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Chapter 14 Shanxi Northwest Chemical Factory was established!
The brigade commander was a little shocked when he heard what Huang He said, but he immediately reacted after experiencing the storm and said:

"It's good for you to think that, although I've seen people who are willing to share, but more are hiding knowledge."

"When you have time, you can write a detailed plan. I will report the establishment of the school to the headquarters. Let me first talk about how you plan to arrange the smokeless gunpowder."

Huang He looked out the window, as if seeing the hard-working comrades through many obstacles.

"First of all, I need to transfer some personnel. Many of the comrades in charge of reloading bullets in the military factory of our logistics department are good at black powder."

"They are all veterans who have worked for several years. They have original experience and a certain foundation for learning new skills, and they are relatively quick to learn."

After thinking about it, he continued to speak to the brigade commander:

"I also need a batch of comrades who make grenades in the military factory. In the process of making smokeless gunpowder, I can also try to teach them how to make dynamite."

Hearing another new term appeared, and it was still explosive, Li Yunlong became interested again.

"Director Huang, what is this dynamite? It's the first time we Lao Li have heard of this thing after fighting for so many years."

Hearing Li Yunlong's question, Zhang Wanhe took the initiative to explain to Li Yunlong:

"Didn't Li Yunlong always dislike the poor power of the grenades made in the border area, not as good as the cantaloupe grenades of the little devils? He kept saying that the quality was poor, and he came to me today to ask for it."

"The quality problem is because the grenades made in our border area are still charged with black powder."

"Although the things left by our ancestors are good, times are constantly changing and technology is constantly improving. We have fallen behind for a long time, and if we fall behind, we will be beaten."

Hearing Zhang Wanhe's words, Li Yunlong remembered that when he was ambushing the little devil, the soldiers of the first battalion threw grenades wildly at the place where the Japanese must pass.

As a result, the soldiers threw grenades everywhere, but few of them exploded.

The reason is that there was a rain a few days ago, which dampened the gunpowder inside the grenade.

Moreover, the grenades made in the border area often have only two halves in one explosion, and in many cases they cannot achieve the desired effect of offensive grenades.

Seeing Zhang Wanhe expose his shortcomings again, Li Yunlong scratched the back of his head with a smile and said:

"Hehehe, look at what you old Zhang said, what can pull out pus is a good plaster."

"The old sleeves are all weapons from the Qing Dynasty, and those made by Hanyang are all historical objects."

"Although our soldiers will dislike it, anyone who can spray bullets will do it. It is a good weapon that can beat devils."

Speaking of the grenade, the brigade commander glared at Li Yunlong again, and then said to Huang He:

"I will arrange the person you want within three days, but I hope you can get out the smokeless gunpowder and the yellow explosive earlier."

"For our Eighth Route Army, grenades and bullets are really important."

The brigade commander stood up from the kang, straightened his clothes and walked towards the door. The three of Huang He also got up and prepared to see the brigade commander off.

After walking out of the house, the brigade commander pointed at Li Yunlong with a whip and said.

"Li Yunlong, come with me. Go to the [-]nd Regiment and the Independent Regiment. I'm going to see the distribution of weapons and the morale of the soldiers in these two regiments."

"Next time you come to the logistics department to ask for weapons so blatantly, I will break your legs!"

"I also said that the logistics department is a landlord's old fortune. When the Yellow River came, he bought a large amount of materials for our Eighth Route Army to make cotton clothes, and brought back so many Mosin Nagants."

"The division commander said that next time there is a supplement of weapons, we will give priority to our brigade."

Li Yunlong showed his big white teeth and waved to Zhang Wanhe and Huang He. Behind him were Zhuzi and Huzi holding wine.

"Hehehe, I know our brigade commander loves others, and he always thinks about Xiao Li when he has good things."

"Thank you, Director Huang. If you have anything to do, call me Li Yunlong. As long as you don't violate discipline and I can do it, I will definitely do it for you."

"Let's see you, Lao Zhang. I'll take those bottles of wine. The brigade commander said, no bribes, hahaha."

Huang He and Zhang Wanhe were speechless for a while, this Li Yunlong was really skinny and shameless as he deserved his reputation.

They said goodbye to the brigade commander first, and then said to Li Yunlong in unison: "Go to you, haha."

The copper he promised just now is not just talking about it.

Although the civilian factories provided by the system are mainly used to trade raw materials for making military uniforms, the task will be completed after a while.

After everyone left, Huang He turned on the system and used the trade interface to check how much copper the two migrant workers could exchange for.

The two civilian factories can exchange 25 tons in a month, which really shocked him.

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With his guarantee, the five researchers came to the logistics department without hindrance, and no one doubted their identities.

They began to prepare materials. After all, it is a matter of prudence to hand over the local chemical industry to the comrades. It is necessary to increase the production as much as possible while ensuring safety.

Three busy days have passed.

The comrades promised by the brigade commander were also mobilized from various military factories in the border area and assembled in a larger factory building.

Huang He looked at this group of comrades who had struggled in the arsenal for several years, and kept feeling in his heart how the environment of this era could be so difficult.

They were old and young, and even an old man was disabled with one arm missing. The youngest comrade seemed to be only sixteen or seventeen years old.

Huang He walked up to them with five people and said:
"Comrades, I am very grateful to you for being able to come here from various military factories in the base area. The brigade commander should have told you why I gathered everyone here."

"You may not know me yet, my name is Huang He, and I am the Director of the Purchasing Department that was just established last month in the base."

"The padded clothes you are wearing now are made of the cotton I got back. This time we are going to produce smokeless gunpowder and dynamite, which may be dangerous and even kill people. Are you afraid that you have confidence?"

At this time, the old man with missing arms came out. Everyone seemed to know him, and he was very prestigious in the crowd.

The old man's accent was very heavy, and he seemed to come from outside the customs.

"Director Huang, my name is Jiao Chun. You can call me Lao Jiao. Our family has been craftsmen for generations. We started making firecrackers in Shenyang very early. I knew how to make black gunpowder when I was young."

"In 31 years, the devils came to fight."

"I don't want to be a subjugated slave. My eldest brother and I joined the guerrillas as a family of seven. At that time, we specially made black powder and hand grenades for our guerrillas."

"I also know about smokeless gunpowder and dynamite, and I've even studied them."

Lao Jiao looked at his empty left arm, held back his tears and continued:

"Later, our whole family came to the base area. My eldest brother, sister-in-law and my wife all died in the explosion accident of making gunpowder."

"My only son was also killed when he touched the spent explosives."

"My two nephews, one died in Pingxingguan and the other died in Guangyang."

"Now in our Jiao family, I'm the only one left! Without my family, my home is also taken over. What do I, Lao Jiao, have to be afraid of?"

Having said that, Lao Jiao couldn't control his emotions, and patted his chest tremblingly.

"I just want to die for something worthwhile. I just want to be buried in Shenyang when I die! Director Huang, don't worry, we people, who haven't told a story yet."

"Even if everyone dies here, we still have to learn from you. As long as we can drive the devils away, we are not afraid of death!"

After Lao Jiao finished speaking, the comrades responded positively and enthusiastically, and the youngest child helped the painful Lao Jiao back to the queue.

Huang He held back his tears and looked at the imposing comrades, gritted his teeth and said:
"In the future, I will take everyone to study together. We will have some devils in the future, and we will have those they don't have!"

He led everyone to the prepared podium, and started explaining with five researchers.

If you want to make smokeless gunpowder, the first step is to make sulfuric acid.

Without this thing, no matter who you are, even if you want to break your head, you can't make smokeless gunpowder, because sulfuric acid is the mother of gunpowder.

There are two main processes for producing sulfuric acid in the world.

The first one is called the contact method. I won’t talk about the complexity of the device. The important thing is that the fine platinum powder is needed as a catalyst.

Platinum powder is a bit outrageous, there is no platinum in the base area, where to get powder?
The second method is called the lead chamber method, which is relatively simple.

"I can't post it after I write it. This thing is a dangerous chemical that can make explosives and is under control."

The whole morning passed, and everyone had a certain understanding of the principles of making sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and nitrocellulose.

After lunch, they returned to the workshop and began to learn the principles of nitroglycerin and nitrostarch.

Nitrocellulose can be used to make smokeless gunpowder, effectively circumventing the shortage of black powder bullets.

The current grenade in the military factory in the base area is an imitation of Santoku's M24 grenade.

But because of the charge, it is far from the power of the original factory.It is difficult to manufacture TNT with the industrial level of the current base area, but switching to nitroglycerin as the charge can greatly increase the power.

As for the use of nitrated starch, Huang He intends to use it to imitate the Ugly Mark 2 grenade.

The interior of the MK2 grenade is filled with TNT, but in the early days of the war, TNT was in short supply, and the interior was mostly filled with nitrostarch compounds.

The combination of offensive and defensive grenades can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of troops.

A week has passed, and the comrades are already familiar with the process of soil chemical engineering. Fortunately, no accidents happened.

On November 1939, 11, Shanxi Northwest Chemical Factory was formally established.

The chemical plant was established under the leadership of Huang He, Director of the Procurement Administration, and taught skills to train many military personnel. These people then provided tons of raw materials for the military factory of the Logistics Department in the base area.

　6k is updated today, it is a boring but necessary chapter.

　　After all, our golden finger is not very powerful, so we have to do everything by ourselves.

　　The calculation process of changing copper, I will post about the work later, I didn't expect to be able to change so much.

　　I originally wanted to write in more detail about chemical engineering, but I couldn’t post it because it violated the regulations.

　　As usual, shout a new book for everything!Thank you for the monthly pass!
　　
　
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