Chapter 49: The Power of Civilization (I)
"Commander, the scouts we sent out have achieved a lot of results! We've annihilated more than a hundred Eight Banner scouts, almost all of them, and we've just run back to one. www.biquge.info Even our casualties were almost zero, except for a serious injury caused by an accidental fall from a horse, the other injuries were not serious. Of course, this has an absolute relationship with the Zhuge Repeater that commands you, and this Zhuge Repeater is extremely powerful, especially when used in cavalry scouts! However, we have a crossbow arrow that was brought back by that Eight Banners scout, and I'm afraid that with the ability of the Manchurians, it should be easy to guess that it is Zhuge Repeater. Wang Jingwen said.
Tan Feng said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, even if they get the crossbow arrows, they can't quickly deduce and restore this Zhuge Repeater." What's more, even if they took a step back, they were able to make Zhuge Repeaters, but they couldn't make corresponding crossbow arrows in large quantities. Because they don't have assembly line production, we don't have a unified standard for assembly line production, and a unified production process system. Therefore, their production capacity, despite the fact that there are so many more people than us, is far lower than ours many times. ”
Tan Feng knew that his greatest advantage was not in his weapons, but in the advantages of civilization. Don't look at Tan Feng's small number, but Tan Feng directly uses all human resources in a centralized manner, which will not cause waste for various reasons. At the same time, he directly adopted the assembly line production method, which is a huge production line that does not open the hanging. Assembling line production can not only treat one person as a dozen or so people, but even from the secrecy of weapon production to the improvement of weapon quality, it is a great use.
In the final analysis, war is fought with resources, human resources, material resources, and various war potentials. What is war potential, isn't it the ability to transform various resources into the ability to use in war? Although the Manchus seem to be strong at present, their war potential is far inferior to Tan Feng. Although Tan Feng's number was small, his war potential was far greater than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Tan Feng's assembly line production method can provide him with a large number of equipment with good quality, fast production speed, and even unified standards.
As for the Manchu side, bows, crossbows, swords, and even all kinds of weapons were made by the same person, according to their own "experience". In this way, it is easy to cause the parts of the same crossbow machine to have too large errors between each other.
"It's the same with industry, sometimes it's a big deal. The Manchus may have been able to make a Zhuge repeater by a single craftsman, but it was of no use. Because their manufacturing speed is too slow, and even the arrows produced are too few, once they can't match the crossbow machine, this is actually useless. There are many reasons for the elimination of Zhuge repeaters in the past. On the one hand, there is no accurate understanding of the combat use of the Zhuge Repeater, because the Zhuge Repeater is almost a scumbag on the frontal battlefield and is useless. But on the flank battlefield, including scout battles, and even some close guards. Those close guards can use the Zhuge Repeater as a guard, so that the firepower is fast and fierce at close range. Because enemy assassinations are often close to each other, and there are rarely long-range assassinations. In such a close range, although the Zhuge Repeater crossbow cannot penetrate armor and the range is not far, but the firepower is fierce at close range, and it can quickly kill and injure a large number of enemies. ”
"On the battlefield, long range and many weapons are not necessarily the best. It still depends on the density of firepower per unit time, and more firepower can be projected in a relatively short period of time, which is the means to truly reflect the power! ”
Tan Feng explained to everyone the idea of firepower projection, in fact, many people think that more weapons and more ammunition on the battlefield is a good thing. Actually, not necessarily, there are many weapons, and the firepower delivered by the forehead style at the same time is poor, which is not a good thing. It's like terrain, which sometimes restricts the means of delivering firepower. Just like many formations in ancient times, all ancient military strategists used various mathematical and geometric ideas, and then increased or decreased the contact surface by combining the advantages of the troops, so as to achieve the desired effect.
"Some formations are designed to reduce the contact surface with the enemy to achieve their desired goals. For example, the Blade Array, that is, by reducing the contact surface and then breaking through the enemy's formation, the Crane Wing Formation is to encircle the enemy by increasing the contact surface of the two sides. Why can't the encircled enemy exert its combat effectiveness? That's because although they seem to have a large number of people on the surface, in fact, what can exert combat effectiveness is the circle on the surface, and none of the remaining circles can exert combat effectiveness. ”
"So you might as well study more mathematics, and learning mathematics will be of great benefit to the war. Mathematics is an important booster for war, not to mention that it will not be obsolete now, in another 100 years, 1,000 years, and even I think that in another 10,000 years, war will not be able to leave mathematics. ”
War and mathematics are definitely an inseparable thing. Ancient formations also used mathematical geometry as the basis, and even in later generations, even the aircraft, artillery, and armored units still used the most primitive and basic mathematical geometry as the basis.
The projection of war firepower is nothing more than the use of geometry in mathematics as a reference. Of course, from the earliest firepower strikes from land to sea and even to the air, although the angles of the strikes are different, they are still the most primitive but also the most profound foundation that makes use of the geometry in mathematics and the corresponding contact surfaces.
"Why are we Han people better than those barbarians? In fact, I have always believed that firearms are the most important means for our Han people to fight against barbarians, and the greatest advantage of our Han people for barbarians is not weapons, but civilization. Civilization is the greatest advantage of our Han people, and civilization is actually the biggest and most important advantage of a country and a nation. Maybe at the beginning, the power of civilization will not be reflected, but in the later stages, the more civilization progresses, and in the end barbarism cannot defeat civilization in the end, and finally civilization will inevitably conquer barbarism! ”
"Maybe the Manchus conquered us by barbarism at the beginning, but we can give full play to our greatest advantages and defeat the Manchus as well."
Wang Jingwen and these subordinate generals hurriedly recorded, this is Tan Feng's teaching, of course, they must be recorded quickly.
"Commander, where is this civilization embodied? How should we give full play to the advantages of civilization? Wang Jingwen asked with a pen and paper.
Even, as Tan Feng's trophy, the Fucha clan listened carefully on the side.