At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the pickup truck finally arrived at the entrance of the consortium, and when it was still seven or eight kilometers away from the consortium, Wang Ye suddenly noticed two small black dots in the sky.

Soon he found out that it was actually two gyroplanes!

After seeing the pickup truck, one actually turned around and flew in the direction of the consortium, obviously to ventilate the news, while the other also turned around and came to the side front of the pickup truck, and the next second Wang Ye was dumbfounded!

I saw that a roll of red banners was suddenly released above, and then the banners were unfolded in the air, and the top was dragged by the gyroplane to fly, and some kind of heavy object was tied underneath, which was directly waved in the wind, and the white handwriting could be clearly seen.

"Warmly welcome home!"

Seeing this scene, Wang Ye couldn't help it, and directly laughed and scolded:

"Grass! Whose idea was this? I've been gone for a few days, and the wind of formalism has risen sharply! ”

"Why are you still thinking of such a useless welcome ceremony?"

"Am I an outsider? Do I need a welcome? ”

Regarding Wang Ye's statement, Li Baojun, who was sitting next to him, said in disguise:

"This is made by our 'executive deputy factory director', as soon as the leaders slap the table, we little soldiers have to think about it!"

"If you don't agree, maybe you'll get a kick in the ass, there's no way!"

"We also think that it is useless to engage in these formalisms, but the leaders of the people just want to let them do this, saying that it is not easy for the factory to go to the ocean to pull orders for us, and foreigners are sinister and unfamiliar with life, and they must be hungry and thin, how can they not engage in rituals when they go home? How cold it is! ”

"No, we can't help it, we can only do this."

"Factory director, you must remove him from his post when you go back, such a person who tends to be inflammatory"

Before he finished speaking, Li Baojun slapped Wang Ye on the back of the head, Wang Ye nodded with a smile and said:

"Well done, I feel warm in my heart now, hahahahaha!"

The executive deputy director in Li Baojun's mouth is naturally the old factory director, as a figure who sits in charge of the whole factory after Wang Ye leaves, the pressure on him is conceivable, after all, the scale of today's consortium is more than 20 or 30 times that of the former machinery factory!

If someone else makes such a play, there is indeed a possibility of becoming inflammatory, but the old factory director is completely unnecessary, he can only be happy!

"It's been cold lately, how is the old man? Cough? ”

"I said I wouldn't let him smoke, I haven't smoked much lately, is he still smoking?"

Hearing Wang Ye ask, Li Baojun nodded and said:

"If you don't listen, you say that life is finally good, and if you don't hurry up and enjoy the happiness, isn't it fatal to quit smoking?"

"But overall, it's a lot less."

Speaking of this, Li Baojun explained again with a smile:

"And this thing is not specially made to welcome the factory director, the factory director has been away for a long time, basically nothing big has happened, we are also engaged in production step by step, but a little thing still happened."

"There is a director from Huaxia TV station who came here, and it was an aunt who was a little old, named Yang Jie."

"She said that they were filming the Journey to the West TV series, saw our motorcycle rally, and thought that our way of flying and filming was very good, so she came over with a letter of introduction, hoping to coordinate with us to borrow our gyroplane."

"And I also showed us an episode of the test shooting, which is the story of the black chicken country, which is beautiful! The old factory director agreed on the spot, thinking that this was a good thing, but the gyroplane could not be lent to them, after all, they would not be able to operate, and we had to send one or two people over to help. ”

"But we can't send it right now, we have to test their requirements, our rally is just aerial shooting, they still want to engage in trapeze, that is, hang people with ropes, hang under the rotorcraft to fly, the old factory director thinks it's too dangerous, let's test first."

Suddenly, Wang Ye suddenly realized, nodded with a smile and said:

"It's a good thing, but it would have been nice if it had been written at the beginning and end of the credits that 'the Red Star Consortium assisted in the flight shooting and trapeze'."

Hearing Wang Ye say this, Li Baojun, who was driving, smiled and said:

"Jiaojiao also said so, that Director Yang has no opinion, and happily said that he will definitely add it."

"Thank you for our help with their filming."

In the past history, Journey to the West began filming in July 82, and only after four years did the first eleven episodes be broadcast in a row, and it was not until 88 that all of them were broadcast, and the reason why the filming cycle is so long is mainly because the director team has high shooting requirements, but there is a large gap in equipment and funds, for example, at the beginning of filming, no one in the entire director team has ever contacted Weiya, and they don't even know how to "trapeze"!

Thinking of this, Wang Ye couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, if the old version of Journey to the West, which has been circulating for half a century and is still hot, and has become a reserved project for the New Year, can be regarded as a great good thing!

A moment later.

Sitting in the pickup truck, Wang Ye finally saw the gate of the consortium from a distance, and at the same time, the sound of knocking and clanging sounded again, and it was obvious that the old factory director had brought out the gong and drum team again.

"It's back! It's back! The factory director is back! ”

"Haha! Welcome back! ”

"The factory director is so handsome!"

"Huh? It looks like she's still fat! ”

When the pickup truck drove into the gate, there was a cheer at the scene, but it was obvious that the scale was not very large, and Wang Ye looked around and found that the gong and drum team were all half-grown boys and girls, who were in their early teens, and a very small number of uncles and aunts, this time there were no aunts, and most of the onlookers were half-grown boys, as well as uncles and aunts.

Obviously, the labor force in the whole field has been used to the extreme, and there are no idlers at all, even aunts, who have formed a women's workshop to make cushions for motorcycles.

"It's good to be back! It's good to be back! ”

Wang Ye hurriedly got out of the car, the old factory master strode over, grabbed Wang Ye's hand with one arm, and held it hard, and saw obvious water in his eyes, after all, for the old factory director, such a distant foreign country is strange and dangerous.

"But it looks a little fatter, at least I eat well!"

In the end, the old factory director looked Wang Ye up and down, and then said with relief and emotion, and the scene instantly resounded with laughter, Wang Ye waved his hand and said:

"Okay, the factory director is back, it's cold, let's disperse!"

With Wang Ye's voice, the crowd of onlookers at the scene cheered and dispersed, after all, for them, they were satisfied to see Wang Ye, the backbone, Wang Ye was not at home, the whole factory was uneasy, and now that Wang Ye is back, there is no problem! What are you still standing here eating the northwest wind?

After everyone left, only the leaders and high-level leaders of the consortium were left at the scene, such as several committee members who were anxious to communicate with Wang Ye.

"High Commissioner! High Commissioner! The factory director wants to see those two products of yours! ”

Then without waiting for others to speak, Li Baojun was so excited that he couldn't do it, he smiled and shouted to an old man in his fifties who was standing, hearing Li Baojun's voice, the old man's eyes lit up, and he took Wang Ye's hand and said:

"Let's go, Director!"

It was obvious that everyone else present knew what it was, and there was a burst of laughter, and then a group of people left the small square at the door and walked in the direction of the workshop.

A moment later.

Everyone came to the outside of a workshop, and the senior committee member looked quite proud, and he smiled to block Wang Ye's pace of continuing to advance, and at the same time coughed lightly and said:

"Director, you just stand here and wait!"

Obviously, this is to surprise Wang Ye, Wang Ye is not disgusted or even looking forward to this kind of activity, I wish someone would surprise him every day, it is best to wake up the kind of controllable nuclear fusion that has been conquered.

"Okay!"

Wang Ye nodded, and the senior committee member gave a young man next to him a look, it was obvious that this was a young man under his project team, and then the young man ran into the workshop, and after a while, with the slow opening of the workshop door, a roar of the engine came!

"Buzz!"

With the roar of the engine, at that moment, Wang Ye felt that his mouth couldn't help but open, and he couldn't close his mouth in surprise!

Because under Wang Ye's gaze, I saw a strange-looking monster slowly driving out of the workshop!

The reason why it is called a monster is very simple: its body looks like a tank, but it has no tracks, and it has three sets of tires, each with two side by side, similar to the rear axle load-bearing tires of a large truck.

In the original turret position, there is still a small turret, but the barrel is not the same as the tank facing forward, it has become a thick and short barrel with a horizontal angle of at least 60 degrees to the sky!

"Huh? This is the chassis of the 59? ”

"What's going on with this cannon above? Did we do it ourselves? ”

After a short period of astonishment, Wang Ye couldn't help but exclaim, it was obvious that this four-like monster thing was based on the chassis of the 59 tank, and after deep modification, a howitzer was added!

"Director, you're right, this is the chassis of our Type 59 tank, but we've carried out a 'speed' modification."

"After all, our old 59 is too slow, and the fastest paved road is only 50 kilometers per hour, what is the difference between this and snail climbing? And after some discussion at the meeting, we deeply agree with the previous point of view, that is, you can fight, and you can run after the fight! ”

"In the third world countries that lack enough heavy firepower, it is very important to run fast and fight fiercely, so our fire support vehicle project is very successful, but the problem is again, today's fire support vehicles, using the old 59 chassis, even if the turret is removed and the weight of the vehicle is reduced by at least ten tons, but the fastest speed is more than 60 kilometers per hour, which is still too slow."

"We totaled it, and felt that the reason for not running fast was mainly due to the crawler drive, and combined with the guiding ideology of running fast and fighting hard, it was of little significance to have a better defense track, so we directly replaced it with wheels, so that it would run faster?"

"However, we found that after changing to wheels, the stability of the hull decreased, and with the original 100 mm tank gun, coupled with the fact that the ground was not flat enough, it was easy to have unstable aiming and overturn."

"So, we decided to develop a new weapon station, and because we had a lot of old 59 turrets piled up behind us, I wondered if we could use them. Hey! In the end, we really found a way to sum it up, and this cannon was born. ”

"It is estimated that the factory director can also see that it is a howitzer now!"

"As a howitzer, the rifling used to be too old, and it didn't mean much, and the caliber was too small, so we carried out the expansion and boring of the inner wall of the turret, and just tried the barrel processing equipment of our second factory."

"So the caliber of the bore has increased from the original 100 mm to 120 mm, and there is no rifling, and it has become a smoothbore gun."

"In addition, we did not pursue a long range, so we cut off more than half of the original barrel, and finally became like this, for which we also specially developed a new type of ammunition, which is very lethal to personnel and lightly armored targets!"

At that moment, hearing the voice of this senior commissioner, Wang Ye felt that the corners of his mouth seemed to twitch, I have to say that this kind of modification is quite characteristic of the times, any garbage has the value of use, as long as the method is correct, it is obvious that they are doing this!

"Factory director, don't you know, now this grenade tank is running fast!"

"It's a pity that because there are no steering wheels, you have to slow down when turning, otherwise it is easy to overturn!"

Hearing Li Baojun's voice, Wang Ye immediately subconsciously asked:

"How fast can it be?"

In the next second, Wang Ye heard an outrageous answer!

"Two days ago, I tested on the road at our door, and I was able to run more than 100 kilometers!"

It was the senior commissioner who answered Wang Ye this time, and suddenly Wang Ye couldn't help but be dumbfounded, even if he removed the bulky tracks and replaced them with light tires, this thing was at least nearly twenty tons, how could it run so fast?

"That's too fast, isn't it? You've also revamped the powertrain? ”

Regarding Wang Ye's statement, the senior committee member, who was standing in the cold wind and had a cold snot flowing out, took out a handkerchief and wiped it, and said with excitement and fanaticism on his face:

"No, it's not a renovation, it's all replaced."

"We dismantled the original engine and installed our own V8 diesel engine, which increased the power by at least 30 percent, and the torque increased significantly, so it naturally ran a lot faster!"

"Of course, this is a joint program between us and the diesel engine project team, the purpose is mainly to test our diesel engine, after all, we don't have other test platforms, it's just right to change this old tank!"

"How's the director? You're not at home, so we didn't eat for nothing, right? ”

"Would you like to go up and give it a try? It's exciting! ”

Facing the invitation of the senior commissioner, Wang Ye glanced at the others, it was obvious that everyone had sat down, and finally Wang Ye nodded and walked towards the "grenade tank", but did not get into the car first, but went around the car to study it.

Then Wang Ye understood their modification ideas.

Needless to say, the engine is not in it, anyway, Wang Ye can't see it, it's the matter of changing tires on the track, in fact, it's very simple to say, as we all know, the 59 tank has a total of five pairs of load-bearing wheels, the so-called load-bearing wheels are suspended but only bear the weight, and they themselves don't rotate, and in the head and tail direction of the five pairs of load-bearing wheels, they look like gears, and there are ratchets that can be coupled with the tracks, and that thing is called a drive wheel.

Therefore, the modification of this car is to remove the second and fourth load wheels, use the suspension system of the first, third and fifth load wheels, modify a set of tire system, and then use the drive shaft of the drive wheel to drive, simple and crude.

After this modification, the entire "grenade tank" looks much taller and more powerful than the previous tank, resulting in the original Type 59 medium tank suddenly becoming the size of a heavy tank.

However, because the tank does not have a real "steering system", it uses the differential speed of the tracks on both sides to steer, which leads to the same with this grenade tank, which in turn leads to the problem that Li Baojun just said, the turning must slow down, otherwise it will overturn.

"Come on! Let me give it a try! ”

Then Wang Ye got into the car, took a tank hat and put it on, while the others also got into other cars one after another, obviously going to watch.

Sitting in the car, Wang Ye couldn't admit that after changing the tires of the tank, the comfort of the tank had been greatly improved, at least it didn't feel like it was shocking, and after a while, everyone came to the gate of the consortium again.

The road at the gate, which was newly built this summer, is very wide and straight.

"Director, I'm going to speed up!"

"You're holding on tight!"

Accompanied by the voice of the young man driving the tank next to him, Wang Ye said "um", and the next second he felt his back sink sharply, and in an instant, the originally slow tank began to accelerate violently, after all, the characteristic of diesel engines is that they have high torque, and the advantage of large torque is that the start is strong enough.

Soon, about twenty seconds had passed.

Finally, when the acceleration phase was over and the car body entered a stable straight line, Wang Ye couldn't help but stand up, his head poked out of the hatch, and at that moment the cold wind poured into his mouth, he couldn't help but shout:

"! it! Ahhh ”

After all, Wang Ye never thought that there would be people driving tanks!

Subsequently, after a high speed that lasted for more than ten seconds, the grenade tank gradually slowed down, and finally the young man controlled the grenade tank to turn around on the spot, fortunately, the ground was a solid sandy land, and the wear and tear on the tires was not great, and after a while, at a normal speed of more than 70 kilometers, it returned to the gate.

"How's the director? Isn't it particularly fast? ”

Seeing Wang Ye get out of the tank, the senior commissar shouted with a red cheek, it was obvious that this was frozen!