Chapter 311 (1/2)
Chief junaluska's face was a little disappointed by Shi Xiong's explanation. He only saw the power of the grenade loaded with bitter and not sour medicine launched by the catapult, but he didn't know that there would be a great limit to make bitter and not sour medicine in this era.
In particular, even in the old world, benzene powder can only be extracted from coal tar, and its output is very small. And now the purity of benzene powder extracted from coal tar is not high.
It was not until 1834, more than 70 years later, that the method of extracting high-purity benzene powder from coal tar was invented by German Runge.
Therefore, even if there is benzene powder in the old world in this era, the power of bitter not acid produced can't be compared with the kind of bitter not acid that appeared one hundred years later.
However, in this period, this kind of medicine was fierce enough. Once it was used, it would be so fierce that even the European colonists would give up.
”If there is no such raw material, how much more can you make with this kind of medicine?” Chief junaluska is clearly not giving up.
”Not much.” Shi Xiong said with certainty, ”after all, a lot of benzene powder was consumed in the study of this kind of fierce medicine. Now the remaining benzene powder can only make 40 or 50 such grenades at most. However, the British major who traded salt with us has already left for the old continent. In the next six months, he should provide us with some benzene powder, but I can't guarantee the quantity. ”
”Doesn't that mean we can't use this powerful medicine anymore?”
”Ha ha, chief, I can't say that. Even if there is no such kind of grenade, we still have the grenade and cartridge made of black powder. It's not as powerful as this kind of grenade, but it's more than enough to hit the Kerry. ”
Stone bear explained with a smile, and then continued: ”chief, tomorrow, tomorrow, I'll show you another weapon I've developed. Well, by the way, let's test a grenade filled with black powder. If it's too big, we'll just increase the charge. ”
Shi Xiong's words are not nonsense. Because they have made handgrenades before, the stone bear knows that if the grenade is filled with more than 400 grams of black powder, its power is also very good.
After all, the shell of this kind of shrapnel is cast by fragment technology when it is cast. That is to say, when this kind of shrapnel explodes, the shell will explode according to the fragment grid reserved during casting. In theory, one shrapnel can produce 16 fragments.
Of course, if you want to continue to increase the destructive power, you can add a little iron sand when you load black powder into it, and the power will be greater.
Four hundred grams of black powder is enough to blow up the shell of this kind of grenade completely. At that time, the fragments of the shell or the iron sand filled in the shell will cause great damage to the enemy. It may not be as powerful as kuweisuan, but its killing effect is absolutely good.
The most important thing is that the amount of bitter acid is limited, but the black powder stone bear has it.
The fact also proved that Shi Xiong's inference was reasonable, because in the next day's test, the explosive effect of this kind of grenade filled with 400 grams of black powder was not as good as kuweisuan mengzha, but when it was filled with a small handful of iron sand, its lethality was not much worse than that of the grenade filled with kuweisuan mengzha alone.
The scattered iron sand and fragments also made a mess near the explosion point. If someone is concentrated near the explosion point, the number of casualties is absolutely considerable.