From now on, Androvich didn't talk so much. When something happened, he would jot something down in a notebook and occasionally ask a few questions. The rest was to take care of his own work.
Wang Xuexin left the responsibility for tank maintenance to a soldier named Yang Zhiyong.
Yang Zhiyong is an apprentice in hardware... In this era, learning skills requires taking care of apprentices. Unlike modern times, it is more often learned in universities. However, many people still have to learn from a master after graduating from university before they can get started.
People in this era are not so happy. They often learned by working with the master when they were children. It is common for them to stay with the master for more than ten years before becoming a master.
That’s why there is a saying, “Once a teacher, always a father.” Masters in this era are really like reborn parents.
Yang Zhiyong is the most proud of the three apprentices of the hardware belt. Although he is only in his early twenties, he has a natural sensitivity to machinery.
This is what Hardware said about him: "Ayong learns things differently from others. He likes to think about things and can think about them together. I think he can succeed in repairing tanks!"
Although the words "hardware" were not explained clearly, Wang Xuexin understood them.
The general idea is that Yang Zhiyong not only looks at whether a certain part is faulty, he will consider the problem from the operating principle of the entire machine to think about where there is a fault. Wang Xuexin also thought that such a person was suitable, so he put him in charge of tank maintenance.
He was actually learning to repair tanks two weeks ago, and he was repairing Japanese Type 97 and Type 95 tanks.
The subjects of study were a dozen Japanese maintenance personnel captured by Wang Xuexin from Yunjing City.
Wang Xuexin said this to Yang Zhiyong: "Comrade Yang Zhiyong, you can't be careless about repairing tanks. The Japanese people can indeed repair them, but they are not our own people after all. If they deliberately cause some trouble... we can't see it."
If you come out, there will be big problems on the battlefield, do you understand?"
"Understood!" Yang Zhiyong nodded heavily: "Don't worry, battalion commander! I will keep a close eye on these devils, they will definitely not be able to do anything..."
Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, Wang Xuexin hit him twice on the head: "Your master praised you for your cleverness just now, but now you are stupid? Are you just keeping an eye on the Japanese and not letting him do anything? Why do you still let him come?"
Yang Zhiyong was confused now. He scratched his head and asked: "Batalion Commander, then, then... what am I going to do?"
"Learning skills, what are you doing!" Wang Xuexin replied: "I said, why don't you understand? Only when we learn it ourselves, can practice it ourselves, and don't rely on the devils or the bears, can we really feel at ease and understand.
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"Yes, I understand!" Yang Zhiyong stood up and answered.
Then Wang Xuexin added: "From now on, we will treat those Japanese as masters, learn their skills, and bring out a group of people who can repair tanks!"
"Being a master..." Yang Zhiyong was not happy about this: "Batalion Commander, this..."
"A master who learns his skills!" Wang Xuexin understood what Yang Zhiyong was thinking, so he replied: "I didn't let you become a disciple seriously!"
"Hey!" Yang Zhiyong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.
Yang Zhiyong did not go alone. He brought with him thirty workers, including those who repaired cars, machines, and guns, and two were blacksmiths.
It's not easy for the Eighth Route Army these days. There is a critical shortage of skilled workers like this, so they can only scrape together enough manpower.
Most of them are uneducated. The three who are literate brought hardware from Shanghai and only went to elementary school.
But Wang Xuexin is not worried about this.
It’s true that you can learn something quickly if you are literate, but people in this era are working hard to learn a craft that can make a living. This spirit can make up for the shortcomings of a weak cultural foundation, and the craftsmen trained in this way have stronger practicality.
The experience is not much worse than that of modern college students.
What Wang Xuexin did was to request two translators from the headquarters, one translating in Japanese and the other in Chinese.
In the future, when the tanks from Mao Xiong arrive, this maintenance team will learn from both sides.
Anyway, they are both tanks, and their working principles are similar. Learning the Japanese tanks and the Bear tanks at the same time can be regarded as a full understanding of the differences between the enemy and one's own equipment.
In terms of personnel training, Wang Xuexin didn't dare to count on Androvitch at all.
This is mainly because Wang Xuexin knows that Mao Xiong's quality is not very good at this time. On the other hand, he knows that Mao Xiong's equipment is very rough. To put it simply, there is not much skill in handling it, and it mainly relies on strength...
This was quickly confirmed soon after. The T34 tank, known as Mao Xiong's most advanced tank, always had a hammer in the tank cabin.
Wang Xuexin was a little strange when he saw the hammer: "Why do you have a hammer in the tank? It would make sense if you had a pistol and grenades, but a hammer... is used to knock the enemy's head in from the hatch.
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Androvich explained it this way: "Comrade Battalion Commander, the T34 turret often gets stuck when turning. Just give it a few hits with a hammer and it will be fine!"
Wang Xuexin said "Oh" and secretly said that this operation is really awesome, just like if an aging electrical appliance breaks down, the first reaction is to give it a two-foot kick.
At this time, Wang Xuexin received two pieces of good news: first, the rifle production line and bullet production line had been installed and entered the trial production stage; second, the acid-making equipment purchased from someone in the United States had arrived.
Wang Xuexin has never seen the acid-making equipment from beginning to end, although Wang Xuexin spent his own money to buy this batch of equipment.
The reason is that the acid factory is not located in Sanjiadian.
The reason why it is not located in three stores is that making acid is different from producing other things. It is almost impossible to hide it.
This is my experience in Lujiagou. Once an acid factory is placed in a certain place, the smell can be smelled for more than ten miles. Over time, the surrounding trees will not grow leaves, and one after another will die.
, just like the black forest in fairy tales.
Acid-making workers are even worse. Even though they wear protective equipment, they still have large patches of peeling skin on their hands and face, and their eyes become red and swollen. Over time, their vision may be damaged.
But even this has to be done, otherwise there will be no smokeless gunpowder to fight the war.
It is conceivable that if the acid plant is moved to Qiling Mountain, on the one hand it will affect the production of the Sixth Branch Plant, and on the other hand, the large area of forest will die and the Sixth Branch Plant will be exposed to enemy aircraft.
So we adopted the model of mobile acid production, that is, producing it here for a few months and moving to another place for a few months.
After completion, the produced nitrocellulose will be transported to Qiling Mountain to produce bullets.
Although there are more transportation steps, it can save a lot of trouble.
There is no need for Wang Xuexin to worry about these matters. Zhang Wanhe has been in Qiling Mountain during this period, and with Su Xin's ability, there is no problem in solving these matters.
What Wang Xuexin needs to consider is the training of the Fifth Battalion, the first armored unit of the Eighth Route Army.