All gods, the lord who started with the bright sword

Chapter 190, imitation, destruction
"General, this is Egen Yamaguchi, the chief engineer of Mitsubishi Arsenal. He heard that our army captured the Eighth Route tanks, so he flew here overnight from China."

Shao Zuo introduced the little old man with a tired face to North China Commander Hayao Tada.

Probably being a chief engineer is a very mentally exhausting job. In fact, Jiangyuan Yamaguchi is less than 50 years old, and he is completely bald. With his thin body and small size, he looks like a little old man.

The chief engineer of the Mitsubishi consortium's arsenal is not a small name, even Tada Hayao will not be slighted or neglected in the slightest.

"Mr. Yamaguchi has worked hard. I must be very tired after traveling and traveling. I have asked someone to arrange a place to stay. You might as well rest first."

"No need, the base camp has heard about the magic of the eight-way tank. The higher-ups are pressing, if it is convenient, I want to go and see it now."

Egen Yamaguchi bowed slightly.

This is the Japanese culture of not wanting to bother others.

In his opinion, he vetoed the other party's good intentions and took up other people's time, so he bowed and apologized.

The Japanese military was modeled after European countries and had abandoned the native culture.

Tada Hayao replied dumbly: "I happen to be going to see it too, please come with me."

A group of people drove to the military camp outside the city.

The eight damaged tanks seized at the front line had already been dragged back by trucks for the first time. During this period, the green light was all the way, and the speed was quite fast.

Four times as many chariots as the enemy, flanking the enemy.

Not only did they not win, but they ended up in a big defeat, forty to zero.

Tada Hayao's face is sure, but he is not very angry.Because it was not a question of command tactics at all, it was completely crushed in terms of strength.

The news was sent back to the base camp, causing a wave of shock.

Indeed, as Tada Toshi expected, the elders of the base camp did not show dissatisfaction with him.

Sending an expert to investigate the first time is enough to explain the problem.

Hayao Tada is actually very curious about how the eight-way tank was built. Could it be that the technology of the empire has completely lagged behind others?

Believe that you will get results soon.

Without a word all the way, the convoy drove into the heavily guarded military camp.

Seeing the three big guys who were blackened by the gunpowder through the car window, Hayao Tada couldn't keep calm in his heart: "Such a big tank seems to be twice as big as the strongest tank in the empire."

After parking, Tada Jun took the initiative to open the door and got out of the car without waiting for his subordinates to open the door. He couldn't help walking towards the tank parked in the open space.

"It's so big and mighty."

Tada Jun was at a loss for words for a while, and his eyes were full of mighty and hideous tanks.

He suddenly asked: "Does the tank have a name? What does Eighth Road call this tank?"

"The T80 tank is a bit similar to the Soviet tanks, and they all start with the word T."

Hayao Tada turned his head to look at Chief of Staff Miyano who was speaking: "I remember that the main tanks of the Soviet army are T26 and T34, and the eight-way tank is called T80. Could it be given by the Soviets?"

"Impossible. In the battle at Nuomen Kaner, the Chariot Teaching Brigade fought against the Soviets before. They were only at a slight disadvantage, and far from being impossible to destroy."

The Soviet Union paid little attention to the Far East troops, and the tanks were relatively backward, and the T26 tank was already the main force.

Not equipped with T34 tanks.

The tanks of the Japanese army fought against that model, and they could still fight at a [-]-[-] split, which did not seem to be too far behind.

Tada Hayao nodded in agreement, ruling out the possibility that the Soviets were playing tricks.

After all, it is impossible to appear anyway, to support the best weapons to other countries, and to use backward weapons.

That would be too stupid to happen.

The chief engineer, Jiangyuan Yamaguchi, brought a comprehensive team with him this time.

Once they landed, they went to work around the tank.

There are measurement data, drawing and writing, and sampling analysis.

If the wreckage of the tank is regarded as a corpse, then these engineers are here to dissect it.

"The car is 9.6 meters long and the body is 7.4 meters long."

"The car is 3.6 meters wide and 2.2 meters high."

"The caliber of the gun is 120mm."

"Two machine guns, [-]mm and [-]mm."

"The frontal armor is [-] mm thick, and the steel used is extremely strange, and I have never seen it before."

The statistics one by one have been compiled into text, which has a deeper understanding of the tank engineers.

Everyone gathered around to discuss.

"What is the tonnage?"

"It measured 42 tons before, but because it was damaged, it was missing. It is conservatively estimated to be around 45 tons."

"Strange, they said that the speed of this tank is faster than that of our chariot. How much horsepower does the engine need to drive?"

"A conservative estimate would require a thousand horsepower."

All the engineers fell silent.

Tada Jun, who was listening with great interest behind them, stopped talking when he saw everyone, and asked: "What's the matter, keep talking!

After listening to your narration, I can imagine what this chariot looks like when galloping. It must be extremely powerful. "

The engineers who came back to their senses greeted one after another: "Commander."

Chief Engineer Yamaguchi Jiangyuan said: "With an engine of the same size, our technology can only reach 550 horsepower, and the enemy's tank has a conservative [-] horsepower. The gap is simply huge."

Tada Hayao asked suspiciously: "The difference is doubled, isn't it enough to call it a world difference?"

Shankou Jiangyuan gave an example. Assuming that the tanks are of the same tonnage, the difference between [-] horsepower and [-] horsepower means that the speed difference between the two is doubled.

The difference in mobility is almost doubled, meaning the enemy kites and you'll never catch up.

Yamaguchi Jiangyuan said: "The chariots used by the Eight Roads use the more powerful engines to carry more tonnage.

So they could be equipped with two hundred millimeters of armor and they could have 120 [-]mm tank guns.

The result of the superposition is that the empire's chariots cannot penetrate the enemy's armor.

And once the enemy bombarded them, as long as they hit, the chariot would undoubtedly be destroyed.

In this case, even if we have ten times a hundred times as many chariots, we still cannot defeat the enemy. "

The conclusion is very scary, and Tada Hayao has accepted it. After all, the reality is already there, so he can't help but not believe it.

"But isn't our chariot unable to catch up with the Eighth Route Army?"

Tada Hayao made a serious suggestion: "Can we install two engines on one tank, and then increase the thickness of the armor like the Eight Roads, and equip the tank with a larger caliber?"

The commander is an expert in war, but when it comes to building chariots, he is obviously a complete layman.

Tanks have to balance firepower, armor and mobility.

If one more engine is installed, the body will become larger, with more armor, the tank will be heavier, and the speed may decrease instead.

Even if it gets faster, it won't be much faster.

Moreover, if the chassis becomes larger, the passability and concealment will decrease, and the chance of being shot will increase.

It took Jiangyuan Yamaguchi a lot of explanations to let Tada Hayao understand that building a chariot is not something that can be made casually with a slap on the head.

A chariot built like that... no, very likely not at all.

Tada Hayao realized that he had made an own mistake, but he still did not give up and continued to put forward new suggestions:
"Then can the power of our engine be increased to reach the opponent's level? Hey, yes, this is not captured, just imitate theirs."

A layman gesticulates and discusses building chariots.

Shankou Jiangyuan was bored in his heart, but he still had to explain patiently.

Their current engine technology is not up to the level used in this tank.

Imitation, where is it so easy?

Not to mention that the engine is a delicate thing, the hardness of the material used is not enough, or the key point is only a millimeter away, which will make it impossible to manufacture imitations.

If you want to imitate it, you must have a full set of drawings.

Let alone the blueprints now, not even one of the seized engines is intact.

There are traces of a secondary explosion in the car body. Obviously, the enemy deliberately sabotaged it and did not want them to get too much information.

At this time, Tada Hayao realized that his thoughts were too layman and naive.

It's okay to ask for the design and manufacture of chariots, but it's ridiculous to make suggestions.

The power of the eight-way chariot left a deep impression on Tada Hayao's mind.He has an extremely urgent need for a tank of the same level.

If you can't check and balance the eight-way chariot, it means that the imperial army has fallen into a complete disadvantage in terms of weapons.

It will directly affect the outcome of the war.

Tada Hayao put forward a hypothesis, if they can seize a complete chariot, how long will it take to imitate it?

Shankou Jiangyuan shook his head and said solemnly: "Your Excellency, Commander, you may not quite understand. As far as engine technology is concerned, we are completely behind the other party.

On one engine, we need hundreds of technical breakthroughs before we can catch up with the imitation.

As for how long this time will be, I cannot give a specific answer. It is conservatively estimated that it will take more than five years. "

Tada Hayao was completely speechless.

In five years, the troops facing the enemy's chariots would have died eight times, and by then Shanxi would have been lost.

It seems that it is not feasible to manufacture chariots of the same level.

The next best thing, Tada Hayao made a request.

He asked the engineers to demonstrate the weakness of the eight-way chariot, and what weapons would the infantry need to use if they wanted to destroy it?
To be precise, what caliber cannon can do it?

The front line is still fighting, and it will be a disaster if there is no way to use the eight-way tanks.

Many engineers discussed the tank and came to the same conclusion as before.

The turret armor and frontal armor are the strongest, followed by the flank armor, followed by the rear armor.

The weakest part is the tank's tracks.

The [-]mm armor and the special steel used were something the engineers had never seen before. They couldn't judge it, and they had to experiment to get the result.

The three captured tanks were acquired at the cost of nine bombers.

Ordinary people must be reluctant, Tada Hayao waved his hand: "It is urgent, you choose a car as a target, you must calculate the data earlier, and give me a result."

The artillery that the Japanese army is often equipped with has been prepared in the barracks.

Including the Sanqi anti-aircraft gun specially used to deal with tanks, and the [-]mm caliber Type [-] infantry gun.

And the Type [-], [-]mm caliber field cannon equipped for the front line.

The experiment was handed over to the engineer team of Jiangyuan Yamaguchi, and Tada Hayao followed his subordinates to watch from a distance.

Tada Jun asked suddenly: "Balu's weapons include chariots. According to the intelligence, they were all contacted by that person named Chen Hao. Didn't Youzuka Yoshio take any measures against this person?"

Chief of Staff Miyano sighed inwardly, and replied:
"Youzuka Yoshio's favorite general Kazuki Yamamoto recently planned an attack, the target is the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and Chen Hao himself is at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army."

Hayao Tada has so many opportunities to deal with, he has long forgotten about that.

As soon as he said it, he remembered that someone had reported it to him.

Even the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was taken as a target. The appetite is really big, and it is not something mediocre people can think of.

"As a result, have they acted?" Tada Hayao asked.

"I was also about to report this matter." Chief of Staff Miyano talked about the whole plan and briefly repeated it.

In terms of overall planning, even Hayao Tada couldn't fault it, and it was highly praised as a fantastic idea.

Intelligence locking, aircraft bombing is a move.

Dressed in eight-way clothes and disguised as a sneak attack, the paratroopers cooperated with another move.

These two tricks are terribly tricky. As long as the goal is achieved in one round, the headquarters of the Eight Route Army will be destroyed.

The plane bombing has been confirmed to have been escaped by the Eighth Route headquarters, but [-] bombers were lost inexplicably.

The latter operation also started last night.

However, there has been no news of victory so far, and the telecommunication signal from the Eighth Route Army General Headquarters still exists. There are various signs that the attacking troops have encountered an accident.

After reporting the situation, Chief of Staff Miyano carefully observed Hayao Tada's expression.

Is disappointed, or disappointed.

I don't see any anger, probably because I didn't put too much energy into it, so it's easier to accept.

Miyano judged that he might have been hit too much, and the commander was already numb to bad news.

Tada Hayao has indeed become numb, unknowingly, Balu has become a serious problem, an opponent they must face up to.

Frontal battles to completely wipe out the Eighth Route Army cannot be achieved overnight.

Destroying the head of the eight-way agency is a shortcut, low investment and high return, it is worth a gamble.

Tada Jun was silent for a long time and said coldly: "Increase investment in this area, and you will arrange it yourself."

"Yes, I will always pay attention." Chief of Staff Miyano agreed.

In the middle of their conversation, it was ready over there.

First, small-caliber guns, and then continuously increase the caliber of artillery fire.

Everyone raised their binoculars to watch.

The first one is the Sanqi anti-tank gun, which was developed by Germany based on the anti-tank experience of World War I.

The caliber is 37 mm, and it has excellent penetration and damage capabilities for armor with a thickness of [-] to [-] mm at that time.

On the European battlefield of World War II, it seemed to be behind the times.

However, in the East Asian battlefield, the tanks of both sides are outdated and old models, and they still have a good killing effect.

In the anti-tank units of the Japanese army, it is still the main configuration.

The Central Army commanded by Chongqing didn’t even have much of this, and the anti-tank squad still carried cluster grenades to commit suicide attacks.

The engineering team did not place too much expectation at all, thinking that the Sanqi battle defense does not need to test the tank armor, but directly hits the weakest track.

With a bang, the shell shot out and hit the skirt armor protecting the tank's tracks.

But there was no penetration as people thought, the shell only made a depression on the skirt armor, and did not affect the tank track at all.

There is no doubt that the Sanqi anti-aircraft artillery is like a waste in front of this kind of tank, playing no role at all.

The atmosphere was somewhat gloomy, and Chief of Staff Miyano said: "It's okay, there is also the Type [-] infantry artillery, which should be able to penetrate."

Tada Hayao nodded. It wasn't all bad. At least he knew that the anti-aircraft guns of the March [-]th War were useless.

Without expectations, there can be no disappointments.

The [-]-type infantry artillery came on the scene, using armor-piercing bullets to fire two shots in a row.

The tank skirt armor had an effect, completely penetrated, and damaged the rear track.

Hitting the flank armor didn't work at all without accident, leaving a crater on the armor, and the warhead jumped directly.

It shows that the Type [-] infantry artillery can only damage the tracks, not destroy them.

Everyone was not surprised, the report of the chariot wing had already explained this matter.

The [-]mm field guns of the Type [-] artillery tank did not work, and the [-]mm [-] infantry guns were not expected.

The key is the Type [-] [-]mm caliber cannon, which is the real highlight.

(End of this chapter)