Since ancient times, people are like getting a kind of offensive and defensive tools with strong mobility capabilities, heavy cavalry was born under this condition, whether it is Europe or Asia, heavy cavalry has played a huge role on the battlefield, but with the change of history, its cost performance is far less than that of light cavalry, and after the popularization of firearms, in the face of the rain of bullets, heavy cavalry finally withdrew from the stage of history, although there were still a large number of cavalry on both sides in World War I, but at this time, the cavalry has been declining, Especially after the formation of a trench battle mode on the Western Front, the cavalry was even more useless.

Face trenches, barbed wire, machine guns and rapid-fire guns. In the end, the 1st battle became who attacked and who was unlucky. Heavy artillery has no good way to deal with all kinds of "ingenious" bunkers. No matter how brave the soldier is, he faces pit vipers, barbed wire and machine guns. In desperation, the British invented a kind of stuff called "tank". The land fortress, armed with artillery and machine guns, slowly rolled over the opposing positions with a deafening roar. This thing was very powerful at the beginning, but later in the face of German flat-firing guns, immature tanks still did not work...... Even in the Spanish Civil War more than a decade later, a German officer said that tanks were not much better than infantry in the face of machine-gun positions in the face of positions with anti-aircraft guns. As for the real development of armored forces, it was ......... during the 2nd World War.

If from this point of view, tanks did not play a big role in World War 1, then why did Xu Jie have to make such a thing? In fact, there are many reasons for the performance of the 1st battle tank on the Western Front, on the one hand, there were great problems in the design of the tank at that time, and on the other hand, the limitations of the combat environment.

In World War 1, the tank was designed entirely as a land fortress, traveling too slowly and with too short a range, partly because of the technical level of power equipment at that time, and on the other hand, it was loaded with too many men and weapons, just as a point of fire rather than a quick assault order

As a very simple example, the British MKL-type tank weighed 284 tons. IT IS ARMED WITH 2 57M GUNS AND 3 MACHINE GUNS, 324 57MM SHELLS AND 6200 ROUNDS. And there are actually 8 people who operate these weapons! You can think that this weight is basically the same as the weight of the fourth tank at the beginning of World War 2. However, the main armament of the No. 4 tank was only a short gun and a machine gun, and the crew was also human, and the British MKL tank in World War 1 had to do a lot in order to put down so many weapons, ammunition, and personnel. The length of the car is 97 meters, the width of the car is 412 meters, and the height of the car is 241 meters. It's too big. Combined with the tragic 1bP engine at the time, the tank had a speed of only 4M per hour. The range is also only 37WM..........

THE ARMOR WAS EVEN MORE FRAGILE, 1ZMM ON THE FRONT, 10MM ON THE SIDES, M IN THE REAR

And that's not even the best of the best, there were two tanks weighing more than 30 tons in World War I, the British MKV and the German AZV. Let's start with the British's MKV-type tank. It was armed with four 57MM23 guns (221 rounds in reserve) and Diao Ting machine guns with 24 crew members. Equipped with a 150WP engine, it weighs up to 33 tons! FRONTAL ARMOR HBM, 1ZMM ON THE SIDES, REAR BMM SPEED 4KM PER HOUR. THE GERMAN AZV WAS ARMED WITH 1 57 MM GUN (180 ROUNDS) AND SIX MACHINE GUNS (BETWEEN 10,000 AND 15,000 ROUNDS). IT USES TWO 100 HP ENGINES, WITH A CREW OF 1, AND WEIGHS 1'・BECAUSE THE GUN IS A LITTLE LESS, THE ARMOR PROTECTION IS GOOD, THE FRONT BM AND SIDES ARE 20MM, AND THE REAR IS 1M AT A SPEED OF 12WM PER HOUR WITH A STROKE M.

From the above 3 types of tanks, it can be seen that in 1 wartime, both sides piled weapons and ammunition on the tanks as much as possible, and the number of crew members on them was outrageous! The weight and 2 wartime medium tanks were in no way inferior. These things are just bunkers that can stop bullets. It doesn't matter how maneuverable, and there isn't enough protection. From the point of view of design, it was precisely because of this idea of moving pillboxes that the speed and defense of the tank could not be improved, and under the technical conditions of the time, it was necessary to load 4 guns and hundreds of ammunition and still want high speed and defense. …………。

I want to ask, did you find a way out at that time? Don't say it, there really is! For example, the French-designed Renault FTL is equipped with a 39BM gun, frontal armor of 1lhBM, side BMM and rear BM, weighs only 6 and uses a 35-horsepower engine. Simple, cheap and durable, two different FT17s were produced in total, far more than WW1 tanks. France also has a tank weighing 145 tons, armed with a BM131 short gun, and has - a machine gun, frontal armored BM, side 1ZMM, rear 5BMM crew 6 people, speed AKM per hour. The heaviest French tank was armed with a 7M36 cannon with 4 machine guns, weighing 24 tons and traveling at 8 M/h. FORMED 60KM AND WEIGHED 24 TONS.

Compared to the British tanks, the French tanks had a lower number of weapons, but increased the caliber of their guns and had decent protection, reducing the density of fire from the mobile pillboxes, but increasing the intensity of fire. Especially the kind of 14' tank. Very good balance of performance.

And the Renault FTLZg is the cheapest and most productive tank of the 1st World War. In other words, the industrial level of 1 war time can actually build a tank of a certain level, provided that your design concept can keep up. It is impossible to get the tank to run at speeds above mKM...... But it's still okay to reach a speed of about 10KM.........

As a traverser, Xu Jie, who is familiar with the ideas and direction of the development of tanks in later generations, will definitely design a tank that is quite usable according to the industrial level at that time, although the current level of science and technology on this plane is higher than that of Xu Jie back then, but it is not 10 years ahead, so in Xu Jie's tank plan, don't think about large-caliber guns. Xu Jie emphasizes protection and speed, as for the firepower, it is enough, of course, there is another point, even if it is durable, it is not good to fail in the old way!

Compared with the 1 combat tank, which is more than ten tons and twenty tons, Xu Jie doesn't even want it, on the one hand, even if the technology is made now, the stability and cost are not acceptable to him, on the other hand, he doesn't need such a heavy tank to fight in the field, anyway, it is enough to deal with the Russian cavalry. Therefore, the moderate amplification of Raynaud's disease became the basis for Xu Jie's tank design.

IN TERMS OF FIREPOWER, XU JIE IS NOT VERY DEMANDING, JUST CONTINUE TO USE THE ORIGINAL 37MM ARTILLERY, THIS THING IS SIMPLY AN ARTIFACT TO FIGHT INFANTRY AND CAVALRY WITHOUT COVER, AND THERE IS NO NEED FOR LOADERS. The gunner cooperates with the ammunition supply drum and one person can do it. One or two machine guns are needed to deal with the Russians' manmass tactics.

The focus is on protection. Anti-aircraft artillery and tanks are a natural enemy. The two sides restrain each other and promote each other. The tank is not only to block machine gun bullets, but also to block a certain power of shells, otherwise the opponent will directly put a few anti-aircraft guns on the position to directly beat the expensive tank into parts, the tank will lose its meaning, the reason why the fast tank that was once all the rage will decline, the fundamental reason is that even the 37MM tank gun can easily tear the armor of the fast tank, the tank emphasizes both offense and defense, lose a little, then the role of the tank will be greatly reduced! . …。

THEREFORE, XU JIE HAS HIGH REQUIREMENTS FOR PROTECTION, AT LEAST IT MUST BE ABLE TO BLOCK 57MM CANNON SHELLS, TO ACHIEVE THIS, IT IS NOT DIFFICULT FOR TRAVERSERS, IF THE FRONTAL ARMOR REACHES BM AND HAS AN INCLINATION ANGLE OF ABOUT 45 DEGREES, THEN THERE WILL BE NO WAY TO 500 METERS AWAY WITHOUT A 57MM GUN EQUIPPED WITH SPECIAL ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS! As for higher-level artillery, such as the Schneider 75 fast gun of the French, this does not need to be thought about. The armor that the willow joined together faced the BM cannon with a long double diameter, and even if it was occasionally carried due to angle and distance problems, the huge shock would cause the willow nails to fall off and even fly in the cabin. If you do. Then consider yourself unlucky! Fortunately, the BM rapid-fire gun weighs more than 1 ton, and it is not convenient to rely solely on horses to maneuver, and it is expensive, so there should not be many Russians.

The last problem is the problem of speed and travel, considering the sad engine at that time, this tank is equipped with a maximum of 90HP engine, the weight does not exceed 1', the number of crew is limited to 3 people, and there is still a chance to travel at a speed of 1PKM per hour on the road. If you go off-road, up to 1AKM per hour will do. As for the itinerary, Xu Jie's requirement is that it must be around 1CCbM, which seems to be difficult to achieve, but considering that the mobile pillboxes in the 1st World War can have a ZCMKM trip, and they also have a manganese steel track, there is still a chance for the small tank to reach the KCKM stroke of the weight reduction version and the gun reduction version. Although the speed is not as fast as that of cavalry, it is much faster than ......... infantry.

The technical standards of the tank have been sorted out, but it does not mean that the planning of this armored force has taken shape, in fact, the tank is only an important part of the armored force and not the whole thing. As a traverser, since you have decided to get an armored unit first, you can't just tanks. Units such as assault guns, self-propelled guns, and armored repair vehicles must be brought out, otherwise this lame armored unit will not be able to be used!

Thank you for the reward ~~~~~ of the constellations soaring in the universe