223: Armored Forces
Bidding farewell to Zheng County, Wang Sirui began to turn around and go north, stopping in Xinzheng, dozens of miles away from Zheng County. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In fact, the real purpose of Wang Sirui's southward journey this time is Xinzheng.
Perhaps only here can Wang Sirui regain his self-confidence and the confidence that allowed him to contend with the great powers.
Although Wang Sirui's development seems to be stable and rapid this year, how many difficulties have he encountered in secret? This is only known to Wang Sirui himself.
The foreigners fortified everywhere, which made Wang Sirui in a dilemma, and the governors in China were very different from Wang Sirui.
Although on the surface, it seems that he is with Wang Sirui, but in fact? After sending two indemnities, these people also seemed to have discovered Wang Sirui's weakness and found that Wang Sirui did not have enough troops to conquer them.
As a result, in addition to the two lakes and Huguang still sparing no effort to send the compensation to the capital, this whole day, only Shanxi was left and could barely send some money over.
Other places even felt that they were far away from the emperor, even if Wang Sirui had the ability to attack them, then they would have already packed up and ran away.
It is precisely for this reason that the governments in the south claim to the people that foreigners have shortened the repayment period, so they continue to search for the people's fat and people's ointment more unscrupulously, but in fact? The money that was looted was not sent to the capital, but was secretly hidden by these people.
Some people even directly deposited money in foreign banks, and those European and American bankers were even more happy to see such a large amount of money deposited in the bank, which means that they have more funds to do other things, such as lending to Huaxia with Huaxia's money, and then making Huaxia's money.
The bankers hated to hug the guys who had put their money in their own banks.
And this matter also came to Wang Sirui's ears half a year ago.
Seeing that more and more money is about to be lost overseas, this makes Wang Sirui a little unable to sit still, although he wants to wave his troops directly to the south, but the military strength is limited, and when the army hits the place, the gang has already run out.
In desperation, Wang Sirui had no choice but to divide a large number of personnel, lurking beside the governors and governors of the provinces, supervising them, once the Han army decided to go south, these people must be controlled immediately.
As long as these people don't run away, the money deposited in the bank is not afraid that it will not come back.
Originally, it was planned to unify the whole country in five years, but now, Wang Sirui has to speed up his pace.
This is also the reason why he is eager to continue to recruit 250,000 troops in Shandong, Henan and Shengjing, and according to Wang Sirui's latest plan, by the end of the year at the latest, he will move his troops south to recover the governors and governors who have ceded land as kings.
At the same time, in order to resist the pressure brought by foreigners, Wang Sirui was unable to attack with all his troops. This is also one of the reasons why Wang Sirui has no confidence.
Therefore, Wang Sirui was anxious to see a strange army that he had high hopes for in the past year, and wanted to see how their training was doing.
A four-wheeled, strange-looking car appeared in Wang Sirui's sight.
Looking at this ugly car, Wang Sirui could only applaud, and the backwardness of industry led to Wang Sirui's inability to develop more powerful equipment.
Even, in order to meet the needs of operations, this armored car has been changed countless times, have you ever seen an armored car smaller than a car?
If you haven't seen it, then you can take a look at the hatchback compact car of later generations, and now the length of the armored car in front of Wang Sirui is about the same as that, or even shorter than the hatchback.
Originally, according to Wang Sirui's plan, at least two Makqin heavy machine guns were to be arranged on it, although there was no way to make a tank for later generations, but it was still possible to turn this car into a mobile firepower point.
Just imagine, when charging, this car that is not afraid of bullets is in the way, and there are two heavy machine guns on it that keep roaring, followed by countless infantry, can those foreigners' infantry resist?
Obviously, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is very cruel.
When Ford designed the armored car according to Wang Sirui's request, they found a problem that made them very embarrassed.
Even if it is equipped with the most powerful engine at present, but after being equipped with two heavy machine guns and closed steel plates, the power of this car is still very anxious, and even the engine is buzzing with stimulation, but the speed is only a dozen miles.
This is still on flat ground, the speed in the test area of the factory, if it is on the battlefield, whether it can run to ten miles is a problem.
The car was so heavy that with the current engine, it would not be able to move the car at all.
Therefore, this armored car was finally modified, the two heavy machine guns on it were changed to one, and the rear space was reduced, leaving only a place more than thirty centimeters wide for ammunition, and there was only one seat and standing position on the car, the seat was naturally the driver's, and the standing position was the co-pilot, who was also the machine gunner.
In this way, the castrated armored car, after reducing its weight by more than two hundred kilograms, was finally able to run at a speed of more than thirty miles at the test site. Although this speed is still very unsatisfactory, it is much better than before.
In the end, with the efforts of Liang Shanhe and Andy's team, the engine was modified, and it was not easy for this car to run at a speed of 40 miles in the test field, even if it was placed on the battlefield, it could at least ensure a speed of more than 25 miles.
Even at this speed, the infantry behind can only run to keep up with the speed of the armored vehicle, which has basically reached the preliminary requirements for Wang Sirui's requirements.
Although he was very dissatisfied with this armored car, whether it was his performance or appearance, for Wang Sirui, who had seen real tanks and armored vehicles, it was so ugly.
But Wang Sirui also knows very well that now he has no ability to make better armored vehicles or tanks, and even such armored vehicles, once they are on the battlefield, they are still invincible.
Although the car is very dissatisfied, there are also things that make Wang Sirui very satisfied.
For example, it's a completely miniature version of a car, and then you can put a layer of steel on all four sides of it. And what makes Ford even more speechless is that he is a car manufacturer, right? Cars, cars, know what a car is?
Obviously it is an automobile factory, but in addition to the cars used for experimental research, the first mass-produced model of his production line turned out to be an armored car.
The Ford plant, which adopted an assembly line production method, took a day to make a car, that is, 24 hours, and was able to build 50 cars at a time.
In other words, after 24 hours after the production line starts, on average, a car will roll off the assembly line every 20 minutes, reaching the point where it can be sold.
And armored vehicles because they need to weld steel plates for bulletproof, of course, this is not an ordinary steel plate, but special steel, this is researched by experts from the United States, although this kind of cannon can not be made just now, but some small-caliber ones are still no problem, and it is even more okay to use them for bulletproof.
So, with the addition of bulletproof steel plates, how long does it take to manufacture a car? The answer is twenty-five hours.
The steel plates are all ready-made, each person is responsible for an area, and a group of workers welds the steel plates of an armored vehicle at the same time, so it is not difficult to complete this task in an hour.
Wang Sirui customized a hundred armored vehicles in one go, which is a big order. Well, in fact, Wang Sirui didn't give money at all.
After all the 100 armored vehicles rolled off the assembly line, Ford was allowed to continue to develop his Model T, which was finally identified and approved by Ford after a year of painstaking research, and Ford was sure to sell well.
It's just that while developing the Model T, the Ford team also needs to be divided into thirty people to continue to study the armored car and modify it on the basis of this armored car. Among them, more than half of these 30 people, about 20 of them are Chinese people, these are the first batch to come in, and there are also talents who were later pulled back from overseas by Wang Sirui.
With the first armored car, then the second one is not in a hurry, although it is very difficult to enter Wang Sirui's eyes, but at least it is no problem to block bullets.
Of the 100 armored vehicles, 40 were assigned to the 19th Division, 10 to the 1st Division stationed in the capital, and the remaining 50 to the 20th Division stationed in Lulong.
These are Wang Sirui's secret equipment, although the number is not large, and it is not as powerful as the armored vehicles of later generations, but it is a miracle soldier, and all countries in the world have not thought of this kind of weapon, let alone how to deal with this equipment.
'Da Da Da ......'
The heavy machine guns on the armored vehicles began to let out their own roars, sometimes firing, sometimes strafing, and as the armored vehicles rushed, the hull also began to shake, which also led to the accuracy of the shooting could not be guaranteed.
In order to ensure that the opponent's mines do not cause casualties to themselves, there is such a clause in the training program of the armored unit, and the infantry should take the place where the wheels pass as much as possible.
The infantry following the armored vehicle did not shoot, after all, they had not yet reached the level of shooting while shooting and hitting while running, and on the other hand, the coordination between the armored vehicle and the infantry was slightly less tacit.
Of course, this is from the perspective of Wang Sirui, a later generation, if it is placed now, then there is no tacit understanding.
Soon, under the cover of armored vehicles, the infantry rushed into the preset enemy trenches, and it was expected that the infantry behind them should also charge. After all, with armored vehicles in front and armored infantry in the trenches as bait, they will be under much less pressure to attack.
After watching this set of tactical drills, Wang Sirui's confidence in his heart was once again sufficient, at least, even if he started a war this time, he could make the coalition forces cry bitterly, at least he could do it together.
Besides, there is not only one train group here, each car will train five car crew members, and in another field, there are ten training vehicles that are dedicated to teaching soldiers to drive.
Once the production line is activated, this secret base can be expanded into a force with 200 armored vehicles in an instant. If the whole army is combined, it is 500 armored vehicles, and even the pressure can crush thousands of enemy troops. (To be continued.) )