In northern Anhui, the industrial research and manufacturing base of the Jiangsu and Anhui government, there were once again alerts. A group of people without passes are prohibited from entering. There are many more factories on the mountain plains. Large chimneys are constantly emitting white smoke. Brand new trucks are driven out, tons of steel are transported in, and hills are driven out of the road, and cars are running smoothly on them.

"His Excellency, the latest engine has a horsepower of 120 and can drag vehicles and cargoes of more than 20 tons and less than 60 tons, which fully meets your requirements." Rudolf Diesel said in front of Dunson with a design drawing. This is a new diesel engine, a heavy engine specially developed by Dunson. Its horsepower is up to 120 tons and can drag dozens of tons of weight.

"Very good! So did you put him in an armored vehicle to experiment?" Dunson took the report and read it. He was extremely satisfied with this engine. He even prepared to build a large tank.

"A armored vehicle has been installed, which is a one-ton armored vehicle. The test data has been fully achieved, with a speed of up to 67 kilometers per hour. Unfortunately, due to the excessive horsepower of the engine, the armored vehicle needs to slow down first and then stop when stopping." The diesel engine with a 120 horsepower is still an engine that has been compressed by air and strengthened blowing facilities. The one-ton armored vehicle is too light. Although the speed is very high, it has many defects. For example, the horsepower is too large, and even the smallest throttle is far more than the weight of the armored vehicle when activated, resulting in the inability to stop quickly while moving, and a lot of kinetic energy is wasted.

"Well! Isn't it allowed to be activated on the tank? The Chinese Leopard tank, the end depends on your engine!" This time, it was not mainly because of the engine, but because of the first real tank, the Chinese Cheetah tank, all steel and crawler, with a 23-caliber rapid-fire gun on it, with a firing rate of 20 rounds per minute, a self-weight of 9.7 tons, a full load of 13.3 tons, and a maximum speed of 43 kilometers per hour is expected to be 43 kilometers per hour.

During the construction of the tank, Dengson has always personally directed him to demand the abolition of the previous heavy machine gun settings of the staff, but instead used rapid-fire cannons as the main offensive weapon. The two heavy machine guns were on both sides, rejecting the previous large-type tire design and replacing steel tracks.

After crossing two hills again, after ten minutes of walking, the car finally stopped. Then, along with the person in charge and Diesel, they entered an armored vehicle tank production base that occupied two mountain basins. More than 100 armored vehicles were stored here. Moreover, the armored vehicles have also been transformed from tires to crawlers. In fact, the design of armored vehicles is not difficult. Only tanks will increase the difficulty of these staff members. For example, the artillery design of tanks is not directly used for ground artillery, but redesigned and then made their own artillery. Although the Su-Anhui government arsenal can now make artillery within 120 mm, the technology still needs to be improved, so the improved firing artillery can only start from the lowest end.

However, the results are remarkable. At least the epoch-making advancement of the armored vehicle has become a tank. In front of Dunson, it is now a tank weighing 9.7 tons. It is as high as 3.2 meters, with a width of 3 meters and a length of 5 meters. There is a turret that can rotate 180 degrees. A twenty-three-mm improved rapid-fire gun is placed on it. The 23-mm cannon barrel has a barrel length of 2.3 meters, which can shoot a twenty-three-mm caliber shell for a distance of 1,000 meters. The gun powder for the cannon has been improved, and the high-explosive explosives that appear in the international market are no less powerful than the sixty-mm caliber shells of field guns.

"Coax" the tank and let out a deep and huge roar. Deng Sen looked at the tank quietly. If it were a modern person, he would be surprised to find that the design of the tank was very similar to that of the later German tanks.

"Report to the Head of State! The first Chinese leopard cheetah tank has been built and can be tested at any time." A soldier wearing a steel helmet came to Dunson. His military uniform was different from that of ordinary troops and even the SS. They bought each of them that had a leopard-headed medal on their helmet.

"Very good! Test the run now!" Dengson couldn't wait, tank! Dengson has always regarded it as a land war ace. As long as his tank is built successfully, he can even unify China without even waiting for Yuan Shikai to hang up. However, they are still facing major problems, that is, fuel reserves. Although the Su-An government has been importing diesel and gasoline on a large scale, the time must be short. The current oil reserves are only enough for three months to use. However, in this era, there is no shortage of diesel, because the engines used internationally are all gas engines, and they use gasoline. Therefore, as an industrial waste, diesel is quite cheap, which is cheaper than freight, one thousand dollars per tanker, four thousand tons. But the freight is as high as three thousand dollars!

Dengson's staff studied that after the establishment of the tank army and the use of other vehicles, Dengson must reserve 16 million barrels of gasoline and 100 million barrels of diesel to be enough for a year of wartime consumption, worth 30 million US dollars in total. It can be imagined that if Dengson could no longer find his own oil field, he would have to pay tens of millions of dollars in oil every year. This was the early stage. If tanks were used frequently in the later stage, the oil price and diesel price would definitely increase again, which he did not allow. The oil mining experts he hired are now exploring on the East Indies. More than 500 international students he sent were studying at major American oil companies. He wanted to find his own oil well sooner and could not hand over his own famous family to others.

"It's the head of state!" After hearing Deng Sen's words, the armored soldiers saluted a Han army, and then took their men into the tank. The entrance of the tank and the armored vehicles did not hurt. His entrance was a small window of a half square meter. People entered through the window, but afterwards they opened the window and could see some internal facilities.

The tank car is like a sealed room, with equipment all inside, and a radio. A tank, one driver, one behind the driver, one commander, one gunner, and one loader. These people are crowded in a tank around a room.

"Coax..." The tank started, rushed forward suddenly, and then stopped immediately, and the turret on the roof of the car was out of the head.

"The First Armored Division, Lieutenant Colonel Battalion Commander reported to the Head of State! Long live the Head of State! Can be activated."

The young handsome carriageman stood on a tall tank and shouted at Dunson.

"Okay! My officer, you can start and talk to me with your performance." Dunson smiled and nodded to the tank driver.

"I understand! The forward officer fisted his right hand and slapped his xiongjia to show his loyalty to Dengson. Then he hurried into the tank, and the tank began to move.

The engine of the tank car became louder and louder, but it was not in a hurry to start, and after more than ten seconds, the tank began to move slowly. The periscope above the tank kept turning, checking the situation ahead.

In the tank, all personnel are nervously operating the tank. There is still a big difference between this tank and an armored vehicle. The engine of the armored vehicle is small, and the noise and heat are emitted, but the armored vehicle is different. The engine inside the armored vehicle is stronger and the noise and heat emitted is more. Especially the tank is equipped with artillery. Although a large amount of gun exhaust gas will be discharged, a part of it will definitely spread in the car, so there must be an air inhaler and ventilation holes in the car for heat dissipation and ventilation.

In front of the tank, there is a small mirror-like periscope made of hardened glass, which is the only eye for the tank driver to pay attention to the battlefield.

Dunson was sitting in the car, following the cement asphalt road before the tank was fine, but when the nose tank entered the normal ground, it immediately gave Dunson the familiar feeling. The tank's tracks crushed the soil as they marched and raised waves of sand and dust.

"Yes! That's it!, Dengson couldn't help but pat his seat next to him. After the tank left the cement floor, the engine sound and way of travel were much the same as those of later tanks. In his current opinion, except for the artillery, the tank was almost impeccable. Although the thickness of the armor was only more than ten millimeters, even if the howitzer was not hit head-on, it would not cause too much damage to the tank.

The tank car was walking in the mountains without the previous road, and there were all weeds in the wilderness. Deng Sen and the others also climbed to a mountain top, standing on the top of the mountain watching the tank's every move.

The loud sound of the tank car came from the mountains. With a telescope, you can see the tank car passing by a high hill. Whenever you climb, there will always be huge engine transmission sounds. Any trees blocking the tank car, no matter how big or small, will be pushed down as long as the tank car hits it. The tank car with strong driving force is almost completely unaffected and is still moving normally.

After the plum rain in northern Anhui, there has been no rain for two months. In the mountains, there is almost no water flowing along the lakeside except for those specially built reservoirs. Armored vehicles are moving forward all the way and climbing in the mountains for more than half an hour, with a journey of up to 18 kilometers, and then they arrive at the artillery range.

When the tank car entered the shooting range, Deng Sen and others were already waiting again. The tank car stopped at the shooting range, and then the gun barrel moved and aimed at the target in front.

"Bang..." A muffled sound came from the muzzle, and a shell hit the target straight. The tank gun shell encountered a scrap truck, and then "boomed, a loud bang, and the entire truck was blown into pieces. You must know that this was not a machine gun, but a shell loaded with high explosives.

Immediately after the first gun, the turret above the tank rotated again, aiming the muzzle at another target again.

"Bang bang..." This nose fired three shots in a row.

"Boom boom boom..." The sound of explosions came one after another. The target was hit by two shells and was directly blown away. One shell fell on the edge and left a shallow pit of half a meter deep and two meters radius on the ground. This shows how powerful the artillery is.

While the shelling was being bombarded, the mobile heavy machine guns under the two ting turrets on the tank also began to fire. The tank rushed directly into the shooting range. The heavy machine gun fired violently at the targets on both sides, leaving black holes on the hardwood, and the artillery did not stop. In short, if this equipment was put into the battlefield, it would be a nightmare for all enemies.

"If we don't affect the manufacturing of armored vehicles and trucks, how long can we produce a Leopard tank? Please tell me the specific data of the tank." After observing the tank's marching and shooting, Dengsen had better shooting in other aspects, except for not being very fond of artillery, and completely ignored the role played by the trenches in the war.

"Report to the head of state, the specific data of the Leopard tank is as follows: Engine: Diesel 120 horsepower engine. Vehicle weight: 9.7 tons, full load weight: 13.3 tons. Crew: five people.

Engine: Dragon Type 2 120. Speed: up to 60 kilometers per hour on the road, 40 kilometers per hour off-road. Itinerary: 300 kilometers on the road, 200 kilometers off-road. Vehicle length: five meters, width: three meters, height: three points two meters. Weapons: a 23 mm high-explosive cannon, two ting Chinese-style 1912, 7:92 caliber heavy machine gun. Ammunition: 260 23 mm shells, 7:92 machine gun bullets 3528. Armor

There are 6 small-diameter load-bearing wheels and 3 pulley pulleys on each side, and two sets of plate-spring balanced suspension fully tracked armored tank vehicles are used. If the truck armored vehicles are not affected, two vehicles can be produced per month." As the chief military engineer of the Jiangsu and Anhui government, Qi Guochang has a very comprehensive understanding of these weapons and is very clear about the production time and materials required for each part.

"Okay! This tank is named the Leopard Tank, Cheetah One, which reduces the production speed of armored vehicles and produces at a rate of three per month! At the same time, it is necessary to speed up the development of special engines for large public relations ships. It is necessary to develop a diesel engine that can promote the use of destroyers as soon as possible." Dengson loves diesel engines. He believes that after installing a high-power diesel engine, torpedo ships and destroyers can pose a fatal threat to large ships.

After saying that, Dengson began to meditate. He set his sights on the Gulf of Mexico in the United States, which was a world-famous oil base in later generations. However, he knew that even if he bought it, he would have only a few decades of mining rights at most. But he finally decided to buy it as a si person, including his shares.

After watching the tanks, Dengsen inspected the production of armored vehicles, artillery, heavy machine guns, and semi-automatic rifles. Now it can be said that Su and Anhui have completely reached a certain level of weapon production. Its large-scale investment, although there are few skilled workers, the artillery and shells produced by it are not less than Japan. In military production, Dengsen no longer worried about the cost of conventional troops. What made Dengsen most happy is that Feng Ru has arrived and the keel of the first aircraft is being laid...
Chapter completed!