Chapter 57: The Tank (3)
Both of them are the masters of doing what they say, and they immediately started to make such a piece of hardened armor-air-ordinary armor composite armor, roughly weighing the 20 mm matching armor, and the weight is about the same as the 25 mm ordinary armor, plus a certain small bevel placement, the defensive performance is much better than the 25 mm ordinary armor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"It seems that this is a good solution, then we will use 30 mm composite armor. 10 mm of hardened armor plus 20 mm of ordinary armor would be fine" Looking at the effect of this simple matching armor, it is really good, and the two of them set the thickness of the armor. The first prototype is in full swing in production. "Due to the use of casting, a layer of hardened armor was hung on the outside, and the production speed of the tank was quite fast, and in less than a week, the first tank was off the production line, and the total weight of the completed tank battle reached 18 tons, the frontal armor was 30 mm thick, the side rear armor was 20 mm, the top armor was 10 mm, and the bottom armor was 5 mm. Armed with a 46x 45mm anti-tank gun, and two 7.7mm machine guns. Because of its strong heart, it can reach speeds of nearly 40 kilometers per hour. It can be said that it is currently the most advanced tank in the world.
It was produced, but the original tank troops of the Northeast Army were all taken to Guannei by Zhang Xueliang, and there were really few people who could drive tanks in Guannei, which became very embarrassing, but Jiang Tao didn't want the tank he worked so hard to design to become an ornament, so he found the Wen Army.
"Brother Jun, I heard that the little devils have started a tank unit, and I also want to form a tank unit, but I hope that this force can be in the hands of the anti-Japanese people, I don't want to see the tank I designed being used in the civil war, do you have any good suggestions?"
"I can help you ask about this matter, but I guess it's a little difficult not to participate in the civil war, I want to find a way to keep the establishment in our own hands, I will drive a tank, and I can be an instructor and commander." As he spoke, Wen Jun picked up the phone and called the Northeast Frontier Command of Northeast Li.
"I'm Wenjun, and I have important things to report to Chairman Zhang Zuoxiang."
"Hey, I'm Zhang Zuoxiang, what is there to find me in my nephew." Zhang Zuoxiang's voice came from the microphone.
"Commander Zhang, I have something I want to ask you."
"What do you say, you are the adopted son of Liechen's brother, although he didn't say it, but several of our brothers know that he treats your three brothers and sisters as if they were children, I am Liechen's sworn brother, you are my nephews and nieces, just say something." Zhang Zuoxiang reprimanded Wen Jun with some dissatisfaction.
"Uncle, then I'll be bold enough to speak?"
"Let's speak, just say, twisting and pinching, it's a bit like our Northeast boys."
"Uncle, I hope you can let me pick people and form a tank force."
"Tanks, where did you get your tanks?" Tank, Zhang Zuoxiang thought that Fengtian was lost, Zhang Xueliang entered the pass with the remaining tank troops, and there will be no possibility of the Northeast Army's own tank troops appearing outside the pass.
"That's the case, didn't we re-establish the arsenal in Taonan, this time I heard that the Japanese dispatched a tank unit on the battlefield of Liaoyuan, so I germinated the idea of developing my own tank, but I didn't expect it to really come out, but no one in my hand can drive a tank, so I hope that uncle, you can help us set up a tank unit."
"Wenjun, I can tell you now, you can do tank troops, but I can't give you too much support except for people, at most I will give you a formation, as for weapons and equipment, you can do it yourself by relying on the arsenal." Zhang Zuoxiang didn't hide anything when he arrived, and directly agreed to the Wen army, but he had to raise weapons by himself.
The next day, the civilian army received a promotion telegram from the headquarters. "Because of the meritorious service of guarding the arsenal of the battalion commander Wen Jun, he is hereby commended, promoted to colonel and regimental commander, and hereby appointed to form a tank regiment. The troops cooperated. ”
With Zhang Zuoxiang's permission, Wenjun also launched his own recruitment operation. By the way, Jiang Tao was asked to develop a simple training tank, because the newly designed tanks are all important armed forces, and they must fight on the front line, and the simpler the training tanks, the better, and it is best to have a certain combat effectiveness as a supplementary force.
This is not difficult for Jiang Tao, isn't it castrated on the basis of the newly designed tank, the first thing to be cut is the armor, the thickness of the armor has been cut by Jiang Tao by a small half, the original external hardened armor has also been removed, as for the engine Jiang Tao has also subtracted four cylinders, and the multi-valve design has also been removed. The fire system was also replaced with ready-made 37-mm flat-firing guns. Some parts were originally welded and replaced, and they were replaced with riveted structures that were simple and easy to process. But that's it, the performance of this training tank is also much better than that of the Japanese army's Type 92 and Type 94 light tanks. The two tanks were named the "Jackal" for training and the "Wolf" for combat, respectively.
Gouzi was sent to the rear hospital due to excessive blood loss on the battlefield, and in the hospital, Gouzi also heard that the Japanese army used a weapon called a tank and almost broke through the defense line that his brigade had managed to hold.
"Hey, have you heard, we are also going to have a tank unit, I heard that we are recruiting?" Said a wounded soldier recuperating.
"Hey, hey, you can tell my brother a few things, I heard that this tank is amazing." A few wounded soldiers gathered around and courteously lit a cigarette for the speaker.
The man smoked a cigarette beautifully, and then said unhurriedly, "This tank, that's an iron king, our guns are useless, even the front of the 37 mm battle defense gun can't penetrate its iron shell, and the shell inside it hits our machine gun position one by one, you say it's not powerful." ”
"Awesome, awesome." The people around him chimed in.
"You haven't said anything about the recruitment." The dog next to him asked.
"This recruit, don't think about it, let's not think about it, that good guy, you have to be literate and educated. If we have this ability, what kind of big soldiers should we be? ”
"That's it." But the dog paid attention to this matter, because of the requirements of their brigade commander Wang Yizhe, their brigade's education level was the highest in the Northeast Army, and the dog also knew a lot of words.
The dog silently left the chatting crowd, went outside and saw the recruitment notice posted on it, and wrote down the address of Taonan written on it.