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Chapter 76 Chapter 076, The Arrival of the Student Soldiers

"Yes, Captain, it's similar to the lychee cannon. My master told me about this thing back then! You see, we have three bullets here. After modifying them, we can turn them into three shotgun shells, which means a large area of ​​bullets. Then when we fight, we can take away at least a dozen or twenty Japanese soldiers, right?" Li Yuexuan said.

"I think we can give it a try! We happen to have iron sand and black gunpowder here, so let's try to modify it as you said! Let's use this!" Zhao Danian was a decisive man. He immediately decided to use the cartridge case to modify it.

With his order, Li Yuexuan naturally would not interfere and just give instructions from the side.

In fact, the most troublesome and technically demanding part of this modification is to replace the primer. However, this is not difficult for Li Yuexuan. With the auxiliary panel and various materials, he can now draw a manual stamping machine for bullet primers. However, there is no need to build a special machine at this time. You only need to manually press it and replace the primer of a Type 38 bullet.

Watching the old soldiers tinkering with bullets, Li Yuexuan turned to Zhao Danian and asked, "Captain, you used litchi cannons in the past. Now that we have a chance, we can also use old elm wood to make elm cannons!"

"Elm cannon...Elm cannon? Really, I actually forgot about this. We can really make an elm cannon!" Zhao Danian thought about it and felt that it was feasible.

"By the way, Captain, what do you think about us making some grenades ourselves?" Li Yuexuan asked again.

"Making grenades? Can you make grenades?" Zhao Danian quickly pulled Li Yuexuan aside and asked in a low voice.

"Isn't it just making grenades? The Jinling Factory, Gongxian Factory, and Taiyuan Factory can all make them. I see that the grenades used by the New 1st Regiment are also made by themselves. Can we do it too? As long as we have cast iron, explosives, copper wire, wood, lead, and detonators, we can make them ourselves. In fact, we don't need detonators, we can just make some black powder and use it." Li Yuexuan said confidently.

"Well... the conditions don't allow it now. We may have to move at any time, so let's first modify the rifle you mentioned! But can you write down how to make this grenade? You see, the New 1st Regiment has grenades, right? In fact, the organization bought them from a private person, and they are not very powerful." Zhao Danian said.

"Okay, I'll write it down! I can also draw it..." Li Yuexuan didn't say much, and went straight into the house to start drawing, and drew the "Seven-Man Back". Well, it's a simple mobile workshop model for making grenades. Li Yuexuan also specially drew the specific process drawings of pulling the ignition fuse.

The cargo fuse is actually very simple. The lead block is pierced with a roughened copper wire inserted in the middle, and friction-flammable ignition powder is placed below. Then a delayed detonating cord is connected, and finally connected to the detonator.

The principle is to pull the copper wire, the friction produces sparks that ignite the detonating cord, the detonating cord ignites the detonator, the detonator explodes, detonates the TNT, and finally blows up the cast iron shell.

If you don't use TNT as explosive, then the detonator can be removed, and you can even use a match fuse to ignite it. Well, it's the same principle as striking a match, red phosphorus friction... snap...

It took Li Yuexuan a day to draw the production process of the grenade. During this day, the veterans of the guerrillas carried their rifles and the modified shotgun shells and ran outside the village to try them out in an empty place. After returning, Zhao Danian personally supervised the comrades and asked them to change the two intact rifle bullets into shotgun shells and reload the experimental shells.

"150 meters, on the wooden board at the 150-meter position, the iron sand was smashed directly into such a deep hole!" In the room, Hu Lanzhou put his thumb and index finger together in front of Li Yuexuan, leaving about 1 centimeter in the middle.

"100 meters, at a distance of 100 meters, such a thick wooden board was directly penetrated!" Lowe's fingers left a length of 2 centimeters.

"From this side to that side, I walked more than ten steps, which is a span of more than 30 meters, and there were traces of iron sand hitting the cliff wall!" Tian E said as he walked.

"Stop! I understand. It can definitely kill someone within 100 meters, and can kill someone half to death or even kill someone at 150 meters! And at a distance of 150 meters, the spread width of the iron sand is about 30 meters, right?" Li Yuexuan made a summary speech. "Hmm..." Everyone nodded.

"Not bad! If we fire well, we can easily kill a Japanese machine gun crew with one shot! If the Japanese were marching in formation, hey..." Li Yuexuan spread his hands and gestured: "At least it's an infantry squad!"

“Hmmmm…” Everyone nodded.

"Well, from now on, our guerrillas will have an extra killer weapon! At least with this thing, we won't be afraid of the Japanese charging at us! Let them rush to within 100 meters of us, and then we will shoot them. If they don't die, they will be skinned! Captain, if we need to raise guns in the future, we have to get some to modify them! And Zou Ming, you have to get well soon."

"When you get better, we'll find some copper coins, and you can use your blacksmithing skills to make some bullet shells. We'll make more shotgun shells to fight the Japanese!"

"Yeah, yeah...you don't have to tell me, I'll take care of it when I get better! I didn't expect that my blacksmithing skills can be used to fight against the Japanese!" Zou Ming said excitedly.

"Report..." When everyone was talking excitedly, a report came from outside the yard, and Zhao Danian hurried to take over.

About ten minutes later, Zhao Danian led more than 30 soldiers carrying backpacks into the yard.

"Comrade Li Yuexuan, these are the grenade launcher trainees that the organization has found for you. In the future, they will follow you to learn the grenade launcher firing techniques!" Zhao Danian said very solemnly.

"My students have arrived? Welcome, welcome! Comrades, welcome to learn with me! Our study time is about 7 days. During these days, I hope that everyone will study hard, master the skills, bring them back to the troops, and bravely kill the enemy!" Li Yuexuan also said in an official manner.

"Haha, military doctor, I haven't seen you for a few days. You even speak differently. Haha..." Following the familiar voice, Zhang Chong walked out of the team and saluted: "New 3st Regiment rd Company, Zhang Chong, come to report!"

"Yu Xiaoyu from the 3rd Company of the New st Regiment, report in!"

"New 2st Regiment, nd Company, Luda is here to report..."

With the reports from 35 trainee soldiers, Li Yuexuan gained another identity as a grenade launcher instructor this afternoon.

"Okay, comrades, this afternoon, everyone will arrange the camping site and gather outside the gate early tomorrow morning. We will start teaching how to use the grenade launcher! Captain, will you take charge of the arrangements?" Li Yuexuan looked at Zhao Danian.

"Come with me..." Xing Weiguo led people to arrange accommodation for them.

(End of this chapter)