Chapter 68: Parts of Violence (I)
Of course~ being burned alive does look much more tragic and painful.
If it weren't for the help of these two high-ranking guys today, it would never be easy to win by relying on those ordinary soldiers alone! The walls of my town are only 5 or 6 meters high, and they can't reach the high casualty ratio of more than 1 for 5 in the offensive and defensive battles of big cities. The reason is that when the enemy attacks the city wall, the two sides cannot turn around and guerrilla within the narrow corridor of the city wall, so they can only push forward and squeeze to fight head-on, and the fight is the physical and psychological quality of the soldiers!
In other words, even if you don't talk about those half-human, half-ghost Karui warriors, the other soldiers on the city wall will maintain a casualty ratio of about 2:3 with those barbarians at most with their excellent equipment, and it won't take a few days for my professional soldiers to fight out.
If you take the more unbearable reserve militia serfs with almost no battlefield experience to fill this hole......
I'm afraid they'll collapse with a whistling sound, and I'll have to take all the other soldiers with me.
Although it is difficult for wizards to successfully cast spells in the face of landslides and tsunami attacks in the chaotic battlefield. But hiding inside the city wall is different, each of them is comparable to a few mortars, and even field artillery~
High spells play an irreplaceable role here!So I still have to find an excuse to firmly stumble these good thugs~
Lu Dawei suddenly regretted a little, if he was not reincarnated in this baron who had no talent for spellcasters, it would not be bad if he became a high-level spellcaster!
Because although order is not based on violence, violence can destroy the original old order, and then establish a new order on the ruins, that is, what the bottom of old China did - the red revolution.
And the role of the spellcaster just mentioned is only in terms of ordinary poor wizards.
In this world, the violence of spellcasters is what some **** people call "the truth is within the range of cannons", and they themselves are also the arms dealers and arms procurement and production interest groups behind the United States of America who promote the war! The main continents and subcontinents of this main plane, as well as the surrounding islands and large islands, have tens of thousands of middle and low-level spellcasters, and the spell scrolls and spell props they make are continuously thrown into the battlefield for consumption.
It consumes the lives of soldiers, but also consumes the financial and material resources of the country, and in the end, the inevitable winners are the capitalists of the high wizards and big chaebols behind them. In the end, it is difficult to say whether the political game between countries wins or loses, and sometimes only a few political oligarchs who start wars have the actual interests to make enough political capital, and everyone else is the loser.
Although there are some who can't even drink the soup, but will be rewarded by the top dignitaries to lick the leftovers left on the bowl with their tongues after the feast is "favored" - those who are "faithfully crowded" on the periphery.
War is fought on financial resources.
For example, today, if David Lu himself carried a large-scale offensive spell scroll purchased in large quantities with millions of gold coins and frantically released the high-lethal spells stored inside, then its effect would be like summoning dozens of large-caliber artillery pieces - cannon fire to wash the ground. Stronger than a thousand ordinary soldiers in full armor!!
The morale of the ancient army will generally collapse after 5%~15%, and those with more than 20% casualties and no scattered formations must be the elite of the kingdom, and those casualties of 30%~50% are the trump cards of the trump cards. This thing is not necessarily related to hard power, when a soldier finds that he has fewer and fewer comrades around him, he will fall into a kind of self-doubt, when he doubts that he cannot be defeated and death is worthless. Even the supreme commander of the army may directly order the rout in order to preserve the vital force and prevent unnecessary attrition.
Sum up.
Spellcasters are not only the cornerstone of violent groups like warriors, but also physicists, chemists, biologists, astronomers, meteorologists, and inventors in the entire human society -- they are researchers of the natural laws of the universe, so as to develop more and more magical spells, and they have an irreplaceable role in the entire race and civilization! In society, their status is like a combination of scientists and military officers, dual masters of high-end knowledge and violence, and these spellcasters have become the mainstay of national civilization and the natural aristocratic class!
Chen Xuyuan was actually in another room, taking the time to think about a similar question to him.
In the modern history of the earth, why did some people take advantage of the trend and continue to overthrow the dictatorship of the old feudal dynasties?
This brings us to the rise of the working class, also known as the proletariat.
Its history can be traced back to the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe, where workshops and handicrafts were born. Most of the early workers are bankrupt peasants who have migrated to the cities to earn a living, but in fact there is not much difference between the artisan owners and slaves, and they have no basic dignity of being a human being, and if they lose their jobs, they can only become beggars, or starve to death and freeze to death on the streets within a few weeks. Most of the life is similar to the life of an apprentice in the famous Russian writer's short story "Vanka", which is a true portrayal of the dark society.
It was not until the second half of the 18th century that the Industrial Revolution, marked by the invention of the steam engine and the cotton processing machine, and the sweeping changes in civil society that led to it, provided an opportunity for it to grow and enter the political arena.
Because in modern society, politicians and rulers can ostensibly send an army of fully mechanized tanks and armored vehicles to kill countless unarmed civilians at will. But in fact, the composition of this army is no longer the violent class of knights and aristocrats closely integrated with the aristocratic ruling class, but a large number of children and soldiers from thousands of civilian families.
Even every piece of armor on the tank, the gunpowder, the metal, and the screws in every shell came from thousands of manufacturers of the working class, boiler workers from steel rolling mills, mechanical welders from the power systems of fuel engines, and manufacturers and workers from assembly lines of all walks of life to produce spare parts.
To create these "violent" parts, it also needs to go through the raw material processing processes such as continuous excavation and transportation by mining workers, metal refining and processing, model pouring and molding. In the end, there is the combination of the welders, the wire wrappers, the draftsmen, the riveters with the parts that have been roughly machined, in other words, the thousands of ordinary people at the bottom who need to produce and sustain this "violence", in other words, the strength of the armed forces of the modern state army is in fact closely related to the innumerable number of ordinary people!
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