Valley Emperor

Vol 2 Chapter 1021: New fuzes and shells

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Li Xuan was in front, talking with several military leaders while walking. Although He Haoyuan, who was a few meters behind, could hear their voices, he never had a chance to speak up.

In this case, unless the big bosses in front asked him to speak, otherwise, he would have no chance to speak.

However, he is not the only one who is like him. There are twenty or thirty middle and high-ranking generals and civil servants who follow him.

A group of people entered the weapons testing ground of the Royal Institute of Technology and went to see the samples of the fuze. At this time, as the project leader of the new fuze, Bi Zifei and several other students of the Royal Institute of Technology were arrested by the Hanlin Academy. The secretary brought forward.

At this time, everyone could clearly feel that Li Xuan's attitude was changing.

Along the way, Li Xuan and many people talked successively, but most of them were very calm, and although they talked with each other, they actually asked some questions, the officials answered, and then Li Xuan made some instructions, The courtiers nodded and said yes, saying that they must strengthen certain aspects in their work in the future, so as not to disappoint His Majesty.

But when talking with Bi Zifei and the others, they could clearly see the smile on Li Xuan's face and his very kind attitude.

Even Bi Zifei said that there are still many difficulties in this fuze project, and it is estimated that the probability of a successful live ammunition test is not high.

And the Son of Heaven also laughed, talking about scientific research, it doesn't matter if you fail, the important thing is to keep trying and don't lose confidence.

People who don't know may have a thought. It is estimated that the Son of Heaven is extremely angry, but in order to maintain the demeanor of the Son of Heaven, this is what he said on purpose.

But as an important official of the empire, everyone present knew that the Son of Heaven said so, and at the same time he really did it.

As long as you think about the scientific research funds that the Royal Institute of Technology spends millions of taels every year, you can see that Li Xuan has a really high tolerance for the scientific researchers there.

Especially the Department of Medicine in the Royal Institute of Technology, the Department of Medicine in the Royal Institute of Technology, has been established a long time ago, and there are a lot of research projects, but to be honest, so far, the Department of Medicine at the Royal Institute of Technology has not been too successful. In the eyes of many people, the medical department burns at least 100,000 taels of silver every year, but Mao has not researched it.

More importantly, if the students in the Royal Institute of Technology are all demons or lunatics, then the students in the medical department are all perverts, thinking about opening their stomachs every day when they have nothing to do, in order to study. Samples, they can even steal corpses.

And sometimes they make themselves devilish, and some perverts even test themselves directly.

Such people, if they were placed on the European side, would have been burned to death by a fire.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, they were the most valued talents by the Son of Heaven. The medical students received a higher level of treatment than students from other departments.

These are all proofs that the Son of Heaven attaches great importance to science and technology!

Now, Li Xuan, Bi Zifei, and other students from the Royal Institute of Technology laughed and laughed, as if they were not here to watch the test, but to chat with them.

This situation made many people envious, let alone a mid-level civilian officer like He Haoyuan, even a military boss like Lieutenant General Lei Wan would be envious when they saw this scene.

He is not envious of the various political treatment and status of the students of the Royal Institute of Technology. As the minister on duty in the imperial study, it can be said that he is already standing at the top of the imperial political ecosystem.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is less than ten thousand people and more than ten thousand people!

With the current political and ecological framework of the Tang Dynasty, the Son of Heaven naturally has supreme authority. Under the Son of Heaven, there are seven ministers on duty in the imperial study room. These seven imperial study rooms are on duty and their power is similar to that of the cabinet ministers in the former Ming Dynasty. It is quite, and even a veritable pavilion elder.

But even so, he, Lei Wan, couldn't have a laugh with the Son of Heaven!

The relationship between him and the Son of Heaven is very clear, that is, the relationship between monarch and minister.

But these students at the Royal Institute of Technology have a teacher-student relationship with the Son of Heaven.

Because even after Xuanping’s seven years, Li Xuan still acts as a teacher himself from time to time, teaching a few students at the Royal Institute of Technology. Of course, the people who can listen to his lectures in person are basically limited to seniors and some juniors. The number of students is only forty-five.

Bi Zifei is one of them!

These people are all real disciples of the emperor, and there is a world of difference between the jinshi and doctors who passed the imperial examination and are also called disciples of the emperor.

The only ones who can compare to them are the few students in the Imperial Academy.

But even the few students of the Royal Academy, they couldn't chat and laugh with Li Xuan.

Others don't understand, but Li Xuan himself knows why he is like this.

Not for anything else, just because of attention!

Li Xuan is not a saint, so it is naturally impossible to treat everyone equally. For him, those military and political officials, even the ministers on duty in the imperial study, ministers, and lieutenants, are of the same level, to be honest, as long as He is willing to, at any time, find a bunch of people to replace them.

But these students at the Royal Institute of Technology are different. The students here are all geniuses, and there is no way to copy them in large quantities. Even everyone in them is irreplaceable.

In scientific research, although hardware is very important, people are more important, because ordinary people can't think of a fart after thinking hard.

As the saying goes, people are more mad than mad, and they belong to the type of mad.

In addition to this, there is another very important point, that is, although these students are all of high grade, well paid, and some even have titles, but they are still not military and political personnel, and they do not have much actual political rights. Li Xuan doesn't have to worry about what they will do to force the palace or rebel.

There are many reasons for Li Xuan to maintain a friendly attitude towards the talents in the Royal Institute of Technology.

And this kind of attitude, other ordinary courtiers basically do not expect.

Li Xuan and Bi Zifei were chatting with laughter. At the same time, Bi Zifei and the others also introduced the details of the new grenade fuze to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan only saw some simple descriptions on the report before, but it was the first time he saw the real thing.

Now placed in front of Li Xuan are the shells and fuzes that have been split into several parts.

At this time, Bi Zifei stepped forward and explained: "In recent years, including our project team, many project teams have proposed many new fuze concepts, including collision fuzes, wooden fuzes, and paper fuzes. several options.

After the preliminary test of our project team, the unity of the wooden fuze is too poor to ensure that the shell can explode at the exact time, which is very important for the experience of the artilleryman, but even so, the wooden fuze is better than the fuze and the paper is better.

The success rate of the former is too low to guarantee detonation, while the latter, although the uniformity is easier to use, is prone to moisture and is difficult to store for a long time.

Therefore, in the later stage, the main research direction of our project team is the wooden delay fuze! "

"Our initial idea is to install a wooden delay fuze directly on the shell, and cut a fuze of an appropriate length to control the explosion time when shooting, so that when the artillery shoots, the high-temperature gas generated directly ignites the fuze, but because of the circular shape The shells are easy to roll over while being fired, and it is extremely easy to explode inside the shells, so we later added a cork base to the shells!"

When he said this, Bi Zifei was a little excited: "After adding a cork base to the shell, we found that this can not only effectively control the roll of the shell, but always align the direction of the fuze to the gunpowder gas, but also found a The additional benefit is that due to the action of cork, the closure between the barrel and the shell is tighter, which can effectively improve the accuracy and even the range!"

"Later, we conducted many experiments based on this scheme ~www.wuxiaspot.com~. Although there were successes and failures, in general, this is a direction worth continuing!"

As Bi Zifei spoke, he showed Li Xuan a complete cannonball. This cannonball was more accurately a projectile that was about to be fired. Well, except that there was no actual charge.

The shell is still the original round shell, but a cork base is added. At the same time, the shell of the round shell has a wooden fuze tube that is directly inserted into the shell.

This cannonball looks decent, but I don't know how it will behave during the live ammunition test.

So soon, Li Xuan took a group of people to the stand, and then looked at the soldiers of the Guards, under the guidance of several technicians, to prepare for the live ammunition test.

Not long after, a Colonel of the Guards came over and said that it was ready, and asked His Majesty to order the test.

Li Xuan said: "Now that you are ready, let's start!"

Following Li Xuan's final order, the three artillery pieces on the field also began to be loaded.

After the loading was completed, I saw a major commanded below with a wave of his hand, and the first nine-jin field gun 6 continued was the arquebus on the cannon that was ignited. As the first gun's arquebus burned to the end, only the bang was heard. With a sound, the artillery jerked backwards.

At the same time, the muzzle also spewed thick white smoke, but at this time, no one looked at the gun itself, but all stared at the small black spot flying in the sky.

At this moment, many people in the stands turned their attention along with the three shells, and they were about to see the result of the test firing with their own eyes!

{Old iron please remember}

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