Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

The next day, Zhao Tianyang handed the drawings of the steam engine version of the armored vehicle to Li Yuncai, and asked him to lead his men to produce it. Then he returned to the tent to continue designing the rotor glider.

At noon, Zhao Tianyang came to the cafeteria to eat, and Liu Ding sat next to him with a large bowl.

"I heard from Li Yuncai that you are going to make an armored vehicle?"

"hey-hey."

Zhao Tianyang smiled and said proudly: "The 20-horsepower pot-camel machine has a load capacity of 2.5 tons. What's the big deal about an armored vehicle? When they become proficient in the technology, I can make a steam engine version of a tank!"

"One of those Japanese little tanks?"

Liu Ding said unhappily.

"That's about right. If it doesn't work, we can just weld a cannon on it and make it into a self-propelled artillery vehicle to fight the Japanese tanks."

Zhao Tianyang explained casually.

"I don't think so!"

Liu Ding shook his head: "Instead of making a self-propelled artillery vehicle, you might as well make a large-caliber armored anti-aircraft vehicle."

"The Japanese's tiny tanks are thin-skinned. The large-caliber anti-aircraft armored vehicles can not only defend against air attacks, but also attack the tiny tanks fiercely and quickly!"

"Hey! That's true!"

Zhao Tianyang was delighted and thought of Germany's anti-all anti-aircraft guns.

"But anti-aircraft guns consume a lot of bullets! How is your semi-automatic production line?"

"Don't worry, it won't be a problem. Give me a week at most and I'll be able to make it for you. You'll have to prepare enough brass and gunpowder by then!"

Liu Ding patted Zhao Tianyang on the shoulder, picked up the empty large bowl and left the cafeteria.

"Humph, brass, I'll give you a steel shell with copper plating later."

Zhao Tianyang grunted twice, finished the rice in his bowl in a few mouthfuls, left the canteen, and returned to the tent to continue drawing the blueprint.

Soon, time passed in the busyness of everyone, and three days passed unknowingly.

That day, Zhao Tianyang was concentrating on drawing blueprints and calculating data when Li Yun rushed in.

"The factory director has completed the scheduled production tasks. Now the factory has stopped production due to lack of materials."

"Okay, put the rifles, grenades, radios, and the 40 kilograms of imitation Judyson explosives on the tractor and I will take them to the headquarters to exchange for supplies."

Zhao Tianyang put down his pencil, stretched, and gave instructions.

"By the way, don't be idle today. We still have many slopes and small flat lands in Huangya Cave. Let the workers take hoes and go to open up wasteland for us. If we always buy food from outside, what will we do if we are surrounded by the Japanese in the future?"

"Row."

Li Yuncai took a notebook, wrote down Zhao Tianyang's order, and then left the tent to do his work.

Soon Li Yuncai asked someone to load the things into the 15-horsepower tractor.

"Section Chief, do you really not want me to help you drive?"

Li Yuncai held Zhao Tianyang's hands and said, "Chief, have you ever seen a leader driving his own car? Others have drivers, and it's a bit unimpressive for you to drive by yourself!"

"Need not!"

Zhao Tianyang, who was sitting in the driver's seat, pushed Li Yuncai away and said, "Just stay at home and lead them in the land reclamation. I can drive the car myself."

After saying that, he used an iron hook to open the steam valve and started the tractor. Of course, he stopped at the door and took a few Eighth Route Army soldiers who were responsible for protecting him.

Dongyadi Town.

“Thank you for your hard work!”

The deputy director of the Political Department, who had received the news early, came to the outside of the town to pick up Zhao Tianyang.

"Not hard, not hard."

Zhao Tianyang closed the steam valve, jumped off his seat, and came to the deputy director of the Political Department.

He thought he would have to be polite, but the deputy director of the political department walked around him and ran to the tractor to take a closer look.

"This is the steam engine tractor mentioned in the report, it looks very impressive!"

Zhao Tianyang was stunned for a moment, then walked forward with a smile and introduced himself.

"Yes, this is a tractor powered by a steam engine. It has a speed of about 5 kilometers per hour and a load capacity of 3,500 kilograms."

"Okay, okay, this thing is a good thing! You should produce more!"

After looking around twice, the deputy director of the political department smiled with satisfaction and asked, "I heard that you are still researching an armored vehicle powered by a pot-camel machine. How is it? How far have you come?"

"It's almost there. Once we get the light and heavy machines out, this armored vehicle will come out!"

Zhao Tianyang replied.

"Light and heavy machine guns!"

The deputy director of the political department was a little disappointed: "Our arsenal is also going to start manufacturing light and heavy machine guns. Back then, we sacrificed a regiment commander for a machine gun!"

"What are you talking about? You look so happy!"

At this time, the commander-in-chief came rushing over from outside on horseback.

"The boss is back!"

The deputy director of the political department perked up: "Didn't you say you were going to inspect the troops below? You won't be back today!"

“That’s how it should be!”

The commander-in-chief looked at Zhao Tianyang with a smile: "But I heard that our Section Chief Zhao came to us with weapons and equipment, so I have to come back quickly to take a look!"

"Then let's find a place to try out these weapons?"

Seeing this, Zhao Tianyang asked tentatively.

"Okay!"

The commander-in-chief said with a little excitement: "I have always seen the weapons you made in reports before. Today I have to feel what the real thing looks like!"

Soon the tractor was directed to drive to an open space, where many scarecrows could be seen.

"This is where the soldiers usually train. Let's test the weapons here today!"

The deputy director of the Political Department said.

"Row."

Zhao Tianyang nodded, and with the help of several soldiers, took out several rifles and a box of grenades from the tractor bed.

"Commander, I only brought rifles and grenades this time. The production of other weapons has not started yet because there is not enough material."

"Okay, let's try the rifle and the grenade today!"

The commander-in-chief waved his hand nonchalantly, then took a rifle from Zhao Tianyang and started playing with it.

"The commander's rifle is called the Taihang Type 6.82 Cavalry Rifle. It weighs 112 kilograms, has a barrel length of 39 centimeters, a bayonet of 7.92 centimeters, is highly accurate within meters, and uses bullets."

Zhao Tianyang briefly introduced the performance of the rifle.

"Mm, it's beautiful!"

The commander-in-chief touched his rifle with satisfaction, loaded the bullets, and fired a few shots. The straw of the scarecrow about 300 meters away was hit and flew everywhere.

"Hahaha, it seems you were wrong. You can hit the target very accurately at a distance of 300 meters!"

"That's because you're a good shooter, Commander. Ordinary people can only shoot from 200 meters away."

Zhao Tianyang took the opportunity to flatter him.

"Boy, when did you learn to flatter?"

The commander nodded at him a few times and said, "Alright, hurry up and try the grenade. I heard that Comrade Shen Hong has improved the grenade this time, so it's more powerful than before?"

"Yes."

Zhao Tianyang opened the wooden box and took out a grenade: "This black powder grenade has been increased from 50 grams to 150 grams."

"A pull-type fuse has been added. The burning time of the fuse is 4 seconds, and the killing radius has reached 7 meters. Because of the addition of prefabricated fragmentation grooves, 20 fragments can be produced after the explosion."

"nice one!"

The commander-in-chief picked up the grenade, lifted it and felt it was not very heavy, then unscrewed the cap on the wooden handle, pulled out a thin rope, and with a hissing sound, white smoke came out.

With a "whoosh", the grenade formed a parabola and was thrown under the wooden stake of a scarecrow 25 meters away.

With a slight "bang", the scarecrow was blown into pieces.

"Hahaha!"

The commander-in-chief smiled happily upon seeing this: "It seems that the two weapons you made are both very powerful!"