It's really an interesting time, and it's also a big time for change and exploration! In this era, there are machines with roaring engines flying in the sky, and there are huge steel warships on the sea; There are also outdated toys such as long knives and armor, and cavalry can still be seen roaring past on the battlefield where bullets are flying. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is the best era, with the development and progress of mankind, in the future war, the means of reconnaissance and the means of attack are gradually enriched, so that the war has become a purely technical contest, lacking a trace of agility and variables. Before this era, war also lacked true beauty due to the constraints of weapons and other conditions.

The new army entered the battle from the city of Panjin, fought Linghai along the way, occupied Tai'an, crossed the Liuhe River, captured Faku, and transferred troops to the mountain in a bloody battle, pressing all the rebels back to the east of the Liao River. It can be described as a brilliant feat, which makes people have to admire. Even Wang Futong, who was about to move in northern Liaoning, has now become an honest man, and even captured several villages in Jilin and reported a victory in northern Liaobei to the imperial court.

On the bumpy car, Wang Jue saw the weapons and equipment transport troops that were about to be replenished to the new army, and passed by himself. 20 just-modified 100 mm self-propelled guns, 10 75 mm No. 1 turretless assault models, accompanied by various off-road trucks newly arrived at the front line, and 2 experimental armored vehicles, under the protection of hundreds of cavalry, drove along the road in a mighty way.

On both sides of the road, some infantry heading to the front saw cars with the symbols of the group army painted on the doors passing by, some officers saluted Wang Jue's car, and many more soldiers did not stop their work - they were pulling a cannon out of the field.

A light rain that morning had made the roads muddy, and the roads in a war-torn place like Liaodong, which were already in bad condition, were now even more unsightly because of the passing of various troops.

The soldiers shouted neat slogans, and with the four horses whose hooves were also stuck in the mud, they pushed the 150 mm heavy gun vigorously. Passing through the open fighting rooms of the 20 self-propelled guns here, the runners who were responsible for operating these self-propelled guns poked their heads out curiously and looked at their peers in the distance, struggling to move forward in the fields.

"The more modern the army, the more equipped with all kinds of advanced heavy weapons and equipment, the more dependent it is on these road and rail transport routes behind it." Wang Jue looked out of the car window, the trucks and carriages that gave way to his cars, and said to Chief of Staff Yang Zizhen beside him.

"Yes, since I took over the staff work of the entire New Army in place of Wang Yan, what I have felt most deeply is the huge and complex logistics supply. We have almost as many supply problems for one army group as there were for two or even three army groups before. Yang Zizhen sat beside Wang Jue, nodded approvingly and said.

These massive armored units, mechanized units, cavalry units and artillery units, are simply man-eating tigers. As they moved forward, they were also devouring more and more supplies, faster and more exaggerated than the other troops.

The same barrel of gasoline, if you want to transport it to the front, has to occupy precious space on the train, and then unload it into a car that can be delivered to the hands of the front-line combat troops, at least such a barrel of gasoline must be consumed. The simple conversion is that almost the same amount of supplies is consumed on the road in order to transport them.

Of course, you can say that in the process of burning a barrel of gasoline in a car, it is impossible to transport only one barrel of gasoline. Yes, but in the same way, the troops on the front line will not consume only gasoline as a supply material: food for people, food for livestock, fuel for cars and tanks, ammunition and supplies, and various losses in battle......

The new army has made a qualitative leap in the density of firepower strikes and in the ability to attack and maneuver, because the total amount of material consumption caused by this leap has also made an unexpected "leap." After several major battles, as well as high-intensity training, there are a number of weapons that need to be replaced, and there are many, many pieces of equipment that need to be produced and replenished.

The war has begun to change, and logistical supplies, as well as the country's internal weapons development capabilities, production capacity, and so on, have quietly begun to affect the outcome of the front-line war. With all kinds of new weapons put into the war, the balance of victory and defeat began to tilt in terms of consumption and material reserves, and the Ming Empire, which has a strong foundation, finally saw a new dawn to solve the border problem.

In previous wars, everyone relied on cheap facilities such as trenches to consume the opponent's expensive war resources. This made it possible for a not powerful force like the Jin State to rely on delay to defeat the Ming Empire locally. However, now that science and technology have changed the mode of warfare, warfare has begun to move closer to the direction of technology and capital, and resources, reserves, and comprehensive national strength have become the key to truly determining the outcome of a war.

At this time, the Jin State found a serious problem: they had no reserves and no foundation, and at this level they competed with a behemoth like the Ming Empire, even if they had the support and "rewards" of other countries from time to time, they did not have the strength to complete the reform of the entire war system and develop an arms race with the powerful Ming Empire.

In the past contest between the two countries, the Ming Empire deployed ten guns on the border, and the Jin State only needed to deploy one or two more. These are relatively low-tech, cheap weapons and equipment - now it is different, the Ming Empire has begun to play with tanks and armored vehicles, and the Jin State can no longer rely on that crippled national strength to make up for the military gap with the Ming Empire.

Even with Ceylon's contribution, it is unlikely that the Jin State will deploy a combat force of more than 200 tanks in Liaodong, not to mention that no one in the Jin Kingdom knows how to make tanks. Even if it knows how to make it, even the country of Jin, which needs to rely on imports for food, will take what to maintain this tank force? You must know that these weapons and equipment will be consumed and lost, and they will be replaced like other weapons, but they cannot be solved once and for all by the one-time investment that you see on the surface.

Wang Jue sat in his car, watching his troops stretch along the road, with no end in sight. There was a victor's smile on the corner of his mouth, the gap between the two sides had been widened, the next war for hegemony was not something that the poor ghosts could participate in, it would be a real contest between the imperial powers! (To be continued.) )