Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

Two days later, in Taihang Mountains, next to a hidden mountain village, Li Yunlong was taking Zhao Tianyang to observe the terrain.

"How is it here? The terrain is much lower than other places, and there are mountains all around. If there is any danger, just hide in the mountains and it will be over."

Originally, Li Yunlong wanted to move the arsenal to the village's ancestral hall. On the one hand, it would be convenient, and on the other hand, it would also make it easier for him to protect it.

But Zhao Tianyang strongly opposed it. You know, the arsenal is used to manufacture explosives such as gunpowder. If there is any negligence, the whole village will be in trouble. To be on the safe side, it is better to stay away from the village.

Li Yunlong had no choice but to accompany Zhao Tianyang and wander around the mountain looking for a suitable place.

"Although there is no water source, we can just find a place to dig a well in the back, let's do it here."

As an arsenal, having no water source is a very troublesome thing, but the current conditions leave him no choice but to do it.

He was also not sure how long Li Yunlong and the others could stay here.

"Great! I'll get someone here to level the ground and build a factory right away."

Li Yunlong was overjoyed, he finally got it done.

"Okay, but are you sure we can stay here for a long time? We have to move right after the factory is built."

"Don't worry, we can stay here for at least three months."

Li Yunlong waved his hand nonchalantly.

According to his guess, the Japanese army still had a long way to go if they wanted to occupy all of Shanxi, and his regiment had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Xinkou and was being ordered to rest, so there would be no combat missions in the short term.

"Huzi, go get Zhang Dabiao and his battalion over here."

"Yes."

Guard Hu Zi saluted, turned around and ran towards the village.

Seeing Li Yunlong so confident, Zhao Tianyang did not object. He picked up a wooden stick, squatted down, and began to plan how to build the factory.

Soon Zhang Dabiao came over with more than a hundred soldiers.

"What do you want me to do, Commander? I still have to train soldiers. Many recruits can't even tell left from right."

As soon as he got there, Zhang Dabiao started complaining.

Li Yunlong squinted at Zhang Dabiao and said, "You don't want to come? Fine. After the arsenal is built, I can only let the people from the second and third battalions take the weapons produced first."

"What? Arsenal! Commander, stop joking."

Zhang Dabiao was completely stunned. How could they build an arsenal with their conditions?

"Are you kidding? Did you see that guy?"

Li Yunlong pointed at Zhao Tianyang who was squatting not far away and writing and drawing.

"I saw it. Isn't that the college student you brought back? You even ordered us not to disturb him. You treated him like a treasure."

"That's not an ordinary college student. He's from an engineering school, studying weapon manufacturing. Are you afraid that the arsenal won't open if you have him?"

Li Yunlong said proudly.

"Really!"

Zhang Dabiao immediately became excited. He was no fool and immediately made a promise to Li Yunlong.

"Don't worry, Commander. We will leave the factory matters to our First Battalion. We will ensure that the mission is accomplished."

"Okay, do it well later."

As he said that, Li Yunlong brought Zhang Dabiao to Zhao Tianyang.

"Brother Tianyang, are you okay? I have found the people for you."

"Okay, since the conditions are so simple, let's build two large factories first, one for production and one for warehouse."

Zhao Tianyang dropped the wooden stick in his hand and pointed at the pattern drawn on the ground.

"It looks simple, tell me how to do it!"

Looking at the drawings of two flat-bed houses on the ground, Li Yunlong said simply.

Although he had never seen what a professional weapons factory looked like, the weapons they made in the border area were manufactured in the houses of ordinary people. Now they had built two factories specifically for this purpose, which seemed very professional to him.

"I looked around and there's no clay suitable for making bricks, so I'll just use wood this time. I wonder if anyone among you knows how to be a carpenter?"

Although there are some safety risks in building a factory with wood, Zhao Tianyang has no other choice now.

After all, Li Yunlong’s New 1st Regiment had just opened not long ago, and had just experienced the Battle of Xinkou. It was a time when it had no money and no people, so he had to make do with it for now.

"A carpenter is easy. We can just go to the village and find one later."

Li Yunlong thought for a while and said.

In today's rural areas, there are usually one or two people who can do carpentry work.

"Then let's get started right away."

Soon Li Yunlong first arranged for his guard Hu Zi to go to the village to find a carpenter, and then he personally took Zhang Dabiao and others to go up the mountain to cut wood.

As for the logging tools, they already had them. Because of years of guerrilla warfare, Li Yunlong always had logging tools on hand.

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

"Brother Tianyang, just stay at the side and give orders. Don't get too tired."

Huge trees on the mountain were cut down and placed on the ground. Zhao Tianyang took an axe and cut off the branches of the trees with sweat on his forehead. Li Yunlong, who was carrying a tree nearby, saw this and hurriedly persuaded him.

"Yes, Brother Tianyang, you still have to help us make weapons. What will happen if you get exhausted?"

Zhang Dabiao on the side also agreed, he also wanted to use the new weapons to fight the Japanese!

"It's okay. I'm not that delicate. More people will help. If the work is finished earlier, I can start work earlier."

Zhao Tianyang wiped the sweat from his head. You know what, this job is more tiring than he had imagined.

Seeing Zhao Tianyang's insistence, Li Yunlong nodded and stopped persuading him. Instead, he looked at the soldiers around him who were cutting and carrying trees, and shouted loudly.

"Everyone, without further ado, can we defeat Brother Tianyang?"

"No."

The soldiers had already noticed this college student who was sweating profusely but still working hard, and they were extremely excited at the moment.

He is a college student and he is not afraid of hardship. How can we, the soldiers, be compared to him?

For a moment, everyone's work efficiency increased a lot.

Li Yunlong smiled when he saw this, and then he raised his breath and cursed: "Damn Zhang Dabiao, you didn't eat! Use more force!"

"oh oh."

Zhang Dabiao quickly increased his strength and worked together with Li Yunlong to carry a 200-jin piece of wood down the mountain.

three days later.

With unity, we can move mountains. With the efforts of all the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the New 1st Regiment, two factories similar to the prefabricated houses of later generations appeared on the edge of this nameless mountain village.

"Finally finished."

After hammering in the last wooden nail, the invited carpenter wiped the sweat from his head and sighed.

"Hahaha, thank you, Lao Liu."

Li Yunlong smiled and handed over a dollar.

"Oh, no, no, if I work for the Eighth Route Army and get paid, I'll be scolded to death by the villagers."

The carpenter quickly waved his hand to refuse.

Although the New 1st Regiment has only been stationed in this small mountain village for a few days, it has already won the hearts of the people.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers helped the villagers repair their houses, take care of orphans and widows, chop wood and carry water, and help everyone reclaim the land.

He helped everyone he could and even dealt with a bully in the village. He was the benefactor of the entire Xiaowang Village, so he didn't dare to accept any money.

"Here you go, just take it. We, the Eighth Route Army, have discipline."

Li Yunlong forced the money into the carpenter's hand.

"Then the old man shamelessly accepted it."

The carpenter felt the warmth of the ocean, thinking that he could finally buy some meat for his children.