Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

After blowing away the group of people who were causing trouble, only Ci Xi and his two biological uncles remained, following Yi Xuan. This was the core of the conservative faction, and the rest of them were just a bunch of hooligans.

"There are no outsiders, just tell me the truth, is Xishan Camp's fighting strength alright?"

"Then I shall speak the truth. From the moment I established the Xishan Camp, I did not expect that I would be able to fight against Xiao Letian within ten years …"

"It's not that I want to lead others to extinguish my own prestige, it's just that Xiao Letian's army is too difficult to deal with. I've consulted the officers of the English and French, Russia and other countries.

"How exactly did Prussia and the Austria win the battle? Even now, we haven't studied it clearly, but there's no doubt that both sides invested at least a million soldiers in that battle! Furthermore, they are all concentrated in a narrow area, and the scale of the battle is unimaginable … "

Ci Xi was not a woman who did not know about military matters. After exterminating the chaos in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Twisted Army for more than ten years, he had enough time to train her.

There was a saying that China was a vast country with a vast population. Therefore, an ancient large-scale war was just like playing around. In the history books, it was said that there were over a million people in a certain battle. In fact, there was a lot of water in that war.

The Paleogene was easy to brag about in battle, but in fact, there was a strategy to deceive people. Fifty to sixty thousand troops had only dared to brag about being one hundred and twenty thousand soldiers, and one hundred and sixty thousand soldiers had dared to boast about being five hundred thousand elites.

All of these included the soldiers, auxiliary force and the civil servants together, and then they would double the amount. According to the efficiency of the logistics support in the ancient times, ten thousand elite soldiers had to have twenty to thirty thousand auxiliary force to coordinate with them. The main fighting force were the most difficult attacks, such as some special battles, some surprise attacks while in a stalemate, and even the vanguard troops when attacking the city.

The auxiliary force, on the other hand, carried out some daily combat missions, such as filling in the gaps in the battlefield, patrolling, and so on. Even though the level of danger in these jobs was low, it was not enough to reduce the number of people.

Finally, there were even more people, and the army had to be followed by a large number of civilians, delivering food and equipment. At that time, there were no professional soldiers, but it was still the job of the civilians to fill in the bridges whenever there was water.

Lagging logistics guaranteed the number of civilians far more than the number of soldiers. For example, if they attacked a city, they would drive tens of millions of civilians away with the first wave of attacks. They did not want to win, they only wanted these lives to be able to consume a lot of the arrows and rocks of the garrison.

In the war between Taiping Army and herself, which lasted for more than ten years, the majority of the people and auxiliary force died. The real core of elites did not have a high death rate.

After familiarizing themselves with the war patterns of Chinese history, and then looking at the war in Europe, it was a bit shocking. Prussia and the Austria had actually mobilized more than 1 million soldiers? Were they really soldiers charging into battle? Was there no such thing as auxiliary force and a man making up the numbers?

The Qing Dynasty did not understand the perverted military service system in Europe, especially Prussia, where all men were required to undergo military training.

Besides, they didn't understand that no matter how harsh the gunshot training and army exercise code were, they were not as harsh as the warrior training of the Chinese era. It was common to say that soldiers who fired from firearms could be mass-produced, just like the assembly line in a factory.

However, the warriors of the Middle Age required ten to twenty years to hone their skills. That was a product of a manual workshop, it was impossible to be efficient.

In ancient times, it was impossible to train an archer without seven or eight years of strict training, which showed how inefficient this kind of army was.

However, the European musketeers s could definitely be mass-produced. Adult males would train in formations for three months to get used to the atmosphere and discipline of the army, and then undergo two to three months of weapon and tactical training. This was already enough to bring them to the battlefield.

In three years, in at most three years, the Western countries would have a group of mature soldiers. This efficiency was also the root of the military service system for the later stages of the country.

Some say that productivity determines the structure of society and even the political system, so can the productivity of the military determine the change of the military system as well? The answer was yes.

In the modern society, people had heard of the phrase "iron-clad soldiers", which referred to troops who were made of iron. However, the soldiers were definitely mobile and would be in a state of regeneration for a long time.

The core of this kind of military system was to train the efficiency of the soldiers. Only by getting rid of the backward training efficiency of the Middle Age would such a miracle happen.

In the ancient society, martial arts were taught between father and son. Soldiers had a set of military training techniques, and none of them were willing to share it with the public.

Therefore, the military system of ancient times was more inclined towards the military system. There were eight banner Green Camp s in the Ming Dynasty's military system. In the end, the appearance of this system was not decided by the emperor on a whim, but was rather adapted to the social environment of the time.

In ten years, no matter how useless they were, they would always be better than the children of the rural families. In addition, no matter how ambitious the children of the rural families were, without being taught by a master teacher, they would end up as thugs in the countryside and would not be able to walk onto the battlefield.

In the era of the late Qing, people could not understand what technology was, what it meant, neither could they understand geography, nor did they understand what it meant to be productive.

Therefore, no matter how smart they were, they were unable to understand the strategy and tactics of Xiao Letian and the others. This was because it had nothing to do with their intelligence, but only had different dimensions to their thinking.

The living beings of the two-dimensional world could not understand how wonderful the three-dimensional world was, and the three-dimensional world could not understand what the four-dimensional space looked like either.

After analysing it, Ci Xi could only sigh deeply, "In the end, I still have to use the old method to deal with him! Last time, I used the curses of the court's officials to suppress Xiao Letian. Don't tell me that in the future, you want me to become a shrew? "

"Can't you men stand up straight? You want me, a woman, to show my face? " After Ci Xi heard this, he slammed the table in anger.

"Even if I is shameless and dares to act so shamelessly with him, you all have to remember this clearly. This kind of trick can once or twice, do you guys still want to use it for the rest of your life? "If we're going to forge iron, we'll have to do it ourselves …"