Guan Fei and Sun Yaohua had a comprehensive discussion on the troop establishment, number, arms, and equipment, and before they knew it, the time was past one o'clock in the morning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ【，

At this moment, a staff officer who was on standby in the office of the factory department had a happy face, walked out of the building quickly, came to Guan Fei's side, leaned down and whispered: "Commander, I just received a call from Menghai Station, the special train has passed through Menghai Station, and it is expected to arrive in half an hour!" ”

"Okay, it's finally here!" Before Guan Fei could speak, Sun Yaohua jumped up from the ground and shouted excitedly.

In order to avoid people's eyes, this special train is parked in the remote branch road specially prepared for the meeting at each station during the day, and will only depart at night. In this way, one by one, it was slowly moved to the base area. It took more than a week to get there after thousands of kilometers of walking.

This is also something that cannot be helped, after all, the country still maintains diplomatic relations with the military junta, and even if it supports Guan Fei, it can only help at the economic level.

Previously, the country had not provided any military assistance, except for the transfer of weapons confiscated to the KPA to the base areas. If Guan Fei hadn't done his best to build a small-scale precision manufacturing enterprise from scratch that could make some of his own weapons and ammunition, I am afraid that he would have been able to rely on other People's Army units, and even normal training could not be guaranteed.

If it weren't for the fact that domestic military spending has been severely reduced, the troops have complained quite a bit, and the top level has had to relax the control over foreign arms sales, it would have been impossible to approve this order.

"All of them! Rise! Sun Yaohua was impatient and immediately ordered.

Wow!

Hundreds of commanders and fighters who had been waiting in the square in front of the factory got up at the same time, touched their heels, and stared at Guan Fei and Sun Yaohua with bright eyes, excited.

They all knew what they were going to pick up today, and they were already excited, and just now when they saw the staff officer rushing out, the keenly observing soldier felt that there was a play. Sun Yaohua was so excited, and everyone knew that the equipment they were waiting for was about to arrive, so they immediately stood up, their eyes shining brightly, and they were eager to try.

Guan Fei smiled and shook his head.

They are all twenty-six-year-old young men who have already married and had children, and Sun Yaohua is still as impulsive as a young man. Obviously, there was still half an hour before the special train arrived, and he couldn't help it.

Sun Yaohua's combat style is brave and tenacious, not afraid of death, and dares to work hard. At the beginning, he was not the strongest in the company, but Guan Fei had a good eye for it, listed him as a key promotion target, trained him carefully, and finally trained him to be his right and left hand.

Several years have passed, and after half a year of training for middle and senior commanders and many rotational trainings in China, the level has grown, but this impulsive character has not changed, and it is still the same as it was at the beginning.

However, any army needs such a fierce general-type general, at the critical moment, this kind of general will not be afraid of the huge disadvantage of his own side on the battlefield, dare to fight tough battles, evil battles, bad battles, there is a town of him, even if there is a military commander who is afraid to move forward and protect himself, he does not dare to retreat, he can only move forward and fight with the enemy with bayonets.

As for that kind of traditional wise general, to be honest, there is really no shortage of such people under him.

Chinese are originally known for their thoughtfulness and their desire to look ahead and backward when encountering problems, but it is a fierce general like Sun Yaohua who is simple-minded and determined, which is a rare animal.

This can also be regarded as a kind of military spirit.

Only a general like him can bring out a strong army that has the belief of "use me in the first battle, use me to win", be indomitable, and fall forward even if you die!

It's not that he doesn't know how to fight, he just doesn't like to be foolish.

This is a kind of character that even Guan Fei does not possess, and if he leads it, most of them will lead the troops into a technical army that is proficient in the study of technology and tactics and strives to track down all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment in the world, but it lacks the kind of momentum that is happy when it hears of war and is indomitable.

That's why he entrusted all the training of the troops to Sun Yaohua, because he planned to replenish calcium for the troops and improve the spirit of all commanders and fighters.

Looking at the group of little tiger-like commanders and fighters in front of him, Guan Fei smiled.

Sun Yaohua was also very satisfied with everyone's mental state, and shouted in his usual loud voice: "Everyone, board the car!" Let's go! Target, railway unloading platform! ”

"Yes! Listen to the command, one in a row, turn right, start running! Boarding! Target, unloading platform! The commander of the lead repeated his order loudly and took the lead in running.

Wow, smack!

The company standing in front of the head first turned around and stood upright, and then followed him neatly, running towards the heavy flatbed loader dozens of meters away. When they arrived at the vehicle, the whole company automatically dispersed, boarded the assigned loading truck in shifts, and started the vehicle.

The commander boarded the first heavy truck parked in the outer train and set off with the car.

As the first car drove out, the vehicles behind followed one after another, with an interval of five meters between the front and the back.

"Erlian! Turn right! Run ahead! "When the vehicles of the first company drove out of the halfway way, the instructor took the place of the commander and gave the command to let the second company follow, followed by the third company and the fourth company.

The quiet office area of the ammunition factory suddenly became lively, with the sound of neat running, the low roar of the engine, and the sound of passwords one after another.

Guan Fei and the instructor who were tailing him boarded the last heavy truck, followed closely by the car in front of him, and drove out of the office area.

The unloading area is located one kilometer from the factory, with its back to the hill and facing the river, in order to avoid accidental explosions when loading and unloading raw materials and ammunition.

Dozens of heavy loaders arrived, turning their heads around and facing the tracks, leaving a thirty-meter clearing.

Once in place, all the cars did not turn off, leaving the engines idling, the driver holding the steering wheel in his hands, and the others also sat up straight in their respective positions, patiently waiting for the arrival of the special train.

The yard is brightly lit, illuminating the kilometre-long unloading area as bright as day.

More than 20 minutes later, the sound of heavy objects colliding faintly came from the west, and the dust on the surface of the rails was shaken up and down by this huge vibration. The sound is getting louder and louder, and the human ear can clearly hear the sonorous sound of the wheels crushing the rails, and in the dark night, two bowl-sized points of light rumble towards this side, like a huge centipede winding and sneaking in the night.

"Get out of the car!"

The command came again, and everyone jumped out of the car, except for the driver, who was still on standby, and ran towards the tracks, pulling out a long line ten meters away.

Guan Fei stood in front of the team, although the special train was still hidden in the night, he could still see the whole picture through the faint reflection on the train.

I saw that behind the huge steam locomotive, there were heavy flatbed trucks hanging on it. When the train turns to the line, two protrusions can be seen tied to each slab, one in front of the other, and the cargo is covered with a green military canvas, making it impossible to see what is inside.

But from the long tube in front of it, you can still guess the true face of this batch of equipment, that is, tanks!

That's right, this special train is transporting Type 59 tanks!

The number is sixty-four!

Guan Fei saw the tank loaded on the flatbed truck in advance with the help of super eyesight, but suddenly remembered an interesting sentence in his mind: "Looking at the turret from a distance is scared to death, and looking at five pairs of load-bearing wheels up close", he couldn't help laughing.

This is a sentence that has been streamlined on the Internet for hundreds of years, even in the interstellar era, netizens still like to use a photo of the original 59 tank, juxtaposed with the photo of the starship, and then marked: 59; Five-nine change!

Subsequently, it was the ridicule of the poster or other netizens: looking at the turret from a distance and scaring people to death, and seeing five pairs of load-bearing wheels up close.

Similarly, there are other jokes such as "Look, the Wujiu on the other side has gone down the mountain", "The US star destroyer brazenly invaded our country's star domain, and the commanders and fighters of the whole army were filled with righteous indignation, and the commander of the front-line space station gave an order, and my heroic commanders and fighters drove the Wujiu to immediately dispatch to shoot down the invading star destroyer in the Vega star domain", which can be said to be endless.

This period of Internet gods, which is still widely circulated in the era of Guan Fei, has passed on the name of the 59 tank to hundreds of years later, and even Guan Fei has a thunderous ear for the name of the 59 tank.

The reason why the 59 type is so famous is that it is the first tank car imported from the Soviet Union and manufactured by our country. Starting from this tank, China has gradually established its own tank manufacturing and research and development system, and in the past few decades, the number of this tank has been as high as 10,000!

Based on the 59 tank, there are countless improved models, including 100, 100, 12, 125 and other models of the main gun, and there are many versions based on the transformation of the power system. In addition, there are various major changes, and even magic models with a completely unrecognizable appearance.

When various newer models of tanks were launched abroad, on the one hand, the domestic financial resources were limited, and on the other hand, the accumulation of technology was insufficient, and they also took great pains to modify this tank, making various modifications to it, and using it as a platform to experiment with various new technologies and equipment.

Due to the fact that the appearance is completely different from the standard, it looks the same as the most advanced tanks in the West. Military fans can't immediately identify whether this is a new tank, so they go to count the load-bearing wheels of the tank, one, two, three, four, five, five pairs, okay, or five or nine!

All kinds of amazements suddenly came to naught.

As a result, there is a joke about looking at the turret from a distance and scaring people to death, and looking at five pairs of load-bearing wheels up close.

Because of the diffusion of the Internet, this kind of joke of hating iron is becoming more and more widely used, and the joke is becoming more and more detached from its original meaning and becoming a kind of good-natured mockery. So much so that even if various advanced tanks have been developed in China later, and even entered the interstellar age, this sentence still spreads, and even the Star Destroyer can't get rid of this curse, and some people take great pains to draw five pairs of load-bearing wheels on both sides of the Star Destroyer to show that they are not talking nonsense, which provokes a burst of laughter from the viewers.

In fact, the Type 59 was a very good tank in the time period when it came out.

Its imitation prototype, that is, the Soviet T54 tank that frightened the West in the early days of the Cold War, its simple manufacturing process, reasonable body weight, simple driving operation, and even hundreds of kilometers of assault distance, as many as tens of thousands of numerical advantages, has become a nightmare in the hearts of the entire Western Europe, and when I fell asleep, I was worried that the Soviet tank sea would suddenly flood and flood the whole of Europe.

In terms of firepower and defense alone, the T54 and the domestic 59 Type are good, but they are definitely not the strongest.

However, in terms of the balance of protection and firepower, it is a precedent for modern main battle tanks, and a balance point has been found in the contradiction between firepower and protection, so that the main battle tanks developed later have given up the concept of firepower supremacy or reinforced armor in World War II, and have taken a balanced path and become the originator of modern main battle tanks.

But the glory will pass.

No matter how it is transformed, the defects in the early stage of the design have led to more and more limited room for further transformation of this tank, and in the face of the new main battle tanks launched by countries around the world, it is becoming more and more powerless on the battlefield.

Today's T54, or 59 style, is no longer the scenery of the fifties and sixties.

Although it is not yet eliminated by the times, it has indeed become a tank that can be called "okay and usable", gradually giving up the limelight to the younger generations and taking a back seat.

The reason why Guan Fei chose to purchase this tank from China is that it is cheap!

It's so cheap!

At present, the unit price of mainstream main battle tanks, such as the M60 in Europe and the United States, is as high as 3 million to 5 million US dollars, which is still the price for self-use, and the export price not only reduces the protection, firepower, and on-board equipment, but also increases the price significantly.

Although Soviet tanks are half cheaper than those in Europe and the United States, the unit price is also as high as 15.6 million to 2 or 3 million.

Besides, Guan Fei can't buy it.

However, the unit price of the domestically made 59 tanks is only less than 500,000, and it is still priced in RMB!

Even if it's sold externally, it's the same half a million, uh, dollars! However, the base areas have close ties with the country, and the economy is integrated, and the relationship between the two sides is extraordinary.

On the other hand, the military is short-sighted, and considering that this tank is no longer advanced, even small countries do not look down on it, and the number of exports is decreasing year by year. In addition, there are a large number of domestic equipment for this tank, resulting in no money to buy a new type of tank, since Guan Fei wants it, then it can sell one is one, and some funds can be recovered to make up for the military spending gap, so it is still sold at its own price, and the price of a single tank is still calculated according to 500,000 yuan, and there is no opportunity to rip off the bamboo.

But it's not expensive to buy, and it's not cheap to use!

Domestic engines have always been a big problem, the overhaul time of tank engines in the West is 800 hours, the USSR is a little worse, only 400 to 500, and domestic diesel engines are worse than those in the USSR, only more than 200 hours to overhaul!

According to the calculation of two hours of actual driving training per day, one engine can only be used for a hundred days, that is, it needs to be replaced in more than three months!

And the engine accounts for one-third of the price of the tank, and just changing the engine is equivalent to buying a new tank a year.

And that's not even counting track wear, transmission wear, and fuel consumption.

The motorcycle hour is too low and the usage fee is too high, and this is the main factor that even a small country with tight military spending must consider again and again when purchasing a Type 59 tank.

Guan Fei can't help it.

The base area does not yet have the ability to manufacture large-scale castings, and it cannot be made by itself, so of course it can only be purchased. However, the base area is not even an internationally recognized regime, and even if they want to buy it with a little more money, no one will sell it. If you don't use five or nine, what else can you use?

In the face of the tank armored forces of the Wei Ding Army, only if you have tank armored troops on your own side can you best deal with them.

Besides, although the Type 59 is a little behind the latest main battle tank, it is more difficult to fight. But in the face of the Weiding Army, which was mainly equipped with tanks and armored vehicles equipped by the British Army in World War II, it was still an all-round crush, even if the two sides approached to start hand-to-hand combat, Wujiu would win and not lose!

Besides, although the whole vehicle cannot be built, with the existing manufacturing level of the base, there is no lack of local improvement ability.

As long as the tank is bought, it's not up to you to change it!

With Guan Fei's understanding of the precision manufacturing capabilities of the base areas, he dared to pat his chest and assure that the improved 59 tank was definitely stronger than the first version of the 59 reform that was being carried out in China.

Who knows better than him the potential for improvement in the 59 style?

Looking at the turret from a distance is scary, and looking at five pairs of load-bearing wheels up close, this is not blowing!