[0960 The clue of mechanization]
"President, the princess will be back later." Although Liu Yuqing was happy that the president liked her more and more, she still said shyly.
"What are you afraid of when you come back?" The cute CEO took Liu Yuqing's little hand, pulled her down, leaned against Liu Yuqing's arms, and fell asleep.
On the third day, Wang Dashan rushed back from the front line. There is no war now. The road from Irkutsk to Tuluhansk has been almost completed, so we can rush it.
Chen Xia also came from Northeast China at the same time. When Chen Xia was fine, she would usually stay at the base camps of the two statistical bureaus, Beijing or Fengtian.
There are now direct trains from Fengtian to Vladivostok, and the train station from Vladivostok to Boli has also been opened to traffic, so the distance is actually shorter than Wang Dashan.
Trains are the lifeblood of national industrial exhibitions.
During this period of time, Europe has been in constant small-scale conflicts and is also in full swing.
This is an excellent time to observe the gap between China and the world's military power.
The past history was that people set off fireworks and we set off fireworks, but now because of the rebirth of the cute president, the situation has changed drastically, and China is working hard to develop, while the overall military industry of the world in this era is in a state of stagnation.
This is a period of very slow world military development. Only world wars like the Yi War and World War II can promote the rapid development of military industry.
Influenced by the frontline, the Military Industry Department of Beihe River is now very popular. The research on automobiles is constantly urging. Trucks, large cranes, cranes, and other industrial killers must be launched. The preparations for basic industries have reached the level of industrial powers such as Britain and France in about 865.
In our traditional ideology, Germany thinks that its industry is very strong, which is an illusion. In fact, it is the strongest in France. France's industry and economy have even remained at the peak of the world for a long time, and it is because the French are too useless.
Having a strong industry and being beaten frequently when going out to fight, makes people feel that French things are not good. In fact, the French's technology is always the leader.
Germany is durable. This item alone makes Germany's military products famous all over the world! Mauser rifles and Krupp cannons are everywhere! That's how it comes.
World War II can be generally called "semi-mechanized war".
This war is based on industrialization, implements large-scale manpower and material mobilization and long-distance transportation, and has powerful artillery firepower, airships, tanks, submarines, etc. for sustainable bombardment.
New types of sea and air weapons have been put into the battlefield one after another, and even terrifying poison gases have come in handy. In short, human wars show obvious characteristics of comprehensive national strength competition and consumption.
But in terms of the key battle that determines the outcome, the battle is essentially still a European 66-6 upward and defensive battle.
Faced with the solid defensive positions of machine guns, trench systems, and wires, it has become increasingly difficult for the attacking party to achieve victory in the war simply by relying on the number of infantry advantages.
Even after a long period of time, high-intensity artillery attacks, coupled with the continuous assault of group infantry, they often only have limited breakthroughs on the enemy's defense line.
Machine guns left a deep impression on people in Yi war, but artillery is the weapon that truly dominates the battlefield.
To put it vividly, Yi War is a war of fighting for cannons. American scholar Mel said in the secret history of Yi War: "The cannons kill more people than light weapons and air strikes, and more people than any other weapon. This situation is the first time in human history, and it may be the last time.
In the late stage of the war, the advantage of the cannon was fully exerted, and the machine guns were out of service. Without cannons, infantry could neither win in offense nor be unbeaten in defense."
Therefore, a new combat model of "artillery conquest and infantry occupation" was formed. This puts high requirements on the supply capacity of artillery shells in each country, and this capability depends on the industrial strength of the country.
Although China's military industry has not yet met this condition, China has actually reached the height of this tactical concept when facing head-on and head-on large-scale operations.
The cute president's view is that no matter how expensive the shells are, they cannot compare to the lives of soldiers.
This concept alone makes all soldiers feel grateful. The cute president's heart always puts people in the first place. The cute president hates the Russians' human wave tactics very much, and uses his life to fill the shortcomings of shells and bullets, and to fill the backwardness of weapons and equipment.
The following saying was circulated in the Chinese army back then: "Veterans are afraid of machine guns, and new soldiers are afraid of cannons."
The reason is that the army is equipped with a small number of artillery artillery, mainly mountain cannons and infantry cannons, with very few shells. Many so-called artillery soldiers only aim directly at gunpoint shooting. Indirect aiming is equivalent to random shooting, which is no different from setting off fireworks. The symbolic significance of artillery fire is far greater than its substantial significance. Therefore, new recruits are often shocked by the rumbling cannon sound, but veterans know that what is really terrifying is the machine guns on the opposite side.
In other words, in the early 20th century, the Chinese warlords, which were showing off their power, were not at the level of actual firepower to combat concepts, compared with the troops of Western powers.
As early as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War more than half a century ago, Li Hongzhang admired the foreigners most for being able to easily smash the heavy city walls with "flowering cannons", so the Huai Army quickly introduced them and swept across southern Jiangsu and became a rising star among the Qing army.
Due to the lack of powerful artillery, the old-fashioned city walls were still valuable fortifications in the warlord melee in the early years of the Republic of China.
In other words, most of the warlord troops' attack capabilities at this time have not yet reached the level of the Huai Army!
For example, the most familiar mullet guns of the Chinese were known to the Germans, but the German army rarely had their own equipment, and almost all of them were equipped with the army.
Why has China become a big market for shell guns?
The reason was that China's industrial foundation was very weak at that time, without a strong artillery force, and the number of machine guns was limited. How to increase the firepower of individual soldiers became a major issue that affected the results of the battle.
In the era when there were no submachine guns, the shell gun was a powerful tool to effectively improve 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 were amazed at the use of firepower of the wreck gun in the future.
In China's warlord civil war, due to the thin firepower of all parties, the personnel damage and environmental damage were actually very limited, which is in sharp contrast to the unprecedented damage brought to Europe by the Yi war.
Chapter completed!