Chapter 27 Breakthrough
When he arrived at the ammunition factory, Zhao Hu was shocked. When the Jin army moved it, the jars of nitric acid and jars of mercury were all dangerous goods. If they could not be transported, they would not be transported. But the engineers and soldiers did not even care.
Everyone walked out carrying a jar on their backs. Zhao Hu was so frightened that his hair stood up. This was nitric acid. If it spilled out, his skin would be gone.
Zhao Xinghe noticed Zhao Hu's worry. He patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, Company Commander Zhao. The lids of these nitric acid cans are covered with wires, and there are seals inside. As long as the cans are not broken, there will be no problem at all."
Zhao Hu also wanted everyone to put it down, but this was a particularly scarce raw material, and it would be impossible without them. Fortunately, everyone found a few flatbed trucks at the door, put the cans on and took them away, and Zhao Hu was only half relieved.
The next step is the explosives. There are a lot of unprepared propellants here, and there are also many ammonium nitrate and Kaizi explosive bags. These are the treasures that Zhang Kai came up with after a long period of experiments. Now they are thrown aside by the Jin army.
, no one manages it anymore.
There was not much stuff in the explosives factory, and only three or four flatbed trucks were taken away. It seems that the Jin army also knew that the explosives here were valuable, and could at least blow up the railway, so they might have distributed them early.
After everyone left, Zhao Hu packed a few pieces of too heavy sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid into the warehouse to make bullets and firing powder. It would be impossible without these two items. Although he could make them himself in the future, the pain would not be enough.
It’s revealed to outsiders.
In the end, Zhao Hu left a small group of men to go to the gun factory. There were a lot of good things here, including unfinished gun barrels, various molds, and unqualified gun barrels.
They are not valuable in the eyes, but they are treasures in everyone's eyes. Just those scrapped gun barrels are good gun steel bought from Japan. Even if they cannot make cannons, they can still be used to make mortars.
After everyone was transported away, only about ten people were left empty-handed. After a final scan, Zhao Hu followed them to the fuze factory. The tools here are not big, but they are very precise. There are many sets of light measuring tools.
There are also electronic instruments, which may not be good or bad in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of military engineers, they are all things that money cannot buy.
After packing the equipment of the fuze factory, Zhao Hu went to several warehouses and shipped away all the finished bullets and shells, but there were still a lot of unqualified ones, especially the various firearms returned by the troops for repair, which were piled in
No one cares about the corner.
More than a dozen cartloads of supplies were transported to the city gate. Taking advantage of the fact that the city gate was not yet closed, with some help from the guard battalion commander, these things were transported out of the south gate overnight. There were already workers from the industrial guard outside to help them, and they were pulled directly to the city gate.
In the south, it was transported across the Fenhe River Bridge to Hexi.
We can still cross the bridge today, but it won't be certain when dawn comes. Maybe Japanese planes will come over to bomb. After watching the escort personnel go away, Zhao Hu also asked everyone to rest. It was a long day's journey, and they had to transport heavy equipment overnight.
, even an iron man can’t bear it.
The next day, the garrison battalion commander assigned Zhao Hu a task, asking his engineering company to fill half of the city gate hole. This workload was huge. Just loading sand into a large cart would take hundreds of carts out. Zhao Hu moved.
The brains asked everyone to directly find bricks from the collapsed houses in the city and lay them one by one at the entrance of Yunzhi City. This was much faster than loading sand, and it was also very trouble-free. The battalion commander surnamed Lu also saw the secret.
, and quickly asked his subordinates to follow suit.
In fact, Zhao Hu secretly ordered everyone to stuff small explosive packets into the bricks when stacking them. Of course, the location and placement are very particular. Once detonated, the bricks inside and outside will be destroyed.
It was exploded, and the last thing to do was just a little amount of work, which was fast and convenient.
During the day, the streets were full of soldiers. No one dared to run around for fear of causing misunderstandings. Since the bricks were piled up, it didn't require much manpower. Zhao Hu asked the engineer company to rest alternately, so that he could stay energetic and attack him again at night.
That night, the Japanese artillery fire began to bombard the city. The northern half of the city was filled with smoke and flames. The southern part was far away, so there were fewer bombs.
Perhaps after receiving verbal praise from Director Lin during the day, Zhao Xinghe was so confident that he once again took everyone to the gun factory and artillery shell factory. In the gun factory, everyone saw a lot of unqualified big-eye box parts piled together.
, this may also be one of the weaknesses of the Taiyuan Arsenal. Although there are so many knowledgeable people, there is really no error in making this gun. Even Zhou Weihan, a senior executive in the factory, said that the main body size and parts are slightly different.
Errors often lead to damage in one shot, and coupled with the corruption of the directors of each branch factory, the quality of the guns is often worrying.
The engineer company doesn't care about the quality of these things. At worst, they will go back and deal with them seriously. Not only are there pistol parts, but also various spare parts for submachine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns and mortars. There are two or three gun barrels with excessive calibers.
Ten of them, take them back and manually assemble the shells, and you will have a complete mortar. However, the logistics manager will probably come to you and scold them. Of course, the arsenal may also attack them immediately. It will be good to have cannons for you to use.
I still want to have the same caliber, but there are no doors. Everyone has to work harder. Isn’t it enough to have one gun and one kind of shell? This shows how tenacious the nerves of our army’s logistics managers are under such harsh conditions! It must be placed in the US military
, dozens of calibers of ammunition for each unit, which is sure to drive the logistics personnel crazy!
The battle situation became increasingly tense. Japanese aircraft kept flying overhead, dropping bombs that blew up the entire city into black smoke. Martial law was implemented in the city and no one was allowed to leave the city. The fighting in the north also became more intense. Throughout the day,
The sound of gunfire never stopped for a moment.
At night, groups of deserters began to appear. Some ran to the south gate. When they saw that the city gate was sealed, they jumped directly from the city wall. Of course, some of them escaped unscathed, but most of them would break.
Legs and feet, lying under the city and wailing.
Finally, someone came to deliver the order. Commander Fu ordered all personnel to retreat. Now the entire city gate was suddenly overwhelmed by the crowd. The engineer company that had been preparing to transport equipment during the day was also squeezed inside, and no one could get out.
"Make way, make way quickly, we are going to blow open the city gate. If everyone is crowded together, they will all die!" the engineer company lined up in a row and shouted in unison.
When they heard that there was a way to escape, the soldiers behind them dispersed far away. In fact, they were afraid of being affected by the explosives. Anyway, they were ready to charge. As soon as the city gate opened, they would be the first to squeeze out.
go.
"Boom boom" sounded several times in succession, and the entire city gate was suddenly shrouded in gunpowder smoke. Broken bricks and rocks flew into the air. The Jin army who was hit actually laughed: "Okay, now the door is open."
In fact, there was still a section in the middle that had not been blasted. Zhao Hu asked the engineers to go in and plant the explosives while asking everyone to continue shouting: "Get out of the way, second blast, second blast!"
The wave of Jin soldiers who had suffered a loss immediately squeezed back again. Everyone knew that the city gate hole was so deep that if it couldn't be opened at once and they just squeezed in, no one would be able to escape.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom!" A series of explosions came again. At the same time, the engineer company continued to shout: 'Three blasts, wait one more time and it will be clear, one more blast and it will be clear!'
Outside the gunpowder smoke, the crowd was so excited that everyone was packed into sardines. When Commander Lu saw the city gate that had been blown open, he couldn't help but give Zhao Hu a thumbs up: "Brother Gaoming, see you later. I appreciate your kindness. Everyone.
Don’t talk and get out quickly!”
Zhao Hu said to several supervisors in a deep voice: "Go out quickly, run to the south point, and then pull up the rope. Two people per machine, and cross the river in two batches. Remember, two people must watch a machine."
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Director Lin asked anxiously: "Why are we divided into two batches? And where do you want to go?"
"Although the Fen River is in dry season now, the mud underneath is very deep, and you might get stuck and be unable to pull it out, so you must find a place with few people and pull up the rope before crossing the river."
After saying that, he turned around and left: "I still have to go to the power plant to take a look. I can't leave things to the Japanese. Everyone, hurry up. If you're late, you'll be overwhelmed by the crowd!"
Without further ado, just as the engineer company shouted: "The third explosion has begun, the third explosion has begun," everyone carried heavy parts one by one and rushed out of the underground gate in advance.
The officers and soldiers waiting for a breakout in the city couldn't wait for the third explosion for a long time. Finally, someone couldn't help but rushed into the smoke, and then shouted mindlessly: "It's clear, the city gate is open!"
Zhao Hu walked into the power plant and found that the place was empty. He suddenly became excited. There are generators here, and they are large. There should not be too much copper in them. While he was collecting copper quickly, he suddenly heard something behind him.
There was a sound of footsteps, and when I turned around, I found a tall figure standing at the door: "I just want to see, do you want to be a deserter?"
"Oh my aunt, if you don't retreat with the main force, why are you following me here? Are you really afraid that I will run away? Besides..."
"Bag Gou, Bah Gou" The sound of bursts of thirty-eight gunshots came from far outside. Zhao Hu said with a bitter smile: "Do you understand now? You can't escape even if you want to."
"You still want to be a deserter!"
Chapter completed!