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The trebuchet developed by the Artisan Battalion of the Qinghe Army showed great power when it was put into the battlefield for the first time.
Facing a boulder the size of a millstone, the tower of the South Gate of Yunxi Mansion was like a piece of paper, with two big holes directly blasted out.
Admiral Zhang Wenhua, who had narrowly escaped death, looked up in shock, and saw that the tower of Nuo Da had already fallen to one side, crumbling, and might collapse at any time.
His two guards couldn't dodge in time, and they were bruised and swollen by the falling bricks, and they were in a panic.
Admiral Zhang Wenhua did not expect that the Qinghe Army would possess heavy weapons such as trebuchets for siege, and he was horrified.
The strength of the Qinghe army far exceeded his imagination. He originally wanted to rely on the defenders to persist for ten and a half months, waiting for the arrival of the 20th Corps of the People's Army.
But now the Qinghe army gave him a big blow as soon as they made a move. First, there was a dense rain of arrows, and then the bombardment of boulders. This made Zhang Wenhua realize that they might not last until the reinforcements arrived.
"Rescue the wounded and prepare for battle!"
Although the strength of the two sides is very different, but as the admiral of the imperial court, Zhang Wenhua is not willing to bow his head to the bandit army so easily.
Amidst Zhang Wenhua's roar, the flustered garrison soldiers and young men quickly sent down those who were on the verge of death from the arrows.
Several rounds of arrows caused more than a hundred casualties to the defenders at the top of the city. There were endless screams and pain, and a strong smell of blood filled the air.
However, this is not the end. When the city leaders were panicking to rescue the wounded who had been shot and fell to the ground, the rain of arrows roared again and enveloped them.
"shield!"
"Raise your shield!"
Officers at all levels were screaming hoarsely, and the city was in chaos.
Several guards held up their shields to protect Admiral Zhang Wenhua. As soon as the shields were raised, the sound of duk duk sounded.
A powerful arrow even pierced through the shield, and Admiral Zhang Wenhua could even feel the icy breath from the arrow clusters that were close at hand, which made his breathing quicken.
"Pfft!"
A soldier who had no shield and was trying to escape into the city stepped over Zhang Wenhua and the others, an arrow pierced his thigh, and he staggered and fell to the ground.
When Admiral Zhang Wenhua was about to order the guards to pull the soldier under the shield, several arrows swished over, nailing the struggling soldier to the ground.
Soon, under the intensive attack of several rounds of arrows, the head of the city turned into a hedgehog, with arrows sticking out all over the place.
The screams and confusion were also significantly smaller, because any soldier without shield protection had become a bloody corpse.
When the Qinghe Army outside the city stopped shooting arrows, Admiral Zhang Wenhua and the others dared to carefully poke their heads out from under the shield to observe.
However, looking around, the top of the city was strewn with corpses full of arrows. In the blink of an eye, the defenders at the top of the city lost hundreds of people.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Admiral Zhang Wenhua, who was still in shock, saw the corpses all over the ground, and when he was speechless, the sound of war drums rang out again outside the city.
Zhang Wenhua hurriedly supported the battlements and looked out of the city. He saw that the Qinghe army's fierce soldiers had already moved violently, and he also took a breath when he saw the uniform movements of the opponent.
"Ready to face¡ª"
The defenders at the top of the city didn't even have time to restrain the scattered corpses, and the living soldiers all went to their battle positions one after another.
?Because the defenders suffered heavy losses from the long-range strike of the arrows, the garrison soldiers who were originally serving as reserves near the city gate were also urgently transferred to the city to defend.
"kill!"
"kill!"
"kill!"
Five thousand infantrymen of the Qinghe Army in black and black robes, holding shields and holding sharp swords, slowly approached Yunxi Mansion.
"Aim at the city gate and smash it open for me!"
The two trebuchets of the Qinghe Army have also been reloaded, and the two shots they just made were just test shots.
Now that they have completed the calibration, they will be responsible for blasting the gate of Yunxi Mansion with the trebuchet.
"put!"
Following the sudden waving of the command flag, a stone as large as a millstone rose into the air, passed over the infantrymen's heads, and smashed towards the south gate of Yunxi Mansion with the arrogance of destroying everything.
"Boom!"
theAlthough the trebuchet was calibrated urgently, it was still a little bit off.
The huge boulder slammed into the city wall next to the city gate, and the defenders on the city wall only felt the city wall tremble suddenly, as if it was about to collapse, and they couldn't even stand still.
Facing the bombardment of the boulder, the city wall near the city gate was directly dented by the bombardment, and countless mud and dust bricks fell down.
"What's wrong, aim for me!"
Seeing that this time it was so wrong, the officer in charge couldn't help but reprimanded him loudly.
The soldiers in charge of operating the trebuchet adjusted again in a hurry, and soon the second trebuchet also started to launch.
"Boom!"
"Wow!"
This time the boulder hit the city gate directly, and as the city wall trembled violently, a hole was blasted out of the iron-covered city gate.
A group of garrison soldiers guarding behind the city gate were directly hit by the unabated boulder, causing many casualties immediately.
Seeing that the gate of Yunxi Mansion had a hole directly blasted by the trebuchet, the Qinghe army burst into loud cheers.
Chen Ziang also nodded in satisfaction. Catapults are generally effective only when used on a large scale. The main reason is poor accuracy.
When Chen Ziang asked the artisan camp to develop the trebuchet, he had already considered the accuracy of the trebuchet.
Because the trebuchets are quite heavy and inconvenient to move, when attacking the city, they almost rely on luck to attack. The main purpose is not to kill the enemy, but to create panic for the enemy.
After all, no one would be afraid of a stone falling from the sky that could smash a person into a pulp.
When Chen Ziang was developing it, he ordered the craftsmen to install extra thick wheels under the trebuchet to facilitate quick movement.
Chen Ziang and the others were able to carry out precise strikes on Yunxi Mansion, the most important thing is to adjust the position of the trebuchet to aim through the stride.
Because the wheels are installed under the trebuchet, the heavy trebuchet can move quickly.
The soldiers in charge of operating the trebuchet only need to follow the officer's instructions to move left and right, or how many steps forward and backward, to adjust the strike accuracy of the trebuchet.
Because the trebuchet is based on the principle of a parabola, Chen Ziang and the others measured the distance of the strike during the experiment.
Therefore, during the battle, the position of the trebuchet was adjusted according to the position where the stone was hit in the first test shot. Although there were some deviations, it was almost the same.
The soldiers who operated the trebuchet did not disappoint Chen Ziang's expectations. They only tried a few shots, and they directly improved their accuracy, smashing the gate of Yunxi Mansion.
"Kill!"
When the five thousand attacking soldiers of the Twelfth Banner Regiment saw that the city gate had been smashed to pieces, they roared in unison and rushed forward at a sudden speed. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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