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Nowadays, when talking about artillery in the Tang Dynasty, it generally refers to a new type of rear-loaded rifled gun. Since Xuanping successfully developed the bolt structure of a reliable and practical rear-loaded rifled artillery in the 32nd year of Xuanping.

The rear-loaded rifled artillery was completely conquered by the military industry department of Datang.

Steel barrel technology is readily available, bolt technology is available, rifling is no problem, and impact fuzes for cylindrical shells are already available.

Even the maroon gunpowder was developed by the Department of Chemistry of the Royal Institute of Technology long ago, and the technical difficulties of mass production were successfully overcome by the Zhenjiang Gunpowder Factory under the Jiangnan Weapons Company.

The successful combination of many of the above-mentioned technologies is a new type of rear-mounted rifled steel gun.

Using the above-mentioned new technologies, the Shanghai Gunnery Factory took the lead in launching several models of rear-loaded rifled guns, but the factory is the son of the Navy, so the guns are mainly naval guns.

In just one year in the 32 years of Xuanping, the Shanghai Gun Gun Factory has successively launched three different calibers: 300mm rear-mounted naval guns, 250mm rear-mounted naval guns, and 200mm rear-mounted naval guns. Large caliber naval gun.

Of course, in fact, the above three naval guns are almost the same, that is, the caliber and barrel length are different. In simple terms, it is just a simple enlargement and reduction, and the barrel is shortened or lengthened. The core technology is basically Nothing has changed.

Relatively speaking, the two small-caliber naval guns they launched are more advanced, such as the 120mm rear-mounted gun they launched.

For the first time, they used a warhead and a propellant in this artillery shell, which greatly accelerated the firing rate of the naval gun.

The Shanghai Gunnery Factory seized the opportunity in the era of rear-mounted rifled guns and took the lead in launching this series of naval guns. Relying on the favorable influence of the 300mm rear-mounted guns in the Navy, the Navy also ordered Many of their other models of artillery.

This has made the Shanghai gun factory in the limelight in the past two years, completely suppressing other gun factories.

Even the army is considering whether to order a batch of 120mm artillery from the Shanghai Gun Artillery Factory to use as long-range suppression firepower.

Of course, the army also has the godson of Tianjin Guns and Guns Factory, so they are only thinking about it, but have no real action.

In today's demonstration of the new weapons of the Guards, the manufacturers affiliated to the three major weapon companies have all moved out their own products and laboratory products, just to expect to get a compliment from the Son of Heaven.

In the past two years, the most prominent Shanghai gun factory directly pulled out their obvious product, the 300mm cannon, and it is not the active model that has been mass-produced, but a new model newly developed in the past two years. A new type of cannon with a barrel diameter of 30 times.

This thing is dozens of tons, and it is naturally a well-deserved Big Mac placed on the square.

Even Li Xuan was attracted by this artillery as soon as he entered!

The 300mm cannon of the Shanghai Gunnery Factory can be said to have made the factory famous in one fell swoop. The world knows it, Li Xuan also knows it, but to be honest, this is the first time he has seen such a 300mm cannon with his own eyes.

There is no way, the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan has been staying in Jinling City for the past two years, and has basically not gone out, and this 300mm cannon is currently only equipped with Guangdong and Luzon, two battleships. More than 7,000 tons, the other one is more than 10,000 tons.

As the only two battleships in the navy at present, the navy will not let them venture into the Yangtze River and run to Jinling City.

As for Li Xuan himself, he didn't really care.

Compared with others, he actually understands the power of these rear-mounted cannons better, and he can know a general idea just by looking at the report, so there is no need to run all the way to see it.

And now, following the opportunity of a new weapons exhibition, the Shanghai Gun Artillery Factory directly moved the latest model of 300mm cannons in order to attract the attention of the Son of Heaven.

Datang is an empire after all, and the Son of Heaven is everything!

If this has been achieved, if it cannot be seen by the Son of Heaven, what is the difference between it and not done?

I don't know how many people are counting on this huge gun to get promoted and make a fortune, not only the people from the Shanghai Gun Gun Factory, but also their parent company, Jiangnan Weapons Company, and many generals of the Navy.

Even the Royal Institute of Technology was not exempt. After learning that the 300mm cannon was going to participate in the exhibition, the Royal Institute of Technology persuaded Professor Wei Qingxin to give up other work and help improve the artillery. Some technical issues.

Professor Wei Qingxin is naturally extraordinary, even if his essential work is to study theoretical physics, his sideline is to study the starry sky, and mechanical design is just his hobby. As for guns, it has nothing to do with his daily research. .

But this does not affect his role in the development of this new type of artillery.

Even if it was just a hobby on the spot, but after Professor Wei Qingxin went to the Shanghai Guns and Guns Factory for a walk, he casually suggested a few improvement plans, that is, to help the Shanghai Guns and Guns Factory make this three-dimensional system under the existing technical conditions. The 300mm naval gun with ten times the caliber was made.

Otherwise, the Shanghai Gunnery Factory is preparing to introduce a large number of heavy equipment.

The brains of geniuses are so different from those of ordinary people that ordinary people cannot understand them.

Right now, the other officials and generals were all apprehensive, but Professor Wei Qingxin was with the Son of Heaven, telling some details about the development of the 300mm naval gun.

Saying these things is nothing, the key is this person's attitude...

The more than 100 high-level officials and generals and top scientists behind this body are all well-behaved, and they dare not breathe in front of the Son of Heaven.

This Wei Qingxin is good, the Son of Heaven just said something, don't be restrained, if you have something to say, just say something polite.

Wei Qingxin has completely let go of himself and started bragging. It's okay to give him half a month to build a larger-caliber cannon. However, he has recently been very interested in the stars, guns and guns. It doesn't make any sense, I'm lazy.

He also said that the 300mm artillery was useless. He wondered why the navy should equip it.

Looking at the world, the enemy of the Imperial Navy is at most sampans, and a rear-mounted gun of more than 100 mm is enough to deter the global waters.

This 300mm cannon has no practical value except for the force!

If it was a waste of money, it would be better to build a laboratory for him.

Those words made the admiral's face turn green!

Although what he said is true, it is also true. With the strength of the Imperial Navy, there is basically no opponent. To deal with the European navy, even the front-mounted guns can completely abuse them. They don’t need rear-mounted guns, let alone 300 mm giants. gun.

But how could this be said in front of the Son of Heaven!

Even the army will not tear up with the navy on this issue, because the army themselves also want to replace the newer rear-mounted artillery.

The Army's 300mm train gun plan and the steam armored fighting vehicle plan are not at all more reliable than the Navy's 10,000-ton battleship, and they are all face projects!

If the Army jumps out of the Navy's thorns, the Navy will not politely criticize the Army's series of flashy plans directly, and in the end it will definitely be a lose-lose.

However, Professor Wei Qingxin doesn't care about the feelings of the navy. He is a professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, the deputy director of the Department of Physics, and the Marquis of the Empire.

There is no pressure to offend the Navy!

As for Professor Wei Qingxin's words, the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan is naturally well aware of it.

What opponents does the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Army have? Does he still know that the army needs some more, the Tatars are cunning, and it is normal for the army to equip rear-mounted guns and rear-mounted guns.

But the Navy's 10,000-ton giant ship is purely nonsense.

But the Son of Heaven did not stop it.

Because Li Xuan is very clear, this phenomenon is not caused by the threat of foreign enemies, but the internal contradiction of the Navy. If the Navy wants to have a sense of existence and avoid being completely suppressed by the Army, it needs various things to attract attention~www.wuxiaspot .com~ Expansion overseas is one aspect, and it is also one aspect to engage in 10,000-ton warships.

As for Li Xuan, he also maintains a tacit attitude towards this. No matter what factors stimulate the army and navy to continuously upgrade their technical equipment and improve their tactics, it is always a good thing to equip new weapons and use new tactics.

This can further widen the technological gap with Europeans and Tatars, making them even more unable to catch up.

Although there is a performance gap of one generation, it is better to have a performance gap of two or even three or more generations!

Therefore, Li Xuan has always acquiesced to the internal competition between the Army and the Navy. Anyway, it has not affected internal stability and external expansion. This face project does not matter.

Without such a face project, how could this 300mm and 30 times caliber rear-mounted rifled cannon appear in front of me.

Professor Wei Qingxin didn't stay by Li Xuan's side for too long. After talking about this new type of cannon, others stepped forward to introduce other equipment.

However, several new rear-mounted guns introduced later are actually nothing special. They are all the first-generation rear-mounted rifled guns developed by Datang.

Because the core technologies used by major manufacturers are almost the same, they are all new plug-in bolts purchased from the Royal Institute of Technology, the raw materials and processing of the gun barrels, and the shells used are also the same.

The only thing that can reflect the difference between the major artillery manufacturers is the technical improvement in some details, the control of production quality, and the control of cost.

In the past two years, there has been only one breakthrough in artillery technology, and only the Shanghai Gun Artillery Factory has first used one-piece metal shells on 120 mm.

However, there are so many messy new artillery pieces, and many of them are laboratory products. Even if they cannot be mass-produced, they have been moved out in order to gain the attention of the Son of Heaven.