Chapter 90: Test Invitation (2)

Thunder's weapon test and acceptance is literally a new weapon site target test, and the new weapons that are ready to be distributed to the troops for actual combat are the secrets of each army, which should be Thunder's own business, but Thunder sent an invitation to invite all forces to come to Zhangwu County to do on-the-spot observation, judging from Zhao Zhi's style of doing things, Thunder's move should be of great significance. Therefore, the representatives of all parties who were left by Lei Ting in the barracks in the west of the city slept very unsteadily, especially Ye Jianying, who smoked until it was almost dawn before going to bed and lying in his clothes for a while.

"Chiefs, I'm very sorry, all the fuel of our thunder has to be saved and supplied to the front-line troops, so I have to ask the commanders to deign to ride out of the city" After breakfast, the big-nosed Lance, who had crossed paths with Ye Jianying and them, was already waiting at the gate of the barracks, and behind him were a few Jewish soldiers leading horses. The source of oil for the thunder is obtained through Burma or the capture of the Japanese puppet army, without taking a drop of oil from the national government, from the beginning of Zhao Zhi's secret plan to mobilize armored troops to Shanxi, all the thunder troops in Zhangwu County began to save on the use of oil, and only mules and horses can be used in Zhangwu County.

"It's really fucking slamming the door and getting home" Ma Shicheng of Jin Suijun scolded disapprovingly, this thunder is also the aid of the Americans, why is it so slammed, you don't have to ride a horse to save any oil, isn't this a toss. The Eighth Route Army was used to it, but Ye Jianying didn't say anything and turned over directly on the horse, and his skillful movements looked like an old rider, but the Jewish soldiers around him secretly praised him.

"Everyone, I'm really sorry yesterday, I suddenly have something to deal with at hand" Ye Jianying and others got on the horse, and Rowling, who was dressed in a black riding suit, also rode out of the barracks on horseback, Rowling's skin was already fair, and with the black riding outfit, it revealed a sassy and heroic posture, not only Ma Shicheng was dumbfounded, but even the staff officer surnamed Wu of the national army who knew Rowling's details was also sideways.

Rowling placed the weapon test site in Qingshiyu, far away from the county seat, and the group walked and said that it would only take an hour to arrive at the place. "Ladies and gentlemen, our Thunder weapons test site has arrived, this is it" More than a dozen big-nosed foreigners wearing glasses and obviously not soldiers have been waiting in the test site for a long time, and the surrounding area has already been surrounded by Jewish soldiers who have rushed here the day before, except for the people who thunder within a radius of ten miles, the people next to them can't touch it at all, which shows how important the Thunder team is to this matter.

"Dr. Norton, show us all your treasure," Rowling was familiar with the old man in the boat-shaped hat in the crowd, hugging and whispering something that only they could hear. Ye Jianying and the others were a little dazed after they got off the horse, it seemed that in addition to them, there was only one walkie-talkie in this open field, could it be that Thunder's so-called test weapon was this walkie-talkie?

The old man called Dr. Norton by Rowling laughed, straightened his waist and looked at everyone with his eyes level, and said slowly, "Hello, Chinese friends, what is about to be shown in front of you is the latest product of our Thunder Armored Factory, Stalker, I think this high-firepower tracked armored vehicle of our factory will be unmatched in the Asian battlefield, and the tanks and armored vehicles of the Japanese monkeys are almost like paper paste in front of our stalkers."

"Doctor, isn't that too arrogant?" Luo Lin, who was also seeing a stalker for the first time, howled in her heart, but she still assigned the telescope to Ye Jianying and them according to the planned process. "Let's start" At the signal of the old man Norton, Rowling gave the order to start the test with a walkie-talkie, and a few seconds later, a huge tsunami-like sound was heard from the sky, and dozens of plumes of smoke suddenly appeared in the sky, but these plumes of smoke were not plumes of smoke that spread from the ground after the explosion, but columns of smoke that cut horizontally through the sky.

The "boom" across the air has not yet dispersed, and the smoke on the hillside as far as the eye can see is like a tide, and the power of the explosion is so great that Rowling and the others, who are almost 2 miles away from the hillside, feel the heat in their faces. The smoke cleared, revealing a hillside that had become full of holes, and the huge and concentrated craters made Ye Jianying and the others gasp. The Thunder just used the standard artillery fire, because before the smoke appeared, everyone didn't hear the sound of the cannon being discharged, could this be the so-called new weapon of the Thunder?

The ground shook, and with the sound of armored vehicle tracks, more than a dozen huge steel beasts appeared in front of everyone. As Dr. Norton said earlier, this so-called new weapon of the Thunder is indeed an armored vehicle, but what is surprising is that there are only two heavy machine guns on the top of these armored vehicles of the Thunder, but there are no other weapons in sight.

"Okay, gentlemen, this is the T100 Stalker armored car carefully built by our Thunder Armored Company" Norton said with some smugness, seeing that everyone didn't speak, so he introduced himself, "I will now introduce to you the basic performance of the Stalker, the maximum travel speed: 55 km/h on the road, 30 km/h off-road, the maximum travel of the Stalker is 130 km, the climbing performance is 30 degrees, the wading depth is 1.1 meters, the obstacle crossing height is 0.45 meters, and the trench width is 2 meters. Main armament: Storm twin rows of 8-barreled rocket launchers, 80 rounds of ammunition. 2 auxiliary weapons, 5,000 rounds of ammunition, 5 crew members of the Stalker, 1 commander and telecommunications officer, 2 rocket artillery controllers, 1 pilot and secondary weapon controller, 1 ammunition operator"

After Norton finished explaining the basic values of the Stalker, the top of the Stalker suddenly cracked open with the sound of a hydraulic device, raising two rows of gun barrels and beginning to point diagonally into the sky at a 60-degree elevation angle. Everyone present was in a petrified state, and even Rowling didn't expect the military industry of these Jews to be so high, after all, the Rockman family's original contribution to this thing was limited to providing some reference data on European armored weapons, and nothing else was done.

Ahem...... The smiling Norton coughed softly, interrupting Rowling and the others in a daze, "The entire body of the Stalker is made of pressed cold-rolled steel plates shipped from the United States, and the all-welded structure uses the most popular welding process in Europe, which is by no means comparable to riveting welding in Japan. I won't go into detail about the thickness of the Stalker's armor, in short, it can definitely block the bullets of the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun and the bombardment of the 75 mountain gun, not the same type of armor-piercing bullets in Europe, and it can't penetrate the armor of the Stalker at all."

After a pause in his speech, Norton walked to the side of the armored car and touched the rocket artillery tube that pointed diagonally to the sky, and said with a smile, "This is our newly developed double-row 8-tube storm rocket launcher, which is a multi-orbital self-propelled rocket launcher that can fire 8 rockets with a caliber of 132 mm in one salvo." The maximum firing range is 12 kilometers, which can be fired singlely, partially, or in a salvo, and it takes about 5~10 minutes to load the ammunition of a salvo, and it only takes 7~10 seconds for a salvo. The Storm rocket artillery fires ferociously and has a wide range of damage, and is an effective weapon for destroying the enemy's dense forces on a large area, suppressing the enemy's firepower and destroying the enemy's fortifications."

With Norton's explanation, Rowling invited Ye Jianying and others to board the Stalker to observe the Stalker's firepower configuration and the operation process of the storm up close, "When Thunder originally designed the Stalker, it was only used as a personnel carrier, because the Storm rocket launcher was installed on top of the Stalker, so we used a hydraulic system at the bottom of the storm, as long as the weapon control hand in the cockpit pressed the button, the hydraulic system would automatically raise the storm to a 60-degree elevation angle, In addition, the elevation angle of the Storm Bazooka can be adjusted at any time inside the Stalker, so that the rocket's attack range is wider and farther."

Norton spared no effort to show off his three-inch incorruptible tongue, and copied a stiff Chinese language for Ye Jianying and them to introduce the stalker, the weapon test was something that Zhao Zhi had already decided, Norton knew that it was good, he had been talking about it for a long time, but he did not disclose some of the secret values of the stalker. Ye Jianying and the others only saw the shape of the rocket, how the storm loaded the rocket, but Norton did not show it on the spot, as for what Ye Jianying would think, that was not something that he had to consider as a weapons expert, and it was up to Rowling to send these people.

"Everyone, please go this way, just look at the car, don't test, it's not good, I think you can test the car now" Norton asked Rowling for instructions, and after getting permission, signaled that the test of the venue environment could begin. Several Jewish test drivers quickly activated the stalker and drove towards a specific location that had been selected in advance, the gravel area was already in place, and the trenches and mire were all built by Norton's own personnel. It can be seen that Norton is still confident in his chariot, such an obstacle is a pediatric for the stalker, and the obstacle course they made at the Kunming base is many times more difficult than here.

Sure enough, the speed of the three Stalker armored vehicles in the obstacle test was slightly slower in the mire, but the speed in the gravel area was no different from that on ordinary roads, and those trench obstacles and other things were pressed all the way over. Ye Jianying, who had many combat experiences with the Japanese army, thought again and again, the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles had already lost to the stalkers in terms of speed first, if you count the stalkers' amazing rocket launchers and armor that could block heavy machine gun bullets, if the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles faced the stalkers, I am afraid that they would lose and there would not even be slag left.