Chapter 1456: Human Weakness (Third update, please subscribe)
What does it take to build a tank?
It requires steel plates, engines, gearboxes and various other mechanical parts. For an automobile company, it is not difficult to produce tanks. The only problem is the design of the tank.
Although an American company had developed its own tank based on British tanks six years earlier, the U.S. Army only purchased a few for testing due to problems such as short track life and prone to failure, just like the British.
For them, perhaps the tank is a new type of weapon, but that's all. After all, the tank is so bumpy, and in the tank, people cannot communicate with each other, and tanks cannot communicate with each other.
Such a single-handed thing is of little use on the battlefield. Just like an armored vehicle, it can at most play a difficult role on the battlefield.
But most of the time it's just a pile of scrap metal.
But now, facing the impact of the Imperial tanks, the US military is also calling for tanks. Things like failures are not worth mentioning. The most important thing now is to have America's own tanks.
However, unlike after the "Hamptons Raid", when the US Congress authorized $240 million to fund the development and manufacture of American aircraft suitable for combat, they only provided $80 million in authorization for the tanks that the Army urgently needed.
You only know the pain when the iron fist hits you. One thing is certain: compared with the bombing of Hampton by planes, the impact of tanks on the United States was not big enough.
As an automotive mechanical engineer, Condal was definitely a genius. He had played a very important role in the imitation of the Empire Sea Holly aircraft. When designing tanks, unlike others, he tried his best to base himself on existing parts - using a large number of automobile parts.
On this point, he agreed with the Ming Dynasty engineers. Not only was the car parts reliable and durable, but more importantly, there was no need to adjust the production equipment.
The only problem is how to integrate the existing parts into the tank, which is not difficult for engineers, just like how American automotive engineers integrated car gearboxes into light tanks and truck gearboxes into medium tanks during World War II.
Since September 1995, in the workshop of United Motors, the engine and gearbox of the truck have been installed in an iron box. Even the tracks are "borrowed" from the tractor. As for the steel plates, they are ordinary carbon steel. In short, the existing equipment is used as much as possible.
In war, people can always create miracles. In just 100 days, a tank that looked three-tenths similar to the Type 18 tank was produced. Because it mostly used existing mature technologies, it passed the 500-mile driving test during the trial stage. Faced with such excellent performance - in fact, it was just able to run. Even before the test was completed, the Army Department issued an order for 2,000 tanks, and even received an order from Germany.
For a time, United Technologies became the biggest winner in the war. Aircraft and tanks made them a fortune. Of course, the most important thing was that the United States had its own aircraft and tanks.
After the first batch of tanks were delivered, the newly-formed US tank troops immediately took a train to the increasingly tense west.
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Everyone was transporting supplies through the Pacific Railway, and the Ming Dynasty was no exception. Since the outbreak of the war, trains had been running day and night on the railway leading to the Pacific. Tanks, heavy artillery, airplanes and other supplies were transported by rail to the Pacific coast, and then shipped to North America by ship.
Eventually these military equipment will be used on the battlefield and play an extremely important role in the war. The role played by technical equipment such as airplanes and tanks will definitely change the war.
In fact, they have changed the situation of the war. Whether it is tanks or airplanes, they are all technical equipment unique to the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, tanks are not a secret - long before the war, Britain obtained intelligence about tanks through spies and even obtained drawings of teaching pictorials. They also imitated tanks, but because the results were not ideal, Britain did not pay attention to it before the war. It was not until 60,000 people died in Verdun in one day that the British gentlemen, who were severely beaten by machine guns, remembered tanks.
Although British tanks had many faults and were prone to breakdown, Britain still purchased a batch of tanks in an attempt to break the deadlock on the French battlefield. At the same time, the British intelligence department was also instructed to try to obtain intelligence on Ming tanks.
As the longest-serving veteran spy who had been lurking for the longest time, Jin Biyun received this mission. Even though she is now married and has children, she is still obsessed with restoring the country. Even her husband, Li Huafeng, has been brainwashed by her.
"If Britain wins, the Qing Dynasty will be revived. Then, we can return to the Qing Dynasty and live a good life..."
Looking at his affectionate wife and listening to those distant descriptions, Li Huafeng's heart was filled with heat.
Princess, Prince Consort!
Fine clothes, delicious food, wealth and splendor, and of course, a host of wives and concubines...all of these are things that the Ming Dynasty could not give him.
Everyone has different reasons for betraying their country. Why did Li Huafeng betray his country?
At first it was the beauty, and then what? It was the drug that Jin Biyun gave him!
What about the prince consort, what about the high power. There is always something that makes his heart beat, but what happens after he is moved?
It's a betrayal.
In the past two years, he couldn't remember how many secrets he had sold out. As an engineer at the Nanhua Arsenal, he had access to many weapons.
In order to please this woman, he leaked a lot of things that shouldn't have been leaked, and now he is used to it all.
In fact, people are like this a lot of the time. Once you get used to it, you get used to betrayal. You may even get used to it and not think it’s a big deal.
Beauty, money...are always so attractive.
"tank,"
Lying on her husband's chest, Jin Biyun said in a charming tone.
"We need some technical data on the tanks there, preferably the actual ones."
"tank?"
Li Huafeng said in surprise.
"Biyun, the tank was produced by another company. The most I can do is take some photos and technical data. It's very risky to touch it. As for the real thing... My God... Oh... Um..."
Li Huafeng's words turned into a muffled groan along with a groan, and Jin Biyun had transformed into a beautiful snake that was wandering on his body.
Li Huafeng was lying against the head of the bed, his eyes narrowed into slits. After enjoying it for a while, he looked at her lying on him.
"Honey……"
Jin Biyun said while lying next to Li Huafeng's ear.
"Think of a solution. You are so smart, there must be a way."
As the alluring voice rang in his ears, the snake-like boneless body began to move.
Who can resist such temptation?
"Well, let me think about it, yes... just like that..."
With his eyes closed, Li Huafeng seemed to have thought of a solution. Solutions are always thought of by people. All they need is some motivation. Jin Biyun, who knows human nature very well, knows exactly how to give them some motivation. All they need is to get them moving...
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(End of this chapter)
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