Chang'an, thousands of miles away from Donghai County.

Both sides are also making preparations, but the preparations are completely different.

Li Yuanji actually didn't care much about the generals selected in the army, and Li Jing was mostly responsible for training those people.

And Li Yuanji's focus was on the one hundred and seven local students.

Those chemistry talents are Li Yuanji's students, and the students who are recruited into military academies in these places are also Li Yuanji's students.

Although Li Yuanji put more energy on chemical talents, he also did not completely let these military cadets go.

Looking at a team of students who were being trained, Li Yuanji shook his head helplessly.

If it weren't for the crossing, I'm afraid I would still be far from realizing the importance of knowledge.

The black powder was made, and the power of the black powder was increased several times.

No matter how much it can be improved, it is only black powder, its potential is limited, the controllable range of 200 meters, and the killing distance of 300 meters have proven everything.

Now Li Yuanji is infinitely looking forward to the arrival of smokeless gunpowder.

It's a pity that Li Yuanji's cognition of smokeless gunpowder only exists in these four words, and perhaps some more may be added, that is, when smokeless gunpowder is used, there will be no smoke, or a small amount of smoke.

Yes, this is Li Yuanji's perception of smokeless gunpowder, and how it is made, he does not know.

This creates another problem, the range of all weapons, as well as their accuracy, is greatly affected.

Although others are still excited about the current results, Li Yuanji, a person who knows history, can't be excited anyway.

The only thing he could do was tell the chemistry students if he could try to increase the power of gunpowder. So that the gunpowder burns without smoke, or with less smoke?

So, the students once again began to experiment with imagination.

After research, it was found that after the bullet was fired, there was still a large amount of residue in the cartridge case and in the chamber, that is, a black layer of powder could be seen when you wiped it with your hand.

This also leads to the fact that the rifle must be cleaned after each shot period of time to ensure the performance of the rifle.

Otherwise, over time, the performance of the rifle will gradually deteriorate, and even the wear and tear of the rifling will be more serious.

So, they consulted experts from various industries in the Academy of Sciences, and as a result, they asked for some aluminum powder from the Iron Smelting Institute and tried to add it to the bullets, but the result was naturally a blast.

Fortunately, Li Yuanji has repeatedly told him to pay attention to safety, and even when he is experimenting, he is only allowed to test in the smallest amount each time.

So when they tried the gun, the students still fixed the rifle there, and then hid behind it and pulled the trigger with a rope, so there were no casualties.

"Your Majesty, it's really hard to imagine that in just a few years, Datang will have such changes, and even the way the army fights will also undergo complete changes." Standing beside Li Yuanji, Li Jing sighed in shock.

As a veteran general who has fought all his life, he has to sigh at the power of technology.

Li Jing visited the camp of the forbidden army, and after he returned, Li Jing spent a month revising the curriculum of the military academy according to the situation of the forbidden army.

Although the musket will not be popularized to all troops for a while, this is a military academy, a place for them to learn, even if they can't master this knowledge, at least let them know that Datang still has this kind of thing.

And this tells them that there are also certain benefits, such as when they meet troops with this kind of equipment in the future, they know how to use it and how to cooperate.

Muskets, rockets, artillery, rocket artillery, and grenades, these five kinds of equipment cover the attack mission at three distances, medium, long, and near, and when facing this kind of enemy army, Li Jing couldn't even come up with any way to deal with it.

Just by standing on the observation platform and watching, he could see the horror in it.

"It's not that the ancestors can't do this, but they don't dare to think about it, they don't dare to do it, they are afraid that if they do this, a situation beyond their control will occur, so they are afraid of the wolf and the tiger and dare not move, hoping that the status quo can be maintained, but they have not thought of another possibility, standing there, can really let the wolf in front and the tiger in the back stand there and not move? No, that would just sandwich the wolf in front and the tiger in the back, and then fight on both sides. Li Yuanji shook his head and said his feelings.

The Academy of Sciences, from the perspective of future generations, the current Academy of Sciences is a joke, and even the teachers of a middle school and a secondary vocational school have been pulled over, and they have achieved more results than the Academy of Sciences.

But what is not something that has developed slowly from scratch step by step?

The emergence of the Academy of Sciences, if it was just a temptation, then now, Li Yuanji has endless confidence in this.

A department that doesn't understand anything and only relies on the elite from all walks of life to gather can do it to this point.

So if the experience of these people is accumulated step by step and passed on, will history still be like that?

Li Yuanji was very fortunate that he was reborn in this era, not the late Tang Dynasty or the Song Dynasty.

I still have a lot of time to raise the level of science and make this system a norm, so that future generations will not dare to abandon this system no matter what.

As for the rest, Li Yuanji can basically guarantee that as long as Datang can follow the current path, even if it falls into a stage of stagnation for a long time in the future, it will be difficult for foreign enemies to break through Datang's defense line.

Whether Datang will be destroyed depends on whether there are major problems in itself.

"Everything is created from nothing, and it is crossed by feeling the stones." Li Yuanji continued.

More than half a year has passed, and these students from the local area have basically trained almost.

There was no problem with queue tactics or something, and the forbidden army had also transferred some officers over to train them in their latest tactics, but Li Yuanji didn't want this to become the norm.

To put it bluntly, Li Shimin has his own Xuanjia army, and Li Yuanji also wants to form an army that truly belongs to him.

In other words, in addition to the forbidden army, Li Yuanji also needs another army to deter the entire Tang Dynasty.

This force must be more powerful and more advanced than the forbidden army.

"Go to the military department, select 1,070 people from this year's recruits, hand over these recruits to them, each of them is responsible for a group, and let them train on their own." Li Yuanji commanded towards Ma Wu.

"Your Majesty, is this going to be too early?" Li Jing's face was a little exciting.

There's no way, it's not exciting, Li Yuanji is doing this, is it just to tell everyone again, the quality of your Li Jing's teaching is not good, I can't look at it, so I plan to let them be self-taught?

No matter what others think, Li Jing felt that this matter made him lose face anyway.

Although I have expected this step for a long time, anyway, you have spent the first two years, right? Wait until the third year, and then let them lead the troops to practice.

Honest, well-behaved, isn't it?

"It's not early, for the new way of fighting, there are not many people in Datang who have experience at present, the forbidden army is a forbidden army, and the experience they have summed up may not be correct, and these students have a foundation and ideas, and now they have learned the basic theory and basic practice, so that they can find the feeling and accumulate experience by personally leading the troops, which is also a good thing for the entire Datang." Li Yuanji shook his head, but when he looked at Li Jing, he seemed to understand why Li Jing said this, as if he couldn't bear the veteran's face to be gone, Li Yuanji then comforted:

"There are some things that someone has to do, and what they are doing now is not exactly the experience that military schools need to sum up? When they actually graduate, the military school will be able to arrange a four-year course for these students. ”

Li Jing rolled his eyes, and secretly said that if you don't arrange it, the old man can also give them the full arrangement for the past four years.

In the first year, they will be able to review what they have learned in the first three years, and by the way, they will be able to take the new students and find their feelings in advance.

Look, isn't the four-year period a good arrangement?

Besides, experience is used by them to accumulate? There are more than 20,000 forbidden troops, is it not as good as these one hundred and seven students?

However, since Li Yuanji said so, Li Jing will not refute it again, it is meaningless and useless.

"Hey......" Li Jing sighed helplessly, feeling from the bottom of his heart that he was now a little struggling, "I don't know how long I can stay in this position." ”

Faced with Li Jing's question, Li Yuanji also felt that it was difficult to answer.

Because there was no way to answer him.

Li Jing's combat experience is abundant, and his operational thinking is also very peculiar; in a certain respect, Li Jing's thinking is very much in line with the combat thinking of the modern army.

But that's just the overall situation is similar, and if you really talk about it, the gap is still very big.

In addition, Li Jing is now over the age of six, and it is a little impossible to change his way of thinking.

Over the past few years, the development of the army has been one day at a time, and all kinds of new equipment have emerged one after another.

The research institute has already developed the latest artillery shells, which are actually based on the principle of bullets, expanding them, and installing warheads on the part of the bullets, and the warheads are actually not difficult.

Of course, this is not difficult to refer to the principle.

Anyone who can make a bullet can make a cannonball, because a cannonball can be seen as two opposing bullets, with a primer fuse at each end, one to ignite the propellant and one to detonate.

The hard part is how to control the force of its impact to ensure that it can be detonated.

Artillery, mortars, these equipment will appear, and the mode of combat will also change again and again, in addition to the general idea, in terms of tactics, Li Jing is indeed outdated.

But at the moment, except for Li Jing, others don't seem to have the qualifications and ability to sit in this position.