Chapter 658

At this moment, an unpleasant creaking sound was suddenly heard, and Wang Yang turned his head to look and saw that the crossbar used by one of the heavy stone throwers to hang the balance hammer seemed to have cracked.

Wang Yang hurriedly stepped forward and shouted loudly, stopping the soldiers from wanting to let the cattle and horses continue to pull. After the cattle and horses slowly retreated, allowing the balance hammer loaded with 10,000 catties of heavy objects to land smoothly, Wang Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

After climbing to the top of the pedestal and inspecting it for a long time, he shook his head helplessly. "It seems that this thing really won't last a few times without metal......"

"My lord, what now?"

"What can I do, of course, this crossbar is replaced, if I don't stop you in time, maybe this stone thrower will be destroyed." Wang Yang glared at the low-ranking officer who was still urging the soldier to drive away and accumulate strength, intending to pull the balance hammer into the air regardless of it.

Soon, the craftsmen of the stone thrower dismantled the stout crossbar and replaced it, after a rigorous inspection, re-reinforcement and butter filling the groove, a new round of preparations for launch began.

Looking at this kind of long-range projectile weapon mainly made of wood, Wang Yang really had the urge to put on his wings and fly back to Bianliang, Tokyo, and devote himself to the gunpowder weapon workshop, directing those craftsmen to get the cannon out.

It's a pity that now I can only think about it, not to mention that the Song Dynasty and the opposition do not have a strong sense of secrecy, in this case, once the production of gunpowder weapons is leaked, it will be slightly inferior to the Great Song Dynasty in national strength, but it also has a considerable number of skilled craftsmen in the Northern Liao.

Then in the future, if the Great Song Dynasty wants to conquer Northern Liao, it will be much more difficult to recover the old land of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, at this stage, Wang Yang is also very clear that what he should do is to consider how to develop cold weapons to the extreme.

However, it is safest to wait for the research and development of firearms to be carried out after returning to Bianliang, Tokyo.

Although the launch speed of the heavy stone throwing machine was ridiculously slow, with the joint efforts of the four Yuanyou stone throwing machines, it was dusk. Then the north, west, and south gates of the ancient city of Wuyan were completely destroyed.

It also caused the collapse of many sections of the city wall, and through the reconnaissance of the telescope, it can be determined that those Tanguts are slowly retreating, and most of the men and horses are concentrated in the central and eastern parts of the ancient city of Wuyan.

There, for the time being, can be considered a safe area. The range of those two crossbows was almost as long as that of the bed crossbow in the middle of the ancient city of Wuyan, because of the continuous firing these days, it had been damaged and maintained several times.

Although you can continue to fire earth-shattering thunder, if you want to throw stones weighing more than twenty catties, then forget it, I'm afraid that if you can't shoot a few rounds, these two bed crossbows that are about to reach the limit will have to be destroyed.

After seeing the power of the heavy stone thrower, the guy actually complained about why Wang Yang only made four of them. "If there are a few more, not to mention the city gate and city wall, I'm afraid that the entire ancient city of Wuyan will be in ruins."

"Do you think I don't want to? It's not because there are not enough materials, do you know that the wood consumed by these four Yuanyou stone throwers alone is enough to fill fifty carts, and even the poles of many camp tents have been ordered to be collected. Wang Yang glared at this goods, he is not a god, these woods, but it was not easy to get them together.

A few more, I'm afraid I'll have to fold the door panels of the houses in Hongzhou City and send them over. Otherwise, there will be ready-made wood.

"Do we need to move forward in the night?"

"This is not necessary, the dark night is not a cover for us, but it is very likely to give those Tanguts a chance to attack when we move our positions, it is better to slowly advance towards the ancient city of Wuyan early tomorrow morning."

"As for the task of the four stone throwers today, it is best to find a way to smash all the eastern city walls, so that those Western Xia people cannot attack us by virtue of their geographical advantages."

"This is a solution, but then again, in the future, I will attack the city and plunder the land in the Great Song Dynasty, and I am afraid that this thing will be indispensable." Zhe Keshi smiled with a red face.

Before, he watched tens of thousands of Xixia soldiers and horses defend the ancient city of Wuyan so calmly, and then calmly withdraw troops through the Wuding River, and his heart was as uncomfortable as a cat scratching.

However, the Western Xia people were able to rely on the ancient city of Wuyan to defend it, and Wang Yang assured them that they would invent an excellent long-range weapon that could give the Great Song Dynasty a comprehensive advantage, and it was able to attack the city and land for the Great Song Dynasty beyond the range of the opponent's bow and arrow.

Only then did Zhi Keshi resist the urge to attack the ancient city of Wuyan. And now, Wang Yang really didn't lose his words, and with his usual superb level of invention, he made Zhi Keshi understand that as long as this guy can speak, he will definitely be able to do it.

Even in the middle of the night, the Song people's stone throwers were still rattling, and huge stones fell towards the ancient city of Wuyan, smashing the remaining city walls to the ground and falling apart.

And the nearly 40,000 Western Xia soldiers and horses in the city are no longer bold at this moment, and the hearts and livers of the soldiers seem to be hanging in their throats at the moment.

And Fei Tingda Rong, after learning that the Song army was crazy and kept shooting destructively at the city wall in the west of the city, finally had to order the defenders in the west of the city to retreat to a hundred paces behind the city wall. lest the soldiers be smashed into meatloaf by those boulders so inexplicably.

In the early morning of the next day, Fei Tingdarong came to the west city with a pair of dark circles that were even more serious than the previous day, and in the distance, not only the city wall, but even many buildings in the city had collapsed at this moment, and the western part of the entire ancient city of Wuyan near the city wall was almost completely in ruins.

Moreover, because the huge boulders thrown by the powerful stone-throwing machine of the Song Kingdom not only smashed the western part into ruins, but also completely blocked the three main roads.

Even if the Western Xia warriors wanted to cross the obstacles and attack the Song army, they had to carefully trek through the ruins for a distance of nearly ten zhang, and among them, they had to pay attention not only to those unlucky houses, but also to carefully avoid the holes formed by the fall of those boulders, which fell three feet deep into the ground.

In other words, the area west of the city has become a stage for infantry battles, and the cavalry, except for hehehe, is still hehe, the kind of four-legged elegant animal, which can't cross the obstacles that make nimble humans headaches.

After losing the impact power, the power of the cavalry was directly reduced to a minimum, and the cavalry wielding the sword was not even more threatening than the foot soldiers with spears.