I am an artillery soldier

Chapter 367 Gunpowder Problem
"Didn't I go to the border hospital before? No, I brought the roots you have always wanted to see." Liu Lao said with a smile.

Director Cheng's eyes fell on Liu Gen, and a look of obvious joy appeared on his face. He knew what Mr. Liu did in the border hospital.When Elder Liu came back last night, he didn't disclose any news. He thought that Elder Liu failed to bring Liu Gen back. Now it seems that Elder Liu is indeed Elder Liu!He managed to bring Liu Gen, a genius, back!
"Hello, Director Cheng!"

"Liu Gen, captain of the Artillery Team of the 129th Brigade of the 386th Division, is here to report!" Liu Gen saluted with a serious expression!
Director Cheng stretched out his hand, looked at Liu Gen with some excitement, held Liu Gen's hand firmly, and said, "Captain Liu, you have finally come to our arsenal. The 60mm mortar gun paper you took out earlier But it has helped our arsenal a lot! The arsenal has always wanted to make mortars, but they have never been able to seize the relevant blueprints from the devils."

"The 60mm mortar you took out is quite mature, which saved the arsenal a lot of time. It stands to reason that you should be commended by the whole army for your contribution to the mortar gun. But you also know that our arsenal works The particularity makes it impossible to praise you in the whole army, but you can rest assured that I have already applied for credit to the headquarters for you, and it will be directly recorded in your file when the time comes."

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Liu Gen felt the strength of Director Cheng's grip on his hand. He was a little surprised. He didn't expect Director Cheng to have such an attitude towards him. He was really too enthusiastic.Liu Gen felt a little ashamed. In his opinion, compared with the experts and workers in the arsenal, he did not do much.

"Okay, Xiao Cheng, calm down your emotions, Genzi was brought to the arsenal by me, and he will be a member of our arsenal from now on."

"This time I went to find Genzi personally, and saw another mortar gun designed by Genzi. It is very good, there is no problem in the data, and it is very mature. It only needs to make a few test shots, and it will be ready to go." It can be put into production on a large scale. This time, the mortar designed by Genzi is more suitable for the use of our Eighth Route Army, and the cost will be much lower." Looking at the excited factory manager Cheng, Mr. Liu said helplessly.

Mr. Liu has always felt that Director Cheng is still very stable, and he also does a very good job in handling the daily affairs of the arsenal. It's just that Director Cheng was a little too excited when he saw Liu Gen today.Mr. Liu didn't understand why Director Cheng was so excited. Liu Gen was good, but compared with Director Cheng, there was still a lot of gap.

Of course, Mr. Liu can be sure that with Mr. Liu's genius level, he will be able to grow up quickly in the future and become better than Director Cheng.

"Has Captain Liu designed another mortar?" Director Cheng calmed down a bit, and there was not much excitement on his face.

The arsenal has expanded to a certain extent. There are currently 4000 to 60 workers in the arsenal. However, due to the lack of enough lathes, most of the work such as the production of weapons and ammunition still requires workers to polish them by hand.The 60mm mortar gun paper that Liu Gen took out before was found to be quite good after careful study and test firing in the arsenal, so the arsenal dispatched a lot of workers to manufacture [-]mm mortars.

However, even if the arsenal deploys many workers to produce 60mm mortars, the output is not much, and it can only produce less than ten mortars per month.Now that Liu Gen has designed another mortar, it is good, but the arsenal can't draw too many workers. In addition, with the 60mm mortar, unless it is a mortar with a larger caliber, there will be no production at all. necessary.

Before Liu Gen took out the 60mm mortar, the arsenal tried to produce a 50mm mortar. Of course, the devil's grenadier was used as the reference object, but after seeing the 60mm mortar Liu Gen took out After that, the arsenal focused on the production of 60mm mortars.

"Old Liu, you also know the situation in the arsenal. In order to produce 60mm mortars, we have transferred a lot of workers. I am afraid that we cannot spare too many people to invest in the production of new mortars." After a moment of silence, Director Cheng still Open your mouth and say.

Mr. Liu nodded, his expression didn't change much. He also worked in the arsenal on weekdays, so he naturally knew the situation of the arsenal.

"Xiao Cheng, I understand your concerns. Don't worry. This time, Genzi designed an 82mm mortar. Once it can be mass-produced, it will further supplement and improve the firepower of our army." Mr. Liu said with a smile.

Immediately, Director Cheng froze in place. He thought that Liu Gen had designed a new 60mm mortar again.After all, Liu Gen has previous experience in designing 60mm mortars, and it will undoubtedly be quite easy to redesign a 60mm mortar.He was quite surprised to hear from Mr. Liu that Liu Gen had designed an 82mm caliber mortar.

Designing a mortar is not so simple. It is easy to draw relevant drawings, but the difficulty lies in the relevant data. Without accurate data, the designed mortar is prone to various problems.

Liu Gen on the side watched the conversation between Mr. Liu and Director Cheng, but he didn't have too many thoughts. It was good to take out the 82mm caliber mortar. In the process of drawing it, he also completely absorbed it. required knowledge and skills.Now even if Liu Gen is asked to redesign an 82mm mortar, there is no problem.But even if Liu Gen could redesign an 82mm mortar, he would not do it.

After taking out the blueprint of the 82mm caliber mortar, Liu Gen did not intend to waste too much energy on this mortar, and all he had to do was hand it over to the relevant personnel of the arsenal. Liu Gen believed that with their technology, there will certainly not be any problems.Instead of focusing on the 82mm mortar, it is better to focus on gunpowder.

Due to the insufficient power of the gunpowder used in the arsenal, the reloaded bullets and grenades produced by the arsenal are not very powerful.In Liu Gen's view, what the arsenal needs most is to update its gunpowder technology instead of continuing to use the old-fashioned black powder.

It is also a helpless move for the arsenal to use old-fashioned black powder. The Eighth Route Army does not have many talents in gunpowder, and the base area does not have enough technical reserves to manufacture more powerful gunpowder.

Of course, according to Liu Gen's understanding, all departments of the Eighth Route Army have tried to improve gunpowder, and have achieved a lot of results.Among them, the Jinchaji Military Industry Department was able to produce sulfuric acid on a large scale in 40 years, and sulfuric acid is the basis for manufacturing advanced explosives!

In terms of gunpowder research, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Industry Department is undoubtedly at the forefront of the Eighth Route Army.

"Genzi, do you have any drawings with mortars? Let me see." Director Cheng looked at Liu Gen and asked expectantly.

Liu Gen shook his head. The blueprints were not with him. In order to ensure that there would be no problems with the blueprints, Mr. Liu put the blueprints by his side.

Seeing Liu Gen shaking his head, Director Cheng was a little disappointed. He really wanted to see how the 82mm caliber mortar Liu Gen designed!

"Xiao Cheng, I have the drawings here, you can take a look." Old Liu said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)