The railway station in Tai'an County is not large, but when the Jin army withdrew from it and deployed a defensive line east of the Liao River, it was one of the stations closest to the confrontation line between the Ming Empire and the Jin State.

At this moment, on the platform of the small station, Wang Jue was followed by Zhang Jianjun, the commander of the First Army, surrounded by a group of officers and staff officers, standing there waiting for the train from the direction of Jinzhou.

Because the new army itself is equipped with a lot of cars, and even has experience in using armored cars, it is still relatively familiar with this kind of oil-burning machinery. The officers who came this time included several officers from the logistics unit who were in charge of trucks and cars, some commanders from the cavalry units, and even mechanics who repaired the cars, as well as new army soldiers from a battalion guarding the new equipment.

Of course, there are also 30 car crews drawn from the logistics support units, skilled soldiers in driving cars, and relatively young non-commissioned officers. The crews received the tanks, one for each of the three groups, and began to learn how to operate these complex, modern military weapons.

"Commander, rest assured! This is the elite I selected from more than 30,000 people, and each one of them was personally assessed by me. Zhang Jianjun stood behind Wang Jue and introduced the crew members who came to receive the tank this time: "If you let them go to Royal Roads University, it may be difficult; But let them learn to drive a new vehicle, absolutely no problem! ”

"First of all, I was in a hurry to brag and beat the guarantee! I want the results of my training! Wang Jue's eyes kept staring at the direction of the upcoming train, and without looking back, he said to his general Wang Jianjun: "If you make any trouble for me, I will hand over the materials sent to Guo Xing." ”

As soon as Zhang Jianjun heard Wang Jue say this, he immediately patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry!" Commander! I, Zhang Jianjun, take the head of the item and promise that there will be absolutely no problems! He Guo Xing commanded the 2nd Army, and he could only follow me Zhang Jianjun to eat the rest in this life. ”

It is not surprising that there is competition in the army, but if the soldiers do not even have the consciousness of competing with each other, how can they have the determination to win? Wang Jue didn't say much when he heard Zhang Jianjun say in front of him that the 2nd Army was the 2nd in Wannian, because he knew that Guo Xing didn't have any good adjectives when he said that the 1st Army didn't have any good adjectives.

In private, Guo Xing said that the 1st Army was only established relatively early, and the 2nd Army under his command was the real main force of the New Army. In the first battle of Liaodong, the first army and the second army fought a record of half a catty, so both of them held back their strength, waiting for the next time they participated in the war, to play a record that convinced the other party.

At this time, the roar of the train was heard in the distance, and the train that worried Wang Jue, Zhang Jianjun and other generals of the new army finally revealed its figure in front of everyone. It didn't take long for the train with the whistle to enter Tai'an Station, and then came to a slow stop.

Wang Jue happened to be parked in front of such a flat car, on which was covered with canvas a strangely shaped vehicle, this is the weapons and equipment called tanks produced by the 1014 factory, Zhang Jianjun saw it, and was immediately shocked by the tall and powerful size of this weapon.

The No. 1 tank is more than two meters tall and nearly five meters long, which can be said to be much more powerful than the original unprofessional armored car. The train was accompanied by 5 professional maintenance workers, 1 modified trailer with the car, 2 spare engines, and a full 300 heavily armed soldiers in charge of the escort.

Of course, there were also a few technicians in charge of the production of tanks, as well as the recorders and confidential personnel who followed them, and there were quite a few of them, adding up to fifty or sixty people. Many valuable opinions also have related use problems, which not only need to be counted internally by the troops, but also by the production units to follow up in a timely manner.

Wang Jue and Zhu Mu spent a lot of money for this project, and smashed hundreds of millions of funds, of course, it was not a one-shot deal. If you want to form the Ming Empire's own advantages in this kind of weapon, there are naturally a lot of things to do, and inventing it is just the beginning, and following up and improving or even developing a series of weapons is the direction of future development.

"What a big guy!" Zhang Jianjun looked at the tanks covered by canvas, and finally only said such a descriptive sentence. Then the Forces nouvelles soldiers caught up with the soldiers who jumped off the train and began to help get the huge guys off the train.

Even though the tanks weighed only 10 tons, which was not too large and bulky, it would take a lot of work to remove all the new equipment from the train. The soldiers of the New Army had already prepared simple hoisting equipment, but because of insufficient estimates, they were in a mess for a long time.

In addition to a trailer and 10 tanks, two tankers and 10 trucks full of oil drums were delivered to the front-line troops as support vehicles. After all, these things had never been equipped on a large scale in the troops before, so the rear also thought about a lot of problems and prepared some means to solve them.

On the platform, the soldiers were in full swing to unload these vehicles from the train, but Wang Jue, Zhang Jianjun and some commanders surrounded the person in charge of tank production who rushed with the car, as well as the relevant technicians. Wang Jue asked questions that he was interested in, and these people were responsible for answering, including some precautions, as well as the performance of the tank, and so on.

"The main armor on the front is 25 mm thick, which is enough to withstand heavy machine gun fire at very close range, but you need to be careful on the sides, after all, there are strict limits on the weight of the vehicle." Hearing Zhang Jianjun, the commander of the new army, ask about the protective performance, an expert introduced little by little: "The most vulnerable place is the heat dissipation grille on the top of the car body, which should be avoided as much as possible. ”

On the other hand, Wang Jue was more interested in the speed of the tank, and the expert in charge of dealing with it also gave an answer that satisfied Wang Jue: "It can maintain an off-road speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour, and it also has certain advantages over cavalry." In the lab, it ran at 55 kilometers per hour, but on the road. ”

"Excellent! I want 1,000 of these tanks to be produced as soon as possible. After hearing these performance indicators, Wang Jue did not wait patiently for the results of the test, so he gave an order quantity that surprised everyone.