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"The automobile, perhaps invented by the Germans, is undoubtedly the Chinese who introduced humanity into the age of the automobile. Planetary transmissions, pneumatic tires and, of course, revolutionary automobile production lines – in 1905, China's automobile factories were able to build more than 500 trucks a day with the help of production lines.

Ironically, China's emphasis on automobiles and the automobile industry has led to the decline of its horse breeding industry, which has not been further developed by the establishment of the Chinese Empire, believing that the car is the vehicle of the future, based on the experience of the Sino-Russian War.

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

At the same time, the army and the civilian not only need more modern riding horses, but also need a large number of medium or heavy horses, and in the army, the heavy weapons handling, ammunition transportation, and various supplies transportation of infantry and artillery all need the assistance of military horses, especially heavy horses. In private transportation, there is also a need for modern horses to intervene in the transportation industry.

It can be said that the shortage of horses has been plaguing the army and the Chinese people, although during the Northeast Governor's Palace, the Northeast Army has invested a huge amount of money in horse breeding, but with the emergence of the new means of transportation of the automobile, 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.

The automobile quickly replaced the horse-drawn carriage as the most important means of transportation in China. While horses are still struggling to pull horse-drawn carriages on the roads of the world, trucks and buses have replaced horse-drawn carriages on China's roads and become the main force of passenger and freight transportation, and even on the Tibetan plateau, trucks have appeared.

While the world was affected by the Sino-Russian war and studied the application of automobiles in military transportation, China has gone the other way - the study of direct military applications of automobiles, which eventually led to the emergence of those armored half-track armored vehicles armored with machine guns and even artillery, and half-track armored vehicles entered every Chinese army unit in just a few years.

At this time, almost no one thought that a new revolution in land military affairs was actually quietly brewing in the nascent Imperial Chinese Army......"

World Armored History

In December of the fifth year of Hongwu, when the cold snap in Siberia enveloped the northern land, news such as the intensification of the arms race at sea on the Mongolian plateau did not seem to have any effect on this desert.

On the training ground, 100 combat vehicles, armored vehicles, self-propelled guns, and trucks of the Army Armored Training Corps marched in multiple columns through the reviewing stand where the national flag was flying.

"The tank is finally in service."

Tang Haoran, who was wearing an army uniform and inspecting the troops in the audience, said to himself a little uncontrollably, looking at those tanks that were so familiar that they couldn't be more familiar, no, they should be called combat vehicles, and he couldn't help but show a smile on his face.

As early as many years ago, during the preparation for war against Russia, Tang Haoran began to fantasize about the emergence of armored clusters, but this dream has been limited by technology, and it has never come true, even during the war against Russia, at most there are only "armored vehicles", those armored vehicles are simple, just add a layer of steel plates, plus a few machine guns.

Later, it was the success of that improvised armor that led to the emergence of armored vehicles, and later half-track armored vehicles, and in this era when anti-armor technology was almost zero, the performance of those half-track armor with a thickness of only six or seven millimeters was enough to meet the needs of the army, but what about the future?

Half-track tanks are always fragile, China needs real tanks, the kind of tanks that Tang Haoran is most familiar with, for this reason, for the past many years, the military has been conducting experiments, but those tests have been plagued by a problem - tracks, to be precise, the life of tracks.

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

Finally, after years of technology accumulation, Anshan Iron and Steel Company developed a new type of manganese steel last year, and the success of the new track structure and suspension device developed by the automobile company for many 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 truly ahead of the world.

"Three-man turret, five-man crew ......"

Talking about these terms on his lips, Tang Haoran recalled these terms in his mind, these terms seem to be inconspicuous, but in fact, this is the development trend of tanks, and this trend, the more experienced after the bloody wind of World War II, the experience summed up by various countries.

However, now, these terms have nothing to do with the four-year tank in front of us, the four-year tank is more like a tractor, in fact, it was developed in the name of a tractor, strictly speaking, it is not a tank, but a small tracked armored vehicle similar to a tank, or to paraphrase another time and space - "ultralight tank".

Indeed, he is indeed too small!

The little ones are even a little pitiful!

"Your Majesty, the full-tracked running gear used in the Type 4 combat vehicle, 3.25 meters long, 1.62 meters wide, 1.65 meters high, the fighting compartment is located at the rear of the hull, the upper part has a rotatable machine gun turret, the main armament is a 7.9 mm machine gun or a 37 mm infantry gun, according to the current preliminary configuration, one out of every three combat vehicles is equipped with a 37 mm infantry gun......"

Listening to the introduction, Yu sighed in his heart that its size did not prevent Tang Haoran from using a telescope to look at the chariot that was making a group maneuver at the training ground, maybe it was small, but it did not hinder his power, especially for the advantages of infantry troops.

"Your Majesty, the four-year tank uses a 37 mm main gun, equipped with as many as 80 rounds of ammunition, and its grenades can destroy all kinds of field fortifications, while the combat vehicle using machine guns is like a moving fortress, which can attack infantry and cover artillery combat vehicles, basically in land warfare, it has no opponent at all, and it is absolutely a perfect land combat weapon."

"Oops, it's too small......"

Looking at the short chariot, Tang Haoran couldn't help but sigh softly, he even felt a little uncomfortable, because the tank looked a little familiar, huh! It's a bit like the Japanese bean tank in World War II, especially that size, it's really ...... It's not very remarkable.

"Your Majesty means ......"

"I understand that this is a relationship between technology ......"

Technology, the reason for the development of this ultra-light tank is completely limited by technology, and the current technical conditions are not yet able to make the kind of tank weighing more than ten tons or even more than 20 tons, and even the emergence of this kind of "bean fighting vehicle" can already be called "against the sky", after all, other countries do not even have mature armored vehicles.

"Now our technology can only meet this, but we have to look to the future!"

At this time, a biplane in the air dragged a roar past, almost at the same time as the end of the war against Russia, Northeastern University finally invented the first airplane in human history, at that time because of the war, this invention was almost not valued by the outside world, and a few months later the Wright brothers invented the airplane, according to the simple sketch drawn by Tang Haoran designed the aircraft, the shape is closer to the later biplane, but its performance took almost three years, before it was gradually perfected.

Since last year, the improved aircraft began to enter the army and navy as reconnaissance aircraft, and at the same time, machine guns were also added to the aircraft, operated by rear-seat shooters, although their use was somewhat limited, but this was a kind of "foresight".

"Let's put it this way, it's true that no one can pose a threat to it now, but when it appears on the battlefield, one day, our enemies will build the same weapons based on it, and if the four-year vehicle encounters an opponent similar to the four-year vehicle, will the four-year vehicle have the ability to destroy the opponent?"

Tang Haoran's rhetorical question, but the people around him all frowned and thought, as soldiers, they know that this is an inevitability, learning from the enemy, this is the habit of the armies of various countries, just like the current Russia, although it has not yet come out of the trauma of the war, but they have established a car factory and began to try to make cars, after all, cars have left them too deep a memory.

"Your Majesty, considering that there are no similar weapons in other countries, and that they will not appear in the next few years, and that the cost of the four-year tank is extremely low, the army's plan is to first develop a new type of tank based on the four-year model and further tap its potential......"

While observing His Majesty's face, Shang Dequan cautiously said tentatively.

In the face of this temptation, Tang Haoran did not respond, but continued to hold the telescope to look at the tank cluster that had entered the training ground, this exercise was actually a tank combat exercise, a tank offensive operation with the cooperation of infantry, in the past two or three years, the motorized unit has been using armored vehicles, carrying out similar training, but now using tanks, the implementation of that tactic is equally effective, under the pressure of tank tracks and half-track vehicles, the training on this snowfield is very similar to a scene in a documentary- It's like a battlefield on the Eastern Front.

"Before I know it, it's been seventeen years."

Muttering so in his heart, looking at the armored cluster composed of more than a hundred combat vehicles and the same number of half-track armored vehicles in the training ground, Tang Haoran's expression looked extremely proud.

For the outside world, these chariots are just chariots, but for Tang Haoran, he clearly knows that these chariots contain epoch-making significance, and more importantly, all of this is built by him, just like the naval fleet, which is already the third largest in the world, is the same as this empire.

It was all made by him, and it only took seventeen years for him to create all this! Seventeen years ago, on the merchant ship "Yuexiu", how could he have expected this day?

"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 are I still a little dissatisfied?"

While muttering to himself, Tang Haoran's gaze that revealed too many vicissitudes of life was lost between heaven and earth, and after asking himself about his merits, he fell into a burst of confusion again.

It's not that I'm not satisfied, but I'm too demanding!

Although he has been working hard, but the uncertainty of the future makes Tang Haoran always put forward new requirements, just like for that naval fleet, why invest huge sums of money to meet the challenge from the other side of the Pacific Ocean?

The reason is very simple, in another time and space, Japan's "retreat" led to its willingness to become a second-rate naval power, albeit even so, more than its national strength. But it was that second-rate navy that led to its defeat at sea. It is precisely on the basis of this lesson that Tang Haoran will not hesitate to accept the challenge from the United States and build a powerful fleet that can defeat the US Navy at any cost.

It is precisely for this reason that while Britain and Germany in Europe are engaged in an arms race at sea, in the Pacific Ocean, China and the United States are also engaged in an arms race of "warships" that you are chasing after each other, and as the arms race intensifies, workers in both countries are building the latest warships on the slipways of China and the United States to ensure the maritime superiority of their own navies.

But unlike the arms race, in which the United States can devote all its forces to the sea, China needs to maintain a large fleet and a strong army at the same time.

The chariot has become the last choice! The tank will be a killer weapon for the Chinese Army, a balance point used to balance the gap with other countries' armies.

"It's hard......"

Sighing lightly, Tang Haoran's face showed some helplessness. Although he was not willing to throw his country into this arms race, as the founder of this empire, he had to devote all his strength in order to give China all the advantages in that unknown future.

"These choices are just too difficult......"

That exclamation came to an abrupt end, and Tang Haoran raised the telescope with his hand and continued to look at the attack drill that was going on at the training ground. He knows very well that the country has no choice but to constantly meet challenges from the outside, and only in this way can the country be guaranteed to be invincible...... (To be continued.) )