"Brilliant ............ like fireworks" Looking at the wooden barrel that exploded in the distance, Sun Lin suddenly muttered in a low voice. And what happened next made Sun Lin even more excited, and shouted three times in a row. With the explosion of the barrel, Mars fell from high in the sky to the ground like a falling meteor. Although there were no plants to burn in front of the wasteland, the sparks that fell to the ground burned for nearly three minutes before they were extinguished by the wind and sand blowing in the distance.

"General Bobby, that's why we need to replace the original wooden "spoon" with this leather sling, because the wooden "spoon" is flammable, and during the test of the "Iron Tower" No. 2, there have been several times when it was not thrown out of the furnace because of the ignition of the fuse, which led to many operators, until one person came up with the idea of replacing the wooden "spoon" with a leather belt. The quartermaster wiped the cold sweat on his forehead as he spoke, and hurriedly put the torch in his hand into the bucket on the side, knowing that there are more than 10 wooden barrels like the one just now in this stone tower, if you accidentally ignite those things, it is impossible to blow up this stone tower, because this kind of wooden barrel is only flammable but not very explosive, but from the situation that those sparks fell to the ground just now but can continue to burn, it can be seen that the things contained in the barrel are very flame resistant, I guess it's the type that won't go out if you don't burn you to ashes with a little bit of it, such as oil and the like.

"But isn't leather as fire-like as wood?" Bobby, who had recovered from the shock, calmly raised his doubts again, and asked Sun Lin, who was about to interject, to put the words back into his throat, and he knew that if Bobby could be interested in this weapon this time, maybe Bobby's attributes would have a certain chance of obtaining the attribute of "Understanding Machinery".

"But leather is more likely to get wet than wood." The quartermaster replied with a smile.

"Wet, wet............ I see! Suddenly Bobby immediately stepped forward and touched the leather belt of the "Iron Tower" No. 3, and muttered with a shocked face: "What a good way, wipe the outer layer of the barrel and the leather belt with water before launching, and then light the only hemp rope on the side of the barrel that is not wet, so that you can ensure that the flame will not ignite the wooden barrel or the "Iron Tower" No. 3 before launching, but"

"But what could have ignited and detonated the water-soaked barrel after it had flown out? Bobby, are you trying to ask this question? Sun Lin, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly stood up and interrupted Bobby's conversation with the quartermaster.

"Yes, General, I can't imagine something like that could keep burning for so long under such circumstances............ Could it be that Your Excellency General already knows the answer?! ”

"Hehehehe............ In fact, I can't believe this answer myself, you must know that in my prediction, this research will take at least 2 to 3 years to be studied, but now it seems that I was wrong, I didn't expect that group of crazy people to dare to brave the courage to be burned to ashes, and get this trick out, it's really ............" said, Sun Lin shook his head in shock.

"General, you still haven't told me what's in the barrel?"

"Bobby, let me ask you a question, have you ever heard of Greek fire?"

"Greek fire? What is this? ”

"................ have you heard of the Byzantine Empire?"

"You mean the Eastern Roman Empire, far from the original British Isles? I've heard of it, but for me, instead of getting to know an empire that I'll never get to touch, it's better to hone my riding skills and kill a few more romantic Gallic chickens on the battlefield. ”

“…………………”

"Hehe, General Bobby is really a martial artist! Your Majesty Sun Lin, I think it's up to me to explain the Greek fire. Otherwise, General Bobby's head would be a little uncomfortable if it went on like this. Seeing Sun Lin's embarrassed appearance, the quartermaster standing on the side hurriedly came over to relieve the siege: "But Your Excellency Sun Lin, I have sorry news that the wood just now is not a terrifying weapon like Greek fire, at most half a Greek fire, because he can't reach the power of real Greek fire in one aspect." ”

"What do you mean?"

"How so? Excellency Sun Lin, you may have noticed from the results of the test just now that those flying sparks don't seem to be very powerful, right? ”

"Getting to the point!"

"Uh............... The barrel was filled with only crude oil, and judging from the effect of Greek fire, there was definitely more than just crude oil in Greek fire, so ..............."

"................Well, it seems that I'm happy for nothing, but ................ forget it, you've done a great job of putting crude oil into battle in one month." Sun Lin, who was slightly disappointed, said softly, but the next moment, Sun Lin suddenly grabbed the quartermaster in front of him like a chicken blood, and asked anxiously: "Wait!" I ask you, is the public ceramics factory in London up and running? ”

"Uh............... If you only need ordinary ceramics, then the ceramic factory can already produce them in batches, but we can't make well-made ceramics such as blue and white porcelain at the current level, but does this have anything to do with crude oil? ”

"Is it already possible to mass-produce ordinary ceramics? Very good! I ask you, have any of the research maniacs in your quartermaster department ever thought of putting that crude oil in clay pots, wrapping it in papier-mâché and sealing it, then igniting it and throwing it out. ”

"I haven't really thought about it, but isn't that the same principle as those barrels? What's the difference? ”

Of course there is a difference! And the difference is huge! One is to use a trebuchet to throw, and the other is to be thrown by a human, okay? Of course, Sun Lin will not say this sentence in this situation, after thinking for a while, Sun Lin, who calmed down, hurriedly asked an engineer next to him to bring him the paper and charcoal, and then wrote some incomprehensible words on it with charcoal and handed it to the quartermaster, and said in a very serious tone: "You go and give this paper to those crazy people now, I think they should know what to do, go quickly!" ”

"That......... Okay, this is the number of weapons shipped this time, then please take a look at it when you go back, Your Excellency Sun Lin. After handing over the most important document to Sun Lin, the quartermaster saluted and turned around and left directly, but just as the quartermaster's figure was about to disappear, an anxious figure suddenly knocked down the quartermaster, and rushed to Sun Lin under Bobby's puzzled gaze, and said in a panic: "No, it's not good!" Something happened to the first detachment! ”