344: Chapter 344 Cognitive Generation Gap!

Xiang Liang held a notebook and was making records.

This notebook was one he had purchased from a stationery store in Chang'an.

In it, he listed a vast array of weapons and equipment.

He categorized them by series: the Tianji Series, Tianhuo Series, Tiangong Series, Tianju Series, and Tiankui Series.

He included these flares in the Tianhuo Series.

Nowadays, Xiang Liang's business was growing larger and larger, and he had a vast amount of money stored in the banks.

But he would not forget his identity as the Head of the School of Military Strategy.

This time, he had traveled thousands of miles to Nan Commandery, near the Yunmeng Marsh.

What he intended to do was to observe at close range how the Qin Army would clear out the Water Bandits of the Yunmeng Marsh.

And how the Water Bandits of the Yunmeng Marsh would resist the suppression.

In the philosophy of the School of Military Strategy, only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one emerge victorious in every battle.

He had to study warfare.

Conducting a comprehensive study of weaponry, tactics, and other aspects.

It had to be said that Xiang Liang's thinking was very modern.

Nowadays, a group of military strategists from the Great East would immediately go to watch the excitement wherever there was a war and conduct analyses, seeing which weapon played a massive role in the conflict and then rushing to mass-produce it.

They looked for new tactics to learn from or new conceptual weapons being introduced.

Eagle Sauce provides the ideas, and the Great East is responsible for implementation.

"If you are backward, you will be beaten." The Great East's current love for watching the excitement is inseparable from this philosophy.

In many people's minds, they think the Manchu Qing had no firearms, but that is not the case.

The Manchu Qing also had musket units and Artillerymen units.

However, due to the great distance from the West...

The upper class of the Manchu Qing might have known that breech-loading cannons were superior to their muzzle-loaders, and that explosive shells were more powerful than their solid shots.

But until it exploded on their own heads, they didn't know just how powerful it was.

As the absolute hegemon of East Asia, the surrounding small nations were no match for the Manchu Qing.

Burma obtained a large number of flintlocks from the British Army and once beat the Manchu Qing so badly they cried out in pain, with more than half of Yunnan falling.

But in the end, the Burmese soldiers holding British flintlocks were pinned to the ground by the heavy bows of the Solon Soldiers.

This made the Manchu Qing high-ranking officials feel that foreign rifles were nothing special.

While the Manchu Qing's firearms stagnated, firearms in Europe continued to evolve under the stimulus of constant warfare.

By the late 18th century, a clear generational gap had appeared between the thermal weapons of the Manchu Qing and those of the West.

The British Army's breech-loading cannons blew the Manchu Qing troops into total disarray.

This is what it means to be beaten for being backward!

This is also a major reason why the military strategists of the Great East immediately go to spectate whenever a war breaks out.

For example, in the great war between Big Mao and Little Mao, the once-invincible Steel Torrent became nothing but a pile of scrap metal in the face of informationized warfare.

If one fails to learn from the problems that erupted in the conflict between Big Mao and Little Mao and still believes in the myth of the Steel Torrent...

Then in future battles, swarms of cheap drones whistling through the sky will easily destroy the expensive Steel Torrent!

This is the generational gap in both war cognition and weaponry.

Once the generational gap between two sides is too large, it becomes a dimensional reduction strike!

Xiang Liang made various summaries very seriously.

He believed that besides being used to prevent night raids by the enemy, these flares could also be used to conduct sneak attacks against them!

Ordinary soldiers were usually commoners from the bottom of Great Qin; due to malnutrition, many suffered from night blindness and couldn't see anything at night.

If one had flares, raiding a camp would become much easier!

Xiang Liang really wanted to obtain a large number of flares.

Just as he wanted a large number of shotguns and revolvers.

However, His Majesty the Head of State was no fool.

He was well aware of the power of shotguns and revolvers, so his management of them was incredibly strict.

He had secretly intended to bribe Great Qin soldiers to obtain shotguns and revolvers.

But when he sent someone to make contact, unsurprisingly, the unexpected happened; the person was immediately arrested on charges of illegally stealing state secrets and was executed by waist-chopping at Caishikou.

In ancient times, most executions of criminals took place at Caishikou.

Because Caishikou was the place where the most people gathered and served as an information and intelligence hub.

Executing criminals at Caishikou allowed more commoners to see, and with the help of their mouths, the news could be spread as quickly as possible.

The person he sent to bribe the soldiers undoubtedly became a negative example to educate the commoners.