After the Japanese invading army occupied Shangqiu, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade of North China's dispatched army replaced the 16th Division and the 3rd Mixed Brigade for a long time in Zhuji and supported the traitor Zhang Lanfeng. But in fact, in the vast areas of more than a dozen counties in eastern Henan, the Japanese army's troops were quite empty.

Despite this, Yang Tianfeng did not continue to launch a major offensive and expanded his territory frantically. After thinking that he had achieved his goal, he began the planned major expansion.

This deepened the wrong judgment of people, including the Japanese devils. The Third Column was indeed not strong enough, and it was indeed a succession of victory achieved by the 61st Regiment of the Regular Army. Although this rumor made the officers and soldiers of the Third Column dissatisfied, Yang Tianfeng did not care at all. After assigning various tasks, he rushed back to the Mangdangshan Arsenal.

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With a dull "bang", a dazzling spark suddenly burst out from the steel plate in front, followed by a loud "boom".

The smoke of gunpowder filled the air, the steel plate was blown away, and the snow on the ground was squeaked by the hot steel plate, and heavy water vapor rose.

At the same time, Zhou Zhizhong ran over quickly, Yang Tianfeng reached out to signal, and followed Ma Yuming slowly.

"It's really powerful!" Ma Yuming was the first time he watched the live ammunition demonstration of "Steel Fist", and couldn't help but sigh, "Ma is really short-sighted and not wronged by Boss Dai."

"A new weapon often means a new tactic. Although the steel fist is strong, it must be used to exert all its power in a specific occasion." Yang Tianfeng's proud expression faded and he said slowly: "I have written all these and handed them over to Brother Ma. I hope that the National Army equipped with the steel fist can pay attention to it."

Ma Yuming nodded and said, "Complex terrain, streets, alleys, villages, and coordination between the enemy is not difficult to understand. Brother Yang's painstaking efforts should not be disappointed."

While talking, the two had already walked near the steel plate. Shi Tongran and Zhou Zhizhong were inspecting the steel plate. After the armor-breaking grenade shot the steel plate through, the dense, extremely high-temperature metal breaking stream shot the wooden dummy behind the steel plate into holes and the air was filled with steam and burnt smell.

Zhou Zhizhong took the lead in giving Yang Tianfeng a thumbs up and said, "When fighting with the Japanese, I don't know how many brothers died bravely in front of the enemy tank. If he had this weapon had been there-" He sighed and shook his head, and could not continue.

Shi Tongran looked at Yang Tianfeng, shocked. He also knew that if this armor-breaking weapon was popularized, it would play an immeasurable role in the entire anti-Japanese battlefield. Sun Tongxuan would also make a major concession in order to keep Yang Tianfeng, the big fish in the Third Army and supply weapons to the Third Army.

"Shi Mou was convinced." Shi Tongran bowed and said sincerely: "I will contact Commander Sun immediately. I believe that issues including the Recruitment and Disciplinary Office of Luxi and the Distribution of Intellectual Youth will have results that satisfy Brother Yang."

"Thank you, Brother Shi." Yang Tianfeng bowed and said, "Although the weapon is good, people still need to use it. Brother Shi must also understand how difficult it is for ordinary soldiers to learn from distance measurement, estimating speed, calculating advance amount, etc. This intellectual youth is very precious and important. Yang is thirsty!"

"I understand, I understand." Shi Tongran nodded in agreement and said, "I immediately suggested that Commander Sun draw a group of soldiers and officers from the group army and come for training. Then, this redistribution will be decided by Commander Sun and General Yang."

"This is the fastest and best way to form combat power." Yang Tianfeng pondered for a moment and said, "As long as the materials are sufficient, Yang will give priority to the supply of new weapons to the Third Army. We are both in the same war zone, and Commander Sun is Yang's commander, which is understandable."

Seeing Yang Tianfeng's gaze swept, Ma Yuming just smiled and said nothing, which was a kind of default. Anyway, his military commander's commander's team will receive weapons supply and gain military achievements to add luster to him, which is foreseeable.

Ma Yuming also thought about Yang Tianfeng's ideas. That is, he wanted talents, equipment, and materials. The Third Army was stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River, and it can also be regarded as the rear. The young people can recruit them, and they can also get some machinery, equipment, materials and materials. Yang Tianfeng, no matter whether it is new or old equipment, he doesn't even care about the steam engine that has been behind for decades. It can be said that the more it is, the better.

The two sides are nominally affiliated, but Yang Tianfeng will not bow down to everything. Take the arsenal as an example. He must hold it firmly in his hands and use weapons and equipment as bargaining chips in exchange for the materials and money he needs.

Needless to say it thoroughly, Shi Tongran and Zhou Zhizhong also heard the meaning. Weapons and equipment can be supplied to the Third Army, but it is not unconditional or free. If you want personnel and materials, use these two things to exchange for them.

"If you have this weapon and use it well, the Japanese armored troops will no longer be rampant." Zhou Zhizhong, as an officer who is focused on fighting, has naturally urgent demand for new weapons. When he took a look, he said, "If the Third Army can be equipped, it will be exciting to improve its combat power."

Shi Tongran smiled helplessly and nodded. He knew that it was certain to make concessions to Yang Tianfeng. In the long run, the miscellaneous unit of the Third Army also had to rely on Yang Tianfeng's arsenal and use this bridgehead to obtain personnel and funds. It is not advisable to turn against each other or make a fuss.

Perhaps, temporary concessions will bring long-term benefits. Shi Tongran decided to speak Xiang Meiyan for Yang Tianfeng because he is optimistic about Yang Tianfeng. Now it is a steel fist, and in the future, there may be some more powerful weapons. The Third Army is likely to have a huge increase in combat power, and even the National Government must look at it with admiration and dare not easily divide and suppress it.

Shi Tongran thought about this and got rid of his unwillingness and depression, and became closer to Yang Tianfeng. He made a disguised guarantee that he would try his best to satisfy Yang Tianfeng in the recruitment office of western Shandong and the distribution of smuggling profits.

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Only when value is reflected can it be valued and there can be capital for bargaining.

Yang Tianfeng saw this very thoroughly and used it very skillfully. After he successively settled the Military Control Commission and the Third Army, he maintained contact with troops from various places through telegraphs, and devoted most of his time to military production.

It is relatively easy to get from scratch, but to form production scale, it is always a bottleneck for the arsenal. Moreover, the production process and technical level need to be improved and improved. However, with the extensive knowledge in Yang Tianfeng's mind, progress that requires hundreds of experiments and explorations can be made has now been greatly saved.

For example, there is no electric welding for the time being. The tail of the mortar shell and the steel fist grenade is made by using earth welding (a process invented by the Eighth Route Army Arsenal in 1943); the foreign black heart toughening treatment process is combined with the traditional Chinese "stewing" technology to make the refined white pig iron into a certain toughness and can be turned and processed, which improves the production speed and quality of the mortar shell; the overall casting method or hot pier processing method (firing the refined steel bars red and the hammer pier into a solid cylinder) is used to produce the cannon blank, and then use pulley hanging hammers, ply hammers and boring machines to hollow out the middle to process it into a seamless steel pipe blank, which can create two 120mm mortar tubes a day...

Advanced methods, Yang Tianfeng used all the things he could use, and he continued to create sharp weapons to kill enemies, and batches of ammunition and medicine were also transported to the troops, increasing combat power.

The 40mm single-shot grenade launcher was manufactured. As Yang Tianfeng expected, the launcher was easy to manufacture, but the fixed-load grenade was difficult to produce. The shell shells, fuses, warheads, etc. all need to be re-established a set of manufacturing processes and technical standards, and the warheads also require relatively fine processing.

Yang Tianfeng simply changed the mortar shells and grenades to delayed leads (similar to grenades). Although this is not perfect, it is also temporary. It is not too late to change it to touch and blow up when the machine is more and more refined in the future.

Of course, if you concentrate all your efforts, the output will naturally increase significantly, but what about the production of other weapons and ammunition? Bullets, grenades, mines, shotguns, mortars, mortars, steel fists, grenade launchers... These are also needed by the army that is expanding greatly. Under limited technical equipment, personnel, materials and other conditions, a relatively balanced production progress can only be adopted.

Adding or making homemade machinery and equipment, recruiting technicians and workers is of course a way to increase output. Strengthening management, implementing scientific division of labor, collaboration, and improving labor productivity are also very important measures. Yang Tianfeng also made some plans and arrangements for this.

Wohugang Gun Factory in Woyang is now responsible for the production of shotguns and ammunition used, grenade launchers, gun scopes, and a small number of grenades and mines.

The arsenal located in the Mangdang mountains took over some equipment from Wohugang and most of the newly built machines, and the production of most of the military industry was undertaken. The explosives, casting, boring, milling, assembly and other workshops were distributed in Baoan Mountain, Lishan, Xishan, Huangtu Mountain and other places.

It is certainly Yang Tianfeng's consideration to not put the eggs in a basket, safety and confidentiality. At the same time, the detailed process makes the work in each workshop simple and repetitive, reducing the technical content and requirements for workers. In this way, no high education and technical level are required, and many tasks can be undertaken by ordinary people and just proficient in work.

Coupled with reasonable rewards, strict division of responsibilities, incentives for piece-based wages, etc., the scale of the arsenal is getting bigger and more formal, and the total number of workers has exceeded 600, showing vigorous vitality.

In military production, bottlenecks will continue to appear, but Yang Tianfeng and the arsenal technicians are confident to break through one by one. What makes Yang Tianfeng most gratified is that the arsenal began to use the principle of interchangeability (first adopted by the United States in 1798) to mass-made parts. Although there are still shortcomings, it is a very gratifying and valuable step towards standardization.
Chapter completed!