Valley Emperor

Prince Li Hao's mentality has changed in recent years, which makes him increasingly pessimistic about the future independence of overseas territories.

But even so, he felt that he was capable of suppressing overseas territories for decades, at least while he was alive, he was able to suppress those overseas brothers. As for the future, that would be the matter of his own son.

On this point, his thinking is similar to that of the Holy Son of Heaven, Li Xuan.

Li Xuan also has the determination and confidence to suppress those sons in the overseas territories. As for his own death, it is estimated that the prince will not be able to suppress it.

Unfortunately, the prince also felt that his father was alive. When he was alive, there would be some turmoil in overseas territories, but the overall suppression was not a problem. The real trouble was in the future.

I just don't know if the grandson will have this idea in the future...

In order to continue to suppress those brothers in overseas territories in the future, Prince Li Hao has done a lot in recent years, and promoting global economic integration is the most important measure.

If this plan can be successful, it will be able to stabilize the overseas territory for at least another few decades.

As for the later stage, then it will depend on the development of science and technology, especially the development of the defense industry.

Therefore, Prince Li Hao is also the one who is currently promoting the development of national defense technology and equipping the military with more advanced weapons and equipment.

His purpose is not to expand the army or something, but to directly raise the threshold of the defense industry and raise the threshold of rebellion in overseas territories in the future.

He wants to get the mechanized troops that his father said, whether it is expensive or not, and whether it is useful to deal with the natives is secondary. The important thing is to raise the threshold for rebellion in overseas territories.

In the future, if you want to get a rifle, you want to rebel?

Go dream!

And it's not easy to produce tanks for rebellion!

As for the rifle, you can almost get it out with a basic industrial system. With a little more effort, you can get out the artillery.

However, without the support of an advanced large-scale industrial system, combat equipment such as tanks, warships, and aircraft that have not yet appeared cannot work at all.

Take battleships, for example. During the World War I, there were many countries that could be built. Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, the United States and Japan had a lot of votes. Even in countries like Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden, everyone could build a smaller one. The tonnage of the battleship may be a little smaller, but that is limited by financial resources, but it does not mean that they cannot build it.

However, after the 21st century, only Britain, France, the United States and China will be able to produce and equip the Navy's top equipment fleet aircraft carriers.

The same is true for fighter jets. Before and after the First World War, skilled people could build one by hand, and there were a lot of countries that could produce fighter jets. But after the 21st century, only Europe, the United States, Russia and China will be able to build top fighter jets. .

With the development of technology and the improvement of performance, these equipments have higher and higher requirements on the quality and quantity of the industrial system.

What Prince Li Hao wants to do is to push up industrial technology, especially defense-related technology, as much as possible to a level that overseas territories can't even catch up with.

This is also why in the winter, Prince Li Hao braved the wind and snow to go to the weapons testing ground on the outskirts of Jinling to participate in the selection test of the army's new generation of armored vehicles.

In fact, he is more looking forward to the successful development and service of this brand-new top-level marine equipment than the generals of the military, so as to promote the mechanization of ground combat troops.

He wants to build a force that future rebels need to look up to!

After arriving at the proving ground, several main leaders of the Army Ordnance Department, the only mechanized unit of the Army: the main generals of the First Mechanical Brigade of the Datang Army, several other senior officials of the Army, the Guards and the Marine Corps. represent.

And several main contractors for the development of armored vehicles: the armored vehicle R&D teams of the three major weapons companies.

In addition, there are representatives of Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company, Hangzhou Power Machinery Company, Qixiang Automobile Company, and Zhongyuan Automobile Company who provide technical support.

Finally, there are several professors from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Royal Institute of Technology.

Well, those professors from the Royal Institute of Technology, this time is purely for soy sauce, because the Royal Institute of Technology basically did not participate in the specific research and development of various chariot projects, but only provided some theoretical support.

The specific research and development work is the responsibility of the three major weapon companies, and the other several automobile companies provide detailed technical support.

Such a large group of people accompanied Prince Li Hao and looked at the dozen or so test vehicles on the playground in front.

Although these more than ten vehicles have various shapes, they all have several similar characteristics, that is, wheeled armored vehicles developed from automobiles.

The basic feature is that it is wheeled, lays a certain amount of armor, and is equipped with machine guns as the main firepower.

Of course, there are also a few more exotic vehicles equipped with small-caliber artillery.

However, in this era when even the artillery cannons are not being fully recovered, and the military is still using the cannons on a large scale, it is quite difficult to put the artillery on the vehicle, whether it is a wheeled vehicle or a tracked vehicle. .

This is why it has been said for many years, but the military has not been able to produce the first tank prototype, because they have not even produced the tube annealing gun for the tank, nor the crawler system. I understand that a high-horsepower engine is not enough. In short, except for conceptual drawings and ideas, there is nothing...

On the contrary, the research and development of wheeled armored vehicles has made great progress relying on the development of the automobile industry.

If the eyes of the world look at it in the future, there are more than ten armored vehicles on the field that are ready to be tested, all of them are junk, but for the contemporary Datang Empire, this is already the top they can produce. The person in charge of the Jiangnan Arms Company~www.wuxiaspot.com~ introduced their company's products to Li Hao with confidence: "Your Highness, this heavy armored vehicle is a collection of our company's products. A product that hundreds of engineers have been attacking day and night, it has a structure of two front wheels and four rear wheels, which can carry more body weight and has better off-road performance.

The car is equipped with two heavy machine guns, with sufficient ammunition and powerful firepower!

In terms of protection, we have also made great efforts. The key parts are equipped with high-strength alloy steel plates with a thickness of 6 mm, and other parts generally have alloy steel plates with a thickness of 4 mm, which is enough to effectively defend against all kinds of bullets!

The car is equipped with the current top-level high-horsepower gasoline engine, which can make the car run at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour. "

When this person was introducing, the person in charge of a Northern Arms Company in the back side couldn't help sneering, and he and his colleagues whispered mockingly at the back: 50 kilometers per hour, you can only blow on the cement, With the current engine level and such a heavy body, if you run in the wild, you may not be able to climb up if you encounter a small pit. "

Sure enough, when this car was tested, the firepower and protection level test had not yet started. In the first maneuver test, it lay directly on a ramp...

This thing is too heavy, it can't climb any steep slopes...

This result made the people of Jiangnan Weapons Company a little embarrassed, but it was in front of the prince anyway, so he insisted: "His Royal Highness, we have another two, which are different from the heavy road just now, but neutral. And the route of light armored vehicles..."

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