Chapter 14 Northwest Shanxi Chemical Plant Was Established!

The brigade commander was slightly shocked after hearing Huang He's words, but he reacted immediately after having experienced many ups and downs and said:

"It's great that you think this way. Although I have seen people who are willing to share, most of them hide their knowledge."

"Write a detailed plan when you have time. I will report the establishment of the school to the headquarters. Let's talk about how you plan to arrange the smokeless gunpowder first."

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

"First of all, I need some personnel transfers. Many of the comrades who are now responsible for reloading bullets in our logistics department's military factory are good at black gunpowder."

"They are all veterans who have worked for several years. They have original experience and a certain basic foundation for learning new skills, so they can get started relatively quickly."

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

"I also need a group 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 yellow dynamite."

Hearing another new term appear, and it was dynamite, Li Yunlong became interested again.

"Director Huang, what is this yellow explosive? This is the first time I've heard of it after fighting for so many years."

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

"You, Li Yunlong, always complain that the grenades made in our border area are not as powerful as the Japanese's melon grenades. You keep saying that the quality is poor and you 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, the times are constantly changing and technology is constantly improving. We have fallen behind, and falling behind will be beaten."

When Li Yunlong heard Zhang Wanhe's words, he remembered that when they ambushed the Japanese, the soldiers of the first battalion threw grenades wildly at the places where the Japanese had to pass.

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

The reason was that there was a rain a few days ago, which made the gunpowder inside the grenades damp.

Moreover, the grenades made in the border areas often exploded into two halves, and in many cases they could not achieve the desired effect of offensive grenades.

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

"Hehehe, look at what you said, Zhang, anything that can draw pus is a good plaster."

"The old sleeves are all weapons from the Qing Dynasty, and the Hanyang-made ones are objects with a bit of history."

"Although our soldiers will dislike it, anything that can spray bullets is fine, and it is a good weapon that can fight the devils."

When it comes to grenades, the brigade commander glared at Li Yunlong again, and then said to Huang He:

"I will arrange the people you want for you within three days, but I hope you can get the two things, smokeless gunpowder and yellow explosives, as soon as possible."

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

The brigade commander stood up from the kang, straightened his clothes and walked out the door. Huang He and the other two also stood up to see the brigade commander off.

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

"Li Yunlong, come with me. Let's go to the 772nd Regiment and the Independent Regiment. I want to see the distribution of weapons and the morale of the soldiers in these two regiments."

"If you come to the Logistics Department to ask for weapons so blatantly next time, I will break your legs!"

"You also said that the Logistics Department is a landlord, but Huang He got a large amount of materials for making cotton clothes for our Eighth Route Army as soon as he came, and brought back so many Mosin Nagant."

"The division commander said that next time there is a replenishment of weapons, our brigade will be given priority."

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

"Hehehe, I know that our brigade commander cares about people. He always thinks of our little Li when he has any good things."

"Thank you, Director Huang. If you have any questions, just call me, Li Yunlong. As long as it does not violate discipline and I can do it, I will definitely do it for you."

"Old Zhang, let's meet later. I will take those bottles of wine. The brigade commander said that bribes are not allowed, hahaha."

Huang He and Zhang Wanhe were speechless for a while. This Li Yunlong is indeed shameless as his reputation says.

They said goodbye to the brigade commander first, and then said to Li Yunlong at the same time: "Go to hell, haha."

The copper he promised just now was not a lie.

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

After everyone left, Huang He opened the system and used the trade interface to check how much copper the two civilian workers could exchange.

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

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

They began to prepare materials. After all, handing over the indigenous chemical industry to the comrades was a cautious matter, and the production should be increased as much as possible while ensuring safety.

Three busy days passed.

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

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

They were old and young, and even one of them was a disabled person who was missing an arm. The youngest comrade looked only sixteen or seventeen years old.

Huang He led five people to them and said:

"Comrades, I am very grateful that you can come here from various military factories in the base. 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 procurement department that was just established last month in the base."

"The cotton-padded clothes you are wearing now are made of the cotton I brought back. This time we are going to get smokeless gunpowder and yellow explosives. It may be dangerous and even cause death. Are you afraid or have confidence?"

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

The old man had a heavy accent, and it was obvious that he was from outside the Great Wall.

"Director Huang, my name is Jiao Chun, you can just call me Lao Jiao. My family has been craftsmen for generations, and we started making firecrackers in Shenyang very early. I have been able to make black powder since I was a child."

"In 1931, the Japanese invaded."

"I didn't want to be a slave of a conquered country, so my eldest brother and I, a family of seven, joined the guerrillas. At that time, we made black powder and grenades specifically for our guerrillas."

"I also know about smokeless gunpowder and yellow explosives, and I even studied them."

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

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

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

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

“Now I am the only one left in our Jiao family! Without my family, my home has been occupied, what else do I have to fear?”

Speaking of this, Lao Jiao could not control his emotions, and slapped his chest tremblingly

“I just want to die with some value, I just want to be buried in Shenyang when I die! Director Huang, don’t worry, we all have stories.”

“Even if everyone dies here, we will 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 to him actively 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 comrades with great momentum, gritting his teeth and said:

“In the future, I will lead everyone to study together. We will have what the devils have in the future, and we will also have what they don’t have!”

He led everyone to the prepared podium and began to explain with the 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, you can't make smokeless gunpowder even if you rack your brains, because sulfuric acid is the mother of gunpowder.

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

The first is called the contact method. I won't talk about the complexity of the device. The important thing is that it also requires that kind of fine platinum powder as a catalyst.

Platinum powder is a bit outrageous. There is not even platinum in the base. Where can you get powder?

The second method is called the lead chamber method, which is relatively simple.

"I can't send it out after writing it. This thing is an explosive and dangerous chemical and is controlled."

After a morning, everyone has a certain understanding of the principles of making sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and nitrocellulose.

After lunch at noon, they returned to the factory and began to learn the principles of nitroglycerin and nitrostarch.

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

The grenades in the military factory in the base are now imitations of Sandezi's M24 grenades.

However, due to the charge, the power is far from the original one. It is difficult to manufacture TNT with the current industrial level of the base, but using nitroglycerin as charge can greatly increase the power.

As for the use of nitrstarch, Huang He intends to use it to imitate the Mark2 grenade of the ugly country.

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 filled with nitrstarch complex.

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

A week has passed, and the comrades have become familiar with the process of soil chemical industry. Fortunately, no accidents have occurred.

On November 19, 1939, the Northwest Shanxi Chemical Plant was officially established.

The chemical plant was established by Huang He, the director of the Procurement Bureau, and many military talents were trained by teaching skills. These people then provided tons of raw materials for the military factory of the Logistics Department in the base.

Today, 6k was updated, which is a boring but necessary chapter.

After all, my golden finger is not very awesome, and I have to do everything myself.

I will post the calculation process of copper exchange in the related works later. I didn’t expect that I could exchange so much.

I originally wanted to write a more detailed description of chemical engineering, but it violated the rules and could not be published.

As usual, I shouted that I would like to ask for everything for the new book! Thank you for the monthly ticket!