Yang Zhen didn’t take Kovalev’s previous big promises seriously, but he was right. The performance of those so-called most advanced aircraft during test flights undoubtedly convinced him that they were good things the day before.
Kovalev, a hard slap.【.Com text】
Fortunately, those seven-TP tanks that had been carefully maintained helped Kovalev regain some face, allowing him to avoid being too embarrassed in front of Yang Zhen. Although these tanks are all light tanks, they may be produced
It is not very old and has been well maintained. Both its mechanical performance and weapon condition are at their best.
Yang Zhen felt itchy when he saw these tanks, so he went into battle and operated them himself. Influenced by the close relationship between Poland and Britain and France in this era, and the fact that these tanks themselves were improved on the British six-ton Vicker tank
, the human-machine function is much better than those of the captured Little Devil tanks. Yang Zhen just operated it briefly and got started skillfully.
Looking at the 37mm Bofors anti-tank gun and the 79 Browning machine gun on the tank, as well as the performance of this tank that is not inferior to the current German Army's main Type 1 and Type 2 tanks, Yang Zhen is quite satisfied. Although
The armor is a bit thin, but it has no problem against the Type 95 light tank, Type 92 and Type 94 armored vehicles. Even the Type 95 medium tank has no big problem.
After patting this tank with satisfaction, Yang Zhen turned his head and looked at the nineteen French Hochski R-35 tanks on the side. Although the performance of this 7TP tank is slightly worse, it is also the standard of the French army.
Equipment. Coupled with more than 70 TKS ultra-light tanks, Vicker tanks, and the Japanese tanks in my hands, it is enough to equip an armored brigade.
Although among them, there are only twenty-four 7TP tanks and nineteen Khochsky R-35 tanks, which can really be regarded as tanks, for a total of only forty-three. At most, the seven tanks were modified by Poland and used their own imitations.
The 37mm anti-tank gun replaced the original 47mm gun Vickers six-ton tank, there were only fifty tanks, less than one Soviet tank regiment.
But since the little devil can call the Type 94 armored vehicle equipped with only one 77-caliber machine gun a combat vehicle, then naturally these more than 70 armored vehicles equipped with 79 machine guns or 20mm TKS armored vehicles can also be called combat vehicles.
It's not called a tank. Although even a later car is heavier than it, it's better to have it than not.
As for the thirty or so tanks on the side, they were probably French-made FT-17 tanks produced during World War I. Although Yang Zhen was not prepared to incorporate them into the army because their performance was too backward, he had no intention of letting these antiques go.
These guys, whose performance has been extremely backward, are naturally unable to charge into battle, but there is still no problem in converting them to self-propelled artillery.
Yang Zhen will bring more than 500 carefully selected students to study. Sun San, who was born in the original resistance alliance and later studied tanks at a Soviet military school, was transferred back to work in the central government and then back again.
He came over and pointed at these obsolete tanks and said: "Comrade Sun San, don't take these old antiques out."
"You can consult with Soviet comrades to see if you can dismantle the turret, install a 75mm mountain cannon, and convert it into a self-propelled artillery? Or add a 20mm anti-aircraft gun and convert it into a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun to accompany you.
Tank combat?”
Having said this, Yang Zhen thought about it for a while, took out a pen and paper and roughly drew a few sketches and handed them to him: "Just follow this style. After disassembling the turret, weld a ring of steel plates around it, and disassemble the artillery.
After setting up, sit directly on the tank. Half of these tanks have been converted into 20mm anti-aircraft guns. Those anti-aircraft guns are best converted into twin mounts."
"As for the mountain cannon, after cutting the crew compartment in half, use a steel plate to weld a protection on the front. Remove the wheels and gun mount of the mountain cannon and sit on the tank. There is no need to rotate the turret 360 degrees, just keep your muzzle
Just keep moving forward. This way your supporting artillery fire can accompany your tanks."
"Send a telegram to the country and bring over sixteen Japanese-made Type 41 mountain cannons. Although this type of mountain cannon has a shorter range, it is lighter. Modifying this type of mountain cannon should not affect mobility. These old antiques have thin armor.
, the speed is slow. But it would be best to change the engine. The speed is too slow and it will also affect the marching column."
After hearing Yang Zhen's instructions, Sun San carefully looked at the sketch for a long time, then slapped his thigh and said: "Commander, you are so amazing. I really don't know how you came up with it. I'm worried about how these old antiques can solve that problem."
.The speed of these things is too slow, the fastest is only 16 kilometers. The armor is also thin, and some of them are made of cast iron. Not to mention anti-artillery, even machine guns can make several holes."
"But if you want to throw it away, it's really a pity. After all, Haolai has some protection, which is much stronger than a car. But if you want to be incorporated into the army, the entire army has to crawl slowly to cooperate with him.
We can't leave these more than 30 vehicles behind. They are really tasteless and a pity to abandon them. They are worse than worthless."
"You have just solved a big problem. It has not only enhanced the mobility of our support artillery, but also used these things as waste. There are more than 200 20mm anti-aircraft guns obtained this time.
It shouldn’t be difficult to allocate more than thirty doors for modification.”
"But Commander, I'm thinking about it. You see, the little Japanese can't escape from his position. The mountain cannon doesn't need to fire in a 360-degree circle. It just needs to keep the muzzle moving forward. With these tanks
As a carrier, there is no need to move it around when moving positions. One artillery squad can reduce the number of people by half."
"But this anti-aircraft gun is not good. This aircraft is not a position. It is very flexible. Before you can hit it on one side, it will turn to the other side of you. It is also much faster. Before you can overshoot, it will
It jumped to the side. The anti-aircraft gun must be like a tank turret, with at least a ninety-degree shooting angle. The rest can be made up by tactics. And I can't solve this engine."
Yang Zhen smiled slightly and said: "It depends on how you discuss it with them. As for the engine, I will give you a trick. Look at the engines of those aircraft, most of them have reached the end of their service life. God cannot guarantee safety at all.
But it can be mounted on a tank and used."
"As far as I know, many tank engines in Western countries are themselves modified aircraft engines. Please ask Jiangbei to help renovate them and see if they can be modified. As for the ones that are not enough, I am discussing with Jiangbei to see if I can buy them from them.
It’s a part of a second-hand engine. But how to change it, again, it’s up to you.”
At this point, Yang Zhen turned to Yuan Bin, political commissar of the aviation regiment, and Xia Boxun, chief of staff, who were bringing students to learn to fly, and said: "Please cooperate with us and disassemble the engines of those aircraft that can no longer fly and give them to Sun San and the others.
.You old soldiers, come here and help them. Your regimental leader is no longer leading the team to Yan'an, so you have to worry a lot."
Hearing Yang Zhen's instructions, Yuan Bin was a little reluctant, and even said with great distress: "Commander, we have more than forty fighter jets in total. Except for the twenty-two Type 24s, the rest are
Old-fashioned ones. We are now coordinating with Jiangbei to completely renovate these engines and make them as reusable as possible."
"But with your move, our plan can only be stopped. Without these twenty-six planes, we only have twenty-two planes left. On the battlefield, this number of planes is not enough.
It's for the little devil to stuff between his teeth. Those things are a little old, but luckily they are fighter jets. I thought about piecing them together, and there shouldn't be any problem in getting more than ten of them together."
Seeing Yuan Bin's distressed look, Yang Zhen shook his head and said angrily: "I sent you to Jiangbei just for these dozens of antiques? If it was just for these dozens of antiques, why would the military region spend more than 100,000 yen?
Cash for tuition? You are the seeds, the seeds of our future Air Force. Are you so precious?"
"Those aircraft engines are all old. If they don't get to the sky, the engines will fall down. When they get to the sky, why don't you let the pilots die? They have reached the end of their service life. No matter how much you renovate, they can't be as good as new ones. Brother Comrade, what do you think?
Let's take the long term. These dozens of planes are for you to train and organize air tactics. They are not for you to fight in the sky."
"It's true that I want to take care of the overall situation and hope to build our own powerful air force. But I'm not so cold-blooded as to let my subordinates die knowing that they are dying in vain. Except for Type 2-4,
Do you really think that the remaining junk is a match for the Japanese Type 97 fighter jets? What’s more, the Japanese military’s new fighter jets have already begun production.”
After being scolded by Yang Zhen, Yuan Bin fell silent. Taking off for those fighter jets was a very risky thing. Although his subordinates had completed basic flight lessons and had flown the Wave II junior trainer aircraft in accordance with Jiangbei's regulations.
But Yuan Bin really didn't dare to let them have sex with these old antiques.
But he was really reluctant to hand over more than half of the planes at once. You must know that there were only forty-eight fighter jets in total. After handing over so many, only twenty-two planes were left. This was the first batch of planes in the entire army, and it was also the first batch of planes.
My first batch of fighter jets were assigned to tanks before they even took to the skies. Although they only had their engines removed, without the engines, could they still be called airplanes?
Looking at Yuan Bin who was still a little reluctant after being scolded, Kovalev, who had been humiliated by these planes before, finally found something he could show off and said hurriedly: "Dear Comrade Yuan Bin,
Don’t worry about this. I will coordinate with the Far East Military District Headquarters to replace the aircraft whose engines have been removed with 1,000-horsepower M-63 engines.”
"This is the latest engine used by the I-Fifteen and Sixteen-type fighter jets, the main force of the Soviet Red Army. It is definitely better than the original American and British junk. There are more than twenty engines. There are them at the airport where you store the aircraft.
Sufficient reserves. Don’t worry, this matter is taken care of by me. I guarantee that these planes can take off and fight. I will give the order to the airport and ask them to cooperate with you in the modification."
Looking at Kovalev, who was patting his chest on the promise, Yang Zhen's face darkened: "Don't brag this time, wait until you implement it. Comrade Kovalev, your credibility has dropped to a very low level.
What I know is that you don’t understand aviation knowledge and regard garbage as treasure. What you don’t know is that the equipment of the great Soviet Red Army is like this, and the engine will fall down as soon as the plane takes off.”
Kovalev, who was already a little depressed, turned red when he heard what Yang Zhen said about him. He stood up suddenly, picked up the phone, and gave an order directly to the airport. In the name of the commander of the military region,
Let them immediately pull out some of the engines from the I-16 aircraft in stock, assist the Chinese comrades in replacing those Polish junks, and send all those aircraft into the sky in the shortest possible time.
After putting down the phone, he called the person in charge of the training base and wrote a note asking him to go to the military region to find the chief of staff and transport a batch of BT tank engines one-on-one according to the number of tanks that needed to be replaced.
These French antiques are refitted. If the BT tank engine is not good, you can get whatever engine is suitable.
He also repeatedly asked them to assist the Chinese comrades and complete the transformation of these tanks in accordance with the requirements of the Chinese comrades. Any missing equipment and raw materials can be found directly at the military district headquarters.
After all this was done, Kovalev looked at Yang Zhen and said: "Comrade Yang Zhen, I have given the order. The airport will start to implement it soon. As for this side, those engines are not needed. Anyway, it is the order.
I don’t know when it will be completely scrapped, so I got you more than thirty engines made by ourselves and replaced them with you."
After saying all this, looking at Yang Zhen's weird smile, Kovalev realized that he was provoked. At this time, more than 30 tank engines and more than 20 aircraft engines were sent out.
If Moscow finds out about this, I'm afraid I won't be able to live with it. If the general comrade doesn't vouch for him, dismissal will be considered a frivolous matter.
Dozens of engines are not a big problem, but the key point is that they are used without authorization. Especially if they are given to Chinese comrades, this is a serious violation of Moscow's orders. I am an agent who spends all his time coaxing people.
Personnel, but he did not expect that he would be pecked in the eye by the geese all day long. Looking at Kovalev who was in a daze, Yang Zhen patted him on the shoulder, gave him a consolation prize and said: "Kovalev
Comrade, don’t get too angry. You can tell your military region commander that these engines were given to us to gain experience in transforming old tanks. You can take these two drawings back and submit them.”
As a result, when Yang Zhen handed over these two sketches, Kovalev, who was silent for a long time, shook his head and said: "That's not necessary. General Abanasek said that if you need anything, I can specially
This is a special matter. For dozens of engines, just ask the Tank and Armored Corps Automobile Management Bureau to issue a scrapping procedure. It’s just a few dozen engines. I think Comrade General will agree. Comrade Yang Zhen, it’s almost time, we should go back.
"
Yang Zhen waved his hand and said: "Comrade Kovalev, I will stay here tonight. You can go back first. Just send a car to pick me up tomorrow. Go back and tell General Abana Shenk
, just say that I want to stay with my comrades for a while longer."
Seeing that Yang Zhen really didn't want to leave, Kovalev didn't say anything. He told the person in charge of the tank training base to take care of Yang Zhen's life, then turned around and left in a hurry.
Kovalev, who was anxious to go back and report to General Abanaschenko, had no idea how much of a role the sketches that Yang Zhen thrust into his hands would play in the Soviet-German War a year later. It almost caused the loss of equipment.
Huge Soviet armor comes back to life.
Under the circumstances of huge tank losses and the irreparable production of new tanks, these temporary old T-26 and BT-7 tanks plus anti-tank guns or 76mm field guns, temporarily modified self-propelled artillery, have been in short supply for a long time.
Within a period of time, it replaced the tank and solved the Soviet army's urgent need.
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