readx; Because of the existence of Chen Jingyun, so China's tank development can be regarded as a relatively early country, as early as when Europe was equipped with tanks on a large scale to participate in World War I, China has developed the T1 tank and equipped the troops, the T1 tank of the year has given great inspiration to the tank designers of various countries, Germany and France in World War I followed several tanks are direct reference to the T1 tank, and even the United Kingdom, which also developed tanks very early, also borrowed some design concepts from the T1 tank to a certain extent. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although China's tanks developed very early, the speed of development has not been too fast, especially during the First World War, the tank technology of European countries can be updated almost every other month, but China has only T1 tanks and improved models of T2 tanks in the past few years, until the end of World War I, China was stimulated by new tanks on the European battlefield, and then developed T3, T4, T5 series tanks. However, this series of tanks is not successful, although it is a great improvement compared to the first generation of T1\T2 tanks, but the surname can still not meet the army's needs for armored forces, and after the end of World War I, all countries have not stopped the research of new tanks, whether it is Britain or France have put forward a large number of new tank research and development plans, so at that time, the army was after the end of World War I, according to the experience of the European battlefield, put forward the development of post-war tank plans, This was the initial plan for the T6 medium tank and the T7 heavy tank.

After several years of research and development, the T6 and T7 tanks began to be installed in the army in 1922 and participated in the Sino-Chinese War. There is no doubt that the T6 and T7 tanks two years ago brought a brilliant victory to the armored forces, but at the same time, many problems were exposed, especially the frequent failure of the power system and the extremely serious breakdown during long marches. This is an unbearable problem for China's armored forces, which places great emphasis on mobile warfare, so the army has been working on improving the T6 and T7 tanks for the past two years in order to solve the problem of the power system.

Chen Jingyun saw the latest improved versions of the T6 and T7 tanks at the Wuhu Tank Factory, but although there were some improvements, these tanks still did not have a fundamental technological revolution, and remained roughly at the level after the end of World War I.

This made Chen Jingyun a little disappointed, he remembered that the army had put forward several plans for the development of next-generation tanks, but there was no follow-up.

Zuo Yugang, who was standing next to Chen Jingyun, also saw the look on Chen Jingyun's face, and immediately stepped forward to explain: "Now we see that this T6 Type C tank is the latest model of the T6 tank. ”

"Oh, I remember last year there was a development of a new tank? How did it stop? "Chen Jingyun has always been very concerned about the research and development of new equipment, and some important technical equipment will give their own opinions, so as not to mess around, such as this tank, the current tank design in Europe is messy, such as a few tons of ultra-light tanks, and for example, a heavy 45-ton multi-turret tank, the tank design in Europe has not found a direction, and it has also affected some Chinese designers to a certain extent. Chen Jingyun has already shot twice the Army's plan to develop a multi-turret heavy tank. China doesn't have many technicians and doesn't have much money, but there is no capital to waste on these useless expenses.

Therefore, Chen Jingyun has always paid more attention to the tank of the tank, and has always adhered to his own design concept, that is, protection and speed and firepower should achieve a relative balance, on the premise of this balance, to a certain extent, you can focus on mobility, and the design of this tank directly reflects the concept of high-speed mobile combat of China's armored forces.

Unlike the European side, they still insist on the late-World War I style of tanks to provide support for the infantry, so most of the tanks they develop are turtle speed heavy armor tanks.

Zuo Yugang heard Chen Jingyun ask about the research and development of new tanks, and after thinking about it carefully, he said: "The research and development of a new generation of tanks has not stopped for several years, but it has never come up with a good design!" And the armored forces also need to replenish tanks, so it is also a last resort to properly improve the existing T6 tanks! ”

Zuo Yugang in the war, the armored troops under his command as always played his fierce offensive combat style, when Zuo Yugang led the infantry dared to fight like this, now with more powerful firepower, better mobility of the armored troops are even more fierce, almost from the moment of crossing the Yalu River, the armored troops under his command have been fighting in the front line, and after the Battle of Pyongyang, rushed to Busan, before the army reinforced Busan on a large scale, conquered the fortress of Busan.

For example, Tang Qiang was transferred to the Armored Division as deputy director after the war and was promoted to the rank of major general.

The commander of the 2nd Armored Division, Fang Dashan, the founder of the Armored Forces, was also promoted to lieutenant general last year and served as the commander of the 2nd Armored Division.

As the commander of the entire armored group, although Zuo Yugang was not promoted immediately after the war, but in July 1924, Chen Jingyun personally presided over the promotion ceremony, Zuo Yugang and Liang Xunqin were successfully promoted to general, and then in January this year, Chen Jingyun promoted Li Lianyang, who entered the State Military Commission for the first time as a member, to general. This brings the number of active generals in China to nine.

In addition, Chen Jingyun also promoted a large number of lieutenant generals, and the reason why so many lieutenant generals were promoted was because during the Sino-Chinese war, the army already deeply felt that it was difficult to directly command five or six divisions or even a dozen divisions by relying on a single army-level command center, and you must know that when it entered the Korean War, the Eighth Army commanded as many as seven or eight divisions at most, with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops.

In actual operations, two or three divisions are generally dispatched to form a temporary corps to participate in specific campaigns.

After the end of the war, the army wanted to fix the model of this temporary corps, so it made a suggestion to Chen Jingyun that it should set up 20 armies in the whole army and fix the establishment of the army level with three divisions as one army. The surname Suo also let the military rank be fixed.

As a result, China's military-level establishment has increased from the previous 12 to 20, and the military-level establishment has been fixed for the first time.

After Zuo Yugang was promoted to general, his actual position was that of the Central Military Commissar of the State Military Commission. Not only is he like this, but Shen Gang and his generals are all like this, and most of them do not hold specific military positions, among China's current nine active generals, Ma Cheng continues to serve as the chief of staff, Li Jimin is the commander-in-chief of China's troops in Russia, and the others have not continued to hold substantive posts. Now those army commanders in China are all lieutenant generals, while the ordinary division commanders and the brigade commanders of the Reading Brigade are all major generals, and as for several armor divisions due to their special surnames, they have major generals and lieutenant generals.

Zuo Yugang said that he had nothing to do in Nanjing, and spent most of his time studying the combat of armored forces, and also participated in the research and development of new tanks.

Based on the experience of the Chinese war, Zuo Yugang believes that the new generation of tanks must not only have better protection capabilities and more powerful firepower, but also have an improved mobile surname.

Zuo Yugang knows very well that the T6 and T7 tanks that China is now massively equipped with can be regarded as excellent, but this reliable surname is really too poor.

Therefore, the difficulty of China's tank research and development now does not lie in more powerful tank guns, nor in better protection and faster speed, but only one difficulty, that is, reliability. In addition, there is a very critical problem, that is, the current tanks are really too expensive, so expensive that the Chinese army cannot afford to buy new tanks every year.

The progress of technology is limited, and the high price makes it more difficult to replace the tank than the artillery, because the high price of the tank is doomed to the tank to be thrown into the warehouse after a few years, you must know that there are still a large number of T3/45 series tanks in service in the Chinese Army, and even the T1/T2 tanks manufactured in the early stage of World War I are still in the tank and academy as a training tank to exert the last residual heat.

The high price of tanks naturally makes it impossible for the army to replace tanks at will, and it is impossible to say that when they see a good tank, they will immediately produce dozens of tanks, in addition to considering the purchase price of tanks, they also have to consider how much it will cost to establish a logistics maintenance supply line for a new tank after equipping a new tank. The money in this is more than the money spent by the Air Force and Navy on new aircraft.

Therefore, although the Wuhu Tank Factory has put forward several new tank design proposals, they were all rejected by the army, and before the revolution of the surname of the new tank and the historical surname of the technology appeared, the army would rather repair the T6 medium tank and the T7 heavy tank for a few more years, rather than spend a great price to equip a new tank. In any case, although the new tank has certain advantages over the T6 and T7 tanks, this advantage is not enough for the army to spend a lot of military money to replace the new tank.

The army wants to save money, and the Wuhu Tank Factory can only carry out a small part of the technical updates of the T6 and T7 tanks.

In this case, all Chen Jingyun can see is the old-fashioned T6 and T7 tanks!

Although he was not very satisfied with the slow development of tanks, Chen Jingyun still held a smile and talked and laughed with everyone, boosted morale, stayed in Wuhu for a few days, Chen Jingyun's special train set off again, and arrived in Hangzhou not long after, after visiting and inspecting Hangzhou for a few days, he went to Shanghai again, visited and inspected Shanghai Huidong New Road and Shanghai Economic Development Zone, and also held a small-scale symposium with a group of entrepreneurs gathered in Shanghai, talking about China's economic development. At the meeting, he said that he hoped that domestic entrepreneurs and political axes would work together for the rejuvenation of China, and that after dealing with these things, Chen Jingyun would have to go to the Shanghai Arsenal and Jiangnan Shipyard again to inspect and prepare to preside over the commissioning ceremony of China's fifth aircraft carrier, the second regular aircraft carrier of the Hengshan class, the Lushan.