The successful casting of 50 artillery pieces is an extremely important milestone for the Datang Artillery Academy, and with this batch of genuine artillery, the trainees can adopt more training methods such as live ammunition shooting. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Of course, because artillery has a service life, and shells and gunpowder also need to be costly, the training of wooden artillery does not stop, but still occupies most of the training time, and only a small part of the time can be used to shoot with real guns.

Li An decided to take four days as a cycle, the first three days were used for training with wooden guns, and the fourth day was used for live firing with real guns, but due to the limited number of artillery, the artillery cadets were also divided into four groups, each group of more than 250 people, exactly 50 guns.

In this way, fifty guns are used every day, and the utilization rate is still very high, and in order to save costs, each gun is allowed to fire only ten shells per day, that is, a group of five people, and ten shells can be fired every four days.

There are 30 days in a month, a cycle of four days, there can be seven reincarnations, and there are two days left in the end, which is used as the time for assessment.

On the last two days of this month, Li An will personally guide all the artillery cadets to conduct the assessment, the rules of the assessment are a group of five, five people are responsible for aiming, and finally shoot five shells, to hit the earthen wall as one point, can not hit the deducted one point, the students who did not hit the earthen wall will be punished, that is, to join the action of building the earthen wall, and the students who successfully aim and hit the earthen wall will not need to do this kind of coolie in the next month, and moreover, there is a better chance to become an artillery commander.

Since he was familiar with the results of these students' usual training, Li An naturally calmly built an appropriate number of earthen walls to meet the needs of the assessment.

The results of the first month of training were not very good, most of the trainees could not accurately hit the earthen wall, and only less than fifty of them hit the target, and these people were either extremely hard-working perseverance emperors or excellent archers.

The artillery is exactly the same, and the masters are all the same teaching, why some people always can't hit the target, and some people can hit accurately when they are usually training, there is a talent component in this, and all the soldiers who are brilliant in archery have a very good talent for operating artillery.

After two consecutive months of hard training, more than half of the artillery cadets had a record of hitting the earthen wall, and at the time of the assessment, there were more than 300 people, who were able to accurately hit the target, which made Li An very pleased.

Shooting solid shells with live ammunition is only the first step in artillery training, and it belongs to direct aim shooting, and the shooting distance is about 300 to 500 steps, and after hitting the target, the shell still has a lot of energy, thus smashing the target.

As the artillery cadets have mastered the direct aim of live ammunition, Li An felt that it was time to launch the next stage of curve solid bullet and blossom shooting, which is necessary for large-scale field operations and can better destroy the enemy's living forces.

Before starting the training, the trainees should first be given a complete set of theories of curve shooting, such as the shooting parameters of curve shooting, how to adjust the shooting elements, how to arrange observation posts, and how to carry out effective large-scale fire coverage.

In fact, in ancient times, there was already a preliminary theory of curve shooting, in a large-scale field battlefield, hundreds of catapults at the same time, a large number of boulders, thrown into the enemy's dense formation, thus causing huge damage to the enemy, the lethality is still quite amazing.

Artillery curve firing is theoretically the same as the principle of catapults, but the power is much greater than that of catapults, the accuracy is higher, and the range is longer, and the types of bullets fired are divided into solid bullets and flowering shells.

The effect of solid bullets is similar to that of catapults throwing boulders to hit the enemy, but the firing distance of the artillery is farther and more accurate, and the blow to the enemy is bound to be greater, and the curve shooting, the shell falls from a high place, has a certain potential energy, and can kill and injure the enemy well even at the end of the range.

After the flowering shell falls into the enemy group, it will explode violently, and the damage caused to the enemy will be more violent, which is also an important type of ammunition for large-scale field operations in the future to suppress the enemy.

However, because the cost of flowering bullets is much higher than that of solid bullets, most of them use solid bullets during training in peacetime, whether it is direct shooting or curve shooting.

After more than a month of curvilinear shooting training, all the trainees have mastered this technique and are able to gradually adjust the shooting angle according to the guidance of the observation post, and finally hit the target smoothly.

Of course, the ultimate goal of the training is to fight in real combat, and after achieving certain results in individualized training, Ang Lee has begun to organize large-scale firepower coverage training.

As long as a large number of artillery shells can be fired into the enemy group, it can cause huge casualties to the enemy troops, but this kind of training requires a higher level of coordination of the group, and it is necessary to conduct training.

Before the fire coverage training, Li An personally gave a theoretical explanation to these artillery trainees, telling them what fire coverage is, how to improve the lethality of fire coverage, and how to quickly adjust the angle of shooting according to the feedback from the observation post, and quickly organize the next round of shooting.

These theories are the basic common sense of the artillery department in later generations, but in the era of the Tang Dynasty, they are completely new theories, and they must be explained many times to deepen the impression of artillery students.

In addition, before firing live ammunition, it is necessary to use wooden artillery to conduct many simulation experiments to cultivate the operation level of artillery cadets.

Because of the long distance of the artillery projectile, in order to increase the difficulty of the experiment, the target was set at a distance of 1,000 steps, consisting of thousands of scarecrows and hundreds of straw horses, that is, simulating a large-scale enemy army.

A total of 50 artillery pieces were prepared, 25 in a row, a total of two rows, and 250 artillery cadets were ready to fire at any time.

"Li Shilang, all the artillery has been aimed at the enemy, and it is ready for test firing."

"Four solid shells per gun, one flowering shell, immediately ready to fire."

Without hesitation, Ang Lee gave the order to shoot.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Fifty guns began firing at the same time, and according to the message from the observation post, the angle of fire was adjusted in time and the next round of fire was carried out until all five shells were fired.

"The artillery is retracted, and the enemy casualties are immediately counted."

Ang Lee immediately gave the order.

The trainees who operated the artillery immediately took back the 50 guns, and in addition, more than a dozen statisticians immediately rushed to a distance of 1,000 paces to count the casualties of the enemy troops.

"Li Shilang, the enemy has been killed and seriously wounded more than 20 percent, and 50 percent is lightly wounded, and our army has won a complete victory."

Soon, the statistics came out, and the casualties of the enemy army were even higher than Ang Lee had predicted, which made Ang Lee quite satisfied.

"Well, after these months of rigorous training, the soldiers have done a good job, and the artillery is accurate enough, Your Majesty will be very happy to know it."

Li An is not stingy with his praise, as long as the soldiers perform well, he will definitely praise them vigorously.

After several months of hard work, good results were finally obtained, and the mood of the more than 1,000 artillery cadets was naturally very good, and what made them even happier was that the emperor personally ordered to raise the level of treatment of artillery cadets, so that the treatment of artillery cadets was twice that of Yulin Army.

At this time, the basic theory and training of artillery has ended, and the third batch of artillery in the workshop of the R&D center has also been officially made, so that the Tang Empire has one hundred and fifty artillery pieces, and they are all reliable cast iron cannons of the same specification, and the work of formally forming artillery can also be carried out.

An artillery gun needs a horse to tow, it takes at least two or three people to operate the artillery, of course, in extreme cases, one person can also operate a cannon, but the speed will be very slow, after comprehensive consideration, Li An decided that each cannon is equipped with five soldiers, at most, two people load the cannonball, one person puts the cannonball, and the other person uses a wooden stick to push the cannonball from the muzzle into the barrel, one person is needed to adjust the angle of the muzzle, one person is needed for ignition, and the last person is responsible for command and backup, so that a cannon of five people is established, and the commander is the commander.

According to the infantry establishment of the Tang Dynasty, five people are a team, and there is a team commander, and in the artillery unit, the team commander is changed to an artillery commander, and a team is a standard 50 people, divided into ten teams, according to the establishment of the artillery unit, that is, ten guns, an artillery team with ten guns, and of course, several more commanders, with a total number of more than 50 points.

In the establishment of the Datang infantry, there are 50 people in a team, the superior of the team is the brigade, the superior of the brigade is 100 people, and the superior of the brigade is the regiment, and the regiment has 200 people and 300 people, but Li An feels that the brigade is more domineering, perhaps it is a fixed impression of the brigade in later generations, so that the brigade is subordinated to the regiment, which Li An can't bear.

Therefore, Li An wanted to expand the establishment of brigades among the artillery, so that one artillery brigade could have five artillery teams, that is, 50 artillery pieces, and a total strength of less than 300.

With the current number of artillery, it is possible to form a maximum of three artillery brigades, but at least fifty artillery pieces must be left for training cadets, so at the moment only two artillery brigades can be formed, that is, an artillery unit of more than 500 people.

The first two artillery brigades were called the Datang First Artillery Brigade and the Datang Second Artillery Brigade, referred to as the First Artillery Brigade and the Second Artillery Brigade.

Among them, the First Artillery Brigade is under the jurisdiction of the First to Fifth Artillery Corps, and the Second Artillery Brigade is under the jurisdiction of the Sixth to Tenth Artillery Corps.

Thanks to Li An's efforts, the building of the two artillery brigades was quickly completed, and those who were fortunate enough to become full-fledged artillery officers and men were naturally more than 500 of the best among the more than 1,000 cadets.

Among them, the brigade commanders of the First Artillery Brigade and the Second Artillery Brigade are Guo Yang and Li Fei Shouyu respectively, and these two people have the best and most accurate artillery, and of course they are qualified for the position of brigade commander.

In the Tang Empire, the brigade commander is not a very high official position, it should be said that it is a very low-level official position, but the artillery unit is a special force, and the artillery brigade commander is incomparable to the ordinary infantry brigade commander in terms of the number of soldiers under his command and the status of the entire Tang Dynasty military circles, and even comparable to the position of a general.

The first team is Chen Dabiao, the second team is Li Kunxiong, the third team is Li Feiyu, the fourth team is Ma Lan, the fifth team is Li Hui, and Zhang Guangsheng and Zhang Erniu are in the second artillery brigade.

The brothers he brought out in his early years were all able to serve as commanders of the artillery unit, which made Li An very pleased, but Li An did not appoint cronyism, and the reason why these people were able to obtain the position of commander was entirely because their artillery was accurate and they relied on their strength.

Of course, at this time, Datang only has two artillery brigades, so most of the people's positions are relatively low, even much lower than the previous positions, but the artillery salary is high, and the development opportunities are great.

In other words, Guo Ziyi's son Guo Yang, the amount of money that Guo Ziyi can get at present is not as low as Guo Ziyi, or even a lot higher, I really don't know how Guo Ziyi will feel after learning about it.

With the gradual expansion of the Datang artillery, the current ten artillery team members have a great probability of becoming the brigade commanders of the next artillery brigade, so as to obtain the same status as the generals.

Of course, in the future, when the number of artillery brigades increases, a larger artillery establishment may be formed, such as an artillery corps, with a corps commander, and this status will of course be higher.

After the establishment of the two artillery brigades, they were stationed on the east and west sides of the capital to defend the capital, and once the border passes were needed, the two artillery brigades could be transferred to the border passes at any time to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the border guards and gain absolute superiority over the enemy forces.

After the establishment of the two artillery brigades, the intensity of training became greater, and on the east and west sides of the capital, the loud sound of artillery firing could often be heard.

At the request of Li An, the Artillery Academy began to recruit the second batch of artillery cadets, and the number was limited to more than 500 people, so that the Artillery Academy once again had a scale of 1,000 people.

At this time, Li An had already made a decision to keep the scale of the artillery academy always one thousand people, and for every two artillery brigades formed, five hundred new cadets would be added to maintain the stability of the scale of the artillery academy.

And with Li An's plan, the Tang Empire can have ten artillery brigades, which is enough to deter all enemies, and even be able to disperse and use them in various strategic directions, causing huge pressure on the enemy army.

Of course, artillery is not the most powerful type of troops, and in the coming days, Li An will invent more terrible weapons, so that the countries around the Tang Dynasty will no longer have the ability to compete with the Tang Empire, so that the Tang Dynasty will unify the world and have a sufficient military base.