When the Yanhuang sailed away from the military port again and joined the huge fleet outside, the huge Pacific Fleet went all the way south under the farewell of countless eyes.

Chen Shao and the others did not leave the fleet immediately, but met with the captains of each warship on the Yanhuang.

A morning passed, on the deck of the Yanhuang, under the gaze of countless eyes, Chen Shao and the others got on a Nighthawk helicopter and slowly rose from the deck.

On the helicopter, Chen Shao saw the girl with red-eyed eyes in the crowd, and saluted himself again.

After Chen Shao returned a military salute, the Nighthawk helicopter left the deck completely, away from the huge fleet.

When he returned to Air Force One at Qingdao Naval Base, Chen Shao had already put away all his personal emotions. The huge Air Force One, escorted by four Black Hawk fighters, slowly rose into the air and left Shandong.

As Air Force One flew steadily at high altitude, Chen Shao also received the latest ground battle report.

"With the paralysis of the Allied Far East command system, the four armored groups in the Northeast Theater have achieved great results under the offensive for three consecutive days. At the moment the armored forces have advanced to a point of less than a hundred kilometers from the Sakhalin Strait. Nearly a million Allied troops have already been driven to the sea by us.

However, after the Allied headquarters formalized the new supreme commander of the Allied forces in the Far East, these nearly one million Allied forces still have extremely strong combat effectiveness. In particular, their newest commander was an armored soldier, a general whose command ability was no worse than Patton's, and a retreating tank unit on the Allied side. It's a big threat to us. ”

"Oh, who's their new commander?" Chen Shao was a little curious, who had such great ability to quickly rectify the defeated troops.

"Abrams, a one-star general in the United States, was born in the Fourth Armored Division of the United States, that is, Patton's original subordinate." Jiang Baili replied.

"It's him!" Hearing Abrams, Chen Shao couldn't help but be surprised. It's not that Chen Shao knows this person very well, but in later generations, the tank of the M1 series, the king of American land warfare. It's called the Abrams main battle tank. And to this person. Chen Shao still knows a little bit. It's just that he never imagined that he would be such a young general to command millions of Allied troops.

"Your Majesty knows this person?" Hearing Chen Shao's surprise, Cai Ye on the side couldn't help but ask.

"It's not a acquaintance. I've just heard of him. This man is in armored command. Not worse than Barton at all. At the beginning of World War II. is also a figure who is a headache for Germany, and his combat style is brave and not to be underestimated. Chen Shao shook his head. I don't know much about this person, but I just know a little bit.

"Yes, this man has very good armored command ability, and he is a rare pragmatist in the American army. This time we decapitated the Allied forces in the Far East, and he was not at the command. And at the time of the attack, his troops reacted the fastest. Not only did they avoid our offensive edge, but they also continued to gather defeated and retreating armies along the way, and organized a resistance force that was not weak. Subsequently, Washington quickly appointed him commander-in-chief of the Far Allied Forces, with the rank of one-star general, who had just been promoted. Neither the Japanese side nor the Soviet side objected. Jiang Baili added.

Cai Ye on the side took out a document and read: "This is the information sent by the Military Intelligence Bureau." Crichton. Abrams, Chinese New Year's Eve, a fierce general of the American armored corps, joined the 4th Armored Division of the United States in 41 years and has served in this division since World War II. Smith. Patton's offensive spearhead changed 7 tanks and destroyed 80 German tanks in 10 months. Patton had openly and unabashedly said: I will definitely be the number one tank commander, but I have another competitor - Abrams. ”

80 tanks destroyed record - Abrams, considering that the German ace is often accumulated in 3-4 years of results before reaching more than 100 or even less, considering the powerful firepower and heavy armor of German tanks, considering that what he pinched was a steel ball instead of a soft persimmon pinched by the Germans, considering that he was riding in the M4, which some people deliberately depreciated, is indeed not a mass-produced equipment that can defeat the enemy one-on-one, the taste may be quite tasteful.

However, as a newcomer to the army who is only 31 years old, being able to get such a position can be regarded as a precedent in the Allied military system.

"Roosevelt can't do anything this time, at present, their transportation has been cut off by us, and even the air is controlled by us, even if they want to send a new commander over, it is difficult not to be intercepted by us. With its adventures, such as taking talent on the spot. If Roosevelt chose Abrams, it is also a choice that has to be chosen. Chen Shao said with a serious face:

"The time I gave Kong Wenhong to them is quite rich, and now I don't care what kind of commander they are, the ultimate goal of the Northeast Theater is only one, to completely recapture Sakhalin Island and 1.5 million square kilometers of land in the Far East before the naval battle has begun, and wash away the shame of China."

"Yes, I will immediately convey your instructions to the Northeast Theater of Operations." Jiang Baili said.

"Don't rush yet, I'll hear about the performance of our Apocalypse Tank and Rhino Tank in this war." Chen Shao thought for a while and said.

For these two tanks, to be honest, Jiang Baili and Cai Ye don't know very thoroughly, because these two tanks have been equipped with the Royal Janissaries for almost five years, but they have never been used publicly, so even if one is the chief of the General Staff of the Wehrmacht and the other is the head of the General Operations Department of the Wehrmacht, they can't say it.

However, after a few days of fighting, a lot of data was listed, and they also had an intuitive understanding of this tank. It is not difficult to answer Chen Shao's question.

"According to the information given by His Majesty, these two tanks were developed and produced by the Imperial Secret Military Factory, and because of the cost and raw materials, there is no way to mass-produce and equip all troops at this time. Much of what I know is mentioned in the war report.

These two are advanced main battle tanks, the world's first main battle tanks capable of moving and shooting accurately, and that's all. The significance of this is very significant. Not to mention all countries in the world, even our own Chinese King Tiger main battle tank, which does not have such capabilities.

As far as the Apocalypse tank is concerned, this tank not only ranks first in the world in terms of total combat weight and protection, but also is equipped with many high-tech electronic equipment. In particular, the thermal imaging detection system and the mobile fire correction and balancing device, together with the fire control computer, the Apocalypse tank was able to be the first to discover the target within 2,500 meters and carry out artillery fire, and its first hit rate reached an astonishing 70 percent, and the hit rate of fixed targets in situ reached 90 percent. It is the largest tank in the world.

And the Apocalypse tank is armed with the most advanced 125-mm smoothbore gun. Although our Chinese Tiger main battle tank also has a 125mm smoothbore gun on it. However, its lethality and rate of fire are completely incomparable to those of the Apocalypse Tank.

In particular, the mounted tail stabilized shelling armor-piercing projectile, with the latest tungsten steel technology of the empire, is fully capable of firing at the longest range. Penetrate any tank. Even our own Rhino tank is no exception. Contrarily. Even our King Tiger tank, with armor-piercing shells, is even at the most lethal distance. It is also impossible to penetrate the Apocalypse Tank with ceramic armor, and even the external reactive armor cannot effectively penetrate it.

The only land weapon that can penetrate the Apocalypse tank at close range is probably our own Rhino tank, and it must also be equipped with tungsten steel armor-piercing shells, and it must also be within the most effective killing range. As for the T-34/85 of the Soviet Union, the Sherman destroyer of the United States, and the Type 5 tank of Japan, there is no way to take our Apocalypse tank at all.

So far, we have eliminated more than 10,000 tanks of the Allied forces, excluding more than 4,000 tanks destroyed by the army and aviation units, and most of the remaining enemy tanks have been destroyed by rhinos and apocalypse. And we, in terms of tank losses, in addition to the Chinese King Tiger and Chinese Leopard, which lost three or four hundred, only a few dozen rhinos lost their combat effectiveness, and eight Apocalypse tanks were damaged to varying degrees.

The minister believed that this tank battle would end with a complete victory for the Empire. ”

Listening to Jiang Baili's report, coupled with the Abrams mentioned earlier, Chen Shao seemed to suddenly recall the scene in the 91 Gulf War in which the US Abrams main battle tank attacked Saddam's armored troops. The formidable M1 tank is simply not something that the Iraqi T-72s can resist. By the end of the war, only eight Abrams tanks had been wounded, several thousand Iraqi tanks, and not even a single M1 tank had been killed.

The current war report seems to be approaching the Gulf War. Advanced Apocalypse tank, completely unafraid of all kinds of tanks of the Allies. A huge torrent of steel, rampaging through the Allied tank groups, one after another Allied tanks, under the tank guns of the Apocalypse Tank, reduced to ashes.

"Yes! In terms of tanks alone, the empire has been far ahead of the world, especially the fire control system of the Apocalypse tank, it is hard to imagine how our scientists invented it, coupled with a strong defense structure, I heard that the defense of the Apocalypse tank is five times that of the Rhino tank, and the Rhino tank is several times higher than the previous King Tiger tank. These two can be called epoch-making inventions. ”

Among the various data of the Apocalypse Tank, Cai Ye was most impressed by its armor protection and fire control system, because these two things had broken his perception of the tank's performance.

Hearing the words of the two, Chen Shao didn't know whether to be happy or speechless. Listen to them and plan the credit for the Apocalypse Tank to the Imperial Science and Technology Department. His family knows his own affairs, but Chen Shao will never say that these two tanks will be given to the empire for another ten years, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for the empire to build them by itself, because this is the product of the Red Police base.

Whether it is ceramic armor or fire control system, the most current technology is a gap that cannot be crossed.

From its inception to the present, the tank fire control system can be roughly divided into 4 generations.

The fire control system of the first generation of tanks, which were equipped at the end of the First World War, was equipped only with a simple optical sight. This type of optical sight uses the line-of-sight method for ranging, that is, if the height or width of the target is known, then the distance to the target can be estimated or directly read out by the MRAD reticle it occupies in the field of view of the scope, and then the aiming angle can be fixed. With this method, at 900 meters, the hit rate drops significantly.

Even in later generations, some tanks still used this method of emergency work.

The second-generation tank fire control system equipped at the end of World War II was equipped with a stereo or combined rangefinder and a mechanical ballistic computer with cams and other functional components on the basis of the original optical sight, and its performance was significantly improved compared with the first generation. At a distance of 1,300 meters, the first hit rate of firing at standard targets was 50%.

In the late fifties and early sixties, the third-generation tank fire control system consisted of an optical sight, an optical rangefinder, and an electromechanical analog ballistic computer, and began to be equipped with some ballistic correction sensors. This fire control system has a 50% first hit rate on stationary targets in situ at a distance of 1,500 meters.

At present, China's own tank sighting device is this one, which belongs to the third generation of sighting systems in later generations.

The disadvantage of the above-mentioned third-generation tank fire control system is that it cannot predict the shooting advance angle of moving targets, so it cannot shoot at moving targets, and because there is no ideal ranging instrument, the hit rate is relatively low. With the advent and development of laser technology, laser rangefinders appeared. The laser rangefinder is a high-precision, easy-to-operate, and fast ranging instrument, and the fire control system combined with the fire control computer is an important way to improve the hit rate of tank artillery.

Therefore. Later generations of the American Hughes Aircraft Company from the end of 1965. The prototype used for the test was successfully developed, and it was named Kebeida, and later renamed Sabuka.

Hughes Aircraft, based on the experience gained from this fire control system, officially designed an integrated fire control system with a laser rangefinder for the M60A3 tank. It is mainly composed of a laser ranging sight for the commander, a day and night sight for the commander, a digital-analog hybrid fire control computer, a target angular velocity measurement device and various ballistic correction sensors. Able to shoot at stationary or moving targets when the tank is at short stops.

Corrections that are automatically entered into the fire control computer include trunnion tilt, crosswind, and target angular velocity. The correction amount of manual assembly includes air pressure, air temperature, medicine temperature, gun chamber wear and ammunition type, etc. At a distance of 2,500 meters, the first hit rate of the fire control system when firing at stationary targets in situ was 90%.

And the Apocalypse tank belongs to this generation, albeit compared to the digitized tanks of the XXI century. This aiming method is outdated, but in World War II, this aiming device was an epoch-making invention.

This integrated fire control system of the Apocalypse Tank is embodied in: rapid discovery, capture and identification of targets; short reaction time; High starting hit rate in long-range shooting; The tank can shoot at fixed or moving targets while traveling; strong all-weather and night-time combat capabilities; Easy to operate and high reliability; Equipped with a self-inspection system, easy to maintain; It has a high cost-effectiveness ratio.

Moreover, the Apocalypse Tank also has some equipment of later advanced tanks, such as photoelectric observation and sighting equipment, fire control computer, ballistic correction sensor, and artillery stability and control system.

The optoelectronic phoenix sighting equipment of the fire control system of the Apocalypse tank usually includes an optical sight for day use and a night vision instrument. For a well-developed tank fire control system, both the commander and the gun commander are equipped with separate optical primary and secondary sights.

The gun commander's main sight adopts two kinds of structures, telescope or periscope, which are basically combined with laser rangefinder and night altitude instrument to form a structure of integrated measurement and sighting or day and night, and the increasing number of observation and sighting equipment is a three-in-one structure of day, night and range.

The commander's main sight mostly uses a circumferential periscope structure. In order to improve the ability to search, identify, and track targets, the commander and gun commander usually use zoom objectives and large-aperture objectives for their main sights. Low magnification, large field of view for battlefield surveillance and target search. High magnification, small field of view for identifying, tracking, and aiming at targets.

In order to improve aiming accuracy and ease of operation, the commander's and gunner's sights of modern tank fire control systems are equipped with cathode ray tubes and other electronic devices that can adjust ballistic sight markings, distance data measured by laser rangefinders, and collimation.

The fire control computer is the core component of the modern tank fire control system, and its main function is to solve the equation of ballistics and shooting advance angle according to various ballistic parameters automatically input and manually installed by the ballistic correction sensor, and automatically transmit the fire angle and azimuth information to the scope and artillery servo system.

In order to improve the accuracy of ballistic calculation and the first hit rate, in addition to using a rangefinder to measure the range, the fire control system of the Apocalypse Tank also adopts corrections such as target angular velocity, gun trunnion tilt, cross wind, projectile type, fixed starting angle, muzzle offset, projectile deflection, parallax, air temperature, air pressure, gun chamber wear, and charge temperature. Theoretically, the more correction sensors you use, the higher the degree of automation, and the higher the hit rate, but with that the cost increases, and the likelihood of failure or damage increases.

Modern warfare requires tanks to have the ability to fire at targets in between the march or with short stops between the moves, which necessitates the installation of artillery stabilization and aiming line stabilization systems. The development of the stabilization system has gone through roughly 3 generations. The first two generations of stabilization systems were mainly stabilized artillery. The line of sight follows the artillery.

The first generation of stabilization system is called the double gyro stabilization system, in the high and low and azimuth stabilization system, each set has only one speed gyro, which is used to sense the angular velocity of the gun and the turret, and this signal is amplified to control the artillery servo system to stabilize the artillery. This stabilization system can roughly stabilize the gun between marches, but it cannot shoot between marches, requiring a short stop before firing to precisely control the gun.

The second-generation stabilization system is also known as the 4-gyro stabilization system. That is, two gyroscopes are included in each of the artillery height and azimuth servo control loops. In general, one is a position gyroscope (3 degrees of freedom gyroscope) and one is a speed gyroscope (2 degrees of freedom gyroscope). The speed gyroscope provides a feedforward control signal for perturbation variables in some systems, and some play a role in velocity feedback. The second-generation system responds faster and has higher stability and accuracy than the first-generation system. Artillery can be aimed while on the move. The short stop time before firing can be shortened compared to the first generation, but it is still not possible to shoot between the marches.

At present, most of China's tanks belong to this generation, and its representative is the King Tiger tank. And the Soviet T-34/85 belongs to the first generation of stabilization systems. The latest Leopard tanks out of Germany have a stabilization system quite similar to those of the second generation, with the exception of tanks from other countries. Basically, it's all the first generation.

The third-generation stabilization system is a command ritual system that independently stabilizes the line of sight. This system is the same system as the command ceremony tank fire control system in the aiming control mode. That is, the system that the Apocalypse Tank and the Rhino Tank currently have.

Let's put it bluntly. That is, no matter how the tank goes. No matter how the terrain changes, the straight line of the barrel aiming will not change. Because the stabilization system will combine with the body and make corrections to the barrel. The barrel of the tank will be aimed at the target, and it will really shoot on the move.

Another point that amazed Cai was the protective ability of the tank, in fact, as early as the First World War, the surface of the steel armor coated with a layer of 1.6mm thick porcelain glaze can greatly enhance the protective performance.

Although ceramic materials were discovered very early, it was not until many years later that ceramic materials began to be used for military purposes. Ceramic armor materials were widely used by the former Soviet army, and the U.S. military also used them extensively in the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War, the UH-1 helicopter was equipped with a hard-faced composite armor kit on the pilot's and co-pilot's seats, with boron carbide ceramic shields and fiberglass lining at the bottom, sides, and rear of the seats to protect against 7.62mm armor-piercing shells.

Ceramic materials have the advantages of high hardness and light weight, and their defense capabilities against kinetic energy bullets and ammunition fragments are very strong, and it has become a kind of protective armor widely used in body armor, vehicles and aircraft. It is also the main protective armor of the Apocalypse Tank.

At the moment when the warhead hits the ceramic armor, the overpressure shock wave generated by the impact propagates along the ceramic armor and the warhead, causing damage to both, especially when the overpressure shock wave propagates to the interface of the ceramic layer and the liner layer. Most ceramic armor is bonded to the lining using a low-hardness, low-density viscous polymer. When the overpressure shock wave propagates to the interface between the ceramic and the polymer adhesive layer, the overpressure shock wave produces a strong tensile effect and destroys the ceramic layer, while the strong shear action destroys the polymer adhesive layer. Under tension and shearing, the ceramic layer separates from the lining. At the same time, the warhead was crumbled under pressure. A cone-shaped fragmentation zone forms around the point of impact.

It is precisely because of the high hardness of ceramics that the warhead is prevented from penetrating the armor. High-hardness ceramics can produce a large reaction force on the warhead and reduce the speed of the warhead.

For molded charge warheads such as those used in the later famous RPG-7 rockets, the fragile nature of ceramic materials makes it have better protection. When the metal jet generated by the explosion of the formed charge warhead passes through the ceramic armor, the ceramic penetrated by the metal jet immediately shatters into very small pieces, causing the cavity formed by the metal jet to be relatively unstable, so it has a large interference with the metal jet, so that its armor-piercing performance is greatly reduced.

In fact, not only the Apocalypse Tank has ceramic armor, but in fact, like the armor on the body of the Army's Humvee, it also uses a certain ceramic armor technology. The purpose is to improve the battlefield survivability of the Humvee.

"As the saying goes, a brick knocks down a kung fu master. No matter how advanced our weapons and equipment are, we cannot be proud. Once we encounter a heavy encirclement of the enemy, even if our tanks are advanced, they will be drowned under the enemy's attack.

Inform. In the Northeast Theater, they still faced more than a million enemies, and it was not a group of lambs to be slaughtered, but a group of enemies who still had strong armor. I don't want my men to start looking at the enemy. Always remember the timeless saying, strategically, we can despise the enemy, and tactically, we must face any enemy squarely, even if the opponent is holding a stick. "Chen Shao doesn't want his own troops. Repeat the situation of the US military in Somalia in those years. (Black Hawk Down)

"Yes." Chen Shao's words made the proud Jiang Baili and Cai Yi react.

Right now. Wang Jie opened the plane door and walked in, handing a telegram to Chen Shao. Then he turned and left.

"Look at it, too." After flipping through a few pages at random, Chen Shao handed the telegram to Jiang Baili.

"This is a telegram for help from an ally in the Middle East. It seems that the Allies have done whatever it takes. Jiang Baili flipped through the telegram. He spoke.

"It's not easy for them either. The Axis powers had lost control of the Mediterranean, and Rommel's life in North Africa was precarious. A large number of American soldiers landed directly on the Arabian Peninsula in the Mediterranean, and the Arabian Peninsula has now gathered more than 800,000 American troops. A number of Allied forces also entered the Arabian Peninsula. In addition to Saudi Arabia's own army of nearly a million people, the Allies have amassed more than 1.2 million troops in the Arabian Peninsula. Not to be underestimated! Cai Yi said thoughtfully.

"Don't ignore the allies in India, there are more than a million Anglo-American troops in India, and the most important thing is that the allies have armed up millions of Indian legions, which is also not a weak army. Coupled with the 600,000 troops of the Soviet Union on the border between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, a major war in the Middle East is inevitable. Jiang Baili said.

"It is true that the situation in the Middle East is already complicated, the Soviet Union and Germany have always been fighting for the Caucasus, and Turkey is now a member of the Axis. If the Allies want to quickly end the European theater and break the current unfavorable situation, the Middle East is indeed a good choice.

If it weren't for the fact that we have shown so much favor to the Jews, and the disappointment of the Jewish organizations in the indifference of the Western countries in the first place, I am afraid that we would now have one less ally and one more rich enemy. Wooing the Jews, Your Majesty really has no last resort. Cai Ye said with emotion.

"Jews, in fact, we have only won over half of the Jews, and many of the weapons and equipment used by the Allies are actually produced by Jewish-owned military factories, especially in the United States, where Jews control a lot of oil and steel, which are all obstacles to us."

Speaking of Jews, Chen Shao did not feel that he had much credit, because there are many Jews around the world who are inclined to the United States, although they are a small number of Jews, but these Jews have more financial resources than the Jews who trust China.

Chen Shao could not do anything about those Jews living in the United States, and he did not want to win them over, the camp had been established, and there was nothing to say. As long as those Jews in the Middle East can be tied to the Chinese chariot, Chen Shao doesn't care about other aspects.

"At present, the situation in the Middle East is very complicated, do we want the Xinjiang theater to take action?" After Jiang Baili read the telegram and handed it to Cai Yi, he couldn't help but ask Chen Shao.

"The Xinjiang theater can be moved or immovable, and not everything needs to be taken responsibility for. Our allies in the Middle East combined, there are two or three million troops, and the army of Saudi Arabia on the other side is a rabble, and their main enemy is nothing more than the 1.2 million allies. These Allied forces, to be honest, except for those who were transferred from the battlefields of Europe, like the 800,000 troops of the United States, are a group of recruits who have not been on the battlefield. We don't need to use elite troops to deal with it at all. Chen Shao shook his head and was noncommittal to Jiang Baili's words.

"What does Your Majesty mean?" After hearing the general content of the telegram, Cai Ye actually intended to let the Xinjiang Theater go abroad, which was the same as Jiang Baili thought. However, it is clear that Chen Shao has a different opinion.

"What I mean is very simple, our allies in the Middle East, the combat effectiveness of their troops, are not weak. From the time they broke away from the control of the West, we have begun to help them train their troops, and after more than ten years, the combat effectiveness of those armies is not weak.

What they lack most at the moment is not reinforcements, but sophisticated weaponry. I believe that they also do not want their land to be protected by others, so we should leave the affairs of the Middle East to the Middle Easterners to decide. The reason is simple, we are allies, and since we are allies, we must trust the strength of our allies. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Shao's voice changed: "However, we can't let our allies suffer too much loss. What's more, the Jews need a bigger territory to build their own state, and we can't stand idly by as we can help.

Since the Allies are going to play, let's play bigger.

Give the Xinjiang Theater the latest operational order to immediately send an armored corps to Iraq.

Order the Logistics Department to immediately open the Xinjiang sealed weapons warehouse, and unseal our mothballed Chinese Tiger tanks (not Tiger Kings) and Chinese Leopards, and unseal 2,000 units. At the same time, 800,000 semi-automatic rifles, 50,000 light and heavy machine guns, 20,000 anti-tank rocket launchers, 30,000 mortars, 5,000 artillery pieces of 75 mm or more, 2,000 anti-aircraft weapons, 5,000 trucks, and 1,000 armored vehicles will be unsealed and escorted by the Panzer Corps to our allies. In the follow-up, according to the battle damage, be ready to replenish at any time.

Ordered the Air Force Command to mobilize fighters from two air divisions and an improved H-2 bomber from one bomber division, and send 3,000 improved Warhawk-2 bombers from our allies to support the Middle East.

Order the remaining two aircraft carrier formations of the Indian Ocean Fleet to enter the Persian Gulf and prepare to support the war in the Middle East. ”

Jiang Baili and Cai Yi's hearts jumped, they were really generous. Such a huge amount of weapons and equipment is already the scale of a previous theater of operations. With these weapons and equipment to support the Middle East, they are enough to arm millions of elite troops.

Moreover, even the last two aircraft carrier battle groups of the Indian Ocean Fleet were transferred to the Persian Gulf, and Chen Shao's attitude was very clear.

Even Jiang Baili and Cai Ye felt that it was too stingy to just think of using the Xinjiang Theater to help each other. (To be continued......)