Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 587 The CIA is in Action! (Second Update!)
"So-so!" Faced with Guo Song's praise, Lin Yi didn't smile and simply raised his right hand and waved it lightly.

The next second, Guo Song chimed in, "How about I give you the third-best in the world?"

"sure!"

The two walked out of the room, and after taking a few steps, they suddenly remembered that Zhu Jingyao was behind them. They quickly turned around and found that Zhu Jingyao and two guards were following behind them, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.

Thankfully, no one is missing.

As Guo Song walked out of the office building, he pointed to the workshop and asked Zhu Jingyao:

"Old Zhu, you are..."

Zhu Jingyao pointed to the gate: "You guys are busy. I'll go to Jiangnan Shipyard first, and then come back to see their shipyard."

"We'll go back to Yanjing together then. I'm leaving now."

After speaking with Guo Song, Zhu Jingyao looked at Lin Yi and said, "Send two cars to give me a ride."

After telling Guo Song to wait a moment, Lin Yi called Han Shunfa over, explained the work, watched the group get into the car, and saw the convoy leave before walking into the workshop with Guo Song.

In the workshop, the morning's equipment inspection and maintenance had been completed, and the engineers began their work—welding the turret.

As the two entered the workshop, they could see the overhead crane lifting the turrets of five tanks onto the vehicle bodies one by one. After being secured with auxiliary equipment, the welding engineer stepped forward with a special welding torch and began the welding work.

Their movements were perfectly synchronized, as if they were all cut from the same mold.

Guo Song had seen tank production before, but never tank production like this. He stood aside, observing everything carefully with the intuition of a logistics worker.

After a long pause, he cautiously asked:
"You actually have 5 production teams here, right?"

"Yes!" Lin Yi didn't hide it, pointing to the five tanks that were being assembled:
"Those older engineers were transferred from China Ordnance Equipment Group and China Ordnance Industry Group under your coordination."

“Those young people are all our people.”

"To help them get started quickly, we simply set up five production teams so that everyone could learn and improve together."

"When the production capacity needs to be maximized, five production teams can barely handle it."

Guo Song was very satisfied with the explanation. He turned back to observe the young people and became more and more satisfied, because the young people were very quick and steady in their movements.

Especially the people in charge of welding, their hands are really steady!

At that moment, he recalled the time when Xiaomi Heavy Industry and the Aerospace Group collaborated, and both sides made progress through exchanges and cooperation.

Especially for the aerospace group, after that collaboration, the engineers and workers seemed to have been enlightened, and their production and manufacturing profits increased significantly.

The yield rate of manufactured parts has improved significantly. Now, the aerospace group can stand tall and shout at others, "Go ahead and mess around, we have plenty of spare parts."

If one set isn't enough, we'll give you two sets; if two sets aren't enough, we'll give you four sets; if four sets aren't enough, we'll give you ten sets.

In the past, our work was inefficient and ineffective, but now it's efficient and effective.

Thinking of all this, he turned to Lin Yi and said, "To be honest, I really want to contact the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and ask them to organize people to come and learn from you."

"You should study product quality control properly."

"If we can stabilize product quality, we can save a lot of money every year, and we can also stock up on more products!"

Upon hearing that he could stockpile more supplies, Lin Yi didn't say anything, but simply gave Guo Song a thumbs up, asking, "Have you used up all the grenades and bullets you stockpiled back then?"

One sentence made Guo Song smile awkwardly.

He turned his head back to look at the tank, and after two or three minutes, the embarrassment on his face disappeared before he slowly turned back and whispered:
"Don't listen to that nonsense. The Type 67 grenades are almost used up. As for the bullets from back then, they've been sold or used up, and have long been replaced."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Lin Yi asked again, "What about the Type 82?"

This time, Guo Song fell completely silent, rolled his eyes, and simply walked towards the tank, standing behind several engineers to continue watching.

Under his watchful eye, the welding work was quickly completed. The next step would be to wait until the weld joint had completely cooled down and the results of the metal flaw detection were available before proceeding.

The engineers disembarked from the tank to prepare for the next step of the process.

With no work to do, Guo Song returned to Lin Yi's side. He rested his chin on his right hand and asked seriously, "Do you think it would be feasible if we also built an Iron Torrent?"

A steel torrent?

Lin Yi imagined the scene of using such tanks to create an iron torrent, then shook his head vigorously to banish the image from his mind.

The term "steel torrent" is a phrase unique to the Soviet Union.

At its peak, the Soviet Union had approximately 55,000 tanks in service. According to calculations by the Soviet Union and Europe, they could use these 55,000 tanks as a vanguard to advance directly into the heart of Europe within seven days.

Unfortunately, the Soviet Union collapsed.

This term, which objectively described the Soviet mechanized military force, has thus transformed into written words and memories.

The Soviet Union's 55 tanks included multiple models such as the T-54, T-5.5, T-62, T-64, T-72, and T-80.

Furthermore, in 1981, the Soviet Union also demonstrated a real-life "Iron Torrent" exercise, which involved approximately 8000 tanks and 10,000 armored vehicles.

It was thanks to that exercise that the Soviet Union survived for another 10 years.

Now, Guo Song wants to use the tanks in front of him to unleash an iron torrent...

Lin Yi didn't know how to evaluate it. After pondering in silence for a moment, he tilted his head:

"Who are you going to fight? Aliens?"

"Why did you ask so?"

"The natives of this planet aren't that resilient!"

"Why do you say that?"

"Take the strongest America as an example. They only have about 5000 to 6000 tanks in service right now. If you include the ones that are mothballed, the number of tanks that can be mobilized will not exceed 1. If you want to use the model in front of you to fight the Soviet Union's steel torrent, I can't think of anyone you can fight except aliens."

Lin Yi finished speaking, shaking his head, and then, noticing Guo Song was about to continue, he preemptively spoke:

"Even if we team up, it won't work. We can manage to play low-level games if we temporarily put together a group, but we can't handle high-level games!"

"Alright!" Guo Song helplessly shrugged and whispered:

"Actually, I just wanted to take a look, since other people's products aren't as good as ours."

"That's true!" Lin Yi nodded in agreement, and was about to take Guo Song to explore other places when his phone rang.

He took out his phone, only to find it was a call from Ji Shuangshuang.

He apologized to Guo Cong and then went to a corner to answer the phone.

On the other end of the phone, Ji Shuangshuang delivered some news.

That means that Yoshihiro Yoshitaka has already been forced into a situation and is ready to go to Europe for negotiations. Now he needs to establish connections with Lin Yi's so-called relationship.

They exchanged information to prepare for inspections by Asmail and the European Commission's departments.

The relevant personnel information and plans have been sent to your email address and can be forwarded to Dmitry.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Yi glanced at the time on his phone. 10:37
Converting that to Virginia time, it's around 11 p.m.

It wasn't midnight, which was a bit disappointing.

After sending the personnel email, he sighed and dialed Dmitry's number. Just as he was about to speak, Dmitry interrupted him, saying:
"I've received the email!"

"Your people can go there first and make preparations. My people will contact you in about a week."

Hearing this, Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, and a bad thought popped into his mind: "You wouldn't be thinking of backing out, would you?"

"It's not that we're backing out, it's just that we have some things to take care of! Once this is settled, I can guarantee you'll get the equipment within three months. Okay, I'm hanging up now!" After explaining, Dmitri didn't give Lin Yi any chance and hung up the phone directly.

Holding his phone, Lin Yi began to carefully consider Dmitry's words.

What does it mean that once this matter is resolved, I can be guaranteed to receive the equipment within three months?

ASML only starts producing equipment after receiving an order. However, before that, they will make some major parts, and after receiving the order, they will produce the auxiliary parts and then they can start assembling.

The reason I mentioned three months was mainly to remind Dmitry that I needed it urgently.

With his help, it might not be possible to get it in three months, but it should be possible in five or six months.

This guy is guaranteeing three months...

Could this guy really be trying to steal other people's orders, just like he said on the phone before?
But how could a living person willingly give up an order they've been waiting for for so long?

Is he planning to silence the cargo owner?
After thinking for a long time, Lin Yi still couldn't figure out what Dmitri was up to, so he decided not to think about it and wait a couple of days to see which unlucky guy died, and then he would know.

He stuffed his phone into his pocket and turned to walk towards Guo Song.

…………

Brussels, Belgium.

At 4 a.m., after a busy day and the last meeting, Sofia returned to her office, pinched her tired brow, and wondered whether she should go home.

After hesitating for a moment, I made a decision.

Go home, go back and get some rest, come back this afternoon.

Anyway, there's not much work to do on this new day.

After gathering all the necessary items and packing the documents into her briefcase, she hurriedly left the house.

She got into her Mercedes, stepped on the gas, and the car drove out of the underground parking lot.

She had just stepped out of the car when a black Chevrolet followed her out of the parking lot.

The Chevrolet was very cunning; after exiting the underground parking lot, it launched a small drone to provide a route from the sky, while the car followed it from out of sight.

There were three people sitting in the Chevrolet.

The driver was driving, the passenger was controlling the drone, and the person in the back seat was looking at a map and calling out locations on their phone.

"The target has passed Block 4 and is heading towards 22nd Street!"

"The target has turned onto 22nd Street and is currently traveling at 74 kilometers per hour. It is expected to arrive in 17 minutes and 24 seconds."

"The other party has already driven out of 22nd Street and entered 13th Street. Damn it, she actually went into that coffee shop. How can she sleep if she's drinking coffee in the middle of the night?"

"Get the vehicles ready. The target is coming out of the coffee shop, holding a coffee!"

"Why aren't you getting in the car? Why are you drinking coffee by the roadside? Are you a little crazy?"

"Wearing high heels? He's dead meat!"

"Target boarded the vehicle. Continuing along 13th Avenue at a current speed of 63 kilometers per hour. Estimated arrival in 12 minutes!"

"The target has turned onto Highway 3, get ready!"

"Target is 1 kilometer from the collision point. Get ready!"

On Highway 3, about 1.2 kilometers ahead of Sofia's vehicle, two fully loaded heavy trucks were parked on the side of the road, about 100 meters apart, one in front of the other. Warning signs were placed in front of and behind the vehicles, suggesting that there was a problem with the vehicles and the drivers were repairing them.

The driver, who was lying under the car, immediately stopped what he was doing after hearing the order from the walkie-talkie, picked up the warning signs in front and behind the car, and threw them into the vehicle.

Get in the car, start the engine one after the other, and slowly move towards the target point.

The two cars sped up, and after passing several other vehicles, Sofia's Mercedes came into view of the lead car.

The driver of the truck in front pressed the microphone and spoke to the waiting drivers:

"Target spotted, overtake!"

Upon receiving the signal, the car behind accelerated, closing in on the car in front at top speed, and then suddenly turned the steering wheel to the left.

Just like in the song, the car suddenly appeared in front of Sofia. Sofia slammed on the brakes, but because she was wearing high heels, she didn't press the brake pedal all the way down.

In desperation, she jerked the steering wheel to the right, trying to avoid the impending collision.

The car on the other side seemed to be trying to avoid her, and suddenly turned its steering wheel to the left.

In a car accident, people only have two or three seconds to react.

In those two or three seconds, Sofia did everything a normal person would do, but unfortunately, the person on the other side wasn't normal.

With a loud crash, the Mercedes was struck by an oncoming truck just as it was about to plunge off Highway 3.

The truck was taller, and the Mercedes crashed into the truck's frame, becoming a speed bump for the truck. The Mercedes was then pushed off Highway 3 and into the farmland next to Highway 3.

When the collision finally came to a complete stop, the Mercedes was completely mangled.

The truck, still on the road, stopped. The driver jumped out and immediately ran to the Mercedes. He reached out and checked Sofia's pulse, finding it still beating. He then decisively pressed down on her head and pushed her forcefully back into the seat.

There was a click.

After that soft sound, the man reached for Sofia's neck again, and this time, there was no pulse at all.

After doing all this, the man quickly turned around, ran to the road, and waved to the few cars temporarily parked on the side of the road:

"Come and help!"

"The woman in this car is stuck. Do you have any tools?"

"By the way, could you please call the police and an ambulance and have one come over?"

"We need to call two trucks; the driver inside the truck is also seriously injured!"

Upon hearing that it was a rescue operation, the people in those cars opened their doors, got out, and, with the few tools they had, began to break down the car doors.

After dismantling it for a long time, the car door remained unmoved.

More than half an hour later, professional rescuers arrived and pulled the person out.

The doctor examined the patient, then shrugged and said, "Send him to the morgue."

(End of this chapter)