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Who am I!Ha! I'm Mordor!

I'm a weirdo who doesn't know where it came from.

When I was born, I was thrown into slavery by the man who was my father, a kind orc, not my mother raised me, as I grew up, I was different from ordinary people, I didn't look like a normal orc, so everyone scolded me Mordor (the ancient beast language Mordo is equal to a mongrel), but the abusive language could not enter my ears, as I grew up, I found that I was more powerful than other orcs, my height of two meters eight and strong limbs allowed me to wield a giant sword of hundreds of pounds with one hand, and I was invincible in the battlefield, so the chief gave me the title of field slave and nobleman, but these did not make me happy, because I was confusedI don't know what I'm fighting for, why I'm living, walking like a walking corpse, and with my exploits on the battlefield, I'm called Cado (orc for god of war) but I still like the name Mordor because it makes me remember that I'm different, haha!

It's a pity that the days of peace can't always be stable, and the orcs are not all so upright, the chief felt threatened by my existence, so he attacked me, I failed, when I returned to my fiefdom I saw only a ruin, when I saw my mother's corpse, anger took everything, I don't know what I did, only that when I was sober, the chief had been killed by me, and all the tribal nobles knelt at my feet?, I became the new chieftain, and I had greater power,? But I was still confused as to why I had come to this land, so I decided to go far away to find out, and as I went farther and farther I finally understood why I had come to this place.

I went to the High King's City, and I saw the sophistication of the dwarven weapons and the blood of the orcs (the dwarves love to use the blood of the orcs to forge weapons, because the blood has rare metals, and of course the dwarves don't know it.) In the Elven Forest, I saw the great art and architecture of the Elves and the contempt of the Elves, the prosperity of the human race, and the orc slaves everywhere, when I returned to the Black Land, I saw that the orcs were still foolishly killing each other, the nobles treated their own people as slaves and humiliated them at will, and the children were not raised, and the orcs were killed when they were old.

I finally knew what I was going to do, so I and I led my brothers to unify the orcs, and I went on to fight in all directions

The elves despise me, I burned down their elven royal city, cut down their sacred trees, and made them cry in the forest, the dwarves are happy to use my bloodline to forge weapons, and the people I killed them surrender undignified at my feet, begging for forgiveness, the Terrans enslaved my kindred, the Terrans I fought ceded land from the White City to pay reparations, and the proud royal relatives of the Terrans personally ran to my tent to kiss my shoes and beg me to forgive him, haha! It was a pleasure, but when I saw my brothers fighting with me in the palace, I found that they had changed, and they had become the same as the nobles of the past. Haha, it's ridiculous, so I set up this hundred-year plan so that my beast clan will not fall apart after my death and be slaughtered again, so today, I will have the final battle. Haha! My Emperor's Legion is ready to be drawn at any time, oh, isn't it! Very good! This man is old and cranky, and now I order the whole army to set up camp up to the Supreme City, and I want to fight the world and achieve the eternal success of my Mordor Empire. Haha!

...

Mordor is a peerless monarch who is worthy of being blocked!

Lelouch even suspected that the other party was also a traverser, because the appearance of the coordinate axis was too incredible!

On the battlefield below were countless warriors on both sides of the bloody battle, but Mordor walked around casually on the top of the mountain, perhaps because he had stood for too long and was tired.

"I'm Mordor, crisscrossing the four seas, no one can see through my strategy on the battlefield, I have united the beasts for three years, and the beasts have risen out of the black land for ten years, and in the ten years of fighting in the north and south, where the long sword is pointing, no one is convinced, the Terrans who own half of the land in Middle-earth, the turtles who were killed by me are shrinking in the White City, and the proud elves have to give up their arrogance and pain in the elf city to offer the crown for peace, and the dwarves can only flatter me, kiss my shoes, and offer steel for peace. But ~~ but I can't sleep every day, because the biggest enemy is not outsiders but my own people, the greedy tribal patriarchs get more or are not satisfied, or treat their compatriots as livestock, ask for excessive, master the wisdom of the sacrifice for their own privileges, and refuse to share their wisdom, what should I do, I have a chance! I have a chance to unify the world, but how can this be, the orcs will not be unified for more than a hundred years, and then they will die and cry back to the Black Land, what should I do! The road ahead of me is snooped by countless powerful enemies, and behind me is a pack of blood-sucking and stubborn greedy wolves, when will I Mordor sleep peacefully, when will I see my orc children playing together!"

Modo's self-talk overwhelmed Karui who was following behind, and for some reason, Karui finally felt that the Lord of Mordor had some different purpose for this expedition, which was not even clear to him, and Karui found that Modo suddenly became sentimental, which seemed completely impossible to Karui before.

Mordor's sentimentality seems to be incompatible with the grandeur of the battlefield, but everything in the entire battlefield revolves around him, and it can be said that this war is related to the survival of millions of people, and the source of everything comes from Mordor.

"Maharaja, the Terrans have been surrounded!"

...

"It worked, we made it!"

"At the end of the year, we have won this battle!"

The crowd began to cheer, and many high-ranking members of the coalition army even breathed a sigh of relief, as if everything was already in control, except for Lelouch who flashed a glimmer of light at a moment, thinking of a fleeting loophole, but it was only a short moment.

Lelouch looked at the coalition troops who had successfully rounded and continued to thicken their formation, his eyes kept scanning back and forth, and suddenly he saw on the grass under his feet, that touch of scorched earth!

"Trebuchet !!"

Trebuchets are actually divided into many types, not the kind of weapons that directly deliver stones in the conventional sense, they have different names according to different powers:

Elastic trebuchet, its Chinese name also has bed crossbow, ballista, archery machine, in ancient Greece and Rome was used, relying on the elastic force of the bowstring to eject, in addition to firing large arrows can also fire stone projectiles, is a variant of mechanical bow crossbow. This type of machine is called the bed crossbow or bed crossbow in China.

Torsion trebuchet, developed from the bow, has its Chinese name also known as 石弩 (meaning the crossbow that fires stone projectiles), catapult, catapult or ballista. It was used in ancient Greece and Rome, relying on twisted ropes to generate power ejections. The ejection rod is usually upright, the top of the rod is a "spoon" or leather bullet pouch for the projectile, and the lower end of the rod is inserted in a tightly twisted horizontal rope. When ejecting, the ejection lever is first pulled to a near-horizontal position with a winch, and the projectile is placed in a "spoon" or leather bullet bag. When the winch rope is released, the ejection lever returns to a vertical position to eject the projectile. And this trebuchet is very similar to a donkey kicking when it is launched, so it is called a wild donkey." [2]?

The manpower stone throwing machine, also known as the traction stone throwing machine, first appeared in the Warring States period in the 5th century BC, and spread westward during the Northern Zhou and Sui and Tang dynasties, first used by the early Arabs, and then introduced to Europe. The man-powered catapult, commonly known as a cannon, is a man-powered catapult that uses pure manpower, and uses manpower to pull the tips (cannon tips) attached to the crossbar at a place far away from the catapult. The cannon tip is erected on the wooden frame, one end is tied to the holster that holds the stone bullet with a rope, and the other end is tied with many ropes for people to pull and throw the stone bullet, the gun tip is divided into single tip and multiple shoots, and the maximum number of gun tips is mounted on a gun carriage, which requires 250 people to cast. Cannons appeared in ancient China, where multiple people pulled down the lever and threw stone projectiles on the other. Cannon is also a generic term for all kinds of trebuchets in Chinese. Attached wheels are usually called gun wagons. [3]?

Gravity trebuchet, return cannon, counterweight trebuchet, counterweight trebuchet, developed from the Chinese human trebuchet, first appeared in Europe at the end of the 12th century in the Middle Ages, a kind of largest trebuchet, the Southern Song Dynasty with Mongolia introduced to China. Using the principle of lever, one end is equipped with a heavy object, and the other end is equipped with a stone projectile to be launched, before launching, one end of the ammunition must be pulled down with a winch, a pulley or directly with manpower, and the other end attached to the heavy object also rises at this time, after putting the stone bullet let go or cut the rope, let one end of the heavy object fall, and the stone bullet is also thrown out of the trend, this kind of stone throwing machine is introduced into China through the ****** area and is called "return cannon". By the mid-14th century, some stone throwers were capable of throwing projectiles weighing nearly 1,000 pounds (about 454 kilograms), which was extremely powerful. Modern tests have shown that the boom is 50 feet (about 15.2 meters) long, and the stone throwing machine with a counterweight of 10 tons can eject a pound (about 90-136 kilograms) of stone projectiles at a distance of about 300 yards (about 274 meters). One or more objects can be thrown, which can be boulders or gunpowder weapons, or even poisons, filth, human or animal corpses, for the purpose of psychological warfare, and those filth are also the earliest biological weapons.

And to be honest, the principle of trebuchet is quite simple, and almost modern people can understand its principle by looking at it.

It is generally accepted that the projectiles made and used by the Romans after the conquest of Greece gradually deteriorated over the next two to three centuries compared to the prototypes of projectiles built by Greek craftsmen. This is mainly due to the fact that the manufacturing process of its key components has been forgotten and then lost, and the efficiency of these devices has been reduced. For example, the tendon noose is a crucial process for every ancient projector. The tendons used to make the cords are collected from animals, and it is impossible to know what kind of tendons they are and how to deal with them.

The construction of the projector rod arm, whether used for a single-arm vertical torsion trebuchet or a double-arm transverse ballista, was an insurmountable challenge. Because the makers don't know anything about how to make such booms so that they can withstand huge deformations. All the builder could know was that the arms of the large projectile were made of several wooden poles and thick and long tendons that were combined longitudinally to form a metal shell, but they did not know how to make a pole arm that was both light and tough, and strong enough to withstand the deformation applied to trebuchets and ballistas.

Of course, by making a very thick rod arm, this will not break, but the impact on the weight is too great, and the unreasonable weight will make the rod arm unable to reach the speed required to throw the projectile with high efficiency. The weight and efficiency of a bulky arm made of solid wood is certainly not as light and efficient as a rod made of wood, tendon and hide. The former is inevitably slower when throwing stones, while the latter is faster and more elastic in comparison, like a steel spring.

The power of the counterweight trebuchet is that the huge counterweight at one end of the swivel arm lifts the other end, and the grenade belt mounted on it is used to throw the projectile. As for the range, no matter how large the counterweight trebuchet is, because it only relies on counterweight work, its efficiency cannot be compared with that of a trebuchet that relies on the elasticity of a giant tendon noose that is tightly twisted in a spiral shape. There is no doubt that if the latter had been preserved in its perfect form, the introduction of the cannon would have been much delayed, since the effectiveness of the early cannons had long been significantly inferior to the best projection apparatus of antiquity.

The often controversial problem of the range of trebuchets and ballistas can be solved with relative precision by comparing their performance, that is, the experimental results given by ancient military writers and modern copies. When dealing with such issues, careful consideration must be given to the location and environmental factors of the projection equipment during the siege, especially the purpose for which the siege equipment was manufactured. For example, archers, taking advantage of the high towers and pheasant moats, can easily shoot arrows to a range of 256 meters. For this reason, in order to safely operate siege equipment, it is necessary to place it outside the meters of any walled city. Since trebuchets and ballistae were not only used to shoot missiles at soldiers on fortifications at fortifications, but also to clear the city and attack houses and people in the fortifications, it was obvious that projectiles had to have a range of ~457 meters or more to be suitable for operation.

The trebuchet was a well-deserved king of the ground before the appearance of artillery, and his firepower was terrifying, and after Lelouch screamed out the trebuchet, he then roared out three words:

"Axes!"

Yes, Mordor had already set the axes in the place where the coalition forces were going to lay out the defensive line, and they were able to accurately bring in all the ammunition, directly on the heads of the dense coalition forces, and then kill the enemies one by one, as if they were surgically!

This ability has been reflected in the bombardment of cavalry just now, but it did not attract people's attention in that short period of time, people paid too much attention to whether the encirclement was successful, and never thought about what the situation would be after the encirclement!

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