Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

The brigade commander was slightly shocked when he heard Huang He's words, but after experiencing strong winds and waves, he immediately reacted and said:

"It's great that you think so. Although I have met people who are willing to share, most of them hide their knowledge."

"When you have time, you can write a detailed plan. I will report the establishment of the school to the headquarters. First, tell me how you plan to arrange the smokeless gunpowder."

Huang He looked out the window, seeming to see the hard-working comrades through many obstacles.

"First of all, I need to mobilize some personnel. Many of the comrades in charge of reloading bullets in the arsenal of our logistics department are good at black powder."

"They are all veterans who have been working for several years. They have original experience and a certain basic foundation in learning new skills, and they can get started relatively quickly."

After thinking about it, he continued to say to the brigade commander:

"I also need a group of comrades who make grenades in the military factory. In the process of making smokeless gunpowder, I can also try to teach them how to make yellow explosives."

Li Yunlong became interested again when he heard another new term appeared, and it was also explosive.

"Director Huang, what is this yellow explosive? This is the first time we, Old Li, have heard of this stuff after fighting for so many years."

Upon hearing Li Yunlong's question, Zhang Wanhe took the initiative to explain to Li Yunlong:

"Don't you Li Yunlong always dislike the fact that the grenades made in our border area are not as powerful as the Japs' melon grenades? He keeps saying they are of poor quality and yet he came to me today to ask for them."

"The quality problem is because the grenades made in our border area still use black powder as the charge."

"Although the things left by our ancestors are good, times are constantly changing and technology is constantly advancing. We have fallen behind a long time ago. If we fall behind, we will be beaten."

When Li Yunlong heard Zhang Wanhe's words, he remembered the time when he ambushed the Japs. The soldiers of the first battalion wildly swung grenades at the place where the Japanese must pass.

As a result, the soldiers threw grenades everywhere, but few exploded.

The reason is that there was a rain a few days ago, which made the gunpowder inside the grenade damp.

Moreover, grenades made in the border area often explode in two halves, and in many cases they fail to achieve the desired effect of offensive grenades.

Seeing Zhang Wanhe exposing his shortcomings again, Li Yunlong smiled and scratched the back of his head and said:

"Hehehe, look at what you said, Lao Zhang, any plaster that can pull out pus is a good plaster."

"The old sleeves are weapons from the Qing Dynasty. They were made in Hanyang and have some history."

"Although we soldiers will dislike it, as long as it can spray bullets, it will be fine. It is a good weapon if it can fight Japanese enemies."

When the matter of grenades was mentioned, the brigade commander glared at Li Yunlong again, and then said to Huang He:

"I will arrange the person you want within three days, but I hope you can get the smokeless gunpowder and yellow explosive early."

"For our Eighth Route Army, grenades and bullets are really important."

The brigade commander stood up from the fire bed, straightened his clothes and walked towards the door. Huang He and the other three also stood up and prepared to see off the brigade commander.

After walking out of the house, the brigade commander pointed his whip at Li Yunlong and said.

"Li Yunlong, come with me. Go to the 772nd Regiment and the Independent Regiment. I want to see the distribution of weapons and the morale of the soldiers in these two regiments."

"Next time you come to the logistics department so blatantly and ask for weapons, I will break your legs!"

"They also said that the Logistics Department is a wealthy landowner. As soon as the Yellow River came, they got a lot of materials for making cotton-padded clothes for our Eighth Route Army, and they also brought back so many Mosin Nagants."

"The division commander said that next time there is a supply of weapons, our brigade will be given priority."

Li Yunlong bared his big white teeth and waved to Zhang Wanhe and Huang He. Behind him were Zhu Zhu and Hu Zi holding wine.

"Hehehe, you know that our brigade commander cares about people and thinks of me, Xiao Li, no matter what good thing he has."

"Thank you, Director Huang. If you need anything, just call me, Li Yunlong. As long as it doesn't violate discipline and I can do it, I will definitely handle it for you."

"We'll see you later, Lao Zhang. I'll take those bottles of wine. The brigade commander said no bribes, hahaha."

Huang He and Zhang Wanhe were speechless for a while. This Li Yunlong was indeed shameless and shameless.

They first said goodbye to the brigade commander, and then said to Li Yunlong in unison: "Fuck you, haha."

The copper he just promised was not just talk.

Although the private factories currently provided by the system are mainly used to trade raw materials for making military uniforms, the task will be completed after a while.

After everyone left, Huang He opened the system and used the trade interface to check how much copper two migrant workers could exchange.

Two private factories can produce 25 tons in one month. This figure really shocked him.

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With his guarantee, the five researchers came to the Logistics Department without any hindrance, and no one doubted their identities.

They began to prepare materials. After all, handing over local chemical industry to comrades was a matter of caution, and production should be increased as much as possible while ensuring safety.

Three busy days have passed.

The comrades promised by the brigade commander were also mobilized from various military factories in the border area and gathered in a larger factory.

Huang He looked at this group of comrades who had been struggling in the arsenal for several years, and kept lamenting in his heart how the environment of this era could be so difficult.

They were old and young, and even one old man was a disabled person who was missing an arm. The youngest comrade looked only sixteen or seventeen years old.

Huang He led five people to them and said:

"Comrades, I am very grateful to you for coming here from the various military factories in the base area. The brigade commander should have told you why I wanted to gather everyone here."

"You may not know me yet, but my name is Huang He, and I am the director of the Procurement Department that was just established in the base last month."

"The cotton-padded clothes you are wearing now are made of the cotton I got back. This time we are going to get smokeless gunpowder and yellow explosives, which may be dangerous and even kill people. Are you afraid or not confident?"

At this time the old man with the missing arm came out. Everyone seemed to know him and he was very prestigious in the crowd.

The old man's accent was very strong, and it sounded like he was from outside the country.

"Director Huang, my name is Jiao Chun, you can just call me Lao Jiao. Our family has been craftsmen for generations. We started making firecrackers in Shenyang very early. I have been able to make black powder since I was a child."

"In 1931, the Japanese came."

"I didn't want to be slaves to the subjugation of the country. My eldest brother and I, a family of seven, joined the guerrillas. At that time, we made black powder to make hand grenades for our guerrillas."

"I also know smokeless gunpowder and yellow explosives, and I have even studied them."

Lao Jiao looked at his empty left arm, held back tears and continued:

"Later, our whole family came to the base area. My eldest brother, sister-in-law and my wife were all killed in the explosion making gunpowder."

"My only son was also killed when he came into contact with spent explosives."

"My two nephews, one died in Pingxingguan and the other died in Guangyang."

"Now in our Jiao family, I am the only one left! Without my family, my home has been taken over. What else do I, Lao Jiao, have to fear?"

Speaking of this, Lao Jiao couldn't control his emotions and tremblingly beat his chest.

"I just want to die worthily. I just want to be buried in Shenyang when I die! Director Huang, don't worry. Among us, none of us have ordered a story yet."

"Even if everyone dies here, we must learn from you. As long as we can drive away the Japs, we are not afraid of death!"

After Lao Jiao finished speaking, the comrades responded enthusiastically to him. The youngest child helped the painful Lao Jiao back to the queue.

Huang He held back his tears and looked at the powerful comrades, gritted his teeth and said:

"From now on, I will lead everyone to study together. We will have what the Japanese have, and we will have what they don't have!"

He led everyone to the prepared podium and started explaining together with five researchers.

If you want to create smokeless gunpowder, the first step is to create sulfuric acid.

Without this thing, no matter who you are, you can't make smokeless gunpowder even if you try hard, because sulfuric acid is the mother of gunpowder.

There are currently two main processes for manufacturing sulfuric acid in the world.

The first one is called the contact method. I won’t go into details about the complexity of the device. The important thing is that it also needs that fine platinum powder as a catalyst.

Platinum powder is a bit outrageous. There is not even platinum in the base area. Where can I get powder?

The second method is called the lead chamber method, which is relatively simple.

"I can't post it after I write it. This is a dangerous precursor to explosives and is controlled."

The morning passed, and everyone had a certain understanding of the principles of making sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and nitrocellulose.

After lunch, they returned to the factory and began to learn the principles of nitroglycerin and nitrated starch.

Nitrocellulose can be used to make smokeless gunpowder, effectively avoiding the shortcomings of black powder bullets.

The grenades currently in the military factory in the base are imitations of Santoku's M24 grenades.

However, due to the charge, the power is far from the original one. It is difficult to produce TNT at the current industrial level in the base area, but using nitroglycerin as the charge can greatly increase the power.

As for the use of nitrated starch, Huang He plans to use it to imitate Chou's Mark 2 grenades.

The interior of the MK2 grenade is filled with TNT. However, there was a shortage of TNT in the early days of the war, so the interior was mostly filled with nitrostarch compound.

The combination of offensive and defensive grenades can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.

A week has passed, and the comrades have become familiar with the process of soil chemical engineering. Fortunately, no accidents occurred.

On November 19, 1939, Shanxi North Chemical Plant was officially established.

The chemical factory was established under the leadership of Huang He, Director of the Procurement Administration. The skills taught and trained many military talents, who later provided tons of raw materials for the logistics department military factory in the base area.

I updated 6k chapters today, which is a boring but necessary chapter.

After all, my golden finger is not very good, so I have to do everything by myself.

I will post about the calculation process of copper exchange later, but I didn’t expect that I could exchange so much.

I originally wanted to write about chemical engineering in more detail, but it violated the rules and I couldn’t post it.

As usual, shout out for the new book and ask for everything! Thank you for your monthly pass, boss!