Memories Embedded in Newspaper Clippings (essay)
The Liu family and political commissar have been engaged in ideological and political work for many years, and they are good at giving speeches, and he always has a flying eyebrow when introducing the situation, which is fascinating. When he continued to talk about the Zhangqiu blacksmith's unique skills, everyone nodded their heads in response. According to him, although the production conditions at that time were extremely simple, the manufacturing level of Zhangqiu blacksmiths was comparable to that of the arsenal.
Master Liu Jiazhang of Sangyuan Town has excellent craftsmanship and high prestige, and he organized more than 30 red furnaces to manufacture the "May 7" fast guns, Czech-style fast guns and horse rifles that can be compared with the arsenal.
Master Xie Tongbin of Nanfeng Village secretly established an underground gun factory, and in the simple workshop with no drawing reference and two lack of mechanical equipment, a small mortar was magically born.
Zhangqiu blacksmiths are exquisite in craftsmanship, spears, large knives, fast guns, rifles, grenades and various bullets can almost be made. The spearhead they created slammed into the stone without breaking the tip, and the ghost-headed knife slashed at the trees with the thickness of the bowl and broke into two pieces with a loud bang. The first 92nd infantry gun in the Liberated Area was built and treasured in the Military Museum.
Zhang Qiu made, resounding. This can't help but make me think that Zhangqiu blacksmiths must have advanced manufacturing equipment. No. From commissar Liu, it was learned that the tools used by zhangqiu blacksmiths were mainly bellows, iron tongs, anvils, and iron hammers, and the better red furnaces had lathes, and they had to rely on hand-cranked wheels to operate, and even the large vertical drills used for vise and drill guns were also imitated by themselves. Rifles are made entirely by hand, with weapons captured from the enemy being sampled, parts removed one by one, dimensioned, and then copied. Like the barrel of a rifle, after forging the blank, you have to hold the drill with both hands, drill little by little, and other parts are also completed by raw file hard grinding.
Guo Haichen, chief of the political engineering section of the Zhangqiu Armed Forces Department, is an "old Zhangqiu," and he knows that the situation is more than anyone else. He hurried to tell the story of Zhangqiu's blacksmith snatching the tools to build weapons from the enemy.
The Zhangqiu blacksmith understood even more that the soil method was time-consuming and laborious, and the manufacturing efficiency was inefficient, so it was better to take it from the hands of the devil. One day in October 1943, Li Guisheng, a blacksmith who had been arrested by the Gun Furnace Factory of the Puppet Army stronghold of Sun Cun, hurried to the village to report to the blacksmiths who were making weapons, saying that there was a good lathe for making weapons by devils, and asked to send someone to grab it. The blacksmiths were overjoyed to hear this, and immediately made a report to the county brigade, suggesting that the Japanese gun factory be taken. The county brigade immediately felt a good opportunity to work with the blacksmiths on the ingenious plan.
It was late at night, dead silence. Song Xian'an, the commander of the Zhangqiu County Brigade, made a simple mobilization and led more than 300 people of the brigade to March to Sun Village together with the blacksmiths at night.
The devils are very cunning, building bunkers everywhere and setting up sentries to prevent sneak attacks. The enemy set up a guard post in the northwest corner of Sun Village, and a large number of puppet troops were deployed in the south of the village, while the gun furnace factory was built north of the village street. They decided to enter from the east end of the street to make sure they didn't alarm the enemy as much as possible. Captain Song ordered two squadrons to ambush the south of the village to monitor the enemy, and personally led a squadron with Li Guisheng to grab the gun furnace. Fortunately, when they arrived, the gate was locked, the two puppet soldiers guarding the door were nowhere to be found, and 8 blacksmiths quietly carried the lathe out, and then organized personnel to transport other simple equipment, parts and guns away. Not long after, the county brigade escorted the gun furnace equipment to the Taishan Military Sub-district and introduced Li Guisheng to work in the Eighth Route Army Arsenal. (To be continued)