Chapter 237
Why are these subordinates of his own family so inflated, Li Zhe understands very well, in the final analysis, it is because his own advantage is too great.
The generation gap of the times is obvious in the military, whether it is Xu Qingyuan in the navy at the beginning or the generals under this group of generals in the army now.
The generational gap between the times allowed them to win in the face of any army that was a whole era behind their own, and there was almost no possibility of defeat.
Just like Xu Qingyuan of the navy, although Li Zhe helped the navy get two weapons of great destruction, such as steam warships and rifled guns, he himself was not familiar with naval warfare, although he did not know how to give full play to his own advantages. However, in actual combat, generals like Xu Qingyuan were very quickly able to explore and create the most suitable tactics for the current Tianzhu Navy and give full play to their comparative advantages to the greatest extent.
Hence the Battle of Tanjung, which was an incredible victory in this era.
This victory can be said to explain a lot of problems, and the tactics created by Xu Qingyuan in the naval battle can be said to be suitable for the Tianzhu Navy to fight with any navy of this era.
Therefore, the difference between the number of warships and tonnage of the traditional number of warships and tonnage of the new navy of this era cannot explain any problem. At least until the imperial court's weaponry was upgraded to the same level as the Tianzhu Navy, this difference always existed.
So now it can be said that on the surface, the scale comparison of Li Zhe's side of the confrontation between the two sides is a disadvantage, but in fact, it is not necessarily the case, and the coaches of both sides know this.
This is just the navy that Li Zhe is not familiar with, as for the army, the difference between the Tianzhu army and the army of the old era is even greater, in fact, under the efforts of Li Zhe, who is the governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the Tianzhu Army has completely changed from what it used to be, not only the renewal of weapons and equipment, such as the upgrading of Li's fire pistol from arquebus to flintlock pistol, as well as the upgrading of fire running, the important thing is that the innovation of the military tactical system combined with these weapons beyond the times is the real reason for the rebirth of the Tianzhu Army.
In fact, from the perspective of the Japanese army, which had the smoothest military innovation, the army that Li Zhe had devoted the most effort to, had basically reached the level of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in another world, and Li Zhe personally led this army, and even had the confidence to compete with Napoleon, who swept Europe in another world. Not to mention the imperial army in front of him.
Supporting the Japanese army is the biggest hole card in Li Zhe's hand, and now this point has not yet been shown because of the vulnerability of the Ning Wang Domain's army.
Most of the people who have heard of the Manchurian War are that the army of King Ning is too bad, not that the Tianzhu army is too strong, this is easy to understand, compared to the navy, there are too many factors affecting the battle on land, and various situations may occur, without a valuable reference target, it is difficult for others to have a strong concept of the Tianzhu army. Coupled with the fact that as the lord of King Ning's domain, His Royal Highness King Ning's own poor performance largely blurred the evaluation of the Tianzhu Army by others.
In fact, in this war, if the navy of Ning Wang Fan may be able to give the Tianzhu Navy a little difficulty, the army of Ning Wang Fan was really completely beaten by the Tianzhu Army, and they even had little intention of resisting, otherwise it would be impossible for the Tianzhu Army to bulldoze Manchurian Raka within two months, which is almost the time for an army to march from west to east to cross Manchuria.
It can be that such a record has not been valued by the world, in the Manchurian War is really brilliant is the Tianzhu navy, Xu Qingyuan's performance in the Battle of Tanjung is too amazing, the style of this battle can be said to completely overwhelm the performance of the army with the same brilliant record.
This is a little embarrassing, the guys who have always thought they are the strongest army in the world have been robbed of the limelight by the navy, which makes the group of animals under Li Zhe embarrassed.
So now, Li Zhe can easily hear the sinister intentions of these guys who faintly want to provoke themselves to take the initiative to attack the army of the Great Song Dynasty, these guys' thoughts of wanting to prove their combat strength are too obvious, and the court in front of them is not the best whetstone.
As long as this last imperial army is defeated, it is the best opportunity to correct the name of the Tianzhu army.
Take a look at the numbers of these imperial armies! Fengsheng Army, Xuanwu Army, Xuanwei Army, the Fourth Army of the Hai Song Dynasty, that is, Xuanwu and Xuanwei were also the victorious armies that played a great reputation in the later wars.
Li Zhe couldn't be clearer about the thoughts of his subordinates.
However, take the initiative to send troops and go to war with the imperial court?
No, no.
Li Zhe would not agree to send troops.
These bastards under their own command, they really fought and fought, and they didn't think about whether some wars should be fought, how they should be fought, and how they should end.
The most important thing for a truly qualified coach is not how to start a war, but how to end the war more advantageously!
The current Tianzhu is far from the time to fully develop with the Great Song Dynasty, and it will be a disaster for the current Tianzhu.
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Tianzhu, Ping'an Street, Mengzhou City, the City Bosi Commodity Exchange, the situation in the market is a little weird now.
Lao Meng is an ore merchant from the north, he owns a large amount of iron ore in the northwest of Tianzhu, and even took advantage of the imperial court's northern expedition last year to do business in the Pamirs. Lao Meng had tens of thousands of slaves in mining alone, and Lao Meng also had many partners in the two khanates in the north.
It is in Mengzhou, Lao Meng is also the leader of the group of large iron ore businessmen in the ranks, Tianzhu this year's steel industry outbreak also has a credit to Lao Meng, if there is no iron ore businessmen like Lao Meng to dig out the iron ore from the mountains in the north, and then find a way to transport it to the coast where the steel industry is concentrated, Tianzhu's steel industry can not complete such a leap so easily.
Lao Meng also did everything possible to catch up with the relationship of the Li Manor and became one of the suppliers of iron ore in the Li Manor, which Lao Meng squeezed in with great effort, in order to rub the joy of Li Zhe, a nobleman.
But today, Lao Meng looked at the scoreboard on the wall with a serious face, and the price of iron ore marked on it made his heart gasp, what was going on? How can it be?
What happened, why did the price of iron ore on the exchange plummet early this morning?