Chapter 343: Vickers MK.E

Zhao Yi sat at the front of the M1A12 leaning against the front armor of the turret, holding a "good color" filter cigarette in his mouth. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Zhao Yi received many high-end cigars from the British, Germans and Jews, those cigars were handed over to the logistics department, and he usually smoked the "good color" cigarettes sent by the "director team" in addition to the free cigars distributed by the logistics department to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on foreign affairs occasions.

The surplus portion of the cigars that were handed over to the logistics department, all the traversers could redeem them with points. This kind of points are distributed to those who are engaged in dangerous work or overtime, and Zhao Yi is reluctant to exchange the precious points for cigars to smoke.

Zhao Yi smoked a cigarette while flipping through the book that Koman had given him on his behalf. The book is called The Jewish State, and it was written by a Hungarian Jewish lawyer named Herzl. This book, which was not published until 1896 in the original time and space, is a complete account of Zionism.

In this time and space caused by the butterfly effect caused by the traversal, the book was published a year ahead of schedule, and the author of the book also presented the first edition of "The Jewish State" with his autograph to Zhao Yi through the Rothschilds. MissFox laughed that if the book could be given to future generations in good condition, it might fetch a high price in 120 years.

In the past six months, Zhao Yi has made sympathetic and pro-Jewish remarks on various occasions, which has made him quite popular among Jews. The shrewd Jews, of course, understood that it was not because of the sympathy of the Great Song people that maintained this close relationship between them and the Great Song people, but that both sides could take what they needed in this close relationship.

Compared to the rulers of the European continent, especially the countries of Eastern Europe, the crown prince of the Great Song Empire was simply an angel. The projects cooperated by the Jews and the Great Song were basically mutually beneficial, and the Great Song people did not claim additional profits from these collaborations because the Jews wanted to demand them politically and militarily.

The most commendable thing is that the Great Song Dynasty was the only country that provided military assistance to the Jews after they were destroyed by the Romans. The Great Song promised to train at least three battalions of land forces for the Jews on the Liaodong Peninsula and to sell them a large cruiser if conditions permitted.

According to Koman, some fanatical Zionists suggested that once they were restored, the name of one of Zhao would be engraved on the monument to commemorate the crown prince's contribution to the creation of the Jewish army.

"Oh, you're so fascinated by it, can you read Hebrew?" Lu Xiangyang asked after seeing Zhao Yi looking at the book with Hebrew on the cover with relish.

"I know a woolen Hebrew, and this book is in English except for the words on the cover, which are Hebrew." Zhao Yi spread out the pages of the book and showed Lu Xiangyang the contents inside.

"Koman brought up the matter of buying weapons from us for the three battalion recruits today, and it's not good that we don't reply to them like this, so we have to give someone someone a word of approval?" Lu Xiangyang asked Zhao Yi.

In fact, these Jewish recruits who were sent to the Liaodong Peninsula were armed, and the quality of those weapons was not bad, the rifle was an Austrian-made M1895 Steyr-Manlisa straight-pull bolt rifle, which the Austrian army only began to install this year, and at the same time, the Jewish consortium also bought enough Makqin water-cooled heavy machine guns for the recruits, and in terms of equipment, these Jewish recruits could complete the footbath chicken army.

Those weapons came after the Jewish recruits arrived on the Liaodong Peninsula, and the Jews gave the Song people the right to give weapons to the recruits. In fact, the command of the recruits of these three battalions was also in the hands of Zhao Yi, and their nature was similar to that of the mercenaries of the Great Song Dynasty. The only difference between them and the mercenaries was that the Jews were paid for training by the Crossing Crowd, not paid.

"What more weapons do they want? The five-round bay rifle and the Makqin heavy machine gun are already the more advanced weapon configuration of the army in this era, and you must know that the armies of many countries are not equipped with heavy machine guns. Zhao Yi closed the book in his hand and said.

"Submachine guns, armored vehicles, and preferably tanks, this is what Coman gave me in private, for which he also gave me a diamond-encrusted solid gold pocket watch." Lu Xiangyang said.

"What about the table? Take it for me to see. Zhao Yi said.

Lu Xiangyang didn't answer Zhao Yi's words, and pointed in the direction of the logistics door.

"Damn, it's a cheap logistics door again! Our imitation PPS-43 is just that little production, in order to increase production capacity, the later version even canceled the design of the fast and slow machine, how can there be spare to tinker with submachine guns for them? Armored vehicles, tanks? The high-power engine has no shadow, where did these things come from, why do you really want to eat a fat man? Zhao Yi said.

"The Jews don't mean to have them in stock right away, they want to include these weapons in their training so that they can become combat-ready as soon as they get them." Lu Xiangyang said.

"What about the benefits? It's not like we're trying to bribe an officer's pocket watch and let us add training subjects to them, right? Zhao Yi said.

"Coman said they could increase the cost of training, as well as the order to purchase these weapons." Lu Xiangyang said.

"I'm okay in principle, you go and discuss it with Zhao Lang, it is said that they have begun to tinker with the Vickers MK.E as the modeled tank, the last time I passed by the maintenance team's greenhouse, I saw that the bastards were specially tinkering with the body and turret, I guess there is a lack of a suitable engine." Zhao Yi said.

"Can't you, so fast?" Lu Xiangyang was taken aback.

"A lot of key components are modern goods, and they are still far from the prototype. But the Jews are willing to take in, but we can collect some money first. Zhao Yi said.

"I rub, modern goods? They spoil the accessories like this, and you don't say a word, huh? Lu Xiangyang said.

"How? Before you can speak, a group of rough embryos of science and engineering will surround you to put facts and reason, weapons can't be self-produced, just wait to be controlled by the 'director team' for a lifetime, and if you entangle them, they will be bitten to death and use scrapped accessories. Zhao Lang can control these bastards, I can't take care of it! Our mechanized troops can't afford to offend those bastards with wrenches, why don't you, the head of the mountain troops, talk about it? Zhao Yi said with a roll of his eyes.

After Lu Xiangyang told Zhao Lang about the idea that the Jews wanted submachine guns, Zhao Lang said that this order could be accepted, and there was no need for the Jews to give money, as long as they provided a batch of machine tools. Everyone is not stupid, the Jews want to use the chickens that cross the crowd to lay eggs, and Zhao Lang also wants to give birth to a few of them.

"Oh, that's it, the imitation of the Eagle Sauce Family's M3 submachine gun drawings, commonly known as the 'butter gun', we can produce it immediately when the machine tool is in place, and use indigenous workers to produce it!" Zhao Lang said to Lu Xiangyang.

"Okay, you make a list of the equipment you want, and I'll negotiate with Koman. By the way, can this tank you tinker with? Lu Xiangyang pointed to the half-finished Vickers tank in the maintenance shed and said.

"Of course, the total weight of the whole car is less than five tons, which is much lighter than the original, and the engine of the last pickup truck can fly. The armor is so thin that I'm embarrassed to call it an armored car, so don't call it a tank. Zhao Lang said.

"Can you block rifle bullets?" Lu Xiangyang continued to ask.

"It can block the current mainstream pure lead warhead, why do you ask this? We don't even count this as a prototype, we can only be regarded as a practice thing to increase our technical reserves. Zhao Lang was worried that Lu Xiangyang would criticize them at the executive committee for wasting resources.

"As long as you can block rifle bullets, pull them out another day and let the Jews take a look, pit them first, and you can't just spend our money on technical reserves? Forgot how did the Eagle Sauce F35 come about? Co-development! Lu Xiangyang said.