Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Before launching the 918 Incident, the Japanese had been attacking the Fengtian Arsenal. If they could take control of this largest arsenal in Asia, they would only need to slightly modify the production equipment to produce Japanese weapons and provide supplies to the Japanese troops fighting on Chinese soil nearby.

However, the Japanese army's main target of attack at the beginning of the raid was military targets. They did not have extra troops to occupy the Fengtian Arsenal. They were afraid that an attack that was not resolute and strong enough would be stopped by the armed personnel inside the Fengtian Arsenal. If these armed personnel were forced into a corner, they would likely destroy the machinery and equipment inside the arsenal.

So the Japanese army just pulled a cannon and continuously bombarded the open space outside the Fengtian Arsenal in order to intimidate the armed personnel in the arsenal and force them to flee quickly.

The artillery fired at a frequency of one round every 10 minutes on average. The constant exploding shells really worried the armed personnel in the Fengtian Arsenal.

I have to say that the Japs were really good at grasping people's hearts. Every time a shell exploded, the armed personnel in the Fengtian Arsenal's heartbeats quickened.

After a period of restlessness, some people began to think about escaping. They found that the Japanese army did not surround the arsenal, so the escape began.

One leads ten, ten lead a hundred, and in less than an hour, all the armed personnel of the Fengtian Arsenal fled, leaving behind the machinery and equipment and precious national property they were supposed to protect to the Japanese army.

The above events led to a special situation. From around 9 o'clock on September 18 to around 11 o'clock the next morning, the Fengtian Arsenal was in an unmanned state. The Japanese had no time to send troops, and the armed personnel in the arsenal were all scared away. A large factory with tens of thousands of employees has now become an empty factory, and tens of thousands of machines and equipment are at your disposal.

Li Qinwu didn’t know whether other time travelers made use of this precious time, but he did.

Now it's time for questions and answers. It's 3:30 in the morning, and there are about 6 and a half hours before the Japanese invaders enter the Fengtian Arsenal. With such limited time, if it were you, which equipment would you choose to move?

A firearms production facility.

B Artillery production facilities.

C Steel production facilities.

D Chemical production facilities.

Anyone who knows something about the military industry must know that the most valuable of these four things is chemical production facilities.

For a gun, the most technologically advanced part is the gunpowder wrapped in the cartridge case. Other things like the barrel and the bolt can be made into barely qualified products using relatively backward methods.

But gunpowder is different. It requires a complex technology tree, a large amount of raw materials, and a intensive population. It can be said that the most core and precious facilities of the Fengtian Arsenal are the factories that make gunpowder.

However, when Li Qinwu led his clones into the gunpowder factory and saw the situation clearly, he was dumbfounded, because the large tanks in the gunpowder factory were as high as two stories, connected by criss-cross pipes and a bunch of incomprehensible production equipment, and most of the facilities have been integrated with the building, that is to say, these equipment were poured on the ground with concrete. This entire factory building is a complete system. It is impossible for people to move them away!

Li Qinwu slapped himself in the face. What a mistake. The knowledge he inherited from the original owner was all about mechanics. After working, he had been dealing with small lathes that could be dismantled and taken away. He thought that chemical equipment were also small things.

"Blow them up!"

No matter how reluctant he was, Li Qinwu could only give this order. There was no other way. If he couldn't take it away, he had to blow it up. He couldn't just leave it to the Japanese.

The clones began to place bombs. The specific action was to throw Type 41 mountain artillery shells and aerial bombs under the equipment, and then use cluster grenades to detonate them when they were about to withdraw.

Premature detonation might lead to the Japanese attacking the arsenal, and chemical leakage might injure the clone, so the only way to detonate the arsenal is to wait until the operation is over.

Although the equipment in the explosives factory had to be blown up, there were still some small mixing equipment that could be taken away, as well as some generators, distribution devices, and more than 300 barrels of chemical raw materials of currently unknown use.

In addition, in the finished product warehouse next to the gunpowder factory, the clones found 50 tons of packaged TNT explosives, 30 tons of smokeless gunpowder, 30 tons of black lock gold, 60 tons of picric acid, and 500 kilograms of properly placed mercuric sulfate, which is the stuff used to make bullet primers.

Finally, he took away a small chemical laboratory, and all the clones withdrew from the gunpowder factory, leaving only one clone waiting for the order to detonate the explosives.

Li Qinwu rushed to the steel plant with his clone. The steel plant of the Fengtian Arsenal was almost connected to the artillery factory. After the molten steel came out of the blast furnace, it was directly poured into gun barrels, and then transported to the nearby artillery processing workshop for further processing via carts and rails.

After Li Qinwu entered the steel plant, what he saw were a large number of semi-finished gun barrels. These iron bars didn't even have holes in them and were just lying quietly on the floor.

Li Qinwu asked his clone to take all the iron pipes away. Fortunately, there were cranes and carts nearby that were specially used to transport heavy objects, so the task was not difficult. After some operations, a total of 75 21mm gun barrel rough blanks, 105 8mm gun barrel rough blanks, 150 3mm gun barrel rough blanks, and a super heavyweight thing, the 240mm artillery barrel rough blank were obtained.

This thing is the 240mm artillery that has been promoted enthusiastically recently. It is the most important national weapon among all national weapons. This huge gun barrel probably weighs tens of tons. Fortunately, there is a huge crane on the top of the artillery factory that is specially used to lift it, otherwise the clones really can't do anything to it.

Using a crane, this huge object was moved onto a metal cart, and then towed by a truck to be transported to the island space.

In addition to the rough barrel, Li Qinwu also asked his clones to take away all the iron molds of the cannon. These steel molds were used to cast the barrel and remove the molten iron. They were the first step in starting the life of the cannon.

Next were some small and medium-sized artillery drills and square forging hammers that could be packed up and taken away. The machines mentioned here were small machines that could only process 75mm artillery and mortars. Even so, the weight of a single machine had reached tens of tons, and the clone could only use three trucks to drag them across the island space to forcibly take them away.

As for the machines that could process larger artillery, they were all welded underground to ensure stable operation during forging. The main structures were probably made of concrete two meters underground. Moreover, these machines weighed an astonishing thirty or forty tons, so they simply could not take them away.

Even more terrifying are the giant crucibles for boiling molten steel. These crucibles are actually huge mechanical creations. They are connected to a large number of complex mechanical hanging steel structures and are an integral part of the factory building.

Li Qinwu's eyes twitched when he saw this. He no longer had any intention of taking them away and only wanted to destroy them.

After leaving the steel plant, there was little gain. Eighty percent of the equipment here could not be taken away and had to be blown up. Fortunately, there were still some gains. The clones found 6 large forklifts at the coal pile. These engineering vehicles with a huge bucket in front could push several tons of coal into the furnace at a time.

This ancient engineering vehicle is somewhat outdated and has very poor performance. The bucket in the front has almost no ability to move up and down, and is not the same as the flexible forklifts of later generations.

But this thing made Li Qinwu extremely excited. With them, the land reclamation project could be put on the agenda. The efficiency of 6 bulldozers was equivalent to that of 600 people. Li Qinwu decided to start land reclamation after the Fengtian City matter was completed.

The next thing to be moved was the gun workshop. There weren't many heavy equipment here, only small ones that could be moved by about 10 people.

The clones ransacked the workshops one by one like locusts, leaving only garbage and dust on the ground in the workshops they passed by.

That night, the island space was filled more than ten times. Li Qinwu used the clone at the Henan warehouse as an anchor point to open the portal and let the clone empty it and continue transporting.

Ordinary people would have collapsed long ago after doing such heavy physical work for such a long time, but the clones were all strong Mr. Olympia winners with a level one body density. They all possessed strength and endurance beyond that of ordinary people, so they worked from 3:9 in the morning to around in the morning without showing too much signs of fatigue.

But despite this, the number of machines that the clones could carry was still limited. The Fengtian Arsenal was the largest arsenal in Asia, with tens of thousands of various types of machines inside. After working hard for an entire night, the clones only took away more than 2,000 small machines.

Li Qinwu was left helpless. It was already daybreak and the Japanese might rush into the arsenal at any time. He had to give up transporting the things and choose to blow it up faster.

In the last hour, after the island space was filled, Li Qinwu ordered to stop moving the machines and began to destroy them with all his strength!

The first thing to be destroyed was the most precious gunpowder factory. Li Qinwu opened a portal inside the gunpowder factory, threw a cluster grenade onto the pile of bombs, and then quickly closed the door.

Six or seven seconds later, the cluster grenade exploded, and a shocking bang sounded in the gunpowder factory. Hundreds of kilograms of explosives completely destroyed the entire gunpowder factory. The main structure of the factory building completely disappeared, and two or three nearby factory buildings were affected and deformed.

In such a horrific explosion, the chemicals in the machinery and equipment reacted and burned along with the fire. Thick yellow poisonous smoke mixed with black smoke floated into the sky. Fortunately, there was no one in the arsenal, otherwise the poisonous smoke would have taken the lives of countless people.

The next thing to be destroyed was the steel plant's crucible. Li Qinwu opened a small portal in front of the crucible, pulled out several Liao-14 type mountain cannons, loaded them with armor-piercing shells, and bombarded the crucible.

At such a close distance, the armor-piercing bullets made holes in the heavy crucibles that were big enough for a fist to fit in, rendering the crucibles scrapped.

The remaining clones set fires and threw bombs everywhere. The continuous explosions and fires turned precious machine tools into scrap metal.

This scene attracted the attention of the Japanese squad who were monitoring outside the Fengtian Arsenal. They looked at the arsenal on fire in shock and reported it to their superiors like crazy.

When the Japanese superiors heard that someone had really destroyed the arsenal, they were shocked and immediately dispatched a squadron of Japanese soldiers to withdraw from the urban battle and go to the arsenal to put out the fire.

When Li Qinwu received the news that a large number of Japanese troops were approaching, he felt regretful. The crazy destruction in the last hour was estimated to have destroyed only 30% of the equipment, and it was expected that nearly 50% of the equipment would be captured by the Japanese.

At this time, the Japanese squadron had already rushed into the core area of ​​the arsenal. Li Qinwu ordered his clones to throw away the last wave of explosives and gather quickly. He opened portals one by one to take them away.

The Japanese squadron searched the entire arsenal and were surprised to find that there was no one inside the arsenal. But how could such large-scale destruction occur?

The Japanese were unable to find out the truth. Seeing that the fire in the arsenal was spreading, the Japanese squadron had no choice but to ask their superiors to send more troops to put out the fire immediately.

A large number of Japanese troops gave up fighting and went to the arsenal to put out the fire, which reduced the pressure on the defenders in the city. The resistance forces in the city did not know why the Japanese suddenly withdrew, and they were madly cursing the culprit who destroyed the arsenal.

The culprit Li Qinwu's actions have not yet ended. He takes his clones to the next target, the Young Marshal's Mansion.