At ten o'clock in the starry night, at the junction of northwest Beijing and Anbei Province, a black steam locomotive, spitting dense smoke and dust, galloped towards Xuanzhou in the northwest, and behind this powerful whole machine was pulling more than a dozen military trains mixed with passengers and goods.

Taking advantage of the night to take a closer look, I saw that there was a cannon fixed on it with its head raised to the sky, although it was covered with heavy artillery clothing, and the night was dim, but it still could not hide the mighty and tall figure of these gods of war, but there was also a truck-like thing loaded in front of these guns,

Because the whole body is covered with a rainproof cloth and the darkness of the night, it is impossible to see what kind of equipment this truck is at all, but from the perspective of the tightness of its protection, this military column is a little unusual, especially on the only passenger car, that little dazzling light makes people look at the past and jump a few times involuntarily!

"Old Zhong, are your eyelids still jumping?" Different from the unconscious beating of ordinary people, Zhong Xiaomo, the chief designer of the artillery radar on the passenger car at the front of the train, had his right eyelid as if he had installed a small motor, and he kept jumping, even if he closed his eyes, he couldn't stop completely.

Zhong Xiaomo had never had a problem with eyelids jumping before, but somehow since he received the test to be compared with the British artillery radar, Zhong Xiaomo's eyelids jumped involuntarily, but after boarding the train to the Xuanzhou Artillery Equipment Test Site, Zhong Xiaomo's eyelids jumped even more, and at this time, Liu Haotian, the leader of the artillery radar development team, came over and asked softly, so that Zhong Xiaomo came back from his uninformed thoughts:

"It's much better, I didn't jump so hard!" Looking at Liu Haotian sitting opposite him, Zhong Xiaomo was so nervous and tired that her face showed a smile that she hadn't seen for a long time, and then couldn't help but ask with concern:

"Chief, it's so late, why don't you rest!"

"Isn't it like you?" Regarding Zhong Xiaomo's words, Liu Haotian did not answer positively, but said a meaningful rhetorical question, and Zhong Xiaomo, who was sitting opposite him, naturally understood this sentence in his heart, so he opened his mouth and continued:

"Yes. I'm going to test it tomorrow, and I really can't sleep!"

As soon as Zhong Xiaomo's words fell, Liu Haotian couldn't help but nod silently: "We have never done it before to compete with a developed country like the United Kingdom for the performance of high-tech equipment like radar." It's really not easy!"

But as he spoke, Liu Haotian seemed to remember something, and then couldn't help but raise his head, looking at Zhong Xiaomo opposite with a little expectation, and his words revealed a soldier's desire for victory:

"Old clock. You are the chief designer of the artillery radar, and now that the test will be carried out tomorrow, you can give me a real answer, will our artillery radar work?"

"This" Listening to Liu Haotian's words, Zhong Xiaomo couldn't help but hesitate, but looking at the eager hope revealed in Liu Haotian's eyes, Zhong Xiaomo still had the kind of truth-seeking and rigor of a scientific research worker, and said sincerely:

"Chief, I think you also know very well in your heart that the performance indicators of our artillery radar are not bad on paper. But after all, it is only a test prototype that has just been put into trial production, but even so, we still have a lot of basic tests that have not yet been completed, and the operation and maturity of various systems are not yet certain.

Zhong Xiaomo is right, although the new high-mobility artillery reconnaissance and calibration radar has been developed, many performance tests have not yet been done, such as the operation status of the system. The degree of mutual cooperation, reliability, and other aspects of radar operation are not clear at all, which is why Zhong Xiaomo is always worried that some uncertain accidents will occur during the testing of this new artillery radar.

In fact, it was not only Zhong Xiaomo, but Liu Haotian, who was sitting opposite him. It's just that as a soldier who has experienced the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield, Liu Haotian's heart is full of indescribable expectations for victory, although it is not a real battlefield, although it is not a real fight, but in Liu Haotian's eyes, the vast testing ground is the battlefield of Jin Ge Iron Horse;

The silent radio waves are the weapons of the general attack and defense of the rain of bullets, not to mention the intersecting opponent is still the one who almost made himself suffer a big loss at the negotiating table. Because of this, from the bottom of Liu Haotian's heart, he is very eager to knock down the British at tomorrow's test site, so that they can know that China is not a random bully!

However, although Liu Haotian's heart is full of strong iron-blooded feelings, he also knows very well in his heart that this blood alone cannot solve any problems, only the sword in his hand can be sharpened to be able to cut the enemy down the horse, and the current reality is that the radar as a charge has not reached a satisfactory degree of reliability, in the face of the British artillery radar, which ranks among the top in the world in terms of maturity, reliability and technological advancement, will the sword in his hand be in danger of breaking?

Thinking of this, Liu Haotian's wrinkled face couldn't help but be shrouded in a faint layer of worry, a pair of sword eyebrows were slightly wrinkled together, his deep and firm eyes looked at the dark night outside through the car window, and his mind kept coming up with the majestic words of the old chief when he reported on the British side's intentions:

"The British want to engage in performance comparison tests, then let's compete with them, on weekdays with lanterns to find such a whetstone can not be found, now people take the initiative to send it to the front, why don't we use it well?

If we fail, we will sum up the lessons and see where the gap between our radar and other people's advanced radar is, even if we win, we should not be proud, we still have to summarize the successful method, as the necessary ladder for the next step of in-depth development, anyway, in a word, put down the burden, carefully and conscientiously complete the comparison test task!"

"Whetstone, whetstone!" Liu Haotian looked at the endless darkness outside the window, his lips opened lightly and muttered to himself, and Zhong Xiaomo, who was sitting opposite him, listened to Liu Haotian's soft self-talk, and couldn't help but look at Liu Haotian very suspiciously, and asked in surprise:

"Chief, what whetstone?"

Zhong Xiaomo's question made Liu Haotian suddenly come back to his senses from his contemplation, and he wanted to explain the so-called whetstone to Zhong Xiaomo, but before Liu Haotian could speak, a firm and familiar voice came from his ears:

"The so-called whetstone refers to the United Kingdom!" Hearing these words, both Liu Haotian and Zhong Xiaomo raised their heads, only to see Lu Jiadong slowly put on his clothes and climbed down on the upper bunk, and then sat down on the lower bunk, but the words on his lips did not stop there:

"In essence, the comparative test with him is to find a reference frame for our artillery radar, so that we can know what position our independently developed technical equipment is in the world!"

"I really didn't expect that Xiao Lu, who couldn't be beaten by thunder, could be woken up by us, this is really a miracle!" Liu Haotian looked at Lu Jiadong, who was already sitting in front of him, although he was joking, but what he said was also very realistic, when he received the order to conduct a comparative test with the British artillery radar, whether it was Liu Haotian or Zhong Xiaomo or other personnel involved in the development of the artillery radar,

After all, the new artillery radar has not yet completed all the tests, and no one can guarantee the stability of its system to operate 100% normally, and it is precisely because of this that Zhong Xiaomo's eyelids will jump unconsciously, and Liu Haotian will be so full of thoughts, of course, it is not uncommon for him to toss and turn and stay awake all night.

Compared with people like Liu Haotian and Zhong Xiaomo, Lu Jiadong can be called an absolute alternative, in the face of the grim reality, Lu Jiadong seems to have nothing happened, it can be said that he eats sweetly, sleeps peacefully, and is not nervous and flustered.

Even if it is going to be formally tested tomorrow, the artillery radar developers involved in it are all so nervous that they can't sleep, but Lu Jiadong is still the same, since he drove after dinner, he fell on the bed and slept until now, because of this, when Lu Jiadong listened to Liu Haotian's words, Lu Jiadong couldn't help but scratch his hair, and explained unhurriedly:

"Mainly because I don't think there's anything to worry about, that's why I sleep soundly!"

"Nothing to worry about?" As soon as Lu Jiadong's words fell, Zhong Xiaomo's brows couldn't help frowning slightly: "Director Lu, I also know what you said about the whetstone, but no matter what, we want to compete with the British's real swords and guns, if we win, it's easy to say, if we lose, we will lose this face to the world!"

Listening to Zhong Xiaomo's words, Liu Haotian beside him couldn't help but nod slightly, how could Lu Jiadong not know what they were thinking, but Lu Jiadong also knew that this kind of thing was not persuaded at all, after all, it was better to have a real exercise with a real knife and a real gun to see is believing, because of this, Lu Jiadong did not explain, but just said with confidence and firmness:

"It's a mule or a horse, you'll know tomorrow, now the most important thing for us is to rest, otherwise tomorrow the energy can't keep up, then there will be big trouble!"

As he spoke, Lu Jiadong couldn't help but rub his stomach, and then said eagerly, "Director Liu, Chief Zhong, you have to talk slowly, I still have to go to the toilet!"

Immediately before Liu Haotian and Zhong Xiaomo could answer, Lu Jiadong ran to the toilet at the end of the carriage with his stomach covered (to be continued.) )