The siege artillery required by the army is actually similar to the requirements of the navy for the so-called large-caliber naval guns of capital ships, and the navy also wants large-caliber artillery, how big is it? According to the current construction of capital ships and future design plans of the Datang Navy, it can be as big as it can be!

In a short period of time, the navy urgently needed a large number of nine-pound guns and fourteen-pound guns!

And later, when the construction of larger tonnage warships begins, it will require eighteen catties (twenty-four pounds), and even twenty-four pounds (thirty-two pounds) and forty-eight pounds (sixty-four pounds) of artillery!

In short, the larger the caliber, the better, the more powerful the better, and at the same time, the naval guns used by the navy do not have great requirements for weight, and the navy said that there is no problem with a six or seven ton gun, anyway, the naval guns are carried on the ship, and only six or seven tons are trivial!

But this is only the plan of their army and navy, or what they want, and the reality is that there is no such thing at all.

Now those arsenals of the Ministry of Industry have not even been able to mass-produce twelve-pound cannons, that is, nine-pound guns, and larger caliber guns are still waiting slowly!

This is like Li Xuan's dream of entering the Qinhuai River, seizing the Jiangnan region, and cutting off the north-south artery of the Ming Dynasty: Cao Yun!

But the reality is that the current Tang Army is still fighting hard to seize a southern part of Huguang, and I don't know when it will be able to capture Changsha, and as for wanting to enter the Qinhuai River, I don't know when I have to wait.

There is a saying that doesn't say this: the ideal is very beautiful, the reality is very cruel, and the current Datang Army and Navy's requirements for artillery are also roughly the same!

However, after capturing the three ships in front of him, whether the three armed merchant ships weighing several hundred tons can be repaired or not, the artillery on them has solved the urgent need of the Tang Navy.

After counting, there were a total of eight fourteen-pound (eighteen-pound) guns on the three ships of the Franc man, and sixteen nine-pound guns (twelve pounds), as for those with only five pounds (six pounds) and small-caliber guns and shotguns, there were even more.

However, the value of five catties and those shotguns to the Tang Dynasty is not great, because the Tang Dynasty itself can produce these artillery, and the most valuable ones are the eight eighteen-pound guns and sixteen nine-pound artillery.

Soon, these captured guns were disassembled, on the one hand, they were to be prepared to be assembled on the Wuzhou and Lianzhou built by the Tang Navy, and the hulls of the three captured warships were also seriously damaged, and now they are just barely keeping afloat, and they need to be overhauled to be able to be restored.

These three ships can be repaired, but the Tang Navy's own stranded, nearly 200-ton armed merchant ship was too badly damaged, and the navy itself evaluated it and thought that it would take more funds to repair it than to build a new armed merchant ship like this, so it simply gave up.

The ship's guns and other supplies will also be carried down and diverted to other ships.

With the end of the Battle of Haojing, after the Franc machine lost his troops and left, the battle report about the battle was quickly transmitted to Zhaoqing City by the army and navy, and quickly came to Li Xuan's hands.

"The navy was able to repel the fleet of the Franc man, and also captured three warships, it seems that this time the navy fought well, and it is better than the last Qiongzhou naval battle!" When Li Xuan saw this result, he directly ignored the navy's own losses.

It's just an armed merchant ship, and the guns on it have been salvaged, and a merchant ship hull of less than two hundred tons is not worth a few dollars!

However, the officers and men of the navy suffered relatively large casualties, which made him feel a little heartache!

In these years of naval warfare, it was actually more difficult to completely sink the enemy's warships, and in general, the only way to burn the enemy's ships was to burn the enemy's ships through incendiary bombs, or simply jump into the gang and then capture the enemy's warships.

And many of the lost battleships were actually abandoned by their own side because they were too badly damaged!

Sinking directly on the spot with solid bullets is more difficult, and it is more difficult than capturing a single enemy battleship.

Since the Qiongzhou Strait, the growth of the navy has been relatively fast, and the surviving officers and men of the navy who participated in the naval battle of Qiongzhou have brought back the experience of naval warfare at that time, and have brought great benefits to the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the entire navy.

And this time the Battle of Haojing also had this effect, and he was even optimistic that if the navy was sharpened for a few more months, and a dozen armed merchant ships could be gathered, the Ming army could be completely expelled from the mouth of the Pearl River.

When the navy completely drove the Ming army sailors out of the Pearl River estuary, the Pearl River Delta could be regarded as a safe place and became the back garden of the Tang Dynasty, providing continuous supply of various resources for the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, the strength of supporting the Navy should not be small!

Compared with the battle of the navy, he was more satisfied, but the battle on the army side looked decent, because the army originally occupied a great advantage in strength, which should be won, and the army's own casualties were not small, more than the casualties on the navy's side, but he also intercepted, which was different from the battle with the Franc man, but it was different from the battle with the Ming army.

The Franc machine man is also sharp, and the army can win so simply in this battle, relying on the gadget of bayonets!

However, even so, the number of dead in this battle was more than fifty, and dozens of others were wounded, and the casualty ratio was not small!

But that's okay, you have to let those people in the army know that it's not only the Datang Army that plays queuing up to shoot, but also Europeans play this, and they play longer, or even better!

It was only by relying on its own prophet that it made some changes in its equipment, such as adding a crosshair, paper shell fixed ammunition, and bayonets, which gave it a relatively big advantage in this battle.

However, in any case, the army and navy have successfully completed their tasks in this battle, so the rewards they deserve will not be less, Li Xuan has already asked the army and navy to reward the meritorious soldiers fairly and justly, the promotion of those who should be promoted, the promotion of those who should be promoted, and the promotion of meritorious soldiers, do not let the meritorious soldiers chill.

Promoting and making a fortune is definitely the most sought after by the officers and men of the army and navy of the Tang Dynasty at present, and Li Xuan also satisfies them as much as possible!

After all, he Li Xuan is not one of theirs, so why should you let your family, especially those ordinary soldiers and middle- and low-level officers, work hard for you? For the 10,000-year foundation of the Tang Dynasty? For our great Eternal Sage Monarch Li Xuan? Although everyone says this on the surface, if you ask them what they really think, those soldiers will definitely spray you in the face!

, we scholars gave up our studies to apply for the martial arts hall and the sea academy to join the army, that is for promotion and fortune!

And those peasant children came to join the army as soldiers, and they were simply to have enough to eat, and then distribute the fields, and then get some military pay to support their families!

If you promote them and make them rich, if you give them enough food, divide the fields, and pay their salaries, then they will fight for the 10,000-year-old foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and fight for the eternal saint Li Xuan!

What the?

You say, let them fight only by faith and not make a fortune for promotion? Don't give a full meal? Don't give out land? No military pay? They rebelled against Tang in minutes!

This is the same as getting along with people, although talking about money hurts feelings, but if you don't have money, you have no feelings, and you won't get hurt if you get hurt!

Therefore, after the war, it was the practice of the Tang Dynasty to be promoted and make a fortune, and Li Xuan did not pay too much attention to it, so naturally there would be people below who would handle it properly.

He was more concerned about when the Ministry of Industry would be able to get out the artillery with more than nine catties, and then whether the iron casting plan for the five-catty and seven-catty artillery could be carried out smoothly, and when would it be possible to cast the artillery with cheap iron instead of spending so much expensive copper?

And the damn nine-pound cannon, which was cast in bronze, but when will it be made, and the fourteen-pound cannon is also, and now there is a reference for the prisoners, and I don't know if the people from the Ministry of Industry can successfully imitate it.

Now artillery, especially cheap iron-cast artillery and large-caliber artillery, has become the biggest problem in the military production of the Tang Dynasty, and even this problem has affected the development of the army and navy of the Tang Dynasty.

It is foreseeable that in the process of the army going north, it will definitely be fiercely resisted by the Ming army, and the huge Ming Dynasty will not give in so easily, if you want to continue the Northern Expedition, it is necessary to have a large number of elite troops, and the elite army must need a large number of guns.

It's good to say that today's arquebus technology is mature, and the manufacturing process has been unified and standardized, and those arsenals only need to expand production step by step, but the artillery is not easy to solve!

Li Xuan, who had a headache for military production in front, returned to the harem that day, and watched several performances of the Tang Dynasty version of the thigh era in a row to relieve his mood.

Recently, he has been obsessed with this kind of dance that is pleasing to the eye, and it can also make people physically and mentally healthy, and he will watch one every two ends in three days, and the other concubines in the harem are not small.

But Li Xuan doesn't care much, these women in the harem, except for Dong Yunyun who can make him have scruples, he doesn't care much about other women, he still can't even remember the names of these concubines, often called the wrong name, not even familiar with it, let alone talk about any feelings!

And now that Dong Yunyun is pregnant, she is bent on raising a baby, and she is too lazy to care about Li Xuan, so the current Li Xuan is like a bird out of the cage, flying and flying, not only flying by himself, but also flying with his thighs......