382 Which side is time on
"Out of thin air?" King Louis XIV of France sneered twice and glanced at the audience.
"I would like to ask all of you here, since Hong Tiancheng started the founding of the country, where did his endless stream of diehard troops come from?
The spy networks of various countries in the Taiping Heaven must have already sent back a large amount of information to prove what the Taiping Army is all about.
The reason why we can sit together and fight against Hong Tiancheng together as a family is that we are afraid of the mysterious 'power' of Hong Tiancheng?
If you don't wipe out Hong Tiancheng, watching him conjure up a powerful army of combat effectiveness little by little out of thin air, sooner or later, you will be like the 'martyrs' in Poland, Lithuania, Germany, and Austria, and you will be swallowed by Hong Tiancheng!
In the face of this unknown devil, we argue that it is pointless, that we of the French nation cannot be in the company of this public enemy of humanity that exterminates the continent and the whole world.
To tell you the truth, after Hong Tiancheng once again performed 'witchcraft' and conjured up 5 full-fledged Heavenly King Guards, the Sultan of the Ottoman Turkish Empire had sent a secret envoy willing to sign a new agreement against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Now, I very much doubt that the reason why the Russian Empire is so convinced of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom may be that Hong Tiancheng has used witchcraft that we cannot understand against the dictatorial Tsar who relied on usurping the throne of the Tsar, otherwise the Russian Empire would not have willingly acted as Hong Tiancheng's lackey. ”
The words of King Louis XIV of France immediately attracted the sideways attention of the delegates present.
This is an inconvenient secret to be told in the upper class of the European continent, and the upper class of the European society does not dare to publicize it to the lower class people and soldiers, because they are afraid that after the demonization of Hong Tiancheng, it will detonate the fear of the unknown among the lower class of the people, resulting in the complete collapse of the morale of the front-line soldiers!
Therefore, the front-line army has always been encouraged to fight conventional wars with the idea of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, and the combat spirit of resisting the invasion and defending the country.
Fortunately, in addition to being able to constantly conjure up die-hard troops out of thin air, Hong Tiancheng did not cast other fantasy 'spells', so that the lies maintained by the high-level leaders of the European continent were enough to maintain.
However, the lower classes do not know that the upper class of the European continent has long spread all kinds of bizarre remarks about Hong Tiancheng.
The representatives of the Habsburg dynasty of Spain also fell silent after hearing the words of King Louis XIV of France, and it seems understandable that Hong Tiancheng could conjure up a group of die-loyal Han Chinese armies and then a group of die-loyal French troops......
King Louis XIV of France was a man of old scheming, and he resolved internal contradictions in a few words.
"Now let's discuss something of practical significance, the seizure of the Mini rifle from the Taiping Army has been largely completed, in the last month, our country's gunsmiths successfully imitated the first Mini rifle, the manufacture of the Mini gun ammunition production line is also on the right track, and now only the problem of loading remains.
Next, time will be on the side of the anti-Han League, and we will have the same weapons and equipment as the Taiping Army, just like the imitation of the Flower Bomb, instead of using the lives of the soldiers to collide with the advanced weapons of the Taiping Army.
So, we need to buy time, for example, to reach an armistice agreement with Hong Tiancheng.
In just one to two years, with the productivity of our allies, we will be able to assemble a group of troops with Mini rifles, what do you think? ”
King Louis XIV of France said in a soothing tone.
This is war, where you fight for positions that come and go on the battlefield, and it is simply impossible to keep the outflow of individual weapons.
Therefore, once a war breaks out, the military blocs on both sides will show a trend of becoming more and more 'advanced', even during World War II, those large-scale weapons and equipment were all in the hands of the enemy, resulting in the equalization of the weapon generation gap, not to mention a rifle?
For example, small Japan is recognized as the country with the worst weapons among the major participating countries in World War II, not because small Japan could not develop advanced repeating rifles, but because small Japan's industrial strength could not supply enough ammunition consumption after installing repeating rifles!
This is why little Japan pays attention to the targeted training of single-shot rifle hit rate, and the reason why all kinds of advanced firepower equipment emerge in an endless stream in the United States is just because the United States can afford to fight.
The same American-style equipment is in the hands of a country like Little Japan, and if it can't fight a few wars, the whole country will go bankrupt!
This was also the case with Germany in the late stages of World War II, except that Germany was limited by raw materials rather than industrial strength, but the reason is actually the same, the result of insufficient productivity and insufficient raw materials is the same.
The reason why the Soviet Union was able to build up a torrent of tanks in the later period was very simple, because with a large amount of support from Britain and the United States, as long as there was a strong industrial base and raw material supply, it was not difficult for countries in World War II to explode equipment in a short period of time.
To put it bluntly, the United States was able to win World War II not because of the heroic fighting will of American soldiers, nor by the generation gap of American high-tech technology, but because the United States is too rich!
If you build an airplane, the United States will have 10 planes take off, the fascists will have one tank on the front line, and the United States will have 10 tanks on the front line.
It can be said that the moment the United States entered the war, the fascist countries were doomed.
This kind of truth also exists for the current anti-Han allies, who obviously have more resources, higher productivity, and more soldiers, but because of the difference in weapons generation and the difference in fighting will, they can only compete with the Taiping army.
The gap in the will to fight cannot be leveled by the anti-Han allies, but the difference in the generation of weapons can be leveled in the eyes of the anti-Han allies.
This creates a snowballing advantage.
Therefore, the remarks of King Louis XIV of France were quickly recognized by the representatives of the anti-Han alliance.
They are in dire need of Mini rifles, in other words, they urgently need to be on the same level of technology as the Taipings!
The establishment of production lines, the convergence of raw materials, the modification of factories and assembly line manufacturing, all require a lot of time, and even if they are made, they still need to be redressed and retrained, at least, to make soldiers familiar with the weapons in their hands.
In the eyes of the countries of the Anti-Han League, in the war of more than two years, the Taiping Army's losses were not clear, not counting the new 5 Manchurian Heavenly King Guards Divisions, the original 10 Taiping Army Field Divisions, now there are only three left, one of which is still in the Milan area to confront Savoy.