"Old Cao! If you were, how the hell would you fight this battle?" Ao Canghai looked at the endless trenches and barbed wire in front of him, and scratched his head helplessly.

"I have no other choice but to use tanks. I heard that my nephew and Zu Kuan used tanks in Tashkent. The two tank regiments forced Luobuzangdanjin to retreat into the city of Tashkent and not dare to move." Cao

Wen Zhao was considered a warrior on the battlefield, so he put down the telescope and shook his head.

In front of them was the battlefield where the two armies faced each other. The French and Prussian forces had built trenches. The Russian army's trenches were stronger, and in some places they were even made of reinforced concrete.

Even if it is bombarded by large-caliber artillery, as long as it is not a direct hit, there will be no problem.

There was about five kilometers between the two armies. It had just rained, and the five kilometers seemed like a muddy pond.

The remains of many corpses can be seen in the mud pond, and the smell of corpses permeates the entire battlefield.

The coalition soldiers at his feet were trying to scoop water out of the trenches. The Russians on the opposite side were doing the same thing!

It has to be said that trench warfare was a nightmare for soldiers and generals on both sides.

Just a month ago, when coalition soldiers advanced to Minsk, they ran into the defense line that the Russians had carefully prepared for half a year.

This head-on collision was so severe that the number of casualties among the coalition forces reached 50,000 in one day. This does not include the injured. According to the poor medical treatment level of the coalition forces, there should be 30,000 to 40,000 wounded soldiers who died.

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Ao Canghai and Cao Bianjiao came to the battlefield where the two armies faced off as an observer. Following them were a large number of Ming army generals and officers.

Ming Dynasty has not fought wars these years, but Ming Dynasty wants to know how wars are fought in the world today.

You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.

In the past, before the Ming Dynasty war, they would conduct saturation bombardment on the enemy. But now it seems that the saturation bombardment of the Ming army at that time was nothing at all.

At that time, the Ming army could only organize a volley from an arsenal ship equivalent to twenty multiple rocket launchers.

But now, people are organizing hundreds of rocket-launching vehicles in the main attack area. And all of them are heavy rockets. The Russian position on the opposite side of the battlefield has been plowed through by artillery fire.

The coalition forces were not much better here, so that if they wanted to reach the front line, they had to walk two or three kilometers of tunnels.

If you grab a handful of the soil on the battlefield, there will be several pieces of shrapnel. If you step on the soil, it will sink to your knees.

Similarly, Ao Canghai and Cao Bianjiao felt that the same was true for the Russian position opposite.

When the European army also entered the era of cannons and machine guns and barbed wire, winning the war became a pure war of attrition.

This is the common feeling of the two field army commanders of the Ming Dynasty!

As Cao Bianjiao said, if you want to shake such a position, it is absolutely impossible without tanks.

"Unexpectedly, these yellow-haired ghosts are not good at anything else, but they learn to fight very quickly. I remember that in those days, it was good to have a matchlock gun. It has only been twenty years, and they have actually improved to this point.

Fortunately, our first division has been equipped with tanks, although there is only one company with nine tanks. Lao Cao, how many tanks do you have there?"

"Master Ao! Don't lie to me, there are only five tanks, and they are training tanks for training.

The production of the year before last and the year before last was given to two tank regiments. However, we are better than Yuan Chonghuan at least. I heard that they only have three tanks for training purposes.

The Fourth Division simply doesn't have one. When encountering such a battlefield, they can only endure the same suffering of trench warfare as these yellow-haired men." Cao Wenzhao helplessly raised his telescope again, now trying to understand the battlefield.

If this continues, they will face such a battlefield sooner or later. It seems like the whole world has been equipped with machine guns and cannons overnight. It seems that the victory like before may never be found again.

"The yellow-haired ghost's equipment is so good, it's not thanks to that little bastard Wu Sangui. He stole it from our Ming Dynasty and got doctors from Oxford and Cambridge to study it.

What a pity! I don’t know where this kid has gone. Some say he died in Mumbai, while others say he escaped. Anyway, there is no one alive or dead now. If I find him, I will definitely skin him, dismantle him and dismember him.

Eight dollars.”

Seeing such a battlefield, Ao Canghai was filled with hatred.

If Wu Sangui had not appeared, the West would never have implemented firearms so quickly.

In fact, basic education in the West has always been very good, especially in chemistry and physics. There is no shortage of talents. Although most of the educated people are nobles, they are still doing research.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty! Smart people all studied the Eight-Part Essay and the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, and there was a serious shortage of talents in chemistry and physics. Li Xiao needed to be trained little by little. Until now, many professors at Tsinghua University are captured Oxford Ph.D.s.

Fortunately! Now Ming Dynasty is actively catching up in these aspects. Now there are more and more college students in the capital. Graduates no longer stay in school to teach, but are more enriched in factories and research institutes.

Although this is the case, the main force in research on the miniaturization of diesel engines is still scientists headed by Newton.

"It's not interesting to talk about Wu Sangui. Fortunately, our Ming Navy is still invincible. At present, all the major waterways in the world are controlled by our Ming Dynasty.

The commander-in-chief used to say that whoever controls the ocean controls trade, and whoever controls trade controls the world. At that time, I still didn't believe it, but now I believe it.

As long as world trade is still under our control, Ming will have enough resources to do what we want.

When he came out, he heard that Man Ye's First Cavalry Division was already being considered to be re-equipped with tanks and armored vehicles. From now on, Man Ye may not have many horses in his hands."

"Haha! This time Lao Man can be regarded as exchanging a shotgun for a cannon, but those guys under that guy, do they know how to drive tanks? Anyway, all the nine tanks in my hand were thrown to those monkey cubs for training.

There will be plenty of tanks in the future, but those who can drive tanks will be valuable."

"What if they also have tanks?" Cao Wenzhao suddenly thought of a question and pointed to the Prussian and French officers accompanying him not far away.

"Haha!" Ao Canghai sneered and said nothing.

"Don't believe it?"

"They will have it sooner or later, but our Ming Dynasty has something better." Ao Canghai blinked at Cao Bianjiao.

"Better?" Cao Wenzhao's eyes widened. Mr. Ao's path is relatively wild, and he can get any information. This is far better than Cao Wenzhao, who has been in the northwest for a long time and has no information.

After all, Mr. Ao's defense zone included the capital and Liaodong. Those were the two most developed areas in the Ming Dynasty.

"I heard that the miniaturization of diesel engines has been successful. If we develop a more powerful one, we can create a machine that can fly in the sky." Ao Canghai said mysteriously.

"A machine that flies in the sky? Isn't that an airship?" Although the news was limited, Cao Wenzhao still wasn't interested in airships.

The three divisions under his command have no less than a hundred airships of various types.

"What's an airship? It's so big and flies in the sky. It flies very slowly, and the anti-aircraft cannon can hit it accurately. This thing I'm talking about is a machine that flies in the sky and has wings.

I heard that the speed is not slow, at least it cannot be easily shot down by anti-aircraft guns.

If that thing wants to hit a tank, it has to hit it from above. The tank doesn't even have the strength to fight back!

Have you noticed that in order to reduce the weight of the car body, the armor on the top of the turret is actually very thin, and sometimes even nine-millimeter machine gun bullets can penetrate it."

"I didn't notice this. I'll have to take a closer look later."

"This matter is still top secret, and it will take two or three years at the earliest to figure it out. Look, there hasn't been any big war recently.

In other words, it was in order to avenge Zu Dashou that we attacked the Mongols in Tashkent. Your nephew has been there for several months, how far has it gone?"

"What extent! Haha, my nephew wrote to say that the Mongols were trapped in the city of Tashkent and waited for them to slowly starve to death. Master Man was extremely dissatisfied and took an airship to the capital to talk to the commander twice.

None of them received approval from the commander-in-chief.

Anyway, the commander-in-chief wanted to fight without bloodshed and starve the Mongols to death in the city of Tashkent.

The boy also wrote a letter saying that a plague has begun to spread in Tashkent, and it is estimated that everyone will die soon."

"That's how it is to fight with a general. It hurts if every one of your soldiers dies. It would be best if none of them die. But tell me, there is no way in which no one will die in a war.

Look at the generals who suffered 80,000 or 90,000 casualties in one day. Each one of them was treated well, but he still commanded thousands of troops.

If our brothers dare to suffer so many casualties in one day, hehe! Dismissal from office is the best result!"

Cao Wenzhao nodded after listening to Master Ao's words. He couldn't imagine whether Li Xiao would go crazy if he suffered such casualties in a war.

But after thinking about it, he felt that if he really suffered such casualties in one day, he would go crazy first.

Where are these people, still holding their binoculars like normal people, preparing for the next stage of attack.

"Are we still going to the southern front? I heard that the Poles and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were badly beaten by the Russians in Galicia. Poland had to withdraw from the war because of too many casualties."

"The Poles actually succeed more than they do. They just follow the Prussians and the French. They want to unite with the Austro-Hungarian Empire to deal with Ukraine.

There are veterans who have been fighting for several years, and they are much more difficult to deal with than the new recruits here. It is only natural to be embarrassed, and there is no need to worry about it.

I have fought against the Russians before, and they are actually quite tough. If they had not been ambushed by the general, it would still have been a lot of trouble to deal with them."

"Oh! I really remembered that you were talking about the incident at No. 64 Village in Jiangdong, Heilongjiang. I was also very angry when I heard the news. Unfortunately, I couldn't get away from fighting in Jiangnan at that time."

"Those Russian bastards cannot really be called human beings. In fact, they are instigating the annihilation of Russia behind the scenes this time, which is also revenge for that incident."

"Let's go! There's nothing to see anymore. The Russians' intention is obvious. They want to drag the war until winter. As soon as winter comes, the Russians will have the advantage.

After all, they are locals who are fighting."

"Let's go! Go back, there's nothing good to see, it smells too damn bad. I think if we let it sit for a few more days, the plague will spread."

Neither of them had a good impression of the battlefield that was filled with the smell of corpses. After observing the battlefield situation and gaining a full understanding of trench warfare, the two brothers reentered the tunnel and exited the battlefield.

"Two generals, thank you for your hard work. Is there any way you can help us get out of this predicament?" The person responsible for receiving Ao Ye and Cao Wenzhao was a general named Mao Qi.

This guy has a European mustache, shiny. I am afraid that only a Prussian officer can maintain his appearance under such conditions.

"It is very difficult to achieve a breakthrough in this kind of position. With machine guns and barbed wire, it will be useless even if you have thousands of troops.

I think we can open up another battlefield."

Ao Ye and Cao Wenzhao did not speak, but Sun Zhijie, who represented the Marine Corps, spoke.

Ao Ye and Cao Wenzhao glanced back dissatisfiedly. Seeing that it was Sun Zhijie who was speaking, they could only look at each other and did not stop them further.

Their observation group is here to observe, not to give advice to the coalition forces.
To be continued...