That night!
The Munitions Factory used the supplies that Zhao Yiqing brought over to make a pork stew.
The technicians and workers of the Munitions Factory, who had not seen meat for a long time, were all satisfied with the food. The smiles on their faces were so satisfied and sincere.
The night was silent.
Zhao Yiqing, who had nothing to do, began to wander around the Munitions Factory.
Before he knew it, he had arrived at the production area of the Munitions Factory where the bullets were reloaded.
Zhao Yiqing naturally couldn't be alone. There was another person following him.
"Xiao Li, how is the production of our ammunition factory?”Zhao Yiqing asked as he looked at the busy workers who were producing bullets on the simple production line.
"Captain Zhao, we can produce and reload more than 100,000 bullets every year.”Xiao Li hurriedly replied.
These numbers were considered confidential, but Zhao Yiqing's identity allowed him to know these secrets.
"More than 100,000 bullets?"
Hearing Little Li's explanation, Zhao Yiqing could not help but be stunned. Then, he sighed in his heart and thought to himself,"Although it is known as the largest arsenal of the Second Army, this production is indeed worrying.”
"Captain Zhao, this is a lot. We don't have many machines. More than 100,000 bullets per year is already the limit.”
Seeing Zhao Yiqing fall into silence, Xiao Li, who was at the side, thought that Zhao Yiqing didn't know anything. He hurriedly explained,"One is the lack of workers, and the other is the lack of materials.”
"Our arsenal is unable to produce explosives, so we rely on the troops to seize them. For grenades, we use black gunpowder.”
"Secondly, some of the metals such as steel and copper are smelted by ourselves. Most of them are replaced by the Japanese's railway.”
At this point, Xiao Li shook his head helplessly and said,"If we can make sulfuric acid ourselves, then we can produce explosives.”
"But the extraction of sulfuric acid requires a large amount of lead plates. We don't have lead plates, so we can't make explosives.”
Xiao Li could not help but laugh bitterly." This is also why the troops always say that the grenades we make are not very powerful. It's because they are filled with black gunpowder.”
"Sulfuric acid? Explosives?"
Hearing Xiao Li's words, Zhao Yiqing's heart skipped a beat.
He suddenly remembered that he had seen a blog post on the Internet about the 8th (2nd) Army extracting sulfuric acid to make explosives during the Anti-Japanese War.
He remembered that the blog post said that because the 8th (2nd) Army lacked lead plates, they finally used a large tank filled with pickled vegetables to replace the lead plates and finally produced sulfuric acid.
It was now late September 1940. The arsenal of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region should have already begun to study this thing.
Therefore, Zhao Yiqing asked in detail about the lead plate and the production of sulfuric acid.
Xiao Li, don't underestimate him just because Zhao Yiqing called him Xiao Li.
This was a truly talented student. The reason why he was allowed to follow Zhao Yiqing was because he was very familiar with the Munitions Factory. If he encountered some problems, he would be able to explain.
"Xiao Li, do you think that if we use a large tank instead of lead plates, we can make sulfuric acid? After all, what you need is anti-corrosion materials. Can you do something like a big vat?”After Xiao Li finished speaking, Zhao Yiqing could not help but remind him.
"Big vat? A big vat!"
Sure enough, as soon as Zhao Yiqing finished speaking, Xiao Li was stunned at first. His expression was very confused, but then he seemed to have thought of something and jumped up on the spot.
"Captain Zhao, don't say it, the vat is really good.”Xiao Li's face was filled with excitement as he said to Zhao Yiqing,"Captain Zhao, I'm going to find the factory manager. If we can really solve the difficulty of producing sulfuric acid, then we can make explosives.”
After saying that, he left Zhao Yiqing behind and went to look for Factory Manager Cheng.
"As expected, he's still a young man!”
Looking at Xiao Li who left, Zhao Yiqing smiled and shook his head. He did not follow, but continued to watch the bullet reassembly line.
Everyone in the Munitions Factory knew about Zhao Yiqing. After all, he was the one who brought the meat and fish for everyone to eat last night.
With Xiao Li accompanying them, everyone greeted him and did not come up.
Now that Xiao Li had left, the officer in charge of reloading the bullets came up and brought Zhao Yiqing around.
"Eh?"
Soon, the two of them arrived at the finished product area. There were all the produced bullets here. The workers were packing them up and transporting them to the front line to fight the Japanese.
However, Zhao Yiqing saw that some bullets were picked out and not put in.
"What's going on?"
Zhao Yiqing pointed at the bullets that were picked out and asked.
"Captain Zhao, these are all unqualified bullets. Even if they are sent to the front line, they will still cause some consequences because they are unqualified.”
Hearing Zhao Yiqing's question, the officer in charge hurriedly introduced him.
"Oh!"
Hearing the explanation, Zhao Yiqing suddenly came to a realization. Then, a light appeared in his mind. He thought of an idea on how to turn these unqualified bullets into treasures.
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