Bright sword: starting from the logistics department

Chapter 5 Arsenal

Li Huaiyi trotted all the way to the logistics department. When he met Zhang Wanhe, the head of the logistics department, he shouted excitedly: "Minister, let me look at the improved grenade of our new factory manager. The explosion is stable and the killing range is 30 meters. It is much stronger than the grenade of the little devil."

Zhang Wanhe, head of the logistics department, looked at Li Huaiyi in disbelief and said, "What, the equipment in your arsenal should have been assembled. You don't have time to improve the grenade. Besides, the arsenal has never been able to solve the problem of gunpowder. Why did you suddenly develop such a powerful grenade? Are you kidding me? You know the punishment for lying to the Eighth Route Army."

Seeing Zhang Wanhe's expression of disbelief, Li Huaiyi became even more excited: "How can I lie to you about something like this, Minister? I brought all the real objects. The first batch of experiments produced only 10 pieces. The factory manager led us to test the power and explosion stability of 5 pieces. The remaining 5 pieces were brought to you. If you don't believe me, you can find an open space and see the effect."

Zhang Wanhe still had a skeptical expression on his face, but after hearing Li Huaiyi's affirmation and letting him try it out to see the actual effect, he was somewhat convinced. He said to Li Huaiyi, "Come on, if there is such a power as you reported, it will not only reduce the killing range by a quarter, but your arsenal has made great contributions."

As they spoke, the two came to an open space in the logistics department, called a few soldiers to set up a few scarecrows in the open space, and asked him to hold a grenade modified from an arsenal and throw it at the test area in one go, and then quickly dodge.

After the grenade exploded, Zhang Wanhe quickly came to the explosion area to carefully check the "injuries" of the scarecrows. He saw that the scarecrows within 5 meters had fallen apart, those within 15 meters had been pierced into sieves by shrapnel, and those within 30 meters had deep wounds.

After Zhang Wanhe calculated the results of the experiment, a shocked expression appeared on his face: "This is really produced by our arsenal. How did this kid Zhao Gan do it?"

Seeing Zhang Wanhe's shocked expression, Li Huaiyi looked proud, and then explained: "Minister, after you left, Factory Manager Zhang took Liu Qi to improve and develop new gunpowder. He asked me, Wang Wei, and Li Qing to quickly assemble and debug the machine. He also told us not to produce it after debugging. We waited for the results of the two of them. On the second day after we finished assembling and debugging the machine, that is, at noon today, the factory manager and Liu Qi walked out of the gunpowder blending workshop with new gunpowder. Only then did the new type of grenade be born."

"In other words, it took Zhao Gan three days to solve the gunpowder problem that has been plaguing our Eighth Route Army?" Zhang Wanhe said after hearing Li Huaiyi's words.

"Yes, Minister." Li Huaiyi replied.

"Haha, okay, haha, okay. Now that the problem of gunpowder is solved, our arsenal can continue to produce shells. Then you go back and tell this kid Zhao Gan that I will go to the headquarters to ask him for credit and let him continue to work hard to produce mortar shells first. Our Eighth Route Army's shells are too short."

"Yes, Minister. But Minister, it's almost dark, and the headquarters is not close to us, are you?"

"It's okay. Of course, the sooner you tell the chief about such a big surprise, the better. The situation has become more and more tense recently. In addition, it's been a long time since the boss laughed last time when the arsenal was attacked. Telling the good news to the boss will make the boss happy." Zhang Wanhe said when he saw Li Huaiyi's hesitant expression.

"Yes, Minister. I'll go back and inform the factory manager of your order." Li Huaiyi said quickly without being entangled in Zhang Wanhe's words.

After speaking, he left the remaining 4 grenades for Zhang Wanhe and walked to the arsenal.Just as he turned his head and left, Zhang Wanhe also rushed towards the Eighth Route Army headquarters with a soldier and the remaining 4 grenades.

Li Huaiyi rushed back to the arsenal and saw Zhao Gan conveying Minister Zhang Wanhe's order, only to hear: "The arsenal is what I say. The gunpowder we are using now was prepared by me and Liu Qi through experiments. The quantity is not large. If we only produce grenades, we can wait for the next batch of gunpowder to be produced. If we add shells, we will face insufficient gunpowder and stop production. There is no rush for three or two days, and the grenades produced by this batch of gunpowder should not be sent to the logistics department. I am useful."

(End of this chapter)