The first incendiary bomb that exploded was a 50-gun cannon instead of a rocket launcher.
The reason is that the rocket launcher also needs to put the explosive behind it, which is not required for the 50 gun.
The 50 cannon's shells fall in an arc from the air. If it loads gasoline into the front of the sticky cylinder, and the explosive at the back explodes, it will spray forward... all the gasoline will be sprayed towards the ground instead of the enemy.
Therefore, it needs to put gasoline in the back. Once the front explosive explodes, the gasoline will be sprayed into the air and around, causing large-scale damage to nearby enemies.
Therefore, it is very simple to modify the incendiary bombs of the 50 small artillery.
Everything remains unchanged, you just need to add a layer of partitions in the middle of the cannonball, load gunpowder in the front section and inject viscous gasoline bombs in the back section, and that's it.
In less than three hours, five incendiary bombs were completed.
This is my first time making it and I have no experience. I’m afraid it will only take ten minutes in the future.
The commander and chief of staff also came during the test firing.
When Zhang Wanhe sent Hardware to invite them, the leader was surprised and asked: "So fast? In just five days, this incendiary bomb was produced?"
Wu Jin replied: "Chief, more than half of the past five days have been spent transporting raw materials. If there are enough raw materials, it will be over in a few hours, not to mention a few days!"
The chief and chief of staff looked at me and I looked at you, and they all had doubts in their hearts. Is there something wrong with something that was built so quickly?
But it turned out that their worries were unnecessary.
During the test firing, I only saw a shell from the 50 cannon passing by. There was a "boom" and a fire broke out at the impact point. In the fire, you could clearly see the sparks flying in the air. There were several piles of firewood and dozens of firewood placed around it.
The wooden figure was quickly caught on fire and set on fire.
The fire is getting stronger and stronger, and even has a tendency to spread to the forest on the left.
Several guards were about to go up to put out the fire but were stopped by Wang Xuexin.
"Wait until they finish burning!" Wang Xuexin reminded: "This fire is poisonous and high temperature, and even a little bit of it will cost you half your life!"
The chief asked in surprise: "Is it so powerful?"
"Chief!" Wang Xuexin explained: "This is one of the reasons for the viscosity of the gasoline. Not to mention that if it gets stained and cannot be shaken off, if others go to put out the fire, it will get bigger and bigger, and it may even cause fire!"
This is the characteristic of incendiary bombs. To be precise, they are napalm bombs. If someone is ignited, the viscous liquid will splash. If it splashes on the body, it will be fire unless it burns out and releases all the heat.
, otherwise there is nothing you can do about it.
After waiting for a while, the fire slowly subsided. When everyone came forward to see, the wooden figure had been burned with small black holes. If it weren't for the fact that the wood itself was relatively moist and difficult to ignite, they would have been burned to ashes.
Coke.
The commanders and soldiers looked at all this and forgot to cheer.
At that moment, they could all imagine what it would be like if it were a real battlefield, with screams, burning smells, rolling on the ground, and roars and wails like wild beasts... No one was willing to face all this, so everyone looked solemn.
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After a long silence, the chief of staff asked: "Do the Japanese flamethrowers use this kind of viscous gasoline?"
Wang Xuexin replied: "There may be some differences, but they should be similar!"
Wang Xuexin was pretending to be confused. The thick gasoline of the Japanese was much worse than napalm.
Although the Japs are ahead of Yingjiang in this regard... Yingjiang will not develop this napalm bomb until next year. The Japs' first flamethrower has been officially put into service as early as 1933.
It's just that the fuel used by the Japanese is simply a mixture of gasoline and tar to make it have a certain viscosity, without considering raising the temperature.
The chief of staff asked again: "Is there any way we can develop a flamethrower?"
No wonder the chief of staff would ask this. The Japanese often use flamethrowers to deal with our guerrillas, such as caves, bunkers, tunnels and other fortifications. They even use flamethrowers to deal with civilians... What they often do is to drive the people into their houses.
inside, and then use the sprayer to spray fire from the open door.
In the past, the Eighth Route Army did not know about this kind of viscous gasoline. Now that viscous gasoline is available, the chief of staff naturally wondered if he could get a flamethrower to let the Japanese have a taste of it.
But Wang Xuexin had other ideas.
"Chief of Staff!" Wang Xuexin said: "We don't seem to have the need to develop flamethrowers."
"How do you say that?" the chief of staff asked.
"Flame throwers are usually used to deal with targets within fortifications." Wang Xuexin replied: "And the spray distance is very short, it is said that it is only about 20 meters..."
As he said this, Wang Xuexin turned his attention to Zhang Wanhe.
Wang Xuexin was not sure about this number. He had only heard of this thing before and had never even seen it on the battlefield.
"25 meters!" Zhang Wanhe replied firmly.
As the director of an arsenal, of course he must understand the enemy's equipment.
"The attack distance of 25 meters is already the distance of throwing grenades." Wang Xuexin explained: "And the incendiary bombs fired by our rocket launcher can complete the same task 50 meters away."
Zhang Wanhe agreed: "Chief of Staff, the Japs flamethrower is very dangerous to use. If the fuel tank is not careful, the enemy will blow it up, and you will be burned as a result. The Japs do have a bullet-proof one, what is it called...
Type 95 heavy-duty injector, but this thing requires two people to carry the fuel tank at the back, and two people to operate it in the front, and the injection distance is only 50 meters. But our rocket launcher can be done by one person, and it can also be hit and run.
, much stronger than the devil’s!”
After hearing this, the chief of staff understood. He nodded and turned his eyes to the chief.
"No problem!" The chief took over the topic: "Let's use the rocket launcher. With this kind of better, more convenient, and safer equipment, of course there is no need to follow the Japs' equipment. They just set off a fire. The Japs can
We can do it even if we let it go, and we’ll get through the rocket launcher!”
This is indeed the case.
A large part of the reason why flamethrowers still existed during World War II was because of the poor accuracy of rocket launchers.
But in modern times, as the range of rocket launchers becomes farther and farther and the accuracy becomes higher and higher, flamethrowers will undoubtedly be eliminated.
But this also gave Wang Xuexin an inspiration.
The flamethrower does have one function that the rocket launcher cannot do...
When the enemy rushes towards our position in batches, the flamethrower suddenly pops up and pulls the trigger, burning a large area.
It's hard to do this with a bazooka.
but……
At a distance of twenty-five meters, does this require a rocket launcher or a flamethrower?
What if the frontline troops were equipped with Molotov cocktails?
The "Motorov Cocktail" invented by Mao Xiong can not only attack infantry but also burn tanks. The effect of burning tanks is even better than anti-tank grenades.
What if we replaced the ordinary gasoline inside with Eagle Sauce napalm...