1356 The cost of underestimating the enemy

There was a dead silence in the temporary command headquarters, the shouts of the Russian army outside were earth-shattering, and the marines who fought back were also extremely difficult to kill, to be honest, everything Xiao Lotian said today was really difficult for them to accept.

The Chinese army is a proud army, and from the moment it was born, it was accompanied by one victory after another. The uprising of 100,000 Han Chinese in the Ryukyus set off the curtain on the construction of the Chinese army, and since then this young army has been fighting every year, all the time.

On the Franco-Swiss border, the new army resisted the French cavalry battalions, and the whole of Europe was dumbfounded on the Stone Bridge Heights on the Austro-Prussian battlefield.

Not to mention the use of militia reserve units to block the sneak attack of the French elite corps, as well as several Tanggu defense battles and the capture of the Beijing Division, all of which proved to the whole world the strength of the new army.

Along the way, the most that the new army has fought is to win more with less and overcome the strong with the weak; who have they been afraid of in this world? Every soldier in this army is proud, and their belief in victory in their hearts is unbreakable.

This kind of pride is undoubtedly precious, but in Xiao Letian's eyes, this pride is also dangerous, and the world is far more dangerous than the new officers and soldiers think.

The so-called invincibility of the new army at the moment is actually just the result of the cleverness of Xiao Letian, a strategist, Xiao Letian cautiously walked among the powers, looking for allies, and figuring out the bottom line of a strong country. Always quickly stop before a powerful enemy is about to go berserk, and then change to a harmless appearance.

Establish friendly commercial relations with the United States, establish a paramilitary alliance with Prussia, bow down in front of Britain, and willingly be Britain's pawn to contain Russia.

It is always a small battle and two big battles at the negotiating table, and it is so carefully crossing the river by feeling the stones that Xiao Letian has the biggest worry in his heart, and the UK has not dealt with him so far.

Xiao Lotian can't describe the significance of Britain to the entire earth in this era, this country that controls the entire ocean, the Royal Navy is indeed invincible, even if Xiao Lotian has more than thirty years of black technology Zhiyuan, he is not Britain's opponent.

Industrial strength cannot be compensated for by lip service, and even Xiao Letian can guess at this moment that in the Royal Shipyards of the United Kingdom, countless engineers are copying this battleship in a detailed way based on the limited information of the Zhiyuan.

The more beautiful the Zhiyuan is, the more money Britain will invest in those engineers, and these massive funds and sufficient talents will eventually build a new warship that is far superior to the Zhiyuan.

As long as it is tested at the proving ground, as long as the Queen of England or the Prime Minister has someone willing to invest in such a warship, then the terrifying British industrial power will explode.

Launching a battleship like a dumpling is not an exaggeration at all, it is an iron-clad fact!

The gap in strength is not something that can be completely made up by spirit, how the Chinese people rashly started a war with Britain without preparation, then no matter how capable Xiao Lotian is, failure is doomed.

In fact, it is not only Britain, but also France, and the United States, where the productive forces of those countries that have been baptized by the industrial revolution are 100 times that of the Chinese people in front of them, and this cannot be caught up by ideals and spirit.

Xiao Letian carefully found a balance between the great powers, preferring his own death to help Prussia fight the European war, his own domestic money was not enough to spend, but he used tens of millions of silver reserves to help Prussia rise and support the anti-government forces in France.

This was not a sufficiency, but the only chance for the Chinese to emerge in the international situation at that time. At the weakest moment when the Chinese people were just starting out, it was absolutely impossible to always want to fight alone without relying on several forces to develop together.

However, ordinary officers and soldiers do not have the deep vision of Xiao Letian to be able to see through history, they have long been immersed in the joy of victory after victory and cocked their tails, everyone thinks that they are invincible, the Chinese are invincible, and the Chinese new army is invincible!

But tonight's night battle gave these proud teenagers a slap in the face, and they finally knew that the so-called great powers had a lot of power, not only the ships and guns, but also the high level of industrialization, and the fighting spirit of the Western powers themselves had already made them dumbfounded.

The Forces nouvelles fought with Western armies more than once, and their victories made them think that the European armies were nothing more than that, but everyone did not realize that the French were afraid of causing diplomatic disputes in the conflict on the Franco-Swiss border.

On the Austro-Prussian battlefield, in the bloody battle on the Stone Bridge Heights, the opponent encountered by the new army was actually a young master's corps on the Austrian side, which was a group of aristocratic sons who went to the battlefield to mix their qualifications, and the real elite had already collided with the Prussian regular army.

As for the French expeditionary force that was beaten later, it was nothing more than a colonial army on the Indian subcontinent, far from being an elite army on the mainland.

Xiao Letian understands the doorway, but others don't understand, they still stupidly think that they are fighting against the world's strongest enemy, until the Tsarist Russian army at this moment taught them a lesson, which made the 30,000 marines completely sober.

When the Russian Expeditionary Force came out of the initial chaos, and after they clearly recognized the reality and began to abandon all thoughts of underestimating the enemy and regard the Chinese as the enemy of life and death, the powerful War Bear Legion finally broke out to the level they deserved.

Crazy, bloody, strong, and fearless of death! One by one, the assault teams smashed like hammers on the Chinese defenses, each hammer flying hundreds of millions of sparks.

The proud young man was caught off guard and was beaten in a daze, and it wasn't until Xiao Lotian broke the demons in their hearts that Luo Huo and the others suddenly realized.

Luo Huo's fists clenched, and his bones and joints began to click, as if he was making a huge determination. With a bang, Luo Huo's iron fist slammed on the table and roared, "I understand, everything is because we underestimate the enemy! Today is a crucial lesson for us, I understand!"

"Oh, you get it, so what are you going to do?" Xiao Letian asked coldly.

"Please sit in the command headquarters, and I will personally go down to supervise the battle! Since the enemy dares to fight in the field and dare to take the initiative to charge, our Chinese boys are not cowards!"

"They want to use a killing to stabilize the morale of the army, and we must also use killing to stabilize our proud confidence! If they dare to charge back, we will also dare!"

"Since tonight is a battle of the will of the two armies, we must not lose! Regardless of casualties and consequences, the death squad will press up! If we do not suppress the arrogance of the enemy, then these Rakshasa ghosts will be our demons!"

"If we don't crush them today, how can we confront them head-on in the future! The morale of 30,000 or 20,000 people has been suppressed, and how will we fight in the future when the 100,000 million army fights?"

"If you encounter a wild beast, you can't be afraid!