Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

In the next few days, Zhao Tianyang and Li Yuncai were constantly preparing for the upcoming bombing, and time passed in the busyness until the third day.

"Brother Tianyang, from tomorrow on, the arsenal will not open for business. Take all the workers up the mountain. The Japanese are about to send planes to bomb us."

In the evening, Li Yunlong went to the arsenal to eat and told Zhao Tianyang the news.

"Is it coming?"

Zhao Tianyang picked up a pickle, and there was not much panic in his tone.

Hearing this, Li Yunlong became interested: "You have been busy with your people these days. What kind of air defense measures have you prepared?"

"Can you tell me about it? If it's feasible, I can promote it in the new group."

"this......."

Zhao Tianyang hesitated and said, "Forget it. I haven't tried anything I prepared yet. Who knows if it will work?"

Zhao Tianyang did not lie. He did not have a plane to cooperate with the experiment, so he did not know whether it would work or not.

"alright."

Li Yunlong nodded regretfully. He trusted Zhao Tianyang very much anyway.

"In that case, I won't force you, but you still have to be careful these few days. We have received news that the Japanese have prepared a squadron of planes to bomb the arsenal."

"A squadron?"

Zhao Tianyang was surprised and asked, "They don't care about other places?"

You must know that the main force of the North China Front Army is now fighting outside Shanxi, and their aviation force must follow them.

It can be said that there are very few planes that can be left in Shanxi. In order to form a squadron, it is estimated that all the planes left behind in Shanxi were directly transferred here.

"This time, the Japanese probably made great efforts because they knew there was an arsenal in Xingjiazhuang."

"I heard that the person in charge of this encirclement and suppression campaign was the Chief of Staff of the North China Front Army, Okabe Naosaburo. The 20th Division and the 10th Division, which were stationed in Shanxi, sent two regiments each."

"In addition, during this period, the two thousand puppet troops that were formed claimed to be a 20,000-strong army, and were determined to take over Xingjiazhuang. They even held a swearing-in ceremony in Taiyuan the day before yesterday."

"Oh, are there really so many devils?"

Zhao Tianyang was a little nervous. If so many Japanese invaders really came, he would definitely not do anything else but move the arsenal into the mountains first.

"Hey, fart."

Li Yunlong took a bite of rice and said, "They just took over Shanxi. It's not like they didn't have any casualties."

"Originally, the 20th and 10th Divisions were stationed in Shanxi to rest and recuperate because they were severely damaged. The four regiments of their two divisions have 10,000 people, which is considered powerful."

"I can rest assured that."

Zhao Tianyang patted his chest. With only 10,000 people, he didn't even have to do anything. The brigade commander and his men could make these devils look like fools. It seemed that the main threat he had to face was the bombing squadron.

"Anyway, don't worry. With me here, no Japanese soldier will be able to get into Xingjiazhuang."

That’s right, it’s Xingjiazhuang. The reason why Li Yunlong is so confident is that he just came back from a meeting at the brigade headquarters.

In this battle, besides the necessary escape from the Japanese, the goal is to kill some of them. The boss has already set up a tight net in Taihang, waiting for the Japanese to fall in!

The next day, in order to prevent accidents, the arsenal stopped all work and began to dismantle the machines and transport them to the mountains.

"Damn little devil, why are you coming to us for no reason?"

"It's not like they don't have a home, so why would they come to our place?"

The mountain roads are difficult to navigate, let alone carrying those machines weighing at least several hundred kilograms up the mountain.

The workers, sweating profusely, began to curse the Japanese devils, and then they had to lift the machines with great effort and walk up the mountain.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the entire team going up the mountain became a little silent.

"Are you okay? Come and have a drink of water."

Old Liu handed Zhao Tianyang a kettle with a smile.

"Thank you."

Zhao Tianyang took the kettle and took two small sips.

"So, looking at those workers who are cursing, do you have any thoughts?"

Mr. Liu asked.

"Ideas? What ideas do I have?"

Zhao Tianyang scratched his head in confusion: "If I really have any idea, it is that I didn't invent some anti-aircraft weapons in advance."

"We were supposed to prepare some big fireworks, but in the end we didn't prepare anything and were forced to go into the mountains."

"That's good of you to think so."

Mr. Liu was very pleased. He had been worried that the young man would have a smooth journey, but would inevitably become depressed if he suddenly encountered hardships!

"As the Eighth Route Army, we were often forced into passive situations, but we relied on the spirit of not giving up and not abandoning to get to where we are today."

"Temporary difficulties are nothing. As long as you work hard, there will always be a way out."

Zhao Tianyang looked at Old Liu in confusion. He was just telling him some chicken soup for the soul. But he was just getting to the point. Knowing history, he would never give up hope.

This was just a small difficulty, just a little dew, and he could continue walking by shaking his legs.

However, in order not to disappoint Mr. Liu's kindness, Zhao Tianyang still pretended to be excited.

"Mr. Liu, you are right. The difficulties are temporary. Just wait and see. We will definitely defeat the Japanese."

After moving all the machines up the mountain, he ordered the employees to dig some caves on the mountain to hide. Zhao Tianyang brought the 100 factory security team members back to the arsenal and began digging air-raid shelters.

Under the command of Li Yuncai, a hundred of them prepared several air defense points throughout the arsenal.

After digging the air-raid shelter the next day, they covered the roof of the arsenal with sandbags filled with mud. As for the houses where people lived, they had to be left there for the Japanese to blow up.

"Don't worry, the old must go before the new can come."

Zhao Tianyang said to the employees who were standing there, staring at the houses in a daze, "Hurry up, spread the cypress branches all over the residential area as I said."

At night, Zhao Tianyang looked at the dense piles of cypress branches in the residential area and smiled with satisfaction. All he had to do was wait for the Japanese to bomb them.

As a result, for two consecutive days, no roar of Japanese planes was heard.

On the third day, just when Zhao Tianyang thought it was another quiet day, a soldier from the New 1st Regiment on horseback came to the arsenal. He rode straight to an air-raid shelter.

"Director Zhao, the Japanese bombers will arrive in thirty minutes, please pay attention to air defense."

After saying this, he turned his horse around and left the arsenal without waiting for Zhao Tianyang's reaction.

"Fuck you, come out quickly."

While Zhao Tianyang was climbing out, he shouted to the people in the air-raid shelter.

"I'm coming."

Li Yuncai took the note off his face while urging others.

"Hurry, get moving and follow the plan."

Soon, one hundred employees climbed out of the air-raid shelter, ran to the pile of cypress branches without saying a word, took out tinder and lit the hay under the cypress branches.

Soon wisps of green smoke began to rise, and as more and more burning cypress branches piled up, the green smoke in the arsenal area turned into billowing thick smoke.

At the same time, two huge Kongming lanterns slowly rose into the air under the operation of Zhao Tianyang.

These two huge Kongming lanterns were made of thin wooden strips, bamboo strips, paper, and animal skins. They were made by more than a dozen carpenters and bamboo craftsmen in two days and three nights.

The power for the Kongming lantern is the solid object that Zhao Tianyang made a few days ago. To be more precise, that thing is called "napalm bomb."

When the two Kongming lanterns were launched into the sky, they also brought up a large net woven from cotton threads. In addition to being coated with napalm, the cotton threads were also woven very loosely.

Soon after the Kongming lantern rose to the top of the thick smoke, two thick ropes stopped it.

After tying the rope, Zhao Tianyang, wearing chemical goggles and a mask on his face, shouted to Li Yuncai.

"Okay, go back to the air-raid shelter and I'll take care of the rest."

"Director, why don't I do it?"

Li Yuncai said a little worriedly.

"Stop talking nonsense. There's an air-raid shelter next to me. How can a Japanese plane kill me?"

Zhao Tianyang waved his hand and said, "Let's go quickly. If the Japanese planes come, we two will have to stay in an air-raid shelter."