Large countries have the strategic outlook of big countries, and small countries also have the strategic outlook of small countries.

The typical Japanese style of strategic outlook is to strike first and feed the war with war -- no matter how great the disparity in strength between the enemy and us, and no matter how many insurmountable difficulties, we must bet all our capital from the very beginning and launch a fierce offensive to burn the flames of war on the enemy's land.

Because, for an island country like Japan, which lacks resources and has no depth, once a foreign war is provoked, then the enemy's territory is the most haode defense line on the mainland, and the furious attack is the most haode defense...... If they could not keep the enemy out of the country from the beginning and obtain various resources from the enemy's land to continue the war, then the Japanese would not have the capital to "keep the enemy inside the country" in the future.

Therefore, among Japan's military-related anime works, from "Gundam 0079" to "Gundam SEED", they are basically similar routines - small countries that have been planning for a long time take advantage of the slow reaction of big countries, and release big moves at the beginning of the war, abolishing the comprehensive national strength in which the other side has absolute superiority, pulling the seemingly behemoth-like enemy to the same starting line as themselves in one go, and then relying on excellent tactics and individual soldier quality to slowly win the victory. Among them, the Duchy of Jean in "Gundam 0079" launched the "Britannica" operation, hitting the earth with colonial satellites, and wiped out more than half of the entire population in an instant like the extinction of dinosaurs; The adjusters in "Gundam SEED" are a little more civilized, which is to drop neutron jammers to abolish global nuclear power, and plunge the entire earth into famine, turmoil and social collapse through the energy crisis.

In short, the Japanese people's strategic outlook is basically like a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. If you can't break the enemy's backbone in the first wave of the offensive and win a landslide victory. Then the follow-up battle will be completely delaying time in order to obtain more decent terms for peace talks.

-- But the question is. Because the first wave was too hard to fight and the feud was too deep, no matter how much he struggled after that, it was difficult to escape the opponent's revenge......

Therefore, in accordance with Japan's long-standing tradition of "gambling on the fortunes of the country," former Japanese Prime Minister Yori Mashiro Kotori and former Japanese Defense Minister Kobayakawa Morinatsu, two "non-professionals" who control the arsenal of the Self-Defense Forces, have all worked together to devise an "Oriental Strategy" that can be called a frenzy for Emperor Constantine XI, who is preparing to recover Asia Minor, and has also given it a rather terrifying code name -- "Scourge of the Dead"!

Obviously, in the moral education of the little bird tour Mashiro. There must be a lot of important things missing, such as discipline, mercy, and humanitarianism.

In short, the content of this combat jihua is as brutal and evil as its name - the use of modern jishu's military bacteriological weapons. In the 15th century, when medicine was still in its infancy, the Mediterranean Shijie spread cholera, measles, typhoid, plague, smallpox, malaria and other malignant infectious diseases. This ensures that it will be within ten years after 1453. Europe and Western Asia were in the midst of an unprecedented outbreak of plague, at least as severe and mortal as the Black Death of 1348. The strategic goal of the whole germ warfare was to reduce the population of the Mediterranean region by about 50% to 80%, not only to turn the Anatolian Peninsula entrenched by the Turks into a wilderness of death, but also to deal a fatal blow to the Italian city-states that dominated the Mediterranean at that time!

At the same time, the army of the Eastern Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine XI. They put on a compassionate face of relieving the suffering, landed in Asia Minor with large quantities of antibiotics and medicines, and used pervasive germs and stubborn religious beliefs to very efficiently identify enemies and supporters - the enemies were Muslims. And the supporters are Christians. In the face of the terrible plague, those lost Greek Christians naturally turned to the emperor's military priests for help, and then received "holy water", "holy oil" and "holy bread", and with the blessing of God, they barely survived the plague and became loyal subjects of the empire again. And those Muslim infidels who believe in Allah and stubbornly do not have medical treatment and can only hide in mosques to recite scriptures, and some people maliciously sow germs, basically they will soon die of disease in large numbers and be physically destroyed......

In this way, Emperor Constantine XI was able to purge the fallen cities of Asia Minor without a fight, and according to the experience of the Iberian Reconquest and the Crusades, there was really no more "purification" and "greening" of unruly Muslims in these years, except for the most brutal physical destruction, so that they would willingly accept the rule of the Christian kings.

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From a military and economic point of view alone, this "Scourge of the Dead", which opens the way with a variety of fierce plagues and then buys people's hearts with modern special drugs, should be said to be very scientific and efficient, and can destroy the most enemies in the shortest possible time with the least resources. It is far less expensive and more likely to win than fighting a grueling war of conquest followed by endless policing operations.

The only flaw is ...... It's wicked! It has been so evil that it has completely broken through the minimum moral bottom line and has fallen to the level of being anti-human and anti-civilization -- to put it mildly, it is about to send at least tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, to heaven!

In comparison, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Gu Shoufu, the famous butchers with bloody hands, can already be regarded as kind little lambs.

When Wang Qiu first read this "Scourge of the Dead" combat jihua, he simply felt that there seemed to be a smell of corpses and blood between the lines!

- He's meowing, this is basically an enhanced version of Director Ma's "global plague jihua" in ancient Central America!

And it still uses the regular bacteriological weapons of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, not to mention the fifteenth century, even if it is used in modern times, it can make people drink a pot!

To tell the truth, if the Black Death broke out in Europe for ten consecutive years, it is still difficult to say whether Europeans would die completely, but the European urban civilization that had just developed during the Renaissance was only afraid that it would definitely collapse - at that time, the European cities with dirty environment and germs had always been the high incidence of all kinds of plagues...... After ten years of hiding, the city should be deserted.

And Muslims' hygiene habits are slightly better, but they are probably not much better under the onslaught of targeted bacteriological weapons.

Of course, if the Japanese had formulated this jihua, it wouldn't seem too strange.

But the problem is that this is completely inconsistent with the strategic habits of the Chinese -- according to Wang Qiu's strategic thinking, the correct tactic should be to firmly control one city and one place first, and grasp a solid base area. Then they played farming, climbed the science and technology tree, developed the economy, reformed the social structure, and even engaged in the industrial revolution. Wait until you have accumulated enough liliang before you continue to expand.

However, for Wang Qiu's "naïve" assumption, as the predecessor of the traverser, Xiao Tori Zhenbai unceremoniously gave a cynicism.

According to Kotoriyu Mahaku, although in many fantasy novels, the protagonist can often create an industrial revolution in a small territory and amass a lot of wealth. But in fact, the huge and complex industrial civilization is definitely not something that can be played with by tens of thousands of people in a small territory, even the early industrial civilization in the steam engine era requires at least a million industrial population to support. In short, I want to build an isolated industrial city with the jishu and concepts of the super era, and then I start to eat alone and accumulate capital by exploiting the natives of the other world, and use a desolate territory with a population of tens of thousands to develop a new shili that is enough to single-handedly take on the whole shijie in just a few years...... The difficulty of this mission is absolutely nightmare!

Today's Eastern Roman Emperor has only a lonely city and a population of more than 100,000, without any hinterland, and there are no coal and iron resources necessary for industrial development in the territory, and it is already a veritable small city-state. Although with the help of the Mediterranean route in all directions, Constantinople can import resources from the entire Mediterranean Sea more easily. But the problem is that today's Venetian state-run merchant fleet has a complete monopoly on the trade and logistics of the Eastern Mediterranean, and thus completely controls the pricing power of all goods. Even if the Greek craftsmen of Constantinople had been taught by the time-travelers to burn porcelain, smelt steel, and make clocks, glass mirrors, and phonographs, they would have been driven down by the Venetian merchants to the price of cabbage, and they would not make much profit.

Even if the Eastern Roman Empire wanted to introduce a competitive mechanism to counter the Venetians' low prices, it could not find other buyers for the time being: the fleets of Genoa and Pisa had been crushed in the last century, while Florence was an ally of Venice, and the Turks were the sworn enemies of mortal enemies.

What's even worse is that even if the Eastern Roman Empire figured out something new and prosperous, there was no concept of international patents, let alone the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. As long as the Venetian fleet sailed into the Sea of Marmara, and the Venetian mercenaries stationed in the city made a noise, the emperor could only pack up and send them all the workshops and craftsmen, and maybe he would be extorted a military budget - there was no way, the forces of Constantinople, Venice and the Genoese Concession in these years were actually stronger than the armies of the Eastern Roman Empire!

“…… For the new Chinese counterpart, in your future career, you may have to venture to many different shijie and see all kinds of ancient civilizations. So it's important to remember that we traversers are not omnipotent gods, and the task of climbing the tree of science and technology and initiating social change is almost impossible to achieve by a single person. This is a bloody lesson that many people have exchanged their lives for! And the historical knowledge recorded in books is also completely unreliable. Because the butterfly effect that the traverser can set off is often far beyond our imagination! ”

Xiao Tori You Zhenbai put on the appearance of an old-timer and taught Wang Qiu step by step, but in the next moment, she regained her secondary disease and black belly, "...... Because it is so troublesome to see the tricks, I generally like to solve the problem in a simple and crude way - to borrow a famous phrase from Stalin, death can solve all problems, and when people are dead, there is no problem! ”

- Hey, hey, what kind of nonsense is this in an online joke? When did that Iron Comrade say it so explicitly?! (To be continued.) )