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The Evolution of the Three Kingdoms Volume Chapter 149 Weapons, Military, and Evolution

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    The issuance of the first holy book of Heaven¡ªThe Theory of the Sun, Moon and Stars, and the subsequent wave of trends it caused was something that Li Zhe had been planning for a long time. As a result, the entire plan was completed perfectly, and the effect was even better than Li Zhe had originally imagined.  It was even better and made Li Zhe very satisfied.

    The process of change in human society is huge and cumbersome, and the reaction at certain times is extremely destructive.  Being in the center of the whirlpool, every step must be taken with caution, as it may easily have a counter-effect on history, or even harm the history of the entire development of human society.

    This is the consciousness that a true politician must have.

    From May to June, after Li Zhe used a series of methods, the situation in the court gradually stabilized and the government became regular. Even though there were still many opponents, there was no big disturbance. Tianshi Dao  The gradual penetration of the people and the expansion of the militia system will replace the long-standing popular public opinion represented by the gentry, gradually drowning the noise of these times, and thus become a note that disappears forever in the historical background, never having any echo again.

    It must be noted that Li Zhe's government operations were based on a large amount of expenditure. Whether it was the large-scale propaganda of Tianshi Dao, the military pay system, the militia system, and the increasingly complicated political system, they were all based on large-scale clusters.  on the basis of chemical production.  The consumption of basic production materials such as grain and salt, under the same social population and natural conditions, Li Zhe's regime was more than two to three times that of Cao Cao's regime. And with the natural spread of the three meals a day system from the military and political system to the people, the entire  The living conditions of society are improving rapidly, and gradually, over time, it has become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

    But at the same time, improvements in communications, transportation, and bureaucracy have greatly increased the efficiency of Li Zhe's regime. The use of paper and pens and other stationery, and punctuation marks and other writing aids for expression have further increased.  It greatly increased the efficiency of Li Zhe's government.

    In short, this is a social system that is completely different from the old society, and it will take a long time for both officials and the people to adapt.

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    In early July, King Li Zhe of the Ming Dynasty, who had just ascended the throne, came to Xiangcheng and inspected the Xiangcheng Special Economic Zone to check the progress of industrial construction here.  At this time, Xiangcheng Special Economic Zone has gone through nearly three months of construction. Countless fertile fields have been developed. Roads are crisscrossing the area. The buildings in industrial areas and residential areas are clearly separated. Rows of them are neatly erected on the plains, showing that  Typical features of industrial society.

    In the industrial area, rows of blast furnaces were erected. After countless failed tests, the first batch of coke ovens and glass furnaces erected were partially successful and have begun trial production.  The qualified products produced can already meet the needs of use.  Such efficiency is undoubtedly far beyond the possibility of normal industrial progress.

    But if you think about it carefully, you can actually understand that all the industrial progress in the Three Kingdoms time and space are, in essence, just copying the gourd. They are all shrunk and inferior versions of modern time and space, and there is no real substantive scientific and technological progress.  But in this process, the exploration of modern technology, a glimpse of the way of heaven, the accumulation of experience, the standardization of processes, and the training of a large number of copycat craftsmen and industrial workers are also real gains.

    ¡°But the coke oven and glass have come out, but the iron blast furnace has not yet been completed. The setbacks experienced in this process have made these copycat gods in the industrial zone miserable.  Although there are auxiliary tools such as cranes, the key process problems are not so easy to solve. What can be seen from the videos and design drawings are full of mistakes during the actual construction. The dozen or so blast furnaces built by the craftsmen in advance have no problems.  Once successful, everything is scrapped.  On this issue, craftsmen can only continue to experiment and gain in-depth understanding, and use the greatest amount of manpower and material resources to accumulate in order to gain successful experience.

    Apart from these, the really better situation is that steel is made in a crucible. This really puzzles Li Zhe.  Later, when I thought about it more deeply, I realized that the craftsmanship level of the craftsmen at this time was actually very high, even surpassing that of modern old workers.

    To put it bluntly, the history of ancient industry is the history of the development of handicraft industry, and the early steel-making technology was actually a long-term, decades-long process of manual tempering. In this process, these handicraft craftsmen showed amazing perseverance, endurance and  The will can simply amaze the world.  It was from this poor steel-making process that they developed excellent craftsmanship, and the things they produced were incomparable even to later generations.  This long-term manual workshop experience allowed them to quickly understand the small-scale empirical process of crucible steelmaking, but they did not understand the principles very well.

    At this time, crucible steelmaking was of course produced from pig iron raw materials collected from elsewhere. Although the quantity was small, the quality of the steel was still quite good.  It has been able to basically meet the needs for improving the quality of weapons.  Li Zhe startedThinking about some long-planned attention.

    When I was in Runan, the steel produced by the steel-filling method had actually begun to be used to produce weapons. What was produced was the historically famous heavy Mo Dao, which was two meters and six meters long, and the light blade was more than one meter long, because  The reason for the poor quality of the steel is that it weighs thirty kilograms, but it is still extremely sharp.  This kind of thing is simply impossible if the steelmaking process is not up to par. The requirements for steel quality are very high and the consumption is very high. It is a product that can only appear in the real steel industry.  When we were in Runan, the process was very unsuccessful and the yield was very low. Now that we have crucible steelmaking, we can consider truly expanding the scale.

    It is also matched with full composite heavy armor and vests - the emergence of armored cavalry is inevitable. This is the pinnacle of combat power in the cold weapon era. It is the most effective heavy hammer in cold weapon tactics, smashing through strong formations and elite soldiers.  It is effortless and used to open up the west and north. It is the main combat force planned by Li Zhe to deal with the barbarian light cavalry from all directions.

    It¡¯s just that the quantity of this thing cannot be very large, because the requirements for horses and people are too high, and the tactical application is very limited, and it can only be small-scale equipment.

    Mo Dao¡¯s heavy cavalry, crossbow array and chasing light cavalry were Li Zhe¡¯s main tactics for the next period of time.

    When the enemy cavalry attacks, first shoot them with an arrow formation, and then the armored cavalry attack the enemy cavalry, disrupting the formation and delaying the momentum.  Mo DaoShou followed up with a chop, inflicting heavy damage.  When the enemy retreated, the light cavalry pursued them and completed the entire campaign.  This set of tactics was able to dominate the world in the Tang Dynasty and was invincible. It cannot but be said that it has a strong vitality.

    All of these have begun small-scale deployment and experimental training exercises. Prepare for a rainy day and have everything planned and foreseen. This is the experience Li Zhe brought from modern time and space.

    Of course, it must be mentioned during this process that among all Li Zhejun¡¯s horse-related ridings, whether for civilian or military use, high-bridge saddles, double stirrups and horseshoes have all begun large-scale production of equipment. This is epoch-making.  The ** of meaning develops the role of horses to the extreme.  Without this, heavy cavalry would have been impossible, and many cavalry tactics would have been impossible to succeed.

    Before, the reason why Li Zhe had been hiding his lack of equipment was actually because of the lack of horses. After equipping it and spreading it, it would only make the enemy stronger, but it would not make much substantial progress for his own side, which was equivalent to helping the enemy invisibly.  busy.  But now that they have entered Xudu, annexed Cao Cao's territory, and possessed the Black Mountain Army, this situation has changed.

    Cao Cao still has some horses under his command. There are as many as 20,000 military horses. Only in this way can he support the consumption of elite cavalry like the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.  The Montenegro Army is even more amazing. At this time, there were quite a lot of Huns cavalry in the Montenegro Army. Among them, there was even a young commander, Yu Shigen, who was basically the king of the Southern Huns. Because of the struggle for the kingship of the Southern Huns,  Having failed and had nowhere to go, he defected to the Montenegrin Army.

    In short, the Southern Xiongnu during this period were basically thugs recruited by the Han Dynasty, and they were already inseparable from the Han Dynasty.  The Fifth Army of the Northern School of the Han Dynasty has an army organized entirely by Huns, and the command is still in the hands of the Han people.

    With these as the foundation, Li Zhe could consider carrying out cavalry attacks. Even if these things spread, it would take a long time, and by that time, Li Zhe's power had already swept across the north and south of the river.

    The above are the next stage of Li Zhe's military industrial plan, which is enough to cause comprehensive progress in the entire military system and will also make Li Zhe's enemies miserable.

    But these are not over yet. In the Xiangcheng Industrial Age, with the expansion and progress of industrial scale, many of the previous restrictions have been automatically removed. Li Zhe expected that something even more destructive would appear.

    Artillery is Li Zhe¡¯s next idea and the content of Li Zhe¡¯s third military industrial revolution.

    I have to say that this technological leap sounds a bit incredible at first.  But if you think about it carefully, with Li Zhe's current industrial foundation, it is an inevitable result after the blast furnace ironmaking and crucible steel reach scale in the next step.

    After the large-scale development of the steel industry, the natural evolution direction of the Spanish Grand Phalanx, which used heavy crossbows as its main output of firepower, could only be the result of muskets and artillery.  As a result of the rapid evolution of Li Zhe's industrialized society, it can only be the development direction of firearms in modern time and space such as human sea tactics and firepower coverage.

    From then on, the development direction of battlefield tactics must also change in the direction led by Li Zhe.  Those who study hard and train hard, and those elite cold weapon units that have been working for decades can only be sadly eliminated.  The war elements of the cold weapon age, such as courage, martial arts, and strategy, will be replaced by the gradually evolving order, logistics, and large-scale industrial production capabilities.  As for the cute and mighty Mo Dao and the armored cavalry, they can only say goodbye to Li Zhe!

    ? ?It is a long process, but technical reserves have to start very early.

    Many people think that it is difficult to develop artillery. In fact, it was not difficult for the metallurgical industry of the Han Dynasty. The earliest bronze artillery in the history of artillery development could actually be dealt with by the metallurgical industry of the Qin Dynasty.  After all, the Qin Dynasty had experience in casting large instruments weighing dozens of tons, such as the Twelve Golden Figures and those large bronze bells.  Its thirst for casting technology is even greater than that of early bronze artillery, otherwise its sound quality will undergo subtle changes after casting, and it will be destroyed. The earliest record of sonic detection and flaw detection in the metallurgical industry appears in the ancient Chinese chimes.  On top of casting.

    For Li Zhe at this time, the only thing missing was the invention and industrial production of black powder.  But now this technical barrier has been easily broken through by Li Zhe's alchemists after several months of exploration in Runan County.

    Black gunpowder can be used for various purposes such as propellant, blasting powder, delayed fuze powder, etc. With Li Zhe's cheating device and the alchemy experience of the alchemists, it is effortless to break through. The best formula is ready-made.  The only need for craft experience is standardized operating procedures, a more professional and detailed division of labor, and more efficient large-scale industrial production. However, with craftsmen and militiamen who have experienced industrial training, this has been successfully solved.

    Purification, separation, crushing, grinding, and re-drying, the entire gunpowder production process is highly streamlined and mechanized, and various primitive machinery are also used. Due to its huge power, many accidents occurred in the process, which also led to the Three Kingdoms  The first systematic safety production regulations in the history of space-time industrial production were promulgated.  The final products produced are black powder granules and powders for different uses, which are close to the European military gunpowder standards of the seventeenth century.

    Immediately afterwards, there is the issue of casting the artillery.

    What Li Zhe wants to develop is not the early bronze artillery in history. That kind of artillery is huge in size, exaggerated in weight, and extremely troublesome to move. It is difficult to adapt to Li Zhe's tactical needs.  What he needed was to make the leap directly to iron artillery, the earliest muzzle-loading smoothbore cannon in the history of modern time and space.

    Relatively speaking, such artillery has relatively low requirements for steel craftsmanship. After the evolution of Li Zhe's steel industry is completed, it will be enough to achieve this goal.  Even the technology of crucible steel will exceed its demand.

    In this way, the entry of a large number of front-loaded smoothbore guns into the army will completely change the mode of combat. The heavy counterweight trebuchet will complete its mission and be launched on the stage of history. The lighter and more powerful artillery will become the main weapon on the battlefield.  The dominant weapon will extend in the direction of fire coverage until new weapons are produced.

    From now on, artillery, heavy crossbows, light infantry and light cavalry will become the basic composition of Li Zhe's army. The main task of firepower output will be transferred from heavy crossbows to artillery, and then become a nightmare for all enemy forces, opening up the vigorous Napoleon  The era of artillery and cavalry opened up new battlefields and unlimited territory for the future Ming Empire.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (this site) to subscribe and reward. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

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