Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 69 Good luck in opening the furnace

It is impossible to prevent the brigade commander from taking advantage of Li Yunlong.

Li Yunlong's face suddenly turned into a bitter one.

"Brigade Commander, please don't..." To be honest, Li Yunlong hadn't even warmed up to the things that Ren Zhong brought. Li Yunlong suddenly realized the value of those monocular sights and their great significance to the improvement of the independent regiment's combat effectiveness.

They were preparing to use Zhang Dabiao's company as a base and select shooting experts from the entire regiment to train a group of snipers.

Who would have thought that the brigade commander was so omnipotent? As soon as we put up the banner, the brigade commander knew about it and tried to squeeze things in to take advantage of us.

"Li Yunlong, that's enough." The brigade commander interrupted Li Yunlong before he finished speaking, "During the training, I allow you to send this sniper team to shoot down the Japanese cold guns and cold artillery, but don't remove the artillery tower by yourself for the time being. The headquarters has a big plan and will issue an order in a few days. At that time, each regiment will select a group of elite teams to come to your independent regiment to learn from you how to use the flying thunder cannon (the name of the conscienceless cannon was changed when the brigade commander heard it because it was too rustic) to attack the artillery tower."

As soon as the brigade commander finished speaking, Li Yunlong's brows immediately lit up with joy. This guy really deserves to be called a dog-faced person. Even if he went to Hollywood to develop, Ren Zhong doubted that Li Yunlong would have a place there.

Although this would inevitably mean that some of the extremely precious monocular telescope would be divided up by other regiments, allowing his independent regiment to go out and fight was much better than staying in Yang Village.

To be honest, although military industrial construction is very exciting, Li Yunlong still prefers to gallop on the battlefield.

"Thank you, Brigade Commander, thank you, Brigade Commander. Xiao Li will definitely work with the brother troops to train this sniper and flying thunder cannon team well." Li Yunlong patted his chest and promised loudly.

"You, can't you just focus on building up the Yangcun production base?" The brigade commander shook his head. Wen Zhan Zexi was a fierce general. Even now that he had Ren Zhong and Ren Zhong only recognized Li Yunlong, the brigade commander was thinking about turning the independent regiment into a large production base.

I didn't expect that Li Yunlong, after receiving so many benefits, was still warlike.

It seems that someone should be sent to watch over this kid. The brigade commander made a decision secretly in his heart. Li Yunlong didn't know that he was about to be put under a tight spell. He was in a good mood waiting for the molten iron to come out of the blast furnace.

Four hours passed in a flash. Ren Zhong stared closely at the place where molten iron was coming out, and his mood began to get nervous.

To be honest, he had no idea about this thing. He just made it according to the requirements in the book and consulted Professor Hu. He had never practiced it in the main plane before.

Not only Ren Zhong, but also the brigade commander, Li Yunlong and others became nervous.

There is a sense of solemnity as if a great war is about to begin.

If successful, it will change the history of industrial development in the base area.

"It's coming out, it's flowing out!" someone exclaimed.

I saw the first batch of molten iron gushing out from the taphole, surging and flowing like a fire dragon.

The soldiers and cadres who participated in the construction of the blast furnace looked at the molten iron, tears welling up in their eyes and passion surging. A small stream of molten iron quietly flowed into the prepared mold, forming neat cast iron blocks, without the shocking feeling of sparks flying that Ren Zhong saw in the main plane.

"It's done! It's really done!" The brigade commander clenched his fist and waved it fiercely. Steel is the strongest backing of war. Originally, the base could only collect scrap copper and iron everywhere and risk their lives to pry the rails on the railway. The amount of steel obtained was very limited, resulting in the arsenal's production capacity being unable to support the combat needs of the entire base.

The lack of guns and bullets meant that more soldiers had to fight the Japanese with their flesh and blood, which greatly restricted the development of the base.

Now, the first batch of molten iron has come out of Yangcun, and then the No. 2 blast furnace next to it also flows out hot molten iron. Soon bursts of hot smoke rise up here, and a strong metallic smell begins to fill the air.

"Old Li, what are you trying to do? Stay away from the molten iron. Be careful not to get burned by the splashing iron!" Ren Zhong saw Li Yunlong approaching and wanting to take a closer look at how the molten iron flowed out of the furnace, so he quickly warned him loudly.

Now these people have no sense of safety and have no idea what the flowing molten iron means. Li Yunlong, this curious baby, also has no sense of prevention and does whatever he thinks of, which gives Ren Zhong a headache.

It seems that I have to develop a set of safety production standards to teach these part-time workers who are forced to work on the job.

"Li Yunlong, you'd better watch out. The molten iron is over 1000 degrees Celsius. Wherever it touches you, it will be burned instantly." The brigade commander was an expert. He was so excited just now that he didn't notice Li Yunlong's little movements. Now he came to his senses.

"Boss Ren, I think this iron factory is a success. What are your plans next? I think it would be best if the molten iron produced could be made into grenades or mines on site through molds to reduce the waste of secondary heating." After teaching Li Yunlong a lesson, the brigade commander turned around and seriously communicated with Ren Zhong about what to do next.

"Brigade Commander, this is what I think. Now what's left for the blast furnace is to keep exploring the iron-making formula and improve the quality of the iron we produce. We not only make crude iron directly, but also steel next. Crude iron is still not enough for weapons manufacturing. We have to make better steel than railroad steel before we can use it in the manufacture of guns and artillery." Ren Zhong said to the brigade commander.

Professor Hu has already started optimizing the open-hearth steelmaking process. According to Professor Hu, if the scale is not large, it will not take long to complete the optimization. With the current enthusiasm of working 50 hours a day, a simple steelmaking production line with a daily output of 18 tons will be built in no time.

"Steelmaking? And also making steel for guns and cannons? Boss Ren, are you sure about this?" The brigade commander's eyes lit up when he heard this, this is even rarer than iron.

According to the brigade commander's understanding, the country currently does not have such production capacity and everything has to be imported.

"About 70 to 80 percent. Our organization has steelmaking experts. After finding the iron and coal mines, I have sent a message to the organization to start designing steelmaking processes and traditional steelmaking equipment based on our situation. Now some equipment such as crucibles can be fired in advance. There is no shortage of high-quality clay in the base, and we can use local resources to build this steel plant." Ren Zhong responded.

"That's great, Boss Ren. Just let us know if you have any requests. Li Yunlong, your main job right now is to cooperate with Boss Ren to build this steel plant." The brigade commander immediately expressed his strong support.

"Nothing else, Brigade Commander. Even iron and steelmaking require truly experienced workers and masters. Our organization cannot do this. I would like to ask the Brigade Commander to coordinate and find ways to recruit a group of workers from Taiyuan and other places. In addition, there is a shortage of workers in the arsenal. I have communicated with Commander Li before, but the independent regiment has limited capabilities and cannot get so many qualified workers.

At the current scale, we can barely cope with it while training and working, but soon the blast furnace will continue to expand, and the workers will not be able to keep up. We can't turn the independent regiment into factory workers, right?"

The last sentence was Ren Zhong's complaint, but when the brigade commander heard it, he actually had this idea.

A complete steel plant, after working for a year, it can directly expand into several new groups!
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