Liu Zhengtai wiped the sweat on his forehead, the coolness of the winter in Los Angeles did not make him any easier, after all, he was still a young man in his twenties, and he was still a little nervous in the face of such an important occasion. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info He looked at the FAW employees who were also busy preparing not far away, and it was obvious that the identity of the state-owned enterprise did not bring a sense of security to these people, and they were as nervous as Liu Zhengtai.

Mei Ruhe, who was originally the deputy commander of the peacekeeping battalion and is now a colonel, Liu Fangwu, who was promoted to cavalry commander, and several grassroots battalion commanders of the unit who were about to be changed to mechanized infantry. Fortunately, President Zhao Daling, who is the commander-in-chief of the army, is not here, otherwise everyone will be even more nervous.

Ishikawa patted Liu Zhengtai on the shoulder and said, "Don't be too nervous, the more nervous you are, the worse it will be, you have to trust ourselves." ”

Liu Zhengtai was still very pessimistic, shook his head and said: "Our Willis still has a lot of small problems, if FAW improves its own products, it will be difficult for us to win." ”

Ishikawa said: "Our car has stronger horsepower, and the off-road performance is better than that little Beetle of FAW, what is there to worry about." ”

In this bidding for army vehicles, GM and FAW both tried their best, but the time was short and the task was tight, and neither company tried to redesign a vehicle by itself, but both took it, and each chose an off-road vehicle that existed in history as a prototype and made its own bid. They didn't even bother to change the name, GM copied the Willis Jeep during World War II, which was the Jeep that was famous in later generations as "not all jeeps are called Jeep", and GM got the Jeep trademark because it designed the finished product. In Datang, if you want to preemptively register a trademark, you must have related goods and services, just for those copycat crazy guys to take all the good names and then sell them for money.

The prototype chosen by FAW was a bit simpler. The barrel car from the German Porsche company, that is, the originator of the Beetle, the VW82 barrel car (Kubelwagen).

It can be said that the names of the two companies of FAW and GM themselves are very related to the public war Qin Qiong, and the bidding vehicles they came up with are very meaningful for the reappearance of the battlefield between the United States and Germany in World War II.

The auction will start soon, and the entire bidding process will include multiple testing processes. The two vehicles will pass a number of performance tests before being voted on by a seven-member committee of Army officers. Xu Daorun, as the army battalion commander, is also a member of the committee, and Bai Nan, a supernumerary member, belongs to the onlookers at most.

Bai Nan sat aside. He commented in his heart: "The Willis Jeep made by GM is much more domineering than the barrel car in appearance, which is more in line with the aesthetics of the army, and the space is larger." Suitable for handling and riding. However, the barrel car is small in size. And it looks like the cost will be cheaper, and the engine developed by FAW is slightly better than GM's, so it seems that the reliability of the two types of cars will determine the outcome of today's bid. ”

One test was a 10-kilometer race in which two Army soldiers drove two vehicles and trekked 10 kilometers on uneven roads with a certain amount of weight on the cars.

"We're more advantageous for this test," Ishikawa said, clenching his fists, "and our car is on a higher ground." The suspension is also better, with the ability to traverse rougher terrain. In this off-road performance level, we are sure to win. ”

Liu Zhengtai nodded, Willis Jeep was developed by him, he was designed completely according to the Army's bidding documents, especially emphasizing the passability of jeeps in complex terrain, for which he made a set of coil spring suspension system, which is also the suspension commonly used by later generations of cars, and it was something that Land Rover made in the 70s of the 20th century. With coil springs, the Willis Jeep gained more suspension travel than even the Willys Jeep in World War II, allowing the car to keep the tires from hanging in off-road.

Liu Zhengtai also used four-wheel drive technology on this car, which is another first, four-wheel drive, wide tires and coil spring suspension, it can be said that Liu Zhengtai used his own efforts and talent to raise the technical level of this Willys Jeep to the level of vehicles in the second half of the 20th century. Although this is related to the large amount of car information he brought when he crossed, it would not have been possible to complete it without Liu Zhengtai's efforts.

GM's Willis Jeep uses a large number of new designs, completely breaking through the previous two models designed by GM, and it can be said that at the technical level, the Willis Jeep is a landmark car in the history of Datang Motors.

At this time, the engineer on the FAW side, Jiang Ming, who was also not very old, walked over. This Jiang Ming is also a modern public, a student majoring in mechanics, who is older than Liu Zhengtai. The most prominent feature of this person is that many of the people in the Ming Dynasty cut their hair short after crossing over, but Jiang Ming saved his hair and tied it in a bun. Occasionally, in the FAW Group, you can still see this group wearing a Hanfu that I don't know where to do it.

As if hearing the discussion between Liu Zhengtai and Ishikawa just now, Jiang Ming walked over and said with a smile: "I must admit that in the use of technology, you GM has completely destroyed our FAW, Liu Zhengtai, you are also a respectable competitor, but you can't win this bid." ”

Ishikawa immediately glared and said, "What do you mean?" Could it be that the army has already made a decision? ”

Jiang Ming shook off his long flowing hair, and said with a stinky face: "We don't disdain to use such methods, only by competing with real knives and guns can we compare who is the king." Those people in the army are very realistic, and if our stuff is not good, they will not want to use it. ”

Liu Zhengtai asked solemnly: "You mean, our car is not as good as your bean car?" ”

Jiang Ming didn't mean Liu Zhengtai's sarcasm at all, he stared at Liu Zhengtai and said: "You are a very smart engineer, but you are still too young, you have the paranoia and fanaticism of a technical nerd, but you are not a really good engineer, at least not now." ”

After speaking, Jiang Ming shook his long hair, showed the back of his head to Liu Zhengtai and Ishikawa, and walked back to his company.

Ishikawa scolded: "What does this sissy mean, this is probably a psychological offensive for us before the battle." What kind of old-fashioned play, obviously about the same age as us. ”

Liu Zhengtai shook his head, "I don't know, I don't know much about Jiang Ming, I only know that he seems to be a person from the Dongfeng Group before he crossed, and he specially followed the peacekeeping battalion to Sudan to collect the field performance of their newly designed armored vehicles and off-road vehicles, so it can be said that we can't compare to him in terms of qualifications." After the crossing, he entered FAW and has always been an important figure in the R&D department, and he has made a lot of efforts in the research and development of agricultural tractors, harvesters, and Jiefang trucks. This time, he directly led the FAW team and bid with us. ”

Ishikawa nodded and said, "Nothing to fear, I firmly believe that we will win!" ”

The test finally began, although it was only a ten-kilometer race, but in fact it tested the performance of the vehicle in many aspects, four soldiers from each car group sat in the vehicle, the Willys Jeep side was very spacious, and even two more people could be stuffed, while the barrel car was a little crowded, and it was full if one more person was stuffed. The Willis Jeep can also load a large amount of supplies, and it is not a problem to get a few hundred kilograms, but on the side of the barrel truck, a box full of supplies can barely hold anything.

The person in charge of the assessment shook his head, obviously unhappy with the space of the bucket truck. However, for the sake of fairness in the competition, both sides carried four soldiers and a box of supplies.

Ishikawa waved his fist and said, "Let's get one point first, the people of FAW are really stupid, it's obviously a military vehicle, and they don't think about space." ”

Liu Zhengtai's brows did not stretch, and he watched the test continue.

The more powerful Willys Jeep sped out under the driver's throttle, and the driver of the barrel car on the other side also used a similar starting style, but in terms of acceleration performance, it was obvious that he could not catch up with the Willis Jeep. The first leg of the 10-kilometre was flat, and it was clear that the more powerful Willys Jeep had won again.

Next, we moved on to the real off-road section, which included craters deliberately blown out by the army's artillery, some shallow canals, and a hill road, so to speak, with many different situations considered. The Willys Jeep really lived up to expectations, maintaining a very good off-road performance in extremely harsh terrain, and moving forward like a beast on the depression. On the contrary, on the barrel truck, it seems that the engineer has already entrusted it, and the soldiers are extra careful in driving on these terrains, but the chassis of the barrel car is composed of a semi-tubular main beam and stamped steel plate, with four wheels of independent suspension and torsion bar springs, so the off-road performance is not bad.

By the time the stage reached nine kilometers, the Willis Jeep had already taken a big lead over the barrel car, and Ishikawa and other GM personnel had already begun to cheer for victory, but at this critical moment, people saw that the Willis Jeep who was climbing the mountain road suddenly became short, and then skidped, and slid down the mountain road suddenly!

Fortunately, the driver reacted quickly, hurriedly pulled the handbrake, stomped on the brake pedal hard, and the car slipped for a distance, and leaned on a boulder, which was considered to alleviate the slide. The soldiers inside hurriedly jumped out of the car.

"What's wrong, what's going on?" Ishikawa and the others were shocked.

Liu Zhengtai rushed forward first, checked the car, and then he sighed: "The suspended spring has been displaced, and the girder is broken......"

Ishikawa's face turned pale after hearing this, this is simply a fatal problem, no matter which of the above two problems appears, even if it is a civilian vehicle, there may be a tragedy of car destruction and death, not to mention military vehicles.

In fact, Liu Zhengtai has long known that Willis Jeep has too many new technologies in one breath, especially in the vehicle parts and materials supplier, the strength is not very good, he is confident that the Willis Jeep can be finally perfected, but the bidding time is too short, he does not listen to find the problem, solve the problem, but in the end it still failed to make it a reliable car. (To be continued.) )