Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 195 Tankman, Pilot (2 in 1)
I can get some stuff from Rogue Eagle again. Even though they are outdated stuff, it still feels great to get them for free.

The tanks are about to be produced, and the trucks will be produced soon.

Ren Zhong was very happy.

These two things are the cornerstones of true mechanized troops. Although they still seem too weak to Ren Zhong now, when compared with peers, these two pieces of equipment are not weak at all compared to the Japanese.

After all, the Japanese are very weak in real mechanization. So far, they have only established three mechanized divisions, namely the so-called tank divisions. Not only are they small in number, but their equipment is also at the bottom level among the strong powers. The main tanks of the tank divisions are the Type 95 light tank (ultra-light tank) and the Type 97 medium tank (medium tank).

Ren Zhong had checked in the main world and found out that the Japanese treated these tank divisions like treasures. Each tank division had two tank brigades and two tank regiments. The tank regiments had a total of 14 combat light tanks, 57 medium tanks, 27 vehicles, and 1071 regiment personnel. Then there was a mobile infantry regiment, a mobile artillery regiment, and a search team.

However, the mobile infantry regiment, in addition to a light armored vehicle squadron, has three infantry battalions, a regiment artillery squadron and a maintenance squadron, with a total of 3 light tanks, 25 armored personnel carriers and about 15 vehicles.

机动炮兵联队下辖3个炮兵大队。第1大队为汽车牵引90式75毫米野炮12门，第2、3大队为汽车牵引91式105毫米榴弹炮12门。

The division search team has 4 squadrons, of which the 1st and 2nd squadrons are light tank squadrons, each with 95 Type 15 light tanks, and the 4th squadron is the Type 97 medium tank squadron, with 12 tanks. The 3rd squadron is the vehicle infantry squadron, and the entire division has more than 13000 people.

Such a division would be a completely inferior armored unit on the European battlefield, but in historical time and space, it would be a powerful weapon against the preserved fruit troops in the first war zone on the Chinese battlefield, and it would directly defeat the Tang Corps.

To be honest, once Ren Zhong takes out the modified X3A from the M1 Stuart and carries the big ZIS-2, it will only take less than 200 vehicles to crush the Japanese tank division.

Not to mention a big guy like the T-34 with thick skin and tough flesh, it can easily defeat five at once.

After waking up from a sweet dream, Ren Zhong realized that his side was not even as good as the Japanese tank division. He only had a group of old men like Dali Wang! They were not even on the same level as the Japanese tank division.

Not to mention that apart from equipment, he seemed to be even more short of talent.

Now that the modified M3 is about to be released, it seems that there is no one suitable to drive it.

It's not just tankers, fighter pilots seem to be even more in short supply.

No, talent training must be put on the agenda.

Ren Zhong thought about it and felt that the cave academy must be expanded again.

This aviation class and armored class cannot just be engaged in development, they must also have people who can fight!

Ren Zhong spent two days planning this. Tank driving was okay, just like driving a car, but jobs like gunner and observer required skills and experience to be able to shoot accurately. However, he couldn't do many things, so he had to ask for help.

Ren Zhong picked up the phone and shook it for a while before it powered on.

"Hello, Mr. Ren, who are you looking for?" A gentle voice came from the microphone.

"Bring me Staff Officer Ye." Ren Zhong said neatly.

The dedicated line he dialed between the Liming Research Institute and the border area was the first generation of manual telephone transfer system introduced by Ren Zhong for the border area, which established a wired communication network for important departments in several counties adjacent to the border area.

"Hello, Brother Ren, what good news do you have to share today?" Soon, the cheerful voice of Staff Officer Ye sounded from the other end of the phone line.

"Staff Officer Ye, today's news is not good news," Ren Zhong said with a wry smile. "I came to ask for your help. We have received the tank and truck information from Rogue Eagle. I estimate that in two to three months at the earliest, or half a year at the slowest, our tanks and trucks will be in mass production. But now our car drivers are still in training, but tank drivers are not. We must find some experienced tank drivers as seed driving instructors, and we will start teaching from now on."

"It's not just the drivers. We urgently need gunners, machine gunners, and observers on the tanks. We all need seed instructors."

The other party was silent for a while. "Brother Ren, you have really given me a big problem. As far as I know, it may be difficult to find such a person in the border area."

Ren Zhong also understood Staff Officer Ye's complaints.

After all, in this miserable world of ours, even eating is a problem. It's not that we haven't seen tanks before. The Guosu people have an organized tank unit, but on the Eighth Route Army side, most of them are really peasants.

Now we finally have a gun per person. Two years ago, the main force was still using outdated muskets. Can you believe it?
"Staff Officer Ye, I understand. We don't have the conditions to contact tanks in the border areas.

Now I'm afraid we'll have to go to the rear to dig up a few people from the preserved fruits.

As far as I know, there are already special tank units in the expeditionary force of Guosu, and many of the tank drivers are learning to drive the M3 Stuart tanks and M4 Sherman tanks that we are going to produce.

These people have been studying and fighting abroad for more than half a year. After repeated battles, as far as I know, most of them lost their tanks in battle and had to return to China.

These talents have no place to use their skills in China, but they are very valuable to us. I hope to find out the whereabouts of these tank drivers and gunners who are stranded in China, recruit them to the border areas, and become our seed instructors of the Cave Academy, so as to train our first batch of tank drivers as soon as possible. "

Ren Zhong did not make things difficult for Staff Officer Ye, but instead laid out the method he had already planned. He had looked up this information in the main world, so it was very convincing.

"Okay, we will send a telegram to the Eighth Office of the temporary capital today, asking them to follow your method and find ways to recruit a few tank drivers to the border area." After hearing Ren Zhong's analysis, Staff Officer Ye felt that there was nothing else to say now that they had a plan and could just do it.

"There is one more thing, I don't know if it's possible," Ren Zhong saw that the tank driver matter was making progress and couldn't help but think of the pilot matter. Although it's a bit far away now, the training cycle is longer, so he must plan ahead and make preparations in advance.

"As for the fighter pilot instructors and the first-generation teaching aircraft, Staff Officer Ye, please contact General Shi to see if he can send a few pilots with an aircraft to help us train a group of pilots. Just tell General Shi about this. We now have the ability to attack and capture the Japanese airports. Sometimes we can't drive the captured Japanese fighter planes back and can only blow them up. We hope they can help us train a group of pilots. We will set up a flying team to fight the Japanese." Ren Zhong said to Staff Officer Ye.

"Also, since Guosu lost a lot of fighter planes, many of the original pilots have no planes to fly. We might as well send people to look for them. If we can find a few, it will be a profit. According to our current progress, we should be able to manufacture fighter planes by next year."

Ren Zhong's words simply ignited Staff Officer Ye's emotions.

"Brother Ren, are we getting any results on our fighter jets?" Staff Officer Ye knew what the Dawn Research Institute was researching, but he knew how difficult it was and never thought there would be hope so soon.

"We have made some progress now. We have developed prototypes for several core components. The next step is to wait for the success of our research on the large 10,000-ton hydraulic press. Once the research on the 10,000-ton hydraulic press is completed, we can process components such as the landing gear and frame. It won't be long before our fighter jets can take off." Ren Zhong replied with a smile.

"That's great, that's really great!" Staff Officer Ye said excitedly.

Fighter jets! This is the area where the Japanese used to show off their power. Now the border area must also have its own air force, and the Japanese will never be allowed to unilaterally dominate the air again.

"Brother Ren, don't worry. We will dig deep into the ground to find the pilot for you. We will try our best to get General Shi, but in order to complete such a mission, I'm afraid we have to plan a new campaign.

It's hard to ask for help without any achievements." After returning to normal, Staff Officer Ye smiled bitterly.

There is no other way now. If you want to ask for help, you have to have the right attitude to ask for help.

After all, given the conditions in the border area, it is not impossible to train a group of tank drivers and fighter pilots from scratch, but the speed is too slow.

When the M3 tank enters the mass production stage, at least a dozen tanks will roll off the production line every month. Now that the tank has been developed, the heavy workload of this production line will surely require Jiang Chongjing to continuously replicate new tank production lines for large-scale production.

This thing is more important than guns and cannons. If used properly, a tank can be more effective on the battlefield than an infantry company!

For infantry, this is definitely a powerful weapon that can defeat hundreds of enemies with one person, and it is a generational difference.

The current situation is that tank manufacturing may be ahead, but qualified drivers may lag far behind the progress of tank production.

This is even more true for fighter pilots, as the training period is longer and the difficulty is greater. Without the guidance of an experienced pilot, it would be difficult to learn to fly by just reading the instruction manual.

But Ren Zhong had no choice. Although he had instructed the border area to find someone, he had to prepare for the worst-case scenario in case he couldn't find the person.

Now that the conditions at hand are limited, Ren Zhong has to return to the main world to see how our first generation of tank drivers and pilots were trained.

Ren Zhong searched for our army's first tank unit in history and found that it took several years for the Japanese to flee. The first tank driver of our army was not a professional at all!

Instead, it started as a car driver who was forced to make a cameo appearance during the liberation period!
Well, in essence, a tank is just a kind of motor vehicle. You don't need a driver's license to drive it in the world of Bright Sword. If you are simply facing infantry, it seems that it is enough to be able to drive it and you can really crush them all the way.

But for now, when facing the Japanese tank division, it is definitely not enough to have drivers who can drive the tanks and engage in face-to-face combat with the Japanese tanks.

Even if the Japanese are in a weak position, we still have the advantage over the border troops and the preserved fruits.

The fact that they don't have many fully mechanized troops doesn't mean there are no tanks in their troops.

In fact, at the division level, the Japanese not only had tanks, but also anti-tank guns. Even if it was a 37mm anti-tank gun, when facing an armored vehicle like the M3 Stuart, which was actually a thin-skinned vehicle, the power of the anti-tank gun was still very terrifying.

Without qualified tank drivers and gunners, even if the tank is produced, it will be useless if it can only attack and charge. It will easily become a target with iron bumps that get hit everywhere.

The T-34 is thick and can withstand a few hits without any problem, as it is not a critical part. However, the M3 is not the same. Its entire body is only about 20 mm thick in armor, and it really cannot withstand a few hits from anti-tank guns.

The only way is to take the initiative. You must make good use of the 76mm large tube above, fire at the enemy first, and kill the opponent first to be safe!
As for the tank drivers in the country in the present time and space, Ren Zhong remembered correctly. He checked the expeditionary force sent by Guo Su formed in the 42nd year of historical time and space. Many of them had come into contact with the Rogue Eagle tanks. The entire expeditionary force formed a total of 7 battalions of armored forces, which were indeed equipped with M4 Sherman tanks and M3 Stuart tanks, which were just the right match.

In that original time and space, some of these warriors who fought in foreign lands died on the battlefield, while others returned home in despair.

Ren Zhong consulted the memories of many veterans of this period of history, did a lot of investigation and research, and recorded the places where they once lived, so he had a general understanding of the movements of this group of people.

Ren Zhong brought the information back to the world of Bright Sword and handed it to Staff Officer Ye without hesitation. Compared to looking for a needle in a haystack, Ren Zhong's information at least reduced the difficulty of Staff Officer Ye and his team's activities.

Not only the tank drivers, but also the pilots' information. Ren Zhong also found some clues from historical time and space. He also passed these clues to Staff Officer Ye and asked him to send the information to the people in the Eighth Office of the Temporary Capital.

Based on the clues provided by himself, he secretly sent people to search and dig out those people.

Whether it is the tank drivers who returned to the country from the British Burmese Army, or the valuable pilots trained by Guofu in those years.

Let them find ways to invite them to the border areas to serve as the first generation of seed instructors.

Ren Zhong believes that for these people, if there is a place where they can display their abilities, they will definitely rush to the new battlefield without hesitation!
In the original time and space, they disappeared silently because they had not found a stage to shine. Ren Zhong believed that among these people, once they were given hope, most of them would be full of passion!

As long as they are given a real chance to kill the enemy and serve their country, they will always go back to the battlefield without hesitation!
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