Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

The little incident in the audience seats did not affect the chariot performance below. The chariots ran around in the parade ground, stopping from time to time to fire a round of artillery fire, blowing up targets standing in the distance.

This scene made everyone amazed, and Tian Yuanfeng's face was filled with pride again.

"Please look, everyone. The three tanks in the lead are light tanks finalized by the Empire of Japan in the year 2589 of the Jinmu era. They are equipped with a 57mm Type 6.5 howitzer and two mm Type vehicle-mounted machine guns as auxiliary weapons. Such ferocious weapons are real infantry killers. As long as they are on the battlefield, the enemies of the Empire of Japan will tremble in fear!"

He was very excited. There were not many countries that could be equipped with tanks in that era, so he had the capital to be arrogant.

He was very pleased to see that the expressions of the Chinese representatives around him turned into those of envy and fear. Whenever they showed this expression, he would feel like he was a superior person.

Unfortunately, this feeling did not last long, and the harsh voice of that damn evil guest came again.

Li Qinwu and Hu Xiaoming held up binoculars together and carefully looked at the tanks running around. Li Qinwu muttered to himself as he watched.

"Did you see that, Xiao Ming? This tank is moving very slowly. I estimate that its speed is no more than 25 kilometers per hour. If the terrain is a little more complicated, the speed will be even slower.

And it's turning very stiffly, almost stationary, this is a good opportunity for the infantry to get close and destroy it!"

Hu Xiaoming also held up a telescope and answered: "But Director, there are infantrymen next to the tanks, and it is not easy for the anti-tank team to get close."

"It's okay. In a complex urban environment, infantry will always find a chance to get close. We can equip the anti-tank team with submachine guns and smoke bombs. We can use submachine guns to shoot the infantry accompanying the tanks, use smoke bombs to block the tanks' vision, and then quickly get close to blow them up!"

The two guys spoke quite loudly and one could hear them clearly if one pricked up one's ears. Their style was in stark contrast to the low pressure of the Chinese representatives around them.

The powerful Japanese army made the Chinese representatives look uncomfortable and they shouted in their hearts that they were invincible. However, in this situation, the two funny guys were discussing how to destroy the tank. Now everyone didn't know whether they should still keep a serious expression.

Lieutenant Colonel Tahara Yutaka's eyelids kept twitching. Could you please restrain yourself a little? Aren't you too arrogant to discuss how to destroy a Japanese tank in front of a Japanese officer?

Li Qinwu had no intention of restraining himself. He saw the Japanese tank drive to the shooting range, stop, slowly turn the turret, and use the 57mm gun to shoot at the infantry targets in the distance. He slapped his thigh and shouted excitedly: "Hahaha, this broken tank turret turns so slowly! It's not electric, it's still powered by manpower!"

He grabbed Hu Xiaoming's collar and shook him wildly.

"Xiao Ming, just imagine, the space inside this small tank is already very small. The Japanese gunner inside has to crank the wheel desperately if he wants to aim and fire. After just a few rounds, the Japanese will be exhausted like an idiot. After firing for a long time, everyone inside is sweating. It's so stuffy in such a small space. I dare not even imagine the smell. The Japanese...are living a good life. This tank is really demanding on the gunners!"

As he laughed loudly, the Chinese forces present no longer looked at the Japanese tanks with fear at the beginning. They began to look at the details of the tanks carefully and indeed found that the Japanese turret was rotating abnormally slowly.

Imagine the scene Li Qinwu described. The Japanese gunner was desperately shaking the revolver in the narrow turret, as tired as a monkey, and the smell of sweat could not be dissipated. That smell, ugh...

Everyone looked a little disgusted. This tank didn't look as impressive as it appeared.

The next step was to take a close look at the tanks. Lieutenant Colonel Tahara Yutaka unenthusiastically invited everyone to step down from the stands and come to the tanks to experience the empire's great creation up close.

In the past, this step would have been an important step that would have led to the further fall of Chinese officials. At that time, China had not even completed its initial industrialization, and creations like tanks were very rare. Letting them get close to a steel monster would allow them to intuitively feel the invincible power of the Japanese Empire.

Each of them would be like a South American native who had never seen a horse. They would surround the European knights riding tall horses, with fear and envy in their eyes, constantly reaching out to touch the horses' smooth fur, and then lamenting their own inferiority and surrendering to the European invaders.

Many pro-Japanese elements in Fengtian City fell after observing the tanks up close, but this time was different. The two guys who kept banging on the tanks changed the style of this close visit.

Li Qinwu grabbed the tank track and said to Hu Xiaoming: "Put a wooden-handled grenade here, there should be a chance to blow the track off. If the track is broken, the tank will be finished."

Hu Xiaoming held a notebook in his hand and kept taking notes.

"Director, the grenades produced by our factory have a charge of less than 200 grams. It may be difficult to blow off the tank tracks with this amount of charge. Why don't we go back and make a special anti-tank grenade and increase the charge to more than 500 grams? Perhaps the success rate will be higher.

However, using grenades requires soldiers to attack at close range, and they have to rush through tank artillery and machine gun bullets, so the casualties may be quite large. "

Li Qinwu shook his head and pointed at a narrow gap in front of the tank.

"You see, the tank only has observation ports on the front hull and turret. The field of vision is not good. We just need to kill the infantry accompanying the tank in advance, avoid the machine guns in front of the tank and at the rear of the turret, and use smoke bombs and anti-tank grenades to help. There is still a high chance that the soldiers will destroy it."

Then Li Qinwu walked around to the back of the tank and took a look at the exhaust fan on the top of the tank body.

"Put a mixture of gasoline, alcohol, and rubber in a bottle and make a firebomb. Throw one of them at this location and there should be a high chance that the tank engine will be burned."

Then Li Qinwu walked around the tank and kept tapping on the tank armor plate with his knuckles, trying to feel the different thicknesses of the tank armor.

Li Qinwu naturally could not accurately feel the thickness of the tank's armor, but judging from the feel, the tank's armor was really very thin, and it was probably similar to the data on the Internet in later generations. The thickest front armor was only 17mm, which was about the thickness of an iron plate as thick as a little finger.

The engine technology of that era was not very advanced and could not provide strong power, so the armor of the tank could only be made very thin.

Now Li Qinwu had a plan. He could use the Liao-made Maxim anti-tank gun and fire 12.7x99mm bullets, which should be able to penetrate the Japanese Type 89 tank.

The two of them kept banging on the tank, and the others watched them perform in silence. The atmosphere had completely changed from serious to magical.

Huang Xiansheng looked at Li Qinwu thoughtfully, and whispered to an adjutant behind him: "Make arrangements. I want to meet and talk with this young man later."

Lieutenant Colonel Tahara Yutaka could no longer hold it in. He had brought other people to see the chariot for intimidation, but why did he feel like he was selling out the secrets of the Empire's military equipment by bringing this person to see the chariot?

He winked at a major officer beside him, and the major officer hurried forward to stop Li Qinwu who was trying to open the tank hatch to look inside.

"Sir, the tour ends here. Please move away from the tank. Also, we need to check your assistant's notes. Please hand them over."

Li Qinwu rolled his eyes and spat on the ground.

"It's only been a few minutes and they're not letting us watch it. If they're not letting us watch it, why didn't they bring us here in the first place?

Ha~tui! Lese, digging and searching. "

(Thanks to Smart QG for the reward and update)