will this super war machine release the power of destroying the world!
This is true for a battleship, the same is true for a tank, and the same is true for a well-maintained bomber!
The fervor of man to conquer nature, the passionate charge of Long Live...these trump cards that could reverse the situation before the industrial revolution were useless in the face of the mechanical craze!
In the Battle of Songhu, the best of the Kuomintang army was displayed, but the results of hundreds of thousands of people fighting for a day and night could not withstand the power of a main gun explosion from the Japanese flagship Izumo.
During World War II, the Japanese small tanks Type 89 and Type 97 could be considered to be at the bottom of the rankings. They were small, thin in armor, and short in barrel... From a distance, they looked as ugly as a local.
However, this kind of tank, which the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and Germany looked down upon at all, could run rampant on the Chinese battlefield. In the final analysis, the fanaticism that man can conquer nature can only be used as creative material by literati in the era of mechanized warfare.
In the face of history, there are many truths that people are unwilling to face. Xiao Letian's Past Life In the 21st century, the land of China is filled with all kinds of absurd trends that vilify Japanese militarism.
No one will forget the hatred between the country and the family, but when hatred covers the eyes, a strange social status quo appears that vilifies the enemy.
Numerous literary, film and television works have begun to unscrupulously adapt the Second World War. Japan has been extremely mentally retarded and buffooned, with pitiful low IQs, while the image of the Chinese military and civilians has been exalted beyond measure.
How sad! If our ancestors were defeated by such an incompetent nation with low IQ, tens of millions of people would have died, and in the end, the enemy would have to be defeated by the US imperialism...
So let me ask you, just how useless and incompetent were our grandparents?
By vilifying and retarding your enemies, in the final analysis, aren't you insulting your own ancestors?
A truly rational and mature nation will always pay attention to its enemies and study them carefully, and think carefully about the root causes of failure and victory.
Japan was able to become a big country with a small country, in the final analysis, it was because Japan was already an industrialized country, and its military had entered the era of preliminary mechanization during World War II.
At that time, China was still a backward agricultural country, and industry accounted for less than a fraction of the gross national product!
The output of steel, non-ferrous metals, coal and other resources is a fraction of Japan's, and the scale and technical level of machinery manufacturing are also a fraction of that of the enemy.
In an era when super battleships such as the Yamato were launched into service, China's arsenal could not even make a machine gun barrel.
Many people don't like to hear the truth, but the facts are so cruel. Without the United States and the Soviet Union's attacks on Japan, China at that time would not have been able to defeat Japan.
It's very simple. A Yamato ship can attack all your coastal ports unscrupulously, but you don't have any effective counter-weapons.
The enemy's thin-skinned, large-filled and small tanks can run rampant across the land of China. All your anti-tank weapons need to be imported, but the seaports where they are imported are blocked by the Japanese fleet.
Without the intervention of the United States and the Soviet Union, the final result of the Anti-Japanese War that year would have been just a humiliating treaty. China ceded the three eastern provinces and all the coastline plains in exchange for an armistice.
In the end, the Great Northwest and the Great Southwest guarded the last breath of the Chinese nation and suffered bitterly! Waiting for the next historical opportunity for the rise of national destiny!
Xiao Letian cannot let history repeat itself. He must take precautions and take control of this destructive power in his own hands in advance, even half a step faster than the Europeans!
Before the equipment is ready, train your troops first!
Before you become a soldier, you must first correct your mind!
Only if the first strategy is correct will the subsequent tactics be correct, and in the end there will be victories one after another!
In the great era of mechanical revolution, the Chinese people must not fall behind even half a step!
