Chapter Seventy-One: Throwing the Car
Thank you, the little guy's condition has been controlled today, and fortunately, it did not hurt the liver, kidneys, heart and other organs, fortunately! It's time to breathe a sigh of relief! I can only guarantee two more for the time being, so please forgive me! )
When the sky was bright again, the villagers were surprised to see a few things appear in the open space outside the village overnight, and the smarter people recognized at a glance what these things were, so they immediately shouted in panic.
After hearing the news, the Fan family hurriedly climbed up the village wall one by one, looked outside, and when they saw these things clearly, they were all taken aback and panicked.
"How did this come about? Didn't you notice last night? As soon as Fan Dashao saw these things, he immediately asked a few Zhuang Ding who were on duty.
Several Zhuang Ding all looked at each other and replied, "Big young master! Last night we heard the commotion outside, but we didn't see what they were doing, and besides, it was dark outside and we couldn't see anything clearly, and we didn't see these things until after dawn! We can't complain about this! ”
"What nonsense are you talking about, think about how to deal with the pole outside! What a good thing that is! What about Luo Li? Where did Luo Li go? Fan Laocai slammed his crutches to the ground, interrupting his son and the Zhuang Ding, and asked where Luo Li was.
Fan Dashao immediately slumped his shoulders and replied with a gloomy face: "Dad! Last night, Luo Li said that the pole seemed to be moving wrong, and he had to go out to find out what the pole was doing, but he was caught by the pole, and it is estimated that he would have been cut by the pole at this time! I didn't expect the pole to make these things overnight! What can I do? ”
It turned out that Xiao Tianjian almost didn't sleep all night, and took his subordinates to help the carpenter, and even cut down wood at night to create three simple throwing cars, because of the rush of time, these three throwing cars didn't even go to the bark, how rough it was, and even the original to the point that there was no counterweight, just tied a few thick ropes to the pole of the throwing car, and it was all pulled by manpower to raise the throwing rod.
Although Xiao Tianjian now has a tiger squat cannon, but after the inventory, Xiao Tianjian is very frustrated, the ammunition of the tiger squat cannon is only enough to put a few cannons, before the suspension bridge is not put down, if the tiger squat cannon is used to bombard the Zhuang wall, basically it will not play a role, and can only be used to bombard the village gate at a critical time.
So after thinking about it for a while, he finally remembered this primitive stone machine, so he began to lead people to build it overnight, fortunately, the material of this thing is simple, there is a strong wood can be, the structure is also simple to death, build a strong base, and make a throwing rod on it to make do with it, so overnight made three throwing cars, and last night also cast a little, actually threw a stone weighing a few pounds out of a distance of nearly fifty steps, which was enough for them to use.
Before dawn, he commanded his subordinates to get the three throwing carts outside the Zhuang Gate, set up their positions, and when Zhuang Ding found out, they had already made all preparations.
Looking at these three extremely ugly throwing cars, no one would think that they were just decorations, and the people in Fanjiabao were in a mess all of a sudden, and they didn't know what to do for a while.
Xiao Tianjian stood far away in the open space outside the village, and shouted at Fan Jiabao with a loud voice: "Fan Laocai listened! Lao Tzu has no grudge against you, just ask for the food in your village, if you are interested, you will quickly open the door of the village, let us in, my surname Xiao guarantees to only take food, do not hurt your life! My words count!
But if you are still reluctant, then don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite! Once Lao Tzu is poured into it, you will regret it at that time! Lao Tzu killed all your chickens and dogs! Do you hear that? ”
Xiao Tianjian's roar immediately reached the village wall, and Fan Laocai was so shocked that he almost didn't sit on the ground, and shouted with his crutches: "How is this good, how is this good!" You've all listened, and I'm out of the way today! You've got to keep me up against these bandits! Defeat these poles, and I will reward you with ten taels of silver for each of you." Did you hear it? ”
Zhuang Ding was also frightened in his heart, but as soon as he heard that there was a reward of ten taels of silver to take, he was interested again, you must know that ten taels of silver is not a small amount at this time, and it will not cost so much silver to buy a young maid, which is placed in a good year, but it is enough for the family to eat for a year! So after listening to Fan Laocai's words, these people were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they immediately rolled up their arms and sleeves and shouted: "Fan Yuanwai, don't worry!" As long as you are willing, then we dare to do it, and we must not let them pour it in! But outside of the fan, you have to talk and count! Afterwards, we must be rewarded with enough money! ”
At this time, Fan Laocai couldn't care about the money, and it was worth spending a few hundred taels of silver to keep his family property, so he swore again and again that he would not owe these villagers a reward.
So the Zhuang Ding were angry and bullfighting, and immediately began to load the bullets, and the ones with the bows took the bows, and put on a posture of fighting to the death with the pole outside, and the pot of boiling water below was immediately boiled, as long as they could think of it, they could do it, they all took it out at this time, and some people shouted: "Isn't it just a broken car throwing?" We are not afraid of cannons, we can be afraid of this thing, just be careful for a while! Let's see what they can do! Brothers, do your best! ……”
After Xiao Tianjian roared, he waited for a while, but there was no response from the village, but he was preparing lively, and he knew that this last threat still had no effect, so he didn't wait any longer.
Turning his head to the people behind him, he beckoned: "This Fan Laocai is asking for money and dying!" In that case, then let's not be polite to him! Follow my arrangement, get on! Pour it in, the big guy drinks wine and eats meat! ”
After listening to Xiao Tianjian's order, these people who were beaten to ashes yesterday also cheered up one by one, and shouted in unison: "Kill!" Then they immediately copied each of them and rushed forward.
This time Xiao Tianjian divided the people into several groups, Zhao Erdonkey temporarily led a part of the sword and shield hands to continue to the front, carrying a big shield to provide cover for the three throwing cars, after all, this distance is already the effective killing distance of muskets and bows and arrows, no one carries a shield to cover in front, and the person who operates the throwing car is basically like a live target, and it is easy to be defeated by Zhuang Ding.
In addition, there is a group of sword and shield hands led by the iron head, preparing at the back of the team, everyone is holding a knife and a shield, and the whole body is tightly wrapped in clothes, which looks very weird, they have selected a total of twenty people, most of them are old people under Xiao Tianjian, and a few are newcomers who have just been collected, basically they are all fierce guys, it is a temporary commando, and they are also assigned two long ladders, these two long ladders, last night also temporarily let the carpenter use hardwood to make a hook and hit the top of the long ladder, As long as it is erected on the village wall, these hooks will immediately hook the top of the wall, and it is not so easy for Zhuang Ding to push down the long ladder again, unless they use a big axe to cut hard, in order to cut off such a hardwood hook, Xiao Tianjian originally wanted to use iron to make such a thing, but he didn't make it for the time being, and he could only use hardwood instead.
The rest of the people were divided into three groups, each of which was equipped with twenty-five or six people, and one person was set aside to serve as the commander, who was also regarded as a fixed gunner, responsible for observing the landing point of the things fired by the throwing car.
One or two hundred people rushed to the open space outside Zhuangzi at the same time, and surrounded the three throwing carts.
There were more than 20 people standing behind each throwing car, and grabbed the ropes on the throwing car, which was called artillery before the Song Dynasty, in fact, it was used as a cannon on the battlefield, and later Genghis Khan of Mongolia learned a new artillery technique from the Western Regions, and made a counterweight stone cart that is a return cannon, so it replaced this kind of cannon that relied on manpower to send stones, and then after entering the Ming Dynasty, the application of artillery became more and more extensive, and this thing gradually faded out of the battlefield. So much so that few people think of using this guy as a siege weapon.
As long as more than 20 people have the strength to be in one place and pull the rope together, this power is still quite large, and the throwing rod raised is enough to throw more than ten catties of stones dozens of steps away, and it is still very effective to deal with such a small walled fort.
With Xiao Tianjian's order, the three throwing carts were immediately operational, and someone immediately placed a stone in the bag sewn from coarse cloth at the front end of the throwing rod.
Then, under the command of their respective gunners, those who pulled the rope immediately roared in unison, and dragged the rope in their hands backwards with all their might, so the three throwing carts immediately raised a long throwing rod, and then saw three stones of more than ten catties flying out.
Zhuang Ding exclaimed and hurriedly stared at the three stones, and ran around the village wall in a hurry, dodging the three stones falling from the sky, for fear that he would be accidentally smashed by the stones.
However, their worries are unnecessary, the first round of firing effect can be said to be extremely poor, everyone has little experience, did not be able to put a good position to throw the car, the result is that only one of the three stones smashed on the village wall, one stone has not flown to the village wall, it fell to the ground, the last one simply deviated, obliquely flew out, and did not even touch the edge of the village wall.
This result made the Zhuang Ding suddenly breathe a sigh of relief, laughed in unison, lying on the village wall and laughing loudly at the pole outside, and their mood relaxed a lot, and the heart said This thing looked scary just now, but it really needs to be used, but Erer! It's okay to scare and scare people, but it's actually useless!
So the people inside the village became much more calm, and some of the archers and musketeers immediately began to fire outside, trying to prevent the poles outside from continuing to threaten the village with this.
But for Zhuang Ding's counterattack, the effect was also not good, most of the musket bullets and bows and arrows were shot on the big shield, so it did not pose any threat to the people outside, but the sound of ping-pong was very lively.
Xiao Tianjian was naturally dissatisfied with such an accurate head, but he was not discouraged, and immediately asked the three throwing cars to adjust their angles and prepare for launch again.