novelAbuy #123 - Become bigger and stronger
#123 - Become bigger and stronger
A month later, the Heyuan base began to operate at high speed. The copper smelting reverberatory furnace, which was completed first, completed the smelting of 20 tons of copper ore on the first day, producing 100 kilograms of copper in one day!
Although this amount seems insignificant, it is another historical first for Ren Zhong and the base area.
According to the amount of copper used in the 6.5mm bullets of the Type 38 rifle, after these pure copper are processed into brass, it can make about 17,000 bullets, which is not enough for a single Japanese squadron to carry in one battle.
As for the zinc mine, Ren Zhong also found one in the main world, just a few dozen miles away from Heyuan. However, there is no power to open up a new base area there for the time being. For Zhang Dabiao, it will take a long time to build Heyuan into a solid base area.
Now, Heyuan has gradually evolved from the original confrontation between the Japanese and the 358th Regiment to the Independent Regiment's working team occupying the vast rural areas, rapidly developing armed forces, and beginning to form an encirclement of the Japanese with the 358th Regiment.
Although the 358th Regiment is now strong and powerful, and has the ability to take Heyuan County, it is restricted by the command of its superiors. Yan Laoxi is now flirting with the Japanese, intending to compromise and survive.
The remaining forces of the entire Jin-Sui Army are not competing with the Japanese, but instead engaging in internal friction from time to time.
Therefore, Ren Zhong left Heyuan untouched. Of course, he considered that the Japanese were unwilling to lose their position and would inevitably counterattack. In addition, he had to consider the movements of the 358th Regiment. If Heyuan fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese would not react, but the Jin-Sui Army would immediately react and demand that the Eighth Route Army hand over the city.
In this sensitive period, Yan Laoxi occupies the general trend and name. The base area cannot withstand such pressure at all.
So doing so is extremely uneconomical and easily makes wedding clothes for others.
The three parties form a delicate balance, resolutely cutting off the black hands that the Japanese attempt to reach out, and trapping them firmly in the city. This is Ren Zhong's plan for Zhang Dabiao.
Now the last link of this plan is the growth of the First Guerrilla Brigade.
After Ren Zhong became ruthless, the equipment of the First Guerrilla Brigade was completely reborn. Now what is lacking is proficiency, especially the proficiency of the Type 56 riflemen and the familiarity of the artillery platoon integrated with mortars and grenade launchers.
This reliable armed force allows Ren Zhong to relax a little and develop.
However, Ren Zhong still put the most core part into the deep mountains. This time, he chose to go upstream along the river. The Nangou River, which mainly flows through Heyuan now, has a small flow during the dry season, only a few meters. The Nangou section is relatively gentle, but the water is less than one meter deep. Going up along the river, the river suddenly narrows and steepens, forming a mountain stream with a drop of more than 300 meters. Both sides are karst caves, some seven or eight hundred square meters, and some two or three hundred square meters, which is the best place Ren Zhong chose for mechanical processing.
But here are all mountains around, and even mountain roads have not been stepped out. You can only cross the mountains along the mountain backs with slopes as high as forty or fifty degrees. It takes at least two or three hours for normal people to cross these four or five kilometers.
But Ren Zhong is optimistic about this point. If the arsenal is built in the mountain cave, this is a natural danger, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even a platoon of Huzi can withstand a Japanese squadron for a long time.
As for the path to transport in, Ren Zhong does not take the mountain road, but chooses to form a waterway below!
Build a dam about ten meters high at Nangou to raise the water level, forming a navigable river near Nangou with a water depth of 10 meters and a water depth of nearly 2 meters near the cave. There is no problem for small boats of at least 3 meters wide and 10 meters long to pass. Although the carrying capacity of this small boat is not large, about ten or twenty tons, but as a mechanical processing factory for weapons and ammunition, this carrying capacity is completely enough for one or two to enter and exit.
On the side of the large karst cave, it is enough to dig out a staircase about two meters wide along the mountain for a distance of 300 meters. Except that it takes some effort to lift the machine tool base up, the rest are not large pieces. For example, there is no difficulty in transporting mortars or shells.
Building and clearing into a waterway on the steep mountain stream, the drop here is enough to install 3 to 5 50-kilowatt hydroelectric generators.
Above the mountain stream is another flat river section. After building a river interception of about ten meters above to intercept the amount of water, it can ensure that there is reservoir water released for power generation during the dry season.
According to Ren Zhong's plan, this cascade small power station formed by the mountain stream will provide sufficient power supply for the new arsenal.
In the future, this place can form a large-scale mechanical processing factory with 10 multi-functional machine tools, seven or eight punch presses, and several milling machines.
In addition to the barrel cannon, the Nangou Arsenal will be able to produce light weapons and ammunition from mortars, machine guns to rifles.
Coupled with the surrounding sulfuric acid and steel plants and copper smelting plants, Ren Zhong believes that it will not take long to replace the headquarters arsenal. Various weapons to strike the Japanese will be produced continuously from here.
The blueprint is drawn in Ren Zhong's mind, and he began to build here step by step. The first is the dam in Nangou Village. There is no shortage of stones in the Taihang Mountains. Quarrying the strip stones and stacking them layer by layer is enough. The ten-meter dam has almost no technical content. Just find a few local old workers.
Building two or three wooden boats is not a problem. The mountain people have not seen it, and Ren Zhong can find detailed wooden boat manufacturing instructions and construct according to the drawings. However, some of the wood processing processes may not be in place, making the wooden boat's service life short. It may leak water after only a few years. These are not a problem for Ren Zhong at all.
The Japanese devils will not stay in China for a few years. As long as they survive for 5 years, they will see the light. At that time, Ren Zhong will no longer need to stay in this place to do things secretly, and can move the arsenal to the county town.
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Following closely is the successful iron smelting of the No. 6 blast furnace and the No. 7 blast furnace. The output of pig iron is higher than expected, with a single blast furnace reaching 20 tons. Ren Zhong took the iron ore from here back to the main world and handed it over to Professor Hu for inspection. He found that the grade of iron ore in Heyuan was much higher than that of Yangcun, which surprised Ren Zhong.
Of course, the change in the composition of the iron ore also led to the re-optimization and adjustment of the gray cast iron and carbon steel production processes, which allowed Ren Zhong to issue a new bonus again.
As for special steels such as manganese steel and nickel steel, Ren Zhong has not yet found reliable manganese and nickel mines nearby that can be mined. The manganese mine that Ren Zhong found in Jin is recorded in Lingqiu in the north.
However, for the current transportation conditions and environment, it is too far away, and it is very unrealistic to mine and transport it from there.
For the time being, Ren Zhong is still mainly producing gray cast iron and carbon steel. Fortunately, the current demand is barely enough. After all, the mortars and gun barrels are selected from high-quality seamless steel pipes from the main world. Only the grenade launchers are made of locally produced carbon steel forged and rolled into tubes. Now the strength of mass-produced carbon steel is a little thicker to manufacture grenade launchers, which is still no problem.
The replication of these conventional products is not difficult for Ren Zhong, but for the chemical students, they have received a huge impact and brainwashing opportunity, watching the things in the brochures become reality in the short term!
This greatly stimulated their passion for learning. They plunged into the construction site during the day and had to study until 12 o'clock in the evening. If Ren Zhong had not provided LED lighting conditions, the eyes of these talents would have gone blind in a short time. Although Nangou Village did not leave any unsightly industries, as Ren Zhong's main living camp, Ren Zhong has installed a simple 5KW small hydropower generator to supply power to the camp.
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