It's not just the Jin merchants who are distressed by this war, not only those traitors and the enemies of the Ming Empire who are distressed by this war, but also a large group of people who are silently dedicated to their country are also depressed and distressed by the problems caused by this war. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chiyou Company also has two units, 1014 Factory, which is the first factory in the world to start contacting and designing tanks, and they can also be said to be the most authoritative and avant-garde tank production and design institutions in the world so far. And now the senior engineers of these two companies are gathering together for the tank improvement requirements put forward by the new army, and they are thinking about the collapse.

In actual combat, the firepower of Tank No. 1 was somewhat weak in the face of reinforced concrete fortifications, which directly affected the performance of this armored vehicle in the "main job" of breaking through the enemy's defensive lines. The request was also very simple, that is, to find a way to equip this new tank with more ferocious firepower.

There aren't many options available to the Army, and to be honest, there aren't many types of weapons that arms dealers can choose from. The Army wanted to be able to install guns of 75 mm or higher as a heavy fire support weapon to break through enemy lines and mix with Tank 1.

In order to deal with possible enemy tanks, Wang Jue implored the designers to develop a "hunting tank" with more ferocious firepower and a 50-millimeter long-barreled gun with stronger penetrating ability as a weapon. Wang Jue hopes that this tank can be used as a secret weapon in the future to defeat those opponents who already have tanks.

The artillery reports submitted by the artillery were even more ridiculous, because the artillery units of the New Army, which had accompanied the armoured units in assault operations with towed artillery, had long since had enough of the inconvenient towed guns in their hands, and they asked the troops to design artillery that could "move with the tanks and shoot at any time." ”

Anyway, the troops on the front line don't feel a backache when they stand and talk, but they are endlessly telling their needs, and they don't sympathize with the dilemma of the rear weapon design department that wants to cry without tears. How to meet the diverse front-line needs has become the biggest headache for these designers.

The first to complete the design turned out to be the request of the support artillerymen, and the designers quickly completed an ugly design - they directly dismantled the front cockpit and turret of the No. 1 tank, added a gun shield to the open place, and then mounted the 100mm field guns for infantry and cavalry on the car, and directly completed the design of a self-propelled howitzer.

The design solves a variety of problems with a fixed open fighting compartment, including space constraints caused by the increase in the number of combat members, and the large recoil of the 100 mm howitzer, which makes the tank prone to roll over. Moreover, the use of existing mature technology also greatly reduces the design cost and time. So one week after the finalization, two prototypes were sent to the front for evaluation by the artillery units of the Forces nouvelles.

No one thought that in order to save trouble and facilitate the use of the "make-do" design, it would become a classic widely praised by artillerymen, so the ugly appearance of the crawler self-propelled howitzer with the open fighting compartment became the spokesperson of the image of the mechanized artillery of the Ming Empire.

The Chiyou company and the 1014 factory, which solved the first problem, immediately discovered a problem, and the production workshop of the No. 1 tank seemed to be expanding again. Because if the self-propelled gun, known as the No. 1 howitzer, passes the tests of front-line soldiers, then it is very likely that the chassis of the No. 1 tank will be required much more than the turret demand.

This is what the workshop leaders and directors who organize the production need to worry about, and how to make the tank carry a 50 mm caliber long-barreled gun and a 75 mm short-barreled gun are the problems that these engineers need to consider. Over the course of a few days, the artillery designers in charge of this aspect almost turned gray, and various schemes to reduce recoil were proposed.

In the end, the plan that everyone came up with was to change the ugly monsters designed by the artillery again, remove the turret on the No. 1 tank, expand it and weld a larger and more spacious fixed fighting compartment, and then use a 75mm gun and add a loader.

History is always strikingly similar, and the emergency turretless fixed artillery design, which was massively adopted by the Germans in another time and space, was replicated 100 years earlier in this plane. Although the hull was a smaller Tank 1 hull, and although the fighting compartment was more crowded and carried fewer shells, the assault gun design was copied and invented by a large group of designers whimsically without anyone's prompting or advice.

Of course, in order to reduce the recoil of the gun and adapt to the design of this small vehicle-mounted cannon, the 75mm infantry field gun has also been improved accordingly, first of all, it is equipped with a more efficient stationing and retreating machine and a reentry machine, and then the barrel is shortened again and the bore pressure is reduced, so that the recoil is smaller and the tank is prevented from shaking excessively when firing.

After this series of improvements, an improved version of the No. 1 tank chassis with a 75 mm caliber gun was born, the only regret is that this freak does not have a turret that can rotate, the gun can only be adjusted up and down the muzzle, and if you want to shoot at side targets, you can only rotate the hull.

This brings up another problem: after the target is found, the "tank" takes much longer to aim at the target than the No. 1 tank, which can be regarded as a small flaw. In order to solve this shortcoming, the staff whimsically added 10 mm of armor thickness to this tank, so that the frontal armor thickness of this tank reached an unprecedented 40 mm.

The original intention of the designers was that when the tank had to stop on the battlefield and aim at its own target, it would be able to withstand enemy attacks during this time. However, after this improvement, the unrecognizable No. 1 tank eventually reduced its cross-country ability to 20 km/h, which was much slower than that of No. 1 tank.

After such a toss, the design plan was barely completed in September, but it is a pity that at this time, the large-scale war in Liaodong has basically ended, and the two sides have been stable for almost a month with the Liaohe River as the boundary.

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