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The live ammunition test of the artillery began soon, and the first one was an army small-caliber artillery!

This is a small rear-mounted cannon that the army is trying to equip. The caliber is only 50 mm. At the same time, in order to control the weight, the range is not too far. The effective range is expected to be only about one kilometer.

Li Xuan looked at the small artillery through the telescope. Under the operation of the artillery of the Guards, he carried out a series of operations of loading, aiming, and then firing the cannon. In the end, he heard a bang, and the cannonball was shot out.

The live-fire exercise was quite satisfactory, and after Li Xuan read the data description in his hand, he was not optimistic about the future of this artillery.

The range is enough, but the caliber of 50mm is too small, the power is seriously insufficient, and the weight is not light, it is not suitable for use as a mid-to-close-range infantry support artillery. To put it bluntly, the actual combat value of this thing is not as good as that in active service. The jin shotgun is good. Although the two jin shotgun has a front-mounted shotgun, its lethality is very large. One shot can hit a large area on the opposite side!

And the most important thing is that the weight is very light, and two soldiers can run around with them.

Li Xuan originally wanted to instruct them to build a mortar or something, but looking at the mortar they pushed up next, he consciously shut his mouth.

The mortar in his mouth is actually no different from the mortar in the army's mouth. It is nothing more than performance, and performance is closely related to technology.

The mortar that came out next, the Army said it was going to be used in fortified battles. Although the Army was talking about parapets, field trenches, etc., Li Xuan thought that this was similar to the tactical positioning of mortars.

This mortar uses a front-loading method, metal fixed-loading ammunition, and the caliber is not small because it is used for attacking fortified battles. Up to a thousand meters.

Come again, there is also a 100mm field gun, which Li Xuan is looking forward to, and also attaches great importance to, because this gun will become the main long-range suppression gun of the army for many years to come.

It has become the main artillery of many independent artillery brigades and regiments.

As for the design of the artillery, there is nothing to say. Nowadays, the rear-mounted artillery of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether it is the navy or the army, is actually the same bird. They all use the same set of technical standards. All steel guns, even the processing of the rifling is the same...

The only difference is actually the caliber and multi-diameter, and then different gun mounts are created to suit different combat needs.

After a few rounds of the 100mm field gun, Li Xuan also showed a satisfied look. When launching a new type of grenade, the maximum effective range can reach 7,500 meters. Li Xuan is already quite satisfied with this data. .

The last to appear on the army side is the 120mm howitzer that they are still developing and have just produced a few prototype guns.

In order to control the weight, this thing adopts a short-tube design, so its effective range is relatively general, only 5,500 meters, which is not as good as the seven-five field gun.

But they are powerful!

The caliber is justice, the caliber of 120mm, the explosive power is not comparable to the artillery of 75 calibers.

After reading the 120mm howitzer, the army's business is over. They originally planned to take out the 150mm heavy howitzer, but unfortunately there are many problems with the sample gun. In order to not lose face in front of the Holy Son of Heaven, So I didn't dare to take it out for live ammunition testing.

Next comes the natural navy.

The Navy has a lot of new artillery in service and about to be equipped.

For example, the 300 mm and 30 times the naval gun, this is a super monster with an effective range of ten kilometers.

Then there are 250mm guns, 200mm guns, and 150mm, 120mm, 100mm, 75mm and other naval guns of different calibers.

And they are all cannons with long barrels, not like the army, there are field guns and howitzers.

The size and weight of these naval artillery are significantly larger than those of the army artillery, and the range is also longer and the accuracy is higher.

If it is to launch solid armor-piercing projectiles, then the armor-piercing ability is just right.

Among them, the most shocking is naturally the 300mm cannon shooting.

Li Xuan is delighted to see it!

With a 300mm cannon, he saw with his own eyes that the cannonball landed on the opposite wasteland, directly smashing a big hole!

Not fried, but smashed!

When conducting the maximum range test, Li Xuan said that he had no idea where the shells went, because it had already flown out of sight.

The effective range of ten kilometers is not a small number.

The weapons display in the past few days can be regarded as the achievements of the datang defense industry in the past ten years.

The main focus is on the research and development and application of bored weapons, and these are based on the industrial development achievements of the Tang Empire in the past ten years.

Datang has been industrializing for more than 20 years. Basically, when Datang went south to Guangdong and Guangxi, Li Xuan began to support the development of industry and commerce, and focused on supporting industries.

At the same time, priority is given to supporting the development of heavy industry.

This also led to the defense industry of the Datang Empire, which was ahead of the ordinary industry and was much ahead.

More than 20 years of industrial construction achievements, with the large-scale use of high-pressure steam engines in industrial production and transportation, Datang's industry and commerce have developed explosively in the past ten years.

This not only refers to industrial production capacity, but also reflects in the improvement of industrial technology.

However, compared with the improvement of heavy industry represented by the defense industry, the development speed of light industry and medical industries is slower.

No way, the core of the empire supports heavy industry, and light industry mainly relies on private capital no matter how high it is, and medical care, this is even more difficult.

But even so, Li Xuan was very satisfied.

If you have guns and cannons, you are still afraid of eggs!

When the troops are equipped with rifled weapons on a large scale, and the railway continues to be repaired to the west, sooner or later, the Tatars will be wiped out and the threat from the west will be completely solved.

A month later, the Army once again submitted a report on the new breech-loading rifle to Li Xuan, saying that they organized three major weapons companies and the Royal Institute of Technology to conduct joint research and development, and carried out on the basis of the original multiple experimental rifles. Comprehensive trade-offs.

At present, the new rifle has been designed.

The new gun data report and the two sample guns submitted by the army made Li Xuan attach great importance. After letting the guards test the live ammunition, Li Xuan shot a few shots himself. Although this gun is not as good as the Li Fu rifle, it is worse than the previous Hanyang. The arsenal's test guns are much stronger.

And a very important point is that the production cost has been controlled. The army estimates that, after a complete set, including guns, bayonets and other accessories, it is expected that the initial production cost can be controlled at 18 yuan per piece.

If large-scale production is carried out in the later stage, and after the cost is amortized over time, the price can be controlled lower.

At present, the production cost of flintlock guns exported by the Datang Empire is about five yuan a piece, while the cost of Mini rifles is higher, about twelve yuan.

Although the current production cost of 18 yuan is a bit high, it is not too exaggerated. It is estimated that it will be reduced to about 15 yuan in the later stage.

While controlling the cost, its performance is also good.

It has a caliber of 11 mm, a total length of 1.31 meters, and a weight of 4.6 kg. The effective range can reach 800 meters.

The effective range of 800 meters here is only theoretical. It is impossible to hit such a long target in actual combat. Referring to the experience of using the Mini rifle, the military focuses on hitting accuracy at a distance of 300 meters. The rifle has indeed achieved this. The accuracy between 200 meters and 300 meters is no less than that of the Li Fu rifle. However, after 300 meters, the accuracy begins to decline. After 500 meters, the accuracy is unreadable. .

In addition, the reason why metal fixed-loading ammunition and magazines are not used for ammunition~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but the design of paper-casing fixed-loading ammunition and single-shot loading for ammunition, is because copper is too expensive, and the manufacturing process also requires Higher, which ultimately leads to higher ammo costs.

The military can already expect that after adopting this rear-loading rifle, the ammunition consumption will increase several times or even ten times, which will bring heavy pressure on the supply of ammunition.

In order to control the cost of use, the military gave up metal fixed-loading ammunition on its own.

Anyway, the enemies of the Tang Dynasty either used flintlock guns or arquebuses, and they were already very bullying with front-loaded rifled Mini rifles, not to mention the current rear-loaded rifled guns.

Then spend a huge cost to use metal fixed-loading ammunition, there is no such demand.

Anyway, no matter what rear-loading gun you use in the Tang Dynasty, the natives and Tatars are very calm and say: they are all the same, they can't be beat!

Therefore, in the face of performance, the military simply chose the cost!

After Li Xuan personally experienced it, he felt that it was quite good, that is, with a stroke of a pen, he approved the army's equipment plan.

The Army quickly finalized and placed an order for production.

The model is a thirty-four-year rifle, also known as a joint rifle!

Why is it a joint rifle? Because this rifle was developed by the Army organized by three major weapons companies and the Royal Institute of Technology. It is not the same as before. The rifle was developed by a certain institution alone. Because of joint research and development, it is also called It's the Union Rifle.

Many of the patents involved are from different companies or institutions. The Army directly bought out the patents with deep pockets, and then authorized the production to major arsenals and placed orders at the same time.

The army has a great appetite. The first batch of orders was 100,000 pieces. However, half a month later, the army added another 300,000 pieces, including the 100,000 cavalry version, which is the short-tube version.

The first two batches of orders in Guangguang reached a huge amount of 400,000.