Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

The next morning the sun was just rising.

"Ah~~~ I'm bulging (fuck dish fuck)"

Zhao Tianyang opened the door while yawning, and was startled by the figure that suddenly appeared at the door.

"Master Li, Master Wang got up so early!"

Zhao Tianyang said unhappily.

"Hey, Director, we just arrived a while ago."

Li Mutou touched his head, feeling a little embarrassed. Actually, he didn't want to come so early. It was Wang the blacksmith who urged him so much that he didn't even have breakfast.

After they went back yesterday, they discussed it and decided that as long as they could successfully produce the propellant, they would definitely build a factory specifically for the production of propellant.

Maybe they will become the director and deputy director of the propellant factory in the future, so they are so active.

"Okay, have you eaten yet? If not, let's eat something together?"

Zhao Tianyang nodded and said nothing more. What else could he say when his employees were so active at work?

"Okay!"

Blacksmith Wang's eyes lit up and he agreed immediately. Although those employees who joined the arsenal later were also provided with three meals a day.

However, since they did not live in the arsenal, they had to have their morning meal at home. The arsenal subsidized these employees who did not eat breakfast with a pound of cornmeal.

Now that he can have a free breakfast, Wang the blacksmith, who has always been hungry, is very happy.

Hearing the blacksmith Wang's unthinking voice, Carpenter Li, who was about to say something, shut his mouth.

He felt that the factory director was not a stingy person and would not have a bad impression of them just because of breakfast.

There are two canteens in the arsenal, one on the mountain is responsible for providing meals to employees of the alcohol factory and sulfuric acid factory.

One was at the foot of the mountain, responsible for providing meals to the employees of the arsenal and paper mill.

They are all built with wooden boards and can shelter from wind and rain. When Zhao Tianyang and the other two arrived at the cafeteria, some people had already arrived to eat.

"Hello, director."

"Hello."

"Hello, director."

"it is good."

Following the employee's call, Zhao Tianyang brought the two to the cafeteria window, ordered three meals, and sat down to eat.

After dinner, Zhao Tianyang took the two of them back to the open space outside the arsenal. The employees who had worked with them yesterday were already waiting there.

It was obvious that they were also very enthusiastic, but they did not dare to wait at Zhao Tianyang's door like Wang the Blacksmith and Li Mutou.

"Now that everyone is here, let's move everything out of the warehouse!"

"okay."

Carpenter Li was very active and took the lead and walked towards the arsenal's warehouse.

After showing the note given by Zhao Tianyang, several people successfully moved out the materials and machines that had been stored in the warehouse yesterday.

"Okay, start gelling the nitrocellulose."

Seeing that everyone had moved the machines over, Zhao Tianyang threw away the remaining cigarette and started working.

Under the command of Zhao Tianyang, an employee put weak guncotton and alcohol into the gelatinizer in a certain proportion. Then Carpenter Li stepped forward and began to turn the handle diligently.

The blades in the gelatinizer begin to rotate, and during the rotation, the alcohol and weak guncotton fuse and begin to undergo chemical changes.

After a while, the weak guncotton turned into a dough-like substance, which is the gelled nitrocellulose.

Zhao Tianyang stretched out his hand and pressed it, feeling similar to pressing dough: "It's OK, take out the nitrocellulose and put it into the tablet press to make tablets."

"Yes."

Blacksmith Wang, who had just failed to snatch the thing from Carpenter Li, stepped forward immediately and quickly took out the nitrocellulose, which made Carpenter Li, who was caught off guard, feel very regretful.

Wang the blacksmith quickly got the nitrocellulose, put it on the tablet press, and then turned the handle. The nitrocellulose was pressed into sheets by a smooth wooden stick.

Carpenter Li on the side seized the opportunity and without Zhao Tianyang's instructions, he quickly picked up the dough-like nitrocellulose and put it into the noodle cutter.

As the handle turns, the densely packed fine blades on the noodle cutter cut the nitrocellulose into noodles.

The last employee came forward, picked up the noodles, put them on the knife, and carefully cut them into small cubes.

So far, these small cubes can be considered basically qualified propellants.

Now you just need to put them into the wooden drum, rock them repeatedly with graphite powder, and let the graphite powder fill the small pinholes and some tiny cracks on the nitrocellulose. Then the qualified smokeless propellant will be successfully produced.

"Director, Director, we succeeded!"

"Boss, I succeeded!!"

Li Tie ran over with a shiny spring in his hand.

"Shit, Master Li, what's wrong with you?"

Zhao Tianyang was a little surprised when he saw Li Tie, who was covered in dust and had an untidy beard.

"It's not because of you!"

Li Tie had a resentful expression, like an abandoned woman.

Zhao Tianyang gave him a task to make a spring. He was very enthusiastic in following his experiment a few days ago, but he stopped coming after a few days.

Under Li Yunlong's urging, he had no choice but to rely on himself and experiment day and night to find the optimal ratio of spring steel.

That means you have a home but cannot return, you cannot eat or sleep well, you get up earlier than the chickens and sleep later than the dogs.

Zhao Tianyang was a little embarrassed when he saw this, and quickly took the spring from Li Tie's hand and took a look: "It looks fine, have you tested it?"

"We've tested it. It can withstand three hundred impacts under extreme pressure without deforming or breaking. As for the data after three hundred times, we haven't tested it yet."

Although Zhao Tianyang's method of diverting attention was very awkward, Li Tie still introduced it in an excited tone.

He figured this out through his own experiments. Who else in the entire arsenal could compare to him except the factory director?

"Well, great, let's assemble it and give it a try."

The method Zhao Tianyang taught Li Tie to test the spring was to dig a big hole, cross three three-meter-long wooden sticks on both sides, and then place a set of pulleys at the intersection of the wooden sticks.

Use a thick rope, pass it through the pulley and tie a large iron block weighing three hundred pounds to one end. Use manpower to pull the large iron block to a high point, and then release the rope. The large iron block will fall down at a high speed and hit the spring.

This method can not only test springs, but also forge red-hot rails and make gun barrels.

Afterwards, Zhao Tianyang instructed Li Mutou and others to continue making propellant, and then followed Li Tie to the arsenal.

Artillery recoil mechanisms are divided into the more difficult hydraulic type and the simpler pneumatic type. The difference is that one carries hydraulic oil and the other does not.

What Zhao Tianyang is going to make is pneumatic.

Because the recoil mechanism lacked a spring, Li Tie quickly installed the pneumatic recoil mechanism on the cannon that had been manufactured long ago.

"Director, are you going to start the experiment now?"

Looking at the seemingly simple cannon in front of him, Li Tie swallowed and asked nervously.

"this.........."

Zhao Tianyang was very tempted, but when he thought of Li Yunlong's instructions before he left, Zhao Tianyang shook his head.

"Let's wait a while. Old Li specifically instructed us to wait for him to come back before we start the experiment!"

"Ok."

Li Tie thought of Li Yunlong who had been urging him these days and shrank his neck.