On the battlefield, the German [nurses] slaughtered in all directions, and due to the loss of too many tanks in the early days of the Soviet-German war, the Russians were almost powerless to fight back...

The German crew driving the [Tiger] were also veterans, and they shot one at a time from a distance of several hundred meters, and a [Tiger] tank that arrived soon later even flew the turret of a T-34 more than a thousand meters away...

And the Russians on the opposite position can only use their own small-caliber guns such as 76 to put up useless resistance...

"Is this the German tank number six ...

Standing on the position of the Russians, looking at the [Tiger] tank that was rampage a few hundred meters away, one of the Chinese wearing Russian ** clothes frowned, and just when he was frowning there, his companion on the side urged.

"Okay, don't worry about it so much, let's shoot it quickly."

At this moment, the Tiger in the distance crossed the trench, and then, after slowing down, aimed its guns at a T-34...

Just now, the Chinese nodded, then raised the camera in his hand and pointed at the moving [Tiger Style] and kept pressing to open the door, one of which even took pictures of the [Tiger Style] firing.

"That's it!"

Seeing that the information had been collected, a group of several people packed up their things and withdrew.

In the final analysis, they are just observers sent by the Chinese side, and they are just collecting some intelligence on the battlefield, but they are not obliged to work for the Russians...

A few minutes later, these observers withdrew from the front line, leaving only the Russians to continue to fight desperately there ...

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Although the Germans were already on the verge of entering Moscow. But after all, there is still a little distance from Moscow, so the airport near Moscow is still in normal use. After taking photographs of the Tiger and Leopard, intelligence officers in Moscow airlifted the photographs back to the country.

The Russians can't do anything even if they know what is on the plane. First, they still need help from China, and secondly, there is no intelligence about Russia on the plane, so they have no reason to conduct inspections.

It was in this context that photos of the Tiger and Leopard were quickly sent back to China.

"Is this the number five and six..."

In the conference room, several generals of the Ministry of Defense gathered around the table to watch the photographs.

Although Hitler thought he was secret, the existence of the Tiger and the Leopard was no secret to the Nationalist government. At least that's true for Yan Guang.

What's more, many of the military intelligence agency's hidden personnel in Germany were lurking around Hitler, and coupled with Hitler's own attention to the [Tiger] and [Leopard] types, these intelligence officers could also have more contact.

It's just that due to the limited means of communication in this era, even if these intelligence officers have any information in their hands, they can't transmit the information back to China. After all, German intelligence officers don't eat dry food, and they usually pass on two sentences, and they don't have to mix it up if you really get a drawing or something.

What's more, the sleepers who followed Hitler couldn't ask questions, after all, Hitler's suspicions were very serious. If you seem too curious, you can easily arouse Hitler's suspicions.

Therefore, the two new tanks of [Tiger] and [Leopard] are only heard in China. No one was seen. After Yan Guang himself heard the names of these two, two images automatically appeared in his mind, but it is said that these two tanks have changed a lot compared with the two in history. So Yan Guang himself didn't dare to make judgments...

But now...

"It seems to be the same as in history..."

Glancing at the photo on the table, Yan Guang secretly wondered.

From the outside, he couldn't tell the difference between the two tanks and the historical ones. …,

Yan Guang didn't know. The biggest improvement of the Germans to these two types of tanks is to remove the original complex design, making the entire tank simpler to build, and can be manufactured with lower cost and less man-hours, and at the same time, after adopting the universal design, many parts on the [Tiger] and [Leopard] can be used interchangeably, which further simplifies the tank at the same time. It also reduces the pressure on logistics.

In other words, while maintaining the original performance. The German "Tiger Style" and "Leopard Style" made up for the shortcomings of the original inconvenient production due to the complexity of the design as much as possible.

In history, don't talk about the output of the [Tiger], that is, the medium tank of the [Leopard], the Germans produced one is enough for the Russians to produce several T-34s―――――― although the later T-34 is somewhat shoddy...

However, in the end, it was the T-34, a medium tank that was not as good as Germany's, but easy to manufacture, although in the later stages of the war Germany due to lack of resources, the various types of tanks produced at that time were also shoddy...

"Tiger and Leopard..."

Yan Guang remembered that when he played a game made by the Russians called [World of Tanks] in later life, he used to take the route of the D and S series, that is, the German and Soviet series.

Because it is a game made by Russians, although the Russians are obviously more attentive than some domestic games when making games, but in the process of making games, Russians inevitably favor their own country...

In this case, the S series is called the father line, but the D series tanks that killed all sides in World War II are living a rather hard life.

It's just that, even if it's like this, in the game, the [Tiger Style] is actually [IS], and the Tiger King is against [IS-3], ―――――― when [IS-3] is in service, the European battlefield is over.

And in the game, [Tiger Style] can only hide behind because the armor is too scum...

It was the most formidable tiger pose in the early days of World War II...

In any case, it was an unbearable time for Yan Guang...

Of course, if it's just a father's line, it doesn't matter, but later there was a [shareholder line], which is the so-called F line. French tanks ...

If you want to say that the S series Yan Guang also admits it, after all, people have built tanks in World War II, but most of the French tanks are actually on the drawings. And some of them were actually designed after the 50s...

Your sister!

This is really tolerable, but there is no way, who calls people shareholders...

The so-called world is big, and the shareholders are the largest, so even if the F series is cheating, there is no way...

Fortunately, there is no small Japan among the shareholders of WOT, otherwise it would really be called heaven and earth...

PS: I heard that the Y series is coming out now?

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"Tiger and Leopard words...", looking at the two tanks in the picture. Yan Guang was silent for a moment. "Is there any way to deal with..."

Although in the games of later generations, both the Tiger and the Leopard brought Yan Guang a period of cheating, there is no doubt that in this era, they are definitely the strongest in tanks, at least much stronger than the existing tanks of the Americans and Russians...

"Please rest assured that according to the information we have received so far, although the 15 and 16 and their derivatives are inferior to the Tiger and Leopard in terms of performance, the ZT-40 and ZT-41 that have been mass-produced have an overwhelming advantage over these two types of tanks, and the new [anti-tank rocket launcher] that our army has begun to equip can also easily penetrate the German Tiger and Leopard within the effective range..."

Although the caliber of the 85mm tank gun of the ZT-40 medium tank is somewhat small. However, the barrel length of 71 times the diameter gives it a strong breakdown ability. What's more, compared with the 88mm gun of the Tiger type, the 85mm gun of the ZT-40 type is not small in caliber, and you must know that the T-34/85 that Russia was equipped with later is only an 85mm gun. And it is also a ...... of the L/53 type,

The ZT-40's 85mm L/71 tank gun, the so-called 71x diameter, was far superior to the Russian T-34/85 in terms of penetration. It is also better than the 88mm KwK36L/56 of the Tiger type.

What's more, the ZT-40 type has another killer feature, that is, a tungsten core armor-piercing projectile...

Most of the so-called tungsten core bullets used in World War II are actually tungsten carbide, which are more similar to ceramics such as alumina and titanium boride in terms of structure! It's not tungsten alloy as it is today, or tungsten-nickel-cobalt alloy!

The density and specific gravity of both are not the same, and the tungsten carbide is 14. The difference between tungsten alloy is 17, and the difference between the specific gravity of tungsten alloy and depleted uranium alloy is even greater than that of tungsten alloy and depleted uranium alloy. The density of depleted uranium alloys is only 18.3-18.9!

In terms of performance, tungsten carbide is brittle, and it cannot be processed into a large aspect ratio of the core, and the penetration performance is far less than that of later tungsten alloy!

Of course, in the 30-40s, tungsten carbide was also an excellent armor-piercing material, and its performance was significantly stronger than that of various types of steel cores!

In fact, it would be a big mistake to say that Germany urgently needed tungsten in World War II all relied on China, at that time there were three main sources of tungsten metal in Germany, one was China before 1938, and some metal tungsten was obtained by exchanging weapons for tungsten sand, but after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, as Germany fell to the Japanese side, this source was cut off!

The second is Spain and Portugal, which need to be purchased with hard currency, but due to the neutrality of Spain, Britain and the United States, which have more hard currency, buy at a price much higher than that of Germany, which greatly reduces the source of tungsten sand in Germany. The third is that after the alliance between Japan, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan occupied Southeast Asia and used submarines to transport some tungsten sand to Germany, but because Germany and Japan had no land connection, they could only be transported by submarines.

Historically, due to the war, by 1943, the price of tungsten sand had risen to 775% of the pre-war level, making Spain and Portugal a lot of money, and their tungsten sand production also soared from 2,419 tons in 1938 to 6,500 tons in 1942.

In order to maintain neutrality, Portugal established a strict export quota system in 1942, allowing the Allies and Axis powers to export ore from their respective tungsten mines in Portugal, as well as fixed quotas for Portugal's own mines. The UK has the largest tungsten mine in Portugal and several smaller tungsten mines in Germany. In 1942, Portugal and Germany signed a trade agreement to increase tungsten sand exports to Germany to 2,800 tonnes, with Germany supplying coal, steel and potash. 1943 year. The allies also tried to sign a new tungsten sand import agreement with Portugal, which demanded that the allies lower the prices of ammonium sulfate, oil and other products in return, but were refused. As a result, Portugal reduced its tungsten sand exports to its allies.

Of course, in this world, the main source of rare metals in Germany is China, after all, the relationship between China and Germany is relatively good, and China has a huge amount of tungsten ore reserves, plus China's tungsten ore mining capacity is stronger than in history, so Germany in this period is still relatively rich in tungsten bombs―――――― although so far, the Germans have switched from importing tungsten ore to directly importing tungsten bombs. After all, there is a war going on now, and if you place an order here, you can transport it from Ukraine to the front line, which is much faster than shipping it to the factory for processing first.

Naturally, in the case that Germany is not short of tungsten core bombs, China is even less likely to be lacking...

At present, in China, 75mm and 85mm caliber tungsten core bullets have been mass-produced, and priority distribution to the front-line troops, after being equipped with tungsten core armor-piercing shells, the ZT-40 85mm tank gun is enough to penetrate all the tanks in service, and even the IS-2 will not appear in a few years in history.

In fact, even the original 15 formulas. After equipping the tungsten core bullet. His 75mm tank gun was enough to threaten the German Tiger, but when the Type 15 was exported to Russia, Yan Guang did not export the tungsten core bullet to Russia as well. What's more, the German Tiger also has a ...... of tungsten core shells, and as for the more powerful ZT-41 heavy tank...

Due to the fact that the ZT-41 tank has 200mm thick frontal armor and sufficient tilt angles, even the Tiger 88mm gun on the + "Pzgr.40 tungsten carbide core cap armor-piercing projectile" will not be able to penetrate the ZT-41's frontal armor...

As for the artillery ...

The ZT-41 tank uses a 105mm L/68 tank gun, which is different from the Type 15 and ZT-40. The ZT-41 is not equipped with tungsten core armor-piercing shells, because the ZT-41's 105mmL/68 tank gun is enough to deal with various types of tanks in service and in the next few years, in fact, this is why the ZT-41, which weighs more than 60 tons, did not use a larger caliber main gun, because the ZT-41's 105mmL/68 tank gun is enough, no matter how large the caliber is just a waste, not to mention that the ZT-40 has a plan to replace the new turret and 105mm caliber main gun. The ZT-41 also has plans to replace it with a 125mm caliber tank gun ...

In addition, 105mm and 125mm caliber tungsten core armor-piercing bullets have also been designed and can be put into production whenever needed. It's just that in the eyes of the generals of the Ministry of Defense, this is completely unnecessary, after all, the 105mm caliber is enough, not to mention the production cost of tungsten core armor-piercing bullets is not small...

"Speaking of which, has the weight of the ZT-41 reached its limit?"

When talking about ZT-41, Yan Guang's face was somewhat unwilling, after all, in his memory, the real Tiger King weighed nearly 70 tons, and compared with the Tiger King, although the ZT-41 also weighed more than 60 tons, but compared with the real Tiger King, which was more than 60 tons as if it came out accidentally...

"This—" Several people looked at each other and shook their heads. The weight alone is good to increase, but the horsepower of the diesel engine with the largest power is only 750 horsepower, although the horsepower of 750 horsepower is not small, but with a weight of more than 60 tons, it can only give the ZT-41 tank more than 30 kilometers per hour, according to the reaction of the soldiers below, this speed is already very slow, and the maneuverability is really ..."

In fact, what Feng Nan couldn't understand even more was why Yan Guang kept pursuing the so-called nearly 70 tons? You must know that the ZT-41 tank, which weighs more than 60 tons, is already the largest tank in the world, and there is no point in continuing to pursue something bigger ...

Of course, what made Feng Nan and them more memorable was the cutting-edge plan proposed by Yan Guang when the army was bidding for a new tank...

In the plan, Yan Guang proposed to design a medium tank weighing more than 60 tons and a heavy tank weighing more than 80 tons, in Yan Guang's proposal, the medium tank would be equipped with a 105mm tank gun, and the heavy tank would be equipped with a 125mm tank gun...

Not to mention how amazing this firepower is, this weight alone has shocked Feng Nan and others, you must know that the maximum power at this time is only 750 horsepower, if it is matched with the weight proposed by Yan Guang, then the mobility of these two types of tanks will be quite amazing―――――― low is amazing...

Of course, what they don't know is more. In fact, the two tanks proposed by Yan Guang are the so-called E-50 and E-75 in later generations...

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Putting aside Feng Nan's efforts to dispel the strange thoughts in Yan Guang's mind for the time being, the meeting finally continued.

"According to our analysis. The performance of the Germans' [Tiger] and [Leopard] is still very good, at least Russia currently does not have a tank that can fight against the above two, and even the 15 modified tanks that our country is currently mainly equipped with can only be fought with tungsten core armor-piercing shells..."

"However, so far the number of Tiger and Leopard in Germany is still very small, and the ZT-40 and ZT-41 tanks that our country is equipping in batches can effectively suppress German tanks, and according to the test, the degree of restraint of dive bombers on tanks is also very high, in addition to ..."

"Other than that. Ordinary ground forces are also generally equipped with a new type of portable rocket launcher, which can not only be erected on off-road vehicles, but also has a 90mm caliber that can effectively kill most tanks, including the Tiger, but the effective range of the weapon is only 150 meters, so it will be very dangerous when used..."..., after all, the distance of 150 meters is already within the killing range of most weapons...

"It's nothing, as long as ordinary soldiers don't deal with tanks empty-handed, it's already a thankful thing for them..."

Speaking of this, Yan Guang thought for a while.

"Now that the bazookas are out. Is there still a need for the 37mm infantry gun? ”

"This..."

Feng Nan and the others hesitated. To be honest, they don't think that the 37 infantry gun still has any need to exist, just as a weapon that has been with the Wehrmacht for many years...

Just when Feng Nan and the others were still hesitating, there was a sudden knock on the door of the conference room.

"Come in..."

With permission from Yan Guang. The officer outside walked in briskly.

The officer who came in first looked at the people in the conference room before walking to Yan Guang's side and whispering.

"President, the news has just arrived. The Japanese seem to be going to do something lately..."

"Oh?"

Hearing the officer say this, Yan Guang was stunned.

"What's the action..."

Yan Guang did not avoid people, after all, the people who could stand in the conference room were the kind that the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Military Defense Bureau had jointly checked twenty or thirty times.

"This—" After a hesitant glance at the people in the room, the officer spoke. In recent times, the Japanese have been training in a special and aggressive way. According to the speculation of the Military Intelligence Agency, it is very likely that the Japanese wanted to launch a surprise attack on a certain place..."

Could it be somewhere? The United States, of course ...

When hearing the officer say so. Yan Guang has already reacted, after all, in history, Japan launched the extremely famous "Pearl Harbor" incident against the United States in the most recent time.

Although many people in history think that Japan's attack on the United States is an unwise thing, the United States was already deeply involved before Japan attacked the United States, but it did not directly send troops to participate in the war, and as time went by, the signs of the United States entering the war became deeper and deeper, after all, the US government's material aid to the allies and the sending of pilots to support such things really made the so-called neutrality policy of the US government somewhat untenable...

So, since the United States is going to enter the war sooner or later, it is better to take him by surprise before he is ready...

"Looks like the Japanese are ready to do it..."

Scratching his head, Yan Guang glanced at the officer.

"To keep an eye on the Japanese every move, we have to figure out the time, place, target, and force that may be used..."

"Understood!"

With that, the officer turned around and left the conference room, when a general next to him walked over.

"President, there is no definite information to prove that the Japanese will definitely do it, and it is a bit bad to do so..."

"According to the nature of the Japanese, it is a very good thing to do it..."Yan Guang shook his head. In this case, it is better to grasp the possible moves of the Japanese as soon as possible, and..."Speaking of this, Yan Guang smiled. "It's not necessarily Americans, maybe it's us..."

Although there is no problem for China to crush Japan now, according to the nature of the Japanese, who knows...