Chapter 185 Cannons roar!
For the areas under Li Zhe's rule, the time to issue currency is ripe. The consumption power created by industrial workers in several industrial areas itself has surpassed the market size at the heyday of the Han Dynasty. The points system, military tickets and supply and marketing cooperatives that have been implemented under Li Zhe have cultivated market conditions for the issuance of currency and provided the best social foundation. From military tickets to currency, it is almost the smoothest excessive.
This is also the best weapon to break the curse of small peasant economy, society, commodity economy!
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Prometheus was great, and his greatness lies in sacrificing himself and bringing the spark of civilization to mankind.
Of course, Li Zhe is also great for people in the time and space of the Three Kingdoms. Li Zhe's greatness lies in not only spreading the spark of civilization, but also not using any means to suppress people's peeping at his greatness! Instead, he actively promotes the spread of knowledge and makes it more widely used in people's production and life. This is obviously extremely unfavorable for any ** regime.
In fact, people in the Three Kingdoms time and space are constantly exploring the most mysterious and greatest part of Li Zhe - the kind of explosive weapon that can be compared with the devil.
Therefore, when the black gunpowder was produced, it developed vigorously. Not only Li Zhe's official institutions, the Craftsman Camp and the Imperial Academy, were doing research on it, but folk scientists were also constantly experimenting.
Human nature and the social conditions at this time made black gunpowder naturally the greatest military development. Rockets, spray drums and even the most primitive bamboo gunpowder gun weapons emerge one by one. But the fastest development and truly decisive significance is the gunpowder weapon research institution specially set up by Li Zhe in the craftsman camp. What they have been conducting research on artillery, the terminator of the cold weapon era - artillery.
February 2, 202. Three Kingdoms Space-Time, Xiangcheng Industrial Zone.
This is a vast plain, endless, and the fields are filled with cultivated farmland. In the distance of the view is an artificially raised hill, with several special places marked with colorful flags, and you can vaguely see things like armor.
Li Zhe and a group of senior officials, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Xu Shu, Liao Hua, etc. of the Privy Council and the Ministry of War, as well as Cao Cao, all of them held telescopes in their hands and looked into the distance.
Li Zhe made a gesture and passed the order. A signalman in the distance waved the small flag in his hand.
"Prepare! Let it go!"
A few seconds later, with a loud bang, the earth-shaking thunder exploded out of thin air, and a large piece of white smoke suddenly surged on the cannon position. Invisible shock waves in the air hit people's eardrums, and even a faint echo came from the sky.
A distant hill, on the predetermined target, suddenly felt visual chaos, and then rocks collapsed and rocks flew away. After everything calmed down, a big hole appeared on the target in the field of vision. The targets placed around were blown away and flew out of shape, and the debris flew dozens of meters away!
Except for Li Zhe and the craftsman in charge of the experiment, everyone present changed drastically!
Cannons are shocking to the human sense. They are not only powerful, but also have revolutionary progress in range compared to catapults. The emergence of ballistics has made the concept of accurate strikes look forward to it. As for catapults, you really can't think of other combat methods except covering attacks.
Almost immediately, people imagined the effect of this weapon appearing on the battlefield, which would be a complete destruction and a devastating attack!
The group of people who followed Li Zhe to visit again were all the elites of this era! They all realized very quickly! The emergence of this weapon would be a revolution in military history!
Immediately afterwards, everyone watched the test firing of several other different artillery, and their minds were constantly forced to change their ideas by the amazing power of the artillery.
After the test shooting, everyone walked to the artillery position and observed it one by one to create such a weapon that ruined the world!
The cannons stood up there, with cold and rigid lines, majestic and cold!
The maker of artillery, Jin Xin, who was born in the first batch of masters of the craftsman camp in Runan County, came over and introduced them to everyone one by one, including the parabolic calculations that had just been mastered during artillery test firing and the artillery proofreading table that was being formed.
It is different from what everyone expected. Even the most primitive and simple artillery is not that simple. It was only after nearly half a year of research by the craftsman camp.
At present, the Craftsman Camp has mastered two types of mature artillery, bronze artillery and cast iron artillery, all of which are front-bore smooth-bore cannons, fired with silk medicine bags, with calibers of three pound cannons and six pound cannons, which are three pound cannons and six pound cannons in the European firearm era, which are relatively larger than pound cannons.
Bronze cannons are much more expensive than cast iron. After all, copper is less than iron at this time and serves as a currency. However, copper has high density, good ductility and strong toughness. In the case of extremely poor metal smelting technology in the early days, the performance of bronze cannons is much more reliable than cast iron cannons. Even so far, the quality of the barrels of cast iron cannons is still somewhat unprepared, and the phenomenon of blowing chambers occurs frequently. In comparison, the craftsman camp prefers bronze cannons. As for steel cannons, there is no sign yet! Until now, the industrial technology under Li Zhe's rule does not have the appropriate processing ability to make gun barrels.
In other words, in a short period of time, Li Zhejun will be equipped on a large scale with three-pound cannons and six-pound cannons in bronze cannons. Its own weight can be consigned everywhere with a wooden cannon stand, which is extremely convenient. Whether it is for infantry and cavalry support or on a ship, it is a light and flexible weapon, enough to bear firepower support in field battles.
With the current production capacity of the craftsman battalion, it will be able to produce more than 200 pieces in a month, which is enough to equip one army artillery battalion. Moreover, this output is still increasing exponentially. At most half a year later, it will be able to equip it to the entire army.
Within a year, with the service of larger-aperture siege artillery, Li Zhejun will completely eliminate the counterweight catapults and crossbows of the Heavy Equipment Battalion, and jump into the firearm era as a whole!
Once Li Zhejun enters the firearm era, the military tactics of the entire era will undergo leaps and turns, and now all the old-style armies of the princes will be eliminated.
Times are progressing, everything will be different!
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After returning to Xudu, the gentry led by Cao Cao, who finally stood firm on the bottom line, finally bowed and was fully incorporated into the Li Zhe system!
Cao Cao was appointed as Minister of War and was appointed as the Minister of War.
Xun Yu was appointed as the Minister of Revenue and was appointed as the cabinet to walk.
Xun You was appointed as the director of the Privy Council and was also appointed as the cabinet to walk.
Liu Ye was appointed as a doctor of the Ministry of Works and was added to the cabinet to walk.
Cheng Li was appointed as the chief minister of Dali Temple and was appointed as the cabinet to walk.
Man Chong Xu You was appointed as a doctor of the Ministry of War.
Dong Zhao and Mao Jie were appointed as the censor.
Cao Chun and Han Hao were appointed as Sima, the Zhennan Military Camp.
Ren Jun, Zhu Ling and others entered Li Zhe's system in turn.
In addition to these people, there is another unexpected gain - Ju Su. This guy was changed by Li Zhe. After being captured, he was not hacked to death by Cao Cao because of his escape. He stayed in Xudu and criticized the current problems all day long with another stubborn Kong Rong. Li Zhe did not care much about himself and allowed him to hang out in the Imperial Academy and the big library.
At the same time as the adjustment of the imperial court, the training and dressing of the artillery battalion soldiers were carried out, and the strengthening and dressing of the Zhennan Army was the first to carry out, because there was news from the Kuai family in Jingzhou that Liu Biao was completely out of place!...)
Chapter completed!