The design institute added a two-centimeter-thick mixture of fire extinguishing agent in the compartment of the power compartment and the fighting compartment, which can effectively reduce the thermal radiation and mechanical vibration noise inside the tank fighting compartment, and the members have enough time to evacuate after the power compartment fires.

Moreover, the design institute also adjusted the load-bearing suspension of the Tieqi medium main battle tank, preparing to modify the original evenly arranged five pairs of load-bearing wheels, and arranged the first three pairs of load-bearing wheels closely in front and the tail in a sparse manner, leaving a gap in two-thirds of the body.

This simple change, without affecting the production line, can perfectly solve the problem that the front two pairs of load wheels are too worn out and the rear three pairs of load wheels are too stiff to be hung by the troops, and two semi-automatic fire extinguishers are arranged in the engine compartment, and the members can manually extinguish the fire, and can also fuse the low-temperature alloy fire extinguisher spray plug when the temperature in the cabin exceeds 120 degrees, so that even if the fire inside the car body is on fire, the safety of the members can be maintained.

There is also a point that the design institute is ready to cancel the course machine gun in the driver's position and increase the overall defense in front of it, which the troops have little opinion on, because this machine gun does not play a role in the battle, and the driver simply does not have the time and energy to use this machine gun for battle, and also changes the iron cavalry medium main battle tank to a four-person operation, canceling the co-pilot position, and providing more space for the bombardier to fight.

However, when Zhang Xuewu saw the simple drawings of the new prototype car, he was dumbfounded, this kind of leap is too outrageous? If you don't count the power of the artillery, the combat effectiveness of this car has been far beyond the T54 tank in the fifties, the load-bearing wheel structure has been arranged in the T62 way, and the entire combat vehicle has changed so that Gao Fei is unrecognizable, but the new 105 mm tank gun is still being tested, and the specific installation time can not be determined, and it will take some time to transfer such a large number of iron cavalry tanks back to the manufacturer by the troops, and it will probably take some time for the troops to train to form combat effectiveness.

The combat effectiveness of the iron cavalry tank can be said to be proud of any main battle tank during World War II, even if it encounters the T54, it is also a battle that can be won, the Soviet Russians can be said to be going to take a wrong path on the tank, but the Russians have a strong comprehensive national strength, the Germans are like a strong storm, if Hitler's blitzkrieg can not knock down the Russians, then the last to be knocked down by the opponent's backhand is the Germans, but in the process the Russians need to pay a greater price.

Moreover, there have been unpredictable great changes in history, and in the two battles with Zhang Xuewu, not only did he fail to solve the main force of Zhang Xuewu in Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan, but on the contrary, Zhang Xuewu also occupied Shanhaiguan to coerce Pingjin, and said that the main force of the Kwantung Army and the main force of the North China Army had retreated into the northeast, and the five divisions and three mixed brigades of the Yue Army stationed in Korea also began to concentrate their forces on Anton, ready to reinforce the Kwantung Army at any time when necessary.

Umezu Mijiro is different from the previous commanders of the Kwantung Army, especially his chief of staff Ishihara Waner is said to be a rare general with strategic vision in the military circles, especially the two defeats against Zhang Xuewu, which made Umezu Mijiro realize that if Zhang Xuewu's foreign aid is not cut off and the armament is strengthened, it is impossible for the Imperial Army to defeat Zhang Xuewu, and Zhang Xuewu's four fortress cities are an insurmountable peak for the Kwantung Army.

Moreover, Umezu Mijiro and Ishihara have a common understanding, that is, the empire's ordnance has always been comprehensively inclined to the navy, and the main contradiction between the army and the navy is more concentrated in the original small allocation of resources, and the main reason why the imperial army's weapons and equipment have not been greatly upgraded is that the army has always regarded the [***] team as an opponent, and even pointed rifle bullets cannot be produced domestically. Infantry light weapons such as Taisho 11-style light machine guns and 92-type heavy machine guns are already armed to the teeth.

Therefore, at the time of the Battle of Songhu, if it was out of the range of fire support of naval artillery and aviation units, especially without sufficient artillery support, the standing divisions of the Imperial Army encountered the German armament division of the Chinese Central Army, and they would be severely damaged, and they would take less than half a point of advantage in the battle. Thankfully, the Chinese don't have the money to buy too many fighters and heavy artillery.

However, the huge losses in the two consecutive battles with Zhang Xuewu in Rehe made Umezu Mijiro and Ishihara realize that Zhang Xuewu's idea of army building was based on the European military powers, and the establishment of each regiment at the level of the new division of the Youth Army exceeded 15,000 people, and the firepower of light weapons was twice that of the standard infantry division of the German army, the firepower of field artillery and heavy artillery was 3.5 times that of the standard infantry division of the German army, and the firepower of a division of the empire was equal to that of a standard infantry division of the German army. Zhang Xuewu's Tiger Ben and Honor 1st Divisions are two extremely special formations, and the two so-called divisions have more than 35,000 people at full strength, and the tank regiment and heavy artillery regiment with reading ability are even attached to more than two mobile rocket artillery regiments, especially this kind of mobile rocket artillery regiment has simply become a nightmare for the Imperial Army, and the overwhelming rockets can turn the defensive position of an infantry wing into a sea of fire in just two minutes.

Umezu Mijiro had suggested that the Reich should also be equipped with this terrible weapon, because according to the information they had, the technical point of this kind of rocket artillery was very easy to solve, and the only problem was that a regiment of such rocket artillery units would fire more than a thousand rockets in a salvo, and this very huge consumption could not be afforded by the Imperial Army, which felt wasteful even in the use of submachine guns.

Moreover, at the tactical level, Zhang Xuewu's chariot troops were all put into battle in regiments and divisions, and the Imperial Army, which had always been the opponent of the [***] team, could not adapt to Zhang Xuewu's tactics at all.

Umezu Mijiro stood next to the map and smoked a cigarette alone, he was the commander of the Kwantung Army appointed by Emperor Hirohito in danger, and the enemy of this empire was not only China, but also the red black hand that supported China behind it, and if this black hand was not cut off, it would be impossible to completely solve Zhang Xuewu's tenth theater of operations, if Zhang Xuewu's tenth theater of operations was not solved, North China and even Central China could only look at it from afar, and Manchuria, which was basically in hand, was also in danger.

After waiting for a while, Ishihara Waner, who was late, unbuttoned the collar with his hand a little hotly, and Umezu Mijiro took a deep breath and said, "How is the progress in Jinzhou?" ”

Ishihara Wan'er took a sip of herbal tea and shook his head helplessly: "The situation is very not optimistic, the Saker fighter of the 10th theater of operations that took off from the forward airfield with fuel tanks can stay in the sky over Jinzhou for an hour and forty minutes, their Falcon attack aircraft and BF-109F and BF-109K fighters are equipped with a new weapon, which can launch dozens or even hundreds of rockets in a very short time, and it is also a special bomb equipped with a white phosphorus warhead, and our army's five heavy armored trains were all destroyed. White phosphorus incendiary rockets have great destructive power for our heavy armored trains, steel fortress support points, combat vehicles, warships, and warplanes, and several of our destroyers passing through the Bohai Bay were also attacked by their attack aircraft, two were sunk, and one was heavily damaged, and the project has basically been in a state of suspension these days, because the reinforced concrete that urgently needs to build support points cannot be sent forward, and the lack of reinforced concrete means that we can only build a large number of civil fortifications, which basically have little defensive capability for the enemy's heavy artillery, Moreover, such a long defense line is guarded by more than 20 divisions and regiments, which can be held in the short term, but we will not be able to bear it for a long time. ”

Umezu Mijiro took a deep breath and said: "The empire has secretly reached an Axis agreement with Germany and Italy, and the Germans have provided the drawings and technical parameters of our BF-109G fighters, and in five months at the latest, the empire will have at least two thousand of the latest fighters that can compete with Zhang Xuewu, new combat vehicles and heavy artillery, and then we will regain the superior firepower of the ground and air." ”

Ishihara glanced at Umezu Mijiro, who was a little expectant and even excited, and couldn't bear to pour cold water and said: "The empire has an annual production capacity of five thousand aircraft, but in fact, it can't even produce two thousand, half of the aluminum is trafficked into the black market from the factory under various legal pretexts for profit, I think I don't even think that fifteen hundred will be produced in half a year, don't have too high expectations for those guys in the empire, they may even privately reduce the rare elements in the armor plate of our tank, resulting in a decrease in the overall defense of the combat vehicle." ”

Umezu Mijiro was suddenly surprised: "They really dare to endanger the security of the empire like this? ”

Ishihara said disdainfully: "They even dare to lower the standards of special steel for the navy to build warships, what is the rest?" We can produce no more than 5,000 fighters a year with all our might, and this is only theoretical data, while the Americans conservatively estimate that they can produce 80,000 combat planes of all kinds a year, and the Soviets' five-year development plan also includes more than 28,000 aircraft. Therefore, it is very irrational to go to Southeast Asia to move the interests of Britain and the United States just for the sake of oil, Siberia also has huge oil fields, and the degree of mechanization of our empire's army is not high, and its dependence on oil is far less than that of the navy, so we can't let the navy show its existence and provoke the destruction of the empire

(To be continued)