Zhao Junsheng rewarded the craftsmen of the craftsman camp, and the money, cloth, meat, and grain were transported to the craftsman camp by truck, and the craftsmen were greatly excited and full of enthusiasm.

Zhao Junsheng looked up at the rising sun, then at Liu Songjun who was busy on the city wall, and said to Gao Xu: "It's not too early, let the soldiers of the catapult team start!" ”

"Yes, King!"

The trebuchets had already been prepared, and with the commander's order, the soldiers smashed the heavy hammers one by one, and the heavy baskets of the heavy trebuchets quickly fell, and the long arm lever drove the net pockets in the rear, and the net pockets rose to the highest point, and the stone projectiles in them were thrown out.

The grooms quickly led the horses over to pull the ropes, and re-pulled the weight up to the top of the bracket to hang it, a process that was smoothly coordinated by the soldiers and the grooms.

Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan and others watched as the stone projectiles flew out and smashed in the direction of the city wall, like a rain of stones, some fell under the city wall, some smashed on the wall, some fell on the city wall, and some flew into the city.

"Boom ······" As a large number of stone bullets fell, the city wall was smashed up and down to tremble, the city walls were shaking, and the stone bullets that fell on the city head smashed out big pits, the wall bricks were smashed, the stone bullets were also shattered, and a large number of rubble flew everywhere.

"Ahh

Some stone bullets smashed on the wall battlements directly smashed the wall buttress to pieces and collapsed, and the surrounding soldiers and generals were affected.

"Don't panic, don't panic, hide for General Ben temporarily, hide under the wall, or squat, hurry up!"

It's not that the generals of the Southern Dynasty haven't seen the scene of the trebuchet launching, but they all used the trebuchet to hit the city where the Northern Wei army was stationed, and they had never encountered the Northern Wei army attacking them with a trebuchet, and they were really frightened by the trebuchet for the first time, especially many people saw the tragic scene of their companions being smashed into meat sauce by huge stone bullets, and no one could remain calm in the face of this kind of death.

At the launch place of the trebuchet outside the city, Mulan saw that the launch accuracy of the trebuchet was not too ideal, so she asked the officials of the siege camp: "How does the trebuchet adjust the launch distance?" ”

The official of the siege camp replied: "Mrs. Hui, for the time being, this can only be achieved by increasing or decreasing the weight of the heavy objects, that is, taking out or increasing the stones in the basket!" As for the accuracy, it's too hard to control! ”

Hua Mulan asked again: "I saw that there are no stone bullets to be fired on the side of the flywheel trebuchet just now, and I will use them later, where do the stone bullets come from?" Is it too late to ship now? ”

The officer of the siege camp smiled and stretched out his hand and pointed to the basket in front of these heavy trebuchets and said, "Madam, these heavy stones used as heavy trebuchets will be used as stone bullets for flywheel trebuchets later, otherwise these small stones will not be able to be moved back when these heavy stone bullets are fired, right?" ”

Mulan smiled: "Okay, make the best use of things, this idea is good!" ”

Round after round of stone projectiles were fired, and the time interval between each launch was less than that of similar trebuchets, which made the defenders of the Southern Dynasty Liu and Song Dynasty feel chills in their hearts, and this kind of launch speed and hit rate will be greatly improved.

In fact, the heavy stone bullets fired by the trebuchet did not directly kill too many people, but the stone bullets that fell on the head of the city were basically smashed, which not only caused the rubble to fly and injured many people, but also smashed the wall bricks on the ground at the head of the city, smashed out a large pit, and the city wall was also damaged to a certain extent.

The bricks on the outer wall of the city wall were also smashed in many pieces, and they were smashed into potholes, revealing the rammed earth walls inside. In addition, many of the battlements at the head of the city were smashed, and the bunkers used by the defenders for cover were greatly reduced.

After firing more than a dozen stone bullets in a row, all of today's heavy stone bullets have been fired.

Next, the soldiers of the catapult carried all the small stones used as heavy objects to the flywheel catapult, and they loaded the small stones into the net pockets hanging from the flywheel.

"Are you ready?"

"It's all ready to launch!"

The commander pulled out the battle and swung forward: "Fire!" ”

The flag soldiers waved the small yellow flag vigorously, and the knights of the various groups of trebuchets who got the order led the rope and beat the horse and galloped forward, and the war horse carried the knight to pull the rope, and the rope pulled the wheel to rotate rapidly, and the wheel rotated rapidly through a series of complex transmission devices such as gears and bearings, and the small stones hanging in the full net pocket also rotated rapidly.

But the knights let go of the ropes as they had gone two hundred paces, when the soldiers of the flywheel trebuchets pushed their blades forward, and the ropes from which the nets hung were severed.

"Whoosh ······" The small stones hanging from the flywheel flew out one after another, flying towards the city wall in the distance.

The Liu Song defenders who were hiding under the battlements of the city wall or squatting on the ground at the head of the city only heard countless swishing sounds, and they couldn't help but look at the sky, only to see dense and countless small black dots flying from the sky outside the city.

In an instant, these small black dots turned into fists and stones the size of a head and landed inside and outside the city walls.

"Ahh

"Ahh

This is a real rain of stones, inside and outside the city wall were devastated, some people were directly stoned to death, some people were smashed to the head and bleeding, some people were hit and fell down, some people were smashed and injured by the debris from the falling stones, the defenders of the Southern Dynasty had never encountered such a dense stone bomb attack.

After a round of stone rain attack, the city wall was in shambles, wailing one after another, and the city was smashed on its backs.

Xue Tong looked at the tragic scene on the city wall with blank eyes, those with broken arms and legs, unrecognizable, paralyzed, and directly smashed into meat sauce, and at least five of the ten people died or were injured in this round of stone rain.

"How did they do it? How is this done? Tell me, how is this done? Xue Tong yelled with a flushed face.

The adjutant general shouted: "General, don't be confused, quickly order the soldiers to go down the city wall to hide!" The second round of stone rain attacks of the dry army is coming again, and the soldiers will not be allowed to go down the city wall to hide, and after a few rounds, there will really be few weapons left on the city wall! ”

Being called by the adjutant general, Xue Tong finally came back to his senses, and he immediately ordered loudly: "The order is to let everyone scare the city wall and hide, only leave a few sentries to observe on the city wall, and once the enemy army is found attacking the city, immediately ring the bell to warn!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Under Xue Tong's order, the defenders on the city wall were not injured, and those who were not injured were dead, and they quickly retreated to the city with weapons.

Xue Tong walked to the stone staircase of the city tower and stopped and turned his head to look at the city gate building, which was hit by a large hole in the middle of the initial heavy stone projectile strike, and the stone rain fell, and the city gate building was already full of holes and would collapse at any time.

"Damn, Lao Tzu has never been so embarrassed as he is today!" Xue Tong shouted angrily, "Hurry up!" ”

The soldiers defending the city have not had time to completely withdraw from the city, the second round of stone rain from the trebuchets of the cadres outside the city has fallen, and the last group of Liu Song troops have been devastated, many people are so frightened that they jump directly from the city, and some people are smashed and rolled down the stone ladder, and the other soldiers on the stone ladder are knocked down one after another, screaming and wailing endlessly.

Xue Tong, the deputy general, and other Liu Song generals who had already retreated to the city wall squatted at the base of the wall, holding their heads deadly, and they were trembling with fright.

Wave after wave of stone rain fell, as if there had been one natural disaster after another, and the earth simply shook the mountains, which was many times more destructive than the hail in the sky.

Liu Songjun originally set up a lot of iron pots at the head of the city, boiling water in the iron pots, and some iron pots were boiling hot oil, which were used to defend the city, but now these are all useless, all the iron pots have been smashed through, and the boiling water and hot oil are all spilled on the city wall.

The stone rain was launched in a total of five rounds, and finally ended, and the guard general Xue Tong, the deputy general and other Liu Song soldiers seemed to have experienced an apocalypse, when countless stones fell from the sky, smashing the people on the city wall and overturning, and the casualties were heavy, everyone felt that the end of the world had come.

This feeling is desperate, Xue Tong and his subordinates have almost lost the heart to resist, almost losing the will to fight, this is simply a natural disaster that they think, how can manpower resist it?

"General, the cadres have collected their troops and returned to the camp!" The shouts of sentinels were heard from the walls.

Xue Tong came back to his senses, and ran up the city wall with the lieutenant generals and generals to take charge of the smashed and tattered wall battlements to look outside the city, and really saw that the cadres were moving to the rear, and the soldiers and generals were packing up the siege equipment and withdrawing step by step, everything was in order, and they couldn't find the slightest opportunity to go out of the city to chase and kill.

"Bang Bang ······" The sound of weapons landing one after another sounded, and the soldiers threw their weapons on the ground and sat down against the wall, all of them limp.

When Xue Tong saw this scene, there was a deep worry in his heart, and he thought for a long time and said to the adjutant general: "Send someone to the marshal of Dongyang City to report the situation here, and tell the marshal that the last general doesn't know how long Linzi City can be defended, but the soldiers are now demoralized, and the city wall is seriously damaged, and the siege combat power of this cadre army is stronger than all the armies that the last general has seen, and even several times stronger than the siege combat power of our army, I hope the marshal has a number in his heart!" ”

"Yes!"

Outside the city, the camp of the cadre army.

Zhao Junsheng looked very happy, and said to the generals with a wine glass: "The performance of today's trebuchet has opened the eyes of this king, and the soldiers and generals of the trebuchet and the craftsmen of the siege camp have made great achievements!" Come on, pass on the king's order, and add food to the people of the catapult crew and the craftsman battalion! ”

"Yes, thank you, King!"

Zhao Junsheng said to the generals again: "The soldiers have a day's rest today, tomorrow morning the third watch will make dinner, the fifth watch will set off, and the sunrise will attack the city!" ”

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