Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 186: A mechanized regiment supported by tricycles

In April 1942, the Dawn Institute created new history.

The first agricultural tricycle came out. Since the synthetic rubber production line of the chemical plant was still being debugged, the three wheels of the first vehicle were removed from a local vehicle.

Equipped with Red Star’s first diesel engine CY1110, with a displacement of 1.1 liters and an output power of 20 horsepower!

整车车厢尺寸 2500×1350×500mm，车高1500mm，载重量最大可达2.5吨！当然你要是装3吨4吨跑平路也没有问题，只不过超载情况下爬坡能力会差很多。

If it can carry 2 tons, this tricycle will have no problem climbing any slope that a horse-drawn carriage or ox-drawn cart can.

According to Ren Zhong's habit, this new vehicle was named Red Star Power King T2500 transport vehicle.

The carriage is made of steel frame + wooden board. The cab is cancelled due to the open design. There is no heavy front end of the main world prototype car. The whole car weighs less than 800 pounds, and the design of the original car is extremely simplified.

Although driving this car in winter would be very touching and the oncoming cold wind would probably freeze the driver in no time, the quantity is important now and a batch needs to be produced quickly for emergency use, so everything that can be simplified has been simplified.

Moreover, modular production was directly adopted. 200 sets of external parts such as frames and carriages were produced in a row. Now the only bottleneck in production capacity is the production of diesel engines. According to the current progress, it may take several months to increase the monthly output of engines from a few to 100, so as to run in the equipment and train a team of skilled workers.

This is casting plus secondary processing. The fine work can only be done by skilled workers. It cannot be expanded by simply adding more people.

In the world of Sword and Fairy. When it was getting dark and almost time for dinner, Ren Zhong saw that Hu Zi, who usually stayed by his side and didn't move much, was not seen today and was only seen at night.

I couldn't help but ask.

"Huzi, you haven't been seen all day, what are you doing?"

"Boss Ren, I learned how to drive today." Hu Zi said excitedly.

There was dust all over his face.

"What?" Ren Zhong didn't react.

There is no car.

"Our research institute has developed this car first. I'll let Master Ma teach me first!" Hu Zi said with an embarrassed smile.

He is the head of the internal security department of the Dawn Institute, and doing this seems a bit like abusing his power for personal gain.

"Oh, you mean you went to learn how to drive a tricycle?" Ren Zhong reacted, but a question flashed through his mind: Is a tricycle also considered a car?
"Yes, our Daliwang car, Boss Ren, you said that if our independent regiment had this Daliwang and repaired the road, I could rush from Yangcun to Anping City in an hour, which is better than riding a horse!" Seeing that Ren Zhong had no intention of blaming him, Hu Zi also boldly expressed his feelings.

"Behind the Strong King, pull the cannon, and the carriages pull the artillery shells. It's an artillery company. Now I only need 4 vehicles to tow them hundreds of kilometers a day! The mobility is really strong." Hu Zi's scientific and technological knowledge level improved a lot after following Ren Zhong, but he did not fall behind in military affairs. Relying on his identity as the captain of the internal guard, he often trained with the th Security Regiment.

The internal guards of the Dawn Research Institute have expanded from a dozen people to more than a hundred people, a full company. "Really?" Ren Zhong tilted his head and blinked. He didn't expect Hu Zi to still be thinking about this. "Tell me, if this powerful king is equipped to the troops, how do you think it can improve the combat effectiveness of a main force regiment?"

Ren Zhong didn't have anything urgent to do today, so he might as well take a break and chat with Hu Zi, just like he did when he chatted online in his previous life.

"I think the most important thing is to equip the transportation of heavy weapons and ammunition. If there is a highway to rely on, with 20 Daliwang, we can carry heavy weapons such as machine guns, mortars, mountain cannons and the accompanying basic ammunition. It won't be too difficult to march a hundred miles in a day and night. If the carriages are larger, one car can carry a platoon. Then, as long as there are 300 cars, the whole regiment can march in the cars, and a raid of kilometers in one night will not be a problem." Hu Zi counted on his fingers for a while, and said to Ren Zhong, "With cars, we can be faster than the Japanese's current motor vehicle troops!"

The maximum speed of Daliwang is designed to be 50 kilometers. It can run at full speed on good road conditions. Of course, most of the bumpy roads at this time cannot support running that fast. As a compromise, it is not a problem to run 30 kilometers per hour on roads that large trucks can run on. It is really not too stressful to run kilometers in one night.

With the current Daliwang fuel consumption of less than 4 liters of diesel per 40 kilometers, plus a -liter fuel tank, one tank of fuel is enough.

Ren Zhong is quite familiar with the performance of this tricycle.

But one motorcycle can carry a platoon. Ren Zhong was a little surprised. Is Huzi possessed by his third brother? Can one motorcycle carry a platoon?

A full platoon of the main regiment had 37 people. Although in terms of weight, the Eighth Route Army soldiers during this period were generally thin, with few weighing more than kilograms, but a platoon sitting there in a black mass was a large group of people.

How dare you think about it.

"Wait, Huzi, are you serious about a car that can fit an entire platoon? How can it possibly fit?" Ren Zhong couldn't help but ask back.

"No problem. I think if we extend the carriage to 5 meters, 12 people can sit in one row, and then divide it into three rows, that would be exactly 36 people, with one more person to be the driver." It seems that Hu Zi has really put some thought into it.

Ren Zhong couldn't help but scratch his head. If you say so, I really have nothing to say. You are really a little math genius!
Ren Zhong knew clearly that based on the height and shoulder width of the soldiers of that period, a person sitting sideways would not be more than 40 centimeters, and a 5-meter-long carriage would be enough to string together an entire squad!
Everyone can huddle together for warmth!
But how many hours of driving can this last? As soon as Ren Zhong had this question, he immediately dispelled it. The Red Army ran 20 miles on foot in 240 hours to capture Luding Bridge!
It’s no big deal for this group of people to be crammed in a car for eight or nine hours!
They are not those sickly people in modern times who can’t stand the high-speed train for several hours.

A 5-meter-long carriage with three wheels is probably enough to cause it to flip over if it makes a slightly bigger turn.

It is unrealistic to make a tricycle 5 meters long.

You can consider it when you modify it to 4 wheels in the future.

Ren Zhong is not the kind of person who would make changes blindly on impulse. It is true that he is a liberal arts student and has seen so many real tricycles. There must be a reason why he didn't do that.

Having said that, according to Hu Zi's calculation, even if a tricycle cannot be pulled by a platoon, it seems that a squad can easily pull it. After all, with a length of 2 meters, a row of 5 people can easily pull it, and three rows means 6 people.

Just over a hundred vehicles were enough to carry away a newly formed main force regiment. According to the current organization, the newly formed main force regiment has 12 companies, each with about 150 people, and the entire regiment has less than 2000 people.

With a tricycle, everything is fully mechanized and no mules or horses are needed. In terms of logistics, we only need to ensure the supply of fuel, and there must be a road!
Ren Zhong thought about it and it seemed that whether there were roads on the prairie was not a particularly important issue. If they were all armed and formed into a tricycle convoy, wouldn't it become a mechanized force?

Colonel Ka has a Toyota pickup truck, and my Eighth Route Army has a three-wheeled powerful king, which doesn’t seem bad!
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