Chapter 346: Type 16 Light Tank

Wang Jingwei, I believe everyone knows whose this person is... For the time being, the Nationalist Socialist Party has an absolute advantage in politics, but it is precisely because of this absolute superiority that the Nationalist Party has not exterminated all other small parties. It is also for this reason that Wang Jingwei, who was born in the Kuomintang, was able to serve in the New Deal.

Of course, because of the relationship between the Kuomintang and Wang Jingwei's position, it was not very high, and he only held a somewhat powerful official position in the Ministry of Railways under Zhan Tianyou.

mentioned Wang Jingwei's political affairs, in fact, Yan Guang also knew about it. To be honest, when Yan Guang learned that Wang Jingwei was serving under him, his first reaction was to check on him, or simply kill him.

It's just that when Yan Guang was about to call someone from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to take advantage of the darkness of the day to put Wang Jingwei and his very fat wife into a sack together, and then throw them into the Yangtze River, Yan Guang had already pressed his hand on the phone but took it back... Because he suddenly thought that Wang Jingwei would become a Han anniversary, 2 or 30 years later, when he invaded China on a large scale. At this time, Wang Jingwei was because of the sentence "Draw the knife into a fast, and live up to the head of the young man." In the eyes of the world, he is resolutely a righteous gentleman and a hot-blooded young man.

In the same way, China today is completely different from China in history, not only is it not a chaotic situation of warlords, but the rapid growth of national strength has also allowed China to begin to stabilize its overall national strength.

According to Yan Guang's own understanding, usually a country that will produce Han annihilation, and it is a large number of Han annihilation, is relatively weak in its own strength, or the kind that has been bullied.

It is precisely because of this environment that there will be a large number of Han annihilation, and if it is replaced by a strong country, it is rare for the Han annihilation to occur. Even during the period of Nazi Germany, there were so many people who wanted to assassinate Hitler, only against him and the Nazi fascists, but they never thought of betraying their country.

Therefore, considering that China's national strength is not inferior to the original at all, Wang Jingwei will become a Han Dynasty like later generations, and the possibility of betraying China is also very small, so Yan Guang also let him go―――――― in Yan Guang's view, unless he is a natural slut, there will not be a few people who go to another country that is not very strong when their motherland is still strong, of course, it is another matter if they are bought.

Anyway, because of the sentence "Lead the knife into a fast, live up to the boy's head." "The current Wang Jingwei is also a relatively famous character, if such a character dies suddenly, whether it is planted in other ways or let him die unexplained, it will lead to a lot of chaos... Now it is not as good as Song Jiaoren's time, although Song Jiaoren's name in this era is definitely a hundred times stronger than Wang Jingwei, but that time there was Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen, even if Yan Guang sent someone to assassinate him, but in the end, the world would only suspect that Yuan Shikai was the head of Sun Yat-sen, and would never suspect Yan Guang, who was still entrenched in the southwest at that time.

But to Wang Jingwei... At least as far as Yan Guang knows, there are no people who are dissatisfied with Wang Jingwei in the political axe at present, even if there are some grudges, it seems that it has not reached the point where he has to die, as for political assassination or something―――――― although Wang Jingwei also has a little power, but it seems that he is not qualified... It's also for this reason that Yan Guang gave the order..."However, this Wang Jingwei seems to have come back a little early, right? ”

In history, Wang Jingwei seems to have gone to France to study after the establishment of the Republic of China. By the time he returned home and entered politics, the First World War had already been fought.

But now, the First World War is still going on, how did he come back... In fact, it is very simple to answer Yan Guang's question, in history, Wang Jingwei did not return from France until a long time after the end of World War I. But now it is no longer the history of history, because of Yan Guang's relationship, the Kuomintang is now extremely declining in China, and in the case of the Kuomintang monopolizing the country, the Kuomintang can only share some leftovers with other parties... However, as the former largest party and the second largest force, the Kuomintang will never be willing to do so.

It was only because of the defeat of the Second Revolution that Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and others could not return to China to preside over the overall situation, so the Kuomintang in Tokyo selected a group of relatively well-known people and asked them to return to China to preside over the overall situation. Among them, Wang Jingwei was also elected because of his former youthful ambition, and because of the efforts of the Kuomintang, he held a more powerful position in the Ministry of Railways.

However, this is also related to Wang Jingwei's personal ability, if he is not really capable, and the Ministry of Railways is indeed short of people, Zhan Tianyou will never recruit him... Of course, if that's all there is to it, it won't be caught by the person himself.

Not long after Wang Jingwei was assigned to the Ministry of Railways by the Kuomintang, World War I officially broke out. After a period of time, news came that a fierce battle broke out between China and Syria in Shandong.

And along with this news, there is another person who said that he came, of course, this person came secretly... At that time, the strength of the Wehrmacht was not known to outsiders, even Wang Jingwei, a political axe official, was unknown. In addition, Wang Jingwei himself is not familiar with military affairs, so in Wang Jingwei's opinion, the National Defense Force is a few points stronger than the former Beiyang Army, but it is absolutely inferior to the book.

In fact, Wang Jingwei's view is also reasonable, after all, he is also one of the great powers, with a proud record in the Russo-Russian War and a large naval fleet.

And what about China? Is there anything else besides the newly formed Wehrmacht?

It is precisely because of these considerations that under the confusion of Yue himself, Wang Jingwei got on the tattered chariot of Yu himself.

And Wang Ching-wei will ride on this chariot because he himself promised that as long as the Wehrmacht is defeated in Shandong, then if the position of the Kuomintang is shaken, he will support the Kuomintang headquartered in Tokyo to go out again. Let the Kuomintang once again compete with the National Socialist Party, and this time it will be said that the political axe will directly support the Kuomintang.

Of course, in the end, the person in charge of the Kuomintang will still be Sun Yat-sen, after all, no one in the Kuomintang except Huang Xing can challenge Sun Yat-sen's authority, not to mention that Huang Xing has no intention of this at all, and he himself does not have this idea because of his good relationship with Sun Yat-sen.

But... If it really succeeds, then, when the Kuomintang returns to the mainland again, Wang Ching-wei will at least be able to gain considerable power within the Kuomintang... And under these inducements, Wang Jingwei began to work for himself.

After Wang Jingwei began to work secretly for himself, Wang Jingwei never revealed this to anyone, not even a Kuomintang member of the same Kuomintang.

Because even in later generations, when the Kuomintang was at its worst, in addition to the Han annihilation who defected to the enemy, there were still a large number of anti-Japanese fighters in the Kuomintang. Although today's Kuomintang is a little worse, the quality of its members is only much higher than that of later generations.

At this time, if this matter is revealed, then there will definitely be dozens of times more people who oppose it than those who support it, and Wang Jingwei is still very clear about this, so all Wang Jingwei's actions are carried out in secret.

Even so, Wang Jingwei believes that within the political axe of the Republic of China, there will definitely be many people like himself who are secretly working for him... It's just that although it is secret work, Wang Jingwei only has some power in the Ministry of Railways, and even if he wants to work for himself in other places, he is powerless... But just when Wang Jingwei was at a loss, he obviously had already thought of the direction of his work for him... The department where Wang Jingwei works is the Ministry of Railways, yes, at first glance, the Ministry of Railways and the military where Wang Jingwei works are indeed not attached, at least not much, but in fact?

In fact, almost all the troops and materials transported to Shandong were transported by rail ... And these extremely critical things are precisely within Wang Jingwei's jurisdiction, and it is for this reason that I will find Wang Jingwei.

Merely... Obviously, the battle in Shandong was somewhat unexpected, at least to the surprise of Wang Jingwei and Yue himself, who first sank a large number of his capital ships and secondary ships in Longkou Bay. Later, on land, Cai Yi, who commanded the Shandong National Defense Army, also won successive battles, and it was obvious that he could not win victory at all in Shandong.

It was also at this time that Wang Jingwei began to regret it.

Because according to this situation, he himself will not be able to win at all, and what they promised Wang Jingwei will obviously not be realized. The most important thing is that China's strength is obviously beyond Wang Jingwei's expectations, and since China is not a weak country, and is no longer a weak country that can be bullied by others, then why should Wang Jingwei be this traitor who is reviled by others?

It's a pity that although Wang Jingwei regretted it, he regretted it a little too late.

Because before the period when he was defeated and retreated, Wang Jingwei had already given him enough handles, enough handles to make him ruined. So at this point, Wang Jingwei can only continue to do things for himself.

And when the war in Shandong ended, the Military Defense Bureau and the Ministry of Internal Affairs began to search for some people who leaked information to him, what Wang Jingwei expected was that there were indeed many people inside the political axe who served him, but maybe it was hidden deep enough, so Wang Jingwei, who also betrayed a lot of information, was not caught... Afterwards, because of the fact that a large number of intelligence personnel in China were arrested, all the intelligence personnel in China entered a latent state, and Wang Jingwei finally quieted down for a while because of this.

It's just that just when Wang Jingwei thought that the nightmare was over and he didn't need to work for anyone, he found him again... And this time his task is to find out some details and intelligence about the tanks used by the Chinese... He said that he would find Wang Jingwei because all the tank troops sent to the Caucasus were transported by rail, so Wang Jingwei would be able to get more contact with some details.

Of course, it is impossible for me to have only one channel like Wang Jingwei in China for many years, and Wang Jingwei is only one part of it. However, because of his frugal surname, they will contact Wang Jingwei again..."Tank..."Tank..."After saying goodbye to Yue Zhiyi, looking at the drunken gold fans in the lobby, Wang Jingwei muttered. "Am I just being controlled like this..."

―――――――――― just as he began to find their lurkers in China, the other powers began to jump up and down.

Because the Type 15 tank used by China this time is too advanced, except for the same slag maneuver as the Mark tank, it is almost at least ten years ahead of the various types of tanks being developed by the Mark and the Great Powers in terms of protection and firepower, and the Type 15 tank is at least 20 years ahead of the concept of tanks.

In other words, if they could get about 15 tanks, the great powers would have been able to fight for at least twenty years less.

Merely... Unlike the Chinese government, which has been operating in China for many years and only focuses on China, other countries have been operating in China for a long time, but because they have too many colonies, they cannot concentrate on China at all, so when the matter comes, the great powers will not be able to find a way at all, and in the end they can only rely on the means of bribing political axe officials to find it.

It's just that all the information about tanks is a secret within the political axe, and those factories that produce tank parts don't know that they produce famous tanks, and the factories responsible for assembling them are also quietly produced under the strict guard of a whole division, so in the end they can only be helpless... However, compared with the Entente countries, which were unable to find a way, the progress of the Germans was quite gratifying.

There is no other reason than that the German roots and connections in China are so deep, so at this moment they know very well which path they should take. And in fact, the Germans did go the right way..."Yan Guang..."

Although Germany and China almost severed all relations because of China's accession to the Entente and its dispatch of troops to the war, most of the Germans who worked for China's political axe almost no longer worked for China's political axe, and the German embassy was directly closed.

But... Because of the good relations between Germany and China in the past, Germany and China are still inextricably linked.

Especially for German diplomats, yes, the German embassy is closed, but that doesn't mean that all German diplomats have been evacuated. In fact, these German diplomats have been living in Yanjing, and ―――――― the Entente also know about their existence, everyone has tacitly understood and did not publicize it.

It's just that because of China's entry into the war, these makeover diplomats together did not play a role, but now... Now the biggest task of these diplomats is to do one thing, that is, through past friendships, to obtain some information about tanks from Yan Guang.

In this way, it will be easy for the German side to copy it based on the information provided by China, or to improve the tank it is developing through these materials.

In fact, the German diplomat here in Yanguang did easily get a drawing of the tank.

Of course, Yan Guang also has conditions, that is, engineers in China must serve China again. With this condition, in exchange for Germany to get that drawing... In fact, seriously speaking, at this time, China was completely able to walk on two legs in terms of scientific and technological research and development―――――― although it was a little limping... Such a condition was put forward, only because Yan Guang saw that the Germans had indeed helped him a lot in the past, and his friendship with the Germans was indeed quite good.

In any case, by putting forward such a condition, at least I can seem to be less at a loss... Just the drawings that Yan Guang gave to the Germans? Of course, it could not be a Type 15 tank. Because that is the Wehrmacht's housekeeping skill, although the speed of the Type 15 tank is only a pitiful 10 kilometers per hour, but except for the mobile surname, it will definitely not be inferior to those tanks in the 30s in history, and even more or less exceeded... In other words, with a change of engine, the Type 15 tank will last at least 20 years... Such a precious thing, Yan Guang will definitely not provide to the Germans.

But... Yan Guang also did not provide any waste to the Germans, because Yan Guang supplied the Type 16 light tanks being produced by the tank factory. A tank that is quite similar in appearance to the historical German VK1303 tank.

Of course, when it comes to VK1303, many people must be unclear.

But when it comes to the German tank No. 2, I believe it's all clear... The VK1303 is the final modification of the German No. 2 tank, which is commonly known as the "Lynx".

This Type 16 tank was designed by the tank factory according to Yan Guang's ideas.

He has a full weight of 13 tons, 20mm/20mm/20mm hull armor (front side rear), and turret armor 50mm/30mm/30mm.

Of course, Yan Guang provided the Germans with a castrated version, both the hull armor and the turret armor were nerfed. Especially in terms of the most critical power, the special gasoline engine for the tank of the Type 16 tank is not even mentioned.

However, except for the power and armor, there is no deduction in other aspects.

For example, in terms of firepower, the firepower on the drawings provided to the Germans was the same as the Type 16 tank prepared by the Wehrmacht, which was a 20mmL55 caliber rapid-fire gun, and an 8mm caliber parallel machine gun was added, but the anti-aircraft machine gun on the turret was not, in fact, even the Wehrmacht's own version was not available, because this kind of light tank used by the Wehrmacht itself at a speed of up to 30 kilometers per hour did not need an anti-aircraft machine gun at all.

But... After this Type 16 tank fell into the hands of the Germans, it is not known how much speed he would have left.

True, the engine technology of the Germans in history was really a good one, especially when it came to gasoline engines. However, at this time, Germany was not very good in this regard, at least the 30-ton AV7 tank in history used two 100-horsepower gasoline engines, while the Type 16 itself used a 200-horsepower tank-specific gasoline engine... It can be seen from this that even if the Type 16 tank fell into the hands of the Germans, it would not be able to play its maximum role.

However, the Germans, who got the drawings of the Type 16 tank, were also satisfied, because even if it was a weakened version of the Type 16 tank, there was no pressure to single out the British Mark.

And the Type 16 itself was enough to drive the Germans to the idea of tanks ...

(To be continued)