"We can use a flamethrower!" Zhang Chi said: "Continue to spray at the entrance of the tunnel to drain the air in the tunnel!"

"Master's seat" Wu Yuhang said in a dilemma: "We have tried this method, but there are Japanese in the tunnel shooting out, and the flamethrower has not been outside the tunnel for long."

Zhang Chi, who Wu Yuhang said, knew that as the commander of the New First Division, Zhang Chi, of course, knew the shortcomings of the current type 1 flamethrower equipped by the troops, such as short range, short combustion time, unstable ignition device, etc.

A short range means that the fire spitfire must be as close to the target as possible. This distance is 20 meters, and to deal with the tunnel, you have to be closer, because only in this way can the flames penetrate as deep as possible into the tunnel, but this also means that the fire spitfire is easily shot by the enemy.

The short burning time is also a serious problem. A fire spitting soldier risked his life and pulled the trigger and "screamed" it. He lost oil in just a few seconds, causing little damage to the enemy.

What is most unbearable is that the ignition device is unstable. The ignition device of the Type 1 flamethrower is battery ignition, which is similar to the ignition method used in modern times. This method is very stable in the United States, but the problem is that the Pacific battlefield is in a high temperature, high humidity, and high salt climate. The battery will be corroded and cannot ignite normally, so there will be air spraying, that is, it is not fire but oil that is sprayed out.

This makes fire spearmen often have to bring one or two lighters on the battlefield. When air spraying occurs, they use the lighter to manually ignite the fuel.

However, these issues are considered.

"Don't we have tanks?" Zhang Chi interrupted Wu Yuhang and said, "If there are tanks, are you afraid of the Japanese shooting?"

"What?" Wu Yuhang couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this: "But the tank will not spit fire!"

"Why can't the tanks spit fire?" Zhang Chi asked back: "Will it be better to move the flamethrower to the tank?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Yuhang couldn't help but open his mouth wide, and after a while he replied, "Master, can this work?"

"How do you know if you can do it if you don't try it?" Zhang Chi said with a word.

"Oh," Wu Yuhang responded, and immediately asked Erguaizi to find a few people.

Soon, Wu Yuhang opened a test site in a relatively safe place in the rear, and then transferred a "Sheerman" tank to find a chemical defense soldier carrying a flamethrower and started.

First, move the extra things in the tank out so that more space can be made, such as shells, machine guns, machine gun bullets, etc., which are redundant for fire-breathing tanks, so the gunners and loaders can save.

Then carefully stuff the fuel tank and injection gun into the tank, adjust the position and fix the fuel tank. This is mainly to prevent the tank from jumping around when the tank is started.

After that, insert the jet gun into the shooting hole of the parallel machine gun. The reason why you need to use the shooting hole of the parallel machine gun is because the shooting hole of the parallel machine gun is on the tank turret. By placing the flamethrower here, you can adjust the shooting direction of the flamethrower by rotating the turret.

"Drive for a while!" Wu Yuhang shouted loudly at the tank.

Under the command of the captain, the tank drove for a while and made some steering movements, and finally stopped steadily in front of Zhang Chi and others.

"No problem!" Wu Yuhang asked.

"Report the team!" The commander replied: "No problem!"

Wu Yuhang raised his head to a tire hanging not far away and ordered: "Try burning one! Be careful!"

"yes!"

The tank quickly turned towards the direction of the tire, then slowed down, stopped in front of the tire, and the turret slowly turned. Then with a "bang", a ball of flame sprayed out from the machine gun shooting hole, igniting the tire very accurately.

A cheer came from around him, and Wu Yuhang couldn't help but shouted to Zhang Chi excitedly: "Master, it's really good! The Japanese tunnel will burn with us!"

Wu Yuhang is right. Although the flamethrower has many shortcomings, if it is combined with the "Sheerman" tank, then there will be no shortcomings.

Short range?

The fire spear hides in the tank, and it doesn't matter if the range is short. Anyway, the enemy cannot wear tank armor.

Short burning time?

Then bring a few more fuel tanks!

Ignition device is unstable?

You can always fight if you click a few more times. The fire spearmen hide in the tank. You can take your time without any danger. At worst, you can throw a lighter after spraying in the air!

Of course, Zhang Chi knew that this would work, because this is how the American fire-breathing tanks in history developed, but it was not Zhang Chi who invented this thing, but an American soldier. The American soldier was more brave and ordered him to attack the Japanese tunnels with flamethrowers on his back. For the sake of his own life, he privately installed the flamethrower on a "Sheerman" tank for missions. Unexpectedly, this idea created the American fire-breathing tank and played a big role in the Pacific battlefield.

Of course, the fire-breathing tank is actually not a new thing at this time, and it is not considered high-tech. It is almost enough to just install the flamethrower on the tank. The Soviet Union used it earlier. However, the United States has never attached importance to fire-breathing tanks, thinking that such a close-range fire-breathing tank is useless.

Their idea was: If the tank reaches a distance that even a flamethrower can spray, do you still need a fire-breathing tank? What else can you not kill the target if the tank cannon bombards a few cannons? Moreover, at such a close distance, the tank is easily killed by the enemy! So he took it for granted and denied the fire-breathing tank, but he did not know that the fire-breathing tank had extraordinary value in dealing with the specific target of the tunnel.

But burning the tires is one thing, but it may not be possible to burn the tunnel. So the "Sheerman" made some careful preparations. This preparation naturally includes installing several sets of flamethrowers in the tank. On the other hand, it also allows the fire spitting soldiers and tank crew to prepare for fire protection. The reason is that when the flamethrower is spraying in the air, it is very likely that fuel will splash on the edge of the machine gun shooting hole or even flow into the tank. If it fires, it will burn itself.

This was very dangerous for the inside of the tanks with fuel tanks everywhere. Even if the fire spearmen were accidentally or improperly operated, they could "play with fire**".

But the word "complete security" has never existed in the matter of war.
Chapter completed!