Butcher Chen wanted to change careers to become an artilleryman, Li Xuan was quite speechless about this, at first it was just a whim for him, just joking, so he rejected him, and the reason used was very sufficient, it is not possible to play artillery by bravery, you must have sufficient theoretical knowledge.

Artillery, regardless of whether it is this primitive artillery in ancient times or the kind of artillery in modern times, especially artillery commanders, has always been a high-tech branch of the armed forces.

It is impossible to say that any illiterate person can do it!

When Li Xuan told Butcher Chen, although he didn't directly say that Butcher Chen was illiterate and couldn't play with this artillery, but said it more tactfully, but the meaning was like this,

Although Butcher Chen has no culture, except for his own name, he doesn't recognize any other words, even his own name is written twisted and twisted, but he is still uneducated, not stupid!

He could still hear these euphemisms Li Xuan said.

But although Butcher Chen was rejected by Li Xuan, he didn't seem to want to give up, although he didn't continue to ask Li Xuan verbally, but he had been following the back of the artillery-making craftsmen that day, and it seemed that he really had a mind about the big toy of artillery.

Seeing him like this, Li Xuan didn't say anything, he was interested if he was interested, anyway, Li Xuan felt that he was not suitable to be an officer of this artillery team.

Let such an illiterate old man command the artillery, Li Xuan is really not at ease.

As for the officer of the artillery team, he already had personnel, that is, like Hao Bonian, Xie Ziwei, a young officer who was also born in the Guards Army and was personally taught by Li Xuan.

This son is 17 years old this year, and he is not a child of bandits in Huangzhushan, but a child in one of the small villages when Huangzhushan swept the surrounding cottages at the end of last year.

After joining Huangzhushan, he naturally became a member of the Datang New Army like many young people in the cottage, because he was not very old, so he was assigned to join the Guards.

This person's character is not high, and his body is not as thick as Hao Bonian, but his learning ability is good, and he has learned many commonly used words in less than a year, and his ability to accept the necessary mathematics and geometry for marching and fighting is also quite high.

And playing artillery, but you need to calculate various parameters, and this mathematical and geometric ability is naturally indispensable.

Therefore, he was trained by Li Xuan's artillery on the spot very early, but he didn't know it yet.

In this way, Xie Ziwei served as an infantry officer in the Second Infantry Battalion, and he was transferred to serve as an officer in the artillery team, and there was not much trouble in his position, and he could be directly transferred.

When Li Xuan brought him over and asked him if he was interested in being the commander of the artillery team, he was still a little surprised.

The Italian cannon was transported from Huangzhushan to the Lanjiang ferry, which was not a small matter for the Tang New Army, and many people went to watch when the cannon was fired at noon, and among these onlookers, there was Xie Ziwei.

He was also extremely shocked by the huge power displayed by this artillery, and in addition to being shocked, he naturally heard that Butcher Chen wanted to serve as an officer of the newly established artillery team, but His Majesty rejected him.

But he never thought that His Majesty would let him serve as an officer of the artillery team!

As powerful as artillery is, it is as important as it is!

After today's artillery test, any officer of the Datang New Army who has a little insight knows the importance of artillery, and even more knows the importance of the artillery team.

Even if the artillery team only has one artillery piece today, and the artillerymen only have just selected about two dozen people, they also know that the artillery of the artillery team cannot always have only one artillery, and there may not be too many artillery pieces in a short period of time, but in a few months, those craftsmen will definitely build more artillery.

At that time, this artillery corps will be in no way less important than several infantry battalions.

After all, everyone knows that His Majesty has wanted to build artillery for a long time, and those craftsmen have been tossing for more than half a year just to tinker with this thing, according to those craftsmen, there are already several short-barreled artillery pieces being built on the Huangzhu Mountain, and they will be completed in a month.

That is, the size of the artillery corps is small, it is only limited to the last one or two months, and it is difficult to say how many artillery guns it will have in two or three months, but there is definitely more than that.

If he can become an officer of this artillery team, and this artillery will develop in the future, then he will be the first person in artillery, so that he will have the opportunity to catch up with Hao Bonian and become a major?

When Xie Ziwei thought of this, he couldn't help but show joy, and then said: "Your Majesty's imperial grace, the ministers have nothing to repay, only to train the artillery hard, and let the Italian artillery become the weapon of my Tang Dynasty's military state!" ”

Li Xuan smiled slightly after hearing this, and did not refute the word Italian cannon in his words.

Since Li Xuan mistakenly said the word Italian cannon last time, this name has been passed out, so that it has become synonymous with today's artillery, Li Xuan felt a little ridiculous at first, but then he thought about it, later generations also have the name of Napoleon cannon, why can't he use the name Italian cannon!

And as the so-called king has no jokes, since he has said it, there is absolutely no reason to take it back, otherwise where is the authority of the Son of Heaven?

What the emperor said was like a fart, how would he rule the Tang Dynasty in the future!

Therefore, this Italian cannon has become the name of the long-barreled front-mounted cannon on the battery, just like the Ming army called the large-caliber artillery a general cannon, a general cannon.

After the officers of the artillery team are determined, those artillery soldiers will be simpler, and more than 20 soldiers who can recognize a few words and are relatively smart will be selected from the whole army for intensive training, and these artillerymen will be trained according to the results of the follow-up training, and the rest can only become ordinary loaders.

After Xie Ziwei took office, he soon followed those craftsmen to learn the method of artillery maneuvering, he not only learned, but also recorded everything the craftsmen said, and then used it as a manual for training more artillerymen, and made some improvements according to some problems that arose in the training.

At this time, the difference between Xie Ziwei and Chen Butcher is reflected.

Butcher Chen may be able to rely on on-the-spot learning to master how to fire artillery, and even after playing with artillery for a long time, he can rely on experience to aim.

But he couldn't record all the details like Xie Ziwei, compile a perfect artillery training manual, and use it to train other artillerymen and even make improvements.

However, Butcher Chen still couldn't see the intention of giving up, and still followed behind a group of artillerymen.

Li Xuan is too lazy to care about Butcher Chen's helpless behavior, and Xie Ziwei is also a little helpless about this, Butcher Chen's military rank is higher than him, if he wants to learn from behind, is it possible that he Xie Ziwei can still drive people away!