My Empire

My Empire Chapter 116

2020-11-03

Chapter 116 116 Fuel consumption

"It's amazing! I've been born knowing this stuff... how it works, How did you act, how did you fight." Closing his eyes, the recruit Ryan felt everything in his mind and muttered to himself excitedly.

When he opened his eyes, he found that everything he was familiar with still existed, just like that in front of his eyes. He reached out and touched the icy iron plate he was all too familiar with, and gave the order: "Okay! Gentlemen! Start the engine, and let's try to move forward!"

"Bang, bang... "The sound of metal friction sounds very noisy outside, but the personnel inside are wearing communication headsets, so they don't feel anything wrong.

On the contrary, they were very excited, because the weapons they were flying could be said to have completely transformed the Army.

Yes, they are driving a tank, a very powerful looking tank. Inside the small tank body, there are five tank soldiers who have studied for a long time. They are driving the first tank in human history and conducting various test experiments.

"Steer! Steer to the right! Test the tank's agility! Slow down! Slow down!" Ryan turned his driver while observing the surroundings through a narrow periscope.

For him, this is not an easy task, because the field of vision in the tank is very narrow, and he must endure this limitation of vision and try to understand everything that is happening around him as much as possible. condition.

Soon, his tank completed the turn under the watchful eyes of many people. The tank was moving a little awkwardly. The 75mm caliber short-barreled cannon equipped on it was basically used by the Navy. Army version of the flat-fire gun.

It can fire grenades from the Army's 75mm caliber infantry gun, as well as special armor-piercing projectiles - this kind of armor-piercing projectile is actually a solid warhead shell used to hit large targets.

"Cannon commander! Turn the turret! I need to aim at the target in our direction! This is the test project!" Long instructed.

The gunner stepped on the pedal of the rotary gun, and then the turret of the tank started to rotate, the motor made a nice sound, and the entire turret turned rapidly. When the turret was turned, the tank was still on the move, so in the end the gunner found that he couldn't find the target he was looking for.

"Damn it! Stop! I'm aiming for the target!" the gunner shouted gloomily in the communicator inside the car, his shouting quickly worked, the tank stopped, and then After a while, the gunner finally found the direction his gun was pointing and aimed at the distant target.

"Loader! Load armor-piercing bullets!" Commander Ryan gave a loud command to fight, and the loader beside him pulled out a cannonball from the cannonball storage rack and stuffed it into the one in front of him. Inside the gun chamber: "Filled!"

"bang!" The gun barrel of this tank spewed out a burst of flame, and a shell hit a fixed target about 400 meters away—want to hit It is not easy, after all, the size of the target is similar to that of a dragon.

The huge penetrating power directly penetrated the stacked sandbags, and the target was directly penetrated by the shell, showing the good penetration performance of this artillery. After all, it is also an improved artillery from the Navy's 75mm flat-fire gun, and its power is naturally nothing to say.

Through the periscope in front of him, Ryan carefully observed the target that was hit, and then said loudly: "Go on! We're going to the next test area! There are two more test areas over there. A test tank is waiting for us!"

Chris searched for Alanhill's industrial-level army weapons for a long time, and finally decided to go directly to the M4 Sherman, the tank with the best overall performance. This tank speak frankly is not really good, but it is better than its mediocrity in the bones.

The first ones to be eliminated were the famous German tanks in World War II: Tiger Style tanks and Panther tanks were completely eliminated due to the problem of manufacturing complexity, and the slightly mediocre No. 3 and Panther tanks were completely eliminated. Tank 4 was also rejected because there were similar replacements.

At least in Chris's view, German tanks are basically not suitable for Alanhill's current needs. On the one hand, they consume too much steel and production capacity, and on the other hand, they are a headache because of reliability and fuel consumption. .

Coupled with its amazingly expensive but seriously overflowing firepower and defensive ability to outshine the crowd but almost no opponents - there is nothing that can satisfy Chris.

So in the Alanhill Army where both rifles and machine guns are using German weapons, the armored forces were the first to rule out German tanks. When he decided to give up the German tanks, Chris also remembered the famous conclusion: the tanks that soldiers want most are indeed the tanks that generals hate the most...

In the elimination of German tanks After that, what Chris wanted was the famous T-34 tank produced by the Soviet Union. This tank can even be produced by the tractor factory. It can be said that it is very suitable for Alanhill's needs.

However, although this tank is very good in industrial production, its performance in other aspects is a bit of a people didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

First of all, the worst thing is the poor ergonomics. The driving control of the T-34 tank is very general, which can be said to be the worst among similar tanks. It is too narrow for the tank crews of the previous generation, which is not conducive to the long-term combat of the tank members.

After some trade-offs, Chris thinks that the tall body and the lack of defense are not a fatal problem, and the M4 tank is also very simple in production and maintenance, no worse than the owned T-34 too much.

As for firepower... Chris felt that it was already a matter of bullying the enemy to be able to push the 75mm caliber artillery to the front line. He originally wanted to directly use the 30mm caliber anti-aircraft self-propelled artillery as a tank.

However, considering that it is possible to deal with some difficult ground targets in the future, Chris still decided to put this tank, which looks advanced in performance, into use as the army's main tank.

In fact, Chris really hesitated for a long time to choose T-34 or M4. He even held a weapons selection meeting unprecedented, solicited the opinions of the army and the production department, and finally chose the target as the M4. .

The key issue that gave him the final word was that Wireless Electronics operators are now considered an essential tank crew configuration because Wireless Electronics equipment is still at an unstable level.

However, most of the Soviet T-34 tanks were not equipped with expensive Wireless Electronics, and there was no room for the Wireless Electronics operator when they were designed, so the T-34 tank has always been a 4-person crew. One less electromechanical operator than the M4.

Although it is tempting to save a man, Chris still firmly believes that the tank unit must be equipped with Wireless Electronics for easy dispatch and command, considering the importance of tank coordination.

So, the T-34 tank, which was slightly inferior in communication, was eventually lost, and Alanhill's army chose the M4 tank as their "Imperial Cavalry". Soon new tank factories were established in Wallawa and Naru City, and the first tanks produced entered the testing and army experimentation stage.

Because this is already a mature design that is historically owned, the so-called Army test is just a cutscene. Seeing the three tanks attacking together in the proving ground, all the army generals widened their eyes.

Since ancient times, how to solve the defense needs of soldiers has been a very important issue. Whether heavy infantry or heavy cavalry, they are all powerful arms that were born to give soldiers as much defense as possible.

However, since ancient times, human beings have never stacked firepower mobility and defense on one weapon, and let these three attributes get balanced and better play.

The appearance of the tank satisfies all human, or the army's fantasy of war: let the thick steel plate run faster than the war horse, rush into the enemy's array, and use powerful weapons to destroy all the surrounding people. enemy!

"This is what I want!" Waggron pointed at the tanks on the battlefield and shouted in surprise. He didn't realize that his words made Chris didn't know whether to cry or laugh, because in his memory, an acquaintance once said the same thing to Vagron.

General Mordelair was also very interested in this new type of weapon. He felt that if such a weapon was arranged in front of the opponent's defense line, then these iron cavalry could be destroyed with just one attack. any opponent.

"From now on! Alanhill's army is invincible in the whole world!" Mordelair described what he had seen and heard: "If you give me twenty tanks, I can take them with me. My 4th Corps took down Arrantix, and if you gave me a hundred of these tanks, I could swept the entire Arrant!"

General Coria, who was sitting next to him, was even more optimistic than he was Some, he looked at Modlar who was exclaiming, and said with a smile: "Give me 50 cars, and I will dare to sweep Arrant!"

"Stop kidding!" Sitting there Wilkes, who didn't know whether to cry or laugh, shook a tank performance introduction in his hand in front of Modler and Corea, and said, "Your military department. The gasoline in reserve is not enough for 50 cars to drive to Arantix!"

Recently, the army in all directions is worried about one thing, that is how to store more gasoline, To cope with the increasing fuel consumption - many troops have received corresponding car quotas, the powerful performance of the car makes every commander happy, but the accompanying fuel consumption also makes everyone collapse.

Nowadays, if you want to make a reorganized corps unit move, you need more than just food, forage and ammunition...

(end of this chapter)

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