Castle of Black Iron - Chapter 1258

Chapter 1258
Chapter 1258: The Trump Card of Fire-Dragon Corps


Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem

It was hills and basins in the periphery of Xuantian Eighteen Mountain Peaks . The largest basin covered over 16,000 square miles . The basins were surrounded by grotesque and magnificent high mountains . The lowest mountain was over 1,000 m high . Looking down from the sky, the mountains around those basins were like petals of an open flower . However, Xuantian Eighteen Mountain Peaks looked like special stamens in the flower .

After a few months, a wide and tidy industrial park covering about 10 square miles had been built near that town of the residence of Iron-Dragon Sect at the foot of the Xuantian Eighteen Mountain Peaks .

Outside the industrial park was a universal airport, which was connected to Tongzhou Province, Yanzhou Province and Youzhou Province through railways and highways .

Zhang Tie directly took Commander Cheng and Gao Tianqi into a factory of that industrial park .

The factory director was selected from one of those dare-to-die people who was gifted by Lord Guangnan's Mansion . Of course, he knew Zhang Tie . After Zhang Tie expressed his intention here, the factory director fetched three sets of clothes and let Zhang Tie, Commander Cheng and Gao Tianqi put them on . After that, Zhang Tie took them into the workshop of the factory .

"All the workshops of Fiery-Oil incendiary bombs are anti-explosive . Anything that might cause sparkles through friction is forbidden inside . According to the production regulations of the factory, people are not allowed in unless they wear special uniforms . " Zhang Tie explained to Commander Cheng .



Commander Cheng and Gao Tianqi didn't refuse to put on special uniforms . Whatever, each industry had their own regulations and requests which were not transferable according to the status and power of the visitors . Even Emperor Xuanyuan couldn't stop an accident if he entered there without the anti-explosive uniform .

In the following half an hour, Zhang Tie introduced the entire production process of Fiery-Oil incendiary bombs to Commander Cheng and Gao Tianqi .

The main material of Fiery-Oil incendiary bomb was Fiery Oil . They made Fiery-Oil incendiary bombs by mixing Fiery Oil with carbon powder, thermit reagent and palmitic acid according to certain proportions .

Carbon powder was a very ordinary industrial raw material, which could be acquired through the fractionation of coal under high temperature .

Thermit reagent was made of aluminum powder, alum powder and limonite powder according to certain proportions .

Palmitic acid could be acquired from palm trees or animal fats such as lard and beef tallow through saponification .



As the main raw material of Fiery-Oil Incendiary Bomb, Fiery Oil could be acquired through the fermentation of straws .

After knowing that Fiery-Oil incendiary bombs could be acquired only by mixing these ordinary raw materials, Commander Cheng watched Zhang Tie with a more amazed look .

"If so, what's the cost of a 500 kg's Fiery-Oil incendiary bomb?" Commander Cheng asked Zhang Tie .

"Less than 10 gold coins!" Zhang Tie replied honestly .

"No limit on output?"

"Yes, as long as these raw materials could be provided constantly and the capacity of the factory could catch up with that, the output of Fiery-Oil incendiary bombs is indeed unlimited!"

"Do you know the cost and raw materials of a 500 kg's white phosphorous gel incendiary bomb?"

"White phosphorous gel incendiary bomb is indeed expensive . Additionally, it's made of over 40 raw materials, some of which are rare . Therefore, we could barely realize a mass production of white phosphorous gel incendiary bombs!"

"I really wonder about your brains . How could you develop such a marvelous thing!" Commander Cheng let out a long sigh .

"I just mentioned it . It's my subordinates who developed the Fiery-Oil incendiary bomb . Actually, as long as they have Fiery Oil, many people could figure out the formula!"

After visiting the workshop of Fiery-Oil incendiary bombs and entering another workshop, Commander Cheng's eyes turned bright at once .

"These are Fiery-Oil spears and Fiery-Oil grenades . . . " Zhang Tie answered .

This workshop was producing individual weapons instead of heavy Fiery-Oil incendiary bombs which were dropped by airships or airplanes . They were actually two minimal Fiery-Oil incendiary bombs . As for the Fiery-Oil grenado, it looked like an average bottle with a wooden handle . It was similar to the grenade that humans used before the Catastrophe . As for Fiery-Oil spear, it was longer than 1 m in the shape of a spear . It could be thrown . The former one weighed about 1 kg while the latter was lighter than 3 kg .

Commander Cheng couldn't help but hold them and made some gestures to throw them . Closely after that, he realized the strengths of the two weapons . As they were portable, they could absolutely be individual weapons on the battlefield; besides a Fiery-Oil spear, throwing troops could be established which could further narrow the gap between human corps and demon corps .

As long as a LV 9 demon fighter was struck by a Fiery-Oil spear which was thrown by a LV 3 or LV 4 human fighter, it was destined to die . Similarly, Fiery-Oil grenade also had a great destructive power over a short distance .

"Will you match Fire-Dragon Corps with these weapons?"

"Yes, I will match a part of soldiers with these weapons . After they gain experiences in using them, they could make improvements in them . When the corps come into being, I will match the entire corps with these weapons . By then, the Fiery-Oil grenade will be the standard weapon of the fighters of Fire-Dragon Corps . Each fighter should carry at least 3 Fiery-Oil grenades . According to my plan, Fiery-Oil spear fighters would become an independent arm of the services . A squad should have at least 3 Fiery-Oil spear fighters; a platoon should have at least a squad of Fiery-Oil spear fighters; a company should have at least a platoon of Fiery-Oil spear fighters and the like . Fiery-Oil spear fighters should not be fewer than 1/3 of the total ground troop in the frontier . . . "

"That's a high percentage! Are you confident about that?"

Zhang Tie became silent for a few seconds before lowering his voice, "I'm not the most powerful fighter in Taixia Country; however, I have the richest experience in fighting demon fighters on battlefields . I'm clear about the combat mode of demon corps, the combat abilities and features of demon fighters . Commander Cheng, you might not have sensed how disappointing it was when common human fighters faced corps of LV 9 demon fighters . When in Selnes Theater of Operations, due to the sharp difference in the battle strength between two parties, many brave human fighters couldn't even have a LV 9 demon fighter die with them . Millions of human elites over Waii Subcontinent couldn't resist the corps of 100,000 LV 9 demon fighters . . . "

"I don't believe that human fighters are afraid of death or our humans lack eggs than those demons . Sometimes, even the timidest person would pluck up his greatest courage on the battlefield at the critical moment . We have many dauntless human fighters; especially in the dilemma . However, what makes human fighters most despaired and scared on the battlefield is that they find that they will die in vain . By then, they would collapse mentally and couldn't stick to their belief; they would be waiting to be slaughtered . As long as 10 human fighters could kill a demon on the battlefield, their sacrifice would be meaningful . . . "