Chapter 157 Base Construction and Development V
readx; On January 3, 1933, at half past eight o'clock in the morning, it was still winter, and a total of five light general-purpose tanks, which had been tentatively designated as Experimental No. 1, were to go to a place known as the Crescent Lake in Mingsha Mountain, Gansu Province, for wading tests. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć According to historical records, the lake, also known as the crescent spring, is located at the northern foot of Mingsha Mountain, with a length of 218 meters from east to west, a width of 54 meters from north to south, an average water depth of 5 meters, and the deepest depth of more than 7 meters. The shape of the spring resembles a crescent moon, hence the name crescent spring. In the crescent, there is an ancient temple known as Leiyin Temple, which has been around for thousands of years. However, before this, the data obtained by Long Bazun with a drone again is very different from the historical record, I don't know what happened from last year, and I don't know what caused Mingsha Mountain to move back nearly 700 meters as a whole, so the original crescent spring became a big desert lake under the abundant groundwater infusion, and the length of the original 200 meters from east to west was suddenly stretched to 2,180 meters, and the width from north to south was widened to 540 meters, and the average water depth and the deepest water were still the same as before. Compared to the original small crescent, this large crescent is crystal clear.
"This lake is so big." The drone looks at the crescent moon spring below from the sky at a height of several thousand meters, but when you really stand here, you find that everything in front of you is completely beyond imagination, the original crescent crescent moon spring has become a long crescent moon lake like an eyebrow, the Leiyin Temple in the center did not move its position in front of the long crescent moon lake lonely, the clear wind blew on the surface of the lake, and it was amazing that the entire lake surface did not freeze in the cold winter, Standing on the edge of the lake, looking down from the surface of the lake, you can see fish of different sizes wagging their tails and swimming back and forth in the lake.
"Okay, don't be stunned, let's start the test drive." Zhao Heng, who stared at the fish in the water for a while, did not forget that he was here to test the ability of the guy in his hand, he knew very well that he was not here to travel and enjoy the scenery. He turned and waved at the testers and crews in front of him, who were waiting for orders.
"Okay, the crews are ready to start the test!!" A staff member with a megaphone shouted orders to the crew next to the five tanks in front of him.
Hearing the command of the staff holding the loudspeaker, the crew of each vehicle quickly climbed into the position of the tank, the commander and gunner climbed the hull from the open hatch of the turret to the position of the main gun, the deputy and ammunition loader followed closely behind to climb into the position of the secondary gun in the turret, and the driver climbed into the open observation port on the roof of the cockpit on the front hull. The five cars ignited the engines in the order of the occupants getting into the car, and a somewhat rumbling sound was transmitted from the engine generator at the rear of the car to the other end of the crescent moon lake, and the farther the sound traveled, the quieter it became, and then disappeared into the whirring wind.
"Group 1, after a while you start running around the perimeter of the whole lake, decelerating, accelerating and making an emergency stop to test the engine performance and condition." The tester in charge of the No. 1 vehicle stepped forward, stood on the right side of the car, stretched out his hand, and pointed to the surrounding flatter terrain, gesturing and explaining.
"Team 1 understands everything." The turret hatch of the No. 1 tank did not close, and the two crew members who got out of the turret and the driver who popped out of the cockpit hatch glanced at the environment they were about to face, and after observing the route they were about to run, they exchanged their heads and answered in unison.
"Car No. 2, do you see that over there? By the way, follow my finger and look over there, there are a few small sand dunes of different sizes that you can drive over and test the tank's ability to climb at different angles one by one, you know. The tester in charge of car No. 2 pointed to a small cluster of sand dunes not far from here.
"Team No. 2 understands." The entire crew of the second car watched for a moment, then memorized the route in their hearts, and then nodded to the tester in understanding.
"Car No. 3 is ready to wade into the water, and you will drive to the lake and drive to the other side to test the ability of armed wading in the water, and you must pay attention to safety." In charge of the No. 3 car, a female staff member pointed to the shimmering lake in front of the crew of the No. 3 car in the rumbling sound of the engine, and loudly reminded the No. 3 crew of the test tasks to be faced, while not forgetting to warn the crew about the safety of the crew.
"The third car group understands." The crew of the No. 3 crew knew very well that the tank and combat vehicle they were driving had been modified, with a wave shield installed in the nose and two propeller ducted thrusters in the tail. They all said they knew about the tests that were going to be done, and they were well aware of the dangers of the possibility of sinking into the lake if the car overturned.
"Car No. 4, pay attention, and the other testers will be digging three trenches of different widths to test your ability to cross the trenches." The staff in charge of car No. 4 patted the armor plate of the car and pointed to three trenches of different lengths and widths that other staff members were digging in the distance.
"Team Four understands." The crew collectively looked at the three different trenches in the distance, thought for a moment, and then replied together. So far, these crew members know in their hearts that the car under their feet has been used for testing just after leaving the factory, and the commander is on the scene anyway, so there is nothing to worry about.
"No. 5 car group, you will start testing the firing performance of artillery and vehicle-mounted machine guns in a while, and the staff will arrange several firing targets of different distances and sizes for you, do you understand?" A staff member in charge of the final crew test raised his hand and pointed to a group of staff members in the distance who were fiddling with various targets.
"Yes, the No. 5 car group understands perfectly." The crew of Tank No. 5 stared into the distance and shook for a moment, with a large target everywhere in their eyes, except for the staff, of course.
The largest of them was a hardwood plank the size of this tank, followed by a normal life-size humanoid target drawn in motion, and the smaller one was just a group of bust-sized humanoid targets. The tank body is equipped with a 57-mm 65-fold barreled gun, a grenade fragmentation shell sweeps down a large area of cluster charging infantry without any problems, encountering a thinner German No. 1 and No. 2 tanks can easily bomb down, not to mention the so-called thin-skinned coffins of Japanese devils, the old-fashioned tanks that are strangely slow as snails and slow to react half a beat are completely vulnerable, the so-called tanks of spaghetti are simply cannon fodder, and the so-called M3 Grant Lee heavy tanks of the Americans have not yet been born. Maozi's thin-skinned BT fast tank and T-26 light tank can only be ashamed of themselves in front of this tank, and in terms of speed, it is far exceeded, and in terms of firepower, it is completely contemptuous of the leaders in the early days of today's world.
The test time was only completed in half a month, and the result is that this light general-purpose tank is still very good in today's world, and this type of tank has the four advantages of light weight, thick armor, strong firepower, and fast speed, and almost completely bursts the so-called advanced weapons that countries around the world are proud of. Strike resistance can defend against main guns, including 76 mm caliber.
Since the light general-purpose tank in front of him has a good effect, Zhao Heng is thinking in his heart, why not modify it on the basis of this light tank, and by the way, do a facelift surgery to stretch and widen this guy and increase the weight to more than thirty tons to make a medium-sized general-purpose tank, and then you can make a heavy tank weighing more than fifty tons, and finally you can make a super heavy tank of more than one hundred tons, thinking about it, Zhao Heng looked at the light general-purpose tank in front of him, and the corner of his mouth showed a very satisfied smile.
After the test, Zhao Heng took them back to his home, what he wanted to do most now was to get a medium-sized general-purpose tank out and make it into a variety of chassis equipped with various powerful equipment, and then brutally abuse the tank and the little Japanese devil who was a mess, and when the time came, he would go to the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War to help a group of old Maozi organizations of the same faith, if you encounter Hans Cat's Panther heavy tank, Tiger heavy tank, King Tiger heavy tank, In the case of an elephant anti-tank tank, not to mention a rat giant, a medium tank with a gun of about 85 mm to 100 mm should be able to hit the opponent at a certain distance.
But if you want to completely destroy your opponent, you have to look at the strength of the heavy tanks, Maozi's heavy tanks are like IS-1, IS-2, IS-3, IS-4 series of heavy tanks, only need to use a 122 mm gun can easily pry open the so-called art shells of Hans, but the number is limited to production problems. In the early stage, it was still quite limited, and Zhao Heng estimated that he would need a general-purpose heavy tank with a variety of calibers such as a 105 mm caliber rifled gun, a 125 mm caliber smoothbore gun, a 130 mm caliber rifled gun, and even a 152 mm caliber rifled gun, as a weapon to face heavy tanks such as the German Tiger King. Then the legendary and thunderous twin-barreled Apocalypse tank will be needed to fight it.
However, it is possible that the hammer tanks sealed in the bracelet will once again be put into battle and take out all kinds of enemies encountered along the way for Commander Zhao Heng to fight the vanguard!