October 3, 1923

Chen Shao, accompanied by Jiang Baili and Cai Yi, went to a test site on the outskirts of Nanning, where there were no other buildings around the test site, and it was designated as a military restricted area, and strict military management was implemented.

When their convoy arrived at the gate of the test site, a soldier ran to the side of the convoy, saluted and said, "Please show your ID."

Chen Shao didn't say a word, and handed him his own documents. This is the military discipline that Chen Shao has always emphasized, no matter who he is, as long as he enters a certain level of military restricted area, he must show his certificate, and everyone must abide by it, including himself. If you forget to bring your documents, then you are embarrassed, please go back and get your documents, and you will be released.

"I've seen the Supreme Leader." The gendarme saluted Chen Shao, turned around and shouted, "Let me go." ”

The other gendarmes who stopped at the door removed the barrier, and only then did the convoy slowly enter the test site. This test site belongs to the S-class forbidden area, which is mainly used for army equipment such as experimental armored vehicles, and there are also many test sites in the Liangguang region, each with its own use.

The proving ground is large, and it simulates a variety of terrains, including hillsides, lakes, hills, and many more. There are also quite a few minefields in it, as the name suggests, the entire minefield is full of mines, some of which are so lethal that they can completely blow up the tracks of heavy tanks. There is also a simulated trench in the test site, which is crisscrossed with trenches.

In front of the test site, several armored vehicles with completely different shapes and tanks were parked there, and Chen Shao's convoy was parked in front of the site. Several white-clad scientists walked towards the convoy, and at this time, Chen Shao, Jiang Baili, Cai Yi and others also got out of the car.

"Commander, all four armored vehicles are ready."

Chen Shao didn't answer, just nodded, walked to the front of the four armored vehicles and looked up and down. At this time, Cai Ye saw one of the strangely shaped armored vehicles, and couldn't help but ask the scientists around him: "What kind of combat vehicle is this?" ”

"Sir, this armored vehicle is called a mechanical demolition combined minesweeper, and it is a multifunctional minesweeper that concentrates a minesweeper (roller or plow) and a blasting minesweeper on the same vehicle. Generally, the front part of the tank (or armored vehicle) is equipped with a mechanical pressure roller or coulter, and the upper part of the hull is equipped with an in-line charge (or other blasting charge) and a firing device. Mine-clearance operations are carried out by firing an in-line charge in the direction of the vehicle, opening a path through the minefield by blasting, and then using pressure rollers or coulters to remove unexploded or uncleared mines.

This kind of car adopts the tank for the chassis to install machinery and blasting device after generally does not reduce the chassis' own mobility and protection ability, set mechanical minesweeping and blasting minesweeping in one, according to the terrain, mine varieties can use two kinds of minesweepers, minesweeping efficiency and effect are better, is a relatively ideal minesweeper. ”

"In other words, when you encounter mines in the future, you can use this minesweeper to clear mines?" Cai Ye asked again.

"Yes, this minesweeper is all about creating a safe route for infantry in minefields."

Cai Yi nodded with satisfaction, with this minesweeper, the survivability of the infantry is even stronger. At this time, another scientist pointed to the armored vehicle next to him and said: "This combat vehicle is called infantry fighting vehicle, infantry fighting vehicle is an armored combat vehicle for infantry mobile combat, and the vehicle is equipped with a shooting hole, and the infantry can shoot in the vehicle." Infantry fighting vehicles are mainly used in coordinated tank operations, and their task is to quickly maneuver infantry detachments, destroy enemy light armored vehicles, infantry anti-tank fire points, living forces and low-flying targets. This infantry fighting vehicle can also be used on land battlefields to transport infantry, weapons and ammunition as a combat vehicle, allowing army units to advance quickly. It is a class of light armored vehicles with a passenger compartment. It can be used to transport infantry on the battlefield, as well as materials and equipment. Originally, we were going to study an armored transport vehicle, but the Supreme Leader vetoed it, and instead studied this infantry fighting vehicle directly.

The vehicle is available in two variants, one tracked and one wheeled. Some of the vehicles were armed with two heavy machine guns, and some were equipped with small-caliber machine guns. The total combat weight is 8 tons, the length of the car is 6 meters, the width of the car is 3 meters, the height of the car is 2 meters, the crew is 3 people, the crew is 12 people, the maximum climbing degree is 25 ~ 35 degrees, and the maximum roll driving slope is 15 ~ 30 degrees. The maximum speed of the tracked infantry fighting vehicle on land is 55~70 kilometers per hour, and the maximum range is 300~500 kilometers. Wheeled infantry fighting vehicles can reach a maximum speed of 100 kilometers per hour on land and a maximum range of up to 1000 kilometers. Tracked and four-axle driven wheeled armored transport vehicles are about 2 meters wide over the trench and 0.5~1 meters high over the vertical wall. Most armored transport vehicles can travel on water, paddling with tracks or tires, and the maximum speed is about 5 kilometers per hour; Equipped with propellers or waterjet propulsion units, the maximum speed can reach 10 kilometers per hour.

Now this one at our proving ground is tracked. ”

At this time, Jiang Baili couldn't help but shout: "This is the infantry fighting vehicle in that book, it is too powerful, I didn't expect it, and it appeared now." Jiang Baili pointed to the chariot with a huge cannon behind him and said, "This is a 155mm self-propelled howitzer?" ”

"Yes, this self-propelled gun has also just been developed, and we also have a 122mm self-propelled howitzer, but it was not delivered to the test site today. A self-propelled howitzer is a howitzer that is integrated with the chassis of the vehicle and operates on its own power. It has good cross-country performance, fast entry and exit positions, most of them have armor protection, strong battlefield combat effectiveness, and are easy to cooperate with armored troops and motorized infantry.

The gun is equipped with a 21-round primer automatic reloader, which automatically transports, inserts and draws out primers. The auto-loading system removes the projectile from the projectile carrier in the aft compartment of the turret and places it in the delivery slot for ammunition delivery. The propellant charge is manually reloaded. The maximum rate of fire of the gun is 6~8 rounds / min (within 3 minutes), the burst rate of fire is 3 rounds / 18 seconds, and the sustained rate of fire is 2~3 rounds / min (within 1 hour). The anti-recoil device has 2 hydraulic retractors and 1 pneumatic retractor. The high-rigidity cradle minimizes lateral movement of the body tube when firing, thus improving shooting accuracy. When marching, the body tube is locked by a marching retainer mounted on the front of the hull. The driver can remotely operate the marching fixture without getting out of the car to fix or release the body tube, thus ensuring the integrity of the vehicle's three defenses. ”

The fourth type of armored vehicle is much smaller than the infantry fighting vehicle, and there are also a lot of antennas inserted on it, under the introduction of scientists, Cai Ye and Jiang Baili also know the role of this combat vehicle.

Wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle, wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle due to low driving resistance, high efficiency of the driving device, high speed, good mobility; Low fuel consumption and large stroke reserve; Reliable work and long service life; Low noise, easy to conceal and other advantages. At the same time, this reconnaissance vehicle is also equipped with an infrared thermal imager, but because it has just been invented, it actively uses infrared headlights for searching. It's not small, and it can't equip a soldier alone.

Chen Shao has also been looking forward to these four tanks for a long time, and he has been working hard to build the world's first armored army, although the cost is huge, but he still has no hesitation. The composition of a hundred elite soldiers depends not only on the quality of the soldiers, but also on the quality of the equipment. It is not possible to produce Red Alert weapons now, but as a person of later generations, he is familiar with all kinds of equipment. From the time he first came to this world, Chen Shao recorded the functions and properties of these equipment, in case he couldn't remember them after a long time. A large number of weapons and equipment were recorded, and then slowly improved, and finally turned into a textbook for various academies of the Chinese Military Academy. At first, the students and faculty were skeptical of the contents of the book, and when they saw that the author was named their principal, they were relieved. and so on some equipment appeared one after another, or equipped the troops. At this time, the students and instructors believed that everything in the book was true, which made them look forward to it even more. Because there are all sorts of perverted things in it, missiles, satellites, nuclear ....

After several scientists presented the performance of the four armored vehicles, the experiment officially began.

The first type of experiment was a minesweeper, which, in a roar, came to the minefield under the control of several drivers. First of all, a row of 50-meter-long iron chains was shot from the car, and the iron chains were covered with small bombs, and when the iron chains were laid in front of the minesweeper, the bombs on the chains exploded one after another. As a result of the shock of the explosion, the mines buried in the ground were also detonated. At this time, the minesweeper began to move forward, and while advancing, the iron pear in front of the car also rotated, and some mines that had not been detonated in the explosion just now also exploded. After being crushed all the way, the minesweeper finally passed through the minefield unharmed.

The second is an infantry fighting vehicle, a tracked infantry fighting vehicle carrying twelve soldiers of an infantry squad and starting the road. Directly across the lake at the test site, towards a simulated position in the distance, at this time there were many targets on the position, and when the infantry fighting vehicle was getting closer and closer to the position, two heavy machine guns on the roof of the vehicle opened fire at the same time, and several targets in front of the infantry fighting vehicle were eliminated. And the soldiers who stayed in the car also opened fire through the firing holes. For a two-meter-wide trench, the infantry fighting vehicle did not pay attention at all and directly straddled the past.

The third is the self-propelled howitzer, which experiments with the accuracy of the gun's design and the rate of fire. Several targets marked on the hill were destroyed one after another under the sound of artillery. Later, the extreme shooting was experimented, and in just 18 seconds, three shells were fired in a row, and after the shooting, it could be seen that the barrels were all on fire.

For reconnaissance vehicles, it is only a test of speed and concealment, noise conditions while traveling.

Chen Shao is very satisfied with the test results of these four new equipment, but he does not plan to equip a large number of them now, the current People's Army is absolutely invincible in the country, that is, in the world, it can be said that it is the first in the world, and Chen Shao has enough confidence in this. His equipment was prepared for Little Japan and the beginning of World War II.