At present, there are many kinds of artillery that are officially mass-produced in the major arsenals of the Tang Dynasty, including two and three catties of shotguns, five catties, seven catties, and nine catties of field artillery, in addition to 24 catties and 48 catties of heavy short-barreled howitzers.

Among them, the two-kilogram shotgun, the five-kilogram field gun, the nine-kilogram field gun, and the forty-eight-kilogram heavy short-barreled howitzer are the artillery models that mainly guarantee the production!

The Tang Dynasty is currently concentrating on the production of the above four types of artillery, and there is a reason!

First of all, because of its light weight and iron-cast artillery, the two-pound shotgun is widely equipped with army infantry units as direct support firepower, and it is also equipped with a large number of naval ships as auxiliary personnel and anti-personnel firepower.

Five-pound artillery, although the power is a little smaller, but there is one thing that is irreplaceable, that is, the Tang Dynasty has overcome the material technology, and successfully used iron casting, the cost is greatly reduced, and the precious copper material can be freed up to produce nine-pound field artillery, so this iron-cast five-pound field gun is also the current large-scale equipment of the Datang Army and Navy, and the output is quite large.

As for the seven-jin artillery, it is because it is continuously unable to use iron casting, and the copper material of the Tang Dynasty has to give priority to the production of nine-jin artillery, so the large-scale production of this artillery has been suspended, waiting for technological improvement, and it will be mass-produced when iron casting can be used.

The nine-pound artillery, which is the current full guarantee of the Tang Dynasty, is also the only artillery still made of bronze, the output is continuing to rise, and the current positioning in the Tang Dynasty Division is to be used as the main long-range field artillery in the artillery regiment and the main medium-caliber naval gun of the naval warship.

The heavy short-barreled howitzer, because they are all cast iron, the cost is relatively low, and the grenade technology in these years is not very good, in order to ensure the power must use super-large caliber grenades, so at present, whether it is the army or the navy, they tend to be equipped with heavy short-barreled howitzers of the 48-pound level on a large scale.

The weight of the 24-pound short-barreled howitzer is not light, but its performance in actual combat can only be said to be half, and at present, the army has reduced the order of order, so as to turn it into an order for the short-barreled howitzer of 18 kg.

Because the 18-kilogram short-barreled howitzer recently developed by the Zhaoqing Arsenal is less powerful, its weight is greatly reduced, and the cost is even lower, and the army is already planning to replace the existing two-kilogram and three-kilogram shotguns with this short-barreled howitzer weighing only more than 100 kilograms, and directly distribute it to the infantry battalion.

And the above-mentioned kinds of artillery, the output is not small, all kinds of artillery combined, the output of each month can reach more than 100 pieces, although most of them are two-pound shotguns and five-pound shotguns, but this output is not small.

In addition to the above-mentioned large-scale mass production of artillery, there are also some artillery in small-scale trial production, such as the 14-pound naval gun imitating the Francophile, which has now entered the trial production stage, and the Zhaoqing Arsenal has also produced two prototype guns.

But I found that the technical difficulty is still too great, and it is more difficult to produce large-scale machinery, and it can only be built by hand, and the performance of the built is worse than that of the Franc machine, but the worse is better than nothing, and the warships that are being built on the navy side and will be able to be launched next year are all waiting for the fourteen-pound artillery.

Therefore, although it is not yet possible to produce it on a large scale, it is also a small-scale manual production, and it is possible to build one door.

Since seizing Lianzhou and Guangzhou, and obtaining a window for trade with the outside world, the Tang Dynasty is basically not worried about sulfur and saltpeter, as long as there is money, a large number of maritime chambers of commerce will send these raw materials to Guangzhou and Lianzhou.

At the same time, the gunpowder manufacturing machinery designed by the young military camp was also widely distributed to the gunpowder sub-factories under the major arsenals, and these gunpowder sub-factories also began to adopt a unified new gunpowder standard.

The output of ammunition has been greatly increased compared with before, otherwise, when the Tang Army is fighting, it will not have the luxury of casually firing tens of thousands of shells in a battle!

Cold weapons, on the other hand, are concentrated in the production of plate armor, and although swords and shields are also produced, the production task is not difficult.

Anyway, the Tang Dynasty has never lacked cold weapons such as swords, spears, and even bows and arrows, and they haven't actually built much of them themselves, and a considerable part of them were captured from the Ming army.

The production of ordnance has always been the focus of Li Xuan's attention, after hearing that the arsenal in Ganzhou has begun to supply ammunition to the front line, Li Xuan instructed to continue to increase the production capacity of the Ganzhou arsenal, at present, it is not enough to be able to make ammunition, but also to be able to make muskets and artillery.

After all, now that the Second Army is already fighting in northern Jiangxi, guns and ammunition need to be transported from the two regions too far, the pressure on logistics is too great, and it is too troublesome.

In November of the third year of Xuanping, the overall situation was spent in peace, and the Tang Dynasty was accumulating strength and planning to launch a new round of offensive, which was not over for the Tang Dynasty's autumn and winter offensive this year.

Until next year's rainy season, the Tang Wang Division will be on the northern front, and there will be about four months or so to fight, and these four months will be enough for the Tang Wang Division to do a lot of things.

Zhang Yue was not idle in November, he withstood or ignored the impeachment of many people against him, unswervingly eliminated the guards under his command, expanded the supervision standard, and reorganized the local training army to strengthen the defense line of Huguang and northern Jiangxi.

For example, in Fujian, a battalion sent by the Sixth Infantry Division tried to cross the mountains and enter Shaowu Mansion in Fujian from Jianchang Mansion in Jiangxi Province, but it was attacked head-on by Yu Dayou's thief army, and an infantry battalion was blocked in Shaowu Mansion and could not be saved.

Because the main direction of the Sixth Infantry Division is in Fuzhou, it is impossible to send too many troops in the direction of Shaowu, so in the end it can only turn from offensive to defensive, as long as it blocks the Fujian thief army from entering Jianchang Mansion, it will be considered a success.

In order to retaliate, and also to contain Yu Dayou's thief army, the First Mixed Regiment deployed in Chaoshan Mansion finally launched an attack in the direction of Fujian after being silent for a long time.

Although there were still nearly 10,000 Ming troops and sailors on Nanao Island, after a long confrontation, the first mixed regiment found that the Ming army on Nanao Island did not have the will to take the initiative to attack, so it took the risk to draw the main force and launch a surprise attack.

After a short period of raid, he almost entered Zhangzhou Mansion, but unfortunately Yu Dayou urgently dispatched more than 5,000 people from the rear to reinforce Zhangzhou Mansion.

The Ming army on Nanao Island also made some changes, and it seemed that they had plans to land in Chaozhou Mansion.

Later, the 1st Mixed Regiment had to give up its plan to attack Zhangzhou Mansion, and retreated directly when it saw that it was good!

In this battle, the first mixed regiment participated in the battle with a strength of about 2,500 people, killing and wounding hundreds of Yu Dayou's thief army and nearly 3,000 local guard soldiers.

At least with the first mixed regiment here, Yu Dayou's thief army would not be able to draw too many troops west into Jiangxi.

On the Western Front, after fighting countless skirmishes, the 11th Infantry Division finally advanced to Kunming Mansion in Yunnan Province and captured Kunming, pointing directly to the dynasty's largest fortress in Yunnan: Dali.

A good start to the battle of the 4th Infantry Division in Yunnan!

However, when it marched into Yunnan, the Fourth Infantry Division suffered too much non-combat attrition, and after more than a year of fighting, it lost less than 1,000 men in direct combat, but the non-combat attrition exceeded 3,000.

Where the Fourth Infantry Division marched into Yunnan, it had a full force of 12,000 men, but since the battle began more than a year, it has already lost 4,000 men, and the battle loss rate has reached 30 percent.

This caused the morale of the Fourth Infantry Division to be extremely low, even if they couldn't beat the enemy, they could still continue to win battles, but the number of troops directly attribution due to injuries and illnesses was too much.

Although the Fourth Infantry Division still maintains a scale of nearly 10,000 people, in fact, the more than 2,000 soldiers in it are all recruits who have been replenished later.

Not to mention the serious non-combat attrition, and the local Tusi are also quite unfriendly to the Tang Dynasty, and the control of the Tusi in the Dali Mu Wangfu is too strong, so that although those Tusi dare not oppose the Tang Dynasty, they are secretly mischievous.

The war on the Western Front has almost come to a standstill, and although one victory after another has been won, these tactical victories cannot be translated into strategic advantages.

It is difficult to supply materials, the wounded and sick are serious, and it is also troublesome to replenish soldiers, in short, all kinds of troubles.

The entire Fourth Infantry Division is almost mired in the big quagmire of Yunnan, and every time it wants to organize a large-scale offensive, it is very difficult, and Li Xuan is powerless about it, it is too difficult to send soldiers and guns up, and at present, the Western Front is not the main front of the Tang Dynasty, whether it is soldier replenishment or material supply, it is not in the priority order, so the Fourth Infantry Division is actually very difficult to fight in Yunnan.

Fortunately, the war on the Western Front is not the main front of the Tang Dynasty, and the slow progress of the Fourth Infantry Division will not affect anything, Li Xuan's order to the Fourth Infantry Division is very simple, seize the difficulty, and then capture Dali, as for other small places, you can leave it alone, as long as the Tusi who are constantly rebelling do not threaten the safety of the Fourth Infantry Division, don't worry about it first.

After the Tang Dynasty laid the battle situation on the northern front, when they were able to free up their hands, they had the time and energy to clean them up.

Whether it is the Western Front or the Fujian side, for the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty for hegemony, it can only be regarded as a small fight, at this stage, the strategic focus of the two sides is still around the battle for the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.