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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 243 The production situation is excellent

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    Update time: 2012-09-21

    During the period from January to the end of March 1918, the 149-kilometer railway from Guisui to Baotou was successfully completed on February 28, 1918, the same day that the Chinese participating army launched the "Defend 18 and Recover Homeland" military operation.  In the past month, the railways from Baotou to Bayan Obo, Ordos and Bayannur have each progressed 30 kilometers, continuing to maintain an average paving rate of one kilometer a day.

    At the same time, the 315-kilometer railway project from Ulanqab to Erlian was successfully completed in early January, and the 680-kilometer railway from Erlian to Kulun, Outer Mongolia, was completed at the end of March. It is expected that the remaining  It will take Japanese contractors and the railway construction army to work hard for at least another year to build the 560-kilometer railway line.

    At the same time, the road widening project from Erlian to Kulun has completed 480 kilometers.  It is estimated that it will take another month and a half to complete the entire highway widening project from Erlian to Kulun.

    The Renqiu Oilfield of Sino-US Petroleum Company once again drilled its fourth high-yield oil well "Sino-US No. 4" in early March, with a daily crude oil production of 1,500 tons and a well depth of 3,225 meters. In this way, the Renqiu Oilfield now has four high-yield oil wells and four oil wells.  In total, the daily crude oil production was 5,500 tons, or 38,500 barrels, and the annual crude oil production was more than 2 million tons. China became an important emerging oil producer in the world in 1918.

    With the installation and commissioning of the fourth set of 500,000-ton-per-year refinery equipment in Renqiu Oilfield, the annual refining capacity of the three refineries in Renqiu Oilfield has reached 1.5 million tons. At the same time, Wang Geng arranged to purchase the fifth set of annual refinery equipment.  For a 500,000-ton oil refining equipment, eggs cannot be put in one basket. With the opening of the railway from Guisui to Baotou, Baotou will become the second steel and oil base in the future.

    Facing the east coast, Baotou is the strategic rear, but facing Xinjiang and Mongolia, facing the west, the Baotou base will become the front.

    China Aircraft Manufacturing Company completed the production and test flight of the first Handley Petty v/1500 in January. On the basis of completing the production of three aircraft in February, it produced eight Handley Petty V/1500 in one go in March.  1500 heavy bomber, plus the two earliest prototypes imported from the United Kingdom, Wang Geng currently has 14 Handley Page v/1500 in his hands, and the two that were completed at the end of March were converted into carriers.  Civil aviation version with a capacity of 50 passengers.

    China Airlines has opened the first international route in Asia, the Beijing-Qingdao-Osaka-Nagoya-Tokyo route. One v/1500 civil type flies this international route, and the other flies the Beijing-Shanghai-Guangzhou route.

    At the same time, the remaining 52 sets of Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII aircraft engines will be used to continue to assemble and produce 12 Handley Page V/1500 heavy bombers, and the remaining 4 sets will be temporarily used as spare parts for future maintenance.  .

    With the commissioning of the Xuanhua Steel Base, the production capacity of high-grade cast iron and special steel is gradually increasing. China Aircraft Manufacturing Factory's copy of the Eagle VIII aircraft engine is progressing smoothly. It is expected that the first batch of domestically produced Eagle VIII engines will roll off the production line by the end of April. At the same time  China Fudao Automobile Factory has also made breakthroughs in imitating V4/V6 and V8 automobile engines. The V4 engine used in the Ford Model T was the first to be successfully imitated. It is expected that the V6 engine of the Dodge 1-ton semi-truck will also be imitated by the end of April.  success.

    Three 5-ton electric steel furnaces at the Xuanhua Iron and Steel Base were successfully put into production, with a daily output of 15 tons of gun barrels, gun barrel steel, spring steel and tool steel. This made the Xuanhua Arsenal's gun shop no longer rely on imported steel to manufacture gun barrels and cannons.  Regardless, by the end of March, the 75mm mountain cannon, 75mm field gun and 150mm howitzer were all successfully imitated using domestic steel.

    It is expected to achieve monthly production of 36 75mm mountain guns, 36 75mm field guns and 24 150mm howitzers in April. With the increase in production equipment and the training of skilled workers, the production capacity is expected to increase month by month, and the production capacity will be doubled in half a year.  , the production capacity will be doubled again in one year.

    Among the latest U.S. aid arms arriving at the end of March 1918, 50 U.S-authorized French Renault FT-17 tanks are particularly eye-catching. This French light tank is actually the first 360-degree rotating turret tank in world history.  It is world-famous and was called "the world's first modern tank" by Stephen Zaloga, a famous historian in Wang Geng's previous life.

    This light tank authorized by the United States is named the six-ton ??m1917 tank. It mainly changes the production size from the original French metric unit production design to imperial units and makes detailed modifications.

    Basic parameters of the Renault 1917 tank:

    ft-17 main performance data

    Total combat weight 6.5 tons

    Vehicle length 5.00m

    Vehicle width 1.75m

    Car height 2.29m

    Maximum speed 7km/h

    Maximum travel range 65km

    Engine: Renault upright liquid-cooled 4-cylinder petrol engine

    Output power: 39 horsepower

    Thrust-to-weight ratio: 6 horsepower/ton

    Combat crew: 2 people

    Armor thickness: 22mm

    Firepower equipment: 37mm short-barreled gun or 8mmmodel1914mg

    Ammunition 37mm: 240 roundsor 8mm: 4800 rounds of armor 6-22mm

    Climbing degree 45 degrees

    0.61m high through vertical wall

    The width of the trench is 1.98m

    The wading depth is 0.69m

    The reason why Wang Geng has not introduced and developed his own tanks is firstly because he looks down on the British series of extremely heavy MK tanks, and secondly because China Fudao Automobile Company needs a process to introduce and produce imitation Ford and Dodge cars.

    For Wang Geng, the French Renault ft-17 light tank is a truly modern tank. The engine compartment, combat compartment and cockpit are isolated, independent suspension, 360-degree rotation of the turret, etc.

    Of course, the combat performance of this French Renault ft-17 light tank made in the United States is completely useless to Wang Geng. The maximum speed of 7 kilometers per hour is simply a joke. The armored forces participating in the war use the Ford TT multi-purpose vehicle chassis.  A wheeled armored vehicle modified with a V6 liquid-cooled engine.

    The basic parameters of this wheeled armored combat vehicle named Zhonghua FD-17 are as follows:

    Total combat weight 4.2 tons

    Vehicle length 5.1m

    Vehicle width 1.9m

    Car height 2.3m

    Maximum speed 60km/h

    Maximum travel range 300km

    Engine: Ford V6 liquid-cooled gasoline engine

    Output power: 50 horsepower

    Combat crew: 3 people

    Carrying infantry: 8 people

    Armor thickness: 9mm

    Firepower equipment: A 7.62mm m1917a1 Browning water-cooled heavy machine gun.

    This Chinese FD-17 wheeled armored vehicle modified by Wang Geng focuses on carrying armed infantry for assaults. In addition to shooting from the shooting holes on both sides of the vehicle from the inside of the vehicle, the infantry carried in key areas will more often get off the vehicle and accompany it.  Attack the vehicle and move forward.

    The key reason why Wang Geng has not equipped and developed his own tank is that the moving speed of the tank is ridiculously slow. The maximum speed of this French Renault ft-17 light tank imported from the United States is only 7 kilometers per hour, which makes it impossible to  The march was accompanied by wheeled armored vehicles from participating armies.

    Obviously, it is perfectly possible for this Renault tank to be paired with wheeled armored vehicles on the battlefield for breakthroughs and attacks. However, before and after the breakthrough, its marching speed and maximum range severely restricted Wang Geng's use of the armored regiments of the participating armies.  The basic form is to emphasize the ability to complete one aspect of action and to emphasize vehicle mobility.

    If a wheeled armored vehicle is compared to a group of hounds chasing prey, then pairing it with a Renault chariot is like stuffing a few turtles into the hound team, which is completely out of tune.

    ¡° Moreover, the 37mm short-barreled gun equipped on the Renault tank is far less powerful than the vehicle-mounted 60mm and 81mm mortars carried by the wheeled armored regiment, not to mention the 75mm mountain guns and field guns towed by the wheeled armored regiment.

    Wang Geng introduced these 50 American-made Renault FT-17 tanks as a technical reserve for the development of the first Chinese FD-18 tank. The Eagle VII engine imported from Rolls-Royce and the Ford Motor Company  The V8 liquid-cooled engine may become the engine choice for the Chinese FD-18 tank.

    The Chinese FD-18 tank designed by Wang Geng is actually a light tank. Its prototype is the Vickers six-ton ??tank in the previous life, or MK-E. In the previous life, it had to wait until 1928 to be developed. Wang  Geng's goal is to successfully develop it in the second half of 1918.

    Of course, this guy is still the hands-off shopkeeper. After drawing the design sketch of the entire vehicle and the design drawing of the suspension system, the rest of the work has to be done by the engineers of China Fudao Automobile Company. Wang Geng previously requested  The Hummer off-road vehicle developed by Ford Motor Co., Ltd. is expected to be designed and finalized by the end of April to replace the Ford Model T vehicles participating in the war.

    As for the Chinese FD-17 wheeled armored vehicle, its Type II vehicle is also in the development process. The purpose is to upgrade the fixed machine gun tower of the original Type I vehicle to a 360-degree rotating machine gun tower, and also increase the use of a 37mm short-barreled gun.  model, but it will still be a wheeled armored combat vehicle, not a tracked one. Wang Geng's requirements for mobility are really a bit demanding.

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