On the battlefield in Liaodong, when countless soldiers were fighting to the death for a young man named Wang Jue, this young man named Wang Jue was on a train to Jingshi, using the fingers of his left hand to pick up a piece of dim sum that looked quite good, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it slowly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He was holding a thick book and looking at it intently. I don't even know what kind of stuffing these snacks he eats. He wasn't born a genius, and everything had to be supplemented and absorbed, but luckily he loved to read books and would learn what he wanted to learn from books whenever he had time.

The book he now holds in his hand is a general treatise on industry, which is a bit of a complexity, but it is a good primer, and it expounds to those who see it the relations between almost all the existing industrial bodies, in an all-encompassing and comprehensive manner. The author of this book was a technical genius during the Apocalypse, and as the chief industrial advisor to His Majesty the Emperor of the Apocalypse, he participated in almost all the decisions of the imperial industrial construction of that year.

When Wang Jue saw this book, he knew how terrible the Emperor of the Apocalypse was, and he could use the vision of the time to build a basic industrial system that has continued to the present and is not outdated. After reading this book, he also understood how intricately interdependent the development of modern science and technology is.

"What a wonderful book." Closing the book that had turned dozens of pages, Wang Jue closed his eyes and carefully thought about the dependence of the industrial system expounded in the book.

The improvement of chemical technology, the ability to manufacture more advanced and excellent materials, sulfuric acid and other chemical products, has always been an indispensable part of the modern industrial system. Only if chemistry develops steadily and leads the world can it be possible to further develop more advanced materials technology - of course, another benefit of developing chemistry is to improve the performance of gunpowder and make artillery shells more destructive.

However, if chemistry is to be used in modern warfare, it also needs to be matched by achievements in physics. For example, a better shell charge will bring a stronger gun chamber pressure, and if you can't make a better gun barrel, the cannon will be in danger of exploding. But once this improvement is completed, the advantages of high muzzle velocity and long range of artillery brought by high bore pressure are enough to make all armies salivate.

On the other hand, the advantages brought by high bore pressure also represent the rifling of high-wear guns, which puts forward higher requirements and tests for the metallurgical process...... If the cycle continues, it seems that no improvement can comprehensively enhance the combat capability of the troops, and only by comprehensively improving it can a more powerful overall combat effectiveness be enhanced.

And all this is just one part of modern industry. Does a better gun need a more accurate aiming system? Need a more reliable support design for a lighter aircraft skin? Can the power brought by a more powerful engine be fully converted and utilized? Every detail here is an important subject, and every word is worth a genius's life's work.

Wang Jue now knows that his whimsical new weapon design plan would not have been possible without the accumulation and contribution of all mankind over the years. And even if he is very satisfied with the tank now, according to the analysis of the development theory in the book, there are still many, many things that need to be improved.

Faster and more surging speed, stronger and more reliable armor, more powerful firepower - the No. 1 tank of the Ming Empire is still a long, long way from true perfection. And the problem that Wang Jue is thinking about on the train is not to design a perfect tank. He was a military commander, and he was good at using the weapons and equipment and troops in his hands to win the war, not working methodically in the factory with a large group of engineers.

There is a young man who will complete this work for him, thinking of this young man named Chen Zhaoming, Wang Jue's face showed a smile. The talent he discovered by chance really exuded due brilliance in the military department, saving him a lot of trouble and saving valuable time for the Ming Empire.

What Wang Jue was thinking about was a very profound military topic that he had only recently thought of, and he wanted to take advantage of the time he was in his place to study the combat revolution that would be drawn up around the new weapon of the tank in the future.

The great victory on the Liaodong battlefield, or the victory easily won by the Ming Empire on the Liaodong battlefield, has proved to the world the power of tanks and the inevitability of future tactical changes. But how exactly the tactics will change, everyone ...... Everyone, including the military generals of the Ming Empire, does not yet have a systematic understanding.

In ancient times, cavalry, a highly mobile type of troops, was born in war, and achieved an overwhelming mobile advantage over infantry, allowing the ancient nomads to suppress the agricultural civilization for a long time. With the advent of muskets, the infantry outfed the cavalry in attack, so the defense became more advantageous, and over time, the trenches replaced the walls and became the strongest means of defense for decades.

But now, with the advent of tanks, the lines of trenches and infantry have begun to become obsolete, and the scales of victory have begun to tilt in favor of the attackers, who have greater mobility and firepower. The defensive line became less reliable, and the study of future warfare resumed almost at the same time that the dust had settled on the battlefield in Liaodong.

As the protagonist and the main participant in this war, Wang Jue certainly has his own most intuitive and clear feelings. This feeling is much more accurate than those who read the information and hearsay, and it also gave Wang Jue a new understanding of the impact of this war on the future war system.

"With more fuel on board, armored units can break through from non-enemy main defensive zones far from the main battlefield, or from the real campaign objective. As long as it is fast enough, this armored force can detour from the weakly defended area to the main battlefield and crush the opponent by surprise. Wang Jue licked his mouth with his fingers full of grease, then picked up the pen next to him and wrote down such a paragraph on the paper.

Then he picked up the paper and read it again, nodded with satisfaction, and then continued to write a new paragraph on the second piece of paper: "The armored units must have proper cover, and the troops accompanying the battle must maintain the same marching speed as the tanks. ”

After writing this paragraph, he stopped writing thoughtfully, and after a long pause, he added a sentence after the paragraph he had just written: "Such troops are used as fists, and if they do not meet the standards, they will be counted as reserve forces......

When he wrote this, he paused again, and seemed to be very entangled, but finally he picked up his pen and drew a horizontal line below the paragraph that was added later, and wrote the words "to be determined".

The train continued to move forward without stopping, and the carriages swayed slightly on the tracks due to the speed. Wang Jue held the pen in his hand and recalled every detail of his battle of Liaodong, which can be called a projection of future wars. From time to time, he wrote down some thoughts on the paper that he thought were important, and from time to time he crossed out some of them.

This is his habit, and those who know him well know that he has such a habit of summarizing everything. It's just that some things are simpler, and he summarizes them in his mind, while some things are very complicated, and he can only rely on notes to eliminate the unimportant corners little by little, leaving the most essential parts.

"Relying on self-propelled guns...... There are also armored personnel carriers to accompany tank operations...... In the future, armored divisions will not only rely on tanks, but also rely on a large number of elite infantry to accompany the cover, and rely on self-propelled artillery to provide artillery support......" He wandered between these words in distress, weighing in his mind how much fuel and ammunition such a force would consume, and then virtually comparing the existing troops to weigh whether it was worth it.

Everyone knows that armored forces composed of tanks and other vehicles are extremely powerful, but why is it that no country has turned all its troops into armored divisions today? The first reason is the consumption ratio - there must always be some unimportant defense area or rear area that does not need armored troops to be stationed and guarded, right?

"What's the best thing to use?" As the chief officer on the battlefield in Liaodong, Wang Jue naturally knew that the special vehicles accompanying the tank combat on the ground occupied valuable tank chassis production capacity on the one hand, and on the other hand, because of the chaos and dispersion, they could not effectively provide fire support for the tank troops that were really in the frontal combat area. By the time they arrived, the battle was often over, and unnecessary losses had already occurred.

"The troops supporting must be fast...... Timeliness is the most important indicator of support. Wang Jue wrote down his thoughts on a piece of paper, although he didn't think of the corresponding means, but he knew what his armored forces needed: "Speed, accuracy...... What kind of weapons can meet such design requirements? ”

Putting down the pen that had been pinched with oily fingers all over the place, Wang Jue looked out the window. The city wall that meandered in the mountains like a giant dragon and represented a spirit of ancient Chinese civilization came into his eyes, and when he saw the world's longest ancient city wall, Wang Jue yawned - Jingshi was already not far ahead. (To be continued.) )