The main reason why Wang Jue dared to raise the order to 1,000 vehicles at once was that he had used tank data to simulate the effect of this offensive weapon in the exercises of the New Army repeatedly, and he used cavalry instead of tanks to train the soldiers of the New Army to capture the enemy's solid defensive targets under the cover of tanks when there was no physical object.

Another reason why Wang Jue immediately issued an order for mass production was because he didn't have time to continue to test and wait slowly. The war has broken out, and his soldiers are bleeding and dying, and these soldiers are obviously not trained to be consumed in the war, they are the tinder, or the backbone of the future Ming Empire's army.

"A little to the left! Be careful! These devices are expensive! At the far end of the platform, the officers who commanded the loading and unloading and the soldiers carefully got the new equipment off the train, and the cars loaded with fuel were taken over by the corresponding logistics troops.

On the busy station, an officer walked to Wang Jue's side with the received documents, he smiled bitterly and handed the documents in his hand to Wang Jue, and then complained: "If you really want to find out what shortcomings this army has, I think it must be the logistics supply ......."

Wang Jue took the document from the officer's hand, and then began to check the list of items on it, nodding in agreement while checking: "Yes, you must know that this is just the establishment of a tank battalion, and it is already a headache." 10 tanks need 50 cars, if I didn't already know this number, I would be shocked, right? ”

In fact, there is no need for so many cars, but Wang Jue also counted the other establishments in a tank battalion to come to such an almost absurd conclusion.

Different from the well-known German armored battalion in another time and space, Wang Jue did not think of the idea of using independent tanks to form battalion-level combat units, he kneaded all kinds of equipment in his hands together and designed a mixed independent combat unit.

In order to increase the speed of the force's advance, the battalion formed an artillery battery, which was equipped with 10 trucks to tow four 100 mm howitzers. Four trucks were used to transport troops and tow artillery, four trucks were used to transport artillery shells, and two other trucks were carrying maintenance parts and company commanders were traveling.

Similarly, the logistics support company is more than twice as large as the infantry battalion. The logistics company is so far equipped with 15 trucks, including tank parts for two cars, tank ammunition for four cars, a mobile radio station and two anti-aircraft heavy machine gun squads.

The other five vehicles are vehicles directly under the battalion headquarters, including headquarters and liaison vehicles. These 5 cars seem to be a lot, but they are not abundant, and even when this army was formed, Wang Jue thought that it was not too much to give 8 cars. However, after reducing the scale as much as possible, the number of 5 cars was finally set.

The remaining 20 cars are the cars of the mechanized infantry company directly under the battalion, and the size of this company is larger than that of a normal company, so there are more than 200 people including the driver. These cars also have ammunition transporters for infantry, radio stations, and baggage vehicles, which can be compressed to 20 vehicles, which is already very valuable.

Such a new tank battalion also had to be organized into two tank companies, each of which had two tank platoons, each of which was equipped with four No. 1 tanks and two tanks at the company headquarters -- so when an armored battalion was initially established, it was only equipped with 20 No. 1 tanks that had just been produced.

According to Wang Jue's plan, such a mixed battalion will eventually be organized into an armored regiment for every two armored regiments, and every two armored regiments will be organized into an armored division...... In this way, the number of tanks under the jurisdiction of the original armored division of the Ming Empire was 80 tanks.

Because no one in this world has ever seen a real armored division, the gap between the two is still very huge compared to the world-famous German armored forces in another time and space: the full strength of the German armored division is about 360 tanks, while the armored division of the Ming Empire is only a pitiful 80, less than a quarter of the former.

In the armored division of the Ming Empire, there were only 4 companies of mechanized infantry to cover the tank troops. All this stems from inexperience, after all, Wang Jue doesn't know how these tank units in his hands should be put into use.

Therefore, Wang Jue believes that the concentration of nearly 100 tanks in a division-level unit is already a very powerful assault force. In the Dawa counterattack, the soldiers of the new army invested 50 armored vehicles, which already constituted an overwhelming advantage over the rebels, and the performance of tanks was more powerful than that of armored vehicles, so the concentration of 80 vehicles could already constitute a breakthrough.

And the effect that Wang Jue wants is actually a breakthrough. The number of troops of the Ming Empire is the first in the world, and if the enemy army can be avoided from consuming several times the number of Ming soldiers in fixed defensive positions, then the Ming Empire has already won half of the victory.

After breaking through the opponent's defense, it is enough to put in more soldiers to exchange casualties with the opponent, and it is enough to defeat any powerful country - this is Wang Jue's idea: his new army will break through, and then invest the old army to consume. After repeating it a few times, the war will end, because no country wants to be dragged into the vortex of a war of attrition with the Ming Empire.

"Division Commander Zhang Jianjun, the 1st company of your special experimental battalion receives these 10 tanks, and then takes the 2nd company to learn the operation repeatedly, I want to let at least 200 people master the use of tanks before the second batch of tanks arrives, can you do it?" Wang Jue withdrew his gaze from the tanks that had been ripped off canvas in the distance, and asked Zhang Jianjun, who was excited, beside him.

Zhang Jianjun did not hesitate at all, and hurriedly stood up and saluted and replied: "Please rest assured, commander!" I will personally preside over this work and make sure that your orders are completed on time! Long live the Ming Empire! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! ”

After Wang Jue heard Zhang Jianjun's answer, he nodded and didn't say anything, he took the officers of the New Army Staff Behind him, and the observers transferred from other New Army troops, and walked straight out of the small station, stepped on the war horse and bumped towards the distance. And behind them, on the platform of Tai'an Town, the soldiers are still busy, busy forming the first armored force in the world. The sun hung high in the sky, shining on everyone's face, and it seemed like a memorable day, but it seemed like an ordinary day......