Perhaps because the mobilization and organization of this world with internal strength and martial arts is stronger than the ancient one in Zhang Fan's impression, the style and scale of the Central Imperial City are also different. At first, I didn't feel anything, but the more I went inward, the larger the scale of the palace pavilion became, and I didn't seem to have come to a place like the Forbidden City, but more like I came to the Oriental style of the Golden Zodiac. The gate of the palace is often a few meters wide and several meters high, and the height of the inner radius is more than ten zhang and the width is several zhang, and it is rare to see various pillars, and if you can still feel the gravitational acceleration when you walk, it seems that there is no difference, as if you have suddenly become a dwarf who is shorter than a child.

What's even more strange is that since defeating the eight guards near the palace, he seems to have never encountered a single figure in this vast palace, and there should be no idle people in the palace such as palace maids, eunuchs, and guards

"Wouldn't it be because you don't know what the Central Imperial City of Lintian City is like, and you can't simulate it, so you just make up a dream to fool people, right?" Zhang Fan seemed to feel an inexplicable panic in his heart at this time, so it seemed that in order to strengthen his courage, he took the initiative to ask the machine spirit in this shield. However, the machine spirit who had responded to the request before was silent for some reason at this time.

The inexplicable sense of fear seemed to intensify as the lighting conditions in the palace became worse and the lights became darker and darker. One seems to be a bit heart-wrenching

The following nonsense, the rest of the chapter is completed and replaced by half past one in the morning.

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In terms of the fundamental reason, when the world entered the industrial age, the changes in industry, science and technology, and foreign political and social atmospheres made foreign forces in an irregular state of fluctuating progress, sometimes stagnating or slowing forward, sometimes changing with each passing day. China's military strength is also moving forward in fluctuations under the role of diplomacy, introduction, enlightenment and changes in soft and hard power in modern times. However, because for a long time, China's armed forces have a low starting point and a low degree of modernization, and in the composition of military strength and national strength, soft power and political climate have been higher than the role of military modernization in other aspects. Therefore, there is a huge contrast between the "American ground soldier, he is a scrap" during the Vietnam War and the era of the Gulf War. From the splendor brought by the 50s to resist US aggression and aid Korea and the contrast between Taoguang and obscurity since the 90s.

If we look at it based on the process of military modernization and the development of the military industry, long before the Opium War, the gap between the national strength and military strength of the East and the West was far greater than imagined. In terms of financial strength, Britain had an annual income of tens of millions of pounds during the war, while the Qing Dynasty only had tens of millions of taels of silver. In terms of trade, in 1850, the global trade volume was 600 million pounds, and China only had tens of millions of taels.

In terms of military and technological strength: because of the control of high-quality nitrate mines in India and Chile, Western black powder has long been superior to China in waste heat and efficiency. At the beginning of the 19th century, the standard muzzle kinetic energy per kilogram of barrel of the main Western smoothbore artillery could reach 1000 joules. In the East, there were firearms with an initial kinetic energy of 200 joules per kilogram, which were already good guns, and those old guns such as 10,000-pound cannons had a greater gap with the firepower efficiency of British warships at that time. This efficiency, combined with the factor of mule and horse, the Western armies already had a 10-fold advantage in firepower at that time. Various elements such as gunnery, navy, modern military system and management, combat readiness pressure, and war training are not taken into account. In fact, Britain during the Opium War was not necessarily very impressive because of the gradually increasing social contradictions in Marx's era and peace after the war.

In the era of the Second Industrial Revolution, China introduced some modern military manufacturing capabilities in the Westernization Movement, and by the Beiyang era, it had the ability to produce tens of millions of bullets and 10,000 rounds of artillery shells per year. However, not only is there a problem with the self-sufficiency rate of explosives and the localization of artillery barrel steel, but there is also a huge gap between the scale of ammunition and the Great Powers of World War I.

For example, in the era of World War I, when the annual output of bullets in various countries was 10 billion, and the killing and injury of artillery shells became the main part, at the beginning of the 20 th century, China's military strength was even more slippery than during the Opium War, and it slipped to account for 0 percent of the world. About 1% of the military power status at the level of fourth-rate countries.

During World War II, the Kuomintang military industry solved the problem of gun barrel steel, the output of ammunition and machine guns increased greatly, and it was able to produce mortar shells and other suppressive firepower in large quantities. More importantly, the military has achieved great results in modernization, and the size of the new-style army has increased by 10 times compared with the early years of the Republic of China. During the Anti-Japanese War, more than 100,000 foreign troops were killed and wounded on average every year on the battlefield, which was unimaginable in the First Sino-Japanese War or Gengzi era. However, World War II showed the progress of the industrial countries compared with the First World War, and the Soviet troops killed and wounded by the German army on the Eastern Front alone were as high as six or seven million people a year on average, and there were still offensive and defensive operations against each other, and in addition to the confrontation of infantry artillery, there was also a small confrontation of armored aviation forces on the Chinese battlefield. In 1943, the value of global arms production reached $80 billion according to the figures of the rise and fall of major powers, which was actually nearly 2,000 times the annual domestic arms production at that time.

A series of integrations, such as the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and the acceptance of Manchuria and the Liberation War, and the recovery of Chongqing by the People's Liberation Army in 1949, greatly improved China's military industrial strength. During the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, the output value of arms is roughly estimated to be four or five times that of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression on average every year. At the same time, the combat efficiency and combat capability of the Chinese army compared with the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression have changed China's military potential status from a fourth-rate country to a third-rate upper level in a very short period of time, which has also greatly strengthened Mao's determination to split with the Soviet Union, and it was not until the 70s that he felt that the world military situation might change, and even began to estimate that China's fall to the Soviet Union was likely to be unable to reverse the gap between the East and the West in the later stage of the Cold War.

In the middle and late stages of the Cold War, there was essential progress in the two directions of mechanization and informatization, and mechanization made the problem of infantry combat effectiveness in rich countries likely to be lower than that of poor countries to a large extent. In addition, there are also shortcomings in the field of night vision, body armor, high-precision sniper rifles and a series of small arms to make up for shortcomings. Three-dimensional mechanization and informatization have changed the rules of war.

At the same time, the glory of the Chinese army at its peak was formed in the special social environment of the revolutionary wave and national salvation in the destitute countries, not to mention the 80s and later, when bourgeois liberalization had a wide impact, that is, the Mao era, and there were many conflicts such as the reform of compulsory military forces and the large number of revolutionary soldiers in the 50s, and the battle against the Sishui and Liugang Weijiao Army. In terms of absolute combat effectiveness, including firepower, the Chinese army in 79 may not be as good as the peak in 53. The legacy of the Cold War in the eighties and nineties