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Early the next morning, Zhou Shujuan and Tang Changtian went out to collect the materials listed by Ye Rongqiu, while Ye Rongqiu stayed in the house to repair the damaged firearms.

Among those firearms, some were damaged during use, and some were picked up and snatched by them. They were already broken and damaged, and there were no replacement parts, so it was impossible to repair them.Ye Rongqiu classified the guns according to the degree of damage, and picked out the ones that were easy to repair first, and then he would talk about the ones that could be repaired. As for the ones that did not need to be repaired at all, he put them aside. Maybe the iron and accessories of the gun itself could be distributed Other uses.

Then he went back to sorting the bullets.The bullets in Zhou Shujuan’s hands come from a variety of sources. Some bullets have leaked gunpowder or been damaged. This kind of bullets are loaded into the gun chamber, not to mention hitting devils, and they can explode the chamber and kill themselves. .There is also a model of bullet that cannot be matched with a gun at all. These bullets can be put aside, and the gunpowder inside can be picked out for use, and the iron used to make the bullet casing can also be used for other purposes.

It took Ye Rongqiu a whole morning just to tidy up.

In the afternoon, he started to repair the gun.

Ye Rongqiu has been repairing guns for many years. The broken guns that Zhou Shujuan gave him are common guns on the battlefield. He knows the structure of these guns like the back of his hand, and he knows how to repair them even with his eyes closed.But when it comes to actually doing it, it's not so easy - Zhou Shujuan and the others have very few tools, not even a wrench and a hammer, and the only tools they can find are a screwdriver and a file.

But these difficulties did not bother Ye Rongqiu.Without a hammer head, he picked up a few suitable stones and used them as a hammer; without nails, he sharpened discarded bullet heads to replace nails; without a wrench, he disassembled parts from a waste gun and used a screwdriver as a wrench. .

After working for several hours, Tang Changtian and Zhou Shujuan came back.

Zhou Shujuan came back to check Ye Rongqiu's results. Ye Rongqiu raised his arm and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his upper arm: "A gun is almost finished."

Zhou Shujuan stared at his hand.Because of the lack of tools, Ye Rongqiu could only use brute force to do it. At this time, his hands had been cut several times.She sighed: "Take a rest when you're tired, don't force yourself."

"It's okay." Ye Rongqiu skillfully assembled the disassembled parts, "Do you have any clue about the materials I asked you to find?"

Today Zhou Shujuan and Tang Changtian split up to find the materials Ye Rongqiu needed.They reported to Ye Rongqiu: "There is no problem with charcoal and cotton cloth, and saltpeter and sulfur are not easy to deal with."

Ye Rongqiu could have expected this at first. These are all materials for making gunpowder. Even outside the city, the arsenal has the New Fourth Army as the support behind it. These materials are not so easy to obtain. He originally wanted to try his luck, saying Maybe the people in the city have a way to steal some mines from the devils.Unfortunately, their luck was not so good.

But he couldn't find the materials, so Ye Rongqiu couldn't just give up. He had worked so hard to sneak into the city to solve the problem, not just leave it alone and let it go.

Ye Rongqiu said: "It doesn't matter. We still have time. You can think of a way to mobilize the people in the city and see if they can help. If we can't get ready-made materials, we will find other ways to replace them."

One night before his departure, Ye Rongqiu deliberately reviewed the content and reaction formulas about making gunpowder in the materials he had collected and sorted out over the years, and kept them firmly in his mind.Over the years, Ye Rongqiu has produced countless gunpowder. This does not mean that the New Fourth Army has the money and ability to provide him with sufficient raw materials. Most of the time, he is worried about where to get the materials.However, wisdom belongs to the common people. Ye Rongqiu knows the principle, so it is not difficult to find something to replace it.

He said: "There should be a lot of houses in the city that are made of adobe, right? Where's the pigsty?"

Tang Changtian nodded: "There are a lot of adobe houses in the city, and there are pigpens, but they have been abandoned a long time ago. Most of the pigpens in ordinary people's homes are now used to pile up sundries. The pigs have been killed long ago."

Ye Rongqiu said: "It doesn't matter, what I want is not pork. In this way, you can find a few people and go to those old adobe houses in the city. If there is white powder seeping from the wall, scrape it off and bring it back to me. There is also a pigsty, get a few bamboo pipes with joints, put them in the pigsty, and bring back all the soil poked out of it in two days."

Tang Changtian didn't understand why, but he still nodded: "This is no problem. Is there anything else?"

Ye Rongqiu said: "I still need coal. Also, is there a dyeing workshop in the city? Can I get dye? Is there a kiln? It's best to be reliable. I need to work in a kiln."

Tang Changtian and Zhou Shujuan looked at each other, and Zhou Shujuan said, "I'll find a way."

Ye Rongqiu said: "There is one more thing, which is probably more difficult to get. I need money."

Zhou Shujuan was taken aback: "You want money?"

Ye Rongqiu shook his head: "No, I want silver. If I can synthesize silver fulminate, I can make a detonator. Whether it's jewelry or coins, it must contain silver."

Zhou Shujuan asked, "How much do you need?"

Ye Rongqiu thought for a while, and said: "It is reasonable to say that a few silver coins are enough, but considering my immature technology and limited conditions, there must be wear and tear, and the problem of purity, it is best to get more. "

Zhou Shujuan frowned.Not to mention the Communist Party, in these years of war, most of the people in the city have become destitute, and the rich have either become Japanese puppets or become kings themselves.Some people may have a few pieces of silver jewelry hidden in their homes, which are life-saving or family heirlooms. If they use money to buy them, they will not be able to spend so much money.If five or six years earlier, Zhou Shujuan and Ye Rongqiu would have had a basketful of gold and silver in their homes, but unfortunately they had been sold or discarded all these years ago.

Zhou Shujuan pursed her lips and thought for a while, then said, "I will try my best."

Everyone is busy for the next few days.Ye Rongqiu has technology, but technology needs conditions to realize.Zhou Shujuan and Tang Changtian followed Ye Rongqiu's request to return the materials little by little, but making explosives is a very dangerous process, and they must have test equipment, which they don't have.

If not, find a way to make it.In the past few days, the pots, pans and jars in Zhou Shujuan's house have been transformed into experimental instruments by Ye Rongqiu.

Two days later, Tang Changtian brought back two baskets of soil dug out from the old pigsty and white powder scraped off the wall to Ye Rongqiu.Zhou Shujuan also got the silver and dyes, and things went smoother than she imagined. The people in the city were very supportive of the anti-Japanese cause. Zhou Shujuan went out to collect materials, and immediately some people took out their ancestral silver earrings and silver necklaces at the bottom of the box and gave them to her. .

In the evening, several people sat down to discuss the following actions.

Zhou Shujuan asked Ye Rongqiu: "With this little thing, how much explosive can you make?"

Ye Rongqiu smiled wryly: "To be honest, not much can be made. Don't look at how much soil and coal you have brought back. There are not many parts of these things that can be actually extracted. There is no factory here, and the most earthy methods are used to make materials. The wear and tear is very serious. And it takes time, we don’t have much time to refine it slowly, we can only succeed once.”

Zhou Shujuan and Tang Changtian's expressions were very serious.Zhou Shujuan said: "We have new news. Okamoto will enter the city on July [-], and he will bring a Japanese army team into the city. We still need more information on the location of the ambush, but his protection It must be very strict, and a bitter battle is inevitable."

Tang Changtian asked: "It doesn't matter if the amount of explosives is less, but can you make an explosive with a wide range of explosion and strong explosive power. As long as we can complete the mission, we are not afraid of sacrifice, and it doesn't matter if we burn everything together."

Ye Rongqiu bit her lip.

"I..." Ye Rongqiu said a word, then fell silent again.His expression was very tangled, and it was conceivable that what he was about to say must be a very risky suggestion.

Zhou Shujuan saw through his thoughts and encouraged her, "It doesn't matter. If you have any ideas, you can tell them. No matter how difficult it is, we will try."

Ye Rongqiu clenched his fists and took a deep breath. The next words summoned up his great courage: "I have been thinking about it for the past two days. I want to try a method that I have never tried before. I just read it in the book. I've seen it online, I don't know the probability of success, but if it succeeds, its power is very powerful."

"What?" Zhou Shujuan and Tang Changtian also became nervous, and even their breathing slowed down.

Ye Rongqiu paused word by word: "I want to try to make liquid explosives."