Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

"Minister, you are amazing. This bulletproof glass has been bothering us for two months!"

Lin Hua looked at Zhao Tianyang with admiration.

"Okay."

Zhao Tianyang looked at the technicians who were trying to produce bomb-proof glass and asked Lin Hua.

"Come to think of it, I haven't visited the glass factory for a long time. What products can the glass factory produce now?"

"The products we can currently produce, in addition to ordinary glass, are various lampshades."

"There are also windshields for airplanes and cars, resin hoods for fighter planes, and gun mirrors for various cannons."

"And of course the nearest tank factory, look for the periscopes we produce."

Lin Hua explained everything in detail.

"Ah."

Zhao Tianyang thought for a moment and ordered, "Let's find a way to produce some telescopes! The telescopes our army uses now are still captured and purchased from abroad."

"Row."

Lin Hua agreed without hesitation. With experience in producing artillery telescopes, he felt that it should not be difficult to produce his own telescope.

"Minister, Getkow has built a helicopter."

Only then did Li Yun walk into the laboratory and whispered to Zhao Tianyang.

"Prepare a vehicle for me!"

Zhao Tianyang replied and looked at Lin Hua: "I have something to do, so I'll leave first. If you have anything, you can contact me!"

"it is good."

Three hours later, at the First Aircraft Factory, the Little Bird helicopter was brought in. "Minister, please take a look. This is the helicopter that was produced based on the drawings you gave me!"

At the airport, Getkov pointed to the helicopter in front of him that was painted black with a red star on it.

"Maximum flight speed: 281 kilometers per hour."

"Cruise time: 420 kilometers."

"Weight: 700 kilograms."

"Maximum take-off weight: 1.6 tons."

"The engine used is a newly manufactured turboshaft engine that can generate a powerful power of 650 horsepower and drive the six-blade main rotor and the four-blade tail rotor at the same time."

"The bubble cockpit at the front can accommodate two crew members, and there are passenger seats on both sides of the fuselage that can accommodate six soldiers."

"As for the weapon system, it can be freely deployed, whether it is equipped with a 20mm cannon or the Gatling gun that is being developed."

"Study it and see if you can put the rocket launcher on it."

Zhao Tianyang interrupted and said, how can a helicopter be without rockets!

"Row."

Getkov nodded: "It shouldn't be difficult, I can give it a try!"

"Let's finalize the helicopter!"

Zhao Tianyang looked at the helicopter in front of him and said, "It's called the Taihang Type 1 Light Helicopter."

"Let's make the helicopter first, and we can take our time with the weapons."

After leaving the First Aircraft Factory, Zhao Tianyang went to the light weapons research and development factory, preparing to work with Liu Guifu to develop a Gatling gun for helicopters.

Soon enough, a week passed.

Taiyuan, inside the First Army Headquarters.

"Reporting to Commander Shinozuka, after a week of fighting, we have managed to retreat from northwest Shanxi except for one cavalry brigade, which successfully withdrew due to its mobility."

"The rest of the troops were almost wiped out."

Hideyoshi Kusuyama held a telegram and spoke to Commander Shinozuka with a heavy heart.

"Does this mean that northwest Shanxi has lost control and has been occupied by the Eighth Route Army?"

Commander Shinozuka asked calmly while looking at the map.

"Yes."

Hideyoshi Kusunoki pointed to several counties on the map and asked in confusion.

"But what's strange is that the Eighth Route Army clearly had the ability to capture several counties bordering northwestern Shanxi and Taiyuan, but they didn't do so."

"They seem to regard those counties as a buffer zone between them and us."

"What a shame!"

Commander Shinozuka looked at Kusunoyama Hideyoshi and said, "My headquarters is almost like a front line after all this fighting."

"So we need to move the headquarters?"

Kusunoshi Hideyoshi asked tentatively.

"Need not."

Commander Shinozuka waved his hand: "Since they took the initiative to leave a buffer zone, it means they are not ready for a decisive battle with us."

"But we can't just sit there and wait for death. Prepare a plane for me. I want to go back to the base camp in person and persuade them to transfer troops to Shanxi."

"Is this... possible?"

Hideyoshi Kusuyama was very pessimistic about Commander Shinozuka's move to the base camp.

If the headquarters wanted to curb the situation in Shanxi, it should have taken action long ago, instead of waiting until now.

"Do your best and obey fate!"

..............

Maguan stronghold.

"After we take this place, this great battle will almost be over."

Li Yunlong stood in front of the stronghold emitting black smoke and said to Xing Zhiguo standing beside him.

"Well, the brigade has called and asked us to stay behind to guard the captured counties and towns and wait for the political officer sent by the headquarters."

Xing Zhiguo nodded and responded.

"I'm not interested in those!"

Li Yunlong waved his hand and mounted his horse: "Let's go and see how Lao Zhao is doing with the prisoners' thoughts!"

Dagu Town, all the prisoners captured by the New 1st Regiment were sent here.

At this time, Zhao Gang was talking to a company commander of the Imperial Army and asked, "As a Chinese, the Japanese came to China to burn, kill and loot. Don't you hate them?"

“Who doesn’t hate the Japs?”

The company commander of the Imperial Army smiled bitterly and said, "Who doesn't understand fighting against Japan and saving the nation?"

"What grudge do I have against my fellow villagers?"

"But I can't stand the hard work of being a farmer, and I can't stand the hardship of being an Eighth Route Army soldier. People like me can only be traitors."

"Haha, okay."

Zhao Gang patted the Imperial Army company commander's shoulder in a friendly manner: "You go down first!"

After the Imperial Army was taken away, Zhao Gang wrote in his notebook: "I don't have my own ideas. I will support whoever wins."

What he is doing now is to distinguish the types of prisoners and then carry out targeted transformation.

As for those who really could not be reformed and were lazy and greedy, they were simply released in the past to fend for themselves.

Now, send it to the Ministry of Industry, they need people to open mountains and mine!

"Old Zhao, Old Zhao!"

Li Yunlong came into the room excitedly and asked Zhao Gang, who was writing a reform plan, "How about it? How many more people can our group add this time?"

"Haha, I just finished interrogating the prisoners. Most of them still have hope of reformation."

Zhao Gang smiled faintly and said, "As for how many people can stay, I'm not sure, but there should be about five or six hundred people!"

"Five or six hundred people!"

Li Yunlong clapped his hands excitedly: "Great, with these people, we can recruit more and our new regiment will almost be able to break the 10,000-person mark."