Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 30 Cannonballs
Zhang Wanhe's office is actually an earthen hut next to the third branch factory, with a square table and a few stools, and stacks of documents and materials are piled on the cannonball box beside it.

Because fire is not allowed near the arsenal, it was a bit cold without a kang in the house. The guards added some boiling water to the glass bottle and plugged a wooden stopper to keep Zhang Wanhe warm.

"Here, warm and warm!" Zhang Wanhe handed the hot water bottle to Wang Xuexin: "Our arsenal has such conditions, and others think we are too rich!"

Wang Xuexin saw that Zhang Wanhe was rubbing his hands in the cold, how dare he take the thermos, and quickly declined, "Minister, we young people..."

"Hey!" Zhang Wanhe directly stuffed the hot water bottle into Wang Xuexin's arms, and joked: "You are the benefactor of our arsenal! If this treats you badly, the arsenal will not spare me!"

Saying that, he laughed.

In fact, Zhang Wanhe had other plans in his heart.

If it really means that a benefactor is not a benefactor, Zhang Wanhe has long since looked down on it.

They are all revolutionary soldiers. For the sake of the revolutionary cause, you save me and I save you, and you have to repay your debts.

But this little northeast is different. I heard Li Yunlong say that he has been in the Guizi Arsenal for many years. He has never eaten pork and seen pigs walking!

Coupled with the remarks in the previous venue, Zhang Wanhe, the most talented person, knew that this guy was a bit predictable.

At this time, several directors entered the room one after another, and Su Xin was one of them.

Zhang Wanhe greeted a few people to sit down, and then introduced to Wang Xuexin:
"Wu Weimin, director of the first branch, worked in the Shanghai Hardware Factory before, so he got a nickname called Hardware."

"Zhang Ruozhong, director of the second branch, used to dry sand in the steel plant, and now he is back to his old business."

"The director of the third branch will not introduce you, our top student."

"This is Wu Yuntao from the fourth branch. It used to be a quarry. It specializes in gunpowder, known as the medicine jar! But this is the medicine of black gunpowder..."

As he said that, he laughed along with everyone, "hehe".

At the same time as Zhang Wanhe introduced, the directors stepped forward one by one to shake hands with Wang Xuexin to say hello.

"I don't need to say more about who this is!" Zhang Wanhe Chao Wang Xuexin raised his head and put on a helpless look to the directors: "Since our factory moved to Lujiagou, you have been holding small children all day long. From the Northeast and the Northeast, my ears are almost getting calluses. This time I have invited the real person to you!

These words made the directors all smile awkwardly.

Su Xin looked at the crowd and said, "How about we ask Comrade Wang Xuexin to tell us about the battle?"

"That's right!" The others also agreed with a lot of tongues:
"I heard that Comrade Wang Xuexin has only joined the army for more than two months?"

"I heard that Comrade Wang Xuexin got the news from the devils and captured more than a dozen devils?"

"How come I heard there are dozens?"

……

So Wang Xuexin understood how this anti-Japanese drama came about.

"Hey..." Zhang Wanhe interrupted everyone's conversation. He picked up the boiling water poured by the guards, took a leisurely blow on the steam, took a sip, and said, "Comrade Wang Xuexin is here this time, not for us. Reported, he has a mission."

Wu Weimin, nicknamed Hardware, immediately became interested: "Task? What task? Could it be that there are spies in the arsenal? Comrade Wang Xuexin is here to catch the spies?"

"I said you, this guy!" Zhang Wanhe replied angrily: "What the hell is in your head? If you don't think about catching spies or going to the front to fight devils, what's wrong with the arsenal?"

"Minister, this is no devil!" Wu Jin replied with a bitter face: "I joined the Eighth Route Army in order to fight devils, look at now..."

Later, Wang Xuexin learned that the hardware was originally a technician of a Shanghai hardware factory. Before the fall of Shanghai, he risked his life to drive out a car full of machinery and equipment. This batch of machinery became a branch factory, that is, machinery. The foundation of the manufacturing branch.

"What's wrong now?" Zhang Wanhe threw the tooth cup on the table and said angrily:

"I said Comrade Hardware, aren't we fighting devils?"

"We're just fighting on different battlefields."

"Think about it, if we can build more weapons and new equipment, how many comrades can we save, how many devils can we kill, and how many victories can we bring to the troops?"

……

There was a lot of babble, and it didn't stop for a long time.

Su Xin smiled and reminded: "Director, let's get down to business. If this is delayed, the devils will stop fighting!"

"That's right... It's still Xiao Su Ming's business!" Zhang Wanhe nodded, and then became stunned: "Where did I just say?"

"Tell me about the mission!" Su Xin reminded: "Comrade Wang Xuexin's mission!"

"That's right, task!" Zhang Wanhe took another sip of hot water, then held the cup as a hot water bottle, and said, "Don't interrupt, the superior has assigned us an important task, and Comrade Wang Xuexin is here to cooperate with us to imitate the grenade. Tube!"

These words immediately made everyone look at Wang Xuexin in surprise, even Su Xin.

Everyone is thinking, how can this imitation grenade be so simple, is this Comrade Wang Xuexin not only able to fight, but also to build equipment?
Zhang Wanhe explained earnestly:
"Our team is not easy!"

"Just like this battle! The devil's brigade has only more than 700 people, and the new second regiment suffered more than [-] casualties in just [-] minutes."

"The main reason is that the devil's grenade is too rampant."

"The chief attaches great importance to this and requires us to imitate the grenade launcher to destroy the arrogance of the devil and reduce the casualties of the troops."

"Do you have any opinions on this?"

Several directors were silent, and then all turned their attention to Su Xin, as if she had the most say.

Su Xin thought about it and replied:

"Minister, we all understand what you said."

"But don't say I poured cold water on you, on our terms, we want to imitate the devil's grenade..."

Zhang Wanhe interrupted Su Xin: "I thought so too, but Comrade Wang Xuexin gave a new idea."

Speaking of which, Zhang Wanhe repeated what Wang Xuexin said at the meeting.

Zhang Ruozhong, the director of the sand foundry plant, nodded and said, "This is reasonable. If you only require small cannons capable of hitting 500 meters, it may not be difficult."

Hardware shook his head and said embarrassingly: "The gun may be fine, but the cannonball..."

After speaking, he turned his eyes to Su Xin again.

Su Xin was silent for a while, and then said like a family:
"To produce shells, pig iron is first cast into shells, and then a lathe is used to turn the muzzle, the belt and the tail."

"It's not just about being smooth, it's about being dimensionally accurate."

"In addition, the bullet port and tail must be threaded to install the fuze and the tail."

"All of this requires gray pig iron to do it."

"And the white pig iron we produce in our home-grown furnaces has too much carbon, I estimate at least 3 to 4 percent, which makes it hard, brittle, and not ductile."

"This kind of iron cannot be turned with a lathe, it will shatter as soon as it is cut!"

Saying that, Su Xin shook her head slightly and came to a conclusion: "Therefore, even if the requirements are reduced to this level, it may not be realistic to produce."

Wang Xuexin suddenly realized: it is no wonder that the cost of the system used to imitate artillery shells is more expensive.

Zhang Wanhe obviously considered these things, he nodded after hearing Su Xin's words, and said, "The iron problem, we can consider eating two lines!"

Seeing Wang Xuexin's confused face, Zhang Wanhe explained, "The two lines refer to the rails. Let's stealthily go to the Guizi's railroad, and then melt the rails to make equipment."

Wang Xuexin said "oh", this is a good idea.

It's just...is the amount of rails enough?
(End of this chapter)