Short video spoiler history: The beginning of modern warfare

Chapter 129 How tragic the real war of resistance was
In front of Fengtian Hall.

The king and his ministers stared at each other in amazement and had to return to the drawings in front of them, because there were not many comments in the comment section and most of them did not make much sense.

Zhu Biao also frowned and pondered the two questions he had just raised. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he picked up his pen and drew a few more lines next to the public wire.
Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Ji and the others were stunned, and then their eyes lit up. "That is to say, the switches in the two places can solve the problem of simultaneous communication through multiple wires. Then how can the switches find the corresponding people?"

“Give every household a number, identify them by number, and finally let people control them.”

Everyone looked at each other and agreed that there was no problem.

Zhu Biao picked up his pen and drew a set of switches at the north and south ends of the paper. Everyone was stunned.
"Just now it was just a simple model of switches in two locations. Now it's closer to the reality. What should we do between switches?" Zhu Biao said with a frown. He did have a plan in mind, but if another switch was set up in the middle of the switches in different places, the complexity of the switches in the middle would immediately increase exponentially.

The structure here is prefectural switch - central switch - prefectural switch. The prefectural level is directly connected to each household, which will still cause a huge waste of telephone lines. If it is laid to the county level, the structure will be too complicated.

"What if we set up a switch in the middle to coordinate management?" Sure enough, someone immediately thought of this solution.

Zhu Biao's expression remained calm upon hearing this. He picked up his pen and drew another circle in the middle.
Everyone probably noticed something amiss, but after thinking about it, they couldn't think of a suitable solution, especially since the prefecture was directly connected to every household. Take Yingtian Prefecture for example, it would not be very suitable to place the switch because it governs eight counties including Shangyuan, Jiangning and Jurong. If all the wires in the prefecture were plugged into the switch, it would not be appropriate and would also cause a great waste of wires.

Then at the county level, another layer of switches will have to be installed, which means three-layer switching, and the actual situation may be more complicated.

Everyone recalled that although there were also electrical wires laid in later generations, they were never so messy, so the switch model mentioned here might be problematic.

"What if we build a switching network within each prefecture-level region, and then set up a nationwide switching network between prefectures?" Zhu Yuanzhang understood the difficulties they were talking about. It was simply that an overall switching network involving the entire country was too complicated, but what if it was broken down?

For example, most people have never left their hometown, county, or prefecture in their entire lives, so their actual communication needs are very simple and limited to within the prefecture.

After all, cross-government communications are only a minority, and currently most of them are exchanges of government orders, and we should first create a usable one and then optimize it later.

Everyone thought about it carefully, and overall it was much more feasible than the previous proposal.

"Moreover, the early construction costs are too expensive, far beyond what ordinary families can afford. Besides, there may not be that much demand. For example, farmers, the whole family lives in the countryside, and they can't even use it to send a message to relatives and friends." Liu Ji said softly. He could understand the idea of ​​everyone in the science department to get things done in one go, but the question was whether anyone needed it.

Obviously, the number of people needed at present is still very small, and if the construction price is spread out, it will be even smaller.

Unless it is an emergency, it is more economical to ask an acquaintance or businessman to deliver a letter rather than a phone call, even though the phone is more advanced.

Tang Dynasty, Chang'an City.

Everyone has long coveted this magical skill of transmitting sound over thousands of miles. Although the magic skill mentioned by Tianmu this time still requires the use of electric wires, it at least has the same effect.

"I never thought its principle is so simple." Li Shimin was amazed. He had discovered that the principles behind many incredible technologies are very simple. Just like the telegraph and telephone, the principles used are still the same: electricity generates magnetism and magnetism generates electricity.

Besides this, is there anything else that we don't know about in the study of electricity in Tianmu? Of course there is, for example, the so-called third industrial revolution was based on electricity.

So some people say that the Third Industrial Revolution is a continuation of the Second Industrial Revolution.

This is something that no one could figure out before, but now there is some clue.

"As the person behind the screen said, as the number of users increases, the number of wires that need to be connected will increase accordingly. This direct connection method is indeed too inefficient." Someone followed what the person behind the screen said and drew models of three, four, and five households. The more households that have access to telephones, the greater the disadvantages of this direct connection method, so a switch is imperative.

[How desperate was the real war of resistance? ]

[In the Battle of Songhu in 1937, the Hunan Army dispatched nearly 9 troops, and lost their numbers. The 6 wolf soldiers from Guangxi rushed to the battlefield on foot for three months, but were defeated in three days. Except for the commander, all the soldiers of the 67th Army, the most elite army of the Northeast Army, died for their country.]

[The most elite German-equipped divisions of the Central Army were all wiped out. In just three months, 3 Chinese soldiers sacrificed their lives for their country, but they could not see any possibility of winning.]

[Before the Battle of Shanghai and after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Tianjin fell on July 7, Beijing fell on July 29, and Zhangjiakou fell on August 7. After that, Datong, Baoding, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan and other areas in North China fell one after another, not to mention the three northeastern provinces that fell in 30.]

[After the defeat in the Battle of Songhu, the darkest moment of the War of Resistance against Japan appeared. The Japanese army broke military conventions and did not rest after the bloody battle, but quickly attacked Nanjing. Nanjing was the capital at the time, but they were unable to hold it. Later, Nanjing fell and 30 compatriots were killed.]

[In just 4 months, most of the country fell, and the theory of national destruction and Japanophobia became rampant. Many so-called intellectual elites and even senior government officials called for surrender. The second-in-command of the GM Party, Wang Jingwei, surrendered under the banner of "saving the country in a roundabout way", which gave these people a shot in the arm for selling out their country.]

[Historian Qian Mu wrote the outline of Chinese history with the mentality of writing the last history book of China, hoping to educate future generations not to forget to restore the country after the country was destroyed.]

[The huge gap in equipment meant that our army could only make up for it with human lives. During the 8 years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the ratio of casualties between our army and civilians and the Japanese army was 1:. At that time, the weapon used to blow up the enemy's tanks was the soldiers' bodies tied with grenades.]

[Our ancestors at that time did everything they could, but still saw no hope. Almost all the soldiers were killed, even women and children went to the battlefield. In the Battle of Songshan, the oldest soldier in the division was 15 years old, and the youngest was only 9 years old. There were more than 7000 such children.]

In front of Fengtian Hall.

Everyone fell into silence. A string of casualty figures were listed before their eyes, which seemed to bring them back to that summer and autumn of continuous artillery fire.

In three months, 3 soldiers were killed. Generally, an army will mutiniate if more than 33% of its soldiers are killed. It would take a desperate situation for an entire army to fight for the country.

In 4 months, most of China, from Peking to Nanjing and Shanghai, fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders. That was the most fertile land in the Central Plains!

Outline of national history, surrender, women and children all went to the battlefield.

Just by listening to these numbers and words, everyone felt the chill and despair that penetrated into their bones. Even with the loss of 33 lives, the army was still losing ground.

Nanjing fell and the city was massacred.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath. Even though he knew that there would be a so-called century of humiliation in later generations, they had never imagined that the situation would escalate to this point.

The civil officials and military officers also took a deep breath, barely suppressing the anger in their hearts and the mist in their eyes. Although more than 600 years had passed, they were all of the same bloodline, Chinese people, and members of Jinling City. Just these identities alone made them feel angry and furious. Moreover, the enemy was the Japanese invaders whom they hated the most!

"The terrain around Suzhou and Songjiang is flat and there are no strategic locations to defend. When the gap in equipment is too great, it would be a disadvantage to fight here." Liu Ji analyzed calmly, and there was no sound of abnormality in his voice.

They had witnessed the power of artillery in later generations, but the cruelty of the war scene in the sky at this moment still exceeded everyone's cognition. The huge advantage brought by the gap in equipment and firepower made people feel suffocated and desperate.

"There is nowhere to retreat." The generals spoke bitterly. From Peking all the way down, the entire North China Plain has been lost one after another. The areas around Suzhou and Songjiang are not a problem of topography at all. They have to defend at all costs, because behind them is the capital, Nanjing.

Once this area is given up, Nanjing City will be unable to be defended due to the two-pronged attack.

Liu Ji certainly knew this truth, so he could only sigh inwardly, thinking that this situation was too difficult.

"We must not let the Japanese invaders have their day!" Zhu Yuanzhang made up his mind. No matter if they had plundered the southeastern coast for hundreds of years, or invaded from Goryeo two hundred years later, or committed blood feuds in later generations, or discharged nuclear wastewater into the sea, how could this blood feud go unrequited!
In fact, even if this incident had not happened in later generations, his attitude towards the Japanese invaders would not have changed. It was just that the Japanese invasion of China strengthened his decision.

Now the Japanese invaders are still fighting to the death, and this civil strife will continue for more than 20 years. In addition to allowing the people to recuperate, he also wants to let the Japanese invaders kill themselves and then achieve his goal in one fell swoop.

Hexing Tea and Snack Shop.

"These damned Japanese pirates should be wiped out as soon as possible!"

"Damn Korean traitors, beasts!"

"Good people don't live long, but evil deeds last for thousands of years!" Mr. Su was also infected by the emotion, and said hatefully at this time. No matter whether they were authentic Jinling people or Han people, he could not forgive even a little bit of what the Japanese invaders did.

Furthermore, as Tianmu mentioned before, the Japanese invaders plundered the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and later invaded the territory of the Ming Dynasty from the Goryeo Kingdom. No matter what, the imperial court should destroy this broken place as soon as possible.

But these were not something he could decide, so he could only curse along with everyone else and vent his anger.

Manager Wan and others were also feeling very angry. It was such a humiliation that China, a country with thousands of years of history, was invaded by a barbarian and almost destroyed.

[You should know that the first stage on the battlefield is active soldiers, and the fifth stage is women and children. It is impossible to let children go to the battlefield unless the nation is in danger.]

[At that time, everyone's biggest concern every day was to fill their stomachs. In front of a Chinese temple, a foreign woman threw candy at a group of ragged Chinese children, as if showing off her kindness.]

[Now it seems that her actions are more like feeding chickens, but at that time, the Chinese people were starving, and dignity and humiliation were not worth mentioning]

[At the most hopeless moment in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the great man locked himself in a dilapidated cave, thought for seven days and wrote the extraordinary book "On Protracted War", which examined the entire war situation from a God's perspective and pointed out the direction for victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression]

[Moreover, On Protracted War was published publicly and the Japanese army also read it, but even so it could not change the final result of the Japanese army's defeat.]

[In 1944, the Japanese army was already at the end of its strength. When the whole world was fighting back against fascism, we were defeated in the Henan, Hunan and Guangxi Campaign. We lost more than 8 troops in 60 months, and lost 4 provincial capitals and 146 cities.]

[In 1945, as two atomic bombs of the United States exploded in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese invaders announced their unconditional surrender, and the 14-year war of resistance was declared a victory]

[During the 14-year war of resistance, our military and civilian casualties exceeded 3500 million, 4200 million refugees were left homeless, more than 2000 chemical weapons attacks occurred, more than 800 million laborers were abducted, and about 20 Chinese women became "comfort women" and became victims of the Japanese military's sexual violence system]

Tang Dynasty, Chang'an City.

The atmosphere was extremely depressing. All the generals present had crawled out of a pile of dead bodies and were truly accustomed to life and death. However, in terms of the cruelty of their experiences, none could compare to this war that had lasted for 14 years.

Under all kinds of planes, tanks, artillery and guns, people are as fragile as ants, and the numbers in it challenge everyone's nerves.

"This is not the destruction of a country, this is the extinction of a race." Li Shimin's voice sounded somewhat reluctant.

A group of military generals also started cursing, wishing they could go out to fight and conquer this barren, useless place.

In any case, the afterlife is not only the world they yearn for, but they are also related by blood. Moreover, their respect, mourning and commemoration of the martyrs have won the sincere recognition of all the generals, such as Cheng Yaojin, Li Jing, Li Ji and others.

On the other hand, although there are thousands of years between them and the Sky Curtain, they always look at the young people in the Sky Curtain as friends or juniors. This is probably the bond brought by the Sky Curtain.

It's just like how they felt about the Five Barbarians' Invasion after the Eight Kings' Rebellion in the Jin Dynasty, and they were all filled with hatred.

This blood connection seems weak, but it is real.

That generation was not very literate, but it was the greatest generation

"Several generations fought hundreds of years of war, which led to decades of peace."

"Yes. I believe this very much. My grandmother was illiterate. All the qualities that men expect from women are fully embodied in her."

"My grandma is 80 years old and illiterate, but her values ​​are more positive than my mom's. She taught me to be patriotic, hardworking, and generous since I was a child."

"The Battle of Songhu was a meat grinder. Troops from all over the country came together to fight for the country."

"We are a small city in Anhui Province, and there are martyrs' cemeteries in almost every town around us. It's so tragic."

Li Shimin and others looked at the maps posted in the comment section, and found that most of them had martyrs' monuments, which was enough to show how wide the impact of the war was and how tragic it was.

Li Shimin had no doubt that if conditions permitted, many people would be willing to travel back to that era of continuous gunfire to support that earth-shaking battle.

His opinion of Japan was shaken.
(End of this chapter)