Valley Emperor

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Seeing that the navy actively limited the firing rate of the naval guns because the fire rate of the rear-mounted artillery was too fast, Li Xuan could not pay attention to it.

He couldn't figure it out, why can artillery be made and equipped, why can't it be used?

Therefore, it is rare for Li Xuan to personally intervene in the supply of ammunition from the rear-mounted artillery, especially the three-caliber army and navy artillery of 120mm, 100mm, and 75mm using metal fixed-mounted artillery shells.

The matter of asking about the shells can be regarded as breaking the practice of Li Xuan in recent years.

Originally, Li Xuan only paid attention to the armament development of the army and navy in the early years, but after the reunification war, Li Xuan seldom paid attention to the development of armaments in person, and as for direct intervention, it was even less.

Because at that time, it was already entering the age of guns, and the entire army was already equipped with flintlock guns, and it was in a state of leading invincible players in the world.

In addition, Li Xuan also knows that the emergence of new weapons, especially the large-scale deployment, is based on the premise that the industrial technology meets the standards.

The industrial production capacity cannot reach a certain standard. Even if new weapons are designed, they cannot be built and installed.

This is the same as the flintlock gun back then. The Tang Dynasty had a flintlock gun design for a long time, but because of the broken spring, it was repeated for several years.

The same goes for other new weapons.

Most of the research and development of new weapons and equipment are based on industrial technology.

For example, the 10,000-ton battleship of the Datang Navy today is not just a ship, but in fact, the battleship Wandan is currently under construction. If you want to build it, it requires the joint efforts of many institutions and countless companies in the empire. , just rely on a shipyard but can't do it.

The steel required for its hull and armor appears to be jointly provided by two steel companies, Jiangnan Iron and Steel Plant and Northern Iron and Steel Plant, but behind these two steel plants there are a lot of upstream and downstream enterprises. With the support of these enterprises, Jiangnan Iron and Steel Plant and Northern Iron and Steel Plant are also unable to provide these steel products.

The same is true for naval guns. On the surface, they are only products of the Shanghai Gun Gun Factory, but the equipment in the production line of the Shanghai Gun Gun Factory needs to be provided by many other machinery companies, and those machinery companies need technical support from many other upstream companies.

Not to mention the power system, since the advent of practical steam engines, steam engines and even various internal combustion engines and other power systems are typical industrial flowers, and they are the integrated products of an entire industrial system. There is no way to produce a ring.

In the construction of a battleship, at least dozens of companies are directly involved, and hundreds or even thousands of companies are indirectly involved.

This has also led to the development of the defense industry after entering the era of the industrial revolution, which is based on the entire industrial system, not just the design drawings of one or two new weapons.

If you just talk about blueprints, etc., there are no design drawings of warships in the Navy Department, and the mere 10,000-ton battleships are trivial.

They already have a fairly complete design of tens of thousands of tons of battleships, and even the design of a 100,000-ton super-giant ship is not without.

But is it useful?

Useful ass!

The largest dry dock in the Datang Empire Shipyard is more than 10,000 tons!

Moreover, the 100,000-ton giant ship is expected to use a 800mm cannon that is 40 times or even 50 times the size of the cannon. Let's not talk about the practicality, but it is estimated that it will not be able to be built after 180 years.

Therefore, design is actually not a problem for the Tang Empire. There are always a lot of crazy people doing all kinds of messy designs. Some are whimsical, some are half a step ahead, and some are even a few dozen steps ahead!

But it's useless if you can't make it.

Li Xuan knew this for a long time, so he was too lazy to intervene on weekdays. After setting the tone, he just let it go.

The tone set in the last decade has been to develop and equip rifled weapons.

As for how to do it, and how to do it, Li Xuan naturally doesn't need to worry about it.

But the military has finally come up with rifled weapons, and the navy is also the first to equip a large number of rear-mounted rifled guns. At this time, they ran over and said that the rear-mounted guns are too fast and too expensive to use, so they must be limited. use……

Not only the navy, but also the army there is a saying that guns are good guns, but the ammunition consumption is too large, the army's existing logistics system is difficult to support, and the cost of ammunition has also risen sharply, which is already The top management of the Army has to carefully consider limiting the number of rear-mounted artillery units equipped by troops, or limiting the frequency of artillery use of artillery.

This reminds Li Xuan of some countries in later generations, because the automatic weapons such as machine guns and automatic rifles fire too fast and consume too many bullets, so they are unwilling to equip or reduce equipment.

This situation makes Li Xuan Te speechless!

What kind of country is the Datang Empire? It is the largest industrial country on earth, and the only industrial country at the same time. It has almost a global market as its support. Its national strength exceeds the sum of other countries.

To put it bluntly, the only people who can defeat the Tang Dynasty are the aliens.

Such a powerful country can't afford to equip rear-mounted guns?

What an international joke!

However, when Li Xuan saw the detailed report submitted by the Navy, he took another look at the detailed ammunition consumption and purchase price, and then closed the report.

Finally, the navy's report stated that it is people, not one or two new weapons, that determine the outcome of the war. The navy should exert the spirit of hard fighting, strive to improve artillery skills, and strive to destroy the enemy with long-distance precise artillery fire.

Li Xuan, who said so, also agreed with the view of the Navy Quartermaster Department!

Heck, he didn't understand at first, but after reading the specific data, he was speechless.

Really can't afford it.

Because the new shells are too expensive, there are not many arsenals in the Tang Empire that can produce new cylindrical shells. At present, there are the ammunition factories under the Shanghai Guns and Guns Factory, the ammunition factories under the Tianjin Guns and Guns Factory, and there is another Zhenjiang Ammunition Factory.

As for other ammunition factories, they are still in the process of technical preparation and production line transformation.

Because the current supply is relatively small, and another point is that several key technical patents of the new type of shell are not in the hands of the three major weapons companies, nor in the hands of the Royal Institute of Technology, or even in the hands of the Royal Institute of Technology. In the hands of any state-owned enterprise or a royal enterprise, it is in the hands of several private enterprises.

Although the three major arms companies have already obtained the authorization of these key patents, the patent fee is still paid, and it is not low.

The patent licensing fee plus the cost of equipment upgrade and modification. In addition, the manufacturing cost of custom-made shells is relatively high. Not to mention the copper shells, maroon gunpowder is used as the propellant. Many factors have pushed up the price of these custom-loaded ammunition. price.

Now even a 75mm new-type howitzer costs about ten yuan, which is expensive, but this price can't last for too long. In seven or eight years, several of the key patents will expire, and the price will be reduced by a further part.

The 75mm grenade is so expensive, and the larger caliber 100mm or even 120mm custom howitzer, the price is doubled.

You must know that in the mainland of Datang these days, ordinary workers working in the Shanghai silk reeling factory earn about four or five yuan per month, while skilled workers, tailors, train drivers and other skilled people can earn about 40 per month. Between $8 and $15.

And the most common seven-five grenade costs about ten yuan, which is equivalent to two months' wages for an ordinary worker. It is conceivable how expensive it is.

According to the Army's standard, the Army's standard is to prepare 500 rounds of ammunition for each seven-five howitzer, and the cost of shells for just one artillery is 5,000. This does not include the shells used for daily training. The bullets are usually kept in the warehouse and used when preparing for war.

The five thousand yuan is already more than the price of the seven-five howitzer itself.

Datang's artillery has always been inexpensive. For example, an army-use seven-five howitzer in the Tianjin Gun Factory is actually more than 2,500 yuan. If the purchase volume is large, the Tianjin Gun Factory can still buy more. Give you a discount or something...

However, artillery is discounted, shells are not discounted!

People's arsenal is also a shrewd person. They know that the new artillery is too expensive and the shells are more expensive. In order to make the military decide to completely change the equipment, they do not expect to make money on the artillery itself, and basically buy it without losing money.

People are counting on making money from shells!

The army has already tried every means to deal with the problem that new-type artillery is expensive to purchase and more expensive to use. For example, to reduce the spare shells ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ When training, we don't need live ammunition, and we use training ammunition.

When fighting, let the troops recover the shells of the shells. The shells are all brass, which is very expensive!

The army, who has deep pockets and has never frowned when changing clothes in the past, plans to get through the past few years first, and when the domestic arsenal production capacity is raised, those **** patents will expire before large-scale storage of artillery shells.

Not to mention the navy. The navy's military expenditure is not as good as the army's. In addition, the naval guns of the navy are all medium and large-caliber artillery. The price of artillery is not to mention expensive, and the shells are more expensive.

Moreover, when the warships go out, they can't just take dozens of shells like the army, and they will be transported from the rear when there is a war.

The Datang Navy has always given preferential treatment to warships that carry out missions. Anyway, shells in the era of front-loading guns, especially solid shells, are very cheap, and they will be filled with ammunition before leaving the port to carry out the task.

After all, once Datang's warships leave the port on duty, they will inevitably encounter various combat missions. Gunboat diplomacy is the most common. It is also normal to fight pirates. It is also normal to have a fight with the indigenous navy when necessary.

Therefore, the supply of ammunition is very sufficient. Anyway, the usual rounds are solid ammunition, which doesn't cost a lot of money.

On weekdays, when the officers are idle and have nothing to do, they will set off a cannon and laugh, and the beautiful name is: live ammunition training!

But now, when I think of the future, a warship will have to carry thousands of expensive shells when going out, and if it goes out for a walk, it will more or less perform tasks such as naval artillery diplomacy, escort, live ammunition training, etc. It is estimated that it will come back after a lap. , the shells will cost thousands or even tens of thousands.

This is even more of a headache for the Navy's top management.

Some people even thought that it would be better to equip a few front-mounted smoothbore guns. These smoothbore guns are actually very useful against indigenous people, and it is not necessary to have rear-mounted rifled guns!