I am an artillery soldier

Chapter 374
Since getting the permission of Chief Engineer Qi, Liu Gen has directly lived in the lathe department, studying the lathe department's machine tools day and night.

There are not many people living in the lathe department, there are less than ten people in total, but the skills of these people belong to the top group in the lathe department.On weekdays, if there is any problem with the machine tool in the lathe department, these people will go to repair it to ensure that the machine tool can run uninterrupted.

Liu Gen, who stayed in the arsenal, didn't know much about the frontline battles. He knew that even if he knew about the frontline battles, it wouldn't be of any use.With such time, it is better to reload some more bullets, or find a way to modify the machine tools of the lathe department, and strive to improve the working efficiency of the machine tools again.

In order to ensure the ammunition attack of the front-line soldiers, the experts and workers in the arsenal are extremely busy. The arsenal has no mandatory orders, and even said that everyone should rest as much as possible.But unfortunately, no one chooses to take more rest. Everyone is trying to compress their rest time as much as possible to ensure that they can produce as many weapons and ammunition as possible to support the frontline battles.

In such a tense working state in the arsenal, more than a dozen workers fell ill directly due to exhaustion.At the same time, due to lack of sleep, the soldiers in charge of preparing gunpowder in the arsenal exploded during the preparation of gunpowder, and two workers in charge of preparing gunpowder were injured.

After a problem occurred in the gunpowder department, the director of the arsenal, Cheng, decisively issued an order, ordering everyone in the arsenal to have enough rest time, at least six to eight hours of sleep a day before returning to work and continuing to work.

However, even with Director Cheng's order, there were still some people in the arsenal who did not follow the order, including Director Cheng himself.There is no way, the arsenal has a lot of things that need to be handled by Director Cheng every day, and with the technology that Director Cheng has mastered, some things require him to do it himself.

Liu Gen, Chief Engineer Qi and the others did not obey such orders. The battle on the front line was so tense, and everyone wanted to produce as much ammunition as possible, so that the soldiers on the front line could get some supplements.

At work, Liu Gen also learned something about the front line from Foreman Qi.

On the front line, the devils mainly focused on the Yuliao Highway, which increased the defensive strength of the surrounding areas. At the same time, the devils repeatedly raided the direction south of the Yuliao Highway. Fight back in the form of guerrilla warfare, constantly killing and wounding the devil's vital forces.

The harassment of the soldiers and civilians in the base area made the spirits of the mopping-up Devil troops tense, and they did not dare to sleep too much at night, fearing that they would be attacked by the Eighth Route Army troops.This time, the devil's raid did not last too long. In less than ten days, the devil's troops had to withdraw to their stronghold, and dozens of people were killed or injured.

The devils in the direction of the Yuliao Highway have just stopped, the part of the 37th Division of the Devils in the direction of Qinxian and Nanguan Town, the part of the 16th Independent Brigade in the direction of Pingyao, Jiexiu, and Huo County, and the 41st Part of the Devils in the direction of Hongdong The first part of the [-]st Division launched a mopping up of the anti-Japanese base area again by splitting the route and counting Qinyuan and the Guodao Town area to the north.

This time, the devil's troops in three directions had a total of more than [-] people, and their combat effectiveness was not weak.

In order to deal with the mopping up of the devils, the frontline troops urgently need enough ammunition supplies. Only in this way can they have the power to fight against the devils.At the same time, the front-line troops began to transfer the masses to prevent the masses from suffering too much loss under the sweep of the devils.

It's a pity that the devil's action was very fast this time. Before the people in the surrounding area of ​​Qinyuan had evacuated, the devil's troops arrived directly.The frontline troops took the initiative to attack the devils to buy time for the transfer of the people in the surrounding areas of Qinyuan. However, the devils' offensive was too fierce, and the devils had fighters to cooperate with the attack, so the troops on the front line could not hold on for too long.

In the end, all the troops on the front line could only be broken into pieces, and fought against the mopping up devils through sparrow warfare, guerrilla warfare, mine warfare and other methods.Unable to resist the devil's sweeping troops head-on, the troops of the Eighth Route Army can only fight in this way, and this is also the fighting method that the Eighth Route Army is best at.

As the troops of the Eighth Route Army on the front line were disintegrated into pieces, they continued to harass and kill the devils, and the results were very good.

In order to destroy the anti-Japanese base areas and retaliate against the Eighth Route Army, the mopping-up devil troops wreak havoc on the Qinyuan area and carried out the Jinniu War.Among them, Qinyuan County suffered the most damage. Here, the devils brutally killed more than [-] people, accounting for one-tenth of the population of Qinyuan County. Nearly [-] livestock were killed and robbed. There are more than [-] heads walking!At the same time, the devils also burned a large number of houses. The crimes committed by the devils against Qinyuan County are too numerous to write down!
When the crimes committed by the devils in Qinyuan County were reported back to the arsenal, everyone was extremely angry.Needless to say, everyone's heart was full of energy. They couldn't kill the devils directly in the rear. They could only produce weapons and ammunition early and send them to the frontline soldiers.

At that time, the devils killed by the soldiers will also have a part of them.

Stimulated by the battle on the front line, everyone in the arsenal became more active in their work, and the orders announced by the former factory manager no longer had any effect.In the arsenal, unless everyone's body is really unable to survive, otherwise everyone will not leave their jobs easily.

The same is true for the workers, and the same is true for the experts. Everyone unites and uses all their strength to produce as much ammunition as possible without wasting a minute or a second.

Thanks to the rails removed from the Devils Railway in the previous battle, the arsenal has no shortage of steel for the time being. Otherwise, according to the active working attitude of the workers in the arsenal, it may be easy to embarrass the embarrassment of insufficient raw materials.

In the turning department, Liu Gen, like the workers, has always stuck to his job.Relying on his young age, Liu Gen often stayed up all night in order to find out the most suitable modification method for dozens of machine tools.Dozens of machine tools need to be remodeled. This is a large project. For the remodeling of machine tools, Liu Gen needs to consider the specific conditions of each machine tool.

For this reason, Liu Genyou carefully observed the machine tools of the lathe department, and even said that he personally operated them for a certain period of time, in order to understand these machine tools as much as possible.Retrofitting machine tools is difficult to say, but easy to say, it is actually very easy.

If Liu Gen just wanted to modify the machine tools of the lathe department at will, then it would not take much time at all, but with Liu Gen's intentions, naturally he would not want a simple modification.

Since Chief Qi entrusted him with the task of transforming the machine tool, Liu Gen wanted to do his best to do his best, otherwise, he would have failed Chief Qi's trust in him.For this reason, Liu Gen lived and ate next to the lathe, and became a strange person in the eyes of many workers!

(End of this chapter)