King Sule of Shwe inspected the military garrison on the outskirts of the capital Shenglong.
Switzerland's three major mechanized armies are preparing to demonstrate new weapons through exercises.
When Rui Wang Sulei was waiting for the exercise to begin, he said to the officials accompanying him: "The several local conflicts that broke out before have proved that mechanization is the future.
On the battlefield, mobility determines the outcome of the battle.
Before industrialization, two legs could not outrun four legs.
When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu, he also relied on powerful cavalry.
The Song Dynasty fought many wars with the Liao Kingdom, and the Song Dynasty did not fail in most of the wars.
But it gives the impression that the Song Army's combat power is simply not good enough.
In local wars, it is impossible to accumulate small victories and turn them into big victories. Once there is a flaw, it will be reversed by the Liao Kingdom.
This is why the Song Dynasty lost the sixteen states of Yanyun and the horse breeding land.
The Song Dynasty had no cavalry, and had no strategic initiative against the Liao State, which was dominated by cavalry.
The current situation is even more serious, and the two legs cannot outrun the tracks and wheels.
Unless it is a mountainous battle, tanks and trucks can quickly cross the battle line.
Especially since our country in Switzerland is located in a large plain, there is no danger in the country to defend.
We must rely on mechanized troops to carry out large-scale operations."
King Sulei of Rui knew the terrain of Rui and was not good at fighting defensive battles.
Once the front line is lost in the large plains in the country, the enemy can march straight in and capture the entire country of Switzerland in a short time.
Switzerland's geographical environment determines that Switzerland must develop an offensive army.
After King Sule of Switzerland learned about tanks, he had already made up his mind that the Swiss army must build a mechanized army with tanks as the main artillery and supplemented by artillery.
Now is it time to test the achievements of the Swedish army in recent years?
King Sule of Rui was fortunate that the war that swept Europe did not break out in the past few years.
He ordered the Chief of General Staff Lu Qianjin beside him: "Let the exercise begin!"
When Lu Qianjin, Chief of Staff of Switzerland, heard the instructions from King Su Lei of Switzerland, he saluted with a military salute and then picked up the phone next to him.
The phone beeped a few times and then the line was connected.
"I am Lu Qianjin, the commander-in-chief of the exercise, and I order the exercise to officially begin."
The order to start the exercise was issued, and officers at all levels of the Swedish army began to issue military orders in accordance with the procedures of the exercise.
Rui Guo Sulei saw the billowing smoke and dust sweeping in, and then the smoke slowly dispersed.
Hundreds of chariots lined up in neat formation, rumbling past in front of them.
The scene of a group of chariots charging forward is very shocking to the eyes.
This is the main battle tank of Switzerland. It is larger in size, has a thicker muzzle, and weighs a full sixty tons. It is truly the heaviest tank in the world.
King Rui Su Lei said excitedly: "Okay, great, this is the army I have been looking forward to."
Chief of General Staff Lu Qianjin and other military generals heard what King Rui Su Lei blurted out.
They all held up their chests and looked at the others proudly.
The process of building a mechanized army was somewhat difficult, but fortunately they succeeded.
King Rui Sulei saw that the chariots were moving in unison and turning in the same direction. None of the hundreds of chariots broke away from the team.
The common phenomenon of tank breakdowns did not occur in this exercise.
King Rui Su Lei said happily: "Okay, very good.
Now that we have circled the training ground, there are no signs of the tank breaking down.
Our country in Switzerland has such advanced tanks and such elite tank soldiers, victory will definitely belong to us."
When Rui Wang Sulei said something wrong, he made a fist with his right hand and raised it high above his head.
Chief of General Staff Lu Qianjin and other military generals immediately imitated King Sulei's actions and shouted slogans of victory.
Nguyen Xiu Xuan, the cabinet minister in charge of industry, finally waited for his chance to perform.
He immediately reported: "Your Majesty, our mechanical processing capabilities in Switzerland have been improving.
The heart of the tank is the diesel engine.
Diesel engines are internal combustion engines. The joint efforts of engineers from the empire and various countries have made their models very mature.
Whether the performance of diesel engines can widen the gap depends entirely on the machining capabilities.
We have progressed from an eight-hour overhaul to a two-hundred-hour overhaul of the diesel engine on the tank.
The reliability of the diesel engine has reduced the probability of a tank breaking down on the battlefield to less than one percent."
King Sule of Switzerland praised even more happily: "Our country of Switzerland has become a powerful industrial country.
In today's world, only powerful industrial countries can gain a foothold."
Cabinet Minister Nguyen Xiu Xuan nodded and said: "The king is right, we are not an industrial country and we don't understand the power of industrial countries at all.
The most powerful thing about an industrial country is not its ability to produce war monsters like tanks.
Instead, they can continuously produce these war monsters.
Now the entire army only has a few hundred tanks, but our factories can only keep working.
A dozen tanks can be produced every day to meet the losses on the front line.
As long as the enemy's industrial strength is not as strong as ours, even if it is attrition, the opponent can be exhausted."
King Sulei couldn't help laughing when he heard what Cabinet Minister Won Soo-soon said.
He is a prince who has enjoyed the imperial prince training model.
Sule can be said to be the one who paid the most attention to industry among many European monarchs.
Other monarchs just followed the empire's footsteps and took a fancy to the huge benefits brought by some industries such as steel and textiles.
The importance these monarchs attached to industry was limited to this extent.
King Rui Sulei was different. His emphasis on industry came from his heart.
Rui's neighbor Chu State attaches great importance to merchants, which is a common problem in European countries.
King Rui Sulei was different, he paid more attention to engineers.
Rui's strength does not allow it to study basic science, but it is also an extremely important ability to improve existing science and technology.
He was interrupted by a loud boom.
King Rui Su Lei concentrated his attention and looked towards the direction of the training ground.
The current exercise item is the accuracy of shooting while the tank is moving.
As the assault force of the army, the tank's main function is to tear apart the enemy's defense line.
The opponent of the chariot is usually the enemy's chariot.
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In the battle between tanks, they will not stop in place and use them as targets. Instead, they will attack the enemy tanks during the charge.
The ability to move and shoot is one of the most important abilities to test a tank.
After Rui Wang Sulei watched the tank fire, the target vehicles towed by trailers in front were hit by bullets and caught fire.
He observed that if a tank fires two shots on average, it will definitely hit one shot. This is already extremely accurate.
When Chief of Staff Lu Qianjin saw the tank's outstanding performance, he also took the lead in applauding.
This exercise showed the best aspects of the tanks and proved the strength of the army. This gave him enough confidence to fight for military expenditures in the future.
King Rui Su Lei asked curiously: "The hit rate of the tank's artillery is very high, which is worthy of praise.
But I remember that the artillery used on tanks were all smoothbore cannons.
The accuracy of smoothbore cannons is definitely much lower than that of rifled cannons, and it is not easy for you to achieve this level."
Cabinet Minister Nguyen Xiu Xuan heard the praise from King Thuy, saying that he was the minister closest to King Thuy and understood industry.
He did his part and acted as the commentator.
"Your Majesty, look at the middle part of the smoothbore cannon of the chariot. It has a bulge.
Above this bump, there are two small holes.
It is these two small holes that stabilize the airflow in the barrel and improve the accuracy of the tank.
Our engineers also improved the stability of the tank's suspension.
This allows the chariot to have sufficient stability even in severe bumps.
It is these detailed changes that will improve the accuracy of the tank by an order of magnitude."
King Rui Sulei praised: "Our engineers are the best engineers in Europe.
Their chariots are so well built that they must be rewarded.
After this exercise, everyone who participated in the manufacturing of the chariot will receive a reward from the king."
King Rui Sulei was very happy. The performance of the chariot gave him hope of victory in future wars.
King Sulei of Rui worked hard to develop the country of Rui, but he did not want to become a small and frustrated country.
Now the status of the empire's crown prince, his brother Su Shu, is becoming more and more stable.
As long as Su Shu did not die of illness suddenly, no one in the third generation would be able to take up the great cause.
He, the exiled prince, has no chance to ascend the throne of the emperor tomorrow.
King Sulei of Rui can only seize the present and develop the country of Rui well. This is his biggest reliance.
In the current situation in Europe, if Switzerland wants to be stable, it must have strong military force.
King Rui Sule continued to observe the performance of the chariot.
The next step after the mobile shooting is for the tank to start crossing the trench.
Trench warfare is a common combat method used by various countries after the emergence of breech-loading guns.
Trench warfare is simple to deploy, very low cost, and can effectively block enemy attacks.
The original purpose of the empire's invention of chariots was to break through trenches.
As soon as the tank enters service, it needs to be inspected within a few hours.
Chariots have no ability to travel long distances on the battlefield.
It only needs to complete the breakthrough of the enemy's trenches.
Nowadays, with the advancement of technology, the power that diesel engines can output is even greater.
The ability of a tank to cross trenches has become the most basic function of a tank.
King Rui Sulei saw the tracks of the chariot running directly over the barbed wire fence.
The front end of the chariot was raised high and it rushed directly through the trench.
The front track touched the other end of the trench, the engine roared, and the tank jumped out of the trench and continued to attack forward.
King Rui Su Lei blurted out: "Good, very good, great."
This performance of the chariot made King Rui Sulei very satisfied.
Now that Switzerland has chariots, it no longer has to worry about the trenches set up by the enemy.
In the previous wars that broke out, the combination of trenches and machine guns caused heavy casualties to the attacking troops.
The armor on the front of the tank can easily withstand artillery fire and block heavy machine gun bullets, but that's completely trivial.
It is precisely because of the chariot's powerful protective capabilities and powerful offensive capabilities that it is called a battlefield monster.
After the chariot performance, he left the stage and waited aside.
Then came the self-propelled artillery.
It has three types of chassis, full-track chassis, half-track chassis, and wheeled chassis, corresponding to artillery of different calibers.
Chief of General Staff Lu Qianjin said: “In order to allow the artillery to move together with the tanks, we summarized the performance of the artillery since previous wars.
Three types of self-propelled guns were developed.
As supporting firepower, they make up for the lack of firepower of tanks.
Chariots are great weapons for breaking through enemy formations.
But in the face of the enemy's permanent fortifications, tanks achieved very poor results and had to rely on heavy artillery."
King Rui Sulei is also very interested in self-propelled artillery.
Since artillery appeared on the battlefield, it has always been the most important weapon of the army.
In terms of power alone, tanks and machine guns cannot compare with artillery. Their calibers are too small.
The smallest caliber of self-propelled artillery is 120 mm, and the caliber of tracked self-propelled artillery is as high as 155 mm.
This large-caliber artillery is the most powerful artillery besides naval guns and train guns.
Self-propelled artillery is basically unarmored. They are usually located in the rear, and the army will not let them encounter safety problems.
The weapon displayed later in the exercise was a common wheeled armored vehicle.
Chief of General Staff Lu Qianjin said: "These wheeled armored vehicles, as light infantry vehicles, must cooperate with the tanks to launch charges.
Chariots are powerful, but in some battlefield environments, infantry must be relied upon.
Infantry can clear minefields and prevent anti-tank mines from damaging the tracks of tanks.
Infantry can block local infantry and attack tanks at all costs.
Some countries cultivate indigenous armies. The cost of training these indigenous armies is very low, and they don't feel distressed if there are too many casualties.
It is necessary to guard against the enemy using light infantry against chariots.
Some people think they have made a huge profit by exchanging hundreds of light infantrymen for a chariot to withdraw from the battlefield."
King Rui Su Lei agreed: "The Governor's Office has given careful consideration. Our chariots must play their due role on the battlefield.
You must never let anyone redeem it through pairs.”
After he said this, he thought of the big killer weapon that the Governor's Office had been seeking to develop.
He specially allocated three million taels of silver coins to develop this weapon.
"Has the great killer weapon mentioned by the Governor-General been successfully developed?"
The words of the official of the Metropolitan Governor's Office at that time directly moved King Su Lei of Rui.
With the successful development of a large-scale killer weapon, the enemy's numerical advantage will no longer exist.
This made King Rui Sulei very happy, and he immediately allocated funds for the Metropolitan Governor's Office to start research and development.
He is not afraid of going to war with certain countries, but he is afraid that certain countries will form an alliance and jointly besiege Switzerland.
Chief of General Staff Lu Qianjin said excitedly: "Your Majesty, the big killer weapon has been successfully developed. The final product must of course be displayed at the end."
King Rui Su Lei waved his hand and asked: "Since it is a big killer, I think it is better to keep it a secret.
Now it is shown that it is likely to be obtained by spies, and the mass murder weapon we developed was directly stolen by other countries."
Ruiwang Sulei is still a little worried about technology leaks.
Very few of the technologies that Switzerland has now are self-developed technologies.
Because the founding of Switzerland was too short, it did not have enough foundation to develop new technologies.
Most of them look like new technologies, but engineers make modifications based on the original technologies.
Where does Switzerland’s technology come from?
Most of them were purchased from the empire, or the technology brought by imperial immigrants, and a small part relied on Cao's assistance.
Some important technologies that cannot be purchased are obtained through special means.
Where has the best technology? Of course the Empire.
Other countries have just developed, and except for a few technologies, there are no technologies worth others coveting.
If King Sulei of Rui was not a prince, Rui would have been sanctioned by the empire just for this act.
King Sule of Rui behaved like this, and he worried that other countries would use the same method to deal with Rui.
