Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 52 Li Yunlong stands tall (Seeking follow-up reading)

The world of Bright Sword, Yangcun.

Almost the entire independent regiment launched a vigorous production under the command of Li Yunlong.

Although Li Yunlong has just arrived at the independent regiment and many things seem to be not sorted out, and although he appears to be noisy and simple-minded on the surface, he is actually very shrewd.

When he first arrived, after a brief handover with Kong Jie, he felt that the independent regiment was in an unstable mood and was not very fond of him as the new leader.

Li Yunlong knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly called the headquarters and tried to persuade the chief of staff and the division commander to ask them to ask the boss to keep Kong Jie as his deputy. Of course, Kong and Li had a long-tested friendship, and deep down Li Yunlong didn't want to see Kong Jie really go somewhere to be a private. In that case, Kong Jie's chances of making a comeback would be too slim. Lacking a platform, it would be difficult for him to have a chance to make merit.

By retaining Kong Jie as his deputy, Lao Li immediately took the initiative. As Kong Jie single-handedly built up the independent regiment, Lao Li's words are now very effective!

So when Ren Zhong put forward the requirements for the construction of houses and production lines, Lao Li immediately mobilized the soldiers to work with all their strength. Li Yunlong would not hesitate or wait and see about anything Ren Zhong said, and would just listen to him and start working!
Propellants and explosives need to be produced and stored in a dry place, so Li Yunlong and his men found a flat plain halfway up the mountain and quickly used wooden boards as walls to build several well-ventilated straw huts in a few days. Taking the danger into consideration, Li Yunlong, under the guidance of Ren Zhong, also dug a shallow fire-prevention isolation zone to separate it from the forest, so that a fire here would not ignite the entire forest.

However, the thatched huts were covered with live vines found in the mountains and forests, and even the fire-prevention isolation belts were carefully covered with moss dug from the mountains and forests, making these thatched huts completely invisible from a distance.

If the Japanese wanted to find out something from the air, they would have to descend to at least a hundred meters to see that it was a house.

In the mountainous areas within the base area, the Japanese reconnaissance planes generally did not dare to fly so low.

Because at such a low altitude, even machine gun fire would cause great harm to the aircraft, and the Japanese pilots were not crazy enough to risk their lives to test the depth of the Eighth Route Army. At most, they dared to descend to about 500 meters for visual observation. At such an altitude and speed, it would be impossible to find an ecological hut like Li Yunlong's.

Lao Li had to do so much camouflage work out of necessity. He did not have any effective anti-aircraft weapons at hand, so he had to find ways to reduce the risk of being discovered by the Japanese from the air.

As for the sulfuric acid production line in Yangcun, a place close to the mountains and water was found outside the village. It was simply built with wooden boards next to a stone wall extending about 50 to 60 centimeters. This kind of construction next to the stone wall at the foot of the mountain can also easily avoid the risk of being discovered and bombed by the Japanese reconnaissance planes.

Sulfuric acid production also produces relatively high pollution, so it must be dispersed around the area and separated from the arsenal’s other labor-intensive production lines to reduce harm to everyone.

After all, this is purely traditional manufacturing, so forget about environmental protection. However, Ren Zhong still found a way to add some protective measures on the basis of the original production line. He asked the workers producing sulfuric acid to take some simple protective measures and placed the site in a well-ventilated place as much as possible. This is at least much better than the health protection of the traditional production lines in history.

With the leadership of Li Yunlong, the 007 Worker, the Yangcun Arsenal made rapid progress and soon completed the bullet reloading production line. Under the guidance of Ren Zhong, in less than two days, the first batch of soldiers in Yangcun who were transferred to military production successfully realized the bullet reloading!
Even though their production efficiency is only 20 to 30 pieces a day now, and everyone is working with difficulty under Ren Zhong's leadership, this gives Li Yunlong immense hope.

This is Li Yunlong's third unique channel to obtain ammunition.

When Li Yunlong was in the New First Regiment, he could only obtain supplies through seizure. When he arrived at the Independent Regiment, he was close to the headquarters arsenal, so he could get some supplies from the headquarters, but the quantity was touching. Zhang Wanhe, who was stingy and rotten, was given thousands of bullets at a time. But what made Li Yunlong even happier was that as the large cave was transformed into a new processing plant, Ren Zhong managed to bring in 25 manual punching machine parts, and now he finally got enough copper plate materials that Ren Zhong had accumulated for more than two months. Ren Zhong felt that the time had come, so he asked Li Yunlong to take people out of the cave together.

Of course these things are not given away for free.

The manual punching machine costs 400 silver dollars. The copper plate material costs 1 kilogram of silver dollars. In total, the independent regiment owed Ren Zhong 11352 silver dollars!
1 kilogram of penicillin and vitamin Renzhong are not counted as money, and are kept as backup for the Independent Regiment. Anyway, the Independent Regiment can't afford these things now!
Li Yunlong was a little numb when he saw the things. He didn't notice that this deal would be a huge debt for the Independent Regiment, so he agreed to it directly.

This ton of copper plates, even with the current production method that results in a large loss of scraps, can produce more than 60 bullets per kilogram. The remaining scraps will not be wasted and can be sent to the arsenal for remelting and forging to produce more than 30 bullets. If all the more than ton of copper materials that Ren Zhong brought were processed into bullets, theoretically there would be more than 10 bullets, which would add tens of thousands of bullets for Li Yunlong alone!

Old Li was so happy that he personally learned how to process bullets with a manual lathe from Ren Zhong. However, everyone was still trying to figure out the production process in the early stages. Even though Ren Zhong had figured out how to use a manual lathe to produce bullets, everyone's proficiency was still low. On average, each machine could only produce 30 to 40 bullet shells a day. With the addition of the later reloading process, the production capacity was only 500 to 600 rounds a day.

Compared with Ren Zhong's main plane bullet production line, this production capacity is only a few minutes, but it gives Li Yunlong a lot of confidence.

This was the first time in history that he could increase his weapons and ammunition without having to capture enemy weapons.

Although the current production capacity is not very large, from now on, the independent regiment can continue to enhance its strength without fighting.

When the first batch of reloaded bullets rolled off the production line, Old Li's face broke into a smile. He immediately ordered Kong Jie to start recruiting new soldiers and conducting actual combat training for the soldiers, practicing live-ammunition shooting to improve their marksmanship.

This kind of luxurious training is simply impossible to carry out in other regiments.

But now the independent regiment has the conditions, and the bullets fired can be reloaded, which only wastes some propellant and explosives.

With a complete sulfuric acid production line, all of this is now affordable for the independent regiment.

With just this one move, Li Yunlong restored the morale of the independent regiment to its highest level.

After the independent regiment gained a foothold, Lao Li asked Zhang Dabiao, Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng to come from Ding Wei and appoint them as the battalion commander, artillery platoon leader and company commander of the company directly under the regiment headquarters respectively.

With Kong Jie recruiting soldiers to fill the gap, the independent regiment under Lao Li has now regained its strength!

Please continue reading, see you tomorrow brothers!
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