Chapter 31: A Trip to the Czech Republic

When Chen Dao returned to the garrison of the Hermangoling Regiment, it was already the eve of dinner, and Chen Dao called Mandolfer and sent people to find the commander of the 7th Air Defense Battalion and the commanders of the three air defense battalions under the Hermangoling Regiment for dinner.

After the greetings, Chen Dao said: "I will go to the Czech Republic early tomorrow morning to order our heavy equipment, and during the two days that I am away, Lieutenant Colonel Mandol is responsible for all the work in the regiment, and you must fully cooperate and not slack off." ”

The four battalion commanders cooperated to welcome Mantofel's arrival, at least on the surface, and Chen Dao then said: "Two days later, Major Schubert, the commander of the 2nd Paratrooper Battalion, will lead his troops to join our regiment, and then I will hold a formal banquet to celebrate the establishment of our Herman Goering Motorized Infantry Regiment, and at the same time to welcome Lieutenant Colonel Mandol and the 2nd Paratrooper Battalion, and the commander-in-chief will also attend this banquet, so, Lieutenant Colonel Mandolfel, in the two days I have been away, your most important job is to prepare for this banquet, Try to be as rich as possible, don't be afraid to spend money, this banquet is paid for by the commander-in-chief. ”

Mandolfil nodded implicitly and said, "I'll arrange everything." ”

After a few small talks, the chef began to serve the food・・・・・

After a not-so-sumptuous dinner, Mandol and the four battalion commanders returned to the officers' quarters, while Chen Dao returned to Karin Manor overnight to pack up.

Early the next morning, Chen Dao saluted with Lieutenant Bach, who had been waiting outside Karin Manor, and then drove straight to Berlin Railway Station, and at 8:30, the train in uniform Chen Dao and Bach left Berlin and went straight to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

Walking out of the exit of the Prague train station, Chen Dao saw two young men in peaked caps, each holding a wooden sign looking around the crowd with large German letters written on it: Heinz von Rosen.

Chen Dao and Bach walked towards the two young men with a salute, and the two young men seemed to have been explained, and as soon as Chen Dao and Bach appeared, they glanced in the direction of Chen Dao from time to time.

Seeing Chen Dao and Bach walking towards them, two young men greeted Chen Dao and asked Chen Dao's identity in German, and after confirming Chen Dao's identity, the two Czech youths took the suitcases in the hands of Chen Dao and Bach and led them to the two cars parked not far away.

As soon as he walked to the car, Chen Dao saw two men get out of the car, led by a man with a thin face and a ridiculous little mustache, and the hair on the top of half of his head had been gloriously laid off, revealing a sweaty head. This man was not good-looking, but Chen Dao was taken aback.

"Albert, aren't you making movies in Vienna? How did it end up here? Chen Dao asked in surprise.

There are five brothers and sisters in Goering's family, Hermann Goering is the fourth, and the middle-aged man in front of him is Albert Goering, who is the fifth.

Albert wiped the sweat from his bare head with a handkerchief, then put away the handkerchief and opened his arms to Chen Dao: "Welcome to Prague." ”

Chen Dao had to hug Albert.

Albert shook hands politely with Lieutenant Bach and said, "I was just transferred to the Skoda Arsenal as an export director, don't you know?" ”

Chen Daoyi patted his head and said, "I remembered, my brother-in-law and I talked about it." After Chen Dao finished speaking, he looked at the middle-aged man standing behind Albert.

"This is Mr. Arnault, the general manager of the Škoda Arsenal." Albert introduced.

"Hello, Colonel Rosen." Arno hurriedly stretched out his right hand to shake hands with Chen Dao.

After shaking hands, Chen Dao, Arnault, and Albert got into the first car, and Lieutenant Bach got into the second car, and then set off for the west of Prague.

"Mr. Arnault, have you received the production license and drawings for the fourth tank and the Type 251 half-track?" Chen Dao leaned back in the back seat and asked Arnault, who was sitting in the passenger seat.

"I received it last Saturday." Arno replied.

"When will I see the first halftracks?" Chen Dao said directly.

"Heinz, don't be in a hurry, this kind of technical question should be asked to the engineer, don't embarrass Mr. Arnault." Albert, who was sitting on the right side of Chen Dao, said.

"Okay, but as soon as possible, I'm short on time." Chen Dao gave Albert a lot of face, and then asked about some Czech customs, and the three of them quickly chatted enthusiastically.

The largest factory of the Škoda Arsenal was located in the industrial city of Plzeň, west of Prague, and Chen Dao rejected Arno's offer to take him and Lieutenant Bach to the hotel first, and went straight to the Škoda factory.

In the engineer's office, Chen Dao met Dr. Nedved, the chief engineer of Skoda, and after unfolding the three views of the 251 half-track and the No. 4 tank on the wooden frame, Chen Dao pointed to the 251 half-track and said: "The Type 251 half-track has been finalized, you can produce it directly, and I will send you the number ratio of various sub-models later, when will I be able to see the first batch of half-tracks?" Chen Dao asked, staring at Dr. Nedved.

The chubby Dr. Nedved pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, "Four months later." ”

Chen Dao's eyes immediately widened: "No, at most two months, I want to see the first batch of half-track cars." ”

Seeing that Chen Dao was unhappy, Arnault stepped forward and said, "Colonel Rosen, we have a standard construction time, and you can't let a person run out of the speed of the car. ”

Arnault complained, but Chen Dao was unmoved. "Mr. Arnault, how many workers are there in your factory?"

"About 100,000 people."

"I know that your current operating rate is definitely less than 100 percent, there are a lot of workers who have nothing to do now, call me all the people you can find, eight hours a shift, three shifts a day, or a 10-hour shift, two shifts a day, in short, you have to find a way to improve efficiency, two months later, before December 15th, I want to see the first batch of half-tracks." Chen Dao said.

"Heinz, the country's law requires that the rights and interests of workers be protected, and that there can only be one shift of eight hours a day, and overtime pay will be given for the excess time." Albert walked over to Arno and said.

Chen Dao inexplicably felt Albert's tone yin and yang, maybe it was my delusion, Chen Dao pressed the doubt in his heart and said: "Then pay overtime, I won't owe you procurement fees, in short, before December 15th, I want to see the first batch of half-track cars." ”

Arnault was about to speak, but Chen Dao didn't give him a chance, pointing to the No. 4 tank and said: "The tank is much more complicated than the Type 251 half-track, and I have to add some changes, you remember." ”

Nedved hurriedly found a pen and notebook to prepare for the record.

"The tank gun needs to be replaced, and if I'm not mistaken, this gun should be a 24x diameter 75mm tank gun." Chen Dao looked at Nedved.

Nedved nodded, indicating that Chen Dao was not wrong. Chen Dao was secretly happy in his heart, and said in his heart that the memory of his previous life was indeed not wrong. Chen Dao once played a tank battle game called "Cannon World" in his previous life, the tanks in that game are mainly tanks during World War II, divided into German, Soviet, American, British, French, Chinese, Japanese and other series, Chen Dao was specialized in German and Soviet tanks at that time, so he was very familiar with some data of German tanks, and now these data finally came in handy.

"Double the diameter, with a 48 times diameter 75mm gun, I believe you have enough strength to develop this gun." Chen Dao said.

Nedved quickly jotted down Chen Dao's words, and he could hear that Chen Dao's tone was unquestionable.

"The front armor is, it turned out to be 30 mm?" Chen Dao looked at the annotations on the drawings and exclaimed, "This is simply paper-paste armor, which can be pierced with a knife, and it needs to be thickened, thickened to 80 mm." Chen Dao said.

Nedved stopped his pen, his small eyes shot two rays of wisdom, and he said: "Colonel Rosen, if the front armor is thickened to 80 mm, it is likely to cause the problem of overweight in the front of the tank, we can try a thickness of 50 mm." ”

Chen Daoxin said, could it be that I remembered wrongly? Thinking that the tank data in the game "Gun World" had been fine-tuned by Serb, the chief designer known as the file maniac, and did not represent the real data in history, Chen Dao couldn't help but feel a little weak, and hesitated and said: "Try both 50 mm and 80 mm thickness, in short, try to be thicker as much as possible." ”

Nedved had no objection and quickly recorded it.

After Chen Dao carefully checked the other data of the No. 4 tank, and found that it was basically consistent with the memory, he asked Nedved to put away the drawings of the No. 4 tank and the Type 251 half-track.

Chen Dao took out a stack of white paper from his suitcase, unfolded it and put it on the wooden shelf, Nedved and the others looked at it and found that there were three types of armored vehicles painted on it.

"The above two patterns are two self-propelled guns derived from the chassis of Tank No. 4, the first is named the Wasp self-propelled howitzer, his main weapon is a LEFH18 105 mm gun, and the secondary weapon is the MG34 machine gun: the second name is the Wild Bee self-propelled howitzer, and the main weapon is the SFH18 150 mm howitzer, and the secondary weapon is also a machine gun."

Chen Dao couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when he saw Nedved staring at the drawings with strange expressions. "These drawings are all concept drawings drawn by myself, some sloppy, your focus is to understand my intentions, you can freely use your design talent when designing, don't copy my concept drawings."

Nedved lowered his head and wrote down the parameters of the weapon that Chen Dao said, and said in his heart, where is this scribble, it is simply a kindergarten child's graffiti.

After the recording, Nedved tried his best to look calm, and then asked: "Judging from the drawings, both self-propelled guns have to adjust the engine position of the chassis, which should be moved to the middle of the chassis, isn't that so?" Colonel Rosen. ”

How did Chen Dao know about these technical problems, but as a very intelligent bandit, Chen Dao certainly knew how to deal with such a scene.

"I've always respected technicians like you, because you represent professionalism, so you have the freedom to do without compromising the performance of the vehicle."

"Our Skoda products are definitely worthy of your trust and Marshal Goering, please rest assured." Arno hurriedly expressed his loyalty to Chen.

"Well, let's talk about the last weapon, the No. 4 assault gun, this weapon is relatively easy, because Germany has designed a similar weapon No. 3 assault gun, I will ask for the drawings, you can refer to the drawings of the No. 3 assault gun, but the artillery needs to be changed, the No. 4 assault gun carries two kinds of artillery, one is a 28 times the diameter of the 105 mm howitzer, and the other is a long-barreled 75 mm gun."

"So we're going to design two No. 4 assault guns?" Nedved asked.

Chen Dao nodded.

"The 75-mm gun also uses the newly designed 48 times the diameter one?"

"No, it's longer than that, how about 70 times the diameter?" Chen Dao asked tentatively.

"70x diameter!" Nedved raised his head sharply and almost threw his glasses away, "Colonel, with all due respect, the process of developing and producing a 70x diameter gun is very difficult, and I personally do not recommend using this kind of multiplier artillery, and I do not recommend using a gun with a diameter of more than 60 times. ”

Chen Daoxin said that this was indeed the case, and asked tentatively: "What if you use 88mm anti-aircraft guns?" Is this the door? ”

Chen Dao unfolded another drawing, which showed the Flak36 88mm anti-aircraft gun in service with the German army.

Nedved looked at some weapon parameters on the drawing, shook his head and said: "If this gun is converted into a tank gun, it can barely be stuffed into the No. 4 assault gun you mentioned, but it may bring a lot of side effects, his size and weight are too large, in terms of the volume and load of the No. 4 tank, I still recommend using a 75 mm caliber gun." ”

Chen Dao did not answer directly, but pondered, and after a while, Chen Dao made up his mind and said: "You first developed the assault gun with a 105 mm gun, and as for the one equipped with a 75 mm gun, I will go to Krupp and Rheinmetall to consult with those companies to see if they have a suitable 75 mm gun." ”

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Chen Dao was Göring's representative, and Arnault naturally did not dare to slack off. After a sumptuous dinner, Chen Dao returned to the hotel's luxurious suite, and Albert followed.

The two were acquaintances, and Albert asked straight to the point: "I have an arms business here, do you want to do it?" ”

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PS: There is one more chapter before 10pm.

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