Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

"With this last part installed, the large stamping machine is ready!"

Inside the arsenal, Shen Hong held up a cast iron part and spoke to Zhao Tianyang.

"Great."

Zhao Tianyang said excitedly that with the stamping press, the light and heavy machine guns that they had been waiting for for a long time could finally be manufactured.

"I have prepared all the materials for making light and heavy machine guns. Just go and get them from Comrade Li Tie."

"Section Chief, workers, the ore has been delivered!"

As soon as Zhao Tianyang finished speaking, a worker ran over excitedly.

"Three joys are coming to my door!"

Zhao Tianyang waved his hand happily: "Let's go and take a look!"

Soon the two arrived at Weng'erlang, which was already full of young men with crew cuts.

Li Yuncai was holding a notebook, constantly recording these people's ages, places of origin, skills and other information.

There are also carts nearby, which are constantly unloading various ores.

Liu Ransheng also held a notebook, recording the types and weights of the ore.

"How is it? I didn't lie to you!"

At this time, the deputy director of the Political Department came to Zhao Tianyang with a smile.

"No lie, no lie!"

Zhao Tianyang raised his thumbs up: "I knew long ago that the chief is trustworthy. He is as trustworthy as a spit!"

"Haha...ok, I won't play tricks on you anymore!"

The deputy director of the political department smiled and said, "Let's get down to business. This time, in addition to sending you people and minerals, I also came to place an order for you!"

"Order?"

Zhao Tianyang was a little confused. Aren’t all the weapons produced in their arsenal now sent directly to the headquarters?

"That's right!"

The deputy director of the Political Department affirmed: "We need the arsenal to produce first, thirteen 20-horsepower tractors."

"Ten thousand Taihang Type 2 rifles, three thousand shotguns, and ten Taihang Type 70 cannons."

"Thirty Taihang 60 mortars and three hundred Dinglong grenade launchers."

"Four hundred short-range radios and one hundred spark transmitters, two delta-wing gliders, and the corresponding ammunition."

(Short-range radio is the original radio that was invented with a range of only a few kilometers.)

“Do you have to pay for all this?”

Zhao Tianyang asked tentatively.

"That's right, this time we're paying for the goods."

The deputy director of the Political Department took out two order forms and said, "In fact, these weapons were ordered by the Northwest Shanxi Anti-Japanese Base Area and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Anti-Japanese Democratic Base Area!"

"Is that so?"

Zhao Tianyang took the order form and looked at it, then he understood what was going on.

Generally speaking, the weapons produced by the arsenal are limited in quantity and are generally distributed by the headquarters based on the circumstances of each military region.

But the Eighth Route Army had so many people, each unit was short of weapons, and everyone was crying poor, which put the headquarters in a very difficult position.

We all have flesh and blood, so we can only try to be fair. You have a rifle and he has a grenade.

But what if your troops really need weapons?

Either you set up your own arsenal to produce it, or you buy it with money.

You spend your own money to buy weapons at the headquarters, so other troops can't gossip about it!

It just so happened that the Northwest Shanxi Anti-Japanese Base Area and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Anti-Japanese Democratic Base Area were both on the front line.

Due to frequent contacts with the Japanese, the scale of the arsenal naturally could not expand.

As soon as they heard that the Huangyadong Arsenal had started producing weapons, they immediately raised a batch of donations to buy weapons.

"Okay, I'll adjust the production plan as soon as possible and try to produce them within three weeks."

Zhao Tianyang collected the order form and said, "By the way, after these weapons are produced, should they be sent to the headquarters or..."

"Just send it to headquarters, don't worry about the rest!"

The deputy director of the Political Department replied.

After explaining some more things, the deputy director of the political department got on the donkey cart and prepared to return to the headquarters.

…………

In the evening, Zhao Tianyang took out half of the food stock and the game he had hunted during this period and held a grand welcoming banquet.

To welcome these newly arrived workers.

"Everyone eat well and drink well!"

After a brief speech, the welcoming banquet began.

"Eat!"

"Everyone please don't be polite!"

In the lively atmosphere, Zhao Tianyang, who was sitting in the first seat, asked Li Yuncai and Liu Ransheng beside him.

"Have you counted the ore and the new workers?"

"The statistics are ready."

Li Yuncai began to speak: "This time the leader sent us 500 workers, most of whom are literate, and some of them can do blacksmithing and carpentry work."

"Before the commander left, he also said that he would send a total of 1,000 people over in three batches, so we should be ready to receive them!"

"Ok!"

Zhao Tianyang nodded slightly and looked at Liu Ransheng beside him.

"We have only counted a portion of them at the moment, but we estimate based on the carts parked outside."

"There are about three tons of copper ore, one ton of iron ore, two tons of coal ore, and one ton of sulfur ore."

Liu Ransheng paused for a moment and continued, "Before I left, the leader also said that he would send us various minerals every month, so we can use them boldly!"

"Great!"

Zhao Tianyang couldn't help but pound the table. Now that all the manpower and resources were available, the arsenal could operate at full capacity and no longer had to be restricted.

"Everyone eat and drink well today. Tomorrow morning, come to the school in Xiaopandi for a meeting to rearrange the production tasks!"

Zhao Tianyang held up the sweet potato soup and preached to Liu Ding and others.

"It seems that today is the last day of peace and tranquility!"

Liu Guifu drank a mouthful of sweet potato soup, wiped his mouth, and complained: "Section Chief, after today, you still expect us to work hard, why don't you even let us drink a sip of wine?"

"drink wine?"

Zhao Tianyang put down his chopsticks in annoyance: "Don't you see how many people there are in the Arsenal now? If one person drinks a sip, the Arsenal will go bankrupt!"

"Besides, didn't I prepare sweet potato soup for you? It's very sweet, drink more!"

"No matter how sweet it is, it's not as good as wine!"

After complaining, Liu Guifu stood up, scooped up a large bowl of sweet potato soup, and drank it in one big gulp.

The next day, Zhao Tianyang asked Li Yuncai and Liu Ransheng to take the new workers to count the ore.

He brought Liu Ding, Shen Hong and others to the school for a meeting.

"I won't waste any more time talking nonsense. You saw it yesterday. We have enough manpower and ore."

"From now on, our factory will have to switch to a two-shift mode. When you go back, you must do a good job of educating the workers and don't complain!"

At the podium, Zhao Tianyang went straight to the point.

"Don't worry about that!"

Liu Ding said confidently: "The workers in our arsenal are very positive in their thinking. They all understand that the weapons we produce will be sent to fight the Japanese."

"If we had not had so few resources before, we would have started two shifts a long time ago."

"That's right. Now the news of the Japanese invaders harming the people in various places has also reached us."

"It seems that they wish they could stay in the factory 24 hours a day to produce weapons so that they can defeat the Japanese as soon as possible!"

Shen Hong echoed.

"Ah."

Zhao Tianyang nodded, and did not ask how those things were delivered to the arsenal. He directly told everyone the order form that the deputy director of the political department gave him yesterday.

"I promised the chief that I would show him these weapons within three weeks. I hope you won't let me and the party down!"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

Everyone stood up and saluted.

"Very well, let's dismiss the meeting."