After Liu Gen answered all the questions for Kong Jue, the time was almost noon, and speaking of which, in order to answer Kong Jue's questions, Liu Gen wasted a morning's time.

"Engineer Liu, thank you for answering these questions for me." Kong Jue bowed.

After asking Liu Gen so many questions, Kong Jue clearly realized the gap between himself and Liu Gen, he was older than Liu Gen, but in many ways, he could not be compared with Liu Gen. did not directly call Liu Gen by name, and called Liu Gen Engineer Liu, representing Kong Jue's change of mentality.

Liu Gen hurriedly stretched out his hand to help Kong Jue, "Brother Kong, what are you doing like this?" The two of us are communicating on an equal footing, and I have learned a lot of new things myself while helping you answer your questions. ”

In the process of answering Kong Jue's various questions, Liu Gen also constantly sorted out the relevant knowledge in his mind. From this knowledge, Liu Gen found a lot of problems in himself, and when Liu Gen discovered these problems and solved these problems, he got a certain improvement again.

Kong Jue didn't say anything, he looked at Liu Gen with some emotion, in Kong Jue's opinion, Liu Gen was completely taking care of his own face. In the arsenal, he Kong Jue still has some reputation, and many workers know about Kong Jue's existence and know that Kong Jue is a genius young man.

Feeling Kong Jue's gaze at him, Liu Gen smiled bitterly in his heart, and he realized that Kong Jue might have misunderstood what he meant. But there are too many people here, and Liu Gen is not easy to explain in detail to Kong Jue, hoping that Kong Jue will not be affected too much.

"Comrades from the arsenal, it's noon, it's time for lunch."

"Comrades should be hungry after listening to it all morning, I hope comrades can leave the artillery department in an orderly manner, you still have a lot of work to do." Liu Gen looked at the workers of various departments present and said sincerely.

The workshop of the artillery department is not small, and it is not a problem to accommodate two or three hundred people, but because Liu Gen answered Kong Jue's questions, the artillery department was directly crowded with workers. If the workers on the periphery did not leave, then the other workers would not be able to leave the artillery department at all.

Foreman Qi and the others looked at Liu Gen's position, and in Liu Gen, they seemed to see hope for the future of the arsenal. Compared with other young people, Liu Gen is much more mature, and it is rare to see the young side of Liu Gen.

And it is not impossible to find young people like Liu Gen in the Eighth Route Army, these young people who have become mature and stable have too many things on their shoulders, and they have too much pressure. Young people should have the vitality and naughtiness of young people, but now due to the war, young people like Liu Gen can only make themselves desperately mature and stable.

"We need to work on it too! Young people can't be left to do everything. Foreman Qi took the lead and left, seemingly a little more determined.

The other heads of various parts of the arsenal were somewhat silent, and after a moment, they looked at each other, and they could see the extra determination in each other's eyes. Liu Gen, a young man, is trying to change the arsenal and make it better, and they old people also need to do something!

On weekdays, the heads of various departments work very hard, but now, they realize that they need to work harder! In such an era, as long as you are alive, then you have to work hard! When you die, you have too much time to rest.

Several responsible persons quietly left the artillery department, and stayed in the artillery department this morning and listened carefully to Liu Gen's answer for Kong Jue, and they also learned a lot. Now that they are leaving, they are not going to disturb Liu Gen, thinking that Liu Gen will be a little tired when they come this morning.

Liu Gen didn't notice that Foreman Qi had been here, and by the time he left the artillery department with Kong Jue, twenty minutes had passed. In fact, too many people came to the artillery department this morning, and after waiting for all these people to leave, Liu Gen and the others checked that there was no problem with the machine tools and equipment of the artillery department, and then left the artillery department to have lunch.

Liu Gen is still very concerned about the machine tools and equipment of the artillery department, which is related to the speed at which he manufactures rocket artillery. With good enough machine tools, it will not take too long to manufacture rocket artillery, but the machine tools and equipment of the arsenal are not good, and there are many problems that need to be solved if you want to successfully manufacture rocket artillery.

After lunch, Liu Gen took Kong Jue and others to work, their afternoon work was not much, they only needed to do some preparations before the manufacture of rocket artillery.

Under the leadership of Liu Gen, there were naturally no problems during the preparation, and everything went very smoothly. Because Liu Gen explained a lot of things in the morning, Kong Jue and the others did not show the slightest impatience when they were making preparations, and they did it very carefully.

At work, the performance of Kong Jue and others was seen by Liu Gen, and he was very satisfied.

Making rocket artillery is not a simple matter, and there will inevitably be many problems encountered during the process, and solving these problems undoubtedly requires a lot of patience.

During the period when Liu Gen was manufacturing rocket artillery, he received an order from the division commander that the first batch of cadets had already received enough learning in the artillery school, and then they needed to be sent to various units for enough actual combat to ensure that they could grow up quickly.

When sending these students away, Liu Gen was extremely reluctant, and after getting along with these students for so long, Liu Gen had already had a deep relationship with them. Thinking that these students would inevitably have certain casualties when they entered the troops, Liu Gen couldn't bear to let them leave and continue to stay by his side, maybe these students would not be in danger of their lives.

However, Liu Gen also knew that it was unrealistic to keep these students by his side, and in the end, he only left the three students led by Wang Chao.

It is worth mentioning that the head of the special service group, Ou, also deliberately wanted to leave a few students, he had already known a lot of things about Liu Gen from the bosses, and he was still very confident in the students trained by Liu Gen himself. In Commander Ou's opinion, even if these students can't do what Liu Gen does, then they will definitely be stronger than ordinary artillery.

Captain Ou was very smart, he didn't miss this opportunity, and even said that in order to get a few more students, he also specially asked for passwords from the bosses, and in the end, Captain Ou successfully took away six students.

It is already very good to be able to take away six trainees, you must know that the 129th Division has a lot of troops, and there are many students in the first phase, but there will not be too many students who are really assigned to each unit, and most of the troops can only get two or three students. There are only a few units in the entire 129th Division that can be divided into several cadets like the special service regiment.

After the cadets were assigned to various units, the scale of the artillery school became much smaller, and the soldiers of the security department only needed to train every day. During this period, Liu Genyou sent soldiers to find Chen Ergou's traces, but he failed to find Chen Ergou's figure, and after many inquiries, he learned that Chen Ergou rushed into the depths of the Taihang Mountains with his soldiers, and he should have successfully thrown off the devil army.

In contacting the troops in the Taihang Mountains, Liu Gen determined the news that Chen Ergou and others were still alive, Chen Ergou took more than 20 people to lure away the devil troops, and finally rushed into the depths of the Taihang Mountains, Chen Ergou and others were less than ten people. From the changes in the strength of the army, Liu Gen can imagine how dangerous Chen Ergou will be when they lure away the devils.

Since the devil sweeping troops were still raging in the base area, Chen Ergou and they would not be able to join Liu Gen in a short period of time, and with their state, it was also feasible to stay in the Taihang Mountains for a period of time. If they really let Chen Ergou and them forcibly join Liu Gen, once they encounter the devil's sweeping troops on the road, then Chen Ergou and them will only be more dangerous.

After confirming the news of Chen Ergou and others, Liu Gen was able to devote himself to the manufacture of rocket artillery without too much worry, and he clearly felt the difficulty of really manufacturing rocket artillery. Even if the requirements for steel for rocket artillery barrels are not high, Liu Gen still encountered a lot of troubles when manufacturing cannon barrels.

Under the constraints of objective conditions, it is difficult to improve the quality of steel in the arsenal, and the only thing Liu Gen and his team can do is to strive to make a better barrel on the basis of the existing steel.

After Liu Gen and the others made a qualified cannon barrel, they began to worry about the gunpowder of rocket artillery, but fortunately, at this time, the arsenal made progress in the research of gunpowder, and the gunpowder was successfully manufactured. For this reason, Liu Gen specially applied to Director Xu for some ammonium nitrate gunpowder to make rockets.

In terms of power, ammonium nitrate gunpowder is undoubtedly much stronger than the black powder commonly used in arsenals, and Liu Gen and others also know the power of ammonium nitrate gunpowder, and they are quite cautious when manufacturing rockets, so there is no big problem.

Ammonium nitrate gunpowder is nothing to other countries, and it may not be too difficult, but for the Eighth Route Army Arsenal, it is still not difficult to make ammonium nitrate gunpowder. During this period, in order to successfully develop ammonium nitrate gunpowder, there were many casualties in the gunpowder research and development department of the arsenal, and every time the explosion sounded, it could take the lives of the research and development personnel.

There are not many gunpowder applications from Director Xu, and there are many places in the arsenal that need this new type of gunpowder, and the ammunition produced with this gunpowder will no longer have the embarrassing scene of not being able to kill people. It's just that even if the gunpowder department of the arsenal works overtime to produce ammonium nitrate gunpowder, it can't fully meet the needs of the arsenal, which makes ammonium nitrate gunpowder become sought-after in the arsenal.

Liu Gen knew the importance of gunpowder, and he wanted to contribute to the research and development of new gunpowder in the gunpowder department, but as soon as Liu Gen revealed such an idea, he was severely stopped by Director Xu. Liu Gen is a genius Yes, no matter what he does, he has made a lot of achievements, and it is precisely because Liu Gen is a genius that he needs to be protected enough.

When Director Xu took over the arsenal, he was instructed by the bosses to pay attention to Liu Gen and not let Liu Gen do anything dangerous in the arsenal. At the beginning, Director Xu was still a little unimpressed, even if Liu Gen was powerful, what could he do? He's just a young man, how much real power will he have?

But now, Director Xu clearly saw Liu Gen's ability, and he naturally wouldn't have any idea of letting Liu Gen get into danger.

In order to prevent Liu Gen from entering the gunpowder department without obeying the order, Director Xu also specially asked for two soldiers from the head of the regiment, so that the two soldiers would always follow Liu Gen's side, watch Liu Gen, and avoid Liu Gen from putting himself in danger.

There are two warriors by his side at all times, even if Liu Gen wants to enter the gunpowder department, it is impossible at all, unless Liu Gen knocks these two fighters down, but he will definitely not do this. Liu Genyu has no grievances and no hatred against these two warriors, how can they easily attack them? In the end, Liu Gen could only get a copy of the information about gunpowder from the prestige mall, hoping to help the R&D personnel of the gunpowder department in this way.

When Liu Gen sent the information to the R&D personnel of the Gunpowder Department, this information was continuously studied by the R&D personnel, and under their continuous study, the R&D work of the Gunpowder Department progressed rapidly. The only thing that restricts the development of the Gunpowder Department is the shortage of manpower, and it is impossible to make up for this deficiency in a short period of time, and it takes a long time to train these personnel.

In June, the manufacture of rocket artillery was mostly completed, leaving only the engine problem inside the rocket to be solved. The engine inside the rocket is not very demanding, as a disposable, the engine does not need to be made of too good materials, it only needs to be able to not affect the start of the rocket artillery.

In the manufacture of rocket engines, Liu Gen and the workers chose to manufacture them by hand grinding, not because Liu Gen did not want to use machine tools to manufacture, but because the accuracy of machine tools was not enough. The engine placed in the rocket is not large, and in the case of insufficient accuracy, it will be faster to polish it by hand.

In mid-June, Liu Gen led the artillery department to successfully manufacture a rocket launcher, and looking at the simple rocket launcher placed in the workshop of the artillery department, Liu Gen and the personnel of the artillery department were extremely excited. Only by being personally involved in the manufacture of rocket artillery will you understand how difficult it will be to make such a seemingly rudimentary rocket launcher.

This time, in order to successfully manufacture the rocket artillery, Liu Gen and others took almost a month, which was a little too slow. Of course, the speed is so slow, but also because Liu Gen and others have no experience in manufacturing for the first time, especially when manufacturing some parts that cannot be manufactured with machine tools, it takes too much time.

With the experience of successfully creating rocket artillery, the next time it is made, the speed will inevitably be much faster.

On 20 June, the heads of various departments of the arsenal came to the special task force, and today was the day when the rocket artillery was fired with live ammunition, and today's test launch also felt whether the arsenal would continue to produce this kind of rocket artillery in the future.

"Genzi, how are you kid? Nervous? After carefully observing the rocket artillery, Foreman Qi came to Liu Gen's side and asked with a smile.

Liu Gen hesitated for a moment but nodded, he was confident in this rocket launcher made by himself, but he didn't know why he was still a little more worried about it at this time, and he was a little worried that there would be a problem with the rocket artillery.