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Chapter 576 Artillery Barrage! (Second Update!)

Seeing his satisfied expression, Kang Xiaozhen rubbed his hands together and tentatively asked, "Um, could I fire a couple of shots?"

Xu Youtang didn't say anything, but naturally unbuckled his seatbelt and switched places with Kang Xiaozhen.

After Kang Xiaozhen settled into his seat and fastened his seatbelt, Xu Youtang chuckled, started the tank, and began running laps in place.

While running laps, he said to Kang Xiaozhen, "Comrade Kang Xiaozhen, now is the time for the organization to test you!"

"As logistics personnel, we also need to be able to go to the battlefield. Let's test mobile target practice. How about it? Are you confident?"

Kang Xiaozhen did not respond; he just stared at the screen in front of him with a dark expression.

As the tank begins to move, the fire control system recalculates the data and re-aims the gun at the target, but because it is constantly moving, the aiming position keeps changing.

Although it is constantly changing, the fire control system still ensures that the target is targeted.

After moving around for a while, Kang Xiaozhen also found the knack. He slowly controlled the cannon barrel, and when the fire control system prompted him to lock onto the target again, he did not hesitate to raise his fist and slam down the fire button.

With a deafening roar, the shell shot like an arrow, hurtling towards the distant mountaintop and crashing into the target that had already been hit once.

He was aiming at target number 2.

After flying for more than two seconds, the shell crashed straight into target number 2, tearing the already shattered target to pieces once again.

Seeing the target hit on the monitor, Lin Yi pressed the microphone, "One shot, hit!"

These simple four words caused Xu Youtang, who was controlling the tank's movement, to slam on the brakes. He turned around, looking at Kang Xiaozhen with disbelief for a few seconds, then quickly looked away and turned to Lin Yi:

"Do you guys really like hiding things?"

Lin Yi spread his hands: "Don't look at me! Director Guo knows the whole R&D process best. If you have any questions, go ask him."

"By the way, aren't you going to report this to him?"

Reminded by Lin Yi, Xu Youtang suddenly raised his hand and slapped his head: "Oh no, I forgot about that!"

Hearing this, Lin Yi said with schadenfreude:
"You're finished!"

Seeing Lin Yi's gloating, Xu Youtang locked the tank's power, then crawled out of the compartment, and finally stuck his head back inside:

"I'll call Director Guo to report, and then you guys continue firing and testing. I need to take a couple of photos of him."

As they spoke, Kang Xiaozhen also crawled out of the cabin. Lin Yi did not crawl out. Shortly after the two of them crawled out, Shen Weihua and Liu Nanqiao crawled in through the cabin door.

Once back in his seat and settled in, Shen Weihua was the first to congratulate Lin Yi:
"President Lin, congratulations! Xiaomi Heavy Industry's tank truly deserves the top spot!"

"When this tank is officially displayed in front of everyone, I estimate that many people will be furious!"

After he finished speaking, Liu Nanqiao, who was standing to the side, naturally asked:
Does that include you?

“That definitely doesn’t include that!” Shen Weihua replied, and began to control the tank’s movement. They had only moved for a short while when Kang Xiaozhen’s instructions came through the headset.

"Large-scale enemy presence has appeared on the target hill. Your forces are required to move at high speed and provide artillery support! Free fire is permitted!"

After hearing the order, Shen Weihua turned to look at Liu Nanqiao: "Did you hear that? Artillery support. If you can't hit your target, you'd better get the hell out of here!"

"What kind of international joke are you talking about?" Liu Nanqiao wanted to spit, but then remembered that they were inside a tank, so he gritted his teeth and switched his attention to artillery control.

He quickly replaced the tank gun shells with high-explosive anti-personnel rounds, and finally controlled the fire control system to aim at the target.

The beeping sound rang out, and when it turned into a single beep, Liu Nanqiao abruptly pressed the fire button.

With a loud bang, the tank cannon fired, and in less than three seconds, a small mushroom cloud rose from the opposite hilltop.

The small mushroom cloud startled the people inside the tank, but soon the fire control system beeped again. Liu Nanqiao did not hesitate and pressed the fire button almost the instant the sound was heard.

Another shot was fired, and another small mushroom cloud appeared.

Upon seeing the mushroom cloud again, Liu Nanqiao didn't freeze; instead, he frantically opened fire according to the prompts on the fire button.

Explosions came one after another from the distant mountaintops, but compared to the flames produced by the explosions, the sounds were too dull, so dull that they numbed people.

Outside the tank, Kang Xiaozhen stared wide-eyed at the flames shooting up from the distant mountaintops and the occasional rumbling sounds reaching his ears.

After a long silence, he turned to look at Xu Youtang: "Is this new explosive?"

Xu Youtang nodded, then held up his phone, which he was on a call with, and listened to the sounds of gunfire for a while before putting the phone to his ear.

The explosion was too loud, so he had to step aside and shout into the phone, "Director Guo, listen to this sound! It's so powerful!"

"Their firepower is very strong. I feel that even a personnel-killing shell that hits someone in the head could blow up a tank!"

"I don't know, this is just a guess, we don't have any tanks to test it."

"But I can wait until they finish fighting, then go up to the hilltop over there and take some photos. When I see the photos, I can estimate the approximate power of the explosion."

"Okay, don't worry, I will keep this strictly confidential!"

"But I heard from Director Lin that these tanks were delivered from outside suppliers. Isn't that a bit inappropriate?"

"Understood, obey orders!"

Sixty shells would take a long time to use on the battlefield, but now it's being tested so that they can be fired one after another, without regard for their lives.

Less than 10 minutes after the order to fire was given, all the remaining shells were fired.

Once the shells were used up, the tank's mission was complete.

Kang Xiaozhen pressed the microphone and issued the final instruction:
"Tank crew, move the tank into the training base!"

Following the command, Shen Weihua turned the tank around, drove it into the training base, stopped it in the designated area, and locked the engine.

Then the three men inside crawled out of the tank. Lin Yi walked towards Xu Youtang and Kang Xiaozhen, while Shen Weihua and Liu Nanqiao went to their engineer. They were going to take the engineer to thoroughly inspect the tank.

As Lin Yigang approached Xu Youtang, Xu Youtang pointed to a distant mountain peak and said, "Director Guo asked me to take some photos for him. Director Lin, would you like to come along?"

How can I not go?
Lin Yi asked himself a question, then nodded: "Let's go together. I also want to see the destructive power of the shells."

After they finished speaking, the two started walking towards the distant hilltop.

They had only taken a few steps when Kang Xiaozhen pulled up beside them in a car, looking at them with a puzzled expression: "Are you planning to walk over there?"

"Why didn't you say you had a car earlier!" Xu Youtang climbed into the car with movements that were out of character for his age, then pulled Lin Yi into the car as well. Finally, Kang Xiaozhen stepped on the gas, and the car, which was under his buttocks, bumped and climbed up the hill along a small road behind the base.

When they reached the hilltop, the security inspection team had already emerged from the bomb shelters in the safety zone and appeared at the bombed site.

There used to be many leafless shrubs on this hill, but now, those shrubs have disappeared, leaving only pits.

Moreover, the pit was quite large. The safety inspection team members used measuring tapes to measure the pit back and forth, while also recording some data.

Hearing the movement of the vehicle behind them, and conducting a safety check, the team leader turned around and waved to Kang Xiaozhen, who had jumped out of the driver's seat.

"Old Kang, is this a test of new explosives? This explosive power exceeds that of a 150mm cannon!"

Upon hearing this, Kang Xiaozhen turned around in surprise, glanced at Lin Yi, and then took some data from the security inspection team leader that they had just investigated.

After reviewing the data, he handed the information to Xu Youtang, who was standing next to him, and said, "This power is much greater than that of a 155mm cannon!"

After receiving the data, Xu Youtang glanced at it, then gestured with his hands to indicate the traces at the scene. Finally, he took out his phone and took a few photos of the scene.

After taking the photos, he came to Lin Yi with the documents, licked his lips, and whispered to Lin Yi:
"Mr. Lin, is this all your equipment?"

Lin Yi didn't take the documents, but simply nodded slightly.

"We can guarantee that the equipment we produce will be no less powerful than any other manufacturer in terms of firepower!"

Seeing that Lin Yi didn't take the documents, Xu Youtang knew that Lin Yi had a plan, so he stopped worrying about it and turned around to take out his phone and continue fiddling with it.

After finishing fiddling with it, he dialed Guo Song's number again:
"Director Guo, let me report on the situation at the scene. After on-site survey, we have preliminarily determined that the 125mm high-explosive anti-personnel rounds used in Xiaomi Heavy Industry's tank are more powerful than the 155mm howitzers we usually use!"

"I need to wait for the engineers here to calculate the test results and I can give you the complete data before I can provide you with the specifics!"

"Ok, I see!"

After he hung up the phone, Xu Youtang sighed and looked up at Lin Yi:
"Director Guo said that you should personally report to him when the time comes. I'll go back to Jinling first to get my work done!"

After conveying the message, Xu Youtang slapped the documents in his hand into Lin Yi's hand, then raised his hand and gave a very solemn military salute. In the end, instead of taking a car, he walked step by step along the mountain path he had just taken up the mountain back to the base.

Yanjing.

Guo Song also received the photos and data sent to him by Xu Youtang.

Even though he knew long ago that the tank's specifications were impressive on paper, Guo Song was still shocked when he saw those specifications, the targets that were almost invisible at the foot of the mountain, the ravaged mountainside, and the huge craters.

The fact that a kill-personnel round can produce such power means that armor-piercing rounds are unnecessary; you can simply use a kill-personnel round to fire directly at the target.

When such a powerful shell explodes on an enemy tank, even if it doesn't break through the armor, it can still kill the people inside.

Moreover, these shells are already powerful, and with their maximum direct-fire range of five kilometers, they're guaranteed to hit their target every time!

This tank is undoubtedly the best in the world.

After going through the information, Guo Song started to laugh. As he laughed, he suddenly remembered that there were even more intelligent tanks. He couldn't wait to see those highly intelligent tanks.

Of course, he was even more eager to see what kind of antics Saudi Arabia would pull off with these tanks in the desert.

His greatest hope is that Saudi Arabia will acquire these tanks but misuse them.

This would leave the country with a reputation for poor equipment. Then, somewhere in the world, a conflict breaks out with America, and this tank suddenly appears, beating America's Abrams tanks like a father beating his son.

That's when things really got interesting!
After the imagined scene in his mind finished playing out, Guo Song took a deep breath, snapped the image out of his mind, picked up the documents, went out, and had his guard drive him to the General Staff Department.

In Leng Yun's office, he had just finished a meeting, which had taken a lot of energy, and was leisurely enjoying a cup of tea.

The office door was pushed open, and Guo Song walked in. Looking at the documents in the man's hand, the person asked:
"What? The test at Research Institute 80515 failed?"

"No!" Guo Song shook his head and handed the documents to Leng Yun:

"It wasn't a failure, it was too successful!"

"The Huanglishu Training Base is about 5 kilometers from the main entrance to the hill behind it."

"Xiaomi Heavy Industry's tank cannons are firing wildly at the hill behind their main gate."

"They first tested armor-piercing rounds at a distance of 5 kilometers, and it took them less than three seconds!"

"With this muzzle velocity and this range, I don't know where other tanks stand in terms of chance of winning against it."

"Later, they tested anti-personnel rounds, and Xu Youtang told me that the craters created by their 125mm anti-personnel rounds were larger than those created by 155mm howitzers."

"They even sent me some photos. Judging from the crater from the explosion, it was indeed more powerful than a 155mm howitzer!"

"I fucking regret it now!"

After hearing the explanation of the cause and effect, Leng Yun reached out and took the documents, but instead of looking at the data, she looked at the photos.

The photos show one large pit after another, and mountains scarred and devastated.

Leng Yun had also been to the front lines, so he naturally knew how big the crater from a 155mm howitzer explosion was. After gesturing a little, he realized that Guo Song was not lying.

The 125mm tank gun anti-personnel rounds produced by Xiaomi Heavy Industry are indeed more powerful than those of 155mm howitzers.

Upon reaching this conclusion, his face darkened for a moment.

Because he remembered the scene when Lin Yi said those words at that meeting.

They didn't believe it, and even personally facilitated the deal between Saudi Arabia and Xiaomi Heavy Industry.

The thought of sending such tanks outside made Leng Yun feel extremely annoyed.

But the annoyance only lasted a moment. He put down the documents and said to Guo Song:

"Tanks are ultimately meant for real combat. Selling these to the Middle East will not only provide research funding for Xiaomi Heavy Industry, but also provide research data."

"It would be even better if we could exchange a few shots with America's Abrams tank."

“We can get more data, and America will be scared, scared that we're hiding something!”

(End of this chapter)