Chapter 727: Griffin Plague (33)
The grenade, as one of the most powerful individual combat weapons in the Primordial Realm, this kind of individual weapon that can play a role in turning things around in complex terrain is not only loved by soldiers in the Primordial Realm, but also in the King Continent now, because the Empire of the Sun Never Sets began to mass-produce this equipment and equip it with the Sunset Elite Legion, which caused the soldiers of the Sunset Regular Legion to have a trace of jealousy of the soldiers of the Sunset Elite Legion, which made the Sunset 2nd Line Troops feel infinite envy of it.
Especially in the battle of the Lower Maginot Line, the Greek Pyos used up the Greek fire oil in the acropolis, and Sun Lin waved his hand to distribute all the grenades that had been hoarded before and should have been handed over to the royal griffin knights of Sunset, so that every soldier who never set on the sun would have a chance to use it on the battlefield (of course, this opportunity can only be used when the soldiers are about to die, but nevertheless, The soldiers of the sunset still admired this situation of leaving their bones without bones when they died on the battlefield, partly because of the influence of the dogma of the sunset army, and partly because of the fact that in the defense of the Acropolis of the Lower Maginot Line, the battlefield that lasted for months had distorted part of the thinking of the soldiers who never set the sun, and of course there may be another reason, but this reason is usual), making the grenade a favorite weapon of the soldiers who never set the sun.
Of course, the sunset grenade is not omnipotent, after all, the grenades used by the Sunset Empire must be ignited with the help of external forces, such as fire folds and the like, unlike the fuses in later generations that can enter the explosion countdown grenade with a twist, and the most important thing is that the quality of the Sunset Empire grenade is not generally poor, but very, very poor!
According to the data given by the system, the grenade is an oval shape made of iron sheet, and one of the ends of the glove is blocked by a thick hemp rope after the round hole used to pour black powder is filled. There is an extra long rope outside this round hole, but in fact, because of the advanced skills and tools of the craftsmen of the Great Empire, the craftsmen who want to shoot this kind of grenade must be a senior blacksmith who does not set the sun, but the problem is that the sun does not set now, where do so many senior blacksmiths come from, you must know that the senior blacksmiths of the empire where the sun never sets or above have the ability to cast artillery, and obviously the strategic significance of artillery weapons is stronger than those No. 1 grenades on the whole. For Sun Lin, he preferred to cast the No. 2 gun in large quantities. Don't produce these one-time consumable weapons that are currently a bit of a problem for the Sunset military industry, so in fact, most of the Sunset Grenade craftsmen are junior craftsmen, and obviously these craftsmen don't have the skills to create the No. 1 Grenade.
However, it is one thing to be virtuosic in technique, but it is another thing to have a smart mind, and perhaps some people are very poor in terms of hands-on ability. However, this does not mean that it has a low IQ, which is obviously a perfect illustration of the current state of the Sunset Grenade: due to the fact that the junior blacksmiths of the Sunset Empire are unable to craft grenades. The grenade's shell, to be exact, is made of iron sheets. Eventually, these junior blacksmiths came up with a very effective idea, which was to replace the raw material of iron for the grenade with wood.
Of course, the wood here is certainly not ordinary wood, after all, wood is much more fragile than iron in hardness, and the moldability of wood is much worse than that of iron. In order to ensure the ability of the internal black powder not to leak, and most importantly, the iron pieces that the No. 1 grenade made of iron sheet shoots out after the explosion has an extremely terrifying range of lethality. Wooden grenades do not exist after exploding, but these difficulties in the development of wooden grenades were finally overcome by those clever craftsmen who never set the sun.
First of all, in order to ensure the hardness of the wooden grenade as much as possible, and to ensure that the black powder stacked in the wooden grenade will not leak out, the smart craftsmen who make the grenade choose to use the bamboo that can grow on almost all continental plates in the King Continent for manufacturing, because the bamboo itself is hollow inside, which allows the craftsmen who make the sunset grenade to pour black powder without hollowing out the inside of the wood, which greatly shortens the manufacturing time of the grenade. It even takes much less time to make wooden grenades than iron grenades, after all, the shells of bamboo grenades themselves are naturally formed, and the shells of those iron grenades need to be converted from iron ingots.
As for what is said for the bamboo grenade can ensure that the black powder inside it will not leak out, at that time, because the way the bamboo grenade seals the two sections of the bamboo, it is even simpler than the iron grenade, because the iron grenade to achieve the degree of sealing to prevent the leakage of black powder, in some cases, the manufacturer needs to personally create a better black powder filling hole, but bamboo is different, because the grenade made of bamboo only needs to use cotton to plug the two sections inside the bamboo strong enough, And leave a gap for the hemp rope to make a fuse.
Moreover, the wooden grenade made of bamboo is lighter in quality than the iron grenade, and the amount of black powder contained in it is actually not much less than that of the iron grenade because of the length, which means that the wooden grenade is almost the same as the iron grenade in the case of almost the same lethality as the iron grenade, and the distance thrown is much more than the iron grenade. And each soldier carries more of them than iron grenades, for example, a soldier can only carry 2 or 2 iron grenades, but can carry 3 wooden grenades.
Perhaps the only thing that wooden grenades are not enough to do with iron grenades is that when the iron grenade explodes, it also comes with a farther and stronger armor-piercing lethality generated by the splashing of countless pieces of iron, after all, the explosion can only be regarded as an impact of energy, equipped with a well-made enemy soldier, a grenade explodes next to him, and the lethality generated by the grenade explosion may be absorbed by the armor because of the reason he is wearing this armor. And it was just blown away by the powerful air waves and impact generated by the explosion. But the broken pieces of iron are different, because they are generally sharp, and with the help of the powerful impact of the grenade's explosion, they actually have the terrifying penetrating power of an armor-piercing arrow, even more terrifying than an armor-piercing arrow.
However, in this regard, in fact, the current possession of wooden grenades, the advantages from all aspects have actually surpassed the iron grenade, of course, even in this case, the sun does not set party still came up with two ways to let the wooden grenade obtain the iron grenade said to have, the ability of iron fragments to splash and kill, the first is the hand grenade made by the sun does not set junior craftsmen came up with it, that is, the use of the gum that is currently continuously produced in the Western Regions of the Central Continent, Sticking to wooden grenades the leftovers left over from the blacksmith's casting, or fragments of armor or even rusty pieces of iron, of course, because the iron fragments usually stick to the wooden fragments and fly out, and lose their lethality; As for the second point, the elite soldiers who have the ability to carry two or more sunset on the frontline battlefield have come up with - to search for iron nails from the ruins of houses and insert these iron nails into cotton.
Obviously, the second method was successful, but in fact it was not a success, because one end of the iron nail was not sharp, and because of the very little free space inside the wooden grenade, generally each wooden grenade could only put an iron nail on each end and then could not be put in, and the probability of finding the iron nail in the ruins of the battlefield was almost equivalent to looking for a needle in a haystack, so this method must not be popularized.
Of course, no matter what, when Sun Lin was already busy with the battle on the front line, this kind of wooden grenade, which is very likely to replace the iron grenade, has now begun to spread among the army on which the sun never sets, and the soldiers began to fall in love with this wooden grenade even more, because they can do many things that iron grenades can't do, such as when a force of the Divine Light Empire captures a tunnel, in order to ensure that this tunnel is not used by it, the party that does not set the sun must destroy it with explosives, However, because of the size, iron grenades may not be able to enter the exhaust holes of these tunnels, but wooden grenades can, and even some whimsical soldiers who never set the sun will use the reason that the fuse of the No. 1 grenade is long, and the grenade will be tied to a wooden stick, and then use this method to accurately feed the grenade from the exhaust hole into the tunnel.
And now, this kind of grenade is also used by the navy, of course, the navy can use wooden grenades in this battle, it is entirely because of an accident - in the process of the fish-man convoy transporting the baggage to the regular fleet of Sunset, there was originally a batch of grenades that should have been reserved for the Sunset Gryphon Air Cavalry, but because of the change of position during the repair of the wall of the Lower Maginot Line, it was transported to the hands of the two fleets of Sunset together with the solid iron bullets originally delivered to the navy. And these things could not be returned, so in desperation, Orso and Soli had no choice but to give this little knowledge of the things that were originally used by the Sunset Fleet to the brave sailors in the fleet, and the result was the fact that the Sunset Fleet won a great victory today, and decided that the Griffon Empire would never be able to turn the tables again. (To be continued......)