Chapter 479

"It's because of it!" Meng Xiang looked at the jeep in front of him and shook his head again and again.

Meng Xiang has always remembered some comments on the forum of later generations, because the barrel car is fuel-efficient, lightweight, simple and easy to operate, and the off-road performance is also great, and Meng Xiang also began to implement the standardization of parts very early, so the military vehicles in the vanguard army are basically barrel cars, and even the middle and senior officer cars are 92 barrel cars. Even civilian vehicles are mainly barrel cars remodeled from the Volkswagen Beetle series.

Due to the outbreak of the war, the German Volkswagen company only produced some sample cars of the Beetle, and a large number of them began to be converted into military products. At this time, Meng Xiang came forward to exchange the No. 4 tank directly for the production line of the Beetle car. And on the basis of the barrel car, after Dr. Polscher's redesign and improvement, the new Beetle settled in China.

After receiving technical support from Germany, the Volkswagen plant in Jinan produced the Beetle, which was assembled using various parts of the barrel car, and some civilian configurations and ornaments were added. Meng Xiang originally wanted to name it directly, but the result was that the German Beetle had not yet been named at this time, but it was just called Volkswagen Type 1. But because the Chinese people at this time did not accept this strange name, they could only temporarily take the name of Volkswagen Type 1, which was better than the name of turtle and turtle proposed by some people.

It is with these civil barrel car foundations, whether it is personnel operation or the versatility of parts, it is based on the barrel car standard as a template. The most important thing is that the price of the barrel car is only half that of the American jeep, and the fuel consumption is only half of the jeep, which saves a lot of money. It also makes the position of the barrel car in the vanguard army take root.

Meng Xiang is also worried that once he implements jeeps in China, the Americans will have another patriotic enthusiasm and reject the products of other countries, so they will have to use their own cars, which will cause the jeep's large business to be in trouble. You must know that Meng Xiang has plagiarized the name of the British, opened a Land Rover automobile company in the United States, and is preparing to keep an eye on the big cake of American cars.

The motorization of the Americans is very well placed, and the huge automobile industry makes the total number of vehicles in the US military a huge number. As a classic vehicle in World War II, Meng Xiang naturally refused to let go of the jeep.

It was also because of the concern of the Americans' preservationism that the jeep never showed up, and only two were produced for research use. It was only when Land Rover was bidding for the United States that a few more were produced. At this time, Meng Xiang suddenly discovered a situation, and the multi-functional infantry vehicle of the Red Police unit, which could not be made out, was suddenly presented.

At the beginning, Meng Xiang produced everything he could, the German DFZ251 armored car had already been produced, and the wheeled armored car DFZ222 Daimler reconnaissance armored car had also been produced a long time ago. The Americans' M21 half-track armored vehicles and M8 and M20 wheeled armored vehicles were also produced, and even the M4 tanks were produced in the coming year.

In view of the fact that the multi-purpose infantry vehicle originally belonged to the Allied forces, Meng Xiangduo worked on the side of the Allied forces. Those armored vehicles in the United States were produced once, even the British and French, the Soma and Panhad armored vehicles of the French, and the Saladin armored vehicles of the British. In order to avoid any mistakes, even all kinds of armored vehicles from Soviet Russia Meng Xiang were produced. After the upgrade, Meng Xiang reluctantly spent a lot of money to produce several American armored vehicles in the fifties, and even the most advanced V100 commando wheeled armored vehicles in the early sixties also produced two.

In the warehouse of a certain weapons research institute in Lushan, a large number of weapon prototypes have been accumulated, which can be used for reference and research. But the multifunctional infantry vehicle in the Red Alert unit is still not presented.

But when Meng Xiang produced a few more jeeps, this multi-purpose infantry vehicle actually appeared.

"Wouldn't it? Could it be a jeep? Meng Xiang was amazed, but his subordinates didn't stop at all, and immediately produced three cars.

Each car is only 6,000 yuan, which is more than twice as expensive as the jeep when it arrived, and ten times more expensive than the 600 yuan in the game. But when he saw the performance of this multifunctional infantry vehicle, Meng Xiang still felt that it was worth it.

During the production of the vehicle, Meng Xiang finally learned the so-called truth from Hua. The multifunctional infantry vehicle, a vehicle that does not actually exist in reality, does not have a fixed single prototype. This is a complex of several prototypes. Many armored vehicles produced by Meng Xiang have already provided a good prototype, and they are only one step away.

American jeeps were known for their multi-functional use in World War II, whether it was an infantry mount, a sapper tractor, or a 12.7 mm caliber anti-aircraft machine gun, there was already a shadow of a multi-functional infantry vehicle.

"Didn't I already produce two jeeps?" Meng Xiang was a little puzzled, could it be that the jeeps produced were not counted, and they had to be compared to the bidding of the Americans to shake the conditions?

"Three, the trigger conditions of the key prototypes of the vehicle must not be less than three, so that it is easy to stabilize the space-time node." The flower said lightly.

Although Meng Xiang didn't know what was going on with this space-time node, he understood that three represented many, and it represented that a thing was not presented by chance.

"Isn't there some other tool that's been missed?" Meng Xiang couldn't help but think of some units that had not yet been presented, "Give it a try in the future!" These tools are produced and can be used as research. ”

Under the rapid production of the base, the first-level multi-functional infantry vehicle quickly appeared, without too rebellious attributes, for this, Meng Xiang has been mentally prepared, this is just a level.

The shape of the first-class multifunctional infantry vehicle is also a half-track type popular in World War II, with a crew of 3 people and a crew of 10 people. The car weighs ten tons. The maximum road speed is 70 km/h, off-road is 50 km, the maximum off-road travel is 300 km, and the road is 500 km. There is a 12.7 mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun on each side of the rear end of the car, and there is a general-purpose machine gun insertion point for each of the four target objects on the car, which can place MG-34 and MG-42 general-purpose machine guns. With the switching of the mounts, it was also possible to place Soviet-made and American-made machine guns.

However, with the two flat heavy machine guns in the back, it's enough to sweep away any creature. And the 8-15 mm armor of the infantry vehicle also makes the defense comparable to some of the devil's peew tanks.

The vehicle also carried a Bazooka rocket launcher carrying three M11E anti-tank mines and four M1 and M2 smoke canisters.

There is a winch in the car, and there is a complete tool repair box, and it seems that even if there is an engineer to follow, it will not be as rebellious as in the game, so you can only repair it manually. But if the brain is upgraded, you can call through the car radio, seek the help of the brain within the scale of the direct government, find the parts that need to be repaired as soon as possible and provide relevant reasonable maintenance advice.

Meng Xiang counted with his fingers, this is indeed multi-functional, but unfortunately the anti-air force is still a little weaker. However, considering that this is only the first level, Meng Xiang did not force it, but just hoped that when he was promoted to the second level, he would see what changes there had.

"Is there any limit to the quantity? Need stars? In view of the base's consistent surprise, Meng Xiang still made a clear decision.

"Unless the commander chooses the automatic operation mode, there is generally no need for stars in the case of manual driving operations." Meng Xiang finally heard a relatively good news, but then Hua's prompt also confessed that the production of base vehicles is not as casual as ordinary weapon vehicles. The total number of commanders commanded by the standard number of people per unit is the maximum number that the commander can command.

For example, the standard number of multi-functional infantry vehicles is 3+10 mode, which is the number that Meng Xiang can command at this time is 200,000 divided by 13, which is 15,385. As with the Clones, production and command are two different concepts, and if there is damage at that time, production can continue. However, even if this is sold, it will still occupy the quota.

More than 15,000 vehicles may seem like a lot, but with the configuration of millions of troops, it is simply not enough. It seems that weapons in reality are still indispensable. However, it will be enough to equip the elite army exclusively with these weapons. Moreover, the army will not be armed only with multi-purpose infantry vehicles.

"If you only count the number of people, then there are only three or four operators of the tank, and you can not have fifty or sixty thousand tanks of the same type at once?" It was rare to trigger the relevant conditions, and Meng Xiang continued to get to the bottom of it.

"The number of tank drivers and other special operations personnel is not more than half of the total number!" Hua's explanation, Meng Xiang also understood that if an army is all special personnel, it is not a normal army. This is in the future battlefield, when clones are generally used as cannon fodder, which is not possible under normal circumstances.

That total number refers to 200,000 clones. In other words, the number of tanks of the corresponding Red Alert unit is also limited to 100,000 people. However, this is not a big deal, more than 10,000 Apocalypse tanks are enough to make the world tremble.

"What is the maximum number of non-combatants, like spies, doctors, engineers, etc.?" Meng Xiang took the opportunity to ask again.

"Not enough to answer!" This time the rejection of the flower was less cold.

Meng Xiang didn't care too much, it seems that the number of these non-combatants has not yet touched the bottom line, since there are already restrictions on the training base in the base, it is enough to limit the number of these special personnel and non-combatants.

"Can ordinary people drive?" Meng Xiang asked the last key question.

"Yes." With Hua's answer, Meng Xiang's heart relaxed. In that case, those restrictions have little effect on him for the time being. Rhinoceros, grizzly bears or something, when the time comes, even if there are restrictions on drivers, it will not affect the use of ordinary people. Each unit will have more than 10,000 units by then, which will be enough to make this world quiet.

After Meng Xiang roughly understood the limit on the number of vehicles in the red police unit, he was relieved.

As long as there is a real weapon to make up for it, you can always find a reasonable combination setting. At this time, the equipment that stabilized the other people's ends was not too eye-catching, but it was the most enjoyable to press them to death.

Tiger Yi personally went up to manipulate it, and the multi-purpose infantry vehicle was very maneuverable, and its performance in all aspects far surpassed the DFZ251 armored vehicles of the Germans, which were being heavily equipped by the vanguard army at this time. The distance and speed alone are enough to leapfrog others, and it deserves the reputation of a fast assault vehicle.

"Yes, let's produce 3,000 units first!" The price of only 6,000 yuan is already very affordable compared to its performance, and the total production is only 100 million yuan, but you need to be familiar with these weapons first, so Meng Xiang unified the initial 3,000 multi-functional infantry vehicles into the teaching team.

Meng Xiang was happy in his heart after adding another red police unit. Not long after, the news of the Jeep winning the bid came from across the ocean.

Jeeps, as a representative of American culture in World War II, naturally carry many elements that Americans like.

This time, Land Rover also chose to cooperate with Ford, making it more likely to win the bid. At that time, Ford provided Land Rover with some car production lines cheaply, and the bulk of car production was placed in Ford. Although the elder Henry Ford was an anti-war element, in the face of the changing world situation, patriotic fervor and the interests of the group, he did not dwell on this matter too much.

Land Rover also purchased a production line and related technology for the production of passenger cars from Ford, and as soon as it was handed over, those production technology and management experience were transferred to Huaxia.

The vehicles of the Pioneer Army, whether they are cars or trucks, are supported by military vehicles manufactured by the base, and the manufacturing level of other vehicles is very rudimentary, such as buses. It is still made of the chassis of a truck, with a hand-built compartment. There are a lot of hidden dangers, so Meng Xiang began to try to introduce the Germans and Americans to redesign the production line.

At this time, Huaxia's automobile industry had been initially built. In addition to Volkswagen, which was established very early in Jinan, another automobile production line has just been completed in the Beiping area. The wealthy people in the Beijing-Tianjin area prefer that kind of atmospheric car, and a semi-handmade boutique car production line is installed there. The names of the bridge cars have been chosen, Qingyun.

This good color head, with a shiny black body, coupled with the appearance of a variety of high-end bridge cars and a little guidance in Meng Xiang's memory, has been sought after by everyone as soon as it came out. The first batch of 100 cars sold out. More than half of them went to the national control area. There are many wealthy people in Chongqing, and the consumption of luxury goods is very high. Just like later generations, the consumption of luxury goods is not measured by the average per capita economic level.

The newly introduced bus production plant was initially set up in Jinan, using German technology. The next step will be the construction of a third car production plant near the Xi'an area. The location of the factory site is biased towards the Baoji side, which is also to avoid affecting the expansion and growth of Xi'an City in the future. The planned factory area is very large, and in the future, it will not only produce buses, but also jeeps. In some parts of the western region, more power is needed, not just fuel-efficient. So some premises, multi-functional jeeps are more suitable.

Naturally, the jeeps made in China are not called jeeps, and Meng Xiang directly named those military vehicles Humvees. The civilian jeep is called a sweat horse. The trucks produced by the Xi'an Automobile Factory are called Iron Horses.

After taking the name, Meng Xiang looked up to the sky and laughed three times, which made Zhou Bai, Tang Yaoshi, and Fan Chong, who were present at that time, inexplicable for a while.

Although the construction of the automobile factory near Xi'an had just begun at this time, it was an important part of the future growth of the Pioneer Army in the western region. In the future, the vast west will not be able to rely on railways alone, so there needs to be traces of cars and iron horses to break the loneliness of the vast desert wasteland. A large number of vehicles on the western frontier also need to have a production center in the west.

Meng Xiang chose it in Xi'an, exactly west of Xianyang. Soon after, the name of Xi'an would no longer be the title, and in Meng Xiang's ambition, he and Xianyang would merge to form the new city of Chang'an.

In the cultural revival of China, Chang'an City, the capital of the Han and Tang Dynasties, is missing. The new Chang'an City, covering Xianyang in the west, Lintong in the east, Chang'an County in the south, and Sanyuan and Gaoling in the north, will form a larger metropolis in Mengxiang's new plan.

Considering that these places are full of monuments, the construction here will adopt more Chinese characteristics of architecture, and eliminate those high-rise buildings made of steel and concrete. to highlight the overall style of the city. In the future, the style of Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties here will be even stronger.

The entire new Chang'an City was planned and built to highlight the civilization with Chinese characteristics, but in fact, it will reject modernization, the ancient and the modern will be integrated here, and a new international city will rise here.

In the past, the decline of Chang'an was partly due to human factors, and partly because of environmental changes. With the rise of the Jade Pavilion of Naqiong Palace, the destruction of mountains and forests, and the deterioration of the environment, the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan can no longer afford the food consumption of a national capital. Soil erosion has also reduced the navigation and irrigation functions of Weishui. The wind and sand forced it to a place not far from the capital, followed by the brutal northern barbarians.

The prosperity of shipping made the eastern coastal areas begin to prosper and make a fortune, and Bianjing and Hangzhou in the Song Dynasty and Beijing in the Yuan and Ming dynasties were all somewhat involved with the sea and prospered because of water transportation. These are incomparable to Xi'an, but with the growth of modern civilization, railway transportation has a greater impact on the dispersal of the city.

However, Xi'an only has a Longhai line, which is not as good as Zhengzhou, and the decline of the whole year makes the circulation of information lag behind. In the cities, it is still a little worse, and in those rural areas, many people gather in the fields where they often do not have enough to eat, and they live their own lives. In their eyes, there is only enough to eat, and where are there any pursuits and ideals. Until later generations, many areas there were still connected to this primitive concept of survival.

The human factors that grow up in a region can be changed by acquired means, and if you want to educate, you must first eliminate people's worries. The subsistence allowance is undoubtedly a way to liberate people's living burden. After the vanguard army managed this area, a large number of young laborers who could not eat were relieved of the vicious circle of herding sheep, marrying daughters-in-law and having children because of the subsistence allowance.

The vanguard army will not let these people be idle in areas where there is a lot of land and little land, or where the land environment is degraded. In addition to building factories to absorb surplus labor, there is also a large amount of surplus labor that is used to build roads, improve water conservancy facilities, and plant trees.

By this time, the Loess Plateau was already in fragments, whether for the large quantities of sediment that flowed into the Yellow River every year, or for the arable land that had been cut into ravines, environmental management began as soon as the vanguard army occupied these areas.

On land that is not suitable for farming, we have already begun to organize the return of farmland to forests and grasslands. At this time, the common people are already very satisfied if they can have food to eat, and the grain grown on the cultivated land that completely depends on the sky for food is not as good as the subsistence allowance. Because of the support of the subsistence allowance, the common people are not very complaining about this.

For those lands suitable for intensive cultivation, we will organize people to carry out the transformation of terraced fields, dam and silt these engineering methods and biological methods of afforestation and grass planting, and gradually control those soil erosion areas on the Loess Plateau. Even the Ordos region, just outside the Great Wall, has begun planting grass and shrubs to restore vegetation.

These places used to be places with beautiful mountains and rivers, fertile grass and beautiful waters, and the natural climate change of several hundred years is not enough to make such a huge change, and there is a clear possibility of recovery.

The reason why Meng Xiang is so concerned about this is that in addition to building a new Chang'an, he also plans to create a new Ruhr area in the Ordos region to truly support the winding body of the Yellow River dragon.

In later generations, the wealth of Ordos is eye-catching, except for the wool there, more than half of the area there is buried with coal, and there are trillion-ton reserves within 1,500 meters, and the coal quality is excellent, far exceeding the Ruhr.

There are also hundreds of billions of cubic meters of natural gas, accounting for half of the country's rare earth kaolin resources, massive trona and salt, and many building materials resources.

Even though there are only more than 10 million tons of iron ore, Baotou and Baiyun Obo are not far away, and the water source of the Yellow River can also provide industrial needs. Coupled with more than 80,000 square kilometers of land, this is simply intended for a super-industrial zone. It's a pity that many people in later generations only need his resources, because the conditions there feel too despicable to them, but they have long forgotten that it was also a land of green pastures, otherwise it would not have become the burial place of Genghis Khan.

The environment is changeable, whether it's the Mu Us Desert or the Kubuqi Desert, and their semi-fixed sand dunes and abundant groundwater bode well for the prospect of being transformed.

None of these can stop Meng Xiang's blueprint outline, and there is only one red forbidden area left to be solved.