Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

In the next few days, Kong Jie made some adjustments to the independent regiment.

First, they absorbed more than 30 soldiers of the National Army who were rescued from the prisoner-of-war camps.

Among them was Wei Dayong, who came from the Central Army and was an expert in Kung Fu. He was temporarily arranged by Kong Jie to help with odd jobs in the courtyard of the regiment headquarters.

This made Li Yunlong very depressed. It would be better for him to be a guard instead of doing odd jobs!

Li Yunlong naturally didn't know.

Kong Jie wanted to further hone Wei Dayong's unruly arrogance so that he could stand on his own and take on important responsibilities in the future.

In addition, Li Erniu, a strong soldier among the Kuomintang soldiers, had previously served as a heavy machine gunner in the Kuomintang army. After joining the independent regiment, he was also arranged by Kong Jie to the position of heavy machine gunner.

Qian Hu was the soldier who was the first to stand up and fight against the Japanese special forces. He was from the engineering department of the National Army and was an expert in blasting.

He was temporarily arranged by Kong Jie to be the squad leader of the engineering squad directly under the regiment headquarters.

The other one is Zhao Bing, who was formerly the deputy platoon leader of the artillery platoon of the Northeast Army and a genuine artillery talent.

Kong Jie arranged Zhao Bing into the artillery unit - he ordered a specially built artillery platoon directly under the regiment and appointed him as the platoon leader.

But when Li Yunlong learned about this, he almost laughed to death:

"Old Kong, what kind of artillery platoon is that? I heard that it only has a few grenade launchers and not even a decent mortar. It's a team of more than 20 people, but it's still an empty shell. How dare you call it a regiment-affiliated artillery platoon?"

Facing Li Yunlong's ridicule, Kong Jie said indifferently: "Old Li, just wait and see, it won't be long before we have all kinds of artillery.

If you don't believe me, how about we make another bet?"

Li Yunlong immediately became interested: "How do we bet?"

"I'm betting on whether I can build a real and powerful artillery platoon in the independent regiment within a month.

If only I had done it.

Lao Li, let's make a deal. You come to the independent regiment to be my deputy commander and do some temporary work. Not only must you obey my orders, but I won't pay you after the job is done. Don't play dirty and try to get benefits from me."

"What if you can't do it?"

Li Yunlong asked in return. With his ability, it took him more than a year to lead the New 1st Regiment for the entire regiment to get such a mortar.

If you want to set up an artillery platoon, it will be meaningless without three or five decent cannons. How can Kong Erlangzi be capable of getting three or five cannons within a month?

Not to mention the current situation of the Independent Regiment. They just suffered a defeat in the Yangcun encounter and their morale has not yet recovered!

Why does Kong Erlangzi have the right to be so arrogant?

Kong Jie's answer was quite straightforward: "If I can't form a decent artillery platoon in a month, Lao Li, when you are transferred back to be the regiment commander, I will give you half of the captured goods, whether it is guns, ammunition or food supplies, that our independent regiment has obtained during your tenure as deputy commander.

how is it? "

After these words came out, Li Yunlong's breathing became a little rapid: "Old Kong, do you mean what you said?"

Kong Jie said: "When have I ever broken my promise?"

Li Yunlong said: "Okay, then let's make a deal. If you lose, you are not allowed to deny it!"

Kong Jie: "I'm afraid that you, Li Yunlong, will be shameless and cheat!"

Li Yunlong retorted: "What a joke! Whoever cheats is a puppy!"

Li Yunlong really didn't believe it. In fact, he was still a little depressed about being the deputy head of the regiment under Kong Jie.

He wanted to see how Kong Jie, the regiment commander, would perform and lead the troops in the future.

And you can build a powerful artillery platoon within a month?

Just brag!

As for the confidence that Kong Jie had in the bet with Li Yunlong, it naturally came from his special golden finger.

Two days ago, Kong Jie took a walk around the warehouse where the independent regiment stored various damaged weapons that had been captured. The golden finger worked again, and text descriptions popped up on various materials and damaged guns and ammunition in the armory.

The final conclusion is:

[This is a pile of damaged equipment and discarded materials. At first glance, it seems to be a pile of waste and useless. However, if it is handed over to the hands of military experts, it may be possible to turn waste into treasure and make some improved weapons with their own hands! ]

[…200 rifles were damaged, and after disassembling and reassembling, 80 rifles were refitted to kill the enemy, including a sniper rifle based on the Type 38 rifle with a x scope specially designed for shooting…The damaged Japanese Type - grenade launchers can be manually improved into mini Type mortars with tripods, longer barrels, and more propellant bags to increase range and power…]

[The simplest fertilizer powder, the main component of which is ammonium sulfate, can be refined and converted into explosive raw materials such as nitramine and ammonium nitrate through chemical methods to make explosives. ]

[Now that the materials are sufficient, should we start the hand-kneading process immediately? ]

The unexpected surprise made Kong Jie overjoyed.

In this way, as long as the corresponding materials are available, it may not be impossible to make some larger caliber cannons by hand.

To this end, Kong Jie specifically ordered the soldiers to properly store all kinds of materials in the warehouse and prevent them from getting damp easily.

In addition, a yard was specially reserved at the independent regiment’s base as a small arsenal for the independent regiment—or more precisely, a simple repair shop.

It is called the grocery store to the outside world.

Used to maintain and repair the daily weapons used by soldiers, as well as to perform some simple hand-rubbing, improvements and production.

Because the talents in this field are too scarce.

Even in the entire Eighth Route Army, there are probably not many ordnance talents, and they are basically concentrated in the headquarters arsenal.

Therefore, Kong Jie, the team leader, had to go into battle himself.

What is the first step?

Various tools commonly used in hand-rubbing repair shops, including wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, rubbing knives, pliers, calipers, some simple molds, stoves, etc.

As a result, the regiment commander Kong Jie was often not seen at the regiment headquarters.

That day, Li Yunlong rushed to the repair shop out of curiosity and heard that Kong Jie was going to use some damaged guns, damp ammunition, and various raw materials captured on the battlefield to try to improve and produce some artillery.

Li Yunlong laughed so hard that he almost couldn't straighten his back.

"Haha, Lao Kong, ah Lao Kong, we have been comrades for so many years, how come I didn't know you have this skill? If you, Kong Erlangzi, can make a cannon, I, Li Yunlong, will write my name backwards!"

"Really?" Kong Jie stopped the work at hand, turned his head and asked with a dark face.

Seeing Kong Jie's dark face, Li Yunlong laughed even more happily, "One spit and one nail!"

Hearing this, Kong Jie smiled, a particularly bright smile.

——Old Li, Old Li, it’s you who forced me to show off!

He looked at the text box that popped up in front of him again:

[Now that the materials are sufficient, should we start the hand-kneading process immediately? ]

"Turn it on!" Kong Jie answered in his heart.

All of a sudden.

Under Li Yunlong's astonished gaze, Kong Jie seemed to have become a different person, and directly entered the immersive hand-rubbing master mode - his whole set of movements were smooth and flowing, while piling up various raw materials that had been prepared long ago and were originally regarded as waste, most of which were some steel used for Japanese railway tracks captured in the raid.

Then the steel is placed in a high-temperature furnace for high-temperature heating and softening.

This is followed by a biting process called "colleting" which allows the metal to begin to take shape, creating the prototype of the gun barrel.

Next, the most primitive iron hammer forging method was used to forge the gun barrel with thousands of hammer blows, so that the metal could be stretched and shaped like clay... During this period, several Japanese Type 89 grenade launchers that were completely damaged and unusable were captured as the basis of the gun body. It seems that Kong Jie is preparing to improve and reproduce them...

From the moment the sun rises, there is a constant clanging sound in the repair shop until night falls.

Kong Jie seemed to have entered a rampant and endless forging mode.

He didn't even rest the whole night, until the next morning, when the sound of clanging came from the yard of the repair shop, waking up Li Yunlong who was waiting outside the yard.

"It's done, it's done, I've done it!"

A nearly insane black-faced man, with disheveled hair and untidy clothes, rushed out of the yard dancing. When he saw Li Yunlong, he grabbed Li Yunlong's shoulders and shook them hard.

Li Yunlong looked up and saw the bloodshot eyes revealing immense excitement and joy.

goo-dong-

Li Yunlong couldn't help swallowing his saliva, "Lao Kong, please don't scare me, are you okay?"

"What can happen to me?"

Kong Jie laughed loudly. He had further realized the magical effect of his golden finger. After entering the hand-rubbing mode, he seemed crazy in the eyes of outsiders, but in fact, everything was within the tolerance of his body.

Moreover, after experiencing the immersive hand-rubbing mode, when he woke up, the details, principles and steps of military production seemed to be deeply engraved in Kong Jie's mind, and were particularly clear.

——This is the rhythm of gradually making Kong Jie a master of ordnance!

Kong Jie then took Li Yunlong into the repair shop compound and showed off his masterpiece:

An improved Type 50 mortar based on the Japanese Type 89 mortar, with a special tripod, a lengthened barrel, and additional propellant.

A hand-held 60mm mortar.

There was another cannon whose caliber Li Yunlong couldn't see at the moment, but he just felt that the barrel was thicker than his waist, but there was nothing inside the barrel.

Li Yunlong was puzzled and couldn't help but doubt: "Old Kong, is this also a cannon?"

Kong Jie introduced: "The principle is similar to the mortar in the cold weapon period. The thicker the barrel, the larger the caliber. It is specially used to launch our explosive packs. Although the range is not too far due to the airtightness of the barrel, it is only about 200 meters at most, but it is powerful enough and easy to produce.

As long as I teach you the specific production procedures and principles, we can even start mass production.

There is no ambiguity in killing the Japs, and the cannon is heartless and has no moral ethics at all.

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