Black clouds crush the city.
After two years of running-in training, the 160,000 troops stationed in Hebei no longer have the distinction between the imperial army and the surrendered army, and they only have one common name, that is, the Han army.
The black pressure of the troops stepped neatly from far to near, that every step, as if the heavens and the earth were shaking, farther away, a giant catapult as high as five zhang under the impetus of a large group of wrestlers, towards the direction of Yecheng, like a large group of monsters that choose people to devour.
In the future, there are wells, city-breaking crossbows, and city rams, whether veterans or recruits, it is estimated that it is the first time in this life to see heavy weapons of this volume, and those siege weapons in the past of the Han Dynasty, compared with these, are like the difference between a child who has not yet grown up and an adult strong man.
It's just that exaggerated body size that makes the soldiers defending the city feel inexplicably depressed.
The military formation stopped at a distance of three hundred steps from Yecheng, and the Han soldiers were divided into a phalanx in front of Yecheng to set up a formation, this time, no one came to call the formation, only to see that these Han troops in the formation after the formation, they began to move the rear siege weapons to the front line, remove the wooden wheels, fix the brackets, and adjust the angle.
Yuan Shao was surrounded by a group of civil and military forces, standing at the highest point of the city tower, looking down on the opponent's military array, looking at those siege weapons up close, and feeling more shocked, under the huge siege weapons, human beings were as small as ants, and a group of generals wearing soft armor gathered in front of a catapult, pointing in the direction of the city wall, and holding all kinds of strange things in their hands.
"What are they doing" Yuan Shao frowned slightly, looked left and right puzzled, and tried to draw everyone's attention away, the giant catapult, just looking at it, I felt frightened, it was almost level with the city wall of Yecheng, you know, since Yuan Shao settled in Yecheng, this Yecheng has been expanded several times, but it is built according to the level of the capital, if it is an ordinary city, in the face of such catapults, I am afraid that the city walls are not as high as catapults.
When the judge and the others heard this, they looked at each other at a loss and didn't quite understand.
"Crunch" in the tooth-aching sound of wood rubbing, but saw a catapult suddenly let out a muffled sound, the huge lever was withdrawn with the rope, slightly arched in the air, let out a low roar, as the boulder in front of it fell, in the stunned eyes of everyone, a stone bullet roared towards the city wall.
This catapult was able to shoot at a range of 300 paces On the city wall, Yuan Shao and his generals watched incredibly as the grinding plate-sized stone bullet smashed down with a devastating momentum, smashing on a city wall stomp.
"Boom" The entire city wall seemed to be shaking, Yuan Shao held on to the female wall, and looked at the smashed city wall in astonishment, and was directly smashed by the huge grinding disc to make a gap of more than one zhang, and the debris that flew out turned over on the back of more than a dozen soldiers around the city, and many people were killed on the spot, even if they survived, they were seriously injured, and they fell to the ground screaming endlessly.
Fear spread like a plague across the city walls, and although the damage caused by this stone bullet was not high, it was a terrible blow to the morale of the already not very high.
Yuan Shao and a group of civil and military officers watched this scene in horror, how could they fight in this battle, and the dozen or so catapults put a round of stone bullets on the city wall, and the entire city wall was afraid that there was not even an intact female wall.
In the horrified eyes of everyone, the trebuchet seemed to have been calibrated once, and the generals below were not satisfied, and ordered people to start pushing the winch to move the position of the trebuchet, and a dozen wrestlers pulled the rope to pull down the groove containing the stone bullet, and added another stone bullet.
"Crunch" This time, the imaginary bombardment did not appear, in the stunned eyes of the soldiers on both sides, as the boulder fell to the ground, the lever that maintained the two ends broke directly from it, and the end of the stone bullet roared down, smashing several wrestlers who could not dodge directly into the pulp.
On the city wall, everyone, including Yuan Shao, breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this.
In the Han army, Liu Xie frowned and looked at this scene.
"Your Majesty, the minister deserves death" A master craftsman of the Ministry of Industry came to Liu Xie's side with more than a dozen new students who had joined the Ministry of Industry, kneeling down.
"Why is this happening" Guo Jia frowned and looked at several students from the Ministry of Engineering, this catapult was built according to the accurate calculations of these students who had newly joined the Ministry of Engineering.
"Mr.
Hui, this," a student said with a wry smile, "according to the calculation, there should be no problem." ” "Your Majesty."
The master craftsman smiled bitterly: "It's not that the gentlemen have miscalculated, but this wood can't support such a large weight." ” "Forget it."
Liu Xie looked at the catapult that had become a pile of waste wood, shook his head and said: "Manpower is poor, and so is material resources, it's not that you miscalculated, but you haven't considered the strength of this wood, which is obviously not enough to support such a great force. ” "This" The group of students thought about it carefully, and as the master said, they had taken everything into account, but they had not considered the load-bearing capacity of the wood.
"It's us who have been so proud of ourselves that we have broken the military plane, and Master Wanglu forgives me."
A group of students bowed to the master.
"No wonder gentlemen."
Master Lu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "If the project wasn't too urgent and there was no time to test, there wouldn't be this matter." ” The catapult was forged in an emergency and was not test-fired.
Liu Xie nodded, looked at the direction of the city wall, and said with a smile: "Then try the city-breaking crossbow, don't tell me that after studying in the Ministry of Industry for so long, I haven't even been able to make a useful thing." ” Hearing this, several students hurriedly bowed and quickly turned around and left.
"Your Majesty, with all due respect, this catapult has not been made bigger before, but it has failed, and the reason for this lies in the load-bearing capacity of this wood."
Master Lu smiled bitterly and bowed to Liu Xie.
Liu Xie nodded and glanced at the row of catapult lanes: "Remove these catapults first, since they can't be used, don't waste those materials, and also, the corpses of those wrestlers should be properly collected and buried." ” In this era of pure manpower, the progress of industry, sometimes are piled up with human lives, for this, Liu Xie even if he has advanced knowledge, but also helpless, for the primitive weapon of catapults, he in addition to some insights in mechanics, may not be stronger than these students, from the era of manpower to the age of machinery, the road is still very long, he also wants to see, if according to the ancient Chinese development of a little bit, will develop in what kind of era, but unfortunately, he may not live that day.
At the head of the city, Yuan Shao and a group of civil and military officers were happy to see the catapults being returned, and they breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, if the catapults really continued to bombard like that, the imperial court would not have to attack the city at all, and the city wall would be collapsed.
But the morale on the city wall did not improve, although the Han army did not attack the city, but the feeling of waiting, especially in a weak situation, waiting is like suffering, giving people the feeling of waiting for death.
The catapult was pushed down, the Han army's army arrayed away, and one after another strange frames were pulled to the front of the battle. carriage Not quite like that, there were no carriages, two huge five-foot-tall wheels were rolling, and the thing in the middle looked a bit like a bed crossbow Thinking of the bed crossbow, Yuan Shao and many soldiers who participated in the Battle of the Tiger Prison Pass couldn't help but think of the twenty crossbow machines that could shoot huge crossbow arrows in a row at the Tiger Prison Pass, it was not a pleasant memory, this thing would not be a new type of crossbow machine developed by the imperial court Thinking of this possibility, Yuan Shao and the others felt a toothache, Yuan Shao now really wants to personally run to the Ministry of Industry of the imperial court, originally in the eyes of everyone is just a craftsman-like place where craftsmen are concentrated, and the changes brought to the world over the years are really not small, from the military to the people's livelihood, and even changed the form of war in the past.
Those strange carts stopped when they were pulled two hundred paces away from the city wall, it seems that the range of this thing is not as terrifying as the previous catapult, but the problem is that two hundred steps and three hundred steps, for Yuan Jun, there is actually no difference, their bows and arrows can't reach, they can only watch each other attack.
In the nervous eyes of everyone, but seeing that the war horses were untied one by one and pulled into the rear formation, there were immediately people around to manipulate and take things, and four people could control one, and someone set up a stand in front, and under the command of the person at the front, the position of the bracket was constantly adjusted, and a person in the back row quickly pulled a winch.
Put the winch on a car, the distance is too far, and I can't see what it is doing, but the sound of wood rubbing has been continuous, which also makes the hearts of the soldiers defending the city sink little by little.
Another was standing nearby, holding a bundle of spears in his hand.
This time, it was not a lift, but a full thirty units were operating at the same time, and after some operation, with the order of a general in soft armor in the front row, those soldiers holding spears quickly placed the spears side by side in the grooves.
"Put" As the commander of the front row waved the command flag fiercely, thirty strange crossbows were launched at the same time, and even after two hundred steps, the trembling sound of the bowstring that sounded at the same time was still clearly audible.
At this time, Yuan Shaofang knew that the spears turned out to be giant arrows, giant arrows more than a zhang long With a buzzing sound, nearly two hundred huge arrows rose into the air, and with a whistling sound that caused the air to be disordered, they had reached the top of the city.
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