Become a feudal king from today - #1150 - Chapter 1161 Ambition

“That is to say, in the future, artillery shells will explode as soon as they hit the ground, unlike wooden wedge fuses where you need to wait for the wire to burn out?”

Wang Ying’s introduction to the impact fuse made the generals take a while to recover.

Chang Wei asked in disbelief.

Wang Ying gave everyone a look of affirmation, “Yes, from now on the artillery only needs to calibrate the shooting distance, and there is no need to adjust the wooden wedge fuse.”

“Pa bang bang…”

After Wang Ying finished speaking, warm and powerful applause erupted from the school grounds.

This is the applause given by the generals to Wang Ying and the officials of the Military Industry Department.

Yang Feng’s face turned red with excitement. He said to Wang Ying, this is simply amazing. This not only reduces the time of loading artillery shells, but also avoids the waste of artillery shells. This batch of muskets and artillery will save countless soldiers on the battlefield. The soldiers thanked him. “Bow deeply to Wang Ying.

Because the wooden wedge fuses of previous artillery shells were not accurate enough, they sometimes took a long time to explode after landing in the enemy’s formation, or they exploded prematurely.

The former gives the enemy time to escape, and the latter wastes artillery shells.

But after that, the artillery will be able to strike the enemy by surprise.

The artillery known as the God of War will be even more deadly on the battlefield.

Wang Yingna dared to accept the gift, and hurriedly stepped aside, helped Yang Feng up, and looked ashamed, “This is all for Da Song, it’s just my duty.”

He was sweating in his heart, secretly thinking that the real credit for this belongs to the emperor, and he couldn’t bear it.

Zhao Xu smiled at this time and said, “Wang Ying is right. There is no need to thank you. Everyone can perform their duties. In addition, since we have the Han-style series of muskets and artillery, your army must also bring back beautiful ones for me.” Achievements.”

Then he looked at the fourth firearm covered with black cloth and asked, “If I guessed correctly, this should be a machine gun made using the gas-guided principle. This machine gun can shoot about six hundred rounds of ammunition per minute. ,Is it right?”

Now that semi-automatic rifles have come out, Maxim-style gas-operated machine guns are naturally no longer a problem.

“Hey, Your Majesty, this is a gas-guided machine gun, and its rate of fire is three times that of a hand-cranked machine gun…” Wang Ying turned to the general, a little embarrassed.

This time, their Military Industry Department showed only four things to the army.

He deliberately left the introduction of the machine gun for last.

This is not because he thinks machine guns are more valuable than fuzes, but that under current circumstances, machine guns are more practical for the army.

After ending the war at home and in the East, the Dasong army will mainly face overseas land operations next.

Because of the superiority of muskets and artillery, the army may no longer resort to large army operations.

Instead, like the Western Turks in the past, they controlled strategic locations in units of two to three thousand people, or captured the Western Turks’ colonies.

After all, the cost of sending troops on a large scale is too high, which will affect Dasong’s financial expenditure.

Furthermore, after the Han-style series is installed, using the large army is a bit overkill.

But small army operations are different.

First of all, the superiority of weapons allows a small army, even with two to three thousand people, to exert the firepower output that once took tens of thousands of people.

Secondly, it is very easy to supply two to three thousand people. They can be easily obtained within the enemy’s sphere of influence and there is no need to transport them from home.

In this way, Dasong can obtain maximum benefits with minimum investment.

When Wang Ying continued to introduce, Chang Wei and other generals were dumbfounded.

They don’t understand the principles of gas-guided and impact fuzes.

But they know one thing: the Han-style series of guns is simply another revolution in muskets and artillery.

The Dasong army equipped with the Han-style series will be invincible.

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Now, they hope that the Han-style series will be deployed into the army immediately, so that they can deal with the Westerners who once bullied them.

Those hateful Western natives have been rampant at their doorstep for a hundred or two hundred years, and even directly participated in the civil war in Dasong, causing many Dasong people to die in vain.

They have never forgotten this hatred. Only by bringing the flames of war to the countries of these Westerners can they relieve their hatred.

“Mass production as soon as possible, put them into service, and then develop other weapons.” Seeing the eyes of the generals radiating the light of a wolf seeing delicious food, Zhao Xu spoke out at this time.

He actually said this on behalf of the generals, otherwise these guys would probably pounce on Wang Ying and force him to give a timetable for the delivery of Han-style weapons.

Next, Zhao Xu and the generals observed the test firing of new artillery shells and the test firing of machine guns.

The power displayed by these two weapons made him and the generals more and more satisfied.

At noon, he had a meal with the generals and officials of the Military Industry Department in the canteen of the Military Industry Department. In the afternoon, he returned on a steam locomotive amid a lively discussion among the generals.

On the way, he asked Chang Wei and Yang Feng to immediately carry out disarmament measures.

Reduce Dasong’s army of 500,000 to about 300,000.

The remaining 300,000 standing troops adopted a policy of elite troops, with each army unit equipped with stronger firepower to make up for the number of soldiers.

To put it simply, it means spending money on equipment instead of killing people on the battlefield.

“These four weapons are only weapons that have been calibrated by the Military Industry Department and are ready for mass production. There is another weapon that is being calibrated and will be delivered in a year and a half. By then, the army will have stronger firepower. .” Zhao Xu said to Chang Wei when the steam locomotive was about to enter Yancheng.

Among them is the once again simplified mortar, which is a small, man-portable mortar.

The emergence of the impact fuse has given all the technical conditions for this weapon.

And the next batch of equipment he asked Wang Ying to develop will make the Westerners even more desperate.

These equipment are artillery and fixed-wing aircraft.

But this will take time.

Moreover, Wang Ying cannot do this alone this time and needs to cooperate with his son.

Of course, there is good news, that is, the Ru0026D Institute has made some breakthroughs in internal combustion engines, and it should not be a problem to produce a mature internal combustion engine within two or three years.

At that time, Dasong’s equipment will enter its true explosive period.

“These earth-shattering weapons, the general never dared to think of before, but now one after another appears in front of his eyes.” Chang Wei was filled with emotion after hearing Zhao Xu’s explanation.

He also knew Zhao Xu’s intention, so he said, “Your Majesty, rest assured that the disarmament issue will be dealt with wholeheartedly. The generals now understand that this disarmament is not about letting Ma Nanshan go, but about going into battle wearing armor.”

“Exactly.” Yang Feng stroked his beard.

Zhao Xu nodded. In fact, he wanted to disarm, and the generals had no choice but to disarm.

Nowadays, no one in Dasong can challenge his authority, but he still hopes that the generals will be willing.

Now that the generals have figured it out, he no longer has any doubts.

Then, he looked at Xitu, with a sneer on his lips.

He expected that the Westerners would eventually imitate the breech-loading rifle, but the end of their imitation had also been reached.

The Han-style series is not only a breakthrough in various principles, but also because after entering the power industry, steel plants provided better quality steel.

Therefore, even if they obtain the Chinese style, they have absolutely no ability to imitate it.

And the Dasong army equipped with the Han-style series will immediately give them the first slap in the face.

That is to drive the Westerners from North America back to their hometown.