Chapter 690: The Emperor of Wisdom and Martial Arts
Liu Xian, who returned to Beijing, ushered in another year's year-end summary, and this year is also the end of the term of the third-person cabinet, and the statistics should not only correspond to last year's bottom line, but also compare with the old-timers of five years ago. It can be said that this is an evaluation of Shousuke's work!
It's an absolute big deal. The entire central ministries and commissions were in a tense busyness. Liu Xian is not worried that Zhang Shouyan will make a fool of himself, he knows China's development in the past five years, not to mention that it can far exceed Zhang Shouyan's 'work plan' back then, and it will never be false to overachieve. Then what made him unhappy came to him after the stars and the moon, and it was another group of ministers who went up to repair the tomb!
Liu Xian is over 50 years old, and according to the low average life expectancy of people nowadays, Liu Xian ordered the construction of a mausoleum ten years ago, which will not cause people to criticize. But Liu Xian didn't want to go back to the old way, and in his opinion, it was too extravagant to build a huge tomb like the Ming and Qing emperors' tombs. Do you want to open a head to inherit the old style, and wait until the new century a hundred years later, and everyone in the future generations of the new Qin Dynasty will build such a mausoleum? At that time, there will be a lot of controversy.
He wanted to make it simpler, find a good feng shui place in Beijing, and build one on a scale according to the current high-ranking officials. But the place should be big, not to mention the future generations of emperors, his mausoleum as the founding ancestor must be accompanied by important ministers and generals. It is not to set an example for future generations, to kill today's atmosphere of thick burials.
And a mausoleum as he thought was definitely unacceptable for the current national conditions. Liu Xian didn't have to be forty or fifty years old to be in a hurry to repair the mausoleum.
"Only merit can be immortal!"
The Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor did not deliberately build the mausoleum. How did the current large-scale Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor and the Mausoleum of the Yan Emperor come about? Wasn't it all built by the order of later emperors? And the reason why this can be done is not because of the merits of the two emperors of Yan and Huang.
Liu Xian's intuition is that he also single-handedly pulled the Chinese nation from the muddy pond to Qiaogeli Peak. I am still in the process of climbing Mount Everest, and this is a great achievement. Posterity will never forget. Even if the new Qin has not been passed down for several generations. In the 21st century, it has become a thing of the past, and its position in Chinese history can also be compared, even surpassing the Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestors!
Just like the Taizu of the Red Dynasty, no matter how much he is slandered by some people, he will always shine on the long river of history like the sun.
A year ago, the new Qin Dynasty successfully completed the change of government, the third cabinet withdrew from the historical stage, Li Hongzhang returned to his hometown, and Liu Xian retained as usual. In the Congress, he was given an idle post of deputy speaker.
The first assistant minister of the cabinet is naturally Zhang Shouyan's, but the second assistant of the cabinet did not belong to Huo Guangcheng as expected, this person was greeted by Liu Xian and took the initiative to withdraw from the election of the second assistant, and the second assistant was Li Ying's.
Huo Guangcheng continued to pay close attention to heavy industry, because the war was about to start next year. The Wehrmacht will take the initiative to attack Russia, and Liu Xian wants to cross the Eurasian dividing line and not cut Russia's huge size into turnips, how can he rest assured about the Western Front.
So. Heavy industry was the top priority in the future wartime, and Huo Guangcheng had to supply the army with automobiles, airships, tanks, armored vehicles, trailers, artillery, and oil. And Huo Guangcheng is Liu Xian's cousin, a few years younger than Liu Xian, so it doesn't matter if he delays for one term. As long as there is ability and merit, the next one will be directly in the right position.
The Airship Army has been formed. The manufacturing of the first batch is in full swing. Liu Xian took detachments, wings, and regiments. The three-level structure is the structure of the airship unit.
There were ten airships in one detachment, and five detachments in one wing. One regiment has two wings.
And the specifications of the airship, after taking into account the cost and cost performance. The 20-tonne and 10-tonne airships were eliminated, while the 5-ton, 15-ton, and 35-tonne airships were retained, and these three airships were named Magpie, Egret, and Wild Goose respectively.
The cost of a magpie is 1.5 million, the cost of an egret has been compressed to less than 3.5 million, and the cost of a wild goose is more than 6 million.
The current airship unit has just formed six Magpie detachments and two Egret detachments, and a total of five Hongyan airships have been built. The huge amount of money made the generals of the General Staff and the General Logistics Department bloodless.
Since the advent of trucks, armored vehicles, and tanks, the army has had three more 'bottomless pits' that eat gold and drink silver, and now the so-called airship army is not far behind mechanized troops and armored troops.
"The approved military expenditure for the airship unit is 1.5 billion, accounting for 12 percent of the total military expenditure of the sea and land last year. This is a lot of money, with which the army will have three more mechanized mixed brigades and the navy will have five more 10,000-ton warships. They don't have a high understanding of the value of airships now, so naturally they are complaining. ”
"If you want these people not to complain, then there is only victory on the battlefield."
"After the beginning of spring, I have decided to hold military exercises in the Yanshan area, and the armored forces and mechanized troops, your airship army, and the airborne troops, will all appear on stage. We must seize this opportunity and grasp it well. Do it with a bang! ”
If Liu Xian's instructions to the prince were listened to by outsiders, he would definitely say that he was partial. Is this all about paving the way for the prince with a large-scale exercise that costs a lot of money? But in Liu's view, it is naturally worth it.
Time flew by, and in March, the Yanshan exercise began.
The news that the Airship Army will join the BLU faction was notified to the RED side very early. The latter is a powerful corps with two mechanized mixed brigades, two mule-horse infantry divisions, one cavalry division, and five armored units forming a core combat force, with a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops. The mobilization of these troops alone took more than a month.
The BLU forces had only one mechanized mixed brigade, one ordinary infantry division, and two armored units, plus the airship army, which was less than half the strength of the opposing side.
But after the war began, when the airships floated into the sky, the commanders of the Red Army suddenly found that all their actions were exposed to the eyes of the sky.
They had to rely on night cover and faster speed than airships to evade BLU's detection. The latter was less than half the strength of the red side, but after the exercise began, it fought impressively. Mechanized units and armored units frequently attacked, and the cavalry units and ordinary infantry units of the Red Army were frequently successful.
In the headquarters, the famous generals and generals of the National Defense Forces with the rank of lieutenant general and general opened their mouths wide. They knew that airships could fly into the sky, but they didn't expect that the role on the battlefield could be so great. Even if the wind is stronger, the airship can be lifted into the air; At night, the lights are dark, and the airship can still float in the sky.
They are much more useful than a school balloon. On the third day of the exercise, one of the RED's infantry divisions managed to block a retreating infantry brigade from the BLUE side, and it only took a day for the RED troops to entangle the BLUE troops, and the RED's follow-up troops could rush over and easily deal with the BLUE side.
But as soon as the 'battle' began, the blue artillery with the airship to guide the target easily killed the red artillery's protruding troops, and easily knocked out the red front's assembled forces, and all the plans and actions of the red side were simply exposed to the blue side's eyes. Although the latter was only a brigade, with far fewer troops than the opposing side, it also turned into an attack, and the red troops were defeated and retreated. In the end, he easily shook off the entanglement and pursuit of the Red Infantry Division.
It can be said that as soon as the exercise began, the airship army showed its grandeur. The generals of the General Staff and the General Logistics Department no longer criticize the excessive military spending of the airship army.
On the seventh day of the exercise, when the main forces of the two sides faced off completely, the airship military used its most important role -- to drop bombs, and they were heavy bombs weighing more than 100 kilograms, which blew up the red troops. The offensive did not succeed at all, but turned into defense, and there were heavy casualties.
Bombing! As a substitute for bombers, airships bombed, and the 'magic trick' that the German army thought of in the early days of World War I was the most important role in the formation of the airship army. Airships with a load of at least five tons can easily carry bombs weighing 500 pounds or more, and they are also a great threat to battleships. As long as the weather is fine and the weather is beautiful, a round of air raids on the port can definitely send a large naval fleet to the bottom of the sea.
The biggest flaw of airships today is speed. Liu Xian discovered this at the beginning of the exercise. They can rise in the sky and monitor the earth, but when they find the enemy, they often lose the enemy because they can't keep up with the speed. At that time, Liu Xian had already realized a flaw in his airship army - he only thought about bombs, not reconnaissance. The airship army also needs a small, fast airship.
And the shortcomings of the airship bombing fleet are the same in speed. When the fleet is sailing on the sea, it is difficult for the airship to keep up with the speed of the fleet's movement. In this day and age, warships are moving towards 20 knots, while airships are only getting faster than 15 mph.
But even with the speed flaw, the airship completely conquered the Wehrmacht. There was no need for Liu Xian to say anything, the prince could clearly feel the difference in his attitude. On the night of the eighth day, when the Airborne Forces descended from the sky and occupied the general headquarters in the rear of the Red Front troops and cut off the communication between the Red Front troops and the rear transport lines, everyone in the Wehrmacht could not help but shout long live.
In their eyes, the current airship is simply magical, and it can't be more magical. In an era when airships never appeared on the battlefield, who would have thought that airships would be so useful and magical?
It has been many years since the French invented the modern airship, and I have never seen them use the airship in warfare. The fragile one can be opened as soon as it is poked, but if you don't poke it, no matter how long it takes, you won't be able to figure out that way!
To be able to have such a wise and martial emperor is really my own happiness, the happiness of the whole of China and the whole East! (To be continued......)