Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 67 All Good News (Subscription Request)
"What are these?" Kong Jie looked at the walkie-talkies, picked one up and looked at it with some curiosity; he had never seen them before.

It looks very delicate.

"Lao Kong, this is for talking. Turn the knob until you see the green light, then hold it and talk to him. The other person holding this thing will be able to hear you."

Ren Zhong looked at the six radios, randomly picked two and turned them on, then said to one of them, "Hello, hello!"

Voice immediately came from the other radio.

"This can be used for communication. How far can it reach?" Kong Jie was surprised and delighted. He did not expect that Ren Zhong would bring back such a good thing this time.

"If you're on a flat ground with no obstructions, you can hear it 10 miles away. In the mountainous areas like here, as long as you don't climb over a big mountain, you can hear it 6 or 7 miles away," said Ren Zhong.

This thing is rated to be able to talk for 10 kilometers, but the distance at which call quality can really be guaranteed is probably only five or six kilometers.

"So far? When we have cannons in the future, this thing will be very useful for artillerymen." Although Kong Jie doesn't have as many tricks as Lao Li, he is also an old soldier with a lot of combat experience. He immediately saw the value of it on the battlefield.

"Can this thing be purchased in large quantities? If each platoon has one, it will be very convenient for command. There is no need for signalmen to run around and pass on orders. We can just use this thing to issue orders quickly."

Ren Zhong certainly knew this.

In fact, modern troops have much better communication equipment than this.

“There are some issues with purchasing this stuff in large quantities, but there shouldn’t be any big problems in equipping the independent regiment to the platoon level,” Ren Zhong said.

"It needs to be charged. We will use a hand-cranked generator to charge it later."

The current world of Bright Sword is a typical agricultural world. Electricity is a very scarce commodity and is only available in big cities.

Ren Zhong could only purchase a batch of hand-cranked generators to temporarily solve the problem of charging the radios.

"Let me try first, let's go find Lao Li!" Kong Jie excitedly took one of them and ran quickly towards the place where Li Yunlong was building the blast furnace.

After two weeks of hard work, Li Yunlong finally built the earthen blast furnace.

The two blast furnaces are about 10 meters apart, which is just right for staggered loading and molten iron recovery.

When Kong Jie arrived at the construction site, he found that Li Yunlong and his men had basically completed the task.

"Old Kong, you said that when our furnace burns, it will produce a lot of smoke. If there is smoke, the Japanese from high altitude will be able to find what we have built." Li Yunlong stood in front of the blast furnace, his eyes were bloodshot. It was obvious that he had been working on the construction almost non-stop for the past two weeks, and his fatigue index should be at its maximum.

"If we want to completely hide from the Japanese reconnaissance, we have to stop burning coal when the Japanese planes come." Kong Jie glanced at Li Yunlong, "Old Li, you better take it easy. Don't tire yourself out so much that you can't even fight."

"It's easier said than done. Even if we are at a long-distance lookout, how can we ensure that the intelligence we observe is transmitted back quickly?" It would take at least an hour or two to go back and forth to a place several kilometers away, and the opportunity would be lost.

In the past, there were simple ways to transmit simple information remotely, such as message trees. But in this kind of mountain, this method is obviously not very practical.

"Now we have this!" Kong Jie said to Li Yunlong with a smile. Then he turned on the phone, "Hello, is Brother Ren listening?"

Kong Jie pressed the call button and uttered his first voice message on the radio.

"Here! Lao Kong, have you seen Lao Li?" Ren Zhong's voice came from inside.

Li Yunlong looked at it and felt as if he had seen a ghost.

"What is this?" Li Yunlong asked, pointing at the walkie-talkie.

"It's basically a toy, Old Li, what do you think of this thing?" Hearing Li Yunlong's voice, Ren Zhong asked.

"It's amazing. This thing is so small but can communicate. Brother Ren, your organization is really powerful. As far as I know, how did someone make such a small thing? I think ordinary people can't make it at all."

Although Lao Li is not an expert, he still has basic life experience. It is a bit outrageous that such a small handheld radio can achieve the functions of a huge radio.

"Of course, this is our exclusive patent and we will not authorize anyone else to produce it. So when it comes to confidential remote communications, our system is autonomous and controllable." Ren Zhong did not intend to beat around the bush and explained directly.

This is the benefit of being in Li Yunlong's Independent Regiment. When you encounter these things, at most you can give an explanation. As for how much it costs, that's hard to say.

Kong Jie hasn't been here for a few days. Looking at the huge blast furnace in front of him, it is at least fourteen or fifteen meters high. The coal must be calculated by baskets. If so much coal is burned, won't it soar into the sky?

"It was very troublesome for us before, but it's not a big problem now. We now have a handheld radio for long-distance communication. We can put the air defense lookout on a distant mountain and report any situation in time. In this way, we can just turn off the stove here." After Kong Jie finished his conversation with Ren Zhong, he was already very amazed by this handheld radio.

This means that reports and countermeasures can be discussed at any time within a few kilometers.

"Lao Kong, is this thing enough for my brother Ren to take?" Lao Li immediately tasted the flavor.

This thing is so convenient for communications on the battlefield. If each platoon is equipped with one, then commands can be given to the platoon level at any time!
If there is long-range artillery fire, communication between artillery observers and artillery positions can be maintained by this. At this stage, even the Japanese find it difficult to do this.

The Japanese artillery observers communicated with the artillery by using a heavy radio carried on the back of the signalman.

"Brother Ren said that we can buy more. This thing of Lao Li is really convenient to use." After Kong Jie answered the call with Ren Zhong's walkie-talkie, he could still hear the voice clearly even though there was a mountain between them. This meant that Ren Zhong's introduction was still a bit conservative. They were now six or seven miles away!
"That's great." Li Yunlong took the walkie-talkie and looked at it carefully for a while, and found that they could not see anything except exquisiteness.

At the same time, as more things are received, no one disbelieves in the new things that Ren Zhong has come up with.

So far, Ren Zhong has never used anything to fool people.

"Old Kong, please call Brother Ren. Our blast furnace has been built. Please ask him for guidance on how to make iron in the next step." Li Yunlong said to Kong Jie. He did not forget that the main business now was to make steel.

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