Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 194 New Developments in Tanks
Faced with this request from the border area, General Shi did not refuse it outright, but such technical assistance could not be achieved without using preserved fruits. Even though General Shi was fed up with the bureaucrats in the temporary capital, in name, they were still the leaders of the national war of resistance.

Even preserved fruits have not received such large-scale technical assistance.

Fortunately, Ren Zhong gave him a new option. He hoped that General Shi would provide a set of main factory design drawings and core mechanical equipment design drawings, a main load-carrying truck and M2 tank design drawings, so that the border area could find a way to build such a factory by itself.

Now, the border region has basically stepped into the threshold of elementary automobiles by producing the Daliwang and Red Star I tractors, but further research on automobiles will require a lot of research and development time.

For these sets of designs, Ren Zhong would have difficulty getting complete information even in the main world.

You can only break through little by little.

If there were no time limit, Ren Zhong could develop core components such as gasoline engines and clutches for automobiles in three to five years. But if he really waited to do this, the Japanese would have been defeated.

Since the Rogue Eagles had extended an olive branch, Ren Zhong took advantage of this opportunity to extract some useful information from them bit by bit.

The next thing he wanted was a production line for electronic products.

Although the Dawn Research Institute already has its own primary electronics industry, it is not on the same level as the Rogue Eagle.

If he could get something in return, Ren Zhong could at least help the Dawn Research Institute avoid more than ten years of detours.

Vacuum tubes and transistors are all outdated electronic products, but without these accumulations, it would be very difficult to step into the era of integrated circuits.

After the talks, the border region and the Eighth Route Army kept their word and launched a round of attacks, successively capturing five county towns in Shanxi, making the Japanese in Shanxi very frightened.

This time, the two county towns of Heyuan and Anping were finally taken over and connected into one.

With such conditions, the ordnance industry in the Eighth Route Army base finally began a round of great development. Ren Zhong supported them with nearly one hundred skilled engineers who had undergone rigorous training. He established a new machine tool factory in Heyuan, began to increase machine tool production capacity on a large scale, and expanded the three major ordnance bases of Heyuan Ordnance, Yangcun and Huangyadong.

With mature technology, the expansion of new production capacity is very vigorous. After a month of machine tool explosion, Heyuan and Anping, where hydropower stations can be built, have built a number of 500KW hydropower stations to support machine tools and the two planned electric furnace steelmaking plants.

他们主要生产的就是107火、56半自动、56式机枪和82毫米迫击炮、新型掷弹筒，这些需要的45号钢和Q255钢在本地就能大量生产。

These weapons are also the most urgent for the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese in Shanxi seemed to be frightened by the continuous attacks of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, and they basically remained quiet during this period. Even when Ji Zhong counterattacked back to the base area, the North China Command did not make many big moves. They simply added a brigade to the surrounding railway trunk lines to strengthen the defense of the railway lines.

On the grassland, the Japanese finally started to act. Ren Zhong received intelligence that two Japanese divisions had already boarded the Pingsui Railway from Zhangbei and headed for Qingcheng!

Intelligence shows that the Japanese are accompanied by a tank regiment this time.

There is no doubt that this is aimed at Jiuyuan.

However, this time the Japanese reacted a little slowly. After General Shi's return, the pressure from the temporary capital on the border area was reduced a lot. Several main divisions were required to be transferred from Chang'an to the First War Zone to strengthen the threat to the Japanese in North China.

With this opportunity, the border area once again mobilized a newly reorganized main regiment to the north, bringing with it the equipment of five main regiments, preparing to arm the three divisions expanded from the Suimeng Self-Defense Army which was reorganized from the Temporary 5rd Division.

The 4nd and 56rd divisions absorbed more than 107 grassland riders on the basis of the two main regiments that went north earlier. This time, they were provided with weapons mainly consisting of semi-automatic and firearms.

The basic configuration of these two divisions is one infantry regiment plus two cavalry regiments. Each cavalry regiment is equipped with sabers and 56 semi-automatic rifles, and four 4mm rifles. Their mobility on the grassland has surpassed the mechanized regiment composed of the powerful King and Red Star I.

After all, there is abundant water and grass on the prairie, and there are many places that even the strongest cannot reach, but horses can easily cross them.

The original personnel of the earlier Temporary 3rd Division were reorganized into the 2st Division of the Suimeng Autonomous Army, and on the original basis, it absorbed personnel and reorganized into the main force of infantry regiments, cavalry regiments and one artillery regiment.

In this way, the main force of Jiuyuan expanded to nearly 4 people.

Dawn Institute.

Ren Zhong looked at the boxes of information and felt a little emotional.

With the needs of the border area in mind, General Shi was very eager to carry out activities in the country of Rogue Eagle. He took the border area's recent brilliant achievements, including the whirlwind capture of Jiuyuan, the forceful encirclement and annihilation of the 4th Mixed Brigade, and the almost complete paralysis of the Japanese air force base in North China. General Shi successfully persuaded the country to cooperate with the border area and won new technical support for the border area.

M3 Stuart light tank and Chevrolet G506 light truck.

The former is already outdated and is basically cannon fodder on the European battlefield. With a 37mm main gun and 50mm steel plate at the thickest part, it can defeat the mustache's Type and Type tanks with just one shot.

The 37mm main gun has extremely limited killing power against charging infantry and is not as effective as the machine gun above.

Its advantage is that it runs fast, with a maximum speed of 55 kilometers per hour, which is almost the fastest among current tanks.

Although Rogue Eagle said he was willing to pay a small price to annihilate more Japanese devils in the border area and let them shed less blood on the Pacific battlefield.

However, in terms of technical assistance, they were still stingy and provided a large number of outdated products to the Soviet Union to the border areas.

Of course, this is already considered pretty good. Even the preserved fruits in Peidu don’t have this treatment. They are only worthy of being directly given the product and becoming users.

However, this user often fails to perform his duties well and often becomes the transport captain. Many weapons and equipment from the Rogue Eagles fall into the hands of the Japanese, which makes General Shi extremely disappointed in them.

Moreover, according to his understanding, it would be useless to give it to them, as they could not even produce steel. On the contrary, in the border areas, they miraculously used a kind of earthen blast furnace to produce steel far exceeding that of the rear areas.

Under such a strong contrast, this is why General Shi is inclined to further cooperate with the border area. After all, this side is trying every means to win the war.

Compared with tanks, the automotive technology presented by Rogue Eagle this time is more sincere. The Chevrolet G506 light truck is the main truck that Rogue Eagle is currently mass-producing and using.

The design and production were both in the last two years of the 40s. This model was also specially customized for aid to the Soviet Union. In history, nearly 16 trucks of this type were produced, of which 15 were provided to the Soviet Union.

This truck weighs 3.7 tons, has a designed payload of 1.7 tons (as we all know, in our hands, at least 5 tons are stuffed in), is 5.7 meters long, 2.1 meters wide, and 2.7 meters high. With such a large space, if you want to load people according to the tiger's loading method, at least 2 rows can be stuffed in! The engine of this truck is a Chevrolet BV1001 83 horsepower gasoline engine, with a maximum speed of 48 miles per hour (about 77 kilometers per hour), and the performance is still very superior.

Compared with the two agricultural vehicles introduced by Renzhong, this is already ahead of others by more than one era.

Ren Zhong got the information about these two products and after checking them in the main world, he was quite satisfied.

The M3's W679-9A air-cooled gasoline engine is relatively easy to use technically and has a wide range of uses. Its only drawback is that it is relatively delicate and requires good oil (No. 80 gasoline). However, for Ren Zhong, this engine can be used not only on tanks but also on heavy-duty vehicles in the future. In addition, it forms a high-low combination with the BV506 gasoline engine on the Chevrolet G1001, which just solves the problem of whether or not to have a gasoline engine.

In the future, these two gasoline engines can form a gasoline engine series.

The M3 Stuart is relatively useless in Europe, but it is just right in North China and the prairies. It can completely defeat the Japanese Type 95 tank, and it is not without the ability to fight against the Japanese Type 25 medium tank. After all, most of the armor of the Japanese Type 37 tank has only mm of protection, which is of no use against the mm tank gun.

In terms of armor, it can be said that the M3 Stuart and the Japanese Type 57 each have their own advantages, but the Japanese Type has the upper hand as its main gun is a mm tank gun.

(Samba X1A1 modified M3 Stuart tank)

But for Ren Zhong, this was not a problem, because he found that in the main world, Samba Country had found out the improvement route for this tank for him. They simply and crudely replaced the turret with a 90mm gun! It became a new main battle tank, called X1A, with several times more power.

Then Samba felt that this was a good idea, so they made some modifications to it, adding a series of sighting and observation equipment, anti-aircraft machine guns and other new equipment, and then increased the weight by several tons to turn it into the X1A1, which is Samba's ultimate modified M3 version.

In the 1960s and 1970s in the main world, this modified tank could only survive in South America.

For Ren Zhong, it was already a very good weapon at the time point of the 40s.

In Ren Zhong's hands, the ZIS-34 main gun for the T2 heavy tank has been completed. This is a 76mm tank main gun that can fight against the powerful tank torrent of Germany's three largest tanks in Europe.

Now just put this main gun on it, and the M3 Stuart can instantly change from a weak and powerless little pudding to a domineering little prince who can easily blow up the Japanese Type and Type tanks!

The changes are very minor, the chassis, power, and driving remain unchanged. All you need to do is re-weld the turret.

This rubbish light tank, which is quite useless in Europe, is given to Ren Zhong at this stage. It seems like it was tailor-made for Ren Zhong.

There are simply too many advantages.

First of all, this tank weighs nearly 34 tons less than the T-20. Considering the severe shortage of steel in the border areas and the Eighth Route Army, this can save a lot of steel.

Secondly, the technical difficulty has also been reduced. Compared with the GAA v8 generator, which has not yet been mass-produced, the MS gasoline engine has much less technical difficulty. With the research and production experience of single-cylinder diesel engines, we can get started directly.

In essence, it is similar to the Chevrolet G506 truck developed by Ren Zhong.

So the more Ren Zhong watched it, the more he liked it.

He was still staring at the information in a daze until someone came.

"Mr. Ren, are you looking for me?" Professor Pan Jichun, who was in charge of tank research and development, came to Ren Zhong's cave, looked at him strangely, and asked in confusion,

After all, he had just reported the latest progress of the tank power GAA V8 yesterday. The first engine has been hand-made and is now undergoing testing. Ren Zhong should not be impatient to use this engine.

Professor Pan thought so.

"Professor Pan, come and take a look at these things." Ren Zhong was awakened, raised his head, glanced at Professor Pan, smiled and pointed at the tank information at hand.

Professor Pan stepped forward, picked up a thick book written entirely in English, and his eyes lit up when he saw the title.

"Is this the production information of Rogue Eagle's M3 tank?" Professor Pan asked in surprise.

"Yes, this is the complete set of technical data of the M3 Stuart tank and Chevrolet G506 truck that General Shi requested us to transfer to us. Our tank team will research and produce these two products first. Compared with the T-34, the data of these two products is more detailed and specific, and the technical difficulty and requirements are much lower. We will research and mass-produce them as soon as possible," Ren Zhong said to Professor Pan.

After all, the M3 is an old light tank, and the generator is also a relatively old gasoline engine. According to the current foundation of the Dawn Research Institute, there is no shortage of materials and processing machine tools.

"However, we don't have a 37mm tank gun now. I hope to improve it directly by replacing the original 37mm turret with our own 76mm tank main gun turret."

"Okay, I'll organize people to study these materials right away and digest this new tank design as soon as possible." Professor Pan flipped through them and said excitedly, "The M3 is a light tank, and its load and armor are much simpler. We should be able to implement it much faster than the T-34. For example, the GAA V8 engine is much more complicated than the gasoline engine of the M3 tank. The production process and production efficiency are incomparable."

Professor Pan has been indoctrinated with a large amount of tank-related information provided by Ren Zhong, and now has a strong knowledge reserve. He himself is studying these mechanical power-related aspects, and his depth of understanding of these materials is much stronger than Ren Zhong.

These professors at the Dawn Institute were numb to Ren Zhong's mysterious ability to acquire new technologies, so it was not surprising that Professor Pan had acquired these new things.

He only knew that he had to be busy again, as this was a complete set of information for a tank and a car.

Just looking at so many cardboard boxes in the room you can tell it's not simple.

Fortunately, many of his subordinates are familiar with English, otherwise it would be a real hassle for the team to learn and understand so much English material.

Of course, many people in the team now have overseas experience, so there is no big problem in reading English materials directly.

There was a lot of information, and Professor Pan obviously couldn't take it all away by himself, but Ren Zhong was well prepared and directly asked several members of the escort team to carry the information to the tank research team.

Next, it’s Professor Pan and his team’s business.

The second and third updates are combined into one 4000-word chapter, and the quantity remains unchanged.

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