Today is a good day, last night's rain made the smell of blood in the air a lot lighter, Luo Ying looked up at the white clouds in the sky with squinted eyes, and paid attention to the movement of the wrinkles. They are now in a thunderous distribution yard where supplies are piled up from the airport in Chiang Mai province for distribution to frontline troops, and more scrap steel and usable goods to be shipped back to the steel mills in Myanmar. The U.S. military liaison team that Luo Ying and the others have been unwelcome to see are also here, as well as Zhao Zhihe's Yan Wudao with a strange thing on his back.

The thing on the back of Yan Wudao's back was a little weird, two juxtapos-like cylinders were connected to a long tube, and at the other end of the tube was a gun-like thing with a long handle and a trigger, but Luo Ying knew that this thing was not a gun, because it had no magazine or a place to load bullets. Yan Wudao, who was carrying a steel cylinder, didn't know what this object was, he only knew that it was sent by truck from Chiang Mai Prefecture, and there was not a word on it, Mr. Zhao Zhi just smiled lightly but did not reveal the content at all.

"Huh" Yan Wudao pulled the trigger according to Zhao Zhi's signal, a scorching stream of fire splattered out from the vent, and the scrapped truck 40 meters away was instantly shrouded in flames, and the hot Lang that rushed in his face made Yan Wudao subconsciously dodge back. Looking at the burning truck, Yan Wudao looked at the flamethrower that he had just taken off his back in disbelief, this strange thing was too amazing, the truck could be ignited instantly from 40 meters away, and the fire would not be extinguished for a while, if the Japanese army encountered this thing, it would be a bitter end.

"This thing flamethrower is our new equipment, specially designed to deal with enemies in bunkers and tunnels, especially in city defense battles." Zhao Zhi patted the flamethrower that Yan Wudao had placed on the ground and smiled lightly. "This kind of thing has been put into the battlefield as early as the First World War, and the U.S. military fairy has also begun to equip the army in large quantities, but our flamethrower is an improved type, and it is superior to the U.S. military in terms of safety and number of shots."

A flamethrower, also known as a flamethrower, is a close-range fire attack weapon that sprays a flamethrower, and it is mainly used to kill and destroy living forces, destroy exposed or hidden fortifications, and enemies hidden inside. The flamethrower can bend along the inner wall of trenches and tunnels, invade, splash, adhere and burn, and reach places that are difficult to reach by ordinary ammunition, so it is especially suitable for mountain, island, tunnel, cave and trench operations, because the flamethrower has the effect of burning, arson, jumping, splashing and spiritual shock that other direct-fire weapons do not have, so it occupies a special position and role on the ground battlefield.

The first light flamethrower was invented by the Germans in 1898, and since then, France and Italy have also been equipped with light flamethrowers in 1914, and on June 19, 1915, the German army used flamethrowers for the first time in the Belencourt district of Belgium. In the 30s, Germany, Britain, the Soviet Union, France, Japan, Canada and other countries successively manufactured various forms of flamethrowers using oil, oil bottles, and spray guns. The emergence of napalm has improved the internal and external ballistic performance of the flame jet, greatly improved the performance of the flamethrower, the use of the oil not only increased the range of the flamethrower, and the sprayed column of fire has the effects of jumping, splashing, turning and sticking burning, etc., the United States alone has produced nearly 40,000 flamethrowers in 42 years.

The Florida weapons laboratory jointly controlled by Lockman and Zhao Zhi is purely opportunistic in the development of flamethrowers, and the Eklewood Arsenal in the United States has developed the M2 series of flamethrowers, but the M2 series of flamethrowers have shortcomings in weight and number of shots, and their safety factor is very low, and the actual combat data fed back by the front-line troops is very bad. South Asia is mountainous and jungled, and if the Japanese army digs trenches and defends, it will only use mountain troops to attack hard or rush to the army to consume resources and manpower, so Zhao Zhi came up with the idea of a flamethrower.

At the beginning of Zhao Zhi's plan to enter Burma to fight the Japanese army, he had already contacted the elder Rhodes, hoping that the Rockman family could use their own channels to obtain relevant materials and physical materials of American Spitfire weapons. There are many experts in the weapons laboratory in Florida, as long as he can get the real thing, Zhao Zhi can put forward an improvement plan according to his own needs, so a year later, there is this thing at the foot of Yan Wudao, with a burning capacity of 20 liters, a total weight of 30 kilograms, and a powerful flamethrower that can be sprayed 8 times and has a range of more than 40 meters.

The latest flamethrower developed by the Kiwood Arsenal is the M2A1-7 flamethrower, which is a more mature one of the current individual flamethrowers in the US military, but it has many gaps with the Thunder's flamethrower in terms of range, fuel capacity, and number of shots. With 5 shots, a range of only 30 meters, and a fuel capacity of only 16 liters, the M2A1-7 flamethrower resembles a moving volcano in terms of safety compared to the Thunder flamethrower.

The weight of 30 kilograms of the new flamethrower may be a factor restricting the rapid movement of the flamethrower for the US military, but for the mercenaries who have received armed cross-country training all year round, this is not a difficult task at all, and the weight of the backpack of ordinary mercenaries during 20 kilometers of cross-country training is already 25 kilograms, and if you add weapons and ammunition, steel helmets, water bottles or something, it is no different from flamethrowers in terms of weight. The test shot did not disappoint Zhao Zhi, and Roger, who was following behind Zhao Zhi, was also incredulous, there was not a word on the flamethrower at Yan Wudao's feet, but Roger knew that this thing must have come from the United States, because its connecting hose was the same as the hose of the American flamethrower.

Suppressing his surprise, Roger did not participate in the onlookers under Mary's suggestive gaze, because a truck with a red lightning sign was parked not far from them, and more than a dozen mercenaries with loaded guns were guarding the truck, and the flamethrower that Yan Wudao and they were watching was taken from the two trucks. Sure enough, Roger and Mary looked at each other and smiled, and under Zhao Zhi's instructions, several mercenaries took down two wooden boxes from the truck, and after opening them, everyone found that one box was a firearm, and the other box should be a matching bullet.

"This is an improved version of the sniper rifle, and like the sniper rifle we are currently equipping, this modification is also an automatic rifle that uses a five-round magazine, but it has a larger scope multiplier, a longer range, and this improved sniper rifle can use steel-core armor-piercing rounds." As he spoke, Zhao Zhi grabbed a magazine with a red mark from the ammunition box and attached it to the sniper rifle, and then fired continuously at a steel plate a hundred meters away. After three gunshots, the mercenary on the tricycle sent the steel plate over.

"Damn, this thing is really strong." Looking at the three bullet holes on the 5mm steel plate, Yan Wudao couldn't stop looking at the steel core bullet with the red mark in his hand, "If the Japanese army is hiding in the truck bed, as long as we use this kind of bullet, none of them will be able to escape." In order to test his words, Yan Wudao held a sniper rifle loaded with steel-core bullets and fired at an empty truck 300 meters away, and it turned out that the steel-core bullets that flew 300 meters could not only penetrate the truck's cabin panels, but also the left and right compartment boards of the truck.

"This steel-core bullet can not only penetrate the truck compartment panel, but also penetrate the armor of Japanese light armored vehicles and tanks, although its caliber is not as good as heavy machine gun bullets, but the armor-piercing effect is similar." Zhao Zhi also held a steel-core bullet in his hand and gave it to Yan Wudao, and they explained in a whisper. "However, the cost of this bullet is too expensive, we can only equip it with elite snipers now, and ordinary snipers can only use ordinary rifle bullets, otherwise we should go bankrupt."

Seeing that everyone's faces were a little disappointed, Zhao Zhi smiled and patted the sniper rifle in his hand and said, "The number of steel-core bullets is not enough, but this improved sniper rifle is enough to equip all our mercenary snipers, compared to the armor-piercing penetration of the bullet, the increase in the range of the sniper rifle should be the most important, you know, the effective range of this improved sniper rifle has exceeded 900 meters, if it is in actual combat, I think the range should exceed 500 meters, Ye Kong tried the range of 600 meters in Mandalay." ”

Throughout the morning, Zhao Zhi led people to test shoot new equipment in the open field, and the surprise on the faces of Roger and Mary, who were the participants in the test shoot, became deeper and deeper. The mercenary guarding the truck with the red lightning marker kept moving off his weapons and equipment according to Zhao Zhi's instructions, but as the test shot continued, Roger, who had experience in company command operations, was full of questions. To some extent, the weapons he came into contact with were similar to those currently equipped by the US military, but they were much superior in performance to those equipped by the US military.

Zhao Zhi didn't seem to want to avoid Roger and Mary, and when he explained the data and performance of the new weapons to the mercenary officers under him, he didn't specifically want to stay away from Roger. Roger didn't know if this was Zhao Zhi's trust or intentional, but he was already sure that these new weapons were from the United States, and they were related to the Rockman family's weapons factory in Florida, and he had already made up his mind to report this to the Pentagon tonight, and if the US military could assemble these weapons, maybe the victory in the war would come early.

When Roger made up his mind, Luo Ying, who had been secretly staring at him, gestured to Zhao Zhi, this new weapon acceptance test led by Zhao Zhi was a game at all, and Roger and Mary were the people who were in the play but didn't know how to enter the game. The profit industry in the war is not only plunder, but also the supply of arms, and the purpose of Zhao Zhi's move is to arouse Roger's idea, and the Pentagon will catch up with the Pentagon, and the weapons hoarded in the Florida arms factory will have a market, and it is possible to receive larger military orders.