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May 23, Republic 2778 (1937), Germany, Polscher Company.

At this time, at the test site of the Polscher company, a Chinese-made ZZC-7 1932 "Leopard" medium tank was undergoing various tests. The mustache and a group of army generals, as well as designers from major companies, watched from the sidelines.

I saw the "Leopard" galloping freely on the field deliberately set up with various obstacles, and suddenly it made an emergency stop, slightly turned the turret and faced a No. 2 tank used as a target 800 meters away.

"Boom" 105mm rifled gun roared. The No. 2 tank shook its body, and thick black smoke and orange flames rose from various cracks, and at the same time there was a crackling and popping sound, which was the sound of internal ammunition detonation. However, the second tank that was used as a target only kept some machine gun bullets, and no shells were left, otherwise it would be wonderful to explode.

The mustache couldn't help but applaud and said loudly: "Perfect! Perfect! This is really the perfect armored combat vehicle, the most perfect money leopard in the world!" After speaking, he glanced at several designers around him with eyes that hated iron and steel. Porsche, Benz and several other German designers bowed their heads in shame.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister...... Field Marshal Varner von Blomburg made a round: "China was the first country to develop practical armored combat vehicles, and it is understandable that it is a little more advanced than us. ”

"It's not a matter of being a little more advanced, Marshal. General Keitel immediately retorted, he stretched out his arms and said: "But there is such a big gap, the two sides are not at the same level at all." The gap between China's medium tanks and the Empire's heavy tanks is unacceptable!"

Mr. Keitel, a general, is known as the mustache's biggest "lackey" in the army because he is good at figuring out Hitler's mind and deliberately flattering him everywhere. But it is undeniable that this time what he said did make sense, and it is an irrefutable fact that the German tank was shot out in Spain by a Chinese counterpart.

"Our No. 6 tank can compete with all the tanks in China......" Dr. Porsche couldn't help but say.

Keitel said disdainfully, "Chariot Six, do you mean the white elephant? It can't even move, that thing is just rubbish!"

The No. 6 tank they are talking about is a multi-turret super-heavy tank designed by Dr. Porsche, which was stimulated by China's mammoth. Armed with one 128-mm main gun, and two 45-mm secondary guns. The armor was also very thick, with 160 mm of frontal armor and 250 mm of frontal armor for the main turret. But as Keitel said, it was difficult to even move, because its combat weight reached 108 tons, and the Germans could not find a suitable engine to drive it, so its maximum speed was only a pitiful 11 km/h.

The performance of this super-heavy tank in Spain disappointed the German Army, which had high hopes for it. Although it is not inferior to any other vehicle in frontal combat, it is simply too slow. It is often wrecked by the nimble Chinese leopard that goes around its flanks and rear. Moreover, its two secondary turrets are very cumbersome, and because of the weak armor, they have become quite a fatal weakness. This time, Germany put a total of 20 Super Heavy Tank No. 6 into Spain, and 15 of them were destroyed, half of which were destroyed by the chain reaction caused by the destruction of the secondary turret.

The mustache glared at him and said categorically: "The No. 6 chariot must be overturned and restarted, what the empire needs is a chariot that can run on the battlefield, not a live target that can't even move!"

"Besides, why don't you want to change to a larger caliber chariot gun, but you have to lengthen the chariot gun?" the mustache became more and more angry, and angrily rebuked: "Don't you know that increasing the caliber is simpler and more reliable than increasing the magnification?"

The mustache scolded a group of designers severely, and finally went to the fire.

"I hope that in the near future I will be able to see the appearance of the Imperial tank, which is not inferior to its Chinese counterpart......," said the mustache meaningfully to several designers before leaving.

In the car, the mustache said angrily: "Hmph, I used to see foreign rumors that the designers of our empire grew up eating feed, and I was still very angry. But now I think they're right, that these designers of the Empire grew up eating fodder! they're not even as good as the Italians and Czechs!"

"That's the case with chariots, it's like that, it's like airplanes, it's like this with warships!" said this, and the mustache was furious, and the guys who had grown up eating fodder made him angry enough. "Like that anti-aircraft artillery stabilization system of the Navy, the Americans solved it with a two-way stability calibrator, which only added less than a hundred kilograms of weight. Our designers, on the other hand, have come up with a complex hydraulic stabilization system, which is 140 tons!"

In fact, although the mustache is a design layman, he has a natural sensitivity to weapons, at least he knows what is most needed at the front. But it's a pity that he doesn't have full control over the guys who are engaged in design in those companies. Therefore, in the history of the original time and space, some military fans of later generations spit out that the German weapon designers were either foreigners or German traitors.

Well, that's just a joke, the Germans have been teasing for a long time. In fact, they were not without good designs, but they were often exported versions, such as the battleships they designed for the Dutch and were much better than their own. The reason may be that the Germans think too much, they can be open when designing for others, once they use it themselves, they think too much, this way to think about it, that way to think about it, completely without the focus, it becomes a lump of soaring.

"Prime Minister, these companies are private companies, and we can only make demands, not force them to do what they do. Marshal Blomburg said helplessly.

"Aren't the manufacturers in the United States, England, and France also private companies, and why do they make good things?" Keitel disagreed, scolding: "It only shows that they are not fit for this business at all." Prime Minister, we should unearth some young, creative designers, and not continue to let these dead-headed guys design weapons for the Imperial Army. ”

"Well, the formation of state enterprises and state design bureaus, as in China and the USSR, is one way. Selecting a new generation of designers is also an option. Both of these methods are good...... "The mustache began to fall into the long test.

However, although most of the German designers grew up eating fodder, it is no wonder that there is a saying in the original time and later generations that "the production hours of German weapons are more than ten or even dozens of times that of similar products in the Soviet Union". There is a common saying that during World War II, Soviet tanks only cost a few thousand or 10,000 hours, while German tanks often cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of man-hours.

This statement is obviously a rumor, and no matter how stupid the Germans are, they can't be stupid to this extent. After all, the basic design of the tank is there, and no matter how much the Soviets simplify the design and reduce the number of parts, it is impossible to produce the tank as a trolley. Could it be that German tanks are more than ten or dozens of times more complex than Soviet ones? This is obviously impossible.

The biggest reason for this statement is that the standard of counting working hours is different, and for the Soviet side, the final assembly working hours are used, that is, the working hours of each specific part are not included. In the case of German goods, it is calculated based on the total number of man-hours including the specific part. The results of the two different statistical methods are much worse.

Of course, it is entirely possible that in the fine tradition of the Germans, who like to complicate things, they will spend more man-hours than Soviet goods. But at most, it is a level of one to several times, and it is impossible to exaggerate more than ten times or even dozens of times. If German goods really needed so many man-hours, World War II would not have been fought.

After the car arrived at the Prime Minister's Office, the mustache said to Keitel before getting out of the car: "It seems that we need to import some technology from China, mainly design, and those stupid guys in the empire are too worry-free!"

When the mustache said this, he had an unspeakable expression on his face. It would be quite humiliating for an ardent Germanic supremacist to accept such a thing as buying a design from an Asian country. But the mustache is not that kind of person.

Well, it's no surprise that despite the mustache shouting "Yalian people are the most noble" all day long, he also came up with a set of racist theories. But he himself is a fairly realistic person, and that racist theory is only for political purposes, and don't forget that he is a politician himself, not a secondary two. In fact, for politicians, what doctrines and theories are all tools used to achieve their political goals, and they are all for others to hear. As for whether they themselves believe in that or not, it's really hard to say.

For example, the Nazi Party's theory of racism has a hilarious problem. Because according to their theory of descent, the noblest class of people is not Germans, but people from the Nordic side, all Nordic people outside Finland to be exact. The Germans themselves can only be regarded as second-class (North Germany) or third-class (South Germany), and the mustache himself is a South German, a typical third-class person. Other organizations engage in racism for the sake of their own nation, but the Nazi Party is good, and after a long time, they become a second-class or third-class person for their own nation. Is it obviously impossible for the mustache to be a third-class person, which only shows that he himself has not paid too much attention to this set, otherwise he would have been a little careful, and he would not have made a joke about making himself a third-class person after a lifetime of racism.

The mustache is a little embarrassed now not because of racist sentiments, but because he himself rejected the tanks promoted by the Chinese **** a few years ago, when he thought that Germany could build good tanks by himself, so he didn't want to spend more money. After all, China is also to make money, this price code will naturally not be low, "a penny for a penny, a dollar for five cents" is the normal pricing of goods.

But now there is no way, who made most of the German designers eat feed, a bunch of mud can't support the wall, so that the mustache has to eat back grass. But compared to the actual interests, the face is ugly. He could already imagine that now the Chinese must have raised the golden hoop stick high, waiting to knock the German bamboo bar hard.

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Not to mention how the mustache vents his frustration, his good friend Beard is also angry with the designers under him.

"These guys are stupider than donkeys! I asked them this and that, and they told me it was impossible, that it was science fiction. Yes, that's what they say. But now, why can the Chinese do it? I don't think they are suitable for this kind of technical work of design, or to develop iron ore on the Kola Peninsula, or to build the Volga Canal, this kind of work may be more suitable for them!"

Unlike Mustache, Starshu generally no longer gets angry in public, is in the office. But when the mustache gets angry, it gets angry, and those people will not lose a single hair, but once the beard gets angry, someone will be unlucky.

However, at this time, someone came out to play a round: "Comrade Stalin, to be honest, our aircraft is not lagging behind in the overall design, the main thing is that the engine is not good......"

Of course, this is the "prince of the Kremlin" - Air Force Colonel Andrei Nikolayevich Plunyakov. That's right, he was a captain six years ago, but now he is already a colonel, and he has been promoted like a rocket, and he is now the youngest alternate member of the People's Military Council. Many people are betting on whether he will become a general before the age of thirty.

Prenyakov continued: "Comrade Stalin, the same is true of the design of the tank, our tank showed itself very well in Spain, completely overpowering the German tank, although it was not yet comparable to the Chinese tank, but also achieved the design goals. And according to the analysis of several Chinese tanks that we have now, it can be seen that the design ideas of Chinese tanks are very close to ours, which proves that there are no major problems with our overall design. Now our main trouble with the tank is still the engine. ”

Under the persuasion of "His Royal Highness the Prince", the bearded man's anger finally subsided a lot.

"So Chinese are you willing to sell us engine technology? They're stealing business with us right now......" Stalin frowned. China's business stealing in Spain can be seen by anyone who is not a fool. Of course, Stalin would prefer to eat alone, and the thousands of tons of gold of the Spanish Republican Government feel extremely sour when you think about it. But after all, it was Spain, and the Soviet Union was so far away, unless it was of its own volition, what could it do? Even if it was robbed, it would not be able to grab it that far.

"Comrade Stalin, Chinese like to do business, as long as they have money, they dare to sell anything......" Plunyakov blinked and said: "You see, even the battleships we want, don't they sell them the same, although they go around through Japan." Something like an engine, they're more likely to sell. ”

"Well, okay then. You're in charge of that. If President Wendeji is willing to sell us engine technology for combat vehicles and aircraft, we can make appropriate concessions as to Spanish affairs......" Stalin said after a moment's thought.