Didn’t I go to the border hospital before? I brought the root of what you have always wanted to meet. Mr. Liu said with a smile.

Director Cheng's eyes fell on Liu Gen, and a clear joy appeared on his face. He knew what Mr. Liu had done to the border hospital. When Mr. Liu came back last night, he did not disclose any news. He thought Mr. Liu could not bring Liu Gen back. Now it seems that Mr. Liu is indeed Mr. Liu! He actually successfully brought Liu Gen, a genius!

Hello, Director Cheng!

Liu Gen, captain of the artillery team of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division, came to report! Liu Gen saluted with a serious expression!

Director Cheng stretched out his hand and looked at Liu Gen with some excitement. After holding Liu Gen's hand hard, he spoke: Captain Liu, you finally came to our arsenal. The 60mm mortar paper you took out had helped our arsenal a lot! The arsenal has always wanted to build mortars, but it has never been able to seize relevant drawings from the Japanese.

The 60mm mortar you took out is quite mature, which saved the arsenal a lot of time. Logically speaking, the merits you took out were praised by the entire army. But you also know the particularity of our arsenal's work, which makes it impossible to praise you in the entire army. But don't worry, I have applied for merits from the headquarters for you, and will be directly recorded in your file at that time.

Liu Gen felt the strength of Director Cheng shaking his hand, and he was a little surprised. He didn't expect Director Cheng to be so kind of attitude towards him. He was so enthusiastic. Liu Gen was a little ashamed. In his opinion, compared with the experts and workers in the arsenal, he did not do much.

Okay, Xiao Cheng, please calm down. I took the root to the arsenal and will be our arsenal from now on.

This time I went to find Genzi myself and saw another mortar paper designed by Genzi. It was very good, there was no problem with the data, and it was very mature. Just make a few test shots and you can put them into production on a large scale. This time, the mortar designed by Genzi is more suitable for our Eighth Route Army, and the cost will be much lower. Looking at Director Cheng who looked excited, Mr. Liu said helplessly.

Mr. Liu always felt that Director Cheng was still very steady and did a very good job in handling the daily affairs of the arsenal. However, when Director Cheng saw Liu Gen today, he was too excited. Mr. Liu didn't understand why Director Cheng was so excited. Liu Gen was good, but there was still a lot of gap with Director Cheng.

Of course, Mr. Liu is sure that with Mr. Liu's genius, he will definitely grow up quickly and become better than Director Cheng in the future.

Has Captain Liu designed another mortar? Director Cheng calmed down a little, and there was no sign of too much excitement on his face.

The arsenal has been expanding to a certain extent. There are now as many as three or four thousand workers in the arsenal, but because there are not enough lathes, most of the work of producing weapons and ammunition still needs to be polished by hand by workers. The 60mm mortar paper that Liu Gen took out was carefully studied and tested in the arsenal and found that it was quite good. Therefore, the arsenal has drawn a lot of workers to manufacture and produce 60mm mortars.

However, even if the arsenal draws a lot of workers to produce 60mm mortars, the output is not much, and only less than ten can be produced per month. Now Liu Gen designs a mortar again, but the arsenal cannot draw too many workers. In addition, with the 60mm mortar, unless it is a larger caliber mortar, there is no need to produce at all.

Before Liu Gen took out the 60mm mortar, the arsenal tried to produce 50mm mortars, and naturally the Japanese grenade launcher was used as the reference object. However, after seeing the 60mm mortars taken out by Liu Gen, the arsenal centered on the production and manufacturing of 60mm mortars.

Mr. Liu, you also know the situation in the arsenal. In order to produce 60mm mortars, we have dispatched a lot of workers, and I am afraid we cannot draw too many people to invest in the production of the new mortars. After a moment of silence, Director Cheng still spoke.

Mr. Liu nodded, his face did not change much. He also worked in the arsenal on weekdays, so he naturally knew the situation of the arsenal.

Xiao Cheng, I understand your concerns, don’t worry, this time the 82mm mortar was designed. Once it can be produced on a large scale, it will further supplement and increase the firepower of our army. Mr. Liu said with a smile.

Suddenly, Director Cheng was stunned. He thought that Liu Gen had designed a new 60mm mortar again. After all, Liu Gen had previous experience in designing a 60mm mortar, and it would undoubtedly be quite easy to design a 60mm mortar again. Now, he was quite surprised when he heard from Mr. Liu that Liu Gen had designed an 82mm caliber mortar.

Designing a mortar is not that simple. It is easy to draw relevant drawings. The difficult thing is related data. Without accurate data, the designed mortar is prone to various problems.

Liu Gen, who was standing by, looked at the conversation between Mr. Liu and Director Cheng, but he didn't have much thought. It was good to take out an 82mm caliber mortar. In the process of drawing it, he also completely absorbed the knowledge and technology needed. Now even if Liu Gen redesigns an 82mm mortar, there is no problem. But even if Liu Gen can redesign a 82mm mortar, he will not do it.

After taking out the drawings of the 82mm caliber mortar, Liu Gen was not going to waste too much energy on this mortar. Everything only needs to be handed over to the relevant personnel of the arsenal. Liu Gen believes that with their technology, there will definitely be no problems. Instead of focusing on the 82mm mortar, it is better to focus on gunpowder.

Due to the insufficient power of the gunpowder used in the arsenal, the power of the bullets reloaded by the arsenal and the grenades produced are not strong. In Liu Gen's view, what the arsenal needs most is to update its own gunpowder technology rather than continue to use old-fashioned black gunpowder.

The arsenal used old-fashioned black gunpowder, which was helpless. The Eighth Route Army did not have many talents in gunpowder, and there was not enough technical reserves in the base area to create more powerful gunpowder.

Of course, according to Liu Gen, all departments of the Eighth Route Army have tried to improve gunpowder and have achieved a lot of results. Among them, the Military Industry Department of the Jin-Cha-Hebei region was able to produce sulfuric acid on a large scale in 40 years, and sulfuric acid is the basis for the production of high-grade explosives such as smokeless gunpowder and nitroglycerin!

In terms of gunpowder research, the Military Industry Department of the Jin-Cha-Hebei region is undoubtedly at the forefront of the Eighth Route Army.

Genzi, do you have any drawings with mortars? Let me see. Director Cheng looked at Liu Gen and asked in anticipation.

Liu Gen shook his head. The drawings were not with him. In order to ensure that there would be no problems with the drawings, Liu put the drawings next to him.

Seeing Liu Gen shaking his head, Director Cheng was a little disappointed. He really wanted to see how the 82mm caliber mortar designed by Liu Gen!
Chapter completed!