"Attention, give oil with car No. 2! The big guys are all trying to listen to my command and give oil!"

"Boom~Boom~"

"One, two, three......"

Bursts of black smoke came out of the exhaust pipe of the old liberation car, and a wedge-faced tank covered with a yellow-brown gray layer in front also emitted puffs of white smoke from the tail.

The roar of the engine, the horns of the people on both sides of the car, and the howling of the wind that blew the tarpaulin on the top of the car all converged into a symphony in this deserted and populated place.

The rear wheels were stuck in the frozen ground, the tires were spinning rapidly, and a large amount of black frozen soil was shoveled towards the back.

The steel cable in front of the 359 tank was pulled straight.

"Oil! ”

Driven by the strong power of the 359 tank, the rear wheels of the old liberation car sunk into the mud slowly rose towards it.

When all of them were out of the frozen soil, everyone suddenly burst into cheers.

"Oh......"

"What are you proud of? These were supposed to support the tanks, but in the end, the tanks were to support them, what are the happy things? Who, go to the back and take a look, the other ones didn't get up. Xu Ruixiang, deputy chief designer, was not a little happy.

"Mr. Xu, the big guy can't cry, it's still more than 200 kilometers away from the next supply station!" said a thin man with chapped lips and frostbite on his face.

Xu Ruixiang looked at him, and he couldn't cry or laugh, "Virtue! Hurry up! The car in front doesn't know how far it has gone." Let the car take the road that tanks and engineering vehicles have run over, who will derail again, let them get out!"

"Mr. Xu, we want to get out. Look, there's no village in front of you, there's no shop in the back, and there's no place to go, right? Why don't you call Yun Shi and pick us up?" said a young man with cracked lips and a red face from the cold.

"Get out!" Xu Ruixiang pretended to kick at the young man, who flashed back with a smile, "By the way, Mr. Liang, why don't you come yet, let the base airdrop a few chickens to us." ”

"Do you know how much it costs to fly here? Every gram of material is precious!" Xu Ruixiang was furious, "I want to eat chicken, and when I go back, I will make you want to vomit!"

"Mr. Xu, it's okay if you don't apply for chickens, let the base airdrop some cabbage and potatoes for us. At the base, I was going to vomit all these things, but now I think about eating them every day......" said another young man with a grin.

Departing from the day before the National Day, the test convoy of 359 tanks began from Dunhuang through the desert.

According to the original route, instead of directly crossing the desert and heading straight towards Pakistan, in order to test more terrain, it has been turning in the western territory.

Mountains, deserts, Gobi, tundra, etc.

It's been two and a half months since the test.

Two tanks, but sixty or seventy people were engaged in logistical maintenance, and the Pakistani technicians who followed the test team could not bear this kind of suffering and returned as early as a month ago.

In the sparsely populated western region, the test fleet has been moving away from the city in order to avoid being informed of the performance data of the new tank.

There is no GPS positioning, so you can only rely on a map and a compass.

So, in areas where there are no roads, it's normal to take the wrong road.

It has been more than a month, and it has just entered the Tianshan region, and the journey is only more than 1,000 kilometers.

The problem of insufficient testing of the 359 tank, as well as the use of various components in low-temperature weather, etc., arose with great problems.

The weather here is already very cold, and at night, there are no barracks, only in tents, and if there is no fire, I don't even know what to do. The diesel fuel used in the tank has become a paste, and the oil in it is also difficult to run.

So, the trip is slow.

At the beginning, the logistics support fleet could still be guaranteed, and under harsh climatic conditions, the 59 tank modified engineering vehicle was also difficult to use, and the 359 tank became a rescue vehicle.

I don't want the 59 tank, it needs to be heated for half an hour to start, except for some electronic components at the beginning of the performance is very poor under low temperature conditions, after improvement, the 359 tank is getting stronger and stronger, although it still has problems from time to time, affecting the trip, but it has become a rescue tank for the entire test fleet.

Before departure, the preparations were not done enough, and it was difficult to replenish all kinds of materials, so in desperation, the base could only send a second Yun-10 prototype aircraft that was still carrying out test flight work to airdrop various supplies and parts to the entire test fleet.

So far, there have been two airdrops.

There are more than 100 people, and all kinds of consumption are not small.

Food and cold materials can be supplied in nearby places, and it is difficult to guarantee the spare parts needed for tanks, automobiles and even engineering vehicles.

"The convoy has already arrived in the Tianshan Mountains, right?" Xie Kai went to the headquarters from time to time to inquire about the situation of the test convoy.

A month ago, 11 Iraqi prototypes for combat arrived in Iraq.

The usage was better than expected.

The test team contacted the base through the telegraph carried by the team and constantly reported the situation.

"If there were no problems with the trip, it would have arrived tonight. Wang Guilin was also a little worried, "There was a heavy snowfall three days ago, and the logistics supply convoy was dragging its feet. I was able to start it, but it didn't work well on those roads......"

"Director Wang, the telegram from the convoy. At this time, a middle-aged man came in with a thick stack of electronic newspapers.

The general telegram is a few dozen words.

However, the convoy contacted the base, and there was no way to contact it by phone, only by telegraph.

"What's the situation?" Wang Guilin is used to it, and the number of newspapers he calls every day can judge what kind of situation the convoy encountered that day.

"The logistics convoy needs some spare parts, and the comrades who tested it asked if they could airdrop some potatoes and cabbage. Over there, canned food and compressed biscuits are scarce every day, and there is a lack of vitamins...... "The person who reported was a little embarrassed.

"Airdrop again?" Xie Kai asked with a frown.

"The test team will take three days to get to the nearest Kuqa County, and six days to go back and forth......"

"It's a bit expensive. Potato cabbage, isn't this the most unpopular thing in our base?" Zheng Yucheng, who had just come in, asked in surprise, "Anyway, Yun Ten must continue to test." Let's give it an airdrop. ”

Potatoes and cabbage, these years, are almost the main vegetable supply of the base in winter.

"Goulash with potatoes, nice. Xie Kai said with a grin.

but my heart was full of pain.

The northwest region is remote, and the supply of various materials is far less abundant than that of the mainland, and even if you want to transport from the mainland to the northwest, the cost is ridiculously high, especially when the cultivation of plastic greenhouses has not yet been promoted.

"I'm full!" Wang Guilin was obviously unhappy.

Airdrop supplies, that's not cheap.

Even if it's a flight test, you have to pay for refueling, don't you?

"Let's put them in the air. Anyway, the accessories transported will not take up all the cabin space. Xie Kai was more supportive, "It's very cold over there, and it's almost impossible to see vegetables in winter." Potatoes can be bought over there, cabbage, sea fish, etc. It's about to be the New Year, isn't it?"

"......" Zheng Yucheng couldn't refute.

Wang Guilin instructed the person who reported to him, "Prepare all kinds of accessories and other materials according to their requirements, and if there is any spare space, give them more vegetables that can be stored in the airdrop point." It's not easy to buy over there, and the meat with a high price is also airdropped. ”

"Leader, really vote?"

"Didn't you hear what I said?" Wang Guilin was dissatisfied.

"I hear you. The amount of material that is airdropped can consume a lot of fuel, which is also the cost. ”

"Comrades give up a warm house and a relaxed environment to get first-hand data for us, if they can't stand it, don't they know?" Wang Guilin asked sharply, "How much more fuel can be consumed by a ton of vegetables?"

The men embarrassedly left to make arrangements.

Zheng Yucheng and Wang Guilin looked outside and sighed.

This kind of test work is monotonous, arduous, and even worse, you may lose your life at any time.

Mr. Zhang said that through more than two months of testing, he had a detailed grasp of the situation of the entire 359 tank. A lot of the trial data has never been done before. Xie Kai was very pleased with Wang Guilin's attitude. "How could it have been possible without the hardships of the test fleet?"

"617 wants to get our data. Zheng Yucheng said.

"Are they here to pick fruits?" Wang Guilin's face changed, "How did you deal with them when you asked for their help before?"

The 359 tank project was originally the business of the 617 base, and Xie Kai did it with Zheng Yucheng.

In such a situation, people will naturally not give good support to the 404 base.

"Either we have to pay for it, or we have to trade it for the technology we need. Xie Kai said. "Give the data, we don't suffer, anyway, we can get more needed, that is also a reduction in cost!"

"I mean no. Zheng Yucheng was unwilling, "They have sufficient funds and bought more than 2,000 69 tanks for Iraq, more than one billion dollars." ”

Zheng Yucheng was completely jealous of the 617 tank base.

404 tanks, still fooled with various conditions to allow Iraq to receive 11 tanks.

"No, you can't. The main users of 617 are our troops, and there is no problem that the south is not cold in winter. The northern grasslands, northwest and northeast, are the coldest in winter. Only by giving them these data can we provide better equipment for our domestic troops......" Xie Kai resolutely opposed Zheng Yucheng's conservative behavior.

617 tank base, but the main manufacturer of domestic tanks.

I have never been tested for extreme cold.

Many of the tests in the country are not very perfect.

Nowadays, Tucker, which is equipped with troops, needs a lot of preparation time in the severe cold of winter, and if there is a war, everyone's tanks are driven to the doorstep, but the domestic tank troops are still waiting to heat the tank oil circuit and gearbox......

"Our data is at a high cost, how much suffering our comrades have suffered? Let them pay some money, and it will be nothing. I think Xie Kai is right. Wang Guilin supported Xie Kai's statement.

"What deal do you two have in private?" it seems like ...... now," Zheng Yucheng looked puzzled.

Xie Kai and himself are not pleasing to each other, but Wang Guilin is more and more supportive of Xie Kai, as the top person in charge of the base, he naturally has doubts about the better and better relationship between the two.

What is the unsavory PY transaction in private?

"What's the matter? What he said was right! Now that we have the data, won't we recover the cost of the input? Recycling it back, in the improved tank, there is no need to include this cost at all?" Wang Guilin said without changing his face.

"Talk, I have to go back to class. Now that I'm in my third year of high school, the revision tasks are getting more and more heavy! I'm still counting on getting into a good school after the year. Xie Kai hurriedly slipped away.

Zheng Yucheng was here, and he couldn't ask Liao Dong about their situation.

According to the previous plan, a month ago, Liao Dong and his team had already arrived in Pakistan and even entered Afghanistan.

For such a long time, he didn't know the news, and he naturally wanted to figure out the situation.

"Don't worry. I was about to talk to you about going to Iraq. Zheng Yucheng saw that Xie Kai was about to slip away, and hurriedly shouted.

As soon as Xie Kai heard that he was going to Iraq, he didn't say that he was busy with revision.

There has been contact between the base and the Soviets since the relay of the message through Iraq.

There is no way to reach an agreement between the two parties through special channels, and many things need to be interviewed.

As Xie Kai knows, in October, the top leader of the Soviet Union, in a public speech, expressed his desire to improve relations between the two countries. The same hope was made at home, but the Soviets were asked to face up to their mistakes.

On the surface, relations between the two countries have not changed much.

However, the introduction of fighter engines from the 404 base and the Soviet Union was considered by the Soviets to be a Chinese action.

They had no idea that this was just the work of Base 404 itself.

"Agreed?" Xie Kai asked.

"I don't support it, I don't oppose it, still according to the original plan, you go to Iraq through other countries, and negotiate with them there. Zheng Yucheng said seriously.

"There's no problem, that's not how it was planned? As soon as there is an engine, the money of the Pakistanis will go into the base account. "If you want to impress Zheng Yucheng, you have to use interests.

Xie Kai asked, "My dad leads the team?"

"Yes. Let's start with it, if you don't follow the rules, don't go. ”

"Can I be unruly?" Xie Kai immediately patted his chest and promised, "Please rest assured, the leader will definitely live up to the organization's trust in me! Let the Soviets honestly provide us with engines." ”

"You have long lived up to the organization's trust in you and the organization's cultivation of you!" Zheng Yucheng said coldly. "Organizations can't train people like you with low consciousness and no organizational discipline. ”

"......" Xie Kai has always been powerless in this matter.

Wang Guilin looked at Xie Kai and took the initiative to speak, "Lao Zheng, you asked him to stay, wouldn't it be just to be sarcastic?"

Zheng Yucheng glanced at him and snorted coldly, "This time I go out, I want Yun Shi to fly out of the country and show his face in the outside world." ”

"You're crazy, aren't you?

Yun 10, the first prototype only flew for more than 200 hours.

Dad and he are on the plane, Zheng Yucheng actually wants to let himself go abroad!