Chapter 1115 Unconventional Warfare

Faced with his girlfriend’s question about "unconventional warfare."

Zhuang Jun began to speak confidently: "Currently, the wars on Canglan Star mainly fall into two forms.

"One is conventional warfare, where the parties involved typically use traditional weapons such as airplanes, tanks, artillery, and warships. The casualties in these wars are not particularly high.

"The other is naturally peace bomb warfare, where the participating parties throw peace bombs at each other’s territories.

"A large number of peace bombs can destroy cities, kill millions or even tens of millions of civilians, and even completely obliterate a nation or the entire world, with the nuclear pollution lingering for a long time.

"As for unconventional warfare, it’s a third new form of warfare that doesn’t use peace bombs but distinctly differs from conventional warfare.

"In unconventional warfare, there are relatively few human combat personnel, replaced instead by a large number of intelligent unmanned combat equipment.

"The center responsible for directing combat is also not a human commander, but a superintelligent combat AI.

"The work of human commanders becomes much simpler, focusing on formulating war plans, confirming which targets must be destroyed and which can be spared.

"During the course of the war, human commanders also need to adjust the battle plan as necessary based on the situation on the battlefield, to adapt to new battlefield dynamics.

"Overall, unconventional warfare can significantly reduce personnel casualties; even a large-scale war may result in fewer than a thousand casualties."

Gena listened in astonishment: "Isn’t what you’re talking about like robot battles in sci-fi movies? My goodness! Has Great Xia really become like those movies?"

Zhuang Jun smiled and said, "Pretty much! There’s certainly a considerable difference between real unmanned warfare and movie scenes, but understanding it this way isn’t too far off."

Gena remembered something else: "By the way, I heard recently that Great Xia established an intelligent port in the southern part of the Azik Alliance, with hundreds of transport ships arriving daily. Could this be the equipment for waging unconventional warfare?"

Zhuang Jun nodded: "To have the capability for unconventional warfare, a very important prerequisite is possessing an extremely powerful intelligent manufacturing industry."

Gena nodded: "Your intelligent industry is indeed impressive."

Zhuang Jun felt his girlfriend could only indicate comprehension without truly understanding what "extremely powerful intelligent industry" meant.

He provided an example: "Do you know how many drones and battlefield robotic dogs Great Xia prepared for this war?"

Gena blinked and guessed a number: "30 million?"

This was already the limit of her imagination; this Azik woman thought 30 million was an extremely frightening number.

Zhuang Jun smiled: "Too few! According to your number, the Carmenia Federation has over 30 million soldiers, which results in an average of one drone per soldier, which is not truly unconventional warfare."

Gena asked: "Then how many should there be?"

Zhuang Jun gently spat out a number: "All types of unmanned equipment combined total 5 billion!"

Gena was stunned: "That many?!"

Zhuang Jun casually said: "It’s actually not that much. With Great Xia’s current powerful industrial capacity, full-speed production would complete it in a month."

This phrase "complete it in a month" deeply shocked Gena, for it completely overturned her understanding.

She stared at her boyfriend, surprised, and asked: "Since your Great Xia is so powerful, why don’t you just occupy the entire Canglan Star?"

Zhuang Jun shook his head: "There’s no need for that because occupying Canglan Star doesn’t offer any benefits."

Gena thought for a moment and said: "That’s true; occupying it means worrying about the basic needs of 10 billion people. It’s too troublesome. Now, managing 2 billion Great Xia people is sufficient."

She added: "Anyway, everyone in the world knows that Great Xia People are superior. All the beautiful Azik women I know are thinking about marrying Great Xia People.

She even provided an example: "Last time when I returned from the battlefield and went back to my hometown, I saw with my own eyes a Great Xia person openly hugging two Azik girls on the street."

Zhuang Jun wasn’t surprised: "I’ve seen quite a few as well."

Gena laughed with her hand over her mouth: "From what I know, many Azik men have serious issues with Great Xia people taking away many of their country’s beautiful women. They often complain online that Great Xia People have raised the cost of getting married."

Even now, many Great Xia men still uphold the tradition of paying a "bride price," though the sky-high amounts of several hundred thousand have long disappeared; typically, it’s only two to three thousand as a symbolic gift.

As for foreign women, when have they seen this custom of "getting a sum of money when marrying"?

Especially now, the purchasing power of Xia Yuan is very high, and converting to their nation’s currency means it’s a huge amount.

As the war between Azik Alliance and Carmenia has continued for so long, more and more Great Xia People are entering Azik, and more Great Xia People are marrying Azik women; now, the vast majority of Azik know about the bride price custom.

Compared to the generosity of Great Xia People, Azik women naturally find their own country’s men stingy and unsatisfactory.

To a certain extent, Great Xia People have indeed greatly increased the cost of marriage for Azik People, which naturally leaves Azik People dissatisfied.

Zhuang Jun was indifferent to this: "They only dare to feel discontent in their hearts; they don’t dare do anything in reality, otherwise Great Xia will certainly make them pay a heavy price."