Valley Emperor

Among the many artillery pieces equipped by the Datang Army, not to mention 150mm, there are many types of 120mm artillery pieces, which are quite intimidating.

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But in reality there are not many of these large-caliber artillery pieces.

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The most equipped artillery pieces of the Datang Army are actually two 75mm artillery pieces. As for the other artillery pieces, they seem to have many models and are also very important, but many of them are only a few dozen pieces of equipment.

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Compared with the two guns of 75mm caliber, the procurement volume of thousands of guns is far worse.

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From the artillery construction of the Datang Army, we can also see the army building ideas of the Datang Army at this stage.

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That is, the troops deployed in the homeland, hoarding heavy weapons, anyway, the troops deployed in the homeland do not fight, even if they are equipped with a large number of heavy weapons, but in fact, they are not useful at all except for training, so the subsequent use costs are actually not high. .

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Therefore, the weapons of the troops deployed in the local area are mainly tall.

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However, overseas deployments, as well as troops deployed in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, are mainly based on practicality and pay great attention to cost performance.

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Otherwise, the Army would not have long-range support artillery for the troops deployed overseas in one go, and they would all be equipped with 120mm howitzers.

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Anyway, this thing is not bad, both the range and the power are good. After increasing the output, the purchase price can be cheaper. The key is that the output of cannonballs is larger, and the purchase price of cannonballs is also cheaper.

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In addition to rectifying the artillery unit and simplifying the logistics, the army has also set off another tightening of its belts and hoarding ammunition after the 41st year of Xuanping, in preparation for the possible westward expedition in a few years.

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While the army is doing this, the navy continues to live a small life leisurely.

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The navy does not have as much ambition and pressure as the army. The Datang navy is invincible in the world. Apart from the recent frontier strategy, there is nothing to do.

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In recent years, what the Navy has done the most is to fight against pirates!

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However, the pirates slowly finished fighting, and the few remaining pirates were pirates who were specifically targeting European sailing ships. Datang was too lazy to fight.

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After all, the Tang Dynasty did not want to see the Europeans continue to engage in maritime trade.

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You Europeans and the Tartars are all set to fight. I have a merchant ship in the Tang Dynasty to deliver the goods you want directly to your door. You don’t have to go out to sea at all. After all, there are so many pirates now, so be careful that you will be robbed as soon as you go out to sea…

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Therefore, in recent years, the Datang Navy has become more and more painful, and the Navy has even voluntarily postponed the construction of expensive battleships and armored cruisers several times.

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The originally planned huge battle fleet and armored cruiser fleet have been replaced by cruisers and **** fleets.

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But now, there are too many cruisers and frigates. All kinds of new cruisers and frigates add up to more than 80 ships. In addition, there are dozens of older cruisers and frigates. Today, the cruisers of the Datang Navy are in active service. And the total number of frigates is more than one hundred and twenty.

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Such a large number has made the navy unwilling to continue to expand the army, and even want to reduce the size of some cruisers and frigates.

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Therefore, the Navy proposed that the newly built cruisers and frigates should pay more attention to the range, seaworthiness, comfort and self-sustainability, so that the warships can have longer continuous cruise time and cover a wider sea area, which has already reduced the size of the ocean-going fleet. too large.

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As for protection, firepower and speed, it cannot be said that there is no, but as long as it is maintained to a certain extent.

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This is the result of the naval strategy of conquering land by sea.

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Since the navy decided to use the sea to control the land and engage in a frontier strategy, the navy has put forward a series of shipbuilding plans.

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The core shipbuilding plan is a new type of frigate.

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For this frigate, the internal requirements of the Navy are that the ship needs to have better seaworthiness, a long voyage, and better living and living space, so that it can be deployed globally for a long time.

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A certain amount of firepower is required, but this firepower does not mean caliber or range, range, etc., but requires ammunition reserves.

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Because a naval gun can be pulled out at random, its rate of fire and range are not bad, and it can meet the current strategic needs of the Navy. In addition, the indigenous firepower is weak, and it does not require the Navy's ocean-going warships to have much intensive ammunition delivery capabilities.

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However, the navy requires this new type of frigate to be able to carry out combat readiness tasks for a long time and to carry out shelling on imperial land facilities, which requires this new type of warship to carry a large amount of ammunition.

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The same is also required to carry more coal, fresh water, food, etc.

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These are all to increase the long-term combat capability of the warship.

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The navy's requirement is that even if there is only one such new type of frigate, it is enough to block the frontier sea area and attack the enemy's ports, forts and other targets.

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In the end, the Guilin-class frigate designed by the Naval Ship Administration Department is a bit nondescript, with a displacement of 2,500 tons. If this tonnage was placed before, it would be the standard of a cruiser.

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However, the attached naval guns are only one 120mm main gun at the front and the back, and one 75mm secondary gun on the left and right. There are only four guns in total, and the overall firepower is actually more than 1,200 tons. The Sanhe-class frigates are still poor, they still have two 120mm naval guns and four 75mm naval guns, adding up to six artillery pieces.

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The protection system seems to be designed with a dome armor, but in fact the thickness of the dome armor is very thin. , those large-caliber smoothbore guns of the indigenous people also do not penetrate.

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And those ordinary steel hulls, those medium-caliber smoothbore guns of the indigenous people can't penetrate, let alone grenades.

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As for the maximum speed, it can barely reach 16 knots in the state of strong ventilation, but this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that if you cruise at an economical speed of 8 knots, the maximum range can reach 8,000 kilometers.

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With a tonnage of 2,500 tons, the protection power is average, the firepower is average, and the speed is not outstanding, so what is such a large tonnage used for?

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Naturally, it is used to load more coal, ammunition, fresh water, and food.

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The remaining part of the space is used to improve the living standards of officers and soldiers.

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Although this warship seems to be nondescript, the navy executives are very happy about it, because the cost of this thing is cheap, and a lot of civilian ship technology is used to reduce the cost, so this warship only needs about 250,000 Tang Yuan. Take the next one.

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In addition, more importantly, this warship has a longer self-sustaining power. If it is used for overseas deployment, it can effectively reduce the number and cost of warships required for overseas deployment.

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In addition to the Guilin-class frigates, the Navy has also made certain improvements to the cruisers. The basic principle is to maintain the existing firepower and increase the combat self-sustainability, and finally came out the Dayuan-class cruiser.

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The displacement of the ship has reached more than 4,500 tons, which is a bit scary at first glance. It is 2,000 tons larger than the original main cruiser, the Gehe-class cruiser.

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But the firepower is actually only two 150mm main guns, four 120mm naval guns, and four 75mm secondary guns.

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This firepower is not as good as the 2,500-ton Gehe-class cruiser.

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Not to mention compared to the West India-class cruiser that was equipped with a full six 150mm naval guns.

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The protection still adopts the design of the vaulted coal yard, which is not very useful.

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The power system is also quite satisfactory, with a maximum speed of 18 knots.

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The firepower and protection and speed are all unworthy of its tonnage...

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However, the continuation of operations is very powerful, not to mention the cruising range of 8,000 kilometers, the ammunition reserves are super large, the food and fresh water are also abundant, and the living space for the officers and soldiers is quite good.

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Whether it is a Guilin-class frigate or a Dayuan-class cruiser, this is the product of the Datang Navy's frontier strategy.

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Its design idea is not to fight for sea dominance and the enemy navy, but to be able to deploy it overseas for a long time to bombard enemy land targets.

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So you can see that although their naval guns are few, they are actually new-type naval guns with long barrels. Naval gun, 70mm forty-five times naval gun.

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This is all in order to be able to shell farther ground targets and expand the coverage of the navy to land attacks, so as to control the land by sea.

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Of course, although the Navy has successively produced Guilin-class frigates and Dayuan-class cruisers, two kinds of ocean-going warships that are obviously used for overseas deployment.

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However, for battleships and armored cruisers, they still maintain the goal of fighting for sea dominance.

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Because the design of battleships and armored cruisers is still a traditional design, focusing on the three elements of firepower, protection, and maneuverability, but these two types of battleships, the Datang Navy, have been built very little.

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Basically, only one battleship and one armored cruiser are under construction, and not many have been built and put into service.

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In fact, so far, the Datang Navy has only five battleships in active service and one is under construction. Three armored cruisers are in active service and one is under construction.

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The Datang Navy's established plan is to maintain six active battleships and six armored cruisers, and the age of the ships is required to be within 18 years.

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As for the plans for dozens of battleships mentioned earlier, the Navy has already selectively amnesia...

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Today's navy's ocean-going warships have chosen to take the initiative to downsize, supplemented by the improvement of the continuous combat capability of a single ship, in order to control the global waters and at the same time achieve the purpose of conquering the land with the sea.

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However, on the shallow water warships, the Datang Navy chose to continue to expand.

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Among the shipbuilding plans that are also within the framework of the frontier strategy, the shipbuilding plans for shallow-water warships such as offshore inland rivers are the largest, and they are also the largest in scale.

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First of all, in terms of coastal warships, the Navy requires features such as shallow draft and strong firepower, as well as easy maintenance, flexibility, and low cost of use.

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Because most of these littoral warships are actually deployed overseas. At the same time, these littoral warships are actually the most deployed ships of the Datang Navy overseas, and their daily tasks are relatively frequent.

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There are many types of shallow-water warships. The shallow-water heavy gunships built by the Navy have the largest tonnage of more than 3,000 tons...

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But the main ones are the 800-ton offshore patrol ships and the 500-ton river gunboats.

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In addition, there are 300-ton offshore patrol ships and inland gunboats, 100-ton offshore patrol ships and gunboats, etc.

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As a whole, it covers the operational needs of offshore and inland rivers.

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It's just that the navy had a big conflict with the army in order to pursue this frontier strategy. In the past two years, the army responded by expanding the size of the maritime transport division and greatly expanding the Jiannei warships.

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Up to now, Li Xuan has been a little bit of a headache because of the navy and the army.

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It is not impossible for the navy to use the sea to control the land, but why do they have to build dozens of tons of inland warships, and then go deep into the Danube to fight.

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It is normal for the army to make some inland warships, but if you want to make a two or three thousand tons of army armed transport ships, this is nonsense. Come and see, there are six 150mm rear-mounted ships on this design. Gun, the speed of 18 knots, is this a transport ship?

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Seeing that the Navy has launched another shipbuilding plan for inland warships, the Army has also tossed the plan to expand three maritime transport divisions.

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Li Xuan finally couldn't bear it anymore. He called several big bosses from the army and navy, and he didn't scold him. Li Xuan has not been angry in front of his officials for many years. It's a day-to-day affair.

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Li Xuan just called them over, then sat on the top and squinted, and left a message to the army and navy: "This person is here~www.wuxiaspot.com~ If you have something to say, you can always negotiate a solution. The solution is not to…”

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Then the army and the navy had a quarrel. After half an hour, seeing that they still could not get a result, Li Xuan left a sentence: "Since it can't be solved, then go back!"

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After letting them leave, Li Xuan ordered that all plans of the army to build and expand marine transport divisions were suspended, and all plans of the navy to build small-tonnage inland warships were also suspended.

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How to do the follow-up plan, we will talk about it after the army and navy have discussed it.

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In fact, Li Xuan can also forcibly decide. For example, to say directly, any battle in the inland river belongs to the navy, or the battle mission of the inland river belongs to the army, then both the navy and the army will follow.

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But as a referee, Li Xuan won't come off easily.

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He is a chess player, not a chess piece, so there is no need to mix these things.

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Besides, there are too many conflicts between the army and the navy within the Tang Empire, and Li Xuan is too lazy to intervene, so as to avoid being accused of favoritism by his ministers.

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How good is it now, stop their messy plans first, and let the army and navy return to the negotiating table to continue their talks. If we continue, we can also save some money for domestic economic construction along the way.

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Li Xuan is naturally not at a loss, he is very stable!