After Li An returned to the courtyard, he had just rested for less than half an hour when Wang Zhongsi and Guo Ziyi rushed over after hearing the news, obviously they attached great importance to the deployment of the artillery brigade by Shuofang, and were eager to know the result. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yes, has Your Majesty agreed to deploy artillery units in Shuofang?"

As soon as Wang Zhongsi opened his mouth, he asked this sentence very directly.

"Yes! Your Majesty has agreed, and this afternoon, the Shuofang Artillery Brigade has begun to be formed, and it will be able to report to you tomorrow. ”

Li An didn't sell it either, and replied directly.

"Okay, it's really good, with the artillery unit, it will greatly strengthen the strength of our Shuofang army, if you dare to provoke, you will be better at it head-on."

Wang Zhongsi and Guo Ziyi both seemed very excited, as if they wanted to try the combat effectiveness of the artillery unit.

"Don't be in a hurry to be happy, Your Majesty said that Shuofang and Hedong share an artillery brigade, Pinglu and Fanyang share one, and the rest of the towns and towns each enjoy an artillery brigade."

Li An still told the two truthfully, and just this year, Wang Zhongsi was officially appointed as the envoy of the Hedong Festival, and concurrently served as the former Shuofang Jie Envoy.

"What? How so, it's so unfair. ”

Guo Ziyi was not calm immediately.

"Don't worry, now Hui and Xi and Khitan are very friendly to Datang, and deploying too many artillery units in the north will stimulate them, besides, Your Majesty has also compensated you."

Of course, Ang Lee would not say that this was his bad idea.

"Compensation, what compensation?"

"Normal artillery units are drawn by horses to move artillery, so the speed is relatively slow, and it will definitely not be able to keep up with the speed of the cavalry, and the artillery brigade allocated to your Shuofang, each artillery is equipped with a tractor, so that not only the speed has increased a lot, but also, ammunition and various supplies can also be placed in the car, the combat effectiveness has been greatly enhanced, and the upper two artillery brigades on the top of an artillery brigade."

Li An opened his mouth to explain that the tractor at this time, that is, the latest freight steam car, the reliability and mileage have been greatly increased, the more coal loaded on the car, the longer the distance traveled, and the artillery can be towed at a very high speed.

"Okay! This artillery brigade is enough to deter the Hui. ”

Wang Zhongsi still accepted this fact, although he was a little unhappy in his heart, but he was able to equip it first and equip it with a tractor, which was considered a balance.

After talking about this topic, Wang Zhongsi and Guo Ziyi began to drag Li An again, discussing many machines in the R&D center with him, and kept asking, and the tired Li An's voice was hoarse.

In the following days, Wang Zhongsi would visit the R&D center every day, which was longer than Li An's stay inside, and he was tired and dumb from the several eloquent R&D talents in the R&D center.

"Li Shilang, the fifty ironclad artillery trucks have all been assembled and debugged, and they can be delivered to the troops immediately."

A craftsman came to report.

In the past few days, Li Ang has used an ironclad artillery truck developed by the first one to train the strength of a gun truck brigade, of course, just teaching them the most basic operation and use, it is not enough to be proficient.

And the men and horses of this ironclad artillery brigade are all carefully selected elites from the eight artillery units, and each of them is a talent of a hundred miles of Taoyi.

"Okay, immediately give an order, let the soldiers of the Ironclad Artillery Brigade come over to receive the Ironclad Artillery Carriage."

Li An gave the order without hesitation.

The daily training ground of the ironclad artillery brigade was in the open space near the R&D center, so he quickly got the order and immediately rushed to the assembly workshop of the R&D center.

"Father, why are you here?"

The brigade commander of the ironclad artillery brigade is Guo Ziyi's second son Guo Yang, which is the candidate decided by Li An after careful consideration, of course, he did not consider his friendship with Guo Ziyi, but was selected according to his talent and military quality.

"Yan'er, aren't you a brigade commander in the 1st Artillery Brigade? What are you doing here? ”

Guo Ziyi was wandering around the R&D center, and suddenly met Guo Yang and felt strange.

"Father, the child is now the brigade commander of the 1st Brigade of Ironclad Gun Trucks, and he is being ordered to lead his officers and men to receive fifty Ironclad Gun Trucks."

Guo Yang replied loudly.

This time, Guo Ziyi returned to Chang'an City, and was busy accompanying Wang Zhongsi to learn about various machinery, so he didn't go to visit his son at all, and Li An didn't mention it, so Lao Guo didn't know that his son had changed positions.

"Fifty ironclad gun trucks, all built? Sectional handsome, sectional ......"

Guo Ziyi shook off Guo Yang and ran to find Wang Zhonghei.

Guo Yan was confused, took his soldiers and continued to receive the ironclad artillery car.

"Li Shilang, all the officers and men of the 1st Brigade of the Ironclad Artillery Truck have been ordered to arrive."

Guo Yang arrived at the receiving place in time with his soldiers and horses.

"Very good, the ironclad artillery trucks have all been debugged, Lvshuai Guo, let the soldiers immediately drive these ironclad artillery trucks to the training ground."

Li An gave the order loudly, and at this time, the batch of ironclad command vehicles had not yet been in place, and only one ironclad command vehicle was used by brigade-level units, and as for the team-level leaders, they were crowded into one of the ironclad artillery vehicles.

Under Guo Yan's order, the officers and men of the 1st Brigade of Ironclad Artillery Vehicles immediately boarded their respective ironclad artillery trucks, and drove the ironclad artillery trucks to the designated training site.

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

Fifty ironclad artillery trucks and an ironclad command vehicle drove out of the R&D center in turn, forming a straight line, and the vibration caused by the start of these heavy machinery was very large, so that the entire land of the R&D center was shaking.

Wang Zhongsi and Guo Ziyi came belatedly, and watched these behemoths open the R&D center with their own eyes, and really felt the deterrent power from the machinery.

"Li Shilang, when did my son transfer to the Ironclad Artillery Brigade, why didn't you tell me."

Guo Ziyi's tone was slightly complaining.

"I have been transferred a long time ago, General Guo has been back to the capital for so many days, has he not been to visit Lvshuai Guo?"

Li An asked a rhetorical question, which made Guo Ziyi laugh unconsciously.

"It's okay, the soldiers have just taken over the ironclad gun truck, they will definitely try it for a while, let's go take a look."

Wang Zhongsi and Guo Ziyi both have this meaning.

Li An nodded and said, "Then you guys can go!" I'm not going. ”

Wang and Guo boarded Guo Yan's ironclad command vehicle and went together to admire the ironclad artillery car brigade for daily training.

Since all the soldiers are not very proficient in the ironclad artillery car, the subjects of the training are relatively simple, mainly marching in formation, stopping and shooting targets and shelling, and first practicing the basic ability before they can practice more and more useful content.

Platoon march is the most basic tactical training of the army, soldiers marching in platoon is the easiest, cavalry marching in platoon is slightly difficult, and it is more difficult to let the ironclad gun car march in formation, this is mainly because, the ironclad gun car is a large machine, it is not easy to control the speed, if you want to achieve the formation march, you must strictly control the speed, so that all the artillery carts move forward at the same speed, which not only tests the performance of the ironclad gun car, but also tests the driver's driving skills.

At the beginning of the training, the ironclad gun carriages were lined up in five straight lines, but when the gun trucks started, the five straight lines became five wavy lines, and the ten ironclad gun carriages in each row could not guarantee that they would remain in a straight line during the march, and even more so if the fifty ironclad gun carriages were lined up in a straight line.

However, even if the drivers' skills are poor, there is no guarantee that the ironclad gun trucks will line up in a straight line, but after the ironclad gun trucks are driven alone, the powerful deterrent force formed is enough to make the enemy frightened, and the enemy will not pay attention to whether the ironclad gun trucks are lined up in a straight line.

"General Guo, Ling Lang served as the commander of the First Brigade of the Ironclad Artillery Vehicle at a young age, and his future prospects are limitless!"

After getting off the car, Wang Zhongsi and Guo Ziyi stood on a high platform, looking down on the 1st Ironclad Artillery Brigade of the Tang Dynasty that was being trained.

"The festival marshal has won the award, the ironclad artillery car is so powerful, any general of my Shuofang army will definitely be able to win the battle."

Guo Ziyi told the truth: In addition to the wisdom of the generals and the bravery of the soldiers, there is also a very important factor that determines the victory or defeat of the war, that is, the advanced degree of weaponry and the strength of the country.

The ironclad artillery carriage is so powerful that it really only takes an ordinary general to lead this army to victory, even if the general of this army is as stupid as a pig, he will not be defeated by the enemy.

Wang Zhongsi smiled and sighed: "We just asked the imperial court for an artillery brigade, and now, the imperial court has formed an ironclad artillery brigade, in the future, will there be more powerful weapons, and our Shuofang army will also have the opportunity to be equipped with such powerful weapons." ”

Guo Ziyi looked at the ironclad artillery carriage in front of him with envy, and said: "Jieshuai, I once told Li Shilang about the ironclad artillery car equipping the border army, however, Li Shilang felt that it was not necessary for the time being, he said that the Tang Dynasty will lay railroad tracks everywhere in the future, as long as there is a fierce battle at the border pass, the ironclad artillery car troops can quickly arrive at the battlefield within a few days, and there is no need to deploy at the border pass all the time. And through the railway, we will quickly support all parts of the country. ”

"It's also said that as long as the railway is unblocked, the ironclad artillery carriages can support any direction at any time, and there is no need to equip the border army, but in the future, there will definitely be more and more ironclad artillery trucks in Datang, and when the time comes, the border army will also have the opportunity to get a little, and there will be such a day."

Wang Zhongsi is still a little unwilling, after all, it is too easy to command the ironclad artillery carts to fight and win, and if a platoon of artillery trucks rushes over, any enemy army will be defeated.

The ironclad artillery car unit has to train for at least three hours a day, and Wang Zhongsi and Guo Ziyi stood at the training ground, watching these ironclad artillery trucks conduct training, and stayed directly in the camp of the ironclad artillery brigade at night.

Shuofang still has a lot of military affairs to deal with, Wang Zhongsi can not stay too long, in the capital for less than half a month in total, he hurriedly returned to Lingzhou, and returned to Lingzhou with him, there is also an artillery brigade personnel and equipment, as well as the tractor that was promised, in addition, there is a large number of tempered medicine jade glass presented by Li An, and various technical information on the installation and use of vegetable greenhouses.

In order to transport these materials, the Datang Railway Bureau specially transferred three freight trains and sent all these things to Lingzhou in more than a day.

In the following days, Ang Lee's life was full and monotonous, every day was to go to the R&D center to conduct research, test and test all kinds of newly developed useful machinery, listen to the voices of craftsmen, and learn together with skilled craftsmen.

What Li Ang didn't expect was that these craftsmen were really too smart, and many machines that were expected to take many years to figure out were actually made out by these craftsmen in a few months.

At this time, the railway to Laizhou had not yet been built, but the large steam turbine had been successfully tested, and the large propeller had been built, much to Ang Lee's surprise.

The size of the steam turbine is very large, and it is undoubtedly the best way to transport it by rail, but at this time the railway is not repaired, if you want to let the steam ship launch as soon as possible, you must use other modes of transportation, fortunately, the railway to Luoyang City is unimpeded at this time, you only need to transport the steam turbine to Luoyang by rail, and then put the steam turbine on a small steam ship in Luoyang, go to sea through the Grand Canal, and detour to Laizhou, so that the steam turbine can be transported to the bay of Laizhou in the shortest possible time, and load it into a large steam sea vessel under construction.

In order to increase power and ensure safety, two sets of steam turbines are installed on each steam ship, so that even if one of them fails, the entire ship will not break down.

After repeated tests of reliability, the two pilot turbines were loaded onto the train and officially transported to Luoyang City, where they were further transported by water to the bay of Laizhou, where they were ready to build the first steam sea-going ship.

At the same time, ten steam turbines in mass production have also been put on the production line, which will be completed in just a few months, so as to meet the needs of building more steam ships.

Of course, this is only the first batch of production tasks, and according to the results of the experiment, additional orders will continue to be placed in the future to build more and better steam ships.

Propellers are much less technically difficult than steam turbines, and sufficient quantities have been manufactured to meet current needs.

Of course, there are many equipment required for large steam ships, in addition to large steam turbines and large propellers, there are also observation and defense needs.

Observation is to discern the direction and detect danger in time, and the equipment required is a telescope and a compass, respectively.

A compass can tell the way, while a telescope can see farther away, so you can take shelter if you spot a storm coming in the distance.

As for the defense needs, it is to prevent thieves at sea, once encountering pirates, the cargo on board is very likely to be looted, so it is necessary to organize military escorts, and ships must be loaded with artillery, and when encountering pirate ships, they will be directly sunk.