It's fine if those people were really caught by drug dealers, or if they have been wiped out.

What he feared even more was that those people had fallen into the hands of the Austronesian Corps.

If this develops in an uncontrollable direction, it may cause many more uncontrollable changes.

With that in mind, he picked up the phone and dialed another number.

……

South Island Corps, office building.

Lu Dingyuan's office has the simple style of a soldier, whether it is a desk, chair or bookshelves, all of them are original equipment of the army, the kind of furniture that is the oldest with yellow paint.

There is not a single superfluous decoration in the room except for the necessary things for the office.

The only thing in the whole house that can be regarded as an ornament on the windowsill is a pot of orchids that has not bloomed for more than a year left by the previous battalion commander and has not been killed on the spot since Lu Dingyuan took over.

At this time, in this not too big, but extremely cold room, two people sat next to each other by the desk in the corner.

Lu Dingyuan sat in his place to deal with the documents, in order not to disturb Xia Li, who was looking at the tank construction diagram, even the sound of turning the documents was faint.

And Xia Li, who was sitting opposite him, had several stacks of small snacks in his hand, and while eating snacks, he looked at the pile of structural drawings in his hand, his brows became more and more wrinkled, and he wanted to squeeze out all the water in his brain when he said "I want to rebuild the tank".

Lu Dingyuan saw that her face was not good-looking, and frowned and asked, "It's very difficult?" ”

Xia Li thought for a while and said, "It's because it's very difficult for me to modify the WZ-111.

This type of tank is said to be independently researched by Huaxia, but in fact, if you look at the construction drawing, you can know that it is basically taken from the tank of Mao Ziguo, and it has not been picked up yet.

Tank parts and assemblies are basically exactly a copy of Mao Ziguo's IS-3. And in the layout of the tank, again, there were no major changes, almost completely retaining the original appearance of the IS-3.

That's it.

Even the tank's main armament and most of its structure are superior to the 122-mm rifled gun, which was developed on the basis of the Mao-style D-25T tank gun.

The loader also copied the Maoziguo tank sample, with no noticeable changes.

But because of structural problems, the copy is a bit different.

The size of the tail part of the rifled gun of the tank is too large, and it is difficult to effectively combine the inside of the turret and the fighting compartment into a single whole in the form it should be.

The tank did not have a turret, and instead had a flatbed cab weighing the same as the turret, which directly reduced the fire output.

In addition, the power transmission compartment of the WZ-111 heavy tank, like most tanks at this time, was located in the rear.

It uses a 12-cylinder 520 horsepower diesel engine, which is an imitation of Mao Ziguo's V-11 engine.

But just looking at the power of 10.4 horsepower per ton, it is much worse than the T-10 of Mao Ziguo's 15 horsepower per ton.

To put it simply, they wanted to give the best to this tank, but in fact, the R&D personnel did not have that ability, and as a result, the entire tank was dragged down. ”

Lu Dingyuan: ......

Lu Dingyuan listened to Xia Li's words and depreciate the first domestically produced heavy tank to nothing, and fell into an eerie silence.

The barriers of science and technology made him have nowhere to excuse Huaxia if he wants to.

In the end, he could only say euphemistically: "China's heavy military industry is not very good today, and we don't have many tanks in our hands at present."

The latest Type 59 medium tank of the Chinese Army is only a licensed assembly of the Mao Ziguo T-55 tank.

Heavy tanks were no better, with only 200 Maoist IS-3 "Joseph-Stalin" tanks.

In order to thoroughly renew the armored tank arsenal and improve the combat strength of the army, the Chinese leaders planned to develop and mass-produce three tanks at the same time from 1959 to 1960 to replace the Type 62 light tank, the Type 59 medium tank and the IS-3 heavy tank.

Among them, the WZ-111 is the first and last heavy tank independently developed by Huaxia. ”

Why is it the last one, Lu Dingyuan didn't say, but Xia Li already knew it in his heart.