I encountered a situation in that area with surprisingly warm air.
By the time I received the news, everything had happened, and it was not just an ordinary trouble, but the most troublesome kind of trouble - the Romans.
There are real artillery pieces.
Originally, Li Jing had indeed thought of this situation and was really worried about it.
When thinking about this matter, Li Jing quickly thought of another key point, which is that China's artillery is very easy to manufacture.
Big guys like Li Jing are very good at introspection. Once they realize what kind of uncontrollable situations a powerful thing like artillery can cause, they will think about where this thing comes from.
Come.
Of course, China's artillery was born in the hands of Li Sheng, but now the person responsible for the production and improvement of this thing is the weapons research institute established in Chang'an in the past two years, which Li Jing is very envious of.
An institution that the old cunning man successfully sneaked into.
That place is full of magical weapons. It is like a paradise for warriors, who specialize in studying various magical weapons!
The reason why the artillery thing was specially obtained from this kind of institution and allowed such generals of the national prince level to participate in the research is not only because of its huge power and its wide relevance, but also because the casting of this artillery has a lot to do with it.
Ordinary weapons, completely different!
In the past, China's refined iron weapons have always been a good thing that the Han people were proud of. Similar to the ancient Damas knives that were said to have been passed down from places like Persia in the far reaches of the Western Regions, the ancient Damas knives were rare after all, and were generally called Hu
Only the most prestigious people among the people collect such things. How can ordinary Hu people have the conditions to collect such things? So in this aspect, the Han people still have a complete victory.
Later, Li Sheng came up with the incredible thing of standard steel, and this advantage became even greater. The princes and nobles of the Tang Dynasty now no longer collect swords, mainly private heroes such as maritime merchants.
When collecting high-level handicrafts, the reason is this, because the attribute of "blowing hair and breaking hair" of famous swords has been greatly diluted.
And this artillery is different. The steel required for this thing is harder than the standard steel swords of the Tang Dynasty!
Of course, this does not mean that artillery cannot be made with ordinary standard steel, but at least according to the current research results of the Ordnance Research Institute, the hardness of the steel directly affects the power and weight of the artillery. The harder it is.
The stronger the gun body, the more it can support loading a larger amount of gunpowder, the more powerful it will be.
At the same time, when the power is certain, the harder the steel, the lighter the gun body will be, and the key is this lightness, because the speed of carriage transportation is completely different between light and heavy gun bodies!
And the geographical range that can be deployed is of course even more different. The cannons made of the strongest steel can even be transported directly to the high mountains of Tubo to fire. However, if they are replaced by ordinary wrought iron, I'm sorry.
No, the horses are too exhausted to carry it up.
Because of this, Li Jing soon stopped worrying so much, because looking at it this way, a usable cannon seemed easy to cast, but the steel used to cast the cannon was not easy to forge.
After the recent wave of tentative feints came down, Li Jing suddenly realized that when he received the rewards, he had made a mistake, and it was an extremely obvious mistake: "usable" artillery is not just about being able to move
With the artillery deployed everywhere, no matter how heavy and huge the cannon body is, can't it just be used to defend the city?
In fact, it is possible to cast extremely powerful artillery without using metals with such superior properties!
It's just that you can't take it with you everywhere, but it can still be used for defense.
As for this idea, I suddenly realized it when I received the letter.
However.
What made Li Jing feel toothache was that the Romans had thought of this a long time ago.
This is mostly the reason why this feint overturned and caused the accident.
The Romans used bronze, which had been eliminated for many years not only in China but also in Europe, to cast cannons!
This kind of cannon is simply incomparable with China's, because China's cannons often have a bore diameter of five inches, and the thickness of the barrel is slightly less than this number, usually about four inches. Although such artillery is also heavy, it is enough for horses to drag
Generally speaking, this weight, and most importantly, the marching speed determined by this weight, is quite acceptable when marching.
But that was not the case with the Romans. These people directly cast huge pillars out of bronze, and then made holes in the centers of these pillars.
The inner diameter of a cannon's bore is three inches, but the thickness of the barrel is directly over one foot - this ratio is directly several times higher than that of China's artillery!
Another reason why Li Jing did not expect that the Romans could also build artillery at first was that China had experienced explosions in the artillery industry. At that time, the number of craftsmen killed and injured in the explosion shocked the court. Li Er
I even went to the scene to investigate the matter in person. Afterwards, I expressed my condolences to the craftsmen’s families and offered them compensation, but I became more vigilant from then on. It is true that the entire weapons research institute expanded the test explosion site specifically for this purpose.
And after that, whether it was Li Jing, Li Er or the ministers in the court, although the matter was a bad thing, they felt inexplicably relieved when they thought that foreign barbarians would probably not be able to get such a difficult weapon.
Anyway, if foreign barbarians want to follow suit, there will obviously be far more cases of bombing than in China.
However, this time Li Jing could only smile bitterly, because the Roman bronze cannon obviously had no chance of exploding its barrel. At the same time, its inner diameter was not much different from that of China's artillery, and its power was correspondingly astonishing.
This time, the imperial army was sent out to pretend to attack, but the car overturned and an accident occurred. It was the Romans who finally lifted this object!
The moment he learned the news, Li Jing felt that he was screwed, because he subconsciously judged that the Romans did not have artillery. In addition to the casting reasons, there was also the fact that when they fought in Europe and east of the Alps,
The Roman army never displayed such magical weapons.
But now Li Jing understood.
It is true that the Romans could not build a cannon as light and powerful as the Tang Dynasty, but they could build a cannon that was powerful but not light, and - although they had not used this in the previous battle with Cheng Zhijie
It's a joke, but now Li Jing understands.
That’s why it wasn’t used because of the barrier of the Alps!