How big is it? Have you ever seen the kind of flatbed truck in the countryside? It's almost that big. There are pipes under the water tank, and then there is pressure on the top, like a seesaw.
When pouring water, three people can operate it. After pushing the car to the scene, two people started to press the seesaw to suppress the fire. The other person held the water pipe with his hand, opened the faucet, and sprayed water at the fire point.
But there is also an advanced fire truck that uses air pumps to suppress fire. This principle is actually the same as that of later fire sprinkler trucks, which use pressure to spray water out. However, this kind of fire truck is definitely not as awesome as the later ones, and it can spray as many floors as possible at once.
But it was definitely advanced in this era, and of course it was relatively expensive. Only the fire brigade in the French Concession had it. As for the national government, there used to be only one in the capital city of Nanjing, but now there is no one left.
What if we could get this kind of water spray truck and replace the water inside with kerosene? When it is sprayed, the speed is much higher than manually throwing incendiary bombs by hand. Unless a large number of manpower is dispatched. Hundreds of bottles of incendiary bombs can be thrown out in an instant, otherwise they will not be as good as a water spray truck.
The emergence of one problem is always accompanied by the occurrence of other problems. That is, with the methods of the agents, it is not difficult to build a water spray truck. Even with the aggressive nature of this era, it is possible to get it with money. Exaggeration? It's really not an exaggeration. A man who is a gentleman paid for it and said that I was going to hold a banquet, which would be attended by celebrities and gentry, and he wanted to ensure safety in this regard. Please also ask our water dragon team to help.
This situation cannot be said to be a common phenomenon in this era. But it's not without precedent. It’s not even just the water dragon team. For example, the patrolmen in this era are the police. The same is true when the gentry and celebrities are showing off and having banquets. Directly spend money to hire a person from the police force to take charge of security work on the outside. At the same time, it can also show its own strength. There are some as well.
But the problem is, now that we have a water spray truck, how can we get kerosene? Kerosene in this era is definitely in short supply. But it's not impossible. Bai Fengtai thought of a way to gather a small number to make a large number.
How to do it is to send out his brothers and steal the gasoline from the car. If we do other things, such as transporting several trucks of contraband on a large scale, this is indeed very risky.
But if you simply steal gasoline, the risk is not impossible, but it is too small. Even if he does get caught, it won't be a big problem. He said he was stealing oil and selling it for two bucks. At most, you have to pay a fine and be released after being detained for a few days. And without bragging, stealing gasoline is really nothing to an agent. This place in Shanghai has another name: Shili Foreign Market, the World of Flowers.
In terms of the total number of cars, it ranks first in the entire Asia region. Of course, we are talking about this era, not the later generations where the streets are full of cars.
But for now, cars are by no means a new thing in Shanghai. Walking on the streets, in alleys, and in the yards of residential buildings, they must be there.
Therefore, many cars in Shanghai were in bad luck in the past two days, but very few people called the police. Why? Because the agent who stole the oil was specially ordered by Bai Fengtai not to steal all the oil in the car's fuel tank at once. For example, if a car or two full of gas is parked downstairs, and an agent comes over with a bucket and a leather pipe and sees it, how can it be stolen?
Open the tank cap, insert the tube, take a sip from the siphon, and then immediately insert the tube into the bucket you brought. But not all of it, at most half, or one third. Half or more of it will be left to the car owner.
In this case, when the car owners come down to light the engine the next day, most of them will not even know that the oil has been stolen. Why? Because car owners are all wealthy people in this era and don't care much about this trivial matter. After all, the fuel is just a little less. Furthermore, there are careless people who see that the car can start. Don't look at the fuel gauge at all. In this way, you may not even know that your oil has been stolen.
It was precisely this little strategy of Bai Fengtai that in the end this oil theft phenomenon was not taken seriously by the Japanese puppets at all. But this is not surprising. First, there are not many people calling the police. This thing, people don't take care of it. This is the case all over the world. Who can say that people from the police knock on doors every day and ask: "Hey, did you lose anything at your house yesterday? Did you get robbed? Did you get molested?" People in that place would be like this. Come on, isn’t this nonsense?
But this is a great help to Fan Keqin and Bai Fengtai's plan. In just two days, Bai Fengtai's men had stolen more than 23 barrels of iron cylindrical gasoline from all over the city.
Kerosene, water, and crude oil have different densities, so their weights must also be different. However, in this aspect, it is enough to make a big difference. For example, if the water spray truck is full, more than half full is enough. As long as it can reach the spray destination as quickly as possible, it is enough to spray gasoline. It does not have to be But Ding Kemao is extremely accurate.
There are basically three types of fire trucks in later generations. small Medium Large. The small one can hold three or four tons of water, and the large one can hold ten to fifteen tons. Fire trucks have different models and capacities. For example, it is not uncommon for large ones to hold 18 or 20 tons.
But the water spray trucks of this era are really not big. Fan Keqin personally went to the fire brigade in the French Concession to investigate. It was just a visual inspection. At most, it was a small fire truck of the later generation, which could only hold more than three tons. As for how much it can fit, it depends on the inside. But it's definitely not that bad. The external appearance is just like that, and there is no Xumi space.
But a car like this is definitely good enough for arson tasks. As for the cylindrical iron barrels, there are almost seven barrels per ton. Now we have more than twenty barrels, so there must be a surplus. It's definitely enough.
Having solved this problem, there is one more problem. That is to get the fire truck out and control it inconspicuously. Then drain all the water, and then fill it with gasoline. Draining the water must be simple. There is a plug below, and the water can be drained in a few minutes after opening it. But when filling the oil, there is no pump. There is a pressure bumper attached to the car, but the oil cannot be pumped out. You can only manually pour it in from the water injection port above. This one is a bit slow. In other words, you have to find a safe place, a relatively quiet place, where you won't attract other people's attention, and do all this.
