The Qihan Industrial Technology Exhibition Hall is located at the foot of Gusan Mountain in Hanyang. Not far from the Hanyang Bingwei "Yiye Jiang Company Steel Plant, as the most intuitive embodiment of China's industrial technology exhibition in this era, industrial achievements are often held here, imitation fabrics, hardware department stores, chemical products, heavy machinery, traditional handicrafts and most of the light and heavy industrial products can be seen here, if you want to buy industrial products. This is undoubtedly a good place to be, at least here, where you can see the industrial products that Chinese companies can manufacture in batches.

Today, a new exhibition of industrial achievements was held in the Industrial Technology Exhibition Hall, which was crowded with tourists and businessmen who did not focus their main attention on the industrial products, but on the president, just now. The president of the Republic of China gave an important speech in front of the exhibition hall, although people could listen to the president's voice through those electric loudspeakers. But if you can walk up to the president and shake his hand, people don't mind squeezing in front of the exhibition hall for a few more moments.

In the face of the enthusiastic people, Mr. President still smiled as usual and shook hands with the people who crowded over, of course. The president's pro-people move obviously overrode the guards who maintained order at the scene, especially the captain of the guard, Qin Sihu. It is even more standing beside the president. Swept his eyes around in fear, ready to block bullets at any time, although the president is very popular with the people, it is undeniable that the current society is very complicated. Frustrated politicians, anarchists, Manchu remnants, foreign assassins, madmen, careerists within the United Front, these people or forces must be guarded against, or out of resentment against the republic. Or out of hatred of the president, they want to be unfavorable to the president, and no one can guarantee that the president will be safe, so the duty of this guard is to always be vigilant, to ensure that the president arrives at his destination on time, to ensure that the president, and to return to the presidential palace safely.

In fact, this exhibition of industrial and technological achievements is just a small-scale exhibition, and it is said that there is no need for a big man like the president to preside over it in person, but the president decided to come over in person the day before yesterday to preside over the opening ceremony of this exhibition. The chamber was not deterred. Everything went according to plan, and at dawn today, the president's special train quietly drove into the Hankou railway station, and the people attending the exhibition were able to see the president's true face.

In defense of the president. The security service had to send snipers to occupy the commanding heights around the exhibition hall, and sent strong men, dressed in civilian clothes, to blend in with the crowd to control the crowd and monitor suspicious persons.

To Qin Sihu's relief, the president was obviously a little absent-minded and didn't stay in front of the exhibition hall for long. Soon ended the face-to-face conversation with the people, and entered the Industrial Technology Achievement Exhibition Hall, accompanied by the commander of the Wuhan garrison and the mayor. Saw the industrial products that participated in the exhibition, but the president did not visit the exhibition hall for long, half. hours later. The president left through the back door and led his entourage to the docks, where they took a ferry across the Han River to the tractor factory in Hankow.

The tractor factory in Hankou is actually the Huaxia Agricultural Machinery Factory, which is a joint venture between the Ministry of Finance and the Deere Agricultural Machinery Company of the United States, with the Chinese side holding the shares, and the main products are heavy-duty crawler agricultural tractors, as well as other agricultural tools, from the most common shovels and hoes to more sophisticated harvesters and threshers, almost all agricultural production tools can be found in the warehouses of this factory.

Since the factory is controlled by the Chinese side and controls the board of directors, most of the top management of the entire factory are Chinese, except for some American technical experts and a few trade representatives. Many of them have also studied abroad. The technical force is very strong, coupled with the technical practice of these four, this agricultural machinery factory is second to none in the entire Far East in terms of technology and production capacity, and last year alone, the plant produced more than 200 heavy tractors, which is still an achievement achieved in the case of insufficient start-up.

In order to ensure the profits of the factory, the central government not only gives tax concessions, but also directly from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to carry out government orders, now, the reclamation areas of the three eastern provinces have been equipped with a large number of heavy-duty crawler tractors manufactured by Huaxia Agricultural Machinery Factory, in the past, these tractors are powered by gasoline engines, but now. The "Zhenhua diesel engine" has been successfully developed, and the tractor is about to switch to a diesel engine as a power engine.

Of course, the reason why Zhao Bei rushed to Huaxia Agricultural Machinery Factory today. It was not to investigate the production of agricultural machinery, he came here with a strong motive, and as for presiding over the opening ceremony of the industrial products exhibition and sales of the Industrial Technology Achievement Exhibition Hall, it was just a trick for him.

After rushing to the agricultural machinery factory. Zhao Bei just walked around the production workshop of the factory slightly accompanied by the factory manager, and then. Surrounded by his entourage, he rushed to a "motive branch" of the factory on the banks of the Han River. "This branch factory is different from the main factory, not only are the workers and technicians all Chinese, but even the top managers are Chinese, and there is even a military representative.

"Motivation Branch" is just one. In fact, this factory can not only manufacture gasoline engines and diesel engines, but also a full set of tractor parts, in other words, this factory can actually be regarded as a smaller version of the main factory of Huaxia Agricultural Machinery Factory.

There are two finished product warehouses in the motive branch, one is the "Tianzi No. 2" warehouse and the other is the "Tianzi No. 1" warehouse.

Zhao Bei rushed to the factory, did not visit any production workshop, but went directly to the "Tianzi No. 1" warehouse, and when he walked into the warehouse with those attachés, most of the people looked very surprised.

The warehouse was full of vehicles, but they were not tractors, nor any agricultural machinery, but dozens of oddly shaped tracked vehicles, most of whom were soldiers, who immediately judged their usefulness from the machine guns and flat-fire guns mounted on them

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It can only be military. No one would have installed such a powerful weapon on a civilian vehicle, and, like the four-wheeled armored car, this strange-looking military vehicle had a turret that could rotate 360 degrees and was equipped with a Dan flat-fire gun. As well as a machine gun mounted side by side.

"Everyone, please see, this is the secret weapon of our army that I want to show you, it is about to become the main equipment of our army's armored forces. At present, this weapon is a secret of all time, and even the armored forces are not aware of the existence of this secret weapon, and as the first batch of soldiers to come into close contact with this secret weapon, everyone present has every reason to be excited. ”

Zhao Bei stepped forward. Raised his hand and stroked the welded hull armor plate. Then he stood on a steam tractor and personally explained to his subordinates.

"For the sake of secrecy, this vehicle was called the" tank " during development " and now I have decided to officially name this combat vehicle "Tank, in the future. The units equipped with such combat vehicles are the "tank units." Tank platoons, tank companies, tank battalions, tank regiments...... All the way to the tank division, with this new weapon, the shortcomings of poor mobility of wheeled armored vehicles can be fundamentally overcome, due to the use of tracks, tanks can easily cross trenches, trenches, easily break through enemy positions, this tank is our country and even the world's first officially mounted troops of the tracked combat vehicle, although it is not perfect, but we can fully trust its combat capabilities, the front armor of this tank is 25 mm thick, and the side armor is 15 mm thick. The first batch of products are equipped with high-horsepower gasoline engines, although the weight of the body is close to ten tons, but driven by the motive, this tank can reach a cross-country degree of five kilometers, and can accompany the infantry to impact the enemy's positions. I believe that as long as our troops are equipped with such weapons, we will be able to bring the most brilliant military victory to this country and to this people! ”

The president's speech was impassioned, and everyone was fascinated, and some anxious officers even followed the technician to open the top cover of the tank, curiously got in, shook the rockers, and turned the single turret, and the atmosphere at the scene quickly became lively, especially the staff officers of the armored corps who came from Gansu. He looked even more anxious, and he couldn't wait to immediately drive this new armored vehicle out of the warehouse and walk around a few times.

Looking at this group of elated subordinates, Zhao Bei tried his best to maintain a calm expression, but his heart was also equally excited, and his mind had already flown out of the warehouse and flew towards the future battlefield.

Since the warfare of this era is more and more dependent on technology, the exhibition of tank technology will inevitably bring fundamental changes to the military technology and tactical concepts of this era, and Zhao Bei is the key figure leading all this.

In order to achieve tactical suddenness, Zhao Bei made the tank development plan a top military secret from the beginning. At the beginning, the only person who knew about this development plan was Liu Qingen, director of the Ordnance Industry Administration, although more and more technical experts later participated. On the other hand, in order not to affect the combat capability of the tank troops, Zhao Bei has also started the training of armored troops a long time ago, but at the beginning, it was wheeled armored vehicles that were used to carry out tactical training of armored troops.

It must be admitted. It does take a while for the armored troops trained by wheeled armored vehicles to adapt to the new armored combat vehicles such as tanks, but after all, they have already come into contact with the rudiments of armored warfare, and once the run-in period with tanks is over, Zhao Bei believes that the armored soldiers will definitely create a jaw-dropping miracle of war.

This miracle was actually forged by Zhao Bei, in order to meet this war, he had prepared for almost four times, and he believed that once the war started, the ** team would win a dazzling decisive victory.

This. He is on a strong line