Chapter 43

"A toy."

Zhang Wen answered as a matter of course.

Because Zengxia was wearing casual clothes, and more importantly, Zengxia looked relatively young.

Zhang Wen didn't recognize him immediately.

He thought he was a student coming to look for Cui Zhuren.

Because Zhang Wen was in a hurry to make a sale, he directly ignored his sun-tanned face—damn it, which student at the Military Industry University didn't have their face tanned as black as coal during military training?

It was such a normal thing.

"Come, come, brother, take a look at this, are you interested?"

Zhang Wen took a drone directly from his bag and handed it to Zengxia.

Zengxia took it with a bewildered look on his face.

"How, how do you use this?"

Zengxia looked at Zhang Wen with a blank expression.

"Come, come, look at my remote control here, you can tell up, down, left, and right apart, right?"

"This is the photo button. The power switch is on the body of the drone."

"The battery life inside allows the drone to fly for about ten kilometers or so."

Zhang Wen carefully explained the usage of the drone to Zengxia.

He didn't notice Cui Zhuren, whose expression was constantly changing.

Zengxia tried pressing the up button.

The drone zoomed straight up.

Seeing it was about to hit the ceiling, Zhang Wen quickly said, "Let go!"

Zengxia let go in a hurry, and the drone missed hitting the ceiling by just a hair.

Seeing that he was a bit startled, Zhang Wen was afraid he had been scared by his tone.

He quickly apologized, "Sorry, classmate, I only brought these five over."

"If you break it, I won't be able to sell them."

"If you were in Three Towns City, you could test it all you want. This thing is very cheap."

Zhang Wen wasn't wrong; this thing sold for about 500 at most right now.

Although for an ordinary worker with a monthly salary of about 1,000 yuan, that was already quite high.

But the volume was too small! If the volume were larger, the cost and material prices would drop significantly.

Zhang Wen dared to quote him 200.

"You can try taking a selfie."

Zhang Wen taught Zengxia to control the drone to turn around, facing the side with the camera toward him.

He pressed the shutter button, and Zengxia heard a 'Click!' sound.

Actually, this was a sound effect Zhang Wen added himself; after all, the data was stored on the SD card, and with this sound, one wouldn't doubt whether they had actually taken the photo or not.

"How far can this thing go?"

Zengxia looked at the thing above his head, his heart surging.

"Currently, there's no network, but if you add a network, you don't need the remote control, and it can be increased to about 10 kilometers."

"Actually, the distance mainly depends on the network; if there is a wireless network, tens of kilometers is the minimum."

"However, if you use the remote control, it's actually only two kilometers."

"Any further and the signal will attenuate."

Zhang Wen said with some embarrassment.

Hearing Zhang Wen's words, a scene had already appeared in Zengxia's mind.

In the deep mountains and old forests, his enemies were hiding in the jungle.

Then, they laid countless traps in the jungle.

Just waiting for Zengxia to send people to search.

As a result, his soldiers all took out a bag, and one by one, drones flew into the jungle.

Then, based on the enemy information sent back by the drones.

A roar of artillery fire, and rocket shells directly destroyed the enemy along with their traps and bunkers.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhang Wen saw Zengxia motionless for a long time and thought something was wrong.

He quickly waved his hand in front of his eyes.

"Ah, I was just thinking about some things."

Zengxia finally came back to his senses.

"Cui Zhuren, this is your student, right?"

Zengxia immediately asked Cui Zhuren; they had to have this person for the Fierce Tiger Regiment!

Not for anything else, but for the mechanization task handed to him by the division.

This drone could definitely greatly accelerate the progress.

"Taken a liking to him?"

Cui Zhuren asked with a mischievous smile.

"Yes."

Zengxia answered firmly.

"But I don't think you can take him away."

Cui Zhuren said.

"What? I'll immediately give him the Army's documents, and he can transfer to the military academy right away. Don't worry, I won't treat your student poorly."

"I can guarantee that as long as he graduates from the military academy in one year, he will come directly to our Fierce Tiger Regiment as a company commander."

Zengxia said.

"Alright, alright."

Cui Zhuren waved his hand.

"Let me introduce you: Zhang Wen. This is the commander of the Army's Fierce Tiger Regiment, Zengxia."

Cui Zhuren pointed at Zengxia and said to Zhang Wen.

Then, he pulled Zhang Wen to his side and said, "Let me introduce you again."

"This person is my student, the factory director of the Qingtian Equipment Manufacturing Factory, the developer of the Navy's missile boat, and a recipient of the Red Heart Medal."

"A hero who blocked the Eagle Country Navy from invading the South Sea."

After the string of introductions, Zengxia's mouth opened wider and wider.

Good heavens, this room couldn't hold so many people.

But Zengxia understood now that he couldn't take this person away.

"Then how can the Army purchase this, the drone?"

Zengxia gave up on the plan to recruit Zhang Wen and turned to seeking to purchase drones.

"Ah, this is just a toy."

Zhang Wen said with some embarrassment.

"A toy? You actually say this thing is a toy?"

Zengxia widened his eyes and looked at Zhang Wen.

"Right, the quality of this kind of drone is really too poor, and the technical level is too low."

"Wait another year or two; by then, the technology for military drones will basically be mature."

Zhang Wen explained in all seriousness.

Zengxia slapped his forehead; he had thought the other party was reluctant to part with his own things.

It turned out that after all this time, it was because the other party didn't look down on this technology at all.

It was no wonder; he had seen the issued documents before, which were about Zhang Wen's previous deeds in the South Sea.

At that time, the division had been buzzing for several days.

Everyone was saying that Zhang Wen had vented everyone's anger.

"Hello, hello. I really didn't know that the national hero was you."

Zengxia quickly shook Zhang Wen's hand.

This made Zhang Wen feel quite embarrassed.

He quickly said, "It's not that I won't give them to you."

"It's that I don't understand your needs and capabilities at all."

"How about this, so I can modify the drones to suit you based on your actual situation."

Zengxia almost cried when he heard this.

Look, look, what is called magnanimity, what is called seeking truth from facts.

This is it.

He quickly stated his needs.

"It's that we have formed a mechanized regiment according to the Eagle Country's training methods and equipment."

"But, we always feel like something is missing."

"When we have exercises with other regiments, we can indeed win at the beginning."

"However, the longer it drags on, the harder it feels to fight."

"Especially since we are going to have a major exercise with the Maoxiong Guo Army in the second half of the year, and our regiment has been selected."

"This is a major event concerning national honor."

"Now that I look at this combat record, I'm anxious."

"Especially when we looked at the Gulf War back then, the Eagle Country's Army was completely different from us."

Zengxia expressed his thoughts.

He very cunningly didn't say his original thoughts.

Instead, he directly stated his situation.

To see if Zhang Wen, this genius designer, had any other ideas.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to hear the other party's suggestions at all.

After Zhang Wen heard what Zengxia said.

He began to think seriously.

Thinking about it, he felt something was wrong.

"Wait."

"The Eagle Country Army during the Gulf War."

"Are you sure they played any role?"

Facing Zhang Wen's questioning words, Zengxia was even more confused.

"Aren't they very powerful? I saw that they didn't encounter any effective resistance from beginning to end."

This came out.

Zhang Wen finally knew where the problem lay.

Zengxia's thinking was still the old ideology.

He hadn't looked at the problem from the perspective of sea, land, and air coordination.

It was still the previous idea of relying solely on the Army.

What he thought about and considered were also Army matters.

It wasn't that he didn't know the role of the Navy and Air Force, but he subconsciously ignored this matter.

This was tactical thinking still stuck in the original period, the thinking of World War II.

"Sigh."

Zhang Wen sighed.

"Actually, during the Gulf War, the Eagle Country's Army didn't play much of a role either."

"Because the Navy and Air Force had already done most of their work."

"Ah?"

Zengxia was completely dumbfounded.