Welcome to 19th-century Europe, where strength reigns supreme

Tina also seemed to have found a friend to whom she could talk desperately, instilling her own ideas into August, and her ideas were right-wing militaristic ideas.

She believed that the army should be developed, especially the army. After all, Prussia did not have a long coastline like France and the United Kingdom. The development of the navy was unrealistic, so the only way was the army.

Moreover, Prussia is located in the middle of several established powers such as Tsarist Russia, France, and the Austrian Empire. It is a well-deserved crossroads in Europe. To ensure its own safety in such a place with no natural dangers, it can only rely on an absolutely powerful army.

This coincides with August's idea, but she believes that the navy is equally important. The army ensures national security, while the navy is an important guarantee for expansion and market.

August believes that capitalist colonial plunder has united the world. Industrial countries must have a market for dumping industrial products. The Silk Road thousands of years ago was called a bridge between the East and the West, but the Ottoman Empire destroyed the East. After the Roman Empire, they directly occupied this transportation artery and imposed important tariffs. It can be said that they monopolized the Eastern market.

At that time, the world was still a feudal small-scale peasant economy, with relatively few foreign trade requirements, and it was not impossible to tighten one's belt.

But today's industrialization is different. The strong productivity has led to the hoarding of a large number of goods while meeting domestic demand. There must be a stable market. If the economy is choked and the national purchasing power is not high, an economic crisis is imminent. will explode, followed by economic contraction, and everything brought about by industry will be in vain.

This is the first disagreement between Tina and August. Both of them have their own reasons, and they do not stubbornly believe that they are right. Tina is a person with military education, and she does not understand these things. August explained complicated things in detail before she could understand them.

An economic crisis is when the difference between productivity and purchasing power is too big. There is no sales channel for excess goods to be hoarded. Capitalists have no money to make, companies will go bankrupt, and workers will lose their jobs. Then there will be no one to buy non-daily necessities, and the national finance will not be able to make ends meet. The country's development will stagnate.

And this is a chain effect. It is very difficult to recover from the economic crisis, and it is a very test of the ability of those in power.

The military has no way to solve this kind of thing. After all, the world's number one military has no way to solve the economic crisis unless it relies on foreign wars to make huge profits. But this is just equivalent to eating a blood treasure, and you don't know this yet. Are the blood packs poisonous?

After all, there is no invincible army in the world. It's like a horse race. Can the most popular person win [-]% of the time? That's not necessarily the case, and the same is true for war.

How can you be sure that those who launch a war to extract profits will succeed?

If the war is defeated, it will not be as simple as an economic crisis. The disintegration of the country is very likely to happen.

Moreover, August and Tina also had military differences. Tina believed that line infantry and large-caliber artillery marching in formations could crush the enemy. As long as the firepower was strong enough, all enemies could be defeated.

Auguste believed that the Central European plains were too wide, and sometimes even trains could not transport large-caliber cannons and tons of equipment to the war quickly, which would very likely delay the fighter planes. She advocated mobile warfare, and movement was the best. The most important thing is to rely on the cavalry's breakthrough ability to penetrate the enemy's line to defeat it, attack quickly, and then win.

This means sometimes giving up large-caliber artillery and slow infantry.

Tina thinks this idea is a bit naive. Although the cavalry is very fast, it is not safe. Especially the emergence of muskets makes it difficult for the cavalry to play the role of intersecting the front. Of course, timing can also produce miraculous results, but to gamble on this This probability is too reckless.

Tina also laughed at August for being an illiterate soldier who did not know how to fight. If it were the cold weapon era, it would indeed be like what August said, but the emergence of muskets also threatened the status of cavalry to a certain extent, and now reloading The speed of bullets is getting faster and faster, and the advantage of cavalry is really not great.

Moreover, plains are prone to volley fire, while horses in mountains and forests cannot get through at all. This kind of unit can only be used as a feint attack force at best, and it is difficult to become a key factor in changing the situation of the battle.

Of course August, who knew only a little about military affairs, could not say Tina, but what she said was not completely unreasonable. Of course, the cavalry could not achieve high breakthrough capabilities and good firepower. Only one type would be invented in the future. Only weapons can perfectly possess the above two advantages.

That is, tanks. Auguste likes mechanized troops. Tanks and armored vehicles are her favorite weapons, but it is a pity that these things have not been invented in this era.

Just like Tina said, infantry is the right answer for this era.

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After school, Tina returned to where she lived normally, and August couldn't help but think about what kind of house she would live in.

It's a pity that August doesn't have any good conditions. Let alone a big house, it would be nice to have a place to live. Do you still want a luxurious big house? How could that possibly exist?

August rented a small apartment in the noisiest low-end area of ​​Berlin. The sound insulation here was very poor and the sound outside was so loud that it was difficult for August to sleep on the first night.

But there was no other way but to get through it.