"Whew, someone can finally take over, I've almost been dizzy in the past few months, and my hair is about to fall out."

Zhou's return to Beijing made Luo Fuchang breathe a sigh of relief, as if he had seen a savior.

The war has spread to the Eurasian continent, and there are countless battles and changes in the situation every day, and this massive amount of information has rushed into the office like a wave, turning into documents and papers piled up on the desk.

The overburdened Ministry of War established the Military Intelligence Prime Minister's Office, a temporary body responsible for compiling military intelligence reports from around the world.

However, even after condensation and refinement, these reports are often as many as dozens of pages, and the Ming army's attack on Java a few days ago coincided with the most complex and volatile situation in Eastern Europe, and the number of pages of military intelligence reports exceeded 100.

Naturally, the Emperor did not have the time to review these reports page by page, which required military advisers to select important ones, such as the battle was fought around such and such a transportation hub, and it was necessary to keep an eye on it; That conflict involved a certain war crime, and it was possible to make a political fuss.

In addition to this, it is necessary to make an objective analysis of the campaign deployment and weapons plan played by the military department.

Last month, for example, the Air Force wanted to equip its paratroopers with automatic weapons, citing a number of reasons.

Regardless of whether this is true or not, because the emperor does not understand this, he can't always believe what the people below him say, so someone must help judge the advice.

"No matter what happens this time, Brother Zhou, you have to let me rest for a few days, this back pain is really uncomfortable."

"Back pain? Then you have to massage to loosen the muscles and bones. Zhou Changfeng patted him on the shoulder, waved his hand, and said briskly: "I'll treat you, you can pick whatever you want, find a good place." ”

Luo Fu, who was overjoyed, couldn't help but laugh and said, "Is it a good place, or a 'good' place?" ”

"Whatever you want, anyway, I'll just tell you that those bewitching women in Old Port and Bacheng haven't succeeded."

"Okay, let's be serious."

Compared with Zhu Lishuo and Mu Yu, Luo Fu is much more serious in life, if he changes the two of them, I am afraid that he will really take someone Zhou to that kind of good place.

Although Zhu Lingjing asked Zhou Changfeng to go home to rest for a few days, he still stayed, walked around the military department and the Dadu Governor's Mansion, and took care of some affairs for Luo Fu.

"Oh? The army wants to engage in assault artillery? ”

While reviewing a report presented by the Ordnance Bureau, Zhou Changfeng came across an interesting weapon.

Hearing a new term that he had never heard of, Luo Fu turned his head to look over, "What assault gun?" Isn't this a self-propelled infantry gun? ”

The Ming Army found that one of the major reasons restricting the advance speed of infantry units in actual combat was the lack of rapid and effective accompanying direct-aim firepower.

When the infantry was attacking enemy positions, it was a troublesome thing to encounter suddenly exposed points of fire - grenades and rocket launchers had a short range and could not be reached; Infantry artillery had to be pushed by manpower, which was relatively slow, and sometimes could not keep up with the pace of the infantry.

Moreover, the survivability of infantry guns is relatively average, although the gun shield can resist bullets fired from the front, but if a shell falls nearby, or a bullet is fired from the side, it can easily lead to casualties.

During the attack on the Malay Peninsula, the 22nd Division of the Army on the Western Front reported such an example:

The Australian army in front of the enemy sent two light machine gun groups to lie in ambush on the flanks of the battle line, and when the Ming infantry artillery began to bombard, they suddenly attacked, shot and killed the artillery crew members at a medium and long distance of 500 meters, and immediately retreated after they succeeded.

Combined with its own experience in the war and the attempts of European countries, the army hopes to have a self-mobile infantry gun - just like self-propelled artillery.

Because the wheeled vehicle chassis cannot withstand the impact of howitzers and cannons when firing, self-propelled guns are basically tracked chassis.

However, the crawler chassis is relatively much more expensive, and the manufacturing hours are longer, and it is difficult to meet the quantity demand with the existing automobile industry capacity of Daming.

However, the infantry gun has a low diameter of the barrel, a small recoil, and the corresponding impact will not be too large, so it can theoretically be installed on a wheeled chassis.

So the Army explained its idea to the Ordnance Bureau - cheaper wheeled self-propelled infantry guns, each infantry regiment should be equipped with six, instead of the six 112mm infantry guns of the regimental infantry artillery team.

Historically, Man Buqun proposed the development of assault guns to directly support infantry, believing that tracked assault guns could significantly improve the propulsion efficiency of infantry units.

Combined with actual combat experience, the Germans introduced the famous "Three Turrets" after the Polish Campaign, using the chassis of the No. III tank, installing a fixed closed fighting compartment, and carrying a 75mm short-barreled gun.

As we all know, such weapons have been continuously iterated and mass-produced, and have left their own strong mark in the history of world wars.

But at the moment, the German Society, which is not bound by the treaty, can explore new weapons and new tactics more freely, and the assault gun was born a year earlier than the original plane.

Drawing on the experience of the Spanish battlefield, the Germans mounted an IG30 75mm infantry gun on the chassis of the No. 1 tank, supplemented by a semi-enclosed fighting compartment, making it the No. 1 assault gun.

The Ming Army believes that the semi-enclosed fighting compartment is not safe enough, so the requirements must be fully enclosed, and it does not want to occupy the limited production capacity of the tracked chassis.

Taken together, there are unique requirements - wheeled assault guns.

"Good, good, very interesting."

Zhou Changfeng was very interested in this, and put a mark on it in his heart, planning to pay attention to the research and development project of the wheeled assault gun at any time in the future.

"It's more difficult to pass through sex, the wheels can't compare to the tracks, unlike the big plains over there, there are more rugged rotten fields on our side." Luo Fu shrugged.

"Passability can be improved by design, and it's not a big problem. After all, a wheeled car is a wheeled vehicle, easy to build, and the output will certainly not be ugly. ”

"That's right."

Tracked vehicles have high cost, man-hours, and difficult maintenance support, but they have strong passability; The opposite is true for wheeled vehicles.

With Zhou's share, today's matter is rarely ended early, and after a few trivial matters are finished, the two of them will go straight to the so-called good place.

During the evening rush hour, the streets were filled with citizens, and the army of bicycles set off from their homes in the morning and left from various manufacturers in the evening.

The tram clattered, packed with passengers like canned sardines.

Compared with Shanghai and Shuntian, although the construction project of Yingtian Metro started early, the construction period has been delayed again and again, and the construction plan has been changed again and again.

The reason for this is not the appropriation, but the difference in perception between the imperial court and Ying Tianfu.

The imperial court hoped that the subway in the capital could be as deep as 20 or 30 meters, and that it would be built more solidly, and that it would reserve hidden caves, ammunition depots, and machine-gun bunkers to assume the function of national defense.

However, because of the geographical location, the groundwater level in Nanjing is relatively high, and there are many silt formations formed by alluvial plains, which is difficult to construct.

Ying Tianfu was naturally unhappy, because the additional appropriation provided by the imperial court was far from enough to afford the reconstruction of the subway project with an average depth of nearly 30 meters, and the difference in price still had to be made up by Ying Tianfu itself.

Especially in the past two years, aviation technology has changed with each passing day, and God knows if there will be bombers capable of flying thousands of miles in the future, so the imperial court is even more reluctant to let go - the subway is simply a natural large air-raid shelter, and it is actually more cost-effective to use it for two purposes.

In this way, it has been dragged and dragged until now, and even a line has not been completed.

The two drove and stopped, and finally came to an antique pavilion called Xuanyi Pavilion in Zhongcheng District.

The main product of this shop is an antique, the decoration is antique, the clothing is a standard and unimproved antique, and the title is the same.

After entering the door, the two rows of women on the left and right said in unison, "The distinguished guest has arrived", and then they were called "masters" and called themselves "slaves".

Perimeter wind:(°△°|||)

Soon, the two of them, who had simply taken a bath, changed into loose white robes, came to a quiet room, and then lay on the narrow bed.

Two women in light skirts strolled in, first blessed, then softly greeted, and then began to get started.

Luo Fu didn't seem to be able to resist the momentum of the massage, and called out repeatedly, "Hey, hey—"

"Master, do you want to be a slave?"

"No, no, that's all."

Compared with Luo Fu, who grinned with teeth, Zhou who was cupping next to him was much calmer.

I heard that he went to Nanyang some time ago, and the two women said that the humidity there was too heavy and easy to get contaminated into the bones, and that they should indeed cupping to activate the meridians and dispel dampness and invigorate the blood.

Zhou Changfeng, who was lying on the narrow bed, closed his eyes and said: "By the way, you will also have to go to Nanyang after a while, and a large number of vehicles seized in Malaya, Sumudara, and Java are very good. ”

He said casually, "You're pretty good at it anyway, let me see what you can do." ”

Luo Fu's professional ability in mechanical vehicle engineering is first-class, and Zhou Changfeng fell in love with him very early, thinking that this person is very useful both in the war zone and in the mainland.

In the theater of operations, he can be responsible for the centralized modification of captured enemy vehicles and the management of the maintenance and support of mechanized equipment.

In China, he can preside over and supervise the R&D and mass production of mechanized equipment.

During the entire military campaign to pacify Nanyang, the Ming army captured more than 400 tanks and armored vehicles, as well as about 500 heavy tractors and engineering vehicles.

"The American-made Mamon-3 is industrial waste, more than five tons, with only two machine guns, and you will see if the chassis has the potential to be modified then."

"I've seen photos, and it shouldn't be a problem to install an 80-millimeter mountain cannon."

"Also, the towed rocket launchers are a bit cumbersome to arrange, and the ammunition is not convenient to replenish." As he spoke, Zhou Changfeng suddenly thought of the two types of multiple rocket launchers equipped by the Ming army, "This thing emphasizes mobility, so we have to think about it to see if it can be installed on a truck or a combat vehicle chassis to make a self-propelled rocket launcher." ”

"Okay, let's do it according to local conditions when the time comes." Luo Fu was very confident, "Anyway, even the material warehouse is seized intact, and there must be enough spare parts." ”

"You're not afraid of going to the South Seas now?"

"Ahem, the war is over......"

The battlefield modification of captured vehicles, which Zhou attaches great importance to, is common among warring countries in history, and probably only Britain and the United States have done less.

The Germans went very far on this path, and Major Alfred Becker, a doctor of mechanical engineering, was arguably a mechanical genius who presided over a project of large-scale modification of captured Anglo-French tanks during the Great War.

As early as the French campaign, Becker, who was only a captain at the time, remodeled the captured vehicles and changed the towed artillery of his unit into improvised self-propelled guns, which was highly praised by the General Headquarters of the Army.

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Later, he made a big splash, using the captured vehicles to create an army of magic vehicles - 150mm howitzers on the Lorraine 37L tractor, 75mm anti-tank guns on the Soma MCG tractor, and rocket launchers or mortars on various half-tracks.

Both Man Buqun and Long often visited the workshop he was in charge of, and watched the enemy vehicles come back to life.

Although the Americans are still tossing their M2 medium tank, and even the M3 Grant has not yet been born, the Circumference is already thinking about fighting the future M4 Sherman.

In Europe, the short 75 steamed buns put into the battlefield are very humble, and they are only in the same position as the IV H of Lao Ji Fufang, and they are simply asking for hardship in the face of tigers and black panthers.

Not to mention a whole bunch of anti-tank weapons of the Germans - Pak40 75mm anti-tank guns, Pak43 88mm anti-tank guns, RPzb43 "Tank Killer" bazookas.

But the Japanese in the Pacific were embarrassed, because a 47mm anti-tank gun could only pose a threat to Sherman at very close range, and they had no other anti-tank weapons.

Therefore, they can only use anti-tank guns to shoot at their sides in ambushes at close range, and even almost suicidal explosions to deal with Sherman, which is undoubtedly extremely inefficient.

In Europe I am submissive, in Asia I am a heavy hitter!

In order to avoid the stagnation of the development of high-power anti-tank guns due to the lack of practical demand, Zhou Changfeng intends to promote the research and development from now on.

Strive to design and finalize a towed anti-tank gun with a muzzle kinetic energy of 1.8 million joules, a vertical penetration depth of 100mm at 1000m, and the lightest possible weight.

At that time, it will be too late to temporarily cram, and it will take more than half a year to develop, finalize, and mass production.

When he got home, he comfortably stepped onto the chair, picked up the herbal tea on the side and drank two sips.

"Didn't you say sir, just to debrief? Why did you stay on the job again? Let's ......" Xia Xiaoshi, who was holding Jian Jian, came over.

However, as soon as she approached, she smelled a strange smell wafting in, and her words stopped abruptly.

She blinked, pouted speechlessly, and said, "Where have you been?" ”

Hey, misunderstanding, this is a misunderstanding!

"Ahem," Zhou Changfeng coughed twice, hurriedly stood up, and said: "I went with the same massage cupping, he said that he had been busy for a month, and his back hurt, so I went with him." ”

Xia Xiaoshi didn't want to delve into this aspect, she was still a little worried, but since she had a daughter, the sustenance of her life has changed a lot.

"By the way, sir, have you read the evening newspaper? The government announced that the Dutch were confiscating our assets in the country. ”

"Huh? Confiscation of assets in the Netherlands? ”

(End of chapter)