Bombed away a group of troublemakers, and Cixi and the two uncles were left in the palace, and Yi followed Yixun. This is the core of the conservative forces, and everyone else is making a fuss.

"There are no outsiders, so uncle will tell the truth, is the combat effectiveness of the Xishan Battalion good?"

Yi's face was bitter, "Then I'll tell you the truth, from the moment I prepared to build the Xishan camp, I didn't expect to be able to fight Xiao Letian within ten years......"

"It's not that I'm angry with others to destroy my prestige, but Xiao Letian's army is really difficult to deal with, I have consulted officers from Britain, France, Russia and other countries, although they are more round, but I have already understood the subtext, this is a strong army that makes European armies have a headache......"

"How did the battle between Prussia and Austria be won? We have not yet studied it clearly in the Qing Dynasty, but there is no doubt about one thing: the total number of soldiers invested by both sides in that battle was not less than one million! Moreover, they were all concentrated in a narrow area, and the scale of the battle was unimaginably large......

Cixi is not a woman who does not know about military affairs, and the more than ten years of exterminating the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Twisted Army Rebellion are enough to train her.

Some people say that China has a large land and a large population, so the scale of large-scale battles in ancient times is also large-scale, and it is recorded in the history books that hundreds of thousands or millions of battles are the same as playing, but in fact, there is water in them.

In ancient times, people were good at bragging, but in fact, there were certain factors of strategic deception, and 50,000 or 60,000 troops dared to boast that they were 120,000 troops, and 1560,000 dared to boast that they were 500,000 elites.

This is all counting the soldiers, auxiliaries, and civilians, and then doubling the calculation. According to the efficiency of logistics support in ancient times, 10,000 elite soldiers must be assisted by 20,000 to 30,000 auxiliaries, and the soldiers mainly carry out the most difficult battles, such as some special operations, or raids in a stalemate, and even include the vanguard during the siege.

The auxiliary troops are more likely to perform some daily combat tasks, such as filling gaps in the battlefield, daily patrols, and so on. These jobs don't look at the low level of risk, but they can't be done if there are fewer people.

Finally, there is a larger number of people, the army must have a large number of people to follow, transport grain, grass and military equipment, at that time there was no professional class of engineers, every mountain to open the road and fill the bridge, that is the work of the people.

The backward logistical support work has made the number of civilians far exceed the number of soldiers. Not only that, many armies also have the bad habit of using the people as cannon fodder, for example, when they attack the city, they will drive the first wave of tens of millions of people to attack, not seeking victory, only asking for these lives to consume more bows and arrows and rolling wood and stones of the defenders.

This mode of war has always existed until now, and in the more than ten years of war between the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army, the most people who died were actually the common people and various auxiliaries, and the real core elite did not have a high mortality rate.

Familiar with the war patterns of the Chinese dynasties, it is a bit jaw-dropping to look at the wars in Europe, Prussia and Austria actually mobilized more than 1 million soldiers? Are they really all soldiers who charge into battle? Is there no phenomenon of auxiliaries and civilian men making up the numbers?

The Manchus did not understand the perverted military service system in Europe, especially in Prussia, where all adult males had to undergo military training.

Moreover, they did not understand musket shooting training and army drills, no matter how rigorous, they were not as rigorous as the samurai training in the Chinese era. In layman's terms, the number of soldiers who manipulate musket fire can be quantified in large quantities, just like the assembly line of a factory.

But in the Middle Ages, the samurai needed to spend ten or twenty years honing their skills, which were purely handicraft products, and it was impossible to be efficient.

In ancient times, it was impossible to train a crossbowman without seven or eight years of rigorous training, which shows the inefficiency of this kind of troop composition.

But the musketeers in Europe can definitely be quantified, and adult males are trained in a three-month queue to adapt them to the atmosphere and discipline of the army, and then they are trained in weapons and tactics for another two or three months, which can already be pulled into the battlefield.

In three years, at most, a group of mature soldiers can appear in Western countries, and this efficiency is the root of the national military service system in the later period.

Some people say that the productive forces determine the structure of society and even the political system, so can the productive forces of the armed forces also determine the reform of the military system? The answer is yes.

People in modern society have heard of a saying called "iron-beaten battalion and flowing soldiers", which means that the number of the troops is iron-beaten, but the soldiers are definitely mobile, and they have been in a state of blood exchange for many years.

The core of the establishment of this military system is the efficiency of training soldiers, and such a miracle can only occur if it gets rid of the backward training efficiency of the Middle Ages.

In ancient society, martial arts existed more in the mutual teaching between father and son, master and apprentice, and the art of war had a set of training techniques, and all of them would not be shared with the whole people.

Therefore, the ancient military system was more inclined to the military household system, the Ming Dynasty had military households, the Qing Dynasty had eight banners and green battalions, in the final analysis, the emergence of this system was not determined by the emperor's brain, but very suitable for the social environment at that time.

The children of military families have to practice martial arts since they were young, and even if they waste firewood after more than ten years, they are always better than the children of peasant families, and even if the children of peasant families are ambitious, they cannot be taught by famous teachers, so they have no strength, and in the end, they can only be a ruffian in the countryside and cannot go to the battlefield.

In the late Qing Dynasty, people didn't understand what science and technology were, what was the art of learning things, nor did they understand geography, let alone what productivity was.

Therefore, no matter how smart they are, they can't understand the strategies and tactics of Xiao Letian and others, because this has nothing to do with IQ, but just a different dimension of thinking.

The beings of the two-dimensional world cannot understand how wonderful the three-dimensional world is, and the three-dimensional world cannot understand what the four-dimensional space is like.

After analyzing and analyzing, Cixi could only sigh, "Speaking of which, I still have to use the old way to deal with him! Last time, I fought the secret scolding of the people in the court, and used the method of sprinkling to suppress him Xiao Letian, do you have to let me be a shrew in the future?"

"You big men can't stand up to this country, do you have to show up to me as a woman?" Cixi listened to Yi's frustrating words, and got up angrily.

"Even if the mourning family is shameless and plays tricks with him Xiao Letian, but you also have to remember clearly, this kind of trick works once, twice, do you still want to use it for a lifetime......?