The encounter ended with both sides suffering losses. Seven of the ten tanks brought out by Chu Jungui were destroyed, while the federal army paid a heavy price for 21 tanks and 2 heavy mechas.
The main reason for such a fight was that Chu Jungui failed to perform. The experimental tank broke down after only achieving three results.
However, most of the test subjects' vehicles were destroyed and no one was injured. The crew members escaped and were picked up by the rescue vehicle. The final casualties were only single digits, while the Federal Army suffered hundreds of casualties.
Two hours later, dozens of reinforcement tanks arrived on the battlefield. By this time, Chu Jungui had already returned to the base. William jumped out of the mecha and carefully inspected the wreckage of the destroyed tank. After seeing it, he shook his head helplessly: "It's really shoddy."
However, he still called the technical officer and said: "Tug all these wreckage back and draw the design in reverse."
The technical officer muttered softly, "Does this still need research?"
Chu Jungui's chariot has no technical content at all. The body armor is made of one layer of alloy plates and one layer of composite materials, but there are only eighteen layers in total. The body assembly is crude and crude welding, and basically a few layers of steel plates will fall off after one shot. However, there were too many layers of steel plates piled up by Chu Jungui, so it would take several shots before they were destroyed. As for the micro-missiles, they can only blow up one or two layers of steel plates at most.
Faced with the complaint from the technical officer, William kicked a cannonball on the ground and said, "Who said there is nothing that can be studied? The composition of this cannonball can be studied."
The technical officer was even more unkind, "With such a large caliber and such a low muzzle velocity, I think it would be good if the power of the gunpowder could be half that of our current products. Does such a backward thing need to be studied?"
William's face darkened and he said: "I know you are Gamble's brother-in-law, but this relationship is not enough to make you noble, let alone change your crime of questioning the commander on the front line. Are you planning to disobey? "
The technical officer's expression changed, he took a step back and said, "Of course I don't dare, respected General William."
He turned around and yelled: "Boys! Work harder, collect all the junk on the ground, take it back and study it carefully!"
William did not have an attack. After all, these soldiers were not affiliated with the Lancers, and his binding power was limited. He raised his head and looked into the distance, his eyebrows slightly furrowed. He didn't understand why, with superior military strength and far superior technical level, both sides would suffer losses in a fight with a bunch of crudely built tanks that could hardly be said to be industrially designed.
Could it be that the opponent was just very lucky in this battle and his artillery fire was particularly accurate?
In the Doomsday Shadow Fortress, Chu Jungui held a newly released biochip and said to Roland beside him: "Look, this is our luck."
"Yes!" Roland felt the same way. "It's a miracle that the chip can still be used in this damn place."
Chu Jungui put the chip in Roland's hand and said, "The soldiers performed very well today, but our tank still has many problems. I need to modify the design."
"The caliber of the gun can be smaller, even if it is only 200mm, it is enough to penetrate the opponent's armor."
"I will consider."
Returning to his room, Chu Jungui began to design a new generation of tanks. The tank gun in this design was quite a failure, and its reliability was shockingly low. The reason has been found. It is that the existing heavy alloys are not strong enough, and the tank cannon cannot withstand the vibration caused by the large caliber. However, the update of basic materials cannot be solved in a day or two, and there is no good solution for agent chips, unless the supply of rare metals can be obtained or new local resources can be found.
Chu Jungui had to readjust the design and once again used the plan to make warheads from the spines of the spinyback beast. In this way, the caliber of the tank gun can be reduced to 120mm. The disadvantage is that only large enough thorns can be used to make warheads. There are only a few thousand such thorns in stock.
As for other aspects, there is no need to make major changes for the time being, just modify the details. The chariot is powered by a battery, and its instantaneous power can be very high. Its acceleration and top speed performance are quite excellent, and it can also drag heavy vehicles. Chu Jungui completely regarded the tank as a disposable tool, so using batteries can fundamentally reduce costs.
The most technological component on the tank is the auxiliary driving and shooting control unit made of biochips. In this old-fashioned armored fighting vehicle duel game, one side has a fire control computer and the other side does not, and the results are very different.
When abandoning the vehicle, the crew must take away the fire control unit or blow it up directly to avoid leaving samples to the federation.
Once you have an idea, the specific design tasks can be assigned to the chip. The agent chip is easy to use, but like other artificial intelligence, it lacks an overall view and needs someone to point out the direction.
When the chip completed its task, Chu Jungui took the time to read through the information. What they are facing now is the Knights of the Round Table. It is not clear which legion they are. The Knights of the Round Table claim to have 13 legions, and they are also one of the more famous legions in the Federation.
At this time, the lights in the room suddenly turned red, and a stiff electronic synthesized sound sounded along with the cheerful music: "The beast tide appears! Repeat it, the beast tide appears!"
Chu Jungui made a sound, stood up, and left the room happily.
After waiting for so long, the beast tide finally arrived.
A true B-level beast tide is a very useful addition to the current Doomsday Shadow Fortress. As soon as the battle was over, the soldiers swarmed out and carried the corpses of the war beasts back to the fortress, piling them up like a hill. The decomposer has to work around the clock to finish processing the materials.
As soon as all the war beast corpses were transported into the fortress, Chu Jungui led the mobile detachment that was completed shortly and set off. This time, the mobile detachment consisted of 15 tanks. The appearance was still ugly and square, and the number of armor layers was increased from 18 to 22 layers. The original two thick barrels were replaced by four much thinner barrels, but in fact due to the use of spiny warheads, the armor-piercing capability was not much weaker. On the contrary, because the main gun was changed from a two-gun to a four-gun, the firepower Somewhat enhanced.
This time, the armed search unexpectedly ran into the mobile vigilance patrol unit of the Knights of the Round Table. The number of tanks of the Round Table Knights patrol unit was increased from 30 to 40, and the number of heavy-duty mechas was also increased to 10. However, the result of the battle was a draw.
Chu Jungui destroyed the opponent's 30 tanks and 4 heavy mechas in one fell swoop at the cost of 9 tanks, then hastily cleaned the battlefield, recovered ammunition, chips and some core parts of the federal army, and then retreated calmly.
The experimental tank gun finally fired from the beginning to the end.
The statistics of Chu Jungui's battle results are not just a comparison of battle losses, but also converted into currency. The cost of his new tank is roughly 200,000, which is probably not as expensive as his opponent's high-end artillery shells. The price of a single unit of the Federation's main battle tank is 2 million, and the price of a heavy-duty mecha is 5 million. This is the result of a significant reduction in allocation. Therefore, the real comparison of the results of this battle is 4 million versus 96 million, and the difference is ammunition consumption.
That's right, the ammunition fired by the test body is more expensive than that of a tank.
