Chapter 217 - Going to Berlin to see the Olympics
In Yang Feng's tractor factory, there is a special tank laboratory, where Wang Chuanming and a group of technicians have already manufactured other parts according to the design drawings, including the Christie suspension system, for which Yang Feng also specially bought the patent right from Christie, and then got a few engineers from them to be responsible for guidance, everything is ready to wait for the engine and gearbox.
Now that the things are ready, the assembly of the tank will naturally start immediately, and Boss Yang will also move a chair to personally guide the work, but he sits there and looks at it for a while, and he still feels quite bored, and he suddenly remembered a very important thing, his submarine is here, but what about future maintenance? Naturally, those crew members can learn to solve small things on their own, but overhaul is not something they can play, which requires real technicians.
And not only these, it is not enough to be able to operate submarines, you also have to know navigation, you can't drive out of the submarine and you can't come back, you have to know how to use torpedoes, so that your submarine has combat effectiveness seems to be a bit far away, the key is that you can't do these things openly, otherwise you can hook up with the mustache and let him train himself, when he thinks of this, he can't help but feel a little sad and angry, Nima, why is it so difficult to make some contributions to the country.
Fortunately, his hatred for the Japanese is not so strong, after all, he makes a lot of money from them every year, since this is the case, he will slowly cultivate it, first let Zhao Tong's gang be familiar with submarines, and then select some of them and throw them to Shen Honglie to learn navigation and torpedoes, and now he has taught the torpedo crew very well, and it is still very easy to hit the active target five kilometers away with the MK8 torpedo.
If you put them in a blizzard, the hit rate will definitely increase dramatically, just as it is certainly much easier to shoot a target with a rifle than with a bow and arrow.
It's time! I just don't know how much time I have left.
This thing is drowsy there! I saw Xu Tingyao hurriedly running into the workshop with a group of Central Army officers.
"Brother Yuexiang, your news is very fast!" Yang Feng said sarcastically.
Xu Tingyao ignored his sarcasm, tens of thousands of workers in the tractor factory. There are few people with a special mission in it! Even the Japanese are afraid that there are spies here, let alone bald guys.
In fact, after Yang Feng's tanks began to be produced, he was basically stationed in Beiping, not only that, but also stuffed a group of officers under his command into Yang Feng's armored assault group in vain, and this guy also understood that he only had a few Vickers. No matter how much training you have, it is impossible to compare with Yang Feng, an armored division-level assault group, since this is the case, it is better to come to him to learn!
"When will it be assembled?" He looked at the busy workers and the tank that had already assembled the chassis, and asked Yang Feng excitedly.
"I don't know if it's going well, if there are no accidents halfway, it is estimated that it will be about the same tomorrow." Yang Feng said that it is difficult to think of problems with countless spare parts assembly across two time and space. Thankfully, the turret had already been completed, so it was only necessary to hang it up.
Taking the armor steel produced in Chongqing, the turret designed according to the 59 tank and re-forged is higher than Yang Feng expected, which is understandable, after all, many things at this time cannot reach the level of 20 years later. It's normal to have a larger volume, but the level of craftsmanship is quite good. After heat treatment, the surface is smooth and shiny, and Xu Tingyao can't put it down like touching a woman's thighs.
The purchase of the production rights from the British to manufacture the 47 tank gun also makes this set of turrets look majestic, this kind of artillery performance is enough, and it is not accurate to hit those garbage in Japan?
The officers of the Zhongyang Army who came with him also carried the excitement unique to the hot-blooded young man one by one. Gathered around the tank, humbly asked the workers for questions, and some were diligent and helped to fight, but anyone who could join the tank unit of the bald man had to be his cronies. All of them are Whampoa, they are all in their twenties, and their military ranks are not low, and the captain is considered a guarantee, so a little sergeant who looks less than twenty is very eye-catching.
Yang Feng, who was extremely bored, beckoned to him, and the little sergeant walked over suspiciously.
"Little brother, what's your name?" Yang Feng asked amiably as an elder.
"Report to Mr. Yang, Sergeant Jiang Weiguo of the Chariot Training Battalion of the Jiao Baggage School." The sergeant saluted.
Yang Feng was choked with saliva and coughed violently, and the second son stood upright and looked at him without squinting.
"No, it's nothing, you can continue to study!" Yang Feng waved his hand weakly, sent Xiao Jiang away, and looked at the second son who was diligent in helping a worker to screw, this goods sighed very maliciously, you said that the Japanese sent beautiful girls back then to soothe the lonely souls of the revolutionary aspirants under Brother Pao in a foreign country, so send a few more! As a result, everyone didn't have enough to share, and I don't know whose way it is.
But this can't be too blamed on the Japanese, after all, at that time, both the bald guy and Xiao Dai were just small roles, and you see that the treatment of other brothers is completely different.
"Brother Yang?" Xu Tingyao walked up to him and said.
Yang Feng came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly asked someone to move a chair for him, and then sent tea, Xu Tingyao said while drinking tea: "The national government is going to send an inspection delegation to Germany, led by Baili Gong personally, the chairman hopes that you can go together, and then sign the contract for the coal liquefaction project with the German side by the way." ”
"To Germany?" Yang Feng couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, speaking of which he doesn't have a lot of time now, the bald guy has just promulgated the draft constitution, and as a result, all parties have been scolded, Liu Haining and a group of old guys are studying the establishment of the Pingjin Special Administrative Region Council, and playing bicameral, the members are elected by voters from all over the country, but the qualifications of voters are limited, they must be at least 18 years old and have graduated from primary school, and there are no restrictions on gender and property.
The number of members is limited to 200, with 200 in the upper and lower houses, which are distributed among the constituencies, that is, the districts and counties to which they belong, according to the proportion of the number of voters to the total number of voters.
The chairman of the autonomous region is elected by the upper house, and then submitted to the central government for approval, and before the central yang is approved, the speaker of the upper council acts on his behalf, and the officials at all levels of the autonomous regional government are nominated by the chairman of the autonomous region, and the upper house discusses and approves.
Candidates for the chairmanship and the councillors of the autonomous regions do not need to be nominated and can apply for election on their own. But there are many such restrictions, one is property restrictions, the second is age restrictions, the third is local restrictions, and the fourth is academic restrictions, especially property restrictions, which are very important. However, there is no gender restriction, which is specially and strongly requested by Boss Yang.
As for the House of Commons, it is a public opinion body, and there is no property restriction on the status of members, and their duty is to put forward opinions and solutions to the House of Lords, that is to say, if the people are dissatisfied, they can raise it through this channel, and whether they agree or not depends on the voting results of the House of Lords.
In fact, this set of things is very easy to understand, and the House of Lords is the boss. The board of directors is composed of all big capitalists, the chairman of the autonomous region is the manager, who is responsible for the management of the company before and after the saddle, and the lower house is the trade union, and if the workers have any grievances to the trade union, the trade union will decide whether to hand it over to the board of directors according to the severity of the situation, and as for the workers, they are the common people.
However, it also saved face for the bald guy and did not bring out the party. The capitalists don't need it either, that's all they know for now. The rest is still being studied.
As for Yang Feng's identity, he was originally the speaker of the House of Lords, but he resolutely disagreed, first, he was too young, and secondly, he didn't have the time, just be the chairman of the Military Committee of the House of Lords. In the future, he can be called Chairman Yang, so this position has been determined to be held by his father-in-law, and as for the future election, this is just a formality.
Now it is in the midst of intense preparations, and it seems that it is not appropriate for him to go to Germany.
"You don't need me to go, do you? These things are all major national affairs, and I am a non-governmental person. Doesn't seem like a good fit to participate? Yang Feng said.
Are you still a private person? are ready to divide one side, and they still have the face to say that they are people? Xu Tingyao scolded this guy's shamelessness and said, "This is not good, the Germans have to name you together." ”
"Ah, that's right." Yang Feng said, it is understandable, if you don't talk to him, the Germans are not at ease after all, and he suddenly remembered one thing at this time: "This year seems to be the Berlin Olympics, right?" ”
"Yes, our national government also sent a delegation to participate in the competition this time." Xu Tingyao said.
"Then go, it's kind of cheering for our athletes." Yang Feng said that this guy was a little excited at the thought of holding his two fiancées around him to watch the Olympics.
But they don't seem to have any cards, how can this work, even a stick can get a gold medal, is the Chinese not as good as a stick.
"So be it! We'll leave in mid-June, along with the Olympic team, on my Marauder. Yang Feng said immediately.
"How is this possible, the delegation is easy to handle, but many athletes of the Olympic delegation have not yet been selected, and even if they are selected, they will have to be concentrated in Nanjing, and there will definitely not be enough time in mid-June." Xu Tingyao exclaimed.
"Do you think this is a problem for me? If you don't have the selection, you should quickly choose, and if you choose it, you will gather in a nearby place where there is an airport, and then I will send a plane to pick it up. Yang Feng said.
Xu Tingyao heard it, this is really not a problem for him, it seems that these athletes are on the golden mountain, originally in history, the bald guys didn't want to pay for this delegation, or Zhang Xiaomaozi's money, but this time because the bald guys are not so tight, plus they are stimulated by Yang Feng every day, and they urgently need to improve their image, so this time it is the money from the national government.
Now with the addition of another one who begs to spend money, I am afraid that the Chinese delegation will be shining in the Olympic Games this time.
He really guessed correctly, Yang Feng was just going to give them explosive equipment, the Chinese delegation returned home at the Berlin Olympics, to a large extent, it was tired on the road, even the boat with the train, tens of thousands of miles of tossing and good people were ruined, plus even the ticket was reluctant to buy a high class, the road was simply tortured, it was only before the opening, there was no time to recover, what good results can be achieved, it is strange!
But it's different with yourself, go directly to a luxury yacht, arrange food and drink for them according to their respective projects along the way, get some fitness equipment and don't stop training all the way, and then match them with good equipment, cyclists directly with carbon fiber racing, swimmers directly with shark skin swimsuits, running with custom running shoes, pole vaulting directly on fiberglass, and then play to death those ghosts.
Xu Tingyao, who was next to her, felt a little creepy when she saw this smiling expression, and quickly got up to study the tank.
The tank was not assembled until the afternoon of the third day, and then the test run began, and everyone watched intently as the front tractor turned violently to the roar of the engine. The huge gear dragged the forged track, and the heavy body of the tank began to move forward slowly, and the surrounding area immediately burst into cheers, and China's first tank was successfully built.
The twelve-ton steel beast drove out of the workshop amid cheers, and everyone ran to follow. The gray-painted tank in the sunlight stunned the workers of the tractor factory, and they all stopped working one by one, watching in amazement as it ran faster and faster in the cement-paved factory area, and even roared wildly at the very least.
At this time, the people behind him could no longer catch up, one by one panting and excitedly looking at the running tank, Yang Feng slowly followed from behind with his hands behind his back, and then leaned over to the second son and asked, "How do you feel?" ”
"Much faster than Vickers!" Xiao Jiang said excitedly.
"Vickers, that's nothing, it's not worth being a target for this tank." Yang Feng said with a disdainful face. The Cadillac twin engine provides a strong 300 horsepower, and the four-speed hydraulic coupling and transmission give this tank the same eight forward gears and four reverse gears as the Xiafei, and the maximum speed even exceeds 60, and even the reverse speed is faster than the Vickers forward.
Not to mention that Xu Tingyao was stunned by this data, even Yang Feng felt quite surprised, it seems that this performance can be used on his own side, it is nothing more than a poor defensive performance. But it is definitely stronger than an infantry fighting vehicle, and besides, it can be replaced with thicker front armor.
In fact, sixty kilometers of speed is a bit wasteful. Thicken the armor a little more, increase the tonnage by one or two tons, and then reduce the speed to 50, so that it can be used in conjunction with 59, and if the Japanese army makes a good tank in the future, it will use 59 to deal with it, and usually abuse a Japanese infantry or something. Just go straight to this little tank.
I'm brainstorming up my own armor! This cargo looked at the tank speeding in the factory area, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"Stop, hurry up and get me back, my poor concrete floor!" Immediately afterwards, the angry shouts of Boss Yang sounded in the factory.
Of course, there are still a lot of problems found in the first test drive, after all, this is a brand new tank. And it is designed by a group of people who have never designed a tank, there is no problem with the power system, it does not mean that there are no problems in other aspects, there are still many small problems in suspension, transmission, handling, and all aspects, this can only be solved little by little, but at this rate, another half a year is enough to complete.
These things don't need to be cared about by Boss Yang, Wang Chuanming has already led people to start assembling the second tank, and then the two tanks are tested together to find out the problem and solve the problem, but there is a problem that he needs to solve.
"What are you going to call our tank?" Wang Chuanming asked him.
Yang Feng thought for a while and said to Xu Tingyao: "Brother Yuexiang, should the chairman of the committee be asked to name this?" ”
Xu Tingyao smiled and nodded.
It's not bad to pat the bald guy's ass, the relationship between the two sides has been harmonious recently, and they don't make trouble for each other anymore, Yang Feng feels that he should be given a little reward.
The bald guy gave this tank a vulgar name, Tiger, considering his degree from the Japanese Pheasant University, he can also give such a level of name, since the chairman of the committee has personally named it, then there is no need to hide it, the next day Yang Feng invited the reporter of Zhongyang Daily to the tractor factory, and then took pictures and took them back to cheer up the people.
"Such a good thing, you get some for our brother to use first, what's the hurry for Lao Jiang!" Sun Dianying said very dissatisfied, he had been greedy for tanks for a long time.
Yang Feng came to Duolun on purpose to see the situation on the front line, Ling Karlong and Li Du were still in a stalemate on the banks of the Xilamulun River, four Japanese standing divisions, against 100,000 Northeast Guangfu Army, plus 29 two divisions, two divisions of Sun Dianying's division, and the cavalry commanded by Zhao Dengyu, are now fighting inextricably, and even the air force has begun to exchange fire.
In fact, up to now, the two sides have started a full-scale war, and even the Japanese Eighth Division on the Western Front has begun to attack Duolun and Guyuan in order to contain Sun Dianying's troops, which is already equivalent to a war between China and Japan, but both the Nationalist Government and the Japanese side have turned a blind eye to this war.
The bald guy even personally gave orders to the armies of the Great Wall Line, asking them to strictly guard their respective defense areas and not act rashly, his purpose was to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, no matter who wins or loses this war, it will be of great benefit to him, in this case, of course he welcomes to fight.
Yang Feng didn't want to provoke the Japanese at this time, the Pingjin Autonomous Region had already entered the stage of actual operation, and it was best not to have any accidents at this time, so he also agreed to limit the war to the outside of the Great Wall.
After the retreat of the Fifth Division, Tang Juwu immediately launched a counterattack, and it was in the direction of North Korea, which had not been moved before, and the 19th Division of the Japanese Army was caught off guard, and the two armies of the Anti-Japanese Alliance commanded by Dong Zhentang ate a whole wing at once.
Not only did they lose Yanji, but they also let the Anti-Japanese Union enter Korea, and in this case, the 1st Division could only go to reinforce them.
And the Chinese army in Chahar, except for Song Zheyuan, who also had a division reserve in his hand, all the troops of the other departments were also put into the battlefield, and the scale of this battle even exceeded that of the Great Wall of Resistance.
"The tank must be concentrated and used, it is useless to disperse into the infantry division, and Rehe is full of mountains, this thing is most afraid of the mountainous area, but you do need reinforcements now, so let's transfer another brigade from the security division, and let Yu Xuezhong's department send out two divisions, and Shang Zhen's department send out a division, we must carry out another big operation, launch a large-scale counteroffensive on the battlefield of the Xilamulun River, this time we must beat the Japanese pain, and then negotiate with the Japanese." Yang Feng said.
This protracted war did not benefit him at all, and of course it was not good for the Japanese, their goal was to drive Li Du far away, and the attack on Duolun and Guyuan was only to contain the 29th Army and Sun Feng's two divisions, and the last raid on Shenyang really scared them.
Even the safety of Shenyang cannot be guaranteed, how can we build a royal paradise in the future? How else could you convince those Manchurian friends of the Great Japanese Empire? If this continues, people's hearts will be scattered. (To be continued......)