Ron and a few people sat on a small sand dune about 600 meters away from the target town, it was late at night, and the desert was quite hot during the day, although it was already late autumn, it could still be hot in the small sand dunes at noon. However, at night, the temperature will drop like an elevator, and it will drop below zero in a blink of an eye.

But everyone was prepared for this, and they all wore thick clothes. At this time, a trace of the sound of the engine was blown into everyone's ears by the night breeze.

"It's coming!" Dr. X stood up, looking around with his neck high, "Where?" ”

Ron also stood up and followed the voice.

Due to its distance from the city, there is neither the glow of ground lights nor the pollution of industrial exhaust gases. So the starry sky here is extremely brilliant, with a milky white Milky Way hanging in the sky, and the side is full of dense stars. As a pilot, Ron learned how to use constellations to determine direction and time. Now, judging from the height of the three brightest stars in the constellation Orion, the time is about three to four o'clock in the morning.

The dense stars obscured the plane's tracks, and it wasn't until the roar of the plane was clear that Ron could see the flickering navigation lights on the plane's wings.

"Why do you fly so low?" Guards Donald apparently also saw the plane.

"You see? Where is it? Just show me! Dr. X held his 800-degree eyes, opened his eyes wide and said, "One ~ Ben" read the novel xstxt.

"Right there, Doctor." Donald hurriedly pointed at Dr. X, pulled a flare gun from his waist, and fired three flares into the air in succession. And more than ten steps away, someone lit a fire. This is to signal to the planes not to drop their bombs here.

The plane will drop two special incendiary bombs. This special incendiary bomb was actually converted from a 1,600-pound aerial bomb. The crew equipped it with a parachute, and then set up several small doors on the missile body that would open automatically, and there was also a device inside the missile body that provided oxygen. When the bomb falls to a certain height, the small door will automatically open and the bats with the small incendiary bombs will be ejected. One such bomb can carry about 400 bat bombs. Two bombs are 800 small incendiary bombs, which is theoretically enough to burn the target town to the ground.

Of course, the bomb will continue to descend after the bat is released, and the parachute attached to the bomb is very small (so as to ensure that the bomb will not be blown away by a gust of wind and do not know where it goes), so when it lands, the speed is still very fast, and it is definitely enough to kill people. For the safety of those watching below, it is important to let the aircraft know their location beforehand.

The plane dropped the bomb at an altitude of about 1500 meters. If you're attacking a larger target, such as a city or something, the bomb drop height can actually be higher. As long as the magazine is improved a little and the heating system is added, it is no problem to drop bombs from a height of 8000 meters.

In order to make it easier for people on the ground to see the bombs, the two bombs also had their own lights on them. So it was easy for Ron to see it. When the two bombs fell to a certain height, Ron heard someone say, "Look, the bat is popping up!" He quickly raised his binoculars.

In the telescope, Ron could clearly see that several small doors on the bomb had been opened, and small boxes were constantly being ejected from these small doors. The little boxes flew out of the box and cracked automatically, and a few bats flew out.

"It looks like it's been a success." Ron put down his binoculars and thought so.

However, it is still a little too early to say whether it will succeed, and at best it can be said to be a partial success. Although the ejection of the bat is the most problematic part, it will have to wait a little longer to be completely successful. The bats also have to wander around the town for a while. It wasn't until dawn that they got under the eaves of those houses.

It didn't take long for Daystar to rise from the east. Dr. X looked at his luminous watch and said, "Five minutes left." Everyone immediately became nervous. Everyone craned their necks to look at the town, which was still sleeping in the dark.

Five minutes seemed like a long time, until everyone felt that their eyes were a little glazed, and the town was still dark and silent. So someone asked, "How much longer?" ”

"It's coming, there's 30 seconds left." Dr. X replied.

"30, 29, 28, 27......" Ron simply began to count down, "3, 2, 1, 0!" ”

However, after Ron's 0 was read, nothing had changed in the town.

Everyone looked back at Dr. X. Dr. X still looked confident, and said slowly:

"This is an incendiary bomb, not a bomb. Fire can't burn in an instant......" He suddenly changed his face and cried out, "Fire! Fire! It's burning! ”

Ron turned his head and saw that in the darkness, hundreds of small fires suddenly appeared, as if the stars in the sky were suddenly projected onto the earth. Then these small ignitions quickly expanded, and before everyone had time to catch their breath, these small ignitions had already turned into raging fires.

The firelight has lit up the whole town. The fire started first from the eaves, tongues of fire licking upwards against the wooden roof. The roof also burst into flames, and in the fire, the rafters broke first and fell with flames and smoke. Then the beams of the roof broke into several pieces and fell into the house. So the pillars, the wall panels, and all that were burned.

Countless sparks and even some small sticks of wood that were still burning were lifted up by the violently rising scorching air, and then sprinkled on the roofs of the surrounding houses that had not yet caught fire, and the fire in the whole town was almost instantaneous.

"Sean, you're a firefighting expert." Ron said to a big guy next to him. "How many people do you think would be saved if there was a fire brigade in the town?"

"Sir, that depends on the situation." Sean replied, "If everyone in the town is awake, if they have gone through a fire drill, and the fire brigade is on standby, then at least three-quarters of the people can get out unscathed." If everyone is asleep and only realizes when the fire rises, not to mention ordinary people, even the fire brigade itself, there may not be a few people who can escape. …… It's just a small town, and if it's a city, if more incendiary bombs are dropped at one time, even if everyone is awake, I'm afraid few people can...... I don't even dare to think about it. ”

"How about hiding in the basement?" Someone asked.

"It's useless." Sean replied, "A fire like this will quickly deplete the oxygen in the vicinity of the fire, and you will die in the basement." At best, the body can be found. ”

At this time, the fire became bigger and bigger, and the fire rose nearly dozens of meters high, and the fire light illuminated the surroundings brightly. Even Ron, who was 600 meters away, felt that his body was hot from the fire.

"Let's lean back a bit. It's a little hot here. Ron said.

The fire burned for four hours before it was gradually extinguished. And the residual temperature of the town is still too high to be approached. It wasn't until the afternoon that Ron and the others were able to enter the "town". Of course, at this time, the "town" was no longer a small town, it was completely a white field, and those Japanese-style buildings were all wiped out in the fire, leaving only some charcoal that had not been completely burned out, and continued to emit faint green smoke. The original street was covered with a thick layer of gray-black ash, and when you walked up, it was an ankle-deep footprint.

"Well, it works very well!" Ron said. A gust of wind blew, kicking up a large cloud of ash, almost blindfolding everyone, and some people coughed.

"Forget it, there's nothing to see. Let's go back. Dr. X made such a suggestion.

……

The experiment was a complete success, and it turned out that for a Japanese-style town with more than a thousand houses, two such incendiary bombs were guaranteed to destroy. And a B-29 bomber can carry 9 tons of bombs. Of course, the B-29 that took off from China can't take that not much. But one B-29 carried such an incendiary bomb was enough to burn a lot of places.

It's just that Ron feels that further trials are needed. For example, high-altitude flight tests are conducted to test the adaptability of these special incendiary bombs in high-altitude environments. Another example is the long-range run test to test the effects of jet lag on bats. There's also the testing of microgravity fuzes - that's the real key. Otherwise, no one can afford to use a hand-loaded fuse like the one now. Regardless, the success of the trial proved that this thing has a lot of promise.

"How long will it take to build another town like this?" Ron asked, "It doesn't need to be like this, just a wooden house with a protruding eaves." ”

"General, if that's the case, it's going to be fast. Give the design requirements to some simple house manufacturing companies, and they can produce a small town in a week at most. One man replied.

"We will first conduct high-altitude flight tolerance tests and long-range run tests." Ron said, "In addition, the research of new fuzes should be stepped up...... In fact, that kind of microgravity fuze only solves the problem of reliability. You can't use it on grenades, right? Set the fuse to microgravity for a period of time to automatically unlock, and once the microgravity state ends, it will explode immediately, so you can ensure that the grenade will explode when it lands, right? This eliminates the need for the infantrymen to count the time of the fuse before throwing the grenade, and there is no need to worry about the enemy throwing the grenade back, right? ”

"yes, that's a good idea." Dr. Hughes's eyes lit up.

"Tell the Army about this idea, and we will definitely be able to get more personnel and funds." Ron then stated his true purpose, "Wouldn't it be faster to develop the fuse?" ”

"Yes, surely!"