If submarines are assassins on the sea, then tanks are heavy cavalry on land.
At least in this era, light tanks weighing less than ten tons can almost walk sideways on the battlefield.
Similar to Guo Yan's experience, Na Aihua's journey to the military academy was also tortuous.
Aihua grew up on the grassland and was born into a poor herdsman.
After two years of training in the militia of the state-owned ranch, Epworth's cavalry skills are already quite good.
In particular, his shooting skills on horseback are outstanding. He won the championship of mounted archery in the militia competition.
This mounted archery is not about shooting arrows on horseback, but about shooting with a carbine.
Today's rangers, including those grassland militiamen, have basically abandoned bows and arrows. The Renaissance Army has been constantly updating its weapons over the years, and the popularity of muskets has been very high.
Aihua himself came to Xinjing on horseback. However, after entering the military academy, he was told that his horse could only be fostered at the school. Their class did not train to fight on horseback, and there was no need to ride a horse.
What? The cavalry department doesn’t need to ride horses? Aihua was surprised for a moment.
There are not a few students like him who come to school by themselves on horseback.
Nowadays, the popularity of horses among the people is higher than that in the Qing Dynasty.
With the advent of railways, long-distance transportation had alternatives.
As a result, a large number of horses were left in society. Originally, these horses were used for long-distance transportation.
These extra horses will naturally flow into the private sector.
In addition, the Renaissance Army now controls a large number of pastures in the north and west. The number of horses has increased a lot.
This has greatly reduced private horse prices.
Many wealthy farmers in the north can afford horses. These horses can be used to plow dry land and pull carts, which are very important to some large farmers.
There are also many people among the people who ride horses to travel. Horse riding is no longer exclusive to dignitaries, but has become a fashion for ordinary people.
Riding horses is not allowed in big cities like Xinjing. To ride horses here, riders must have a riding certificate and take an equestrian assessment.
Because the flow of people on the street is too large, if the technology is not in place, you may bump into people on the street.
Moreover, in cities, horses must be licensed and have a number printed on their buttocks.
Aihua's horse can only be fostered in the school and cannot be ridden. It can only wait for the holidays before riding back to the grassland.
Na Aihua, who came to Xinjing for the first time, was curious about everything.
There are rows of houses, beautiful gardens, and shops everywhere. He is like Grandma Liu who has walked into the Grand View Garden.
Fortunately, the school also took them to visit some scenic spots in Xinjing.
Afterwards, Na Aihua devoted himself to intense study.
He had only laid some foundations in the first place, and his deficiencies in cultural courses were relatively large.
The new equipment he is about to control requires students to master certain mechanical knowledge.
You also need to master the basic knowledge of artillery shooting and aiming.
He even has a lot of geographical knowledge.
It was only later that Aihua learned that the equipment they were about to come into contact with was an armored chariot, which also had a name called "tank".
This name is said to have been given by the president himself.
Aihua had seen the tanks of the Renaissance Army before. When their militia team fought with the large army on the south bank of Yue Lake.
Then Aihua had seen the tanks of the Renaissance Army.
However, the tanks at that time were all modified from horse-drawn carriages, but the rotating machine guns on the vehicles were indeed very powerful.
The armored tanks they will come into contact with are powered by diesel engines.
Aihua had seen tractors on the ranch before, and he even learned to drive them from the tractor driver.
After studying theoretical knowledge in school for a period of time.
Then Aihua and the others were finally going to see their car, and everyone was very excited.
They took the train to Zhangjiakou. This is the gateway to the north of Xinjing and the hub connecting Xinjing to the grasslands.
The business here was originally very developed, but in the past two years, the train line has been built.
All goods traveling from north to south pass through here. The business here is getting more and more developed.
It's just that Aihua's training base is not in the bustling Zhangjiakou urban area.
As soon as they arrived in Zhangjiakou, they were moved to a valley dozens of kilometers away.
This valley is shaped like a gourd and is called Gourd Valley.
The mouth of the valley is narrow, but the middle of the valley is very open and flat. There is a checkpoint five kilometers away from the mouth of the valley.
“Military restricted area, no entry allowed” signs can be seen everywhere.
In the deepest part of the valley there is an armored chariot assembly yard.
The main equipment components of the tank are all produced and shipped from the tractor farm.
Only the final assembly and debugging is done here.
In the large garage of the assembly yard, armored combat vehicles were parked there, and they were all painted in military green.
These tanks embody the latest technology of the current Baath Army tractor research.
Smaller, more powerful diesel engine, crawler drive device. The armor uses the riveting technology used on ironclad battleships.
The technology of the Renaissance Army is not yet sufficient to cast integrated tank armor.
The armor on this first-generation tank was riveted together with rivets.
So it doesn't look very beautiful, it's like there are patches on his body.
Above the tank is still a rotatable turret, with a 70mm smoothbore cannon on top.
The Renaissance Army has almost accumulated artillery technology.
The technology of rotating turrets has also accumulated rich manufacturing experience on battleships.
There is also a machine gun installed above the turret. This is not an old-fashioned rotating machine gun.
After two years of technical research, the Renaissance Army's arsenal has solved the problem of reusing gunpowder gas.
The basic principle of automatic guns is to use the gas burned by gunpowder to pass through the gas tube to automatically load and reload the gun.
As long as you master this principle, you can create machine guns, automatic rifles, and automatic pistols.
Of course, machine guns were the first to appear, and automatic rifles have higher requirements.
This kind of machine gun mounted on an armored tank adopts an air-cooled design. It has not even been installed in the front-line army.
The first thing Aihua felt when he got into the chariot was that it was too crowded.
It feels completely different from riding a horse. When riding a horse, you are sitting on the horse, and you feel that the whole world is your cab.
I feel like I can fly anywhere in this world.
But sitting in the cramped cockpit, Aihua felt that he was isolated from the whole world.
This can naturally block the enemy's bullets, but it also limits Aihua's line of sight.
Aihua knew that he had to adapt to this situation.
From now on, he is not going to be a tank driver, a tank gunner, or a machine gunner.
These people will all be commanders of chariot units in the future.
Just like Guo Yan, they will also be commanders of the submarine force.
They must now be familiar with every position.
Both tanks and submarines are technical arms.
As a commander of a technical branch, he must be familiar with each position under his command.
As a person who has traveled back from the future, Dong Shuheng naturally knows this.
Therefore, some commanders of new arms have begun to train even before the equipment has been developed.
In the blink of an eye, the spring of four years of revival has arrived.
Spring is the season of sowing. In the north, people like to fly kites around the Qingming Festival.
This custom is especially popular in Shandong Province.
It was a rare occasion for Dong Shuheng to take his whole family to the foot of Xishan Mountain in the western suburbs of Xinjing.
"Dad, Hua'er wants a big kite."
Dong Shuheng held his daughter Dong Wei, who was less than two years old, in his arms. The little girl could not speak yet.
Holding his eldest son Dong Hua in his hand.
Dong Hua was the talkative among the sons. He was one year older than his second and third brothers, and he received enlightenment education earlier than them.
In Dong Shuheng's heart, there is no distinction between concubines and concubines. He treats all children equally when it comes to educating them.
According to his vision, he hopes that his children will live a life they like in the future.
If a child likes to travel, Dong Shuheng is also capable of making his wish come true.
"Hua'er, my father will take you to see a super big kite today. You don't need any money."
"Really? Can a person ride on this kite?"
"Of course it can. There can be many people riding on it."
"Hehe, Shuheng, you are talking too much now. Be careful when the children say you are a big liar."
After six or seven years of hard work, Dong Shuheng now has five sons and three daughters.
When it comes to having children, he has successfully set an example for all citizens.
"Don't worry, that thing, the four of you, can hold seven or eight babies each," Dong Shuheng said with a smile.
"Hmph...who helped you give birth to so many children!"
"That's right, that's right!"
"brazen!"
The four wives behind him all blushed at what Dong Shuheng said.
The Dong family rarely has the opportunity to travel together like this.
At the foot of the West Mountain, there is a huge grassland, which was originally a racecourse for the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.
After the Fuxing Army stationed in Xinjing, it was transformed into a commercial racecourse.
People in this era do not have much entertainment. Horse racing is a rare entertainment activity that can be participated by the public.
And this can also bring an additional income to the government, which is the issuance of horse racing tickets.
The reason why Dong Shuheng went to the racecourse today was not to watch horse racing.
It's because the venue is large enough.
And the thing they are going to watch today must have a spacious and flat venue.
"Do you still remember that I told you before that ordinary people will be able to fly into the sky and escape from the earth in the future. Now in just a few years, we can already do it. Our family's plan to travel around the world will soon be realized."
Dong Shuheng's favorite thing to do is to draw cakes in front of his wife.
This was how he won Wei Yuzhen's heart in the first place.
Later, Lu Feiyan and Yang Ximei basically copied the gourd and painted the scoop.
When chasing a girl, you can't talk to her all day long about practical issues such as rice, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea.
We should talk more about ideals and the future.
"Wow... what a big ball!" In the box, Xiao Hua Zai pointed at a big guy parked in the middle of the field and exclaimed in surprise.
It wasn't because he was a child that he was so surprised.
In fact, everyone present will be amazed in their hearts.
The size of this big guy has exceeded everyone's imagination.
An elliptical sphere more than a hundred meters long, still floating in the air, is not something that can be made by manpower in many people's minds.
"Hua'er, is this kite big enough?" Dong Shuheng said with a smile.
"Big, too big. Can such a big thing fly?" Hua Zai is very smart. He has already thought that it would be difficult for such a big guy to fly.
"Of course it can fly. Do you think it's hanging there?" Everyone looked and saw that it was indeed the case.
The huge sphere was suspended there, with only the two lower cabins touching the ground.
Compared to the huge sphere above, the cabin below is pitifully small.
"Shu Heng, it's really amazing. What do you think our human power can achieve in the end?" Wei Yuzhen has always been the most knowledgeable among the women.
But now even she was amazed.
It had only been a few years, and it had only been six or seven years since she first met Dong Shuheng.
When they met in Dongtai, Dong Shuheng was still the young master of a salt merchant.
Then he said that he would organize a group to practice suppressing bandits, and then he pulled out an army.
Then this army grew bigger and bigger like a balloon.
In a few years, it swept through the Qing Dynasty.
When everyone thought Dong Shuheng was going to proclaim himself emperor, he said there was no need to ask for another emperor.
He has been designing this country according to his own ideas. No one knows where this huge country will go?
But more and more new things are appearing.
The railway runs through the north and south of the Yangtze River.
Battleships made of steel cruise across the ocean.
Oil-burning tractors replaced the draft horses and oxen that roamed the fields.
The electric lamp that glows without a fire, the tram with a big braid, the telephone that makes people turn into gentle ears...
The endless stream of new things is dazzling and overwhelming.
Some people say that the prosperous times are coming!
No one thinks about the difference between the two titles of emperor and president.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the person called the President seems to be more powerful than the person called the Emperor before.
"The potential of us humans is endless. Maybe in a few years, we will be able to reach the moon in the sky and catch turtles in the five oceans." Dong Shuheng said with a look of longing.
"The principle of this big thing is actually not difficult. Wood can float in the water. The inside of this big thing is a relatively light gas, and we named it hydrogen. It is this hydrogen that makes this huge sphere float in the air.
It floats in the air."
"Then, you see there is a propeller outside the cabin below it. This propeller is driven by a diesel engine and generates airflow backwards to push this big thing forward, just like a ship moving forward in the water."
"Dad, I know, it must be called a spaceship, right?" Xiao Hua Zai interrupted.
Everyone laughed.
"Almost, but in the future we will call it a spaceship when it can fly higher. Since it can only fly a few kilometers, we will call it an airship." Dong Shuheng touched Hua Zai's head.
They were the only family in the private room they were in.
Dong Shuheng deliberately did not stay with those military and political officials.
Otherwise, someone will ask him questions soon.
The Minister of Transportation will definitely come and ask: "Oh, President, can you give us this airship to the Department of Transportation first? Let us establish a few air routes first!"
People from the military department will definitely say: "President, this thing is so powerful, it should be used in our military first. In future wars, we will drive the airship directly to the enemy's fortress and drop bombs below. This will make the enemy anxious!"
"
Dong Shuheng didn't want to hear such questions for the time being. He just wanted to be with his family and witness the moment when the miracle happened.
Then he showed off his seemingly profound knowledge in front of his wife and children, earning envious looks from his family members.
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