The heavy siege artillery required by the Army is actually similar to the Navy's requirements for the so-called large-caliber naval guns for battleships. The Navy also wants large-caliber guns. How big should they be? According to the current requirements of the Tang Navy for capital ships
The construction and future design plans will be as big as they can be!
In a short period of time, the Navy was in urgent need of a large number of nine-pound artillery pieces and fourteen-pound artillery pieces!
Later, when warships with larger tonnage begin to be built, artillery pieces weighing eighteen kilograms (twenty-four pounds), or even twenty-four kilograms (thirty-two pounds), or forty-eight kilograms (sixty-four pounds) will be needed!
In short, the bigger the caliber, the better, and the bigger the power, the better. At the same time, naval guns used by the navy do not have large requirements for weight. The navy said that it would be no problem to have a six or seven-ton artillery gun. Anyway, naval guns are carried on ships.
, a mere six or seven tons is nothing!
But this is just their army and navy's plan, or something they want, and the reality is that it doesn't exist at all now.
At present, the arsenals of the Ministry of Industry cannot even mass-produce twelve-pound cannons, that is, nine-pound artillery. We should wait for larger-caliber artillery!
This is like Li Xuan's dream of entering the Qinhuai River, seizing the Jiangnan area, and cutting off the north-south artery of the Ming Dynasty: water transportation!
But the reality is that the Tang Army is still fighting hard to capture the southern part of Huguang. It doesn't know when it will be able to capture Changsha. As for how long it will have to wait until it wants to advance into the Qinhuai River, it's not known yet.
Isn't there a saying that goes like this: ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel. The current requirements for artillery of the Tang Dynasty's army and navy are generally the same!
However, after capturing the three ships of the Franji people in front of them, no matter whether these three armed merchant ships weighing several hundred tons can be repaired, the artillery on them has solved the urgent need of the Tang Navy.
After counting, there were a total of eight fourteen-pound (eighteen-pound) cannons on these three Folangji ships, and sixteen nine-pound cannons (twelve-pound). As for those with only five kilograms
(six-pounder) and small-caliber artillery, and even more shotguns.
However, the value of the five-pound cannons and those shotguns to the Tang Dynasty was not great, because the Datang Dynasty could produce these artillery pieces themselves. The most valuable ones were the eight eighteen-pound cannons and the sixteen nine-pound cannons.
Soon, these captured artillery pieces were dismantled. On the one hand, they were to be assembled on the Wuzhou and Lianzhou built by the Tang Navy. In addition, the hulls of the three captured warships were also seriously damaged. Now
It just barely stays afloat and needs major repairs before it can be restored to use.
These three Folangji ships could be repaired, but the Tang Navy's own ship ran aground. The nearly 200-ton armed merchant ship was too badly damaged. After the navy's own evaluation, it believed that the funds needed to repair it were more expensive than building a new one.
There were more armed merchant ships like this, so we simply gave up.
The artillery and other supplies on the ship will also be removed and used on other ships.
With the end of the Battle of Haojing and the Folangji men leaving with lost troops and generals, the battle report about the battle was quickly delivered to Zhaoqing City by the Army and Navy respectively, and quickly reached the hands of Li Xuan.
"The navy was able to repel the Fo Langji fleet and captured three warships. It seems that the navy did a good job this time. It was an improvement over the last Qiongzhou naval battle!" Li Xuan saw this result.
At that time, the navy's own losses were simply ignored.
It was just an armed merchant ship, and all the artillery on it had been salvaged. The hull of a mere merchant ship of less than 200 tons was not worth much money!
However, the casualties among the navy officers were relatively high, which made him a little heartbroken!
In these days' sea battles, it is actually more difficult to completely sink the enemy's warships. Generally speaking, the only way is to burn the enemy's ships with incendiary bombs, or simply to directly engage in gang battles, and then capture the enemy's ships.
Battleship.
Many of the lost warships were actually abandoned by our own side because they were too severely damaged!
Directly using solid ammunition to sink it on the spot is relatively difficult, and is more difficult than capturing an enemy warship.
He was quite satisfied that the navy could achieve this result in this battle. Since the Qiongzhou Strait, the navy has grown relatively quickly. The surviving officers and soldiers of the navy who participated in the Qiongzhou naval battle brought back their experience in the naval battle at that time and gave them to
The improvement in the combat effectiveness of the entire navy has brought great benefits.
And this time the Haojing naval battle also had the same effect. He was even optimistic that if the navy was allowed to hone for a few more months and a dozen armed merchant ships could be gathered, it would be possible to completely wipe out the Ming navy from the Pearl River.
The mouth was driven out.
When the navy completely drives the Ming navy away from the Pearl River Estuary, the Pearl River Delta will be considered safe and become the back garden of the Tang Dynasty, continuously supplying various resources to the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, the intensity of supporting the navy cannot be underestimated!
Compared with the navy's battle, he was more satisfied with the army's battle, but the army's battle seemed to be quite satisfactory, because the army already had a huge advantage in strength, so it deserved to win, and the army's own casualties were not small.
The casualties were greater than those of the navy, but he also intercepted them. This was a battle with the Folangji, but it was different from a battle with the Ming army.
The Folangji are also sharp with their guns. The reason why the Army was able to win this battle so cleanly was because of the little thing called the bayonet!
However, even so, the number of Army casualties in this battle exceeded fifty, and dozens more were injured. The casualty ratio was not small!
But that’s okay, the people in the army have to know that it’s not just the Tang Army who plays queuing to kill, Europeans also play this game, and they have been playing it longer and are even better at it!
Our side just relied on our own prophet to make some changes in equipment, such as adding sights, paper shell fixed ammunition, and bayonets. This gave our side a relatively large advantage in this battle.
However, no matter what, the army and navy successfully completed their mission in this battle, so there will be no shortage of rewards. Li Xuan has already asked the army and navy to reward meritorious officers fairly and justly, and they should be promoted.
Promotions should be made, promotions should be made, and don't let the meritorious officers and soldiers feel cold.
Getting promoted and making a fortune is definitely what the soldiers of the army and navy of the Tang Dynasty pursue most, and Li Xuan tries his best to satisfy them!
After all, he, Li Xuan, is not one of theirs, so why should he let others, especially ordinary soldiers and middle- and low-level officers, work for you? For the ten thousand-year foundation of the Tang Dynasty? For our great eternal sage Li Xuan
?Although everyone says so on the surface, if you ask them what they really think, those soldiers will definitely slap you in the face!
Nonsense, we scholars gave up our studies to apply for the martial arts academy or the sea academy to join the army, just to get promoted and make a fortune!
As for those children from farmers who come to join the army, they simply want to have enough to eat, be assigned fields, and get some military pay to support their families, right?
If you promote them and make them rich, if you give them enough food, allotment of land, and military pay, then they will fight for the ten thousand-year foundation of the Tang Dynasty and fight for the eternal sage Li Xuan!
What?
You said, let them fight only by faith, without giving them promotions or making a fortune? Not giving them enough food to eat? Not giving them land? Not giving them military pay? They turned against the Tang Dynasty in a matter of seconds!
This is the same as how people get along with each other. Although talking about money hurts feelings, without money there will be no feelings, and you won’t be given a chance to get hurt!
Therefore, after the war, it was the practice of the Tang Dynasty kings to get promoted and make a fortune. Li Xuan did not pay much attention to it. Naturally, the people below would take care of it.
What he is more concerned about is when will the Ministry of Industry be able to produce artillery pieces of more than nine kilograms, and whether the iron casting plan for five kilograms and seven kilograms cannons can be carried out smoothly, and when will they be able to do so without spending so much money?
Instead of using extremely expensive copper to cast cannons, use cheap iron?
There is also the damn nine-pound cannon. It is made of bronze, but when will it be made? There is also the fourteen-pound cannon. Now that we have the reference from the prisoners, I don’t know where the Ministry of Works is.
Can anyone successfully imitate it?
Now artillery, especially cheap iron-cast artillery and large-caliber artillery, has become the biggest problem in the military production of the Tang Dynasty. This problem has even affected the current development of the army and navy of the Tang Dynasty.
It is foreseeable that the army will encounter fierce resistance from the Ming army as it marches north. The huge Ming Dynasty will not give in so easily. If you want to continue the Northern Expedition, you must have a large number of elite troops.
Yes, and an elite army must need a lot of guns.
The muskets are okay. Today's matchlock technology is mature and the manufacturing process has been unified and standardized. Those arsenals only need to expand production step by step. But the artillery thing is not easy to solve!
Li Xuan, who had a headache due to military production, returned to the harem that day and watched several performances of the Tang Dynasty version of the Thigh Era to relieve his mood.
Recently, he has become obsessed with this kind of dance that is both pleasing to the eye and good for both body and mind. He watches one every other day, which makes the other concubines in the harem quite resentful.
But Li Xuan doesn't care much about the women in the harem. Except for Dong Yunyun, who can make him have some scruples, he doesn't care much about other women. He still can't even remember the names of these concubines, and he often calls them by the wrong names.
The name is not even familiar to me, let alone the relationship!
And now that Dong Yunyun is pregnant and is focused on raising a baby, she is too lazy to care about Li Xuan. So now Li Xuan is like a bird that has escaped from the cage, flying and flying, not only flying by himself, but also taking his thighs and era with him...