Chapter 7: Darkness Chencang
Tang Cheng said that he wanted to take a break, but he really hid in the training camp all day and didn't ask about the world, not only did he leave the matter of preparing the first-aid kit factory to Wang Bingzhang to deal with, but even the daily affairs of the investigation team, Tang Cheng also threw them all to Zhao Dashan. "Stationmaster Zhang, please persuade our captain! It's been almost half a month, and our captain has been taking those college students all day long, and he doesn't know what to do in the house, and now he doesn't even want to pay attention to the investigation team. ”
Tang Cheng completely stopped, but these veteran policemen of the investigation team began to be unable to stand it, missing Tang Cheng's backbone, and they always felt bottomless when they started to do things. Zhao Dashan, who temporarily commanded the investigation team, was also helpless about this, although in the investigation team, Zhao Dashan's qualifications were old enough, but he did not have Tang Cheng's ability to fix the sea god. In desperation, Zhao Dashan had no choice but to go to Zhang Jianghe, after all, Tang Cheng and Zhang Jianghe are uncles and nephews, and nephews can't help but listen to their uncle!
Tang Cheng said that he wanted to take a break, and Zhang Jianghe was worth it, but he didn't expect that this guy really ignored anything. How can this work? The investigation team is the other eye of the Chongqing station, and if the investigation team stagnates, won't the work of the Chongqing station also be affected! After thinking for a while, Zhang Jianghe immediately took Zhao Dashan to the training camp adjacent to the labor camp on the outskirts of the city, but when the two of them arrived at the training camp, they happened to encounter a large group of students gathering on the hillside in front.
"Uncle, why are you here?" Tang Cheng, who was surrounded by students and walked in the middle, suddenly saw Zhao Dashan and Zhang Jianghe, and seeing Zhang Jianghe's gloomy face, Tang Cheng asked those students to carry things first, and stood beside Zhang Jianghe and asked in a low voice. "Didn't you say yesterday that there was action today? Why did this come to me all of a sudden? Is there something you want me to do? Tang Cheng looked at Zhao Dashan's expression next to him as he spoke.
"Don't look at him, let me ask you, what have you been doing these days?" Tang Cheng tried to see the difference from Zhao Dashan's face, but was reprimanded by Zhang Jianghe's angry and unknowable face, and Tang Cheng, who didn't know anything, said that he was very aggrieved, but Zhang Jianghe didn't pay attention to this. Tang Cheng had to tell the truth about his whereabouts in the past few days, and under Zhang Jianghe's repeated suspicions, Tang Cheng had no choice but to invite Zhang Jianghe to go to the hillside over there to see what was going on.
"The defeat in the battle at the front was due to the quality and combat effectiveness of the soldiers, as well as the weakness of the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army. I had nothing to do for a few days, and through the newspapers and radio broadcasts, I also had a preliminary understanding of the war in Shanghai. If our army had been able to drive all the Japanese troops entrenched in the urban area of Shanghai into the sea in the early stage, perhaps the battle situation would not have been as erosive as it is now, and in the final analysis, it was the Japanese army that built a large number of fortresses in the urban area, which made the attack of the Nationalist troops fighting in the urban area fail. ”
"At present, among the heavy weapons and equipment equipped by our army, there is no weapon that can effectively deal with civil forts, and the mortars that can be carried with the army are only curved firepower." Tang Cheng was chattering and explaining as he walked. It's just that the more he explained like this, the more confused Zhang Jianghe became, and said in his heart, what does the defeat in Shanghai have to do with you not doing anything these days!
The anger in Zhang Jianghe's heart was slowly accumulating, and just when the depressed anger in his heart was about to explode, he finally saw the thing Tang Cheng fingered. "What is this?" Seeing the object being assembled by several students, Zhang Jianghe expressed the surprise that Tang Cheng had expected. In fact, except for Tang Cheng and a few students who knew about it, everyone else at the scene was extremely shocked when they saw this thing, just like Zhang Jianghe at this moment.
To be precise, this thing assembled by a few students in the north is actually a mortar, but Tang Cheng took a few students to make some small modifications to this mortar, which made the original simple mortar look different. "Uncle, don't look like you haven't seen the world, this is a mortar, okay! It's just that we've made some minor changes to it, and it's a coincidence that you're here to test it out. ”
Tang Cheng's explanation made Zhang Jianghe hesitate a little, but Zhang Jianghe was sure that what he saw was indeed a mortar, but this mortar looked a little different. The students who were assembling the parts looked like they were still fresh, and it took a while to complete their respective responsibilities, and then looking directly in front of everyone, someone had already built a fortress out of bricks and stones, and it seemed that it was the target of today's test.
The students who were brought to the hillside by Tang Cheng, although they were undergoing military training, they had not experienced actual combat after all, so after this modified gun was erected, the gunner still had to be taken care of by Tang Cheng himself. "Reload!" Tang Cheng was busy in front of the modified cannon for a while, and after adjusting the gun distance, he ordered to reload. Zhang Jianghe had been paying attention to Tang Cheng's movements and the so-called modified cannon, at this moment, the muzzle direction of this modified cannon was almost straight, and Zhang Jianghe suddenly had some doubts about whether this thing modified with a mortar could be fired.
A capable boy with an inch of hair, with Tang Cheng's shout, leaned over and took out a cannonball from the shell box next to him, and before Zhang Jianghe could react, the boy had already quickly stuffed the cannonball into the barrel and pushed it to the end. What Zhang Jianghe was worried about did not appear, and at this moment, everyone saw Tang Cheng pull out a cannon rope from the tail of the cannon and pull it back hard.
"Tom!" With a bang, the shell in the barrel was knocked out, "Boom! "The explosion of life, a ball of fireworks rose from the fortress in front of everyone, and the cannonball shot out by Tang Cheng hit the front of the fortress." Again! Tang Cheng, who hit the first shot, continued to shout and reload, it was still the boy just now, who completed the loading process faster than just now, and Tang Dynasty repeated the steps and actions just now, and the cannonball hit the masonry fortress in the distance again.
The students on Tang Cheng's side cheered in unison, and even more of them had already rushed to the fortress in the distance that was still smoking to check the bombardment effect. "Report, the two shells all hit the front of the fortress, the four layers of masonry were pierced, the thick steel plate has also been seriously deformed, and all the pigs and sheep we put in the fortress died." It didn't take much effort for the students who ran over to check on the situation to return the report, and they also dragged back a goat with blood stains on its mouth and nose as evidence.
"This sheep was killed by the explosion of a cannonball!" Zhang Jianghe had fought, but he just glanced at the condition of this sheep at random, and immediately came to a conclusion. After seeing Tang Cheng's operation just now, Zhang Jianghe's doubts were even stronger, "You're hiding here these days just to get this thing?" Zhang Jianghe called Tang Cheng aside, modifying mortars is not something ordinary people can do, Zhang Jianghe didn't know that Tang Cheng still had this kind of ability.
"Among these students who came for training, there happened to be a few people with active minds, and when we were discussing the difference in weapons between our army and the Japanese army, we happened to talk about the grenadiers that the Japanese army was equipped with a lot. At that time, I suddenly had a novel idea, since grenadiers and mortars are curved weapons based on the principle of catapult, why can't the mortar be transformed into a large grenadier to use? If the mortar fires the shell, it can be controlled by the impact rope below, just like the grenadier, the reloaded mortar can be used as a direct gun in street fighting or ambush warfare. ”
No matter who it was, it was impossible for Tang Cheng to say that his move to modify the mortar was due to his later memories, so he could only make up the reason, and these students in the training camp were his best excuse and cover. "That's all?" Tang Cheng gave himself a good excuse, but Zhang Jianghe was not so easy to prevaricate, because he didn't believe in mortars that those students could understand.
Tang Cheng, who was staring at Zhang Jianghe without blinking, could only grit his teeth and persevere, "Uncle, it's really like this!" If you don't believe it, you can ask the few students who were present that day to question, and the instructors from the garrison regiment were also present at that time. Tang Cheng bit the reason he made up, Zhang Jianghe couldn't really go to those students and instructors to question, Tang Cheng was in danger of getting through this hurdle.
"Little Wu, you kid, I don't know what to say about you! Get this thing, you have good intentions and want to do something for the front-line troops. But you have to know that if you don't get this thing right, you will be put on a big hat. You are just a little policeman now, this kind of thing related to the military industry, do less in the future, otherwise something happens, and no one can save you. Zhang Jianghe warned Tang Cheng with a serious expression, but when he left, he took the modified cannon that had been tested in the field.
Zhang Jianghe was born in the army, so he naturally knew the value of this modified gun, and there were too many people who knew about this thing, even if he was the head of Chongqing Station, it was impossible to hide it. However, before he reported this thing to Nanjing, Zhang Jianghe decided to make a copy of the data and hand it over to the organization, which was too important for northern Shaanxi, which lacked guns and artillery. Zhang Jianghe was secretly glad that Tang Cheng was his nephew at this moment, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible for this thing to fall into his hands first, and the northern Shaanxi side would not lose this opportunity.
What Zhang Jianghe thought, Tang Cheng didn't know, but he knew that Zhang Jianghe would definitely not take the modified cannon for no reason. Sure enough, a day later, Tang Cheng suddenly received a report from Zhang Jianghe that he had gone to Luo Ji Tavern. This news made the stone in Tang Cheng's heart fall to the ground, it seems that his efforts were not in vain, through Zhang Jianghe, he finally transmitted the data of the modified cannon to the hands over there.