Chapter 376: The Deterrent Power of the Ironclad Artillery Carriage

The envoys of various countries are people who have seen the world, and they are quite clear about the basic equipment of the army, the types of troops, and the defense facilities of the city. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The artillery exercise just now made the envoys of various countries understand that as long as Datang uses artillery troops to launch siege operations, it will be difficult for any city to resist, but if it is fought in the field, the artillery may not be able to catch up with the cavalry, but can still use tactical means to offset the advantage of Datang artillery.

The speed of the ironclad artillery cart in front of him is extremely fast, obviously exceeding the speed of the cavalry, and it can pursue the enemy while firing powerful cannonballs, so that the cavalry that has dominated the battlefield for thousands of years in mobility will be difficult to get rid of the pursuit of the ironclad artillery car, and heavy casualties cannot be avoided.

The ironclad artillery truck is not only extremely fast, the artillery is hugely powerful, and the huge body can crush all enemies, leaving the enemy's bones behind, in addition, the whole body is wrapped in a layer of iron armor, so that it can be immune to all sword attacks, so that the enemy is helpless.

Extremely strong attack, extremely strong defense, and extremely fast, such a powerful weapon subverted everyone's impression of weapons, and even made everyone want to break their heads, and they couldn't figure out how to fight against this ironclad monster.

"How do the war elephants of your Bi country compare to the ironclad artillery carriages?"

The envoy of Nanzhao looked at the envoy of the state of Pi and asked.

"How can this be compared? Although the war elephant is powerful, it is too bulky after all, it is not as fast as the cavalry, and it is not as fast as the ironclad artillery car, and the skin of the war elephant is relatively thick, but it cannot be compared with the ironclad armor! The most important thing is that as long as the ironclad artillery cart fires, the war elephants will be frightened, so that not only will they not be able to meet the enemy head-on, but they will run back and disrupt their own troops. ”

The envoys of the Bi State were unguarded and described the weaknesses of the war elephants, which made the envoys of the Nanzhao who asked the question happy, Nanzhao did not dare to move the Tang Dynasty in the slightest, and he had moved the mind of planing the land before, and was taught a lesson by Li An, and now, seeing that the Tang Dynasty is so powerful, he will not dare to fight the idea of the Tang Dynasty, however, Pi Luo Ge has always been an ambitious person, since the road to the north to take advantage of the country has been blocked, it is a good choice to go south to rob the Bi Kingdom.

Although the Bi State is also a subject country of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty should have no reason to oppose it by creating some friction and shifting the blame to the Bi State to launch a large-scale attack.

"Datang has artillery troops and ironclad artillery vehicles, the world is so big, there is no longer any force, it is the opponent of the Datang army."

"Datang is really great, not only has a splendid and long-standing culture, but also has a sharp weapon to shock the world."

"Long live the Tang Emperor, long live the Tang Emperor."

The envoys of the various countries were once again shocked by the military power of the Tang Empire, and hurriedly shouted slogans to express their loyalty.

"Brother Huaijie, fortunately, these artillery and ironclad artillery trucks have just appeared, if they had appeared a few years earlier, our clan would have perished long ago."

Li Yanpet looked at the fast-advancing ironclad artillery cart and said calmly.

"That's right! This iron pimple runs faster than all the horses, and it also has a powerful cannon on it, once it forms a certain size, it is not something that our cavalry can fight against, fortunately we proposed peace in time, otherwise, we would have ended up like the Turks. ”

Li Huaijie was also shocked, and was glad that he chose to surrender to Datang in time, otherwise, he would be destroyed.

"Brother Huaijie, if An Lushan still doesn't stop in the future, what should we do?"

Li Yanzhong suddenly had a deep worry in his heart.

"A few days ago, didn't you want to kill Princess Datang for a cold beauty? Are you still afraid of An Lushan? ”

Li Huaijie said sarcastically.

"Brother Huaijie, what kind of place is this, aren't you afraid of being heard by the Tang officials, do you want to kill me?"

Li Yanzhong's heart was anxious, and he glared at Li Huaijie angrily.

"Don't worry, they are all gathered in front of the sand table, I can't hear it, I'm kindly reminding you, don't think about doing stupid things anymore, especially, you can't offend the Tang Dynasty because of a cold beauty."

Li Huaijie opened his mouth to explain.

Li Yanpet said very dissatisfied: "You are avoiding the topic, let me ask you if An Lushan is pressing step by step, what should we do?" ”

"What else can I do, write a book of impeachment, if it really doesn't work, you can only move west, do you still want to fight with Datang again?"

Li Huaijie said helplessly, and reminded: "Serve the princess well in the future, don't let the Tang Dynasty court find a reason to attack us." ”

"Hey! That's all I have to say, and I hope everything goes well in the future. ”

Li Yanpet smiled helplessly, walked to the sand table, and listened to Li An explain the tactical performance of the ironclad artillery car.

"Ladies and gentlemen, an ironclad artillery truck is composed of five people, two people in front, three people in the back, the soldiers in front are responsible for driving and commanding, and the soldiers in the back are responsible for firing artillery to attack the enemy, and constantly adding fuel to the ironclad artillery car, there are a hundred shells inside the entire ironclad artillery car, which is enough to hit the enemy fiercely, even if the cannonballs are exhausted, with a huge ironclad body, you can also grind the enemy infantry into meat sauce, the ironclad gun car is driven by charcoal, and it can travel a thousand miles at a time, and it can be completed in just one day, and the strength is not lost to a thousand miles, At present, the ironclad artillery carriages are being built in batches, and in a few months, there will be fifty ironclad artillery trucks to join the Tang army, and when the time comes, they can be used to protect the Tang Dynasty and the countries. ”

Li An exaggerated the performance of the ironclad artillery car in order to use his absolute strength to deter the countries, so that they would loyally follow the Tang Dynasty and not have different intentions.

Hearing the tactical performance of the ironclad artillery car, it was so strong, the envoys of all countries were extremely admired and admired, the small country that was originally loyal to the Tang Dynasty was happy for the strength of the Tang Empire, and the small country with different intentions for the Tang Dynasty began to change their minds, completely put away their restless thoughts, and follow the Tang Dynasty in the future.

Of course, it is impossible to conquer these small countries by showing off their military force, in addition to deterrence by force, Datang also put forward a lot of attractive economic cooperation plans, and decided to lay the railroad tracks to many vassal countries, so that these vassal countries can take advantage of convenient transportation and do good business with the Tang Empire, especially many small countries in the Western Regions, are born to do business, as long as the transportation is convenient, business can be done bigger, and the heart of belonging to Datang is naturally stronger.

What people live to pursue is nothing more than interests, the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, the world is bustling for profit, there are only eternal interests in the world, there are no eternal friends, only common interests, in order to make two originally unrelated people become very friendly friends.

When the railroad tracks are paved to the Anxi countries in the future, and the economic and trade exchanges between the two sides are enhanced, the Tang Dynasty and these small countries will surely prosper together, and with the close exchanges, the two sides will gradually not distinguish each other, and even, these small countries will be very obedient to merge into the Tang Empire.

Ang Lee believed that day would come, starting with laying railroad tracks and facilitating trade.

All the envoys of various countries who participated in the ceremony saw the great strength of the Tang Empire, and they were full of admiration and fear for the Tang Empire, which was very beneficial to the Tang Empire.

After the exercise was completely over, the envoys of various countries were a little unsatisfied, and some gathered around the sand table to point and even touch the sand table with their hands to understand the materials used to make the sand table.

Some envoys hurried down the viewing platform to get a closer look at the ironclad artillery carriages parked not far from the viewing platform.

The majestic and domineering appearance, the incomparably hard iron armor, and the terrifying cannon muzzle, after a close observation, the envoys of various countries worshiped the ironclad artillery car even more.

Many envoys tapped the ironclad artillery wagons with their arms to determine the thickness of the ironclad armor, as well as how strong it was.

"Everyone, if you are interested, you can go inside and take a look, the ironclad artillery carriage of the Tang Empire is open to all friends."

Li An walked over and said very politely.

In this backward era, except for the Tang Empire, no country has the ability to manufacture this kind of advanced equipment, even if they are allowed to study it every day, it is impossible to imitate it, many small countries, even if you give him the technology, he does not have enough financial resources and manpower to deploy the entire industrial system required to manufacture ironclad artillery vehicles, so there is no need to worry about leaking secrets at all.

"That's really good, it's hard to come to Datang, you must go in and see what is going on."

Most of the envoys smiled at each other and immediately made a wise decision.

There were several entrances to the top of the ironclad gun carriage, and in addition, on the side of the tail section, there was a relatively large small door, which was reserved for the convenience of transporting charcoal and shells into the rotating turret. At this time, it became the most convenient entry point for these envoys.

Due to the limited space inside, only more than ten people can enter, and the rest of the people can only enter the visit after they get off the car.

"Li Shilang, ordinary carriages only have two wheels, but this ironclad artillery carriage actually has eight wheels, and the wheels are wider and bigger, what is it for?"

An envoy looked curiously at the eight large iron wheels in front of him and asked a question in his heart.

Li An explained with a smile: "The body of the ironclad cannon is huge and heavy, and more wheels can better share the pressure, so that the pressure on each wheel is relatively small, and the axle is not easy to wear, in addition, the wheels are more and wider in order to contact with the ground The area is larger, which can prevent the wheels from falling into the mud, and can also improve the travel speed of the ironclad gun car." ”

"It turns out that this little wheel has so much knowledge! It's amazing. ”

"It's just a small wheel on the ironclad gun car, and we can't build it in Shiguo!"

"Li Shilang can build an ironclad artillery car, it's really amazing."

Many envoys sighed with emotion, and did not forget to praise Li An a few words.

"Dare to ask Li Shilang, how much does such an ironclad gun car cost?"

An envoy of Kang asked.

"This ...... It will cost about 10,000 gold! ”

Ang Lee casually estimated an approximate price.

"Ten thousand taels of gold, it's so expensive."

"One will cost 10,000 taels of gold, and fifty will cost 500,000 taels, and only Datang can have the financial resources to equip the ironclad artillery car!"

"Although the price is a little expensive, with the combat power of the ironclad artillery vehicle, it is still worth paying this money."

The envoys began to speak.

"Click......"

One of the visiting envoys had an itchy hand and actually shook the handwheel and turned the entire rotating turret at a great angle.

"This muzzle can still rotate the direction, so that the strike range is wider, which is too powerful."

"What a powerful ironclad gun truck, I'll try it later."

When I performed just now, I deliberately didn't demonstrate this item, but now I was accidentally discovered by these people, which once again caused a lot of shock.

Li An first explained the principle of the rotating turret, which made the envoys dizzy, and then explained the great role that the rotating turret can play on the battlefield.

In order to let these curious envoys from various countries enjoy watching this ironclad artillery car, Li Ang left a few technicians to maintain order and warn of danger, and told these curious envoys that they can visit as long as they want, even if they take pictures, of course, there is no photography technology in this era, at most, they can only invite a clever painter to draw people and ironclad artillery cars.

When leaving the exercise ground, Li An asked his subordinates to pull the new artillery over and perform precision shooting techniques, so that the envoys could open their eyes, if these envoys were bold enough, they could aim the artillery at the target first, let them fire the cannon themselves, and experience the refreshing feeling of hitting the target.

An ironclad artillery truck and a new artillery piece attracted the attention of most of the envoys of small countries, and they were interested in visiting and experiencing it on the side, and even, personally firing a cannonball and hitting the target, of course, more people were watching the excitement, and gathered in groups to discuss the power of the ironclad artillery truck and the new artillery, and even had a fierce dispute because of different views, and the situation at the scene was really lively.

After Li An left the training ground, he planned to go to the R&D center immediately to give detailed guidance to the craftsmen, but Zhao Yufu followed, and took Li Hanlu and Li Ya'er with him.

"Big brother, that ironclad artillery car, with so many artillery pieces and such a high viewing platform, are they really all invented by you?"

Li Ya'er leaned in closely, and asked, I haven't seen him for so many years, this guy has become a little more lively, and it seems that he has not been affected by Li Hanlu at all.

"Then there can be fake, many of the new things that have emerged in Datang are designed and invented by the eldest brother, isn't the eldest brother very powerful?"

Li An said proudly.

"Amazing, eldest brother is really powerful, by the way, eldest brother, are you going back to the palace now, or to the other courtyard?"

Li Yaer continued to ask.

"No, the eldest brother is going to the R&D center to guide craftsmen to invent a lot of useful things."

Naturally, Li An would not hide it, and replied honestly.

"Big brother, I also want to go to the R&D center to have a look?"