Chapter 488: Twin Star Fall (18)

Always remember that the king continent where Sun Lin stays is not the era when pump-action shotguns are extremely peak in the 21st century, but the medieval period when you don't even know what the so-called "pump" is, although the sun never sets the empire has developed this pump-type Greek fire thrower, but don't expect pump weapons to be how perverted they are in this era, and now the sun never sets The durability value of the pump flamethrower used by the Greek firethrower speaks for itself.

The shell of the powerful Greek flamethrower is made of iron in the shape of a stick, and the inside is made of copper to connect it to the oil tank, so that it can shoot the ignited Greek fire out of the fire, but this design is the most primitive and bulky Greek flamethrower, because if the Greek flamethrower were built according to this design, the flamethrower would weigh at least 40 kilograms. Apparently this did not meet the needs of the soldiers, so after improvements, the body of the flamethrower was made of wooden sticks that were strong but lightweight, except for the flamethrower, which was made of stainless steel, and the copper pipe that connected the clay pot was cast in red copper.

Perhaps many people think that this design is inappropriate, because the wooden rod is a flammable product, if the copper pipe is on the way to the steel sprinkler head to transmit the ignited Greek fire, because the connection between the steel sprinkler and the wooden rod has a gap, and the copper pipe has a crack and the spark of the Greek fire jumps out (the medieval casting process is like that, one of the 10 screws can be connected together with a nut is already considered God bless, although the production workshop of the Sun Empire has the advanced ideas provided by Sun Lin, and knows how to use molds in casting iron, Steel items, but after all, most of the current foundry industry is still cast by hand, so don't expect the copper pipes produced by the Quartermaster Department to be very real without cracks, and the steel sprinklers can be completely connected with other wooden handles), then it is easy to cause the wooden grip to be ignited, and it is not impossible to even harm the private users of flamethrowers.

However, with the rapid development of the sunset foundry industry, the incidence of problems with steel sprinklers is gradually decreasing, and even now it is less than 0.0001%, but the cracks in the copper pipe cause the Greek flamethrower to malfunction and ignite the probability of ignition is increasing, which makes the blacksmiths who cast Greek flamethrowers depressed. You must know that those copper pipes have been personally audited by the senior master of the Foundry Guild by selecting 10 out of every 50 random inspections! Obviously, there were no problems when it was reviewed, but when it went to war, there were always problems, and it was no wonder that these blacksmiths who cast Greek flamethrowers were not depressed.

It wasn't until a nimble centurion of a Greek Spitfire who participated in the previous Battle of the Atlanta Mountains that the source of the problem was discovered: in fact, the principle of hot war and cold contraction was at work. As we all know, the temperature of fire is very high, and as a weapon of war, the temperature of Greek fire after being ignited even reached nearly 1,000, and people who have studied chemistry know that the melting point of copper is about 1083 degrees, because the temperature of the Greek fire is likely to be used in the Greek flamethrower to connect the steel meeting and hold the copper pipe of the Greek fire clay pot to melt, so the Greek fire soldiers are used to bring some water on their bodies, and when sprayed with water to cool the copper pipe, In order to speed up the cooling rate of the copper pipes, they could increase the loading speed of the Greek fire, but they did not know that this actually increased the fragile speed of the copper pipes, which was hot and cold, and it is strange that these workers are rough copper pipes for postmodern times without cracks.

However, because no empire can cast more advanced composite steel, and other steels are not suitable for making steel pipes for joints, and the Greek flamethrowers who use the Greek fire thrower are all rough people who don't know a big word, and it is impossible to know how to replace the copper pipe for the Greek fire thrower with a more complex production process, although many Greek firethrowers are currently required to learn how to replace steel pipes, so under normal circumstances, the Greek fire thrower can only be used at most 3 times in a row.

PS: The disposable Greek flamethrower mentioned in the previous text is actually the test product that came out of the early research after the military department decided to use the Greek flamethrower for the first time after the land war, and their characteristic is that they inherited the bulky body of the early Greek flamethrower, and the way the Greek fire was injected into the steel sprinkler was not a copper pipe, but directly poured into the nozzle, and the ignition method was also to use a torch to ignite the head first, and then use the principle of extrusion (like a syringe) to make the Greek fire inside the nozzle eject. As for the reason why the army wanted to equip the Greek fire soldiers with this kind of test grade Greek flamethrower, it is actually very easy to understand, because there are many monks and few porridges, and in order to meet the needs of the army when the production line of Greek fire weapons is not mature enough and the output is small, of course, these test samples that were originally to be destroyed and smelted can only be mobilized.

Due to the poor durability of the Greek fire thrower, although Sun Lin had previously mobilized a large amount of military supplies to the Western Continent for the use of the army on the Western Continent, the water qilin's performance of not fearing death, coupled with their continuous performance in launching a decisive charge, made the victory signs played by the side that the sun never set now were destined to be temporary, when many scorched corpses appeared on both sides of the wall of the middle city in the Riptide Castle. The pile of charred corpses at the city gate was finally as thick as the thighs of the soldiers after being cleaned up dozens of times, and after nearly four hours of fighting, the sun never set in the hands of the Greek flamethrowers, and there was no longer a single Greek flamethrower that could be used.

The victory rate of the Sun Immortal Empire, which originally seemed to have the upper hand, could be said to have plummeted, and this situation was raised outside the city by the Emperor of the Water Qilin Empire on behalf of him, and the banner representing the Seagod Sect was raised in the place where he was sitting, causing all the soldiers of the Water Qilin Empire present to enter a state of frenzy, and after the Watt Guard, which was the most elite in the hands of the Water Qilin Empire and numbered as many as 4,000 people, was dispatched, the victory rate of the Sun Immortal Empire could be said to have fallen directly to the bottom.

"Go! Hang up the battle flags of Lao Tzu and General Rakuman! It's hanging in the gate tower where we are! I want to let all the soldiers on the side of the sun never set know that General Rakuman and I have been fighting with them on the front line! When the war became more and more unfavorable for his side, a one-eyed general on the east gate tower of Zhongcheng shouted at the prince beside him with a hoarse figure, but the guards he named did not move his pace.