Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

There is a saying in China that a mule is a horse! It is not enough to look at the surface just how much potential a country has for war.

When William I was forced to give a strong response to the French Emperor's declaration of war, the efficiency of this country's war machine caused the entire world to be stunned.

There was no need to talk about the benefits of a national compulsory army. The key point was that Prussia had created a complete set of supporting systems for the sake of universal participation. It was a very detailed system for the distribution and dispatch of materials.

This people were very strict, and their personality was very suitable for studying mathematics. Almost everyone in the Prussian General Staff was an expert in numbers.

Before the war, they had already calculated in detail how many recruitment stations the country would need to build, where each recruitment station would be located, and how large the area would be.

There was a calculation for all of this. After a national mobilization order was issued, these military stations would release the news in the newspapers and on the streets of the cities he was in charge of!

Anyone could tell where they were going to sign up without any confusion. Even the newspapers had sketched out a rough map of where the people were going to the military station.

The people rushed into the registration station like a tide, but there was no confusion at all. Even though the queue had stretched to four or five hundred meters, there was no confusion.

The military station had already prepared a sufficient amount of equipment. Every single soldier could immediately obtain their military uniform, weapons, and military equipment … They even included canteens, lunchboxes, three days of Soldier rations s, needlebags, one person's first aid kit, etc. These supplies were all there.

The country's rail system had been fully mobilized, and the transport of civilian goods had been halted. All carriages and locomotives had been commandeered, and soldiers and ammunition had been transported.

Along the railway line was the empire's efficient telegraph network, and every railway station sent a telegram to its headquarters in Berlin telling them all about the trains and the army in one day.

The entire war was intense and orderly, the General Staff was the genius' creation. The staff officers could not sleep at all for three hours a day, and when they opened their eyes, they would start to make all sorts of calculations.

The location of each train, the number of carriages, the types of supplies they had, the number of soldiers, and so on had to be calculated by them.

In their minds, the entire empire's railway network had long ago become an orderly digital net, which never had any loopholes in the way it was transferred back and forth.

No matter if Bismark, Xiao Letian and the rest had any questions, the General Staff would answer them immediately. If you want to ask any unit or even what happened to a battalion, they will be able to tell you with the fastest speed possible.

Where and how many manpower were replenished, what train to board on, what station to get off at, what stations to eat at along the way … All of this turned into data, controllable data!

Xiao Letian was truly dumbstruck, all the high ranking officials of the Chinese clan were also dumbstruck, this was the first time they had come into contact with the microcosm of a national war!

Until now, they only knew how powerful, how miraculous, and how heaven-defying the staff system created by the Prussian was!

"My generals! Did you see that? Did you see that … " Xiao Letian reached out his hand excitedly and pointed to the four hundred square metres hall. It was a spectacular sight of more than two hundred Prussian staff officers working together!

"This is the difference! This is the difference between us and powerful military powers! "

"Ever since we were founded, the biggest battle we've fought has been the one in the Far East. But compared to this, it's child's play!"

"Our war was a flat one, and theirs was a three-dimensional one. None of them were on the same level!"

"Can you see the secret in these numbers? Let me tell you this, when these trains were running, I could even see the defense plans of the Prussian General Staff and the Russian Army! "

"Don't think that on the surface, these trains are headed towards the southwest. But Lao Maoqi and the rest have always been reserving mobile troops, and will be transferred back to the north and east via the railway anytime!"

"A strong railway system, coupled with such an orderly operation, should be enough to let Prussia's army grow wings. Perhaps after three days of repelling the French attack, they might be able to miraculously appear on the Russian front!"

"This is the mystical strengthening power of the railway network. They can turn an army into two, or even three, and they can appear on different battlefields in different directions of the empire!"

"As long as there is a time difference in the different directions of the battlefield, then it gives the General Staff the possibility to arrange an operation to calculate!"

"Damn it!" War can play a clever method of destroying the east wall and the west wall! This nation is too powerful, we have to learn! We really have to learn it! "

In his previous life, Xiao Letian did not really understand the use of staff officers, why generals had staff officers, and why the country had General Staff as well.

It was only today, after witnessing Prussia toppling the nation over to fight the Franco-Prussian War, that he truly realized the magic of the General Staff System!

This was a magical organization that could do everything in detail and digitize things, and they could make a war more orderly and avoid any confusion.

As long as they were willing, they could even clearly find the entire process of producing and consuming a jar of canned beef!

They were a group of people who had turned war into science. At this moment, human lives had been turned into consumables in mathematical formulas!

Exhausted all of the country's energy, and betting on this national destiny, any chaos would be fatal!

Just as Xiao Letian and his underlings were learning like hungry and thirsty, the group of staff officers suddenly erupted into cheers!

"My God! Awesome! We did it! Today, the number of soldiers dispatched to the front line had reached 30,000! We have mobilized 30,000 troops a day! "

"Long live! Long live the Empire! "

When this number appeared, Xiao Letian was dumbfounded. This was not the 21st century, there were aircraft and high speed rail trains, the most efficient way to transport people in this world was only through railways.

The railways were also the most primitive kind. Most of Europe was made up of monorail railways, on which trains ran and stopped, because each train had to avoid the other at all times. There were also faster trains with higher tasks behind them.

Being able to mobilize 30,000 men a day was already the highest efficiency in the world. Even Britain would not be able to achieve such a feat.

Wang Huaiyuan dug his ears and said in disbelief, "The front lines currently have an army of 200 thousand, right? France is around 200 thousand... "

"In a single day, we have 230 thousand soldiers? How much of France can be mobilized a day? Is there any information about them? "

Xiao Letian laughed bitterly and said, "Haha … With those fanatical Frenchmen? To be able to deploy 8,000 troops a day is already an incredible feat! "