Chapter 357 Life in the Republic of China in the Age of Chaos 15

The structure of the tank is very complicated, with its cab in the front, the combat part in the middle, and the drive part in the rear.

There are operating mechanisms, test instruments, driver's chair, etc. in the cab.

There is a cannon on the turret, and an anti-aircraft machine gun is installed, and the engine is installed at the rear of the tank.

The main armor of the tank is mainly homogeneous steel plates, which are cold-rolled or injection-molded. At this stage, most tanks are made of steel plates inside and out.

Jiang Lan also has some understanding of modern tanks. She knows that modern tanks will be covered with a "layer of skin" in addition to the main armor to enhance their ability to resist impact.

This layer of skin mainly comes in two forms: ceramic plates and aluminum railings, and there are also two main designs.

One is that when hit by an enemy bullet, it relies on its own destruction and fragmentation to reduce the energy of the incoming bullet to reduce the damage to the main armor.

The other is that when hit by an enemy bullet or about to be hit, it actively explodes to form a counterattack to eliminate the energy of the enemy bullet or even counterattack to destroy the enemy bullet.

Jiang Lan remembers that the Japanese version of the tank was equipped with a high-speed gun, a vehicle-mounted light machine gun and an external machine gun.

The maximum speed is 38 kilometers per hour, the crew of four is equipped with a radio, and the armor-piercing bullet can penetrate 50 mm thick steel armor at 1,200 meters.

This tank, which is known as the strongest tank in Japan, actually has average defense capabilities, and the strongest thickness is about 25 mm.

The thickness of the tanks of later generations is a few tens of millimeters, which is the most basic. The powerful ones can reach thousands of millimeters.

In modern times, the speed of main battle tanks has also been greatly improved, basically around 60 kilometers per hour.

The performance is even better. Not only can it cross a 3-meter-wide trench, a 1.2-meter-high vertical wall, but it can also wade 1.5 meters deep and even dive 5 meters deep.

The most important thing is the firepower. In addition to a cannon, modern tanks also have anti-aircraft machine guns, coaxial machine guns and directional machine guns, carrying 40 to 60 rounds of artillery shells.

When Jiang Lan showed Peng Hengzhang the design drawings of the tank, he was shocked again, and he was far more surprised than the drawings of the guns at that time.

"Miss Jiang, you are not a god descended from heaven, you can

even make this tank." Seeing how excited he was, he started to call her "you".

"Commander Peng, there is no need to be like this. I am just an ordinary person, I don't deserve your call."

"Cough cough cough." Peng Hengzhang put his fist to his lips and coughed a few times to cover up his embarrassment.

He was indeed a little excited, even a little scared.

"Miss Jiang, the tanks we have now are mostly equipped with machine guns, not even a cannon, and the thickness of the armor is less than 10 mm at most."

Jiang Lan naturally knew about this situation. "China has many types of tanks, almost all of which are second-hand goods discarded by foreign countries. The failure rate is high, the ammunition is not unified, and many spare parts have to rely on imports."

Peng Hengzhang agreed with this point of view and nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, what's more frightening is that our troops don't have good coordination between infantry and tanks. Soldiers have a poor sense of identity with these tanks because they don't make them feel safe."

Peng Hengzhang once thought about buying tanks, but he didn't do it in the end.

One reason was that the price of tanks was too high and his economic conditions at the time did not allow him to do so.

The other reason was that his soldiers were relatively conservative. They had a certain rejection of new things and were afraid that they would be replaced.

Such examples were not uncommon, so even if there were advisors and tank troops in front, most military leaders did not follow blindly.

"Ms. Jiang, in the eyes of foreigners, China's military leaders are nothing but fat meat. They like to fool us and sell obsolete goods at high prices."

When the country is in turmoil, not only the common people feel powerless, but the upper echelons are also powerless, but the degree of powerlessness of the two is different.

"Science and technology is the primary productive force. Relying on the products of others means losing autonomy."

If you have money and resources but weak military power, you are the fish on the chopping board of the great powers.

China is not the only exception. There are many cases in history where oil countries have been bullied by lighthouse countries.

It is obviously a rich, strong and free country, but in the end, under false charges, it has become a country of war and the people are living in misery.

"We understand the principle, but without the technology, how can we make it easy?"

No one wants to be a sucker, but what can we do?

China is too backward, and can't even make the obsolete products of others. There is nothing we can do about being ripped off.

Peng Hengzhang thought of his eldest son, who went abroad with the idea of ​​"learning from the barbarians to defeat the barbarians" to save the country. Now there is no news from him, and he doesn't know what to do.

"Commander Peng, don't worry, we will have everything we need, and we must have confidence in the Chinese."

"I am an outsider in making weapons, and I will hand it over to Miss Jiang in the future."

From production to assembly, tanks require manpower to pave the way, and the more manpower, the faster the speed.

The Lighthouse Country once created a world record of only 20 minutes from the production of parts to the assembly of a tank. This was the result of the joint efforts of 200,000 workers.

P City is not small, but it is not big either. It is far from enough to rely on the arsenal in the mountains.

Rebuilding a tank arsenal is the most important thing at the moment, but there is a problem with the location.

Jiang Lan took the map and inspected it for a long time, and finally chose F City next to P City.

Although F City is small in area, it has a good geographical location, is easy to defend and difficult to attack, has a flat terrain, a large population density, and sufficient labor.

The only flaw is that F City is someone else's territory.

F City is now ruled by a small military leader who came from the grassroots.

He was originally a bandit in the mountains, and later, after his power grew, he occupied F City, a Feng Shui treasure land.

F City is not big, nor does it have many resources, so the big military leaders don't think highly of it. But

this little military leader is very good at reading people's minds, and from time to time he will supply some military supplies to the big military leaders around him.

Over time, everyone tacitly accepted his existence and maintained a superficial peace.

Peace is of course only temporary, and now Jiang Lan of F City has taken a fancy to it!

Making friends with distant countries and attacking nearby ones is a common strategy of military strategists.

When Peng Hengzhang was worrying about who to attack, Jiang Lan had already chosen a target for him.

With a simple tick on the map, the army set out overnight, and the Beiyuan military scuffle kicked off.

No one expected that Peng Hengzhang, who had always been low-key, would take the initiative to fire the first shot in the melee, and directly point it at the surrounding F City.

No matter how easy it is to defend and difficult to attack F City, it is still relatively speaking.

With the current weapons and equipment of the Peng family army, if they can't even take down these shrimp soldiers and crab generals in F City, it would be a huge shame.

This operation was very smooth, and the defender of F City did not even lead his troops to resist, but chose to surrender directly. F City has since changed hands.

The next day, the news spread throughout Y Province, and soon fermented in Beiyuan and the whole country.