There is a reason why the Liao people don't take the stone thrower on the head of the Song Dynasty City in their eyes, because it is common sense that the stone thrower is too poor, and even ordinary people know it.

No way, the current stone throwing machine needs more than a dozen people to pull a little rod, each time the output is different, resulting in a very large deviation in each hit, even if it hits the target, it is difficult to know how much effort is used to hit the target, and the size of the manpower in each pulling direction, which leads to the last hit target, but the next time it can even deviate to 34 steps away.

"There are so few people in the Song people who pull a little pole, it is because they have prepared a few strong men, so the accuracy can indeed be improved, but it can't be improved much." Li Hanguang sneered, he was very glad that he took the initiative to apply to come to this Shuitou City, yesterday the news came from the border pass of the Zhending Mansion of the Song Kingdom, the king of the Southern Courtyard took the main force of the Xijing Army to attack the nine military villages of the Great Song Dynasty, and the losses were not small, but after six or seven days, he failed to capture any of the military villages, but from the mouth of the messenger, he learned that the nine military villages of the Song Kingdom could not hold out for long, after all, the defenders were only nine hundred people, and the number of dead and wounded to a certain extent, breaking the city was inevitable.

And as long as the nine military villages are captured, the whole Song State will inevitably panic, and it is only easy to cede the land and pay compensation, and increase the annual coin, let alone let the Song people hand over Shuitou City.

Therefore, Yelu Dagu, Ma Gutou and Li Hanguang and others were eager to recapture Shuitou City before the king of the Southern Courtyard captured the Song army, otherwise Yelu Dagu and Li Hanguang would not be able to get the credit, and Magutou would not be able to atone for his crimes, and he would inevitably be punished afterwards.

At this time, three thousand Liao cavalry on each side had already begun to charge, and when they were about seventy paces away from the head of the city, they could be projectile under a beautiful maneuver, and suddenly the five stone throwers on the head of the city reacted.

"Seventy-five paces at range, plus ten more!" Facing Yelu Dagu and Li Hanguang and others, Zhemuqiu was in charge of commanding the stone throwing machine because he had the best eyesight.

Ten soldiers, who had been training for four days, quickly threw iron blocks into the basket representing the weight of ten paces.

Inside the basket, iron blocks representing 60 paces will be placed in advance, and on this basis, they will be adjusted according to the distance of each shooting target.

"Put!" Zhemuqiu's eyes were like lightning, and at the moment before the Liao cavalry swirled, he suddenly shouted.

The next moment, under the witness of the Liao people outside the city, the five stone throwers were not pulled by anyone at all, and the slightly rod that was pressed down was raised like lightning without warning.

Immediately afterwards, five black dots flew up from the top of the city, crossed five perfect parabolas, crossed a distance of about seventy-five steps, and smashed into the Liao cavalry team, and smashed on the three Liao cavalry on the spot, but the other two neighing were sent by the war horse, and two stone bullets smashed on the war horse.

The five war horses were frightened or in pain, and immediately began to rush indiscriminately, and seven or eight Liao people were knocked off their horses, and they were half killed by the war horses of their companions behind them, and there was another scream.

The cavalry team that was about to turn around and shoot suddenly caused chaos, the charging formation was completely corrupted, most of the Liao army failed to shoot successfully, and some of the Liao troops who successfully projectile were also much less accurate because of the panic, and there were no casualties.

Almost at the same time, the same scene happened outside the other four sides of the city, but because of the different eyesight of the command staff, the accuracy was different.

"The accuracy is still a little worse, these five stone bullets are not on the same line as each other, the farthest stone bullet and the nearest stone bullet are about fifteen steps apart, if it weren't for the Liao people's charging formation is a long strip, there will be a miss." Zhang Bin frowned slightly, and commented on the first actual combat projectile of the new stone throwing machine.

The side had already been taken aback by the accuracy of the five stone throwers, and the shocked Zhi Kerou stumbled, almost not falling from the city, looked at Zhang Bin in surprise, and said in a lost voice: "Prison army, this accuracy is already unbelievable, can it be adjusted?" ”

Zhang Bin nodded and said: "The conditions of Shuitou City do not allow, after returning to Tokyo City, let the Ordnance Supervisor create some iron blocks with the same shape for measuring the frame, and then polish some stone bullets with the same weight in advance, and then train a group of commanders with excellent eyesight and accurate judgment of distance. ”

Zhi Kerou: "........."

As his own cavalry team returned in embarrassment, Yelu Dagu, Li Hanguang and Ma Gutou in the rear had already looked incredulous, with a ghostly expression on their faces, and Yelu Dagu even yelled with a distorted expression: "This is impossible, the stone thrower can't be so accurate, it's impossible, the five stone bullets just now were the luck of the Song people, and they just happened to be accurate." ”

"That's right, it must be the Song people who took shit luck and just hit it." Ma Gutou also said loudly.

At this time, a cavalry came from the direction of the eastern city wall, with an incredible expression on his face, and reported loudly: "General, the stone thrower of the Song people hit very accurately, and five stone bullets smashed into our cavalry team, causing more than ten casualties, messing up the cavalry formation, and failing to throw them. ”

Yelu Dagu and the others suddenly changed their faces.

Without waiting for them to say anything, or to suspect anything, messengers from the west and north galloped in and reported the same thing.

"This ........." Yelu Dagu looked horrified, and his face was extremely ugly.

"I still don't believe it, come on, pass the order, let the sons charge and shoot again." Yelu Dagu was unwilling.

The cavalry of the Liao army, who had just returned from embarrassment, did not believe that the Song people had such an accurate stone thrower, and they began to charge Shuitou City again, ready to throw revenge at the moment of the roundabout.

However, the exact same scene happened again, and compared to the last time when the Song people were not skilled, the trebuchet only threw once, and this time the Song people threw two rounds, and each of the four directions committed suicide and injured more than 30 cavalry of the Liao army.

Just paid forty stone bullets, and killed and wounded more than 130 Liao troops.

"One more time, and I won't believe in evil." Jeroda gritted his teeth and ordered again.

……

After half a ring, the scene that was almost exactly the same as just now happened again, and the Liao people paid more than a hundred dead and wounded again in the four directions.

"Damn, the Song people actually built such an accurate stone thrower." Yelu Dagu's expression was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Push all the siege equipment over and forcibly attack the city." ”

Yelu Dagu's order was well executed, and it didn't take long for nearly 10,000 Liao people from four directions to carry wooden ladders and shields, and rushed madly towards Shuitou City.

In the direction of the north and south city gates, several carts with thick shields were pushed by Liao soldiers and crushed in the direction where the city gate was located.

This is just the most basic siege weapon, far away in the white mountains and black waters, although the Jurchen people and the Mongolian people on the cold grasslands in the north will not build, or even have never seen it, nor have they used it, but this is nothing to the Liao people who have now been sinicized a lot.

The sound of shouting and killing shook the field, the rain of arrows flew all over the sky, the soldiers stretched, and under the city, countless people ran and climbed and fought in the shouting, and then died.

The real test of the Song army led by Zhang Bin and Zhi Kerou in Shuitou City seems to have really begun at this time............

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