Chapter 1334, human-powered motorcycles
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The army, logistics, and intelligence are called the three elements of war.
Whether an army is strong depends not only on their frontal combat effectiveness, but also on the speed of their march and their durability on the battlefield.
In many cases, the time for the enemy and our enemy to fight on the front battlefield is very limited, because for most of the time, the enemy and our enemy are either confronting each other or on the way to confront each other.
In large-scale wars, because the defensive side has the advantage of geographical advantages and cities, it is difficult for the offensive side to break through the defensive side's position in a short period of time.
So in many cases, the attacking army will be divided into many stocks.
In addition to the main legion responsible for restraining the enemy on the front battlefield, other armies are generally assigned to some combat tasks that go deep behind enemy lines.
For example, go to the enemy's back to cut off the enemy's logistics supply line, or block the channels that the enemy wants to support, intercept the enemy's reinforcements behind, or simply go to the enemy's back to harass and damages to disrupt the enemy's morale.
Under normal circumstances, those who perform these missions deep behind enemy lines are generally cavalry or light infantry with outstanding mobility.
Because it is very dangerous to go deep into the enemy's rear, when the strength of the enemy and us is evenly matched, if you are not careful, the army deep into the enemy's rear may be surrounded and eaten by the enemy.
Therefore, if you want to complete the mission of going deep behind enemy lines, mobility is essential.
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In modern society, people often say that time is money.
In the era of cold weapons, for an army, time is likely to directly determine the outcome of a war.
Because when both the enemy and us want to occupy the same strategic location, the one who first arrives at the target location will often have an absolute advantage, so the speed of a military marching is crucial.
In the era of cold weapons, the most important reason why cavalry can be king is that cavalry has the strongest mobility on land.
In addition to being able to walk the same distance in the shortest time, strong mobility can also take advantage of the enemy's time difference in intelligence to catch the enemy off guard.
In this regard, the most convincing example is the blitzkrieg launched by cavalry.
Facing the cavalry that is coming and going without a trace, unless you have a cavalry regiment under your command, once you encounter a large-scale guerrilla war launched by enemy cavalry, you will find that you can't do anything.
Because before your order reaches the designated location, the enemy's cavalry has changed the target of the attack.
So if you want to deal with a smart cavalry, either you have a cavalry that can compete with it, or you can only build fortifications in advance.
Once an enemy cavalry invades, the beacon will be lit immediately and everyone in the rear will be notified to hide in the strong fortifications to defend.
After the Condor Empire occupied the entire Mongolian Plateau, there was no shortage of war horses in its army.
It can be said that as long as Ning Yuan is willing, the cavalry regiment of the Condor Heroes Empire can expand infinitely. There is no way, there are so many war horses.
However, under normal circumstances, horses are only suitable for humans, elves, and other high-level creatures with normal size. For example, the bears, the sages and the orcs with tall horses, ordinary war horses can't bear their huge weight.
So even though the Condor Eagle Empire has inexhaustible resources for war horses, for those soldiers of the powerful orcs, they can only sigh.
There is no way, their weight is too big. No matter how high-quality the war horse is, they cannot bear their huge body, so they are destined to be infantry in their lives.
Although most orcs are good at walking, they have outstanding endurance.
But no matter how fast the infantry walks, they are as slow as snails compared to the cavalry.
For example, a distance of 100 kilometers may be an hour or two for cavalry, but for infantry, they may have to go on a whole day.
As the absolute main combat armament in cold weapon wars, infantry is indispensable in many cases.
After all, cavalry are only good at fighting in the wilderness. Once they encounter relatively steep terrain or solid fortifications, they must rely on infantry to attack.
In many large-scale wars, cavalry often only serves as vanguards to test the enemy's virtuality and reality. Fights that truly determine the outcome often require infantry corps and cavalry corps to fight together.
So no matter how fast your cavalry regiment is, if you want to truly occupy the enemy's land, you must wait for the infantry regiment behind to follow, because only the infantry regiment can attack.
In the defensive battle surrounding the Colorful Bridge that had just ended, Ning Yuan deeply felt the importance of the infantry legion and their urgent marching speed.
Although the final winner of that battle was the Condor Empire, that battle was the most thrilling battle that Ning Yuan had fought in so many years.
Because it was not until the end of the war that the situation on the battlefield gradually became clear.
If the orc infantry legions of the Condor Heroes Empire could have been faster at that time, Xiangyang City would have been broken faster, and the main legions of the Condor Heroes Empire would have been able to support the battlefield of the Colorful Bridge faster, and Ningyuan would not have to fight so hard.
So although Ning Yuan finally won that battle and he took advantage of the situation and directly unified the entire China, he was always worried about the speed of support from the Army Corps.
In ancient China, there was a professional army of dragon cavalry.
The so-called dragon cavalry is an infantryman on horseback.
In order to increase the mobility of the infantry legion, the ruler directly equipped the elite infantry with the best war horses.
During the march, the dragon cavalry was like real cavalry, riding on war horses.
During the battle, they would dismount and re-turn into infantry to fight.
In the era when cavalry was treasure, few rulers would waste valuable horse resources on those infantry, so dragoons rarely appeared at that time.
However, for the Condor Empire, war horse resources are very abundant.
Not to mention equip some elite infantry with war horses, even equip all infantry personnel with one war horse is more than enough.
With Ning Yuan's character of loving soldiers as much as his son, he would definitely not be stingy with opening up the resources of war horses to the infantry legion.
The facts also prove this. Many infantry legions of the Condor Empire have war horses specially used to rush.
However, most of these infantry legions are human legions and elves, while the orc legions and barbarian legions are not listed here.
The reason is that the size and weight of powerful orcs and barbarians cannot ride those ordinary war horses at all.
For those barbarians who were loyal to themselves, Ning Yuan once considered using the ice and fire moose from Ice and Fire Island to form a barbarian cavalry.
Unfortunately, compared with war horses, ice and fire moose have many obvious shortcomings. In the end, the plan was still in the womb before it was officially launched.
After that, Ning Yuan came up with many plans, such as creating a carriage for orcs and barbarians specifically for rushing. In this way, they can save a lot of physical strength and catch more roads when riding the carriage.
Although it is very luxurious to equip an army with a carriage for marching, this is not a big deal for Ning Yuan, who is rich and powerful.
However, the carriage plan had just been launched, and Ning Yuan stopped it because of a huge shortcoming.
Although horse-drawn carts are much faster than people walking normally, they have very strict requirements on roads.
Once the road is uneven or there is no road at all, riding a carriage will not only not save time, but will also suffer considerably.
Ningyuan equipped the soldiers with carriages to rush on the road, and the essential purpose was to give the soldiers a better rest.
When the carriages are constantly bumping due to the road, the soldiers will only suffer alive in the carriage. In this case, it is better to let them walk on the carriage than to let them walk on the ground.
When the carriage plan was also dropped by Pas, Ning Yuan could not think of any other way for a while.
Just as Ning Yuan was about to put this problem temporarily behind his mind, he accidentally saw the first bicycle he seized from Jun Moye.
After seeing the bulky bicycle placed on the exhibition stand as a spoil, Ning Yuan immediately smiled happily as if he had seen a new world.
Considering the height and weight of the barbarians and those powerful orcs, Ning Yuan knew that ordinary bicycles would definitely not be able to withstand their troubles, so he directly raised, widened and reinforced the drawings of the human bicycle.
Finally, when Ning Yuan drew the complete drawings of bicycles suitable for barbarians and powerful orcs to ride, he suddenly realized that this was not a bicycle, it was simply a motorcycle without an engine.
The weight of a motorcycle is far greater than that of a bicycle. For ordinary people, not to mention the two huge pedals on it, it will be very difficult to push and walk.
However, for savages and powerful orcs who are not normal, the weight of motorcycles should not be too big a problem, after all, their own strength is far beyond that of ordinary people.
If he could really build a human-powered motorcycle in the game that did not use engines, then the barbarians and powerful orcs would no longer have to work hard to walk on the road in the future.
He thought of it and did it. Soon, Ning Yuan took the drawings he drew and found the top craftsmen of the Condor Heroes Empire for discussion.
Facing the big guy Ning Yuan drew, the dwarf craftsmen said that as long as the steel is enough, they can make as many iron frames as Ning Yuan wants.
However, they were only able to build iron racks. As for the two wheels under the iron racks, they were helpless because the wheels that Ning Yuan asked for were neither wooden nor solid rubber, but were divided into rubber tires with internal and external belts.
Although Ningyuan once taught craftsmen the making of rubber tires, due to the lack of many corresponding tools, craftsmen could only use molds to make the simplest solid rubber tires.
Solid rubber tires are indeed much stronger than wooden and iron wheels, but they are also very heavy.
After installing it on a bicycle, the increase in weight will seriously affect the riding efficiency of cyclists. Most people will lose their energy after riding for a while.
The wheels in the real world are divided into rings, inner tubes and outer tires.
The inner tube is a circular elastic tube with an air nozzle. When used, air needs to be injected into the inner tube through the air nozzle to fill the inner tube.
After returning to Shending City and arranging some basic work, Zhang Wei took Huang Zhong's attention again. Zhang Wei has offended many players now. In order not to be recognized by players, he deliberately disguised himself as a disguise and selected 30 guards with high martial arts skills before he dared to go to Wancheng.
After leaving the teleportation array, guards had already prepared their chariots and horses. The group got on the chariots and horses and went directly to Huang Mansion.
Huang Mansion, a young man with a waxy face was lying quietly on the bed, and a girl in her 20s and 20s next to him carefully wiped the sweat on his face. Huang Zhong looked at his young son who looked like gold paper and breathed faintly, and his heart was like a knife.
His wife died early, leaving him with a son and a daughter. His son has been weak and sick since childhood, and now he is even more ill. He has invited countless famous doctors to treat him, but he was helpless. Later, a miraculous doctor told him that this was a congenital terminal illness. Only the legendary magic medicine can bring his young son back to life, but where did he, a small captain, go to find the legendary magic medicine?
All he can do now is to stay by his son every day and accompany him on his last journey. Just as he was sighing, the housekeeper came to report that it was Zhenhai Hou who came to visit him.
Huang Zhong doesn't leave his home every day now, so he doesn't know who Zhenhai Hou is. However, since the other party is a marquis, he dare not neglect it. He ordered people to invite people into the living room first, and he arrived later.
Zhang Wei sat in the living room and looked around boredly, and soon Huang Zhong rushed over.
Huang Zhong is about 1.8 meters tall, and looks like he is thirty or forty years old. His eyes are covered with bloodshot and his face is full of sadness. It seems that he has not had a good rest for a long time.
The situation was special. Zhang Wei and Huang Zhong were polite and then went straight to the point. When Huang Zhong heard that the Zhenhai Hou had actually made a special trip to save his young son, he was immediately overjoyed and led Zhang Wei to Huang Xu's room.
After Zhang Wei spent everyone on the room, he slowly walked to Huang Xu. He was curious about what disease Huang Xu had, and he could not be cured without magical medicine. After using the Eye of Reality to Huang Xu, there was indeed a description of the disease in his attributes.
Status: The oil is gone and the lamp is dry - born with a vein. The vein is growing constantly every day. It constantly absorbs energy from the host. As it continues to grow, it requires more and more energy. People who have a vein are weak and sickly since childhood, and few people can live to adulthood.
Chapter completed!