Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

Chapter 127 Rocket Launcher

Two days later, Zhao Tianyang called Li Yuncai into the tent.

"Come on, sit down first!"

Zhao Tianyang poured tea while greeting Li Yuncai.

"Just tell me what you want, Chief."

Li Yuncai took the teacup and said a little uncomfortably: "As long as I can do it, I will do it!"

"Haha, nothing much. Didn't the deputy chief of staff ask us to send someone to Yan'an to take charge of the factory construction?"

Zhao Tianyang handed a blueprint to Li Yuncai: "After thinking about it, I still think that you are the one who knows the situation of our factory best."

Li Yuncai took a look at the drawings and found that they were all some site selection requirements.

Things like the terrain must be flat, or have a certain slope, and be close to a water source, and the area must not be less than ten square kilometers.

"I am currently planning to build four factories in Yan'an, namely a cannon factory, an engine factory, a glass factory, and a steel rolling mill."

Zhao Tianyang continued, "You should be very familiar with the requirements for building these factories, so this task must be yours!"

"If that's the case, then I'd rather be respectful than obey!"

Li Yuncai stood up and saluted, "I promise to complete the mission!"

In the afternoon, Li Yun handed over the matters in his hands to Liu Ransheng.

After he left, Liu Ransheng would temporarily take over the position of secretary of the Military Industry Department, then take a donkey cart to the headquarters and take a glider from the headquarters to Yan'an.

"Chief, as you requested, it must be cheap but also powerful."

"So, for the warhead, we chose the relatively cheap but powerful anti-Judyson explosives."

"The explosion method is a collision explosion."

The next day, at the Houshan Training Factory, Liu Guifu pointed to an assembled rocket and introduced it.

"Ah."

Zhao Tianyang nodded and reached out to pick up the rocket. It was quite heavy.

“This must weigh more than 30 kilograms!”

"Combat weight: 37.6 catties, warhead charge: 1.6 catties."

Liu Guifu replied.

The warhead has a little little explosive, but when you think about the fact that this rocket launcher can fire at least four or five rounds at a time, it seems reasonable.

"Okay, let's test it!"

Zhao Tianyang handed the rocket to the gun inspector beside him and ran to a bunker to hide.

““Swoosh, whoosh….”

"Bang, bang..."

After a few explosions, Zhao Tianyang emerged from the bunker: "Let's go and check out the situation!"

"It's very powerful!"

Looking at the crater on the ground with a diameter of about 0.8 meters, Liu Guifu sighed.

"If there is a 0.8-meter crater, there will be basically no living people within ten meters."

Liu Ding calculated and said with a smile.

"And the firing range is so far, it seems that we can also fight against the Japanese artillery in the future."

Liu Guifu echoed.

"Okay, the test is complete. The error from one thousand to four thousand meters is within 30 meters, which is similar to the previous tests. That's it!"

Zhao Tianyang came over with a record sheet: "The test is complete. I declare the rocket launcher can be finalized."

"The name still follows the old rules, adding Taihang in front, so it's called Taihang Type 107 rocket launcher."

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Three days later, the deputy chief of staff came to the engine factory with great interest.

"Here I come! Where is the complete version of the rocket launcher you mentioned?"

"Chief of Staff, don't be impatient!"

Zhao Tianyang first comforted the deputy chief of staff, and then took him to the back of the engine factory, where an open-air parking lot was opened.

"Chief of Staff, please look, these armored vehicles are tank destroyers, equipped with a 45mm flat-fire gun that can fire high-explosive shells and armor-piercing shells."

"Self-propelled mortar armored vehicle, equipped with a Taihang 60 mortar, capable of firing high-explosive shells, flares, smoke bombs, and chemical shells."

"And this one."

Zhao Tianyang pointed at the last armored vehicle and said proudly: "The multiple rocket launcher armored vehicle can fire 19 107mm rockets at the same time."

"The elevation range is 0 to 50 degrees, and the directional range is 180 degrees. It can be fired electrically or manually."

"The maximum flight speed is 437 meters per second, and the maximum range is five thousand meters."

"Okay, great!"

The deputy chief of staff looked at the armored vehicles excitedly and asked, "Can we start them and give them a try?"

"Um...sorry."

Zhao Tianyang explained a little embarrassedly: "These armored vehicles don't have engines yet, so they can't move."

"That's it!"

The deputy chief of staff was a little disappointed: "Forget it, I hope you can continue to work hard and strive to produce enough engines as soon as possible."

"Chief of Staff, don't go!"

Zhao Tianyang stopped the deputy chief of staff who was about to leave after he finished speaking and said, "I haven't shown you the real good stuff today yet!"

"what's that?"

The deputy chief of staff asked curiously.

"pull over!"

Zhao Tianyang waved his hand.

A worker came over, pulling a set of 107 rocket launchers.

"This is the weapon I want to focus on today."

Zhao Tianyang pointed at the slightly short rocket launcher in front of him and said, "107 light towed rocket launcher."

"It is light in weight and small in size. It weighs 385 kg in marching gear and 613 kg in combat. It can fire 7 9mm rockets in 12 to 107 seconds."

"The vertical shooting angle is 0 to 60 degrees, and the horizontal shooting angle is 15 degrees to the left and right."

"Most importantly, all the parts here are detachable. In an emergency, one person can run away with just one part on his back."

"And it's easy to make. It just requires propellant, explosives, and iron tubes. As long as you know the formula for the propellant, the arsenal below can do whatever they want!"

Note that the rocket launcher manufactured by Zhao Tianyang has the same caliber as the 107 rocket launcher.

However, a launch pad is still required for launching, because the flame spraying method is different and it cannot be launched by just piling up a pile of soil.

"Guerrilla weapon!"

These words immediately popped up in the deputy chief of staff's mind. This thing is absolutely perfect for their Eighth Route Army!

Moreover, if the explosives in the warhead are replaced with black powder, and the steel shells are replaced with iron shells, the cost can be further reduced.

"Amazing!"

The deputy chief of staff sighed: "What's wrong with your head?"

"You have mastered the rocket launchers that even the British and American powers couldn't handle, and you have even made a difference with them!"

"so so!"

Zhao Tianyang said modestly: "This thing is very similar to the Divine Fire Flying Crow in our history. I just thought about it and came up with it."

"The Flying Crow of Divine Fire?"

The deputy chief of staff smiled and shook his head: "Forget it, maybe this is genius!"

"Hurry up and organize the information about this rocket launcher. I will go back and discuss with the bosses to see how to equip each unit with this rocket launcher."

Because the formula of the rocket launcher is too simple, but it is very important, it is definitely impossible to just give the formula to each unit and let them develop it themselves.

The formula would sooner or later fall into the hands of the Japanese, so they had to hold a meeting to discuss it carefully.

It would be best to just give the recipe to the master level.