Since getting the permission of Foreman Qi, Liu Gen has lived directly in the lathe department, studying the machine tools of the lathe department day and night.

There are not many people living in the lathe department, there are less than ten people in total, but these people's skills are among the top in the lathe department. On weekdays, if there is any problem with the machine tool of the lathe department, these people will go to repair it to ensure that the machine tool can run uninterruptedly.

Liu Gen, who stayed in the arsenal, didn't know much about the front-line battles, and he knew that even if he knew about the front-line battles, it wouldn't have any effect. If you have such time, it is better to reload more bullets, or find a way to transform the machine tool of the lathe department, and strive to improve the efficiency of the machine tool again.

In order to ensure the ammunition attack of the front-line soldiers, the specialists and workers in the arsenal were extremely busy, and the arsenal did not have mandatory orders, and even said that everyone should rest as much as possible. But unfortunately, no one chooses to rest more, and everyone is trying to compress their rest time as much as possible to ensure that as many weapons and ammunition as possible are produced to support the front-line battle.

In such a tense working state in the arsenal, more than a dozen workers fell ill directly because they were too tired. At the same time, the soldiers in charge of preparing gunpowder in the arsenal exploded while preparing gunpowder due to lack of sleep, and two workers who were in charge of preparing gunpowder were injured.

After the problems in the gunpowder department, the director of the arsenal, Cheng Deciduous, decisively issued an order, ordering everyone in the arsenal to have enough rest time, and to sleep at least six to eight hours a day before they were allowed to return to work and continue working.

However, even with Director Cheng's orders, there were still people in the arsenal who did not follow the orders, including Director Cheng himself. There is no way, there are a lot of things in the arsenal that need to be handled by Director Cheng every day, and with the technology that Director Cheng has mastered, some things also need him to take action personally.

Liu Gen, Foreman Qi and others did not follow such orders, the battle on the front line was so tense, everyone wanted to produce as much ammunition as possible, so that the soldiers on the front line could be replenished to a certain extent.

At work, Liu Gen also learned some information about the front line from Foreman Qi.

At the same time, the devils repeatedly swept the direction south of the Yuliao Highway, and in order to deal with the sweep of the devils, the military and civilians in the base area continued to counterattack the devils' troops in the form of sparrow warfare and guerrilla warfare, and constantly killed and injured the devils' vital forces.

The attacks of the soldiers and civilians in the base area made the sweeping devil troops nervous, and they did not dare to sleep too hard at night, fearing that they would be attacked by the troops of the Eighth Route Army. This time the devil's sweep did not last long, and in less than ten days, the devil's troops had to withdraw to their stronghold, and dozens of people were killed and wounded.

As soon as the devils in the direction of the Yuliao Highway stopped, the first part of the 37th Division of the Devils in the direction of Qinxian and Nanguan Town, the first part of the 16th Brigade and Regiment of the Independent Mixed Regiment in the direction of Pingyao, Jiexiu, and Huoxian, and the first part of the 41st Division of the Devils in the direction of Hongdong, carried out another sweep against the Japanese base area by means of dividing the operation method of combining the area of Qinyuan and Guodaozhen to the north of it.

This time, the troops in the three directions of the devil have a total of more than 7,000 people, and their combat effectiveness is not weak.

In order to deal with the sweep of the devil's troops, the front-line troops urgently need enough ammunition to supply, only in this way can they have the strength to fight the devils. At the same time, the front-line troops began the work of transferring the masses to avoid the masses from suffering too many losses under the sweep of the devils.

It's a pity that this time the devil's movements were very fast, and before the masses in the surrounding area of Qinyuan could evacuate, the devil's troops arrived directly. The front-line troops took the initiative to block the devils to buy time for the transfer of the masses in the surrounding areas of Qinyuan, but the devils' offensive was too fierce, and the devils had fighters to cooperate with the attack, so that the troops on the front line could not hold out for too long.

In the end, the troops on the front line could only be broken into pieces and fight the sweeping devils through sparrow warfare, guerrilla warfare, mine warfare, etc. If the sweeping troops can no longer resist the devils head-on, then the troops of the Eighth Route Army can only fight in this way, and this is also the way the Eighth Route Army is best at fighting.

As the units of the Eighth Route Army on the front line were reduced to zero, by constantly attacking and harassing the devil's troops, and constantly killing and wounding the devils, the results were still very good.

In order to destroy the anti-Japanese base area and retaliate against the Eighth Route Army, the sweeping devil troops wantonly destroyed the Qinyuan area and carried out the Ember Annihilation War. Among them, Qinyuan County was the most damaged, here, the devils brutally killed more than 5,000 people, accounting for one-tenth of the county's population in Qinyuan County, nearly 10,000 livestock were killed, and more than 7,000 were robbed! At the same time, the devil also burned down a large number of houses, and the crimes committed by the devil against Qinyuan County are too numerous to mention!

When the crimes committed by the devil in Qinyuan County were reported back to the arsenal, everyone was extremely angry. Needless to say, everyone has a lot of strength in their hearts, they are in the rear, they can't directly kill devils, they can only keep sending weapons and ammunition early to the hands of the front-line soldiers.

When the time comes, the devils killed by the warriors will also have their own part.

Stimulated by the battle situation on the front line, everyone in the arsenal became more and more active in their work, and the order announced by the previous director Cheng no longer had any effect. In the arsenal, unless everyone's body really can't survive, everyone will not easily leave their jobs at all.

This is true of the workers, and so are the experts, who unite and use all their strength to produce as much ammunition as possible without wasting a single second.

Thanks to the rails removed from the devil's railway in the previous battle, there is no shortage of steel in the arsenal for the time being, otherwise according to the positive working attitude of the workers in the arsenal, I am afraid it is easy to have the embarrassment of insufficient raw materials.

In the lathe department, Liu Gen, like the workers, has always stuck to his job. Relying on his youth, Liu Gen often stayed up all night in order to find the most suitable way to transform dozens of machine tools. Dozens of machine tools need to be transformed, this is a big project, to transform the machine tools, Liu Gen needs to take into account the specific situation of each machine tool.

For this reason, Liu Genyou carefully observed the machine tools of the lathe department, and even said that he personally controlled a certain amount of time, in order to understand these machine tools as much as possible. It is difficult to say that it is difficult to modify a machine tool, but it is actually easy to say that it is easy.

If Liu Gen just wants to transform the machine tool of the lathe department at will, then it doesn't take too much time at all, but Liu Gen's intentions naturally don't want a simple transformation.

Since Foreman Qi handed over the job of transforming the machine tool to himself, Liu Gen wanted to do his best, otherwise he would have betrayed Foreman Qi's trust in him. For this reason, Liu Gen eats and lives next to the lathe, and has become a strange person in the eyes of many workers!