Turning his gaze to Chen Ming, who was already on his way back to Nanjing.

Intelligence agencies, not just the MIA, sent the progress of the 'new weapons' that are now available in European countries.

Just as Chen Ming thought before, all European countries have invested in a major change of clothing in order to ensure their military capabilities. As the cost of new rifles and weapons skyrocketed, the number of armies in various countries was now in a state of retraction after the rapid expansion of the early days of the French Revolution.

An obvious example - Russia.

The number of Russian troops in Europe is absolutely incomparably huge, because of their large numbers. After the end of the Sixth Russo-Turkish War, according to the Military Intelligence Agency, the Russians prepared a million-dollar expansion plan, and the crazy momentum was unparalleled. But now the number of Russian troops has dropped from 750,000 at its peak four years ago to less than 500,000 today. Among them, the cavalry force of more than 100,000 has not decreased at all. In other words, the number of gray cattle in Russia's traditional infantry units has been reduced by half.

St. Petersburg's brains were so bad that they knew how powerless their soldiers, who were unqualified except for bravery, to fight an army armed with today's Minnie rifles with inferior flintlock pistols.

And then there are livestock, these people can also create value if they stay in Russia. And if it is senseless to die on the battlefield, it will be a great harm to the whole of Russia.

Although the difficult birth of new weapons has caused European countries to halt their own military build-up patterns, they are also all aware of the importance of reserves.

Just like the French. When the revolution broke out, when the first anti-French coalition swooped in, the French, who had only 200,000 troops before the war, exploded into two or three times the size of the army.

The self-defense forces, with their high revolutionary will, used their endless numbers and high revolutionary fighting spirit to resist foreign interference in the early stage of the revolution, protect the revolutionary achievements in the seedlings, and let the post-revolutionary Paris government pass through the most dangerous stage.

When the French reached their peak in 1795, it is said that there were more than a million revolutionary self-defense troops in France.

The Austrians also numbered more than 400,000 troops at their peak, and their standing army was similar to that of the French.

And Prussia. After the death of Frederick II, the military strength of the Kingdom of Prussia, which began to decline continuously, and the Kingdom of Prussia, which had a small population of only 8.5 million (including the population that divided Poland), were able to mobilize more than 300,000 troops anytime and anywhere.

The Europeans fully realized the importance of reserves during the decade of war, and the 300,000 Russian troops were transferred from active soldiers to reserves.

There is no way. There are simply too many great powers in Europe. It's not like China, there are no rivals around you. From a purely military point of view, China should not have released the Mini rifle at all.

Because China's military pressure is too small, the countries around it are too small, and China's enemies are too bad, even if the shots are shot in a row, even if they are taught from the West, and China's deep artillery strength can be added to form an all-round advantage. Whether it's for Asia, it's for Europe.

The problem of range and accuracy of infantry firepower was not an urgent concern of Chen Han's army.

It should be understood that a rifled gun is much more expensive than a smoothbore gun, and it is limited by the bottleneck of metallurgical technology, and they themselves are not yet useful. Even today's manufacturing process, whether it is the forging of the barrel process or the rifling process, it has all taken countless painstaking efforts and a large amount of silver from the Chen Han Ordnance System to climb to the current level step by step.

But even so, rifled guns have a much worse lifespan than smoothbore guns.

This is not a difference in the era of cast-iron barrels with a service life of only 200 or 300 rounds, but a qualitative difference. Even if a rifled gun has a thousand rounds of life, it is still worse than a smoothbore gun.

With China's huge population advantage and China's strong material support, what the army really wants to increase is the rate of fire. If Chen Ming hadn't come up with a big killer weapon like rockets, he would have been killed by a platoon of guns, and Chen Han's army would have been able to wait for ten or twenty years, and China would still be able to dominate the Quartet with smoothbore guns.

In the end, it's all because of Europe. In order to make Europe as chaotic as in the original time and space history, in order to find a weapon that can well balance rockets for Napoleon, many officers used skirmishers + front-loading rifled guns to deal with rockets, but the latter's rate of fire was too bad, and the concealment effect of the front-loading gun era was always a tragedy.

So Chen Ming was also 'forced' to reveal the Mini rifle.

The environment in Europe is completely different from that in Asia. Chen Ming must admit that the industrial level of European countries in this era is far superior to that of Asia. Every country here, even if it is as small as the Netherlands, has a systematic modern industrial system, and once the technology of front-loading rifled guns and parmini ammunition spreads, it will inevitably become the goal of all parties' efforts, which makes all countries have the need to completely change the infantry firepower, and this pressure does not exist in China in the East.

It's just that rifled guns and mini bullets are only hardware changes, and the innovation of combat weapons must also be fulfilled in combat methods. But Chen Ming himself is not a far-sighted military strategist, he was a novice in his last life, and China has been walking for several years in the software of combat methods, but it is still in the stage of change.

With Chen Ming's little understanding of being a Xiaobai in his previous life, and corresponding to the innovation of the current country's army, it is obviously incompetent.

Fortunately, Chen Ming got a staff department, and when the Europeans were still making great strides in horizontal tactics, the Chinese army quietly entered the era of stragglers + column tactics. The systematic summary of countless elites in the General Staff Department has brought great changes to the Chen Han National Defense Army.

It's just that all the previous 'experience' was gained in secret exercises, and the real actual combat is still to be discussed.

Fortunately, Chen Ming made a rocket early, so that the national defense army changed from weak to strong, and then to the peak of the country, very few large numbers of troops put out a large horizontal phalanx like a chessboard, dignified and stunned. The imprint of platoon shootings is only a black layer on the body of the Chinese army, and the transformation of the Chinese soldiers is very easy, and they are consciously transformed under the guidance of 'theory'. And unlike the French, who were the most capable of fighting in Europe at this time, their transformation was also completely passive and unconscious.

Of course, this is not to say that the combat effectiveness of stragglers + column tactics is awesome, and if the officer does not command well, he will definitely play SB.

It's just that under the power of today's weapons, column + skirmisher tactics are more flexible. It is also more suitable to organize those units that are not well trained and have a large number of people to give full play to their due combat effectiveness. At the same time, it is also more adaptable to the complex and changeable battlefield.

In the Napoleonic era of the original time and space history, the reason why the French infantry was able to carry forward the column tactics was not because they were very lacking in the quality of soldiers compared with the professional armies of neighboring countries.

In the era of smoothbore guns, in the era of no rockets, the ideal hypothetical battlefield environment contrasts, although the horizontal team is stiff, can most effectively organize the firepower and maximize the firepower. At the same time, the superior training quality of professional soldiers also represents a kind of 'elite culture'. This mode of warfare can quickly distinguish which troops are the ridiculous rabble.

And now, the tactics of the skirmishers, the reinforced version of the rifle shooters, and the coordination tactics of the soldiers of the column, are no longer the 'facts of war' that history forced on the countries of Europe.

- Why is the military an absolutely conservative group?

That's because the 'traditions' that the army upholds are the experience they have summed up with countless blood, victories and defeats. It's not the farts that are beaten, it's not the failures that are beaten, they won't change. Rather, it is a more direct innovation in weapons, but it has forced the military generals of Western countries to abandon everything in the past.

Clausewitz lived during the Napoleonic Wars, and his "On War" was later called the foundation work of modern Western military science. But in this day and age, can Clausewitz still write a "Theory of War" that represents the foundation of modern Western military science? God forbid him not to be shot through the head by a Mini bullet fired by the French during the war.

And just when Chen Ming was returning to Nanjing along the Yangtze River on the imperial boat, a recital that was urgently delivered to him by North America was also delivered.

The Treaty of China and the West, later known as the Treaty of Havana, was signed on the first month of the 25th year of the lunar calendar. From the treaty itself, it was an exemplary treaty of friendship between the two countries, and a sign of the end of the war between China and Spain.

In addition to the many official words of friendship between the two countries, there are only three core points of the treaty: first, China and Spain will cease war and live in peace. The second is to designate trade places between the two sides and maintain commercial and trade exchanges under government supervision. The third is to confirm the principle of the administration of Spanish descendants, and China will allow Spanish descendants to withdraw from Mexico, the Isthmus of Central America, and other places within a year after the armistice.

Spain did not make reparations, not even ceded Colombian land, but they ceded all of Chile, including the entire Atacama Desert and the south-central region of Chile. Then there is the Falklands, the Malvinas Islands located on the Patagonian continental shelf in the southeastern corner of the South American continent.

This is China's first step into the east coast of South America.

The Spaniards were reluctant at first. But the situation is stronger than people, and it seems logical for China to give up Colombian land and make territorial claims on the Falklands. As for Chile, the big ducks themselves did not hold on, and they can't blame anyone else.

The Malvinas Islands, also known as the Falkland Islands, are located on the Patagonian continental shelf in the South Atlantic Ocean. The main archipelago includes Soledar, Great Malvina and 776 small islands, with a total area of 10,000 square kilometers.

The French navigator Bougainville first established a settlement on East Falkland Island in 1764. The British then settled in West Falkland, but were expelled by the Spaniards in 1770, who bought all the property rights to the French settlement around 1767. After the threat of war, Britain restored its outpost on West Falkland Island in 1771 and withdrew from the island in 1774 for economic reasons, but did not abandon its claim to sovereignty. The Spanish settlements in East Falkland (Soledad Island) have remained until now, and now they are all owned by China. Except West Falkland!

Chen Ming looked at the music table in front of him, and a satisfied smile hung on the corner of his mouth. That's a good talk, isn't it? The fly in the ointment was West Falkland, and Chen Ming could almost predict that the British would definitely return to West Falkland after learning of the Sino-Spanish armistice. It is fixed on the Falklands like a nail, under China's nose.

But in any case, this time China will be able to enter the east coast of the Americas on a large scale - into the Atlantic.