Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 969

[Chapter 969 Arrival]

“Your Highness, the first batch of machine guns has been delivered to the army.”

Palace study.

When Zhao Xu was reviewing the memorial, Wang Ying came to report.

Hearing this, Zhao Xu stopped writing and said to Wang, “Continue to produce the next batch of machine guns, and deliver them to the Qinglong Army and Suzaku Army. Once the war in the north is over, it’s time to clean up the Jiaozhi, Hunman, and the Xitu army entrenched in the southern region. Already .”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Wang Ying responded with a bow.

Nodding, Zhao Xu thought of something, and said again: “By the way, the matter of the machine gun has been settled. You and Wang Chong also often go to Jinghai for a walk, trying to build the first ironclad ship as soon as possible.”

Regarding the current war, the army side With the hand-cranked machine gun, it can temporarily meet the firepower demand on the battlefield.

As for the next-generation automatic machine gun powered by gas, its structure is much more complicated than that of a hand-cranked machine gun, and it is also much more delicate.

This requires the Research Institute affiliated to the Bing Zhan Division to continuously produce tests until they pass the test.

Moreover, since the rate of fire of this machine gun can reach 600 rounds per minute, the requirements for the quality of the barrel are naturally high.

The R&D Institute must also develop better special steel products.

Therefore, taking advantage of this window period, they can devote more energy to the construction of ironclad ships.

After all, compared with the replacement speed of the army’s guns and artillery, the replacement of naval equipment is relatively much slower.

At the same time, the Navy is currently facing a much bigger problem than the Army.

Zhou Yi told him that the Westerners had already learned how to use explosive bombs on warships.

It’s just that the opponent’s flower bombs are not as technically as the Dasong battleship, and the range is too short, so they don’t pose any threat to the Dasong navy.

However, for Zhao Xu, this is a bad signal.

Apparently, after suffering a loss, the natives of the West are using their steam industry to smooth the gap between them.

In terms of muskets, the natives of the West imitated the front-loading rifles.

He believes that in terms of artillery, the opponent’s round hollow bullets will soon transition to conical hollow bullets.

Once the cone shells are in place, the opposing ship’s capabilities will be boosted.

At that time, even if the opponent’s naval guns are still not as good as theirs due to steel quality problems, the gap will inevitably narrow.

Relying on the number of sailing warships they have accumulated for hundreds of years, the pressure on the Dasong Navy will skyrocket.

The only way to solve this problem and allow the Dasong Navy to dominate the global ocean order in a short period of time is the steam ironclad ship.

“In this regard, I have been cooperating with Mr. Chen. After solving the bearing problem, the rotating turret has also taken shape. Once the main body of the battleship is completed, it can be installed.” Wang Ying replied, and then introduced the structure of the rotating turret.

Zhao Xu nodded in satisfaction. The most important part of the rotating turret is the bearing that fixes the turret.

Speaking of bearings, its structure is filled with steel balls between two steel rings.

In this way, the inner and outer steel rings can rotate freely.

This thing can be manufactured at the level of the steam industry.

But the bearings used for artillery are naturally different from the bearings of ordinary machinery.

Due to the problem of recoil, there are higher requirements for its quality and larger specifications.

As for the shells, there will be a hand-cranked conveyor belt between the turret and the lower deck, which is used to deliver the shells in the cabin to the turret for soldiers to use.

In this way, when encountering enemy warships at sea, the ironclad ship will no longer need to use the position to adjust the muzzle to bombard the opponent’s warship.

Just rotate the turret to attack enemies from any direction.

After talking about this matter, Zhao Xu asked Wang Ying to go back.

After Wang Ying’s figure disappeared, Zhao Xu looked at the drawing on the wall, and then cast his gaze in the direction of Yongzhou.

This time, thirty machine guns were sent to the front line of the Yongzhou battlefield, which would greatly increase the firepower density of the Dasong army.

Some people from Beidi accepted it.

Just as he was thinking, Yang Susu suddenly came to the door of the study with an ambiguous expression, “Your Highness, Madam sent another bowl of jujube porridge.”

Hearing this, Zhao Xu couldn’t help laughing bitterly.

This person seems to be addicted to holding grandchildren as he gets older.

Since his return, Empress Mi has not only talked about it, but also put it into action.

Sending people to the palace every now and then, they either brought a plate of peanuts or a bowl of jujube porridge.

The implication is to let him have children early.

At the beginning, Empress Mi just called Yang Susu to the Wuji Palace, staring at Yang Susu and thinking about it, but now she often calls Feng’er and Luan’er away.

That means it doesn’t matter who comes first.

“Let’s go, go back to the dormitory to make a baby.” Zhao Xu rolled his eyes, left the study room, and walked towards the dormitory with his arms around Yang Susu’s slender waist.

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at the same time.

The steam locomotive to Yongzhou has already set off.

Inside the carriage, thirty machine guns stood quietly, and the special metal bullets for the machine guns also set off together with the machine guns.

After running for a day and a half on the road, the train arrived at the east bank of the Jin River.

After the machine gun was unloaded, it was immediately sent to Yongcheng.

Here thirty machine guns caused a commotion.

For the generals, this thing is a treasure.

“A total of thirty guns, that’s great.” Chang Wei’s eyes lit up as he lightly stroked the machine gun in the Yongcheng government office.

He has been waiting for the arrival of the machine gun, and now his expectation has not failed after all, and the Military Division delivered the machine gun on time.

“Send the machine gun to Lingwu County immediately. It’s time to kill Mu Le Hongzhen, that bastard.” After Chang Wei was happy, his face suddenly became serious.

He receives battle reports from all directions every day.

Naturally, I learned that Mule Hongzhen is so frantic now that he even asked the soldiers to charge with gunpowder barrels on their backs.

As the opponent continued to charge with large-scale soldiers, their firepower suddenly seemed a little insufficient.

Now that the machine gun comes, this problem is solved.

After receiving his order, the general in charge of transportation immediately called soldiers to carry the machine gun carefully.

In one and a half days, the machine gun arrived at the battlefield in Lingwu County.

Seeing thirty machine guns and boxes of metal bullets, Bai Shang, Huo An and other generals almost went crazy with joy.

During this period of time, they had soldiers learning how to use machine guns with their soldiers.

These machine guns can be put into use immediately.

“Damn it, the people of Beidi have been comfortable these few days, and now it’s our turn to be comfortable.” Bai Shang said with red eyes.

Facing Beidi’s frantic charge, he dared not be careless.

In the past few days, Huo An and Huo An took turns staring at the battlefield, fearing that there would be mistakes.

However, although the Beidi people used cavalry to cause them some troubles, they never destroyed the trench defense line and were responsible for a large number of casualties.

“Counterattack directly!” Huo An shouted, he was fed up with passive defense.

And now that the opponent’s soldiers have been consumed by them, and with the arrival of machine guns, he thinks it is completely possible to launch a counterattack.

Bai Shang nodded, he also meant the same thing.

Each of the machine guns sent this time was fixed on a single two-wheeled cart. There was also a thick iron plate in front of the cart, and there was only a palm-width gap to look forward.

This means that the machine gun can be pushed away, and the iron plate can also protect the machine gunner, which is very suitable for fighting a counterattack with them.

(end of this chapter)