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Chapter 148: Modification of Trebuchet

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    After he said this, some soldiers began to release some water from the wine jar, and then placed the wine jar with only half a jar of water on top of the tray.

    With Xia Yang¡¯s order, the wine jar was thrown out again.

    This time the wine jar was indeed thrown farther, but it was only a distance of twenty or thirty meters, which was still far from the distance of more than two hundred meters that Xia Yang thought.

    In other words, this trebuchet cannot meet Xia Yang's requirements.

    So he turned around and asked the old carpenter next to him: "Master, can you improve it so that it can shoot farther?"

    The old master said: "The strength of the beef tendon rope is only so great. If it is stretched any further, it may break. This is already the limit of the distance." As he said this, he sighed helplessly.

    Xia Yang also knew that even the heavy trebuchets in ancient times did not project very far.  The stone trebuchet built by the old carpenter can already throw it more than a hundred meters, which is already very good.

    But the distance of more than a hundred meters was still too close, and Xia Yang was a little worried.

    At this moment, the foreign doctor Eddie, who had been watching like a curious baby, cleared his throat and said to Xia Yang in English: "Captain, if you can get some springs and replace these ropes with springs, it should be OK."  Launch the wine bottle further. After all, the force generated by the tension of the spring is much greater than that of these very ancient ropes."

    Hearing what Eddie said, Xia Yang also slapped his head.

    I thought to myself that I was really a fan of the authorities. The main power of this trebuchet came from the force generated by the stretching of more than ten tendon ropes.  Just like a bowstring.

    If these tendon ropes can be replaced with powerful springs, the trebuchet will definitely be able to obtain more powerful power.

    "However, it seems a bit difficult to find springs that meet the requirements here." Eddie shrugged his shoulders.

    In his country, Canada, springs have already been mass-produced, so they are not difficult to buy.  But in an era when China was still very closed and backward, if you wanted to buy this kind of spring, you might have to go to Shanghai or Peiping.

    But this was not a problem for Xia Yang. He said to the people next to him: "Just wait a moment. I'll be back later." After saying that, he returned to his room.

    After entering the Huangsha Hundred Battles system, Xia Yang began to let the system help him find powerful springs.

    Sure enough, as Xia Yang thought, springs, which had no technical content in his time, were not too expensive.

    The powerful springs here are only worth ten merit points each, which is simply the price of cabbage.

    Xia Yang bought twenty springs in one breath, and then ran towards the shooting range with these springs on his shoulders.

    Everyone on the shooting range was shocked. Their team members really knew how to do tricks. Not long after they ran over, they came out carrying a bunch of springs?

    Eddie was also confused and murmured: "Could it be that Captain Xia is a magician?"

    After removing all the springs, Xia Yang took out one of them and tried it.  The strength is very high, and it is definitely much more powerful than these beef tendon ropes.

    He said hello, and everyone began to dismantle the tendon ropes and then install the springs.

    In just ten minutes, a spring-mounted trebuchet was already displayed in front of Xia Yang and the others.

    Xia Yang said loudly: "Come again! Put the wine jar filled with water! This time it will be farther."

    Soon the wine jar was placed on the tray, and then Xia Yang began to wind up the trebuchet, preparing for another test.

    Xia Yang¡¯s requirements are not high. As long as the range can exceed two hundred meters this time, everything will be fine.

    Soon, the soldier responsible for the launch had already pulled the trebuchet to the bottom.

    The spring was also stretched to the limit, and the entire wooden frame of the trebuchet made a squeaking sound.

    Raising the gavel in his hand, Xia Yang knocked off the cork, and then heard an ear-splitting muffled sound.

    A black object was thrown directly.  It was the wine jar placed in the tray. The wine jar was flying farther and farther, far beyond the previous landing point of the wine jar. It was not until the shooting range was almost at the end that the wine jar smashed to the ground.  There was a crisp sound.

    Just because the distance is too far, Xia Yang and the others can no longer even hearThere was a sound of the wine jar breaking.

    Seeing this scene, everyone was ecstatic.

    Because this wine jar flew over three hundred meters, it was much higher than they had expected.

    Xia Yang was also excited. Originally, he thought that as long as the range could reach more than 200 meters, it would be great.  But what he didn't expect was that the elasticity of the spring was so strong that it directly launched the wine jar more than three hundred meters away.

    "It's done!" Xia Yang said with a high-five.

    Then he turned around and said to the carpenters: "Everyone, please work harder and try to make ten more of these trebuchets. I only give you five days, and you must complete the task within five days."  .¡±

    The old carpenter said: "As long as we have this sample, it will be much faster for us to reproduce it here."

    Xia Yang said: "That's really hard work for you. Don't worry, I will definitely pay you no less. Just work hard." After saying that, he said to He Changxing next to him: "Old He, give them two yuan each first."  . It¡¯s considered yesterday¡¯s reward.¡±

    Most of the carpenters were hard-working. When they saw that Xia Yang was so generous, giving him two yuan, they naturally looked happy. After all, they made more money doing this job than they did at home.

    So the carpenters cheered and got back to work again.

    Xia Yang then said to Hu San and He Changxing: "Let's get this trebuchet onto the truck. Let's go outside the city to test our new weapon."

    Liu Fudong still didn¡¯t know about Xia Yang¡¯s making of napalm bombs, so he scratched his head and asked Xia Yang, ¡°Commander, what¡¯s the new weapon? Is it easy to use?¡±

    Xia Yang smiled and said, "Don't ask so many questions. You will know it when you see it." With that said, he walked out of the shooting range.

    The guards and more than a hundred people followed him over.  Their task is to be responsible for security around the testing site to ensure that no one enters the testing area.

    On a truck, there are more than a dozen sealed wine jars installed.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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