The Tang Empire was busy dealing with internal affairs and infrastructure construction before the war ended. This was somewhat disrespectful to the Qin State, which was still at war.
At this moment, the whole Qin State has fallen into a kind of doomsday madness. They are frantically increasing the number of troops on the border and shouting the classic slogan of keeping the enemy outside the country's gates.
Countless young men were drafted into the army and began training. The construction of the Tang Empire slowed down the pace of the attack, and at the same time gave Qin a little breathing time.
Ying Duo used this time to once again increase his troops to about 4 million, but this time the quality of his troops was even worse, leaving only a little bit of the so-called courage to protect his family and country.
In modern warfare, just having courage is not enough. Qin must find a way to provide these newly recruited troops with enough arms so that they can fight against the Tang army.
But even if Qin's war machine is at full capacity, it can only provide these soldiers with the basic equipment they had ten years ago.
That's right, give these soldiers a rifle, a bayonet, some bullets, a military uniform, and at most a steel helmet, and they can go to the front line to die.
In order to save steel, most troops were not even equipped with shovels, and their shoes were not even uniform. Apart from looking scary in numbers, such troops actually have little combat effectiveness.
The Qin State is also aware of these problems, so they are also trying their best to train these soldiers, hoping that they can survive the cruel war.
After all, if you die, you have to be recruited again and retrained. The cost-effectiveness is really low: this is a simple math problem, but the calculation method and the choice of results are different.
Spend enough time training new recruits, and they may survive on the battlefield for a few more months. This is relatively speaking, increasing the strength of the frontline troops. The new recruits will become veterans, and their combat effectiveness will be even greater.
On the other hand, if you simply send recruits who have not been fully trained onto the battlefield, they will be consumed at an extremely fast rate. In turn, you can only recruit more recruits to join the battle. The recruits are less likely to become veterans, and their combat effectiveness will be improved. There is no way to talk about it.
This is indeed the case under normal circumstances, but why do some people still choose to use new recruits to fight on the front lines, creating a vicious cycle? Because of time! They need time.
Qin needs time. Although Yingduo, who has been fighting for a lifetime, knows that veterans are the most effective in fighting, he also knows that untrained recruits are not easy to use, but he really has no time.
If he didn't let the new recruits go to the battlefield, his defense line might collapse within a month, so he could only fill the front line with insufficiently trained recruits, even though he knew it was a serious waste.
In fact, it's not just the training of new recruits. Qin is falling into hysterical madness. They are also beginning to enter a desperate doomsday mode in other aspects.
Children and women began to be required to undergo some simple street fighting training, and older ones began to perform simple services for the army.
They should act as eyeliners, observe the Tang Empire's aircraft, and provide early warning to the cities behind them - after all, the Qin State's radar has not played any role since the war began, so they can only use the most primitive methods for air warning.
In addition, women also began to enter factories on a large scale, filling the vacancies where a large number of young laborers were recruited into the army. They were forced to do very tiring work and even had to work overtime every day.
Not only that, of course the old people of the Qin State could not be idle. They began to build various fortifications from the border of the Qin Empire to the front line, including bunkers, trenches, roads and various defense facilities.
In order to slow down the Tang Empire's attack, the Qin State began to bury cement block roadblocks in almost all areas and built machine gun bunkers in hidden areas behind these roadblocks.
Every border city will be transformed, and countless buildings will be reinforced with sandbags and become fortifications. Barricades blocked traffic, and behind every window there was a possibility of a deadly machine gun.
In addition to building fortifications, the Qin Empire also requisitioned almost all the cars it could and managed all the gasoline and diesel it could find.
The radio stations are all broadcasts that encourage people to join the army and fight for the country until the last moment. Almost all channels have the same content. The occasional songs played are all majestic military music.
This is what the common people can see. In some places where the common people cannot see, the Great Qin Empire has fallen into an even crazier state.
Because the tanks were losing too fast, and no matter how much armor was added, there was no guarantee that they would not be penetrated by the Tang State's various tricks. Therefore, under the instructions of their superiors, the engineers of the Great Qin Empire began to make subtractions on the tanks.
The thickness of the armor was greatly reduced, so that the materials used to produce two tanks could be used to produce three tanks.
The quality of the tank gun has also seriously declined. Some hardening treatments and coatings have been omitted. The life of the tank gun has been reduced from the initial thousands of rounds to the level of 100 rounds.
Anyway, it is impossible for the newly recruited tank soldiers to fire so many artillery shells on the training ground. Anyway, these tanks have almost no chance to fire when they go to the front line...
Therefore, everything that can be saved is saved. The time that used to be used to produce one tank can now be used to produce two tanks or even more!
It's just that no one can say clearly how much combat effectiveness these tanks still have. They were more like targets to attract the firepower of the Tang Army, targets deliberately placed there to consume the Tang Army's ammunition.
Tanks are already like this, and armored vehicles cut corners to the extreme: thick armor is never used where thin steel plates can be used, and thin steel plates are never used where tinplate can be used.
Because the weight is already very light, the engine can even be used in civilian versions, so it can also save fuel in disguise, which is perfect.
As for cars... the subsequent armed forces of the Qin Army can be called an automobile expo. Cars from all over the world and various types of cars can be seen in the army.
Senior officers ride in some of the better Tang Dynasty high-end civilian cars, ordinary officers ride in other countries' versions of high-end cars, and ordinary soldiers can only ride in buses, agricultural trucks and the like.
Despite this, the number of heavy weapons in the troops subsequently formed by the Qin State was still seriously insufficient, and most of them were only light infantry. The paper used for these soldiers' identity certificates is even worse than the paper used by the Qin army a year ago...
(End of chapter)
