"A country's strength cannot be qualitatively improved by winning one or two small local battles." With Britannic arrogance and self-confidence, Wei Tuma looked at the soldiers of the Qin Army who had easily won the victory on the exercise ground that had just ended, and commented on the Qing Dynasty.

"But the civilized world is too far from the Far East. We can't launch a large-scale campaign against the elite areas of the Qing Empire. Unless the British Empire can go all out to continuously and uninterruptedly assemble troops towards Southeast Asia at any cost with massive military spending, materials, manpower and a very long time. Otherwise, today's civilized nations can only punish the old empire with small-scale battles.

Please face up to our enemies. This is the posture and demeanor that a strong person should have! ”

Wittoma has never concealed his favorable feelings for China. But he never exalted China's status too highly, and as he meant by it, Wittoma never classified China into the so-called 'civilized world'. The pride of Western civilization, the pride of the white man, is still full of Wittoma.

But he was also disgusted by the contempt for the Qin army in the mouths of the current French minister to China, Berone, and the current Russian minister to China, Kaiyangde. This is so unseemly!

The combat effectiveness of the Qin army is very strong, so what about admitting it? He has always regarded China as a weak man, and has seen the Qing Empire's national situation turn around and prosper in recent years. It can all be seen as the role of Liu Xian and Qin Jun. This vision determined a series of his thoughts. No matter how powerful the Qin army is, it will be put into the entire Chinese army. It's just usual. China has too many armies with inferior combat effectiveness that can make the Qin army invisible, and China has always been a weak country. Even if he had a very good fighting army, he couldn't change that.

It's like two people with high ranks, and it's normal and natural for the superior to calmly admit a certain strength of the lower. Wei Tuma was puzzled by what Bai Luo and Kai Yangde were thinking. Does it have to belittle the entirety of the Qing Empire? This seemed to him to be a kind of cowardly appearance, and he did not dare to face the facts.

In Europe in the 70s of the 19th century, Germany had just been revived, and it was far from being the next target of British containment. The eyes of the British Empire were always on the rapidly recovering French, and for a moment they were still on Tsarist Russia.

France and Russia, two countries that do not deal with each other, are all enemies of the British Empire. This is also an important reason why Wittoma 'contempt' for France and Russia in front of many ministers and envoys to China.

It's just that there is some truth in what Wei Tuma said, and Bai Luo and Kai Yangde are not good at 'angrily refuting' it. That would be even more humiliating.

Bai Luo just smiled coldly.

Kaiyangde could not bear this humiliation. Yes, in his opinion, it would be a humiliation for Wittoma to lose face in such a situation. "It turned out that in the face of the decaying and backward Qing Empire, the British Empire had put away its arrogance. Minister Wittoma regarded a group of yellow-skinned monkeys as guests of the civilized world, and the demeanor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the British Empire was truly admirable. ”

"Facts speak louder than words. Do not change our attitude towards China. The story will be repeated. Mr. Kaiyangde, are we going to bet? Perhaps Tsarist Russia was not preparing for the 10th Russo-Turkish War with the Ottoman Empire, but was ready to focus on the Chinese. ”

The quarrels between foreign ministers were unknown to Liu Xian, Li Hongzhang, Prince Gong, Prince Alcohol, etc. They are only waiting for the final statistical results.

"Newspaper—"

About twenty minutes later. The exact number was sent to the viewing platform.

The Praetorian Guard had 632 people in two cattle and was completely annihilated. The Qin army has a marine brigade with a total of 525 people. One hundred and thirty killed.

This ratio eclipses Dorona.

If it was a real battlefield, it would be absolutely impossible for the Praetorian Guard to support it to the point of total annihilation. Probably, after the first shelling, the whole team was in disarray. It is also possible to be killed or injured after half of the casualties. The whole team collapsed. No one really thought the Praetorian Guard would be the last man anyway.

Therefore, the casualties of the Qin army should be greatly discounted.

After deducting the improper casualties of artillery fire, the casualty ratio of the Qin army and the Praetorian Guard army can be reduced to 1:10, or even lower.

Night. Dorona Archer stayed awake all night, and most of the foreign military attaches present at today's exercise also did not sleep.

After the hustle and bustle of the day, their work begins. Many foreign military attachés had good mathematical skills, and they calculated the rate of fire of bullets, the rate of fire of artillery shells, the explosion coverage of artillery shells, the area of the entire battlefield, and so on.

Unlike the generals of the Praetorian Guard, such as Dolonga, who mostly started from planning and methods, mathematics has become an indispensable subject in modern military education in the West. Compared with the military strategy and military ideas in the mind, these are only military attachés in China who are in the grassroots positions of various countries, and they believe in mathematics and numbers more.

Also in the camping camp of the Qin army. In the study class of the Marine Corps, a military transformation that was being carried out by the Qin army continued to ferment.

"If there are four heavy machine guns and six mortars in the brigade, how should it be arranged in today's battle!"

As the captain, Jiao Wenbin was naturally the first to take the lead. It's a lot of pressure. The whole brigade of middle-level officers and some of the junior officers were there, and if his level of speech was not very good, it would have caused a great impact in the troops.

Once or twice, the majesty of the military position can still be suppressed. But if there are too many times, no matter how much the majesty of the military position is, it will not be of the highest use. His overall prestige and image had collapsed in the minds of the officers under him. And such an officer, of course, is not a good officer who can lead troops to fight. What awaits his fate is self-evident.

Therefore, when such a rule and regulations are set, Liu Xian is forcing middle and high-level officers to keep making progress and studying hard. Naturally, the military quality of the officers of the Qin army as a whole has improved rapidly.

"I'll set up heavy machine guns here, here, here, here, four places......"

On the layout map of the position on the blackboard, Jiao Wenbin marked four machine gun positions, and then marked the initial position of the mortar group. Finally, he expounded his vision and perception of this battle.

Although Liu Xian himself is just a pseudo-military fan, it is only a common sense thing in later generations, but it is a very forward-looking military theory in this era. Especially in the late 19th century, the speed of the development of weapons has far exceeded the military thinking of that time, and in this era when the development of military thinking and weapons is not in harmony, these things he made up have an immeasurable and tremendous effect on the Qin army and the rise of China's military.

And the most rare thing is that the military generals of Western countries today are mainly in power or old people who came out of the era of platoon shooting. These people have old military concepts engraved in their minds, and it is difficult for them to change their views and minds without real achievements.

This is also the main reason why Liu Xian is willing to show the Marine Brigade openly and openly and show his strength. Because he knows very well that these nondescript and extremely imperfect military theories cannot arouse the real attention of Western military circles. This is not as good as the bloody massacre when Japan was first attacked. The power of forty heavy machine guns attracts the eyes of Westerners more than these things.

In the history of the original time and space, from the First Sino-Japanese War to the Russo-Japanese War and then to the early stage of World War I, although the infantry tactics have abandoned the tight formation of the era of queuing and shooting to the formation of skirmishers, this straggler formation is still very close during the battle, and even sometimes the distance between soldiers is only two to three meters, and the loose one is only five or six meters apart. The armies of various countries used this tactic until the middle and late stages of World War I, when machine guns were rampant, huge casualties, and the cruel reality forced the two sides to slowly change.

And before that, there was no shortage of examples of the demonstration of heavy machine guns. For example, in Africa, the British slaughtered a hundred times as many Zulus with heavy machine guns with fifty soldiers. As well as the Battle of Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War, the result of the spiritual victory method of the god of war of Nogi, the importance of firepower density is best illustrated. Human lives cannot be fought by bullets. But have the giants of the Western military profession changed? No.

It was not until the end of World War I that the Germans began to use the infiltration tactics of small-scale troops, and they really found an offensive method suitable for war, which also made submachine guns and other weapons appear on the stage of war.

And now? Don't say heavy machine guns. Even the straggler queues and trenches, the armies that have just entered Europe. For the current European Army, the density of soldiers is greater than the density of bullets, and this is still the correct solution of war.

As a descendant, even if Liu Xian was not a modern military expert, he knew what methods to use to guard against the infantry of this era. Machine guns, barbed wire, and trenches completely wipe out the power of crowd tactics, and no matter how many people there are, they are completely sent to death.

Therefore, after the heavy machine gun was mass-produced, when the heavy machine gun tactics were officially intervened in the Qin army, Liu Xian particularly emphasized how to kill and injure the enemy with maximum efficiency when the machine gun unit faced a dense infantry charge. At the same time, another question arises, that is, how can the infantry be able to overcome the machine gun fortress position? Although the enemies that Liu Xian had to face in this era only had bunkers and trenches, but no machine guns.

The magic weapon that Liu Xian sacrificed -- infantry infiltration tactics -- is really the best way to deal with people. Since the Qin army was able to produce rubber bullets and artillery shells, it is not known how many small-scale [brigade-level] actual combat exercises have been carried out, and the facts have proved Liu Xianam's correctness.

Compared with the army in World War II, the Qin army's current small-scale infantry assault tactics only lack the firepower density of light machine guns and submachine guns. Then there's the rocket, which is far more dangerous and targeted than a grenade. (To be continued......) R1071