Bai Huawei mentioned Ding Zhennan and also mentioned the new military doctrine in a more obscure way, obviously for another purpose.

Although he lacked experience, Jiang Wenlong was not stupid, and knew that Bai Huawei must not say it casually, otherwise he would not have asked him to come to the open-air corridor outside.

"At the beginning, almost everyone, including me, thought that Ding Zhennan was talking nonsense."

"New military doctrine?"

Bai Huawei shook his head, denied Jiang Wenlong's statement, and then began to say: "No matter what, the new military doctrine has a very prominent significance, at least it is a bold attempt, there is no need to deny it. What makes us feel puzzled and unacceptable is actually the denial of the global war. ”

This time, Jiang Wenlong did not interject.

For him, the global war is completely history, let alone personal experience, even with those who have experienced it.

"Over the past few decades, if not hundreds of years, we have always believed that if we can mobilize all our forces, we can defeat all enemy countries, or at least the main ones, through a large-scale war with the largest population, the most complete industrial system and the most powerful military power in the world."

Speaking of this, Bai Huawei sighed, but didn't let Jiang Wenlong answer.

"If anything, in the First Global War, we were one step away from that purpose. If it weren't for the sudden betrayal of the Narrow-Sized Empire and the joining of the Nuland Federation in the Alliance, it would have been a different outcome. Unfortunately, this is nothing more than wishful thinking on our part. ”

"The problem is that even if this assumption were to come true, we would not have achieved much better results in the First Global War than we have now in the Second Global War. In fact, after defeating the Alliance, we still have to face the Empire. ”

When Jiang Wenlong said these words, Bai Huawei was just listening carefully, and he didn't mean to express his opinion.

"Besides, with the technical level of the First Global War, it was extremely difficult to attack Nuland itself across the ocean, and it was basically impossible to succeed."

Jiang Wenlong is not talking casually, after all, some people now like to review the First Global War, and get a completely different result through deduction.

Jiang Wenlong has always scoffed at this.

At this time, Bai Huawei nodded slightly.

If anything, amphibious landing operations have always been the number one problem for the Navy, and it was not until World War II that carrier-based aviation was developed, and there was a fundamental change. In all previous wars, there was little hope of winning an amphibious landing operation.

Historically, the kingdom of Bran relied on longbowmen to thwart the invading army of Locke on the beachhead.

In fact, even in modern times, that is, in the first global war, there were more defeats and fewer victories, and there were few classic examples of victory.

For example, in order to defeat the Terr Empire, the Bran Kingdom mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and almost half a navy to launch an unprecedented landing operation in the Eastern Continent Heart Sea. After months of fierce fighting, hundreds of thousands of casualties and the loss of several dreadnoughts, the battle ended in defeat.

It was this landing operation that made Chull, who was the Minister of the Navy at the time, have to take the blame and resign.

Even the more successful examples, such as the landing operation of the Narrow Army at the southern tip of the Ice Storm Peninsula, suffered extremely heavy losses, and after the successful landing, because the follow-up investment was not in place, the breakthrough was not expanded in time, and the value of the successful landing was greatly reduced.

Fundamentally speaking, it is the lack of delivery capacity from sea to land.

In fact, it is with this that the Bran Kingdom can dominate the world for hundreds of years, and it can crush the military threat from the Western Continent powers with just a powerful fleet.

This characteristic also determines that expeditionary operations are more defeats than victories.

Historically, there have been many examples of similar battles.

For example, in the largest local war between the Liang Luo War and the First Global War, the Second Boer War, just to deal with tens of thousands of colonists who moved to the Xuan Continent, the Bran Kingdom used almost all the land forces, burned the huge military expenses equivalent to 2 years of income, and achieved a disastrous victory at the cost of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers killed and wounded. The point is that in the end a compromise was made and the privileges of these colonizers were recognized.

In this regard, the Liangxia Empire was no different.

The most representative is the expedition to the Kingdom of Devon.

After dominating Fanyanyang, that is, in the post-Chen Bingxun era, in order to expand the scope of the empire's interests and lay the foundation for advancing into Austria, Liu Zhentang, the commander-in-chief of the navy at that time, proposed to attack the Diwen Kingdom, which was located in the southernmost part of the southeast region, that is, in the north of the continent of Austria.

Because it was ruled by the colonists of the Tulip Kingdom, in the southeast, the Diwen Kingdom was very special and had little to do with other colonies.

It's just that its strategic value is huge.

Using the Kingdom of Devon as a springboard can shorten the battle line of the remote Austria by ninety, and it can land on the west coast where the population is smaller and more successful.

Crucially, the Kingdom of Devon is only a small country, with a population of less than 500,000, and it is mainly indigenous. There are less than 10,000 immigrants with strong combat effectiveness, and the most of them are only 2,000 middle-aged men who can take up arms and fight, and I am afraid that less than 1,000 are willing to fight.

According to Liu Zhentang's plan, the Diwen Kingdom can go down in one go!

As a result, after investing three ground forces and using half of the warships, it failed to occupy the island, which covers an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers. After several years of fierce fighting and tens of thousands of casualties, the Imperial Navy had to withdraw its troops and abandon the idea of capturing the kingdom of Diven.

In fact, it was through this war that the Kingdom of Devon won the respect of the empire and officially declared its independence after the end of the Second Global War.

As a result, the Kingdom of Devon became the only country in the Guia region controlled and dominated by the descendants of Western colonies.

It can be seen that to launch a landing operation across the ocean during the First Global War, and against the Nuland Federation, which is second only to the Empire, is not a risk at all, but to send thousands of soldiers to the slaughterhouse to make meaningless sacrifices.

Even more than 20 years later, at the end of the Second World War, when only the recalcitrant Nuland Republic remained, the imperial authorities had no choice but to forbear. According to estimates made at the time, the landing and attack on Nuland proper, even if the least difficult combat plan was chosen, would have killed and injured about 250,000 officers and soldiers during the landing phase. To defeat the Nuland Republic, it is feared that more than 5 million casualties will be suffered.

Obviously, this is a price that no one can accept.

Prior to this, the total casualties of the Empire's army and navy were less than 2 million!

Crucially, such a huge number of casualties would overshadow the victory. Even if you occupy the entire Beigu Continent, you can't compensate for the losses suffered.

It can be seen that even if the first global war is successfully fought, it will not be able to achieve a complete victory.

The final outcome is not fundamentally different from the Second Global War.

To say it, the Second Global War itself was a continuation of the First Global War, and the victory belonging to the Liangxia Empire came only more than 20 years later.

In that case, where is the total victory?

Jiang Wenlong's thinking was very clear, and he said it very directly, and he did not become cautious just because Bai Huawei was the commander of the fleet.

This, of course, is actually characteristic of young officers in the Imperial Navy.

"As you said, we came to this conclusion after repeated deductions." Bai Huawei didn't think that Jiang Wen was bold, after all, he didn't have any guts, and he couldn't enter the fleet headquarters. Again, this conclusion also proves Ding Zhennan's point.

"Is the idea of fighting a global war wrong?"

Bai Huawei nodded, and then said: "At that time, there were still some senior generals who were unwilling to accept it, and they were even more admirals. However, there is nothing surprising about it. The idea of fighting a global war has been around for decades and has always been cherished by us. More importantly, in less than a hundred years, two commanders at the level of the god of war were born, which strengthened our desire to fight a global war. ”

"This ......"

"With the emergence of a god of war commander, we may be able to defeat all the Western powers, led by the Republic of Nuland, in the third global war."

When he said this, Bai Huawei showed a bitter smile.

In this regard, Jiang Wenlong was obviously a little embarrassed.

Everyone knows that Bai Huawei is the son of Bai Zhizhan, and he is the youngest son who has attracted the most attention.

The main thing is that Bai Zhizhan married late, and in addition to the eldest son, the next 3 are all daughters, and he only had a second son and the youngest daughter in his later years. By the time Bai Zhizhan left the Naval Headquarters, Bai Huawei had just reached adulthood and was admitted to the Imperial Naval Academy with the best grades that year.

From the day he put on his uniform, he was considered the successor of the god of war, the commander of the Imperial Navy in the next global war.

In fact, this is mainly related to his performance when he was young.

It's a pity that there are no geniuses in the world, but there are many stupid deeds that are fueled by pulling seedlings.

All in all, Bai Huawei is more famous.

It's not that his ability isn't strong enough, but it's far from being worthy of his reputation.

According to a fairer statement, Bai Huawei's command ability is at most comparable to Liu Xiangzhen, and compared with Bai Zhizhan, it is not half a star worse.

As for whether a third god of war level commander can emerge in the next war, it's hard to say.

In fact, it can be said that there is not much hope.

The point is that after the end of the Second World War, the situation has remained largely peaceful for more than 40 years, and the veterans who roamed the battlefields during the Second World War have all passed away, even the younger officers are old, such as the current Imperial Premiere Zhou Yongtao.

During the Second Global War, Zhou Yongtao was only in his 20s and was a veritable little fresh meat.

From the perspective of inheritance, the generation represented by Bai Huawei is the last group of officers who can still get guidance from their predecessors who participated in the Great War. In the future, even if it is a top student of the Naval Academy, it may not be able to meet Liu Xiangzhen, let alone be taught face-to-face by the principal.

To make matters worse, after the Great War, there was no decent naval battle.

For decades, the main task of the Imperial Navy was to deal with and clean up those small countries that were not very obedient, and to act as a big stick to protect the interests of the Empire.

This kind of combat operation, which is similar to public order, is simply not capable of training a high-quality contingent of officers and men, especially commanders at the commander-in-chief level.

Don't forget, White Stops was not a naval god of war from the beginning.

In his youth, he took part in the Battle of the Watchman Strait, where he made proposals to the commander of the fleet that were of great significance and changed the tide of the war. After the end of World War I, he was involved in the design and construction of all fleet aircraft carriers of the Imperial Navy as Chief Inspector, and played a leading role in the annual fleet exercises. Even so, it took nearly 20 years of training to become famous in the first battle after that.

If nothing else, the Imperial Navy of that era, and indeed the entire empire, were preparing for revenge.

Even if there was no large-scale war during the period, let alone a decisive battle of the fleet, the Imperial Navy did not relax, and all the officers and men held their breath.

In contrast, after the Second Global War, it was too comfortable.

After gaining global supremacy and becoming the world's number one navy, the Imperial Navy slackened at once, especially after the departure of the White Stop.

It's not that the commanders behind are not effective, it's that times have changed.

In the past, no one would have believed that the Imperial Navy would not be able to recruit new recruits, but now it has become the norm. Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even officers, it is not as good as a year. The reason is simple: talented young people are more likely to work in jobs that make a lot of money than to go to the army to eat and cry, even if the Navy has always been well paid and less attractive than banks, doctors and lawyers.

If you can get an annual salary of one million, why should you go to the army and endure hardship?

In this case, how likely is it that a god of war like Bai Zhizhan will be born?

Jiang Wenlong has more say on this issue.

If it weren't for his insistence and the laws protecting human rights, he would have become a student at the Imperial Royal Academy. Both of his parents thought he should take a full scholarship to study law or, more popularly, finance. The point is that his high school teacher also hopes that he can go to the Imperial Royal Academy, mainly because his middle school has not had students admitted to the Imperial Royal Academy for many years.

A professional soldier, even if he becomes a general when he retires, his lifetime income is less than a fraction of that of a lawyer or financial trader.

In addition, the probability of becoming a general is extremely slim.

The Imperial Naval Academy enrolls 3,600 new students every year, and an officer's service career is generally about 35 years, and the Imperial Navy has a total of more than 600 active generals, so the probability of promotion to general is only 0.4%, that is, 2,500 officers, only one can become a general.

For officers of civilian origin, the probability of promotion is even lower, about 1 in 10 of the average.

In contrast, a dedicated surgeon can become an attending physician in an average of 20 years. If you are a lawyer, as long as you are not too lucky, find the right partner, and work hard for about 15 years, you can have your own firm or become a partner.

Obviously, this is one of the reasons why young people are reluctant to join the army.

Talented young people don't want to join the army, and they don't usually have many opportunities to exercise, so where is the god of war?

As a matter of fact, the quality of officers and men is a big issue in itself.

Don't look at the Imperial Navy, which has always paid attention to military style and discipline, but with these young officers and soldiers today, even if they are resurrected from the war, they may not be able to sweep the four seas.

From this point of view, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to count on the "God of War" to achieve a comprehensive victory!

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