Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

"Come, I'll take you to have sex."

Li Jianfeng led Liu Changchun out of the machine gun bunker and walked deeper into the passage. After walking about 50 meters, they arrived at a large space.

This is a circular space with a mortar welded to the floor in the middle. There is a hole in the middle of the circular dome, through which the shells will fly out to attack the enemy.

"This is the 81mm mortar that my punitive army has the most equipment with. We have fully realized domestic production. We have hundreds of this type of gun."

He walked to the wall, grabbed a handle and pulled it. A piece of the wall was pulled out like a drawer, and inside were 5 mortar shells, propellant bags, and fuses.

"This is its shell. We have also achieved self-production, with a fairly high output. Moreover, because new materials are used, the shell skin can be made thinner, with more explosives and greater explosive power.

This mortar bunker has 500 rounds of ammunition, all stored in blast-proof walls for easy access by soldiers.”

Liu Changchun was shocked once again. In his impression, these artillery shells were very precious things. Why did it feel like these things were endless here in the Punishment Army?

While he was shocked, he also discovered a blind spot.

"Captain Li, there are walls on all sides here. The gunners can't see the enemy outside. How can they shoot accurately?"

"Look there."

Li Jianfeng pointed to the grids painted white on the wall. Liu Changchun saw that there were two sets of data on those grids. There were hundreds of grids, labeled A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3.

"This is a firing table. We have marked the areas where this gun can fire with grids. The observer in the bunker can see where to fire and just shout over the phone.

For example, if the observer needs to bombard the B2 area, after shouting, the mortar operator only needs to align the mortar knob with the two coordinate data on the B2 grid and fire to hit the target.

In this way, even if the gunner is illiterate, as long as he can understand numbers, he can operate the gun."

This is a helpless move. The Punitive Army is expanding and the quality of its soldiers cannot be improved in a short period of time. The Japanese arrived so quickly. In order to allow new recruits to operate technical weapons such as artillery in a short period of time, this is the only solution they can come up with.

Liu Changchun asked: "Can I fire this cannon?"

Li Jianfeng smiled and shook his head.

"No, the mortar is a bit dangerous. I'm afraid that if you put the shell in the wrong position, your hand will be blown off by the gunpowder gas. Come, I will teach you how to shoot the direct-fire artillery."

Liu Changchun had just been disappointed that he couldn't fire the mortar, but when he heard that there were other cannons, he became excited again.

The few of them moved forward in the tunnel again, and this time they arrived at a very large space where there were 6 artillery crew members on duty, and in the middle there was a cannon welded to the concrete floor.

Li Jianfeng asked the artillery crew to go out and play, and he took Liu Changchun to introduce him to the artillery.

"This is the artillery that my punitive army made. It was modified from the Japanese Type 41 mountain cannon. However, our barrel is longer and the cannon is lighter. It can shoot farther and more accurately than the Japanese. Come and I will teach you how to use it."

Li Jianfeng taught him step by step how to open the breech block, took out a 75mm shell from the wall, and taught Liu Changchun how to screw the fuse on the shell.

After Li Jianfeng confirmed that the fuse was tightened, he asked him to put the shell into the barrel and close the bolt.

"Okay, you can fire it. Stand aside, don't stand behind the breech block. When you fire, it will recoil with enough force to break a person's bones. Stand aside and hold the firing rope tightly."

Liu Changchun did as he was told and stood next to the cannon, holding the trigger rope tightly. He looked at Li Jianfeng, who nodded. He pulled the rope hard, and with a loud bang, a shell flew out of the barrel.

Liu Changchun grimaced and his ears started ringing.

Li Jianfeng opened the breech block, ejected the shell, and stuffed another shell in.

He made an OK gesture to Liu Changchun, and Liu Changchun was inspired again.

After firing more than ten shots, Liu Changchun had enough fun and his ears were buzzing. He quickly waved to Li Jianfeng.

“No more fighting!!”

He spoke a little louder, as if he was afraid that others couldn't hear him.

Li Jianfeng led a few people out of the bunker, got in the car, and drove back onto the hardened road, heading deep into Hutou Mountain.

Li Jianfeng explained as he drove: "We have built hundreds of such battle fortresses, distributed at several main entrances to the mountain. In addition, we have other bunkers of different sizes and types. We will definitely make sure that the Japanese devils will never return!"

Father Liu sighed and asked, "Oh my, such a big project must cost a lot, right?"

"Not many. We have a population of 15 people in Hutoushan, excluding soldiers. We were all harmed by the Japanese and fled to the mountain. We knew that the Japanese were fierce and we had no way to survive if we didn't fight hard. So everyone worked hard and didn't ask for wages. That's how the fortress was built."

What Li Jianfeng didn't say was that the fortresses were built by the civilians during the day and by the punitive troops at night with guns pointed at the Japanese. Combined with ceramic steel and materials for digging railroad tracks, it didn't cost much to build these fortresses.

Not long after the car drove out, it came to a small hill. On the hillside there was a huge bunker with a thick and long gun barrel sticking out of the bunker.

Liu Changchun looked at the huge monster with his mouth wide open in shock.

"Captain Li...Captain Li! What kind of cannon is that? Why is it so big?"

Li Jianfeng glanced at the cannon and said, "240mm cannon, our largest mass-produced cannon now, naval gun-level, can fire 25 miles!"

Si!

Liu Changchun took a deep breath. 25 miles. He was running and had a clear understanding of the range.

Li Jianfeng asked with a smile: "Do you want to fight this? I'll report and let you fight."

Liu Changchun hurriedly shook his head, saying that he couldn't trouble the leader too much. In fact, he just didn't dare. He still had tinnitus from the previous firing of the small cannon. If he fired this big one, he was afraid that he would be deafened.

After passing the turret, the car drove into the mountainous area, and started to move up and down here.

Many barracks appeared on the roadside, and teams of punitive soldiers were training, with shouts of killing heard one after another.

A long line of punitive troops suddenly appeared on the hardened road in front of the ground support vehicle. These soldiers were practicing running on the hardened road. Each of them was wearing ceramic armor, a helmet, a Woodpecker semi-automatic rifle, an ammunition pack, a grenade, a bayonet, an engineer shovel, a gas mask, a lunch box, a water bottle, a personal medical kit, and a huge backpack on his back.

These things were very heavy, and everyone was running out of breath. It was difficult for the soldiers to lift their feet and put them down every time, but their expressions were determined.

Li Jianfeng drove the car off the hardened road to make way for the training troops. The troops ran past the ground support vehicle in unison, with heavy breathing, the clattering of carrying gear rubbing against the ground, and the clattering of high-top rubber boots stepping on the ground. These sounds merged into one, and the atmosphere of murderous aura was so strong that it was suffocating.

Father and Mother Liu shrank unconsciously. They were a little afraid of soldiers, and the appearance of so many soldiers at the same time triggered their bad memories.

But Liu Changchun stood up from his seat and looked solemnly at the soldiers running over. He saw that hatred was on the face of each of these soldiers.

He was wondering where all this hatred came from when he saw an officer wearing a training cap and with stripes and stars on his shoulders running beside the team and shouting.

"There are the Japanese ahead! The Japanese who killed your parents! The Japanese who drove you out of the land where you have lived for generations! Charge forward! Either catch up with the Japanese and kill them! Or die on the road! Even if you die, you have to keep your head forward!"

Liu Changchun was shocked and stood there for a long time without saying a word. He only came to his senses after the running team moved away and Li Jianfeng drove the car back to the hardened road.

"Liu Changchun."

Li Jianfeng, who was driving, called out to him and Liu Changchun looked at him.

Li Jianfeng said: "In fact, you are just like them, both are soldiers, but the battlefield you fight on is different from theirs, but the nature is the same."

Hearing this, Liu Changchun's hands clenched unconsciously, and a strength rose from the bottom of his heart. He, Liu Changchun, was also a soldier, and his battlefield was on the track of the Olympic Games!

After this baptism, Liu Changchun's temperament changed, his eyes became more determined, and he became more confident.

Li Jianfeng took in all these changes. He smiled slightly, thinking that the purpose of taking so much effort to bring him to visit the fortress had been achieved.

Everyone in the car noticed the change in Liu Changchun, but no one said anything until they passed a disciplinary military camp, when Liu's mother shouted excitedly.

"Yeah! You have female soldiers?"