Eastern Mongol Province. 【 I want: super fast update 】

In the desert 70 kilometers north of Tongliao, a row of tall barbed wire fences enclose this desert area of nearly 300 square kilometers.

Sitting in the car, Lenin looked at the barbed wire desert, and a sense of horror rose in his heart, knowing that he was about to enter a secret base in China.

As a matter of fact, although he was not mistaken, he was also a little exaggerated, because this is only the weapons and equipment experimental center of the Chinese Army, and almost all the weapons of the three armed services have to be tested here, and it is far from being secret, and as for the barbed wire fence that has been encircled, as long as it is afraid that people will enter at will and be injured by mistake.

When the convoy drove into the desert under the cold gaze of the guards and passed through an unmarked gate, Lenin was immediately attracted by the sound of gunfire in the distance, and saw only a row of soldiers working as machine guns, and the foot of the machine guns was already piled up like a hill of bullet casings.

In the distance, he was shocked by the huge craters, he couldn't imagine how big the explosion could leave such a deep hole, but compared to these, he cared about the person he was going to see today.

The car drove towards the naval artillery experimental range ten kilometers away, at this time Li Mo was holding a telescope, looking at the busy engineers at the target in the distance, when the figure of a *** person appeared in the field of vision, the corners of his mouth hooked a smile.

Matsuno didn't know that Li Mo had come here in person, and was watching him, at this time he was directing the workers to carefully place the steel plates of different thicknesses to the bull's-eye position, because they were too heavy, so they needed to be transported by rails, and the flatbed train that transported it had to stop here.

Matsuno is a first-class metallurgical technology expert, in his early years, he studied in the United States, and after returning to China, he was employed in the advanced technical department of the Navy, and he thought that he would develop the world's best steel and armor for His Majesty the Emperor, but with the defeat of the Emperor, the country was in chaos, and his dream was finally completely shattered.

When the guns of the Chinese Navy roared in the air, he had to bow his arrogant head and be escorted to the ship to China with his family.

At first, he thought that he would suffer a long prison life, but he did not expect that he was specially hired as a senior technician by the materials research and development group of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and he could not only enjoy the same treatment as other engineers, but also enjoy a relatively first-class living space.

Of course, this enjoyment is not without a price, in addition to his knowledge, he and his family are imprisoned, they are forbidden to leave the residential area within twenty kilometers, in addition to the *** people who come with each other can communicate, they can not contact the outside world, can only learn about the motherland and the outside world through the newspaper delivered on time every day, together with the *** experts who come to communicate with each other must also be handed over to special people to review and can be sent, and the people who deliver the letters are also special personnel, Even if he wants to go to other parts of China to provide technical guidance, several intelligence officers will follow him at any time.

At first, this kind of *** was very disgusting to the technicians who came to them, but when some people fled quietly, they were all shot, their bodies were dragged into a special living area, and even their families disappeared, everyone recognized the reality, that is, they are still special prisoners!

The signal given by the Chinese is simple, either die or die!

Under such harsh measures, the *** technicians who came with him accepted the reality and began to join Hua's scientific research department, using their Huahe knowledge to arm the country's enemies.

He was assigned to the alloy and steel materials department of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and at first he was quite disdainful of the technical ability of the Chinese, but when he went deeper, he found that it was really backward

Some alloy terms and materials that even researchers don't know where they came from began to enter the institute in a steady stream, although they are empty, although they are just a name or a paragraph, but these terms give everyone a basic direction. 【 I want: super fast update 】

As his Hua gradually revealed, especially in steel smelting, the treatment of his family was greatly improved, and the child even entered a special school, but the education method and content there were Chinese.

He couldn't change it.

For him, life is like being covered by a thick iron curtain, and he can't find any other happiness in life except for research or research, so he resigned himself to his fate, he knew that he was just a loser under the fence, so he simply worked hard to study technology and give his family more happiness for the rest of his life.

Through the Japanese newspapers sent from time to time, he can feel the chaos and turmoil in the country, in addition to China, the blackmail of Germany, the United States and Britain and other countries is increasing, a large number of *** people have replaced the Chinese as laborers, and there are even many *** women who have tried their best to come to China in order to make a living, exchanging their bodies for money and goods in taverns and dance halls.

Compared with the chaotic country, it is extremely lucky to be able to live here, at least there is no need to worry about having a full stomach, and there is no need to die on the streets one day, or be caught and rushed to do coolies, and there is no need to worry about his wife lying under other people's bodies one day

But this hopeless life suddenly took a major turn two years ago, when he received an assignment to join a research group called VH with some Chinese and foreign technical experts, and he also became the team leader.

To his incredibleness, according to the people who manage them, as long as he can lead everyone to complete this project, then his child will automatically be treated as a Chinese national.

It was a miracle for him, he didn't have any hope for his life, but he always wanted to get the child out of this environment, so almost without any thought, he signed a non-disclosure agreement and took over the subject.

The VH project is a major initiative, and he doesn't know where the scattered and chaotic information of the Ministry of Science and Technology comes from, but it is still a major project.

That is, to change the current processing of complex surface carburizing technology commonly used in various countries to harden the steel, but to use direct forging and heat treatment to process the armor steel, and add some special materials, greatly increase the current defense capability of the armor steel.

He didn't know who proposed this, but there was no doubt that this was a revolution, and if it could be developed, it would greatly increase the armor defense of the current battleship, and the production time would be greatly shortened, and the cost would be reduced much.

For the dream of making a child, he has been looking for ways to solve technical problems almost day and night for two years, and many times even eats and lives in the research institute.

And all this will be verified today!

Looking at the six steel plates of different thicknesses processed with full forging technology in front of him, he was both excited and extremely nervous, excited that he had finally completed the task, nervous that if the data in the laboratory was not reflected in the real environment test, then there was no doubt that he would lose value!

When six pieces of VH armor of different thicknesses were placed, he looked at several naval guns of different calibers that had been waiting for him in the distance, and his heart suddenly hung in the air.

"*** There are still people." Looking at Matsuno, who was nervous in the lenses, Li Mo smiled slightly and put down the binoculars.

"Yes, *** people do have a ruthlessness, I heard that in order to solve the problem of surface oxidation in the secondary quenching, Matsuno stayed awake for several days and nights, and then came up with a solution." Chen Ping, who came with Li Mo to watch the test, also admired it twice, but he was a little worried about the open treatment, and said: "Your Majesty, will they let their children join our country?" ”

"Worried about leaks?" Li Mo turned his head and smiled, and walked to the huge naval gun on the side.

"Sort of."

"Huh." Li Mo disagreed with Chen Ping's worries, and said with a smile: "No technology can be kept secret for a long time, and science and technology cannot be truly stifled, because that is the embodiment of human dreams, just like radio, didn't the Russians also get it?" All we do is let us grasp it early and stand on a higher level. ”

"And a big country must have an open mind and give them national treatment, which does not mean that they can leave, but can serve as an example to encourage people from all countries to join, think about it, the composition of immigration in the United States is so complex, isn't it the same to attract people from all over the world to stay?"

"When their children grow up under our education, when they are in chaos in the country, and see the rich life in our country, do you think they will choose there?"

"And by the time their children grow up, it will be more than ten years later, and at that time, we may have advanced technology, so why worry about the leakage of old technology?"

Li Mo's words made Chen Ping nod, in addition to extremely confidential technology, properly opening up some conditions can make those foreign experts die hard.

So after he figured it out, he and Li Mo looked at the huge naval gun in front of him intently, and the corners of his eyes were immediately full of excitement.

This is a real heavy artillery! The 14-inch, 356 mm naval gun, 45 times the body tube, was one of the key projects of the Chinese Navy, at the beginning of the construction of the Chinese type battleship in the early years, Li Mo was fed up with the slow development of naval guns, so after exchanging the artillery steel technology from Germany, he was still not at ease, and made up his mind to invest a lot of manpower and huge money to continue the development.

At this time, the countries did not realize that the caliber of naval guns would become larger and larger in the future, although there were also large-caliber development plans, but the investment was far less crazy than Li Mo.

Although he is a naval engineer and a fanatical BB party, he doesn't know anything about naval artillery, but he has a big advantage, that is, he clearly knows the important technology and general development direction of the development of naval artillery.

The big problem of naval artillery is the material and process, the material has been integrated with the technology of Germany and Britain and other countries after making some breakthroughs, but the process has always been a heart disease, the previous Hua due to the full move of the British naval gun production line and manufacturing technology, so the use of most of the British traditional steel wire winding fastening technology, but this technical defect is obvious, mainly the longitudinal strength of the barrel is seriously insufficient, but also made the British in the armament of the British large-caliber naval artillery in the later period of serious backwardness.

Compared with Britain and Germany and other countries, China's technical reserves are insufficient, but Li Mo's crazy early investment can make up for these, not to mention that Hua now has the world's largest team of military technicians, just more than 6,000 foreign experts of all kinds, plus nearly 10,000 Chinese who have returned from students, so after concentrating all the resources, they still successfully came up with a sample cannon.

Moreover, on this sample gun, three key technologies proposed by Li Mo are also adopted, namely electroslag refining, a full set of barrel composite barrels and internal chrome plating.

The sleeve barrel technology was actually applied as early as the Jinghai class, and several Austro-Hungarian artillery experts at that time used this technology to develop a 152 mm naval gun, but at that time it was a half-sleeve, and the barrel was divided into two sections from the outside, and it seemed to be a layer at the back.

The technology of chrome plating inside the barrel to increase strength has also been proposed in Europe at this time, and the Ministry of Science and Technology quickly purchased the information and conducted research after learning about it, and took the lead in applying it to the 152 mm naval gun of the Yangtze River class more than a year ago.

The real difficulty is the electroslag remelting technology, which is a complex technology for secondary refining of special steel and advanced alloys, which originated from the refining method proposed by Hopkins in the United States in the 40s of the 20th century, using the resistive heat generated when the current passes through the slag as a heat source for smelting, and its main purpose is to purify the metal and obtain a clean and uniform and dense steel ingot.

The steel remelted by electroslag has high purity, low sulfur content, less non-metallic inclusions, smooth ingot surface, clean and uniform density, uniform chemical composition, and much higher strength.

This is a refining method that requires high processing technology, especially the design and process flow of the electroslag smelting furnace, and Li Mo also knows a little about it, so he can only put forward a rough idea and then hand it over to the Ministry of Science and Technology for his own development.

After five years of hard work, the Ministry of Science and Technology finally broke through this technology not long ago, but the problem is that because the electroslag furnace can process very little steel at a time, it took half a year to have the only large-caliber naval gun.

Fortunately, the naval gun is one of the systems that will be installed later, so it is still too late to start building more electroslag furnaces, so this test is extremely important, once it passes the acceptance, it means that the electroslag furnace will be built on a large scale immediately.

Originally, Li Mo also proposed the self-tightening process of the gun barrel, but it was estimated that it would not be able to catch up with this wave of ship-building plans.

Compared with naval guns, the opposite VH steel is also a very critical technology, imitation from the later generations of VH steel technology, although it has been criticized by many people, but after World War II research shows that in fact it is indeed a very good armor steel, in order to ensure that the strength and impact value is not weaker than the world's good armor steel, but also to ensure excellent toughness, comparable to the world's best armor steel at that time.

Importantly, the processing time of VH steel is shortened by one-third compared to the surface carburizing process, and the price has been reduced by two percent, which is extremely important in the upcoming large-scale arms race!

You must know that the armor on a 20,000-ton battleship needs to account for at least one-third of the weight, and the price of 7,000 tons of armor will drop by two percent, which will directly lead to a significant drop in the cost of the entire battleship.

Fighting a war is also about cost, especially in large-scale wars, and the Soviet Union and Germany in later generations have expounded this point of view very well, when the well-made, expensive German tank meets the cheap, simple structure of the T34, can only accept the end of being submerged.

In addition to warships, the appearance of armored vehicles and tanks will lead to a rapid rise in the cost of various armaments, and the reason for the final defeat of the Allies after the First World War is not the army, but the lack of money to fight again!

China is not a wealthy United States, even if there is still ten years of accumulation, but it still can't afford to consume, even if it can save one more battleship at that time, it will have a huge impact.

If VH Steel can succeed, then with the hand in hand of welding and VH Steel, the price of each warship in China will drop by two percent, which means that the United States and Britain and other countries can build two of the money for ten battleships!

And welding and VH steel are both means of significantly reducing the construction time, and if necessary, even a 20,000-ton battleship can be built semi-completely in a year! Originally, it was superior in power, fire control and other technologies, and had the advantage of quantity and time, so this battle was not fought and he already had half of the certainty, to paraphrase the famous phrase of later generations, this is called "drown him"!

As the red flag was raised high, Li Mo and Chen Ping quickly put on ear protection, and in order to ensure the safety of the two, the security personnel even pulled them far away to watch.

When the 356 mm naval guns, which were from 76 mm to the current large, erupted one after another under the command of the gunners, Lenin, who had just arrived at the naval gun test site, was also taken aback, looking at the huge fireball rising in the distance, and his heart felt a chill for no reason.

The rising fireball annihilated the surroundings like lava, and the young man he was about to face was like a hot fire, constantly leading the army to devour all the unstable factors around him.

He didn't know if it was worth getting in touch with that person, but at the moment Europe was almost all an ally of Nicholas II, and no one wanted to see him fall, so after paying so much blood and lives, the flames of the Bolsheviks had reached a dangerous moment!

After receiving a large amount of foreign financial support, the domestic situation in Russia began to fall back in favor of the brutal Tsar, which forced him to come to the Far East to find a suitable foreign aid.

But will he help himself?

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