. "Many students observed it very carefully. Those fragments may also be fragments of the shell, but no matter how the mines explode, it is impossible to blow the shell into small porcelain beads - those small porcelain beads and fragmented porcelain pieces are loaded in order to increase lethality.

In fact, it will be more lethal if all the shells and the beads added inside are replaced with iron. However, it will be difficult to recycle the iron after the explosion. I use ceramics to save materials. After all, ceramics are just made of special soil. The manufacturing process is much more convenient than irons and the cost is lower."

The Party Patriotic briefly explained the materials added to the mines, but did not explain in detail what "prefabricated fragments" meant. He stretched out his third finger and said:

"We continued to say earlier that we should talk about people and aspects.

In fact, landmines are originally a weapon buried in places invisible to the enemy and waiting for the enemy to step on. When the enemy step on the mine again and again, no one is willing to walk in the front of the team - I don't know when I will be killed. This feeling of being worried is even more terrifying than putting a sword and gun on his neck, and can greatly damage the enemy's morale.

In addition, landmines have an important role. Think about it, if the mines are buried on the enemy's march route, there is no need to be very dense. If one is buried in a dozen meters or dozens of meters, will the enemy still dare to move forward unscrupulously? If you don't find a mine buried on the road, then the road ahead is undoubtedly a path in the underworld; and if the enemy looks for mines bit by bit, then our goal will be achieved.

Yes, another important role of mines is to delay the marching speed of a certain part of the enemy and thus gain strategic and tactical advantages. As long as such mines exist, they are an important deterrent force, and their value is not judged by the amount of the enemy killed or injured.

But no matter what, landmines are a passive fixed weapon. Although it can not only be used to defend the city, it is a defensive weapon, just like Fengxian said. Using defensive weapons to attack is originally meant to let the southerners ride horses and the northerners ride boats, and attack the enemy's strengths with their own shortcomings. Therefore, in terms of attack, we must use other gunpowder weapons."

The students around probably understood the meaning of the Party’s patriotism, and each looked thoughtful. At this time, he looked around and waved to the soldiers who were pushing the wheelbarrow and waiting in the distance.

After the soldiers pushed the cart over, Dang Aiguo took out a mine from the cart, which was similar in shape to a mine, but was much smaller in size, and the wooden jar could be held in his hands. The students showed a sudden enlightenment on their faces: this should be the mine used for attack - a grenade, or they could also use it as the legendary magic weapon of immortals "Palm Thunder".

"Come on, everyone retreated two meters behind me, hurry up!"

Dang Aiguo waved his arms a few times, and drove the students behind him like a hen. After he turned his head left and right to confirm that all the students were two meters away, he took an incense from a soldier next to him who was responsible for the open flames, put it on the not-so-long fuse of the wooden grenade, lit the grenade and threw it out with force.

"Bang!"

After throwing out the grenade, it bounced twice, rolled on the ground for a few more times, and then exploded. The sound and light effect was far worse than the big mine just now, but at least it exploded with dust.

Then Dang Aiguo threw another grenade, but the grenade rolled on the ground and didn't move. He turned around with a natural expression, compared his thumb behind him, and reminded the students who were still staring at the grenade with their eyes.

"Well, the grenade's fuse may be knocked off when it hits the ground. This phenomenon is normal, but everyone should be careful not to easily pick it up at this time..."

"Bang!"

“…the grenade.”

The grenade just now exploded after a long time, but this became the best interpretation of the Party’s patriotism. However, the Party’s patriotism did not get carried away because of this, and it still had the unsurprising expression, as if all the situations were always under his control.

"Look, I've said it. Sometimes, you see that the grenade has not sounded, or it has not exploded after a burst of smoke, don't rush to go up and pick it up. Sometimes the grenade is really silent, but sometimes there may be sparks inside, and you will burn the gunpowder part after a while. At this time, you have to go up and end up being blown to death by the grenade you threw. That would be too unfair.

Remember, these weapons are consumables and are for soldiers, and soldiers are the most precious. In addition to some generals, almost all of you are sons of a daughter, and you should also know the principle of not sitting in a hall. So when doing experiments, I also ask you to put your own safety first.”

It was like an old woman. After once again emphasizing attention to safety, Dang Maiguo saw that Cao Cao had something to say, so he nodded and signaled him to speak.

"Principal, although the grenades are powerful, the range of human throwing is still no better than that of crossbows. But I guess the principal must have other ways to shoot grenades like arrows, or have created gunpowder weapons with a range that exceeds crossbows. What I want to ask is, fundamentally speaking, why can gunpowder weapons completely replace cold weapons?"

Cao Cao's words were obviously thinking a little deeper than Lu Bu, and he was not entangled in which is better, gunpowder weapons or swords, guns, bows and crossbows. Because Cao Cao knew that since the Party Principal said that gunpowder weapons were better, there must be his reason. There is no need to make up lies in the place where results are so easy to compare.

"Meng De's problem is very good. When we think about it, we must see the essence through the phenomenon. Here I will briefly talk about the biggest advantages of gunpowder weapons and cold weapons. The specific advantages you will naturally experience if you come into contact with in the future.

First, the power of gunpowder weapons has nothing to do with human power - this is the most critical point. If you want to split iron armor with a knife, you must be strong; if you want to shoot arrows that can fly hundreds or even thousands of meters, you must have someone who can pull out a strong bow. Gunpowder weapons have much lower requirements for soldiers, and even children and the elderly can complete the work of ignition.

How many pairs of iron armor can a person use a knife to split? How many times can he pull a strong bow? How many times can he fire?

I don’t need to continue this? As long as the gunpowder weapons are sufficient, the lethality of a soldier can be as high as dozens of people, and even one person can be as high as hundreds of people in the future.

Second, gunpowder weapons are produced at a fast speed, with large output, and low craftsmanship. You don’t know the benefits of this at the moment. In fact, as long as you master the method, the speed of making gunpowder weapons is much faster than forging weapons and making bows and arrows. Moreover, it does not require craftsmen with superb skills like bow making. Ordinary people can participate in manufacturing in less than a month after learning.

Third, soldiers using gunpowder weapons are trained at a fast speed. You may think that what I mean is that soldiers can light grenades and throw them into the crowd, so that they can join the army if they can pull some people. But what I mean is not that simple. In fact, soldiers using gunpowder weapons also need special training, and they also need to train in queues, but the speed of cultivating a qualified soldier is indeed much faster.

This third point is actually closely related to the first two points. Gunpowder weapons are powerful, have large output, fast production speed, and have low requirements for soldiers. This means that even if the soldiers' personal abilities are much worse than in the past, because the weapons used are better and the number of people is more, the strength of the entire army is still stronger than in the past.

All military generals are born with excellent physique and natural divine power, and they are not guided by famous teachers and have family-born martial arts. But even so, most of you must study hard for several years or more, and practice hard for decades to achieve higher achievements. It is precisely because of this that it is impossible to cultivate all soldiers as strong as you. Only a few elite soldiers can practice for a few years and then use them.

But with gunpowder weapons, even a child who has not been trained can kill the world's number one general. What about the trained soldiers? What about more, there are more than one such soldier, but all the soldiers? And these soldiers are trained faster than before, and there are more people?"

When the Party Patriotic said this, the fierce generals who had been charging in the battlefield were soaked in cold sweat.

Although their IQ may not be very high, they are not stupid either. Their understanding and research on the power of weapons is deeper than that of ordinary people. After seeing the power of mines and grenades, they naturally immediately determined that this thing was indeed a peerless weapon that could die if it was touched, and it would be useless if your magical skills were out of the world. The reason why Lu Bu was anxious to refute the statement of the Party Principal at the beginning was that he subconsciously had hostility towards such a weapon that he could not match.

However, those military advisors who are only responsible for commanding the army to fight and basically do not go to the front line in person and "win a thousand miles away and plan in the process" keenly realized the benefits of using gunpowder weapons. Then they naturally further analyzed the impact of the use of thermal weapons on the entire army's composition and training methods, logistics supply needs, strategic and tactical command and other aspects of war.

However, even if the students of the Party and the Patriotic Party are genius, they cannot analyze all the intricacies of changes thoroughly before they have experienced them personally.

Moreover, due to the limitations of the times, it is even more impossible for them to realize that after entering the age of thermal weapons, the focus of the war competition is not only the soldiers who fought and killed on the front line, but the competition of the entire comprehensive national strength. The quantity of resources, economic foundation, manufacturing capacity, population quality, and other elements that seemed to have nothing to do with war all determine the direction of war.

In this kind of war and competition, the advantages of big countries over small countries have been further magnified to an almost insurmountable level. In fact, the Party Patriotic believes that only under such conditions can China's advantages as the world's largest population, a big science and technology, a big economy and a big resource country be fully utilized - just like the United States in later generations.

Unfortunately, in the past two thousand years when China has always been the world's largest power, the outcome of a war depends to a greater extent on force. And when the mode of war has changed, China is no longer the world's largest power - even one of the world's largest powers is not considered a world's largest power.
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