I am an artillery soldier

Chapter 366 How much do you know about the arsenal?

"Genzi, how much do you know about our arsenal?" Mr. Liu took Liu Genchao to wander around the arsenal, not fast.

Liu Gen shook his head with some embarrassment, "I'm sorry, Mr. Liu, I don't know much about the arsenal. I just know that our arsenal seems to be the largest arsenal in the base area. We produce a large amount of weapons and ammunition from our arsenal. The pressure of the soldiers on the front lines."

Liu Gen was not very clear about the specific information about the arsenal. He had been fighting devils on the front line before, so naturally he didn't know much about the arsenal.Coupled with the protection of the arsenal by the Eighth Route Army, information is naturally leaked easily. It is still very difficult for Liu Gen to learn enough information.Only when Liu Gen reached a certain level would he come into contact with information about the arsenal.

Liu Gen didn't expect to enter the arsenal before, and naturally he didn't have much interest in knowing the specific information of the arsenal.What's more, when Liu Gen was in the artillery team, he was quite busy, and spent most of his time on the training of the soldiers, so he naturally wouldn't distract himself from focusing on the factory.

Liu Gen can be sure that for most of the Eighth Route Army soldiers, they know the existence of the arsenal, but they don't know much about the specific location of the arsenal and the specific information of the arsenal.

"Don't be sorry, the headquarters keeps our arsenal a high degree of secrecy. Apart from the headquarters, there are not many people who know the specific information of the arsenal." Liu Lao said with a smile.

After a moment of silence, Mr. Liu explained the history of the arsenal and the development of the arsenal to Liu Gen in detail.

After Liu Gen listened to Mr. Liu's explanation, he had a certain understanding of the arsenal, and he was able to develop from a small arsenal when it was first established to its current scale. One can imagine the hardships involved.From Mr. Liu's mouth, Liu Gen knew that the arsenal had made great progress.

The predecessor of Huangyadong Arsenal was the weapon repair shop of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. The main people at that time were to repair damaged weapons and make some simple landmine grenades and rifles.But in 39, Shinozuka Yoshio, the commander of the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi, organized devil troops many times to carry out encirclement and suppression against the Japanese base areas.

In July 39, the scope of the devil's raids in the anti-Japanese base areas expanded, threatening the Military Industry Department of the Eighth Route Army, which is the repair shop of the Eighth Route Army headquarters!Considering that the devils are increasingly mopping up the anti-Japanese base areas, and that the weapons captured by the devils in the front-line battles are not enough for the soldiers to use, the demand for rifles made by the repair shop of the headquarters has increased!
Therefore, Boss Zhu at the headquarters decided to expand the headquarters' repair shop and build an arsenal.Since the arsenal is of great importance and time is running out, Boss Zhu entrusts the task of establishing the arsenal to General Zuo Quan.

At that time, General Zuo Quan almost traveled all over the Taihang Mountains for [-] miles, and finally discovered Huangya Cave in Licheng County, Shanxi Province.

Huangya Cave is located on a cliff in a mountain at an altitude of 2000 meters, halfway up the mountain, easy to defend but difficult to attack.Huangya Cave is more than ten kilometers around, dangerous peaks stand tall, the mountain is steep, and there is only a long and narrow passage to enter the mountain.On both sides of the passage are thousands of feet of cliffs, about 1.5 kilometers long and only a few feet wide. It is an 's' shaped natural corridor.

After carefully observing the surrounding terrain of Huangya Cave, General Zuo Quan decided to build an arsenal in Huangya Cave. Given the terrain here, it would be very difficult for the devils to attack even if they found this place, unless the troops were several times stronger!

In addition, the space in Huangya Cave is large enough, which is most suitable for storing guns and ammunition, and it is a natural warehouse.This also made Huangyadong the most suitable place to build an arsenal. Finally, at the end of 39, the Huangyadong arsenal, the first arsenal of the Eighth Route Army, was established and started construction.

When the Huangyadong Armory was first established, the conditions were very simple, not only in terms of manpower, but also in terms of materials.

At that time, Shinozuka Yoshio continued to organize devil troops to carry out encirclement and suppression against the Japanese base areas. Although the several encirclement and suppression campaigns organized by Shinozuka Yoshio all failed, it still inevitably had a certain impact on the troops of the Eighth Route Army.In such a harsh external environment, the Huangyadong Armory was struggling to start work.

In the early days of the establishment of Huangyadong Armory, the technicians in the armory were highly skilled, but because there were not many machine lathes in the armory, the technicians could only work hard with hammers and files in their hands.In order to solve the lack of equipment in the arsenal, General Zuo Quan kept trying to find ways to raise equipment for the Huangyadong arsenal. Soon, the Huangyadong arsenal had forty lathes!

With the lathe, the efficiency of the soldiers in producing guns and ammunition was greatly improved. Coupled with the addition of some experts and high-achieving students from various universities to the arsenal, the Huangyadong arsenal developed rapidly.

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After Mr. Liu learned about the development process of the Huangyadong Arsenal, Liu Gen was a little excited. He found that joining the Arsenal seemed to be a pretty good choice!There are many experts and skilled workers in the Huangyadong Armory. It is hard to imagine that everyone will mix together on weekdays.

But in the Huangyadong Arsenal, this situation is very common. In the Arsenal, everyone is for the front line of the war of resistance, to drive the devils out of China, and for the freedom of the nation!Here, experts and skilled workers are firmly united, constantly trying to find ways to produce better guns and ammunition, and then help the soldiers on the front line.

Mr. Liu didn't talk too much about the hardships in the development of the arsenal, nor did he say what role he played in it, but Liu Gen could fully imagine the hardships involved.

While strolling among the troops in the arsenal, Liu Gen could clearly see that everyone looked at Old Liu with respect in their eyes.To be respected by so many people in the arsenal, Mr. Liu must have contributed a lot to the development of the arsenal.

It is worth mentioning that Huangyadong Armory has a general affairs department, equipment department, engineering department, lathe department, fitter one, fitter two, forging department, and each department performs its duties and cooperates with each other.

Under the leadership of Mr. Liu, Liu Gen has carefully observed every unit. He can see that every department is very busy, whether it is an expert or a worker, they are all busy.Seeing everyone so busy, Liu Gen felt a little ashamed. He is a young man, so it might not be very good to be idle like this.

However, Liu Gen also knew that his injuries hadn't healed yet, and he had just arrived at the arsenal and didn't know his specific position in the arsenal, so naturally he didn't need to worry too much.

Perhaps Mr. Liu noticed the change in Liu Gen's expression, and he led Liu Gen towards the director's office of the arsenal. For others, it was appropriate to enter the director's office rashly, but for Mr. Liu, he would not Have any questions.Of course, before Mr. Liu was in the factory director's office, he still knocked on the door.

Follow Mr. Liu into the factory director's office. It is said to be an office, but it is actually a slightly small room with a dilapidated desk and a chair that has been repaired countless times.

"Mr. Liu, why are you here?" Seeing Mr. Liu arriving, Director Cheng got up quickly.

(End of this chapter)