Chapter 77 The King of Land War

"Automobiles, there has never been a country that values cars as much as China. Many people say that this is due to China's developed automobile industry, but the fact that this industry may have something to do with the backwardness of China's local horse industry. Although compared with many countries, China has a large stock of horses, China has a huge number of horses. The stock, whether it is the Mongolian horse famous for Mongolian cavalry or other horse breeds, has been proved not to be suitable for equipping the cavalry on the modern battlefield. As early as the National Restoration War, China established a powerful cavalry force, but those cavalry troops are equipped with Russian Don horses, not Mongolian horses.

In fact, China has not built a modern horse breeding system for thousands of years, which directly leads to the Chinese horse breeding far behind European countries and even lag behind the Japanese. The modern horse breeding industry is a scientific breeding and breeding system, which is what China lacks.

Small Mongolian horses are only suitable for civilian riding, not suitable for modern battlefields. At the same time, the army and the people not only need more modern riding horses, but also a large number of heavy horses. In the army, the heavy weapon handling of infantry and artillery, ammunition transportation, and various supply transportation, all of which require military horses, especially It is the assistance of pulling the horse again. In terms of private transportation, it is also necessary for modern horses to intervene in the transportation industry.

It can be said that the shortage of horses has plagued the Chinese team and the Chinese people since the first year of the empire. Facing the need to spend a lot of money to introduce tens of thousands of horses every year, the Chinese team and the people have resolutely introduced the new type of transportation of transportation, thanks to China's developed automobile industry, in In just a few years, cars, trucks, buses, trailers and all kinds of cars have entered all walks of life in China.

For the [***] teams around the world, the most shocking are the half-tracked armored vehicles that can drive on muddy land, and the half-tracked armored vehicles equipped with machine guns and even artillery have entered every Chinese army in just a few years.

China's first cavalry division completely switched to a Type 8 armored chariot equipped with a rotating turret and a 37mm gun on the turret. This armored chariot proved to be an extremely effective weapon. In the rebellion in Xinjiang, a chariot platoon of three armored chariots repelagoes repelled nearly 2,000 mu. The Sling cavalry attacked and chased hundreds of kilometers.

Overnight, the cavalry was eliminated, and the cavalry, which was once regarded as the favorite of the empire, began to be reorganized. A large number of Type 8 chariots continued to enter the Chinese Guards army to replace the position of war horses.

In this European war, we are looking forward to seeing the performance of modern Chinese chariot cavalry..."

Zhan's Defense Yearbook, Northern Jiangsu in December 1914, a comprehensive training base for the Guards.

On the wide field, hundreds of chariots, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery and truck trucks of the Army Armored Training Regiment are marching through the flag fluttering in a single-way parade.

"Now the chariot is finally equipped with troops."

Chen Moran, the emperor on the throne, put down his telescope and said to himself with a pale look, looking at the tanks that are so familiar that he can no longer be familiar with. No, it should be called a chariot. There was a smile on his face.

Ten years ago, Chen Moran began to fantasize about the emergence of armored clusters, but this dream has been limited by technology and failed to develop a real tank. In the end, he could only use rubber-tracked half-tracked armored vehicles and half-tracked tanks as substitutes. Fortunately, The off-road surname of the four-wheel drive half-track car is not bad.

And in this era of backward anti-armor technology, the surnames of half-tracked chariots are enough to be used. Even to some extent, those half-tracked chariots are still a powerful deterrent force, just like in Japan, an armored brigade of the Marine Corps equipped with 103 Type 8 chariots is strong for Japan. Powerful deterrence.

However, half-tracked combat vehicles are always fragile. China needs real combat vehicles, the kind of armored combat vehicles that Chen Moran is most familiar with. For this reason, the military has been conducting tests for the past many years, but those tests have been troubled by a problem - crawlers, to be precise, the life of the track.

The steel of ordinary tractor tracks cannot meet the needs of chariots, and the suspension also restricts the use of chariots. After all, what the army needs is not the kind of chariot that needs to be overhauled after walking 100 kilometers. What they need is a steel chariot that can gallop on the battlefield.

In the end, Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company took six years to develop a new type of manganese steel, and the success of the new track structure and suspension device developed by Tianma Automobile Company's R&D Center for six years finally made the driving life of the chariot more than 2,000 kilometers, which means that the chariot can be equipped with the army, and the Chinese army finally has a real In a sense, it is ahead of the world's advanced chariot "three-person turret, five-person train..."

With these nouns on his lips, Chen Moran's face smiled. These nouns seem to be very eye-catching, but in fact, this is the development trend of tanks, and the more this trend, after experiencing the bloody wind of World War II, the more countries summed up the total experience.

The double turret used in the early models of the T-34 tank in World War II had design defects. In the four-person train group of the T-34, the captain and loader are located in the turret, and the captain assumes the responsibility of the gunner at the same time, which causes the captain to be overburdened. In the fierce battle situation, the command of the tank group and artillery shooting are very important. The former is responsible for controlling the overall situation, and the latter determines the attack ability. The division of labor between two people is far more efficient than one person.

It has been proved that the design of the double turret has greatly reduced the actual shooting speed of the T-34 artillery. Compared with the German IV tank with a three-person turret, the theoretical rate of fire of the T-34/76 is not too bad, but the rate of fire in actual combat is often only 1/3 or even 1/4 of that of the former. Although the 76mm gun is far stronger than the German 50mm and 75mm tank guns before 1942, the command and shooting efficiency are not adjusted, making it difficult for the T-34 to give full play to its artillery power. It can be said that the high loss ratio of the T34 tank has nothing to do with the two-person turret used.

And the Type 10 chariot uses the most efficient three-person turret proved by actual combat.

"Your Majesty, the full-track walking device used in the Type 10 chariot has increased its off-road mobility by more than 50% compared with the eight-year-type chariot, and its frontal armor has reached an unprecedented 30 mm..."

When Wu Luzhen, the commander of the first cavalry division, was introducing the Type 10 chariot, Chen Moran looked at the chariot on the training ground with a telescope and focused on the artillery.

"Your Majesty, the ten-year-type combat vehicle uses a 57mm main gun, with as many as 120 rounds of ammunition. Its firing grenades can destroy all kinds of field fortifications, and armor-piercing shells can destroy the eight-type armored fighting vehicle 800 meters away. Compared with the eight-style armored fighting vehicle, it can definitely be called the end. Beautiful land weapons of war.

When Wu Luzhen introduced the Type 10 chariot, she looked a little flustered. After all, the first cavalry division is now the only force in China equipped with Type 10 chariots.

"The body is too short and the power is too small."

Looking at the short-barre tube tank gun, Chen Moran looked at the tank carefully. Suddenly, he felt a little uncomfortable, because the tank looked a little familiar, uh-huh! It's a bit like the Type 97 tank in World War II, especially the tank gun, which is very similar.

His Majesty's words made his heart tremble, which was extremely satisfied with the Type 10 chariot.

"Your Majesty means..."

"Let's put it this way, if the ten-year-type chariot encounters an opponent similar to the ten-year-type chariot, how far can the ten-year-type chariot destroy the ten-year-type chariot?"

Chen Moran's rhetorical question made him frown and think about it. For a ten-year-old chariot, he has never considered fighting with similar chariots, or even anti-tanleys. It's just an additional index. The army's requirements for chariots are very simple. First of all, consider its battlefield off-road surname and reliable power. The second is the firepower, and the second is the survival ability of the battlefield. As for the anti-tanley ability, it is simply a temporary additional indicator. After all, the Type 10 chariot does not have any opponents at all now.

When designing the protection index of the ten-year-type combat vehicle, it also emphasizes its grenade fragments rather than armor-piercing shells. Among the eight-year series of armored combat vehicles, only the self-propelled gun equipped with 88mm field artillery can threaten the ten-year combat vehicle. As for others, the army has not considered it at all.

"Your Majesty, there are no armored chariots that can threaten the ten-year-old chariots, and all countries do not have similar weapons..."

While observing His Majesty's face, Wu Luzhen said tentatively.

In the face of this temptation, Chen Moran did not respond, but continued to look at the tank clusters that had entered the comprehensive training ground with binoculars. This exercise was actually a tank battle exercise, a tank attack operation with the cooperation of infantry. Over the past many years, cavalry divisions and armored divisions have been using eight-year armored warfare. The car is undergoing similar training, but now using tanks, the tactical implementation is effective. Under the crushing of tank tracks and half-track troop carriers, the whole training ground is full of dust, but the scene in front of us is very much like a scene in a documentary.

"Unconsciously, it's been 14 years."

He muttered in his heart. Looking at the armored cluster composed of more than 100 tanks and the same number of half-tracked personnel carriers and half-tracked self-propelled artillery on the training ground, Chen Moran's face showed a little complacency. The dissatisfaction caused by the short management before also disappeared at this moment, and he was just complacent. .

For the outside world, those chariots are just chariots, but for Chen Moran, he clearly knows the epoch-making significance of these chariots, and more importantly, they are all made by him. Just like the navy, which is already ranked fourth in the world, they are all made by him like this empire, and It only took 14 years to build all this!

"Your Majesty, let's start the assault exercise."

A general seems to be suspected of deliberately changing the topic. After all, His Majesty has been silent for so long that everyone is a little worried.

"I made all this, but why are some people still dissatisfied?"

While muttering to himself, Chen Moran's eyes, which showed too many vicissitudes, were lost between heaven and earth. After asking himself about his achievements, he fell into a burst of myths.

Unsatisfied, although I have been working hard, there are still too many people who are dissatisfied with themselves. They always have such and so reasons, and they always have such and such pursuits, but don't they have the same pursuit? But they can't look far away and longer. They always think they are right and right, but history has proved that they are right and right, and they have led the country to make earth-shaking changes and achievements in the eyes of outsiders. Isn't all this? Can you explain the problem?

If they hand over the country to themselves, they should be able to rest assured, because they will never make the same mistakes as history, but many people can't, especially after the middle class they created more and more show their strength, they are not grateful, but ask for more.

"People..."

He sighed softly, and Chen Moran's face showed some helplessness.

"I'm always insatisfactory."

The sigh stopped abruptly. Chen Moran raised the telescope and continued to look at the ongoing attack drill on the drill ground.

The 24 ten-year-old chariots of the First Chariot Battalion of the First Cavalry Division were in a small team with three vehicles, and each team advanced diagonally. From the side, there were about three rows of crissscrossed echelons. The chariots followed closely with a team of infantry who had just jumped from the half-track armored vehicles.

I saw the ten-year-old chariot slowly turning the track forward, stopping when walking, shooting at the "enemy position" with gunfire in the short pause, and effortlessly using the steel track and the body to run a large gap in the complex and dense barbed wire barrier, while the infantry opened the way with the chariot. The mechanical and mobile bulletproof shields smoothly passed through the barbed wire gap, and launched the final charge from a very close distance to the "position" of the "enemy" composed of fire support points and trench lines under the cover of the chariot fire. When they launched the charge, the Type 9 self-propelled gun accompanied by the attack of the ten-year chariot provided them with direct Under the cover of chariots and self-propelled artillery, the assault forces finally captured the "enemy position" in one fell swoop.

"Long live! Long live!"

After completing the attack drill, the soldiers shouted slogans and jumped out of the trenches "occupied" by them. For a while, the "enemy's trenches" were flying with a war flag, bayonets shining, no "enemy" and no casualties. Although in order to strengthen the battlefield effect, a lot of bloody pig and cow viscera were hung on the wire, but the cause was removed. I don't know how many days it has been, and the stench emitted will always cause the soldiers to vomit, and there is no accident.

"Tactics are very ordinary."

Putting down the telescope in his hand, Chen Moran said in a faint tone, "In chariot combat, we should not only consider breaking through the enemy's positions, but also consider making continuous and uninterrupted breakthroughs to the deeper depths of the enemy. We should consider that the other side not only has one or two trench lines, but also three or even four or five lines. Behind the trench line, there may be strong The support point of the fixed defense and even the fortress group should also be considered to deal with the possible counterattack of the other party. It's not enough to be satisfied with occupying one or two trenches. It's far from enough!"

After a moment of silence, Chen Moran recalled the tactical ideas of blitzkrieg in World War II in his mind.

"It is to use the armored forces as assault forces, use the concentrated armored forces as sharp knives, and attack the enemy's deep rear. Well, the armored regiment breaks through on the enemy's front, and then quickly makes a far-reaching breakthrough to the rear of the enemy's front, cutting off the enemy's traffic line, causing a siege, and then being swept by the infantry. The enemy who fell into the encirclement.

"Yes, your majesty is very true. Our guard army tactics rely only on mobile attack. Since it is an infantry attack, we do not worry about exposing the flanks, so as to achieve the purpose of detouring and encircling the enemy. This chariot operation should be even more so!"

Whether you agree or not, Wu Luzhen will not spoil your majesty's interest. What's more, your majesty's statement is indeed reasonable. In the past few years, the exercises made by the Guards Army with trucks, armored vehicles and half-track vehicles have not been in vain.

"Continue to improve! Is it wrong to use a half-tracked vehicle as an armored conveyor, but the armored division's firepower is still insufficient. The experience in European warfare tells us that small and medium-sized field artillery such as 88mm can no longer meet the conditions of modern battlefields, so we can consider using the chassis of the Type 10 combat vehicle to develop a self-propelled artillery, self-propelled artillery. The caliber should be more than 150 mm. The armored division should eventually form a powerful armored mobile force composed of a chariot and a half-track troop carrier, which can break through the opponent's long-term and deep defense system, and can also occupy the point of the enemy's depth and resist the counterattack of the opponent's reserve team.

The emperor's instructions are so majestic and irresistible that the generals can only say yes, which may be the greatest advantage of the imperial system. Under the emperor's authority, the emperor's will can never be violated. In the face of the emperor's "suggestions", the only thing the army can do is to comply, which is in the navy, aircraft carriers, and submarines. It has been proved again and again.

It is no exception now. After making this instruction, Chen Moran believes that after the exercise is over, the army's technical department will invest in studying large-caliber self-propelled artillery. There will be no technical problems in using a 20-ton ten-year tank to transform large-caliber self-propelled artillery. Sometimes what they only need is It's just a theory.

The final drill project is the Type 10 chariot for long-range motor target shooting. Three Type 10 chariots marched quickly along a complex ground road on the side of the training ground. Suddenly, several Type 6 armored vehicles appeared in the distance of the road. The Type 6 armored vehicle is the first generation of armored vehicles of the army, only with ordinary trucks. Modified, now due to the limited off-road ability, except for the equipment of police stations in the northwest province, it has long been eliminated by the army. The turrets of the three chariots immediately rotated. A few seconds later, with a few cannons, the armored cars 500 meters away have become a pile of scrap metal... The whole shooting drill will take a few minutes, and the ten-type chariots will fight. While walking, use artillery to attack armored targets or fire support points from time to time, and occasionally use parallel machine guns to shoot nearby "small cluster targets".

In fact, this exercise is more "performance surnames", just to show the power of the chariot to His Majesty, but they don't know that in their eyes, such a perfect chariot, in Chen Moran's eyes, is just like a toy. After all, he has seen it stronger on TV and TV. The king of land war, but for this era, this is indeed the king of land war!

"Go! Let's go to see the King of Land War and my soldiers together!"

(to be continued)