The counterweight trebuchet is a siege weapon made by making full use of the lever principle.
On the basis of the original trebuchet, Ma Chao followed Publius's advice and used specially made tough animal tendons as ropes, and added a noose plate to further accumulate power.
As a result, the force and distance of the Majia trebuchets' thrown stones were far ahead of those of the Han Dynasty.
There is no way.
As a descendant of the Romans, Publius is proficient in trebuchets: Who let the Romans play this earlier than the Chinese?
The trebuchet continued to show off its power, and the shooters had already adjusted their angles after the first round of trial throws.
At the same time, the remaining thirty trebuchets were pulled out, and they were all concentrated on the tower for violent bombardment.
The ferocious stones could no longer be heard in the hurling waves at this moment, and they blended together like rolling thunder.
The gap in the Suzaku city wall was wide open, and pieces of the female wall at the top of the city were shattered.
The flying rubble and bricks flew into the sky dozens of feet high.
Dust and smoke were everywhere, and flesh and blood flew everywhere where the huge rocks hit.
From a distance, it looked like a volcano erupting.
The defenders howled loudly and groaned, and pieces fell down.
Even with Wang Yun's prior order, most of the county soldiers defending the city were caught off guard when faced with a sudden and violent attack, resulting in heavy casualties.
After all, the city battlements were destroyed.
What good could they gain from hiding behind the battlements?
At this time, Wang Yun and other ministers on the city tower had already fled down the city wall in embarrassment under the protection of the county soldiers.
When the county soldiers guarding the city saw this, their morale was even lowered and they became chaotic.
"Ma Chao is too cruel."
After leaving the city, Huang Wan angrily shouted: "No, we must send troops to fight and destroy those trebuchets.
Otherwise, Zhuque Gate will be razed to the ground by Ma Chao in less than five days."
"Let these improvised infantry attack the Ma family's heavy armored cavalry."
Wang Yun's face turned red at this time, and he could hardly breathe evenly in anger: "Thank you for saying such a stupid thing."
"Come if you want" Huang Wan was stunned for a moment, and then he understood the crane wing formation of more than 3,600 heavy armored cavalry: Why did they specially set up a net to wait for him to die?
Everyone also thought of this at this time, and looked at each other in horror.
They were usually very eloquent, but when faced with such a situation, they had no idea how to solve it.
As a result, these people couldn't help but focus on Xun You.
"Don't worry, gentlemen, Ma Chao is just demonstrating this time.
If you really want to capture Chang'an, you can attack the city in the past few days, why wait until today?"
Although Xun You was embarrassed, he still emphasized the meaning of the Ma family's demonstration.
"Gongda, what does Ma Chao want?"
Wang Yun was already a little mad and angry.
He grabbed Xun You's collar and asked quickly.
Xun You was about to answer, but suddenly he caught a glimpse of a rocket in the sky.
He immediately leaned over and knocked Wang Yun down, shouting loudly: "Everyone, please get out of the way.
Ma Chao has already launched a crossbow rocket!"
With a ding sound, the rocket grazed Wang Yun's clothes and then nailed into the ground, and the burning kerosene immediately burned through Wang Yun's official uniform.
Xun You made a quick decision, tore off Wang Yun's official uniform and hid behind a thick wall nearby.
"Master Situ, is it because you want to kill Cai Suiguan that you have angered His Majesty and Ma Chao?"
The person who said this was not Xun You, but Zang Ji who hid behind the wall with Xun You.
Wang Yun was overly frightened, but his mind was not slow: he immediately thought that Cai Yong was Liu Xie's confidant and Ma Chao's father-in-law.
But the Ma family sent out all their elites and brought 300,000 Qiang people to demonstrate here, right?
It's too much to make a fuss about.
What's more, Cai Yong is still responsible for the important task of continuing to write the Han Dynasty.
He has a great reputation throughout his life.
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He would rather die than let that old man confuse right and wrong.
But if I bet my personal honor and disgrace on the destruction of Chang'an, would the price be too high?
Even if I die in battle in Chang'an City, future generations will still praise my loyalty, but if the Ma family rescues Cai Yong, then I Wouldn’t it be that all your hard work will be infamy for eternity?
No, absolutely not I'm going back to the city today and I'm going to kill that old man.
However, after thinking about this, Wang Yun suddenly saw tens of thousands of arrows raining inside and outside the Suzaku Sect.
The burning rocket was as fast as a meteor, almost turning the entire clear sky red.
Yes, at this time, the infantry under Zhou Cang and Liao Hua were already guarding the crossbow shooters.
They were neatly arranged in several horizontal formations, and they drove under the moat without any cover, facing the mountains of blood on the left and right of the corpses.
In the sea, these shooters had expressionless faces and walked past the corpses without caring, as numb as zombies.
The defenders fought back desperately, shooting arrows and stones all over the sky, but then they sadly discovered that the usually majestic mountain-destroying crossbows could not penetrate the huge shields raised by the Ma family infantry.
After several sharp whistles, the messengers rushed back and forth, the drums suddenly stopped, and the corps commanders and captains shouted orders.
The crossbow army loaded up their crossbows again as if they were practicing on a daily basis, and under the instructions of the officers, they fired towards the city. .
"Bang" a series of dull roars, the trebuchets crushed the soldiers who dared to fight back on the city wall until they were bloody and bloody.
The rubble shot up all over the sky, instantly suppressing the firepower at the top of the city.
There was silence for a few breaths, and then the rockets dispersed, passed through the flattened battlements, and fell into the city behind the Suzaku Gate.
Under the unprecedentedly powerful firepower, the defenders of Zhuque Gate were almost wiped out in just a few rounds.
Corpses fell like rain on the top of the city, and thick blood spattered everywhere, accumulating a thick layer on the ground along the edges.
It flowed down the city wall like splashed ink, and it was as sad and tragic as Shura Hell.
If Ma Chao ordered an attack on the city at this time, only one ram chariot would be able to break open the Suzaku gate without any scruples.
Then the heavily armored cavalry will attack, and the entire Chang'an will instantly fall under the Ma Jiajun's cavalry.
"Master Situ, it's not good."
A junior high school student ran to Wang Yun's side covered in blood and said in horror: "The Ma's army's offensive is irresistible, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties.
I'm afraid, they will rush in in just a few moments.
In this city of Chang'an"
"Xun You, what a good thing you did!"
Huang Wan cursed loudly, as if the fall of Chang'an Shaoshi was entirely Xun You's responsibility.
As soon as he finished speaking, almost everyone turned their angry eyes to Xun You.
Because they remembered that it was indeed Xun You who said that the Ma Jiajun was only demonstrating and would not attack the city.
Now that the situation is so critical, Xun You naturally cannot escape the relationship.
"That's enough!"
Wang Yun shouted loudly, but his voice was immediately drowned out by the cheers of tens of thousands of people outside the city.
He suddenly looked up and saw that the city of Chang'an was on fire, and the thick smoke covered the sky.
On the same day, the sound of trebuchets, crossbows, cries, screams, groans, and the sound of masonry crashing were all heard together.
On the battlefield for several miles, there was a buzz in the ears, and it was impossible to hear any sound.
However, what followed was another chorus of tens of thousands of people shouting, which penetrated these deafening noises and reached Wang Yun's ears clearly: "The great general of the Han Dynasty, the shepherd of Yongzhou, and the Yongdinghou Ma Chao want to enter the palace to see His Majesty."
The sound shook dozens of miles away, as if the heavens and the earth were shattering.
After Wang Yun heard this, he first glanced at Xun You strangely, and then his face almost turned purple.
Finally, he clenched his skinny fingers into fists, gritted his teeth and ordered: "Stop fighting, open the city gate, and welcome the general of Fuguo into the palace." s: First of all, thank you Jin Shishi for the old rules, and secondly, thank you for the reminder of the single.
I posted the update yesterday in a hurry, and the chapter title was wrongly typed, but it has been corrected now
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