The First World War, for China, is the best opportunity, the power of the great powers, especially in Asia, has been weakened, and it is not even possible to go all out to deal with the northwest, this is the best time to seize territory, the cold of Siberia and the humidity and heat of Southeast Asia, in his opinion, is not a problem at all, the country, only with a sufficient area, will there be more resources and heritage, and there will be better development in the future.

In Yang Yuanzhao's heart, the Northwest Army is very powerful, not to mention the number of people, the future maximum mobilization capacity is 45 million, even if it is a world-class war, independently against the whole world, Yang Yuanzhao can not mobilize so much, more than 10 million troops, it is very difficult to control, let alone 40 million, at the moment of crisis, it is impossible for the northwest to mobilize more than 20 million, if it is really a 20 million army, still can't beat the other party, continuing to sign is definitely not the best choice, Maybe you can consider guerrilla warfare, trading space for time, or maybe simply sit down with the other side and talk.

The Northwest will never be like Russia, a sign of madness, and do not care about the life and death of the soldiers, the lessons of Russia are bloody, although in the end it was reborn from the ashes, resulting in the birth of the Soviet Union, but that kind of country, is not led by him, as a vested interest, as a rich and rival big capitalist, a similar bloody road, unwilling to go through the bloody road again.

The army in the northwest, when it was frantically expanding, did not have such shoddy systems, and the key officers and non-commissioned officers were also professional, and these backbones formed the foundation of the northwest army, even if they were ordinary soldiers, they had at least 3 months of recruit training. Qualified soldiers with 6 months of professional training and 3 months of integrated training are no less effective than the elite forces of other countries. Frontal confrontation is not afraid of anyone, if you add weapons. I'm afraid it's still the northwest that has the upper hand.

Entering the era of thermal weapons, an innovation of weapons can make earth-shaking changes in combat effectiveness, smoothbore guns, rifled guns, breech-loading guns, rifles in the modern sense, such development, so that the rifle continues to improve. The same is true of the emergence and development of artillery, and each improvement has brought about a drastic change in the combat effectiveness of the army. 、

Since its founding, the Northwest Army has always attached great importance to weapons, and it has never reduced its research and investment in weapons. Taking a first-class division as an example, at the beginning of World War I, the ratio of equipment had already entered the later stage of World War I. A division of more than 1400 machine guns at the level of the late World War I. No one can compare, Germany, Britain, and even the United States, are all in eight or nine hundred. At most, there are 1,000 of them, and after almost 4 years of World War I, they are almost in blood and fire. before accumulating experience.

The Northwest was owned in the early days, leading Germany. The fact that Germany also had enough firepower was the fundamental reason why the German army's combat effectiveness was much higher than that of the French and British armies in equal numbers. If it were only the difference in training and soldiers, it would not have been possible to play such an overwhelming advantage.

In addition to machine guns, artillery is also the biggest advantage of the Northwest, excellent materials, so that the artillery is larger, the body-to-tube ratio is longer, the weight is lighter, the design of the tube is withdrawn and the semi-automatic reloading, so that the rate of fire no longer relies on people and elite gunners, and has become more popular. Finally, it is the most critical mortar, which is a decomposable mortar in the modern sense until 1915, but because of the northwest, it is directly the most ultimate state, with a higher rate of fire, stronger accuracy, and even greater power, which gives the infantry great support firepower, and can follow the infantry to march, in the plains, especially in the mountains, has an excellent role, some rugged mountains, places and fortresses that are not easy to attack, with this, there must be the consciousness of being captured.

These are just basic weapons, the northwest on the basis of Yang Yuanzhao's guidance, trying to study mechanized weapons, tanks, armored vehicles, and even armed personnel carriers and armored trucks, has formed a system, although the northwest is only temporarily equipped with several armies, but once the war breaks out, it can be produced in large quantities and equipped, when the time comes, it is a real motorization, as long as the traffic environment is feasible, it does not need to be a high-grade highway, just an ordinary dirt road, you can move forward quickly with the help of mechanized equipment.

This is the finishing touch, in this era, the northwest actually made a 50-ton heavy tank, excellent design, power and armor, so that in this era, few weapons can break through his defenses, and only artillery of more than 150 calibers, in a relatively close range, after a direct hit, is possible.

Not to mention the artillery of more than 150, how much equipment is in each army, although European artillery is widespread and intensive, 108, 120 common, more than 150, the weight is almost more than double that of 120, for the logistics and transportation of Europe that relies on horses, it is not easy, maybe seven or eight horses will be used, and even a large number of manpower can be used, it is not possible to put it at the bottom at all, it basically belongs to the army level, at least it is also the strategic artillery fire of the main elite division, It is impossible to be on the front line. Not to mention that in this era, the reaction speed and distance of most of the 150 guns, for a tank that moves at a speed of up to 65 kilometers, it is almost impossible to hit, the faster the speed, the more difficult it is to hit, not to mention that the tank cannot always maintain a speed, in combat, changing speed, making sharp stops and turns, and avoiding artillery fire, almost every driver needs to master. Not to mention, there are armored cars, armored trucks, etc., entire divisions, from everyone can be taken away by motor vehicles.

The concept of motorization was put forward by Yang Yuanzhao, and as soon as this concept was proposed, it was immediately recognized by military experts, including Jiang Baili, mobility ability, in some cases, is the multiplier of the army, China's history of civilization for thousands of years, in fact, is also a history of war, Chinese's understanding of the philosophy of war, far above foreigners, even now war, after the emergence of the theory of weapon victory, in the case of the same equipment, the art of war also has a unique role, the difference in arms also represents the use of differences.

The ability to move, on behalf of the initiative, just like the cavalry of the old era, the Song Dynasty obviously combat effectiveness and equipment, far above Mongolia, but there is no way, the key is that the Song Dynasty lost the place to raise horses, there is no cavalry to maintain mobility, defeat the enemy, can not catch up, can not form a big victory, the opponent's losses are very small, and soon can make a comeback, and the infantry-based Song Dynasty army, once defeated, is defeated, two legs can never run four legs.

The motorized mobile force, which is equivalent to the cavalry in the era of cold weapons, is far faster than the speed and endurance of horses, and has stronger protection capabilities, making him a sharp weapon for attacking fortifications, when Yang Yuanzhao was still hidden, after Jiang Baili took over the Yinshan base, the first approach was to popularize the mechanized troops, and the northwest itself has the world's largest production capacity of motor vehicles.

In this sense, Jiang Baili's approach is really very good, although it has not reached the kind of mature motorized step that Yang Yuanzhao expected, but the cost of motorized step has been reduced, and even some are semi-motorized, but it has greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the army.

From this point of view, Yang Yuanzhao is very relieved about the army, the army is the future northwest to occupy the whole country, to compete for the Indochina Peninsula, and even the huge backing of the northern Siberia, shouldering the heavy task of opening up the territory, but only with the army, the army can not cross the strait, for Southeast Asia is easy to do, close at hand, but a little farther, the northwest can not hide in its own one acre and three points of land, just the entire eastern part of Asia is enough in the hands, if you want to fight for world hegemony, you must go to the ocean, from light blue, to dark blue, to compete for authority that belongs to the glory of the world.

The foundation of the great powers of later generations is the first point, although the second point is very important, but the more important thing is always to have a strong, enough to spread the prestige to the four seas of the navy and air force, which does not have an army, although the army is very important, the army can keep the country from foreign attacks, but compared to the navy and air force such an attack arms, the army is still a little worse, especially in this era, the role of the navy is more above the air force, before there is no air force that can strike globally, the status of the air force is always after the navy.

The Northwest Fantasy class, according to the evaluation, is a very good warship with a lot of unique things, but China's relatively weak naval heritage may restrict the play of his capabilities, in this case, it is better to look at the unique air force than to look at him.

After all, the Northwest is full of battles, and there are only so many people who can ship warships, the Navy is different from the Army and, no matter how much attention is paid to the Army, as long as the training time is 1 year, it is considered qualified, only non-commissioned officers and low-level officers need to train for a long time, but the Navy is basically technical equipment, and the bottom crew is a little bit better, but a little more advanced, it is not a short time to learn, one or two years is normal, three or five years is normal, even if the Northwest Fantasy class is stronger than other capital ships, However, after several high-intensity wars, other countries can withstand it, but the northwest can't withstand it.

From the layout of Qingdao, to the shareholding of Jiangnan Shipyard, the northwest has actually been working hard for the navy, but also paid a huge price, but Yang Yuanzhao has never put his eggs into a basket, the development of the navy, just to solve the problem of whether there is or not, to prevent the Chinese army from an obvious shortcoming, which is not conducive to the local, the construction of the navy also reflects more of the scientific and technological level of the northwest, and the real decision of the victory, I am afraid is the newer arms of the air force. (To be continued......)