"President, the princess will be back later."
Although Liu Yuqing was pleased that the president liked her more and more, she was still shy."
What are you afraid of when you come back" President Meng took Liu Yuqing's little hand, pulled her to sit down, leaned on Liu Yuqing's arms, and fell asleep.On the third day, Wang Dashan rushed back from the front line, and now there is no fighting, and the road from Irkutsk to Turukhansk has been almost repaired.Chen Xia also rushed from the northeast at the same time, and when Chen Xia was fine, she usually stayed in Beijing or Fengtian, the two base camps of the statistical bureau.From Mukden to Vladivostok, there is now a direct train, and the railway station from Vladivostok to Boli has also been opened to traffic, so the journey is actually shorter than Wang Dashan.Trains are the lifeblood of a country's industrial development.During this period, Europe continued to engage in skirmishes and was also mired in full-scale melee.This is an excellent opportunity to observe the gap between China's military power and the rest of the world.In the past, people set off fireworks, and we set off fireworks, but now because of the rebirth of President Meng, the situation has changed significantly, and China is desperately developing, and the world's overall military industry in this era is stagnant.This was a period of very slow military development in the world, and only world wars such as World War I and World War II could promote the rapid development of the military industry.Affected by the front, the Ministry of Military Industry of Beizhong is now very sold, the research and development of automobiles is constantly urged, there must be trucks and large lifters, cranes, these industrial killers can appear, the preparation of basic industries, China has reached the level of Britain and France, these industrial powers, around 1865.In our traditional ideology, Germany thinks that its industry is strong, which is an illusion, but in fact it has always been the strongest in France, and France's industry and economy have even been maintained at the top of the world for a long time, and it is the French who are too wasteful.has a strong industry, and when you go out to fight wars, you are often beaten, which makes people feel that French things are not good, but in fact, the French have always been leading in technology.Germany is durable, and this alone has made Germany's military products famous all over the world, and Mauser and Krupp cannons are everywhere.The First World War, by and large, can be called a "semi-mechanized war".This war was based on industrialization, with large-scale mobilization of manpower and material resources and long-distance transportation, and powerful artillery firepower for sustainable bombardment, airships, tanks, submarines, etc.New types of land, sea and air weapons were put into use on the battlefield one after another, and even the horrific poison gas came in handy.In short, for the first time, human warfare has taken on the obvious characteristics of competition and attrition of comprehensive national strength.However, in terms of the decisive outcome of the war, World War I was essentially a land offensive and defensive war on the European continent.In the face of a solid defensive position consisting of machine guns, trench systems, and barbed wire, it has become increasingly difficult for the attacker to win the battle simply by relying on the numerical superiority of the infantry.Even after a prolonged, high-intensity artillery bombardment, coupled with the continuous assault of the group's infantry, it was often possible to achieve only a limited breakthrough in the enemy's defensive line.Machine guns made an impression in World War I, but artillery was the weapon that really dominated the battlefield.Figuratively speaking, the First World War was a war of artillery.In his book The Secret History of World War I, the American scholar Meyer said: "Artillery kills more people than small arms and air raids, and more people than any other weapon, for the first time in human history, and possibly for the last."
In the later stages of the war, the superiority of artillery was fully exploited, and the machine guns lost their effectiveness.Without artillery, the infantry could neither win in the offensive nor remain undefeated in the defense. ”As a result, a new mode of operation was formed, "artillery conquest, infantry occupation".This places high demands on a country's ability to supply artillery shells, which in turn depends on a country's industrial strength.Although China's military industry has not yet reached this condition, it has actually reached the height of this tactical concept in a hard-fought and frontal large-scale operation.President Moe's opinion is that no matter how expensive a cannonball is, a cannonball is no match for a soldier's life.This concept alone makes all the soldiers, grateful, President Meng's heart, always puts people first, President Meng hates Maozi's crowd tactics very much, and takes his life to fill the shortage of shells and bullets, to fill the backwardness of weapons and equipment.However, there was a saying in the Chinese army at that time: "Veterans are afraid of machine guns, and recruits are afraid of artillery." ”The reason is that the army is equipped with a small number of artillery, and mainly mountain artillery and infantry artillery, artillery shells are very few, many so-called artillery will only directly aim and fire, indirect aiming is equal to random shooting, no different from fireworks, the symbolic meaning of artillery is far greater than its substantive significance.Therefore, the recruits are often intimidated by the rumbling of artillery, but the veterans know that the real horror is the machine gun on the opposite side.In other words, in the early twentieth century, China's warlord ranks, which flaunted their might, were not at all on the same level as the Western powers, in terms of actual firepower and operational concepts.As early as more than half a century ago, in the Taiping War, Li Hongzhang admired the foreigners who could easily smash the heavy city walls with "flowering cannons", so the Huai army quickly introduced them, and swept southern Jiangsu and became a rising star in the Qing army.Due to the lack of powerful artillery, the old-fashioned city walls were still very valuable fortifications in the warlord melee in the early years of the Republic of China.That is to say, at this time, the vast majority of the warlord troops' ability to attack fortifications had not yet reached the level of the original Huai army, and like the barge gun most familiar to the Chinese, it was invented by the Germans, but the German army rarely equipped itself, and almost all of them were equipped by the army.The reason why China became a big market for shell guns was that China's industrial base was very weak at that time, there was no powerful artillery unit, and the number of machine guns was also limited, so how to increase the firepower of individual soldiers became a big problem that affected the results of the battle.In the era before submachine guns, the shell gun was an effective tool to increase the firepower of individual soldiers in close combat.Although it is expensive, it is very suitable for the actual needs of the army.The Chinese later used the fire of the shell gun, and even the Germans were surprised.China's warlord civil war, with its thin firepower on all sides, limited human and environmental damage, stands in stark contrast to the unprecedented devastation that World War I brought to Europe.However, the warlords set another record: stragglers plundered the people in the melee, and even turned into bandits, and the chickens and dogs were restless wherever they passed.As the president of the Republic of China, Li Yuanhong also had to admit: "If you send them, the soldiers will scatter and become bandits, and if you recruit them, the bandits will gather as soldiers." ”t1706231537: