In their eyes, airplanes are equipment that can transport more and more things, and can transport more supplies to places where they are more in need. Of course, the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info can also transport people to more distant places more safely, conveniently and quickly. Most importantly, it may be possible to transport heavier bombs to destroy stronger and more important targets from afar!

Moreover, after the verification of the actual combat application of long-distance transportation of naval personnel, the aircraft designers of the Ming Empire are also more certain that they can design high-performance aircraft that are more in line with the requirements of the military and more in line with practical applications.

Therefore, compared with the conclusions of Japanese counterparts that rely entirely on guesswork and conjecture, the designers of the Ming Empire and the users of aircraft are more aware of what kind of equipment they want, and they are also more aware of what kind of powerful equipment they can develop!

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Compared with the air force, the conditions for the development of equipment on land will be more relaxed. At least designers don't have to worry about the slightest weight, and they don't have to worry too much about the center of gravity of the equipment and the performance impact on the entire equipment.

The Ming Empire has played with steel for too many years, and has also played with industry for too many years, so with such a strong technical accumulation, the development and mass production of the No. 2 tank chassis have been smoother than everyone expected. In November, when the Ming Empire began to restore its rule in Liaodong, the No. 2 tank chassis of the Ming Empire had begun to be mass-produced on an experimental basis under the condition of small-scale tinkering.

His Majesty Zhu Mu, the emperor of the Ming Empire, borrowed too many gold coins from the capital consortium under his command, so much that even the capitalists could not afford to give it. So these loans naturally began to be offset with materials, such as the gold coins borrowed from Chiyou Weapons Company, and a large part of them will be filled with finished artillery and finished tanks.

In the same way, all the links that make up a soldier's body are used to do this: from gloves and socks to underwear and underwear, from the uniform to the steel helmet on the head, from leather boots to belts, from leather boxes for ammunition to epaulettes and collar badges, from bayonets to lunch boxes for eating, from sapper shovels to camping tents, from rifles to bullets...... All these countries did not give a penny to the enterprise, and everything could not be paid until the Ming Empire benefited from the foreign war.

The new army of Liaodong was expanded into two group armies by His Majesty the Emperor in one go, with a full army of 400,000. And the troops of these two group armies are all equipped with new weapons and equipment that are the envy of other Ming Empire troops. These include the short-barreled bolt rifle, which has been redesigned and named the W31, as well as a longer bayonet and a simpler steel helmet.

The new Ming 31-year-old steel helmet adopts the simplest and most direct design, which is lined with leather inside, and is suspended and woven into the shape of a net pocket to prevent people's heads from sticking directly to the steel, and also has the function of breathable and anti-freezing. The whole steel helmet adopts the simplest production process simplification, cancels the ear protection and the back of the head and other protective measures, and reduces the overall weight of the steel helmet.

Due to this design, which is convenient for large-scale military expansion, the 31-year-old steel helmet looks like a semicircular iron ball buckled upside down on the soldier's head on the side, which has no aesthetic appeal at all. If you have to find an intuitive image of the standard steel helmet of the Ming Empire today, it is closest to the M38 steel helmet used by German paratroopers in World War II in another time and space.

This is not a coincidence, but the concrete manifestation of the idea that the Ming Empire used the cheapest method to provide the most unified weapons for its troops after discussion. The difference between Europe and the rest of the world is that wars in Europe often come after mobilization to produce shortages and lack of supplies.

However, the Ming Empire is different, this huge empire has more than 2 million standing regular troops in peacetime, and if you want to change these 2 million people to a certain kind of equipment, the money and energy invested are unimaginable for countries with only a few hundred thousand or even only tens of thousands of troops.

Strictly speaking, this is definitely not a small amount. For example, soldiers' belts, boots and steel helmet linings need to be made of leather, assuming that the leather on ten soldiers is to be slaughtered for a cow to produce, then if the soldiers of the Ming Empire replace these equipment once, the military needs to purchase and slaughter 200,000 cattle at one time......

In the same way, if the emperor of the Ming Empire promised to reward the three armies with a meal of beef for each soldier, 2 million people could eat at least 100,000 cattle a day - a level of supply that the chief of staff of some small country could never have dreamed of.

To intuitively express how huge the existing military strength of the Ming Empire is, it is illustrated by the most tragic Soviet-German battlefield in another time and space -- when the Soviet-German battlefield was the bloodiest, the total number of troops gathered by Germany on the Eastern Front was probably about the same as the total number of standing troops of the Ming Empire.

Now you can imagine what a huge and terrifying force the Ming Empire would be if it concentrated its troops on a certain front, right? Unfortunately, this force was dispersed over a vast territory stretching from the southeastern peninsula to Siberia.

It is precisely because of this that the Ming Empire will be defeated by its opponents on a certain front...... If it had been able to concentrate all its strength, it would not have suffered the same crushing defeat as it had in Europe. It is precisely because of this strength that the emperor of the Ming Empire dares to declare war on the whole world, and there is also Zhu Mu's ambitious plan to rise up.

Together with the Praetorian Guard, which has been expanding according to the scale of 100,000 people, the total number of new troops being formed in the Ming Empire has exceeded 500,000, not including the number of the navy and air force. Counting the elite in the south and the forces of the past such as the marines, the Ming Empire's capable army has exceeded one million.

In the future, these troops will be equipped with more than 5,000 tanks of various types and deploy a mechanized army of 10,000 vehicles of various types. With this army, what Zhu Mu had to do would be more handy than his predecessor, the Emperor of the Apocalypse. At least when he was marching northward and westward, logistics relied on trains rather than mules and horses.

Of course, in the process of this kind of military expansion that is close to madness, Zhu Mu also discovered more and more the greatness of the Emperor of the Apocalypse: the path he is taking has been paved by the Emperor of the Apocalypse more than a hundred years ago!

If it weren't for the Emperor of the Apocalypse who launched a grand operation called popularizing culture and education in the core territory of the Ming Empire, and if it weren't for the fact that he left countless copies of civilization and wisdom for the interior of the Ming Empire while conquering the east and west, perhaps the Ming Dynasty would still be an ignorant and backward country. The more he launched the expansion operation, the more Zhu Mu looked at the data in front of him, and the more he felt that the Emperor of the Apocalypse was terrible and great!

If it weren't for the fact that the Emperor of the Apocalypse was almost paranoid and popularized literacy education in China for three years, and if it weren't for the fact that after a hundred years of accumulation, this kind of education naturally developed into five years of cultural and educational edification, how could the Ming Empire have established such a complete modern civilization system?

You know, why is it that the stronger the national strength, the higher the level of civilization, the more thorough the popularization of people's culture, the stronger the power that erupts after the mobilization for war? It is because the comprehensive quality of soldiers, or the basic people, will be directly transformed into combat quality when they are mobilized for war!

Don't understand? A very well understood question! It may not be easier to teach a literate person to use a rifle than to teach an illiterate person. But it is much easier to teach a literate person who understands orders to keep and maintain his rifle than it is to teach an illiterate person.

By the same token, if a person has ever raised a horse in the real world, he will become a cavalryman faster than someone who has never seen a horse. And if this person has driven a car on weekdays, then he will soon become a qualified automobile soldier, and with a little training he can become a tank driver - you see, unconsciously, 2,000 college graduates can become an anti-aircraft artillery regiment with a little training, but in the same situation, 2,000 illiterate people may not be able to understand why anti-aircraft guns should be leveled before firing for a month.

And that's just the situation faced by the Army, a branch of the Army with less sophisticated equipment. If we include the Air Force and the Navy, this gap in the basic quality of personnel can definitely accumulate a desperate gap.

At present, at least half of the Ming Empire has universal basic education for five years, the civilian literacy rate has exceeded 80 percent, and many developed regions even have universities that accept high-quality talents to train high-tech talents. This is also the reason why Zhu Mu can form a new army unscrupulously after ascending the throne, he can find suitable personnel for the new army, and can absorb them into the imperial army with lower conditions.

In 1831, the year passed slowly in peace, and the Ming Empire under Zhu Mu opened its huge eyes like a giant beast and began to look at the world around it: it had soldiers, technology, heritage and demand, and opened its own bloody mouth under the impetus of capital's endless thirst for profit.

The vibration of its rise startled the beasts around it, and the air around it became viscous with the aura it emitted. Now the beast wanted to fill its belly, so it began to look at the countries around it. And with this giant beast wakes up more dormant monsters, which have made 1832 destined to be no longer ordinary. (To be continued.) )