At the test site under the stage, the soldiers of the Guards continued to test live ammunition and fired six shells in a row, but just after the first shell was fired, everyone in the stands was completely calmed.

Because they saw with their own eyes that the first shell was successfully discharged, and there was no accident that they feared the most!

After the cannon was discharged, the shell made a small curve in the sky, and then flew towards the predetermined target three hundred and fifty meters away, but it didn't take long for everyone to see the shell explode directly in mid-air!

Exploded in advance!

And even if it exploded in advance, it didn't affect the good mood of a group of bigwigs in the stands in the slightest!

For this small mistake of the fuse delay, for the generals who have become accustomed to the various early explosions of shells fired by heavy howitzers, or even do not explode, this small mistake is nothing.

What they were more concerned about was that the shell fired by the nine-pound field gun in the first test shot was successfully fired, and it successfully exploded in the enemy's position after the successful launch, and it did not explode as soon as it left the barrel, and the enemy did not kill it, but killed one of its own people first.

Vice Admiral Lei Wan, Vice Admiral Bao Yifen and other army and navy generals stood up together, and the expressions on their faces were quite rich!

At this time, the second and third shells were also successfully fired one after another, followed by the fourth, fifth, and sixth shells!

In the first round of test firing, a total of six shells were fired by three nine-pound guns!

Without exception, none of these six shells had an explosion, and each shell was successfully discharged, and then flew to the predetermined target area.

It's just that as Bi Zifei himself said, there is a large error in this wooden delayed fuse, even if the artillerymen are making the same specification of the fuse in the most standard way, but in fact the detonation time is different.

Two shells detonated early, one exploded long after it hit the ground, and one was simply a dud.

Only one shell exploded the moment it hit the ground!

But does this make a difference?

No!

For the army and navy, they have long been accustomed to the unreliable arquebus fuse of the short-barreled howitzer, and if it can explode after being launched, it is a success!

When it explodes over the enemy's position, then use it as a grenade on the spot, if it explodes after landing, then use it on the spot, if it does not explode after landing, it is simply used as a solid bomb, as long as the shell is fired, then it is considered a success.

Therefore, with regard to the problem of different detonation times and even duds of this new type of howitzer shells, the generals of the army and navy said that this small problem is completely acceptable.

The point is that this grenade allows long-barreled artillery to fire!

What does this mean?

This means that a large number of five-pound and nine-pound artillery owned by the Datang Army and Navy and the Guards Army can use grenades, and this is absolutely huge for the improvement of the artillery strength of the troops.

After watching the first round of test firing, and without even waiting for the second round of tests, Lieutenant General Lei Wan directly said on the spot: "This new artillery shell, our army wants it!" ”

Bao Yifen is also not far behind: "The same is true for our navy, there is no need to bid, direct procurement, new grenades of all calibers are required!" ”

These high-ranking generals of the military are not stupid, they are all shrewd!

This kind of good thing that can give full play to the power of existing artillery more effectively and greatly increase the power of artillery can be seen at a glance.

In fact, even before the development of the new grenade fuze, they already recognized the value of this kind of artillery shell, otherwise, where do you think the funds for the development of the grenade fuze came from, it was all given by the army and navy.

The army and navy, in order to develop new grenades that can be used in long-barreled artillery, have each supported a large number of projects, and there are more than two dozen before and after.

Every single one of them costs money!

The wooden fuze project led by Bi Zifei is also led by the military, and the army and navy have invested a lot of money, and these funds are also interesting to say, that is, although Bi Zifei is engaged in research and development with military money, the patent still belongs to the Royal Institute of Technology.

Because of this kind of project, it does not mean that the research and development is commissioned, and the military directly signs a contract with them for the purchase of samples.

It is generally divided into several stages, such as the theoretical stage in the early stage, after the theory is passed, the military will let you produce samples for preliminary testing, then mid-term testing, and later testing.

At the end of the test, then the military will place an order, and then the Royal Institute of Technology will license the technology patents of the three major weapons companies, and the three major weapons companies will start production, and many of the ordnance production today is almost in this model.

To put it simply, this kind of investment is more akin to support, which is different from ordinary business cooperation.

Of course, although the Royal Institute of Technology has taken a large part of the military's many R&D projects, in fact, the three major weapons companies, and even some other subordinate enterprises of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, also have a chance to get their hands on them.

Anyway, as long as the military wants new ordnance products, they don't care who develops them or who produces them.

In the past two years, the enterprises under the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises, headed by the three major arms companies, have been very diligent in waving their hoes to the Royal Institute of Technology and offering all kinds of lucrative treatments.

Such a generous treatment has indeed attracted a group of students from the Royal Institute of Technology to switch to these big companies!

In addition, within the Royal Institute of Technology, there is a strict elimination system, and students in the current freshman and sophomore years will basically be kicked out if they fail to pass the promotion exam for three consecutive years.

After all, the resources of the Royal Institute of Technology are also limited, and it is impossible to keep the number of students inflated, and in the case of recruiting about 100 students every year, and at the same time retaining high-quality talents, it is reasonable to let some students with slightly inferior quality drop out.

However, even so, the number of students at the Royal Institute of Technology has exceeded 500.

Don't look at these 500 people, it seems that it is very small, it is less than the number of students admitted by Guozijian University every year, but these students need to conduct various scientific experiments after they come in, and the cost is quite huge.

Relatively speaking, giving them generous personal treatment, that is already nothing.

As for the seniors, they are basically at the top level, and they will not be lost at present, and the number of juniors is not large, so it is also impossible to let them lose.

The vast majority of these students who have failed to pass the promotion examination for three consecutive years have actually flowed into the large enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and are engaged in R&D with the generous treatment that those rich people are envious of.

Although these people were eliminated by the Royal Institute of Technology, you also have to look at what kind of place the Royal Institute of Technology is, and the eliminated students are still the top talents in this era.

The only way to attract these top talents is the large enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, such as the three major weapons companies and the Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company, in addition, the two universities under the Ministry of Rites and a number of normal schools are also their destinations.

And when they go, it is naturally impossible to become ordinary technical talents, and when they go to a normal school, the principal is hard to say, but the head of a department is the least, and they go to Guozijian University or Jinling University, which is also directly serving as various directors and professors.

When I went to the enterprise, I was basically the leader of the project!

The treatment in all aspects is not bad!

As a result, slowly, the subordinate enterprises of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, represented by the three major arms companies, have gradually acquired some technological research and development capabilities, and although they are still relatively weak, they are also quite prominent in some aspects.

For example, in the field of shipbuilding, the Guangzhou Shipyard, a subsidiary of the Jiangnan Arms Company, has the strongest technical strength, and in terms of specific ship design, it even surpasses the ship department of the Royal Institute of Technology.

There is no way, who made the ship department of the Royal Institute of Technology focus more on theoretical research, even if they were engaged in flying clipping, they only put forward theories, and the specific realization is the design team of Guangzhou Shipyard.

Nowadays, in the entire Tang Dynasty, the relationship between various technology research and development and the military is quite close, and now the new wooden fuse grenade technology is recognized, and even orders are placed on the spot, which is naturally a good thing for this project.

Even Bi Zifei, whose eyes were above the top, was smiling at this time and once again explained in detail to several military generals the details of this new type of fuse, as well as the shells equipped with this new type of fuse.

For the impulsiveness of his subordinates, Li Xuan said that it is understandable!

After all, a new type of artillery shell is important, even important enough to change the current pattern of warfare!

How to change?

For example, naval guns, the naval guns on these battleships, equipped with these grenades, can directly fire this grenade in naval battles, and then blow the enemy's wooden sail battleship to pieces.

Perhaps for the Army, the service of grenades only improves the firepower of the Army, but for the Navy, the large-scale service of grenades represents the emergence of a new era!

When the Datang Navy adopted grenades on a large scale, it could basically be declared that the wooden-hulled sail battleships were completely obsolete!

Although the current sail warships have not developed to the peak state of the eighteenth century, they are still very primitive and just starting, and the Western battleships are still using Galen ships.

But even so, they are still coming to the end of their lives!

With Li Xuan, the Ancient Sage Monarch from a different time and space, it is absolutely impossible for the scientific and technological development of this era, as well as warfare and other aspects, to be the same as the historical trajectory of later generations.

With the grenade as a big killer, Li Xuan said that he still played a wooden-hulled sail battleship, and I wanted to play the iron-hulled sail battleship directly, and when the high-pressure steam engine came out, I would throw the sail into the garbage heap of history and explode a steam ironclad ship to play!

After all, Li Xuan's dream is to conquer the world!

And to conquer the world, how can you do it without an advanced navy that can beat the navies of all countries around the world!

If you want to beat the global navy, although it is okay to rely on numbers, but the force is too low, and Li Xuan feels that he has lost points.

We are traversers, we must use technology to crush them, and if we can use technical advantages, we will definitely not use numerical advantages, otherwise we will not be able to reflect the forced qualifications!

One does a group, that's what a man is called!

Imagine using an epoch-making steam ironclad battleship against hundreds of enemy sail warships alone, and then in the desperate eyes of the enemy, kill the enemy's sail warships one by one.

That scene is not a special hanging bomb!