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The training of the artillery commander is also a small microcosm of the training method of the Datang Army, and these trainings require money, and they cost a lot of money.

The Tang Army actually relies on strict military law, high-intensity training, and generous treatment to win battles!

Guns are just a bonus!

Without guns, the Tang Army can still rely on the bayonet to fight the Ming army down!

Of course, guns are more powerful, and many of the tactics of the Datang Army are based on guns, so to some extent, guns are also an indispensable part of the Datang Army.

However, without ammunition, the Datang Army can fight with bayonets!

When Li Chunjing led an army of tens of thousands to attack Yuezhou from Nanchang, Jiangxi, he said something to his chief of staff: If we don't have ammunition, can we stop fighting? Is the bayonet for viewing?

But no matter what, the Datang Army is actually a very expensive army, and its equipment, training, and treatment have surpassed the Ming Army by a large level in all aspects!

The Datang Army would have to spend more than one million taels to raise an infantry division, even if it did not fight, and to maintain a force of 15,000 troops on the superintendent's side would cost only 400,000 to 500,000 yuan. two silver coins.

Under such circumstances, if the Tang army still can't beat Zhang Yue's superintendent, then Li Xuan will doubt whether the officials and generals under his command have embezzled all the military expenses, just like the Ming Dynasty on the opposite side!

And after spending so much money, Li Xuan also really wanted to see that the Tang Army directly defeated the Ming Army with guns and cannons.

I couldn't see this kind of hope in the previous words, but Su Song's battle made him see this kind of hope.

In this battle, the Datang Army gave full play to its firepower advantages, especially grenades and grenades, which made great achievements.

This also led to a significant reduction in the casualties of the Second Army in this battle!

The Second Army fought fortified battles for several days, but its casualty ratio was the lowest among the Tang Army's previous fortified battles. In this battle, the total number of casualties of the Second Army was only about 1,000.

It also includes the dead and wounded gunners in the early artillery battle, the assault battalion soldiers who were killed and wounded at the beginning of the general attack, and the soldiers of the 7th Infantry Regiment. To be honest, the casualties were not large in the follow-up attack.

You know, this is not the field frontal battle that the Datang Army is best at.

The Ming army on the opposite side is not an ordinary Ming army, but the main force in the superintendent, and there is also Susong, a city that they have been running for several years and has perfect city defenses as a support.

However, even so, in front of the artillery shells and grenades of the Datang Army, they still failed to exert the defensive capabilities expected by the senior generals of the Superintendent!

In fact, to counter the current offensive method of the Datang Army, the best way to supervise the standard is to learn from the Europeans to build bastions!

It's a pity that Zhang Yue still doesn't know what a bastion is. He still builds city defense facilities according to the traditional city defense model. At most, some small things are added to make it more complicated.

But in essence, it is still a traditional city defense!

And this kind of city defense, in the face of the current artillery and grenades, almost has no resistance.

After receiving the battle report of the Battle of Susong, Li Xuan gave instructions to increase the research and development of grenades and grenades, especially to strive for the long barrel cannon to be able to fire grenades as soon as possible.

Although the Army used to attach great importance to this matter, when Li Xuan personally gave instructions, the degree of emphasis was different.

After all, although the army has a lot of funds, it is also limited, and most of them are to maintain the size of the troops and use them for operations. The funds that can be squeezed out to invest in the research and development of new weapons are actually very limited.

With limited funds, the amount of money that can be invested in the research and development of grenades and grenades is even more limited, but now, the Privy Council has quickly made a decision. In order to improve grenades and grenades as soon as possible, they are going to invest heavily in the fuze part of them!

On the one hand, it was decided to invest part of the funds in the Royal Institute of Technology to set up a special fuze research and development team. No one is more reliable than the teachers and students at the Royal Institute of Technology in conducting scientific research and invention these days.

In addition, they are also preparing to offer a big bounty, and whoever can provide a new type of fuze that can be used will be able to get a very generous bonus.

Even if the proposed fuze is imperfect and immature, as long as there is a little reference, then a certain amount of bonus can be obtained, and the bonus starts with a thousand taels of silver.

If the new type of fuze can be directly put into mass production and used, then the bonus will be a maximum of fifty thousand taels!

This is not the first time the military has offered a bounty to the outside world. In the early days, they also offered a reward for spring technology, and they also offered a reward for how to use iron to cast large-caliber artillery.

But it is a pity that in this year's Datang Dynasty, there are still very few civilian technicians, and basically their quality is not very good. If they can't even work with the teachers and students of the Royal Institute of Technology, they will do it even more. Not coming out.

Therefore, although there is a reward, almost no one can get it!

After all, there are not many people in the Tang Dynasty who even know what a spring is!

However, springs, cast iron large-caliber artillery, these things are too high-tech, and civilian technicians can basically only be amazed, but the current fuze is different.

What the army needs is not a huge breakthrough in materials and processing technology. They just need a novel design so that the shells can be fired safely in the cannon. What is needed here is more innovative design minds.

Therefore, many people can't sit still when they see the 50,000 taels of silver on the fuze, because there is no limit to the reward, so even other teachers and students in the Royal Institute of Technology are very interested in this fuze. Dare to be interested.

Although the Royal Institute of Technology has recruited five or six of the most talented teachers and students who are good at machinery, artillery, and chemical engineering to form a special fuze research and development team, this does not mean that other Royal Institute of Technology Teachers and students don't do this stuff.

Immediately, at the Royal Institute of Technology, there was a small climax of research and development of fuzes!

Not only the Royal Institute of Technology, Guozijian University and Jinling University, there are also many teachers and students who are tempted by this.

The three universities mentioned above are also the only institutions of higher learning in the Tang Dynasty. Although Guozijian University has not many talents in science and engineering, most of them are for the imperial examination, regardless of whether it is a liberal arts college or a science college. In the academy, most of the students in it went for the imperial examinations. Once they successfully graduated, most of them went directly to the examinations.

However, there are many engineering talents in Jinling University, because when Jinling University was established, it encountered many difficulties. The Ministry of Rites lacked funds and teachers.

In the end, some teachers were transferred from the Imperial College, and then a group of people was asked from the Royal Institute of Technology, and then the frame was set up. At the same time, in order to solve the problem of funding, the people from the Ministry of Rites found a number of state-owned enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to cooperate and reach an agreement. a series of agreements.

The main reason is that the company pays the money, and then Jinling University helps them train their talents. At the same time, Jinling University also needs to offer some special courses. For example, Jiangnan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., after donating money, Jinling University specially opened a metallurgical department for them.

Then several textile enterprises of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises also joined forces to open a textile department at Jinling University.

And the three major weapons companies will not be left behind, and will directly donate generously, and then let Jinling University set up the Department of Shipbuilding, Department of Machinery, shipbuilding, weapon design, gunpowder and so on.

Later, in addition to the original departments of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc., Jinling University also has many more highly specialized departments.

And many of the students inside are employees who are entrusted by major companies for training!

As a result, many officials of the Ministry of Rites have complained that Jinling University, which they have worked so hard to build, is about to become a vocational training school under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.

But although they complained, they still endured it for the sake of running a school.

Who made the Ministry of Rites have no money? Jinling University originally had to spend so much money, but now many companies under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises have paid for it, so they can save the money and use it to open a normal college.

Therefore, it becomes a vocational training college. Anyway, when the university is established, their political achievements will also be obtained, and when they speak in front of the Son of Heaven, they will have confidence.

This has also led to the fact that although Jinling University is currently known as a comprehensive university, the liberal arts are weak, and most of them are engineering departments with strong practicality.

There are naturally a lot of talents in there!

After seeing the 50,000 taels of silver bounty~www.wuxiaspot.com~, many of these people are sharpening their fists and rubbing their hands. The self-proclaimed ability is immersed in their own work. Do it, even if you don't come out and get 50,000 taels in the end, as long as you come up with a more reasonable plan, you will still have 1,000 taels.

The students in Jinling University are not like the students in the Imperial College. All of them have their nostrils facing the sky, and all of them are eager to study and wait to participate in the exam to become an official, and they will not waste their studies for a mere thousand dollars.

Because of the special nature of Guozijian in the early days, the students who applied for the school were relatively special. Most of them were recruited people, while a very small number were preparatory schools in various places, and all of them went to become officials.

In addition, Guozijian does not exempt tuition fees or grant subsidies, so in order to enter the school, in addition to a very small number of people who can get scholarships, they also need a lot of tuition fees and living costs. Most of the students in it are small.

After all, many of the students in it are juren from various provinces, and a juren is nothing in the capital, just an ordinary student, but in the local area, it is a stable gentry class, the backbone.

But many of the students in Jinling University are from poor families!