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There is an ancient battlefield in Xinye, Henan, and the local people say that because there are too many dead people, they can hear faint cries every full moon night, so no one dares to live in a radius of dozens of miles. Because of this, the Wehrmacht was cheapened and converted into an army weapons testing ground.

In fact, this is not the most ideal weapons test site, mainly because the place is narrow and not suitable for secrecy, the most ideal test area should be in the northern desert, but because the railway is not passable, the Ministry of Defense chose this place as a temporary test area. In order to be able to easily transport large weapons here, it took a year to mobilize tens of thousands of troops and engineers, and the Ministry of National Defense funded the construction of a railway branch line from Xinyang to here.

When Jiang Fangzhen arrived here, several small tanks with different and strange appearances were being tested.

In order to simulate the 384th tank as much as possible to simulate the realistic battlefield, the vehicle test area was arranged according to the size of various trenches and obstacles on the Western Front of Europe, and many additional obstacles were also set up. But none of these things seem to be difficult for the little tanks, and I saw them running back and forth and challenging their limits over and over again.

A self-produced imitation Renault military truck from the Hankou Vehicle Factory was parked in the distance with oil drums, and Song Ziqing and Qiu Heng, quartermaster of the National Defense Army, were surrounded by a large group of technicians, and there were many blue-eyed and yellow-haired foreigner experts inside. When Jiang Fangzhen was accustomed to foreigners and experts last winter, when he bribed Russian officials to transfer back equipment from more than a dozen factories via the Trans-Siberian Railway, more than 1,000 high-level technical experts from Russia, Austria, and other countries came in, as well as hundreds of university professors. Several large enterprises such as Hanyang, Chongqing, Zhengzhou, and Jiangnan, which have benefited the most, have also imitated Krupp and began to establish their own design and research centers. Compared to high-level specialists, there are more skilled workers who are eager to settle down. Among them, the largest number of workers came from Russia, and last month alone, Lu Zhengxiang recruited more than 700 skilled workers of various types from Russia's Black Sea Shipyard and Kurtsk Ironworks. The Qingdao Shipyard and Fengtian Anshan Steel Mill under construction have been greatly enriched.

Unlike other 384th tank talents, it is basically impossible for foreign experts who can enter this experimental area to return to China. And their stays and departures were strictly monitored, but the people in front of them seemed to have forgotten the price of enjoying a good life, and their faces flushed and pointed at the little tankers and danced, as if that was an unattainable achievement.

In fact, it's a pretty big deal.

As the president of the National Defense University and a figure who was allowed to enter and leave the General Staff, Jiang Fangzhen knew that China had begun to develop tanks for a long time, and the short-lived bunker car in Jinzhou was just an early patchwork experiment, but he did not expect to be able to produce samples so soon.

"I've seen the headmaster." The sharp-eyed Qiu Heng hurriedly saluted when he saw him, and Song Ziqing also temporarily dropped the test data and turned his head and smiled: "Brother Baili, why are you free?" ”

"The first cohort is about to graduate. I'll come to you and ask when the Commander will be back. I'm ready for my graduation ceremony. Jiang Fangzhen spoke because his eyes had not been withdrawn from the tank, he had already seen the figure of the A7V on the photos he had secretly brought back from Europe, but compared to the big guy, the cars in front of him were too small.

Song Ziqing glanced at him in surprise, and suddenly laughed: "Baili, why do you care about this kind of false courtesy?" It's not like you at all. ”

"Come on." Jiang Fangzhen waved his hand and ignored him. said: "This batch of students are the baby bumps of the commander-in-chief, and it is the first graduation ceremony after the establishment of the university, if he can't attend it, he doesn't know how to complain." At this point, several small tanks of different styles were stopped, and after the driver got out, the experts and soldiers who had been waiting for a long time immediately rushed up. Although he knew that the Ministry of National Defense had launched a project to secretly develop tanks after modifying the bunker car, it was the first time he had seen the real thing, so he hurriedly pulled Qiu Heng, who invited him back and worshipped him as a division, to introduce him. The latter did not know much about technology, so he had to invite Yuan Zhongquan, a designer of the Hankou Tractor Factory, one of the people in charge of the tank.

The 28-year-old is short and thin. With a hint of dark wood-framed eyes, every time the gaze rests on the tank, it radiates a joyful light. He was one of the two young people who introduced the assembly line in the Hankou Tractor Factory at the beginning of Yang Qiu // the fastest text update without pop-up windows and no advertisements // production methods, and took out a large number of tank materials for research. At that time, his classmate and partner, Wu Qingdu, who was also a member of the tank project development team, assumed the responsibility of general manager of Chongqing Industrial Group because Zheng Tingxiang became the first minister of industry in the Republic of China.

If Yang Qiu was present, he would definitely be able to distinguish these tanks, or maybe these were just experimental samples of the chassis and an iron box.

A good tank chassis is very critical. Therefore, when setting up the tank project department, Yang Qiu repeatedly took care not to worry, first patiently experimented with the chassis and subsystems, and it was best to run a few laps of tests in various regions of the country such as deserts and grasslands. After getting a lot of tank information, Yuan Zhongquan had already regarded Yang Qiu as a celestial, and he was also one of the few people in China who knew that the German A7V tank was from Yang Qiu's hands, so he resolutely implemented the strategy of testing more and slowing down equipment.

At present, if there are several models to imitate, it should be the French Renault FT17, the Czech LT35, the British Cardenloyd, the German No. 1 tank and the reduced No. 3 tank five different types of chassis. In fact, any military fan will definitely choose the torsion bar small load-bearing wheel chassis used in the No. 3 tank, because the vast majority of tanks in later generations still use this chassis structure with very simple structure and maintenance. But Yang Qiu didn't explain anything about this, because he knew that although the data machine could help the country's military industry achieve leapfrog development, if it was abused, it would lead to the consequences of dependence and the death of innovation, so when using it, a lot of data was often thrown out without any explanation, and the designers were left to find the best solution.

The effect of his stupid method is not bad, Yuan Zhongquan They are not very happy in the face of so much information, but first analyze the domestic industrial strength, manufacturing capacity, road and bridge traffic capacity, etc., after comprehensive, choose to start with the simpler five-ton chassis, take the drawings and build these five different types of chassis according to the gourd painting, and according to Yang Qiu's suggestion, the chassis will be transported to all parts of the country for a two-year field test at the end of the preliminary inspection here.

"With our current capabilities, how many of these tanks can be built in a month?" Jiang Fangzhen was obviously very interested in tanks, not only did he take every detail seriously, but he even sat in it to experience it himself, but he was very uncomfortable with this strange name that Yang Qiu personally chosen.

Speaking of manufacturing capacity, Yuan Zhongquan, who was originally full of ambition, suddenly lost his spirit: "There are several that have the ability to build." Hankou, Jiujiang, Xiangtan, Chongqing and Zhengzhou can all be built, and Jiangnan, Mawei and Qingdao are technically no problem. But the yield is not easy to say. According to the speed at which we build tractors, the annual output of the whole country is not as good as that of a tractor factory in the United States for more than a month, and it took two years for these vehicles alone! According to my calculations, if we start building now, we can produce 20 cars a month, but there is hope that if we can make the workers skilled for a while, it will be doubled. ”

Qiu Heng was not as pessimistic as him: "It's not necessarily that bad." Now we have three factories specializing in making tractors, Hankou, Xiangtan and Jiujiang, although the output is not large, but it is not difficult to expand, not to mention that Fengtian and Zhengzhou are building large tractor and vehicle factories. I heard from the Ministry of Industry that the commander-in-chief asked the two to build according to the capacity of 100 tractors per month, and if the current three are upgraded to this level in the future, there will be 500 tractors per month. ”

"500 is a tractor. Not this kind of dead and heavy tank with thick steel plates. ”

Seeing Jiang Fangzhen's eyes glaring at his unsuccessful "disciple". Song Ziqing also thought it was funny. The president of the National Defense University is really a little childish, so he loves things more seriously, so he asked with a smile: "Why is Baili so concerned about output?" Didn't Zhong Quan say that it will take two years for the national test alone, and we still have time to slowly polish the national industry. ”

Jiang Fangzhen didn't stare at the disciple and instead glared at Song Ziqing. Glancing at Yuan Zhongquan, who walked away, he hummed: "Two years? In two years, you are afraid that you will be in a hurry to produce vigorously regardless of the requirements! ”

Hearing this, Song Ziqing's face changed slightly, but he returned to normal in an instant, and after sending everyone away, he took out a cigarette and handed it to him and asked, "Baili, how do you say this?" Didn't the General Headquarters say at the last meeting that our current task is to prepare for the recovery of Taiwan. ”

"Humph! I really didn't expect you, Chief of Staff of Song University, to start to be confused! Jiang Baili snorted coldly and said unhappily: "Regain Taiwan, liar ghosts!" Taiwan to the north? The matter of sending 500,000 to France and letting Xiao Anguo send two light infantry regiments to protect is not over. He went to the north to inspect again, and called Cai Songpo and Yue Peng, and asked Li Liejun to go to the Ural Mountains to protect the laborers and play an outpost, he really took us for fools? I, Jiang Fangzhen, don't understand the political detours, but at least I can still recognize the words "deliberately letting off steam". Why is it that the British and French representatives now run to Nanjing every day, and the Hankou Concession also asks him every once in a while when he will come back. Isn't it because of the wind released by the dispatch of laborers and the inspection of the north? I think this was premeditated, and I was afraid that the whole country would not support it, so I deliberately hid far away for you to guess, and built up the momentum first. ”

Song Ziqing smiled bitterly in his heart, this Jiang Dazui really dared to say anything. In fact, Yang Qiu had already told him about sending troops, but because the time was not ripe, and even many people within the national society thought that they should continue to be neutral and use the war to make money to build the country, so they deliberately went to the north to take advantage of the wind and temptation, but he didn't expect that he even guessed this, and hurriedly defended: "How can it be, even if the commander-in-chief wants to send it, it must be authorized by the Congress." ”

"Congress? Can you stop what he wants to do? Jiang Fangzhen's face was much more solemn when he talked about participating in the war, he took two deep puffs of cigarette and stopped and said: "I said Ziqing, you also studied in Germany, and sending troops to participate in the war is not trivial, how can you let him act alone?" Hearing that he had been calling Yang Qiu by himself, he could guess that he was very dissatisfied with Yang Qiu's preparation to send troops to Europe alone this time. But his temper is like this, so Song Ziqing is not to blame, and asked: "Baili thinks we shouldn't join the war?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen didn't answer but continued to stare at him, this strange behavior made Song Ziqing beg for mercy directly: "Just talk, why do you always stare around?" ”

seemed to be very satisfied with his mess with Song Ziqing, Jiang Fangzhen actually laughed and said: "I have no problem with sending troops to France, if our generation doesn't come once, we will never know what a real war is and what a world power army is!" But Russia is different, the poor party made a fuss ten years ago, and now the strikes and uprisings in the country are also behind them, if the situation continues to deteriorate, a comeback is just around the corner! Once the civil strife in Russia seems to be a good opportunity on the surface, but have you thought about it? No matter who is in charge of Russia, he must first ensure the stability of the east, so this is a dead knot that we cannot untie with Russia!

If we are strong Russia, it will be dangerous in the east, and if Russia is strong, our north will be restless, and I will take this opportunity to weaken Russia, but have you thought about the consequences of directly sending troops to a frontal conflict? Europe can't keep fighting, no matter how bad Russia is, it will be supported by 5 million tons of steel production, what do we have? I can't catch up with others in five years! Besides, don't forget, Japan can't die for the time being! Even if we take Taiwan back, Britain and France will not be willing to watch Japan finish, so the situation of containment and confrontation between the two countries will be maintained for a long time. I bet with you that once we are at odds with Russia, then a situation of joint Japanese and Russian attack will definitely appear! Even if Japan can't slow down in the past few years, watching us use this to weaken Russia, how are you going to solve the logistics? Starting from Mukden, the South Manchurian Line, the Middle East Railway, and the Trans-Siberian Railway are all thousands of kilometers away at every turn, and there are not many roads that can be walked in Kulen and Xinjiang. I am afraid that it will not be enough to throw in all the resources of the country that has just begun to improve.

Besides, even if we help Britain and France win against Germany, they will want to see us strong? I think they probably still wish that we would make a bad deal with Russia, and turn the world upside down, and no one will please anyone! That's why I still say that it's okay to go to France for the sake of training troops, but if you want to solve the north in this way, you won't succeed in ten or twenty years, so you must persuade him this time, and you must not be in a hurry. ”

Song Ziqing looked at Jiang Fangzhen silently, and secretly admired him in his heart, and he deserved to be one of the few military strategists with strategic vision in China. In fact, when Yang Qiu told him the plan, he also said that it was impossible to start a war with Russia immediately, but he didn't say why he pushed for sending troops when he couldn't go to war, so he was also worried during this time.

But one thing was clear, pointing to the tank and saying, "Haven't you understood Baili yet?" We had this stuff earlier than Germany! If he had been in Germany and had the same strong industrial capacity as Germany, France would have been gone a long time ago! So when it comes to warfare and strategy, none of us are as good as him. As for what you said, I also asked, he didn't say anything specific, only a flip-flop! ”

"Drag?"

"Drag!"

Song Ziqing nodded......!!!