Chapter Seventy-Six: Artillery Strategy
At the end of the conversation, Luo Yang walked out, waved his hand, and ordered the soldiers waiting outside to start immediately, vacate a house outside, clean it, arrange it into a study, put away some of the books in the captured governor, and explain everything else in detail.
"King Rui, as for it? This old Qing demon is also worthy? The other generals couldn't help but say strange things.
"Absolutely! Think about it, without talent and ability, can he be admitted to the Jinshi? Can you stay in troubled times for so long? If such a person can fight back, what is the effect on others? Luo Yang said patiently. Perhaps, it is interesting to disintegrate the entire Hunan army, and perhaps, in the battle with the Hunan army, we can reduce thousands of casualties! ”
"Huh? So powerful, huh? A few of his relatives stuck out their tongues.
Back to the Manchu Sichuan Governor's Palace, although the room building is still the same, but, pick the signboard, replace the new content, the momentum is different, the left: the Han Heavenly Kingdom ruling government, the right: Ruiwang Luozhong military camp.
Many generals are waiting, all of them are newly promoted subordinates, Zhao Yu was appointed commander of the artillery brigade, Jiang Zhi is the commander of the general equipment brigade, and the two and their deputies are waiting for specific instructions.
"King Rui!" They hurriedly greeted Luo Yang.
After Luo Yang waved his hand, he quickly took his seat: "Today, I have brought you here, and the issue we are talking about is very important, and it can be said that it is the primary issue related to the survival, development, and prosperity of our Han Heavenly Kingdom in the future. ”
Luo Yang talked eloquently, talked about his own experience and opinions, emphasized the importance of artillery, the power of firepower in modern warfare, and finally said: "The artillery brigade must master the most advanced artillery manufacturing technology at present, master the most dense artillery, make a comprehensive breakthrough in the rate of fire and explosive power, and have overwhelming firepower, then the casualties of the ordinary army will be greatly reduced, and the general equipment brigade must be comprehensively built and studied, and the artillery brigade must experiment and cooperate." ”
Luo Yang stressed: In the shortest possible time, Chengdu will become a research and development base for the new artillery of the Han Heavenly Kingdom, capable of imitating Western artillery, and capable of developing more advanced and more important artillery.
"We also need more and more advanced artillery, for example, self-propelled artillery, for example, tanks with more assault capabilities, for example, Katyusha rocket artillery, for example, heavy mortars used in siege, but also smart mortars, and flying artillery that can bombard in the air, that is, airplanes, in short, we have to give full play to the current artillery technology, then, we can easily win!"
As soon as he talked about artillery, Luo Yang gushed endlessly, and couldn't beat his head, not only talking about the history, origin, development and future types and power of artillery artillery, but also crossing the country, telling the battle of Western countries using artillery to turn the tide of war, especially mentioning that the French Napoleonic Emperor, who was respected by Western countries, almost swept the entire European continent, relying on artillery, he was a graduate of the artillery school, and in all previous battles, he skillfully used the power of artillery.
"As long as we can develop a good enough, enough cannon, we can sweep the world!"
To be honest, in Luo Yang's class, every general present was so quiet that they couldn't imagine that Luo Yang, who was once a small soldier in the army, actually knew so much, and he was also able to understand the types of artillery in the future.
"King Rui, how do you know about those new cannons in the future? Will it work? Zhao Yu asked in surprise.
"It works!" Luo Yang almost blurted out, saying that Lao Tzu is playing this!
"Definitely!" Jiang Zhi hurriedly patted Zhao Yu on the shoulder and motioned for him to sit down: "Isn't the Flying Thunder Cannon made by King Rui?" Mom, how powerful, before, who of us thought about it? ”
"Yes, yes, King Rui is not human! It's not human! Several generals spoke in unison.
"Huh?" Luo Yang was embarrassed.
"No, no, King Rui, what we mean by this is that you are not an ordinary person, you are a god! God! Really God! Everyone quickly changed their words.
With the knowledge and talent of a veteran soldier of the army in modern society, Luo Yang completely poured over the elite revolutionary soldiers of 100 years ago, and made them admire and worship them.
After depicting the glorious prospects of the future, Luo Yang personally helped everyone determine the priority development goals, under the conditions at that time, the best way is to continue to develop the flying thunder cannon, so the development of gunpowder, the improvement of power has become the focus. The biggest advantage of flying thunder artillery is that it does not need sophisticated mechanical equipment, so Luo Yang determined the amount of gunpowder and the number of flying thunder cannons developed every month according to the Qing army arsenal captured at that time.
Luo Yang also designed an organization to specially select some soldiers who were sober-minded and quick-thinking as scientific researchers, and promised heavy rewards, asking everyone to immediately organize themselves to study the development process of Western flowering artillery shells and master their technology as quickly as possible.
"It's not easy." As soon as they heard that they were going to learn Western flowering cannonballs, these generals shook their heads violently.
Indeed, the power of Western flowering shells is much greater than that of Chinese cast iron cannons, and moreover, they move quickly, conveniently, and have a much longer firing range than flying thunder cannons.
"No, we must master its technology quickly, otherwise, we will suffer a big loss!" Luo Yang's voice was full of emotion.
In order to overcome everyone's fear of difficulties, Luo Yang immediately asked for pen and ink, and began to paint on paper, although his painting skills were not very skillful, but he had a good grasp of the proportional relationship, and made an analysis and diagram of the internal structure of the Western flowering shells, and instructed the officers and soldiers of the army to bring the real shells for dismantling.
Everyone immediately got serious and observed and studied repeatedly, while Luo Yang was ready to guide and answer questions.
"Ah, I see!"
"Yes, yes, thanks to King Rui's explanation, otherwise, I really didn't know that there was so much attention to in this flowering cannonball!"
Everyone suddenly realized and was excited.
Luo Yang also pointed out the dangerous problems that may arise in the manufacturing process of cannons and shells.
In order to strengthen the research and manufacture of artillery, Luo Yang recruited almost all the officers and soldiers of the Taiping Army who knew this aspect, and also integrated the artillery and arsenal workers among the prisoners of war of the Qing army, and gave them quite generous living treatment.
The development and understanding of self-propelled guns, mortars, etc., also began.
"We must start from now on and treat the development of artillery as the lifeline of our Han Heavenly Kingdom!" Luo Yang waved his fist.
"Got it, King Rui, we will definitely live up to your expectations!" More than a dozen officers, said passionately.
In order to ensure the safe development of artillery, strict secrecy measures were also implemented, and Luo Yang himself personally served as a technical guidance consultant.
The core strategic force of the Han Heavenly Kingdom is quietly sprouting.