In fact, these days, Zhao Rui has always been a little absent-minded, without him, he is always thinking about the structure of the Makqin machine gun.

I felt that it was too simple to think at the beginning, there were countless small parts of the automatic rifle, and it had to be built extremely accurately, otherwise it would definitely cause problems such as jamming, and at the same time, it was necessary to make a spring with the right strength, and it had to go through countless tests.

Zhao Rui has been thinking about any simple way to make it as soon as possible, but after thinking about it for a while, it still doesn't work, now the drawings are already available, just do it, although the parts are more difficult, but with the progress of the smelting industry, it shouldn't take too much time.

After the news of Zhao Rui becoming a master spread to all parts of Jiaozhi, as Jiaozhi people, they were generally a little excited, so they didn't care what the emperor thought, anyway, Zhao Rui had a musket, he was amazing!

Now that Zhao Rui has arrived in Tuojiang Town, he has been warmly welcomed by local officials and ordinary people, and it seems that the shadow of war that has been hanging over their heads has disappeared all at once.

Great, Taishi Zhao is here, with him, Tuojiang Town will be safe! Most people in Tuojiang Town think the same way.

The official bought a sumptuous banquet for Zhao Rui, and it happened that Zhao Rui and others were also tired after a long journey, so they were not polite, and they had a big meal openly.

To say that there is still a big gap between Jiaozhi's food and that of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the taste of many of his dishes here is sour, such as the juice of fruits such as lemons.

However, Tuojiang Town is close to the Tuojiang River, a tributary of the Red River, and the city is named after it, so Zhao Rui really appreciates the meaning of the land of fish and rice here.

Needless to say, there are many fish, especially the rice has been made by them, indica rice, glutinous rice, and purple rice, and it is also dyed with different colors, which is very good to look at as a dish, Zhao Rui has a soft spot for one of the desserts made of glutinous rice, soft and glutinous, and with a strong aroma of glutinous rice.

Among the officials, the city guard is also a guy named Ruan or something, Zhao Rui is a little face blind to the Jiaozhi people, and thinks they are all black-faced, with a collapsed nose, and a wide mouth.

The officials diligently persuaded them to drink, but Zhao Rui had the rule of not drinking alcohol when he went out on the expedition, and no one drank from top to bottom, so the officials stopped persuading him, but just asked Zhao Rui and them to eat more food.

After being full of wine and food, Zhao Rui first went to the city wall to take a look at the battlefield, and heard that it was the siege battle that Angkor fought yesterday afternoon, so this would be regarded as an intermission.

On the city wall, Zhao Rui was a little stunned.

It's not like the walls of other places, it's open and refreshing, and there are countless small mountains on the opposite side of the walls.

The height is higher than the city wall, and the vegetation on the mountain is so dense that it looks like a heavy green sweater.

One after another, it is endless, so that people can't see the end at a glance, and it will naturally make people feel depressed.

This is a place......

Zhao Rui went down the city wall and went to the city guard officials to inquire, and learned that their Angkor people mainly relied on catapults to attack the city.

Zhao Rui nodded, I also saw a lot of potholes and defects on the city wall just now, and there were many traces of repair, which should have been left by catapults.

Zhao Rui is very familiar with the catapult, because the Yuan army is using a catapult called a catapult, but now the Yuan army's return cannon is considered to be "high-tech" high, maybe the Angkor people use it to paint the tiger according to the cat, there is nothing to worry about, when their artillery is launched, their catapults will all have to turn into slag!

A combat meeting was held for Zhao Gong and Arjuna step by step, and it happened to be an intermission, and Zhao Rui ordered people to lift the artillery one by one.

The officials of Jiaozhi rubbed their hands and looked at it with bright eyes, feeling that the city was worry-free now, and maybe they could give the Angkor people a head-on blow!

Zhao Rui considered the load-bearing capacity of the city wall, in case the enemy had not yet fought, his side would first collapse the city wall, and then give the Angkor people a chance to take advantage of it.

It is said that Angkor has a lot of elephant soldiers, and once the elephant charges, it is not so easy to deal with.

So after only placing twenty cannons, Zhao Rui felt that it was about the same, so he asked the soldiers to stop transporting the cannons, and then sorted out their armaments, waiting for another attack by the Angkorians.

Zhao Gong was patrolling around, and Arjuna was wiping her musket, and this SCAR-L was polished by Arjuna with a soft cloth, obviously extremely caring.

Maybe Arjuna also knew that it was a siege battle, and she didn't play with her scimitar too much.

The battle began early the next morning, with the Angkor chariots being pushed in from all over the city, and they had elephant caravans running from both sides of the wall, with archers shooting arrows at the defenders on the walls.

This is like tickling for Zhao Rui, there is nothing to be afraid of at all, those elephant soldiers under the city are the best to deal with, use muskets to directly kill the people controlled above, and the elephants run away aimlessly.

The siege engines looked like the Angkor killers, and before they were ready to throw the boulders, many of them had already been destroyed by the artillery.

The power of the artillery stunned the Angkorians, who had never seen a cannon with such a long range.

But the loss of the siege engines woke them up all at once, and they pushed the siege engines to hide behind the mountain.

"That's it?"

Zhao Rui smacked his lips in boredom.

"Oh, that's amazing!"

"Zhao Taishi's musket artillery is extremely powerful! All at once, the Angkor people were gone! ”

"Yes, with Master Zhao here, we can rest assured, they can beat them back as many as they come!"

The officials of Tuojiang Town were all standing beside Zhao Rui, and while the artillery attack just now shocked them, they also had a particularly refreshing feeling.

Before Zhao Rui came, they were worried about guarding the city all day, and there were not hundreds of wounded on any occasion, but now, before the Angkor people had time to storm the city wall, they had already been beaten without a trace.

"Master Zhao is mighty!"

"Taishi Zhao deserves to be the mainstay of our Chen Dynasty!"

“……”

The officials were still patting their ass, Zhao Rui shook his head, thinking that it was really a waste of time, and he would not need to personally lead troops in battles like this in the future.

As long as there is artillery, any general can beat the opponent's fart.

However, just as Zhao Rui turned around and wanted to walk down the city, suddenly a boulder flew out of nowhere and smashed into a cannon not far from Zhao Rui.

"Boom!" A bang.

The boulder not only smashed the cart under the artillery, but also rebounded to the soldier behind the artillery, and it happened in a flash, Zhao Rui didn't have time to react, look at the seven holes that the soldier had been smashed and bleed, and he saw that he was not alive!

How can this be justified, a warrior died!

Zhao Rui glared angrily at the opposite side, wanting to see where the catapult was, and immediately destroyed it with artillery.

"Huh~"

Zhao Rui was surprised, because there were no catapults in sight, and he couldn't even see the figure of an Angkor person.

So where did this boulder fly from?

Just when Zhao Rui was puzzled, three huge stones flew from the sky.

"Stay out of the way!"

Zhao Rui hurriedly shouted, and at the same time predicted the trajectory of the three boulders.

The warriors on the city wall were fine, but the officials in Jiaozhi were frightened, and one by one they hurried down the city, lest they be injured by the boulders.

But as it happens, a boulder landed right on the steps of the lower city wall.

Zhao Rui noticed that it was not good, and hurriedly shouted to the officials: "Be careful of the top of your head!" Come on! ”

I really don't know if those officials were slow to react, or if they were really stupid, they actually looked back at the sky.

"Huh?"

"Boom!"

The two sluggish officials were directly crushed into meatloaf, which scared the other officials into crying fathers and mothers, and they hurriedly ran and climbed down the city wall.

Idiot......

The Jiaozhi official died when he died, and Zhao Rui didn't care much, he looked at the opposite side again, and this time Zhao Rui finally saw the location of the projectile.

Speaking of which, the place that the Angkor people are looking for is really a coincidence, just halfway up the mountain, Zhao Rui can even see the edge of the catapult.

"All of them! Aim for that mountainside and shoot! ”

Zhao Rui was afraid that the soldiers would not know the specific location, so he first controlled a cannon and fired a cannonball.

To be impartial, the shells hit exactly the right place, but there was a mountain to cover it, the catapult was not damaged, and the position of the mountainside was only broken by a few trees.

Knowing the exact position, the other artillery guns also fired at the first time.

Because when Zhao Rui cast the cannon at that time, he added a scale to the barrel at the bottom end, which can be regarded as a basis for the artillerymen to accurately adjust the angle.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The artillery fire was incessant, and the first round of shells was over.

But Zhao Rui found unbelievably that the catapults of the Angkor people still did not receive any threat, and then the mountain was not smashed because of its generosity.

It's hard to do now......

Zhao Rui also understands that the current artillery is a solid iron ball because the shell only has penetrating damage, and the damage effect on the mountain is very unsatisfactory.

It may also be affected by the power of the artillery, and when Zhao Rui and the others opened fire, the catapult did not move.

But now that the cannonfire was over, the Angkor people seemed to feel safe and sound, and there was no threat at all, so they also counterattacked at the first time.

This time, Zhao Rui saw it clearly, and at the same time, he was also admiring the brilliant idea of the Angkor people in his heart.

They are taking full advantage of the terrain.

Because these are all individual mountains, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, although Zhao Rui's artillery could not pose a threat to them in a straight line, the trajectory of their catapult was a parabola, and it happened that the boulder could directly attack the city wall by grazing the narrow mountain top.

A few boulders flew over again, fortunately those soldiers dodged quickly, otherwise they would definitely be stoned to death, and another boulder smashed on the corner of the city wall, Zhao Rui felt a shock under his feet, and stopped at the sound of the soil and stones peeling off over there.

If it goes on like this, it's completely out of the disadvantage of being beaten!

And if the city wall goes on like this, it will definitely be crushed!

In the tense situation, Zhao Rui had an idea and ordered a few soldiers to find some bluestone strips.