This steam chariot, which was almost blown up to the sky by Wang Haoji, stalled directly under the attention of the Holy Emperor and many military dignitaries...
Wang Hao basically planned to continue explaining, but after seeing this scene, he choked back all the words he said and looked extremely ugly.
The several naval generals who accompanied him to watch all had smiles on their faces. It was rare to see the army making a joke, and this incident could keep these naval generals entertained for many days.
Without waiting for him to explain anything, Li Xuan took the initiative to speak: "It doesn't matter, and don't blame others. It's a new thing. It's normal for problems to occur. Just make improvements in the future!"
When Li Xuan said this, Wang Haoji naturally bowed his head and said yes.
However, we still sent someone to check on the situation, and soon technicians came forward to check, and found that the so-called most advanced steam engine in the tank had broken down.
On the one hand, Zhaoqing Machinery Company wanted to miniaturize the steam engine, but on the other hand, it wanted to maintain a certain power to meet the needs of the military. It used more new technologies and adopted many more adventurous designs.
, it is normal for problems to occur.
Li Xuan did not mean to blame, but instead encouraged the Army to continue innovating.
This made General Wang Haoji and other army generals look much better.
He immediately expressed that he would continue to work hard in the future, and would definitely perfect the steam chariot, so that the steam battlefield would become the great weapon of the Tang Army in charging into battle, and so on with the Tang Dynasty cavalry in the new era.
But Li Xuan didn't care. The car couldn't be driven. Even if it could be driven, Li Xuan didn't think it would be of any use.
A large number of weapons in the army can easily destroy this slow-moving, thin-skinned and large-filled steam battlefield on the battlefield.
Even though other natives don't have any rifled weapons, they do have smoothbore cannons.
Just pull out a medium-to-large caliber smoothbore field gun, and with the aim of a skilled gunner, you can easily destroy this flashy big toy.
Don't think that the power of solid shells fired by smoothbore cannons is small, and don't stubbornly think that smoothbore cannons have a short range. Even if they are closer, they still have an effective range of four to five hundred meters.
Among them, the Tatars' well-made twelve-pound bronze cannon has an effective range of several hundred meters, and can even hit house targets more than a thousand meters away.
And the shape of this steam chariot is actually no different from a house.
In other words, even if it is an indigenous army, they can hit this thing accurately every time!
As for thickening the armor to protect it from artillery fire, how thick the armor must be to withstand the attack of solid artillery shells? Is it possible to make an extremely thick steel plate like a battleship?
However, that can protect against artillery shells, but the weight goes up again. In order to drive the heavier car body forward, a larger steam engine is needed. However, the larger the steam engine, the greater the original volume and weight of the steam engine. This also causes the car body to move forward.
The bigger the body is, the more armor needs to be installed, and then it becomes an endless cycle!
Before there is a qualitative leap in the power system, such as the emergence of mature internal combustion engines, there is basically no need to expect steam vehicles to go to the battlefield.
At this time, the naval general also stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, our navy has recently built a fire support tank for landing operations!"
Hearing this, Li Xuan was speechless!
Although Li Xuanming knew that the Army was developing steam combat vehicles, it was a scam, but in order to encourage the Army's innovation and to ensure a smooth transition to internal combustion engine armored combat vehicles in the future, he had no objections and occasionally encouraged it.
But what kind of tanks are you messing around with as a navy?
Too much money?
I want you to cut military spending for your navy!
Hearing what the navy general said, Wang Haoji and other army generals next to them also had ugly expressions. Naturally, they knew that the navy had a similar plan, and they also knew what kind of tanks these damn navy thugs were doing, just to disgust them.
army.
As for use, a Marine Corps of the size of the Navy would use a shitty tank!
But what they didn't expect was that these naval generals had prepared in advance and pulled it out today, and they took it out after the Army's tank plan failed. This was to slap their Army in the face!
Li Xuan was very clear about the actions of the Navy and even the conflicts between the Army and the Navy. Even these conflicts were provoked by him personally. Without his decades of transfer and separation, the relationship between the Army and the Navy would not have reached such a level.
Today's situation.
They are both imperial armies, but they regard each other as their biggest competitors, and they are always on guard against each other. They both believe that the other party will be the scourge of the empire sooner or later, and they are also preparing for King Qin every day.
The navy's idea is that once the army rebels, the navy's warships will directly attack the King of Qin on the Yangtze River, defend the Holy Emperor with countless large-caliber naval guns, control the royal family, and then send out marines to kill the army.
The Army's thinking is that every one of these Navy personnel has a backpedal against them and must be on guard against it. Therefore, once there is chaos in the Navy, the Army will immediately block the Yangtze River with Wusong Fortress and Jiangyin Fortress, defend the important areas in the capital, and at the same time send out the Army.
The Marine Transport Division takes out the Navy!
Well, whether it is the army or the navy, in fact, they cannot expect to enter the Gyeonggi area with Jinling as the core. The Gyeonggi area to the west of Zhenjiang and east of Anqing is the absolute core defense area of the Guards, and the most sensitive area of the empire.
Unless the Holy Emperor openly mobilizes the army and navy to enter the capital, if the army and navy enter this area on a large scale for no reason, it will be almost the same as a conspiracy, and the Guards will definitely intercept it to the death.
Li Xuan didn't pay attention to the conflicts between the army and the navy, and was not prepared to interfere. Therefore, although the navy was not doing its job properly, Li Xuan still nodded!
Immediately, a naval general came forward and explained to Li Xuan. By the way, another vehicle slowly drove out of the training ground below.
The speed is still very slow, but the size of this thing is very small, not like the steam battlefield conducted by the Army, which is dozens of tons.
The thing built by the navy weighed only one or two tons at most, and what was very important was that Li Xuan did not see the huge steam cylinder, chimney or coal water tanker.
Seeing this, Li Xuan's expression was no longer as casual as before, but he looked carefully.
This thing is not a tank at all. It doesn't even have tracks. Instead, it has a four-wheel structure. More importantly, this thing looks like a very primitive car.
At this moment, people from the Navy also began to say: "Your Majesty, this gas truck is the latest experimental product of our Naval Power Research Institute. It uses an epoch-making gas engine that can be used with extremely small size and weight.