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Chapter 179 Chapter 178, Grenades were made and tunnels were dug
Since the experimental results of the two grenades are very satisfactory, the next thing is naturally the issue of how to produce them!

As for grenades, since the explosives used were not safe TNT, it was not appropriate to place them in the village! Therefore, the soldiers who were good at masonry took action again, and built a half-man-high wall with stones in the woods east of the village, and built a simple shed inside. Because of this, a large open space was cut down in the poplar forest.

The chopped wood will not be wasted. Once it dries, it will become a good material for grenade handles.

The construction of a shed would not take much time, but it would still take more than ten days. During these days, Comrade Zhao Danian made several phone calls, and then the independent detachment and other surrounding troops sent a lot of coal and pig iron, and the headquarters also sent a lot of explosives.

The twenty-third day of the first lunar month was not a special day, and there was no fighting taking place around the guerrillas. Everything was extremely peaceful.

On this day, black smoke rose from the woods in the east. Strong young men were melting molten iron, pouring it into molds, and making grenade shells. When the shells were cooled in the cold wind, the men would polish them and send them to the next process.

On the other side, several carpenters kept stepping on the pedals to drive the shaft, and used a cutter to cut the wood on the shaft into the shape of a handle. Then, they drilled holes and sent it to the next process.

The next process was in the work shed, where there were many young women and young wives. Under the supervision of Hong, they worked together to install the fuse made by Huang Tianyang and his men into the wooden handle, put the explosives into the shell, and then put the handle with the fuse into the shell. Some people used small hammers to knock and nailed the shell and the wooden handle together...

Isn't that crude? Grenade is not difficult to make, this is how it is made! Otherwise, where did the billions of grenades come from?

The guerrillas' grenades were ready for mass production. The first to know the good news was from the independent detachment, after all, it only took a phone call. Then, the brigade commander who was taking the Japanese soldiers for a walk knew about it, as did the division commander, the head of the headquarters, and Minister Zhang...of course, he knew about it too!

"No, this matter is a bit big, and the scale of the Beishan guerrillas cannot expand production..." Minister Zhang thought about it, and then looked at the current location. It seems that it would be a good idea to place the arsenal workshop in the Hancun Repair Shop! However, this idea was rejected as soon as it came up! The Japanese launched a nine-way siege last year, what about this year? Once the arsenal is large, it will be difficult to move!
Therefore, the headquarters began to search in the surrounding mountains, intending to find a hidden and hard-to-defend place to serve as the location of the ordnance workshop.

The guerrillas don’t know all this, they are still training, producing, and preparing for war!

After more than a month of excavation, a main tunnel has been found in Liangjia Village, which is 3 meters deep. The entrance of this tunnel is the firewood room of the third house at the west entrance of the village. There is a fork in the road in the Liang family's courtyard, and then it leads directly to the middle of the wild boar forest in the east as the exit.

The tunnels are not straight, of course. Except for the relatively straight section leading to the outside of the village, the tunnels in the village are very winding. The main tunnel is 1 meters high, and there is a nearly two-meter thick soil layer above the head. In addition, in the appropriate sections of the tunnel, such as where the soil layer is thicker, there are traps dug downwards. Yes, it is the flap trap mentioned before when hunting, but there are no bamboo thorns installed at this time. This tunnel can only be regarded as an initial project at this time. After all, the real killing function of the tunnel is to combine the upper and lower parts, use the houses in the village to fight, and use the elusive shooting holes to attack the enemy. In addition, there are fire prevention, waterproofing, anti-poison gas and other protection functions, and there are various complex maze-like forks to attack the enemies entering the tunnel.

As the main construction supervisor of this tunnel, Zhao Danian already had enough knowledge about the future combat capability of the tunnel. After all, Li Yuexuan beside him had watched the teaching film, and even went to the tunnel to experience it, and even saw the tunnel battle on the side of the ungrateful wolf in the video!

Therefore, Zhao Danian had the drawings of various traps and killing moves that Li Yuexuan had taken the time to draw for reference. Based on these drawings and Zhao Danian's own understanding, he believed that by the end of the year, the tunnels in Liangjia Village would only need a platoon of troops to hold back one or two squadrons of the Japanese troops and make it difficult for them to move in the village. Even more, if more bombing points were added, a large number of Japanese troops could be killed!
Captain Guo was no longer a permanent resident of Weijia Village! Especially after the guerrillas started mass-producing grenades, Captain Guo would run to Liangjia Village with the 1st Company's running team every morning and run back in the evening.

Now the 1 new recruits of the 60st Company are also training with the guerrillas, taking advantage of the instructors. As for the one who is close to the water, the first to get the moon, Captain Guo's 1st Company has obviously increased its grenade reserves! Their company now has 248 soldiers, and the grenade reserves are 1000, an average of 4 grenades per person! And this is the production capacity of the ordnance workshop for two days.

Because we just started, everyone was not skilled at the work, so the production capacity could not keep up. Of course, the work of assembling grenades is not that difficult to get started. The most important thing is the installation of the fuse and the manufacture of the detonator. This requires a certain level of technology, and Comrade Chen Mo, with his two apprentices Shui Zishu and Duan Changming, can ensure this production capacity even if his hands are worn out.

"Add more people, we must add more people! Captain, don't worry about this matter, I'll take care of it!" At the end of the month meeting, Xiao Fengyun stood up and said, "I am now familiar with the work of bullet reloading. In the future, I will let my deputy manage it! In the future, I will transfer 5 technicians from the bullet reloading to help make the trigger fuse!"

"Since Comrade Xiao Fengyun is willing to accept the production of grenades, there will be no problem! By the way, Old Xiao, please ask the headquarters for more Kaizi explosives. TNT is also fine. Grenades with low power are not satisfying!" Zhao Danian had no objection. He was the guerrilla leader and the one who led the troops to fight. He was happy to have someone responsible for production.

"Kaizi explosives... Now that the Taiyuan factory has moved away, there are too few channels to buy them from the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army!" Xiao Fengyun obviously knew some inside information, so he continued: "But don't worry, northern Shaanxi has taken the explosives issue very seriously! Now a group of college students are taking the lead in studying how to mass-produce explosives!"

"Northern Shaanxi is too far away, so we have to find a way to produce it nearby!" Xing Weiguo said, and sighed slightly: "In fact, the black powder one is not bad either. Except that it is a bit heavy, it will produce dozens of fragments after it explodes!"

"Well, when Kaizi dynamite is not enough, we can only use black powder as explosives! In fact, black powder is not bad. It is easier to produce. After all, you don't need a detonator to make a fuse, and even lead and copper wire are almost unused. You can use a match to make a fuse! This is how the Jinan factory made it, but it is not easy to use in humid climates because it is easily affected by moisture." Chen Mo suddenly said.

"Humid climate? The humid climate here has nothing to do with us, right? Haha, can we use matches to pull the fuse?" After hearing Chen Mo's words, everyone felt that black powder was better.

(End of this chapter)