Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 500: Small Cars, Big Cannons! (Third Update!)
As Lin Yi was speaking, Guo Song suddenly interjected, "The power supply problem has actually been solved, right?"

Before Lin Yi could speak, he continued to explain, "When we were discussing this before, we actually mentioned unmanned armored vehicles."

"They casually mentioned that the best power combination for armored vehicles and tanks is a gas turbine plus a battery, which is actually a diesel-electric hybrid."

"Such a dual-power system can ensure that tanks and armored vehicles have enough power while also having enough electricity to drive the equipment on the tanks and armored vehicles."

"You have high-performance batteries."

"For ordinary vehicles, a battery weighing several hundred kilograms is a huge burden, but for heavy main battle tanks that weigh tens of tons, several hundred kilograms is simply not enough."

"As for gas turbines..."

Guo Song was engrossed in his explanation when he suddenly paused. He slowly looked up at Lin Yi and said, "Gao Hai, who is stationed at your company and Jiangnan Shipyard, reported a message to Lao Zhu after the shipyard was approved for you."

"In that message, he mentioned that you had the design drawings for a gas turbine."

“Since you are confident in designing and manufacturing large marine gas turbines, then smaller gas turbines for tanks and armored vehicles will naturally not be a problem.”

"With the power system resolved, the next step is to address the weapon and defense systems."

"And the most troublesome point..."

"It's a chip!"

"Is it right?"

Through repeated questioning, Lin Yi realized that Guo Song's sudden arrival was not a spur-of-the-moment decision, but rather the result of thorough preparation.

His gaze sharpened slightly, and he nodded gently: "The troublesome part is indeed the chip."

"Because our domestic chip manufacturing industry is currently in a mess, we can't even find two suitable people."

"So at present, if we want to meet the demand, we can only embellish those low-end chips and win by sheer quantity."

"However, the core issue is still to develop our own industrial chain."

As he spoke, Lin Yi's tone gradually lowered, and finally his voice disappeared. He shrugged and said, "Take it slow."

Sensing the disappointment in his voice, Guo Song wanted to offer some words of comfort, but couldn't, so he changed the subject:

“I also heard from Gao Hai that you have an electric vehicle factory, which is used to process high-performance batteries.”

"How's business?"

The topic suddenly shifted to electric vehicles. Lin Yi was taken aback at first, then, after understanding Guo Song's words, he gently shook his head:
"The vehicle model has been decided, and we are now going through the approval process."

"Hurry up, the approval should be granted next month, and the month after that, our electric vehicles can be put on the market."

Guo Song knew nothing about electric vehicles. Various questions swirled in his mind, but ultimately, the one that came to mind most came to mind:
"Are these things usable?"

The voice asking was very soft, and Lin Yi heard it, but didn't dare to confirm it.

After a while, he answered in a low voice, "It works, but it's not very good."

"Why don't I just take you to see it?"

Having achieved his purpose for coming here, Guo Song was not in a hurry to go back. Hearing Lin Yi's words, he immediately became interested.

Seeing Lin Yi get up, he also got up, and was about to take a step when he heard Lin Yi say:
"Please wait here for a moment, I'll go back to my office and print out some blueprints."

"Okay!" After Guo Song agreed, Lin Yi turned around and left to print out the blueprints. In less than 10 minutes, he returned with several A3-sized printed blueprints.

The two went out and boarded the shuttle bus. Guo Song immediately turned his attention to the several blueprints:
"Can you show it to me?"

"Here you go!" Lin Yi handed over the blueprints, which Guo Song carefully took with both hands and then slowly opened.

He was stunned when he saw the first drawing.

The first drawing shows a vehicle, a four-wheeled vehicle that looks like a military pickup truck.

The drawings show the relevant dimensions. The vehicle is about 3 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. It has a driver's cab, two seats, and a cargo bed towed behind the driver's cab.

It looked a bit crowded, but on top of that narrow cargo bed was a cannon, a 120mm mortar.

Moreover, according to the blueprints, this is a mortar with built-in laser rangefinding and fire control calculations, and it can even fire horizontally.

As the head of the army's logistics department, he had been to the front lines and knew very well what it would look like to have a vehicle of this size and a cannon of this size on the front lines.

With a length of 3 meters, a width of 1.5 meters, a wheelbase of 1.9 meters, and 30-inch all-terrain tires, this vehicle is expected to have excellent off-road capabilities.

This vehicle can traverse places that conventional military trucks and armored vehicles cannot reach, as if it were on flat ground.

Imagine two sides attacking a position, with vehicles on both sides.

One vehicle had to be abandoned outside the position due to the terrain, while the other vehicle struggled to climb onto the position, then slowly turned around to reveal the 120mm mortar behind it.

Anyone would be furious if they saw this.

A 120mm mortar shell weighs over ten kilograms and can easily dismantle most temporary fortifications and a small portion of permanent fortifications.

After sorting all this out, Guo Song suddenly realized that he could only describe Lin Yi as utterly ruthless and insane.

After smilingly reading through the first set of drawings, he flipped to the second one.

It's still the same car design, except the weapon on the back has changed from a 120mm mortar to a 12.7mm heavy machine gun, slightly less insane, but only slightly.

Just as I was about to turn to the third picture, the shuttle bus suddenly slammed on the brakes, and the driver's voice rang out: "Boss, we've arrived!"

Guo Song quickly shifted his attention from the blueprints to what was in front of him.

It was only then that he noticed their location was near a side door.

There were also four security personnel standing at the side door, a very high level of protection.

Lin Yi scanned his face at the entrance and led Guo Song along the road. Before long, they arrived at the test track of the electric vehicle workshop.

On the field, several people were busy adjusting the vehicles. Su Lechuan stood next to the crowd, occasionally taking documents from others to check.

Yu Guang noticed Lin Yi walking over, and Guo Song following behind him. Su Lechuan handed the documents to the others, ran over in a few steps, and called out in a moderate voice:
"boss."

His shout immediately alerted the others present, and the already busy people became even busier in the next second.

It looks like a clockwork being wound up in an instant, while simultaneously being fast-forwarded.

Seeing their expressions, Lin Yi waved his hand and said, "I came to check the car. You don't need to be so nervous."

"How's the progress?"

When asked about the progress, Su Lechuan turned and walked towards the crowd, chatted with them for a few minutes, and then returned to Lin Yi with several documents:

"Electric bicycles and electric tricycles have lower requirements, so the work is progressing the fastest. Our legal department colleagues have already submitted the relevant documents and trademarks to the relevant departments, and we just need to wait for the approval process to be completed."

"However, although ours is called an electric bicycle, it is actually an electric moped, so the review process may be a little troublesome."

"As for electric motorcycles, the relevant structures are still being verified and will take some time."

"As for the other vehicles, they can either skirt the rules or not even get to skirt the rules." After reporting the progress, Su Lechuan stood aside, waiting for Lin Yi's next instructions.

Lin Yi took the documents from his hand, glanced at them briefly, and then returned them to him.

After Su Lechuan put away the documents, he calmly said, "Go and drive that electric four-wheeler over, and also get an electric bicycle while you're at it."

Having received the order, Su Lechuan turned and left. Less than 10 minutes later, the prototypes of the two outrageous cars that Guo Song had seen in the drawings appeared in front of him.

The cab occupies half of the three-meter length, leaving only 1.5 meters of usable length.

This size looks large, but in reality, it's quite small.

The standard size of the iron bunk beds commonly used in the military and schools is 2 meters long and 90 centimeters wide. The remaining dimensions of this vehicle only allow for about 0.4 square meters more usable space than an iron bunk bed.

It can be described as very narrow.

He could hardly imagine what kind of deranged person would place a mortar, especially a fire-controlled mortar, in such a confined space.

He's simply crazy!
Although Guo Song was internally complaining, his actions were very genuine.

The first thing he did after figuring out the car's dimensions was to bend down and look at the chassis. But when he bent down, he noticed that there was a protective shell under the chassis.

I tapped it with my hand; the metal panel had some weight, but not much.

Lin Yi, standing to the side, saw Guo Song's actions and knew what Guo Song was planning to do. He beckoned Su Lechuan over, and Su Lechuan called a few more people with tools to remove the bottom panel of the vehicle.

With the bottom panel removed, the chassis of the vehicle was officially revealed to Guo Song.

Four I-beams with special markings run horizontally across the bottom of the vehicle, with six vertical I-beams and four horizontal I-beams forming an inverted isosceles trapezoidal cage at the bottom of the vehicle.

The front of the cage has a battery, and the rear of the cage has an electric motor.

Below is the wheel shock absorber bearing.

Above are the driver's cab and cargo bed.

After inspecting the chassis, Guo Cong turned his attention to the wheels. He first stretched out his foot and gently stepped on it, but it didn't move. Then he stepped on it harder, but no matter how hard he stepped, the wheels didn't move.

At this moment, Su Lechuan's voice rang out from the side: "Solid tires are all about being hard."

Upon receiving this explanation, Guo Song nodded repeatedly, while gently patting the cargo box of the vehicle with his right hand: "A firmer is better, a firmer is better."

After inspecting the chassis, he climbed onto the cargo box and sat inside. Only then did he notice some holes in the cargo box floor.

These holes are arranged in an orderly manner; they were not dug randomly.

After staring at it for a while, he quickly opened the drawing he had been carrying under his arm, flipped through a few pages, and found what he wanted to see.

The floor plan of this vehicle.

On the cargo box's floor plan, several holes are clearly visible, with labels next to them.

The main point of the sign is the purpose of these holes.

[Installation of heavy machine gun]

Install mortars

[Installation of a light machine gun]

Install a small radar.

Install small laser or microwave jamming equipment.

[Install a small rocket launcher base]

[Installation of small anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft missile mounts]

[Safety rope securing holes are for safety personnel to secure the rope themselves.]

Seeing this series of markings, Guo Song finally became convinced that Lin Yi was serious; he was seriously working on an electric car and then stuffing all those things into it.

Whether it's considered insane or not is unimportant.

Not important at all.

Sitting in the cargo bed of the vehicle, he leisurely reviewed all the blueprints in his hands. After finishing, he returned all the blueprints to Lin Yi and asked with a face full of curiosity:

"By the way, how do you plan to verify the performance?"

Across from him, Lin Yi glanced around first, then naturally tucked the blueprint under his arm:
"I'm doing this just to verify some technologies. Whether we can get it working or not is entirely up to you."

"Let's see if you place an order first. If you don't, then I'll sell everything I produce to the Middle East."

"This thing is easy to operate and provides enough firepower on the battlefield. The people in the Middle East should like it."

Knowing Lin Yi's exact thoughts, Guo Song first nodded with relief, then shook his head with a bitter face: "But it's hard to recharge our Middle Eastern compatriots!"

"Won't it be troublesome to charge this thing?"

"Moreover, the villagers dislike maintaining equipment the most. If you sell things to them, I estimate they will like it at first, but over time they will become very disgusted with it."

"After all, charging is troublesome, and with batteries weighing several hundred kilograms, they are bound to get bumped and knocked around during long-term use. If they can't be repaired locally, they'll have to be scrapped."

"If it's scrapped, they'll be furious, and next time, they might not get any orders."

After saying this, Lin Yi did not show any worry on his face; on the contrary, he seemed very calm.

Under Guo Song's gaze, he patted the car with his hand:

"Actually, I have another plan in hand."

"That is, a hybrid system, consisting of a diesel generator and a battery pack, which reduces weight and eliminates the worry of not having a place to charge."

"If I can't even use it properly at this point, then there's nothing I can do."

Upon hearing that there was also a hybrid version, Guo Song immediately became interested. He circled the car twice, stood up, and said to Lin Yi:

"What about the price?"

“Name your price. I came here intending to take some goods back with me. Your truck looks alright.”

"I plan to take five electric vehicles and five hybrid vehicles back with me."

"It's a pity that the cannon in your blueprints is missing. If it were, it would be very interesting to bring it back."

Upon hearing this, Lin's gaze fell on the cargo bed of the vehicle: "I can produce the cannon and the ammunition casings. As for the loading of the ammunition, I can provide you with a configuration plan, and you can choose to assemble it yourself."

"I don't have an ammunition production workshop right now, so I can't do that."

"Moreover, my focus now needs to be on intelligent technology. Research in this area will continue, but the investment will not be as large as that in intelligent technology."

(End of this chapter)