"It's a stone machine! You can throw about 30 pounds of stone bullets! Sun Yan immediately made a judgment based on the number of people in charge of operating the trebuchet behind. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As a general who is good at defending cities, he is naturally no stranger to stone machines. In fact, in this era, stone engines were often used in siege warfare. Although it was useless when the Huainan army attacked the city before, he was not surprised that he had started using it now.

"Open your nets and get ready to intercept the stone bullets!"

Sun Yan didn't feel worried at all, he had already thought of countermeasures, and as his order was given, the defenders on the city wall began to spread their nets.

"Thirty or forty catties of stone bullets, after being intercepted by fishing nets, it is impossible to cause any harm to the city wall at all!" Sun Yan said with a confident smile.

In a short time, fishing nets had been opened in front of the entire city wall, and the trebuchets outside the city were almost in place, and the soldiers in charge of operating them in the back loaded the thirty trebuchets with stone shells.

However, this counterweight trebuchet "invented" by Yang Wu is not the kind of stone bullet that Sun Yan imagined that can only fire thirty or forty catties, in fact it fires a stone bullet weighing one hundred and thirty or forty catties. When loading a trebuchet, it takes several big men to push the stone projectile into place; The trebuchet is equipped with a special winch, which uses gravity instead of human dragging, which can greatly reduce the number of people needed, which is also the reason why Sun Yan made a mistake in his judgment.

When everything was ready, with Zhou Ben's personal order, the shooters next to the thirty trebuchets swung the wooden hammer and struck the trigger, and with a "buzz", the heavy counterweight slammed the front end of the trebuchet down, and the rear end with the leather socket was quickly thrown up, and when the leather socket reached the highest point, the giant stone projectile inside was thrown into the air.

The stone projectiles whizzed in a graceful parabola towards the city walls.

"Boom, boom......"

With a roar, stone bullets continued to hit the city wall, making a loud noise; The open fishing nets on the city wall did not play any role at this time, and even the fishing nets in some places were torn by stone bullets.

Due to the first round of firing, the hit rate of the stone shells was not high, and only a few of the thirty stone shells hit the city wall, peeling off large areas of wall skin; There are also some stones that are a little less powerful, and they touch the ground outside the city wall, smashing the ground into huge craters; Of course, more stone bullets flew over the city walls and into the city, some of them hit the streets with a loud roar, and some of them hit the houses in the city, and those houses suddenly collapsed like piles of sand.

The stone bullets that smashed into the open space were okay and did not cause any casualties, but the stone bullets that flew into the city caused huge casualties. When the stone bullets flew, there happened to be a group of soldiers transporting rolling logs to the city wall, but they were directly hit by the stone bullets, and those soldiers died tragically on the spot, and those rolling logs flew straight into the sky after being hit, and smashed down again, causing more casualties......

For a time, the nearby soldiers suffered heavy losses, and many were stoned to death on the spot. The defenders on the city walls looked motionless at the terrifying scene below, as if they had been immobilized: bloodstains, rubble, corpses, fragments of houses, and especially those corpses, almost none of them were intact, either missing arms or missing legs.

"Ahh

At last there was a cry, and then, as if the whole picture had come to life, screams rang out everywhere, and the soldiers of the walls turned and began to flee down the city, and at this moment, even the bravest soldiers were filled with fear.

This is not done by manpower at all, nor can manpower resist it, and what is even more terrifying is the tragic appearance of those corpses, which makes the soldiers feel deeply frightened.

"This, this can't be ......"

Sun Yan was stunned for a while, "This is, hundreds of catties of stone bullets!" ”

In this era, stone generators relied mainly on manpower, and the heavier the stone projectiles fired, the more people were needed. According to Sun Yan's estimate, if it is a stone machine that can fire hundreds of pounds of stone projectiles, each one needs at least 300 people to control; Thirty trebuchets require almost nine thousand people to operate!

However, at this time, it was clear that each of the trebuchets outside the city was operated by only thirty or forty people.

"How can a stone machine that can fire hundreds of pounds of stone projectiles only need such a few people to operate?"

However, no one had come to tell him the reason for this, and after the first round of firing, each trebuchet began the next round of reloading, and this round of firing was obviously adjusted according to the results of the first round, and the hit rate was greatly improved, at least twenty of the thirty stone projectiles hit the city wall, and the rest either fell on the top of the city or smashed over the city wall into the city.

The destructive power caused by this round of stone bullets is far greater than the first round, and none of the soldiers dares to stand on the city wall now, in the face of this more than 100 catties of big stones, people are either dead or disabled, if they are unlucky enough to be directly hit by stone bullets, it is even more like a puddle of flesh.

"Run! If you don't run away, you'll die! ”

"Run!"

……

The soldiers fled like frightened rabbits, and none of them dared to stay on the walls.

"Come back! Come back! Those who dare to run away again will be executed for the crime of desertion! ”

Sun Yan ordered the guards around him to continue to kill, and personally took the lead in standing on the city wall, which made the soldiers recover a little morale.

"Well, that's it! That's it! Keep banging! Keep me ......."

Under the city, Zhou Benli looked at the destruction caused by the trebuchet from afar on his horse, and couldn't help but show a satisfied smile on his face.

Some time ago, he didn't know how many ways to attack the city, and he didn't know how many soldiers he lost, but he was never able to break through the city wall; And now watching the trebuchet wield, the depression in his heart has finally been vented.

And the other generals on the side also had smiles on their faces at this time: "If you continue to bombard like this, the city wall will definitely collapse!" When the time comes, we will rush in, and Suzhou will be ours! ”

"It's still the eldest son who has a plan! Such an ingenious siege engine can also be designed, and the end will admire! ”

"With this kind of trebuchet, where will there be a city that cannot be attacked in the future? Hahahaha! ”

The generals talked a lot, and the eyes that looked at Yang Wu were even more different, and that kind of admiration with a trace of respect made Yang Wu sincerely happy.

"Don't rejoice too soon, for this trebuchet is very complicated to make, and takes a long time to make; Second, it's too cumbersome, and if the enemy suddenly kills out of the city, it is entirely possible to destroy our trebuchet! Three, this kind of trebuchet actually kills not many enemy troops, but it is just a relatively big blow to the morale of the enemy, if the enemy's will to defend the city is firm, this kind of trebuchet is afraid that it will be difficult to make contributions! Yang Wu waved his hand and said with a smile.

He was not humble in what he said, in fact, the artillery of later generations was much more powerful than trebuchets, but it did not reach the point of breaking the city at will.

In fact, the reason why Xiangyang City in the Southern Song Dynasty could not hold on and surrendered quickly after being bombarded by Xiangyang artillery in history was that the reinforcements in Xiangyang City had been cut off. During the siege of Xiangyang, the Southern Song Dynasty launched eight rescues in the past five years, but all of them failed. Xiangyang City surrendered only after the reinforcements were cut off, and the Mongols gave assurances that they would not slaughter the city.

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