The second volume is full of glory and splendor in the capital, and the spirit is full of vitality in the foggy city. Chapter 173: The Killing Weapon (Part 2)
Subtitle of this chapter: I hate burning in this endless abyss of safety pants.
The world should be turned upside down because of the mosaic torture I suffered.
These lowly nations will be torn apart to appease my wrath...
In the end the whole world will be destroyed, everything will be burned, under the shadow of the wings of nuclear weapons... those wings!
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Well, if we were to say what is the thing in this world that is most hindering human progress, it would be the three evil weapons mentioned above.
Safety pants have caused irreversible damage to the mutual trust between people.
Mosaic is an insurmountable gap between objective facts and human imagination.
There's not much to explain about these two evil weapons. If I really have to explain them, it's just one word and one punctuation mark - understand?
Let’s talk about nuclear weapons.
On the surface, World War III did not break out... To be more precise, World War III became a completely new type of warfare - the Cold War, which was entirely due to the "balance of terror" created by nuclear weapons.
With this terrifying balance of mutually assured destruction, the two major camps of the Cold War can farm peacefully in their respective homes...
If someone really thinks so, then they are really wrong!
For the Red Camp, a world with nuclear weapons would be truly unfair.
If anyone does not believe this statement, they can understand it simply by watching the video of the 81st military exercise of the Soviet revisionist Western Group.
The 81st military exercise held on September 4, 1981 was the largest military exercise in human history. The scene... was quite spectacular!
This military exercise not only made the NATO countries in the west tremble, but even a major Eastern country in the south was almost scared to death.
Just 10 days after the 81st military exercise, they held the largest military exercise in Serbia's history - the North China Military Exercise. The scene was... quite lively.
The number of participants in the two military exercises is similar, both involving 500,000 regular troops and more than 100,000 logistics troops.
However, the North China military exercise deployed a total of more than 1,300 tanks and armored vehicles, which is less than a fraction of the 81st military exercise. Moreover, the main armored force of the North China military exercise is the timeless five-wheeled tank, while the 81st military exercise used the Apocalypse tank...well, it was the T-70 and T-72.
It is really sad to think about it from the perspective of a military fan. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Warsaw Pact, we will never see such a spectacular scene again.
According to rough estimates, NATO possessed over 26,000 main battle tanks in the 1980s, of which the United States possessed approximately 12,000. The Warsaw Pact possessed 70,000 main battle tanks, while the Soviet revisionists alone possessed 55,000.
If the then General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Comrade Brezhnev, who was obsessed with medals, had just shaken his hand, circled the mouse, and directly pointed west or south... the picture is so beautiful that it is hard not to look at it!
But, but, but. This incredibly beautiful picture is based on the premise that nuclear weapons do not exist.
Compared with the industrial and economic strength of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, this exaggerated gap in the number of tanks proves the greatest advantage of the planned economy.
In other words, a planned economy country can "temporarily" sacrifice economic development in exchange for "temporary" military power.
The problem is that there is no hot war but only a cold war. If the military advantage can neither be converted into political victory nor can the resources of other countries be plundered, the outcome will be the history that happened on the original timeline. In the end, the Soviet revisionists will not be able to shift domestic conflicts abroad.
But for our Master Yuan, nuclear weapons appeared too early in the original timeline.
The Great Japanese Empire has the Tianjin Divine Kingdom with eight million gods, the Sky Brain Black Card that will last forever, and the four major archipelagos that are blessed by the divine wind and heaven. How can they be easily humiliated by the British and American devils?
At the same time, the American king's division, bent on revenge, finally won the bloody battle of Okinawa and was ready to give the Japanese a bloody "rainstorm"”.
The Kyushu Landing Battle, the Kanto Plain Landing Battle, the Greater Tokyo Defense Battle, the Bloody Battle of Mount Fuji, the Battle of Kawanakajima, the Battle of Okehazama, the Osaka Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter Campaign, etc. are about to take place! These battles that will surely leave a deep mark in the history of human warfare are about to take place!
Then, when the whole world was holding its breath, the mighty Japanese samurai actually surrendered unconditionally in humiliation for two tiny atomic bombs that killed only tens of thousands of people!
Where is the "Hagakure" you promised me?
Well, Hagakure is a term in Bushido. As a samurai, one must die decisively, without any regrets, and without any hesitation .
What happened to the promise of “one hundred million people dying in glory”?
What happened to the promise of “like snow blown by wind, falling cherry blossoms flying in the sky”?
What about the Pacific War? After all that fighting, only 1.5 million Japanese samurai died, while the American army suffered less than one-tenth of its casualties. Compared to the European and Chinese battlefields, this number of casualties is far too low.
There is no sense of "mono no aware", no sense of honor, no sense of history, no chivalry, no bushido, no Inbukushi no sense of the spirit...
How could our Master Yuan allow this to happen in his own timeline?!
According to the original timeline, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strappmann of Germany would have published their paper on uranium nuclear fission in early 1939. Within weeks, scientists in many countries had verified this discovery.
Then in August of the same year, the Grand Magister wrote to FDR, suggesting the development of an atomic bomb, which attracted the attention of the US government.
By August 1942, the development of the atomic bomb had developed into a massive program code-named "Manhattan Project," which directly mobilized approximately 600,000 people and invested more than $2 billion.
This led to the two nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which made the Japanese authorities mistakenly believe that the Americans had hundreds of atomic bombs, and they were so scared that they had to surrender unconditionally.
Yuan Yanshu wanted the European battlefield of World War II to last until at least 1947, while the United States still possessed nuclear weapons in 1945...
So, hasn't he been working hard for twenty years to add bricks and tiles to the magnificent edifice of American capitalism?
Therefore, the ultimate weapon is the most fatal loophole in his grand plan.
Since it is a loophole, it must be plugged.
Isn't this why Lord Grey Knight went to so much trouble to befriend the Grand Mage?
"A hyper-technological weapon capable of destroying the world..." Einstein said in astonishment, "Mr. Neo Yuan, I know you're a science fiction writer, but this imagination is rather too..."
Yuan Yan suddenly said naturally: "Break through the sky?"
"Breaking the sky...Hahaha, this is really a great word!" The great scientist immediately praised.
Our Master Yuan thought to himself, I wonder if you will still be able to laugh when you say that famous quote.
Oh, and that famous quote is, I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but I know World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
