When Li Xuan saw that the Navy actively limits the firing rate of the naval gun because the rear-mounted artillery fire is too fast because it is too fast to actively limit the firing rate of the naval gun, Li Xuan couldn't help but pay attention.

He was a little confused. Why can't he afford to use artillery and equipment?

Therefore, Li Xuan personally intervened in the matter of the supply of shells for the rear-loaded artillery, especially the three caliber land and naval cannons with 120 mm, 100 mm and 75 mm caliber.

Inquiring about shells has also broken Li Xuan's convention in recent years.

Originally, Li Xuan only paid attention to the development of the army and navy in the early years, but after the War of Unification, Li Xuan rarely paid attention to the development of the army and the development of the army. As for directly intervening, even less.

Because at that time it had entered the era of guns and cannons, and the entire army had already equipped with flintlock rifles, and was in a state of being invincible in the world.

In addition, Li Xuan also knew that the emergence of new weapons, especially large-scale installation, was based on the premise that industrial technology meets standards.

Industrial production capacity cannot meet certain standards. Even if new weapons are designed, they cannot be made and installed.

This is the same as the flintlock rifle back then. The Tang Dynasty had long been designed for a flintlock rifle, but it has been tossed repeatedly because of the broken spring for several years.

The same goes for other new weapons.

The research and development and equipment of most new weapons are based on industrial technology.

For example, the 10,000-ton battleship of the Tang Dynasty Navy is now just a ship, but in fact, if the battleship of the Bandan under construction is under construction, it requires the joint efforts of many institutions and countless enterprises in the empire. It is impossible to do it with just a shipyard.

The steel required for its hull and armor is on the surface provided by two steel companies, Jiangnan Steel Plant and Northern Steel Plant, but behind these two steel plants is a large number of upstream and downstream enterprises. Without the support of these enterprises, Jiangnan Steel Plant and Northern Steel Plant cannot provide these steel products.

The same is true for naval guns. On the surface, it seems that they are just products of Shanghai Guns and Cannon Factory, but the equipment in the production line of Shanghai Guns and Cannon Factory needs to be provided by many other machinery companies, and those machinery companies also need technical support from many other upstream companies.

Not to mention the power system, since the emergence of practical steam engines, steam engines and even various internal combustion engines and other power systems have all belonged to typical industries and are the products of the entire industrial system. Without any link, it is impossible to produce them.

In the construction of a battleship, there are at least dozens of companies directly involved in the construction of a battleship, and hundreds or even thousands of companies indirectly participated in it.

This also led to the development of national defense industry after entering the era of industrial revolution, which was built on a whole industrial system, not just design drawings for one or two new weapons.

If you just talk about drawings, there are no design drawings for warships in the Navy's Ministry of State, and it's just a 10,000-ton battleship.

They have already had a very complete design of battleships worth tens of thousands of tons, and even the design of a super giant ship worth hundreds of thousands of tons is not without it.

But is it useful?

It's useless!

The largest dry dock in the Tang Empire shipyard is only more than 10,000 tons!

Moreover, the 800-million-ton giant ship is expected to be used with a giant cannon of 800 mm forty times or even fifty times. I will not talk about the practicality of the problem, but I guess it will not be able to be built after waiting for a hundred and eighty years.

Therefore, design is actually not a problem for the Tang Empire. There are always a lot of crazy people doing all kinds of messy designs, some of which are fantastic, some of which are half a step ahead, and some of which are one or even dozens of steps ahead!

But it is useless to not create.

Li Xuan knew this a long time ago, so he was too lazy to interfere on weekdays. After setting the tone, he just let go and ignore it.

The tone set in the past decade is to develop and equip rifled weapons.

As for what to do and how to do it, Li Xuan naturally doesn’t have to worry about it.

However, the military finally developed rifled weapons. The Navy was the first to equip a large number of rear-mounted rifled guns. At this time, it actually ran over and said that the fire speed of this rear-mounted gun was too fast and too expensive to use, so it must be restricted...

Not only the navy, but also the Army also has this saying, saying that artillery is a good artillery, but the ammunition consumption is too large, the army's existing logistics system is difficult to support, and the ammunition cost has also increased significantly, which has forced the army's senior management to carefully consider limiting the number of artillery after the troops are equipped with or limiting the frequency of artillery use by artillery soldiers.

This reminded Li Xuan of some countries in later generations. Because automatic weapons such as machine guns and automatic rifles have too fast firing speeds and consume too many bullets, they are unwilling to equip or reduce equipment.

This situation left Li Xuante speechless!

What country is the Tang Empire? It is currently the largest industrial country on the earth and the only industrial country. It has an almost global market as support, and its national strength exceeds the sum of other countries.

To be honest, the only aliens are left who can defeat the Tang Dynasty.

Such an awesome country cannot afford to install the rear-mounted gun?

What an international joke!

However, when Li Xuan saw the detailed report submitted by the Navy, he aimed at the detailed ammunition consumption and purchase price, and then closed the report.

Finally, the navy's report stated: It is man who decides the outcome of a war, not one or two new weapons. The navy should exert its spirit of hard work, strive to improve artillery skills, and strive to eliminate the enemy with long-distance precise artillery fire.

Li Xuan said so, and he also agreed with the views of the Navy's military department!

Ma Dan, at first he didn't understand, but after reading the specific data, he was speechless. ァNews ヤ~8~1~Chinese website www.x~8~1zщ.com

It's really hard to use.

Because new shells are too expensive, there are actually not many arsenals in the Tang Empire that can produce new cylindrical shells. At present, there are ammunition factories under the Shanghai Guns and Cannon Factory, ammunition factories under the Tianjin Guns and Cannon Factory, and there is also a Zhenjiang Ammunition Factory.

As for other ammunition factories, they are still in technical preparations and production line transformation.

Because the current supply is relatively small, there is another point that several key technical patents for the new shells are not in the hands of the three major weapons companies, nor in the hands of the Royal Institute of Technology, nor in the hands of any state-owned enterprise department or royal enterprise, but in the hands of several private enterprises.

Although the three major weapons companies have already obtained the authorization of these key patents, the patent fees still have to be paid, and they are not low.

The patent licensing fee plus the cost of equipment upgrade and modification, and the manufacturing cost of fixed-loading shells is relatively high. Not to mention the copper shell case, maroon gunpowder is used as the launching medicine. Many factors have pushed up the price of these fixed-loading ammunition.

Now even the new howitzer with a price of 75 mm is about ten yuan, which is extremely expensive. However, this price cannot last too long. It is estimated that if the output rises in a few years, it will drop. If it waits for another seven or eight years, several of the key patents will expire, and then the price will be reduced by a portion.

Seventy-five millimeter grenades are so expensive, and the price of fixed howitzer shells with a larger caliber of 100 mm or even 120 mm has increased exponentially.

You should know that in the local area of ​​Datang, ordinary workers working in Shanghai silk reeling factories have a monthly income of about four or five yuan, while those with skills such as technical workers, tailors, train drivers, etc. can earn about eight to fifteen yuan per month.

The most ordinary seven-five grenade costs about ten yuan, which is equivalent to the two-month salary of an ordinary worker. You can imagine how expensive it is.

According to the standards of the Army, the Army sets the standard that each 75 howitzer is equipped with 500 rounds of shells, and the amount of shells required for just one cannon is 5,000. This does not include shells used for daily training, but only shells are prepared, and they are used when they are placed in the warehouse to prepare for war.

This 5,000 yuan is already more than the price of the 75th howitzer itself. The first launch of the New Bayi Chinese website

The price of artillery in the Tang Dynasty has never been expensive. For example, an army-used 75 howitzer in the Tianjin Guns and Cannon Factory is actually more than 2,500 yuan. If the purchase volume is large, the Tianjin Guns and Cannon Factory can give you another discount...

However, artillery discounts, shells are not discounted!

The arsenal is also smart. They know that new artillery is too expensive and shells are even more expensive. In order to make the military decide to change the artillery completely, they do not expect to make money on the artillery itself, and basically buy it without losing money.

People are counting on making money from shells!

The Army has already tried every means to address the problem of the expensive purchase price of new artillery and the more expensive use price, such as reducing spare shells, and not using live ammunition during training, and training ammunition.

During the battle, the troops were asked to recycle shell shells. The shell shells were all brass, which were very expensive!

The Army, which was rich and powerful, had never frowned when changing clothes in the past, planned to survive these years first, and wait until the domestic arsenal production capacity was increased, and those damn patents would expire before they could reserve shells on a large scale after they expired.

Not to mention the Navy, the Navy's military expenditure is not as good as the Army. In addition, the Shanghai Army's naval guns are all medium-caliber artillery, so the price of artillery is not to mention the high price of artillery, and shells are even more expensive.

Moreover, when warships go out, they can't just take dozens of shells to the army. If they encounter war, they can transport them from the rear.

The Tang Dynasty Navy has always maintained preferential treatment for warships that carry out missions. Anyway, shells from the pre-loading era, especially solid ammunition, are very cheap, and they will be filled with ammunition before leaving the port to perform missions.

After all, once the Tang Dynasty warships leave the port for duty, they will basically encounter various combat tasks. Gunboat diplomacy is the most common, and it is normal to attack pirates. It is normal to fight with the indigenous navy when necessary.

Therefore, the ammunition supply is very sufficient. Anyway, the usual fired solid ammunition is still solid, so it doesn’t cost much.

On weekdays, officers are idle and have fun when they are idle. The name is: live ammunition training!

But now when you think of the future when a warship goes out, you have to bring thousands of extremely expensive shells. If you go out for a walk, you will more or less perform tasks such as naval gun diplomacy, escort, live ammunition training, etc., and you will probably have to pay for thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan after a run.

This will make the Navy's senior management even more trouble.
Chapter completed!