The theory of weapons used to be a broad discussion, for example, the role of man, the role of will, and even the role of the art of war, which all have a huge role.

Desert Storm, which once dismembered the Iraqi army in a few days, was constantly consumed by the guerrillas during the occupation, and the tanks and helicopters that once flaunted their might were shot down.

Some people use this to refute the theory of weapons, which is correct, and without solving the problem of people's hearts, powerful weapons do not represent everything.

However, Zhao Xin studied history, and he clearly remembered one point, that is, at the current stage of history, the massacre may be criticized by others, but it is impossible to prohibit it.

The humanitarian crisis caused by the US military in Vietnam because of the madness of the war did not break out until the later stage of the Vietnam War under a certain blockade.

In this way, a wave of anti-war in the United States and the whole world was set off, and later, Iraq, Kosovo, Lebanon, almost every time, there were countless United Nations organizations and observer missions.

The United States can fight, it can attack military targets, and it can accidentally injure and bomb them, but once it carries out a purposeful massacre, it will definitely cause an uproar in the world.

This is the United States, which is as strong as a super, and their weapons are limited.

What is the essence of guerrilla warfare, hiding in the vast sea of the people, but once all the people are exterminated, what kind of guerrilla warfare do you have.

Just like those science fiction movies in later generations, robots have intelligence and completely kill all living beings, and after breaking through the army, the remaining people can only live like mice.

In other words, in the movie, the lone hero can save everything, but everyone knows that it is made up, and the army that is really on a business trip is definitely the result of destruction, with the US troops who attacked Iraq at that time, encircling the whole of Iraq and killing everyone?

In the age of civilization, there was such a crisis, but in this uncivilized era, hundreds of years later, when the Spanish and European colonists landed in the Americas after the great discoveries of maritime geography, the rulers of the Americas were the Indians.

Tens of millions of Indians who occupied the whole of America, built several huge countries, and cultivated kingdoms of high-yield crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes.

Not to mention the black slave business, from the beginning to the end, hundreds of years, so that the United States and the Americas, from a black person did not have, to the last tens of millions, these are the descendants of black slaves.

In the course of a few hundred years, about 10 million people have been transported, and none of them survived, and according to the capture of a black slave and the slaughter of 10 people, Africa has lost 100 million people in this era.

Northern Song Dynasty, only the 11th century, far from the era of civilization, there is no soil for guerrilla warfare, the victor controls everything, the loser pays everything, maybe the massacre will damage Zhao Xin's reputation, but history is written by the victors, in uncivilized places, do some massacres, reduce the existence of some population, fight for living space for the Chinese, this is not a bad thing, if in this era, no one does this, Zhao Xin does it, it is not impossible.

Zhao Xin must climb the weapon line, and he must continue to climb, good weapons will bring huge pressure, will bring huge advantages, will make the army of the Dinghai Navy, more relaxed, one fight 10, or even 100 is no problem.

In the era of cold weapons, if you want to achieve this, it is impossible, even if there is a complete phalanx, and the flexible use of the longbow, at most it is a pair of three or four, and it is easy to collapse.

The sharp attack of the longbow is based on physical strength and logistics, once the physical strength is exhausted, then no matter how sharp the army is, it has become a soft-footed shrimp, and it really wants melee combat, and the longbow may not be the opponent of a group of pikemen.

Similarly, logistics is also a problem for longbows, a long arrow, simple arrows are more than 4 taels, plus arrow shafts and feathers, even if the arrow shaft can be processed by wood, the weight of an arrow is also very heavy.

The longbow is the closest weapon to the modern army, according to the mature longbowman 15 arrows a minute, in a round of physical process, can shoot 180 to 200 arrows to calculate, a simple longbowman, the projection weight is very considerable.

Even in the future, Zhao Xin's improved roads will replace ordinary roads with some high-grade roads, horse-drawn carriages, even motor vehicles, and trains, and the pressure on logistics will become more and more intense.

On the contrary, the musket can be a perfect solution to this problem, compared with the longbow, the weight of the musket is a little higher, the weight of the general smoothbore gun is within 10 catties, if you can make lightweight materials, the weight will be reduced.

However, after the use of fixed ammunition, only gunpowder and lead bullets, the weight of a single bullet has been reduced a lot, plus the firearm, the use of gunpowder energy, which does not require much physical strength, as long as you pick up the gun, you can pull the trigger.

Even in the elite marksman, in a day's time, may not be able to fire 300 arrows, but as long as the gunner is trained a little, as long as the equipment is complete, the logistics are stable, and hundreds of bullets can be fired, and even continuous combat, there will be no problems.

Perhaps, the original firearms still had some problems compared to the longbow, but with the advantages of the guns, he quickly perfected them, and eliminated the cold weapons and all the armored defenses.

In the face of wearing or not wearing, there are not many problems under the premise that if you don't wear it, you can be more agile, and on the battlefield, you may be able to save your life, and no one will wear it.

Zhao Xin is very clear about the historical development, as well as the development of weapons, the longbow is just in Baozhou, in order to protect itself, and the weapons developed at will, even if there is a very high level now, it has changed the equipment system of the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, and has become the most important weapon of the forbidden army, but in Zhao Xin's heart, the pursuit of hot weapons has never stopped.

The generation difference between the weapons mentioned earlier is not much different from each other in the era of cold weapons, unless one side uses iron and the other side uses steel, or it is equipped in a large area.

The Dinghai Navy already has the whole condition, but it has not taken this road, steel also has a limit, subject to physical strength and personnel, the Northern Song Dynasty has this condition, but the Dinghai Navy does not.

The ascension of weapons, especially from thermal ones, began to change terriblely, and the gap became more and more obvious, from arquebuses, flintlock pistols, smoothbore guns, rifled guns, to all kinds of automatic firearms, almost every weapon, could completely hang the weapons in front.

It has nothing to do with the cost, it has nothing to do with the training, a well-trained army equipped with arquebuses can be defeated with a rapid army, just simple training, but equipped with flintlock pistols, and the casualties on both sides will be very disparity without artillery.

This is not a fantasy, but a change in weapons, especially from the emergence of fixed ammunition, even if it is a paper shell bullet, it has opened up the distance between the two sides, a weapon that requires more than a dozen steps, and the rate of fire is not even as fast as the bow and arrow, has become a fixed ammunition, and after that, the rate of fire has exceeded that of ordinary bows and arrows, close to the longbow.

Itself, in the era of arquebus, there were still certain differences between the two sides, and the general gunpowder troops also needed a certain number of archer troops to cooperate, but in the era of fixed ammunition, they were completely eliminated.

The training time is shorter, as long as you know how to follow orders, and then line up, according to fixed specifications, pierce paper shells, charge, and shoot, which can reduce the steps of shooting to a minimum, and in the era of platoon gun shooting, it is good to not have to think about accuracy, covering.

From this era, the musket began to develop rapidly, and different generations of muskets could be hanged.

You can imagine that the troops with the German coat color 1888 to the era of the American Civil War, even if there were only more than ten years in the middle, it was not a grade at all, and the same number could be won in a disparity in proportion, which was the leading technology.

Maybe it belongs to the army of the American North and South Army, and it can be suppressed by artillery to achieve some results, but what if the artillery is also hanging?

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the development of the whole world has been accelerating wildly, and it is unceremonious to say that in the next 100 years, 200 years, the speed of development has exceeded the previous 2000 years, or even 5000 years combined.

For the understanding of science and technology, for the use of energy, there are also various new materials emerging.

The same artillery, in 1840, when Britain launched the Opium War, the battleships across the seas may not even be able to beat a small all-steel patrol ship more than 60 years later, and a 7000-10,000 ton battleship can not beat 500 tons, which is not a fantasy, this is just the inevitability of scientific and technological development.

Weapons must be paid attention to, and there is development, this priority, even higher than expansion, the current situation of the navy, can be maintained, but there is not enough strength to give a sense of security, so how to deal with the malice around it?

The development of the Ryukyus, this is the established plan, under the premise that the land of the Dinghai Navy has been gradually exhausted, the Ryukyus must be developed, the same size of Hainan, and even the advantage of iron ore, can not compare with the Ryukyus, the reason is that it is too far.

In the future, it will be almost impossible for the Dinghai to move out of the Dinghai, so the Ryukyus, which is not far away, is the best choice.

When there was an emergency in the Ryukyus, the war was about to start, and the Dinghai responded quickly and sent enough troops to send 2,000 troops to the Ryukyus.

Sun Ji and Zhou Chong, who are also leaders that Zhao Xin is very optimistic about, can be said to be the future generals, if they lose, it will also be a big blow to the Ding Navy.

But so what, the Dinghai Navy can afford such losses at present, as long as the Dinghai Navy is strong enough in the future, it will be fine.

In the thinking of later generations, there is no one who is not sacrificed, but it depends on whether the cost and benefit are big enough, in the army of hot weapons, the generals gradually change from fierce generals to wise generals, and the combat effectiveness of individuals is gradually blurred in the uniform army, and is replaced by discipline, which is iron-like discipline.

Ancient army, modern army, modern army, under the premise of the same weapon, the combat effectiveness is completely different, this is the soft power of the army, Zhao Xin now, it is more important to cultivate this, before the birth of such an army, he needs to further consolidate the strength of the entire Ding Navy.

The biggest difference between Dinghai Navy and other places in the Northern Song Dynasty is that the industry, on the basis of existing science and technology and goods, has been scientifically transformed and has become the current industrial system.

This system originally relied on steel and cement, but the real industrial system will definitely not be as monotonous as the current Dinghai.

The layout of industry has been thoroughly rolled out in Dingjun, because of various considerations, some projects that should have been on the ground have not been opened, mostly because of some problems of land and environmental protection.

The fact that these systems have not been dug deep does not mean that the navy will not be developed, and the forward-looking research of the laboratory has begun, and there are enough personnel, and there is training, and there are also manufacturing machines, which can lay the foundation.

At present, after basically solving the problem of literacy, except for hundreds of thousands of people coming after the Chinese New Year, as long as they have been in the Dinghai Navy for more than one year, they will basically be literate.

There is no shortage of talented people in China, and even in the era of the Northern Song Dynasty, even in the era of very high illiteracy, a large number of elites emerged, and under extensive training, elites emerged one after another.

The total amount is placed there, there are comfortable conditions, reasonable research steps.

The scientific research system has been gradually perfected through hundreds of years of development, which is not the credit of a single person, but the gradual improvement of countless people and countless scientists, which is the rigor of science.

Ideology, as well as rules and regulations, can be taken directly, Ding Navy may be in the study, hard power, only in the card system and Zhao Xin such a traverser, hard to rise, but soft power is indeed very high, not to mention compared with the 21st century, in some aspects, has exceeded the level after World War II.

All this has created a miracle in the current navy, not to mention a group of talented people who have emerged from training and practice.

Relative to the military field of talents, the ability to research, promote the industrialization of the entire Dinghai Navy, and gradually move forward, such soft talents, this is what Zhao Xin values the most, not to mention anything else, a bull vigorously, so that the entire Dinghai Navy's steel industry, there have been blowout results, with Zhao Xin's forward-looking on-demand, rigorous and scientific research process, coupled with Niu Dali's flash of inspiration, it has caused the majestic steel of the Dinghai Navy.

A bull has laid a strong foundation for the entire Dinghai steel industry, to put it bluntly, a total output of 2.5 million tons, and along with the use of various new technologies, the continuous development of the steel group, even at the end of the 19th century, is also the world's leading, and even in some areas, has exceeded the standards of the later World War II period, these are the biggest confidence of the Dinghai Navy.