In the northern part of China, there is a vast desert. The climate changes have made this place one unmanned land after another. In a sense, these unmanned lands represent some kind of scars for any country. The northwest has begun to control these places. The continuous human resources from Europe have been replenished here. Millions of prisoners of war can work in the most difficult state. Moreover, in a sense, the northwest does not criticize them too much. In addition to the relatively difficult environment, logistics supplies, tents, working environment, etc. are all solved in a state that can be solved. Most of the work of digging tree pits is completed by machinery. Only when machinery cannot replace human resources will people choose to work. In this case, not only the environment in the north changes particularly quickly, but these prisoners of war are not too painful. They basically have a working system of about 10 hours. In addition to work, they are relatively peaceful and eat well and sleep well.

1914 just arrived. In this year, it will be the first to plant various drought-resistant plants. In order to support this project, the Northwest Botanical Research Institute even invested a large number of greenhouses and experimental fields in the breeding of seedlings, scientific management, and carefully selected various drought-resistant and suitable plants for growing in sand molds. These will be planted in many lands, including deserts, in the next year.

It may not necessarily change the environment of the entire region in a short period of time, but it has taken a solid step, especially the Loess Plateau, which has shown signs of deterioration, consolidates the soil and water, prevents wind and sand. It has been divided into three phases, which lasts for 15 years. The Northwest will gradually invest 55 billion Northwest RMB to be used for environmental governance and tree planting and grass planting in the entire Loess Plateau. The area of ​​forest replacement and farmland returning to pasture exceeds 30,000 square kilometers, which will cause the reduction of grain production in the entire China, but will completely change the climatic conditions of the entire Northwest.

China has always had insufficient land. Whether in later generations or now, it has used relatively barren land. It seems that the food has not been enough since China's history. Therefore, in history, as mentioned in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the general trend of the world will be divided for a long time, but not a long time of unity. When the stable time has passed two or three hundred years, when the population continues to reach a certain limit, once problems are encountered, they will be in turmoil.

However, this has little impact on the Northwest. The new land opened in the western region, plus the huge land controlled outside Shanghai, will replenish the output of these 45 million mu of land. The investment is amazingly huge, and the land and funds will bring bright and at least. In Yang Yuanzhao's view, the Yellow River, one of the mother rivers of the Chinese nation, will turn green in the years of life. Therefore, the environment and subsequent consequences will continue to affect the development of the entire China in the next hundred and thousands of years. Now, most unmanned deserts in the northwest have not yet reached the time to plant trees and forage. Now, most unmanned deserts still have little effect, and only a small part is used as a test site for the Northwest Army's top secret weapons, especially for the army's weapons.

The research on tanks and armored vehicles was launched in 1911, and took three years. From the simplest ordinary armored vehicles, it gradually developed to the present. After three generations, tanks and armored vehicles began to become more and more powerful. The graphics of classic tanks and armored vehicles were handed over to the institute as early as the beginning of the research, but because of this, they took many detours. The appearance of classic tanks and armored vehicles in later generations is very classic, otherwise countless countries would not have used it. However, for the early 20th century, the 100-year technological period, even if we know that these are the best, it is very difficult to solve. At the beginning, researchers could hardly find out, and many routes were gone, and there was no progress for a long time.

Fortunately, Yang Yuanzhao's timely let go allowed researchers to use their intelligence and rely on their own efforts to solve this problem. Now, it was like the finishing touch and solved this problem in a timely manner. Northwest itself had all the conditions for producing tanks and armored vehicles. Various sub-projects had made great progress than when tanks and armored vehicles were in the prototype. If Yang Yuanzhao had not deliberately required armored vehicles and tanks to have the necessary performance, even comparable to the main force in later generations, these tanks and armored vehicles would have been born long ago.

Yang Yuanzhao was an engineer in a later team and graduated from the Power Department of a famous university. He has had a profound research on the world's most advanced engines. In addition, the various advanced metal materials provided by the BMW 999 engine and all-in-one engine brought during the journey, some advanced engines have gradually emerged. The horsepower of the powerful diesel engine has reached 600 horsepower. For the main engines of World War II, it is slightly larger in size, but for tanks and armored vehicles, power is a core heart. Without power, no design can do the right thing, and this can be used in front of you.

After the initial obstacle, Yang Yuanzhao decisively adopted a new method, and only came up with simple things about engines and concepts related to later generations, such as the most basic concepts of wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, wheeled armor, and tracked tank chassis, such as engines, artillery and protection. The rest were left to the designers, and the requirements were put forward, with strong reliability, simple structure, easy maintenance, and easy mass production. Because of this, the armor in the northwest has made breakthrough progress.

Don't underestimate these requirements. This has been verified by historical research. Northwest has surpassed this era because of the excellence of all-in-one engines and Yang Yuanzhao. You must know that the Dodge trucks that later marketed the entire world and supported the military transportation of the US military were only 10 tons. The reason for such a small displacement is that on the one hand, the insufficient grade of metals such as the carriages, and on the other hand, the lack of performance of the engine

But now, under the design of the all-in-one and Yang Yuanzhao, the most powerful diesel engine has reached 600 horsepower, and the ordinary diesel engine has reached about 300 horsepower. The miniaturization and production capacity are already available, so large military trucks with transportation capacity of more than 25 tons and heavy tanks with about 50 tons have also appeared.

Tonnage is always the basis of tanks. In fact, the tanks that appeared in World War I for the first time, whether it was a large water tank or a French Renault, were light tanks below 20 tons, with their weight and speed very slowly. From Yang Yuanzhao's perspective, they did not have the practicality of later generations at all. In a sense, it was just that Britain and France were tortured by trench warfare to the point where they could not be affected by humans. They pieced together the weapons to break through trench warfare. The speed of the large water tank was only 3 kilometers per hour, just a moving iron shell. As for Renault a little faster, it still could not keep up with the performance of later generations' armor.

Such weapons have excellent results when facing unprotected infantry and positions without large-caliber artillery support. However, the slow speed is easily covered by strategic artillery in the rear, especially with the density of artillery fire during World War I. The tank made by Yang Yuanzhao was to make him a kind of offensive weapon, not a coffin. After the tank had a huge effect in the early stage, it quickly turned into a moving coffin. Therefore, tanks are very similar to battleships, and speed, firepower, and even protection must reach a perfect balance.

The 600-horsepower engine is the basic one. You should know that the main battle heavy tanks during World War II had a horsepower of 600 horsepower, from T34 to Tiger, and then to main battle tanks in the United States and Britain.

Although there are still many problems to be solved, artillery technology, protective armor, and even protection concepts are all world-class, and heavy tanks in the northwest have already had a foundation.

When researchers in the northwest focused on solving the problem, why did this tank become more and more like the later t34? It is no wonder that the requirements put forward by Yang Yuanzhao, even the low-temperature resistance performance, were proposed by Soviet tanks. Many things in the world have certain commonalities. After strengthening these aspects, the armored vehicles naturally turned to Soviet equipment.

As the entire northwest, the first armoured troops were equipped with armor, the First Independent Armored Brigade and the First Special Armored Regiment. They were the first troops to come into contact with the armored troops. The strong armored performance and well-trained troops made them very confident in their own strength. However, now, they were suddenly asked to participate in the exercises and cooperate with the exercises of the 11th Army, which surprised them more or less. The First Armored Brigade and the First Special Armored Regiment were all high-end. The brigade commander was a major general and the brigade general, which was basically equivalent to the military ranks of other troops A and B divisions. Since its establishment, they have been independently trained. Now that they have received such orders to train together, it is more or less strange.

A roar sound came out. The First Armored Brigade had 250 Armored Vehicles, while the First Special Armored Regiment had 112 tanks, including 27 heavy and 35 medium-sized vehicles. The rest were all light. Similar tactical exercises have also been experienced. Even if the number of Armored Brigade was larger, it would be completely defeated when it encountered heavy tanks. In other words, ordinary medium and light tanks could withstand one or two. Now they had to practice with all infantry troops. For them, it was easy to capture. It was because they were familiar with the weapons in their hands that they knew how powerful the armored power was.

The red signal flare rose above the desert of unmanned desert. According to the exercise plan, they needed to cross about 30 kilometers to raid the infantry units of the three divisions that had already built positions in front of them. They had already entered the field three days ago to form a relatively solid three-dimensional position. Their exercise project was how to break through this position and achieve success at the minimum cost. (To be continued...)
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