As soon as the artillery was completed, it was immediately put into use, and the ironclad ships in the Tang Navy Division had reached as many as twelve. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThese twelve ironclad ships will become the main force of the Tang Dynasty Navy Division in the future, and each ironclad ship is equipped with artillery - but it is not the kind that Xia Hongsheng pulled to Chang'an to exercise the power of artillery for Li Shimin, but the red-coated cannon with a smoothbore in front.

The reason why there was no rear-loading rifled gun was because of the production capacity.

Rifled breech-loading guns have the advantage of being more stable and accurate, but the production of military aircraft workshops is not enough to immediately equip ironclad ships. The manufacture of a rifled rear-loading gun not only has high requirements for the artillery, but also the projectile is also time-consuming to make, mainly in the metal shell, which is difficult to standardize. With the current ability and level of the military aircraft workshop, it is already the fastest to produce one artillery in three or four months, and twenty conerate projectiles for rear-loading rifles can be produced in one month. And if you make a front-loading smoothbore redcoat cannon, you can meet the needs of two ironclad ships in a month, and the projectile can make hundreds of rounds a month.

Breech-loading rifled artillery and fixed ammunition represent the cutting-edge achievements of Datang weapons, and as a deterrent weapon, they will be equipped and replaced in the future. The breech-loading smoothbore red-coated cannon, which is relatively easy to manufacture, is temporarily used as the common artillery firepower of the Tang Dynasty, and is used as a conventional force in the process of manufacturing breech-loading rifled guns and fixed ammunition.

It's not that Xia Hongsheng doesn't know, first make a red-coat cannon, don't delay its use, and then slowly develop a breech-loading rifled gun and fixed ammunition, which is easier and more practical.

It's just that Xia Hongsheng is more willing to endure more hardships, lose some hair, and guide the more advanced development direction at the beginning. Just like my rabbit's mushroom bomb in later generations, when I developed that thing, it was not far from the words "they have their atomic bomb, we have our grenades" when *** responded to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In the face of deterrent forces, China still had too many problems to solve at that time, but *** directly chose the most difficult nuclear bomb technology. How many lives and hardships have been paid in the process, but there have also been historic victories. The successful development of nuclear weapons has greatly enhanced China's international status, and from that moment on, China really stood up.

From the grenade to the atomic bomb, the significance and impact of the span in between are extraordinary and unprecedented. It can be said that Xia Hongsheng is paranoid, the most advanced, and always the most deterrent. Rather than relying on the power of the red-coated cannon like the Qing Dynasty and neglecting the development and development of more advanced artillery technology, it is better to let the Tang Dynasty's artillery reach the most advanced stage within its own power from the beginning - this is exactly where Xia Hongsheng is thinking. The higher the starting point, the higher the height of the future, and the higher the degree of Datang's technology will be reached. With the same speed and physical strength, in the same amount of time, the people on the mountainside will definitely be higher than the people at the foot of the mountain.

And even if the people of later generations have no interest and inaction, and are surpassed by others, then at least let others spend more time catching up with the original gap.

In this way, Datang's advantages can also be maintained for a longer time.

The 12 ironclad ships, each equipped with red-coated cannons, loaded with sufficient ammunition, and each equipped with 300 sailors and soldiers, and 200 people at the bottom of the ship stepped on the wheel--the ironclad ships of the Tang Dynasty could carry 800 people on the premise of maintaining performance and ensuring the supply on board. This number did not exceed the 900 people carried by the Wuya ship of the former Sui Dynasty, and it was far from the 3,000 people of the Sanguolou ship. However, Xia Hongsheng felt that the five-tooth ship of the former Sui could carry 900 people, and if it did not sail far, it should be possible. But the number of 3,000 people on the ship of the Three Kingdoms Building is a bit too exaggerated.

Even the most advanced "treasure ship" in the world in the Ming Dynasty only accommodated more than 1,000 people. The ironclad ships of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, on the premise of maintaining performance and ensuring the supply on board, could have accommodated this number, which was no less than the treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty in later generations. Just as a professional warship dedicated to combat, there is deliberately some leeway to deal with some other volatile situations. And if you really want to stuff 3,000 people on the ship, unless you don't pretend to be anything except people, and it is estimated that it can only float calmly, and when the wind blows and the waves hit, it is estimated that the boat will capsize.

These twelve ironclad ships are the main force of the Datang Navy Division today. He had been training in the Ryukyus for a long time, and after installing the redcoat cannon, he was trained to use the redcoat cannon at sea to improve the accuracy of the gunners, and he trained for two months.

In Chang'an's Datang Military Machinery Workshop, rear-loading rifled artillery and fixed ammunition had begun its slow manufacturing process and cycle - a capacity that could not be increased until the advent of machine tools that used steam engines to provide enormous power. The existing machine tools in the military machine workshop are pedal and stone plate rotation driven, and for some hard things, there are also large lathes powered by water wheels. The essence of these existing machine tools has not yet departed from the category of the most primitive tree lathes. It is sufficient for cutting wood, or for simple cutting, but for machining shells and barrels, the precision and strength are seriously insufficient.

Xia Hongsheng also understood that motivation has now become a ravine hindering the further development of Datang.

Ben Gongzi knows that the teapot lid is smoked by boiling water, which is the principle of steam. I don't know how to turn this steam into a complex steam engine that provides huge power when it lifts the lid of a teapot!

Xia Hongsheng looked up to the sky and sighed.

"Nephew, what's wrong?" Li Xiaogong asked. Xia Hongsheng stood on the right side behind Li Xiaogong because Li Xiaogong heard his long sigh.

"Oh, the little nephew just thought that these sailors and soldiers were going on the expedition, and some of them might not be able to come back alive, so I was sad in my heart." Xia Hongsheng replied to Li Xiaogong: "Once you will succeed, your bones will wither, and your little nephew can't stand this feeling." Probably a little nephew is not very suitable to be a general. ”

Listening to Xia Hongsheng's words, Li Xiaogong's expression also darkened, and he also sighed, and said: "This king has been fighting with the Tang Dynasty all the way, and the soldiers in the army who died in front of this king's eyes, what is geometry?" It's too many to count. People are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless. The king did not want them to go to the frontier and kill and die in a foreign land. This king can't guarantee that each of them will come back alive, but Datang needs them. It is the king himself, if it is for the Tang Dynasty, he will also be a horse leather shroud and die on the battlefield! ”

Xia Hongsheng was stunned for a moment, and then fell silent. (To be continued.) )