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Star Tao didn't know how long she should step on the pedal until she was picked up by Yevlov.
"Bessika, you've had enough, the soldiers will do the rest."
Star fruit was taken away by Yelentina. As a member of the NKVD and her professional habit, she decided to "interrogate" this Chinese girl.
Yang Tao didn't know much about Yang Mingzhi.
"You don't even know where he comes from? You married him out of nowhere?" Yelentina was very surprised.
Yang Tao never thought much about it. She just thought her husband was a very nice person. She discovered him by the river and sincerely treated him as a comrade. As for his past, knowing or not knowing it was meaningless. "He is not a spy, nor is he a bad person.
.Jelentina, even if you ask me, I really can't answer. In short, he is an upright Chinese like me."
The question was in vain, Yelentina shrugged and left.
It was already afternoon when Yang Mingzhi woke up. Yevlov told him exciting news, and the radio's indicator light came on. This meant that theoretically the troops could contact friendly forces in distant places.
There is nothing wrong with the big antenna that Kuznetsov had people make before. The old blacksmith Ivan can easily make a huge antenna again, but to really contact friendly forces far away, the power of the radio must be increased.
Chenoby is about fifty kilometers southeast of Catfish Village, where Soviet troops are stationed. To contact there, the radio must increase its power. If so, the battery's energy will be exhausted quickly.
Kuznetsov had been away for a short time, but the Soviet army seemed to have forgotten about the remaining troops in the swamp.
Yang Mingzhi estimated: "We can indeed increase the power, so that the electric energy will be exhausted quickly. The best way is to send a reconnaissance force and go directly to the southeast to report our situation."
"Okay, you just need to make sure that we can communicate by radio. If the battery is exhausted, just let more soldiers charge it."
Compared with this, there is another thing that Yang Mingzhi feels must be put on the agenda-that is, the establishment of Catfish Village's own arsenal.
Manufacturing arms is Yang Mingzhi's old profession. There is no modern equipment here, only some simple tools and some professionals with knowledge and skills. Yevlov has nothing against it. If he can really make it himself
Weapons, this way the troops will be better off.
Yang Mingzhi is a man of action. He mobilized the women in the village to pick up tools and rush to the toilets of each house.
People in the village have the habit of making farmyard manure. The fertilizer is the excrement of humans and animals, and nitrifying bacteria also exist. There are a lot of crystals on the walls of the toilet and at the bottom of the manure pit. This is what Yang Mingzhi hopes for.
For making nitrate, Ivanov, a chemist from Minsk, used his knowledge in this chemical industry to produce potassium nitrate. He claimed that there was no problem.
To make nitrate by local method, the arsenal on Tubal Road cannot make smokeless gunpowder, so there is no problem in making black powder. Mobilize the masses to make nitrate diagrams and use the existing nitrifying bacteria to make large amounts of nitrate. This process requires a large amount of piles of nitrate soil. In this group of villages,
The aunts were very patriotic, and they took action just by issuing a call.
Ivanov patted his chest and said: "I will take care of the manufacturing of gunpowder, so you can rest assured. You have to be mentally prepared. If black gunpowder is used instead of smokeless gunpowder, the performance of the bullet will be greatly affected."
Yang Mingzhi understands that everything is a helpless move under special circumstances. There is a lot of black powder residue, and the temperature in the barrel is also a problem. The barrel is easily overheated. When black powder is used to reload bullets, the chamber pressure is low, which is harmful to
The enemy's long-range killing effect is not good.
But bullets are better than nothing. This Ivanov not only claims that he can use existing resources to make black powder, but also primers, and even picric acid.
When he heard that there was picric acid, Yang Mingzhi was very surprised: "Can you make sulfuric acid, nitric acid and phenol?"
Ivanov had no more guarantees. Making picric acid was a little more troublesome, but it was not impossible. It would take enough time to make it slowly, and the little things would add up. For this reason, he strongly demanded that his students start from
Pulled back from the militia force, "My children have learned a lot from me. They should not pick up steel guns and fight on the front line. This is a kind of urging for intellectuals. Compared with others, my students are
My best assistants, the reloading of bullets you want is absolutely impossible without them."
Yang Mingzhi understood. The next day, those young people who survived the disaster were separated from the "Minsk Militia Battalion". The troops urgently set up an "arsenal" at Yang Mingzhi's request. Before the reloading of bullets began, the firearms
Cultivation and upbringing are the work of the arsenal. Ivanov is the director of this department. He selected a few boys in the youth camp to teach them personally, striving to train them into reliable workers.
There are solutions to the problems of bullet reloading, sulfur and saltpeter, and the making of charcoal. Most of the villagers are self-taught.
The gunpowder problem can be solved, and the next step is to check the condition of the bullet.
Not all fired bullets can be reloaded. Yang Mingzhi is the person in charge of the reloading project. The soldiers joked that their commander is qualified for the nickname "factory director" again.
In fact, this is indeed the case. All the female soldiers among the young soldiers were assigned new jobs, even Yang Tao.
On a new day, the women in the village were making saltpeter, which was supervised by Ivanov. As for the girls, Yang Mingzhi gathered them at the door of his house. The ten girls sat cross-legged on the grass one by one, in front of them.
There were several sacks of bullet casings.
"These are Mosin-Nagant bullets. You used them for target shooting the day before yesterday. Now I want you to distinguish these bullet casings and pick out all defective and damaged bullet casings."
These rifle bullets are all made of copper shells. There is no shortage of copper in the Soviet Union, so there is no problem in reloading the bullets. Copper has very good ductility. Separate the damaged shells, and then remove the flash cap of the qualified product.
That's what girls do.
Female workers tend to be very thoughtful, and Yang Mingzhi was really worried about the large group of soldiers who might not be able to do delicate work.
Before going to work, Yelentina also conducted some mobilization for them. "What you do is not just processing bullet casings, your job is to support the troops in fighting. Our soldiers need a lot of bullets, and soon, you will participate in the production of
Reloaded bullets will be put into the battlefield, and your job now is to fight against the invaders."
The matter was not as grand as she thought. Yang Mingzhi shrugged and promised: "You guys work hard and I will personally cook for you at noon."
While talking, Yang Mingzhi noticed the girl Natasha. She seemed to be quite calm. This girl was really pleasing to the eye and could be taught, so she was assigned to a group with Carambola. "You two daughters of the Orion family.
There should be some common language." Yang Mingzhi guessed, and the girls quickly started working.
Although the arsenal is a dirty one, there is really no problem in making weapons. Yang Mingzhi thought of a good home for the completely useless shells. They can be made into some hand grenades, or they can be attached to existing weapons to become a large number of fragments to kill the enemy.
At the same time, old Ivan's earthen blast furnace was on fire. He was burning molten iron and would later cast some farm tools and some bullet warheads.
Due to limited conditions, he was unable to produce beryllium copper steel-cased warheads, and could only produce some round-head cast iron bullets. Before 1905, soldiers of the Tsarist Army used a large number of round-head bullets, perhaps because of the lessons of the disastrous defeat of the Russo-Japanese War and the Imperial War.
The Ministry began to develop pointed bullets, and the results continue to this day.
Round-nosed cast iron bullets have very poor penetration and can only be used to shoot infantry, but they can also produce very special effects. When such bullets hit the Germans, the bullets would deform and roll inside the body, creating permanent cavities, which would cause wounds that are difficult to heal.
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Catfish Village is in full swing, and ordinary soldiers are like a "production and construction army". Their daily work is nothing more than cutting down forests to build houses, digging some trenches, and instinctively building some defensive positions.
The militiamen conduct a large amount of military training. The training mainly revolves around physical training. As for the training with live ammunition, it is not conducted for the time being to save bullets.
Yang Mingzhi was very satisfied with the girls who sorted the bullet casings. Their foreheads were wet with sweat. They worked really hard, so they should be rewarded.
The soldiers collected many edible mushrooms in the forest, and some villagers collected strains and even began to cultivate them artificially.
The lunch meal was very sumptuous, including fried shredded potatoes, fried mushrooms, and fried fish cubes, which were eaten with big ribs. The girls were shocked by the unique cooking method of stir-frying. They did not know how to use chopsticks and had to use wooden forks made from star fruit.
The girls ate with gusto and seemed to have forgotten all the work they had done all morning.
"You guys work hard and keep working hard in the afternoon. There will be delicious food waiting for you."
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