Jiang Haoran directly forced Li Zongjian into a corner, there was no way to retreat, it was impossible for the dignified government leaders to go back on their word in front of everyone, helpless, Li Zongjian had to grit his teeth and agree.

Jiang Haoran didn't say a word, he went straight out of the headquarters, it was already bright outside, Liu He was wandering at the door of the headquarters, obviously waiting for a long time, seeing Jiang Haoran come out, he hurriedly greeted him.

Jiang Haoran hurriedly said: "The establishment of the Third Tank Division is in hand, and the troops can set off, tell Yang Changshun that the tanks of the Soviet Union aiding China have now arrived in Xinyang, and order him to send someone to receive them, and at the same time transform the tanks." In addition, the second phase of the arrangement should be carried out immediately, and all airport facilities, weapons and equipment, and personnel should be in place within three days, and all of them should be in a state of combat readiness within four days. ”

"Yes!" Liu He agreed without a word, turned around and left, obviously the two had a tacit understanding.

After the end of the Burma campaign, the war began to burn in the country, the heavy armor of the Tiger tank is no longer suitable for the geographical environment of China's mountains and rivers, and the tank to deal with the little devil is also a surplus of firepower, so a practical tank is urgent.

Since last year, Jiang Haoran has ordered Liang Changhe to stop the production of Tiger tanks, and several tank production lines have begun to produce medium tanks, and the name is also very cool Battle Leopard. Of course, the drawings were taken out by Jiang Haoran, and the chassis still follows the Tiger chassis, and the shape is roughly imitating the Soviet T34-85 tank, but it is already much more advanced than the T34-85, because Jiang Haoran used composite armor that only existed in the sixties.

Since the creation of armor-piercing shells in 1936, tanks have been forced to constantly thicken their armor. A 120-mm armor-piercing projectile with an armor-piercing thickness of 720 to 840 mm. If the designers had made the armor around the tank to this thickness, then the total combat weight of the tank would have been more than 100 tons, and it would have become a real iron turtle.

At present, the thickness of the front main armor of the world's first-line main battle tanks is rising, and the weight of the tank is also approaching a limit. In order to maintain the ability to cross bridges and the ease of transportation, the weight and armor of the main battle tank could not be significantly increased.

Therefore, Jiang Haoran once again created a precedent for tank armor and began to use composite armor on the war leopard.

The so-called composite armor is simply three layers of armor, the outer layer is 80 mm thick steel armor, the middle layer is 104 mm thick fiberglass plate, and the inner layer is 20 mm thick steel armor, that is, the steel plate is entrained with fiberglass plate.

The bullet resistance of fiberglass panels of the same thickness is not as good as that of armor steel of the same thickness, but the bullet resistance of fiberglass panels of the same weight is more than that of armor steel of the same weight. In this way, through the use of composite armor, the Panther main battle tank has almost 50% more armor resistance to armor-piercing shells than it weighs by only 4 tons, which is close to the protection level of 300 mm homogeneous armor steel; The ability to resist armor-piercing shells has increased by almost 90%, reaching the protection level of about 600 mm of homogeneous armor steel, with this armor, the Panther is enough to sweep all mainstream tanks in the world today, even in the face of the German heavy armor, heavy firepower Leopard has enough confidence to face head-on.

Also in order to hide clumsily in front of the island army, this magic weapon has endured to this day, in order to give the enemy a head-on blow at a critical moment.

Of course, quantity is also a key, in the early stage, because of the full production of the Tiger, there was a period of complete stop production, so far the 331 base produced only more than 100 Leopard medium tanks, this number, compared with the German army in the same period, is also made up of a tank regiment.

However, since Jiang Haoran dared to ask for the establishment of a division, he was naturally sure, and the task of producing War Tigers at present was no longer so tense, as long as the base was producing tanks at full capacity, it would not be difficult to reach more than 100 tanks in a month.

As for Yang Changshun just mentioned by Jiang Haoran, that is also the old man of the Nanshan Independent Army, two years ago, when Jiang Haoran asked Zhang Jun for Xue Hao, he also came by the way, and later Xue Hao entered Su Peng's new third division, and is currently serving as the commander of the guard battalion, while Yang Changshun entered the tank regiment at that time, and went to the Baoshan base with the white tiger, and later participated in the Burma Campaign and the Mandalay Campaign, which was quite accomplished.

When Jiang Haoran was preparing to form another tank division last year, Baihu recommended Yang Changshun to him, to be precise, the captain platoon commander of the year was already at least the commander of the division, of course, this major general division commander had to be counted from the establishment of the third tank division just now Jiang Haoran.

The military meeting ended quickly, because the war situation had changed dramatically, and the troops at all levels should also make corresponding adjustments, and the leaders of these theaters and group armies had to hurry back to their headquarters to adjust their deployments.

Jiang Haoran and Mr. Lin walked out of the headquarters side by side.

"Thank you this time, General Lin!" Jiang Haoran said with a smile.

"Hehe, Commander-in-Chief Jiang is polite, this is my business, besides, it's a blessing that there is no big thing that harms you." Mr. Lin replied with a smile.

Jiang Haoran hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Actually, Mr. Lin, although your performance in the command headquarters just now was really good, there was still a big gap between you and my goal in the closing stage. ”

Mr. Lin was stunned for a moment, stopped, and said strangely: "You mean...... Jinan? Do you think we should take advantage of the situation to seize Jinan? ”

"Hehe, you reacted quickly, but you weren't bold enough, go back and ponder the map, maybe you can find that as long as you use it well, the results can be doubled, I can give you a hint, the key is on the Jinan Yellow River Bridge on the Jinpu Line."

Jiang Haoran waved his hand and left after speaking, but Mr. Lin stood motionless with his mouth wide open like a stake.

……

Chuzhou Airport.

A Wolf Warrior transport plane rushed into the runway and slowly stopped on the tarmac.

Because Chuzhou was an airborne raid, the airport facilities were well preserved and could be put into use with little to no repairs.

The cabin door opened, the gangway was erected, and several heavily armed guards walked down quickly, and immediately, Gu Lian, who was wearing the rank of general of the national army, appeared at the hatch.

The 24 th and 43 rd Group Armies undertook this heavy task, and considering that the two group armies, one was newly built and the other was rebuilt, there were still great deficiencies in both the integration and the overall quality of the officers and men.

Therefore, as the new commander-in-chief of the Third War Zone, Gu Lian took the initiative to invite Ying to go to the battlefield to defend against the enemy and live and die with the soldiers.

This style of work was Jiang Haoran's joy and joy, and he immediately agreed, so there was this scene in front of him.

I have to say that Gu and his life are indeed desperate this time, which is probably unlikely before, maybe it still verifies the old saying, "What kind of commander will bring out what kind of soldiers", it is Jiang Haoran's spirit of not being afraid of death that infected these generals under his hands, and made these veterans in their fifties also become extremely bloody.