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The Apocalypse tank had just been unloaded from the train, and in order to stealthily transport the steel tank to the battlefield for testing, the train responsible for towing the tank loaded the tank from the heavy equipment workshop of the military factory at about two o'clock in the morning, and the tank was also covered with a thick canvas after loading inside the vehicle to prevent it from being seen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This Apocalypse tank is the one Du Yande saw in Lin Shenhe's workshop before, and a Type 1629 naval smoothbore gun with a steering and pitching mechanism has been installed on the front side of the central axis above the hull. Equipping smoothbore guns is definitely something that the vast majority of veterans hate, and many veterans of military departments gnash their teeth and call it "turning back the wheel of history", but this is a choice that has no choice. It is certainly impossible to make a seamless steel pipe for rifled guns now, but the military industry can directly pull out the pipe from the inside by casting a solid steel pipe and then using a milling cutter, the only drawback is that it is a waste of man-hours and will lose a lot of steel. In fact, the 1629 naval guns now equipped with this method are also used, directly digging holes in solid steel pipes. Rifling is not a problem for the industrial mouth, you must know that the military factory has to draw at least 100 rifling of the barrel every day, and the rifling of the barrel is nothing more than a cumbersome point.

The only obstacle to the road of rifled artillery is the production process of artillery shells, you must know that although the crossing group got several bullet production lines when crossing over, no one thought of getting a shell production line. If a steel-shelled shell is used, the rifling will wear out quickly because the steel is too hard, and the life of the barrel will be severely shortened. However, at this time, the only thing that the crossing group could use to make shells was steel, so they had to find a way to wrap a layer of softer metal around the shell of the shell, and the only suitable metal was lead. However, how to fix the lead to the shell of the shell became a huge obstacle, just as the British Navy encountered when it was first equipped with rifled guns, the hanging of lead became the most irritating problem, the soft lead will fall off the shell body, or be ruthlessly scraped off by the rifling, and the hot lead will splash out with the inertia of the shell, and will shoot at any target within the close range of the front sector of the gun. And if it is not cleaned in time, the liquid lead will accumulate in the crevices of the rifling, which will also affect the life of the body tube over time.

If you want to use a rifled gun without being affected by the lead, you must attach the lead skin to the body with electroplating, or press the lead with a water press, or you can only use another brain-opening solution - paper cartridge belt. However, these methods still need a lot of experiments at this time, not to mention that the heavy industry laboratory is still trying to produce hydraulic presses, and it is not known when they will be officially put into use. So at this stage, the 1629 smoothbore naval gun had to be equipped first.

The 1629 smoothbore gun used the same 90 mm caliber shells as the spring cannon, but the difference was that due to the lack of rifling, and the quality of the steel at this stage was not very qualified, the bore pressure could not be too large, and the shelled tail shells could not be used, so only round shells, commonly known as bowling balls, could be used. Despite the fact that the gun used a steel body, the range of the round shell was still seriously affected by air resistance, so the maximum range was only 1,800 meters, and the accurate range was only about 800 to 900 meters, but the recoil did not decrease in the slightest. In addition, the suspension system of the Apocalypse tank is directly connected to the rigid suspension of the car body, and the gun installed on it is easy to damage the gun mount and the suspension of the tank if it is used to retreat, so Lin Shenhe specially designed a hydraulic pneumatic type stationing and retreating device gun carriage to ensure that the impact of recoil is reduced by the pipe retreat when the gun is fired.

At this time, the muzzle of this gun is backwards, and there is a gun fixing bracket riveted to the body on the barrel to fix the barrel on the body, so as to ensure that the barrel will not damage the fixing mechanism due to the shaking of the body.

However, when it came to the shaking of the body, Ma Linming, who was in charge of driving the tank, was already very speechless. It is said that when he was in the PLA armored forces, he also drove many types of tanks, from the T-34/85 to the powerful 59, and then the 88B to the 96 tanks. Because of his love for tanks, he came to the new plane with the sole purpose of becoming the father of armored troops in this plane, so when the Joint Staff decided to use tanks in this rescue operation, he was almost crazy, and insisted on joining the battle and driving the tank himself. But when he drove the tank, his heart was full of depression.

This tank does not have an elastic suspension system, it uses a completely rigid suspension, and when the body passes over those rough roads, the whole body cannot be kept level at all, not even a little level, and it can be shaken as far as the outside and the inside. Due to the weight limit when crossing, he did not wear the tank cap he had when he was in service, and as a direct consequence, he now has to wear a rattan helmet to drive a tank. Originally, he still felt that the rattan helmet was too cold and wanted to wear an 80 steel helmet, but now he only felt that he was fortunate not to wear a steel helmet, and the shaking of the car body made his head wearing a rattan helmet crash around the body, and the rattan helmet was a little deformed. The army soldiers outside felt majestic as they watched the nine-meter-long, three-meter-wide, three-meter-high, three-meter-high tank rumble over the ground, but no one could imagine how uncomfortable it was to stay in the tank.

The tank did not have a speed control lever, and the gearbox and engine were behind the hull, because the driver could not be placed in the rear of the tank, so it was very difficult for the old space-time vehicle to simply move forward and backward, let alone steer, which had to be transmitted to the transmission operator through a dedicated wired microphone. The operator, who stayed next to the gearbox and endured the double noise of the gearbox and engine, had difficulty hearing the driver's instructions, so turning in the wrong direction, not hearing commands, and turning too much often happened, so the second gun, which had been arranged in the rear, was removed, and a hole was opened in the hull, allowing the gearbox operator to lean out to see the general environment, so that he had at least a good idea of his surroundings.

In order to compensate for the loss of fire caused by the reduction of one gun, a ship-based machine gun was installed on each side of the rear of the hull, which could not only attack the enemy during the attack, but also prevent the enemy from getting too close and posing danger to the tank. However, both the cannon and the machine gun were installed directly on the roof of the car, and there was no enclosed or semi-enclosed fighting compartment, only a shield was added to the gun body and gun body. This shield volume can protect the shooter and the firing team members from ordinary small arms damage, but if the opponent fires a shell, it will still cause damage.

The hull was originally intended to carry the strength of an infantry squad, but in several combat exercises, it was found that entering and exiting from the roof of the vehicle was not only cumbersome, but also took up too much time, which directly affected the combat efficiency, and the soldiers entering and exiting from the roof of the vehicle would directly affect the combat efficiency of the roof launch team. And when the soldiers in the car shoot at the outside target, because of the narrow line of sight, they often cannot see the target, and even if the target is found, it is impossible to shoot in the case of bumps in the rigid suspension. So in the end, the place where the infantry was originally arranged to be used to place the firing team and ammunition was now sitting there was a group of naturalized soldiers holding ammunition boxes in both hands, and the rattan helmets they were now wearing were already crooked because they had been bumped into the hull, and several of them had already suffered from motion sickness. However, since the tank will be directly engaged in combat later, it cannot be separated from the personnel and artillery, so even if it is seasick, it is necessary to stay in the vehicle. As a result, in addition to the noise and the strong smell of diesel, the people inside also had to endure the torture of motion sickness and the smell of vomit, without the heroic appearance of the armored soldiers of the old time and space.

But for the two Annan spies who have just been captured, this is a fetish! This huge steel monster that spewed green smoke and roared to the river was simply an unstoppable killing god!

The rapidly rotating tracks carried the hull and quickly drove to the side of the pontoon. But Ma Linming hesitated, although the pontoon bridge deck is five meters wide, but whether it can carry this combat weight has reached 25 tons of "heavy tank" he didn't count in his heart, if the bridge was crushed and fell into the water, it would be a big trouble, with the current level, no one has the ability to fish up the tank, this is the first time to put the tank into actual combat, if he fell into the river at the beginning, he will be a shame to throw home, the father of armored soldiers. And there is a big problem, although there is a door at the top of the tank, but only one person is allowed to enter and exit at a time, if it falls into the river, the soldiers climb out in a panic, often directly block the exit, can escape one or two are lucky, a spoonful of stew is simply inevitable.

After thinking for a while, he asked the operator to turn off the engine, then climbed directly onto the roof of the car and beckoned to the Army troops behind him. A veteran officer ran over quickly, exchanged a few words with him, and finally understood what he meant, the infantry crossed the river first, if the tank crushed the pontoon bridge, it would be difficult for the troops who did not cross the river to find a way to cross the river, and the infantry crossing the river could at least ensure that there would be at least enough infantry in the battle later in the battle, although there may still be casualties, but there was still a high chance of victory against the Annam army.

So the two Annan spies were stunned, and more than 200 soldiers in blue uniforms quickly ran across the pontoon bridge, and there were more than a dozen large carts. The carts were loaded with a large amount of ammunition and provisions, and when they went, they were loaded with ammunition, and when they returned, they could carry people who could not move. Since there was no hardened road system like the Oriental Port in Annam, and it had to pass through the woods and drive directly from the fields without roads, donkeys and horses were not suitable for use here, so the carts were all dragged by the manpower of the logistics troops.

At this time, the two spies had completely lost hope, at first they thought it was just the new army crossing the river to harass them, but now they could see more than five hundred soldiers crossing the river, in addition to the huge steel chariot that had now stopped roaring and was waiting by the river. They knew that the terrible combat effectiveness of the new army that broke out in the rebellion of Champa Port was only a hundred new troops, but now it was five hundred, and they could fight wherever they rushed, and they were simply invincible in Champang. Not to mention that there is a cannon on the roof of the chariot, this cannon is far thicker than the two cannons that the forbidden army is now practicing every day, and the chariot does not need to be towed by oxen and horses to move on its own, if it really fights, the forbidden army will not have time to aim at all, and the chariot will kill them.

Finally waited for the soldiers to cross the river, Ma Linming climbed directly onto the roof of the car, rode on the gun, and directly used his hands to guide the direction of the operator behind him, so everyone and the two prisoners were watching the high cannon body riding a man in an oil-stained combat uniform with a rattan helmet on his head, and his hands danced like windmills. In fact, Ma Linming's so-called driver is the commander at all, and the operator behind him is the driver, and the operator steers the tank by changing the gearbox output.

"It's just a tease invited by a monkey...... Qian Longzhou angrily slammed the cigarette butt in his hand to the ground, and then stepped on it, "Put the cannon directly on the roof of the car, it's better to drive a car out and load the back of the truck, anyway, the weapons in this time and space can hardly hurt." There are no semi-buried gun emplacements, and there is no closed fighting compartment. Saying that, he said to Niu Jinxing, who was looking at the tank with a look of fascination and was about to drop his jaw, "Even if you have a cannon on it, it's still a smoothbore gun, with a range of only one thousand meters, and a solid bullet that can't explode, instead of loading this, it's better to directly have four machine guns, at least like splashing water when you fight, and the enemy can't get close." The effect of this kind of tube withdrawal is average, and the muzzle of the gun must be screwed in to operate when it is loaded up, not to mention the cumbersomeness, and it also delays time. ”

Niu Jinxing didn't have the slightest awareness of Qian Longzhou, and these complaints about him were as incomprehensible as playing the piano to Niu at all, he only felt that the person sitting on the roof cannon in front of him was simply handsome, waving his hands, he could make this majestic chariot turn the direction flexibly.

The tank slowly drove up the bridge, revealing a group of artillerymen and machine gunners sitting on the river beach behind them, they were asked to get out of the car directly, so as not to fall into the river and not be able to escape, but at the moment they had no strength at all, and a few of them were dizzy from the smoke and turned around and secretly vomited. Fortunately, Ma Linming commanded effectively, and the naturalized operators behind him were also very obedient to orders and had a high level of comprehension, and actually drove the tank slowly and safely across the pontoon bridge at a speed of six kilometers per hour.

Ma Linming breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and beckoned to the gunners and machine gunners who were still supporting each other on the other side of the river and trying to stand up, "Get in the car, get ready to go!" ”

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