How to reflect the national strength of a country?

Perhaps there is no better way to fully display a country's national strength than war, and the war of a poor country is barren and insufficient, while the war of a rich country has sufficient and surplus war resources that can be squandered by the officers and men on the front line. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Often, this kind of barrenness and sufficiency, insufficiency and surplus will determine the outcome of the war, and at least to a certain extent, the abundance of war materials determines the victory of the war.

However, the same principle does not apply to China, at least for the Northeast, which is a poor country compared to Europe and the United States, and the Northeast is also not a rich region, at least in the official rhetoric of the Northeast, which has never placed itself in the position of a "rich country".

As early as the beginning of the new century, there was a news report widely circulated in Northeast China, which quoted the analysis and calculation of a British economist:

"In 1900, the average national income in the Northeast was £17.5, £75 in the United States, and £62 in the United Kingdom,......"

In the eyes of people, the national income of the United States is four times that of the Northeast, and the national income of the United Kingdom is three times that of the Northeast, and even so, the financial resources of the Northeast are far better than those of the country, but despite this, the Northeast is an "underdeveloped region" and China is clearly a poor country, which is an indisputable answer.

On the one hand, no one has ever questioned the poverty in the Northeast, but on the other hand, the Northeast has always given the best treatment to the army -- from the land granted to the soldiers, the status of the soldiers, and all kinds of preferential treatment, so that the soldiers of the Northeast Army have always been quite admired by the people.

On the battlefield, the soldiers of the Northeast Army can also get the most abundant materials, although the Northeast is not rich, but they will never shrink back on military supplies. It can even be said that more abundant supplies will be provided.

After the outbreak of war, the train of munitions running on the railway line showed the world all this, not only the hundreds of thousands of tons of materials were transported from the factories to the front, but also hundreds of thousands of tons of materials had already been piled up at the material storage points not far from the front line.

Mountains of materials at the cantonment station. It is enough to make anyone admire, but in this regard, the officers and men of the Northeast Army are not surprised, they have long been accustomed to this kind of adequate material support, according to the tactical regulations of the Northeast Army, they will often reserve more than twice as much materials in the theater to ensure that the troops will not be defeated in battle due to insufficient material preparation due to other factors.

This time, however, the General Staff Headquarters prepared five times as many combat materials for the army, and only delivered the materials stored on the front line of the theater before the war. It is enough to support the army for more than half a year of high-intensity operations, of course, this is not all, there is still a steady stream of supplies delivered to the front in the rear.

Hundreds of thousands of tons of grain, millions of shells, and hundreds of millions of rifle machine gun ammunition, in short, the Northeast is ready for this war, of course, not all. At least to a certain extent, the Northeast is not air-ready.

The number of airships has always been very limited. Because of the limited number, airships can only be transferred between theaters, just like now, when the airship unit has completed its combat mission in the coastal area, after the Chinese flag is raised in Vladivostok, the airship unit is immediately transferred to Heilongjiang. Transferred to the front in the West.

On the border of Heilongjiang, since the outbreak of the war, tens of thousands of troops have been defending against the Russians to stop their attack, and now. As the battle in the coastal area ended, and more and more troops marched into the border line of Heilongjiang, it was known that a new battle was about to break out here.

In fact, for a month, both the Chinese and the Russians were preparing for a new campaign - the Russians transferred hundreds of thousands of troops from distant Europe to Trans-Baikal, and by mid-March, the Russian army in Trans-Baikal was even equal to the local population, more than 350,000 Russian troops gathered here in preparation for a new offensive, and correspondingly, an army of comparable size was also gathered on the defense line of the Heilongjiang border.

"The largest battle in the history of mankind since the Franco-Prussian War is about to start in the steppes of Transbaikal!"

For European journalists and military observers from various countries, they all watched with bated breath at the Chinese and Russian armies in Trans-Baikal or ******** steppes, and in their view, a war of unprecedented scale could break out at any time, and what kind of enlightenment will this unprecedented war bring to people while determining the situation in the Far East in the next six months? What kind of innovation will it even bring to the military?

That is precisely what the military observers of various countries are concerned about.

A roar faintly echoed in the air, more than a dozen huge airships flew over the ******** prairie, when the airships flew through the air, the first thing to find them was the vigilant soldiers in the balloon gondola basket on the border line dozens of kilometers away, and the officers and soldiers in these cold gondolas looked at those airships, and their faces always showed a look of envy.

In the past few days, thousands of sappers have spent fifteen days building a large airship yard on the steppe -- the number of tethered towers made of steel has increased from nine to 15, and a month after the outbreak of the war, the airship company has produced 15 airships according to urgent orders, although ten of them are "motor airships" improved on the basis of light "VIP airships". However, this kind of airship with a bomb load of 1.5 tons is popular with airship crews because of its fast speed and good maneuverability; of course, more importantly, in addition to being able to carry out bombing of important places, the airship unit is now training how to provide support to ground troops in field battles.

While the 18 "motorized airships" were lining up to aim at the target area on the ground for bomb throwing training, the captain of the floating brigade of Xu Qiuling, who was holding a telescope in the observation post, heard his chief of staff say a word.

"Can you think about Irkutsk!"

After sending the signal "Bomb dropping completed" with a light signal on the airship, while waiting for the phone call at the shooting range, Wang Ziming, wearing a black military hat with a soft brim unique to the airship team, said to the captain.

"Think about it? You mean the bombing of Irkutsk? ”

Xu Qiuling was stunned for a moment, and then looked at his chief of staff in some surprise.

"We are now tasked with reconnoitring and preventing the Russians from further massing their forces to bombard Irkutsk. It is estimated that even if we apply, we may not be able to get approved! After all, the bombing of civilians is likely to lead to serious political consequences......"

The so-called strategic bombing is to bomb the depth of the enemy's national border, and to bomb the depth of the enemy's territory. It will also bring certain political consequences, which the military cannot afford not to consider.

Strategic bombing not only strikes at the enemy's military targets, that is, troops, military bases, military installations, and so on, but also completely attacks the enemy's rear production facilities and transportation organs, and naturally there is no distinction between the front line and the rear, and even ordinary residential areas, with the aim of completely destroying the opponent's country's ability to wage war. Weaken the government and citizens of the enemy country of the will to continue the war.

Therefore, strategic bombing is inevitably an inaccurate "indiscriminate bombardment," and under normal circumstances, non-combatants are bound to suffer extremely serious injuries, and everyone may be a victim of war.

"Strategic bombing is a strategy of dropping massive bombs on large cities, causing destruction and terror to the citizens in order to seek an end to the war."

Wang Ziming blinked his eyes and said a sentence, which was when the marshal inspected the airship unit last year. The "principle of strategic bombing" mentioned when speaking to the airship crews, the fundamental principle of strategic bombing is to create destruction and terror. Any means can be used to win the war. It was also since then that

"Political consequences, political consequences, ......"

Shaking his head, Xu Qiu Ling still did not accept his suggestion.

"That's a politician's business, it's not about the military!"

Wang Ziming said a sentence straightforwardly, the most classic sentence, and it is also the principle of the guards.

"Let's bomb Irkutsk. The whole world will see it, and by that time the Russians will know that for them there will be no more safe rear. We can even bomb St. Petersburg if we want......"

As he spoke, Wang Ziming cast his gaze into the distance,

"Captain, now, the whole world knows that our airship force is very strong, but how strong? And who knows? ”

Seeing that the captain seemed to be a little hesitant, he hurriedly continued to incite.

"What's more, strategic bombing is still advocated by the marshal, and since we have been transferred here, we should realize the marshal's wishes! With a beautiful strategic bombing, prove the power and value of the airship to the commander and the whole world! ”

"But, we have too few airships!"

Twenty-six bombers, even if they were loaded with bombs, were only a few dozen tons of bombs, and the damage they could do was too limited.

"Therefore, we are going to bomb Irkutsk, first prove our value, and then the staff will see the value of the airship, and will definitely place more orders, and then we can even suggest the formation of an air force, a truly independent air force, in any case, this war is an experiment, we can carry out tactical exploration of strategic bombing here, and we can also conduct other training, in short, as long as we want, this Russian is our experiment!"

When mentioning the test subject, Wang Ziming's mood did not have a trace of unusualness.

In his opinion, this kind of bombing is no different from the training he has carried out in the past, this is the difference between the air and the land, when the infantry on land attack, they will see the enemy with their own eyes and see with their own eyes how the enemy is killed, while the bombers in the air are at an altitude of hundreds of meters, drop the bombs, and then fly away, at most they only see puffs of black smoke rising from the ground, as for the casualties on the ground, they can neither see nor care.

After the outbreak of this war, the airboat unit has verified its strength in bombing, reconnaissance, and special attacks, and now it is time for the airboat force to improve the theory and tactics of strategic bombing through large-scale bombing operations, which can enhance the combat effectiveness of the airship force to the greatest extent, and can even bring about a real change -- taking air power as a component of military force.

“…… The strategic air offensive advocated by the commander aims to destroy the opponent's will to resist, continuously bombing the opponent's political, economic, and military targets, and forcing the opponent to give up resistance and make concessions under the weight of unbearable human and material losses. ”

In the headquarters of the ******** Army Group, Xu Qiuling pointed to the map on the wall and reported to the staff officers of the headquarters.

"Irkutsk is our first target, the largest city of the Russians in Siberia, the capital of the Irkutsk province, and the current terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway, according to the preliminary plan, in the next month we will carry out ten to fifteen bombardments of Irkuts, dropping a total of 500 tons of bombs, through bombing, to create psychological pressure on the defenders, and at the same time destroy their material cantonments, railways and other important equipment, to create conditions for the next offensive of the army group, And in future operations......"

A few points on the map of the finger, Xu Hill has a feeling of pointing out the country.

"With the army's attack in depth, the bombing targets of the airship unit will continue to expand in a radius of 1,000 kilometers or even 1,500 kilometers, and if the airship unit can have more than 100 airships, then a single bombing can inflict a devastating blow on a city, and no city or army can withstand the bombardment of hundreds or thousands of tons of bombs!"

While he was making his report, the staff officers of the headquarters were constantly pondering the possibility of strategic bombing. More precisely, feasibility.

"Bombing and bombing, is there no distinction between military and civilian targets, so have you considered political factors? Did you take into account that such bombing could cause protests in other countries! ”

Faced with a staff officer's question, Xu Qiuling immediately retorted.

"All a soldier needs to think about is victory! As for the protests of other countries, that's something for diplomats to think about! Sir! And in war, civilian casualties are always inevitable! ”

"Hmmm......"

Teng Yuzao, as the commander of the group army, pondered for a moment, and was silent for a minute or two before he spoke slowly.

"Give it a try!"

As he said this, he narrowed his eyes again, glanced at the map, and whispered.

"However, I suggest that before bombing cities, it is necessary to warn civilians, after all, we must not add too much trouble to the diplomats!" (To be continued.) )