Cars are new things that have only appeared in recent years. At the beginning, the British used mostly Germans to produce Mercedes-Benz, or Fords that traveled across the ocean from the United States, especially Fords. In the United States, Fords, which are less than $400, are not much even if they travel across the ocean. The price of one or two hundred pounds can be afforded by any middle class. However, such cars should be of the same level as carriages, especially on wide roads, which can hardly be stretched out. It is useless except that they do not have to feed a horse.

The emergence of China has changed the pattern of automobiles, with all-steel structure, greater horsepower, steering wheel and headlights, electronic control systems, and rubber tires. Since the emergence of Chinese cars, all famous and unnamed brands have been swept away by Chinese cars. China has begun to become a manufacturer of standards in the world's automobile field. All innovations have started from Chinese cars and then transmitted to the world. The automobile industry, which has just been reborn and has not yet been completely stable, was swept away by the emergence of China's super giant.

China's low-end, mid-range and high-end cars have begun to occupy the world market. Although Ford T-mode is already cheap enough, Chinese cars can be cheaper, and they are better than Ford in all aspects. Although they are smaller, they have all the functions they should have. Whether it is metal body, tires and lights, these new things are applied to this car. Stability and other aspects are much better than Ford and much faster.

Mid-range cars are even more incomparable to high-end cars. While Lincoln was still considering a high-end car of $2,000, China has begun to make high-end cars worth $30,000. Whether in terms of comfort, speed, or even luxury, it makes other cars unable to turn to the back. Even the highest-end ones also have bulletproof functions, which is unimaginable for the world's top rich people.

Although the outbreak of World War I was not initiated by the assassination of the Grand Duke Ferdinand, in the 19th and even the 18th century, assassination was still mainstream. In the concealed weapons of pistols and the popularity of rifles, it was difficult for guards to guard a distance of hundreds of meters. A sharpshooter or a killer who mixed into the crowd could easily assassinate the target.

However, the emergence of bulletproof cars has changed all this. Even rubber tires are bulletproof. 5 cm thick bulletproof glass and 3 cm thick special armor. Not to mention pistols, even rifles using special bullets can be successfully blocked. This has become the biggest guarantee for the rich. Even if the annual output is 150 vehicles, the order has been scheduled for 5 years.

After the popularization of small cars, China once launched a batch of trucks and load-carrying cars. However, unlike China, other countries in the world are not very popular in highways. That is, Germany, after receiving China's support, began to contact various highways between large, medium and small cities, other countries, that is, traditional highways. These highways can use small cars and carriages, but for load-carriages, there is no way for load-carriage cars. It is too heavy, and if it is not careful, the road will be crushed.

A load-loaded car with a load-load of more than 5 tons and a full load of 10 tons, or even a car with a load-load of 7.5 tons and a total weight of more than 15 tons. This is not something that has not been surface hardened and has sufficient load-bearing capacity. A bumpy road not only cannot run at speed, but cannot exert the advantages of the car in speed. In some windy and rainy days, collapses and accidents occur frequently. Even in the sunny weather, empty cars may collapse on some damaged or bumpy roads, let alone heavy cars.

Therefore, such a product did not attract the attention of the world like small cars and high-end cars. In a circle, countries around the world, including the Allies, only achieved sales of 2,000 vehicles.

2000 sounds like a lot, but the countries that can buy cars, Britain, France, and the United States, are not many. The allies together have only about 500 vehicles, which is a little more than Germany and Austro-Hungarian Empire. Most of them were purchased after the war because the Chinese helped them build roads and had high-level roads. The outstanding role of trucks was played out. With success, they also attracted the attention of senior management.

For the allies, China was selling as much as possible. The Allies could only understand it themselves. At the moment of war, it proved the role of this truck. In order to speed up logistics, Britain and France had to learn from Germany's experience and use precious cement and steel bars on highway construction. The standards of the road began to improve, and the role of trucks began to emerge. Trucks that could carry about 5 tons of materials and operate on standard roads at a speed of about 60 kilometers per hour.

It has become the best carrier for logistics transportation, especially in short-distance transportation. It is simply amazing. Even a heavy-loaded carriage can only be 2 tons at most. The truck can transport 5 tons and 7 tons. The most important thing is that the speed of the truck and the speed of 60 kilometers are far higher than that of the truck. And the truck does not need to consider the strength issue. As long as there is gasoline, it can operate for 24 hours without stopping. This has become the most needed thing in the later supply period in the war.

Unfortunately, before the war, Britain only blessed less than 200 trucks, nearly half of which were still idle. After the war, China narrowed the sales of products like trucks and merchant ships. The British had no place to buy them. Especially after the United States promoted the declaration of war on China, the possibility of purchasing finished trucks was basically zero. The country that had never had an Allied country had obtained trucks through secret channels.

But the engine has to be considered. This is a big matter related to the success or failure of a tank. So when this engine report, which is required, was placed in front of the senior management, the British senior management had to smile bitterly. It is not easy for Britain to buy trucks without a war with China, let alone now that China has joined the allies, the civilian field between China and the United Kingdom has been cut off, which means that the acquisition of engines is impossible, which is not good news for the United Kingdom.

However, the report on tanks by the Land Cruiser Laboratory was excellent. In order to obtain enough engines, the person in charge boldly estimated that as long as the horsepower reaches a certain level, both protection, speed, and even artillery can be installed on the tank. At that time, the tank will be a killer weapon to conquer positional warfare.

I have to say that the person in charge has made such a big imagination, and he has really made a mistake. He has successfully estimated the general direction of the future development of the tank and also fluctuated the desires of the senior management. The reason for proposing this land cruiser was that Britain was to break the deadlock in other aspects. The navy was not achieved overnight. The manufacturing of battleships cannot be completed in a short time. If there is an army weapon, it can break through trench warfare quite quickly. As long as the land warfare has the upper hand, the disadvantages in naval warfare will not be a problem.

The key to the constraints now is to send away scientists and lower-level people on the engine, leaving only the senior officials of the Admiralty, the entire military and government. There are only 12 people holding closed-door meetings, and the topic of the meeting is exactly the engine.

Many things, on the surface and in fact, are completely different and incomparable. Although for the entire British people, China is an enemy and a hostile country, and all the ties between the two sides have been cut off, the British top leaders are very clear, and it has been cut off on the surface, but in private, it has not been cut off, and the channels taken are also secret channels.

Many Chinese products are irreplaceable to the world. Even if the UK does not have such products on the surface, they still have them privately. Many channels are still under the control of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Intelligence. By constantly increasing prices, they plunder the wealth of the people. Only by concentrating the wealth of the entire country can they play their greatest role. This is what is done during wars.

The land cruiser project showed strong power. As long as it was a certain number, it could break through Germany's defense system and allow Britain to gain the upper hand on land in a short period of time. Germany had only a total of 1 million people. For the Allies, it was just a slight loss and it might take several months to recover its vitality. If this part was lost by Germany, it might not be able to recover its vitality in one or two years. After all, Germany only had a population of more than 60 million, and it did not have overseas colonies like Britain and France as support.

The person in charge had a slightly exaggerated approach, plus the Army's assessment report, as long as the land cruiser project can increase its strength by about 20% on the existing basis, and with 1,000 or 1,500 vehicles, it suddenly launched a group charge against the German defense line, and cooperated with the army charge of 2 million to 3 million, which was enough to annihilate 1.5 million or even 2 million German troops on the front battlefield.

The European War has been beginning for so long. Germany's total losses on the battlefield must exceed 1 million, but in a single battle, Germany never lost so many personnel. According to the current total strength of Germany is 8 million, 2 million is almost a quarter of the loss. Such losses cannot be compensated for in a short time. As long as one victory is achieved, the balance of the entire European war must be tilted towards the Allies.

It is this vision that has attracted British senior executives to hold closed-door meetings to discuss this matter and get the engine. In the eyes of British senior executives, there is no doubt about how to get it, whether to start with a truck or directly from the engine, these require professional personnel to judge. (To be continued.)
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