1887!
The world is moving towards war with an irreversible momentum, almost all forces, light, dark, all forces.
It seems that everyone is preparing for that war.
But for ordinary people, they will never know all this, they just continue to enjoy the peace and the beauty of life there.
In fact, this is the truth of the world - in the seemingly most peaceful era, peace has actually long been shrouded in the shadow of war.
On the vast Brazilian plateau, thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery and heavy trucks of the Army Armored Training Division are marching in a single column past the reviewing stand with the Sun and Moon flags flying.
"This should be the most powerful armored assault force in the empire."
Emperor Zhu put down his telescope and said to himself with a sigh,
"Back then, not long after cars came out, I wanted to build an armored force. Unfortunately, at that time we only had armored cars. Later, we had tanks, but it was still insufficient. Tanks could not communicate with each other."
"Yes, Your Majesty. At that time, even if the wireless telegraph was installed in the tank, there was no way to keep in touch at all times. After all, it takes time to translate the message."
Chief of the General Staff General Jiang Bailiang took over the conversation and spoke.
"But now it's different. Tesla Electric Company has cooperated with the military to develop a mobile radio that allows vehicles to communicate with each other using voice while on the move. That radio is simply amazing! With it, not only can tanks communicate with each other, but also with airplanes..."
Before Jiang Baili could finish his words, several planes flew past at high speed in the sky. Looking at the planes in the sky and listening to the roar of their engines, Emperor Zhu raised the corners of his lips slightly and then spoke.
"It seems like today's exercise is about air-ground coordinated operations!"
"Yes, sire."
As Jiang Bailiang finished speaking, the commander-in-chief of the exercise reported.
"The exercise begins!"
The exercise begins!
This was an unprecedented exercise. Following the order, the first to launch the attack was not the army, but the air force - twenty-one biplanes roared towards the target.
Looking at the flying plane, Emperor Zhu nodded slightly and said.
"This is the true air power of the Empire!"
Even if they look like toys, even if they are still primitive, and their speed is less than 200 kilometers... In any case, airplanes are the future! They are the direction of development of air power.
Suddenly, the plane began to dive, and Emperor Zhu could even hear the whistling sound it made as it dived.
“…This, this is…”
The piercing whistling sound made Emperor Zhu stand up. This sound... really sounded like a "Stuka"!
"The air force below is conducting a dive bombing. Compared with horizontal bombing, it has higher accuracy and is more suitable for attacking point targets..."
The moment Jiang Bailiang finished speaking, a loud noise suddenly came from the distance, accompanied by a huge cloud of smoke, and the exercise observer shouted loudly.
"The bomb hit the fort accurately, judging that the fort suffered 10% damage!"
The bombing continued. The 21 planes were like 21 heavy artillery pieces. They kept launching replenishments and dropping bombs on the "fortress" one after another.
Accompanied by huge puffs of smoke, the "fortress" was destroyed. At the moment the fortress was destroyed, the tank troops launched an attack.
The tanks were seen moving forward slowly on their tracks, sometimes moving and sometimes stopping, and in the brief pauses they fired fiercely at the "enemy positions" with their guns and artillery fire, and targets representing fire support points or fortresses were constantly destroyed. While sweeping the enemy's targets, they effortlessly used their steel tracks and bodies to grind a large gap in the complex and dense barbed wire barriers, while the infantry used the tanks as road-openers, and even the tanks as their shields, protecting them from being "hit" by bullets.
Soon, under the cover of tanks, the infantry troops successfully passed through the barbed wire. Under the cover of tank firepower, they launched a final charge at a very close distance towards the "enemy's" "position" composed of fire support points and trench lines, and captured the "enemy position" in one fell swoop.
"We are encountering strong resistance from the enemy ahead. To avoid losses, the troops are calling for air support..."
Following the exercise dispatcher's report, the fleet launched another attack. Heavy bombs seemed to have eyes and kept falling on the enemy's positions. The strong positions were razed to the ground under the fierce bombing...
This is the power of steel!
This is the power of technology!
Staring at the moving tank troops and watching the enemy's defense line collapsing and disintegrating under the continuous attacks of air power, a smile appeared on Emperor Zhu's face.
This is exactly the scene he has been waiting for!
What is he looking forward to?
Is it war? Is it sacrifice? Is it...
Neither!
What was he expecting?
Is this steel before our eyes there for freedom and justice?
Or was it invented for the purpose of slavery and oppression?
In future wars, will the blood be shed for freedom and justice?
Or does it flow for slavery and oppression?
There is no need to ask these questions, they exist for freedom and justice as well as for slavery and oppression!
Freedom and justice belong to the Ming Dynasty, while slavery and oppression are for others!
Isn't this the reason why Emperor Zhu established this thousand-year empire?
At this moment, Emperor Zhu's mind emerged with the documentaries about war he had watched. The scenes on the battlefield might be cruel, but in Emperor Zhu's view, all this was inevitable.
After all, this is a decisive battle concerning civilization!
In this war of civilizations, there are no winners or losers. There are only conquerors and the conquered, destroyers and the destroyed. The defeated civilization is doomed to lose everything. They will be like those civilizations that disappeared in the long river of history, and many of them will just leave a regrettable mark in the history books.
This is definitely not China's destiny!
As he swore silently in his heart, Emperor Zhu's optic nerves trembled slightly, and in his mind once again emerged those young men who resolutely went to the war during the simulation that year.
At that time, he thought it was just a battle for Nanhua's survival, but in fact, that simulation was actually a battle for the survival of civilization!
Nanhua exchanged a generation of sacrifice for the right of Chinese civilization to survive on this land, but what about now?
The Ming Empire must sacrifice a generation of people in exchange for the right to survive in this world...
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