Butcher Chen wanted to change his career to become an artilleryman. Li Xuan was quite speechless about this. At first, he thought it was just a whim and a joke, so he rejected him with a very good reason. You can't rely on bravery to play with artillery. You have to
Only if you have sufficient theoretical knowledge.
Artillery, regardless of whether it is primitive artillery in ancient times or modern artillery, especially artillery commanders, has always been a high-tech branch of the military.
It’s impossible to say that just any illiterate person can do the job!
When Li Xuan told Butcher Chen, although he didn't directly say that Butcher Chen was illiterate and couldn't use the artillery, he said it more euphemistically, but that's what he meant.
Although Butcher Chen is uneducated and does not recognize any other characters except his own name, even his own name is written in a twisted way, but he is still uneducated and not stupid!
He could still hear the euphemistic words Li Xuan said.
However, although Butcher Chen was rejected by Li Xuan, it seemed that he did not want to give up. Although he did not continue to ask Li Xuan verbally, he followed the cannon-making craftsmen that day. It seemed that this was true.
The big toy of artillery has moved my mind.
Seeing him like this, Li Xuan didn't say anything. He was interested if he was interested. Anyway, Li Xuan felt that he was not suitable to be an officer of this artillery team.
Li Xuan was really worried about letting such an illiterate old man command the artillery.
As for the officers of the artillery team, he already had one, namely Xie Ziwei, a young officer who, like Hao Bainian, was born in the Guards and was personally taught by Li Xuan.
This boy is seventeen years old this year. He is not a kid from the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain, but a kid from one of the small villages when Huangzhu Mountain raided the surrounding villages at the end of last year.
After joining Huangzhushan, he naturally became a member of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty like many young people in the village. Because he was not too old, he was assigned to join the Guards.
This man is not tall and his body is not as strong as Hao Bainian, but his learning ability is very good. In less than a year, he has learned many common characters, which are necessary for marching and fighting.
The mathematical geometry of the preparation is also very receptive.
When playing artillery, you need to calculate various parameters, and this mathematical geometry ability is naturally indispensable.
Therefore, he was trained by Li Xuan as an artilleryman very early on, but he didn't know it yet.
In this way, Xie Ziwei served as the infantry team officer in the 2nd Infantry Battalion and was transferred to serve as the artillery team officer. There would not be much trouble in his position and he could be transferred directly.
When Li Xuan came to him and asked him if he was interested in serving as the commander of the artillery team, he was a little surprised.
The Italian cannon was transported from Huangzhu Mountain to the Lanjiang Ferry, which was not a small matter for the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. When the cannon was fired at noon, many people came to watch, and among those onlookers was Xie Ziwei.
He was also extremely shocked by the huge power displayed by this artillery. Apart from being shocked, he naturally heard that Chen Tufu wanted to serve as the commander of the newly established artillery team, but His Majesty rejected him.
But he never thought that His Majesty would let him serve as the officer of the artillery team!
How powerful artillery is, how important it is!
After today's artillery test, any officer of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty who has a little knowledge knows the importance of artillery, and even more the importance of the artillery team.
Even though today's artillery team only has one artillery, and the artillery force only has about twenty newly selected people, they also know that the artillery team cannot always have only one artillery, and there may not be many in a short period of time.
artillery, but in a few months, those craftsmen will definitely make more artillery.
By then, the importance of this artillery team will not be lower than that of several infantry battalions.
After all, everyone knows that His Majesty has wanted to build artillery for a long time. The craftsmen have been working hard for more than half a year just to tinker with this thing. According to the craftsmen, there are already several short-bodied guns in Huangzhushan.
The artillery is being built and will be completed in a month.
In other words, the size of the artillery force is small, and it is only limited to the last one or two months. It is hard to say how many artillery guns it will have in two or three months, but it will definitely be more than this one.
If I can become the officer of the artillery team and the artillery develops in the future, then I will be the number one in the artillery team. Will I have a chance to catch up with Hao Bainian and become a major?
When Xie Ziwei thought of this, he couldn't help showing a look of joy, and then said: "Your Majesty, I have nothing to repay for your kindness. I can only train the artillery hard and make the Italian artillery a weapon for our Tang Dynasty's military!"
Li Xuan smiled slightly after hearing this, but did not refute the word Italian cannon in his words.
Ever since Li Xuan accidentally said the word "Italian artillery" last time, the name has been spread out and has become synonymous with this artillery today. Li Xuan thought it was a bit ridiculous at first, but then he thought about it, there will be Napoleon in later generations.
Cannon is such a nondescript artillery name, why can't he use the name Italian Cannon!
And as the saying goes, you have nothing to say, since he has said it out loud, there is absolutely no reason to take it back. Otherwise, where is the authority of the emperor?
What the emperor says is like farting, how can he rule the Tang Dynasty in the future?
Therefore, this Italian cannon became the name of the long-barreled front-loading cannon on the fort, just like the Ming army called large-caliber artillery as general cannon, or big general cannon.
After the officers of the artillery team were determined, the artillerymen became even simpler. Twenty more soldiers who knew a few words and were relatively smart were selected from the entire army for intensive training. These artillerymen will be trained according to the follow-up training.
A few people with the best grades will be trained as gunners, and the rest will naturally be able to become ordinary loaders.
After Xie Ziwei took office, he quickly followed the craftsmen to learn how to operate artillery. He not only learned it, but also recorded what the craftsmen said, and then used it as a gunmanship manual to train more artillerymen.
And make some improvements based on some problems that arise during training.
At this time, the difference between Xie Ziwei and Butcher Chen is revealed.
Butcher Chen might be able to master how to fire a cannon by learning on the spot, and even after playing with artillery for a long time, he could rely on experience to aim.
But he could not record all the details like Xie Ziwei, write a complete artillery training manual, and use it to train other artillerymen or even make improvements.
However, Butcher Chen still could not see the intention of giving up, and continued to follow the example behind a group of artillerymen.
Li Xuan was too lazy to care about Butcher Chen's helpless behavior, and Xie Ziwei was also a little helpless about this. Butcher Chen had a higher military rank than him. If he wanted to follow suit, how could Xie Ziwei still chase people away?