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Chapter 88 Chapter 087, Grenade Training Round
How about hand grenades? With materials, people and technology, it is really easy to make. Otherwise, how could we have so many stocks later? Therefore, in just ten days, the small workshop has already produced thousands of hand grenades. Anyway, the small furnace is burning vigorously every day, and pots of molten iron are cast into shells, and then assembled into grenades.

However, after asking the old squad leader for 500 grenades, veterans such as Li Yuexuan and Zhao Danian fell into anxiety and panic.

Li Yuexuan was especially scared when he saw the new recruits excitedly holding grenades and observing, and one of them was so brave that he used a grenade to smash the walnuts picked on the mountain. Fortunately, the one who was smashing the walnuts was kicked away by Luo Wei, and everyone calmed down.

"Captain, I think we need to train our comrades in how to throw grenades. Otherwise, it will be very troublesome when the war breaks out if they don't know how to use grenades!" Li Yuexuan was really scared.

"Training is necessary! It's a pity to use such good grenades for training!" Zhao Danian also knew that training was necessary, but he was very reluctant.

"Be willing to give up, only by giving up can you gain! Even if we teach them how to throw grenades, we still won't feel at ease until they experience throwing live ammunition!" said Xing Weiguo.

Being a new soldier... is actually a very dangerous stage, especially for the soldiers. Having never experienced actual combat, the new soldiers are still in a period of curiosity and want to tinker with everything. Which piece of equipment in the team is not easy to kill? Therefore, until now, the new soldiers' guns have no bullets, for fear that someone with trembling hands will accidentally fire and injure their own people.

"Okay, captain, you take your men to prepare some sandbags and a site for throwing live ammunition. I'll go find the old squad leader and ask him to get a batch of training bullets over!" Li Yuexuan felt that he had to make another trip.

"Sandbags are easy to make, but how do we make the venue?" Xing Weiguo asked.

"This venue requires two three-person foxholes, and then a sandbag wall outside, and another sandbag wall on the side to block fragments. This is basically the structure!" After saying that, Li Yuexuan drew a simple structural diagram of the grenade throwing training ground on the ground.

"Okay, go ahead, I'll bring people to get it out!" Xing Weiguo understood the purpose of this venue at a glance and asked Li Yuexuan to get busy.

"Old squad leader, I'm here again!" Outside the workshop, Li Yuexuan saw the old squad leader coming out to greet him.

"Xiao Li, do you have anything else to do? Have you thought of any new tricks? By the way, I have asked people to prepare those directional blasting equipment for the wires you mentioned. They will allow you to set up a 2-kilometer blasting zone!" The old squad leader warmly welcomed Li Yuexuan's arrival and gave him good news.

"Um, this...Old squad leader, I still need to trouble you with something!" Li Yuexuan said.

"Tell me, I'll do whatever I can for you!" The old squad leader was quite "spoiled" by Li Yuexuan, a capable man. "That's right, our guerrillas need some training grenades! Not the kind of training grenades made of a piece of wood with an iron lump, but the training grenades for throwing live ammunition! You know, we are reluctant to use the grenades made of Kaizi explosives for training our comrades. I was wondering if you could make some grenades specially filled with black powder? No need to add detonators, just the right amount of powder will do."

"Well... your idea is very good. The new recruits need to adapt to throwing live grenades! Okay, I will make some specially for your guerrillas! By the way, we really need to make some training bullets specially, including training bullets for the new recruits to practice throwing distance and accuracy." The old squad leader agreed to Li Yuexuan's request very generously and added more products to the small workshop.

"Thank you very much!" Li Yuexuan raised his hand and saluted in thanks.

"What are you talking about? Without the information you provided, how can this small place be run? Haha, yesterday, I just gave three shotguns and 30 shotgun shells to the third division, and the leaders of the third division were very happy! By the way, come in, let's tinker with the bullet mines and bullet bamboo tube composite mines you mentioned! Old Zou, come here..." The old squad leader pulled Li Yuexuan into the small workshop again...

"I wonder what's going on in your brain, kid? You can do something fancy with just a bullet! Just a pipe, a nail, a board, and two toothpicks in the middle can turn it into a mine that specifically hits feet! Haha, I want to see what the Japanese look like when their feet are hit!" In a newly built factory shed, the old squad leader said happily while holding a bamboo tube.

"You can figure it out if you think about it more! Besides, I'm a military doctor, I know what kind of injuries can drag people down the most! We are in a mountainous area here, and a Japanese soldier with a broken foot needs at least one Japanese soldier to take care of him. It's difficult to get him out of these vast mountains!" said Li Yuexuan.

"That's the truth! A wounded soldier is a burden to the one who takes care of him, that's two! By the way, can the clostridium you mentioned really kill the Japanese?" asked the old squad leader.

"It's tetanus clostridium. We soaked the bullets of the grenade in sewage, and the bullets were infected with clostridium. Then, as the bullets hit the Japanese soldiers' feet, they also entered the wound. The feet are full of bacteria because they usually wear boots and don't wash their feet. Add this to the mix, and the Japanese soldiers are more likely to get tetanus..."

After some discussion, the old squad leader felt that he had learned a lot of knowledge, and it seemed that his small workshop could add some extremely insidious weapons to kill the devils. When Li Yuexuan left, it was already 4 hours later. Of course, he did not leave alone, but took away a full 220 grenade training shells.

With training bullets that are not painful to throw and will not necessarily kill you if they explode near your feet, the guerrillas can finally practice throwing live grenades. Not to mention, these recruits have a good foundation. They have been herding sheep since they were young, and their arms are strong. They can easily throw a one-pound grenade more than 50 meters. This result is already an excellent result.

As for the method of throwing bombs, Li Yuexuan really wants everyone to master the method of putting the pull ring on the finger, because this is the safest way.

However, it seems that everyone is not used to this method, and gave up after trying it once. Fortunately, the delayed detonation cord of these grenades is more than 6 seconds, which can support the operation of pulling the ring and then throwing it out. The only worry is that if you are injured or killed when pulling the ring to throw it in battle, the grenade will explode on your own people.

(End of this chapter)