Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

As the independent regiment grew in size and the base developed, the regiment commander Kong Jie became increasingly busy.

On the one hand, the special forces have captured the Japanese strongholds during this period and seized a large amount of equipment and supplies, including a lot of ammunition materials that can be used to make various equipment.

In addition, the soldiers attacked the Japanese railway lines in sections and seized a considerable number of rails.

These are all important sources of steel materials for making guns and cannons.

[The thickest steel rails, after being melted at high temperature, can be made into a practical cannon barrel with a simple mold. The principle of mortars, the bigger the courage, the bigger the caliber of the cannon! ]

According to the existing conditions of the independent regiment, it is naturally complicated to manufacture some high-precision, high-difficulty mortars. Even if Kong Jie has a system, he does not have the machine tools to support production.

Therefore, Kong Jie did not expect from the beginning that the independent regiment's newly developed repair shop would be able to manufacture guns and cannons.

It would be sufficient to manufacture some unscrupulous cannons of larger caliber based on the mortar principle.

The manufacturing process is simple and the raw materials are easily available.

More suitable for the current situation of the independent group.

[Simple cast iron, portable boiler, convenient mold, only a short process is needed to produce a simple wooden handle grenade in half an hour. ]

[Materials and equipment are complete, do you want to start the hand rubbing process? ]

A few days ago, Kong Jie started the system's hand-rubbing program and, relying on his hard work and forgetting to eat and sleep, spent nearly four hours and successfully made a simple wooden-handled grenade.

When Kong Jie handed the grenade to Li Yunlong, he asked Li Yunlong with a smile what was special about this grenade.

Li Yunlong took a look at the grenade and said, "What's so special about a wooden-handled grenade? It's not as good as the Japanese melon-shaped grenade. Aren't these grenades made in the border areas that are often produced by the headquarters arsenal?"

"Let's try out its power?" Kong Jie said with a smile.

Li Yunlong didn't know what Kong Jie was up to, but he heard that Kong Jie went to the repair shop early in the morning and didn't come out of the yard until noon.

Could there be any special results?

Li Yunlong held the grenade with some suspicion, then came to the outside of the regiment's yard, and at Kong Jie's signal, he pulled off the pull ring and threw it into the grenade test area.

——This is the artillery shell test explosion area that Kong Jie specially asked the soldiers to build. There are also some dummies made of wooden stakes in the area to test the power of various artillery shells and grenades.

Boom——

After an explosion, Li Yunlong was surprised to find that the grenade he thought was made in the border area had a much stronger explosion than those made in the border area.

When he and Kong Jie arrived at the test explosion area, they took a look.

Then they were surprised to find that the entire cast iron of the grenade was shattered into pieces, and there seemed to be specially added fragments and steel balls inside. Some wooden men and straw men around the test area were embedded with flying steel balls and fragments.

Kong Jie's voice rang out again: "Old Li, how does my grenade compare to the one made in the border area?"

Li Yunlong said in amazement: "Yes, Lao Kong, this is much better than the border area-made ones in the headquarters arsenal. You don't know that the border area-made ones are of poor quality. They explode in two pieces. Not only do they have little power, but sometimes they don't even make a sound when thrown out.

But then again, a plaster that can draw out pus is a good plaster.

Our troops cannot supply the border areas with such products freely.

Every time I wanted to get some grenades, even though the logistics director, Lao Zhang, was my old comrade-in-arms in Dabie Mountains, he was like a miser and would not give me a penny.

You can hardly ask him for two bullets."

"Could this be something you tinkered with in the repair shop this morning?"

Kong Jie smiled and nodded, but this was not the end yet.

He then invited Li Yunlong to the repair shop to observe the production process of this grenade.

After the two arrived at the repair shop, Kong Jie began to give orders. He called a total of seven soldiers to help this time.

Kong Jie personally served as the director of military production. While arranging the soldiers to start work, he introduced:

"Our wooden-handled grenade production process is relatively simple among munitions. From the outside, a grenade is made up of a shell, a wooden handle, and a fuse.

Inside are explosives, time-delay fuses, and safety devices, etc."

"The actual production is also very simple. First, we need a team of three to make the shells. The equipment used is mainly a small furnace, a bellows and a mold. It includes the steps of mold shaping, high-temperature molten iron, and casting."

As Kong Jie spoke, three veterans who were already helping out in the repair shop and had some production experience quickly took action.

"An experienced worker also made the fire-pulling device."

"Then we use a small wooden lathe to make the wooden handle of the grenade."

"The last and most delicate step is assembly. Put the shell, wooden handle, and firing device together and fix them in order. Then a simple wooden-handled grenade is ready."

While Kong Jie was explaining the principles to Li Yunlong standing beside him, he was also instructing the seven soldiers to divide the work at hand.

Time passed quickly.

It only took about half an hour.

After the final assembly process was completed, the veteran in charge of the assembly handed the grenade to Kong Jie with joy on his face. This was the first time he had completed the production of a grenade under Kong Jie's guidance.

It's just like playing.

A grenade was made while they were talking.

Kong Jie continued: "Such a simple production process of wooden-handled grenades requires the cooperation of seven soldiers.

If the operator is skilled and all the necessary materials are available, one can be produced in less than half an hour.

In addition, the equipment needed is light and the soldiers can move by carrying it on their backs.

I thought I'd just give it a more descriptive name, like Seven Men Carrying Wooden Handle Grenades."

In fact, the seven people carrying grenades were the crystallization of the wisdom of the Eighth Route Army’s military workers in the severe anti-Japanese war environment behind enemy lines.

It's just that it was invented later.

Kong Jie also used the system's prompts to summarize the process of seven people carrying grenades in a more concise and practical way in advance.

"As for the grenade I showed you before, Lao Li, some materials such as steel balls and nails were added during the production process to increase the lethality of the fragments."

Kong Jie said calmly that this was a wonderful use derived from the golden finger he developed.

After each hand-rubbing process is completed, the specific production technology and process as well as the principles and knowledge seem to be deeply engraved in Kong Jie's mind.

Kong Jie naturally would not keep anything to himself. He recorded down the specific production principles and processes bit by bit as a special production manual.

After all, no matter how powerful Kong Jie is, even if he has a system, he is ultimately just one person with two hands.

It's impossible to produce all the equipment and ammunition needed by the soldiers in the entire regiment, right?

Therefore, only by making the entire set of technologies and processes mature and applying them among the troops can the equipment supply problems of various troops be fundamentally solved.

Li Yunlong listened in a daze.

In just one morning, Old Kong came up with such a great invention in the Xiu Xie Institute?

"Seven people can carry grenades and produce one in less than half an hour. If there are 700 people, they can produce 100 grenades in half an hour. Even if they work 10 hours a day, that means 2000 grenades..."

"Damn it, according to this, our independent regiment can easily produce nearly 2000 more wooden-handled grenades in one day???"

Li Yunlong, who was calculating with his fingers, was shocked by the data he calculated.

Then he suddenly started cursing the Minister of Logistics Zhang Wanhe.

"That stingy old man, Lao Zhang, is still a fellow villager after all. Every time I ask him for some money to build the border area, he is stingy like a woman.

From now on, there will be these seven people carrying grenades.

"Can Lao Li ask others for help?"