Just as the officers and soldiers of the Four Nations Alliance on the street were firing their bows and arrows one after another to engage in a fierce battle with the defenders who were besieged in a mansion garden, the back wall of a shop behind them suddenly collapsed under the fierce attack, and several pieces of flying gravel suddenly flew out at an abnormal speed like lightning, knocking down an officer who was at least about five grades in the outer gate on the spot.

Immediately afterwards, with the help of the pull of the short knife hanging on the zipline hanging on the wall of the mansion on the other side of the street a few zhang away, Zhang Fan's figure sprang out like a ghost, and soon solved the other centurion with the blunt blow brought by the edge of the shield.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Fan shook his body with the help of the impact force of the two pounds of the street that was not too wide, far exceeding the figure of the ordinary sixth-seventh-grade master of the outer gate on the flat ground, and began to move forward while sweeping, attacking with the edge of the shield with one hand, and using a whip-like sword-like weapon composed of a slender soft steel bar that had been prepared in the town before coming to Shanyang from his waist.

This two-thirds zhang weapon composed of soft steel such as a whip and a sword, is also a weapon prepared by Zhang Fan in order to deal with close combat. Although the materials are not very good, they can maximize their advantages in melee combat.

The entire street began to resound one after another with the panicked shouts and screams of the soldiers of the Four-Nation Alliance, and of course, the organization of a counterattack

You can look at the Battle of Khe Son during the Vietnam War, and compare it with the second Fallujah in 2004, which is a head-on conflict that can measure combat effectiveness.

In a modern secular society with pluralistic ideas and a comfortable life, if the light weapons of both sides are about the same, the combat effectiveness of ordinary infantry will be reduced to one-tenth of the standard of powerful countries such as the Soviet, German, Korean and American armies in World War II (similar to the Italian army in World War I with 10 times the artillery shells of the Anti-Japanese Army, 2 times the bullets of the Anti-Japanese Army, and the combat record is less than half of the Anti-Japanese Kuomintang Army)

In the Battle of Xishan, the US troops could only fight with the opponent's light infantry under the heavy artillery fire and the bonus of technical arms. Judging from some bases for the Sino-Vietnamese conflict, the infantry did not have an essential advantage over the US and South Korean armies in the Korean War or the mainstream powers in World War II, and was not the same as the first army in the revolutionary era.

In the 80s, the U.S. military had a comprehensive innovation in the light weapons system, light sights, body armor, 40 mm low-pressure grenades, and some night vision equipment. At least increase the combat effectiveness of infantry by an order of magnitude, that is to say, if young people in the era of ideological pluralism in modern secular society are armed with the standard of ordinary infantry of the US military, without the support of too many technical arms, they can have the same combat effectiveness as the army born in poverty in the era of nostalgia such as the Vietnam War and the Chinese army in 79. An increase in special operations units and snipers will give a clear advantage.

If the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan does not have a large number of ordinary troops, as Russia does in Syria, it will only use special operations forces + some technical arms. The number of troops required and the number of casualties will be much lower, and the battle record will be significantly larger. Even in a modern capitalist society where cohesion is not good, selection multiplied by training in the field of will at least raise people's psychological quality and ability to play on the battlefield to the level of ordinary people in the era of the mainstream powers of the two world wars, plus the advantages of various other training and archery skills and equipment systems. 100 times more than the average third world country armed.

Civil war in Ukraine in 2014-2015. As a large country with a population of tens of millions, the Ukrainian government army can only muster tens of thousands of combat forces, and dozens of brigades are seriously short of personnel, and brigades have become battalions and companies have become platoons, which are comparable to those of the Burmese government army. Let's not talk about combat performance.

Russia is not the United States during the Vietnam War, and Ukraine is even more different from Vietnam, and it is probably not a credible offensive proxy that the West expects. Moreover, the dependence of an attack on the basis of the human heart is different from that of a directional action.

A society does not produce major crises and upheavals because of simple economic problems.

Many on the left are overestimating human nature by expecting the capitalist economic crisis to bring about socialist change. Think about the Great Depression of that year, did the number of American Communist Parties even reach the scale of the contemporary Japanese Communist Party? Did the financial crisis of '08 change the number of Communist Parties in democratic countries by an order of magnitude?

If there is a problem of changing social regimes, it is either because of serious religious ideology and ethnic contradictions, or because of problems in agriculture and food, or both. Here's what Russia's recent grain production and agricultural exports look like.

One of the important reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union was that the Soviet Union had serious problems in agricultural logistics, and that it did not engage in the totalitarian system and strict ideological control of the Mao or Joseon eras, and that there were problems with its own national foundation (another reason may be that the Russian elite not only believed that the Soviet system hindered its own interests, but that the continued Cold War would also make the technological gap between the East and the West widen, which was not conducive to the long-term interests of the Russian nation)

Yes, it is impossible to see the qualitative changes and differences in China's national strength and even the status of national strength in the world over the past 100 years since the New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty. I don't admit that all achievements just don't exist, do I?

How could it be so late? It probably started in the 70s. At that time, the Soviet camp was in its heyday. The climax of neoliberalism was precisely the 80s, when the socialist camp was completely overwhelmed.

In fact, it should be said that Europe and the United States cannot completely overwhelm the Soviet bloc in a short period of time while being constrained, and only by forming an effective division of labor system in the entire capitalist world can they win a quick victory.

The discipline, collective consciousness, and craftsmanship of the American working class cannot be compared to Japan in the Showa era

In June 2017, the XA-100 variable-cycle engine core engine developed by the American aviation power giant GE completed the test, and the XA-101 variable-cycle engine core engine developed by another aviation giant PW Pratt & Whitney has also begun to be tested.

At the end of last year, when GE completed the design of the XA-100 engine prototype, it said that the target thrust of the engine reached 200 to 220 kN, and the future development model will reach more than 240 kN, while the current F-135 is only about 160 kN, and its improved and increased F-135GO1 (Growth Option 1) is only 180 kN, according to the information provided by the American company, the variable cycle engine it develops will be 25% more fuel than the F-135, and the range will be increased by 30% , this is the huge gap between the fourth and fifth generation engines.

A series of chariots such as wheel trains, partial carriages, and beast carts, with strict formations, are indeed eloquent when talking about troops on paper.