250 Projection
He designed these trebuchets and trained the operators, so he was responsible for the long-range strikes, and he took a few apprentices to keep running back and forth behind several trebuchets on the city wall, constantly correcting the movements of those soldiers so that the trebuchet could work normally.
Soon the trebuchets on the city wall projected the first batch of stone projectiles, because there was no Hercules loader like the orcs, so the stone projectiles thrown by the human trebuchets were not as big as those projected by the orcs, but they were the size of a basketball.
In addition, they are condescending to launch, the weight of the projectile is small, so they project a very long distance, a basketball-sized stone projectile, about thirty kilograms, the trebuchet they use is a counterweight trebuchet, the counterweight uses a ten-ton heavy hammer, of course, when the strength is not like the half-orcs use brute force, but use a large number of pulleys and winch, the first batch of projection, in order to achieve the effect of long-range killing, so the lightest weight stone projectile is used, and the projection distance is greatly increased.
The slaves of all ethnic groups carrying sandbags had just come to the front of the first moat, and before they could throw the sandbags in their hands into the river, they saw a whistling stone bullet smashed into the crowd, although they were about 800 meters away from the city wall, but these stone eggs falling from the sky still carried huge kinetic energy.
Thirty kilograms of stones, with huge potential energy, fell from the sky, often killed four or five slaves at once, after landing because the ground is relatively hard, it will continue to bounce and roll, but all the slaves who are in the way of this stone bullet are all knocked to the ground, and as long as they are hit, it is basically helpless.
After the first batch of stone bullets fell, a second batch of stone bullets followed, although there were not many trebuchets on the human city wall, but the victory was to use a winch and pulley to get on the strength, so it was not too laborious to launch, and it could ensure a certain density of firepower and continuity, and these slaves who had never been on the battlefield at all, had experienced such a scene?
The people who were still around just now, in the blink of an eye, were smashed by the big stones that fell from the sky, and the brains were burst, such a scene made many people receive stimulation, almost when the third batch of stone bullets fell, these slaves collapsed, and fled to the back, and the one hundred or so werewolf supervision teams behind, although they tried to cut down dozens of people who took the lead in escaping, could not maintain the collapse of tens of thousands of people, and were soon pushed to the ground by the slaves who fled in all directions, trampled into flesh.
And Tadel and several half-orc leaders standing in the back couldn't help but be angry when they saw such a scene, but it was the first temptation, and these damn slaves collapsed, which can definitely be said to be a bad start.
"Talich, take your men up, stabilize these slaves for me, cut a few more for everyone to eat at night, so as not to waste food on these wastes, but don't kill too much, you can still use them later. ”
Tadel's face was gloomy and he shouted to the werewolf leader beside him, and the werewolf leader with red eyes stuck out his tongue and licked his fangs: "Got it, General." ”
Then he turned around and rode on a giant wolf the size of a calf, and with a greeting, he rushed to the battlefield with hundreds of werewolf cavalry, these werewolves were also ruthless enough, and it was a mess of chopping and killing those scattered slaves head-on, these scattered slaves were like sheep surrounded by shepherd dogs, and after hundreds of people were cut off their heads, they immediately stopped reluctantly, and then continued to be kicked and beaten by werewolf cavalry and butcher knives, and began to re-queue.
As soon as the line was up, the Talic asked people to continue to distribute sandbags to each person, and then he directly dragged out the more than 100 people at the front of the team, and cut off their heads directly in front of these slaves.
The mist of blood and the pungent smell of blood in the sky made all the slaves present red-eyed, and Talich shouted to them viciously: "This time, if anyone dares to run back again, this is their fate, you listen to me, what you have to do today is to fill in the trenches for me constantly, no one will want to escape, if you can rush to the city wall, I promise that you will be able to eat and drink spicy food in the future." ”
The slaves also understood the situation, and today they had no choice but to rush to the moat in front of them again with sandbags under the butcher knives of the werewolf cavalry, and they also understood.
The stone bullets on the walls were limited in density and could not kill all of them, but if they fled, the orcs would be able to cut them all down in no time, so they had to grit their teeth and fight.
Looking at the slaves under the city wall who were still desperately filling the river despite the stone bullets that kept falling on their heads, Xiao Feng could only sigh bitterly, there was no way, he was actually the same as them when he left the country now, and he had no choice to survive!
Although the trebuchet on his side is still throwing stone bullets, after all, this stone projectile does not explode like a cannonball, and the lethality is still limited, and the first moat is quickly filled at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye...
A ten-ton counterweight hammer and a fifteen-meter-long boom, such a trebuchet is a heavy weapon in the Middle Ages according to the standards of the human world, Xiao Feng has also learned about history, such a trebuchet can project a 90-kilogram stone projectile at a distance of 300 to 400 meters.
Now, because of the 30-kilogram stone projectile projectile, and the fact that it was fired from a 10-meter-high city wall, the range of the projection has at least doubled.
The distance of more than 800 meters is completely within the projection range of the trebuchet, and in terms of the power of weapons in the cold weapon era, the power of the dozen trebuchets on this city wall is absolutely huge.
So far, at least three or four hundred slaves have been stoned to death, but after all, these are only slaves, and they have not really killed a half-orc, and except for the initial chaos that caused those slaves, those slaves have become numb to the killing of this trebuchet under the threat of death.
The firing speed of the trebuchets on his side has gradually slowed down, although these trebuchets use winches and pulley sets to wind, but after all, manpower is limited, and hundreds of operators, after throwing hundreds of stone projectiles, have begun to appear exhausted.
Richardsman had to ask some soldiers with more physical strength to replace the operators, but the trebuchet had just been built, and not all soldiers were trained to operate it, so the projection speed slowed down.
There were even one or two trebuchets that were damaged due to improper operation and poor quality, and Richardsman was taking his apprentice to replace the parts of the two trebuchets with broken booms.
The decrease in the density of fire on the human walls greatly boosted the morale of the slaves and orcs under the walls, and soon the slaves rushed to the second moat six hundred meters away, carrying sandbags, and the orcs also pushed their giant catapults to the second moat.
This moat is about 600 meters away from the human city wall, and many soldiers on the city wall can already see the hideous faces of the orcs on the opposite side at this distance, and the atmosphere on the city wall suddenly becomes tense.
Especially when I saw the giant catapults pushed forward by the orcs, these catapults were more than twice as tall as the catapults on their walls, and if such catapults were humans, they would not be able to operate at all, but because of their natural physical advantages, operating such trebuchets would not be a problem for orcs at all.
A few more experienced orc officers, after roughly measuring the distance, began to order to stop the advance, and then began to anchor the catapult, and then a few nimble orcs actually turned their heads and let people pick up the stone bullets fired by humans from the city wall, put them into the net pocket of the projection, and did not use the stone bullets the size of the grinding disc in their ammunition cart.
A beef man officer, after seeing that the catapult was ready, immediately gave the order to launch, their catapult is definitely a heavy catapult according to human standards, if they fire their standard standard grinding disc-sized stone projectile, it can project a distance of three or four hundred meters, and now it is a small stone projectile of thirty kilograms, and the distance projected is directly doubled.
There were dozens of catapults pushed in front of the orcs, and although some of them were obviously newly created and shoddy, this did not affect the launch distance and killing efficiency of the catapults.
Soon, there were several stone bullets that whistled and flew from above the city wall and smashed into the back of the city wall, which showed that if such a type of stone bullet was thrown, it would be completely able to cover the humans on the battlefield.
And Xiao Feng didn't expect that these half-orcs would actually think of such an idea, because he had also paid attention to the catapults of the half-orcs before, according to his inference, if the standard stone projectiles used by the half-orcs were projected, their effective range would be three hundred meters, which means that they must reach the first moat before they can pose a threat to humans.
But he didn't expect that these orcs actually knew how to be flexible on the spot, and actually replaced the stone bullets on the spot, using the small stone bullets they fired, which was like a more powerful slingshot, and suddenly used a small bullet, so that the range of the slingshot would be greater, and although the power would decrease, the killing and deterrent effect on personnel would be greatly improved.
Some stone bullets hit the container wall under his feet, making a loud bang, and some of the humans on the wall suddenly changed their faces...