Huainan, as the name suggests, is located in the south of the Huai River, the city is made of coal mines, and because of coal mines, he and Ma'anshan, are benefited from the development of industrial companies and prosperous, whether it is Huainan or Ma'anshan, in the past was just a remote village, and now these two cities, but China's largest mining city.

From the very beginning, Huainan was planned as an energy base for the entire East China region, with the construction of coal mines and coal mines, and the construction of a modern coking plant to ensure the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant, turning this once rural village into a city. As a city that thrives on coal, in addition to coal mines and coking plants, the most important thing for this city is probably Huainan Chemical Company.

The same Huainan Chemical Company, for China, is also the most important modern chemical company, and Ma'anshan Chemical Company specializes in coal different, Huainan Chemical Company is important, not only because he can provide hundreds of complete chemical products with a complete system, the most important thing is his production scale, with the help of hundreds of foreign technicians, in the production workshop of Huainan Chemical Company, too many of the first time in the history of China's chemical industry.

The first barrel of synthetic dyes, the first barrel of sulfuric acid, the first barrel of benzene, the first barrel of phenol, the first ...... By Yanhuang 4603, he supplied 70% of China's methanol, 60% of lubricating oil, 45% of dyes, 88% of nitric acid, 75% sulfur, 75% of hydrochloric acid, and he was also owning the first soda ash manufacturing plant in the Far East, and now not only monopolizes China's soda ash market, but even occupies 35% of the market. In addition, 80% black powder, 75% smokeless gunpowder, and 90% explosives, these three things alone are enough to make this company occupy the most important position in China, and in the evaluation of the outside world, "without Huaihua, there will be no victory in the Liberation War".

In a col in Bagong Mountain, on the outskirts of Huainan City, more than a dozen staff members of the Huaihua Company dressed for work are preparing something. On the col, where a large number of heavily armed soldiers were closely guarded for kilometers around the people, and some swimming checkpoints could be faintly seen, walking back and forth with full concentration, such a heavily guarded scene was not common in this col, at least in terms of the level of vigilance alone, this was probably the first time.

As they unloaded the steel cylinders from the wagon and pressed them on the grass, a group of uniformed soldiers gathered around a few hundred meters away, occasionally looking at the cylinders.

"Your Majesty, in the process of producing soda ash and hydrochloric acid, we have made a large amount of chlorine, in addition to making bleaching qi, and reserve it in cylinders according to your instructions, at present, the company has reserved more than 3,600 tons of chlorine!"

Before conducting the exercise test, Lin Chengbin respectfully reported to His Majesty that five months ago, in this valley, after the test, for the first time, he found that the chemistry he had studied would change the course of the war, and a completely new weapon would be put into the battlefield by the Chinese.

"However, according to our tests, chlorine gas is very lethal, but it is not a suitable weapon, in order to ensure lethality, a large amount of chlorine gas must be applied, after the gas is cast, it produces a visible green smoke and a strong pungent smell, making it easy to be discovered by the enemy, so as to lose In the past few months, we have been trying to find a suitable poison gas, and by chance, we have obtained a colorless gas through the reaction of carbon tetrachloride and oleum oleum...... Well, we call him phosgene! ”

Lin Chengbin's pride in exchange for Chen Moran's surprise, the manufacture of chlorine cylinders is his request, according to the "Yuan Hunt Plan" The Guangfu Army must quickly defeat the frontal enemy army, and use a neat victory to force the enemy army back to the negotiating table, in order to achieve the purpose of this campaign, it is natural that it can be done at any cost.

"Phosgene?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, his poison is bigger, more secretive, and more effective than chlorine, but it wasn't until a few weeks ago that we made a technological breakthrough in the industrial production of phosgene, and we used the reaction of carbon monoxide and chlorine to obtain phosgene. This is a strongly exothermic reaction, and the synthesizer with live charcoal should have a water-cooled jacket to control the reaction temperature of about 200°C. In order to obtain high-quality phosgene and reduce corrosion of equipment, carbon monoxide that has been thoroughly dried is mixed with chlorine by maintaining an appropriate excess. The mixture is introduced from the upper part of the synthesizer, and after passing through the living carbon layer, it is quickly converted into phosgene. ”

When Lin Chengbin was talking to His Majesty, Jiang Fangzhen, Cai Yi and others were a little clueless as they looked at the employees of Huaihua Company who were preparing for it, and they knew very little about this experiment.

Chlorine...... Lethality...... Phosgene...... Vaguely listening to the conversation between His Majesty and the two of them, Jiang Fangzhen guessed that what he was about to see might be a test of a new weapon, as for what kind of weapon it was, it might be the poisonous gas contained in those cylinders.

"Baili, do you know what poison gas is?"

Cai Ye turned his head and asked Jiang Fangzhen, Jiang Fangzhen shook his head, for them, poison gas was completely a weapon beyond their concept.

"I think it can kill people!"

A group of people watched in the col between the cols, and several staff members of the Huaihua Company drove a herd of sheep and cattle and slowly walked to the shooting range. Soon, the men ran away from the col, leaving only the herd of cattle and sheep grazing slowly, and the herd of cattle and sheep seemed very uncomfortable under the gaze of the people.

"Experiments with sheep?"

Seeing the flock of sheep under the light a kilometer away from the telescope, Cai Yi frowned slightly and whispered. Normally, the power of cannonballs is tested with wooden dummies, but today they are used with living creatures such as cattle and sheep.

At this time, everything was ready, and after the signal came from a few hundred meters away, Lin Chengbin bowed lightly to His Majesty.

"Your Majesty, can you start now!"

"Let's get started!"

While nodding in agreement, Chen Moran picked up the binoculars.

"Knock, knock......"

A succession of explosions sounded at the same time in the place where the cylinders were placed, and the explosions were extremely slight.

"Your Majesty, this is to blow up the gas cylinder sealing bolt!"

Chen Moran, who had been paying attention there, did not listen to his explanation, but looked at the telescope, the cylinder spewed out a dense pale yellow mist, and the dense light yellow mist was spewing out the cylinder, and as the wind rushed towards the sheep hundreds of meters away, the light yellow mist dispersed, and the color became lighter and lighter, and finally it was not even completely colorless.

"This ......"

Chen Moran looked at Lin Chengbin in surprise, how did the poisonous gas disappear?

"Your Majesty!"

Lin Chengbin had a smile on his face.

"This is phosgene, although the compressed phosgene will produce a yellowish mist when released, but the color will disappear after the mist is emitted for 100 meters, which is the biggest difference between phosgene and chlorine, which can ensure the sudden surname of the poisonous gas."

After a while, you can clearly see from the telescope, the cattle and sheep that were grazing peacefully had a mess, as soon as they opened they looked around in horror, after a while, from time to time there were cattle and sheep fell to the ground, some cattle and sheep tried to run to other places, often the faster they ran, the faster they fell, but it was just a few minutes of effort, and hundreds of cattle and sheep who were originally grazing fell on the grass.

Holding the telescope and looking at the center of the target area in the distance, there are twitching cattle and sheep, their faces are full of incredible looks, the twitching cattle and sheep quickly went to move, the grass in the telescope seems to have returned to its previous calm, if it were not for the group of dead cattle and sheep, who would have thought of the terrifying scene before.

Jiang Cai and the two of them, who looked at each other, came back to their senses after a while, for soldiers, no matter what weapon they have, it is just a toy, and this poison gas is just a fresh toy, as long as they can kill and injure the enemy and protect themselves.

"Can it only be cast with gas cylinders?"

Putting down the binoculars, Chen Moran asked Lin Chengbin, the lethality is not bad.

"Your Majesty! Now we have jointly developed a new type of artillery shell with the Maanshan Arsenal, well! It should be directly on the cylinder with a launch and detonation part, so that the 40-liter cylinder can be directly converted into an artillery shell, according to the report from the Ma'anshan side, they have fully tested this, using a special mortar, the shell can be fired at a distance of 1 km! ”

"Sui Bo, you are personally responsible, and you must ensure that at least five thousand gas cylinders will be restructured within two weeks!"

"Yes! Your Majesty! ”

"How much phosgene can the company produce now?"

"500 kilograms!"

"500 kilograms?"

Jiang Fangzhen turned his head to look at the dead cattle and sheep again.

"Manager Lin, if you want to carry out a poison gas attack on the defense line of Kuanfu 15 kilometers deep and two kilometers deep, how much will it take...... Well, how many kilograms of phosgene! ”

"This ...... I think at least 5000 bottles of phosgene are needed, and we can produce about 20 cylinders of phosgene a day! With the current production capacity of the company, it will be possible to provide enough phosgene at least until the end of the year. ”

Lin Chengbin's answer obviously couldn't satisfy everyone, while Chen Moran frowned and thought for a while, phosgene is good, but insufficient quantity is useless.

"Manager Lin, you try your best to produce, cooperate with Ma'anshan, load all the chlorine gas in the inventory into artillery shells, and sell it to the military,"

Occasionally, when his eyes fell on the hundreds of cows and sheep on the grass that were either twitching or dead, Chen Moran did not see any changes in the future of those cattle and sheep who were struggling in pain, and now the whole world did not know what poison gas was, if thousands of tons of chlorine gas were thrown into the battlefield...... Not only can poison gas help China win wars, but it can also create a new deterrent for China, at least until they don't understand what poison gas is, they can't ignore China, which is wielding a big stick of poison gas.

For the rise of this empire, I will do anything!

When he secretly swore in his heart, Chen Moran turned his head to look at Jiang Fangzhen and said lightly.

"In short, it's still the same sentence, I will give you the best weapons and equipment, give you sufficient funds, I only have one premise, you must win this battle for me!"

(To be continued)