Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

"Chief, we're back!"

Li Yuncai pulled the village chief and ran very fast, and soon they arrived in front of the tractor.

"Ouch, slow down."

The village chief took a deep breath and said, "Why are you so anxious? I almost fell down!"

"Hehe, I'm just worried that the section chief and the others are waiting too impatiently!"

Li Yuncai touched his head and smiled embarrassedly.

"Village Chief, please come up quickly! We are all waiting for you!"

Zhao Tianyang spoke on the truck bed.

"Okay, come right away!"

In response to Zhao Tianyang's urging, the village chief changed his expression, swiftly went to the rear of the truck, and climbed onto the truck bed with the help of a soldier.

“You can drive now!”

Zhao Tianyang patted Li Yuncai on the shoulder.

"Let's go!"

Li Yuncai shouted out of habit, and the tractor started moving slowly.

"Chief Zhao, this is the new tractor developed by your arsenal!"

The village chief touched the truck bed and exclaimed: "As expected of the Eighth Route Army, they are so powerful!"

“Hahaha, not bad.”

Zhao Tianyang smiled and said, "This is just a steam engine. It doesn't have much technological content."

"You can't say that. We can hardly see many cars here. This is the first time I've seen something made by your arsenal. It's really an eye-opener."

"Hehe, then you have to work hard with us. When the war is won, I will give you one!"

"real!"

The village chief was delighted and said with a little pride: "I can't say anything else, but our Chiyu Village is the best village in cooperating with the Eighth Route Army."

"When the land was divided among the local tyrants, our village was the first to be conquered. I was appointed village chief by Lao Zhou himself!"

"Haha, really!"

Zhao Tianyang smiled and said, "It seems that you are still a model village!"

"Of course, just wait and see!"

The village chief patted his chest, squeezed to the front of the truck, and began to direct Li Yuncai how to move.

Although he told Li Yuncai how to get to Dahe Village on the way here, but in the current situation, doesn't he have to show his loyalty and appear useful?

After four hours of trekking, Zhao Tianyang and his companions successfully arrived at Dahe Village.

"You go and look at the river sand. I need to calculate something."

After getting off the truck, Zhao Tianyang told Li Yuncai to take people to buy river sand, while he squatted down and calculated the speed of the tractor on the ground.

"We pulled 16 people in total, and if each person weighed 120 kilograms, we pulled a total of 1920 kilograms. It was about 41 miles from the arsenal to here, and we drove for more than four hours, at a speed of a little over five kilometers per hour."

Zhao Tianyang frowned when he thought about this. It seemed that he still needed to make further improvements. Normally, a 15-horsepower steam engine could run about 20 to 30 kilometers per hour.

It can run 100 to 200 kilometers at a time, and the one he built is obviously far from that.

"What is the factory director thinking? The village chief asked how much river sand you want to bring back!"

Only then did Li Yun walk over and interrupt Zhao Tianyang's thoughts.

Zhao Tianyang did not answer, but asked another question: "Have you seen how much water is left in the boiler? How much coal is left in the combustion chamber?"

"There's still more than half left! What's wrong?"

Li Yuncai answered in confusion.

"No big deal. Let them load two thousand kilograms of river sand first, then open the steam valve. If the tractor can move, continue to add more until the tractor can no longer move."

Zhao Tianyang thought for a moment and then gave the order.

"Row!"

Li Yuncai nodded, and roughly understood that Zhao Tianyang was probably testing the performance of the tractor.

Zhao Tianyang followed Li Yun to the battlefield by the river.

"First load two thousand kilograms."

Li Yuncai ran over and said to a middle-aged man.

"Row."

The middle-aged man nodded and told the workers around him to start loading sand.

"Section Chief, this battlefield was opened by Dahe Village with the help of the Eighth Route Army. You can keep the accounts later and let them ask Lao Zhou for the money!"

At this time, the village chief ran to Zhao Tianyang and whispered.

"what!"

Zhao Tianyang asked doubtfully: "Will this work?"

"Why not!"

The village chief quickly assured: "Leave this matter to me, I will go talk to him!"

"Fine!"

Zhao Tianyang felt a little relieved. It seemed that the village chief knew that their arsenal was running out of money and was thinking about them. What a good man!

"Okay, two thousand pounds!"

After pouring forty sacks of sand into the car, the middle-aged man wiped the sweat from his head and said to Li Yuncai.

"Ah."

Li Yuncai nodded, came to the front of the vehicle, sat in the driver's seat, opened the steam valve, and the tractor began to move slowly.

“You still have to pretend!”

Li Yuncai closed the small valve and shouted to the middle-aged man: "From now on, you keep installing it until I tell you to stop."

"it is good!"

The middle-aged people were not dissatisfied with this strange request. The more they bought, the more their village earned. Have you ever seen anyone dissatisfied with the God of Wealth?

Soon when 4,000 kilograms of river sand were added, the tractor began to make abnormal noises and the front of the vehicle shook violently.

"That's enough, stop adding more, and quickly unload the river sand!"

Li Yuncai hurriedly shouted to the middle-aged man.

"Oh, good!"

The middle-aged man reluctantly led his men onto the truck bed and began to unload the sand.

After unloading about 500 kilograms, the abnormal noise from the tractor gradually disappeared and the front of the vehicle calmed down. Only then did Li Yun breathe a sigh of relief.

"That's enough. Just unload another thousand pounds."

"What!"

The middle-aged man wanted to curse, but when he thought that these people were all soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, he could only reluctantly lead his men to continue unloading the goods.

"It seems that there is still a gap after all!"

Zhao Tianyang, who had been watching from the sidelines, sighed. Normally, a 15-horsepower steam engine should be able to pull 5 to kilograms of cargo.

They are unable to pull more than 3,500 kilograms. It seems they need to improve the cylinder accuracy, increase the sealing, and reduce unnecessary steam leakage.

"Here's a pack of cigarettes for you, Village Chief. Share some with the brothers who are loading and unloading the goods. They've worked so hard this time!"

"Oh, the Japanese smoke, this stuff is rare, but not as strong as our welding smoke!"

The village chief looked at the cherry blossoms painted on the smoke and couldn't help but tease.

"All the Japs' stuff is like that!"

Zhao Tianyang was thinking about improving the steam engine and answered casually.

"That's true. Last time, Lao Zhou gave me a bottle of Japanese sake. Pah, that stuff tastes like horse urine. It has no taste!"

After he finished speaking, he saw that Zhao Tianyang ignored him, and felt bored. He took a cigarette and ran to the middle-aged man who was taking a break after unloading the goods.

"Wu San, you've worked hard this time. Here are some foreign cigarettes from Section Chief Zhao over there!"

"Uncle, you're here!"

The middle-aged man took the cigarette with shining eyes, took out one and sniffed it: "Don't say these Eighth Route Army soldiers are pretty good, not only did they help us drive away the hooligans, they also helped us build the battlefield, and now they are giving us cigarettes to smoke!"

"Of course the Eighth Route Army is good!"

The village chief smiled and said, "I will help you get the money for the goods this time. I will send it to you in two days!"

"Row."

The middle-aged man nodded, as if he trusted the village chief very much.

"gone!"

At this time, Zhao Tianyang's shout came from not far away. It turned out that everyone had climbed onto the sand pile and were waiting for the village chief.

"I'm coming."

The village chief gave the middle-aged man a few more instructions, ran to the back of the truck, and climbed onto the sand pile with the help of everyone.

Because it was loaded with sand, the tractor's speed of returning slowed down a lot. It took five hours to travel a journey that was supposed to take four hours before we saw the shadow of Chiyu Village.

"boom..."

Suddenly a loud noise came from the front of the car, and a large amount of water vapor spread out.

"I go...."

Everyone was startled and scrambled to get off the truck. The fastest one was Li Yuncai. He jumped off the truck with a big jump almost at the moment the steam burst out.

This made Zhao Tianyang almost think that Li Yuncai was not disabled.

"Chief, what happened? You almost killed me!"

Li Yuncai limped over, and his appearance made Zhao Tianyang dispel his previous speculation.

"It should be that the cylinder exploded. Stop rubbing your butt and quickly take someone to put out the boiler fire and check if there is any problem with the boiler. If the boiler explodes, it's no joke."

Zhao Tianyang urged.

"oh oh."

When he heard that there was a risk of the boiler exploding, Li Yun ignored the pain and called a worker nearby and rushed over.

First put out the fire and then release the steam. After finishing all these, Zhao Tianyang slowly walked over and started checking.

"Fortunately, it was just a cylinder that exploded. It probably couldn't withstand long-term full-load operation."

Zhao Tianyang said after checking.

Li Yuncai: "What should we do now?"

"First, unload the river sand to the cement factory in Chiyu Village, and then push the tractor back to Huangyadong."

"Okay, this is the only way!"