Chapter 22: Natural Disasters? Man-made disaster!
Western Xia is in chaos, no, it is Western Xia, Khitan, Tubo, as long as it is not the Great Song Dynasty but all other countries bordering the Great Song Dynasty, they are already in chaos.
The leaves had fallen, the grass had withered, and all the food that the farmers had grown that had been exposed had become hay waste with the strange rains.
Outside the Great Song Dynasty, there is no green!
"Oh my God! Why did you treat me like this? ”
"How can this live!"
"There's no life, there's no life!"
Countless words of despair sounded in the alien land, those old farmers facing the loess with their backs to the sky, those old herdsmen grazing cattle and sheep, and those ordinary people who were counting on the land to live completely collapsed under this "natural disaster".
Especially in the Western Xia, which was about to go to war, the grass platform team that was hurriedly built on stage was about to go crazy.
The ancient forms of transportation and warfare were not as advanced as modern ones, a standard, combat-capable soldier, in the Spring and Autumn Period, needed forty-five people to support, and although the Song Dynasty was more developed, everyone knows what the situation is, the demand for support is not big in the past, in fact, the consumption is higher, fifty people to raise a soldier.
And Western Xia, as a country with combat effectiveness and walking a tightrope in war and peace, their level of support is the same.
Originally, the war was approaching, and the whole country was in a state of war readiness to support the army, but the grain that was about to be harvested was gone!
The problem now is that either there is a war and the treasury is used to store grain, then the people of Western Xia will not be saved. Either disaster relief, but the treasury could not save the entire Western Xia, and in the end, the army could not be raised.
You say you don't fight?
"The official family of the Great Song Dynasty has already sent a letter." The new Western Xia Lord sighed, "This battle can't be avoided!" ”
It can't be avoided, it's impossible to avoid.
Moreover, this is a war in which the Great Song Dynasty declared war on all.
The people of the Great Song Dynasty are safe and healthy, God bless, it is a large exporting country, and now it has completely cut off the border exports, and all countries cannot buy from the Great Song Dynasty, regardless of the government and the people.
Under this natural disaster, the Great Song Dynasty was the only one who did not have problems, in contrast, all the non-Song countries fell into the food disaster, the Khitan grassland of the Liao State, which was dominated by cavalry, turned into sandy soil, and the dry waste grass ate one by one, and the horses were no longer able to be raised.
This is no longer a war between Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty, but also a war for the survival of various countries!
Defeat the Great Song Dynasty and seize food and land, so that their country can survive under this natural disaster, otherwise the country will not be the country, the people will not be people, and the tragedy of changing children and eating will be staged in their country.
All the nations began to prepare for war, to supply the army with grain reserves, and to feed the lives of the lower classes of the poor, for the only survival at present.
"They thought it was a natural disaster?"
In the Great Song Palace, Zhao Xu looked at the fold, shook his head and laughed, remembering the words of his gentleman.
"Ignorance will make them attribute the cause to natural disasters, because they will not, let alone think, that human beings can take charge of the so-called heavenly power and give the so-called heavenly punishment."
"I don't think it's a bad thing, because ignorance is a stage that every civilization must go through, and only ignorance can give birth to questioning, which leads to earth-shaking change."
"But you can also exert power by using ignorance, right?"
Yes, taking advantage of the ignorance of the people is a force in itself.
In the case of nominal "natural disasters" but in fact man-made disasters, countries panic and then turmoil because of the fear of the sky.
Among them, it was still Western Xia who was the most unlucky.
First of all, all the previous group of leaders "couldn't report their illness", and the newly built grass platform team couldn't calm people, and their ability was not good, plus this food disaster, everyone felt that this was God's punishment and a factor of the Western Xia court.
There have been more than a dozen uprisings and rebellions on the surface alone, all of which have started in the name of God's condemnation.
And this is just the beginning, when the stock of food is exhausted, people start to go crazy with hunger, and even reach out to their own kind, that is the real "feast".
"Western Xia is basically gone." Zhao Xu said.
"Mr. Huo, this is a sample based on the drawings you made."
In the Ordnance Academy, several middle-aged people surrounded Huo Tianxiao and took him to see the latest research and development results of himself and others, a slaughtering machine.
It was not a small chariot, but it could not sit on anyone, it was about three people standing side by side, and on it was a metal creature with six pipes forming a circle, and it smelled of gunpowder.
The base has a swivel type that can be rotated at a 120-degree angle, and behind it is a huge ammo box that stores a large number of chain cartridge belts.
"Vulcan Lianjun, this is the name we have set."
The leader of the public law proudly said, "The new alloy of the Tiangong Institute is used as the body material to improve the temperature performance and ensure that there will be no equipment problems due to low temperature on the snowy mountains." ”
"The current experimental data parameters are 600 revolutions per minute, that is, 3,600 rounds per minute, with an effective range of 1,000 meters, which can cause effective penetration to the current armor of various countries, and the gun body will fall into a state of overheating after two quarters of an hour, that is, 30 minutes, and it needs to be suspended for cooling, and the time is 3 minutes."
"The lethality fully meets the needs of the border gates."
Huo Tianxiao nodded, stroked the so-called Vulcan Lianjun, and did not speak.
Since its birth, the form of warfare has changed, the number of people is no longer the decisive factor, advanced firearms can kill a person with a single bullet, and it can fire 3,600 rounds per minute, which is extremely penetrating.
In its previous life, it was called a machine gun, creating an even bloodier battlefield.
There are always people who feel that the people on the ancient battlefield have a stronger psychological quality than the people on the modern battlefield, because the ancients were real knives and guns, and they cut off people's heads with one knife, and they were old and bloody!
Actually?
Ancient battlefields, how many people died in a war in real situations? Remember, how many people died on the battlefield?
A knife chop is very bloody, isn't that headshot bloody? Isn't it bloody for those who were strafed by machine guns? Isn't it bloody for people to be blown up by fragmentation grenades, explosive packets?
The tragedy and bloodiness of modern warfare are much higher than those of ancient people, including psychological pressure. But there are not many generals who are sick because of this.
And in modern times, after a round of bombing, from the pilot to the commander, how many lives are carried on everyone?
The pilots who led the dropping of two atomic bombs, what were the lives of the pilots who had them in their hands?
The form of modern warfare is itself the bloodiest.
And the birth of the Vulcan Cannon means that the most fierce war mode is coming, Huo Tianxiao is curious, can they withstand the thousand-meter border meat grinder woven by bullets?
But......
"You guys did a good job, continue to improve the performance, and merge the production of the Vulcan Cannon into the assembly line, after a day, I need 10,000 to ensure the border pass, and there will be no shortage of bullets."
Huo Tianxiao stood upright, looked at all the researchers, and smiled.
"You will guide the form of war, you will change the nature of war, you are the war of the future!"
"Remember, at this moment, there is no seat for humanity!"