Chapter 21 Planning 2
"Damn it!" Yannick muttered quietly. This doesn't seem like the standard ending for time travelers. Others traveled through time and finally dominated the world, enjoyed wealth and glory, and lived a life of a stud. Why should he be like a certain Terr, and bear the eternal infamy after his death?
"What should I do?" Yannick pondered for a while. In January 1940, in order to test the prototypes of two newly-made T-34 tanks, Koshkin personally led a team to conduct a long-distance driving test from Kharkov to Moscow, Smolensk, Kiev, and Kharkov, which impressed a certain Dalin who was observing the test in Moscow.
In this case, can the two tanks be killed halfway?
Yannick first thought of the feasibility of this action.
Russia is originally vast and sparsely populated. Sometimes no one can be seen for hundreds of kilometers. From the Ural Mountains to Moscow, many places on this long road are uninhabited. Not to mention attacking a convoy halfway, even if a nuclear bomb is dropped, no one may know.
It seems that sending a special forces unit can complete the mission cleanly and smoothly and withdraw smoothly.
Then what will be the impact after the operation is successful? Will the Soviets suspect Germany? Let's not talk about how much imagination that requires. Even if Yannik blatantly leaves evidence that it was done by Germany, what can it do? Will the Soviets declare war on Germany? Let's fight, who is afraid of who.
He still remembered that due to overwork, Koshkin died of pneumonia on September 26, 1940, and finally did not see the wonderful performance of his last work T-34. His assistant Morozov took over his work and finally completed the development.
Then kill this assistant, at least it can be delayed for a year or two, right? Even if it is delayed for half a year.
Thinking of the end, Yannik couldn't help but slap his forehead. In fact, there is no need to be so troublesome. Wouldn't it be enough to kill them both a few years earlier? Although the prototype may have some shortcomings and defects, it has been built after all. Unless he blows up the entire factory, the workers involved in the production still have the design drawings, and it seems that it is not difficult to improve the design.
Yannick immediately cut off the plan of attacking halfway and considered the assassination operation instead.
The more he thought about it, the more feasible it was. Although he didn't know where Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin was now, he knew that he would enter the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute next year.
If he could find a way to leak the design drawings of the Maus tank to the Soviet Union, the bearded man would probably be crazy, right? ? Not only the Maus tank, but also the Gustav cannon, the Yamato battleship, the Mammoth aircraft, the Littor Govit mortar, etc. were all thrown to the Soviets, letting them slowly make these useless things and waste the originally not-so-rich steel production on such waste.
Speaking of waste, Yannick got up and found paper and pen and started to draw.
The next morning, Geer came to report. "Your Highness, I just received a notice from the country that His Highness and his wife have returned to the country."
His Highness and his wife? Yannick was stunned for a moment before he realized that they were his disappointing parents.
In the original time and space, William II had seven children, but in this time and space, he only had one son.
Well, to be exact, there was more than one son.
When the emperor was young, he traveled to the Ming Dynasty, where he met a woman from the Ming Dynasty and soon fell in love with her.
The woman named Susan actually gave him a daughter.
It's just that Frederick III had arranged a political marriage for William II a long time ago, and that lady Susan did not become the German queen. And in order not to embarrass William II, whom she loved, she never set foot in Germany in her life. William II also felt guilty about her. After he ascended the throne, he asked the Ming Dynasty royal family to take care of them in his private name.
Obviously, William II was also a man who loved the country more than the beauty.
Unfortunately, Oscar Hohenzollern (his current father), who was supposed to become William III, was a weirdo and had no interest in the throne of the emperor. He was only interested in traveling around the world with his equally weird wife, and he even called it adventure. Sometimes he rarely came home for several years.
William II had no way to deal with this disappointing son. Fortunately, this bastard son gave him three grandsons. William II could only pin his hopes on his eldest grandson, but he didn't expect a car accident. An accident directly took away his most valued eldest grandson. The third grandson suffered a severe brain injury and became a vegetable. Only Yannick survived unscathed.
"No missing arms or legs?" This is not that he disrespected the prince, but the original Yannick would ask this question every time he heard news about his parents.
"Your Highness and his wife are all well."
"That's good." After leaving this sentence, Yannick followed the itinerary arranged yesterday. After breakfast, the group came to the Kharkov G International Locomotive Factory. This is the main tank design and development organization in the Soviet Union. A special T2 workshop has been built in the factory to produce tanks. The tank design team formed in 1927 has become the core of the newly established T2K tank design bureau led by Ivan-N-Alexenko, and engineers who participated in the design, manufacture and testing of T-12 and T-24 tanks have also joined in.
When Guderian saw the T-24 tanks being assembled in the workshop, he almost drooled.
This is a medium tank with a combat weight of 5 tons and a crew of 5. Although in Yannick's opinion, these tanks are simply a pile of garbage that is not worth mentioning, Guderian is quite envious of Germany, which is restricted by the Treaty of Versailles and cannot build tanks. In his eyes, this tank is already quite advanced.
Looking at Guderian who has swallowed his saliva several times, Yannick couldn't help but cough lightly to prevent him from continuing to embarrass himself here. Guderian also suddenly remembered the previous instructions of His Highness and began to pick on the problems of this tank. "I think this tank will definitely not be fast, right? After all, its suspension mechanism is not very advanced, it should be said that it is too backward."
Yannick frowned slightly and scolded. "Major Guderian, we are guests now, how do you talk?"
The two people sang in unison, which aroused Tukhachevsky's curiosity. "Your Highness Yannick, don't blame Major Guderian. He is right. The mobility of our tank is very poor. I wonder what Major Guderian thinks. What kind of suspension is best?" One of the important reasons for daring to show this latest tank to the Germans is that this tank is a failure! Only a few dozen were mass-produced in total!
This tank uses a large row of small-diameter road wheels, which is simply inherited from the suspension mechanism of the bulldozer, which makes the mobility of this tank quite limited.
And what's even more deadly is its turret, which is a multi-turret tank.
The main turret is equipped with a 45mm tank gun, and there is also a machine gun turret on the main turret. In addition, there are 4 62mm machine guns on the main turret, secondary turret and the front of the body.
It looks like it has very powerful firepower, but it's actually useless!
Tanks should do what tanks do! What should tanks do? Attack, attack, attack! Therefore, tanks need large-caliber artillery! They need fierce firepower, and as for machine guns, they don't need so many!
At the same time, this multi-turret tank is quite tall and is more likely to roll over when running fast!
Although it was a failed product (only used for training and inspection), the vehicle gave KhPZ factory the initial experience in designing and producing tanks, and this experience was successfully applied when the factory began to produce the American Christie tank (BT tank) in 1931.