The next morning, Xu Qiang took the first batch of CL-01 explosive samples he had produced and drove to the military base in Nanshan District.

As an important national city, Shanghai has three divisions of garrison all year round, and the location of Xu Qiang's experiment is located at the training base of one of the garrison divisions.

Because we contacted the local military district in advance, the training base is now under strict security, and no one except the experimenters is allowed to enter.

In fact, the sample Xu Qiang brought this time was only 50 grams, which is equivalent to the charge of a grenade. But even so, for safety reasons, he made full preparations. The experimental site alone was as large as several football fields.

Generally speaking, in addition to experiments, the transportation of such high-explosive samples also has strict procedures. However, Xu Qiang is still very confident in his samples. After all, it is a mature product that has been tested in the previous life. The stability of CL-01 is still very high, and general collisions and temperatures will not cause accidents. If you want to detonate it, you can only use a detonator.

At this time, the CL-01 explosives had been wrapped in layers of oil paper, with a hole in the middle for inserting the detonator. From the outside, it was no different from an ordinary explosive tube.

In addition to Director Guo, all members of the 8702 project team came to the test site with Xu Qiang this time. Except for the Jiefang truck responsible for transporting explosives, everyone else was on another temporarily rented bus.

On the road, everyone's faces were grim, the atmosphere in the car seemed a little tense and solemn, and no one spoke a word the entire time.

However, Xu Qiang seemed very relaxed the whole time. He sat alone in the front row of the car, looking at the scenery outside the window with a very relaxed expression.

"welcome!"

As soon as Xu Qiang and his group got off the car, they were greeted by some local garrison officers, led by a lieutenant colonel. He immediately walked up to Guo Tiemin and extended his hand enthusiastically.

"Hello, Captain Li. I'm sorry to bother you this time..."

Guo Tiemin shook hands with the other party and spoke with a smile on his face.

"Supporting national defense construction is my responsibility and it's no trouble." Captain Li said quickly after hearing this.

"Is the venue okay?"

"No problem. Experts from the 201st Institute and the BJ Mechanical College have already come to take a look. They have arrived at the test site before you and are waiting for you to come..."

"Then let's go over there right away." Guo Tiemin said with a wave of his hand.

The next moment, everyone entered the military control area and walked to the training ground not far away.

"By the way, who is your project leader this time?"

On the way, Captain Li asked.

"This is him." Guo Tiemin pointed at Xu Qiang behind him.

"So young!?" Upon hearing this, Captain Li glanced at Xu Qiang and was immediately surprised. He couldn't help but said, "Director Guo, are you sure?"

"Don't underestimate him because he is young. He is the winner of the National Science and Technology Progress Award last year and one of the best chemical experts in the country." Guo Tiemin smiled and continued, "His name is Xu Qiang. He is the person in charge of this high-energy explosives project. Today we are going to inspect his project results."

"That's amazing!" Captain Li couldn't help but sigh, then he stretched out his hand to Xu Qiang with a smile on his face and said, "It's true that heroes have always emerged from youth. I'm Li Wei, the captain of our 95386th Regiment. I'm very happy to meet you."

"Hello, Captain Li!" Upon seeing this, Xu Qiang immediately smiled and shook hands with him.

"Comrade Xu Qiang, your work is very important. Our country needs better explosives." Li Wei said with some emotion, "In the early years, our Type 67 wooden-handled grenades only had 38 grams of explosives and were very limited in power. Our regiment also got American SOHG grenades before. Their grenades are smaller than ours, but their power is much greater, at least three or four times greater..."

As the head of the security regiment, Li Wei naturally has a certain understanding of the weapons and equipment of various countries, especially the gap between current domestic weapons and the equipment of developed countries in Europe and the United States.

"Our country's military technology is developing very rapidly. I believe we will catch up with them soon." Xu Qiang said with a smile.

"that would be great."

Like many years ago, the People's Liberation Army has always had a serious "fear of insufficient firepower", and this "fear" has continued to this day.

It is precisely because of this that, after learning that Xu Qiang's project team was going to conduct an explosion test here, it immediately attracted the attention of many military leaders in Shanghai. They all drove to this test site in Nanshan District early in the morning just to take a look at the new achievements of the domestic new explosives.

The experts from BJ also brought professional instruments and began to place sensor probes and other devices around the venue.

The technical personnel who took part in this experiment were a strong team. Almost all the personnel from the 201 Institute who specialized in explosives were present. In addition, some experts from the BJ School of Mechanical Engineering also came to the scene with their instruments. They all wanted to witness this historic moment in the domestic military industry with their own eyes.

In fact, at the beginning, Guo Tiemin only gathered a few experts from the 201 Institute, but Xu Yuanming's accident had a considerable impact on BJ College of Mechanical Engineering.

You know, Professor Xu Yuanming had only synthesized less than 30 grams of sample, but it almost destroyed half of the laboratory. The power was really too amazing.

Therefore, many experts among them have been paying close attention to the progress of the 8702 project, just to see how powerful this high-energy explosive that caused Professor Xu Yuanming to stumble is.

When they saw Xu Qiang and his team coming, everyone immediately lined up to applaud and greet them. Generally speaking, no one would applaud before a project is successful, but Xu Qiang dared to take on this project, which is indeed something that people admire very much, so even if the project test has not yet begun, Xu Qiang has already won everyone's respect.

However, most people still showed some surprise on their faces when they saw how young Xu Qiang was, especially the local garrison officers who came to visit together this time, they couldn't help but look at each other with confusion.

After all, for such a national-level project, the fact that the project leader is so young really surprised many people. In their opinion, Xu Qiang is a little too young. The top experts in their minds are all white-haired old men.

"Comrade Xu Qiang, place the explosives on the iron bracket in the center of the site, insert the detonator, and pull the electronic lead behind the bunker."

At this time, a tester came forward and said to Xu Qiang.

Because no one was familiar with the stability of the sample explosive, they dared to prevent the explosives, so this task could only be done by Xu Qiang.

"Let me do it, you lead the team in the bunker first." At this moment, Guo Rui stepped forward and said to Xu Qiang.

"Uh." When Xu Qiang heard this, a hint of surprise flashed across his face, but he still nodded in agreement.

Although Guo Rui is usually sophisticated and smooth, the fact that he took the initiative to stand up at this time did make Xu Qiang feel a little touched.

In fact, Guo Rui did this for his future.

Ever since he rejected Minister Zhang Zhen's proposal to let him take over the project in person, his future can be said to be still bleak. The only chance of turning things around is to achieve more honors with Xu Qiang. Only in this way, as long as Xu Qiang can say a few more good words for him to his superiors in the future, he will have a chance to turn things around. So in order to keep Xu Qiang's support, he must take a gamble.

Afterwards, Guo Rui took the paper tube containing CL-01 explosives from the car and strode to the center of the test site.

The test site for this explosion experiment has an upright angle steel bracket in the center, with more than a dozen shock wave sensors, vibration sensors, and temperature sensors placed around it. The other ends of the sensors are connected to the instruments under the bunker. At the moment of the explosion, they can accurately detect parameters such as the shock wave intensity, explosion speed, and temperature of the explosive.

After everything was arranged, everyone returned to the bunker.

"This bunker is a bit close to the center of the explosion. I think it's less than fifty meters away... My suggestion is that we can hide further back..." After Xu Qiang jumped off the trench used as a bunker, he frowned and said to Captain Li beside him.

"Don't worry, fifty meters is enough distance, it will definitely not hit you, don't worry." Upon hearing this, Captain Li said with some disapproval.

"Don't worry, Xiao Xu. When we usually train to drop bombs, we just put a few sandbags in front of us. The amount of explosives you have is probably only the amount of a grenade. You will be fine in the trenches."

"Yeah, what's so great about this little bit of explosives? We all have people who have been to the Laoshan front. Let alone grenades, even artillery shells exploding around us is just a small thing!"

"Xiao Xu has never been a soldier before so he doesn't know. If the new recruits throw grenades a few times, they won't be afraid of anything..."

For a moment, several other officers in the trench laughed and said.

From their tone, it can be heard that these people obviously do not take Xu Qiang's worries seriously. After all, according to their experience, at such a distance from the trench, let alone a small explosive tube, even a cannonball cannot hurt the people in the trench at all!

When Xu Qiang saw this scene, he suddenly felt mixed emotions. He could see that these people had experienced the real test of war, and he had no doubt about their courage and dedication.

However, in today's era of rapid development of military technology, we rely on high-tech weapons and scientific tactics, and the courage of ordinary people is the most useless thing.

But this kind of mindset cannot be changed in a short period of time, and this is not something Xu Qiang needs to worry about. What he needs to do is to develop better and stronger equipment for the country.

"All irrelevant personnel, go to the trenches in the back row and wait for orders." Xu Qiang said to everyone, and then was the first to retreat to another trench more than ten meters behind.

"Director Guo, everything is ready." At this time, a leading technician came to Guo Tiemin and said.

"We can start now." Guo Tiemin nodded.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five..."

The technician in charge of detonation began the countdown.

When the last number was counted, the operator suddenly pressed the detonation switch.

"boom!!"

Like a thunderclap in a clear sky, a huge ball of fire suddenly rose up in the center of the venue!

The powerful shock wave was almost visible to the naked eye. It spread out at lightning speed, carrying with it flying sand and rocks on the ground, and instantly spread to an area with a radius of hundreds of meters!
The people hiding in the front trenches suddenly felt a buzzing in their ears, felt the ground shaking, and subconsciously closed their eyes.

When they opened their eyes again, the trench was already dusty, and several female technicians sat down on the ground... (End of this chapter)