In the view of Prince Li Hao, the six-wheeled armored vehicle of Jiangnan Weapon Company actually has great merits. The powerful firepower composed of two heavy machine guns, numerous ammunition supplies, and the comprehensive coverage of steel plates make the armored vehicle powerful. protection capabilities, and the rear of the carriage can also carry multiple infantrymen for coordinated operations.
The six huge tires, two in the front and four in the rear, also give the car excellent off-road capabilities.
The only problem is lack of power...
How should I put it? It is an armored vehicle that is good in other aspects but cannot run!
Naturally, this kind of armored vehicle cannot be equipped and used for the time being. The current gasoline engine level of the Tang Empire is there. Under the premise of limiting the weight and volume, the only way to make the current gasoline engine is to make it dead.
However, in the view of Prince Li Hao, this thing still has development potential. When the engine level is improved in the future, it will become a very good armored vehicle.
Because it lost face with heavy armored vehicles, Jiangnan Weapons Company plans to make a comeback with medium and light armored vehicles.
Next, Jiangnan Weapons Company successively sent the medium armored vehicles and light armored vehicles they developed for testing.
These two armored vehicles are much more normal. They both have a four-wheel structure and are equipped with a heavy machine gun. The difference lies in the size, weight and power convenience. The overall performance is actually quite satisfactory, even to some extent not as good as before. The six-wheeled heavy armored vehicle can make people shine.
After the testing of three armored vehicles owned by Jiangnan Arms Company was completed, Northern Arms Company also started testing their armored vehicles.
There are even more of them, with four models.
The performance of three of them is quite satisfactory, but one of their four-wheeled armored vehicles performs well. The vehicle is actually not large or heavy, and the design is very compact. The entire vehicle space is filled with necessary automotive parts. , such as engine and transmission.
Moreover, their heavy machine guns were mounted directly on the top of the cockpit.
There are only three people in the entire car.
Because the design is very compact, the volume has been successfully reduced. Reducing the volume also means that the area that needs to be protected is reduced, which effectively reduces the weight of the car body and allows the current engine to be driven.
Prince Li Hao has a good impression of this four-wheeled armored vehicle. Although it looks a bit ugly, it can run, fight and defend, and its endurance is pretty good, with a range of more than a hundred kilometers.
After the North China Arms Company's testing is completed, the South China Arms Company's armored vehicles will be tested.
But among the several armored vehicles they tested, one was more interesting.
Because one of them is a four-wheeled light unprotected armored vehicle, this vehicle is quite special among the more than ten types of armored vehicles present.
Among the more than ten types of armored vehicles present, except for this one, all the others are armored vehicles with armor protection, but this one is the only one without armor protection.
However, when this unprotected armored vehicle was tested, it showed very good off-road maneuverability and good carrying capacity. In addition to the driver and co-pilot seats, the back seat compartment can also seat twelve fully armed members.
The heavy machine guns above are mounted directly on the frame of the trunk and are operated by members of the trunk.
Although this thing has a heavy machine gun, it doesn't look like an armored vehicle, but more like an armed personnel carrier.
This is indeed what people from the South China Arms Company introduced to Prince Li Hao: "This unprotected armored vehicle is designed to quickly transport soldiers to the battlefield. The machine gun equipped on it can also be used as mobile firepower."
"Such a troop transport vehicle can be paired with combat armored vehicles, maneuver behind the armored vehicles, and transport combatants to the front lines of the battle in a timely manner!"
Northern Arms Company on the side couldn't help it: "What's the difference between your car and the military truck of Zhongyuan Automobile Company?"
The people from the South China Weapons Company said seriously: "The difference is huge. Our troop transport vehicles have excellent cross-country performance and can directly accompany combat vehicles in the wilderness. They are also equipped with powerful heavy machine gun firepower and cargo transportation. Trucks are not the same thing."
At this time, people from Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company, Qixiang Automobile Company and Hangzhou Power Machinery Company all looked at the people from Zhongyuan Automobile Company beside them.
Everyone is exposed: Your Zhongyuan Automobile Company is so shameless. You actually took out a truck and added a heavy machine gun and sold it to the military as an unprotected armored vehicle. And now people from the military are very interested in riding it in person. experience, they feel very bad.
The people at Zhongyuan Automobile Company acted as if they didn't hear it. As long as they got the order, it didn't matter whether they bought an armored vehicle or a transport vehicle.
These fools are all working on armored combat vehicles. They don't even think about how many mechanized troops the empire has now. Even if they buy all the equipment, they don't have much to purchase.
But transport trucks are different.
There are still very few mechanized troops in the empire. The army only has one brigade at full strength, the navy has a regiment, and the Guards only has one brigade.
Two brigades and one regiment of mechanized troops were held back to death.
It is currently equipped with three types of vehicles: two-wheeled vehicles, three-wheeled vehicles, and Zhongyuan trucks launched by Qixiang Automobile Company.
The combat armored vehicles currently sought by the military are actually intended to be distributed to these three only mechanized troops in the Tang Dynasty.
However, the number of these troops is so small. Even if they are all equipped with these armored vehicles, it is impossible to equip them with many armored vehicles. This means that the purchase volume is destined to be insufficient.
but!
That doesn't mean the military isn't purchasing other vehicles.
Several years ago, apart from the mechanized troops, the three armed forces have already begun to purchase equipment vehicles. The earliest ones were Xihu brand cars, and then Qixiang cars gradually entered the market.
However, these vehicles are not intended for use on the battlefield; those cars are allocated to military officers as vehicles.
The vehicles of senior generals have gradually changed from horse-drawn carriages to West Lake cars...
Other mid-level and senior generals in the army are also gradually being assigned so-called officer command vehicles.
This officer's command vehicle is actually a command vehicle developed and produced by Qixiang Automobile Company based on the Qixiang brand car specifically for mid- to senior-level officers. The painting is different, useless decorations are removed, and it is slightly strengthened. Passability and motivation.
In fact, it is not much different from other mass-produced cars by Qixiang. The reason for making these improvements is just to give the military an excuse to purchase.
The excuse is: What we are purchasing is not a car, but a battlefield command vehicle!