For Wang Shuhui, a materialist, he never thought that those famous historical figures had any great "luck". From a materialist point of view, famous historical figures generally have a greater "luck", which he admits.

Zhang Xianzhong, as a big man of this level who left a big name in history and was regarded as the No. 1 in the war for hegemony in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, he did have a lot of luck. This first point was shown in his battle with the Baath Army.

Zhang Xianzhong's luck is reflected in these three points:

First, Zhang Xianzhong was different from his subordinates who were killed in the first round of artillery shelling by the Baxing Army. Although one of the ten shells fired by the Renaissance Army was very close to him, Zhang Xianzhong was very lucky not to be affected by the shrapnel of the shells. This made him very lucky to survive the shelling by the Ba'ath Army.

Second, Zhang Xianzhong was different from his subordinates who fell off their horses because they were frightened by the explosion of cannonballs, and were dragged to death by the crazy war horses. Although Zhang Xianzhong's own war horse was also frightened by the cannonballs of the Fuxing Army, he spent a long time with his war horse, and the two were very closely connected. His horse was frightened, and although it was also very violent, it did not specifically target him on horseback. This allowed him to escape again when his horse was frightened.

Third, Zhang Xianzhong was different from his subordinates who fled to the rear after the collapse and ignored it. Zhang Xianzhong is a sober-minded and strategic person, and the first thing he did after his war horse returned to his control was to give up his war horse and walk on the ground. This is a fairly sensible thing to do. After all, no one knows if the shelling of the Baath Army will happen a second time. And Zhang Xianzhong did not choose to flee with his subordinates, and objectively really saved his own life.

You must know that in the face of the same attack of modern weapons, the possibility of surviving under shelling is much greater than that of surviving under machine gun fire.

It was in the process of retreating on foot that Zhang Xianzhong witnessed with his own eyes what kind of barbed wire and Gatling machine guns of the Fuxing Army, which was responsible for intercepting the mission, tore more than 2,000 cavalrymen into pieces in piles and piles of hellish in a terrifying, hellish way.

The Japanese writer Ryotaro Sima once described the huge blow inflicted by the Russian army's machine guns on the Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese War:

"The advance of the infantry began simultaneously with the shelling of the early morning artillery, and as the foothills approached, the losses began to grow larger and greater.

The foothills were surrounded by barbed wire, and the infantry passed through the smoke on the way, and some were blown to pieces by artillery fire, and those who managed to survive ran to the barbed wire, and were killed like small insects by the enemy's machine guns that formed a dense network of fire in front of and behind them.

Despite this, the Japanese did not know whether it was out of bravery or loyalty, and still rushed into the fire net of the Russian positions like animals that only knew how to advance and not retreat. As soon as they rushed into the net of fire, it was like entering a human meat blender, and they were stirred to pieces.

'The enemy has machine guns. ’

This was the general expression of amazement expressed by Japanese officers and soldiers. The Japanese infantry at that time did not yet know about the machine gun.

The Japanese Army's understanding of weapons is very sluggish, and this innate constitution of the Japanese Army is fully exposed here. The Japanese should not actually be unaware of machine guns. At the end of the Edo period, Kawai Kenosuke, the elder of the Echigo Nagaoka Domain, sold all the art collections of the Edo Domain in order to go to Yokohama to buy guns, and he used the money to buy two machine guns. When the Nagaoka Domain, along with the Aizu Domain, became the sole stronghold of the Sashoku Domain, they fought with the official army, and these two machine guns were extremely powerful.

In the final battle of holding the city of Nagaoka, Jinosuke personally operated by the city gate, strafing the officers and soldiers, making it impossible for them to get close for a while. At that time, the commander of the official army was Aritomo Yamagu, who was known as a madman, and if he could recall the painful lesson that this weapon had taught him, he should have paid attention to it when he became the head of the Great Yuan, but he did not. ”

As a Japanese, Ryotaro Sima is a very good writer.

Modern and contemporary Japanese writers are almost always Guo Jingming-style writers. When they write, they pay great attention to their personal feelings and feelings, and their writing points and perspectives are also limited to the writer and some people and things around the writer. Therefore, what Japanese modern and contemporary writers write is the purest kind of "small".

However, compared with the overall style of the Japanese literary world, Ryotaro Sima is like "a little red in the green", because he can carry out a large vision, a large perspective, a large description, and a big thinking, which makes Sima Ryotaro's works appear majestic in a large number of Japanese literary circles where Guo Jingming's style of "small" and "small era" is rampant.

Of course, even so, Ryotaro Sima has a lot of problems. For example, in the above paragraph describing the Russo-Japanese War, Ryotaro Sima seems to be very lacking in common sense. He mistook the Maxim machine gun used by the Russian army as a Gatling machine gun.

In addition to the errors of common sense, Ryotaro Sima also reflects his cognitive errors in this description.

He failed to recognize the decisive role of industrial capacity in warfare. He attributed the reason why the Japanese army did not have machine guns at that time to the Japanese army's insensitivity of weapons and the personal mistakes of the commanders.

What Ryotaro Sima didn't see was that at the time of the Russo-Japanese War, Japan's annual steel output was less than 300,000 tons, which was not even half of the current annual steel production of the Baath Party. This semi-feudal primary industrial state with a level of industrial development, that is, a primary industrial country at the same level as Tsarist Russia, which was still using serfdom, was qualified to fight.

It was not a congenital constitution problem of the Japanese army, nor was it the stupidity of Aritomo Yamaguchi that led to the Japanese soldiers being slaughtered by the machine guns of the Tsarist Russian army, it was simply because of the problem of industrial capacity.

However, if these problems are not pursued, Sima Ryotaro, a little devil who was a Japanese invader, still has real war experience after all.

Indeed, in the face of barbed wire and machine guns, unless the attacking side is an advanced mechanized unit. Otherwise, under such a fortification, the attacking side will be slaughtered by the defending side in a very cruel way, just like slaughtering livestock.

The steel barrel is equipped with an advanced magazine, and the Gatling gun, which uses copper one-piece bullets, fires with a sound and the roar of the cannon is different from that of a rifle.

On the hillside in the distance, Zhang Xianzhong, who was secretly observing, heard a sound like the continuous beating of horses' hooves on the stone road. This sound reminded him of the sound of cavalry galloping through the streets of the county town when he led the cavalry into the county seat.

It's just that unlike the spring breeze of himself and his subordinates at that time, Zhang Xianzhong saw a terrifying scene like a living hell, which made him stunned.

Twelve Fuxing-1 (Gatling) machine guns, which had been fully optimized by Wang Shuhui's modern military-industrial think tank, were fully optimized according to the production capacity of the Baath Party, and a company of infantry lying in a makeshift bunker composed of sandbags, constantly emitting terrifying tongues of fire behind the barbed wire.

These nets of bullets made of copper shells swung like long knives at the dense cavalry that was blocked in front of the barbed wire. And Zhang Xianzhong's precious cavalry, whether it was themselves or the war horses under them, seemed to be made of tofu.

As soon as the long knives of these bullets were swung at them, no matter the centaurs would be torn to pieces.

Zhang Xianzhong saw with his own eyes that a subordinate who was very close to him was torn into two sections by machine gun fire.

This frontier soldier was born as a horse bandit for many years and has killed countless people, and he is quite vigorous. Although the machine gun had broken both of his legs, he was able to drag his blood and crawl through the corpses with his legless body for a long time before finally dying. Space-Time Gate 1619

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