War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 352: Rifle Grenade

On February 1934, 2, New Year's Eve, the entire Dagu Shipyard was decorated with lights and big red lanterns hung all over the walls.

Wang Tianhao held a pen and ink and wrote many couplets to show off and posted them everywhere. However, on this festive day, Dagu Shipyard suddenly issued a ban on "no fireworks and firecrackers", which made people more or less unhappy.

This ban was not issued by Xu Chaoyang, but by Mr. Xiong, because the kids under his command were bored at the militarized Dagu Shipyard, and as the Spring Festival is approaching, they were in a playful mood and were ready to tinker with things!

Yang Jingyu, who was in charge of the affairs of Dagu Shipyard on weekdays, sat in Xu Chaoyang's office and said with a cigarette between his legs, "Chaoyang, you don't know how capable these little bastards are of making trouble. You asked them to research guns, but they didn't succeed, didn't they?"

"They used the remaining steel pipes to develop tools specifically for setting off fireworks, and also used our remaining gunpowder to make all kinds of fireworks. I've seen that thing. It lights a little here, and then there's a bang there, just like a musket, and it explodes the fireworks directly into the sky."

"This bunch of bastards, they procrastinate when it comes to serious work, and when it comes to playing, there's no cure."

Xu Chaoyang was still laughing at first. His original plan was to let his soldiers, researchers, and the 217th Regiment reserve, that is, the factory workers, have fun during the New Year without any restrictions. This time it worked. If the whole yard was full of fireworks, wouldn't they have to light them for the Dagu Shipyard?

But the smile gradually froze on Xu Chaoyang's face!

He seemed to hear something.

"Old Yang, can you say that again?"

"A fireworks gun is made of a thicker steel pipe, with a diameter about the same as a grenade launcher, and an iron rod welded to the back... Chaoyang, what do you mean?"

Xu Chaoyang suddenly thought of a weapon. This thing only appeared on the Anti-Japanese battlefield in the late period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. It even appeared on the United States, Germany, and the Soviet Union during World War II, but it did not become famous. But in terms of combat convenience, this thing is indeed much more convenient than a grenade launcher.

"Draw a blueprint for that thing and send it to Peking University. Let them study it together with the firearms. It would be best if this thing can make the firearms fire."

"Chaoyang, I still don't quite understand."

Xu Chaoyang explained: "Japanese grenades, remember?"

"Yeah." How could Yang Jingyu forget it?
"That thing can be fired by inserting it into a grenade launcher. It's very convenient. But this thing I'm talking about doesn't even require a grenade launcher. It can be fired directly with a gun. It's called a rifle grenade!"

This thing is extremely convenient and has a very short range. Whether in street fighting or on defensive positions, the effect it produces is unparalleled when the Japanese are close, out of reach of grenades, and out of reach of grenade launchers.

The most important thing is that the research and development cost of this thing is extremely low!

"Chaoyang, what's wrong with your brain? How come you can think of the battlefield for everything?"

You Kuier smiled bitterly on the side. He was completely convinced by Xu Chaoyang!
Since You Kui arrived at the 217th Regiment, he found that everything in his world seemed to have changed. Chang Zhan was in charge of training, and he could complete any training plan Xu Chaoyang arranged. Just like when Dagu Shipyard developed the "smoke bomb" a few days ago, Chang Zhan dug out a bunch of gas masks from nowhere and developed the "smoke special forces" based on Xu Chaoyang's "close combat tactics". This team did nothing but kill people in the smoke through "tactical coordination", and the hardship of their training was needless to say.

Later, Dagu Shipyard developed the "gasoline bomb". After it was fired, the whole mountain and field were filled with flames. Under the instruction of Xu Chaoyang, Chang Zhan also developed the "gasoline bomb" machine gun firing range, which could make the battlefield covered by flames instantly covered with bullets!

Of course, the "petrol bomb launcher" manufactured by Dagu Shipyard was far less powerful than the US military's air-dropped petrol bombs. In that icy and snowy land, they could air-drop petrol bombs to kill our soldiers when their troops were 30 meters away from ours, but Xu Chaoyang's troops could not do that. In the absence of accuracy, the only thing they could do was to use machine guns to fill the gaps between the flames after the petrol bombs started to burn. When the entire army added the "yellow explosive" blasting team, the training plan changed again, and it became a "blasting team" assault tactic under the cover of machine gun fire.

You don’t know what Xu Chaoyang is going to do. Anyway, the soldiers of the 217th Regiment are having a lot of trouble after receiving new equipment one by one.

But these people didn't have any complaints!

why?
Because Xu Chaoyang was really willing to spend a lot of money on this group of soldiers, the meat consumption of each regiment of the 217th Regiment was five pigs every seven days!
Nowadays, you eat fine grains and have meat in your dishes, so what are you complaining about? Let alone being a real soldier, even if it is to go up the mountain and become a bandit, there are many people who are willing to do it if there is no shortage of money and money in the bowl, right?
That’s five pigs every seven days!
In other words, every single person at Dagu Shipyard can get at least half a pound of training every week. What's wrong with adding a little more training?
"Brother-in-law, please check the accounts."

Yuan Keqin also rushed over on the New Year's Day. At this time, Yuan Keqin's dress had changed. He wore a fur-collared windbreaker, an otter hat, a small suit underneath, and shiny black leather shoes. Now, except for those Yuan family members who worked in the thermal power plant and Jingxing Coal Mine, all followed him. He was the supplier of nitroglycerin for the entire Pingjin area.

"Brother-in-law, we have made a lot of money from nitroglycerin over the past year. We have earned more than 100,000 yuan from major hospitals alone. With sales of tens of thousands of yuan every month..."

After hearing this, Xu Chaoyang was a little confused: "How come with tens of thousands of sales per month, you only make a few hundred thousand a year?"

Yuan Keqin smiled and looked back at everyone: "Brother-in-law, we are not robbing, there are costs involved. If we want our nitroglycerin to enter major hospitals, we have to share the profits with them. Isn't this all we have left? But it's not a small amount."

Xu Chaoyang is no longer short of food. With the support of the Peking Military Branch and the 29th Army, the more than people under his command finally have a stable source of food. They are also not short of meat and vegetables. The people in the Pingjin area raise pigs and now no longer send them to the slaughterhouse. Instead, they send all of them to the Dagu Shipyard first. The cabbages, radishes, and potatoes stored at home for the winter are also supplied to the Dagu Shipyard first. This is not because Xu Chaoyang gave extra money, but because the Dagu Shipyard has abundant cash flow and never owes any debts!
Ordinary people come here for this because they never owe any debts!

With this calculation, the money from the rubber ordered by Dagu Shipyard in the concession was almost entirely made by Yuan Keqin through the sale of nitroglycerin. The perilla oil was produced by themselves, and except for the labor, water and electricity costs, the gasoline bombs were almost free.

Xu Chaoyang said with a flourish: "You have done a good job. Tell my family that we will have to work hard for the first year of this year. I will get 10,000 yuan from the accountant later and share it with my family so that every family can have a good New Year."

"Hey! Hey!"

Yuan Keqin was so happy that he took the note from Xu Chaoyang, left the account book and turned away.

Yang Jingyu looked at Xu Chaoyang and said casually, "Look at Yuan Keqin's clothes. Who knows how much he has embezzled from his account. Why are you giving him money?"

Xu Chaoyang smiled at Yang Jingyu: "Do you think I don't know that he was corrupt? But the little money he corrupted was at most kickbacks. He didn't dare to tamper with the account. But do you know how much trouble this saves us? We don't have to go to the officials of the major hospitals to eat and drink in person, and see the faces of these bureaucrats; we don't have to worry about the time it takes for the money to be returned to the account. Isn't this good enough?"

"How can money be wasted?"

Yang Jingyu was not very happy, and still was not very happy: "But won't the extra money still fall on the heads of ordinary people who need to see a doctor and buy medicine?"

"Now we are facing a powerful enemy, Lao Yang, if I focus all my energy on this, what will happen to the research and development of equipment and the training of troops?"

Xu Chaoyang finally understood the meaning of this sentence and said it naturally: "Let the people suffer first."

At that moment, Yang Jingyu was suddenly stunned and looked at Xu Chaoyang. After Xu Chaoyang said this, he was also stunned. How much did he despise this sentence at the beginning?

(End of this chapter)