"Automobiles, there has never been a country like China as much as the importance of cars, many into the said, this thanks to China's developed automobile industry, but the fact that this may be related to the backwardness of China's local horse industry, although compared to many countries China has a huge number of horse stock, but China has a huge stock of horses, whether it is the Mongolian cavalry world-famous Mongolian horses or other horse breeds, have been proved unsuitable for equipping the cavalry on the modern battlefield, as early as during the National Liberation War, The Chinese built up a strong cavalry force, but those cavalry units were armed with Russian Don hippos rather than Mongol horses

In fact, for thousands of years, China has not built a modern horse breeding system, which directly leads to China's horse breeds far behind European countries, and even lags behind Japan, modern horse breeding industry is a scientific breeding and breeding system, which is what China lacks.

At the same time, the army and the people not only need more modern riding horses, but also need a large number of heavy horses, and in the army, the infantry and artillery carry heavy weapons, ammunition transportation, and various supplies transportation, all of which need the assistance of military horses, especially heavy horses. In terms of civil transportation, it is also necessary for modern horses to intervene in the transportation industry.

It can be said that the shortage of horses, from the first year of the empire has been plaguing the first team and the Chinese people, in the face of the need to spend a huge amount of money every year to introduce tens of thousands of horses, the first team and the people resolutely introduced the new means of transportation, and thanks to China's developed automobile industry, in just a few years, cars, trucks, buses, trailers, all kinds of cars into all walks of life in China.

As far as the world's leading teams are concerned, the most shocking thing is that those half-track armored vehicles that can drive on muddy land, those half-track armored vehicles armored with machine guns and even artillery, have entered every army unit in China in just a few years.

China's 1st Cavalry Division has completely switched to a Type 8 armored fighting vehicle equipped with a rotating turret with a 37-mm gun on the turret, which has proven to be an extremely effective weapon, and in the Xinjiang rebellion, a chariot platoon composed of three armored fighting vehicles has repelled the attack of nearly 2,000 Muslim cavalry and pursued hundreds of kilometers.

Overnight, the cavalry unit was eliminated, and the cavalry unit, which was once regarded as the darling of the empire, began to be reorganized, and a large number of Nianba chariots continued to enter the Chinese Guards Army to replace the position of war horses.

And in this European war, we are very much looking forward to seeing how modern Chinese charioteers and cavalry perform......"

Zhan's Defense Yearbook, December 1914, Northern Jiangsu, Comprehensive Training Base of the Guards.

On the vast playground, hundreds of combat vehicles, armored vehicles, self-propelled guns and trucks of the Army Armored Training Corps marched in a one-way column through the reviewing stand where the national flag was flying.

"Now the tanks are finally equipped with troops."

Emperor Chen Moran on the throne put down the binoculars, and said to himself with a gloomy expression, looking at those tanks that were too familiar to be familiar with, no, it should be called a chariot, with a smile on his face.

Since ten years ago, Chen Moran began to fantasize about the emergence of armored clusters, but this dream has been limited by technology, and failed to develop a real tank, and finally can only use rubber tracked half-track armored vehicles, half-track combat vehicles, as a substitute for tanks, fortunately, the off-road performance of four-wheel drive half-track vehicles is not bad.

Moreover, in this era of backward anti-armor technology, the performance of half-track combat vehicles is enough to meet the use, and even to a certain extent, those half-track combat vehicles are still a powerful deterrent, just like in Japan, an armored brigade of the Marine Corps equipped with 103 Type 8 combat vehicles is a powerful deterrent for Japan. …,

However, the half-track combat vehicle is still fragile after all, and China needs a real combat vehicle, the kind of armored combat vehicle that Chen Moran is most familiar with, for this reason, the military has been conducting experiments for many years, but those tests have been plagued by a problem - the life of the track, to be precise.

The steel of ordinary tractor tracks cannot meet the needs of the combat vehicle, and the suspension device also restricts the use of the combat vehicle, and the Bijing Army does not need the kind of combat vehicle that needs to be overhauled after walking a hundred kilometers, but they need a steel combat vehicle that can gallop on the battlefield.

In the end, Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company spent six years to develop a new type of manganese steel, and the success of the new track structure and suspension device developed by the R&D center of Xiaoma Automobile Company in six years finally made the driving life of the combat vehicle exceed 2,000 kilometers, which means that the combat vehicle can be equipped with the army, and the Chinese Army finally has an advanced combat vehicle that is ahead of the world in the real sense "three into the turret, five into the vehicle group......

Saying these terms on his lips, Chen Moran's face showed a smile, these terms seem to be inconspicuous, but in fact, this is the development trend of tanks, and this trend, the more experienced the bloody wind of World War II, the more countries summed up the general experience.

The twin-entry turret used in the early models of the T-34 tank during World War II had design flaws. In the T-34's four-in-pack crew, the commander and loader are located in the turret, and the commander is also responsible for the duties of the gun commander, which causes the commander to be overburdened. In the heat of battle, the command of the tank crew and the firing of artillery are very important, the former is responsible for controlling the overall situation, the latter determines the attack capability, and the division of labor between two entry is far more efficient than one.

It turned out that the double-entry turret design significantly reduced the real combat rate of fire of the T-34 gun. Compared with the German IV tank with three turrets, the theoretical rate of fire of the T-34/76 is not too bad, but the rate of fire in actual combat is often only 1/3 or even 1/4 of the former. Although the 76 mm gun was much stronger than the German 50 mm and 75 mm tank guns before 1942, the command and firing efficiency were out of balance, which made it difficult for the T-34 to fully exploit its artillery power.

The Type 10 vehicle uses the most efficient three-entry turret that has been proven in actual combat.

"Your Majesty, the Type 10 vehicle's all-tracked running gear has improved its off-road maneuverability by more than 50% compared to the eight-year vehicle, and its frontal armor has reached an unprecedented 30 mm ......."

While Wu Luzhen, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, was introducing the Type 10 chariots, Chen Moran was holding a telescope and looking at the chariots that were making a group maneuver at the training ground, and focused his attention on the artillery.

"Your Majesty, the ten-year tank uses a 57-millimeter main gun, equipped with as many as 120 rounds of ammunition, its grenades can destroy all kinds of field fortifications, and the armor-piercing bullet can destroy the eight-year-old armored combat vehicle from a distance of 800 meters, compared to the eight-year-old armored combat vehicle, it can definitely be called a perfect land combat weapon."

When Wu Luzhen introduced the Type 10 chariot, the whole capital seemed a little fluttering, and the 1st Division of the Bi Jing Cavalry is now the only unit in China equipped with the Type 10 chariot.

"The body is too short, the power is too small."

Looking at the short-barreled tank gun, Chen Moran looked at the tank carefully, and suddenly, he felt a little uncomfortable, because the tank looked a little familiar, well! It's a bit like the Japanese Type 97 tank in World War II, especially the tank gun, which is very similar.

His Majesty's words made his heart tremble, which was originally extremely satisfied with the Type Ten Chariot.

"Your Majesty means ......"

"Let's put it this way, if a Decade meets an opponent similar to the Decade, how far can a Decade be able to destroy a Decade?"

Chen Moran's rhetorical question, but let the frowning think, for the ten-year tank, has never considered fighting with the same kind of tank, or even anti-tank combat, it is just its additional index, the army's requirements for the tank are very simple, first of all, consider its battlefield off-road performance and power reliability, followed by firepower, and then the battlefield survivability, as for the anti-tank ability, it is simply a temporary additional index, and the Bijing 10-type tank has no opponents at all now. …,

In the eight-year series of armored combat vehicles, only the self-propelled gun with an 88-mm field gun can threaten the ten-year tank, as for the rest, the army did not consider it at all.

"Your Majesty, now the countries simply do not have any armored combat vehicles that can threaten the ten-year combat vehicle, and the countries do not have similar weapons ......"

While observing His Majesty's face, Wu Luzhen said cautiously tentatively.

In the face of this temptation, Chen Moran did not respond, but continued to hold the telescope to look at the tank cluster that had entered the comprehensive training ground, this exercise is actually a tank combat exercise, a tank offensive operation with the cooperation of infantry, in the past many years, the cavalry division, the armored division has been using eight-year armored combat vehicles, carrying out similar training, but now using tanks, the implementation of that tactic is effective, under the pressure of tank tracks and half-track personnel carriers, the entire training ground is full of dust, The scene in front of me is very similar to a scene in a documentary.

"Unconsciously, fourteen years."

Muttering so in his heart, looking at the armored cluster composed of more than 100 tanks and the same number of half-track personnel carriers and half-track self-propelled guns on the training ground, Chen Moran's face showed a little smugness, and the previous dissatisfaction caused by the shortness of the body also disappeared at this meeting, and there was only a smug look.

For the outside world, those chariots are just chariots, but for Chen Moran, he clearly knows the epoch-making significance of these chariots, and more importantly, all of this is made by him, just like the navy that is already ranked fourth in the world, it is the same as this empire, built by him, and it only took him 14 years to build all this!

"Your Majesty, the assault drill has begun."

A general seems to be deliberately diverting the topic, and His Majesty Bi Jing has been silent for so long, and everyone is a little worried.

"I've done all this, but why am I still not satisfied?"

Muttering to himself, Chen Moran's gaze that revealed too many vicissitudes of life was lost in the ground, and after asking himself, he fell into a burst of confusion again.

Dissatisfied, despite his efforts, there are still too many people who are dissatisfied with themselves. They always have such and such reasons, they always have such and such pursuits, but don't they also have the same pursuits? But they can't look farther, look at the long term, they always think that they are right and right, but they are right and right, history has proven to be wrong, and they themselves are leading the country, making earth-shaking changes, and achieving incredible achievements in the eyes of outsiders.

They should be relieved to entrust themselves with the country, and they should be at ease, because they will never make the same mistakes as in history, but many of them cannot enter, especially after the middle class that they have created has shown more and more of its strength, and they are not grateful, but demand more because of it.

"Into the ......"

Sighing lightly, Chen Moran's face showed some helplessness.

"I'm always not satisfied."

The sigh came to an abrupt end, Chen Moran raised the telescope with his hand, and continued to look at the attack drill that was going on on the training ground.

The 24 10-year tanks of the 1st Tank Battalion of the 1st Cavalry Division were divided into three vehicles, each of which advanced in an oblique formation, and from the side it appeared to be about three staggered echelons of each other, followed by a group of infantry who had just jumped off the half-track armored vehicle.

I saw that the ten-year-style "chariot slowly turned its tracks and moved forward, stopping and stopping, and in a short pause, it violently strafed the "enemy position" with the guns and artillery fire on the vehicle, and effortlessly used the steel tracks and body to grind a large gap in the complex and dense barbed wire barrier, while the infantry used the chariot as a road-opening machine and a moving bulletproof shield to smoothly pass through the barbed wire gap, and launched a final charge against the "enemy's" "position" composed of fire support points and trench lines from a very close range under the cover of chariot fire. When they charged, the Type 9 self-propelled guns, which accompanied the attack of the Decade-style tanks, provided them with direct fire support, and under the cover of the tanks and self-propelled guns, the assault troops finally captured the "enemy position" in one fell swoop. …,

"Hooray! Banzai! ”

After completing the attack drill, the soldiers shouted slogans and jumped out of the trenches that they had "occupied"; for a time the "enemy trenches" were full of battle flags flying and bayonets shining, and there were no "enemy penetrations" and no casualties; although in order to strengthen the battlefield effect, a lot of bloody pig and cow entrails were hung on the barbed wire, but there was no accident except for the foul smell that would always cause the soldiers to vomit because they did not know how many times they had been hung.

"The tactics are very average."

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, Chen Moran said in a light tone, "Chariot warfare, not only to consider breaking through the enemy's position, but also to consider the deeper depth of the enemy continuously, uninterruptedly, to consider that the opponent not only has one or two trench lines, but three or even four or five, behind the trench line there may be strong fortified support points or even fortress groups, but also to consider dealing with the opponent's possible counterattack." It's not enough to be content with capturing one or two trenches, it's not enough! ”

Silent for a moment, Chen Moran recalled in his mind the tactical ideas of blitzkrieg in World War II.

"It is to use the armored units as assault troops, and use the concentrated armored units as sharp knives to attack the enemy's deep rear, well, that is, the armored corps breaks through the enemy's entry front, and then quickly makes a far-reaching breakthrough to the rear of the enemy's entry line, cutting off the enemy's line of communication, creating an encirclement situation, and then the infantry sweeps the enemy into the encirclement."

"Yes, what Your Majesty said is very true, the tactics of our Guards Army only rely on mobile offensive operations, since it is an infantry attack, we do not worry about exposing the flanks, so as to achieve the purpose of detouring and encircling the enemy, and this chariot combat should be even more so!"

Whether he agrees with it or not, Wu Luzhen's meeting will not spoil His Majesty's interest, not to mention that His Majesty is indeed right, and in the past few years, the exercises conducted by the Guards Army with trucks, armored vehicles, and half-tracks have not been done in vain.

"Keep improving! The use of half-track vehicles as armored transport vehicles, is not wrong, but the firepower of armored divisions is still insufficient, the experience of European warfare tells us that small and medium-caliber field artillery such as 88 mm can no longer meet the conditions of modern battlefields, so we can consider using the chassis of the Type 10 combat vehicle to develop a self-propelled gun, the caliber of the self-propelled gun should be more than 150 mm, and the armored division should eventually be composed of combat vehicles and half-track personnel carriers to form a powerful armored mobile force, which can break through the opponent's defense system with long-term depth. It is also necessary to be able to occupy key points in the depth of the enemy and resist the counterattack of the opponent's reserves. ”

The emperor's instructions are so majestic and irresistible, the generals only have the right to say, this is perhaps the greatest advantage of the imperial system, under the emperor's authority, the emperor's will can always be violated, in the face of the emperor's "advice" the army can only do to obey, this has been proven again and again in the navy, in the aircraft carrier, in the submarine.

Now is no exception, after giving this instruction, Chen Moran believes that after the end of this exercise, the army's technical department will devote its efforts to research large-caliber self-propelled artillery, and there will be no technical problems in transforming large-caliber self-propelled artillery with a 10-year tank weighing 20 tons, and sometimes all they need is a theory.

The final exercise item is the 10-type combat vehicle for long-range mobile targeting, three 10-type combat vehicles all the way to the column along the training ground along a complex ground road fast, suddenly in the distance of the road appeared several Type 6 armored vehicles, the 6-type armored car is the first generation of armored vehicles of the army, just with ordinary trucks modified into, now due to the limited cross-country ability, in addition to the equipment police station in the northwest provinces, has long been eliminated by the army, the turret of the three combat vehicles immediately turned, a few seconds later, accompanied by a few cannon sounds, The armored car from a distance of 500 meters turned into a pile of scrap metal...... The entire firing drill lasted several minutes, with the Type 10 vehicles fighting and walking, occasionally using artillery to attack the armored targets or fire support points that appeared, and occasionally using parallel machine guns to strafe the "small group targets" that appeared in the vicinity.

In fact, this drill is more of a "performance nature", just to show His Majesty the Emperor the power of the chariot, but they don't know that in their white spoon eyes, such a perfect chariot, in Chen Moran's eyes, is just like a toy, Bi Jing He has seen the more powerful king of land warfare on TV and TV, but for this era, this is indeed the king of land warfare!

"Let's go! Let's go see the King of Battles and my soldiers! ”

(To be continued)