With such a good thing as the telegraph, humans can transmit information countless times faster than before. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 It was after the advent of this invention that human beings made a qualitative leap in information and made great progress in many aspects.

Why is it that in ancient times, wars led by large armies against enemy countries often ended hastily in collapse? In the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated by tens of thousands of Sun and Liu's coalition forces, Fu Jian's army of 900,000 was beaten by the Jin Dynasty, and Li Shimin was able to lead thousands of troops to raid hundreds of thousands of enemy troops.

With the telegraph and radio, mankind began to break through the limitations of commanders over the number of troops in the field of warfare, and there was no longer a technological gap between millions of armies in joint operations. Of course, the innovation in communication has also increased the speed of message transmission to an unprecedented level.

At the time when the results of the battles on the Xinmin front had not yet been transmitted, part of the problems with tanks were already on the desk of the production technology department of the 1014 plant. Staring at the results of these precious practical evaluations, there are also technicians from Chiyou Company.

There are too many problems that have been passed back, including the engine's heat dissipation grille, which needs to be closed more reliably; In some areas of the riverside that are too muddy, tanks will sink into them and stall; On the New Civilian Line, the rebels used small-caliber artillery to penetrate tank armor and so on.

To sum up: the tank's assault capability should be strengthened again, the support weapons accompanying the tank should be developed and put into service immediately, the infantry tank should continue to be improved in coordinated operations, and of course the establishment of armored forces needs to be changed again. The battle here has not yet been completely completed, and Wang Jue's various problems in the command have already made several staff officers and the person in charge of the rear factory anxious.

"The 4th batch of tanks has already been produced, and it is too late to change them. Now we can only draw up a plan to make minor modifications to the 5th batch of tanks, and then to improve the 6th batch of tanks. A technical person in charge of Chiyou is very familiar with the production process and is the first to speak.

After all, every tank is made of money, and easy rework is obviously not the right way to deal with it, so another engineer hurriedly spoke, suggesting: "Don't change the 5th batch, after all, the workers are used to it, and it is easy to have product quality problems if you change it rashly." Minor changes from the 6th batch are the safe way, right? ”

The engineer who spoke was the engineer of the 1014 Arsenal State Enterprise, and because the factories in the system lacked competitive pressure, they were not as sensitive and active as Chiyou Company in terms of innovation and customer requirements. Because of this, his advice is more stable than that of Chiyou.

Soon, the production plans of Chiyou Company and Plant 1014 were discussed, and Plant 1014 maintained the current production of tank No. 1, and only began to change the details when the production of the 6th batch of tanks began.

On the other hand, Chiyou Company responded more positively to the military's request, and they immediately made detailed changes to the unfinished tanks, and then added many rectification plans proposed by the military to the 6th batch of tank production plans.

No one is aware of the fact that this difference in production has culminated in a collection of the only one in the collection decades later, the fifth batch of Chiyou Tank No. 1, which is only one in the world's museum with a physical object. Because it is the most intuitive evidence of the more advanced production process of Chiyou Company at that time, it is regarded as the most precious No. 1 tank.

Don't underestimate the details that need to be changed, because any small detail can become a huge change that no one can imagine. For example, one of the improvement projects on this desk is a proposal to widen the tracks to improve the tank's cross-country ability.

The final result of the discussion was to increase the width of the tracks of tank No. 1 by 1 cm. A section of the track was only a short section, but it was discussed for three hours among these engineers, and there was no reasonable conclusion. In the end, the length of 1 cm is still a tentative widening length that has been compromised with each other, and it is just a matter of experimentation.

Some people may think that it is just a centimeter of track widening, so there is no need to discuss and entangle it so much, right? But in the eyes of Chiyou Company and the 1014 factory, and those behind them, this is not a small change.

An increase of one centimeter to the width of a small section of tracks, and more than a hundred tracks on a tank is equivalent to an increase in the weight of a meter of tracks. This is equivalent to consuming more steel of the same weight, and if 1,000 tanks are produced, then the cost of these steels cannot be underestimated.

In addition, these 1,000 tanks have to wear out these tracks every day, and hundreds of tracks are consumed, with an extra centimeter on each section, and more costs will be consumed over the years. In the same way, adding a basket for each tank with an external luggage and thickening the armor at the front end of each tank adds up to a staggering drain.

What's more, on top of these dense list of details to change, there is also an order from General Wang Jue, the commander-in-chief of the front-line - in view of the outstanding performance of the No. 1 tank in the Battle of Liuhe, the new army increased the total number of such weapons from 1,000 to a full 2,000.

That's 2,000 cars! As far as this huge order is concerned, it is a huge temptation for Chiyou Company, and if it is only placed in a 1014 factory, it is even impossible to complete the quantity. This big cake allows all arms dealers to see the future of their own wealth, and also to see the increasingly dense war clouds in the distant sky.

"A full 2,000 vehicles, our 1014 factory even eats 500 vehicles, which is already very difficult." A person in charge of the production workshop of Factory 1014 shook his head and sighed. This is completely different from who produces more and who produces less for 1,000 tanks, and the maximum production capacity of the 1014 factory may only be about 600 tanks.

Of course, if there is only an order for these 2,000 No. 1 tanks, it will not be enough to get everyone excited about what they are now. Next to the order for 2,000 Tank No. 1, there are decisions on the development of subsequent models for Tank No. 1, as well as orders for an improved version of Tank No. 1 with large-caliber guns.

Taken together, the number of new weapons of various models has exceeded 5,000 units.