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Chapter 402 Chapter 401, why are you here again?

While Katayama Shotaro was organizing the armed forces of overseas Chinese in Yangquan City, people on Lion's Head Mountain were also busy!

The head of the 14th Regiment, known as Kong Dapao, stood at the highest point of Lion's Head Mountain, with his collar open and a towel casually wrapped around his head. He held his waist with both hands and watched the busy soldiers. His unruly look made the soldiers feel at ease!
"Second Battalion, the trenches over there must be dug deep enough, and there must be anti-artillery holes! Third Battalion is going to find materials to reinforce them. They must be reinforced. All the soldier hiding holes must be able to defend against the Japanese aerial bombs! What can't be dug? If it can't be dug, use a steel drill to hit it hard. Sweat and blood are nothing now. If the Japanese bombers come, it will cost a dozen lives!"

"Where's the first battalion commander? Tell him to set up the fake position! Make sure it looks real and don't be afraid of working. The better you do it, the more the Japanese pilots will like to lay eggs there! Tell him that if he doesn't want his comrades to die because of their laziness, then work hard!"

"Guards, don't have so many people standing around me. If you have energy but nowhere to use it, go to work! Have you dug the individual pits? The training manuals issued by the headquarters clearly explain it. Now we should adapt to local conditions and turn this Lion's Head Mountain into a graveyard for the devils!"

"By the way, where are the soldiers who are good at shooting? Call all the soldiers who are good at shooting over here. Doesn't our book teach us how to shoot down planes with rifles? We should sharpen our rifles before the battle. Even if we don't do it quickly, it will be good. Call them over quickly! By the way, the brigade commander has distributed all the Japanese weapons seized from the mountain to our regiment. How much trust does this show? Hurry up and send them to the second battalion, and send the ammunition as well!"

Here, the 14th Regiment was reinforcing its positions and preparing for a bloody battle. Over there, at the Xiyuzhang position, the first battalion commander of the 769th Regiment was also leading his men to build a new position, ready to guard against another roundabout surprise attack by the Japanese at any time.

Just when everyone was busy, the sharp-eyed sentry saw someone in the distance holding a red flag and waving to him. He looked closely and saw that it was the comrades from the brother unit who helped fight the Japanese at noon. Why are they here again?

The sentry did not dare to delay. While asking his comrades to report the situation to the rear, he left his post and contacted the special forces.

Soon, the first squad of the special forces team appeared at the forefront of the Lion's Head Mountain position, and seemed to be busy with something. When the news of the special forces team's arrival was sent to the brigade headquarters, Brigade Commander Chen also learned the details of the matter through the signalman - an experimental weapon was sent.

Brigade Commander Chen was very curious about what kind of weapon this was that needed to be tested, but he had to stay at the brigade headquarters and command from the center, and he couldn't leave his command position for too long. After all, the new 385th Brigade was more than just their two regiments, there were other troops busy tearing up the railway to the west of Lion's Head Mountain...

"Xiao Gu, come here. I've got a mission for you. Go and complete it! The special operations team sent us a weapon. They say they want to test it in actual combat. Go and keep an eye on it. If it works well, tell them about it."

After receiving the order from Brigade Commander Chen, Xiao Gu, the brigade officer who had been fighting in the Xiyu position with a semi-automatic rifle, rushed to the front of the Lion's Head Mountain position with his weapon.

"Okay, this isn't complicated. It's just digging holes, laying cables and installing these things! The only difficulty is to ensure that it has a 45-degree emission angle! Here, use these two levels to measure it correctly!"

This is the sound that Xiao Gu heard when he arrived at the front line, but it made him even more curious! Simple, easy, and convenient, isn't this the most suitable weapon? However, when Xiao Gu saw the thing that had been placed in the pit, someone was holding it, and others were filling it with soil, he was a little uneasy... What can this bundle of iron pipes do? Of course, this confusion was not a problem immediately, because after confirming that the angle of the 12 iron pipes was right and the bottom was filled, the comrade who had just spoken began the next step.

He took out a canvas bag and stuffed the round things with tail pipes into the steel pipe one by one with the tail pipes facing downwards. The lead wires also protruded from the small holes specially reserved on the side of the steel pipe.

Seeing this, Xiao Gu's head was full of question marks. Isn't this the fireworks that were set off during the Spring Festival in his hometown? His family originally ran a fireworks factory, so he was very familiar with this! Can this thing fight against the Japanese?

"This thing can really fight the Japanese!" Luo Wei seemed to have heard Xiao Gu's thoughts and continued, "The charge at the tail is the same as that of a grenade launcher, and the charge in the middle of the explosive part is also the same as that of a grenade launcher! What's the difference? The explosive part contains 75 grams of high explosives and is wrapped with two layers of steel balls!"

"There are more than 5 1000mm steel balls in this layer. I didn't count them exactly, but after the explosion, the surrounding 20 meters is its attack range! And its projection distance is about 200 to 300 meters. What are you laughing at? That's the number, because when this thing flies out, no one knows where it will land. It's just an approximate range."

"So, no matter which comrade is responsible for lighting the main fuse, he must pay attention to how many Japanese soldiers are in the bombing area! Well, if there are more than 5 Japanese soldiers, you can ignite it!" Lowe said as he connected all the fuses to a main fuse and wrapped it with a layer of oil paper.

After confirming that there was no problem, he continued to hold the launch tube and asked the comrades accompanying him to fill it up, even fearing that it would hit the target! Of course, he did not forget to continue to measure the angle problem in the end.

"Okay, comrades, we have to go back. The Japs' attack is probably coming soon. When we came, we saw the Japs in the city firing guns. Goodbye!" After saying this, Lowe led a group of comrades and rushed down the Lion's Head Mountain, leaving only an instruction manual and a large bag of fixed fireworks shells for the comrades present.

Seeing his comrades leaving in a hurry, Comrade Xiao Gu didn't care about anything else and quickly took the instruction manual to read it. At first glance, it turned out that this was not an instruction manual at all, but a manufacturing manual!

Anyway, on just a dozen pages of paper, the material of the steel pipe, the alternative materials, the length and thickness, the manufacturing process of the fireworks, etc. are explained clearly! Regardless of whether others understand it or not, Comrade Xiao Gu feels that he can make a fireworks shell like this one right now! Of course, the prerequisite is to have the materials...

Time flies. If someone lies on the railway at this time, he can still hear the sound of clanging, which means someone is still working.

In Yangquan City, Lieutenant General Katayama, who had mobilized less than 400 troops at this time, finally armed the overseas Chinese and even conducted a short 2.5 hours of military training.

(End of this chapter)