Gao Huairen's general Zhang Xuewu kept nodding, so he said: "Commander-in-chief, I personally think that no matter how my tank develops, it will be difficult to keep up with us without ten or twenty years, I think the biggest weakness of the iron cavalry medium main battle tank is not the surname Neng, but the price!" In particular, the latest models of the Iron Rider are equipped with long-range rangefinders and infrared sights for tank testing, and their cost is too high, so high that we can't equip them in large quantities. ”

What Gao Huairen said is actually Zhang Xuewu's biggest headache, he does not have the huge production capacity of the Soviet Union, and he does not have the huge military aid support of the allies to the Soviet Union during World War II, and Zhang Xuewu's valuable tank soldiers cannot afford to lose, so Zhang Xuewu was forced to ask to start with the surname of the tank to create a tank with absolute leading technology, you must know that in several large-scale wars in later generations, the quality is already unsubmergable in quantity, and a tank company of the coalition army can defeat an enemy tank brigade, Technology and craftsmanship have become the bottleneck that restricts Zhang Xuewu.

Moreover, the output of weapons and ammunition is also based on the annual output of Zhang Xuewu's Baotou Steel Plant, although Zhang Xuewu built the first two phases of the high-level furnace with an annual output of 200,000 tons of military steel and special steel, and built the third phase of the Baotou Steel Project with an annual output of 300,000 tons with the assistance of the Soviet Union, but the annual output of 500,000 tons is simply not enough to maintain high intensity, especially the consumption of wars between countries! Zhang Xuewu knew one thing very well, so he increased the output of the mine on the one hand, and established a new Northwest Industrial City in Lanzhou on the other hand.

At present, the annual output of weapons and ammunition in Zhang Xuewu's Baotou industrial base has basically been able to meet the needs of the troops for continuous high-intensity operations, especially in terms of large-caliber artillery shells, the shells manufactured and assisted by the Soviet Union before Zhang Xuewu have sufficient reserves, but the output of 150 mm heavy howitzers is still less than 200 per year, and in terms of the speed of loss in the great campaign, the establishment is not to endure, and only the production of 105 mm caliber cannons and howitzers and 75 mm caliber field artillery can be relatively satisfactory. It is as many as 1,500 gates.

Therefore, Zhang Xuewu adjusted the research and development of the new 75 mm 55 times the body caliber of the tank gun, and planned to replace the new 75 mm long-barreled artillery with a jackal light and fast tank with a large turret of the second type.

Originally going south, he himself was staring at the weak bear of the Soviet Union as in history, and Germany is far more powerful than in history, through various military cooperation with Rehe, although Germany failed to finally choose China as its strategic ally, but it has obtained a lot of technology and design concepts that can be called cross-era significance, in fact, the issue of human technological progress, is more of a trace of agility, or a difference in thinking and angles, A lot of things seem to be that simple when they turn around.

Zhang Xuewu knows that the modern war is the strength of industry, and he also clearly realizes that as long as he is waiting for the reversal of the international situation for two years, when the lonely China is not a lonely resistance, it is the time for him Zhang Xuewu to carry out a comprehensive counterattack in the first battle, but now he must learn to accumulate and thicken.

In fact, Zhang Xuewu is also very difficult to understand: his way of thinking? Can't beat your own 10th war zone? Will it be able to beat the Soviet Red Army with millions of troops? Except for the Combined Fleet, it seems that he can no longer have an advantage over the Soviet side, but the Soviets are not only a threat to the Soviet side, the main energy of the Soviets is all concentrated in Europe, not in the Far East, the Far East is only a gateway to the East for the strong and weak Soviets, and the Soviets do not want to have a full-scale conflict with the Soviets before he has reached an agreement with the Germans and has a sufficient strategic buffer, even if there is a conflict. It's just that both sides have restraint and are testing each other's military strength.

Gao Huairen made a display of the entire series of captured combat vehicles of the Yue Army, which was not so much an analysis of the enemy's equipment as it was to show off his own tatters; in terms of overall arrangement, the Type 95 light tanks of the Yue Army had many outstanding characteristics, such as the overall small and exquisite, the high height of the whole vehicle, the position of the turret to the left, the power compartment on the side of the hull, and the arrangement of oblique machine guns. It is very sad that the hull and turret of the Type 95 light combat vehicle of the Japanese army are riveted and welded structures of steel armor, mainly riveted structure, the thickness of the armor is only six to 12 millimeters, and the armor of the main parts is 12 millimeters thick, which can only resist the attack of small arms, and the poor protection is the Achilles heel of the 95-type light combat vehicle.

Therefore, in the Battle of Chaoyang, eight jackal light tanks and one iron cavalry destroyed nearly 100 ** medium tanks and 95 and 95 types of the army.

In fact, this is the quantitative change leads to qualitative change, qualitative change leads to quantitative change, qualitative change and quantitative change between the mutual conversion, between the two with a considerable gap in strength, the advantage of quantity and quality, the so-called quality is superior to the quantity is the disparity in strength between the two sides will appear, the defeat of the German army in World War II in history is the ironclad evidence of this evidence, the quality and light quantity of the modern Western army in later generations is because there is no possibility of large-scale war in the current world, and the enemies they face are mainly small countries and weak countries that are very different from its strength. Therefore, they can fight quantity with quality, and if a large-scale decisive battle really breaks out, at the basically same technical level, quantity can still annihilate quality.

In fact, what Zhang Xuewu is most worried about is that if Yueben really takes the northward movement instead of the southward expansion in history, then if Yueben does not involve the interests of the United States and Britain and other countries in Southeast Asia? So will the alonist Americans still roll up their sleeves and join the warband? Zhang Xuewu believes that the US political axe, which has always been based on interests, is just an excuse for politicians to use loneliness as a politician, and that the timing of the United States' entry into the war is in the hands of American politicians, and the reasons and excuses are just hypocritical cover-ups, and that the Americans want to ignite the flames of the war in Europe, and after the two sides have exhausted their cards, they are reaching out to reap the benefits as if they were in World War I, that is, because the sacrifices made by the Americans in World War I did not reap the benefits they imagined, so the Americans have been standing by and watching in the early days of World War II.

In order to cope with the changes in the general trend and strategic adjustment of the entire international strategy, Zhang Xuewu decided to set up an international strategy department and a campaign evaluation strategy center in Lanzhou, which was responsible for collecting and sorting out the relevant trends and news of various countries, and analyzing the relevant information that Zhang Xuewu wanted.

The Baotou Industrial Base can produce 750 Jackal Improved Light Rapid Tanks and 500 to 600 Iron Cavalry Medium Main Battle Tanks per year, and can also assemble 1,200 75 mm "Strike" and 105 mm "Heavy Punch" self-propelled guns, and can produce supporting grid ammunition. It can be said that all the resources available have been used to carry out a decisive battle with a devastating surname.

Zhang Xuewu naturally knows that he is not the only one who is researching nuclear technology, the Americans, the Germans, the Soviets, and the Soviets are all conducting relevant research, but Zhang Xuewu's Flame Project has a leading technological status guarantee in this regard, and the Flame Project now needs time.

From the overall strategic point of view, Zhang Xuewu's control of the northwest and the 10th theater has been connected, but most of Shanxi is still in the hands of the army, although the main force of the North China Front has retreated into the northeast, the remaining troops are divided into two parts, part is entrenched in Shanxi, and part is closer to the main force of the army in central China, so Zhang Xuewu needs to open up the entire northwest channel, in order to maintain the safety of the transportation route, Zhang Xuewu must have enough strategic buffer, which means that the 10th theater must recover the entire Shanxi and most of Shaanxi.

The Northwest had just set up an army, and Zhang Xuewu's biggest enemy, the Kwantung Army, was embarrassed to build a new defensive line along the Jinzhou line, while the remnants of the North China Army and the Central China Army jointly defended the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou region, and the 1.2 million army and the more than 400,000 troops from Xuzhou to Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou launched a tragic and abnormal battle, and almost all of North China lost control of the people who knew very well that if they lost Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, their hundreds of thousands of troops would be driven into the sea. Holding on to Songhu was tantamount to admitting that the war they had started had fallen into irreversible defeat for the general strategy of the Japanese army.

Pessimism shrouded the entire Yueben Islands, and the originally fragile China actually hit the imperial army three times and twice, so that the imperial army is now powerless to fight back? The odious Soviet Russia was still fighting with the Chinese in Tongjiang a few years ago, but in the blink of an eye, it even wantonly armed the [***] squadron with all its advanced technology and active-duty equipment, especially Zhang Xuewu's 10th Theater Division, which received a total of more than $350 million in Soviet aid, but what I did not know was that Zhang Xuewu also purchased as much as $130 million in arms in the Soviet Union.

Zhang Xuewu's purchase of arms in the Soviet Union made the Soviets also make a lot of money in a timely manner, otherwise Stalin would not have been in a hurry to complete this huge secret transaction, it can be said that the entire process of the transaction was supervised and implemented by the People's Internal Committee, and the process was extremely secretive, and he said that he was able to get a list of Soviet aid ordnance, but he absolutely did not know that such a large sum of dollars quietly flowed into the pockets of the Soviets.

(To be continued)