Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

After lunch, Zhao Tianyang wandered around the factory doing nothing.

Li Yuncai is in charge of the factory's chores, Liu Lao and others are in charge of weapons research, and even the machinery and equipment are taken care of by Master Hong.

"You should find something to do! Otherwise, if you do nothing, you will seem useless."

Zhao Tianyang touched his chin and wondered what the Eighth Route Army was still lacking.

Suddenly his eyes lit up and he came to the kitchen.

“And any garlic?”

"garlic?"

A chef in the kitchen was a little confused, but still answered honestly: "Yes, they are all hanging on the wall over there."

Hearing this, Zhao Tianyang walked over and saw peppers, corns, and garlic hanging on the wall: "I took all the garlic! I'll take two corns too. Oh, do you have any sweet potatoes?"

"Yes, in my pocket."

Afraid that Zhao Tianyang couldn't find it, the chef hurried into the kitchen, pulled out a big bag from under the counter, and took out two big sweet potatoes from it.

"Given by the factory manager."

"Okay, thank you!"

After saying that, he left the kitchen with his things in his arms. As soon as Zhao Tianyang left, the kitchen immediately became noisy.

"What do you think the factory manager does with these things?"

A helper who was washing dishes asked curiously.

"What else can I do? Eat."

"I don't think so. The factory director is such a big shot, but he still has to eat by himself!"

"Okay, do you still want to work? How dare you talk about the factory manager?"

At this time, the chef suddenly interrupted the conversation and said, "Hurry up and work, don't think about anything else."

After getting the garlic, corn and sweet potatoes, Zhao Tianyang did not rush to experiment, but ran to Li Yunlong's house.

He remembered that the last time he came, Li Yunlong hid a few oranges in the cabinet.

After sneaking in, I rummaged through the cabinet and saw two slightly dried oranges.

Shanxi's climate is not suitable for large-scale cultivation of oranges, and I don't know where Li Yunlong got them from.

Thinking in his mind, Zhao Tianyang quickly picked up two oranges, ran back to his room, then sprinkled some water on the oranges, corn, and sweet potatoes, divided them into two portions, one under the table and the other on the windowsill.

After finishing these, Zhao Tianyang took out a piece of white paper and started drawing quickly. After a while, he looked at the distiller on the picture and smiled with satisfaction: "Simple."

Then he came with the blueprints and went to the small ceramic factory in the arsenal.

This factory is specifically responsible for manufacturing pottery for the arsenal. The pottery used in the sulfuric acid factory and the propellant factory all comes from here.

"Master Sun, is he busy?"

Zhao Tianyang said to the pottery master, Sun Wu, who was playing with mud.

"Director, tell me, what do you want me to burn?"

As soon as Sun Wu saw Zhao Tianyang coming, he knew that he had some more strange pottery to burn.

"Hey, can this be done?"

Zhao Tianyang handed him the drawings.

"Simple, about the same as a sulfuric acid still."

Sun Wu took a look at it and put the blueprint in his pocket: "One day to laminate it, two days to burn it, the factory director can come back in three days to pick it up!"

"Row."

Zhao Tianyang nodded, left the ceramic factory, returned to his room, and started peeling and pounding garlic.

While he was peeling the skin, he suddenly heard a series of roaring sounds above his head. At first he didn't react, but then he suddenly remembered, "Nah!" Isn't this the sound of an airplane?

When I hurried outside, many workers from the arsenal had already come out to watch the fun.

Zhao Tianyang narrowed his eyes and looked carefully at the planes circling over the arsenal: "Damn, it's the Japanese."

What is coming has finally come, Zhao Tianyang sighed, but at this stage he may not be afraid of the Japanese.

The main force of the North China Front Army was not in Shanxi, as they had gone to attack major cities such as Nanchang, Wuhan, and Changsha. It was not until the Huayuankou dike burst that the North China Front Army would turn its attention back to Shanxi.

That is to say, during this period of time, even if the Japanese wanted to attack the arsenal, they could only send a small number of troops. If at most 10,000 troops could come, Zhao Tianyang would be considered awesome.

But even though we are not afraid, we still need to make the necessary preparations.

After the reconnaissance plane flew away, Zhao Tianyang first dispersed the workers who came to watch the fun, telling them not to worry, and then found Li Yuncai who also came to watch the fun.

"Old Li immediately led his men up the mountain and cut several hundred kilograms of cypress branches back."

"Cypress branches?"

Li Yuncai was a little confused: "Director, why do you want that? Isn't the most important thing now the Japanese plane?"

"I asked you to cut cypress branches to fight against the Japanese planes. Go quickly. Remember, the more cypress branches the better. It would be best if you could bring back several thousand kilograms."

Zhao Tianyang urged.

"Ok."

Although he didn't quite understand what Zhao Tianyang was going to do, the fact that Zhao Tianyang had never made any mistakes for a long time told Li Yuncai that it didn't matter if he didn't understand, he just had to listen and do as he was told.

After Li Yuncai led his men up the mountain, Zhao Tianyang called more than ten workers from the arsenal and asked them to take hoes and dig the soil.

After arranging everything, Zhao Tianyang entered Xingjiazhuang and came to the headquarters of the new regiment.

As soon as he arrived here, he saw Li Yunlong, with a serious face, holding a meeting with the company commanders of various battalions.

After waiting for a while, when the meeting was over, Zhao Tianyang walked in and asked, "Old Li, are the Japanese going to attack us?"

"Ah."

Li Yunlong didn't even raise his head, but kept gesturing on the map in front of him.

"What do you want to do? If you want to ask about the Japanese reconnaissance plane just now, I can tell you that it was an early reconnaissance operation of the Japanese."

"But to launch the attack, I estimate that it will take another week of preparation. By then, I will arrange for the people in the arsenal to hide in the mountains."

"That's not what I'm asking."

Zhao Tianyang waved his hand. He was not worried at all about the battle. One reason was that he didn't understand it, and the other was that he believed in these battle-hardened soldiers.

If it was really dangerous, he believed that Li Yunlong would arrange the evacuation of the arsenal as soon as possible.

Then he personally led his men to stop the Japanese army. Now that he has not mentioned retreat, it means that the situation is still under control.

"That's not what you're asking?"

Li Yunlong raised his head curiously and looked at Zhao Tianyang: "Then what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to borrow some sacks. I can't control your battles on the front lines, but I have to find a way to keep the arsenal."

"I'm going to get a few hundred sandbags and put them in the arsenal. If the enemy drops bombs from planes, the sandbags can effectively reduce the power of the explosion."

"Can this still happen?"

Li Yunlong touched his head and said, "Okay, go to the warehouse and get them. You are still in charge of the logistics of the New 1st Regiment. Just write a note and get as much as you want."

"it is good."

Zhao Tianyang nodded, wrote himself a note for a thousand sacks, went straight to the warehouse, received a thousand sacks, and then returned to the arsenal quickly.