The logistics department directly pulled down 30,000 rounds of more than five catties of artillery shells to the Susong front line for the use of the Second Army, and this was only the artillery shells of the Second Army.

On the Yangtze River south of Susong, more than 100 transport ships of the logistics department and navy are moored, which are loaded with artillery shells, bullets, food, and other combat materials of various calibers.

It doesn't even matter if the artillery is scrapped, because there are a lot of brand-new five-pound field guns behind them, which can be pulled up and replaced at any time.

On the side of the logistics department, almost all the ordnance production of the two major arms companies under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, the South China Arms Company and the Jiangnan Arms Company, in the past four months has been transferred to the southwest front.

And you must know that the South China Arms Company and the Jiangnan Weapons Company are not much different from the newly established North China Arms Company, which is a military industrial enterprise with huge output.

If several subordinate arsenals of the South China Arms Company were to produce at full capacity, the output of muskets would exceed 4,000 in a month, and the number of five-pound artillery pieces would exceed 100.

And Jiangnan Arms Company has been established for a short time, but now it produces a lot every month!

Only the North China Arms Company has just begun to prepare for construction in recent months, and at present only one Tianjin Arsenal is engaged in small-scale trial production, and several others are still under construction, so the output is not large.

South China, North China, Jiangnan, at present, these three weapons companies are the state-owned enterprises of the Tang Dynasty, the basic layout of the national defense industry, in the future, it is possible to build another Northwest weapons company, but that is the future, just now, and even in the next few years, these three weapons companies will provide all the ordnance for the Tang Dynasty, and its users include the Tang Army, the Tang Navy, the Guards, the Tang Western Company, the tax inspection team, and the patrol police.

Well, you have to count the various maritime trading companies in the country!

Don't be surprised, just like the Tang Western Company and the Geddes Trading Company, the companies that did maritime trade in these years all had armed merchant ships, and since the merchant ships were crowned with the word armed in front of them, then artillery and muskets were indispensable.

Of course, although the Tang Dynasty currently allowed these domestically registered trading companies to equip armed merchant ships, the management of ordnance, especially guns, was also very strict.

First of all, these maritime trading companies must be registered, and at the same time apply for a license for the equipment of guns and swords, and then they can apply for purchase, and only after approval can they be able to purchase these weapons, and at the same time, each of these weapons is registered, and they are inspected every year, and the Cabinet of the Navy has a special agency to monitor and manage these guns and ammunition.

Moreover, all merchant ships equipped with naval guns must be registered with the Admiralty, and when they encounter a naval call-up, they are obliged to unconditionally obey the dispatch and command of the navy, which is also a measure for the Datang Navy to strengthen its maritime strength and supplement the shortage of the main warships of the navy.

Before entering the coastal ports of the Tang Dynasty, these guns must be mothballed, and they are strictly forbidden to leave the ship, let alone carry them onto land.

Of course, after leaving the port, the Admiralty doesn't care how these maritime trading companies use these guns, you love to fight natives and fight natives, and love to be pirates and pirates!

On land, the Tang Dynasty's management of guns and artillery is more strict, without the approval of the Ministry of War or the Ministry of the Navy, no person or organization is allowed to manufacture or use guns, otherwise it is a major crime of rebellion.

That is to say, if a private enterprise wants to engage in the ordnance business, it is not impossible, but it must be approved by the Admiralty or the War Department to obtain a license to operate the ordnance business, otherwise it is illegal.

At present, in the Tang Dynasty, no private capital has obtained this kind of license, except for the state-owned enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, only the Royal Arms Company under the Royal Assets has obtained the license for ordnance business.

However, the Royal Arms Company has just been established, and there is not even a factory yet!

Because of the current ordnance production of the Tang Dynasty, there are currently only three companies: South China Arms Company, Jiangnan Arms Company, and North China Arms Company.

Generally speaking, for ordnance, the Tang Dynasty implemented a policy of internal relaxation and external tightening, and overseas, the Tang Dynasty permitted, and even encouraged those merchants and immigrants who went overseas to use ordnance for self-protection.

But at home, it's strictly regulated!

This is also caused by the current environment, first of all, since ancient times, China has had a kind of fine tradition of the king and general Hou Ning, regardless of whether it is a troubled era or a peaceful period, there is always a large number of careerists who want to rebel, if these weapons are not strictly managed, people will bring guns and cannons to rebel in minutes.

Therefore, the local people must strictly control guns, not to mention guns, and other cold weapons and ordnance, such as crossbow arrows, strong bows, and armor, are also strictly controlled weapons.

However, knives and swords are not controlled knives, and the people can legally own them, but they can only be kept at home to prevent theft!

If you want to wear it out, you need to have a reputation above the show, well, officials are naturally allowed.

Generally speaking, it is generally possible to apply for permission for people who need to wear swords for self-defense, such as bodyguard practitioners such as nursing homes and dart masters, and businessmen who go out to do business.

In addition, hunters can apply to own bows and arrows, which is generally approved, and it is strictly forbidden to have bows and arrows except hunters, other ordinary people, including guardians.

Gun control is aimed at the private sector, but at the official level, it is to encourage the development of more advanced guns, and the army and navy have always tried to make them compete with each other in order to make those weapons companies compete and develop more advanced weapons and equipment.

For example, to engage in bidding!

Although these weapons companies are integrated into three, but their internal competition is also large, for example, the South China Weapons Company, which has several subordinate arsenals, although it is said that every arsenal can get orders now, but the orders are also good and bad, for example, the flintlock pistol orders released by the army, the total amount is very large.

But the top generals of the army had a special eye, and they would divide the order of 10,000 muskets into several batches, and the purchase price and even payment terms were different, and then bid separately.

It's not that the army doesn't have money, it's not that it doesn't need these muskets, the army just deliberately wants to make these arsenals compete with each other, otherwise they have the incentive to compete in a stagnant pool, how can the army get better and cheaper weapons.

In recent months, the output of the South China Arms Company and the Jiangnan Arms Company has been pulled down by the Logistics Department to the southwest front, so that the Second Army and other units have a sufficient supply of ammunition.

When the Second Army commanded by Wang Chaohong launched a general attack on Susong, it fully played what is called firepower superiority!

Pieces of cannonballs were poured on the Susong city wall, and section after section of the city wall was blown down, and howitzers exploded on the city wall and in the rear, reaping the lives of countless defenders and Ming soldiers.

Before the Second Army carried out the blasting, the Second Army shelled Susong for three days, firing 25,000 shells, including 14 catties of solid heavy artillery.

A total of more than 60 meters of city walls have been collapsed, and several gate towers on the Susong city wall have all been blown down!

What's more, before the Second Army has even committed even a single infantry to launch a charge, the defenders in the city have already suffered more than 3,000 casualties!

In this super-large-scale artillery battle, the Ming artillery in the city was completely powerless, and the more than 50 field guns they could use to counterattack were almost completely lost in these three days.

Although they also destroyed part of the artillery of the Second Army through counterattacks and killed and wounded some of the gunners of the Second Army, the Second Army lost one artillery, and the rear was immediately able to send a brand new gun, and the loss of a gunner, the rear was immediately able to send a new gunner who had undergone complete recruit training!

After three days of shelling, the artillery of the Ming army defending the city was basically dumb fire!

This is not to say that their artillery was completely killed, in fact, the artillery is a big iron lump, and it is unrealistic to be destroyed all of them, and the reason why the artillery of the Ming army is dumb is because their gunners have suffered too heavy casualties.

When they could only counterattack with solid shells, the Second Army used dozens of heavy howitzers to fire grenades to kill and wound these Ming gunners!

A 48-pound (64-pound) grenade landed on the head of the city and exploded, enough to cover the width of the city wall more than ten meters or more.

If you are lucky enough and the arquebus fuse detonates this 48-pound grenade just above the head of the Ming army at the head of the city, then countless shrapnel and iron beads will be sprinkled like rain to a range of tens of meters below, within this range, if there is no fortification on the top of the head, then it is basically either dead or disabled!

It's just that this kind of explosion just above the enemy's head rarely happens, it can only be regarded as accidental, sometimes hundreds of grenades are shot out, and there is not a single such overhead explosion, more or landing explosions, a small number of volley explosions, this volley explosion is said to have not yet flown to the city wall, it exploded in the middle of the way, basically no results, and some of them did not explode at all!

How many results can be caused by this year's grenades depends entirely on character!

If you're lucky, a few 48-pound grenades will hit you, and it's possible that hundreds of people will be killed or injured on the opposite side, but if you're unlucky, hundreds of grenades will hit you, and the enemy won't have anything to do, maybe you'll kill a lot of your own people!

This kind of thing is not a joke, but it is real, and there are no longer a few Tang soldiers who were killed or injured because of howitzer accidents!

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