On June 16, after the test of medium-caliber weapons was completed, Eric held a temporary meeting on the Italian-Austrian war at his residence, and the Ministry of National Security also passed back the information it had, and after professional data and intelligence analysis, gave a detailed explanation of the military strength, deployment, and war demands of the two countries.

In fact, there are a few horizontal lines in the form you got, which are the data that participants need to fill in, because some of them have a percentage symbol after the horizontal line.

Those who get the form need to fill in their own estimates based on the intelligence information in hand, such as the probability of Austria winning, the probability of losing, the probability of stalemate between the two sides, and the time, place and battlefield of stalemate.

Such data filling is not meaningless, but it is a collective effort to analyze as much as possible the situation that will be faced, which was originally done by the staff officers of the General Staff. But Eric also hopes that his generals will also have a big picture and not be a brute who can only fight hard.

The exam was very long, and Eric was also filling in the test papers, and everyone took some random food and continued to answer after checking the information and thinking about it.

It wasn't until the sky was already white that everyone handed in the test papers, and the staff officer quickly and skillfully entered the statistical work after putting away the test papers, and did a few big data analysis according to the data that had been submitted, to see the difference between the average and the extreme.

This result is not entirely a numerical answer, there are also words to fill in the blanks, and the time is not short. Because it was already dark, everyone had to continue to support their tired bodies to continue the day's weapons test.

The second day of the exhibition was still an artillery test, but the caliber became larger and the venue was different.

With the experience of the first day, the test process on the second day was much faster, and RWE was still the first to appear. Although yesterday's 30mm cannon did not win the approval of the Wehrmacht, it also gained a lot of experience. You must know that after Eric's Wehrmacht system was reformed in 1919, the situation of the entire arms market in Germany has changed dramatically, and the previous experience is rarely used, and everything has to be re-adapted.

After Horch's presentation, the operator approached the scope to adjust the scale, and the whole process included pressing the firing pedal, which took less than five seconds.

Unlike yesterday's rapid continuous firing, this time it was a single shot, and the shell quickly struck a lightning bolt in the air and accurately hit the Type III tank parked a thousand meters away. Although it is still Type III, this time a piece of armor of the same thickness and material has been added in front of the frontal armor, as if to show the armor-piercing ability of the gun again.

Soon, everyone came to the target, and everyone used yesterday's experience again today, but when Rommel climbed up the hatch, he suddenly stopped his movements and returned the same way. When Eric saw it, he asked curiously, "What's wrong?" Why don't you go in and have a look? ”

Rommel first gave a quick look at Horch before saying, "I can't get in, it's a mess inside, and there's nowhere to put my feet." It's completely different from yesterday. ”

Eric is not surprised by this performance, because it is not difficult to see from the data on paper that this gun is precisely positioned, that is, it has the ability to destroy on top of having enough armor-piercing ability.

In fact, as long as you have studied it a little, it is very clear why the armor-piercing ability is too high and the lethality is small. Because once the armor-piercing ability is too high and the target is not well armored, the projectile will penetrate the target and explode, and the damage effect will be minimized. Therefore, if you want to penetrate the enemy's protection, you must also take into account the lethality, which is a really good weapon and good ammunition.

It's just that Eric is not very optimistic about this weapon, maybe because he thinks there is still one later, so he wants to take a look at it again, which can also be understood because the price is too expensive to accept.

"This guy is exactly what I need." It could be seen that Rommel seemed to like this weapon very much, so he then asked Horch: "Can you adjust the price, give me an acceptable price, a cannon can almost buy an improved IIIC, it's too expensive." ”

"General Rommel, it's not that I don't want to ask for such a high price, this 50mm tank gun is equipped with a sight that we have newly developed, so the price will be more expensive than the general artillery, the firing distance of this sight can ensure that the gun hits the target with a high probability at a distance of 2000 meters, and 1000 meters can reach 100% as long as it is used skillfully." Horch was very happy, because there was finally someone to talk about the price, which meant that there was a play, although it was not certain now, but it was much better than yesterday.

Eric is very calm, or the most thorough, he has experience as an arms dealer, in fact, he does not only care about the number of shots of this gun, the price, etc., but the price of the shells. You must know that this cannon is designed for countersunk shells, but the design and production of countersunk shells are still very primitive, and the price will never be low. It's just that the price of artillery shells given by Rheinmetall really makes him a little unbearable, and the cost of an armor-piercing shell just fired is 14,000 marks, and compared with 140,000 marks for a single Type IIIB tank, 10 shells are the price of a tank.

Too expensive!

Eric can't say it now, the head-sinking bomb system that he wanted to build at the beginning finally reflected the drawbacks, and the cost could not be lowered, which was far higher than the cost of bottle-shaped bombs with the same data, and some were even twice as high. Although the combat effectiveness of individual units has risen, large-scale equipment has become a problem.

This is just talking about purchases, ancillary maintenance, maintenance, supporting equipment, etc., all have to be bought with money, so calculated, the 3.4 billion military spending allocated by the army may not be able to equip a tank division with a full head bomb system, after all, the 3.4 billion military expenditure cannot be used to buy equipment, and only 10 percent can be used for new purchases. As for Eric's design, a tank division needs to be composed of 5,000 tanks of various types, and the scale of this tank division is also larger than the scale of the historical period, because Eric designed it this way.

According to the planning of auxiliary tanks, light, medium, heavy, etc., if a tank division needs to be fully combat-ready and the tanks are sufficient, the military expenditure of 3.4 billion can only meet the establishment of the regiment, and if it wants to expand again, it must continue to consider the maintenance costs required by the tanks in hand. It is far from possible to form a division with such a development.

Reality hit Eric on the head like a steel pipe gave him a headache, this is not a game, the bought tanks do not need to continue to spend money, the soldiers' salaries, the entire logistics system, the replacement of equipment after wear and tear, fuel procurement and other expenses are also very huge, at this price, Eric can form a tank division must abandon the air force or navy, otherwise it is impossible to dream.

"I said why are they all tank battalions famous..." Eric thought about it and remembered the information recorded in history, and blurted it out.

"What?" Anata, who was always following Eric, heard her president's clueless words, and she didn't keep up.

"It's nothing, I think it's too expensive." Eric's voice was not loud, but he made Horch, who was secretly happy, anxious, he knew what kind of master Eric was, and he was afraid that Eric would make decisions for the Wehrmacht, and even a few words of derogation might make the entire Ministry of Defense change its attitude.

Horch began to have countless thoughts in his mind, he had to win this order, otherwise he would really lose the show, and it would be even more difficult to find the Wehrmacht to sell products in the future.