"Crunch! Crunch! "The tracks of the tank ran over the grass, leaving deep rut marks. The motors of dozens of tanks sounded like thunder.

"Boom!" As soon as the tank braked sharply, the muzzle of the gun shone with orange-red fire, and a shell had already flown out. Soon, on the opposite hill, there was a cloud of smoke and dust.

Dozens of tanks were constantly approaching the defensive positions on the hill, and in the process of marching, they kept firing and the momentum was pressing.

The senior generals of the Imperial Army, who were watching from a distance, were already dumbfounded. What was happening in front of them was beyond their expectations. They are all experts in leading troops to fight, so they naturally know what kind of performance these ugly-looking iron bumps will behave once they go to the battlefield.

In addition to these tanks, infantry sorties. They bent on their waists, followed behind the tanks, and used the tanks as cover to approach the positions on the hill. With tanks as cover, they didn't have to worry about being hurt by fire from their defensive positions.

Soon, the tank approached less than three hundred meters from the defensive position on the hill.

"Boom!" A tank opened fire, piercing a machine-gun point into the air.

Other tanks also aimed their guns at those machine-gun fire points or pillboxes, destroying all the things that were difficult for infantry to deal with. Under the crushing of the tank's tracks, the deer village was easily bulldozed, and the barbed wire was also crushed. The position, which would have required a lot of dead infantry to break through, was easily torn apart with the cooperation of these tanks.

After the tanks broke through the position, the infantry following the tanks also broke through and cleared the remaining enemy from the position with the cooperation of the tanks. Although, in fact, the defensive positions were empty. Some are just dummies. But in the eyes of the generals who led the troops to war, all this was not important at all. It was as if they had seen their own tank troops, easily broke through the enemy's position, and then slaughtered in all directions.

"Oh my God! The Praetorian Guard is really training an invincible force this time! Admiral Shi Qingshan said.

The commanders of the other group armies also nodded their heads again and again. In their opinion, this is indeed an invincible force in the world. If they have one of these forces under their command. That's absolutely invincible.

"Your Majesty, I wonder when we will be able to have such a force under our command?" Marshal Shi Deshan asked.

"Marshal, this unit is only an experimental unit at the moment. After the Praetorian Guard completes the exploration of tactics, it will be extended to other troops. In addition, for technical reasons, this new weapon is not very stable. It's too early to scale up. Wu Haoxuan said. With the current level of science and technology, we should come up with advanced weapons and equipment such as tanks. It's true that some of them are too strong. The result is these tanks, which are ugly in appearance and, in fact, rudimentary, with poor stability. After such an exercise, a third of the tanks were already lying on their stomachs.

"Your Majesty, what is the name of this weapon?" Admiral Zhao Tianlong asked.

"It's up to Minister Zhao of the Equipment Department to introduce it to you." Wu Haoxuan said. He knew that these generals were already very interested in this kind of weapon. If it weren't for the fact that this weapon was still being tested and the tactics of warfare were still being explored. Maybe they've already asked for it.

"Generals, this is the latest weapon developed by the Imperial Armament Department for the Army for assault attacks. His Majesty gave him the name Tank. The tank you see now is Tank No. 1. Tank No. 1 was 4.62 meters long, 2.31 meters wide and 2.11 meters high, with 25 mm thick front armor. The side and rear armor was 15 mm thick and weighed 10.2 tons. The Kunlun 3 engine is used for road travel speed of 25 km/h and off-road speed of 10 km/h. It is armed with one 37 mm tank gun and two 12.7 mm heavy machine guns. Of course, because this is the first tank developed by the Empire that can be used in real combat. The performance is not very stable. It needs to continue to improve. The Reich only plans to use this type of tank as a training tank. Admiral Zhao Lei said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the General Staff plans to form an armored unit in the Praetorian Guard with tanks as the main assault force, and change the tactics used to practice tanks. After the training is successful, it will be promoted to other group armies. When the time comes, each army group will have its own tank units. Perhaps, by the time it will be, more advanced and more stable tanks will have already been produced. So, don't worry. Marshal Shi Tianhan, Chief of the General Staff, also said.

Indeed, because of the advent of the tank, the training department under the General Staff has also begun to explore what kind of impact this new weapon will have on the battlefield. In the past, trenches of trenches, machine-gun firing points, pillboxes and barbed wire became a natural danger for infantry. In trench warfare, the infantry suffered heavy casualties for every step forward. However, if there are tanks and other sharp weapons, trenches are no longer a problem. Tanks can easily crush barbed wire, advance against enemy machine-gun fire, destroy enemy pillboxes and machine-gun fire points, and cover infantry to break through enemy positions.

Of course, this is only the initial use of tanks. Supporting the infantry is just one of the uses of tanks. What Wu Haoxuan really values is the tank's rapid maneuverability and assault power. He hoped that one day, the Empire's armored forces would be able to fight a blitzkrieg as quickly as the German armored forces in World War II.

However, this requires a further improvement in the performance of the tank, and at the same time, there must be matching armored vehicles, self-propelled guns, etc. In terms of tank tactics, the generals also need to explore. Although Wu Haoxuan knows the concept of blitzkrieg, he knows a lot of things. He was only able to propose something general to the generals. The specific details can only be left to these generals to perfect on their own.

"Your Majesty, if the Imperial Army is equipped with tanks on a large scale. Then, in the future, there will be no country that will be able to withstand the attack of the Imperial Army. Admiral Shi Qingshan said excitedly.

Wu Haoxuan smiled, and then said: "The Siberian Plain and Central Asia, with flat terrain, are very suitable for the application of tank troops. I hope that one day the steel torrent of the Empire's tank troops will be able to roll westward and crush all the enemies of the Empire to pieces! ”

"Your Majesty, this day must not be too far away." Marshal Shi Tianhan, Chief of the General Staff, said with a smile.

Wu Haoxuan was also very excited in his heart, at this time, the original tank of the British may have just begun to be developed. That kind of rudimentary tank, compared to the No. 1 tank of the Reich, is not comparable at all. If the No. 1 tank of the Empire is too rudimentary, then the tank used by the British for the first time in actual combat can probably only be described as garbage. In this regard, the empire is already at the forefront of the world.

Perhaps, this is the advantage of the reborn. Knowing the trend of future development can guide the empire's army to develop in this direction and avoid many detours. In this way, in the future war, the Imperial Army will be able to firmly gain the upper hand.

The generals were all very excited, and they had great hopes for the future appearance of tank troops under their command. Everyone believed that once the Imperial Army used this new weapon on the battlefield in the future, it would be invincible.

Subsequently, the No. 1 tank was demonstrated in terms of defensive capabilities. The strafing of large-caliber heavy machine guns can only leave a little white mark on the tank and knock off a little paint. It simply can't have much of an impact on it.

Even small-caliber mortar shells could not hurt them. Of course, if it's a large-caliber shell or howitzer, that's another story. The armor of tank No. 1 is still too weak.

The tank in Wu Haoxuan's mind should be the kind of tank that has the performance of the German Army's 'Leopard' tank and 'Tiger' tank in World War II, and at the same time can be mass-produced like the Soviet T34 tank. Only then will the Reich be able to build a truly powerful armored force. In the future war, sweep across the Eurasian continent and dominate the world.

It's just that, in terms of current scientific and technological strength, it is undoubtedly very difficult to meet Wu Haoxuan's requirements. However, it is still early. Wu Haoxuan is only 29 years old. In another twenty years, he will still be in the prime of life. It is perfectly possible to see the day when the Empire* army will dominate the world.

The generals of the Imperial Army were very satisfied with the new weapon of the tank. However, after visiting the tanks, everyone decided that the trip was worth it and they could leave. But they found that Wu Haoxuan had no intention of leaving at all, which made everyone's mailbox confusing.

"General Feng, are you ready?" Wu Haoxuan asked.

"Your Majesty, in twenty minutes, they will be there." Air Force Director Major General Feng Jiuru said.

"Well, that's good. Just wait another twenty minutes. Soon, something better was there for everyone to see. Wu Haoxuan said mysteriously.

When everyone heard Wu Haoxuan say this, they had to wait patiently.

Time passed minute by minute, and soon, some small black dots appeared on the edge of the sky, and there was a "buzzing" sound in the sky, as if wild bees were flying.

"What's that?" Someone noticed this and thought it was a bird. However, when he looked into the distance with his binoculars, he was immediately dumbfounded.

Soon, everyone noticed the sky. One after another, the biplane silver-white planes appeared in the sky, and the formation was very dense, and it looked like it was overwhelming. (To be continued.) )

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