"Engineer Qi, this is Captain Liu of the artillery team of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division, who received an order from the headquarters to come to our arsenal."

"Next, Captain Liu will study in your lathe department, I hope you can take him well." Director Cheng took Liu Gen to the lathe department, directly found the busy Qi foreman, and explained to the Qi foreman.

Foreman Qi stopped what he was doing and asked with a look of surprise, "Captain Liu?" Is that the one who took out the 60mm mortar ** paper before? ”

The arsenal is in the rear, but this does not mean that the people in the arsenal do not know about the battles on the front line, not to mention that the arsenal has a certain connection with the front-line troops, and it is necessary to replenish them with weapons and ammunition. Foreman Qi has heard of Liu Gen's record, and he is very accurate in his artillery, and even successfully knocked down the devil's plane with a mortar, and he is even called the 'artillery god' by the soldiers.

When they first heard that Liu Gen had used a mortar to shoot down the devil fighter, the staff in the arsenal discussed it for a long time, and some experts even gathered to discuss the possibility of using mortars to shoot down the devil fighter!

After the discussion of the experts, everyone came to a conclusion that unless the technology really reaches a certain level, if you want to use mortars to successfully shoot down the devil's fighters, you need to rely on luck!

In the end, experts regarded Liu Gen's success in shooting down the devil fighter as luck.

But some time ago, the devil fighter retaliated against the 129th Brigade Headquarters of the 386th Division, and the specific reasons were not very clear to everyone in the arsenal, but they knew very well the achievements of the 386 Brigade Brigade Headquarters Artillery Team! This time the devil's revenge was once again successfully knocked down by the artillery team led by Liu Gen!

It can be said that it was luck to knock down the devil fighter before, but what about this time?

After knowing the achievements of the artillery team of the 386 Brigade Headquarters again, the experts of the arsenal became silent, at this time they did not understand that Liu Gen was able to take the artillery team to shoot down the devil fighter again, it was not luck at all, but real technology!

"It's him, who was invited by Liu Lao to come to our arsenal, and temporarily let him study in your lathe department first." Director Cheng said with a smile.

Foreman Qi nodded, being able to design two mortars showed that Liu Gen's ability was still good, but he was not sure if Liu Gen would be able to do a good job in the lathe department.

"Are you sure you want to go to the lathe department? The lathe department is very tired and works long hours every day. Looking at Liu Gen on the side, Engineer Qi asked.

Liu Gen nodded vigorously, and said firmly: "Foreman Qi, I am sure that I want to enter the lathe department, no matter how hard I work, I can persevere." ”

"Okay, then you can follow me in the future, how much you can learn depends on your ability." After Engineer Qi glanced at Liu Gen deeply, he spoke.

Liu Gen's face showed obvious joy, and he didn't expect to be able to follow Foreman Qi directly after entering the lathe department. And being able to follow Foreman Qi is not only an opportunity for Liu Gen, but also a challenge for him. By Foreman Qi's side, Liu Gen can learn a lot, but there will undoubtedly be more pressure.

But Liu Gen believes that he will definitely be able to persevere with his own ability, if he can't do his best under the leadership of Engineer Qi, then it is undoubtedly impossible to learn more techniques in the arsenal.

Director Cheng looked at all this with satisfaction, and handed over Liu Gen to Engineer Qi, he was still very relieved. Foreman Qi originally worked in the Taiyuan Arsenal, but due to the layoffs in the Taiyuan Arsenal in 1931, Foreman Qi could only leave the Taiyuan Arsenal in the end. The Taiyuan Arsenal, which has undergone layoffs, has less than 2,000 employees left after the layoffs, and only does some work on ordnance repair and civilian production.

To be able to become the foreman of the lathe department of the Huangyadong Arsenal, the ability of the foreman Qi is beyond doubt, and the development of the lathe department under the leadership of the foreman is also quite good, and the workers' enthusiasm for work is very high.

"Then I will hand over the root to you, and I will hand him over to you, I can rest assured."

"There are still some things to deal with in the factory, so I'll go back first, and when there is a time, you will come to me, and I will try my best to help you solve it." Before leaving, Director Cheng explained to Liu Gen again.

Director Cheng takes care of Liu Gen very much, and a genius like Liu Gen naturally needs to pay enough attention! Director Cheng hopes that Liu Gen can study at ease in the Ministry of Military Industry, so that he can get enough improvement again, and he very much hopes to see Liu Gen make some other achievements again.

As Director Cheng left, Liu Gen followed Foreman Qi and wandered around the lathe department.

It can be seen that the lathe department is the most important place in the arsenal, and from the distribution of the camp, the lathe department is in the center of the camp, and there are soldiers everywhere to protect it. Just following Foreman Qi's side, Liu Gen also found that there were many problems in the lathe department.

There are not many machine tools and equipment in the lathe department, and there are only 17 cutting machine tools, all of which are powered by steam and driven by shaft belts. Some of the special equipment was made by the workers themselves using rail steel as wounds.

Many of the equipment is a little old, but it is worth mentioning that the lathe department is illuminated, which means that the lathe department will also work at night.

The workers of the lathe department were a little surprised when they saw Liu Gen who was following behind Foreman Qi, and at the same time realized that there was a new person in the lathe department. Due to the particularity of the lathe department, there are also the most high-achieving students from major colleges and universities, and many of them are not studying this major, but in order to support the front-line battle, they chose to enter the arsenal and became a member of the lathe department.

"Captain Liu, what do you think of the lathe department?" After taking Liu Gen around, Engineer Qi asked.

Liu Gen was silent for a moment, organized the language and said: "The lathe department is not bad, but there are some unreasonable places in it, and there are fewer machine tools of all kinds. ”

"In addition, because we use steam machines, the production efficiency is still a little low."

Foreman Qi nodded, he knew that what Liu Gen said was right, there were a lot of problems in the lathe department, but there was no way, the arsenal was such a condition, and there was no good way to get a better machine tool. It is already quite good that the arsenal can have so many machine tools, and you can't ask for too much.

"Then Captain Liu, how do you think it should be solved? Restricting our lathe department to find is the number of lathes, but to design a qualified machine tool is very difficult, before the director of the Cheng factory took out several kinds of lathe drawings, but after manufacturing, there are many problems. Foreman Qi said helplessly.

The design of the lathe is not so simple, even if it is Director Cheng, there are not too many ways, and the Eighth Route Army does not have too many talents in this area, so it is naturally impossible to manufacture the lathe.

Liu Gen was silent, he knew that the design of the lathe was very difficult, not to mention the high requirements for precision of the machine tool. In addition, the Eighth Route Army is relatively weak in steel and cannot get too good steel, which will naturally increase the difficulty of machine tool manufacturing.

The most important thing is that the processing of machine tool castings requires some related processing equipment, which are lacking in the arsenal.