Less than three months after Qi Rui returned to North America, the first armored vehicle sample appeared in front of the members of the North American Theater of Operations Command. After looking it up and down, the headquarters clicked their tongues in wonder. "I didn't expect a tracked tractor to have such a wonderful use!"
It had been more than ten years since the occupation of North America, and agricultural machinery had advanced by leaps and bounds. There was a huge domestic market, and diesel engines, wheeled, and tracked heavy tractors were developing extremely quickly. These few years were also the era of large shipbuilding, and there were a large number of workers who were proficient in rolling homogeneous steel and surface hardening. The size and thickness of the armor steel were much thinner than that of ship armor. Instead of a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, an 8,000-ton hydraulic press could easily handle it.
"Industry really depends on accumulation!" Qi Rui had long known this truth, but the emotion and emotion contained in this cliché were far more than before.
Although he was emotional, the actual test of the armored vehicle was not ambiguous. First, it ran for dozens of kilometers, on flat ground, mud, grass, woods, climbing hills, climbing walls, and crossing ditches. Looking at the silly, cumbersome armored vehicle actually completed these tasks one by one.
The people from the headquarters walked up to the armored vehicle. The commander kicked the dirty body a few times, but the vehicle did not move at all. He smiled and said, "I didn't expect such a cumbersome thing to really be able to do that."
The chief of staff leaned forward and slammed his fist on the body a few times, but there was no sound coming from the body. The chief of staff nodded. "It's thick enough!"
Since the two senior commanders said so, the next defense test immediately began. Rifles, light and heavy machine guns, mortars, howitzers, and various artillery with a maximum caliber of 75 were all fired at the armored vehicle. Behind the armored vehicle were many human-shaped targets, and after each weapon was fired, a new target was replaced.
Seeing that machine gun fire had no effect on the targets hiding behind the armored vehicle, many commanders were already excited. In the North American War, the Liberation Army used a lot of barbed wire and trenches in the war, and their tactics were quite mature. As long as the Americans were surrounded, even a very simple field barbed wire could make it difficult for them to escape. The Liberation Army had a headache on how to attack such positions. There was a limit to the use of motorized infantry. Even if they succeeded in outflanking the enemy, if the enemy built a circular defensive position, the Liberation Army infantry would have to brave a hail of bullets to break through the position. Now, he finally had the tools to break through.
Machine guns were useless against armored vehicles, and 37-caliber cannons were useless against a sturdy shell. After a few rounds of the 75 mm cannon hit the armored vehicle, the thick outer shell suffered relatively large damage, and the power system inside the vehicle also malfunctioned, the armored vehicle could not move.
Some of the overexcited comrades foolishly suggested using the 105 mm artillery to bombard the armored vehicles. Such a brainless suggestion was despised by most of the comrades. The bombardment experiment was suspended, and the maintenance personnel immediately went to check if there was any problem with the power system.
"If the cavalry and armored troops encounter each other, they will definitely die. If the terrain wasn't good, the motorized troops wouldn't be able to handle it. As for infantrymen, perhaps they can perish together? "The chief of staff voiced his opinion.
The commander replied unhappily, "How brave would the infantry have to be? Can our Liberation Army do it? "
"If it's a battle to defend the country, I believe that the Liberation Army can do it when it's cornered," Political Commissar Qi Rui expressed his attitude.
The commander looked at Qi Rui unhappily. "I say, why do we have to put the Liberation Army on the weaker side?"
"If we don't consider the problem from the weaker side, we may suffer a lot. After all, even a rabbit will bite when it's cornered, "the chief of staff replied.
At first, the commander was immersed in the imagination of the armored troops, but when the chief of staff suggested actual combat, the commander quickly woke up.
At this time, the chief of logistics sighed and asked, "How much pressure will the armored troops put on the logistics?"
This sentence made the higher-ups of the North American theater of operations look at the future armored war more calmly. Back then, each soldier in the Liberation Army had ten pounds of equipment steel on the battlefield, and it created a country that dominated Asia. Later, each soldier on the battlefield had one ton of equipment steel, and the entire North America was swept by the Liberation Army. After the armored troops came out, each soldier was given about five tons of equipment steel on the battlefield, and the army was already approaching the navy at high speed. According to previous experience, the pressure on the logistics to support such an army in battle would be unimaginably great. Participating in the creation of the armored troops was indeed a soldier's honor, but it was also an extremely difficult process.
"Commissar, how long do you think it will take for the armored troops to come out?" The commander was very clear about the important role Qi Rui played in the creation of the motorized infantry.
"I think it will take at least four or five years," Qi Rui replied calmly under the gaze of a group of comrades. It took three years for the motorized infantry to be officially created and truly popularized. Qi Rui did not think the armored troops would be any easier.
Also learning from Vézé, the comrades in the civilian department were more relaxed. When Mayor Luo of Shanghai returned home in the evening, he saw a TV that he saw in the factory at home. Mayor Luo stared at the TV for a while and felt that the feeling of this thing being placed in the factory's exhibition hall was completely different from being placed in the living room at home.
After a closer look, Mayor Luo found that there did not seem to be any additional wiring in his home. He suddenly remembered the question he had before. When the Min dynasty built buildings, they left the location of the "comprehensive wiring." Because it was written in the "Construction Law" of the Min dynasty, every building built in the city had it. The comprehensive wiring was still separated from the strong current and the weak current, which meant that the light current was separated from the other lines. Everyone's initial understanding of the weak current was that it was a telephone. However, this wiring port now had more abundant uses, and the "excessive redundancy" of the past immediately became very spacious.
"Did His Majesty predict this decades ago?" Mayor Luo could not help but think so. But a moment later, he overturned his own thoughts. Who could know the development of decades later? What's more, Mayor Luo had just returned from the sewer construction site. At this time, he felt that enough redundancy was very important to the city. When the construction of Shanghai began, His Majesty Vézé repeatedly reminded him. At that time, the Shanghai government also did its best. However, the sewer, which was considered to be a "waste of manpower and money" at that time, could not hold on for more than a decade. Now, Mayor Luo was involved in the fourth phase of the Shanghai sewer expansion project.
These thoughts brought great annoyance to Mayor Luo. He drove these thoughts out of his mind and turned on the TV. Soon, an image appeared on the TV. "… The fourth phase of the city's sewer expansion project is speeding up. This morning, the mayor visited the construction site and gave instructions …"
The image of the beautiful female anchor was switched. Mayor Luo saw himself wearing the same work clothes as an ordinary worker, standing in front of the excavated ground and listening to the report. Mayor Luo had seen himself in photos before. This was the first time he saw himself in action. The shock made the mayor of a city with millions of people not know how to deal with it. He understood that it was himself on the TV, but the figure that should have been very familiar was so unfamiliar. This was not himself in the mirror, but himself from another perspective.
After the introduction, the beautiful female anchor appeared on the TV screen again. She continued to broadcast other news in very pleasant Mandarin. Mayor Luo felt a little shy when he saw himself on the TV. When he was no longer the protagonist of the TV news, he felt a sense of loss.
After the news ended, the female anchor began to read the next news. "Shanghai is preparing to develop labor-intensive industries, and new factories have begun to be built. The demand for labor has increased greatly. Now Shanghai is preparing to set a new recruitment standard and begin to plan a new industrial zone … "
Mayor Luo couldn't help but light a cigarette after hearing this news. Now, no one dared to disturb His Majesty Vézé. Or rather, the young people felt that they had grown up and could rely on themselves. They chose to be like the last two presidents, maintaining respect for His Majesty Vézé. Mayor Luo was very clear about this. But Shanghai was a large industrial city, and the problems and difficulties encountered were huge. Others were willing to not disturb His Majesty Vézé out of respect. Mayor Luo realized that he and the current leaders could not solve the problems encountered in Shanghai, so he chose to let the specific staff seek advice from His Majesty Vézé.
The Computer Research Institute was the first unit to solve its own problems. Originally, everyone thought that the calculator could only provide addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. If the calculator and the cash register were combined, a machine that cost seven to eight thousand yuan seemed unlikely to have a market. Unexpectedly, this kind of machine was very popular in supermarkets, and there was also a huge demand for department stores. According to His Majesty Vézé's evaluation and promotion of the market, within a few months, tens of thousands of units were sold in Shanghai, Wuxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and other places. Orders poured in from all over the country, and it seemed that the annual sales would exceed one hundred thousand yuan.
Sales of more than 100,000 units meant that the sales were close to 100 million yuan. Therefore, Mayor Luo continued to follow Wei Ze's suggestion. The Shanghai Municipal Government funded and the Shanghai Computer Research Institute provided technical cooperation to establish a computer company. This computer company used the name provided by His Majesty Vézé and was called 'Apple Company'. The logo was an apple that had a bite taken out of it.
This company was profitable, but its future was very uncertain. In a sense, Mayor Luo was just doing the Shanghai Computer Research Institute a favor. What Mayor Luo really cared about was a labor-intensive enterprise with a large production line. Garment processing enterprises could easily produce millions of pieces of clothing every year, which could absorb a large amount of labor. But in Mayor Luo's eyes, it was just a small matter. The production line that he really wanted to do was bicycles and cars.
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