Chapter 486: The Power of Technology (I)
On the premise that it needs to preserve enough strength to keep Germany in check, the British and French governments, which have permanently reduced their number of troops by nearly 300,000 people, can actually afford to lose a lot of money. And even if the British and French governments are determined to sell their kidneys to aid the land, due to www.biquge.info the current limitation of maritime capacity, they will be able to send five or six hundred thousand army forces, and even if there is still the containment of the northern front, the mentor will at least be undefeated.
As a result, the mentor developed a strategy of "attacking in the south and defending in the north", and famous Red Army generals such as Frunze and Budyonny also expressed their support, but they all ignored the impact of scientific and technological progress......
As early as during the Three Kingdoms War, there were many cars on the North American battlefield to share part of the task of land transportation, but the cars at that time were still very imperfect, with large fuel consumption and small load, and it was easy to break down and suddenly lie down, so it was never able to shake the position of mules and horses in army logistics. However, it is difficult to improve the transportation capacity of mules and horses, while the transportation capacity of automobiles will continue to improve with the progress of science and technology, especially around 1910, when the world's automobile technology developed at its fastest.
In 1908, the largest truck of the Western powers could carry 500 pounds of cargo, but just a year later, that number had skyrocketed to 1 ton, and the reliability of the trucks had improved dramatically. By 1910, as long as the road conditions were not too bad, the latest trucks could completely replace the role of mules and horses.
In addition, the great rout of the anti-Soviet army in 1909 led to the loss of millions of mules and horses, and such a large loss was difficult to replenish in a short period of time, which objectively stimulated governments to give more truck orders to automobile companies, and the Western automobile, especially the truck industry, ushered in rapid development.
In 1909, less than 100,000 automobiles were produced worldwide (Note 1), but within a year the number exceeded 500,000, and in 1911 it soared to more than 2 million, many of which were trucks carrying supplies to the army. This made the land supply capacity of the coalition side rapidly increased, in the northern battlefield where the railway traffic is more developed, but the roads are affected by the harsh climate and the condition is bad, the impact is not very obvious, but in the southern battlefield where the climate is mild but there are no railways because of the mountainous terrain, the coalition side has shown an overwhelming logistical advantage, with sufficient supply support, the performance of the Turkish army, which even the Tsarist Russian army could not defeat in the past, has greatly improved, and the already strong British and French armies have played with sufficient supplies" sea of fire tactics", inflicting great casualties on the Red Army......
If the automobile indirectly enhanced the combat power of the coalition forces, then the role of the aircraft was more direct, Theodore Roosevelt originally regarded the aircraft as a secret weapon that could help the United States turn the tables in the Three Kingdoms War, but in fact, the most advanced aircraft among the Western powers at that time was not the United States, but the British Empire, the Western country that benefited the most in the Three Kingdoms War.
Although it started a little later than the United States, Britain's industrial base was a cut away from that of the United States, and the prospect that Theodore Roosevelt could foresee, Chamberlain Sr., who was an industrial capitalist, was naturally more likely to foresee and pay attention to it. As a result, the British aircraft industry soon caught up, and it was not long after the Americans began to think that they could use airplanes for bombing in 1909, and the world's first specially designed bomber made its maiden flight in Britain......
The fiasco of the coalition forces in 1909 made this bomber deploy troops faster, due to the open terrain of the northern front, the Soviet Russian Red Army there was the first to suffer, under the indiscriminate bombardment of the world's first bomber unit, Budyonny, the cavalry genius who had not tasted defeat since joining the Red Army, finally tasted defeat, but Frunze's Petrograd side adapted to this change more quickly and became the most reliable unit in the Soviet Russian Red Army, and the advantage of the strongest adaptability of light infantry was once again fully reflected. The technical arms are all deeply afraid of the threat from above.
Although the current Soviet Russia does not have as advanced science and technology and a strong industrial base as the Western powers, the Slavs' outstanding talent in systems engineering has enabled them to often design some low-tech but very practical weapons, and with their unique way of thinking, they can often play an unimaginable role on the battlefield.
Due to the stimulus of the war, coupled with the special method learned from China to concentrate a large number of scientific and technological personnel to cooperate in tackling key technologies, Soviet Russia was the first in the world to invent the machine gun fire coordinator that was crucial for fighter aircraft (this is not a difficult invention, historically a number of engineers completed this invention independently at a not too far difference in time, two of them were Russians, but the industrial base of Tsarist Russia was weak, and the administrative efficiency of the tsarist government was terrible, It didn't translate into a product as quickly as Germany did. With this artifact, even if the flight performance of the Soviet Russian fighter is not as good as that of the coalition forces, it can be beaten all over the ground in air combat.
In addition to fighter jets, Soviet and Russian engineers also racked their brains to design and manufacture the world's largest bomb-carrying bomber, although due to the weak industrial base, this fighter has made great sacrifices in other performances, slow speed, poor flexibility, and almost zero survivability, but in the situation that special anti-aircraft guns have not yet been invented, and air supremacy is firmly grasped by Red Army fighters, they have fully exploited their strengths and avoided weaknesses, posing a huge threat to the coalition side.
Note 1: It should be noted here that most of them are produced in Western countries, and although China has the world's most advanced automobile technology, it has never produced it in large quantities. This is because Li Hui believes that it is better to focus on rail and water transport for the time being, when the number of educated people in China is still insufficient, because the same number of industrialized people working in these two industries can generate much more capacity than road transportation. Another point is that in a few years, Li Hui will be able to start researching the last level of system technology, and then he can directly produce a large number of cars with the world's advanced level in history in 1935, which can avoid a lot of waste. In any case, at present, China's industry and large and medium-sized cities are still concentrated along the coast and along the river (railway) road, and there are basically no industries and larger cities outside of this, and the value of automobiles is far less than that of normal countries.