Chapter 108 Yellow River = War Industrialist + Deputy Minister of Logistics

With sufficient materials, the laboratory in the logistics department began to operate day and night.

In order to learn more new technologies, many technical backbones of the military industrial zone, including several responsible persons, almost lived here, and would come to help as long as they had nothing to do.

Under the leadership of Wu Sixue, the comrades cast the first gun barrel in just one week. Because of the volume of the train axle, the caliber of this new gun is eight millimeters larger than the original one.

The weight of the shell also reached 4.5 kilograms, which is heavier than the 82mm mortar high-explosive shell.

After determining the caliber, the military industrial zone worked overtime to produce the shells in order to prevent delays in the test firing.

After lunch that day, managers from all areas of the logistics department came to the shooting range for a visit. Although only one component was independently developed and produced, it was of great significance and everyone did not want to miss this moment.

In order to test the practicality of this gun on the battlefield, Huang He specially arranged for people to disassemble the gun into a pile of parts.

The person in charge of this test firing was a director of the military industrial zone.

It was really helpless for a technical soldier to do this, because only these workers had more time to contact infantry artillery. At this time, Huang He even missed Captain Li.

Looking at the dozens of comrades who were facing the mountain of parts in front of them and had no idea where to start, Huang He's mouth twitched helplessly.

"Director Liu, why do I feel that you can't assemble it? Weren't you very fast when you dismantled it at that time?"

Faced with the doubts of their own people, the workers became even more flustered. Director Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said awkwardly:

"There is a structural diagram, and Mr. Wu was still directing at the side. Besides, destruction is always easier than construction."

After five minutes, this improved infantry artillery was still not assembled. Wu Sixue in the crowd knew that he had to stand up.

Originally, he wanted to give his apprentices some opportunities to do it. Although it seemed a little unsuccessful, everything requires practice makes perfect.

But now he can't wait any longer.

The sun at noon is a bit poisonous, and an old man with physical problems can't stand such sun.

Old Wu walked to the side of the improved infantry gun, and used his crutches to direct Director Liu, who was in a mess, to assemble the gun much faster.

A Type 92 infantry gun can be assembled by the skilled gun crew of the Japanese in about five minutes.

But since the comrades in the military industrial zone were using it for the first time, they took almost 25 minutes, but fortunately there was no extra part.

In the eyes of everyone's expectation, a familiar yet unfamiliar weapon appeared on the open space of the shooting range.

Even though he passed the first level smoothly, Director Liu was still a little nervous. In order to make him relax, Huang He joked:

"Excuse me, this first shot won't kill us all. If something happens to us, the logistics department will have to stop working."

To be able to work at the top of the logistics department, in addition to having strong skills, the emotional intelligence must not be too low.

Director Liu obviously understood what Huang He meant, so he continued with his words.

"Then you have to be careful. Our troops are in poor condition and we have captured very few infantry artillery. I am just a production director, not an artillery battalion commander."

"This is my first time using this thing. It's not that I can't find anyone who can use it, so let me try it."

"Everyone, be careful. I can't take responsibility if something goes wrong."

Amid the laughter of the crowd, the comrades in charge of testing the artillery were obviously more relaxed.

Artillery is not a firearm. In this era, direct aiming may not be able to achieve 100% hit rate. It is all range killing. Huang He pointed to the sandbags stacked more than a thousand meters away and said:

"Do you see that area? Let's try the accuracy of this gun first. After all, the rifling is hand-engraved, and no one knows what the situation is."

Director Liu shielded the dazzling sunlight with his hand and looked in the direction of the other party's finger. Then he began to command the comrades to push the gun and set the gun in a place he thought was suitable.

He then squinted his eyes at the sandbags in the distance and began to adjust the height of the gun barrel according to Wu Sixue's teaching to them.

It seems that he felt a little careless and the aiming was not stable enough. Director Liu changed several positions to observe separately, and finally lowered the muzzle slightly.

After doing all this, he turned back and said to everyone: "Comrades! I'm ready, we can fire!"

It's not appropriate to be clever now. Huang He looked at the artillery group in front and said seriously: "Be careful! Try to give us some Chinese shock."

"Okay!"

Director Liu opened the loading port, pushed the shell in from the back, and then closed the loading port and pulled it hard.

"Bang!"

After the first test, there was no problem with the barrel, and there was not even a change.

In the distance, a shell exploded.

Everyone immediately looked at the sandbags in the distance. The area had been blown into a mess, and the impact point was about 20 meters away from the sandbags.

This result was unexpected by everyone. After all, there was no experience to follow in the design of the gun body, and it was completely crossing the river by feeling the stones.

When looking at the hero at this time, I saw that Director Liu was more than 20 meters away from the gun. He forgot to cover his ears when he was firing just now, and now he looks a little dazed.

The people present quickly gathered around to check on him, and Director Liu suddenly happily pulled the people around him and shouted:

"I succeeded! We succeeded too! This gun is not only fine! It's even more powerful than the original!"

"When I fired the gun just now, I was shocked! Now my ears are buzzing."

The subsequent shells further proved the success of this gun, and smiles appeared on everyone's faces.

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A week later, the brigade commander personally brought the transport team to the logistics department. Recently, various regiment-level units have attacked one after another and seized a lot of enemy weapons and equipment.

A large part of them are damaged and need to be sent to the military industrial area for repair. The reason why he came in person today is that there are two things to do.

The first thing is to retrieve the two infantry guns.

When he learned that the two guns were successfully repaired and the power became greater after the improvement, even the brigade commander couldn't help laughing out loud with his experience.

The second thing is to send a new appointment letter to Huang He.

Since he came to the base in August last year, everyone has seen the contributions made by Huang He. The many materials he brought not only improved the combat effectiveness of the troops, but also promoted the development of the base.

Not to mention that there are so many scientists, engineers, and teachers who came here because of his existence. These people have now become the treasures of the rear area.

Although the base and the troops are now living a better life, at best they are barely out of poverty, which makes it difficult to reward Huang He materially.

However, considering that the other party is not a person who covets enjoyment, otherwise he would not choose to stick to the dangerous front line.

Therefore, according to the unanimous decision of the heads of the headquarters, Huang He will be promoted to the deputy director of the logistics department first, and then added when the conditions are better.

After the brigade commander arrived, he first got busy with business, sent all the damaged weapons to the military industrial area, and then asked the transport team to take away the two infantry guns.

After doing all this, he brought Zhang Wanhe to the laboratory and found Huang He under the leadership of Wang Dexing.

"Hey! Brigade Commander! What a rare guest! Come and sit down. What's up today?"

The brigade commander, smiling like an aunt, took out Huang He's new appointment letter from his arms, saluted and said:

"Comrade Huang He, due to your outstanding performance, the headquarters has decided to appoint you as the deputy director of the logistics department. The original scope of work remains unchanged, and you will still assist Zhang Wanhe in his work."

At this time, the system in his mind suddenly became active.

The interface that originally had no character portraits suddenly appeared with Huang He's photo. After concentrating, he also saw a line of introduction.

"War Industrialist: Huang He

Advisor effect: Naval docks, military factories +10% production rate."

I am not satisfied with this chapter. I haven't written the protagonist for so long that I am rusty.