After the Japanese invading army occupied Shangqiu, the 4th Cavalry Brigade of the North China Army was dispatched to replace the 16th Division and the 3rd Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army to garrison Zhuji for a long time, and supported the traitor Zhang Lanfeng. But in fact, in the vast area of more than a dozen counties in eastern Henan, the strength of the Japanese army was quite empty.www.biquge.info

Despite this, Yang Tianfeng did not continue to launch a major offensive, frantically expanding his territory, and after thinking that he had achieved his goal, he began the planned major expansion.

In doing so, it has deepened the misjudgment of people, including the Japanese devils. The strength of the Third Column was indeed insufficient, and it was indeed relied on the continuous victory of the 61st Regiment of the regular army. Although this rumor made the officers and soldiers of the Third Column dissatisfied, Yang Tianfeng did not care, and after arranging various tasks, he rushed back to the Mangdangshan Arsenal.

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There was a muffled sound of "bang", and the steel plate in front of it suddenly burst out with a dazzling spark, followed by a loud "boom".

The smoke of gunpowder was filled, the steel plates were blown away, the snow on the ground was scalded by the scorching steel plates, and heavy water vapor rose.

Shi Tongran and Zhou Zhizhong ran over quickly, Yang Tianfeng stretched out his hand to signal, and Ma Yuming followed unhurriedly.

"It's really powerful!" Ma Yuming also watched the live ammunition demonstration of "Steel Fist" for the first time, and couldn't help but sigh, "Ma is really short-sighted, and he was reprimanded by Boss Dai, and he was not wronged." ”

"A new weapon often means a new method of warfare, and although the steel fist is fierce, it must be used in specific occasions to exert its full power." The smug look on Yang Tianfeng's face faded, and he said slowly: "I wrote all of these and handed them over to Brother Ma, hoping that the troops of the National X Army equipped with steel fists can pay attention to it." ”

Ma Yuming nodded and said, "The complex terrain, the streets, alleys, villages and towns, and the coordination of the enemy's steps are not difficult to understand. Brother Yang's hard work should not be disappointed. ”

As they spoke, the two of them had already walked up to the steel plate. Shi Tongran and Zhou Zhizhong were inspecting the steel plate, and after the armor-piercing grenade shot through the steel plate, its dense, extremely high temperature metal fragments shot the wooden dummy behind the steel plate into thousands of holes, and the air was filled with water vapor and the smell of burning.

Zhou Zhizhong took the lead in extending his thumb to Yang Tianfeng and said: "When fighting against devils, I don't know how many brothers died heroically in front of the enemy's tanks, if there was already this weapon-" He sighed and shook his head, a little unable to speak.

Shi Tongran looked at Yang Tianfeng, and his heart was shocked. He also knew that if this only one kind of armor-piercing weapon was popularized, it would play an immeasurable role in the entire anti-Japanese battlefield. Sun Tongxuan is also bound to make major concessions in order to keep Yang Tianfeng, a big fish, in the Third Army and supply weapons to the Third Army.

"Shi Mouxin is convinced." Shi Tongran arched his hand and said sincerely: "I will contact Commander Sun immediately, I believe that including issues such as the Luxi Recruitment and Punishment Office and the distribution of intellectual youth, there will be a satisfactory result for Brother Yang." ”

"Thank you, Brother Shi." Yang Tianfeng returned the salute and said, "Although the weapon is good, it still needs someone to use it." Brother Shi must also understand how difficult it is for ordinary soldiers to learn this ranging measurement, estimating speed, calculating the amount of advance, etc. Therefore, this young man of knowledge is quite precious and important, and Yang is thirsty for it! ”

"I understand, I understand." Shi Tongran nodded in agreement and said, "I immediately suggest that Commander Sun send a group of soldiers and officers who graduated from high school from the group army to come for training. Then, this redistribution will be decided by Commander Sun and General Yang in consultation. ”

"This is the fastest and best way to build combat effectiveness." Yang Tianfeng pondered for a moment and said, "As long as the materials are sufficient, Yang will give priority to supplying new weapons to the Third Army." We belong to the same war zone, and Commander Sun is Yang's commander, which is understandable. ”

Ma Yuming saw Yang Tianfeng's gaze, but he just smiled and said nothing, which can be regarded as a kind of acquiescence. Anyway, his military command special forces will be supplied with weapons, and it is also predictable that his military exploits will add glory to him.

Yang Tianfeng's thinking, Ma Yuming also pondered about it. That is to reach out everywhere, to ask for talents, equipment, and materials. The Third Group Army was stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River, which could also be regarded as a rear, and intellectuals and young people could be recruited, and some machinery, equipment, and materials could also be obtained. Yang Tianfeng can not be a new or old-fashioned equipment, even the steam engine that is decades behind is not disliked, it can be said that the more the merrier.

The two sides are nominally subordinate, but Yang Tianfeng will not bow down to everything. Take the arsenal as an example, he has to hold it firmly in his hands and use weapons and equipment as bargaining chips in exchange for the materials and money he needs.

There is no need to say it too thoroughly, but Shi Tongran and Zhou Zhizhong also heard the meaning. Weapons and equipment could be supplied to the Third Army, but not unconditionally and not gratuitous. Personnel and materials, if you want to use these two things.

"With this sharp weapon and good use of it, the Japanese armored forces can no longer run amok." Zhou Zhizhong, as an officer who was concentrating on fighting, naturally had an urgent need for new weapons, and when he glanced at it, he said: "If the Third Army can be equipped, it is also exciting to increase its combat effectiveness. ”

Shi Tongran smiled and nodded helplessly, he knew that it was a sure thing to make concessions to Yang Tianfeng. In the long run, the Third Group Army, a miscellaneous unit, still has to rely on Yang Tianfeng's arsenal and use this bridgehead to obtain personnel and funds, and it is not advisable to turn the other cheek or make a stalemate.

Perhaps, temporary concessions will pay dividends in the long run. Shi Tongran decided to say good things for Yang Tianfeng, because he was optimistic about Yang Tianfeng. Now it's a steel fist, and in the future, maybe there will be some more powerful weapons. It is very likely that the Third Army's combat strength will increase greatly because of this, and even the national government will be impressed, and it will not dare to easily divide and suppress it.

When Shi Tongran thought about it like this, he shook off his unwillingness and depression, and became close to Yang Tianfeng's attitude. In and out of the words, he promised in disguise that he would try his best to satisfy Yang Tianfeng in the distribution of Luxi's recruitment office and smuggling profits.

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Only when the value is reflected will it be valued, and there will be bargaining capital.

Yang Tianfeng saw this very thoroughly and used it very skillfully. After successively leveling the military command and the Third Army, he kept in touch with the troops in various places through telegraphs, and devoted most of his time to military production.

It is relatively easy to start from scratch, but to form a production scale, it is always a bottleneck for the arsenal. Moreover, the production process and technical level also need to be improved and enhanced. It's just that with the help of the vast knowledge in Yang Tianfeng's mind, the progress that took thousands of experiments and explorations to make is now greatly saving time.

For example, electric welding is not available for the time being, and the tail wings of mortar shells and steel fist grenades are welded using the soil method (a process invented by the Eighth Route Army Arsenal in 1943); The combination of foreign black-hearted toughening treatment technology and Chinese traditional "simmering" technology makes the refined white pig iron become gray iron with certain toughness and can be turned, which improves the production speed and quality of mortar shells; The barrel blank is produced by the integral casting method or the hot pier processing method (the hammer pier is formed into a solid cylinder after the steel bar is reddened), and then the middle is hollowed out with pulley hammer, splint hammer and boring machine and other equipment, and processed into a seamless steel pipe blank, which can make two 120mm mortar barrels in one day......

Advanced, local methods, Yang Tianfeng searched the intestines and scraped his stomach, all that could be used, and one by one the sharp weapons to kill the enemy were constantly manufactured, and batches of ammunition and materials were also delivered to the troops, increasing the combat power.

The 40mm single-shot grenade launcher was manufactured, and it was indeed as Yang Tianfeng expected, the launcher was easy to manufacture, but the custom grenade was difficult to produce. Cartridge shells, fuses, warheads, etc., all need to re-establish a set of manufacturing processes and technical standards, and the warheads also need to be relatively finely processed.

Yang Tianfeng simply changed mortar shells and grenades to time-delay leads (similar to grenades). Although this is not perfect, it is also temporary, and it is not too late to change to touch bombing when there are more and better machines and more sophisticated technology in the future.

Of course, if you concentrate all your efforts, production will naturally increase significantly, but what about the production of other weapons and ammunition? Bullets, grenades, mines, shotguns, mortar shells, mortars, steel fists, grenade launchers...... These are also needed by the army, which is being greatly expanded, and under the conditions of limited technical equipment, personnel, materials, and so on, it can only adopt a relatively balanced production schedule.

The purchase or in-house production of machinery and equipment, the recruitment of technicians and workers, is of course a way to increase production. Strengthening management, implementing scientific division of labor and cooperation, and improving labor productivity are also very important measures, and Yang Tianfeng has also made some planning arrangements for this.

The Crouching Tiger Gang Gun Factory in Wuyang is now responsible for the production of shotguns and ammunition for them, grenade launchers, gun scopes, and a small number of grenades and mines.

The arsenal located in the mountains of Mangdang took over most of the production of the military industry after receiving some of the equipment and most of the new machinery in Wohugang. The explosives, casting, boring, milling, assembly and other workshops are distributed in Baoan Mountain, Lishan, Xushan, Loess Mountain and other places.

Don't put your eggs in one basket, safety and confidentiality, this is of course Yang Tianfeng's consideration. At the same time, the refined process makes the work of each workshop simple and repetitive, reducing the technical content and requirements for workers. In this way, there is no need for a high level of education and technical level, and many jobs can be undertaken by ordinary people, and they are just skilled workers.

Coupled with reasonable incentives, strict division of responsibilities, and incentives for piecework wages, the scale of the arsenal became larger and more formal, and the total number of workers exceeded six hundred, showing vigorous vitality.

In military production, bottlenecks will continue to appear, but Yang Tianfeng and the technicians of the arsenal are confident that they will break through one by one. The most gratifying thing for Yang Tianfeng was that the arsenal began to use the principle of interchangeability (first adopted by the United States in 1798) to manufacture parts in batches, although there were still shortcomings, but it was a very gratifying and valuable step towards standardization.

………… (To be continued.) )