And it's strange that the besieging side doesn't use trebuchets, and the defenders don't need to defend the city, which is really incomprehensible. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Just when Yin Lei was puzzled, Xiao Qiang's voice came from behind him: "General Chu asked us to find Master Wu from the engineer battalion, let's go." ”

"It's Mr. Xiao, why don't we lead the river away?"

Xiao Qiang glanced at Yin Lei and said: "First of all, the river is easier to walk than the mud, and you can't walk on the muddy ground that is about to dry up at all, and people will fall into it as soon as they enter, if we lead the river away, we will not be able to attack the city for at least a few days." And now that the weather is hot, the city has taken advantage of the location to throw out some animal feces and other rotten things, which soon emit a foul smell and are full of maggots in the mud, which caused us a lot of trouble some time ago, and then Master Wu, who was still in the engineer battalion, asked us to bring all the water from the river and wash everything away. ”

"Why don't we use bows and arrows, trebuchets, etc., to attack the city? That would reduce a lot of casualties, right? ”

Xiao Qiang said as he walked: "We have been attacking for a month, the crossbow arrows are almost running out, and the trebuchet is of little use to this kind of city wall, the stones we threw over they will use it again to fight back, the Taiping has changed hands several times in the past hundred years, everyone has understood this truth, whoever attacks this city will not use a trebuchet." ”

"I've heard we've been attacking the city for twelve hours lately?"

"yes, but what's the use of that? The city wall is ten zhang high, and now the physical strength of the soldiers on both sides is not as good as before, which is very disadvantageous to the besieging party. ”

"Why don't our top players make a move? And our Sword Immortal? ”

"In the past, there was an agreement between countries that masters in the Jindan period were not allowed to go to the battlefield, although now there is no longer this restriction, but the two sides still dare not easily send real masters to play, either side has a master and the other side will immediately send a master of the same level to fight, as long as the masters of both sides contact the eighth layer to divide life and death, so sending masters to fight will not only not change the situation of the war, but will give them their lives."

The two of them came to the gate of the camp while walking, and at this moment, a large group of people came out of it and went to the general platform commanded by General Chu to fight, Xiao Qiang hurriedly pulled Yin Lei aside and hid behind a large pile of wood, Yin Lei saw a slight flurry, he didn't know why Xiao Qiang would hide from these people, so he looked out curiously from the gap.

I saw a young man riding a snow-white dragon horse under the escort of dozens of tall horses, and a gorgeously dressed young man was chatting with an old man beside him, vaguely Yin Lei looked at this young man with a familiar face, and suddenly Yin Lei saw a familiar person - Shangguan Xingcai, Yin Lei immediately understood that this was Liangyushan, the fifth prince, why did Xiao Qiang avoid this person?

Soon these people were far away, and Xiao Qiang pulled Yin Lei into the camp.

"Mr. Xiao, why are we hiding from the Five Emperors?"

Xiao Qiang said lightly: "They are the only people in this camp who don't want to take Taiping, if they ask us what to do, it will be difficult for me to answer." ”

Yin Lei then remembered that the holy decree of the half-year period was brought by Liang Yushan and others, and if he couldn't take the peace for half a year, General Chu's position would be taken over by the people brought by Liang Yushan.

The two of them said and hurried towards the engineer camp, and when Yin Lei and them entered the camp gate, the old man who was talking to him beside Liang Yushan said: "Your Highness, the person hiding at the gate of the camp is the deputy chief soldier of the camp, Xiao Qiang, this person has the title of the first person under the Jin Dan in the entire Xing'an army, it is said that this person is a powerful opponent of ordinary sword immortals and will not fall behind, it is a rare talent." ”

"Oh, who is the one with him?"

"I didn't see his face, but he didn't wear armor, so he shouldn't be in the army, so I'll find someone to check ......."

"No, it's a critical moment, how can I be in the mood to care about these little things, hehe...... There are still four days left in the half-year period, and Chu Mingfan is like sitting on felt now. ”

"I don't think Chu Mingfan can do anything else, after four days, he can only obediently hand over the handsome seal, the minister has to congratulate His Highness in advance, this iron-blooded province will soon return to His Highness, and the combat effectiveness of the hundreds of thousands of male soldiers in the iron-blooded province is not slightly worse than the other four."

"Yes, after more than 100 years of fighting, this batch of Hundred Trained Heroes in the Iron and Blood Province is only stronger than the fattened four major war departments, it will become my most powerful force, in order to get it, I have been calculating for more than three years.

……

The entire Dragon Kingdom camp was built on a muddy field, and although the river had been diverted under the Taiping city wall, nearly half of it had not dried up.

Xiao Qiang took Yin Lei all the way to the west of the camp quickly, where the wood within a radius of dozens of zhang was stacked several zhang high, and from time to time there were teams of soldiers who carried away the cloud ladders and so on, Xiao Qiang seemed to be very familiar with this place, he took Yin Lei to turn left and right in the wooden stack and soon came to a clearing, only to see more than 100 craftsmen were busy with 'jingling'.

Xiao Qiang quickly walked through the crowd to a small wooden house in the back, and as soon as they came to the door, they heard a 'whoosh', and a planer was thrown out of it, and then an old man yelled: "Get out...... Get out of here, don't bother me. ”

Hearing this, the old Zhongqi Void was obviously not in good health, Xiao Qiang didn't care and reached out to take the planer and then raised his legs and entered the house, Yin Lei also followed, only to see three untidy old men with red eyes in the small wooden house studying something, all kinds of models, tools and broken wood were everywhere in the whole house, Xiao Qiang and Yin Lei came in and they didn't even raise their heads.

An old man who was facing the door sideways felt that the light in the room was a little dim and knew that someone had already entered the house, but he still didn't look up and said, "How many times have we said that we are not hungry, so quickly take the things away......." ”

Obviously, they regarded Yin Lei and them as food deliverers, Xiao Qiang shook his head and said, "Master Wu, do you have new siege equipment?" ”

Hearing Xiao Qiang's voice, the person who spoke just now raised his head unhappily, this person is the master Wu of the engineer battalion, and the two old men next to him, Yin Lei, know one, it is Zhang Qili and Master Zhang who taught him, Wu Youchun glanced at Xiao Qiang and Yin Lei and said: "Boy, you have the ability to study a new tool, we are very busy, don't bother us if you have nothing to do." ”

Xiao Qiang casually threw the book that Yin Lei gave him into the three of them and said, "Just because you haven't studied it doesn't mean that others can't study it." ”

Hearing what Xiao Qiang said, Master Wu reached out and picked up the book, and when his eyes fell on the book, his whole body suddenly shook, and his bloodshot eyes immediately widened, and the other two couldn't help but lean their heads over when they saw that Master Wu was wrong, so they were also petrified.

"This ...... Who is this for? Who researched this? ”

Saying that, Master Wu looked up at Xiao Qiang with a surprised face, Xiao Qiang took a step back to the side unhurriedly and let Yin Lei out: "He brought the thing, you can ask him if you have something." ”

So the three eyes fell on Yin Lei, and Yin Lei hurriedly said: "This book is written by a craftsman in Taiping City, as long as we capture Taiping, we can find him." ”

After hearing this, Master Wu once again looked at the book in his hand and said, "Let's take a look at the feasibility of this thing first...... ”

Then he carefully flipped the book from head to back, the book was not thick, only a dozen pages, and soon they finished reading it, and then Master Wu looked up and said to Yin Lei: "Boy, how long has this thing been in your hands?" ”

"A few months."

"Why didn't you show me last time you went to Huijiang?"

"If you can easily win the peace, this thing will be of little value, right?"

"Looks like you saw what you were using this book for when you got it?"

"Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have sent it to you."

"Boy Xuanyuan, the last time you studied in the Engineer Battalion, I could see that you have a quick mind and a response far beyond ordinary people, this book has been in your hands for a few months, you should have studied it a little, right? Let's hear it. ”

This time Yin Lei was not polite, and now is not the time to be polite, he took a few steps forward to the table and stretched out a piece of wood and said: "The carpenter Yang who wrote the book said that he discovered this method by inadvertently buttoning a piece of bamboo on a piece ......of wood. ”

As he spoke, Yin Lei picked up a knife from the table and quickly dug out two holes in the wood, these two holes were back to back, and at first glance it looked like a bamboo section that had not been opened in the middle.

Then Yin Lei took out a small piece of wood from the table and covered it with the bamboo knot used for wood, as if adding a cap to the pen, but the bamboo made of wood was not opened in the middle, and there was a hole in the top, and then Yin Lei took out a piece of wood and put it on it, so that the two pieces of wood were connected together through the bamboo knot he made.

Then Yin Lei quickly made three bamboo joints, connected the five small wooden sticks together and said: "The wood outside us is generally only two zhang, and five pieces ......of wood need to be connected four times to reach ten zhang, I have thought about it carefully during this time, and it is not enough to simply connect the wood to ten zhang high." ”

Yin Lei said as he picked up another piece of wood and said, "This kind of connection similar to bamboo needs to be improved, I think so......." ”

Then he quickly cut the piece of wood into squares, and then opened six holes on six sides, and Yin Lei made a dozen of them in a quick moment: "So we can assemble ...... at will." ”

Yin Lei said while performing for a few people, he picked up six small wooden sticks from the table and inserted them into the six holes of this square, Yin Lei was extremely fast, and after a while, he formed a four-story small pyramid and said: "We have to organize a group of people, let them assemble this in the fastest time, if we can assemble ten in one breath under the Taiping City, it is equivalent to setting up thirty ladders outside the city wall, then we rush to the city wall faster than in the city, and the step of attacking the city wall can be omitted, and the army can rush directly to the city wall." ”

Master Wu smiled when he heard this: "Yes, boy, you still have brains, but there are still some flaws in your method." ”

Yin Lei knew that he was still far behind in terms of civil engineering institutions, and these were the results of his own free time to meditate for months, but Master Wu only saw the shortcomings in a moment.