After these rocket shells were transported to the ammunition workshop, they were temporarily put aside, lonely and deserted, in sharp contrast to the bustling work scene around them.
This ammunition workshop mainly produces propellant for artillery shells, and also produces two types of fire bomb slings for flying knights and the army. These are very dangerous jobs.
The workshop is well protected and isolated from other cells in the nest, connected by long passages.
One of the workshop rooms is filled with large clay pots, which contain charcoal particles soaked in liquid oil that are very easy to spontaneously ignite and adsorbed with pure fluorescent bacteria extract.
The charcoal is black and sinks to the bottom of the clay pot, and the upper layer is filled with grease. Once the grease is reduced, it must be added in time. Therefore, the ammunition workshop has several nest rooms dedicated to oil extraction. A large amount of fat from mealworms or other prey, as well as oil-rich plant seeds (such as pine nuts, walnuts), are brought in and boiled or pressed for extraction. Oil content.
When Zhu Jue came here to inspect, he was deeply moved by the huge consumption of oil and grease. He felt that even if there were technical conditions in the country, there were no material conditions to promote stir-fry cooking.
But in fact, Ant Alliance has never promoted the cooking method of cooking in China. Iron pot cooking is still a unique skill that Zhu Jue occasionally shows off by himself. Nowadays, the aristocratic class of the Ant Alliance generally eats cooked or baked food, while the working class eats a mixture of raw and cooked food, and even cooked food is not completely popular.
The efficiency of refining oil in ammunition workshops is not high. There is still a lot of oil left in the residues of a large amount of animal fat and plant seeds that cannot be refined. These wastes will not be wasted and will be re-added to the diet of the ant residents.
These refined oils are stored in large clay pots. When the charcoal adsorbed with pure fluorescent bacteria extract is taken out, the oil will automatically form an oil film on the surface. After drying, the charcoal will be wrapped. Once it is no longer Prick it carefully, the charcoal inside will quickly spontaneously ignite when exposed to oxygen, and will self-destruct in a narrow space.
This oil film is too fragile, so another process must be applied to improve the stability and reliability of the propellant.
There is also a nest room in the ammunition workshop, and clay pots are densely arranged on the ground, but these are small clay pots, filled with liquid ant glue.
Ant glue needs to be maintained at a certain temperature to prevent it from solidifying, so the nest is connected to the blast furnace by ventilation ducts, and the room temperature is always maintained above 40 degrees.
The craftsmen ants carefully put the ammunition covered with a thin oil film into the small clay pot to avoid breaking the oil film. After the propellant is wrapped with a layer of liquid ant glue, it is fished out and sent to another nest room to dry. If there are areas where the ant glue layer is very thin, it needs to be filled with liquid ant glue.
In this way, a shell propellant is ready. With the double protection of the ant glue layer and grease layer, daily bumps will not cause the ammunition to spontaneously ignite and explode. When you need to use it, you only need to use a sharp tool to pierce the protective layer or ignite flammable dry ant glue to ignite and explode.
After a day of idleness in the ammunition workshop, the next day, the craftsman ants who received a new production task finally remembered to move the rocket shells to the middle of the nest workshop.
Now they began loading the rockets with another type of ammunition.
Unlike ordinary artillery shell propellants or fire bomb slings that absorb pure fluorescent bacteria extract, rocket ammunition is also filled with solid charcoal that absorbs flammable substances, but these charcoals absorb a mixture of fluorescent bacteria extract and vegetable oil. The proportion of fluorescent bacteria extract is no more than one quarter.
Under this ratio, the adsorbed charcoal will not spontaneously ignite even if it is exposed to the air. It can be filled directly without going through the two processes of covering it with oil film and ant glue.
Although this kind of ammunition is safer, the firing conditions of this kind of ammunition are correspondingly more stringent. Only rocket shells can be used, and ordinary artillery shell propellants cannot be fired normally.
While filling charcoal ammunition, it is also mixed with iron fragments and iron powder transported from the iron workshop. The iron powder can enhance the explosive sensitivity of the ammunition when it is hit at higher temperatures, and the iron fragments will cause to enhance damage.
After filling is completed, the rocket tail shell is buckled and the gap is sealed with glue. Then pull out a short lead from the reserved opening (a long lead will be connected before launch), and a rocket is completed.
These rockets do not have tail fins, otherwise they cannot be launched through the cylindrical launch tube. The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Military Affairs have been developing a slide-type rocket launcher and matching rocket launchers with tail fins in accordance with the requirements of the God Envoy King to enhance the range of the rocket launcher and reduce the wandering surface.
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After all 16 rockets were loaded, the first rocket was transported away for a "consecration" ceremony.
This time, this powerful weapon was carried directly through the spacious main passage and carried by a small beetle to the dense ant colony area inside [Xinyang City].
Along the way, there were constantly curious ant residents running back and forth, trying to use their tentacles to look at this big, long, thick and hard guy, but they were all driven away mercilessly by the escorting ants.
Finally, the rocket arrived at its destination-Thunder Temple.
This is a newly built building that enshrines the God of Thunder Talisman. There is also a Temple of Medicine next to it that enshrines the God of Medicine Talisman. There is also more undeveloped space that can be used as the address of the new temple.
Unlike other nests, which are just earth caves, the nest here has a decent square room built with ant concrete and wood, which is as big as a piece of tofu.
But it was deserted inside. The ants, especially the aristocratic ants, believed in their own gods, but never thought of going to places like temples to offer sacrifices. The religious life of the ants was always integrated into their daily lives, and rarely Special religious ceremonies are held.
Zhu Jue hopes to use the temple to consolidate the inheritance status of the God of Thunder and the (privately self-proclaimed) God of Medicine in the Ant Alliance. In order to unite the ant tribes in other civilizations in the future, he established the temple and cultivated specialized ant talents for priests.
When this rocket was transported to the Thunder God Temple, a young priest suddenly had a whim. He felt that one of each batch of such powerful Thor weapons should be selected to be brought to the Thunder God Temple and prayed by the priests. and blessing, Zhu Jue jokingly called it "consecration".
That's why now, surrounded by a group of noble ants who came to watch the excitement, and under the flame of the sacred fire burning in the temple, there is a scene of more than a dozen ant priests lying on the rocket body doing strange movements.
After the "consecration" was completed, the rocket was transported back again. Together with other rockets, there were a total of 400 rockets, ready to be shipped to the front line!
