Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

eight pm.

As soon as he returned to Huangya Cave, Zhao Tianyang handed the goods to Li Yuncai and Liu Ransheng to deal with, and then went to the kitchen and asked them to cook some delicious dishes to welcome the ten soldiers who were about to join the arsenal.

"Come and have a taste, this is the Fenjiu I just got back from the boss."

Zhao Tianyang took a bottle of Fenjiu and poured wine for the soldiers one by one.

"Wow, what a nice wine!"

A soldier raised his glass, took a sniff, and exclaimed in admiration.

"Didn't you hear what the chief said? This is the Fenjiu given by the boss, how can it be bad?"

The depressed soldier on the side said unhappily.

At this time, Zhao Tianyang had finished pouring the wine, came to the main seat, raised his glass and said with a smile: "Let's get to know everyone. My name is Zhao Tianyang, the head of the Military Industry Department."

After saying that, he picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

"Okay, feel free!"

The soldiers present clapped their hands happily, and one of them stood up.

"Hello, Chief Zhao. My name is Niu Erli. I joined the army in 1936 and am a party member. I was asked to retire to the second line because I injured my lungs while blasting a Japanese bunker."

After saying that, he also imitated Zhao Tianyang and drank it all in one gulp, but maybe because he didn't drink much, he coughed a few times due to choking.

"Hello, Chief Zhao. My name is Wang Sangui. I joined the army in 1937. Because of an encounter with the Japanese, I injured my right leg and had to retreat to the second line."

After Niu Erli sat down, Wang Sangui stood up consciously, introduced himself, drank the wine in his glass, and sat down again.

With the examples of the first two people, the remaining soldiers stood up one by one and introduced themselves. Most of them joined the army between 1936 and 1937.

Although they all have arms and legs, each of them either has problems with their lungs, legs, or hands. Anyway, they can still fight, but the fighting time is not long.

"My name is Zhu Laowu. I joined the army in 1932. I am a party member. I was hit by a shell while on a rearguard mission and suffered a head injury. I volunteered to join the arsenal."

The self-introduction of the last soldier caught Zhao Tianyang's attention. He was a volunteer in 1932. It seemed that he was an old Red Army soldier like Li Yuncai!

After the man finished introducing himself, Zhao Tianyang filled everyone's glasses again and raised his glass: "Everyone, you are all great, even though you can't go to the front line to fight the Japanese due to your injuries."

"But you can also contribute to the Eighth Route Army and the Party here. You protect the arsenal and make it produce more and better weapons. This is more important and meaningful than going to the front line with weapons to kill the devils!"

"So after drinking this glass of wine, I hope you can put aside your grudges and complete the tasks assigned to you by the organization!"

"Yes!"

All the soldiers stood up at once and raised their glasses: "We will complete the mission!"

"Dry!"

Zhao Tianyang raised his glass in gesture.

"Fuck!" x10

"Come and have some food. These are the mountain products that we have been saving for the gathering. Now that you are here, let's treat it as a welcome dinner for you."

Zhao Tianyang invited everyone to eat and drink.

"Don't worry, Chief. We'll eat your food today. After a few days, when I'm familiar with the conditions in the mountains, I'll definitely hunt some game for you."

One of the soldiers, who was holding a chicken leg and gnawing on it happily, assured her.

"Okay, I'll be waiting!"

Zhao Tianyang smiled.

He knew that there were more than fifty kinds of wild animals in Huangya Cave, but they had to give birth all the time and had no time to go hunting.

These soldiers are responsible for patrolling. When they have nothing to do, they can go hunting to provide protein for the workers.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, seeing that everyone had almost finished eating, Zhao Tianyang spoke.

"From now on, you will be the security team of the arsenal, responsible for the internal security patrol work of the Huangyadong Arsenal. Comrade Zhu Laowu will be the captain of the security team. How do you think?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other.

"Comrade Zhu Laowu is an old revolutionary. We have no objection."

"Thank you for your trust. I will lead you to protect the Arsenal."

Zhu Laowu did not refuse, or as the most senior soldier present, he was qualified to serve as the captain of the security team.

"Then it's settled. You'll get used to it for a day tomorrow, and start working the day after tomorrow."

After saying that, Zhao Tianyang looked at Zhu Laowu and said, "Captain Zhu, I hope you can come up with a plan to defend the arsenal as soon as possible."

"Yes."

Zhu San replied.

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

The next day, after breakfast, Zhao Tianyang called Zhu Laowu over and handed the Taihang dog, which he had not had the time to train since he bought it, to Zhu Laowu.

He was asked to take the dog back for training, and then he was taught the methods of training police dogs in later generations.

"Don't worry, Chief. I will definitely train them well."

After Zhu Laowu took Gou Zi away, Zhao Tianyang came to the engine factory and started to study steam engine armored vehicles with Li Yuncai and others.

In fact, this thing is not difficult. The main thing is that the chassis of the armored vehicle takes some time, because it is not like a tractor where you can just install the steering system and transmission system and then forget about it.

The chassis of the armored vehicle should at least be completely wrapped with iron sheets, otherwise the enemy can easily attack the personnel inside the armored vehicle from below.

So Zhao Tianyang first installed springs on the track wheels to act as shock absorbers to improve comfort and stability, and then installed a braking system.

Because there were no brake pads, brake oil pipes and other things, Zhao Tianyang chose physical brakes, which is to use two ceramic plates to directly wrap the rotating device.

Then it is connected to the driving seat with a steel wire. After the driver turns off the steam valve, he can pull the steel wire to make the ceramic sheet wrap around the rotating device and force the brakes.

The principle is similar to the handbrake of a car.

After these two problems are solved, the next step is to install steel plates to wrap the bottom.

After several days of adjustment and testing, Zhao Tianyang finally made the first steam engine armored vehicle.

"Great, now all that's left is to install the light and heavy machine guns!"

Li Yuncai walked around the armored vehicle excitedly and said.

"Haha, that depends on when Mr. Liu's semi-automatic bullet production line is ready. Otherwise, we can't fight without guns and bullets!"

Zhao Tianyang wiped the sweat off his head and asked, "By the way, how much land did you open up a few days ago?"

“Not much!”

Li Yuncai shook his head: "Because it's all mountainous land, there are stones, tree roots, and grass roots everywhere. More than a hundred of us worked hard for a whole day, and we only reclaimed two acres of sloping land and three acres of mountain land."

"That's fine, take your time!"

Zhao Tianyang was in a good mood. Reclaiming wasteland and cultivating land has never been easy since ancient times. It was beyond his expectation that they could reclaim five acres of land.

"Go to the village chief in a few days and buy some chickens. With chickens and food, we can guarantee the most basic survival ability even if we are surrounded by the Japanese."

"Row."

Li Yuncai nodded and agreed.