Wei Mingyang looked at the additive model made of wood and placed it on the tank from the front.

One is long and the other is short on the front, with two barrels of different thicknesses.

One is a 75mm original tank gun barrel, and the other one looks very matching.

nice!

There are two more big round ears on the left and right sides of the turret, which makes it look a bit stupid.

"elephant!"

The engineer next to him who had never been satisfied with his design also said: "This is an elephant!"

"Then call it a Xiangtan tank!" Wei Mingyang said with a smile.

"However! With this change, the angle between the bulletproof plate and the tank caused fatal damage to the defense." Wei Mingyang reviewed.

The engineer of Jiangnan Shipyard immediately became excited: "You only understand now?

Look at this angle, this, this!

On the battlefield, if any artillery shell hits these areas, the armor will definitely be broken!"

Wei Mingyang is not a stubborn person!

He is a person who can listen to opinions!

He nodded and said: "These three positions are indeed the weak points of the entire tank.

Then we must strengthen this weakness now!"

The engineer smiled: "Add three steel plates here? This will increase the load a lot."

Wei Mingyang also laughed: "Yes! But I don't just add steel plates here.

I want to add a layer of armor to the whole car!"

"Armor? What is it?" The engineer from Jiangnan Shipyard didn't understand.

"Mingguang Armor!" Three words came out.

The engineer of Jiangnan Shipyard laughed angrily: "How can it be useful?"

Wei Mingyang drew something like scale armor on the drawing, and then explained that each piece of scale armor is composed of three layers:

There are two layers of steel plates on the outside, and the middle layer contains explosives!

When a cannonball hits the steel plate, the explosives inside detonate, and the force generated is used to resist the penetrating power of the cannonball.

“Will this idea work?”

"Try it! Try it!" Wei Mingyang said.

Engineers, as a profession, have an unquenchable curiosity for novel ideas.

The armor proposed by Wei Mingyang is actually not difficult to make, the difficulty lies in the idea!

When we actually started working on it, Wei Mingyang also suggested: "This armor should be more resistant to strikes. At least if machine gun bullets hit it, it won't cause a reaction!"

"..." The engineer was speechless.

The armor proposed by Wei Mingyang is itself a mature armor model for later generations.

How could it not be successful!

But the weight of the armored vehicle has increased again!

This time the engineers of Jiangnan Shipyard did not say anything against it.

He understood that the firepower of the modified tank increased a lot, especially against infantry. It tripled the firepower.

The defense power has been doubled!

He conducted tests with a 150mm caliber anti-tank gun, and found that it could not penetrate the armored tank from the front or the sides of the tank.

Even if such a tank is a little slow on the battlefield, it is still acceptable.

When Wei Mingyang saw the first modified tank, he immediately asked Gu Zuo to bring a company over for testing.

The new tank has an additional crew member inside, who is responsible for firing the anti-aircraft cannon.

Since he had to be exposed all the time, he also served as a new observer.

There are two more people behind the ears on the outside of the tank, each responsible for operating a machine gun.

In order to make supply more convenient, these two machine guns, like the machine guns in the tank, use 6.7-caliber bullets.

Tanks equipped with armor do indeed slow down on the battlefield.

However, it still needs to rush at a high speed, otherwise the infantry still won't be able to keep up.

That’s good!

Perfect!

At least in Wei Mingyang's eyes, the tank modified in this way is perfect!

You have to have appearance, you have to have fighting ability, you have to have defense ability!

The only weakness is that it runs slowly. If there is really a tank battle and someone runs away, even if you refuel, you won't be able to catch up.

Wei Mingyang had already made up his mind: when the time came, he would just rush forward and face the enemy's artillery fire.

Anyway, the tank gun also broke through the tank's defense, so it only fired when it got close.

When the other party wants to escape, it is no longer easy to escape!

The first tank has been modified, and the rest of the tanks will be modified quickly.

While he was busy at the Jiangnan Shipyard, the city of Nanjing was celebrating victory.

Newspapers only accounted for a corner of the story about Wei Mingyang's assassination by a traitor.

Every newspaper has pictures of captured Japanese Air Force battleships.

Each newspaper contains reporters' interviews with the commanders of various divisions and regiments during the Yangjiazhai Battle.

Newspapers across the country published the news that the National Army had completely annihilated the 9th and 11th Japanese Infantry Divisions.

A grand captive meeting is now being held on the streets of Nanjing.
Chapter completed!