Coming to the temporary military carpentry workshop outside the city, the sappers were stepping up to assemble the catapult, and Nalan Xin clapped his hands excitedly when he saw it from afar.

The sappers were originally tired and sweating profusely, and when they saw the captain coming, they didn't forget to stand up and salute, Tang Yuan stopped, every soldier looked at it, and when the captain's eyes fell on the faces of the soldiers, some young soldiers felt the pressure and couldn't help but look a little excited.

A small detail, sometimes can capture the hearts of some people, in the eyes of these lowest-ranking soldiers, the captain is already a big officer, and this captain is different, he can remember almost every soldier's name.

In the future, when I was fighting, the soldiers worked very hard, and they all said that the commander knew me, and I couldn't embarrass the commander.

"There are many types of catapults, and they have been around as early as the Spring and Autumn period. In the past, it has always been an essential weapon for your Han people to attack the city, but for some reason, your girder is not often used. Nalan Xin said: "These drawings, or I brought from the Prime Minister's Mansion, in the early years Xiangye said, in the future to fight in the Central Plains, our cavalry will definitely not be enough, we must recruit a large number of Liang Dynasty people as infantry, at that time, siege vehicles are one of the necessary weapons." ”

Tang Yuan said: "I don't know why Liang Jun doesn't use this kind of thing, maybe it's because it's too bulky? ”

"But I've heard that the Tiger Army is still using it." Nalan Xin said.

"It's right, this kind of trebuchet, if it is made a little bigger, I think a city wall like Jiangling can open a hole in a few clicks, if so, it is too convenient to attack the city." Tang Yuan patted the trebuchet's counterweight: "This guy is not light, without two horses, he will definitely not be able to pull it." Also, the reason why I want to get this thing is because we have enough slaves in our team right now. The prisoners of war had nowhere to stay, so they simply tied them to catapults and let them be used as cattle and horses. ”

Nalan Xin knew that Tang Yuan was actually finding a way to survive for those captives. Otherwise, because those captives are useless, they will be tortured to death by the extremely hateful Liang soldiers, which is not uncommon.

But if the slaves had something to do, and it wasn't a good thing, the soldiers would be happy to see it, so they wouldn't torture them.

When attacking the city again, everyone is still looking forward to sending this kind of big guy up, and if they can collapse the opponent's city wall, it will kill many, many people.

"Come on, let's test it, if it really works, let's go to Tang Qi to take a look, and when the time comes, mass production, get him a ten-cross."

Tang Yuan looked around, and felt that there were no good targets nearby, so he pointed to the city wall fifty zhang away and said, "Just hit it!" ”

"Captain, that's the city wall."

"Yes, just hit the wall."

"In case it collapses......"

"Wouldn't that be better?" Tang Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "Don't worry, let's start quickly, this city is not the city we must defend." Shangguan will not blame for the collapse of a broken wall, on the contrary, if our catapult is powerful enough, Shangguan will reward us. ”

After half a turn of the catapult, a group of people exerted their strength, pulled the stone-throwing counterweight down with a pulley, tied a single lock knot and fixed it on the pile, and put a stone the size of a human head into the "spoon".

Everything was ready, the three of them pulled the rope and waited for Tang Yuan to give the order.

"Hit!"

"Squeak, swish!"

"Bang ——!"

"Boom!"

"Wow!"

Although the city wall has not been destroyed, it has been shaken to the ground.

Tang Yuan was very satisfied, and said, "If you fight again, you have to collapse the city wall!" ”

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Tang Yuan led people to test trebuchets outside the city, and the power was not bad.

But the people in the city didn't know what was going on outside, so the scout quickly reported to Zhang Zhikui and said, "Tang Yuan of the Shence Army has made a trebuchet and is smashing the city wall, and the city wall is about to collapse." ”

Zhang Shuai walked out of the house with a puzzled face.

As soon as he walked out of the house, he heard a boom, and turned his head to see that the city wall had collapsed, and a large cloud of dust had risen up.

"Is this kid crazy?" Zhang Zhikui was angry, "Call Tang Qi to me and ask her what she wants to do?" Good and decent, what are you doing by tearing down the city wall? ”

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When Tang Qi heard the news, she was even more shocked than Zhang Zhikui, she didn't go to see Zhang Zhikui, but ran out of the city to ask Tang Yuan what the hell was going on.

Tang Yuan pointed to the trebuchet and said, "General, please see, just this trebuchet is already so powerful, if it is equipped with ten or eight trebuchets, wouldn't it be easy to fight such a city?" ”

Tang Qi's eyes were stunned, and he didn't know whether to praise Tang Yuan or scold Tang Yuan, but said, "Next time there is such a move, at least notify me in advance." ”

After that, he turned his horse and left, and went to find Zhang Zhikui.

In response to what Tang Yuan said before, Zhang Zhikui didn't plan to stay here at all, and now that the city wall has also been collapsed by Tang Yuan, he simply left now.

As a general of another sect, Zhang Zhikui could not do anything to Tang Yuan except for verbal scolding.

Then Zhang Zhikui pointed to the map and said, "Since this kid Tang Yuan has made a catapult, then give him something to do." It's not far from Dongguang, and it's a flat road, just right for transporting bulky creatures like catapults.

Let him go to Gonggao, where the city wall is dilapidated, even more broken than Anling, just to play his catapult specialty.

And the large army, stationed at the White Bridge, held the enemy of Dongguang.

In this way, it can better contain the Cangzhou guard Pucha Sujia. ”

"The commander sent a message to buy time for Xiao Hanbu of the Tiger Army, so that he could have a hard encounter with the enemy general Yan Zhan Shiya, at this juncture, we must support Pucha Sujia, and we must not let him support Yan Zhan Shiya. Both sides of the war are the number one generals, and the victory or defeat of this battle is related to the morale of both sides. ”

Zhang Zhikui held his head high and pointed to the map and said: "Let's hold the White Bridge, the bow height is our rear, let Tang Yuan take the city within three days!" ”

Anling is not very far from Gonggao, and there are very few defenders of Gonggao, only a few dozen male soldiers, with two or three hundred militia soldiers, which is no different from the militia of ordinary counties.

Tang Yuan took the catapult to the bow high and swayed, the bow high guard saw that the enemy couldn't be defeated at all, and before Tang Yuan could push the catapult to the shooting range, the enemy army had already run out.

"Isn't this a city for nothing?" Tang Hu laughed.

"It's a waste of effort." Tang Yuan couldn't laugh, and waved his hand: "Enter the city!" ”

No wonder Liang Jun doesn't like to use catapults now, it's too stupid, it's fatal to transport, and it's almost ineffective to use this thing to fight a city like Xiangzhou with strong city defenses.

It is said that the castle of Xiangzhou was repaired like an iron plate, and the bow and arrow were all white spots.

Of course, this statement is inevitably a bit exaggerated, but it is conceivable that it is certainly impossible for this powerful catapult to collapse the wall of Xiangzhou City.

Seeing that Tang Yuan was discouraged, Nalan Xin encouraged: "General Tang, the so-called broken family is worth ten thousand, although some broken ones are not worth much, but they will be used sooner or later in the future." ”