Wang Xuexin didn't bother Zhang Wanhe about the Molotov cocktail. He could handle such a small thing by himself, and there was no time to talk about it.
So he directly found some wine bottles, the kind of Fenjiu wine bottles that Li Yunlong loved to drink the most.
There are still many porcelain bottles of this kind among the Eighth Route Army and the common people. If the common people need to open cellars and burn them, it will not be difficult... The Eighth Route Army is short of everything except porcelain.
The production method is also very simple, just fill the wine bottle with napalm and stuff it with a cloth strip.
Wang Xuexin originally considered whether to add a white phosphorus plug, so that when using it, he only needs to pull out the plug and throw it out.
But after thinking about it, I still feel that I cannot covet this convenience.
The reason is that the porcelain bottle is already easily cracked and fragile, and the napalm bomb cannot be controlled when it burns. If it is installed with a stopper that can spontaneously ignite... it will be dangerous to transport. If the temperature is too high or the bottle breaks accidentally,
Or something like that, once burned it's a whole car.
This is good now. The open flame is separated from the napalm, and there is not much danger in transportation and storage. It will be enough time to uncork the bottle and put a cloth strip on it before the war.
As for open flames, the worst case scenario would be to hand out a simple lighter.
Speaking of lighters, this thing is not a rarity among the Eighth Route Army.
This is not to say how many lighters the Eighth Route Army seized from the Japs, but that smoking was common in the army. Those who could smoke Japs' cigarettes would smoke their own cigarettes or pipes if they had no conditions.
To smoke, you need fire.
The most commonly used ones are matches.
It's just that matches are really inconvenient. They can't be used if they get wet or damp when it rains, wades through water, crosses rivers, etc.
So the soldiers thought of ways to make simple lighters on their own.
The method is very simple, just use a bullet shell as a container, fill it with gasoline and some cotton core, weld a small gear at the exit of the shell, and weld an iron bar to fix the flint below.
Those who often smoked in the army would try to get one from the blacksmith. They called it a "bullet lighter" and it was worth ten cigarettes.
If this thing were made by an arsenal, it wouldn't be a whole batch of them!
Just when Wang Xuexin was carrying a few wine bottles in a bamboo basket to the testing site to see if this thing could work, he happened to meet Su Xin on the road.
Su Xin wore a homespun cotton coat. It is said that because the transfer was too sudden, a box of her gifts was lost during transportation, so she had to buy a set of cotton coats from a fellow villager when she arrived at Dahuai Village.
However, this person has a temperament problem. Although he is wearing a rustic and slightly loose cotton-padded jacket and cotton trousers, Su Xin has a unique style in what he wears.
Su Xin looked at Wang Xuexin and said "Yo": "Classmate Xiao Wang, are you living a good life? You even have so many bottles of wine!"
Wang Xuexin didn't bother to explain to her. He raised his head and said, "How many drinks should we go together?"
Su Xin asked: "Who else is there?"
"Who else can it be?" Wang Xuexin shook the bamboo basket and joked: "Just a few bottles are not enough for the two of us!"
When Su Xin looked at the basket, which contained five bottles of Fenjiu wine, she exclaimed!
Does Xiao Dongbei have such a good drinking capacity?
Never heard of it before!
Then Su Xin felt an inexplicable nervousness again, and just the two of them drank. Is that...
Seeing that Su Xin was stunned at the back, Wang Xuexin turned around and urged: "Why are you stunned? Move quickly!"
Su Xin gave a soft "hmm" and glanced around. Seeing that no one was paying attention, she happily followed her.
"Classmate Xiao Wang!" Su Xin walked briskly to Wang Xuexin, her steps almost jumping: "I may not be able to drink a few sips..."
"It's okay, just watch it!" Wang Xuexin replied.
"Looking at it?" Su Xin was confused.
"How about leaving a bottle for you!"
Su Xin is a bit inexplicable. She only has one bottle when she stays?
The experimental site is in the open space in the north of the village. There used to be a group of houses there. When the Japanese invaded the year before last, they burned all the houses, leaving it an uninhabited ruin.
Because napalm is poisonous, it is not suitable for use in fields or grain drying fields in experiments. If you choose this place, there will be no problem.
After arriving at the end of the field, Wang Xuexin didn't say much. He uncorked the bottle and stuffed a strip of cloth into the bottle. Then he lit the strip with a match and waved the lit bottle in front of the confused Su Xin.
Yang said, "Look, this wine is so strong!"
Saying that, he threw it far away...
The porcelain shattered with a "bang" sound, and the flames "spurred" and ignited more than ten meters away, sending sparks out while burning.
Su Xin understood now, and she said in surprise: "Are you... filled with thick gasoline?"
"What else do you think it is?" Wang Xuexin said with a smile, "Do you really think it's wine?"
Su Xin was quite disappointed.
But then I thought about it, and it turned out to be a really good idea.
Just like this, a bottle and a piece of cloth can turn thick gasoline into a weapon, and its power is not inferior to that of rocket launchers and 50 cannons...
The reason why they are said to be as powerful as rocket launchers and 50 cannons is because they also use viscous gasoline to damage the enemy, but their range is longer.
In terms of lethality alone, this Molotov cocktail can hold more viscous gasoline, but it is no worse than a rocket launcher and a 50 cannon.
So, why not use this extremely cheap thing in close combat?
"How is it?" Wang Xuexin raised his head and asked, "Classmate Xiao Su, would you like a bottle too?"
Su Xin nodded with interest, then uncorked the bottle and stuffed it with a strip of cloth. Wang Xuexin lit the match and helped light the fire.
All of this is fine.
The problem is that neither Wang Xuexin nor Su Xin expected that a girl would not have enough arm strength to throw something weighing two kilograms away...
In fact, Su Xin was a little nervous, because she couldn't help but think about the tragic situation of the sticky gasoline bomb burning her body, so her hands and feet became a little weak.
I saw her holding it in both hands and struggling to throw it forward. Her eyes were even closed when she threw it...
At this time, Wang Xuexin knew that things were going to be bad, because Su Xin couldn't throw far like this. If it caught fire, wouldn't it cause fire?
Wang Xuexin didn't think much. Before the bottle could hit the ground, Wang Xuexin pounced on Su Xin and knocked her down.
When the flames started, a wave of heat came over them.
Su Xin screamed.
Wang Xuexin soon discovered that the cotton-padded coat on Su Xin's back still had some sparks. At this time, he could no longer care about it. He opened the buttons of Su Xin's cotton-padded coat and pulled her out of the clothes in an almost rough way.
come out.
Fortunately, Wang Xuexin took a quick step, and soon the cotton-padded clothes on the ground were ignited and turned into a ball of flame.
"Are you okay?" Wang Xuexin asked.
"No, it's okay..." Su Xin replied in shock, then folded her arms and lowered her head with a red face.
Wang Xuexin suddenly remembered that he seemed to have encountered something when he pulled off Su Xin's clothes just now...