Songhu: Never Give Up

Chapter 40: Hand-Rubbing 107 Rocket Launcher (Please Read and Collect)
After three months of intensive training, the combat effectiveness of each company has improved rapidly, and gradually they have the temperament of a strong army. At the same time, Yue Qianli has also completed the control of the second battalion. Even the commander of the first company, Liao Jianping, no longer has any thorns and has accepted Yue Qianli as the leader.
In the final assessment, the first company won the first place in the total score. Yue Qianli did not break his promise and recommended Liao Jianping to the division headquarters as deputy battalion commander and commander of the first company.

After the troops were on the right track, Yue Qianli became a hands-off boss, leaving the troops to the deputy battalion commander Liao Jianping, and he opened a hardware factory in Xiaowai, Suzhou City;

After paying off some government officials, he secretly started making rocket launchers and rocket launchers in the factory. The workers were poached from the Jinling Military Factory at a high price.

The 107 rocket launcher, which is known as one of the three great guerrilla warfare weapons in later generations, is actually a black technology. The guerrillas of Hamas can make it by hand in underground tunnel workshops.

Through Smith, he hired several overseas Chinese technicians who were familiar with military industry at a large salary in Yingjiang, and poached more than a dozen technicians from the Jinling and Shanghai military factories. His underground military factory began to operate.

The core technology of the 107mm rocket is the propulsion system. It sounds very high-end, but in fact, it is just a mixture of sugar and potassium nitrate in a certain proportion, heated and melted, and then poured into a cylindrical mold to cool, and then the solid propulsion system of the rocket can be easily obtained.

Of course, this kind of propeller can also use processed columnar gunpowder. The projectile body is a hollow steel tube, divided into three parts. The tail is the propeller, the middle is steel balls, fragments, etc., and the head is a warhead with an electric fuse;

Yue Qianli had experienced these when he was performing missions with the special forces in the Middle East. It was not difficult at all. In the end, the overseas Chinese technician Chen Shinan couldn't believe it and asked suspiciously:
"Boss, can this thing explode?"

Yue Qianli said slowly and confidently:

"Mr. Chen, please remove the word 'ma' at the end and take you there to broaden your horizons!"

Chen Shinan was a military industry fan, and at the same time he was a radical nationalist, his hatred for the Japs was no less than Yue Qianli's, so he was very much to his liking, so he trained him as his last disciple.

The two men carried a hand-rolled rocket to the factory's secret test site. Yue Qianli placed the rocket on a rock, then used a few dry batteries and two thin wires to form a simple ignition device.

In this way, a Hamas version of a hand-rolled rocket was made, and then Yue Qianli said to Chen Shinan:
"Engineer Chen, stay away. I'm about to launch the missile. In order not to hurt civilians, I've reduced the amount of propellant by two-thirds. It will be considered a success if it hits the rocky mountain two kilometers away."

"Boss, I'll be watching right here. Go ahead and shoot. I'm not afraid!"

Yue Qianli no longer forced himself and directly connected the positive and negative poles of the wires. Instantly, electric sparks were generated at the bottom, igniting the propellant. The huge kinetic energy generated launched the rocket.

After the rocket drew a beautiful parabola in the air, it hit the stone mountain in the distance. The impact of the warhead then triggered the fuse at the head and caused it to explode. The effect was so good that a big fist could be stuffed into Chen Shinan's open mouth.

After a long time, I heard him say:
"Boss, you are a genius. With this magical weapon, why worry about the indestructibility of the ghost guards?

There is just one problem, the accuracy is too poor, and where it lands depends on luck."

"Engineer Chen, this is not a problem. Prepare gun barrels for him. And not just one, but 12, 4 in each row, three rows, which can be detached freely.
Normally, the soldiers carry it on their backs and assemble it when they need it—"

Chen Shinan was a military technician after all, so he understood immediately and shouted excitedly:
"Then why are you still standing there? Start building!"

After repeated experiments by two crazy people, Chen Shinan and Yue Qianli, they hand-made a 12-tube 107mm rocket launcher and a 40mm rocket launcher in just one week. After the experiment, the effect was surprisingly good. One month later, the design was finalized and mass production was carried out. In order not to leak the nuclear secret, the rocket launcher was temporarily produced by Engineer Chen and several core technicians. A total of six rocket launchers were produced, and 40 12mm rocket launchers were made. The rest of the time was spent working overtime to make artillery shells.
一门107毫米火箭炮一个齐射就要消耗12枚火箭弹，6门就是72枚，手工作坊的产能就那么大，所以到6月底他们才生产出1千枚炮弹。

These shells were enough for the Second Battalion to use for a while, and all these rocket launchers and bazookas were equipped to the machine gun company;
Next, they took the machine gun company to the mountains for a few days of training in the name of live-fire training, allowing them to fully master how to use it, and told them that they bought it from the United States.

Rockets alone were not enough, so Yue Qianli found a few gasoline barrels. In order to increase reliability, he had people weld a few clamps on the outside of the barrels, and he made a simple flying thunder gun barrel.

Use a round wooden board to separate the gasoline barrel into two parts, with a pack of propellant at the bottom and a homemade explosive pack at the top;
Each explosive pack weighs about 3.75 kilograms and contains 1.25 kilograms of high explosives and a large amount of broken iron pieces and chili powder. In this way, a "heartless cannon" was created.

Because white sugar was added to the propellant, the kinetic energy increased and the range reached 500 meters, but the accuracy was a little worse.

Six such unscrupulous cannons were built and directly distributed to the companies, with two in each company. Yue Qianli did not want to keep the unscrupulous cannon a secret from other troops.

As long as we gain a reputation, it will be very easy for other troops to imitate us, thus strengthening the firepower of the national army.

In order to ensure the safety of the military workshop, after the equipment was produced, they were stuffed into the battalion headquarters as chores. In addition, more than 30 young and middle-aged men were recruited from the local people and more than a dozen mules and horses were purchased to transport supplies.

By the time all this was ready, it was already early July. The Japanese attacked Lugou Bridge brazenly. The officers and soldiers of the 7th Army rose up to resist, and the war first broke out in North China.

The 88th Division received an order from its superiors to enter a level one combat readiness state, and the Second Battalion was fully prepared to join the battle at any time.

The war in Peking concerned the people of the whole country, and the government also issued a tough statement, saying that there was no point in retreating:

“Peace is not something that can be easily achieved…If war breaks out, no matter where you are, no matter how old you are, everyone has the responsibility to defend the country and fight the war, and everyone should be determined to sacrifice everything.”

At the training ground of the 88nd Battalion of the 527th Regiment of the th Division, the troops were in full swing and a swearing-in ceremony was in progress. The battalion commander Yue Qianli waved his fist and said loudly:
"Brothers, this is a life-and-death national war. The devil's target is the entire China. If we don't fight to the death, China will face the tragic end of national destruction.

From today on, as long as we are still alive, we must fight for our country and our nation and fight the devils to the death.

I would rather die in battle than be a slave of a conquered nation!"

Hundreds of men roared in unison, saying that they would rather die in battle than become slaves of a conquered country!

The Yellow River is roaring!
The Yellow River is roaring...

(End of this chapter)