"Your Highness, the first batch of machine guns has been delivered to the army. Read М"

The royal study room.

When Zhao Xu was reviewing the memorial, Wang Ying came to report.

Hearing this, Zhao Xu stopped writing and said to Wang Ying, "Continue the production of the next batch of machine guns and deliver them to the Qinglong Army and the Suzaku Army. Once the war in the north is over, it is time to deal with Jiaozhi, Piaoman and the Western Army entrenched in the southern region. ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Wang Ying bowed and responded.

Nodding, Zhao Xu thought of something, and then said: "By the way, the machine gun matter has been settled. You and Wang Chong also often go to Jinghai for walks, and strive to build the first ironclad ship as soon as possible."

For the current war, the Army has a hand-cranked machine gun, which can temporarily meet the firepower needs of the battlefield.

As for the next generation automatic machine gun powered by gas, the structure is much more complex and sophisticated than the hand-cranked machine gun.

This requires the R\u0026D institute affiliated with the Military Division to continuously produce and test it until it is qualified.

Moreover, since the rate of fire of this machine gun can reach 600 rounds per minute, the requirements for the quality of the barrel are naturally very high.

R\u0026D institutes must also develop better quality special steels.

Therefore, taking advantage of this window period, they can devote more energy to the construction of ironclad ships.

After all, compared with the replacement speed of army guns and artillery, the update of naval equipment is relatively slower.

At the same time, the Navy currently faces much larger problems than the Army.

Zhou Yi reported to him that the Westerners had already learned how to use explosive bombs on battleships.

It's just that the opponent's explosive bombs are technically inferior to the Dasong battleship and their range is too close, so they do not pose any threat to the Dasong navy.

However, for Zhao Xu, this was a bad sign.

Obviously, after suffering a loss, the Western Turks are using their steam industry to smooth the gap in guns and artillery between them.

As for muskets, the Westerners imitated the front-loading rifled gun.

He believes that in terms of artillery, the opponent's round hollow bullets will soon transition to conical hollow bullets.

Once the conical shells are in place, the opponent's warship capabilities will be improved.

By then, even if the opponent's naval gun range is still not as good as theirs due to steel quality issues, the gap will inevitably narrow.

With the number of sail warships they have accumulated for hundreds of years, the pressure on the Dasong Navy will skyrocket.

The only way to solve this problem and allow the Grand Song Navy to dominate the global maritime order in a short period of time is to use steam ironclads.

"In this regard, I have been cooperating with Chief Chen. After overcoming the bearing problem, the rotating turret has also been developed. It can be installed as soon as the main body of the battleship is completed." Wang Ying replied, and then introduced the structure of the rotating turret.

Zhao Xu nodded with satisfaction. The most important part of the rotating turret is the bearing that fixes the turret.

Speaking of bearings, their structure is filled with steel balls between two steel rings.

In this way, the inner and outer steel rings can rotate freely.

This thing can be manufactured at the level of the steam industry.

But the bearings used in artillery are naturally different from the bearings used in ordinary machinery.

Due to the problem of recoil, there are higher requirements for its quality and larger specifications.

As for the artillery shells, there will be a hand-operated conveyor belt between the turret and the lower deck to transport the artillery shells from the cabin to the turret for use by soldiers.

In this way, when encountering enemy warships at sea, the armored ship will no longer need to adjust its position to bombard the opponent's warships.

Just rotate the turret to attack enemies from any direction.

After talking about this, Zhao Xu asked Wang Ying to go back.

After Wang Ying disappeared, Zhao Xu looked at the drawings on the wall and cast his gaze in the direction of Yongzhou.

This time, thirty machine guns were sent to the front line of the Yongzhou battlefield, which will greatly increase the firepower density of the Dasong army.

Some people in Beidi have suffered.

Just as he was thinking about it, Yang Susu suddenly arrived at the door of the study, with an ambiguous look on his face, "Your Highness, I have sent another bowl of red date porridge."

Zhao Xu couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this.

As this person gets older, he seems to be addicted to having grandchildren.

Since his return, Empress Mi has not only spoken, but also put it into practice.

Every now and then someone would be sent to the palace, either with a plate of peanuts or a bowl of red date porridge.

The implication is that he should have children as soon as possible.

At first, Empress Mi just called Yang Susu to Wuji Palace, stared at Yang Susu and muttered, but now she often called Feng'er and Luan'er.

That means it doesn’t matter who comes first or who comes last.

"Let's go back to the dormitory to have a baby." Zhao Xu rolled his eyes, left the study, put his arms around Yang Susu's slender waist and walked towards the dormitory.

at the same time.

The steam locomotive to Yongzhou has already set off.

In the carriage, thirty machine guns stood quietly. Along with the machine guns, there were also special metal bullets for the machine guns.

After running on the road for a day and a half, the train arrived at the east bank of Jinhe River.

After the machine gun was unloaded, it was immediately sent to Yongcheng.

Here thirty machine guns caused a commotion.

To the generals, this thing is a treasure.

"A full thirty, that's great." The Yongcheng government office gently stroked the machine gun, and Chang Wei's eyes shone.

He has been waiting for the arrival of the machine gun, and now his hope has not failed after all. The Bingzhan Division has delivered the machine gun on time.

"Send the machine guns to Lingwu County immediately. It's time to kill this thief Mule Hongzhen." After Chang Wei was happy, his face suddenly became serious.

He receives battle reports from all directions every day.

Naturally, I learned that Mule Hongzhen was so crazy that he even asked the soldiers to charge with powder barrels on their backs.

As the other side continued to charge with large numbers of soldiers, their firepower suddenly seemed a bit insufficient.

Now that the machine guns have arrived, this problem is solved.

After receiving his order, the general in charge of transportation immediately called the soldiers to carefully transport the machine guns.

Within a day and a half, the machine guns arrived at the battlefield in Lingwu County.

Seeing thirty machine guns and boxes of metal bullets, Bai Shang, Huo An and other generals almost went crazy with joy.

During this time, they had soldiers learning how to use machine guns from fellow soldiers.

These machine guns can be put into use immediately.

"Damn it, Beidi people have been comfortable these days, and now it's our turn to be comfortable too." Bai Shang said with red eyes.

Facing Beidi's frenzied charge, he did not dare to be careless.

In the past few days, Huo An and I have been taking turns staring at the battlefield, fearing that something might go wrong.

However, although the Beidi people used cavalry to cause them some trouble, they never destroyed the trench defense line and were responsible for a large number of casualties.

"Counterattack directly!" Huo An shouted, he was fed up with passive defense.

And now that a certain number of the opponent's soldiers have been consumed by them, and with the arrival of machine guns, he believes that it is completely possible to launch a counterattack.

Bai Shang nodded, he also meant the same thing.

Each machine gun sent this time was fixed on a separate two-wheeled vehicle. There was a thick iron plate in front of the vehicle, and there was only a palm-width gap to look forward.

This means that the machine gun can be pushed away, and the iron plate can also protect the machine gunner, which is very suitable for fighting a counterattack with them.

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