HBWnovel Chapter 129 Wooden Plane
Chapter 129 Wooden Plane
With nitrogen, Zhao Tianyang used it to lower the temperature of liquid phosphorus to minus 44 degrees and successfully obtained solid phosphorus.
With solid phosphorus, Zhao Tianyang immediately found Liu Ding and asked him to make white phosphorus into 60mm mortar shells.
"Wow! So fast?"
Liu Ding took the white phosphorus soaked in kerosene and said in surprise.
They had just made the flares, and Zhao Tianyang had even made white phosphorus.
"Men can't speak fast!"
Zhao Tianyang pouted and urged: "Hurry up, Comrade Yu Xiaping still wants to talk to me about something!"
"Fine!"
Liu Ding nodded and took a 60mm mortar shell without explosives.
Carefully pour the white phosphorus out of the bottle and then put it into the warhead. After finishing, Liu Ding took some paint and made a special mark on the mortar shell.
"Let's go and give it a try!"
Zhao Tianyang said impatiently.
Soon, everyone came to the training ground in the back mountain with the marked mortar shell.
After instructing the workers to place some wet wood and two steel plates at a distance of 500 meters, Zhao Tianyang handed the mortar shell to the gun inspector.
"Be careful, this thing is dangerous!"
"it is good!"
The gun inspector was stunned and looked at the mortar shell in his hand. This was the first time that Zhao Tianyang said the word "dangerous" to him!
I couldn't help but feel nervous, and even my hands moved more gently.
"Five hundred meters ahead."
The gun inspector raised a thumb, aimed at the 60-meter-long pile of wood, and after some calculations, he decisively picked up the special mortar shell and put it into the Taihang mortar.
With a "bang", the white phosphorus bomb flew towards the pile of wood.
With a "bang" moment, the white phosphorus ignited by the detonator quickly burned. Looking at the billowing black smoke rising in front of him, Zhao Tianyang frowned.
"Why does the section chief look dissatisfied? Wasn't the white phosphorus bomb a success?"
Liu Ding on the side asked.
“It was a success, but the power doesn’t seem as great as I imagined!”
Zhao Tianyang pondered.
"Don't think too much, let's go and take a look!"
Liu Ding patted Zhao Tianyang on the shoulder and walked towards the pile of wood.
Zhao Tianyang shrugged and followed.
When everyone walked to the woodpile, the white phosphorus had almost burned out, leaving only some wood that had been burned into charcoal, still emitting fire, and the two steel plates that were glowing red.
"It's still too weak!"
Zhao Tianyang finally understood where the problem lay. As an incendiary weapon, the temperature and sputtering rate of white phosphorus were simply not enough.
It seems that napalm bombs will have to be used. Napalm bombs will splash everywhere after the explosion.
The temperature generated can reach a terrifying one thousand degrees, which white phosphorus bombs cannot achieve.
However, white phosphorus bombs are cheaper than napalm bombs for the Eighth Route Army now, so we should just use them for now, Zhao Tianyang said regretfully when he thought of this.
"Forget it, let's just leave it at that. The white phosphorus bomb has been finalized and will be called the Taihang Type 1 White Phosphorus Bomb. We will produce it at your bullet factory!"
Looking at Zhao Tianyang who left while shaking his head, Liu Ding and others looked at each other, not understanding what he meant!
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Engine factory.
"Chief, please look. This is the straight-six diesel engine we just made. After testing, it can produce 260 horsepower!"
Looking at the diesel engine in front of him, Zhao Tianyang said happily: "What materials are used? How many units can be produced in a month?"
“Most of them are cast iron, with a few parts made of copper alloy. And because of the large-scale use and casting process, they are also very simple to produce.”
Yu Xiaping proudly introduced: "The most important thing is that it uses an inline arrangement."
"It's also easy for the workers to assemble it. Now that we have just started production, we can produce about 20 units a month."
After that, he added: "Once the workers become skilled, I believe the output can be doubled!"
"Twenty units a month, 260 horsepower, qualified!"
Zhao Tianyang nodded with satisfaction: "Does this engine have a name?"
"Let's stick to the old rules and call it the Taihang inline six-cylinder engine!"
Yu Xiaping answered without hesitation.
"Well, that's it, keep going!"
Zhao Tianyang patted Yu Xiaping's shoulder encouragingly, left the engine factory and returned to the tent.
Now that the armored vehicles have new engines, the few Japanese aviation engines that are copied every month cannot be wasted.
Zhao Tianyang planned to design a transport plane specifically for traveling between Shanxi and Shaanxi to transport various military supplies.
This transport aircraft must first be simple, secondly be cheap, and finally maintain a certain level of combat effectiveness.
Don’t let yourself be discovered by the Japanese planes and then wait for death. After much thought, Zhao Tianyang locked on two types of planes.
They are the Soviet La-5 and the British Mosquito bomber.
Looking at the two types of aircraft written on the white paper in front of him, Zhao Tianyang was in a dilemma.
The Mosquito bomber is simple to manufacture, flies fast, high, has a long range, and its maximum take-off weight can reach 12.7 tons.
In comparison, the La-5, which is also famous for its wooden aircraft, is much inferior.
Although its combat capability is stronger than that of the Mosquito, its manufacturing requirements are relatively much higher.
It’s not that the La-5 is bad, but in terms of transportation, the Mosquito bomber is obviously more suitable.
More importantly, the Mosquito is made entirely of wood with a small amount of metal castings.
The La-5 is made entirely of wood, plastic, and metal castings, and is cheaper than the Mosquito.
Thinking of this, Zhao Tianyang ticked the Mosquito bomber, then took out a piece of white paper and began to design the Mosquito bomber.
A week later, Zhao Tianyang left the tent and borrowed Niu Erli, Wang Sangui and Ge Sanpao from Zhu Laowu.
"Chief, are we going hunting?"
Looking at Zhao Tianyang holding both a gun and an axe, Ge Sanpao was puzzled.
"Forget it!"
Zhao Tianyang replied: "You may have to spend the night outside. You are an experienced hunter. We will rely on you once we enter the mountains!"
"Then you just wait and see!"
Ge Sanpao patted his chest and assured.
Soon the group of four entered the mountain and headed towards the depths of Taihang Mountains.
The wood used for the Mosquito is mainly Canadian birch, Ecuadorian balsa wood, and spruce.
Needless to say, spruce can be found in Shaanxi and the southwest, but there is a clear difference between Chinese birch and Canadian birch.
The Chinese wood is yellowish in color and heavy, and is obviously not suitable for use as aircraft wood.
So Zhao Tianyang had to find a substitute for it, elm wood. As for Ecuadorian balsa wood, he could only use poplar wood instead.
"boom."
At the sound of a gunshot, Ge Sanpao happily ran over and picked up the pheasant he had just killed.
Suddenly he looked at the tree in front of him with a hole in it from a bullet, thought of Zhao Tianyang's instructions, and immediately shouted loudly.
"Section Chief, come and take a look. Is this the ash wood you are looking for?"
Zhao Tianyang came over after hearing the voice: "It has straight lines on the outside, and the color is brown with a slight yellow tint. It feels smooth to the touch, so it should be this."
Zhao Tianyang stopped observing, stood up and looked around, and found that this was a sunny hillside with elm trees everywhere.
"Grass!"
Zhao Tianyang cursed excitedly: "Finally found it, Ge Sanpao, remember the location here, let's go back."
"Oh, oh!"
Soon Zhao Tianyang blew the whistle and called Niu Erli and Wang Sangui back. After the four of them gathered, they walked back the way they came.
As for the poplar trees, they were found on the first day we entered the mountains.
This kind of wood grows fast in Shanxi, and they easily found a large piece of it.