() Ron and a few people were sitting 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 was still hot on the small sand dune at noon.

to more than 30 degrees. However, at night, the temperature will plummet like taking an elevator, and it can drop to below zero in the blink of an eye.

However, everyone was prepared for this and all put on thick clothes. At this time, the sound of the engine was blown into everyone's ears by the night wind.

"Here it comes!" Dr. X stood up, raised his neck and looked around, "Where is it?"

Ron also stood up and looked along the sound.

Because it is far away from the city, there is neither the radiance of ground lights nor the pollution of industrial waste gas. Therefore, the starry sky here is extremely brilliant, with a milky white Milky Way hanging in the sky, surrounded by dense stars. As a pilot, Ron has learned how to use constellations

to judge the direction and time. Now, judging from the height of the three brightest stars in Orion, the time is about three to four o'clock in the morning.

The dense stars covered up the traces of the plane, and it wasn't until the roar of the plane became clear that Ron saw the twinkling navigation lights on the wings of the plane.

"Why is it flying so low?" Guard Donald apparently also saw the plane.

"Did you see it? Where is it? Just show me!" Dr.

"It's right there, Doctor." Donald hurriedly pointed to Dr.

A fire was lit. This was to send a signal to the aircraft and tell them not to drop bombs here.

This aircraft will drop two special incendiary bombs. This special incendiary bomb is actually modified from a 1,600-pound aerial bomb. The staff installed a parachute on it, and then set several parachutes on the missile body that will automatically open

The small door of the bomb is also equipped with a device that provides oxygen. When the bomb falls to a certain height, the small door will automatically open, and then the bats with small incendiary bombs will be ejected. One such

The bomb can carry about 400 bat bombs. Two bombs are 800 small incendiary bombs. In theory, it is enough to burn the target town to ashes.

Of course, after the bat is released, the projectile will continue to fall. The parachute attached to the bomb is very small (this ensures that the bomb will not be blown away by a gust of wind), so when it lands, the speed is still very high.

It is definitely enough to kill people quickly. For the safety of the people watching below, it is very important for the aircraft to know their location in advance.

The plane dropped the bomb at an altitude of about 1,500 meters. If the attack is on a larger target, such as a city, the bomb drop height can actually be higher. As long as the bomb magazine is slightly improved and a heating system is added, the bomb can be dropped from 8,000 meters

Dropping bombs at high altitudes is no problem.

In order to make it easier for ground personnel to see the bombs, the two bombs also had their own lights. So Ron could easily see these things. When the two bombs fell to a certain height, Ron heard someone say: "

Look, the bat popped out!" He quickly raised the telescope.

In the telescope, Ron could clearly see that several small doors on the bomb had been opened, and some small boxes were continuously thrown out of these small doors. These small boxes automatically broke apart not long after flying out.

, and then a few bats flew out.

"It looks like it was a success." Ron thought as he put down the telescope.

However, it is still a little early to say whether it will be successful. At best, it can be said to be a partial success. Although ejecting the bat is the most likely to go wrong, if you want to say it is completely successful, you have to wait. The bats are still

They have to hang around the town for a while. They won't get under the eaves of those houses until it's almost dawn.

Not long after, the morning star rose from the east. Dr.

Small town in the dark.

The five minutes seemed to be extremely long, until everyone felt their eyes were a little blurred, and the town was still dark and silent. So someone asked: "How long will it take?"

"It's almost there, there are still 30 seconds left." Dr.

"30, 29, 28, 27..." Ron simply started counting down, "3, 2, 1, 0!"

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

Everyone turned around and looked at Dr. X. Dr. X still looked confident and said slowly:

"This is an incendiary bomb, not a bomb. Fire cannot burn in an instant..." He suddenly changed his expression and shouted wildly, "Fire! Fire! It's burning!"

Ron turned his head and saw hundreds of small fire spots suddenly appearing in the darkness, like stars in the sky suddenly projected onto the earth. Then these small fire spots expanded rapidly, and everyone had time to breathe.

After a few breaths, these small spots of fire turned into a raging fire.

The fire has illuminated the entire town. The fire started from the eaves first, and the flames licked upward the wooden roof. The roof also burned quickly. In the fire, the rafters were the first to break with flames and

Thick smoke fell down. Then the burning roof beams broke into several pieces and fell into the house. Then the pillars, wall panels and everything else burned.

Countless sparks and even some small wooden sticks that were still burning were lifted up by the violently rising hot air, and then scattered on the roofs of the surrounding houses that had not yet caught fire. The entire town was engulfed in fire almost instantly.

It even became one piece.

"Sean, you are a fire expert." Ron said to a big man next to him. "How many people do you think can be saved if there is a fire brigade in this small town?"

"Sir, it depends on the specific situation." Sean replied: "If everyone in the town is awake, has gone through fire drills, and the fire brigade is on standby, then at least three-quarters of the people can escape unscathed.

Run out unharmed. If everyone is asleep and doesn't notice until the fire starts, don't

Speaking of ordinary people, even the fire brigade itself, not many people can escape... This is just a small town. If it were a city, if more bat incendiary bombs were dropped at one time, even if everyone was awake

, I'm afraid not many people can... I don't dare to think about it anymore."

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

"It's useless." Sean replied, "A fire like this will quickly consume all the oxygen near the fire scene, and you will be dead if you stay in the basement. At most, you can still find the body."

At this time, the fire became more and more intense. The fire rose to a height of nearly tens of meters, and the surrounding area was brightly illuminated. Even Ron and the others, who were 600 meters away, felt that their bodies were being heated by the fire.

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"Let's lean back a little. It's getting hot in here," Ron said.

The fire burned for a full four hours before it gradually extinguished. However, the remaining temperature in the town was still too high for people to approach. It was not until the afternoon that Ron and others were able to enter the "town". Of course, the "town" at this time was no longer

It is a small town, completely white. The Japanese-style buildings were all destroyed in the fire, leaving only some charcoal that has not been completely burned out, and continues to emit light green smoke. The original streets were paved with thick

There is a thick layer of gray-black ashes, and when you walk on it, you will see a footprint as deep as your ankle.

"Well, the effect is very good!" Ron said. A gust of wind blew up, raising a large amount of ashes, almost blinding everyone, and some people started coughing.

"Forget it, there's nothing to see. Let's go back." Dr.

…

This test was a complete success. Facts have proved that for a Japanese-style town with more than a thousand houses, two such incendiary bombs can guarantee the destruction. And a B-29 bomber can bring 9

tons of bombs. Of course, the B-29 taking off from China cannot carry that much. But the incendiary bombs carried by a B-29 are enough to burn down a lot of places.

It’s just that Ron feels that further tests are needed. For example, high-altitude flight tests to test the adaptability of these special incendiary bombs in high-altitude environments. Another example is long-distance running tests to test the impact of jet lag on bats. There are also microgravity tests.

Testing of the fuze - that is the real key. Otherwise, if the hand-set fuze is used on a large scale like now, no one can afford it. But in any case, this successful test still proves this

Things have a great future.

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

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

"We will first conduct high-altitude flight tolerance experiments and long-distance attack tests." Ron said, "In addition, we must also step up research on new fuzes... In fact, as long as the reliability problem of the microgravity fuze is solved, it can be used in

On the grenade? Set the fuze to the microgravity state for a period of time to automatically unlock. Once the microgravity state ends, it will explode immediately. This can ensure that the grenade will explode when it hits the ground? This way, the infantry does not need to calculate the time of the fuze before throwing the grenade.

Don’t you have to worry about the enemy throwing grenades back?”

"Yes, this is a good idea." Dr. Hughes's eyes lit up.

"Telling this idea to the Army will definitely get more personnel and funds." Ron then revealed his true purpose, "In this way, will the research progress of the fuze be faster?"
Chapter completed!