"Look what the French are up to."

Zhang Yaoqian flipped through the documents below.

The box-shaped body, the front of the body is three-dimensional V-shaped, and a cannon barrel protrudes from the front of the three-dimensional V-shape, and two barrels wrapped in armor sleeves protrude from each side of the vertical body, which is a bit similar to Maozi's "Mendeleev".

The photo reads:

The French Saint-Chamont chariot, presumably a 75 mm field gun mounted in front of the hull, with 2 machine guns on each side, appeared in small quantities in the later stage of the Battle of the Marne, and the specific data is not yet known because the vehicle was not captured and measured.

"There is one less turret than Mendeleev, and it's almost the same as a self-propelled field gun." Liu Bailiang seems to have a different kind of ambiguous feelings for the turret.

"Historically, tanks only had cannon profiles – please be considerate of the mechanical engineers of this era." He Xin helped his super heavy glasses, took out the bottom piece of information, and respectfully held it in his hand. "At least the French have adhered to their principles and have not been over-polluted by the tide of history we have created, look at this, FT14 Renault, it is not much different from what it looks like in the history of that time and space."

"The data is similar, the model of a single turret, there is not even a hull machine gun, the gun cannot be loaded, the gun cannot be loaded, it looks a bit like a small circle of Flying Thunder - the existence of no artistic value." Liu Bailiang tried to sell his weapon aesthetics at every opportunity.

"But there's a lot of value in mass production." He Xin, who was well aware of Liu Bailiang's bad taste, raised the shield of pragmatism in advance. "Our main battlefield is not on the European continent, we don't need the kind of giant that can only climb a few kilometers per hour, fast combat vehicles such as the Flying Wolf and the Flying Fox are enough to cope with mobile warfare in Siberia and jungle warfare in the South Seas, the important thing is production and reliability."

Zhang Yao raised the information in his hand: "You have to find a way to deal with these big dinosaurs that are not outdated, didn't the Germans use the captured car body to do shooting effect experiments?" ”

"The effect of using the 77 field artillery to shoot flat at medium and close ranges is still good, but in order to preserve strength, the 77 field artillery used for suppression is generally not deployed on the front line. In addition, the German army also urgently manufactured K-type anti-tank cartridges and 13mm anti-tank guns for infantry machine guns, but because of the excessive recoil of the shot, soldiers had a sense of fear when using them, and the effect was not very good. ”

"Can our army's 37 and 75 infantry guns deal with these dinosaurs?" Zhang Yaoqian changed to a more practical question.

"The muzzle velocity of the 75 steps is too low, and it can only hit a thin-skinned grenade, and the 30 times the diameter of the 37 steps can barely penetrate the 20 mm homogeneous steel plate at a distance of 300 meters, and the 45 times diameter 37 rapid-fire gun in development uses an armor-piercing blasting projectile, which can penetrate 40 mm of homogeneous steel plate at a distance of 500 meters, and can penetrate 30 mm at a distance of 1000 meters, but the total combat weight is four times that of the former, and it will not be possible to install it until the middle of the year. According to the feedback of the troops, it is more necessary to install heavy armored combat vehicles with large-caliber artillery to clean the fortified positions, so in Wang Hu's design, the installation of high-power 75 field artillery is the primary condition, and with the installation of 75 field Wang Hu, it is not a problem to sweep those dinosaurs. ”

Zhang Yaoqian snorted dissatisfiedly: "Looking forward to the re-battle of Wang Hu, who is far away, it is better to use the chassis of the flying wolf on the spot, and change the 57 chariot cannon with the Iron Leopard into an assault artillery vehicle, or open the installation of the 75 field to make a self-propelled field artillery vehicle, which is more realistic." ”

"That would affect the production of flying wolves, and I don't think we're going to encounter a flood of armor in Asia. If you don't have hope for Wang Hu's progress, it is better to put the hope of the mobile anti-tank on the Flying Wolf Modification equipped with a 45 times diameter 37 rapid-fire gun. If nothing else, by the end of this year, the monthly output of the Flying Wolf can exceed 100 units, the Jiehu and Hound can produce 50 units per month, and the monthly output of the Iron Leopard will not exceed 20 units in the same period, as for Wang Hu, I am afraid it will be less than double digits. "He Xin is very familiar with the affairs he is responsible for." If you really want to change the assault gun, it is better to use the Iron Leopard to change it, dismantle the turret, install a truncated 105 grenade or 160 mortar, thicken the front armor, and you can storm the fortress. ”

Liu Bailiang shook his head and said: "When this kind of assault cannon is built to rush the fortress, there will probably be no fortress worth mentioning on the opposite side of our army." By the way, the drawings of our tanks and torpedo machines should have been handed over to the Germans. ”

"It's been in the embassy for a long time, and in the second week after the attack on Hawaii, truckloads were given to the Germans, but I don't know if the old diehards will be interested." He Xin didn't have a good impression of those Germanic beards.

In fact, in another time and space history, there were people in Germany before the war who also designed tracked armored fighting vehicles, but the German High Command was never prepared to fight a war of materials, relying on manpower rather than materials and machines. Germany could quickly recruit 250 divisions and had always enjoyed quantitative and qualitative superiority in infantry and artillery on the Western Front. Therefore, after the appearance of the "tank" on the battlefield, the German military did not intend to use this kind of unstable performance, which seemed to only scare people.

But in this time and space, the British put in their well-prepared land ironclad fleet two years in advance, the Battle of the Marne shockingly demonstrated the power of new armored weapons, France followed the British to vigorously develop chariot troops, and even Russia, which has always been behind the times, seems to have developed their Martian weapons.

"However, the chariots of this era still have too many flaws, and they are far from ......qualified as main battle weapons," He Xin said the truth.

In another time and space history, the tanks at the end of the First World War were not only slow, poorly protected, and weak in firepower, but also had a high failure rate and no proper communication equipment. At this time, the top speed of the tank did not exceed 25 miles per hour, the range was less than 100 miles, and there were many failures, especially the tracks often fell off, and they were scrapped after driving more than 100 miles. As for the communication problems of the tank, it was even more of a headache for the commander. At that time, the radio station was large, heavy, and unreliable, and could not work under the conditions of high temperature, bumps, and vibrations in the tank, and once the tank closed the hatch, it became an iron box isolated from the outside world. The British and French had installed the radio on the MKIV. and the French Renault FT17 light tanks with large armor volume during the war, but the radio could not be equipped with weapons, and the tanks equipped with the radio could only communicate with the headquarters and could not communicate with other tanks. Both the British and French used carrier pigeons and signal boards to communicate, but both were too slow and unreliable. The former is difficult to find mobile tanks on the battlefield and is also easy to be killed; The latter made it impossible for the tank crew to keep an eye on other tanks at all times, and was even less effective in the event of heavy fog or the use of smoke grenades. So the most common method used at that time was to slam an iron rod on the steel plate of the tank and knock out the Morse code. This method is also unreliable, first, the crew of other tanks is very easy to be killed or injured after leaving the tank, and Patton, who later became a famous American general, was seriously injured by a shell when he knocked the tank; Second, during the battle, the engine noise in the tank was deafening, and the body of the car was constantly hit by various bullets, and it was difficult for the crew to talk with each other, and it was often impossible to detect that someone was knocking on the steel plate outside the car; The third is that it is difficult for people running on foot to catch up with tanks traveling at high speeds. For these reasons, the tank groups, once set out, became a chaotic rabble that fought separately and could not be controlled.

In this time and space history, judging from the actual use of the Empire's armored forces in the past month, the above problems have not been substantially solved, and the Empire's industrial technology has not advanced enough to support the large-depth lightning assault of the armored cluster.

However, on the other hand, the enemy did not have any preparations for anti-tank combat, let alone organized a combined combat unit of various arms with the equivalent of the Imperial armored brigade and army as the main body, which gave the Imperial armored cluster the opportunity to show its power - to open up obstacles for the infantry units in a very short time beyond the enemy's imagination and advance the battle line to the enemy's hinterland.

It was the conceptual lag that caused the enemy troops on the side of Ulan-Ude and Chita not to withdraw to the west of Baikal in time, but instead fell into the encirclement of our troops.

"The immature new weapon of the chariot can only play a limited auxiliary role in the battle situation, it depends on who can play this auxiliary role to the maximum, we have reached the limit, the next thing is to see the Germans, the land fleets of Britain and France can be enough for them - tea or coffee?" He Xin had a dry mouth.

"Plain water." Liu Bailiang said.

"Same." Zhang Yaoqian said.

He Xin lifted the phone: "Send three glasses of water in." ”

"Don't you need a bell?" Liu Bailiang pointed to the small handbell on the table with a European flavor.

"We're 21st century people, so let's get as close to electrification as possible." He Xin half-jokingly raised his face.

"yes...... In the 21st century, Lao He, do you say that in our time, is it possible to achieve human immortality? ”

"Immorality? It is indeed possible to maintain youth by injecting hormones to regulate metabolism, but before we crossed, this technique was not reliable enough, there were certain side effects, and the effect only acted on the surface, unable to control the internal decay, and there were also cases of young whiteheads overnight in experiments......"

"Is the injection fast...... Liu Bailiang thought thoughtfully.

"What, want to live forever? Save it, it's late. He Xin resolutely attacked mercilessly, but he didn't know that he had hit the wrong direction and pounced on the wrong bed.

"Nothing, just ask - speaking of which, Germany has finally begun unrestricted submarine warfare." Liu Bailiang changed the topic here, "But it's really unreliable, when will it be willing to declare war on the United States, the recent reaction of the United States is also very strange, after the climax, it fell directly to the bottom, these days it is a little weird, I don't know what conspiracy Lu Dao is planning......"

"Ask the cabinet about foreign affairs, doesn't the General Staff also have their own sources of intelligence, why, no news has been obtained at all?"

"I'll ask, and suddenly I think of some other things, so I won't wait for that glass of water, and I'll harass me next time."

Sounds like an excuse to get out of the equation......