Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

In the end, war was a game of control for humans over 'firepower'. In the Wilderness, the ancestors of mankind chased after prey and other tribes with wooden sticks and stone spears. Their strong muscles burned with carbohydrates while chemical energy surged out.

All the peoples of the world worship Hercules in classical times, whether it is Mediterranean civilization or Chinese civilization, the ancient legend of mankind's infatuation with power is unreserved.

The release of this chemical energy was actually a controlled form of combustion. This way, it wasn't impossible to call the battle strength of the primitive man as firepower.

After that, humans became more and more intelligent, and began to use the elasticity of animal tendons and plants to store energy, creating all kinds of long-range weapon such as crossbows, which were also part of the firepower output category.

Until the birth of the gunpowder weapons, humans could finally find a controlled firepower output material from nature. From that moment on, humans had finally broken away from the limits of their muscles, and the weak defeating the strong had finally returned to normal.

The first Industrial Revolution was just a precipitation period for the rational thought of mankind. Until the second Industrial Revolution, when electricity and the oil industry were widespread, the technology would erupt like a geyser.

Xiao Letian understood the big picture. He knew that the word "firepower" would become the only core of the human war in the future.

The Steel battleship replaced the wood shell Sail battleship, and the steam engine replaced the sail's power. The caliber of the cannons became larger and larger, to the point that it was impossible to use the ancient two sides of the cannons, and they could only use the central axis of the cannons.

In fact, in the eyes of the engineers, the appearance of Dreadnought class warships and the design technology of this type of central axis artillery wasn't just about the angle of fire of 180 degrees. Another important reason was that the main cannon's firepower was really too big, and because of the arms race, the recoil of the main cannon was getting stronger and stronger.

At this time, the main cannon could only be placed on the central axis in order to allow the main body of the ship to bear the recoil directly. Only then could the main body of the ship be safely transported into the sea.

This was actually a necessary transformation of the ship in order to adapt to the new firepower.

In the Pre-Fearless Battleship era, you could find all kinds of new design for battleships. At that time, the representative battleships were the Great Qing's Dingyuan and Zhenyuan battleships. At that time, the main cannons were still scattered on both sides of the battleship.

After the Dreadnought era, the navy of the whole world adopted the design style of central axis arrangement. At that time, the performance of the main cannon started to soar.

The diameter of the battleships continued to increase, and the distance between them continued to increase. Some of the country's warships were still half-built, and the other countries began to produce even more powerful warships.

Countless designers claimed that they were battleships that hadn't fallen behind in 50 years, yet in less than three years, they became second tier warships. The post-Dauntless era's crazed craze for building ships could be said to be a miracle in the history of the human navy.

However, the same craze for shipbuilding had drained countless countries of their money, and many of the second-rate powers were on the verge of bankruptcy.

It is worth mentioning that the 1922 Washington Naval Restriction Treaty was born in this era. At that time, the naval arms race was so brutal that even the British Empire could not handle it. The various powerful nations in the ocean that were on the verge of bankruptcy all decided to limit the size of their main battleship s.

No more than 30,000-ton epiphany, and no more than 16 inches, or 406 millimeters, of the main gun. Alright, as to how wide the diameter of forty centimeters is, we can use a ruler to measure it ourselves. After that, we can imagine how powerful the barrel of the cannon is, and how wide and thick the cannonball is.

Not only the navy, but the army was also constantly trying to increase their firepower output. The caliber of the field gun became bigger and bigger, the power of the cannons also became more and more powerful. Finally, there was the appearance of the train's rail gun, an abnormal weapon with a caliber close to 300 mm.

Even more perverse was the fact that in World War II, Germany had produced a Gustav Orbiter, commonly known as a Dora Cannon. Its caliber was an astonishing 800 mm, and its howitzers fired weighed 4.8 tons, while the weight of one of the cannons that specialized in destroying bunkers reached 7 tons.

Such a cannon had a range of over forty kilometers, it was worthy of being known as the world's artillery king.

The story of the navy and the army was not the whole story. In the future, there would still be air forces that would not make it to the scene, because planes could hang bombs and did not need to rely on the kinetic energy of gunpowder to propel them forward. The aircraft's own power would provide enough power for the bombs to carry only gunpowder from combat units.

In this way, the power of the aerial bombs became apparent. Their killing efficiency was much higher than that of the artillery, and the shrieks of the Stuca dive-bombers during the Second World War were the nightmare of the Allied forces. The B52 strategic bombers in the United States during the latter part of the Second World War could burn down the entire city of Tokyo.

Firepower! Humans pursue the power of fire with unlimited power. Even if a wargod was reborn, he will still tremble in the face of absolute power.

Xiao Letian would definitely not take a detour, he was even jumping forward, if the Chinese people missed the first Industrial Revolution, then they would definitely not miss the second Industrial Revolution. In this game of firepower chasing, he had to stay ahead of the world.

This was not Xiao Letian's wild imagination, it was actually possible to realize this!

This was because Xiao Letian understood that the world's strongest warriors would not be able to develop their armaments smoothly. Nowadays, many western military and theorist are also thinking about the future situation and limits of the firepower development.

However, they could only feel their way through the weapon training field in the laboratory, through the mathematical formulas, and then step by step, step by step, forward.

For example, when a cannon's diameter was 88 mm, he would need to mature to study 120 mm. They definitely wouldn't be able to undergo a jump like Xiao Letian, doubling from 100 mm to 210 mm in an instant.

According to the martial arts examples, the Western Engineers thought that Xiao Letian's move was called an evil trick and that it was a gambler's act.

Not only that, but the Western militarists would also have to face many resistance. For example, engineers, if you cannot build a 500-caliber cannon, then others will build it for you. Scientists and engineers would also object to your unrealistic fantasies.

Furthermore, there was the issue of the national finances. No matter how rich the British Empire was, he could not be overly wasteful.

Even the army had its own agenda. The army was more willing to purchase mature and reliable weapons than to use the lives of soldiers as test subjects for new weapons.