Chapter 52: Chariot Transformation

"I knew that Japanese people wouldn't be so kind." Zhao Zhi, who had already shed his shell and left Rita, received a telegram from Jiaodong, which was sent by Mo Lun, who had just arrived in Jiaodong, saying that the Japanese army had published the news of the armistice and peace talks between the Japanese government and the Japanese government in the newspapers and newspapers in the area under their control.

"Call Mo Lun back, just say don't pay attention to it, if someone wants to make trouble, just call back, Jiaodong must not allow an accident within three months." Zhao Zhi was very satisfied with Mo Lun, the big butler, if Mo Lun hadn't done his best to manage the supply of materials behind his back, Thunder might not have been in the current situation. patting the back of the driver's seat, Zhao Zhi motioned for the driver to speed up, then closed his eyes and reclined in the back seat and began to nap.

The place where Zhao Zhi is going now is Dachuan, the Japanese have many factories in Dachuan, and when the mixed troops conquered Dachuan, the mercenary officers who led the team to assist them sealed several factories in Dachuan, including a vehicle repair factory, which was also the destination of Zhao Zhi's trip. Hundreds of bonfires in the dark night illuminated the place where Zhao Zhi stood, the hands on the watch moved tirelessly, and the time gradually reached 2 o'clock in the morning, and finally the roar of an airplane was heard in the sky.

Zhao Zhi brought in more than 3,000 mixed soldiers and 200 mercenaries, and their mission was to search the range within a radius of ten kilometers around the Great River, and there could be no two-legged creatures within this range, because Zhao Zhi was waiting here tonight for an extremely important airdrop. The Japanese delayed tactics were very good, at least they thought so, Zhao Zhi was certainly not idle, under the coordination of Mo Lun, all the fighters left in Myanmar and China by Thunder were concentrated in Jiaodong, and such a large-scale concentration of fighters was just for tonight's airdrop operation.

"Coming" Zhao Zhi, who had been smoking non-stop, subconsciously raised his head to look at the night sky with the shouts of his personal guards, and the indicator lights under the belly of the plane flashed like stars in the sky, and more than a dozen fighter jets escorted three transport planes to appear over Dachuan. The huge umbrella flowers bloomed in the night sky, and the 200 mercenaries arranged by Zhao Zhi on the periphery ran towards the location where the parachute fell, Dachuan did not have an airport, and Zhao Zhi's current conditions did not allow him to free up his hands to build a temporary airport, so the transport plane that flew over the strait at night could only use airdrops to carry out this mission.

"Sir, here we are." Not only the supplies were dropped from the transport plane, but also more than a dozen weapons technicians from the Kunming Arsenal, who were the "treasures" that Zhao Zhi had been waiting for tonight. The dozens of large boxes that were airdropped contained ammunition and medicines, as well as the cigars that Mo Lun had prepared for Zhao Zhi, and the rest were some tools for weapon technicians. The weapons technicians who were forced to board the plane and fly to Kyushu Island did not know the reason for Zhao Zhi's move, and when they saw the Thor Rotary Machine Gun in a factory in Dachuan, the technicians immediately came to their senses.

"I want you to take the risk of flying over the strait, there is only one purpose, I need you to use all the resources of the factory here to transform a mobile armored vehicle with a defense not less than the Lurker armored car, and I also want you to add this kind of minigun to the armored car." Attaching the Thor Minigun to an armored car or tank was not a whim of Zhao Zhi, but a suggestion from Luo Ying during a casual conversation after dinner. Thunder used the Lurker chariot equipped with a Browning large-caliber heavy machine gun when attacking Burma, and the kind of armored vehicle with strong defense and assault fire left a deep impression on Luo Ying, if the mercenaries on Kyushu Island also had such armored vehicles, the Japanese defense line could only become a joke.

Compared with the Browning heavy machine gun, although Thor's firepower is not good enough, when it comes to fire strength and lethality, it is still much stronger than Thor's revolver. Luo Ying's idea is much simpler, since Thor's bullet chain has 2000 rounds and 3000 rounds, why can't you link the bullets and directly make a bullet chain of 10,000 rounds or a larger amount of ammunition to equip the Thor machine gun. Luo Ying's proposal reminded Zhao Zhi of the vehicle-mounted Vulcan cannon he had used in his previous life, the kind of Vulcan cannon loaded on heavy armored vehicles was the bullet box used to feed the ammunition, and each bullet box had a bullet chain with a load of 5,000 rounds.

When the vehicle Vulcan cannon replaces the bullet chain, it is only necessary to replace the bullet box, which is convenient and can save the time to replace the bullet chain, since that day after chatting with Luo Ying, Zhao Zhi has been thinking about this matter in his heart, just in time for the Japanese to play tricks and use peace talks to delay time, Zhao Zhi just pushed the boat down the river and the Japanese played Taijiquan, and took the opportunity to contact Mo Lun in Jiaodong, so that he mobilized a group of weapons technicians from the Kunming Arsenal to go north to Jiaodong, and then sent to Kyushu Island by plane at night.

The Japanese in Okawa had been driven to Kitakyushu by the mixed troops, and 3,000 mixed soldiers using Japanese-style weapons were unable to see the perimeter of the factory selected by the technicians, and there were 200 mercenaries guarding the factory, and no one was allowed to enter or leave here without Zhao Zhi's warrant. The technicians were accompanied by 10 Soviet-backed high-horsepower diesel engines that were purchased from Chiang Kai-shek by using 12 75 mountain guns captured from the Japanese army, and these Soviet-made high-horsepower engines would be the key to the conversion plan.

Zhao Zhi just wanted to test the possibility of driving Thor this time, so his requirements this time were very low, not asking for good looks, nor for comfort, nor for how much space the modified armored car had to hit the soldiers, he only asked the technicians to modify the armed armored vehicles with super defense and firepower. The technicians stayed in the factory day and night, and the first armored car equipped with a Thor revolver machine gun drove out of the factory in only one day, but unfortunately this armored car was wheeled, and once it was used to fight the Japanese army, the tires would never be bulletproof.

Zhao Zhi told the technicians not to be discouraged, and the wheeled armored car, which had been modified, was immediately equipped with mercenaries guarding the factory, and was taken by Zhao Zhi to escort the convoy that was coming from Kurume, and the convoy was pulling the tracks of scrapped Japanese tanks. Along with the Sixth Division, there was a tank division from Honshu Island, almost all the light and heavy combat vehicles belonging to this tank division were left behind by the mercenaries, except for a few medium tanks that were still in good condition, and other large and small tank armored vehicles had been scrapped, Zhao Zhi asked the idle mercenaries to remove the tracks of those tanks and transport them to Dachuan for backup.

After seeing those intact Type 97 medium tanks, there was only one word that could come to the minds of the technicians - demolition. The 57-mm tank gun was naturally dismantled, and then a protective platform was welded out of steel plates in the position of the tank gun, and the Thor Rotary Machine Gun was added to this protective platform. The upper half of the tank was also dismantled, and then converted into a flat roof like the Infiltrator armored car, on which there was also a place to store spare ammunition, and the heavy only had to move the turntable when changing the chain, and the spare ammunition box would move to the lower side of the machine gun with the rotation of the carousel.

There is no need for tank guns, and naturally there is no need for so many members inside the tank, and the modified Type 97 medium tank has changed beyond recognition, not only has the technicians increased the full-body protective armor to a terrifying 60 mm thick, but also the bolts are welded on the protective plate of the Thor machine gun. If necessary, the mercenaries can add protective steel plates to these bolts at any time, and even increase the thickness of the protective plates to more than 100 mm, completely ignoring the bombardment of the Japanese 75 mountain guns and the accumulation of armor-piercing shells.

If it weren't for the matter of time, the technicians also wanted to replace the airdropped Soviet engine with the Type 97, after increasing the thickness of the armor, the current Type 97 assault speed can only reach 42 kilometers, if it is replaced with a high-horsepower diesel engine made in the Soviet Union, the technicians can increase its speed to more than 50 kilometers, which is almost the speed of a wheeled truck, and it should not be a pleasant thing to be pursued by a combat vehicle of such a speed.

The steel plates in the entire Thunder Control Area were all transferred to Dachuan, and it was impossible for the convoy to go out day and night without any movement, but even if it was discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance plane, they could not imagine that all the steel plates transported in the convoy were all steel plates, and the Japanese thought that Zhao Zhi was just transferring troops and arranging the formation. Zhao Zhi was deeply impressed by the kind of willow joint structure armor of the Japanese tank, maybe this kind of armor of the Japanese army can resist the direct attack of a certain caliber artillery, but the armor of this willow joint structure becomes very dangerous after bearing the shelling, and there will be rivets flying inside the tank, Zhao Zhi does not want his mercenaries to bear such dangers, so the armor installation method he chose is all welding, like layer by layer welding like a mille-feuille.

In order to speed up the modification, Zhao Zhi also specially dispatched a group of mercenaries to come over to help, fortunately, all he needed was mobile ability and super firepower, and the modified armored car was only used by Zhao Zhi as mobile machine gun firepower, and it was only used when attacking the opponent's defense line, so there was no need for technicians to make design drawings or data improvement, just simple disassembly and splicing and welding.

"Sir, Zhang Hua has news, saying that the Japanese army is gathering troops on Honshu Island, and it seems that they are going to make a move on Kyushu Island." Zhao Zhi's intelligence staff officer rushed over quickly, leaned into Zhao Zhi's ear and whispered a few words, which made Zhao Zhi, who was watching the mercenaries operate the chariot, slightly stunned. Now that it has only been three days since the Japanese cabinet proposed an armistice, could it be that these Japanese have no patience to start fighting?

"Tell our troops to be ready for battle, send those Japanese-style weapons to the mixed troops, as long as we can survive the last few days, the rest of the matter will be easy. In addition, contact Zhang Hua and tell him not to be affected, as long as he completes their task. Zhao Zhi thought for a moment, then whispered a few words, and the intelligence staff turned around and went back to the telecommunications room.