Air supremacy is a concept that has evolved with technology and the times, and its grandfather is land supremacy and its father is sea supremacy. Although they were in East Asia in the 11th century, their basic military knowledge still made them attach great importance to the application of advanced technology that should not have appeared in this era. Mastering air supremacy is the premise of mastering the lifeblood of all transportation and logistics. Before the world was conquered, air supremacy was the main force that crossed the blockade of all major waterways and transportation lifelines. Until a fleet cluster with enough global coverage is created, a small number of aircraft will have the same effect. A 300-kilogram bomb or torpedo can destroy a 10,000-stone ship. The replacement of the fleet by aircraft can be described as a classic method of exchanging technology for cost. There is no best model for establishing global hegemony, only the most provincial one.

Among the thousands of books that have been listed as professional textbooks for higher education among countless books that have been shamelessly plagiarized, geopolitics is one of the important compulsory courses in military academies. Geopolitics is a science that studies the laws of the formation, development and decline of countries, and some people regard geopolitics as "the art or science of using geography to seek guidelines for political purposes", which is actually a combination of geography and politics, also known as geopolitics. It focuses on the characteristic, historical, and structural aspects of geography on international politics. In particular, the influence of relations with other countries regards geographical factors as a basic factor that influences or even determines a country's foreign political decision-making, and analyzes and predicts the strategic situation in the world or region and the political behavior of the countries concerned on the basis of these geographical factors and the geographical formation of the political pattern. Superiority at all levels of strategy and tactics comes at a cost. If you want to always have an advantage in your hands, you need to use both hard and soft. The combination of carrots and sticks is a must, geographically occupying all or most of the key areas (e.g., the seven major straits, the three major isthmuses). The establishment of military base control would have been the most straightforward method, but it would have required a lot of manpower and material resources, and it was difficult to get enough motivation to support such an expensive layout before entering full industrialization.

Expansion without sufficient trade or economic factors is bound to fail, and everything from the Western Regions to the Three Treasure Eunuchs has fallen short due to economic factors. It is not an empty saying that the economic base determines the superstructure.

In the end, Zhao Shouzhong of the old city proposed the most cost-effective plan for building a base, that is, an air base with only one-fiftieth of the cost of a naval fleet base or one-twentieth of an army base. The cost of a few bombers is only one percent of that of a fleet, but the deterrent and campaign effect they create is far greater than that of a fleet.

Xiong Jun got his wish and became the first batch of active air force officers with actual combat experience after instructors, and the colonel-level officers who could command 20 bombers under his command suddenly became the youngest rising star in the internal armed forces.

Many staff officers and senior employees who understand the intentions of the crossing have also been hinted at and encouraged, as long as they have the opportunity, they can soar to the top if they seize it, and if they don't catch it, they can only boil their qualifications. In view of the backwardness of the surrounding countries and the whole world, the crossing only needs to maintain an air force aircraft group with a number of more than 1,000, and any more is a waste.

The reason for the fact that the number of the army is only at the minimum level of policing and normal deterrence in the border areas is due to the huge expenditure and the strong mobilization system. A small new-style army infantry regiment, with a full strength of 2,400 people, each soldier's annual professional salary is higher than that of the box army and lower than that of the forbidden army, and there is no deduction and arrears, but it is higher than many low-ranking officers of the Great Song Empire. The annual expenditure on equipment and training costs hundreds of thousands of dollars (this price is still the settlement price of internal supply). If the Liao State wanted to build an infantry regiment with the same combat effectiveness, it would cost enough money to build 5 elite heavy cavalry of the same size. Therefore, a large number of firearms, consumables, and military supplies were high-grade goods configured according to the standards of the modern German army, such as flintlock pistols, mortars, steel helmets, canned food, special melons and fruits, knives that can be regarded as sharpening iron, and extremely expensive chain mail. If the saber in the hand of a veteran is sold on the black market, countless foreign businessmen rush to buy it, and the price can easily rise to more than 400 yuan. A better officer's knife is a steel knife comparable to a Damascus knife, and it can easily be sold for a thousand times.

Add to this the fact that dozens or hundreds of military horses can only be bought, and a large number of expensive yellow gunpowder (nitro explosive) cannons, and an artillery regiment or cavalry regiment is even more expensive. There are only 300 regiments in the standing army across the country, and the average annual financial revenue is consumed by 65 million yuan, which basically makes the finances of the Great Song Empire fall into a quagmire. Although there is a huge fiscal surplus every year, the surplus will be eaten up by the increase in military spending the following year.

Promoting military reform was also one of the many new policies supported by Empress Dowager Gao, in order to buy off the generals, paralyze the imperial family and install cronies, the people through the public formulated a perfect plan to surpass Star Wars. He used his cronies to grasp the actual power at the grassroots level, used the high growth of military spending to drag down the finances of the Great Song Empire, and used the luxury and greed of the high-level generals to gradually grasp all the power of almost all the newly established high-tech services. All the superficial articles that have been made revolve around creating the illusion that new technology services have the necessary surname to establish and maintain, but do not have much combat effectiveness. The purpose of this is to raise a sky-devouring beast under the cloak of legality, and you must know that the minimum expenditure of a pure firearms army is a hundred times that of an infantry army of the Cold Weapon era of the same size, and more than ten times that of an elite cavalry corps in heavy armor. Without showing a trace, the paralysis of the generals, with little need for financial support, the establishment of a legal (private) political axe army funded by 10% from the treasury and 90% from the major military-related enterprises under the Chenji Group is relatively smooth.

The elite of the cold weapon era is also a high will to fight, and orders are forbidden, and compared with nationalism, high-intensity physical training, modern advanced tactical exercises, and modern troops transformed from big fish and meat, they are the five scum of war. The tactical level of a private is much higher than that of officers in the old era at the level of generals, and this kind of gap between the times is all caused by education and training, just like the gap between the illiterate people who heard the storyteller telling the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the military cadets who have received a series of modern education.

The disparity between software and hardware has created an extreme asymmetry in combat effectiveness. The combat effectiveness of the forbidden army of the Great Song Empire was only one-tenth of the armed force under the establishment of many anti-smuggling teams in the northwest (after the restructuring of the dart bureau) controlled by the Crossing Public. In battles such as sieges, it is a one-sided massacre. The high ground and city wall guarded by a squad of anti-smuggling teams could not be attacked by 10,000 people, and half of them were killed by numerous controllable detonating mines before they reached the edge of the city wall, and the remaining half would be wiped out by several multi-barrel revoltaining machine guns within a few minutes.

Fireworks-grade gunpowder cannons are enough to destroy wooden barracks or buildings, not to mention clandestinely used multiple rocket launchers and anti-materiel stunners. A thousand troops can annihilate more than 100,000 enemy cavalry in the wilderness, a miracle that can only be created by mines, heavy machine guns, barbed wire, and a large amount of artillery ammunition. Therefore, the Western Xia, Liao, and all hostile forces on land were vulnerable. Even when crossing the tall walls, a large number of heavy cannons of more than 150 mm can easily destroy the walls. The modern army, which has a huge spending, is naturally a very good existence, but it is a loss-making business in the eyes of the public, and the surname-to-price ratio is far inferior to that of the air force and navy.

The navy can act as an armed merchant ship, bringing back a large number of overseas resources and goods, and there are absolutely no obstacles to its development except for the lack of sufficiently qualified sailors and officers. Fuzhou Shipyard can use timber from Yuben, Dongyi Island, Dayue, Liaoguo and other places to produce nearly 1,000 tons of ships launched every day (note that it is the tonnage rather than the number of ships), and these production capacities have strongly promoted the development of the coastal economy and the hardware construction of the navy.

As for the aerospace industry, which belongs to high-tech technology, it is very cheating, and the most urgently needed element is not software talents, but the aviation industry spare parts system supported by various precision industries. In view of the fact that a large amount of military resources and production capacity are tilted towards the navy and the army, the air force has not attracted the attention of Wang Xinyu, a relatively conservative believer in artillery, and other traversers, until Li Ji proposed to build an airship and aircraft industry and promote the upgrading of the precision industry and light materials industry. The Air Force's specialized academies and bases, which were originally founded on a whim, have suddenly changed from a state of extreme secrecy to a high-level hot focus in the market. Xiong Jun also entered the sight of the traversal crowd just in time for this wave of craze, and became the military god who shocked the world in the future.