Once the boxes were opened, they revealed brand-new Torch Oil weapons stacked in neat rows. Each weapon was dark, glossy, and separated by simple tissue paper, lying silently in layer upon layer inside the crates. All of them had just come off the production line, making every general present itch with anticipation.
Before Zhang Tie arrived in the war zone, the weapons used to equip the Torch Dragon Legion's ground forces in Torch Dragon Territory had mainly been Blastflame Grenades, Blastflame Flying Spears, and Blastflame Crossbow Bolts. Several crates contained those very weapons. Yet apart from those three types of equipment, over the past year or so, Great Xia's engineers and craftsmen had developed two more new weapons suitable for large-scale issue to ground troops using Torch Oil. One was the Blastflame Land Mine, and the other was the Blastflame Flamethrower...
"This is a Blastflame Grenade..." Under the watchful eyes of the legion commanders, Zhang Tie took a Blastflame Grenade from a crate. After turning its handle ninety degrees counterclockwise, he hurled it toward a wooden target standing fifty meters away on the training ground. The grenade landed at the target's feet. In an instant, flames burst forth and engulfed the target in roaring fire. Before long, the wooden target was burned to ash by the grenade's searing heat. Nor did the flames released by the Blastflame Grenade immediately die after reducing the target to ashes; they clung to the ground and continued burning for a while, ultimately scorching an area of nearly twenty square meters black and leaving behind several wisps of curling green smoke before finally going out...
The power of the Blastflame Grenade moved all the officers seeing it for the first time.
At Zhang Tie's gesture, several legion commanders came over personally. Each picked up a