GBP #186 - A mechanized group supported by tricycles
#186 - A mechanized group supported by tricycles
In April 1942, the Dawn Research Institute created another new historical milestone.
The first agricultural tricycle was born. Since the chemical plant's synthetic rubber production line was still being debugged, the three wheels of the first vehicle were removed from local vehicles.
It was equipped with Hongxing's first diesel engine, the CY1110, with a displacement of 1.1 liters and an output power of 20 horsepower!
The internal dimensions of the vehicle's cargo box are 2500 × 1350 × 500mm, the vehicle height is 1500mm, and the maximum load capacity can reach 2.5 tons! Of course, if you load 3 tons or 4 tons and drive on flat roads, there is no problem, but the climbing ability will be much worse under overload conditions.
If carrying 2 tons, this tricycle will have no problem climbing any slope that a horse-drawn carriage or ox cart can climb.
According to Ren Zhong's habit, this new car was named Hongxing Hercules T2500 Transporter.
The cargo box uses a steel frame + wooden board structure. The cab was canceled due to the open design. There is no car head like Ren Zhong's prototype car in the main world. The weight of the whole vehicle is less than 800 jin, which greatly simplifies the design of the original car.
Although driving this car in winter would be very touching, the oncoming cold wind may freeze the driver in a short while, but now Ren Zhong wants quantity and quickly produces a batch for emergency use, so everything that can be simplified is simplified.
Moreover, modular production is directly adopted. The external parts such as the frame and the car body have produced 200 sets. Now the production capacity is limited by the diesel engine production bottleneck. According to the current progress, it may take several months for the engine to go from producing a few units per month to 100 units, to run-in the equipment, and then bring up a skilled workforce.
This is casting plus secondary processing, and only skilled workers can do the fine work, which cannot be expanded by simply piling up people.
Bright Sword World. When it was getting dark and time for dinner, Ren Zhong saw that Huzi, who usually guarded him and didn't move much, was nowhere to be seen all day, which was unusual, and only saw him in the evening.
He couldn't help but ask.
"Huzi, I haven't seen you all day, what have you been doing?"
"Boss Ren, I learned to drive today," Huzi said excitedly.
His face was covered in dust.
"What?" Ren Zhong didn't react.
Where is there any car?
"The car that our research institute researched first, I asked Master Ma to teach me first!" Huzi said with some embarrassment and a smile.
He is the head of the internal security of the Dawn Research Institute, and doing this is a bit of an abuse of power.
The internal security of the Dawn Research Institute has expanded from a dozen people to more than a hundred people, a full company.
"Is that so?" Ren Zhong tilted his head and blinked his eyes. He didn't expect Huzi to be thinking about this all the time. "Tell me, if this Hercules is equipped to the troops, how do you think it should be configured to improve the combat effectiveness of a main regiment."
Ren Zhong didn't have anything urgent to do today, so he might as well chat with Huzi and take a break, just like bragging on the Internet in his previous life.
"I think the first priority is to equip it for the transportation of heavy weapons and ammunition. If there is a road to rely on, 20 Hercules can carry heavy weapons such as machine guns, mortars, and mountain guns, as well as the allocated base ammunition. It is not too difficult to march a hundred miles day and night. If the carriage is made larger, one car can take away a platoon, then as long as there are one hundred cars, the entire regiment can ride in the car to march, and it is no problem to raid 300 kilometers in one night." Huzi counted on his fingers for a while and said to Ren Zhong, "With one hundred cars, we will be faster than the Japanese devils' current motor vehicle unit!"
The maximum speed of Hercules is designed to be 50 kilometers. If the road surface is good, it can run completely. Of course, most of the bumpy roads in this period cannot support running so fast. Compromising, it is not a big problem to run 30 kilometers per hour on the roads that the car can run, and it is really not too much pressure to run 300 kilometers in one night.
With the current fuel consumption of less than 4 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers for Hercules, plus a 40-liter fuel tank, one tank of fuel is enough.
Ren Zhong still has a good understanding of the performance of this tricycle.
But one car carrying a platoon surprised Ren Zhong a bit. Is Huzi possessed by a three-wheeled god? Can a motorcycle carry a platoon?
A full platoon in a main regiment has 37 people. Although the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are generally thin at this time, and not many weigh more than 100 jin, a platoon sitting there in a dark mass is quite a large group of people.
Really dare to think.
"Wait, Huzi, are you serious about one car carrying a platoon? How can it fit?" Ren Zhong couldn't help but ask.
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"No problem, I think if the carriage is lengthened to 5 meters, and 12 people sit in a row, divided into three rows, it will be just right for 36 people to sit, with one more as the driver." It seems that Huzi has really put his mind to it.
Ren Zhong couldn't help but reach out and scratch his head. If you say that, I really have nothing to say. You are truly a little arithmetic genius!
Ren Zhong knew that according to the height and shoulder width of the soldiers at this time, one person sitting sideways would not exceed 40 centimeters. A 5-meter-long carriage is really enough to string together a squad of people!
Everyone can still squeeze together to keep warm!
But, how many hours of driving can this last? As soon as Ren Zhong raised this question, he immediately dispelled it himself. The Red Army who flew to seize the Luding Bridge ran 240 miles in 20 hours on foot!
It is not a big deal for this group of people to squeeze in the car for eight or nine hours!
They are not like those delicate modern people who can't stand a few hours on the high-speed rail.
A 5-meter-long carriage and three wheels are probably not enough. If this thing turns a little too much, one side is estimated to roll over.
It is not realistic to have a 5-meter-long tricycle.
It can be considered when it is modified into a 4-wheeled version in the future.
Ren Zhong is not the kind of person who can blindly modify things with a hot head. He is a liberal arts student, but he has seen so many real tricycles. There must be a reason why people don't do that.
Speaking of which, according to Huzi's calculation, one tricycle can't pull a platoon, but it seems easy to pull a squad, after all, 2.5 meters in length, 6 people in a row is easy, and three rows are 18 people.
A little over a hundred cars can almost pull away a newly编主力团, and according to the current establishment, a newly 编主力团 has 12 companies, with about 150 people in each company, and the entire regiment has less than 2,000 people.
With tricycles, it is completely mechanized, and no mules or horses are needed. As long as the fuel supply is guaranteed in terms of logistics, and there must be roads!
As soon as Ren Zhong thought about it, it didn't seem particularly important if there were no roads on the grassland. If they were all armed into tricycle convoys, wouldn't they become mechanized troops?
Colonel Gaddafi has Toyota pickups, and our Eighth Route Army has Hercules tricycles, which doesn't seem too bad!
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