Bright Sword: I took Li Yunlong to work in military industry

Chapter 247 The Japs’ tanks are rubbish!

"Director, you're here?"

"Director."

"Director."

Seeing Yu Ye appear in the electroslag remelting workshop, everyone was very excited, as if they had found a backbone and a stabilizing force.

Yu Ye nodded, said nothing, and just stood there with his hands folded.

Regarding the technology of electroslag remelting, although it is possible that these workers do not have a thorough understanding of the principles, in terms of basic operations, Yu Ye's proficiency is not as good as these workers.

Yu Ye has always adhered to the principle of letting professionals do professional things, so he just stood aside and carefully observed all the steps to make sure there were no problems with all the operations, without actually doing any of the actual operations.

In fact, the core barrel casting technology of heavy artillery is still a very important high-tech heavy industrial technology even a hundred years later, and there are no more than a handful of countries that can master this technology.

Therefore, casting a qualified 155mm howitzer barrel with the current level of technology is also a very severe test.

As the fiery red molten steel flowed into the mold, Yu Ye's eyes were fixed on the mold.

However, the workers did not stop at all. As soon as one batch of molten steel was finished, they started adding more materials. With the release of a huge electric arc, the second batch of molten steel was put into the smelting process with basically no pause.

Looking at this action, Yu Ye sighed. Ever since the decision was made to start making 155mm howitzers, the electricity of the entire Liaoyuan Arsenal has been completely insufficient.

Basically, once the electric slag remelting workshop starts working, all other workshops in the entire Liaoyuan Arsenal have to shut down, because this thing consumes too much electricity.

Not enough, not enough at all.

Now, basically, the electroslag remelting workshop is fully operational from the time after dinner until the next day, but it can only produce four or five furnaces of molten steel, which in turn can produce only four or five rough gun barrels.

These four or five rough gun barrels need to undergo a very simple self-tightening treatment, and then a very complicated heat treatment for the nesting of the casing. Finally, the barrel can be processed to pull out the rifling of the gun barrel, which becomes a finished gun barrel.

Due to the lack of NDT equipment, it is difficult to conduct a thorough inspection of the quality of these gun barrels, and hidden defects are difficult to detect.

Therefore, Yu Ye's strategy was to cast as many gun barrels as possible, and select some that were very qualified in all aspects for test firing.

In modern times, even the United States, which claims to be at the pinnacle of technology, casts two to three hundred gun barrels at the same time when casting 406mm naval guns, and finally selects the most suitable ten or so as gun barrels.

It can be said that artillery is something that only a truly powerful military country can play with. Without sufficient industrial level, artillery is simply a luxury.

Looking at the busy workers in the electroslag remelting workshop, Yu Ye regretted for the first time about arranging the manufacturing of 155 howitzers. Was it because he advanced the technology tree too quickly?

If you take too big a step, you may easily hurt yourself.

However, the smell of heavy artillery is really good. The pleasure of artillery coverage and the slow-moving barrage of bullets is not something that ordinary military workers can resist.

After taking a look, Yu Ye gradually relaxed his mind. Even if he failed to forge a qualified 155 howitzer in the end, at least it had trained everyone's smelting skills.

As a second best option, we could just change to casting a 120mm caliber mortar, which would also be very useful.

Use the 120mm mortar to experience the violent aesthetics of the Russians and become a real man with the pinnacle of firepower.

Yu Ye looked around and saw that there was nothing he could do to help, so he arranged for people to tow out several tanks sent by the 358th Regiment.

He planned to dismantle the Japanese tanks to see if he could build a good tank. After all, the steel torrent that he had promised Sun Desheng for a long time, even though he had almost turned the entire cavalry company into a motor vehicle company, had not been realized.

Every time when facing Sun Desheng’s sad eyes, Yu Ye always felt an inexplicable sense of guilt.

To walk through dangerous terrain as if it were an easy terrain is called "Tan", and to destroy the enemy's front is called "Ke".

On the modern battlefield, tanks play an extremely important role and are a very powerful core.

Ever since the tank was born on the battlefield of World War I, it has always firmly grasped the core of the battlefield, but this is not the case for the Japanese.

To the Japs, their tiny tanks simply could not shine like the tanks on other battlefields, but instead became weird toys.

15mm armor can be penetrated even with a slightly larger caliber bullet at close range, not to mention the 12.7mm caliber gun in Zhao Gang's hand, which can easily hit two holes with one shot.

The armor of later tanks must be at least 80mm, and the normal third-generation tanks must be at least 100mm. Some crazy ones can even reach 120 or even 140, not to mention the reactive armor, which can be called a secret weapon, which can directly offset the threat of armor-piercing projectiles and metal jets.

The 105-horsepower engine is almost the same as the horsepower of an ordinary family car in later generations, and even less than the horsepower of many large-displacement family cars.

As for the hard indicators of the third-generation tanks in later generations, 1500 horsepower, this little tank simply cannot keep up.

After Yu Ye dismantled one of the Japanese Type 94 light tanks that was not seriously damaged, he threw the wrench away and was so angry that he had nothing to say.

This scene happened to be seen by Zhao Gang who was delivering the light bulb.

"Old Yu, what's wrong with you? Who pissed you off?"

"Little devil, who the hell could it be?"

Yu Ye said as he looked at the parts he had disassembled and scattered on the ground.

"Ah? The Japanese still dare to mess with you now. Maybe they took the wrong medicine."

What Zhao Gang said was not wrong. Now the Japanese soldiers within dozens of kilometers were most worried about provoking the independent regiment. Once provoked, they might be hit by a 107 rocket launcher in the middle of the night.

It's simply impossible to guard against.

Moreover, Yu Ye is the core of the entire independent regiment and Liaoyuan Arsenal. If Yu Ye is really provoked by the Japanese, he will be exposed in a matter of minutes.

There was no need for Ye Ming to even say anything, as Lao Li led his team to defeat the Japanese.

"Lao Zhao, you see, the tanks made by the Japanese are really shabby. I think calling them tanks is an insult to the word tank.

I just dismantled a Japanese tank. I was really disappointed when I saw it. Why did I spend so much time and effort to modify this broken thing?

Even if it is repaired and modified, it can be destroyed by a heavy artillery fire on the battlefield.

It's just a waste of effort.

Yu Ye was tapping the wrench with his hands, obviously very bored.