Chen Zhaoming got the news that Wang Jue was coming to Tangshan, and it was already two hours later, and at this time, Wang Jue's train had almost entered the boundary of Tangshan. Chen Zhaoming, the www.biquge.info of Pen, Fun Pavilion, hurriedly drove to the train station to greet him, after all, although he was older, he still respected Wang Jue as a teacher.

What's more, now that Wang Jue is his direct boss, it is absolutely natural to go to the station to greet him. It's just that Chen Zhaoming didn't know why Wang Jue changed the arrangement of waiting for him to return to Beijing, and personally hurried to Tangshan, and asked him to come to the train station to pick him up.

Because of the support of the capital consortium and the chaebol businessmen from all walks of life, Tangshan, the main industrial base supporting the construction of the new army, is developing at an earth-shaking speed. And because it is faster to accept new things, and it is close to the production place of new equipment, there are even many more cars running on the ground here than in Jingshili.

The train stopped in Tangshan Railway Station, Wang Jue got off the train and saw Chen Zhaoming, the other party smiled and stepped forward to salute Wang Jue, just like when he was in the new army. Wang Jue also smiled and returned a military salute, and then began to introduce Shao Tianheng and Shang Yuyi to Chen Zhaoming.

"It can't be!" After hearing Wang Jue's introduction, the shocked Chen Zhaoming hurriedly questioned: "Our latest aero engine is used in several models of new aircraft, but none of them can achieve such a huge output horsepower. The Anyun 1 transport aircraft, as well as the new fighter jet being tested, were not up to the mark. ”

Compared with Wang Jue, Chen Zhaoming has a much deeper understanding of weapons and equipment. Of course, he knows what kind of changes will take place in the entire weapons and equipment system if there is a more powerful engine. So he didn't believe in this incredible technological progress, and immediately looked at the rather young couple behind Wang Jue with a not very friendly gaze.

"I was skeptical at first, but I believe that Shao Tianheng and Shang Yuyi will not be liars." Wang Jue waved his hand and said to Chen Zhaoming: "What's more, the two of them have brought the machine, and the test can start at any time...... You arrange, as soon as it's ready, I'm curious. ”

Seeing that Wang Jue was so determined, Chen Zhaoming also began to wonder. There was only one terrible thought left in his mind now: if this engine was real, what would happen to the weapons of the entire Ming Empire.

With this in mind, he saw the TY-3 engine that was still in the train car. Chen Zhaoming, who has seen a lot of aero engines, can see it more clearly than Wang Jue - this is indeed a beautiful engine, and Chen Zhaoming knows that it is also an unprecedented engine that does not know how strong the performance is!

So he rushed back to the factory with this engine, organized a test team, and even called William Wenger, a German Chinese who was debugging the new THS engine for the chassis of the No. 2 tank, from the nearby engine factory. Then, in a closed formal building, the testing of the new engine began.

Watching the advanced formal testing equipment being pushed into the plant, and watching the workers and technicians wearing work clothes and formally recording various experimental data, Shao Tianheng and Shang Yuyi finally had the feeling of developing engines many years ago. The two of them hadn't seen such a spacious, bright, and advanced factory in about two years.

"It's time to start testing." An engineer connected the last test equipment to the engine, raised his hand to signal to the supervising safety officer, and then several workers poured high-quality aviation gasoline into the temporary fuel tank. As the engine began to spin and there was a roar of metal grinding against each other, all eyes were on the never-before-seen machine.

"The number of revolutions has reached the preliminary record standard!" One of the operators shouted loudly.

Not far away, another staff member raised his hand and signaled: "The output horsepower has reached more than 800...... And counting! ”

"The engine is running smoothly!" The engineer who detected the tremors stared at the instrument in front of him and added.

There was a lot of hustle and bustle in the whole factory, because what this engine actually showed was much better than what Shao Tianheng and Shang Yuyi promised to Wang Jue! Although this engine is larger than other engines, it also provides more power – much more powerful!

To put it simply, the aero engine developed by Shao Tianheng and Shang Yuyi is a rather fashionable engine. The engine is liquid-cooled, which is still only a handful of foreign companies experimenting with. As a whole, it has 12 cylinders and a piston design, which is definitely an aero engine that subverts all previous aero engines.

The displacement of such an engine is a full 27 liters, which can be considered a horror for the engine used in the world before. Shao Tianheng, who mainly focuses on cylinders, has improved the stroke of the entire engine, so that the combustion utilization rate of this engine is higher, and the power is more continuous and surging.

You must know that the aircraft engine still in use in the world at that time only had a pitiful output of 100 horsepower, and it was simply impossible to make a breakthrough in the performance of the aircraft with this kind of engine. Therefore, the Breaking Air 1 fighter used by the Ming Empire at that time only weighed 400 kilograms empty, and the take-off weight was only more than 600 kilograms.

This type of aircraft generally uses cloth or wood as skin and weighing support, not to mention slow, not to mention not strong. Therefore, at this time, it seems that the Air Force does not have any other combat functions except for simple reconnaissance missions and driving away the opponent's planes.

In order to find a more suitable engine system, Wang Jue recruited aero engine designer Wilhelm Wenger from Germany at any cost. And this aero engine designer, who has almost mastered the pulse of the latest engine design, is nothing more than only bringing a 500-horsepower engine to the Ming Empire.

Of course, when this engine is applied to a tank, the horsepower is even smaller - only about 270 horsepower. This is more than three times the horsepower of the engine used in the aviation industry before. However, the engine developed by Shao Tianheng and Shang Yuyi was more than twice as much as William Wenger's THS-2 engine.

Yes, more than twice as much! The output horsepower of this TY-3 engine has exceeded 1,000, which is ten times higher than the engine used in the previous Ming Empire's air-breaking fighters! If the British Empire and Germany and other technological powers saw this engine, they would definitely think that the design drawings of the latest aero engines that they were still in the laboratory had been leaked or stolen.

Compared with the previous kind of small fights, the TY-3 engine is not a simple improvement, it has allowed the Ming Empire to enter the ranks of world-class countries in the field of engines, and even pointed out a new tactical path for Wang Jue, who was sitting on the side and watching the entire engine test.

"The engine is running steadily...... The maximum number of revolutions is close to the design maximum! An engine tester looked at the gauge in front of him, shocked at the incredible values, and aloud what he had seen as he recorded the unthinkable.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought that the person who told me this kind of thing was crazy." Chen Zhaoming, who was standing next to Wang Jue, stared at the Chinese engine that was constantly running, and said in the same shocked tone: "12 cylinders, liquid cooling, piston 'V-shaped' layout...... Aircraft Engine ...... Good stuff, absolutely good stuff!. ”

Standing farther away, William Wenger could no longer be reserved, and he was asking Shao Tianheng about some specific design values of the new engine in an inquiring tone, in slightly rusty Chinese: "Bore 130 mm? I have to say it's a bold design...... How did I not think of it? Why didn't I think of designing the supercharger here as a two-speed two-stage? ”

In the cylinder, the piston has a stroke of 150 mm, which is a very modest value. This set of design parameters provides a relatively stable output environment for the engine, allowing the engine to continuously output more than 1,000 horsepower. In fact, in such a good test environment, the engine quickly pushed the design limit of 1,000 hp and reached an astonishing 1,100 hp level.

"Oh my God! 1100 hp...... If this engine can be used in tanks, I don't think we will have to worry about how to make tanks use heavier armor. Chen Zhaoming was like looking at the treasure of the immortal family, looking at this TY-3 engine that was challenging one limit after another.

What he said reached Wang Jue's ears, but it did not arouse Wang Jue's resonance. At this time, Wang Jue's mind was full of another thing, another difficult problem that he had been puzzled about. But now he has not pierced the window paper, and he has not yet figured out what kind of inevitable connection there is between this engine and his vision of future war.

"Don't think about it." Although Wang Jue did not speak, the professional tank designer on the side shook his head and poured cold water on Chen Zhaoming's idea just now: "This kind of aero engine specially developed for aircraft pursues high speed and high power...... With a displacement of a full 27 liters, how could a tank be used? ”

Although strong power is a dream thing, after all, there is a price to pay for excessive pursuit of strong power. Aero engines cannot be used directly on tank vehicles, at least in the future. Because of the appearance of the TY-3, the designers found that its displacement of 27 liters on the tank was obviously wasteful and impractical, and reducing it to about 12 liters was enough to make the tank run fast. (To be continued.) )